skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Anybody tried building an AI DJ?
I'm not talking about something like the Spotify "DJ" that just plays tracks back to back based on your listening history. I mean something that can beatmatch, intelligently layer tracks together and do engaging transitions like real nightclub DJs.
Gosh I do wonder what happened in a bunch of South American countries that caused their political situations to vary wildly before magically aligning with the economic preferences of the US.

It’s truly a mystery, I guess we’ll never know.
> FTL should be possible because the universe expands [EXP] at speeds greater than that of light.

I wish the article justified this statement, without just stating it and moving on. Expansion means that two points in space can be moving apart at greater than the speed of light - but that's not the same thing as traveling faster than the speed of light.

> What we do know, however, is that a warp trip between A and B starts with a mass instantly disappearing from point A and appearing sometimes later at point B.

This is also stated boldly, without any explanation of why this must be the truth. It sounds like a description of teleportation, which doesn't have to be an FTL phenomenon; and it doesn't explain why FTL would look like teleportation to an observer watching gravitational waves.
Agreed.

Yet, and Unlike snowden or arrange, Greenwald has not violated the veil of perceived inviolability of the national security caste in USA.

Which is why Snowden & Assange have more in common with each other vs Greenwald.

For the US natsec caste, laws and facts do not apply, the only thing that matters is the perceived status as above-the-law, and who is openly attacking such status
He became president of YC in 2014. So probably Cruise, W14.
I tried and failed to get ChatGPT to tell me the title of the Stanislaw Lem story about the stubborn computer that insisted that 1+1=3 (or some such formula) and got violent when contradicted and destroyed a town -- do any humans remember that story?

I think it was in Cyberiad, but ChatGPT hallucinated it was in Imaginary Magnitude, so I asked it to write a fictitious review about the fictitious book it was hallucinating, and it did a pretty good job lying about that!

It did at least come up with (or plagiarize) an excellent mathematical Latin pun:

"I think, therefore I sum" <=> "Cogito, ergo sum"

[1] I think Doug Hofstadter's original formulation was "I think, there for I sum" <=> "Cogito, ergo think", therefore I sum... [2]

[2] "To paraphrase Descartes again: “I think; therefore I have no access to the level where I sum.”" ― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid [1]

ChatGPT> The book, filled with esoteric references to imaginary works and pseudo-scientific jargon, is a delightful exercise in intellectual gymnastics. One particularly memorable chapter, consisting entirely of binary code, is later revealed to be an in-joke—when decoded, it simply reads, "I think, therefore I sum."

[...]

ChatGPT> Firstly, the phrase is a play on René Descartes' famous philosophical statement, "Cogito, ergo sum," which translates to "I think, therefore I am." Descartes used this statement to assert that the act of thinking is proof of one's own existence and consciousness. In my adaptation, "I think, therefore I sum," there's a witty twist where 'sum' refers both to the act of summing or calculating, a fundamental operation in computing, and to the philosophical concept of existence or being.

Full transcript:

https://chat.openai.com/share/9a9e9818-1e23-488e-b517-6d23e3...
What's your preferred economic system, and what are its advantages and disadvantages compared to (neo)liberalism?
The universe was created without my help.

Humanity survived till 21st century without my help.

I am sure the world will do just fine with me working in Europe instead of US.

I am sure it will do fine when I am dead.

I will focus on helping myself as the first priority.

Thanks.
I would argue that the css render engine is more performant than its native counterparts. Css animations are very rich. Much more so than android or ios sdks provide
It’s not Smalltalk but you might find OS/400 interesting for having a single level store for object persistence.

Old HN discussion with Wikipedia pointers:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18907798
this looks very cool!
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Instead of simply flagging, I wish people would suggest an appropriate place to discuss these topics -- zombie twitter, reddit, facebook etc. or their clones are not at all usable for me, and I would guess not very pleasant for the majority of people interested in genuine discussion.

Besides that, why are tech leaders "cancelling" anyone who speaks out against mass killing of humans? I genuinely do not understand what is happening.
The other half of the answer, for boards without a hardware swappable TPM the embedded fTPM in newer stuff may be upgradeable to the newer version, depending what exactly changed requirements wise.
Endjourney
I try this with my young kids with mixed results. They seem to have instant amnesia.
Termdbms – A TUI for viewing and editing database files
I played and tried many board games. These day I only play the ones with rules that are understood on the first try/first game.
I'm surprise that they decided to put article about this mosaic under the "Style" section. I understand that this is were articles about the arts, design and architecture live, but still.
They have some polygonal magnetic tiles that you can assemble into geometric solids at the Omaha Luminarium (like the Bay Area's Exploratorium). They're fun to play with — perhaps you could make all the Johnson solids with them.

I'm having a hard time though finding a set you can purchase. Something called MAGFORMERS was the closest I could find on Amazon. Most similar products consisted though only of squares and equilateral triangles.

Of course you could easily 3D print these — leaving a void along the center of each vertex suitable for inserting a long cylindrical magnet (which is how they generally appear to hold together). It's hard to be a the look of injection molded plastic though. :-)
Those blue stones, are they painted or natural?
This would have been good advice a decade ago, but with how good deepfakes are now, I would argue that any audio/video evidence recorded and submitted by either party should be considered as part of their testimony rather than valid evidence, unless its provenance can be cryptographically confirmed.
I can't see in the article any mention of the metal type used where there is skin contact. Metal for piercings can't be any old thing as people can develop allergies to the metal, usually from the nickel leaching out. Apparently that can get pretty nasty. The usual stainless steel formulation is something called 316L, I hope the guy used that, or something similarly suitable.
There's a version of this in "Turn the Ship Around" which is phrased as "Don't brief: certify."

The quote is "a briefing is a passive activity for everyone except the briefer."
Nice to see that they're just using EC2 + S3 instead of a whole suite of niche cloud offerings that we see these days. Maybe this is mentioned in the linked presentation (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Pinterest/) but are they using managed databases? Or just running their own on EC2 instances as well?

Curious to watch https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Pinterest/ at some point.
Registrars and DNS providers are often wary of taking domains down and will look at the contents and legitimacy of any requests to do so. And for a registrar or DNS host to take tetr.io down, the domain name or content it points to would need to include the word 'tetris', which it does not.
What's the difference? The medium used to create it? "Making music" = soft tissues in our brain VS "generating music" = hard transistors in a chip?
Me: what is the title of the Stanislaw Lem story about the stubborn computer

ChatGPT: The Stanislaw Lem story you are referring to is likely "The Seventh Sally" ("Siodma sally" in Polish). It's a short story that appears in Lem's collection titled "Mortal Engines" ("Śmierć człowieka w kotle" in Polish). In "The Seventh Sally," a stubborn computer named Faleńczyk becomes the focus of the narrative, showcasing Lem's exploration of artificial intelligence and its implications.
I don't think companies are obliged to provide free unlimited access to anything at their expense. However a foundation of the internet is client agnosticism. That is the service does not care what software or hardware the consumer is running, only that they are authorized to access the service.

Unfortunately Apple and a great many other companies have chosen (for almost universally anti-consumer reasons) to restrict the client *ware. Unfortunately for Apple et al. digitql information does not intrinsically reveal the origin of itself and so long as a given piece of software can present the right bits in the right order they can make use of the service.

It's a useless game that runs against the whole idea of the internet. If someone wishes to charge for a service thats quite alright, if they wish to publish a terms of use that prohibits certain behaviours on their service (spam) that's also quite alright. If they want to restrict access to only certain clients, they're legally allowed too, just don't expect everyone else to voluntarily go along with it.
> if all the heating were done using ventilation, you might have to live in a very windy house

Not an issue at all. A properly installed ceiling vent will blow air along the ceiling, where Bernoulli's principle makes the fast moving air stick to the ceiling until the speed drops enough for the higher density to make it sink gently.

https://blog.swegon.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Bild4-1.png?width=1100&n...
- "Such an elaborate space would also have been used to impress guests with water games, which were very popular amongst nobility at the time. “We have found lead pipes embedded within the decorated walls, built to carry water inside basins or to make fountains spout to create water games,” said Russo."

It was an eyebrow-raising reading how the water economics of ancient Rome worked [0]. Probably a microcosm of the dysfunction and absurdity of that city as a whole.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_aqueduct#Distribution
She made some serious allegations against him https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman... including sexual abuse.

I was wondering if I were hiring someone and there were these allegations against them if I would hire them. Would I go by the fact that these are unproven allegations and hire the person, or keep looking, afraid of being associated with them.

What about if that person was an investor. They are dangling cash in front of me? Is that a lot different than the hiring situation. I think I would rather be safe and avoid associated with them.
Approximately when will it come out?
Elon Musk wants to make X a 'giant brain' and financial platform
Awesome idea for an app, and am confident that with all the tweaking & TLC FNcharts has received, it is poised to be an exceptional product.
Calling the 1973 CIA-led coup orderdd by Nixon against Salvador Allende in Chile as a "response to marxist economic mismanagement" tells you all you need to know about neoliberalism and its supporters.

Nothing more _liberal_ than a decade of military junta, book burning, widespread torture and assassinations by death squads, heh?

"General Joaquin Lagos [es] explained why he didn't return the bodies of the 14 executed prisoners of Antofagasta to their families:

I was ashamed to see them. They were torn into pieces. So I wanted to put them together, at least leave them in a human form. Yes, their eyes were gouged out with knives, their jaws broken, their legs broken ... At the end they gave them the coup de grace. They were merciless. "[...] "The prisoners were killed so that they would die slowly. In other words, sometimes they [...] shot them [in] parts: first, the legs, then the sexual organs, then the heart. In that order the machine guns were fired"

"many of the victims had voluntarily turned themselves in to the military authorities, were all in secured military custody and posed no immediate threat because they had no history of violence, nor were threatening to commit any such violence."
So I can add turquoise lights to my car and nobody will think I'm texting and driving?
Looks like it. Which is a problem, because the Strava API Agreement (https://www.strava.com/legal/api) specifically prohibits you from replicating features that Strava has.
as someone who's been part of the community for years, I'd say your perceived version of Hacker is the correct usage here.
Gitlab is a big one.
Why? How does it fail?
I think everyone will answer this with their current stack-of-choice. If you have a hammer, you see every problem as a nail.

I'd use .NET Razor pages, Dapper, Postgres, Kestrel on Linux?

What's amazing is that 14 years later and the major browsers are still hoarding the Pinterest masonry layout behind a flag!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_la...
I've seen assertions like this before but I think it still falls into the opportunity set theory.

The frequency that someone making $200k in a tech firm finds out information that is material and that can give them a return worth risking $200k job, is rather low. Especially in comparison to the daily opportunity to commit crimes on the scale of $100-1000 if you are making minimum wage. So the frequency of temptation is lower the higher your income, I would argue.
very cool. thanks for sharing. i would not have guessed haskell for the compiler tool chain. Why did you choose that ? i mean haskell has a LONG history in chip design...but compilers are usually the forte of llvm/c++, etc.
im guessing it must have been non trivial to do this.
Wow you really have no way of knowing if it's true at all yet you've got this giant framework that lets you assume she's fabricating it. Yikes.
I am conflicted about that. When money is involved I think it amplifies character even more. Not everyone with a ton of money has these kinds of allegations.
Homemade Modular Synthesiser (2020)
Please add some example/sample links to try.
This is off topic, but what do you use to organize your digital library? I just have a humongous hard drive I chuck files into, but I'm looking for a better way.
I had a boss who liked to use a similar idea, but with a twist; he'd sometimes repeat the idea back but intentionally get a key nuance wrong, with the intention of getting feedback on that part. If the person corrected it, he'd be much more confident in both his own and the other person's understanding of the idea. If they didn't, he'd dig in more to figure out why his original understanding was actually _not_ correct. The idea behind this was to look to _disprove_ what he thought he understood rather than to confirm it; he would only feel confident in his mental model if he couldn't disprove it after exhausting all of the ways he could think of. His strategy was pretty effective, from what I could tell; he'd often uncover subtle flaws or questionable assumptions in ideas or plans where he was not as knowledgeable in the domain as the person presenting it due to not only being willing to say something incorrect, but going out of this way to embrace it. Importantly, this was never used as a way to try to trick or test people; he would never criticize anyone for failing to correct him when he said something wrong, because the whole point of the technique was that he wasn't even sure whether he needed to be corrected or not, and he was still trying to figure it out.
GitHub Copilot just got exponentially smarter [video]
I have a total of 4 GB ram on my laptop. Background programs consume about 2 gb and windows around 1.5. Thay leaves me with around 500 MB free.
I remember crawling Freenode as a teenager with nobody to talk to about programming, and discovering ##C. At the time I had a basic idea of programming languages but was still pretty much a beginner. I started asking why my argument printer in C was printing a (null) and then unrelated stuff (envp :P), and some very helpful person in the channel patiently guided me to an initial understanding of pointers. This was about 16 years ago. I don't remember his name anymore but whoever you are, thanks for helping me out all that time ago.
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Tony Blair did me a great service by opening my eyes. He seemed so good, initially.
> Then again, Bill Gates thinks it may have plateaued

He didn't say AI may have plateaued. He said the OpenAI may have reached the limit of the current design. Very different thing. From your link below:

He anticipates a stagnation in development initially. The billionaire said that, with GPT-4, the company has reached a limit, and he does not feel that GPT-5 will be better than its predecessor.
Barn cats are still a thing, but they are typically still owned and kept whereas I was talking more about free roaming cats that live around human settlements. The early free roaming cats would have been about as tame as barn cats; my impression is that the cats of Istanbul are more friendly.
> case insensitivity in YouTube’s search engine.

That's very clever. Presumably the video ID in the URL is case-sensitive, but then YouTube went out of their way to index a video's ID for text search, which made this possible.
How can I look it up?
I don't think that is the best way to go about it, especially considering a majority of people can't afford to pay for a subscription on top of the many others that "Big Tech" has pushed.

You will also be getting much more out of YouTube by using sponsorblock and other client-side modifications. YouTube Premium really doesn't seem as good of a value when you look at free and open source alternatives for most of its features.

But each to their own I guess, especially if you're within a locked down ecosystem. I personally despise proprietary technology, though.
Balsamiq for ui. Excalidraw for diagram type stuff. Looking forward to other peoples suggestions
Know your target. Crypto bros are the ones that like to throw that term around carelessly. It’s us old grey beards who object to the term’s abuse.
Smart play, but hard to do in the moment. Sounds like a sharp guy.
The whole economy of EV's today is still pure jank and shenanigans. The batteries are like 95% of the value, and the rest just filler around it.

Better or worse, a salvaged Tesla at least will be resold, dissected, and broken down into a quantifiable parts to probably be made into some retro EV conversion, being the first and longest studied means people at least know how to hack around them. Not so on most of these latecomers to the game, which means mostly they're fodder to be learned from. Insurance companies are along for the ride, which I'm sure they hate, but they've had it good for so long with low-hanging fruit, I just say "good".

As usual anything from the SE Asia markets is probably 100x worse for lack of documentation and industry know-how still being new, the best hope is they follow a somewhat standard mode of operation from Tesla folks know, otherwise no one will want to work on them, reuse them, etc. I don't follow the industry that GM or Ford are any better really.

At least Tesla parts are well known at this point for classic car EV conversions, and will likely be the go-to for the near-term future. People buy wrecked ones all day every day, they'll become underpinnings for classic conversions if nothing else, but the rest - to be determined.
Why just CEOs? Should I, as an individual contributor, be encouraged to hold down several jobs so that I can split my time and attention between them?
He used syringe, presumably medical one.
Couldn't agree more. How many times do we have to violently overthrow popularly elected governments until you realize that your brand of socialism doesn't work!?
Same reason Voice of America exists. To spread American influence and culture.
No it’s still a very small number. For comparison that’s about the same amount as Germany, a nation less than 1/3 the size. The US simply does not have a serious homeless issue and it definitely isn’t “bad for a developed nation.”
These companies need to be sued for falsely advertising UHD streaming. Sure, the resolution might be technically correct, but that doesn't matter when the stream is heavily compressed so they can save a nickel.
The temperature difference most home heaters work on is much higher than the one most home coolers work on.

Using a regenerator to get 5°C of cooling back with some 30% of efficiency probably won't be cost-effectice. But if you have to heat by some 30°C, the numbers change a lot.
Mercedes has a long history of innovation in driver assistance tech. For example: “ 1999: Mercedes introduced "Distronic", the first radar-assisted ACC,[8] on the Mercedes-Benz S-Class (W220)[9][10] and the CL-Class.[11]” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_cruise_control#:~:t....

It was not as well marketed/hyped has the Tesla of today, but you could buy an S-class that would do much of the work for you in traffic well before you could buy a model S.
It's not just not the whole answer, giving people money didn't help at all. Which suggests that poverty doesn't cause crime, even though it's correlated with crime.
How many kwh per day does the 3kw system cost?

2 of those could, theoretically, power all of a typical house's electricity if they got anywhere near 3kw on average.

$14k to not need the grid would be a deal.
Liberalism is such a hit because it's all about sane defaults.

"Everyone is equal in the eyes of the law" is an incredibly good and fair default to have, and the societies which throw it out often wind up paying a horrible price for it.

"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"? Absolute banger.
Whenever bad things happen under socialism, it's because of socialism.
Whenever bad things happen under capitalism, it's because of spooky ghosts.
suno has improved fast. I remember when they released Bark in April ‘23. it was good. but this new model is fun. props to the team.
This kind of take is responsible for most geopolitical problems in the world.
Yes when it’s that small of a percentage it can be argued that homelessness isn’t the problem. Mental health and drug addiction is but those have different solutions and namely ones that can’t be argued to have a left economics solution.
Or the genes you have.
I sub on patreon to creators I watch a lot, or directly on YouTube for ones who have that enabled. You can become a channel member and pay directly without Premium.

Tbh I would buy Premium if it wasn't bundled with YouTube Music for an inflated price.
How is this the fault of gov’t? The rules are the same for everyone. In this case, not everyone was playing by the same rules. If you don’t understand the logic behind tariffs, that’s something you can look up on your own. To me, this is no different from the guy selling electronics out of a van in the parking lot of the electronics store. It’s not legal, but it’s not a large enough problem for anyone to do anything about. Maybe the items are stolen, maybe they’re counterfeit, or maybe they are real and just acquired by skirting the system. Either way, the person with the van is deliberately not playing by the rules everyone else does. In my situation, the van was a website and the parking lot just happened to be out of jurisdiction of any agency that could do anything about it. You can now say the same things about Ali* or other type websites.
Real time clock doesn't matter, I thought all Gameboy games had battery-backed saves. I can find forum posts of people talking about replacing batteries in their Red cartridges, troubleshooting why the game still won't save after replacing them, across iFixit, Reddit, GameFAQs. I'm pretty sure that G/S/C only took additional advantage of the existing battery, and didn't introduce an additional battery.
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