skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have recently been bitten by the modular synthesis bug, and it is wild to me how these terms seem to have correspondence even though I am learning it from the audio domain. I guess a signal is a signal and that is the power of analog.

For context: learning about carriers, modulation frequency in relation to audio synthesis [acknowledging there is more than one type of 'FM' in relation to audio but nonetheless similar]).
If you don’t the name of the app you want, the iOS App Store search is garbage too.
I remember looking at the nutrition label on my popcorn box. It looked something like https://i.redd.it/9elpy3nck0x61.jpg. It would be nice if in addition to their measured nutrition they just have a simplified "1 bag = ...".
>If you run a P4 with modern distributions of linux, you're likely in for a bad time.

What universe are you operating in? I can run multiple domains worth of services just fine. Yeah. Compiling at -j4 at the same time can be a PITA. Running the desktop over X with compression over ssh works just fine as well.

The key to outpacing a pentium with a Pi4 is entirely dependent on structuring your workloads correctly. Given a heavily serialized load, a Pentium'll smoke a Pi 4 before it even gets it's britches on. Throw in enough parallelizable workload, however, and the Pi4'll pull ahead promptly.
As far as I’m aware test shots of both us Air Force and navy icbms off the west coast went to Kwajalein atoll.

Some other interesting details…

Naval icbms have star tracking for alignment and correction but land based ones do not.

The reasoning is that they are all dead reckoning…which requires knowing the initial location. The silo doesn’t move, but the subs do. Their location is tracked with another inertial guidance system but that adds error, so they use the star tracking.

Overall, the inertial navigation systems in modern icbms are not the limited in accuracy.

My favorite…there was a lot of pushback inside the us military on investing in increasing the accuracy of naval ICBMs. Doing so was seen as communicating/implying a shift in strategic goal from targeting cities (lower required accuracy) to targeting hardened facilities (higher required accuracy). That was seen as confrontational because sun based nuclear weapons had been generally treated as a second strike capability, but the primary reason to have the ability to target hardened facilities was for a first strike
I have been self-hosting for a few years now with zero complaints. Keep doing what you’re doing, and thank you.
How do Ukrainian operators avoid exposing their own positions? Do they install custom firmware on their drone?
This is interesting, but is it that surprising? Many of these models are fairly large (usually measured in GB, as the article rightly points out). But how would this use of space fair against a dictionary of the N most common sequences seen in a space of choice, using the same amount of space? I would be surprised if someone hasn't already tried this (or perhaps just a larger scaled up cousin of Huffman coding).
Redis doesn't do key eviction by default. Everything lives forever, unless you tell it otherwise. Of course, it is recommended to turn on some form of persistence (and configure backups) so that things don't disappear if the server restarts.
It is not, as the Ukrainian air force continues to conduct regular sorties and has successfully prevented the Russian air force from every gaining air supremacy.

The Russian air force has taken massive losses, both in terms of planes and pilots, but it also continues to exist, from a non-generous and factual perspective.
Phase 3 of the Brightline, the expansion to the Orlando airport from West Palm Beach was phase 2, has 3 planned stops. The Orange County Convention Center, near Disney Springs and Tampa. It will connect to the SunRail at the convention center stop.
Well, there is lots of low hanging fruit in AI land that, IMO, isn't being taken advantage of.

I'm thinking of stuff like ML compiler integration or other smaller features (including safety features) in the already-popular frameworks being championed by lone hero devs. 2-3 paid ML devs could move mountains right now.

Somehow I'm skeptical, and suspect Mozilla will try to create yet-another-standalone-framework that no one really cares to use, among the pile of 10,000 other from-scratch ML frameworks.
Show HN: Splash Pro (Gen-2) – Midjourney for music
Hi HN,

We recently launched a massive update to our generative music product Splash Pro, which features 100% AI-generated music (the music is entirely composed by neural networks - similar to Stable Audio).

Our music was trained on a dataset we've built in-house, so all the outputs are available with a commercial license. Everything you create in Gen-2 is unique (although some musical styles have less training data than others, and you may hear some similarities). Our music is all 44.1kHz and stereo.

I have been having an unbelievable amount of fun playing with it. It's especially good at EDM (house, techno, d&b, dubstep etc), but does metal, punk, lo-fi, and other genres quite well.

We also have a very clear roadmap ahead of us: AI music tech is going to get rapidly better from here.

Here are a few mixes I've put together, using songs from Splash Pro:

- Lo-fi mix: https://soundcloud.com/lexandstuff/neural-network-music-lo-f...

- 90's Punk medley: https://soundcloud.com/lexandstuff/ai-punk-medley

- Tech house mix: https://soundcloud.com/lexandstuff/ai-generate-future-house-...

- Neurofunk D&B: https://soundcloud.com/lexandstuff/ai-generated-neurofunk-dn...

For producers, the stems are all available to download on the max plan. It is a goldmine for sampling and ideas.

I hope you enjoy it and let us know what you think.

Lex

CTO Splash Music
Guidelines to Antigravity (1962) [pdf]
So basically the urban cores overbuilt office space relative to housing for four decades and now remote work has catastrophically reminded urban landowners that if nobody actually lives somewhere, you do need to convince people to commute in if you want to run a business there.
>I always look at these and think I want one but also can't think of what i'd actually use it for.

Because they're tools for filming. I don't think people need to buy these as a toy.
Being in this world for this long, there’s one thing I know for sure: Evil and apathy are the defaults. True goodness is rare. If you find it, treasure it.
> For me the point of the timer is to snap me out of the distraction or I’ll be on Hacker News for an hour.

Timers are such a big deal with ADHD. It's not news to anyone that people with ADHD suffer from time blindness, but even knowing that I'm constantly underestimating how much it affects me. Even if I'm not doing a scheduled task, having something that regularly beeps or vibrates to shake me out of whatever I'm focusing on so I can ask, "how am I feeling, what am I doing, when was the last time I drank water, have I eaten today, what should I be doing right now" is very helpful -- at least until the brain learns to tune out the beep and you have to find a new sound.

I highly recommend people having trouble with focusing or distracting to get a cheap wristwatch or some kind of timer and setting it to beep or vibrate every 10-30 minutes. Doesn't solve every problem, but helps a lot with staying just a bit more rooted in reality.
"The squabbling resulted in a multitude of design ideas, including pie charts, sliding graph charts, colors and even the image of the sun."

Can you imagine if that's what we ended up with hahaha
Lots of aerial refueling. 10 hours in the air, yes, but not on a single tank of fuel.
Pet peeve: switching between units.

If protein is in grams, serving size should not be ounces!
If it's so hard to offer less service at a lower price, then they should upgrade but lock in the old price for... let's say 5 years.
The F-35 is owned and operated by many nations besides the US. For example, those in the article itself (Norway).
re: thermostats, camera, fire alarms etc.. what did you move to? I'm looking for something integrated as well. I would really love for google to get their shit together, but rational thinking says I can't with Nest one way or the other.
I wonder how hard it is to just compile the perl (as a library from the perl codebase) vs calling the executable

It seems that's a decent middle ground unless there's not a good API on the perl side
I had the original mini too. Really fun, but mine is RIP in the water under a waterfall ravine. It's hard to say whether it was a GPS bug, a gust of wind, or just my own fault, but as I was shooting a video next to some rock walls, it went towards the rocks and I couldn't get it back. After the first hit it tumbled and hit some vegetation, and then it went all the way down, no way to recover.

It's a good thing the new ones have collision avoidance, it could likely have saved mine back then. I'll someday get one of the newer ones, it was pretty fun and an impressive piece of engineering. Sometimes I think to myself "this would be a really great shot with the drone", or wish I had it to scout some terrain ahead when hiking or exploring. It's a pretty cool gadget!
Well, if we continue to run the climate into the ground despite The Studies, threatening actual human life, I have little hope for Middle Manager Peter changing his mind on WFH.
It’s a good thing you’re practicing what you preach and not pigeon holing anyone then.
One more and we all get a free month of PlayStation Plus!*

*with purchase of a 2 year subscription
Not a downvoter, but something doesn't need to necessarily be a bottleneck to warrant speeding up. Put another way, why deliberately pick a slower method if a faster one exists?

Many applications these days suffer from "death by a thousand cuts" - there's no single thing which makes it slow, just lots and lots of slightly slow things piling on top of each other.
> totaled twice in a year

How did it happen twice?
You mention two different topics.

Professional philosophers do essentially the same thing we do, they derive a set of personal beliefs that they see as trustworthy. The difference is that they go out and try to sell their philosophies to the public as if they were universal, but they aren't, so they almost always fail. Their books and publications tend to be filed under the heading "OPINIONS".

The second topic you mention is about the role of epistemology, in theory the study of knowledge but in practice an amalgam of (once again) opinions from different philosophers. It's difficult to explain epistemology without referring to those opinions, and those may be wrong anyway. Several pieces of the puzzle are still missing.
Extensively discussed when first announced six months ago:

Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI (289 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259817
Very vague objective with $30 million thrown at it. That money ain't coming back out.
> One imagines two intelligent alien races would be able to communicate that pi is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle without coming to any real agreements over postulates or axioms.

Except circles don’t exist in the real world. They are an abstraction that mankind created that are similar enough to many natural objects as to be a useful abstraction of them.

In order for two alien races to communicate about pi, they’d have to first agree on the definition of a circle as a set of points equidistant from a central point.

That’s one of the axioms they’d have to agree on before they could even get to pi.
> Something along the lines of, "Our brand is trust. It took 90 years to build it, but it would take just one day to destroy it."

A security architect at a Bank offered a very pithy version of this to me: "People hate banks, but they trust us. Best not lose their trust."
"The SR-71 needed to be able to fix its position within 1,885 feet (575 m) and within 300 ft (91 m) of the center of its flight path while traveling at high speeds for up to ten hours in the air."

They refueled in-flight, and the high speeds they are referring to probably weren't sustained for 10 hours... I think it is more like "while traveling at high speeds and for up to ten hours"...
It's just such an awful, uninspired, sad way to conduct business. There's no actual information in the email "we continue to work on different versions of Premium Lite as we ...". So is there a different version of Premium Lite they could move me too? Who knows, I suppose I need to go and research that myself, they're certainly not giving me any options or offering any kind of sweetener. If they're sincere in their stupid "thank you for being an early customer to our new product we're now killing" sentiment, they should do something like automatically upgrade me to the Premium plan for a decent period, say a year, without raising my price.
Why not just use the free version of Live2D?
Way back in 2006/2007 I worked a severely boring, soul draining desk job. I cruised Wikipedia deeply and often. On one of these online excursions, I came across the article for St Helena -- by some measure the most remote inhabited island at the time -- and read more. I learned about the RMS St Helena and how it was the only regular way to get to and from the island. I knew at some point in my life I had to make the journey by sea and check it out for myself.

In grad school I also became acutely obsessed with the (poorly documented) voyage of Edmond Halley to the island in order to observe a transit of Venus. I spent hours in the British Library/Kew looking for anything that might mention what he got up to during that time (apparently the British Governor was replaced for sketchy reasons, etc etc).

A decade later, I got the news that the long-awaited airport was complete and would open in 2016, and that the RMS would be decommissioned. I was in a weird position between jobs and fortunate enough to have the means to book the travel for what was supposed to be the penultimate voyage of the RMS. I had grand visions of interviewing people about what they thought of the airport opening and such (some of which I conducted and wrote about [1]).

The passage I took was 5 days by sea from Cape Town to St Helena, with 10 days on the island. After that, the voyage continued north (which was unusual) to the UK, stopping at Ascension Island en route. That leg of the trip was 14 days at sea.

So really, it was kind of a daydream that turned into a real dream that turned into a lived experience. Wouldn't trade it for anything.

[1] http://www.homoridiculus.com/blowout-on-the-island-of-furiou...
> Would SF's housing prices go down if you were to build 1M new units? No doubt.

Where could you built 1M units in San Francisco? It is less than 50 square miles surrounded on 3 sides by water.
Just another wasted effort. It looks like Mozilla has completely lost its way.

I get that the AI is going to be important in the next decade but Mozilla has shown that despite having a clear competitive advantage in something it cannot continue to grow. I don't mean to devalue what Mozilla is doing but its browser is completely ususable on my Linux Mint 20 with a high end graphics card. Compare that to chrome which works like a breeze.

Although I champion open source & privacy at my org - I cannot but for the sake of my own productivity use any Mozilla product despite repeated attempts every quarter to try if it works better now...
I think the medications will someday be viewed similar to how we view the way Coke used to include cocaine. Everyone I know in the US is either regularly using recreational drugs or has some kind of prescription for a condition like ADHD or anxiety. Either that or they will make far more sophisticated drugs in the future and laugh at how primitive our approach used to be.
"Was it dumb luck? We don't have evidence of insider trading. But[...]"

Every article covering politicians, left and right, nowadays is like this. Do we know this is true? Nope! Will that stop us from making wild accusations? Also no!!!
My Nexus 7 had the same issue. It's a shame really because for the first 18 months I owned it I loved it. In it's prime, I think it's still my all-time favorite device.

Once it slowed to the point of being unusable, I gave it to my son to tinker with. He loaded an alternative OS on it and that worked for a while but eventually it also slowed. Last I knew it was serving as a print server for his 3D printer although now I think it lives in a bin with other outdated hardware and about 100 cables that we haven't thrown out yet.
Investing in Semiconductor Startups [video]
For this type of "still use an old thing" it's easier to setup an emulator/VM imo. It's not native but you don't have to worry about small quirks/bugs/changes over the years.

For things sufficiently old that copyright/licensing isn't an issue, sometimes you can just download a ready built machine.
A president who's statements can't necessarily be taken seriously would be an interesting situation.

I mean, all presidents flub, and we already got some questionable Twitter statements before, but I think the volume during a 2nd term would be unprecedented.
Playing Wordle with ChatGPT Again. This Time with Vision
Not to different from navigating the seas not so long ago. Pretty cool.
I’ve seen some tools with plaid integration. Idk how plaid cornered the market but it seems to be the only option available for oauth with banks.
At this point does it make sense to start a new Foundation that moves Blink forward without all the ad/spyware junk that Google and Microsoft distribute with their browsers?
> it just bothers me when people paint reading as always some wholesome activity

I'll actually take this position, I think reading (at least narrative) is always wholesome because it's necessarily an incomplete work of art that requires the reader to do a very real act of creation to make it whole. For some reason people decided that art -- drawing, dancing, making music, storytelling, writing poetry isn't just a thing humans do for leisure unless you're trying to get good at it. But reading as guided imagination and leads you to create whole worlds at every level at or above magic treehouse and flex those muscles.

And in exactly the same way because reading is an artistic endeavor you find people arguing that the only value in reading is to get better at it. Why? To what end? Do you talk about people's painting level being at a 7th grade level as telling of societal decline No, that's absurd but that's nonetheless the argument. And I guarantee your ability to understand and interpret fine art is at a grade school level but we've just decided that that's fine and you don't get judged for having art on your walls.
> cheap out with wired

That is not correct. Please do not say that.
pretty sure the radios came first and then the regulations came after as it became more available. Depends who you ask whether it's been regulated to oblivion.
I’m not sure how that is any more true for Apple vs Google? Every tech company relies heavily on China for business.
> Tools that make generative AI safer and more transparent.

This is great. It quite literally goes without saying that we all understand what this means. It is a boon for us all to celebrate this together now, the moment in which we can all appreciate the scope and details of this project.
Here's a convo I had yesterday when thinking about how to print a Binary Search Tree.

https://chat.openai.com/share/338e7397-0201-44f4-a2c3-75b733...

I use ChatGPT for all sorts of things - looking into visas for countries, coding, reverse engineering companies from job descriptions, brainstorming etc etc.

It saves a lot of time and gives way more value than what you pay for it.
I've never heard someone give the subway as a reason for leaving NYC. They leave because they're priced out of what they consider acceptable housing, the weather, or issues with the city itself. But never the subway.
Same here. Beer has more calories than Coke.
At least they secured mozilla.ai domain
Ah but its "minimal".

Taking the web back to its roots.
I love Mozilla's Firefox, but they've got a bad track record of funding things that matter over time. See Thunderbird having to become independent and roll up their own foundation. Mozilla could have had something like OpenAI long ago, but they didn't bother. Instead they bought out Pocket which a lot of loyal users didn't care for. They also stopped maintaining their password manager on iOS (and I'm guessing Android?) which is rather annoying to me, I've been using Firefox's built-in for years, and it was nice to have a PM on iOS. I would have gladly paid money to have it on iOS if it meant it would get funded. There's also their VPN, which is just Mullvad with a skin on it iirc.

Mozilla: It's okay to make products that you sell in order to actually fund your projects properly.

Whoever is managing Firefox (the open source org / corporation, I don't care which) is mismanaging Firefox, and they have been for too long. Mozilla has a lot of potential being burned away. I fear for the day MDN shuts down, since its an invaluable resource when doing front-end web development.
Oh, the negativity.

Look, Mozilla's far from perfect, but I absolutely do want to see them trying something with every new thing that comes out and will continue to throw a little money at them every time they do so.

It's just broadly important to remind the world that there are more ways than "typical capitalism" to do big things in tech.
Please tell me you're joking or missing the sarcasm tag.

The Play Store is notorious for allowing absolute garbage apps in, regardless of the "risks" of sideloading.
The whole document supports the claim, it details ground astroinertial startup which would not occur if it could not see stars from the ground. The fact they made this document available is very useful to those who are actually invested in the subject.
It is better stated that: since there are "so many more" irrational numbers than rational ones, if you were to pick a real number "at random," the probability that it would be rational is zero. The "many more" and "random" ideas are made precise in measure theory (and elsewhere).
Does Intel have a credibility problem w.r.t. ISA extensions to support deep learning?

I'm thinking about the widespread confusion they caused by having different CPUs support different subsets of the AVX-512 ISA.
> To start we will focus on developing tools to build safety [..]

Oh no. Why safety and not pioneering, innovation, or freedom?

Well, I nevertheless wish them all the best.