skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nahre Sol recently put out a video on contemporary classical music [1] that, while attempting to correct common misconceptions and generally promote it, basically reaffirmed my dislike of the genre. The music really speaks for itself, I don’t see myself ever wanting to listen to this type of music, and no essay or other rationalization is going to change the way that I feel when I hear it.

And while I don’t begrudge the individual composers and performers who do make this sort of music - they are of course free to follow their own curiosity and passions - it does upset me a bit that this where “classical” music has ended up. It feels like the academics have hijacked the genre to the detriment of casual listeners.

[1] https://youtu.be/cYEke4EsJYM
Music as a whole clearly decided to go in a direction deliberately away from what any "normal" person would like. They dress it up in plenty of other words, but it's clear by the way nothing will attract their disdain like anything that a normal person might like that this is certainly a core component of where academic music decided to go. I know this from personal experience. They don't even particularly hide it if it's not the direct topic of conversation, it is only denied when directly challenged, a sort of psychological motte & bailey ploy.

That's fine. That's all their right, even the last bit. I'm hardly in a position to insist that disliking, or at the very least distrusting, something when the only thing I know about it is that it is popular is invalid myself. We take very different approaches to that, but I can't deny what I do is close enough that it would be hypocritical to criticize too much.

But it is pretty stupid to write handwringing articles about "Why don't they like us?" You collectively wrote music that blares in every tone that you don't want normies to like you. You chased them away for decades. You collectively berated and mocked them in both words and music.

What did you collectively expect?

I suppose those who joined in the process late and learned the methods of disdain without the reason underlying them might be confused, but I can promise those people that there is no scenario where the common person suddenly acquires a taste for music that basically musically reads as "screw the common person and everything they stand for", in addition to whatever else it may be saying.

If you want the normies to like you, you are going to have to at least inch closer to them first. Maybe the normies could use some mind-expansion, but right now you are so far away from where the normies are that you are barely on the same planet.

You don't want to. You're not going to. That's fine. All I'm really asking for is for you to stop being surprised about the results. When you tell people to fuck off, they do.
> Their tiny size notwithstanding, their awesome potential illuminates the profound ambiguity of the work’s title, which can be taken to refer either to the spaceship’s proud name or to the swarms of alien automata that threaten it.

Err, no. The language of the original - Polish - doesn't have such ambiguity. "Niezwyciężony" is in masculine singular form. Plural would be "Niezwyciężeni" for masculine plural and "Niezwyciężone" for non-masculine plural (includes neuter).
I heard Vint Cerf describe the original AI algorithms as basically "heuristic algorithms". "AI" was used to described a class of algorithms that only worked some of the time as opposed to the mathematically proven algorithms.
> Hindsight of course being 20/20.

I mean, I don't feel like it's much hindsight, there's a ton of companies that fall into this "if you aren't a billion dollar company you're a failure" mindset, and as an outsider it constantly feels like it's obviously not in the cards.
I’m not sure whether ‘orthogonal transformations’ in this context refers to the usual orthogonal linear transformations (/matrices), but if so then yes.
This is similar to exllamav2, and exllamav2's quantization is also excellent.
I’ve seen similar on the sidelines of other B2B ideas for games where the product never really gains traction because the only people worth selling to are large enough to be able to do it in house. Even if they don’t end up with as good a product it’s often good enough and whilst the grass looks greener there is a lot of risk-aversion to overcome.
If you're adding these to your reader like I am, here's a cool terminal RSS ticker I made for your tmux/screen session: https://github.com/donuts-are-good/ticker
That's why the willingness of a software developer to drop everything to work with you might not necessarily signal anything wrong with your vision.

If you can't find a single software developer who believes in your plan for better APIs or project management tools or consumer internet apps, it's a pretty good heuristic that your vision or ability to sell it sucks, or that you add less value than the dozen other people that talked to them about chatbots for X this week. Any prospective technical co-founder has a huge amount of insight into those markets. On the other hand, unwillingness of software developers to believe that the dullest sounding CRUD app going will be very exciting to grey suited men controlling a little known niche (probably precisely because hardly anyone's writing software for it) doesn't actually mean there isn't a market there.
Because then, everyone would wait until the hospital gives up and offers them to pay pennies on the dollar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex_arc

Simple answer: No, it does not go to the brain

Detailed answer: We are complex as all hell.

>A reflex arc is a neural pathway that controls a reflex. In vertebrates, most sensory neurons do not pass directly into the brain, but synapse in the spinal cord. This allows for faster reflex actions to occur by activating spinal motor neurons without the delay of routing signals through the brain. The brain will receive the input while the reflex is being carried out and the analysis of the signal takes place after the reflex action.
Always was. Always will be.
$108 million Canadaian, only 80 million in US dollars.

There is something incredibly wrong with how we provide and pay for medical care in the US, and it’s seemingly impossible to do anything about it.
A couple things of note:

1. Meta was the other "initial target." And so if we're in a mindset where we just dislike Google or "big powerful corporations that will stop at no end to ... whatever" then the application of the bill ALREADY hit a point where we can start to see how loosely the regulators will interpret Section 6. And according to the wording of that section, they just need to consider the "size" of the entity,"strategic advantage", and "prominent market position" in order to determine if they decide that the digital news intermediary has "a significant bargaining power imbalance."

2. With respects to what you think Google might do in order to try and "work around the law" ... I'm not a lawyer, but from what I've heard from lawyers, courts tend to be very intolerant towards people who try and apply a strict interpretation of the wording of a law in order to try and skirt around what it makes illegal. Common law, precedence and judicial interpretation really exists in large part to try and avoid that type of thing. Judges will look at things like the intent of the legislators, past court decisions and the intent of the accused in order to determine whether the accused is in violation.

In other words, Section 4 "Purpose", would be considered:

> Purpose
4 The purpose of this Act is to regulate digital news intermediaries with a view to enhancing fairness in the Canadian digital news marketplace and contributing to its sustainability, including the sustainability of news businesses in Canada, in both the non-profit and for-profits sectors, including independent local ones.

As well as Google's intent. If the court were to gather that Google's intent was to try and work around the law, they go back to the Purpose, look at Google's actions and the EFFECT of their actions and will say "Sorry, you don't get to do shit like that to try and weasel your way out of the law. It still applies." And those types of actions can often be used as evidence of an intent to break the law, so any lawyer would likely advise their client to not even consider doing slimy shit like that.
Can anyone suggest steps to extract notes and get them into a good open source alternative (and what that would be?)
I am surprised no one is mentioning "His Master's Voice" - in my opinion, one of Lem's best (and certainly his most terrifying) novels.
https://archive.is/Ube60
There are certainly at a minimum tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Cambodians, Laotians, Vietnamese civilians who's deaths are a direct consequence of Kissinger explicitly calling for more bombing. As in, were there a more judicious Sec. of State in place at the time of war, more civilians and their descendants would be alive today.

I won't place the Vietnam war as his sole responsibility. But he alone made several decisions around scope of the war that directly killed civilians.
This sounds like an academic version of the "return to office" mandates.
As someone who wrote code for one of the bigger auto manufacturers that wasn't Toyota, but one of the most respected auto manufacturer's for quality... Everyone here would be buying 15+ year old cars if they got a peek at that codebase.
I've been running Iceraven for a while, which is just Firefox for Android with more addons enabled and some other annoyances fixed. I'll probably switch back to the official Firefox after this ships.
I feel that I'm going to get fiercely downvoted for expressing this but I always felt that a realistic and cost-constrained solution for homelessness would look a lot more similar to a prison than to a lavish suburb.

There are several problems to solve and prisons do it to the best of their capabilities, being also constrained by the population housed inside:

- Cost of operation must be minimized. Comfort and space is a luxury for people who can afford it. When the state needs to provide it for a large number of inmates, small rooms with little privacy is all that's possible. There's a vast difference between a Swedish prison and one in Antananarivo and eventually it all reduces to available budget. It's not like Madagascar wouldn't like to have Swedish prison conditions, they just can't afford it. In fact by reductio ad absurdum if they would DO have Swedish prison conditions they'd probably have a problem keeping people out, not in :)

- Food would follow the same typology. Expect prison / hospital / army level food rather than Michelin 3 stars restaurant quality.

- Unlike a "normal" neighborhood, expect a much higher percent of troublesome population. Mental illness, disability, substance abuse, violent behavior that is. So the problem is not just housing these people, is providing protection not just from the natural elements but from their own kind. Communities like this simply cannot function as regular suburbs, they probably need to be policed and controlled if not like a prison at least like a psychiatric institution.

Before jumping at my throat like rabied dogs for daring to propose such a revolting solution rather than build lavish villas to each homeless person on "money taken from the rich", in fact let's build TWO MANSIONS for each person! (I'm being sarcastic if you haven't noticed)... think a bit that it's better than sleeping on the streets, particularly winter streets. And people would be free to leave and live as they wish ... if they can afford something better nothing's stopping them. For some unfortunately, this might be their entire existence so needs to be made as endurable as possible but they need to be realizable realistically and not just dreams of utopias just so we can go to sleep without actually doing anything.
The only organisation related to the EU is the European Economic and Social Committee, which is[1]: a consultative body of the European Union (EU) established in 1958. It is an advisory assembly composed of "social partners", namely: employers (employers' organisations), employees (trade unions) and representatives of various other interests. ...ok? This does not strike me as a particularly important institution.

Some -- not all -- of the other cosigning entities are ridiculous. One of them (Normalzeit Leben) is literally the title of one person's blog where they talk about their struggles with DST.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_and_Social_C...
Same with corsica an hour ahead of continental France. This is idiotic.
I’d go with a remote dev solution. Training/finetuning of large models requires much more resources anyway, so the GPUs in the local machine would be unused most of the time.
This reminds me of an old PC game called DX-Ball that my uncle and I used to play back in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Super cool project, OP!
Error code 5, on Windows, means that the code tried to dereference a null pointer. I'm guessing that the GIF content is corrupt, containing some 0x00 bytes where they shouldn't be. Then the question becomes, whose responsibility is it to program defensively against things like that? If, as may well be, Chrome is using some third-party library nested several layers deep to render GIFs, then would there be any action that the chrome devs could take, aside from replacing that library with a better one and adding a malformed-GIF test case? (Why don't they already have a malformed-GIF test case...?)
All true. All outside the definition of 'war criminal'? Just noting here, that that term has an actual definition. Probably it isn't met in this case.
Please, nobody use Evernote.

The software is the definition of bloated, and it has accrued multiple bugs that would be in show-stoppers at any other software house (silently failing to save data; selecting and deleting text actually deletes exactly twice as much text as was selected, consistently reproducible; and many more).

They also use dark patterns in trying to get people to pay (confusing options, multiple prompts, hidden close buttons).

Particularly insane is that you can't export all your notes - you have to do it one notebook at a time (and each one takes a strangely long time if you have a lot of notes).

It is obvious just from using it that it's being run by a team with neither the experience nor dedication necessary for a cloud-based synchronizing store of user data.
Decision making seems fundamental to intelligence, is done by animals and humans, and can be done without the use of language or logic. This is the case when someone "decided without thinking".

Decision making requires imagination or the ability to envision alternative future states that may result from various choices.

Imagination is the start of abstract thinking. Consciousness results from the individual thinking abstractly about itself and how it interacts with the world.
Even this article IMO subtly demonstrates the mindset that leads nontechnical founders to not think they need a technical cofounder, by phrasing the search for one as “recruiting” as if they were a subordinate or code monkey. It should be a partner relationship, not a subordinate relationship.

This mindset that technical cofounders are essentially “coders” (a term I hate) is very prevalent among inexperienced nontechnical founders. I know I’m preaching to the choir here but a lot of technical people have deep industry/business/product knowledge and have social skills. It is very frustrating when some Ivy League 25 year old PM/management consultant tries to pitch you on their vision while treating you like an idiot savant they can easily take advantage of.
No. Docker compose, if you want to get technical not just "docker", with MariaDB. When the cron job runs docker-compose down it backs all the subdirs up, including the full DB directory. (Probably not a cheap plan for a heavy-use site, but for my family it's a normal thing for day-to-day to have no changes.)

Interesting that you comment about SQLite being a problem. I am not a heavy user of Nextcloud, but I haven't had the operational problems many people report here; I wonder if that's correlated to using SQLite.
> Debt is a commodity that can be bought and sold. A lot of debt never gets paid off so institutions sell it in bundles, at a discount, to third-party collectors.

> Because they buy debt bundles at a steep discount, RIP says each donation relieves about 100 times its value in medical debt.

I'm no economist, but am I correct in assuming that if this charity became large or well-funded enough to address any significant percentage of the problem, that the discount would disappear?

For the people they help, it's great, and at their current scale it probably doesn't move the needle regarding the huge problem with medical insurance, billing, pricing and debt we have in America today. But if they get more donations and keep doing this on a larger scale will it move the needle? And if so, in which direction?
Azure CLI takes ~700MB of disk space
After trying out dozens of things like this, the only one that has stuck for over a year for me has been logseq.

https://logseq.com/
With physical access to the HPC server, remote editing is not only an unnecessary security concern, but a waste of resources
Is anyone going to say it? No?
Team discovers new transformable knots
Perhaps this is naive, but in my mind it can be useful for learning.

- Hook LLM to VMs

- Ask for code that [counts to 10]

- Run code on VM

- Ask different LLM to Evaluate Results.

- Repeat for sufficient volume.

- Train.

The faster it can generate results the faster those results can be tested against the real world, e.g. a VM, users on X, other models with known accuracies.
Good planning necessarily reduces the cost of something relative to the unplanned or poorly planned version. If it identifies a non-obvious means of assassination that is surprisingly easy, then it has done something "close enough" to reducing the cost to $0.
If you believe it's yes because the 24/7 Orwellian Hate Box tells you it's yes ... it could be yes, but you should probably question it.

Kissinger wouldn't have been the man he was without 1,000 evil people around him who wanted, needed, a psychopath to carry out what he did. Now all the focus is on him, the figurehead .. not Obama who got a noble peace prize and then carpet bombed Libya and tried to take his nation to war with Syria. Not Bush and his destruction if Iraq that makes the Russia/Ukraine situation looks like a mild border skirmish. Not Biden who is embroiled in Ukrainian corruption with his drug addicted son, touches little girls inappropriately on camera and whose niece wrote about how he'd take showers with her in her drug rehab diary.

The media tells you to hate the only US president who hasn't started a war in the past four decades.

Kissinger was a bad man. He is now still doing bad things in death, as a distraction from the people behind the curtain telling you who to hate.
You know, ten years into marriage here, my wife has really turned me onto David Lynch. I hadn't paid much attention to his work before meeting her. I at least saw the most popular films one day and vaguely felt like I didn't get them, but there was nothing there I'd identify as bad filmmaking or anything. It just seemed like it was trying to say something and I wasn't getting it.

I no longer feel that way at all. I don't know what flipped. It may have been learning that Lynch primarily considers himself a painter and he also does a lot of sculpture. He just makes movies and television shows because those are better at paying the bills. But it seemed pretty obvious after comparing the differences between all of the extended universe novelization material Mark Frost produced related to Twin Peaks with David Lynch's answers when asked if any of that is canon when he just says he doesn't care and doesn't even know what the extra content is.

There is no hidden meaning I was failing to get. Lynch isn't trying to say anything at all. Was Dale Cooper literally living in a dream the whole time? It doesn't matter. He's just a painter but film happens to be his medium. He's creating impressions, in a series sufficiently coherent from one to the next that it can be considered a story, but it's not like reading Robert Jordan or something. There is no vast encyclopedia of notes and in-universe history where what was really happening the whole time is explained. It's just impressionism on film. At some point, I became okay with that and stopped falling into the Reddit fan-theory holes with everything I watch. It became okay to just appreciate the quality of the images and acting performances and realize this is fiction. It doesn't have to be constrained by the logical causal physics of reality. It can tell stories with dream logic even if the point of that isn't to say you're literally watching the dreams of another person who inhabits some physically real world that you aren't shown.
How does open source improve safety if we simply don't have the analytical tools to intuitively reason about LLMs?

You can't use this to prove that the model will always behave correctly (or desirably). At best, you can build test-suites to empirically check that it kinda-sorta appears to be doing the right thing most of the time. Which you can just as easily do with a black-box model.

It's not that I'm against openness. I just don't see how you can posit that it gets us close enough to safety.
It happens with that image no matter what. I can have a html with 100 images and one bad image, I make one new html only with that image and it still has the problem. My guess is that probably a bug in a low level image decoder. My local machine has different kernel, different libs, plus I have different cpu,gpu and X11 on top so too much difference and I do not have the expertese to do aremote debug(or local)
You must not have read the article because he literally addresses this.
Tesla cars
Not OP, but I asked myself that same question two years ago. Then I looked at the energy prices in Germany and knew I had no chance against cloud GPUs. Maybe you live in a country with lower energy prices, like Bermuda (or any other country on earth), in which case this may not be as important to you. A side benefit of going cloud that you can pick and choose the right GPU for whatever project you’re working on, and you’re really just paying while you’re running them. Also, no hardware or Cuda drivers that may divert your attention.
Fortunately (unfortunately?) most places are in some stage of that process, so it's easy enough to participate in.
See these books

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

and

https://www.amazon.com/Paradigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Pro...
who would need something very used/abused without software support?..
depends on what part of "doing a tech product" you're talking about

> the hard part is wrangling systemic complexity in a good, sustainable and reliable way

in an early startup, this thinking is one of the most common ways to failure. people optimise their technology for its scalability, reliability, and "cleanliness", when none of that matters yet. all that matters is finding product market fit
Goes to a 404 page. I suggest editing if you can.
You would still need to remember to not call your buddy in LA at your "8am" when in NYC. Now you need to take into account what a 9-to-5 translates to for all parts of the world. Solves nothing.
What? My answer would be "I have no idea!"

Are they faking it? Will they murder me? Are they just trying to scare me?

I don't understand the point you're trying to make.