skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real hallucination is when you sense something that isn't physically there. LLMs don't sense anything, so this "hallucination" term is questionable from the get-go.
You also dont get any creatine.
On a related note: this guy has the coolest workstation setup -> https://taylor.town/my-battlestation
Try setting temperature to 2.0 to see some truly bonkers responses.
It's the same hatred towards Eastern European blocks of flats. I grew up in one, it was fine.
Time and discipline in a busy life. For most people also money for lessons from bored teachers if you're not a one-in-a-million like Hendrix.
It seems most (or all?) AI music projects aim at producing audio?

Why not output MIDI instead, and let the artist manipulate that?

I for one would gladly buy a VST instrument that would generate a constant stream of MIDI ideas, chordings, voicings, variations, from a few seconds of singing or whistling or clapping.

It seems the technology is here to build it, yet (AFAIK) it doesn't exist. Why?
There is NO SUCH THING as "just a tool". All tools have societal effects that are inevitable in different ways because we operate on basal instincts most of the time, or at least our capitalistic society has made us fairly deterministic.

It's not the same as a new instrument that is easier to play, because with an instrument, you have to determine entirely what comes out of it. With this "tool", you only determine part of the output, a skeleton, and a machine determines the basic musicality.

I 100% do not buy the accessibility argument. Of course, everyone plays that card. But the overall gross societal effects of AI are not worth it, even if it does help some people.

Imagine a new nuclear technology that cures all cancer, but simultaneously allows anyone to create an atomic bomb in their backyard. Would you think this worth it? We have to consider the costs and benefits, not just the benefits like most technophiles think.

You may create something with this tool for your game, but I certainly won't buy your game if AI has been used in its creation.
> "I love my basement collection of archaic computer hardware"

Nothing wrong with retro-computing enthusiasts, per se. From the Linux kernel perspective it's about the architecture having maintainers and not causing pain for the rest of the kernel. The Linux m68k port is probably a good example of this, hard to see it having any kind of commercial value these days, and the maintainers are hobbyists. But with the Itanium port not having anybody willing to maintain it, bye bye.

Probably also helps that qemu has m68k support, so even if you love the idea of running Linux on your old Amiga, you can actually do the development on a mainstream platform.
It's bad, but not extremely bad imo. With Code Interpreter I would even say it's decent at conversions (which it defaults to now if you ask it to convert something).
It's ridiculous that everyone with alternative ideas is labeled a "conspiracy theorist". For example, there's a bunch of people with experience in engineering, material science and so on who've been spending a lot of time doing extensive analysis (high-resolution 3D scans, material analysis with state of the art tools etc.)[0][1][2] of ... granite vases from Egypt.

They're not coming up with theories saying "aliens made these vases!!!" or something, they're saying "we don't know how these were made, but with modern knowledge we believe it would not have been possible to make them by hand, and here's a list of arguments for why".

Yet they're labeled as conspiracy theorists and ridiculed, by people who're convinced that whatever they learned in school 20 years ago is the immutable ground truth, or - worse - by people whose careers are based on this ground truth being correct.

Maybe another factor is that a lot of people involved in these projects are not from academic career backgrounds, so they're excluded on the basis of elitism.

[0]: https://unchartedx.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Danvi...

[1]: https://unchartedx.com/site/vase-scan-resources/

[2]: https://unsigned.io/granite-artefact/

EDIT: Added links for people who aren't aware of these things going on.
China is running light speed toward electrification and renewable because they are concerned of a conflict with the West. Europeans think they are doing it to take advantage over their car manufacturers but they are really thinking inward on this.
They absolutely can do a much better job, but the patient has to have enough material remaining for them to work with.

This man took 7200 volts directly to the face.
Yeah, I would love a keyboard like this except that I've now moved entirely to corne-ish zen. I wish I could have a corne-ish zen with a trackpoint, but I expect the people who would like that must be a tiny niche-within-a-niche.
Wikipedia is also very vague (and I don't have access to the references) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Origin
Interesting. Here in Hong Kong, apparently the non-Tesla chargers work so well, the Superchargers often lie empty because most Teslas charge at non-Tesla chargers as they are usually cheaper.
tzdata makes guesses (predictions) all the time -- every time in the future is a guess. There is no way to know that a government won't change DST dates, or even shift a country to a different timezone.

Look at the whole Lebanon mess from earlier this year:

If you had, at Mar 24 2023 10:00 UTC gone and created a meeting at 10AM Beirut on Mar 27th 2023 it would have been at 0800 UTC (based on the official Lebanon position that DST would not start until April 21st [0]), and you would have been wrong [1]

Had you stored the datetime with location then you would have been fine.

The tzdata community far know more about time than you do and make a good job at guessing what the time will be, but they still have to issue multiple updates each year due to changes from different governments.

Take this update from 2021 when Fiji suspended DST for the following year

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2021-October/0000...

"Assume for now that it will return next year"

It's a guess. nobody in October 2021 could say for certain that Fiji would or would not have DST in 2023.

This isn't controversial. Past dates can be problematic - especially from 50+ years ago (historical data may crop up which shows that a specific location had different UTC offset which means a historical update is needed), but for future dates all predictions of UTC offsets for geographic locations are a guess [2]. Hell you can't even store the tzdata location group (say Europe/London) because in the future Scotland could decide to keep DST but England/Wales/NI/Ireland could move to BST year round. In that situation meeting at 10AM Edinburgh stored as 10AM Europe/London would be at the wrong time. That's more rare than DST date shifts, but it still happens

[0] https://www.mtv.com.lb/news/local/1352516/lebanon-postpones-...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65090888

[2] https://codeopinion.com/just-store-utc-not-so-fast-handling-...
It does not make sense because that statement is vague.
> They are usually hilariously wrong though

Of course you put in the qualifier "usually" here to be able to reject any arguments against you, but just in case: What's your theory on how the extremely precisely manufactured granite vases found in Egypt were made?
Good luck getting you council to approve buried pipes from a brewery even 100m down the road. Within the confines of your parcel - maybe, so enjoy your Visual Builder for (beer) Aficionados.
I've heard we "confabulation" is the more correct term but never understood the difference.
Um, yes? Have export restrictions ever actually prevented a determined major nation from getting the stuff that it wanted? (Vs. merely adding some delays and bottlenecks to their supply chains.)

Admittedly, I can't recall the last time that I saw a "$Government imposes Export $Restrictions" news story which bothered to point that out. One could make disparaging remarks about modern journalism. Or questions whether the free market for news is willing to support the reporting of such dull, unhappy truths.
Your anecdata isn't in the evaluation set - this is summarization
Honestly, both of these I think are pretty applicable to line-of-business apps as well.

The "push loops down" advice most especially: for any CRUD app, handling creation and updates in bulk when possible will typically save huge amounts of time, much more than in CPU bound use cases. The difference between doing `items.map(insertToDb/postToServer) ` vs doing `insertToDb/postToServer(items)` is going to be orders of magnitude in almost all cases.

I have seen optimizations of this kind take operations from seconds or minutes down to milliseconds. And often the APIs end up cleaner and logs are are much easier to read.
> What benefits are there to sending humans to Mars? What do we hope to accomplish that couldn't be done better by a barrage of super advanced robots?

Well robots work very well, and if research is your only goal then those might be the best forever. But even those run into issues and can be very complex and expensive, see Mars Sample Return. When you scale systems up, it is possible that at some level redundancies and pre-planning for every contingency will get too expensive. So much that sending monkeys with duct tapes that can handle and fix all kinds of issues might be actually less expensive. Will we get to such scale with research only? Probably not.

But there are other goals, like space industry, and related mining, which require much bigger scale. And unless we want to declare all planets out there as a natural reserve with absolutely no Earth contamination possible (yea there's a treaty, we will see how long it survives), people will want go there.

And good luck trying to stop China from establishing Mars research base. Sure it might take them 40+ years, but I wouldn't bet on them not getting there. Or them adhering to any kinds of international treaty.

> It is estimated to cost $1-1.5 trillion to send 9 people on Mars, and upwards of $2 trillion for a minimally staffed base on an uninhabitable planet.

Random numbers pulled out of nowhere. Don't listen to such garbage. Even talking about "minimally staffed base" and it's costs is kinda silly when the main (and so far only) proposed system (Starship) for achieving that is still in its infancy. It might not hit its projected costs. It also might achieve them and then such cost estimates about Mars base will look as silly as IBM estimates of how many computers the world needs.

> My main point is, wouldn't it be better to focus that amount of money and effort on developing technologies that allow humans to live on Earth sustainably? Where is the cult-like public support for spending unlimited amounts of money on preventing mass extinction on Earth, the only habitable planet in our solar system?

You know that there are proposals like space based solar power, space mirrors in Sun-Earth L1, space industry utilizing resources from asteroids . . . Sure they are still mostly in the sci-fi stage. But some of them might turn into reality, and then many of our issues on earth will be solved merely as a side-effect. It's too early to talk about "better" spending, when related technologies are still not even close to being mature and stable. F9 landed not even 9 years ago!

> Maybe after we accomplish that we could think about making Mars a sustainable and habitable planet too?

Honestly that's just bad logic, don't you really see obvious arguments against? It's fine as an opinion, but trying to convince other people without strong arguments does not seem like it will have much chance.

EDIT: if you truly care about not wasting money on stupid stuff, argue for cancelling SLS. THAT is one big waste of money, regardless of whether Starship succeeds or not.
> It's a shame that so many see changeability and performance in opposition with each other. I've yet to find compelling evidence that such is the case.

I think agree with some of the sibling comments that you can write in a default style that is both maintainable and performant. Regularly though, when profiling and optimising, the improvement can reduce maintainability.

Two examples from the last 6 months:

A key routine is now implemented in assembly for our embedded target because we couldn't reliably make the compiler generate the right code. We now have to maintain that in parallel with the C code implementation we use on every other target.

We had a clean layering between two components. We have had to "dirty" that layering a bit to give the lower layer the information needed to run fast in all cases.

With thought you can often minimise or eliminate the impact, but sometimes you take the trade-off.
Amen.

I'd only add that the sort of music they're aiming at is already pretty much at your end state. Muzak (and its slightly more advanced cousin Library Music) isn't about human expression, but about a background noise to convey a loose mood. God forbid we should just listen to what someone has to say - it always needs a distracting background interference to go with it.

But, like it or not, creating this drivel does put the food in the mouths of a great number of professional musicians. Even big-name recording studios aren't busy full time with wonderful new creative experiments, it's jingles and library music that keep their doors open. But even this work has been declining sharply for decades, and this new wave of tools will just continue that decline.

If anything, it's going to entrench the music profession for the privileged as there'll be an even smaller pot of work available and so only those that can afford the massive time investment and comfortable with the risk of being without work will survive.

And all this because the people building and paying for these tools are themselves musically illiterate - they don't know what makes good music, or why muzak is utterly devoid of the thing they profess to love and democratise.
Is someone more experienced able to shed light on how these benchmarks compare to real world use? Writes tend to be pretty resource intensive, is 4X faster going to show up as 2-4x faster writes on production environments?
"Propaganda is making puppets of us. We are moved by hidden strings which the propagandist manipulates."
i coded up an entire program to blink according to what you described before i it occurred to me my screen only runs at 60hz lol
Thanks for that, I'm impressed by the smart battery swap banks with a pull in, pull out, one minute turn around.
Besides the better caps word (by the way, you can have it in software in Win/Linux apps like https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc#c...) you can also toggle capslock with e.g. a double tap while having on-hold functionality to the more useful Control, so you still wouldn't need to hold any modifier key
The cynic in me wants to create a "FHBs by Hallucination Rate" table.

FHB = fellow human being
The sheer amount of pop music and its pop-ularity contradicts you a bit here. Because one can play live AI generated music just as well, hop around on the beat and prompt the viewers to put their hands in the air - a live performance is (arguably much) more than the music. But I may be wrong, maybe the pop assembly line is not the sign of commoditization I seem to see, and won't gain that much from AI support.
Wordpress actually provides a database wrapper (I wouldn't call it an ORM) called WPDB, which can use prepared statements.

In practice though, I have found myself on more than one occasion just using PDO in my plugins. WPDB is slower, and its API is weird, like a lot of APIs in Wordpress land are.
> If it’s truly better, the market for manmade music will still exist.

That is definitely not true. There are other things that determine what is sold besides quality: ability to mass produce, economies of scale, bullying tactics, etc.

> Not sure how this works, or why it’s so bad.

Because thinking like machines means that we are locked into the cycle of optimizing resource usage to expand and grow forever and not be stewards of the environment. Thinking like a machine means being a human cog in the consumerist machine of selfishness. Thinking like a machine means facilitating the endless growth of technology that furthers us from connecting genuinely with other people in a small community.
Imo the ribbon was a good answer to a bad question. The question being "How do we make sure users can find all those features we put in successive new releases"?

They came up with a solution that it easier for users to find new functionality, at the cost of degrading existing workflows.

And the irony of the whole ribbon debacle is that they already came up with the correct solution (as proven by history) in Office XP - just put in a search bar for features.
I don't have a problem with the "frozen in time" thing, as I have a reasonably good understanding of context windows, the feed-forward nature of the next token predictor, and information erasing computation. I agree that you would still be alive, but I'm not sure being in a "living environment" has any bearing on that.
Response to US Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
My least favorite feature of modern UIs: undiscoverable settings and options that only appear if you have enabled some other non-obvious option, are in some unspecified state, or, more typically the star are aligned.

My actually least favorite feature of modern UIs: doesn't matter if you actually learn to use it, because in two weeks it will change under you with on OTA update. And good luck finding documentation (third party of course) for the new redesign, because you are actually a guinea pig in an A/B test and most users do not have the same experience.
Xi told Biden Taiwan is biggest, most dangerous issue in bilateral ties
Interesting anecdote, but doesn't seem like it really fits the situation of "launched from the middle of an ocean". :)
Everyone is concerned about providing their Apple credentials but I think you can always create a throwaway Apple ID on a separate e-mail (or move yours off your primary email) so that there's nothing sensitive in the account besides the messages themselves?
On the sort of low DPI monitor the interface was designed for, 10pt text is quite legible. Heck, even 8pt text is legible.
Well perhaps we should try and rethink society instead of trying to make its generation more efficient...
But, circling back to 9/11, I often do wonder how the world would look like today, if America had found it within itself to not react with war to the attacks. There was such a broad outpouring of sympathy and support across the world: enough political capital for all kinds of projects.

If only a few of those hanging chads in Florida had hung differently, or if Gore had further pressed the issue...
When signing dog, was she referring to reindeers?
Add a Walrus
The biggest transformation was getting an RH Mereo chair. For me it's solved the back and leg issues caused by poor posture.

It's the first chair to make me sit comfortably & correctly [1].

Also transformational were:

* Corne split keyboard

* Benq e-reading lamp

* Galaxy Tab S8+

* Sit/stand desk

* Cheap foldable laptop stand from AliExpress (laptops by default seem terrible for posture).

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/13/6360250...
I think I read the word with the stress on the second syllable. On the first one it makes a lot more sense now.
I learned blender and 3d modelling this year. The most famous is by far the donut tutorial, almost a mandatory rite of passage. After that, personally I did one from the same guy to make a boat and an anvil which introduced me to modifiers/complex shapes and also the do's and don't of good model-making to make your future life easier. From that point I was able to tinker myself and I would come back for specific things I wanted to make (how to sculpt a face, how to model a tree etc)
>They both started using the gestures the same day they started actually talking

were you always talking when you signed to them? maybe they thought it went together.
The comic you referenced seems to imply a creaky old 2004 Wordpress implementation is positively correlated with number of blog posts ... ?
You are right. The pop assembly line is EXACTLY what you describe. However, that does not mean we should create new technology to make that assembly line even MORE efficient! Instead, we should work on changing and dismantling society so that it is LESS efficient.
Ahem I think you meant "no new national identities can appear after 1776".
People don't realize how little TSMC matters when it comes to the invasion of Taiwan. Sadly economics and free trade rarely stop nationalist wars. If anything stops it it will be the inherent difficulty in invading an army and the risk of failure (especially risk to the regime if it fails, it has seen how Russia and Putin have been weakened by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine)
> The first is that people don't recognize how important TSMC is

I think the US government understands this very clearly, that's why it's prepared to defend Taiwan. There is some strategic ambiguity, but the relevant parties understand that the US would protect Taiwan with its own military.
I’m with your colleagues I’m afraid. The intent of the all-mushed-up-together version is really clear. I had to spend a long time looking at the longer version to figure out what was going on. I know which I’d prefer to maintain if I had to.
that really is an unbelivable achievement. It's complete in so many ways
The electric scooters from China are still far away from being as practical as the ICE scooters; a scooter like you see in Taiwan or Vietnam can carry the whole family and has a top speed of a 120 km/h.
sure, they're talented. but, please, don't discount the effort euan has put into his current state of mastery.
Yes, exactly, "norm" as in "legal norm".
> Sadly both are slowed down due to irrational fear of GMOs and overregulation.

Some people want to paint it as 'irrational fear' against science. But issue with GMO is mostly about contamination of nature with proprietary seeds.

Also if you think that GMO is solution against pesticides then why use of pesticides is higher in US than in EU?
There are no GMOs in EU while there is less pesticides than in US.

You can probably create GMO plants that are resistant to pests. Unfortunately companies selling those seeds also sell pesticides. So pest resistant seeds would hurt business. There are probably other companies who are developing just pest resistant seeds but they are not dominant yet and that is not because of 'GMO fear'.
This is a great hacker news meme, but a map is still obviously useful.

To analyse the map, its author and its purpose, is just as useful as getting into the weeds and understanding the terrain.

What use would knowing the terrain be if you can’t share your mental model of it with someone else?
Restaurant Chain: Better Pay, Benefits Helped End Labor Shortage
From the title i would have guessed "Use more ifs and less fors" and it didnt make sense at the beginning