skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don't own the means of production

They literally own the means of production, their bodies and minds. No one is forcing them to sign contracts for a million dollar salary, they can do the exact same acting/athelete-ing with a $100 smartphone.
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It would be a war of choice in the sense that it's not an existential threat.

You can relatively easily conceive of scenarios where the US either needs to directly confront China, or lose its geo-strategic preeminence, but it much much harder to conceive of scenarios over the next 50 years in which direct confrontation with China is 'actually existential' (in the sense that if the US loss or did not partake in the confrontation, that the US would domestically cease to exist in a recognizable form).

Effectively, the US' challenge for recruitment (and honestly a lot of things) is to convince enough of its population that US hegemony/preeminence is "a good thing" and worth fighting and dying for.

Too bad the US pissed away a good chunk of that capital with GWOT.
Yes. By society (married women had to give up their government jobs until into the 60s!) and by the church. After a couple had their last kid about a year ago they'd get a visit from the priest to remind them there was still more 'work' to be done..
everyone should really watch https://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml and https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
I like Walter Isaacson's previous books and am disappointed with some of what's been said about this one. One of the first articles I read complained that Isaacson never contacted a person accused by Musk of bullying and injuring him when they were both young. That is an odd omission.
To drive this point home, something a friend of mine pointed out: "Retrispective Case control in offspring disease settings have incredibly severe measurement error issues because the moms of cases are trying to think of things they might have done wrong to cause it, but the control parents don’t have that"
Sugarcane AI provides an Open Source Microservices Framework for cross-LLM workflow/plugin development, allowing developers to prioritize business logic over LLM selection, cost, and performance.

Framework comprises
- LLM as a Service for Data Scientists, empowering data labelling and fine-tuning
- Prompt as a Service for Prompt developers, streamlining prompt management
- Workflow as a Service for Plugin developers to construct workflow plugins, facilitating the distribution of LLM, Prompts, and Plugins via APIs.

The Open Source framework encourages collaborative dataset development and enhances reusability of prompt packages and fine-tuned LLMs, facilitating sharing and monetization on an open marketplace.
This seems like a very very good argument against decentralized currency.
Who exactly has confirmed and verified legitimate instances of astral projection? That's not in the article.
How are uncertainty bounds communicated in complex, compounding simulation models?

Poorly to not at all.

Climate models have been diverging over time. As details are added (e.g. to try and handle clouds) the different teams making models get different results, and the gap between those results has been widening. We are told the science is certain but the reality is the science has got less certain. Journalists don't like to cover this because they see themselves as change agents, and discussing the actual levels of uncertainty would discourage change. This article in WIRED is an interesting exception, maybe it means something.

The gap between models is compounded by another problem. The individual models are often very buggy and suffer severe numerical instability. Even when told to assume no CO2 emissions at all, for which they are programmed to assume a steady state, they often end up predicting a massive ice age or that Earth becomes as hot as Venus. These runs are simply discarded and the issues are covered up.

Because these problems would cause ultra-wide CIs, climatologists prefer to just take an average and then present the predictions without accompanying measures of uncertainty. They also do this with the input data, for which there is also wide uncertainty.

They have little choice in the matter. Climatologists know their models aren't much good. Last year some of the most famous climatologists wrote an article in Nature warning scientists that there was a "hot model" problem, i.e. models were over-predicting actual warming, the very problem skeptics had been talking about for decades. It's paywalled but there's a copy here:

https://www.masterresource.org/uncategorized/climate-models-...

We are climate modellers and analysts who develop, distribute and use these projections. We know scientists must treat them with great care. Users beware: a subset of the newest generation of models are ‘too hot’2 and project climate warming in response to carbon dioxide emissions that might be larger than that supported by other evidence3–7. Some suggest that doubling atmospheric CO2 concentrations from pre-industrial levels will result in warming above 5 °C, for example. This was not the case in previous generations of simpler models.

Not much of this reaches the mainstream.
The moment they turned off tweetdeck for normal users and wanted money for it, was the final straw for me.

I was never able to use Twitter over the main page, and I don't understand how people can with their hundreds of followers. Especially with the Ads mixed in between. Utterly useless for me.

FYI: Mastodon has a similar tool: https://mastodeck.com/ It works perfectly.
Hah. Sounds about right. Upsells you to something premium, then doesn’t really do anything. That was my experience trying to get it to unsubscribe me from AT&T. It’s a one-time payment so you forget about it.
and this is probably why and how it comes to pass that the taxpayer of the future is left holding the bills
Even though they’ve been talking about it for 2 years AFAIK Spotify still does not have a lossless offer. And lossy bitrate is adaptive and middling (especially if not using premium).

EQ-ing and mastering could also be different.
> Hollywood actors and famous football players are often very rich, but they sell their labor to get by.

But there's a key difference. They don't need to continue to sell their labor, they can stop at any time and live on e.g. income from dividends. Or maybe they have enough cash they could literally not even invest it and still live fine.

Although they may not own the means of production right at this moment, they easily could at any moment, it's a choice.
There are several countries with populations over 100 million.
15 in fact.
Mozilla AI Guide
The problem with AWS is the temptation to use lambdas when streaming will keep your program running. Adding on egress costs, as parent points out, makes what could be a simple streaming server quite expensive. Better to avoid AWS for this reason. Personally I've had great success with my own streaming server I made a few years to learn Rust running on a raspberry pi that I leave plugged in at home.
For mailservers though? It this scaleable if you start/stop machines on demand.
Why would they? There is no any reason to do that. It's the opposite of the situation in Russia where Putin is afraid to lose face so he is ready to send the next hundred thousands of cannon fodder.
Their recommendation doesn't make any sense. They first explain that lossless compression reproduces exactly the same data as when uncompressed:

"Lossless compression is benign in its effect on the music. It is akin to LHA or WinZip computer data crunchers in packing the data more efficiently on the disk, but the data you read out are the same as went in."

...but then recommend uncompressed over lossless compression for "serious listening":

"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."
And so much of our society is bound by who you work for: medical insurance, social standing, etc.

And so many people just don't understand that there's really 4 classes: poverty, able to live, owner/landlord, royalty. (The USA has the politician class in place of royalty.)

Note I didn't say "middle class". That term originally was the constructed 'rich merchant non-royalty" class that was founded out of mercantilism into capitalism. The Middle Class is now the landlord and managerial class for most of the western countries.

But back to the topic, a Starbucks worker, a IT worker, a sex worker, and a MD all must sell their time and body to live. It's only when you start buying others labor/property cheaply and selling it expensively do you become a capitalist. Anything else, and youre just in the labor class.
Yes and no. The lines get blurry when you’re looking at doctors/plumbers/etc that own their practice. They are making money from their labor but they can also sell their company to someone else.

Major actors are really leveraging a brand not just selling their labor. Athletes have a similar dynamic where the very best compensated are making more from endorsements than playing football. And of course the richest examples all end up investing well.
Haven't been on it since the day it began blocking logged-out viewing
Clickbait from a Vice writer who doesn't know better and didn't bother to try. The ground is thoroughly broken here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6107838/
You should consider trying to be a bit less aggressive if you're actually trying to improve the world. It's because of some people having such extreme, aggressive behavior that conflicts (such as the ones you're complaining about) start.
There is no lossless on Spotify.
You can buy time with money (with some limitations).
Eh, those are probably just bots it's losing! This is clearly evidence that these policies are working./s
120k is definitely a lot there. According to Glassdoor that's almost 10x the average software developer salary in Brazil. You can see people making 25k-50k, but that is not really normal, unless you're working for a foreign company. iPhones are expensive for other reasons, people just gotta sacrifice other things in order to buy them.

This house is definitely way up in the upper range. It's not where a middle class developer would live. I just sold a couple flats in a big city there (60m2 / 80m2) and made around 80k.
Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot
Why do you guys tell others what they can or can't hear? We need to have someone do head surgery on you and implant a device to detect signals between your eardrum and the brain to see what's heard. Even then the brain probably has a lot to do with how sound is interpreted or processed.
The reality is different from what Google says to the regulators. That’s the Weekend at Bernie’s stuff that is happening.
A "couple" to me is between 1.5 and 3 more or less for things that are continuous like time. "Took me a couple weeks/months", I'm expecting that range, not exactly two. Had a silly argument with a neighbour (Canada) when they asked how long I've been in my new house and I said "couple of months" and doing the math it turned out to be like 2.5 or 3.
Except the comments here are open for discussion about what's being advertised. Often you'll see people discussing pros and cons and talking about alternatives. I'll often find something better in the comments than what was actually posted.

With how critical the crowd here is, you have to be careful about advertising products here. The Digital Ocean post goes to show how badly you can be eviscerated.
The point is to have all of the information stored in your archive.

You can compress it for listening later, but you can never add information _back into_ the file. Store it in FLAC for archival purposes.

An equivalent would be archiving works of visual art in JPEG and not something lossless.
Before a policy is announced, we don't want to pre-empt the process of consultation and policy development, and an announcement will be made in due course. After a policy is announced, it's time to move forward with implementation, not quibble about details that are water under the bridge now.
Antitrust is a matter of applying domestic law to domestic firms. OPEC is a matter of coordinating diplomatic and military sanction towards an economic goal.
I had no clue Chrome already used Openscreen Protocol! I thought it was just an in-progress idea & that their casting ecosystem was all something different. https://github.com/w3c/openscreenprotocol

It's lamentable that so far this very cool part of the web has no open interoperable solutions. I'm so delighted to see this hackery & hear it works!! I really really really hope it sticks, until a real answer is provided.
That’s surprising.

Proving/disproving the existence of a medium was the whole point of the Michaelson-Morley experiment.
They wasted the Cortana name too early. I believe if LLMs are when the Cortana namesake was first used, it would likely stick.
> Everything is either perfectly localized, or built and run by local entities, or dominated by local users.

People who are tied to the English-speaking net are often totally unaware of how many areas are dominated by local companies even in markets that are linguistically much closer and more used to using English.

And that's not really a criticism - it's hard to keep up when you're not immersed in it.

I'm Norwegian but live in the UK, and I keep being surprised by Norwegian or Scandinavian online services I was unaware of when I go home to visit family, for example, despite following Norwegian news, and visiting twice a year. It's not that they're necessarily more advanced (though sometimes they are) or better, but just that often you find local companies better entrenched than you'd expect.
Even though I am submitting this, I do think that this page in its current state is relatively poor in quality. As in, a lot of the pages/sections are one-paragraph explanations that I think ChatGPT itself could explain to someone who was curious about it.
>Simply because if Russia loses men at a rate of 50:1 the US could still find those losses unpalatable

The crux of the matter is there are few nations on earth where life has so little value as Russia. Their leadership has no trouble sending or convincing 10's of millions to go and die. It is my belief Americans and Europeans still don't understand this and if this war was to spill over from Ukraine into Europe it would be a disaster no different than WWII. Yes, USA/Europe/NATO would win but it would cost them millions of lives. Putin has already said if I run out of men I will send Women.

>Frankly I’m confused why we don’t have these things for big static targets like a drone that independently navigates to a rail line, drops a mine and leaves for the train to blow up next time it shows up.

I think the West believed that they could just use their air power to destroy these targets but failed to realize that they have never really fought an enemy that had a serious air defense. Iraq was using systems from the early 70's that were easily defeated.The USA doesn't even have a basic drone like the Iranian Shahed drone that could be produce in mass, they also have no answer to stopping them efficiently.

America can not win a conventional war with China, that is a guarantee. The Chinese could field millions of drones and a endless supply of men and with the support of Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc, would have no problems defeating the US/West. The second Americans couldn't buy a microwave, iPhone, or video card and millions of other things, they would lose their minds and surrender......
Not surprising about the MP3 pre-echo. I remember reading a comment while back, I think it was in Reddit. Someone posted a comment about how they bought a CD that have 50s/60s music for their grandparent and gave it them as Christmas gift. Their grandparent are graceful about the gift but they didn't use it very often. They inquired about why they are using the vinyl over a crystal clear CD. The grandparents said they loves the hissing and other sounds that are prevalent on the vinyl. They said it made it part of the music and they have strong memory of it during their era. The CD completely removed those sounds and felt it is unnatural sounds they are not used to. They felt it is too clean.

People have strong relations with their musics that they are used to while growing up. Nostalgia are powerful memories and they don't want their music unsullied from something that they grew up with.
Have string theorists been able to find empirical evidence for any of those supposed dimensions?
No need to be this passive aggresive. There is no need to break old code compatibility, while adding features into the compiler; this is how Visual Studio C++ (and most certainly Intel C++) is and always was; no surprises and excellent code quality.
I'd interpret that as "2 days", with the implicit assumption that you can come back after 2 days and we'll still have them. A couple of km shouldn't really mean more than 3km, but obviously we don't expect anyone to go out and measure them.

I'd allow that "a couple" could mean "2 that I'm certain about, but possibly 3 or maybe even 4".
> light always move on the same speed, on any direction and for every observer has been tested again and again

I might be wrong or misunderstanding, but I think that hasn't actually been tested ever. Only two-way speed of light is known. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k
Russia is far behind in technology though, and it shows. This war is a great tragedy for Ukraine, but a boon to the rest of the word because (apart from showing the murderous face of Putin and the weakness of the Russian army) it is actively depleting it and defers any potential conventional conflict with other neighbors of Russia by decades.
It's not that there aren't alternatives, but that it's an interesting question why that specific market is under-represented. It could well be just luck of the draw, but there might be other reasons as well.
Where did you get the idea they are supporting him? I don't see that in the article.
Well, the volume could possibly exist if it weren't limited to one city, or one model of bike.
Saudi Arabia has a birthrate of around 2.5, and it's quite stable.
> Surely it’s possible to build some benchmark to demonstrate the difference right? Otherwise, what’s the point of making that improvement in the first place?

No, sometimes the improvement you made is like 0.5% faster. It's very very difficult to show that that is actually faster by real wall clock measurements so you have to use a more stable proxy.

What's the point of a 0.5% improvement? Well, not much. But you don't do one you do 20 and cumulatively your code is 10% faster.

I really recommend Nicholas Nethercote's blog posts. A good lesson in micro-optimisation (and some macro-optimisation).
I did run a few months in no-DNS email mode without issues, but was 2-3 years ago. I know regulation and lawyers may be needed if significant conflicts happen with unreasonable system administrators.

It is critically important to keep the emails flowing independently from the DNS mafia/racket, like the web, but I guess we all very know that here on HN.
Like you, I've stuck with Influx v1, Telegraf and Grafana. My policy is to upgrade only when there are significant reasons to. When I evaluated InfluxDB 2, there were no major reasons for me to switch. Of course, the data ingested in my case is relatively small. YMMV.

I looked at TimescaleDB but at the time there was no easy way to get data from Telegraf to TimescaleDB. Telegraf finally merged code that allows writes to Postgres databases, but it took like 3 years to do that.

Ultimately, I still stuck with InfluxDB v1 because sending data to it via the InfluxDB line protocol is so simple. I have a couple of bash scripts that use awk to transform command output to Influx line protocol and send it to InfluxDB. It's just so simple. I love it.

I love learning about new things, but the InfluxDB v1 keeps working fine so I may not switch from it until something forces me to do it.
I'm glad people are looking at how to reduce the impact of tire dust. I expect we can make big improvements because it's not something we've optimized for yet.

Not mentioned in the article is that EVs also dramatically reduce brake dust because the brakes are hardly used compared to an ICE car.
They converted a lot of telephone booths to kiosks which have free chargers built in and usually also free wifi, calls, and defibs.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/bt-ad...
(old article, they're in a lot of major cities now and have been for a long time)
> she asked “since when does a couple mean two?”

Sounds like she’s into polygamy? ;)
Anything is better than YouTube-- which seems to be the common format everyone is listening to these days. I would LOVE to be able to regularly listen to CD quality music...
For what it's worth, neom has moved on from DO a while back.
I'm glad it's an old article. It would be sad if those audiophiles were still debating this old chestnut.
There's probably an element of the quality of the DACs and speakers you're using too. If it's a subtle difference it's unlikely we're going to notice it being played through some low-end computer speakers.
If this is your view of having children, I would suggest you wait.

They are not a pet or a piece of personal property. Caring for a child is the biggest responsibility of your life and it will likely not go according to plan. If you’re unable to grow to meet the demands, then it may be best to wait.
I suspect this article was inspired by this more interesting and detailed article from techdirt a week ago:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/22/elon-may-have-accidental...
You might be thinking of potassium metabisulphite? [1]

Sounds like it's a white powder, which fits your description. Also, I grew up in India, and am pretty sure that at school, I read about this being introduced to complement traditional preservatives.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_metabisulfite
>This is laughable. There's no comparison between the two whatsoever.

The voices are worse now but those voices are also the premium voices you'd currently pay for on azure. So it's not like they were cheaping out.

>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?".

I use Bing. I don't need to search for anything. Most of those posts are complaining about Bing's character. Being civil solves 90% of your problems.

>There's no guarantee OpenAI's DALL-E will get inpainting and outpainting?

Go back and read my man. I said you might not be able to use inpainting from chat GPT.

It's just really weird to be boasting about a feature you don't know you will have and that they didn't bother to demo but to each their own.
If the problem is version control, why not use git? It’s also easy to fork, and it’s much cheaper than a blockchain.
We're migrating off of InfluxDB due to that rollercoaster, honestly. It's hard enough to find time to maintain the monitoring stack at work. Casually dropping "Oh, and now you get to rebuild the entire grafana to change the query language" on that doesn't help. And apparently, version 3 does the same thing, except backwards.

Sorry, but at that point, we've decided to rebuild the entire metric visualization once on TimescaleDB, since we're running postgres a lot anyhow.