skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently been getting into cold plunges at the local sauna and it is crazy how energized you feel when you come out from one (especially after sauna.)

I now wish I had one at home, it is different from just taking a cold shower imo.
Target disk mode over thunderbolt 2 and 3 is also supported by the relevant mac hardware.

Target disk mode is also supported on mac laptops that are older than firewire; the original target disk mode is over scsi and is supported by the first powerbooks, the powerbook 1xx series.
Microsoft Azure Eagle Is a Paradigm Shifting Cloud Supercomputer
How caught up can you get that somehow using your built-in and free instruments (see human voice and hands/feet for percussion) or a cheap $50 guitar/uke is a privilege but having an internet connection and a modern smartphone that can run this kind cutting edge software is not?
The theory is that tomatoes meant for canning can be harvested at a more optimal stage of ripeness (and they don't need to be bred for long shelf life) compared to fresh ones. I don't know if anyone has done any serious testing of the theory though.
Specifically for neural networks, is there any alternative for backpropagation and gradient descent which guarantee finding the global minimum?
Popularity is only relevant for making money;

Previously it was also a way of showing it to others in a way of a filter, also it was so crazy creating new 'styles'.

But this time is over.

We are in a Post art discovery face. I have not really seen (at least not regular) something totally/complelty/utterly new in art.

But thats good. The search space is much deeper now, art is much more accessable.
Extinction is unlikely, unless having resistance comes at a very high cost to the organism. I would not necessarily assume this is the case, though. These are genes that may have already existed in a subset of these bacteria, just as random genetic variation, and then we came along and selectively bred the ones with a natural resistance to our antibiotics.

Think of it like the black death in humans. When this disease suddenly made the jump to humans, some people had naturally higher resistance and some had lower resistance, all just due to random genetic variation. The disease spared people who were more resistant and killed people who were less resistant, and now humans today carry genes that protect us from this disease, even though we have not had another black plague for hundreds of years. Even if we eradicated the disease entirely, we will probably still carry resistance for thousands of years. It's just a part of our genetic makeup now.

Back to bacteria, even if antibiotic resistance does come at a high cost to the organism and there is selective pressure against it in the absence of antibiotics, it is still very unlikely that we can get back to the way it was when antiobiotics were new. Once a deleterious trait appears in a population, it has a way of sticking around (e.g., see numerous deadly genetic diseases carried by humans).

Basically, the cat is out of the bag. We need to drastically reduce our use of modern antibiotics to buy ourselves time to develop new antibiotics--and we need to keep the new antibiotics very tightly controlled.
Looked at the UHK Trackpoint module just now and I can't imagine buying this. It can't be used with index finger+thumb (without moving your hand) and does not have a third mouse button which is crucial for jumping between scrolling and moving the mouse.

They also can't easily fix the first issue, because they expect their modules to be attached at certain places and the trackpoint should be way up there.

Maybe I'm just prejudiced from my thinkpad keyboards. Haven't used an ergonomic or split keyboard yet, no clue if this would make a difference on how to use a trackpoint.
Boeing 757: A Modern Classic (2019)
This article is really good and a useful summation of things I've felt and tried to explain, going to pass it on to my partner!

The only thing that I found interesting was with regards to choosing focus days, as I just cannot do that - I don't know hour to hour whether I will be able to focus or not, it's always a total battle.

However, my hack is that when coding I need to watch something silly: like cooking shows, reality tv etc - something I can partially ignore.

This was a fix I discovered about 20 years ago and it's helped me ever since, I've always described it as keeping the child portion of my brain happy whilst the adult portion gets on with its job.

I was diagnosed with inattentive ADHD (what was ADD) 8 months ago, medication really helps with emotional regulation and staying on task - yet I can still code better when I'm watching some random rubbish.
It might just be a way for me to create my own art.

It would also already work very well for creating background music without bothering artists to do so.

Concentration background music etc.
...and for the people whose hard work this was trained on without permission or compensation?
> If it's real, why don't you provide evidence?

Because I went to bed, it was late in my time zone.

> nuclear power cultists.

Say what now? Are you an idiot?

The vast bulk of PV performance studies are dominated by relatively short term studies in temperate climates - the latitudes of California and Germany eg:

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51664.pdf

references Australia and links to papers from Perth and Melbourne which are cooler climates.

See my comment above re: my region of interest - equatorial tropical regions with harhser temperature cycling and probable requirements for cooling to maximise returns (still part of an open study).

I'd be happy to provide more details but I'm afraid your comment above doesn't warrent engagement.
Having a separate team lead and EM - I think that’s already a big mistake, which will force the EM into a silly matrix-org style role
Conversely I found it way easier to eat "healthy" in the US due to the popularity of flash frozen vegetables.

In college I would buy a bag of pre-cut flash frozen vegetables suitable for a stir fry and just dump that into the wok and throw some sauce & protein.

Abroad where people eat fresh vegetables I had the habbit of ordering food delivery everyday because I'm not going to waste 1 hour of my life every day washing & cutting vegetables and the knife and the cutting board etc.
I like that it's non-Topre. They claim the switches are hot-swappable, but what with?

Only black-on-black keycaps are very lame, though. They don't offer any other ones, and you cannot just buy any other ones, gotta accommodate that TrackPoint.

Also US-only, meh.
Missing the point. The vast majority of uses for this will be music generation for profit:

const song = generateSong()
const royalties = Spotify.Publish(song)
Bank.getRoyalties(royalties)

You have to think of this like a typewriter or a word document. It is mostly used for profit. And profit always wins over anything else
See also, based on same js-dos code

https://dos.zone/

https://js-dos.com/v7/build/docs/
My take for almost a year now is: LLMs are like your inner voice.

The part where we can "analyse what we just said (or were about to say) (or what we just typed and didn't press send yet!) and conceptualise it as a whole to evaluate its veracity" involves going back-and-forth in yourself. A loop. LLMs are the part inside the loop, and so if you want to get better results, you have to feed the output back to LLM.

This is, arguably, part of what the "conversation mode" does, by always including the growing message log in each request - which is why e.g. GPT-4 is good at correcting a mistake once you say, without pointing it out, that there exist a mistake.
>imagine 9-5 Java 8 guys

That's like >90% of SW developers in the world.
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The amazing thing is of course that this is done with a general model, but it would be quite easy to generate data for supervised learning for this task. Generate HTML -> render and screenshot -> use the data in reverse for learning.
This business venture was completely dependent on a main service from a single 3rd party - risky!

Why didn’t the author hosted his own uncensored open source LLM on the cloud?
Sure but most renowned artists had the time to become really skilled because they could dedicate all their time to it. If no one wants to pay humans for art any more, how will that happen?
Why I chose Tauri instead of Electron
Yeah it depends how you look at it.

Using the "journey metaphor", for some people what matters is the destination; for others what matters is the journey itself; for others what matters is the person doing it; and for others any combination of those.

The target audience for most generative stuff is mostly people who are looking at "the destination".
Don't confuse talent with skill. Incredible work like this definitely requires both.
Council on Foreign Relations: Tracking China's Control of Overseas Ports
What kind of hardware is needed to render something like this?
> If bland/poor quality art is no longer produced by humans, what’s the loss?

Because even artists often produce bland/poor stuff, sometimes even some that sells well? (or that is recognised several decades/centuries, to be actually great work)
Second largest cloud on the planet isn't enough scale?
I almost never say this: you are wrong. Code needs to be maintained. Everyone can understand the first example. Everyone has to slowdown and reason about your second example. It is objectively worse. And your argument is flawed: break and continue are not the goto-like behavior that goto is criticized for as they are limited to the scope of that block of code.

The problem traditionally cited with goto is it can go anywhere (even into the body of another function where expectations on which variables are set may not hold).

If you don't like break and continue, how do you justify exceptions? The handling code for those may be in a different file or nowhere. Much closer to goto.
Also, if there is commercial interest for Linux on IA-64, someone should be able to pay someone to maintain kernel support and perform extensive tests. The fact that this hasn't yet happened yet is at least potentially a signal.
Unfortunately for many people music is nothing more than 'something to play in the background'.
> Most software SaaS services and startups would mostly be replaced as OpenAI 'GPTs'

Do you mean that LLM-wrapper (SaaS) startups are obsolete, or that people use GPTs to bootstrap generic (SaaS) startups?
I think it's pretty clear what a terrorist does - target civilians on purpose.

So Hiroshima: the US is terrorist, Gaza: Israel is terrorist, etc etc
More probably (most) humans will realize that talking to computers is not very interesting or productive, and decide it is in fact not worthy of our attention or cycles. Much like a an extremely fancy phone menu system.
Do you think it's nature or nurture that responsible for a Dwight Schrute personality?
My photos might look like crap but I’m happy to have them.

Maybe something similar will happen with AI-powered music creation?
Minimizing control flow in loops is a good idea, but if you can FP-ize the loop entirely that keeps it pretty readable IMO.

things
.iter()
.filter(|t| !t.is_yellow())
.take_while(|t| !t.is_rainbow())
.for_each(|t| t.thingify());
A few of these are still for sale on gog.com and should probably be removed as you say it doesn't seem super legit right now.

If I was the author, I'd make it clear it's all demo versions and actually source these versions instead of full games. Shows the proof of concept without entering legal issues.
Social media and media organisations are too volatile to be entrusted with important pieces of history.

I can’t even access the tweet.
But you can use AI and still refine these ideas. The entry is just easier.

On a walk -> Idea -> hum melody into website -> listen if that is something that floats your goat. And then you can follow the traditional way of midi keyboard + daw or however you produce.
Could this apply to exercise studies as well?
I'm afraid I'm with your colleagues.

I value being able to grasp what the code does at a glance while scrolling through. Your first snippet is entering my brain like as if without even reading at all, all at once and instantly.

Your second example absolutely does not and I'm sure you know why.
Maybe hallucination isn't the right word. "Statistical guess" is a better term IMHO.
Huh? We're not talking about when prices go to zero, we're talking about when prices are high.

Suppose I'm a wind farm with a strike price of £75 and thanks to high gas prices the current wholesale electricity price is £150 per MWh. I can (and certainly will) sell my wind electricity, but I have to pass £75 of the £150 back to the Low Carbon company.
> from Aristotle's laws of motion, to discussions about the shape of the Earth, going through the so-called impossibility of heavier-than-air flight, the (im)possibility of perpetual machines

One of these is not like the others.
You need free time and money to learn to play. You then need commercial support to make it full time.

let us side step the binary "privileged" argument which is disruptive here.

The issue for us now is given that level of talent, would Hendrix, Johnson or anyone else be able to make a career in 2028? Or will it be the preserve of people with free time and money?
The oil wells were in Pennsylvania, which was on the Union side.
>Doesn't matter if it is music, drawing or scientific discoveries.

#oxford comma blues.
Nice find. I guess a human could also assume that the left hand navigation is in its expanded state - and should be omitted from the page until the left hamburger button gets clicked.
Yeah, on 6th december it will be 30 year anniversary of one special article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/antisoviet-warrior-...
BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE WRONG ON THE INTERNET

First time I have ever used caps-lock for it's intended purpose. It's surprisingly liberating. I RECOMMEND GIVING IT A GO, IT'S LIKE THERAPY. Maybe we should go in the opposite direction and add even more dedicated keys for all forms of cringe-mode typing - leetspeak, texting, emoji-poisoned, valley-girl, German etc.

GPT powered politeness toggle maybe?
MrBeast Reshaped His Hometown
I appreciate your position but I want to push back against this type of rhetorical defense of stuff that has no basis in evidence or reasonable expectation.

This sentiment parrots Sam Altman's and Musk's insistence that "AI" is super-powerful and dangerous, which is baseless rhetoric.
One thing you can do zucchinis pick them when they’re very small. They taste better that way.
Why is it creative to

hum a melody -> match in daw -> work on it creative

but hum -> AI generation -> work on it in daw is not?
> That the box starts out empty is an assumption based on shared cultural context, not a hallucination.

Sure, in the exact same way LLM operates within context of everything it learned. It so happens that it's "cultural context" is derived from ours, by means of the training data, which is why it's so similar.

> If you give someone that question and then say "wrong, there was already a ball in the box!" they're not going to say "haha, silly me, I hallucinated"

And yet people are doing that to LLMs. "Haha, look at that LLM hallucinating", where half the time the prompt is misleading or wrong.

> they're going to stop hanging out with you.

That's the social equivalent of RLHF.
I write a lot of ${BASH}
Hallucination in this context is when LLMs make up stuff.

The OP's assertion is "make up stuff" is all LLMs really do and sometimes the stuff they made up matches reality - and sometimes it doesn't.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/claim-ancient-egyptians-cou...

Here's a nice compilation of evidence showing it's completely explainable how they could have made them.
Regarding the first point of being buried under an avalanche of crap, we can solve this problem through many ways. We can still filter by human music. Or we can use better recommendation systems (automated or p2p/word-of-mouth).

Regarding whether it is "my" expression or not, I consider expression as a way of making my feelings or thoughts known. This grants me an additional way of making my feelings or thoughts known. Perhaps of lower fidelity than if I learn to play an instrument but maybe that will improve with time. Either way, since I now have an additional choice of expressing my thoughts and _I_ decide if it's "good enough" to publish, I consider it as allowing me to express more.
As I mentioned in a peer comment I'm more interested in tropical | equatorial performance and the vast majority of PV performance studies are in temperate climates - it's not currently clear whether monocrsytalline deliver peak power in such climates .. quoting a study I have here:

His work has shown that in this tropical climate, with high ambient temperatures and high humidity during the wet season, the a-Si array produces up to 20% more energy than ...

(It's an ongoing bit of work ATM)

The optimisation issues include other factors, the cost of panel cooling techniques Vs their benefits for one.

Your average degradation figures are the figures from big meta studies such as the US Dept of Energy NREL lab Photovoltaic Degradation Rates https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51664.pdf which you'll notice is dominated by temperate climate studies at the latitudes of Perth | Melbourne | Germany | Arcata, California etc.
Yeah they could upgrade the processor. And since it apparently runs Linux already, most the software should be relatively portable.

Now if they're using a 9-bit serial UART there may be a problem...
$40,000 to sit in Xi's table. Among the people who attended:

Apple CEO Tim Cook,
Tesla Elon Musk (only meeting, not dinner)
Blackstone Steve Schwarzman,
BlackRock Larry Fink,
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff,
Boeing CEO Stan Deal,
FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam,
Visa chief Ryan McInerney,
Mastercard chair Merit Janow,
Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio,
Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla,
Peng Zhao, CEO of Citadel Securities,
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser,
Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods,
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

The US representatives:

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo,
U.S. ambassador to China Nicholas Burns,
White House China advisor Campbell,
San Francisco Mayor London Bree
Becoming a professional musician isn't a "right" of any kind. You don't have a "right" to be paid to do anything you want. You're certainly allowed to do it (barring outright criminal activity), but don't expect to be entitled to monetary compensation.
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
"The Eye of the Master argues that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations"
I have hard time believing that you can learn quicker playing chess against AI. Humans can explain ideas behind their moves, their long term plans and their position evaluation. That what chess coaches will explain you and that's what you can read in chess books. Computer has hard time explaining his moves, has no notion of long-term plan and it's position evaluation is often useless for beginner or intermediate chess players (like evaluating position as a draw while one side has to do a series of very precise moves to achieve equality, which is a clearly lost position for a non-grandmaster player).
how is it different than s3?
I still don't get some drivers that have nice cars but cheap out on the tires.

Like FFS man, those tires are the only thing keeping your car on the road, why would you risk your life and cheap out exactly on the most important safety items?
I'm using a similar service - https://pinboard.in to both managing my own bookmarks and to browse other users' public bookmarks of interest by tag or using built-in search functionality. Quite useful imo.

I do remember so-called "Web Rings" and still think they were a nice idea (among others, passed away), and it seems to me, del.icio.us and then pinboard.in are one of a few options we still have to make smaller sites remain "visible"
> economic war, sanctions, naval blockade... US is importing a lot from China

China’s navy is capable of disrupting things around China, and could prevent exports from Taiwan from reaching other countries. The US Navy is capable of disrupting things everywhere, and could prevent ships carrying food and oil from reaching China.

> I do not think support for Taiwan would survive for very long.

I don’t know how to predict that, but the US would tangibly be giving up a lot by letting Taiwan fall. That alone is motivation that might have seemed somewhat lacking when comparing a confrontation with China over Taiwan with some of the other conflicts the US has recently taken part in.
There's a really good example of this in the 1965 film 'The Ipcress File' with Michael Caine (recommended).

Caine's character is portrayed as a gourmand, a bon viveur - he grinds his own coffee and uses a French press to brew it in - though I suspect that the director had never used one, as he doesn't actually let it brew.

In once scene he visits a a new-fangled supermarket with a colleague and picks up a can of tinned champignon from the shelves, remarking on how good they are. It always struck me how attitudes had changed. Today the character would be looking for the freshest mushrooms from the local farmers market.
You forgot Wirth's law: software complexity compensates increase in speed of hardware.
Now you need to define what a unique, profound emotion is.

And you need to define great execution.

And you need to explain why intentionally having poor execution couldn't express a unique, profound emotion. On Radiohead's biggest hit Creep "That's the sound of Jonny trying to fuck the song up. He really didn't like it the first time we played it, so he tried spoiling it. And it made the song."

At the end of the day it's always going to seem all subjective and a matter of opinion. Because it's too hard to pinpoint the objective part of what we are doing when we decide what's great and what's garbage. If there even is an objective part.
Samuel Motherfucking L motherfucking Jackson enters the Motherfucking chat.
Damn, even Osama bun Laden got the Jewish conquest of Israel wrong.

The British did not “hand over” Israel — the creation of Israel was a multidecade effort on the part of Jews since Hershel published his pamphlet in the late 1800s and the first meeting of the World Zionist Congress (1890.)

In the interlude, they tried a lot of stuff including simply offering the Sultan money for Israel, but I’ll skip to the British part…

A lot of lobbying and money was involved in getting the first Jew to ever be elected to British parliament also made the governor of “British Palestine” the year they got it from the Turks (1918.)

Thus marked the start of the “first Aliyah” where Jews around the world funded the purchase of land for young Jews to come and create Kibbutzes (self sustaining communities.)

Look up what they got up to in one of the first and largest Kibbutzes (manufacturing a lot of guns n ammo.) It’s a museum you can even tour today.

As Sun Tzu says, the pinnacle of war is to win without fighting and I see that so many people don’t really know about the creation of Israel, even though it is one of the most impressive feats of conquest (by Sun Tzus metric.)