skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we can easily extend the argument to singers. In fact, I think it's more obvious and clear when we do.

Imagine soon, or maybe even already, we have an AI that can mimic any musician's skills with new words. Then, you go to see a singer. But what actually happens is the person on the stage says "here's a song I wrote as it would sound played by Eric Clapton".

Then they press a few buttons, and there's a really good rendition of their words as if Clapton had toiled for several weeks creating new guitar riffs to match them. It's brilliant.

But... you came to hear a singer, see a performance. What you're getting is music, without any of the effort. It might be a good show, but it is not a live music performance.

If this happened, and the event had been sold as a live performance, most people would be rightfully dissapointed.

Songwriting is quite the same, except that it's hidden. We don't see the writing happen, we only hear the result. With a live performance, the (artist's effort)/(audience feedback) loop is immediate. With tasks like songwriting, or painting, or writing novels, the loop is delayed.

The delay matters. People will care a lot less if they don't immediately see that the effort was made by a computer rather than a human. Even if you tell them later, they won't care as much. The human psyche gives huge weight to immediacy. But I would argue there's no difference. If you appreciate the artistry and effort of seeing a human performing live, you should try to extend that to appreciating the effort of an artist who toils for weeks or months behind the scenes before showing their work. Otherwise you're saying that live performance is somehow a more valid form of art.

This is not an argument against AI art or music, by the the way. If the show, the painting, the song, or whatever, is clearly labelled as an AI creation rather than a human artist's, I have no problem with that. However, we are alreading seeing efforts in the film and music industries to remove humans and replace them with AI. It's starting with extras but as the tech improves it will move on to everything else. The big studios would love if they can get away with that. I don't think this is a good thing.
Im seeing a LOT of "reddit won" here... But don't forget: Reddit faked hundreds of accounts when they started. They would have no issue in using whatever chatbots and LLMs to fake engagement now.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-t...
In those days HP was selling specialized equipment to a small market of specialists, and brand reputation was key. If HP were only selling to the HN crowd, they'd have been out of business years ago.

But now they're in the consumer staple industry. A new crop of highschool and college students are minted every year, and the negative signal simply will not reach them. They will see the ads for HP and see it as just another of several interchangeable brands (like automobiles or Android phones).
I started off being really excited to learn, but as time went on I actually lost interest in the field.

The whole thing is essentially curve fitting. The ML field is essentially an art more than a science and it's all about tricks and intuitions on different ways of getting that best fit curve.

From this angle the whole field got way less interesting. The field has nothing deeper or more insightful to offer beyond this concept of curve fitting.
I think it's one of those cases where the lines are unclear because this kind of IP issue has never been fully litigated. IP owners like to take an expansive view of IP rights, but they are likely to loose on some issues in court.

Firaxis could certainly send a cease & desist.
Fun connection—"3 Idiots" is a Bollywood film about the journey of three engineering students at an Indian college, inspired by Wangchuk's (the engineer's) life!
I ran into a bunch of issues with it on a headless userless system. Unfortunately, like pulse, it's deeply integrated with dbus/policykit/xdg stuff. Wireplumber was looking for XDG_HOME_DIR and breaking when it couldn't find one, dbus issues when doing things from root services, Jack clients couldn't connect, etc.

I'm prepared to like it better than pulse, and alsa has its warts, but I'm not 100% convinced yet.
China demands more fever clinics amid pneumonia surge
Bill would give you the shirt off his back (then steal it from you later that night).
How likely is it this Hacker News discussion is the place where a basic flaw in the experimental design is discovered?
I predict that some day, you'll be beaten to death by an angry mob of screen-reader users :)
> "Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster". No. Never. Nothing even close to that. I try hard not to be rude about other languages.

To be fair, it's not exactly a rude statement.
They're talking about the western slope, which would mean roughly Grand Junction to Durango in this context.
I believe you should add one, not subtract. E. g. if TTL on the phone is set to 64, you'll want router to send packets with TTL 65, so that one extra hop (from router to phone) brings it down to 64 and the carrier can't tell the difference.
FYI, LSTMs are not obsolete. They are still the best option in many cases and are being deployed today.
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It would be more like "what's the point of becoming a champion runner if a theoretical drug existed that made anyone instantly into a champion runner and was very difficult to detect?"
I dont use such software but porting it to linux makes me want to buy it just to thank them for making it available on linux.
Smoking in planes - how did that ever make sense.
This brings up an important question: Is a topic useful to learn if you will never use it in your life?

To attempt answering this question, we can look at LLMs as an analogy. If you include code in the training set for an LLM, it also makes the LLM better at non-coding tasks, suggesting that sometimes learning something makes you also better at other things. I'm not saying the same necessarily applies for learning these "old school" AI techniques, but it's a decently analogy at least.
Those are the talking points of the people who got us into this mess who have been systemically incapable of deploying or even developing secure systems. There is no absolutely reason to listen to the liars who have repeatedly promised secure systems while being utterly incapable of doing so for literal decades. The task is not impossible, the commercial vendors like Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc. are just incompetent at security and are trying to poison the well by claiming that it is impossible just because they can not do it.

If you want to know what actual high security development looks like you can just look to Orange Book Level A1 certified systems and Common Criteria EAL 6/7 certified systems. Systems designed for high security with formal specifications, robust documentation, exhaustive testing, thorough review, spotless penetration testing by well-funded intelligence agencies, formal proofs of correctness, and proven deployment in high criticality settings. The Common Criteria SKPP literally required the NSA to fail a multi-month penetration test while having the full source code, internal documentation, and formal specification.

These commercial vendors believe protecting against state actors is literally impossible even though it has already been demonstrated in front of their faces for decades. Nothing they say about security is useful because they know nothing about what is needed to make systems that are actually secure.
Kongsberg, Norway and Germany to Develop New "Super Missile"
I don't want to download 3TB of dependencies from git. What is your gripe with vcpkg? What short-comings does it have? Do you need to keep archives of your dependencies? That's an IT problem. I simply don't agree that it's "The Right Thing". The only thing that is right is making sure you can build. Whether that's pulling dependencies from the internet. Pulling dependencies from your OS. Or Pulling dependencies off a USB stick authorized by the government for use in the clean room you must build and install the software into?

I don't want a world where 1 CVE requires 100,000 commits to all the repo's of the world. I want one where 1 CVE requires 1 commit to 1 repo and everyone else get's their share.

Bifurcating your software out of the gate is not a sound software development strategy. It's just laziness. If you need to build on 10 year old hardware, you can checkout 10 year old Linux. You can build for 10 year old windows. You can build for 10 year old Mac (time limiting...). You can build Win 3.1 apps today with vcpkg. Storage is cheap. Maybe not so much on Github, but Github isn't the only place you can run git. I've worked at organizations that archived and kept every build, every dependency, every configuration, for every version, since the inception of the software project. Nowhere in the repo is all of that information.
I was too but I posted anyway. I'd like it built into a legitimate plugin inside the zotero app.
As an occasional FontForge user I kinda want to see how slick some concept fontforge.ai would look and feel, but I'm fine with ancient looks as long as it works. For pretty much every software I'd really like to see some semi-intelligent fuzzy search prompt to quickly find interesting stuff on menus (I would love especially GIMP so much more if it had something this).
Bravo, e come fai con Øåä e questo genere di lettere?
Pixel art as used today isn't quite the same thing as old-school icon design. Unciv doesn't need to operate with a restricted color palette and even on mobile has quite a few pixels to work with, but has to make UI elements easily recognizable and distinguishable at small physical sizes. I think the design constraints are probably most similar to early iOS and some early OS X icons, rather than the constraints of Win95 and 2d video game consoles (where all art—icons and otherwise—had very limited color and pixel counts).
There aren’t any systems that are “secure” or “not secure” in the abstract anywhere in existence. Every system has strengths and weaknesses and is suitable for some purposes and not others, depending on your threat model.

It is perfectly possible to use products from each of the vendors you mentioned to build a high assurance system. It depends on what you build, how you configure it, and what threats you are trying to protect against.

The non-commercial/open source world isn’t exactly a bastion of impeccable security practice, either. You can counter every Solar Winds or Double Pulsar anecdote with a Heartbleed or Log4J anecdote.

But, if you look behind the headlines of every major breach, for every 1 company that got popped by a zero-day, 99 got popped by either social engineering or improper configuration/outdated software.

Why do they have poor configs and outdated software? They’re short-staffed and can’t make changes due to fear of outages. That’s a business culture problem, not a technology problem.

> Companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Apple, etc. are just systemically incapable of deploying or even developing secure systems. They have no knowledge or expertise in that field and for their employees to develop that knowledge would take both prioritization and years to decades of learning and experimentation.

Each of these vendors employs many widely known and respected security researchers. I’ll grant their product teams can be hit or miss, but to say they have no security expertise at all is just false.
I disagree that there's more joy to parenthood. I think that's a lie parents tell themselves to justify their decision.

I'm happy for you if you're happy to have children. That doesn't mean people without children aren't as happy as you.
Nexus/Artifactory my friend. If your site is down, you have bigger issues on your hands. If the remote end is down, cache is there to save you.
The line between Galileo and Bozo the Clown is as fine as ever.
It's not true, though. War is an effective wealth transfer mechanism - from the lower/working classes to the rich war parasite class. Halliburton absolutely profited from the Iraq invasion, though in aggregate you're absolutely right that prosperity is reduced by wars.
A smartphone is so unbelievably amazing
Yeah, this was definitely a thing on old macs. Us olds also remember the pain and agony of cleaning this up for 32 bit addressing. Cool as these hacks are, do yourself a favor and avoid the (eventual) agony.
What is the context of this?

I know nothing about this but I'm hoping that I pieced the story together correctly:
From 1999-2001 there was a hoax on the internet - a person named Kaycee - who supposedly had lukemia and died. [1] She was primarily run by a 40 year wold mom in Kansas. The puppeteers gave Kaycee such an elaborate persona that many people truly believed she was real. It's heartbreaking seeing some of the things people wrote.

> I am one of those folks who was emotionally involved in Kaycee's life. I believe ... that she was a real person. ... Kaycee was here. Now she is not. And I miss her very much. [2]

This post is supposed to be a joke. This is someone playing along with the story, saying that Kaycee actually wasn't real... but because she was actually an AI developed in an MIT lab that was so dangerous that the researchers shut it down...[3]

The funny thing is this is actually plausible now.
Earlier today I found an entire gang of youtube channels that try to act like they're actually being run by real-life attractive women. The youtube channel has links to instagram pages that try to look convincing real and authentic. They comment on each other's videos in order to try to convince viewers that they're real. People aren't making fake AI people because it's funny, they're bored, or because someone wants to destroy the world. They're here now to make easy ad revenue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaycee_Nicole
[2] https://www.metafilter.com/7819/Is-it-possible-that-Kaycee-d...
[3] https://metatalk.metafilter.com/608/Plastic-gets-the-story-a...
My sub has around ~2K subscribers and still growing, ~200-300 new subscribers every month.
There are lots of experiments around generating knowledge graph mutations and queries to build this kind of relational knowledge.

In neo4j, for example, relations tend to have natural language names.
(The cat BELONGS_TO the human)

So LLMs appear to be apt at making those queries
The llama models are more open source than gpt-3.5-turbo. They aren't "free software" in the full definition, but they are available to be fine-tuned, modified, run offline, and generally tinkered with.

For AI, "open source" is less about the license and what it allows you to do legally, and more about what the technology allows you to build practically.

If/when Meta gets litigious, this might change in a hurry. Right now, there are bigger risks to AI startups (not Google) than worrying about how they'll choose to enforce the llama license.
Global shutter is pretty desirable for machine vision applications like robotics, especially if that shutter is also externally triggerable on a gpio pin so that you can perfectly sync up all your cams.
Now I’m addicted to TT :dead:
What is COP28 and why is it important?
> this sounds like if you were to ask Djokovic to play 46 tennis matches versus players ranked between 5 and 400 in the world, could he win 45 out of 46 matches and draw one game (not possible in tennis but hey)?

Not quite, it's more like watching Djokovic's match record until he gets a really good streak and then calling that particular run out as unlikely. It being specifically 46 matches is just because that's the particular length of data that Kramnik cherry picked to do his analysis on.
The concept of "gatekeeping" has ruined online communities. Remember when "lurk more" was the common advice to new users?
You're right about when things were being adopted, but rather than calling these photos late 80s, it's maybe more to do with the photos being a bit more biased towards the offices of programmers or finance types rather than general business paper pushing offices.
"Pareto skewness" appears in https://hal.science/hal-00700465 (doi:10.1109/asonam.2012.91) from 2012, though I'm not sure whether it has the same sense. Unfortunately, https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=319... from 2013 is a perfect match:

> Etsy seems dominated by stores that sell nothing with a few that do rather well. It's severely Pareto skewed.

This is a relatively rare use of language, so you might deserve co-invention credit.
Amazon EFS now supports up to 250k IOPS per file system
On Facebook, there are connections to my family, friends, acquaintances. I know they are real because I’ve interacted with all of them in real life.
Paper: You Want My Password or a Dead Patient? (2015)
Why would you want to/what do you expect to get out of it?

A token per second... what is that token going to say? Accurate information?
Way back when I was a young lad, a hiring manager found me because I had an English major and hired me to help maintain a manual for a small bank system. I did a hell of a job but the job was hell. My manager actually put a co-worker in a choke hold at a customer site while they were transitioning their bank to the system. This was way back when, and I put way to much effort into my work; they were dragged along and the whole thing was thankless.

That said, I managed to rewrite 800 pages of small bank management documentation into 600 pages of well-formatted, _readable_ manual. I don't know if it was worth it, I was in Lincoln, NE and I didn't have anything better to do. I dropped the readability statistics from freshman in college to freshman in high-school and I'm sure the customer was more the latter than the former. Not to judge, I never met a customer that wasn't worth helping.

Am I especially good at writing? Not in my opinion. You'll quickly find it is a target rich environment. The manual I edited could not resist saying, "Put the applicable value into the blah-blah input". Of course, what other value would you put there?

Back then, there were some serious efforts in the field to generate multiple deliverables from a single-source. I have no idea if anyone thinks of that anymore. I've been developing ever since and I haven't worked on a product that even thought they needed a manual. That banking software was written for an IBM mainframe and ran in an emulator so it could work in Windows and it didn't even have the worst user interfaces I've seen since.

Maybe this is a career? I dunno, the author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" was a technical writer, he also spent a stint in a mental institution. Maybe it was the software he was documenting?

I can't say. I'd just like to thank the OP for the chance to tell this story.
Welcome to the valley of despair. It is dark. It is cold. You feel alone. You will get through this and emerge stronger than you ever were. Stay the course.
https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg?si=HSwmXF9i5OCZvFVh

The host of cash cab starred in this enactment of this script.
I've always been curious about Fish, but was turned off by it not being POSIX-compliant. Is there anybody who can share their experiences with issues and workarounds in this area?
Yeah, that bit was annoying.

They also used to offer a download of their free basic version. Now you have to download a trial version to get access to the free version apparently.. https://shop.presonus.com/studio-one
Lifting the Bonnet on Gran Turismo's Model Format
Since white is reflective, why do you need blankets ?
Tempting to go plant a flag on it and claim it.
The point I was trying to make is that being part of building something great isn't always a reward in and of itself.

The laborers of many great works reaped no rewards for their efforts, and the people remembered for the work were often those standing on their backs.
Many explanations of JOIN are wrong, and people get confused
Why do you think WSL (WSL2 I presume) is a kludge?
Dufs: Simple File Server with Upload, Search, Access Control, and More
I'm completely with you. I found the space parts a chore to read through to get back to the most interesting stuff. The whole "zones of thought" concept just seems an obvious device to allow Vinge's ideas to work.

By contrast, the thrill I got when I first realized that the dog hive mind was evolution's stab at an acoustic modem was fantastic, and I read through all of this aspect of the book with great wonder.
You think systemd was developed as a ploy to make people more ignorant? With what goal in mind? Selling support contracts?
I would suggest myself as a counterpoint. I chose to go to the gym to be healthy when I'm old, but I want to do so in the most effective, least time consuming way. I do 3 times per week hiit training (30 minutes), which gives me all the cardio I need, then I do 45 minutes 3 times per week of weight lifting.
Time is short, that's why I'm able to stick to it. When I increase exercises to 1 hour I get immediately put back
such a different level, you could even call it Latincentric :)
People can do what they please. When a big corp like Meta or Google does open source, it pays to be circumspect.
The anti-avocado militias of Michoacán
> The two sources aren’t fungible unless the renewables are dams. Nuclear provides a reliable base load. Neither solar nor wind can do that.

That's only a question of a reliable, widespread grid. France, Portugal and Spain have almost consistent wind from the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, it's only a question of how much you want to invest into a truly European Grid.
It's the 1% that makes Wayland awful. If it's such a small part, then why not support it anyways? If it's a security issue, let kde/gnome break it in their own ways.
Kind of crazy, but I wonder if it could some how be towed back and tied to the main shelf to avoid it melting quickly once it reaches warm water.
Here's to hoping that Santa reads your list. Better buy a very large pair of stockings, just in case...
Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn
Even back in 2003, Windows had the two things I mentioned: games and Office. Wine might have been woefully inadequate back then, but people already wanted to run those two things on Linux. You lacked imagination in 2003.
Personally, I use GPS Toolbox. No idea about iPhones though.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.g...
I have this one on my list but haven't gotten around to watching it yet. Would you recommend?
Dirt and dust settle on top, those particles trap heat and facilitate melting
If you sing or play a brass instrument, the loud booming that comes from inside your head and reflects against plugs (or your fingers), called occlusion, makes traditional plugs unusable or actively harmful. The only solutions are to use custom molded plugs that go past the bend in your ear canal ($$$) or over-ear defenders which do not have a neutral reduction in sound across the spectrum.
I like the "Grabbers" section. I'm always on the lookout for different types of grabbers or long cutters. I find that no matter how esoteric, the tool will end up being invaluable on some little project in the future. Lately, I have been collecting a lot of medical style grabbers like hemostats and laparoscopic operating tools. Just the other day, despite all my various little grabbers, I realized I needed something that can grab a stiff, round object as I was fishing wire through the attic for some new lighting. It probably would have saved me 30 minutes or more. So I'm on the lookout for a good option for that.