skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree, but this tool is for spotify. Spotify is about as convieinient as a streaming music platform gets. That being said, most people (including me) happily pay for spotify, so your point still stands.

I refuse to pay for a streaming platform that's not Netflix or prime. The former benefits from being grand fathered in and the latter is a free bonus on something I would buy anyway.

It also sucks that cancelling a subscription is as hard as it is. If you want me to pay to watch 1 specific TV show, then give me a payment plan that allows me to pay for an expiring subscription. Simple.
This is a label and industry problem not specific to any one streamer.
These AIs are not people. They do not learn.
My understanding is that hedgehogs are crepuscular, so unless your robot mower is running at night, I'm not sure why this is such a specific test case. Applaud the overall thought, as hedgehogs are in need of protections. According to my friends who have hedgehogs in their area, they really only come out in the day if there's a problem, IE: poor health, starvation - something not right.
My phone has more computation than anything I would have imagined owning, and I sometimes turn on the screen just to use as a quick flashlight.
If you are interested in a lay view of the semi-conductor industry, I suggest the rabbit-hole of Asianometry's back catalog.
DPD AI chatbot swears, calls itself 'useless' and criticises delivery firm
I recently have implemented a Pratt parser for a language prototype. I initially looked at several parser generators, but while they are easier for writing down the grammar of your language, you need to do a lot of work to make them actually spit out working code that integrates well with your project. A Pratt parser can be implemented with just a few tens of lines of code in whatever language of your choice. You just have to mentally switch from thinking of your grammar in terms of production rules to thinking in terms of operators. For example, "if" becomes a prefix (nud) operator, and for function calls, the opening parenthesis after a function name becomes a binary (led) operator.

One issue I have with the tutorials for writing Pratt parsers is that they usually only describe how to parse simple and very regular expressions. You can still use Pratt parsers to parse much more complicated programming languages, but this requires a bit more work and some modifications to the main parsing function.
I honestly have no idea what I'd talk to someone who burnt more money than I'd ever have in my life about
You keep repeating the same idea: they're a great programmer because they're influential. You seem to be missing the point everyone else is trying to make: being a great programmer has nothing to do with being influential. Lisp is a great programming language, yet very few people use it. C++ and Javascript? Practically viruses, but every browser relies on them.

Yes, it's true that many great programmers are also highly influential. But Linus was a git (his word, not mine). He isn't influential because of soft skills, it's because he was already a great programmer.
What even is that? Just straight up entitlement? Ignorance to the situation? Just not caring?

He has a great point, I can't think of any times I've ever asked those questions unless I thought the book author was grifting, where I'd go "Oh they're dog whistling to their flock for sales."

I never thought "I hope mac miller doesn't use this $20 for drugs" buying mac miller albums..
Tesla should shut down and cease to exist.
My apologies - it was a knee jerk reaction on my part. I am sorry.
Animated SLIM mission (labels in English), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57hS8uLU7v4

From JAXA's talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4ZMp4a2xw&t=4695s
This is fantastic. If companies want to create AI models, they should license the content they use for the training data. As long as there are not sufficient legal protections and the EU/Congress do not act, tools like these can serve as a stopgap and maybe help increase pressure on policymakers
Do they really have an axe to grind - or does Tesla paint a huge target on their back?
Tangent: anyone else remember the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33217395 post? A handful of HN people were on the CB radio on https://4m3ric4.com and were voice chatting and musing about what if something like that were added to HN.
Define learn.
I saw the start button and got spooked, I'm glad it immediately didn't put me in a chat as soon as I opened the page though...
A 2-tonne vehicle making a dangerous manoeuvre and risking human lives for a squirrel is the same as an incredibly slow-moving, 5-10kg piece of plastic stopping its motor, in a garden, to protect a species vulnerable to extinction?

Not to mention, nobody wants to clean up a mangled animal from their garden, or spend hours getting it to a vet or rescue centre.
Contractual obligations mean nothing to hackers and the pressure from future CEOs who will eventually have to find a way to make the next quarter look good (many t&cs have a clause that says “we can change this at any time without notice).
> Musician deserve to be paid for their work

I agree. Does Spotify use my money to pay the people I listen to on a given month? They do not. They lump all the revenue together and use it to pay for content in a set of deals with music distribution companies, and some individual artists/podcasters. Which means the percentages are skewed in favor of the big names and labels.

A fair subscription music service should be transparent, and even be able to provide detailed information about how much you are paying to the artists you listen to. E.g. if I don't listen to Coldplay, none of my money should go to Coldplay. If the streaming service wants to, they can use part of their cut to pay Coldplay a bit of extra money.
I've only dabbled with QR codes but they are interesting. Do you have any links that go into more detail about uppercase making them smaller?
Yeah that's what I got
My mistake, I read the paper days before I wrote my comment.
> they literally make the Mac Pro in rackmount form for render farms and so forth

The rackmounted Mac Pro is actually intended to be used amongst other rackmounted audio equipment in Studios. FWIW.

That it can be used for both is a nice accident, but it's not well optimised for a render farm. Not that this matters really as it can be used this way so they can still get access to this market.
> More specifically, we assume the attacker:

> • can inject a small number of poison data (image/text pairs) to the model’s training dataset

I think thoes are bad assumption, labelling is more and more done by some labelling AI.
I think that's about right and it's even OK to a point. Sometimes I do come back to hobbies, etc. Or it takes that 5 years to be confident I'm really not going to wear this clothing again. But keeping stuff "just in case" is definitely a tendency to keep under control or it gets to a point where dealing with clutter is such a chore that many people lie down until the impulse to deal with it goes away.
i liked the part where the machine breaks down while the man pushes past his breaking point

but ofc the machine is repairable, the late john henry less so.
Obviously AIs can just train on images that aren't poisoned.
> but instead of tweets and memes it's LLM prompts. We're able now more than ever to transmit complex concepts to each other with the smallest possible bits.

This sounds like passing a URL-shortened link instead of the contents. That only works efficiently if both already know the contents. To (actually) communicate from one who knows to one who doesn't, sending a prompt is like a download link that the receiver will have to get and read.

Also communicating involves drawing attention to particular aspects, would the prompt also cave out the right amount/shape of what you had in mind? An example would be explaining a point to someone who's not quite getting it, referring them to a full treatise on the topic may not be of help. AI's could get interactive though with the system learning what the person understands or doesn't and presenting analogies based on what they do know.
Only issue with Xylitol is that it is deadly poison to most dogs. That particular gum has cost me around $900 in vet bills. And yes, I did learn that my mini golden doodle can unzip jacket pockets. He's ok.
Except that this is an API which is not yours that you've found by reverse engineering. You're constructing an analogy where the authorization surface is much less distinct where you're already allowed into the building because that makes the surface much less distinct. That analogy isn't at all obvious to me and I don't think you've offered any rationale for why that is more appropriate.

Once you start playing around with someone's remote API then I'd strongly advise you to consider it more like a door around the outside of a building. If you want to argue about that with me, then you may wind up arguing about that with a judge.
That is pretty awful, and although it's legal to argue over contract terms, including the employer being completely obstinate and your only option being not to agree, you were right not to back down and accept such a one-sided negotiation.

In the case of SPMs, as the Post Office holds all the cards, they can kick out anyone not willing to accept the unfair contract... like the Mr Bates at the centre of it all, who lost his position as SPM after standing his ground and refusing to accept liability for blatantly false losses attributed to his branch by the Horizon software. Not every SPM was lucky enough to be in the same position as him.
Radio is free.
And I change station when the ads come on.
Yes, the death sentence is one nuts, medieval, punishment the US still uniquely clings to among Western countries for some reason (well, the reason being vindictive Old Testament mentality that lusts for blood). To very little effect too, judging from the much worse violent crime problem.

But this is a another level of medieval mentality. Even criminals waiting in death row got health treatments to my undestanding. So this is "you can get out of jail at some point, and live to ripe old age, but without access to healthcare welfare programs if you need them".

(Doesn't matter is she's from a rich family or never gonna need them or whatever. That someone decided that, and that it's even an acceptable option, is nuts. To me it's not much different to learning that judicially beating children is casually accepted by some legal system).

Then again, I guess this is not much different to what's the case for the regular law abiding poor citizen in those parts.
Where did you get this quote from? It's not in the article
I think I'm going to throw my life savings into starting a new proprietary podcast app.
Ram Dass was the gateway guy for me too. "The only dance there is" described how awareness brings light and peace to everyday situations.
> they should license the content they use for the training data

You mean like OpenAI and Adobe ?

Only the free and open source models didn't licensed any content for the training data.
It's probably closer to having to pay a monthly subscription fee to eat at the restaurant. And you actually have to get six different subscriptions at different restaurants because each one has a different rotating menu. And you're not allowed to share your food with your friends because they don't live with you -- they each need their own subscription. And no to-go boxes, you gotta eat it right there at the restaurant since you're only allowed to eat the food while you have an active subscription, you know, just in case you cancel the subscription to that restaurant or try to share the food with your friends who don't have an active subscription.
To be fair, epigraphene wafers already existed, they just weren't nearly as pure.
I listen to a lot of music under 1000 streams, artists with 10s to 100s of monthly listens. Based on the junk that makes it to my discover weekly or release radar, some big percent of that <1000 listen cohort is spam that’s ai generated or has erroneously added real artists as collaborators to get well positioned. I have a lot of respect for actual musicians trying to make money, but I am honestly ok with Spotify setting a threshold for payouts to divert that cash to real artists.
$0.

13,400 bands (not artists) got paid over $50K by spotify in 2020:

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/how-many-artists-are-...

There are 8 million artists on spotify, and over 80% had under fifty monthly listeners:

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/over-75-of-artists-on...

Put another way, 0.16% made over $50K. That's median income in the US. If you assume the money gets split across 5 band members, that's median income in Indonesia.
“For example, when a Tesla hit a child riding a bike, a video of the child flying through the air went viral among employees. They shared it in private one-on-one chats “like wildfire,” according to another ex-employee.”

This is disgusting and if it’s true and especially if Tesla management was aware of these issues and failed to take action, we can but hope a judge and jury will see fit to award the class an enormous sum.
As a representative of a lot of things but hardly any capital who uses diffusion models to get something I would otherwise not pay a human artist for anyway, I testify that, the models are not exclusively what you describe them to be.

I do not support indiscriminate banning of anything and everything that can potentially be used to fuck someone over.
serious question -- your first sentence: is it sarcasm or do you really consider yourself to be fortunate?
agreed, my ex did this to me
Site currently unavailable and plain http reports as malware/phishing site.
Man who constantly begs the world to look at him, attention seeker with no qualms about endorsing anti-semetic conspiracy theories in public, is actually the victim of a global conspiracy to give him the attention he wants, when he truly seeks privacy, and to not be talked about, his fans say.
I'm glad to see tools like Nightshade starting to pop up to protect the real life creativity of artists. I like AI art, but I do feel conflicted about its potential long term effects towards a society that no longer values authentic creativity.
I'm nitpicking, but the expected value for a project with a 50/50 chance of either (a) making $3m or (b) losing $1m is $1m. Not $2m.
Has there been talk about that becoming a thing?
Are you afraid they might hurt your feelings? Or show you up in some way? Or sexually harass you?
This is my take, too. Write async and then use block_on. It's worked for us just fine, albeit a little annoying. We made macros to help clean things up.
A lot of stories center around Fuzzballs. Here is a background link on what was a fuzzball: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/52324.52337 Basically a minimal install to get a workstation-class machine connected to the Internet back when the Internet was a network of larger mainframe and minicomputers. Development was in a constant state of flux to try to add more features. So picture Fuzzballs as little mammals in an internet era of dinosaurs.
That’s what recorded media effectively did to live performance. While far more people consume records/streaming, concerts and plays still command a premium.
This is reason enough to never own a Tesla.

I wanted to buy the new Cybertruck when it finally launches, but when this first came out, it became impossible for me to ever buy one.

EDIT: I'm fully on board with the idea of electrifying cars and it wouldn't be a thing at all without Tesla. That they can alienate a potential super fan like me with stupid own-goals like this is super sad.
My understanding[0] is that building product was always categorizable as R&D (though it was up to the company to choose to categorize it that way). What was not R&D was operational expenses (production support, etc).

[0] This is based on working at a company that went through a brief period where we had to do extra tracking to be able to capitalize our time if it was possible, and then reading up on the matter to try and understand what the hell the purpose was. Possible I'm wrong about the matter--I've never been the one doing the finances.
>(e.g. because they are repurposing an existing microarchitecture for RISC-V)

I don't think we'll see a repeat of Qualcomm's attempt. This was a very special situation that they ended up with the NUVIA purchase/ARM lawsuit fiasco.

Fortunately, RISC-V foundation handled the situation well. As RISC-V continues to grow exponentially, an unlikely later attempt will meet even stronger resistance, not just from the set precedent, but from the larger already deployed ecosystem of software and hardware.
https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI
My problem is region locking, if I can't access the content in any way without potentially purchasing a very expensive TV package, I'm left with only one choice. A lot of music on spotify can't be accessed in my region and same with movies/series.
I meant to reply to this commenter who linked to another article from NPR: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39068133
Already done back in 2019 with the recursive blueprint mod. 9x13 microfactory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dzQge6pe2o
They refuse to say it’s about money. It’s some kind of mish-mash rationalization of sticking it to the man, convoluted technical explanations (they’re my HTTP requests you can just return a 403 error), and moral outrage.
I did not say they were exclusively that; I said they were that.

Once we as a society have implemented a good way for the artists whose work powers these machines to survive, you can feel good about using them. Until then, frankly, you're doing something immoral by paying to use them.
Quite a lot actually. If the software engineers write an app that’s a bloated buggy mess that inconveniences people, some people will look for other ways to listen to the music they want to hear.

For musicians, they have other avenues (arguably better anyhow) such as Bandcamp. I’ve bought tons of vinyl albums, tapes, and even just digital releases from there.
The story of this material is hilarious... Legacy y12 workers were told not to talk to anyone about the process or write anything down,
many didn't even understand how the process worked as a whole, eventually enough workers aged out of their jobs and the manufacturing process stopped working and no one could trouble shoot it effectively.
Tim Cook's Apple is a consumer electronics company, so forget it.
Outline (https://getoutline.org) is even easier to deploy than Streisand in my experience and uses Shadowsocks.
Before these guys get even more funding to add even more stuff to their models they should debug their existing code first. The level of disagreement between the existing set of models has been increasing over time, not decreasing. We're told the science is certain but it's been getting less certain as the models get more complex. They also often suffer numerical instability problems in which model runs end up as hot as venus or Earth as an iceball. Rather than fix the bugs these runs are simply discarded and they try again. Models are often full of hacks too where things that should be program-stopping assertions are just wallpapered over by adding a min/max call to the values.
Some cars if you don't plug in the block heater you can damage the alternator and at that point the car can't start on its own.

Depending how bad it is the car may not run very long without the alternator either.
From your linked article:

> The challenges Tesla owners are facing aren't specific to the carmaker.

One should wonder why the title (and story) is not about EVs generally?

I will offer a very cynical answer: NPR and The Guardian (which is misrepresenting the scope and cause - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39065628) have an axe to grind, but need to walk a fine line as to come across as being anti-EV.
Oh, I read that paper about a year ago. I feel like it could have been explained better, but the concepts aren't that hard if you've taken numerical methods.
Advances in knowledge and technology will always come from people who understand the nitty gritty details very well and recognize patterns between abstract ideas.

I don't think current generation AIs are very good at this. A nearest neighbor search returns similar concepts but misses the very highest level abstractions. A NN search on a piece of text won't return text that talks about completely different ideas but uses similar sentence structure and argument patterns
One can make a very good argument that in elementary calculus, we actually use what logicians would call "terms", but refer to them as "functions". For example, if f is a unary function symbol and x is a variable then f(x) is a term, different from f(y) if y is a different variable. It's possible to develop everything quite rigorously using this machinery and when the dust clears, you get a rigorous version of what is actually done in practice in the elementary calculus classroom. As an advantage, certain things become much clearer, for instance, there's a very nice abstract multivariable chain rule which I describe in this paper: https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEFDV.pdf
What was the TV show?
Isn't this just teaching the models how to better understand pictures as humans do? As long as you feed them content that looks good to a human, wouldn't they improve in creating such content?
Not uncoincidentally a british film
Yeah, I just get a white screen on launching. It needs to be force closed via task manager for me.
Yea, I don’t get it either. This makes sense as a spam reduction move. If an emerging artist wants to make money, you would probably be more successful performing live until you boost your numbers significantly.
Sorry but no, reaching space is not particularly hard. “Space” is an arbitrary line where the atmosphere is really really thin, and it’s defined pretty arbitrarily by what seems like a round number in an arbitrary system of units (100 kilometers). Orbit is qualitatively different and much less arbitrary to define: it’s when your flight path that no longer intersects the earth’s surface. It’s also the first milestone to actually doing anything useful. And it’s significantly harder than just reaching 100.0000001 km of altitude.
> Which is stupid because they already have all their data, like …, on external servers.

No, the companies that actually care about their data do not. This is just the typical SV perspective where everyone imagines the cloud is the only thing that exists.
Isn't Spotify going to shut this down quickly
What if I run Stable Diffusion locally without paying anyone anything? Is it less immoral?
Great example of how Russian propaganda works.

To western readers it reads like sarcasm because we acknowledge the truth contained in it. There are tons of addiction problems we are sorting through with these services. But western readers also see clearly the draconian overtones of tyranny in this sort of approach. Hence it reads like sarcasm.

To russian and other readers living in dictatorships, this sort of thing has been repeated so often that I think the draconian aspects are totally missed.
I've never heard of that before. Are your apps just for internal use of your team?
The Death of Good Software [video]
I'm in the same boat.

I'm also very interested in talking to random HN users, but my hesitation comes from the fact that if I start a chat I'll really commit because I want to make it meaningful.

I guess now I'm doing a cost-benefit analysis whether I should try this out while it's gaining popularity, or I should continue what I was working on.
Even disregarding which codec Youtube uses, there's also the question of what codec was uploaded(unless it's an official upload), which in many cases was probably a lossy codec in the first place. So often you're listening to some lossy codec, reencoded to another lossy codec.