skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I am back on Windows these days and had to set the hi-dpi display on my old Dell to 1080 in order to read anything in MIDI Editor.

But my use was just temporary to solve a specific problem.

I used Musescore to write the final composition for my beginning music theory class at community college and wanted to load the MIDI into my QY700.

But Musescore was adding an A3 metronome to its output when playing on all four channels and was setting all velocities to 0. So the recordings on the QY700 would require a lot of manual editing.

Then Live Lite did not work the way that would be sensible (upper tiers do of course). Plus, deliberate dawlwessness means I am not very experienced with it.

Anyway, I downloaded MIDI Editor and got the MIDI files into the QY700. Then once the pressure of the problem was gone, I had a play with Live Lite and figured out how I can write MIDI from it to the QY700 so I may not need MIDI Editor in near future workflows.

But how I work is constantly changing…
That is technically a remark I agree with, but you're skipping past the actual point of my comment: it may be a valid strategy on its face but it is fragile and makes users vulnerable to systemic exploitation.

The web browser ecosystem has its own (different) problems, but iMessage lacks requisite variety to back up its particular claims to privacy and security (see that Reuters article for a preview).
Those are very high doses of each. An average multivitamin has 1.8 mg of B6 (vs. 20 mg in the study) and 6 mcg of B12 (vs. 55 mcg in the study).

I am surprised anyone wants to take that much, but I guess the smokers were trying anything they could (short of actually quitting) to compensate for the effect their habit has on their health.
I think they're asking for responsible disclosure that's sent to Hashicorp to also be sent to them so they can test and help fix before public disclosure.
In all seriousness, this is an excellent idea.
> How is this different from, say, a newspaper with an editorial board, or a book publishing house with a particular set of standards and conventions? For that matter, how is this different from dang enforcing the rules of this board?

I would be inclined to agree, if AI safetyists were not in general advocating that LLM source, training data, models, etc. not be released to the public, because AI safetyists do not want non-AI safetyists to have unfettered access to any LLMs (and other AI tech), anywhere, for "safety" reasons. Of course, if it was all open, I agree it wouldn't much matter if "Open"AI wanted to restrict their hosted LLM in whatever ways they felt best.
Wow that's an insane conspiracy theory.
Is this just because they can't yet grasp the complexity of "whatever you want", so it's pointless to get into the details?
Google Podcasts shutting down in April, YouTube Music export coming
Practical Ways to Increase Product Velocity
I wish we could go back. Wax covered paper is way better for the environment
How to build a bike lane in America
This is all about what Hamas has done. I'm more interested in the choices available to the Israelis. Even if one concedes that war is necessary, there are many ways to fight a war and some are worse than others. It's not a binary choice between going to war and doing nothing. There's more to going to war than deciding to go to war.

The military goals aren't very clear. "Ending Hamas" is vague. It's not all that clear where Israel wants to end up after the war is over. What's supposed to happen to Gaza?

Also, what are the rules of engagement, and can they be justified? (A bare assertion that IDF tactics are justified is not enough to satisfy my curiosity about what's going on.)

Explaining all that would be more in-depth than I'd expect anyone to write in an Internet comment - it would take a longer article. But these are the things I'd expect if Israel were serious about justifying its actions to an open-minded but skeptical audience, and I haven't really seen it. Perhaps I've missed it, though?

(Although I don't think the invasion of Iraq was justifiable, it's notable that the Bush administration tried to justify it. For example, famously sending Colin Powell to the UN to make a speech about weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to be true. I also remember reading about serious planning for occupation after the war. That didn't go like they expected.)
Same. Out of 5,000 songs, am I really supposed to be hearing certain songs 3+ days in a row, when I'm only listening to 20 songs a day...?

I can't tell if it's:

- Certain artists are paying Spotify to favor them in randomization?

- There's some kind of shared random seed across devices that results in picking a tiny subset of songs to randomize from in the first place?

- Other?

I do notice that the effect seems to persist for maybe a week, then I'll never hear those songs again, but now it'll be different songs that keep popping up repeatedly.

There's a related effect when you launch a radio station based on an artist or track. If you launch it multiple times in the same day or week, you get the exact same list of tracks. But maybe a week later the tracks have changed, like the radio has been recalculated based on a different random seed.
Yes I totally understand the concern. We are actively working on SOC 2 and other compliance stuff to help with this. But honestly I feel the compliance requirements are weaker than what we actually implemented. For example proper secure boot and whole disk encryption (without sacrificing performance) are mandatory in our mindset but these specific things don't get reflected in compliance.

Instead of being a service, I'm also open to sell the software+hardware solution behind it, so you can have it on-prem. Do you think that's something you would consider given the constraints on supply chain security?
Anti-consumer practices justify piracy
Reason Studios' move to end offline activation for older software versions sparks debate. Customers with perpetual licenses lose access, fuelling arguments that such anti-consumer practices justify piracy.
> We should in my view not take from artists without their consent

I think "take" is the wrong word here, nobody is republishing the copyrighted works, instead the model gets a gradient update. The update is shaped exactly like the model itself, and it gets stacked up with other updates from other examples. It doesn't look like the original work at all, the original work was a picture or book, the gradients look like a set of floating point tensors. AI models decompose inputs into basic concepts, they don't copy like bittorrent.

Why should an AI not be allowed to form a full world model that includes all published works? It's not like the authors can use copyright to stop anyone from seeing their works, they never had a right to stop others from seeing.
Mini Heart Attack: Supermicro BMC Hacked (Or Not?)
> How is this different from, say, a newspaper with an editorial board

See how those are run. There is emphasis on accommodating multiple views and journalistic integrity. Software development doesn’t have an ethics code, which means there is no common ground for truth finding. That turns a balanced process into anything goes.
The question is whether you own information about their food choices that you can sell to a third party without even telling the customer it was collected.

On the one hand, it seems obvious that you have a right to observe, collect data, and sell it. On the other hand, ick.
This is all about convenience. Consider streaming. You have everything available instantly without any effort… until your network connection goes down. Then you have nothing.

Most young people cannot imagine living in a world disconnected. It’s great until it isn’t, and at that point it’s hopeless without any recourse. It might as well be a death apocalypse.

I do know what it’s like to live in a world disconnected. Because of that I keep my media on a portable storage device and back it up on redundant devices so that it does not get lost. I pay no subscriptions to access my media. It’s always instantly available when I travel anywhere. There are no advertisements, outages, bills, pauses, or other disruptions. Because of stuff like Bluetooth, Samba, and Plex it’s available to all my household media devices automatically.

My son loves his streaming service, but that just looks like paying a premium for laziness with a high potential for failure.
We use Dagger’s implementation. The basic approach is to have a buildkit engine run as a daemonset on the cluster, and clients specify the same docker socket that buildkit uses. The magic is in cache synchronization, eg only lazily pulling layers as the client requests them. This is scalable but obviously since caching is hard there are some complexities with efficient synchronization of cache layers and cache volumes. This is currently a long lived service that runs as a deployment alongside a bunch of ephemeral runners to manage the cache synchronization.

There are several other different architectures that range from simpler to more complex. The architecture I recommend people start out with is a single long lived beefy buildkit instance that a bunch of runners share, since that is much much simpler to implement. It of course has the downside that you have to refresh/rebuild the cache if the instance ever goes down. For runs that need read/write locks on volumes (eg Gradle build cache) my recommendation after trial and error to rsync those to the runners and then rsync them back after the run completes so you don’t have a bunch of locks fighting each other for the same folder.
I consider this to be Trust Pollution. When you trust something, you will believe it without much thinking, caught off-guard.

Is this the best April Fool's ever? Witness - BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEqp0x6ajGE
If the site can't even spell "skeptic" I'm not clickin'. Unless they mean "septic" in which case I'm definitely not clickin'.
What are large and powerful corporations under the hood? It's only an abstraction to facilitate business, but the reality is just a few people making decisions. Don't make the mistake of giving a physical existence to companies.
I feel like you're an LLM having a fit of hallucinations.

Like I said, in any social mileu there are insane things that are commonly believed. Providing evidence that people believe in "greedflation" doesn't contradict that at all.
If you enjoyed this article, check out Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs. I just finished it.
Their pricing was laughable when we investigated it a couple of years back; I imagine it's only gotten worse since.

When I told them how ridiculously expensive it was for our use-case they suddenly managed to find a ~50% discount for us. That brought it down to just laughably expensive. Needless to say, we stuck with DIY.
Inference code for Mistral and Mixtral hacked up
If you can't express clearly want you want to code you are going to waste time brute forcing.
I wonder if those court orders go to an outsourced team.

the lack of an eye for such details used to make me immediately think an overworked team in India or the Philippines was responsible, but now I'm not so sure.
Oh, you’re right. I’ll go and sign up for the alternative to YouTube instead.

If you pay the ad company, don’t ever expect fewer ads.
"I can't imagine a way for this feature we advertised to not suck" is not an excuse for false advertising! But there is a way to do better. Google's Android backup is E2EE by default. It does not require remembering a long password. All it requires is your phone unlock code, which you normally enter at least once per day and are extremely unlikely to forget. This is actually how Apple's works too, when ADP is enabled. Either it should be enabled by default or Apple should stop claiming iMessage is E2EE.
As you alluded, in practice no specs fully specify a truly bug free implementation. If you want to consider bugs that are within the specification as being bugs in the spec rather than bugs in the implementation, fine, but in my view that is a distinction without a difference.

(Personally, I think code is itself more analogous to the specification artifacts of other professions - eg. blueprints - and the process of creating the machine code of what is analogous to construction / manufacturing something to those specs.)

And even having said that, even the vast majority "bug free" software that nearly always appears to be operating "within spec" will have corner cases that are expressed in very rare situations.

But none of this is an argument for nihilism about quality! It is just not the right expectation going into a career in software that you'll be able to make things that are truly perfect. I have seen many people struggle with that expectation mismatch and get lost down rabbit holes of analysis paralysis and overengineering because of it.
Full field-of-view virtual reality goggles for mice
They stop working after a while, the way it works is by stimulating their antennas and the roach's nervous system will learn to ignore it went there are no rewards to reinforce the process. It's a biological version of Mousey the robot.
Harvard University Awarded 'Abysmal' Speech-Climate Rating
EGS only loses money because they have to buy their customers by giving away free games, to try to dislodge Steam's position. The infrastructure costs of EGS cannot be that high.
Substituting one meaning of "steal" or "theft" for another meaning and saying they're the same thing sure sounds like equivocation.
Of course. Anyone can choose not to have children, and many do, and it's perfectly fine. But if none of us could have children, and we had to live forever...
$7T annually invested in nature-negative activities
NYC Manhole Covers: History and How They're Made
So you are proud of being stupid and illiterate. Instead of accepting a correction you double down on the stupidity. Childish.
Because it’s cheaper, not everyone has pentagon budgets to set up a modern hospital in a disaster zone.

Plus even if you did have all the fancy equipment, it takes forever to set up relief centers. After Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico or after fired in Maui, it took days to setup basic relief centers. Imagine if you have these cheap “tent” hospitals available at every small nearby town, you could setup relief in a matter of hours.
Spotify’s shuffling is so god-tier bad that I would be flabbergasted if it wasn’t biased towards songs with less royalties to pay out..
Make Apps for Linux
Conjoined 'racetracks' make new optical device possible
Thank you! So it is rather an incremental change in profit, not transformational (when it isn't life or death of the corporation/a business model requirement)?
Minor nit, but countries like the US or Canada are huge and rescues can take a lot of time. However you don't need a portable hospital more than a rescue helicopter for a few injured/lost hikers.
200M-year-old mass extinction event may be happening again
That is correct. The forward deployable field hospitals are really nurse stations to stabilize any active medical emergency for transport or otherwise stop the emergency (not necessarily treat it, they’ll do what they can).
To effectively combat unseen dangers, we need visible, tangible reminders. Whether masks filtered out the virus or not was not the point at all. In fact, in early 2020 people were told not to mask. That doesn’t mean masks didn’t play an important role in controlling behavior during the pandemic. I think the strategy to force masking is an extremely effective short term strategy to modify behavior. However it is clear now that the population will only tolerate this for short periods. Compliance is more difficult when you can’t tell the population the truth. If you tell them masks don’t help directly but indirectly people won’t wear them at all. If you tell them they work 99% then some will rightly cry conspiracy and resist, while others will begrudgingly comply. CDC burned this strategy by overplaying it and not lifting the mandates sooner. This means people will be less likely to comply with mask mandates in the future.
> Altman was initially going to cooperate and even offered to help, until Brian Chesky & Ron Conway riled him up

I don't think the article supports this. All we know is that sama appeared cooperative when the board fired him. This was probably a reasonable posture for him to adopt regardless of his actual intentions at the time.
The full report is available here [1].

[1] https://www.thefire.org/sites/default/files/2023/09/CFSR%202...
Oh, the 243..

You know? Shortly after German reunification they appeared in NRW in front of, or behind (pushing them/'Wendetraktion') the Regional-Expresses, S-Bahn, doing the heavy lifting of mass-transportation there, on all or at least most important relations in the Rhine-Ruhr-Area. Not that much later we got DOSTOS there, but brand-new ones.

I remember wondering why that was at the times, and that they couldn't be bad at all, because otherwise they'd break down more often, leading to delays. Which I rarely experienced at the times, as almost daily user.

Die verdammte Scheissbahn war da noch in Ordnung!
To add to this, with those particular cameras(it’s the frame I shoot on), you’re encouraged by the form factor and ergonomics to turn them off when idle to get the most out of the smallish battery, they boot in like 1s. A battery is good for ~350 shutter pulls, I don’t want to use one of those every time I think about taking a picture.

Also, a dead pixel is not a ruined photo, it’s a minor inconvenience in editing at worst. And every photo I take on a FF is getting edited, the gorgeous RAW output is what I’m there for.
Yes! It will definitely work in Socket runtime. We don't have an example of how to use Qwick, we have examples of how to use React, Next, Vue since they are some of the most well known frameworks (https://github.com/socketsupply/socket-examples/tree/master/...).

Pretty much any code that runs on the Web will "just work" in Socket.
https://archive.is/MfHFY
Only the amortized cost is better for tape if you can fill up lots of tapes. Amazing if you are a data center. But if you don't archive a huge amount of data it's not even close to competitive.
Unrelated to the game engine, but I just love how someone unscrupulous could say "the people on that hacker website are discussing murder."

I've been thinking a lot recently about what a dedicated adversary could do with totally innocuous material like this.
> Do not buy this! It is a three wheeler that take advantage of the motorcycle loophole in the US.

It is not for sale. From TFA:

> Before you get too excited, it's not going into production—at least not in its current form. XP-1 isn't a preview of an upcoming model, nor is it a hint at something coming in 2025 or… whenever. It's a testbed to see what Morgan can get up to with a set of batteries, a motor, and a healthy dose of engineering.
Sure, fair point, replace dollar with vote point…
It also cost them money to run it when they had competition. Why didn't they charge then? Their dumping tactics worked and they are the only global platform now, do you think they are entitled to extort us and profit from our attention?

And to top it off, you think we should reward this behavior?
EU negotiators strike political deal on AI Act
My biggest desire for Spotify would be the ability to randomize a playlist but give massive priority to your least-listened songs.

So if you have a playlist with 10 songs A-J that you've listened to 10 times each. And then you add 10 new songs K-T that you've listened to 1 time each... Then every time I shuffle the playlist, I want songs K-T to be the first 10 songs in random order until I've played them 10 times each.

I mean, things can be mixed up a little more than that... but generally speaking, I want to listen to my least-listened songs much more than the ones I've been listening to forever. But I don't want to have to separate them out into special playlists "newest", "newer", "kinda new", "old", "oldest" which is annoying.
Software is practiced by people so is grounded by a base set of ethics ... that nobody seems to follow.
ChatGPT avoids uncomfortable conversations just fine. Both it and the cockroach are doing what their programming says.
Nutanix acquires assets of cloud server company D2iQ (Mesosphere)
Ask HN: Do I need anti-virus/malware software on macOS?
Apparently this haven't been asked for a some time.
I wish there was some way to just know what minerals/vitamins/... I currently need the most (or, which could still have a positive effect even if already a sufficient amount), and which I already have enough of so could skip.

So it'd be possible to supplement what's needed, and not the rest.

A blood test supposedly should show this, but I only get one of those very rarely, and a snapshot of one such test doesn't tell much.
> who genuinely believe in a singularity-type AI that would have the potential to wipe out humanity

Believe? They genuinely welcome it. Larry Page, for example, in another recent NYT piece.

Marc Andreeseen?

"Effective accelerationism aims to follow the 'will of the universe': leaning into the thermodynamic bias towards futures with greater and smarter civilizations that are more effective at finding/extracting free energy from the universe," and "E/acc has no particular allegiance to the biological substrate for intelligence and life, in contrast to transhumanism."

These people are so up their own asses, they completely lost the plot. These are the individuals who will self-regulate, also while casually musing about systematic genocide of the entire planet.

A superior race of being that is more efficient and which is to replace us? Geeee, never heard that one before. Sounds real nice. Maybe it can build very efficient gas chambers and furnaces too so it can thin the herd faster, eh!

AI is less of a problem than the people around it, who are borderline certifiable, but at least are raging sociopaths who masquerade as "thinkers". Dude, you were a good coder who came up with a better way of ranking pages when the field was wide open. Calm down.
America’s superpower is immigration. The core teams at the biggest and best players are recruited globally; the high end of software engineering is, economically, the NFL or the Premier League.
A few thoughts in no particular order:

- I can only use a side project to drive learning if I actually care about the product of that side project. So if you're like me, maybe start by identifying some work-product care about, and hopefully it will require you to flex/learn some skills including software dev.

- Is it possible you're experiencing a sunk-cost fallacy here?

- Are you hoping to steer your career back into software development? That could affect which particular projects, languages, etc. you work with, because of marketability.
Thank you; alas, I can't read Bengali. :)
No Exit: The Uncivil Folly of Libertarian Flight
> It's not expecting to be able to turn it into a business, or a popular app, that wouldn't quickly be shut down. That's just common sense.

Can you even imagine the reaction if the uBlock Origin folks attempted to make the case that Youtube updating their site to prevent ad blockers from working was some sort of nefarious violation of "the hacker spirit"?
How this compares to WebP?
older and bigger are not synonyms. IBM is not bigger than Microsoft today. the past is irrelevant for this conversation.
My understanding is that it’s not interfacing with the insect’s brain directly but is instead using electrodes to stimulate receptors that trick the insect into thinking it has felt something on its left/right side and moving accordingly.

Other approaches include inserting electrodes into muscular tissue and stimulating that to cause the muscle to move. This article also describes inserting the electrodes into moth pupae and the moth growing around the electrodes:

https://robot-watch-impress-co-jp.translate.goog/cda/news/20...
Yeah, the campaign that they patched in was enjoyable, given that I’m a goal oriented player I really would have liked them to flesh that out more. I think there’s real potential if they hired a proper script writer