skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We recommend that, for serious listening, our readers use uncompressed audio file formats, such as WAV or AIF—or, if file size is an issue because of limited hard-drive space, use a lossless format such as FLAC or ALC.

I recommend that, for serious listening (for some weird definition of "serious"), go to a music concert. PCM is also a lossy compression due to the quantization step, albeit its effect is much less pronounced for so many reasons that no one even thinks it as a "compression" method. If you can tolerate PCM, you should be also able to accept some good enough lossy codecs---I don't know if that includes MP3 or AAC or Vorbis or Opus or whatever, though.
> How could this be considered "federal overstepping"?

Because just about anything is considered federal overreach in much of the US. Remember, this country was founded on resistance to a far-off authority. The south got a "booster shot" of anti-federal-government sentiment with the civil war, and still haven't gotten over it 170 years later. We even had a president (Reagan) who explicitly sowed distrust of the very federal government he headed, and that was during my adult lifetime. Whole books have been written about the quintessentially American distrust of any government beyond the horizon, so I could hardly do it justice here, but I will note that it's a key part of every other political debate we have.
Lots of decisions in the last 50 years have made "the system" more fragile. This makes me realize that outsourcing trust is another one. This would never happen now because businesses have no connection to their customers, either a payment provider or credit bureau does the vouching which becomes meaningless when things don't operate as usual and human judgement is needed
Winner: https://www.bing.com/images/create/paint-a-picture-in-the-st...
No way. Youth actually want to belong to a group and fit in unless they are comfortable being outcasts in school (to to college) and not having a social life. The youth are obsessed with cool things and trendy/hip things. They are the most easy target for marketing and sales.
so i can refuse to work, then still get paid? I don't often cheer for Gavin Newsom, but he has my support on this veto
The main trick here is that the prompts that break alignment are not robust, that is, if you make a lot of perturbations of the input and some of the trigger the “sorry, i can’t help you dave” response and some get an answer you are probably facing an attack.
Beyond comparing formats, even subjectively, it is important to consider how the public got used to compression artifacts.

I mean, the famous mp3 pre-echo was so common in early 90's that I think part of the listeners would prefer listening to it than to a cleaner sound. It is possible that mp3 influenced how music is composed, mastered and mixed.

That being said and adding the fact that people are willing to listen to music using cheap auricular phones in the noisy environment of their cars and recompressed using Bluetooth, I'd say that the 128kbps mp3 is still a very hard to beat format.
This is melodrama.

If you want to talk about destroying the world, think about how much comparative press coverage and regulation tech is getting right now compared to big oil/gas (still subsidized heavily), big ag, etc. - things that are actually destroying the world.
Kitchen Nightmares, UK version.

Operations, People, Marketing, Sane decision making, Passion.

But not the US version. That's just drama.
> Is this supposed to manipulate me?

Low-effort, low-investment "journalists" whose trash-tier writing styles are facing a serious existential threat now that AI chat bots can produce content superior to their standard mind-numbing intellectual detritus.

There's a huge push to spin AI as evil as possible by these people for a reason, and it's not because they're concerned about children and preventing genocide.
What law would cover this??
What's the distinction between vivid mental imagery and a closed-eye hallucination? I have aphantasia too (what I used to call "the opposite of a photographic memory") and it always struck me as odd that seeing imagery with closed eyes is considered normal. We put people in mental institutions for hearing voices in their head, but we get a pass if we're hallucinating a visual scene.

My theory is that it's a spectrum from "I only see images when photons hit my eyes" to "I see god right here in front of me." and somewhere on that line is the optimal amount of visual hallucination. It certainly serves some evolutionary advantage.
What sort of mechanism are you proposing to 'go after' a sovereign power doing something you don't like?
Yeah. There's a reason for the "Death to bike thieves" slogan.
Right, much better for everybody to be screwed in the name of equity.
Are you trying to discount Aether as a pseudoscience versus a serious theory?

You're italicizing "Obviously" which makes me think that.
I am wondering how did they come up with 3,600 casualties per day - that would be 1.3M per year.
Build custom code interpreter with GPT
Cats Can't Taste Sweetness, Study Finds
The society that allows you and me to sit in comfort and post on a message board.

Yes that one. The same one with pyramid scheme social programs.

My main concern is who will pay for pensions and health care when my working generation is old?

Most social programs are insolvent or virtual ponzi schemes where CURRENT workers pay for TODAY'S beneficiaries.

Thus we need immigrants AND native babies at greater the replacement rate to insure the scheme does not stop.
"You" is excellent wording here. Who's listening?

I've heard the resonable assertion that the most gifted audio engineers in the world cannot distinguish 192 kHz sample rates from a raw line feed, but some can distinguish 96 kHz. I certainly can't. I used to build audio equipment. There were legendary "golden ears" that people would drive hours to meet, for design feedback. Whatever they heard was reproducible blind with other "golden ears".

How does this square with the logical assertion that there's a sharp cutoff to our biological ability to hear frequencies? Those tests don't account for our ability to sense the presence/absence of overtones.

Now, computers may want better resolution, not to "listen" so much as to better transform in novel ways. Just as "DogTV" recolorizes for its audience, a computer could make the inaudible audible in novel ways. Reconstructing better 3D sound stages. Accurately reconstructing a singer's facial expressions via AI video, rather than simply splatting out something plausible. The whole point of computers are to extend our reach, coevolving in every conceivable way.
String theories give somewhere between 10 and 26 dimensions, depending on which one you like.
Focus on making money and less on replatforming for a second time.
I've learned to keep some relationships at arm's length.

It's a long story, but I have spent my entire adult life, dealing with some of the most dangerous, doesn't-play-well-with-others people on earth. I'm proud to call some of them friends, and have learned to politely avoid getting too entangled with the drama of others.

I've learned that I'm responsible for enforcing my own boundaries, and that I don't need to use nukes. Often a simple "No, I'm not going to do that, but I will do this..." is sufficient.
> but how would it be done do you think?

That's what I'm trying to figure. Open wifi or not, your private ssh key shouldn't leave your pc when you're using it. Ditto for whatever sites you visit over HTTPS, the whole point of TLS is to avoid MITMing connections and extracting their contents.
Yea I was wondering specifically on those (although any other context is welcome)
Yeah but the Reddit link is very relevant for the cto’s comments on the change.
I have never seen a "best viewed in Chrome" alert. Maybe in a tech demo or something like that. Even Google products work fine in Firefox.
One thing that really bothers me about HN is highly of opinionated comments that trash research but then make a bunch of unsourced anonymous claims themselves as if they authority figures on the matter.

You may be right, but give some evidence or references for your claims
When going systems programming, the differences between Java and C# become significant, specifically, Java lacks zero/low-cost interop, ability to work with C structs directly and does not allow you to directly port unsafe pointers-based code which you can do with C# and Rust. In this regard, C# is much closer to C++ and Rust with GC attached on top and certain opinionated choices rather than being a high level language completely abstracted away via VM.
Balance of trade is irrelevant. Europe is crappily run and does a terrible job encouraging capital formation.

Seriously, why would anyone in their right mind ever invest in tech creation in Europe? That’s right - they don’t. And it makes Europe poorer and less dynamic.
1000$ wine always tastes better than 100$ one
> Right and Bing has had that for a bit. Worse voices but the TTS is also a new model so it's not like switching is out of the question

This is laughable. There's no comparison between the two whatsoever.

> Bing has been running the longer context model from the beginning with web page/pdf features. Bing also recently introduced "personalized answers" which is just retrieval augmented memory over all your chats, a feature cGPT really should have had by now.

As I've already stated repeatedly, the performance of the two is night and day. Use your favorite search engine to search for, "why is Bing Chat worse than ChatGPT?". There are pages and pages of results from people using both, just like me, that show the massive disparity between the two.

Why, exactly, are you starting an argument with me? There's no guarantee OpenAI's DALL-E will get inpainting and outpainting? Why even bother stating such a thing? It appears like you're just casting aspersions for the sake of it.
My point was - the vast majority of people don’t care or even know about their CEO. Why is it suddenly a problem with Mozilla?
Yep good points. So they send it from some variant of my name like "promising-eric@amazon.co.jp" (feels similar to using the same area code for a spam call). There's no explicit reply-to. Based on the translations it's one of those "your card failed to be used for a purchase" type emails.

I think your idea of it being a rough estimate seems simple and likely.
What if freshly caught songbirds taste sweet to them? Are we saying we know their qualia?
I’m not entirely into the audiophile stuff, but from personal experience, you can tell the difference, last thing I tried was when I switched from Spotify to Apple Music, where the later has “lossless” option (I think even Spotify has that) but the difference was clear between the two for a streaming service, Apple one is just more clear and alive, I even opened the same song and kept switching back and forth between the apps just to make sure I’m not imagining stuff. Was it because the lossless on apple is better than the lossless on Spotify? Or something else? I don’t know.
Median annual salary in the UK in 1999 was £19k. Average house price was £75k; a bit over treble.

Median salary 2022 was £33k. Median house price was £265k; over 8 times the median salary.

Not controlled for interest rates or changes in the tax codes, nor the increases in student loan debts.
My FreeBSD years: 2000-2005
I bet a friend a nice bottle of wine that LK-99 was bullshit. Looks like I’m never getting that bottle but neither is he. It is, obviously, bullshit and always has been.
The author was looking for an excuse to use Rust for something since 2018:

https://www.influxdata.com/blog/rust-can-be-difficult-to-lea...

The rewrite started in 2020... they rationalize now, but it's pretty clear they just really wanted Rust and found the reasons they list later as a post-decision justification. Nothing wrong with that, if you don't mind risking the future of your business on a risky rewrite... though if I had a job working on the Go code base and my employer suddenly announced we should drop everything and start a rewrite, so go learn Rust, which has a much smaller job pool in my area as far as I can see, I guess I would've been really pissed off and would leave as fast as possible.
Twitter is unusable these days. They've done chaos engineering without even trying to. So many bugs, despite people saying it's 'stable' and 'working properly'. I'm not going to list the bugs out here, there's too many. And I'm prompted to prove I'm a human every 10 minutes because I'm apparently not acting like a human. So I star a lot of things and I'm a loudmouth. So what?
IIRC projects only group resources under the same account. API keys are still account-wide, so projects provide no isolation there.

There is a other mechanism DO has to allow multiple accounts under one billing context (I think it might be called 'teams'?) but sadly this is still extremely coarse grained, and doesn't allow you to lock a key down to a particular resource, or even a class of resources.
It depends. Oobabooga's webUI is pretty simple to set up on linux.

It's not as easy as a tor plugin or browser made for it, definitely.

But tor is neither as secure nor as anonymous as running the LLM on your GPU.
I once had a really bad trip where I thought this was what was happening, or it lasting for eternity. It was the worst thing ever and I ended up with really bad psychosis for a year after, repeatedly getting panic attacks.
> it is so behind in feature and performance

I would like to see a source on that.

Even if it were actually worse of from a technical standpoint, do you not see the huge value of an independent implementation of the most crucial platform of humanity? Should it really be controlled by a single giga-corp?
Thats only because of the restriction on Webkit only on iOS. That wall is collapsing and with it anything that keeps Safari in the game.
This is solid advice. I also live in NYC, and the only time (so far) I've had a bike stolen was actually from my building's basement bike storage room over the winter (that I was paying $15/mo to use). When you think about it, this is a bad way to store your bike...lots of people have access, but it's rarely occupied by more than one person at a time, and of course the cameras either don't work or the recordings last a short while.
I work with prisoners who get released. I just worked with a guy who got out after 40 years. It was interesting setting him up with a phone, debit card, bank account etc. He'd never had a bank account or ever paid taxes (the look on the woman's face at the Social Security office when she tried to pull up his tax returns...!). I had to show him how to use a debit card. It was basically like time travel for him.

I did 10 years locked up, but the only thing that changed was that the Web had become totally "enshittified."
Who should win a Nobel for the science of the Ozempic revolution?
Which substance?
Seems to me, an ignorant on the subject as a whole, that they came up with a quite complex explanation that fits the data, but we can’t know for sure and most likely never will. And this is a problem with mathematics because it is self-consistent: we can build a whole theory on top of the contents of the tablet and it will produce the correct results. We just can’t know if what we came up with was the same thing they used back then, or if we are just doing modern mathematics with some old data.
It's exceedingly rare and you can almost always discard the warning with no adverse outcome.
i don't get it, but it sounds like narrowly skirting by disaster
> Also, let me get back from my year long paid parental leave, to tell you why having the strongest economy is not the most important thing in life.

Yeah and then maybe die early of cancer because you don’t even have resources for medical treatment. (Cancer mortality is considerably higher in Europe than the US due to less sophisticated treatment/medical care)

Meanwhile I could take a year of parental leave just by quitting and using my excess savings from my higher wage. The kicker? Afterwards I could find a new full time non-contractor job, something notoriously difficult in Europe due to your at will labor laws.

You need resources to pay for social amenities as the collapse of the NHS is rapidly showing.
Huh? 'A few' is not more than 'several'! Several could easily be 10 or more (but almost always more than 3 or 4). A few would rarely be more than 5.

I have to say I never thought there'd be that much disagreement among English speakers around the world on such basic terminology.
Lester del Rey invented the fantasy genre in book publishing
For a long time I’ve tried to keep it a little usable by blocking any and all rage bait / culture war troll spam, but it’s become impossible. Valuable content is increasingly lost in a sea of trolls trying to make you angry about something.

I really wish the interesting accounts I still like to follow, which mostly are tech related, would go to Mastodon or Bluesky or anything else.
Show HN: Open-Source Microservices Framework for Cross-LLM Apps
This I guess is the mystery to me. Projects like this are great. But how are people funding them? (AKA how can I get my own paws on some investment $$ to work on cool database^Wother-systems-level tech? I'll even promise to try to make $$)
The Bold Idea to Move Millions to Climate Havens
The US has a very large bike riding community and a very robust bike stealing crime rings. They steal them in one area and sell them in another or to bike shops who turn a blind eye. Plenty of people rely on bicycles to get to work or get groceries. It just doesn't seem so because the country is very large and in some areas the weather or terrain is just not practical.
Down-voters, could you please explain your disagreement to the statement
> a cryptographically secure, decentralized ledger is the only solution to making AI safer.

This article manages to say that a consensus algorithm is the answer to problems with AI without using the word "consensus" a single time. Probably because it doesn't even consider that's what blockchains are.

The article talks about using "proof of gradient" to do inference instead of crunching hashes. But this is nonsense, because inference takes inputs and produces a deterministic output. There's no mining. Checking the work takes the same resources as doing the work. Proof of work output can be checked with essentially a single hash.

As much as this would be wonderful in a universe where it's possible, it's simply not possible. The author throws out a bunch of buzz words for things that sound similar in AI and crypto and tries to make them sound like they are interchangeable. They're not.
Domain Networks Invoice Scam
The only reason I went to a soccer game recently was because of an advertisement. I don't understand the bubble some folks craft for themselves, and then expect everyone's world view to conform.
Sure, not an obvious connection but I see it :)

In general, it seems like there are many people who see a problem - like with the financial system - but come up with a solution that will never work. Crypto, for example seemed very promising for many up to the point it was clearly bad (for now?).

For meme stocks, there remain a core of people who are convinced (according to Olsen, and I believe him) that they have to hodl forever to change the world or get their reward. The problem (a self-serving, potentially corrupt financial system) may be real, but the solution (short-selling stock in a failing company) is definitely not.
Patrick Boyle did a video on it a little while ago:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFIQWWt4UaA

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_bank_strikes_(1966–1976)
Why is the standard considered to be CD quality? In that way, the article shows its age. Today you wouldn't be talking about 44.1kHz 16 bit, it would be all about 24 bit 192kHz. If you're looking at spectrum plots, CD is very much on the low quality side of the spectrum of what's possible. Maybe we should be considering megahertz sampling rates and 32 bits, surely we have enough bandwidth.

Why not then? Because there is a ton of science and empirical evidence that humans cannot hear the difference[1]. Good engineering is about meeting the requirements with minimal cost. If the requirement is that it sounds good to humans, and the cost is number of bits to encode (and thus store and transmit) the signal, then modern codecs like Opus are clearly superior to uncompressed and losslessly compressed signals, much less higher sampling rates.

If your goal is something other than good engineering, for example the aesthetic satisfaction that the bits are the same as what the mastering engineer put on the CD, or for some reason caring how clean spectrum plots of artificial signals look, then the arguments may have some merit. But let's be clear on the goals.

[1]: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Just "few" could mean 1 or 2, "a few" is at least 3 in my book.
We write the same way an LLM does; by putting together words in the order that convention dictates. It's less of a chore if we can make them mean something by metaphor or allusion; in your example, the author clearly intends to signify something by the glistening of the raindrops, the redness of the leaves and the color of the grass, else why mention it?
I believe the fact that it's in Discord is actually the main reason it became so popular so fast. The number one thing that makes something popular is other people already doing it.

When you go into a Discord and you are watching hundreds of people use a product in real time, you almost have to try it. When Midjourney first blew up, it was probably one of the most profound moments in marketing of the internet era.

As usual, people will happily give you the worst advice possible. There were people telling them to drop the Discord interface on day one. If they had listened to them, they would have killed off their amazing marketing advantage and stunted their growth.
Well, "o" and "eaux" are not pronounced the same in French. The "au" in the middle signals a real difference in pronounciation.

Consider e.g. "deors" (outside) or "mouton" (sheep). Now try saying "de-eauxr-s" and "mout-eaux-n" (with a silent s and n). It's not the same sound.
I am also a dad that grew up in the 80's and my thoughts on this issue is that back in those days there was a much smaller selection of things you could do with a computer, less stimuli and smaller need for instant gratification. At some point computers turned from being a tool you could create to a tool you use to consume other people's creations. From my experience, children today don't have enough patience to learn how to hack things around before they get bored and move on to the next thing. There amount of distractions is insane (web, social media, youtube, easily accessible video games etc). Its more likely a kid will avoid the problem than try to solve it at this point. I feel we lost something important along the way.
My mom used to make a variety of achār (athāṇuṁ in Gujarati). Sour, sweet ones (made with unripe mangoes and they both had mustard & red pepper in oil), Chhundo (shredded unripe mangoes in sugar syrup & red pepper). These would be stored in white & light orange ceramic pots. But I don’t recall them lasting years and years! Lime as well as green pepper pickles were more seasonal. Also whole not quite ripe black peppers on their stem. The green pepper ones would get less hot over time but some could still be tongue burning hot.

People who want to make their own pickles should first try readymade ones as they can be a bit of an acquired taste. You can get many kinds in most Indian stores (usually a at least a whole shelfful if not a whole aisle). Patak’s used to be the main one many years ago but now there are many more brands. My favorite is Patak’s brinjal (eggplant) pickle. You can even use some pickles as a sandwich spread! Or on crackers or lightly sautéed chapati or masala puri etc as a quick snack.