skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in general, even if people’s intuition about a topic is technically incorrect in some ways, people usually have the intuition they do for very legitimate reasons!

This is worth an essay of its own.
>> This blog isn't important enough to me to piss off my former colleagues in Edinburgh so I'm winding it down.

Sounds voluntary and that he made a judgment call, so apparently the author does care not to burn bridges.

We make cost/benefit decisions like this all the time. Don't project your personal calculation onto the author.
> We all thought Chess was impossible for computers until it wasn't.

I don't know who 'we' is but Chess was a program for computers before computers powerful enough existed with the hardware represented by people computing the next move.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turochamp
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26398960
To give you some context, the signal strength required to capture a TV signal in a normal house one story is about a 12 volt radio battery.

How do I know this? Because it is the first thing you try when getting one of those 150 piece electronic kits out of the Sears catalog. Takes two transistor amply circuits with a square or other wave and the right capacitor combination.
I don’t see how fossil fuels could possibly be phased out. Is there another way to make plastics?
“Boys clubs can hire whoever is more capable”

Surely you can see how this logic is absurd. You can’t limit your pool of workers to only “boys” and then claim you’re hiring the most capable people. You will miss out on all the capable people who aren’t “boys”.
You are a manager over two departments. A has 1 million left, B has 1 million deficit. What do you do? Easy answer: Move 1 million of A's budget to B!

It isn't more complicated than that, it is very hard to motivate not reducing A's budget in that case. It does create perverse incentives, but at the same time what are you supposed to do as a manager in that situation?
School, then work, is the most traditional route. If you’re past that point and want to learn, the best use of that list is to use it as a self-learning syllabus and set of search terms, so you can start to practice.
Bitcoin is infrequently used for illegal activities considering payments are, you know, publicly traceable, as several high profile cases demonstrated. It’s more often used for your intentions: speculation.
No.

This assumes all artists are alike, which patently they are not. Artists that make amazing music that doesn't stream well, are pretty fucked and their revenue stream from recorded music has basically vanished.

Spotify algorithm filters these artists hard.

I call these artists peak experience artists, they make music you might listen to occasionally, perhaps even just a handful of times, but you don't listen to in the background daily / weekly / monthly.

Whereas' pre streaming to listen to it once you bought a CD for £14.99 and the label got £7 and the artist on an indie got ~£3.50. Now the artist gets <0.01p for that listen.

Huge difference and a chiling effect on the sort of music that can be made.

(I've worked for a big UK indie and currently manage musicians and have seen the trends in music distribution first hand since 1992).

Many artists who happily make Spotify friendly music do handsomely if the algorithm is generous. But many do not and can no longer have a full time career in music.

And no, live shows do not make up the shortfall. Not all artists are comfortable playing live and it's harder for artists to reach critical mass where touring is even possible / profitable.

Unless they are already wealthy, which is why you see again and again the same ilk of rich kids breaking out in music (see Fred Again, Fourtet, etc etc).
But how many of those deep specialists got there by rationally weighing pros and cons and then picking a strategy?

My guess would be that for every example who got there on the curriculum drawing board, there are at least two who just happened to be in the right place at the time the technology grew, four who got infatuated with "their" technology so much they'd specialize no matter the pay relative to generalists, and eight would-be generalists who failed to keep their generalization in balance through a sequence of projects built on top of the experience of those before.

GP mentioned Carmack, that outlier of outliers. He did not get there by picking one technology and burying himself deep, he did whatever was practical. At the time IrisGL begat OpenGL, Carmack was battling the limitations of EGA and CGA in the Commander Keen series and then moved on to create the 2.5D wonders that followed. But he was more than ready to retire his world class expertise in software rendering when OpenGL came into reach of PC hardware. Textbook generalist behavior.
Trees require more time and land to capture a given amount of carbon compared to direct air capture.
Can you comment on these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU5MYV0CtpU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERPlfZn8JwE

Experimental art videos of similar sort I made a while back.
Are you using cable by any chance?

This is a pretty standard feature of DOCSIS, I believe. It allows bursting above the provisioned connection speed for a few seconds when there's capacity on the shared network segment.
> Model X

Is an actually relatively well designed and practical car.
With wild 'super pigs' expanding their range, Minnesota readies for action
Do we know what happened? 59 is a young age.
There was a communication problem, but the main problem was the slow iPhones. I bought the phone and Apple then made it slow and laggy. I wouldn't be here complaining if they added a setting to disable the throttling (which I probably didn't yet need at the time as the phone had never shutdown before the update).
Your 12 year old is the next Einstein.
> A must-read (or rather: must-see) for anyone who thinks exponential backoff is overrated.

I don't think exponential backoffs were ever accused of being overrated. Retries in general have been criticized for being counterproductive in multiple aspects, including the risk of creating self-inflicted DDOS attacks, and exponential backoffs can result in untenable performance and usability problems without adding any upside. These are known problems, but none of them is hardly classified as "overrating".
Yeah I mean, I wish people would illustrate their anecdotes with statistics, right? Oh wait, I did. I even alluded to the fact that I was an outlier in not buying CDs in the late nineties. But then the rest of the world got the message. And now we're spending as much on renting music as we did buying it in the eighties.
I cannot be the only one that gets away with only knowing:

git pull
git merge x
git checkout [-b] foo
git commit
git push
Disclosure and National Security: Should US Gov Reveal What It Knows About UAP?
I didn't even realize it wasn't Futurama until your comment.
You wanna have an impact? Do a minus 90 weeks, or similar. Some sort of "program" that someone can volunteer for and follow as a "side project". Maybe it's a book one week. A YT video the next. A series of blog articles. And so on. I don't feel it needs to all original content. There's plenty of content. The problem is, "What's good? And Where TF do I start?"

I suppose it could be crash-course'ed but a good manager / leader has a plan ;)

If nothing else, it could help those decide if they really want to be managers. Obviously the pay is better, but that doesn't mean it's worth it.
Sure, that's the general narrative of spotify.. But it's false. It's more like half of that 70%.

There's a reason Spotify is ending their service in Uruguay, and it's not because they're enough.
I mean this is what live music is for. Concerts have always been the best way to make money.
The claimed features (see pg 5 of https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_hemisphere_...) operate at a cell service level, so as long as your phone is still connecting to base stations the answer would be "no." Take, for example, "Linking multiple devices/phone numbers to an identified target" -- even if you use Signal on two phones and never do regular text/call, if the two devices travel together (e.g. connect to the same carrier base stations) one can make a guess that they are related. This has much wider applicability than the drug investigation mandate: e.g. you could use such capability to identify who is meeting with which investigative journalist.
I am pretty happy that they included "research" mode
and to make it easy to switch.

That is how I thought the presentation should look like
A big thumbs up for that.

The first presentation I was not able to figure out or
get working.
The interface couldn't be any worse, alas!
He was definitely loved.
He wouldn't have wanted the attention. He just enjoyed living his life as him. In that sense, the attention is more for the rest of us than him.
They could independently release through Spotify if they wanted to. They're not forced to sign to labels. And even if they were, that's not Spotify's problem.
Let's say a tree takes 25m^2 in space. The average tree can bind roughly 50kg of CO2 per year.
If a human emits ~10.000kg of CO2 per year, you need to maintain 200 trees for each human.
Let's take Germany as reference. You need to plant 80 million (people) times 200 trees.
In total this is an area of 4*10^11 m^2=400.000km^2

Funnily, this is roughly the size of Germany!
So that Germany is long term CO2 neutral, you need to plant (and keep healthy) a forest as big as Germany.

No scale this up for the world, impossible.

That's the problem.
Probably SS7
Researchers Discover Dangerous Exposure of Sensitive Kubernetes Secrets
its the meta-data they are accessing not the call itself, which means the title is somewhat misleading as no one would ever need a warrant in the first place!
Ask HN: Are AI Startups a Bubble Poised to Pop?
Hey everyone,

I would love to have your opinion about AI startups, specificcaly those riding on the coattails of big-name LLMs like GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Bard .. It's like every other day we see a new startup popping up, aiming to revolutionize everything from legal services, marketing to customer support, chatbots etc. But here's the thing that's been bugging me: how sustainable is this model, really?

When Sam Altman dropped the news about the GPT Store it t felt like a game-changer, and honestly, it kind of spooked me. I can't help but wonder if a bunch of these AI ventures are skating on thin ice. If their whole gig is just tweaking OpenAI models with some fancy prompts, what happens when the big players decide to switch up the game? What value are their bringing ?

I'm super pumped about where AI tech is heading – the possibilities seem endless. But when it comes to these AI startups, I'm not quite on the hype train. It feels like they might be missing a trick or two. Just churning out prompts and feeding data into a pre-built AI – isn't that more of a cool feature than a full-blown business?

It reminds me a lot of what goes down on Amazon. You know, how they jump on the bandwagon of trending products, leaving the smaller sellers in the dust? Kinda feels like the same vibe here.

So, here's what I'm noodling on: Is there a way these AI companies survive long term ? Is this just a big bubble poised to pop ? I'd love to get your take on this!
> this walking Petri dish

Don’t do this. Stigmatizing infectious disease leads to people not getting tested, which leads to more disease and more suffering.

This patient was treated for the concern that he presented and, for reasons we don’t know, didn’t follow up. Some people don’t have a lot of time and money to pursue the details of something that appears resolved, and it’s not clear that the tests would even been covered.

Standing around at a hospital and then fighting with your insurance company isn’t anybody’s idea of a fun.
I don't think there is anything Spotify can do themselves

...which is why legislation like the Uruguay bill is a good thing, and important.
Beatport is the most well known one among DJs
Big-Data Study Explores Social Factors Affecting Child Health
(so that I can use your library and not depend on your service)
I hugely lucked out through some connections :)
I agree, but my hopes are a bit different -- I hope it happens again and nobody ever finds out who was behind either one.
Plastic recycling is pretty much a dead industry. There is so little municipal plastic recycling done, and so precious little done with what plastic is recycled, that plastic continues to just build up in waste.

Some companies are attempting to use recycled plastic, such as the building industries, but where it is most needed, consumer plastics, is badically dead. Even LEGO declined to use recycled plastic.

We must move away from plastic as rapidly as possible. That is a monumental endeavor but it is necessary.
I mean arguably the event may have been triggered by microsofts manipulations.
I read that paper back in the day and honestly I don't find it very meaningful.

What they find is that for every emerging ability where an evaluation metric seems to have a sudden jump, there is some other underlying metric that is continuous.

The thing is that the metric with the jump is the one people would actually care about (like actually being able to answer questions correctly, etc.) while the continuous one is an internal metric. I don't think that refutes the existence of emerging abilities, it just explains a little bit of how they arise.
> Some of it will turn into gases.

Yeah, and this is definitely bad.

> Some will turn into those bugs and microbes and other forms of biomass.

This is the part I'm not sure about. Does this decrease the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere enough to counter said increase in greenhouse gases?
Brake-by-Wire: Purely electric brake system
Unihertz Jelly Star running great with LineageOS 20 GSI
You're mixing things up here. We're talking about the "fuel" part where we used fossil fuels to make energy. This isn't about making plastics.
Another part of the "rockstar mystique" is who received the billions of dollars in "internal royalties" that has been diverted from the revenue stream over the years. Wikipedia mentions a legal dispute between 3 people (2 Housers and Benzies) splitting royalties, so I assume that normal employees see little to none of it. The secretive weirdness and unfairness of the whole thing convinced me not to own their parent company stock (take-two interactive).
It may be that they're looking to create a monopoly and price competitors out of the market, and will raise prices (but probably not payments) when/if they succeed. Or perhaps they have already? I don't know of a real competitor to Spotify.

Edit: by real competitor, I mean one that most people will know and hence, can compete. Even monopolies like Google and Facebook have competitors that some random person I ask is likely to know about. Not sure I could say that of Tidal et al.
Solid state batteries promise to change EVs
Helen Toner, the Effective Altruist Who Sparked the Open AI Coup
... because Linux users are better at filing bug reports! ;)
Differences between promises and callbacks is not the concern here. There are three options for asynchronous handling whether or not they are different under the hood and regardless if this is all just vanity.

What Promise objects did

Callbacks already did that. Its just moving one concern from an API to a method. Nonetheless the capability was already there natively in the language, which is called the event loop.

In all things, even outside of code, people express vanity as an implicit means of advertising some manner of their identity or preferences. To the contrary people impose vanity on others only as a means of compensating for their own low confidence. Confidence is generally exceptionally low in software.
Comment gets grayed out?
Maybe there is a market for a "patreon for musicians". A platform that distributes your music to all streaming platforms but doesn't steal the rights from you. And additionally lets fans subscribe monthly for favorite arists (like patreon) for early access to music and discount to concerts and merch. IMO the patreon model is so good to lift artists out of poverty if they provide value to a small number of people without them having to loose all their creations to some publisher they signed off to in the begining.

Maybe if myspace didn't kill itself, it could have been it.
Because things need time and alignment of incentives between creators and consumers and if you interfere in that relationship all the time things will never ever succeed. The last thing any project needs is an investor with a majority interest that fucks up your plans all the time, can take your employees away at will and can axe the project at any time because it doesn't perform according to their metrics.

That's why VCs take a minority stake in start-ups. The trouble usually begins when the founders dilute to the point that they no longer have a majority.
We've built the web into a giant Skinner box. I find the claim dubious, but this is the sort of thing we ought to find at the forefront of our technology. It's where we've been going for a long time now.
> When a blocking operation is invoked, Jactl creates a Continuation object that captures the state of the running script such as the value of all local variables and the current call stack. When the long-running operation completes, the script state is restored and the script continues from where it left off.

I don't understand this. Is it possible that some code runs twice? (I know continuations from Racket/Scheme, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding the implementation.)

a = slow(7)
print(5)
somethingelse()
print(a)

Can 5 be printed twice?
Hetzner offers incredibly cheap ARM machines in the Falkenstein DC, for 25Eur a month you can snag the top of the line with 16 vCPU and 32GB RAM.

If your usecase fits inside that 32GB (no 70B models, sadly) the price to performance of a GGUF Q4KM is really attractive on this setup.
Possibly `git branch NEWBRANCHNAME` instead of `git checkout -b NEWBRANCHNAME`. When I need to show git to someone in order for them to contribute to something, I give them only these incantations --- and instructions to ask me if weird git things happen.
I manage with even less, any merging under my watch happens as a strategy with pulling
A colleague and I have been investigating how different LMMs stack up against GPT-4 with vision. We ran seven tests across five LLMs We found strong performance with Qwen-VL and CogVLM, although no LMM (including GPT-4 with vision) passed all of our tests.

I'm excited to see what the next year of LMMs bring!
It was like this 20 years ago. "software that can be run by the user" - good old times.
dunno about netflix, but youtube usually does. They send you a chunk of data as fast as possible, and then send nothing till your client requests the next chunk.

By doing that, they can get a good estimate of your connections available bandwidth, which is needed for the decision whether to automatically switch to a higher/lower quality feed.

It also means they can use 'dumb' servers which don't do any application-specific logic for throttling.
I'm not a cop, but how can I get access to this Hemisphere system? Do I pretend to be a cop and walk into a police station, open the start menu and click on Hemisphere, and then "search all"? Seems doable.
FWIW that's 99% of my usage of git

(well... it's about 1% because I do everything using the eclipse git UI, but that's the same behavior you get from that commands)
Ive got the family subscription to Spotify. The four of us each listen to a solid 100,000 minutes of music a year for $15 a month. 400,000 minutes of entertainment for $180 is easily the best value entertainment I’ve ever seen. That’s 37 hours per dollar.
Wow you manage to mix ad hominem, and anecdotal evidence, based on a fiction tale made by current mainstream propaganda industry! "Remember the time when American people had decent education and could use other reasoning than references to TV/streaming series?"
They also acquired Symantec. When you think a product can't get any worse..
A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language
If private organisations are doing it then it must be good, otherwise they would go bust when other large companies don’t do it and can undercut.
There have been rumors of such since the early 90s.
I know a decent amount of git, but day to day I use GUIs (Sublime Merge).
>no one is particularly impressed with it

If anyone has ever said anything cynical ever I think this beats it.

Biology is amazing.

>What are you hoping will be understood.

Understanding is like the apparent horizon. The closer you get the further away you realize it is. There will always be more to understand, we will just reach a point where our little monkey minds are incapable of holding enough 'state' to grasp for the next step. I say that as a monkey who is awfully fond of my own little monkey mind.
So what's new? I don't understand the article. OpenSSL is the kind of technology I use on my web server without knowing how it actually works
A lot of things in git are just pointers to commits, and then the git implementation handles them under the covers in some way that usually makes sense but not always.

One example that also bites people: moving files isn't stored in git - if you move files (even with `git mv`) and create a new commit, the moves aren't stored, but this is reconstructed later by the client based on similarity, which comes from the diff algorithm.

And git has multiple diff algorithms to pick from: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...

And optionally to not detect renames in diff output with `diff.renames`: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...
The breakdown of wood a few feet beneath the surface is actually extremely slow.

If converted to charcoal ("biochar") through pyrolisis first it's much better, and won't release methane or CO2 (and enriches soil)

The bigger issue would be the logistics, and the amount of CO2 emissions simply involved in processing and burying it.