skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Spotify's data report site[0], there were 17,800 artists grossing over $50k from Spotify (7,800 being between 50k and 100k), out of a denominator of ~8 million, or 200k if you use Spotify's estimate of “professional or professionally aspiring”.

I don't know much at all about the music industry, so I don't really have a conclusion from those data, but that seems low. It also does put a (not insignificant) number on the independents accomplishing what you describe.

0. https://loudandclear.byspotify.com/
The light in your oven is almost certainly incandescent, possibly your fridge too. You can't really use a non-incandescent bulb in high heat applications.

There are other applications too, where the resistance of the bulb itself, and how it changes with the amount of current going thru the device is also important.
If only I had known this earlier in my career! They should really add a feature to make a hard copy of the big bucket list to minimize memory overhead, though.
Could you implement it using AtomicUsize (using only relaxed operations) in Rust? With AtomicUsize representing the words. You aren't allowed to put pointers in those.
We didn't hide ours (American). We put up chain link with barbed wire, razor tape, and nice signs that started, "Use of deadly force authorized."
That sounds painful. Unfortunately, I know the feeling.
In Germany I generally avoid any business that only takes cash; thanks to the pandemic the number has reduced, but some can still be found.

Different strokes for different folks :)
So it is AI generated slime for people in those languages.
Well you could be getting priced differently. Restaurants could place different QR codes at "desirable" tables compared to the average or worst tables in the house. Would you know?

I'm not aware of any place doing this but it's a simple example that wouldn't even require any type of dynamic pricing setup just a second or third version of the menu with a unique link.
Now I’m imagining a scene from Fight Club 2: More Fightening:

“Now see, there’s a calculus. If our emergency systems save ten thousand lives a year, those are customers for life. And we look at those as currency to be spent - we have some lives we can waste elsewhere, especially in areas that are indicative of non-repeat customers. Customer who normally doesn’t drink, we detect as drunk? Probably lost his job or got a divorce, we disable the emergency systems.”
Generally yes. M.2 wifi cards are just PCI-E (except for Intel CNVi). Jeff Geerling tried a bunch of different PCI-E cards with the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module which does expose the PCI-E interface: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/
I'm not sure the general public are ready for Bowling meets Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo but I like the idea.
>Seven Years After Embassy Seizure, Iran Still Prints U.S. Secrets

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/10/world/7-years-after-embas...

https://archive.ph/EVbpX

>Among the most interesting papers are shredded secret documents pieced back together by the militants that detail attempts of the Central Intelligence Agency to recruit high-level Iranian officials, ayatollahs and exiles, foreign journalists and diplomats either as paid or ''unwitting'' agents in the months after the revolution in February 1979.
I made a simple bash alias for this:

mknote () {
emacs -nw $HOME/notes/`date "+%Y-%m-%d-"`${1}.txt
}

so that I can do:

$ mknote FooTopic

and start recording things.

I also have enote:

enote () {
local newest=$(ls -Ft $HOME/notes/\*.txt | grep "$1" | head -n 1)
emacs -nw $newest
}

to go back and edit them by name.
Yeah, but I left it off, because its clearly an application with no real future, its dying as the networks required for it to work well also die (faxing over VoIP is a special form of hell to support).
it's ok to do your own thing sometimes. if you want to share a nice meal with your wife without your phones just say so. people are often more social now than they used to be, at the cost of some personal attention, sure.

i hang out with and eat out with my partner almost every day all the time. i don't need to be present 100% at every single moment, and if i or he wants to be during a meal, we will simply share that thought. i've never had issues having normal social interaction with people when out, even with some phone usage. it's normal.
I think the reaction to 9/11 was the US wanting to make the point “you destroy a few office buildings, we destroy a few nations” very clear to the rest of the world.
I'd say that Nystrom's point in context is more "How you parse doesn't matter." He says, later in that link:

"Recursive descent, Pratt parsing, and the popular parser generators like ANTLR or Bison are all fine."

Any of these can be reusable parsers that you and/or others can easily use to create tools.
Show HN: Ballast – a simple CLI for snapshot load testing API performance
A simple cli that lets you run iterative load tests on your api. Set thresholds for testing, and compare performance to previous runs.
> I would repeat one more time: do not rely on board vendor supplied images; this is valid for pretty much all boards

It's not valid, it's not even an argument.
Then let's use a more precise term that is also present in law: monopoly.

You can't monopolize an idea.

Copyright law is a prescription, not a description. Copyright law demands that everyone play along with the lie that is intellectual monopoly. The effectiveness of that demand depends on how well it can be enforced.

Playing pretend during the age of the printing press may have been easy enough to coordinate, but it's practically impossible here in the digital age.

If we were to increase enforcement to the point of effectiveness, then what society would be left to participate? Surely not a society I am keen to be a part of.
We're not talking about "not legally obligated to do it", we're talking about "being legally obligated not to do it". The law forces them to accept cash, they can't just say "I'm gonna impose my own social norms that are above the law."

the equivalent to your example would be them accepting cash even if they don't legally have to. Which is literally the opposite of what they're doing.
ML generalization and human abstraction are very different beasts.

For example, a human artist would have an understanding of how line weight factors into stylization and why it looks the way it does and be able to accurately apply these concepts to drawings of things they’ve never seen in that style (or even seen at all, if it’s of something imaginary).

The best an ML model can do is mimic examples of line art in the given style within its training data, the product of which will contain errors due to not understanding the underlying principles, especially if you ask it to draw something it hasn’t seen in the style you’re asking for. This is why generative AI needs such vast volumes of data to work well; it’s going to falter in cases not well covered by the data. It’s not learning concepts, only statistical probabilities.
It's a thinly veiled dictatorship, but OTOH it's stable, not particularly oppressive about non-political topics, takes good care of its citizens, and has done a hell of a lot to improve its citizens' lives while defusing, as much as possible, the various ethnic issues that have plagued other countries in the region.

Don't forget, it was a poor country at independence. Malaysia and Indonesia also face the Strait of Malacca, and I'd rather live under Singapore's government than either of those.
Bummer I got cut off. We were talking about Legos. Still no solution.
Here's a question: Why do we even need human-level intelligence? We already have it.
>nobody has a database of your preferences

They absolutely do. They're merely not necessarily labelled as your preferences.
I think you are underestimating just how many challenges there are in self-driving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcKchbfn1VY
Just as a note for the cultural impact, for many movies after they were constructed, B roll footage showing NYC skylines seemed to often feature them over things like the Empire State Building or even the Statue of Liberty. They were apparently featured in over 1100 films.

https://donnagrunewald.wixsite.com/wtcinmovies
I don't really get his point. Wifi is super cheap. You can get a full stm32 with builtin wifi for like $6 for a single one. Installing a cable would be far more expensive in labor.
I have no means to check this page on my mobile now, but if it was me making it I would have used WebRTC, plus some backend to pair random peers. I think E2EE can be implemented on the stream.
Believe it or not the world has a lot of people who are above average whose lives don’t revolve around computers. There’s just as many losers here as anywhere.
This article is either a paid ad, or a joke. The rabbit does nothing that an Apple Shortcut can't do. It calls the OpenAI API and shows the response.
Pretty obviously, yeah. Just because it’s a large company doing it doesn’t make it suddenly legal.
i dont understand the first sentence you wrote at all

what state were the other two callers in? you also wrote all layoffs should be recorded knowing that it would violate law in some states. this sounds pretty disingenuous. by "paying attention" you mean someone highly invested in this like you are, with the same weirdo aggro activist tone
Looking at the rapid progress over the last few years, I think the bottleneck is still the cost of hardware. Once robots at the level of Boston Dynamics's Spot or Tesla's new Optimus are available to regular hackers, we'll see another massive surge in progress.
Dairy implies veal. You can't have milk and butter without either a cull or an expanding herd.

There may be a biotech solution, which may bring up new ethical concerns.
> I swear to god sometimes it's like nobody here has ever met a person.

This exactly. This sub is wild sometimes.

I have no dog in this fight. I believe the truth is (as always) somewhere in the middle of “Amazon was unanimously shitty” and “the people are lying about what happened”. I just continue to not understand how much binary thinking is happening in these comments.
This explains why I have seen so many tech companies doing layoffs. They layoff now, wait for the fix(hopefully), then hire people again(hopefully). And here I thought it was AI replacing the workers.
Onsite interviews.
Launch detection was, I believe, not all that robust in the early days, and making sure that the enemy couldn't precisely target all of your silos, and making sure they knew they couldn't, was presumably useful for deterrence.
The difference is that “pirating” is mostly done by individuals for private use, whereas training is mostly done by megacorporations looking to make more money.
I'm concerned about how a non-zero number of people here on HN seem to think this is meant seriously.
This feels like an interesting interview question. I think you could simulate this with a full outer join on the entire select list and coalesce? For a UNION ALL you could put some literal column in the selects from both tables that you set to different values and include that in the join so you'd get a result set that will have all nulls in the right table columns for the rows in the left table and vice versa.
Something like

WITH top_t AS (
SELECT
a
,b
,c
,'top' as nonexistent_col
FROM table_1
), bottom_t AS (
SELECT
a
,b
,c
,'bottom' as nonexistent_col
FROM table_2
)
SELECT
COALESCE(top_t.a, bottom_t.a) AS a
,COALESCE(top_t.b, bottom_t.b) AS b
,COALESCE(top_t.c, bottom_t.c) AS c
FROM top_t FULL OUTER JOIN bottom_t
ON top_t.a = bottom_t.a
AND top_t.b = bottom_t.b
AND top_t.c = bottom_t.c
AND top_t.nonexistent_col = bottom_t.nonexistent_col -- remove this for a normal UNION
Agreed.

Wanna know what another obsolete object is, a real one, no longer made and with no functional use anymore?

An lubricant oil can spout.

We stopped selling lubricating oil in cans like at least 35 years ago.

I have vague memories from my childhood of seeing cans of oil stacked in a store, but I can't tell if its a hallucination or memory, or something I actually saw, it would have been when I was very young based on the perspective I can recall them at.

(edited to add the word lubricant)
I'm not. Malware is one thin, passive data poisoning is another. Mapmakers have long used such devices to detect/deter unwanted copying. In the US such 'trap streets' are not protected by copyright, but nor do they generate liability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
A machine that can do anything an average human can do whilst sitting at a computer.
Yeah, electron is so over.

Now tbe modern tech stack is to build a bash+python app in an env, add a touch of R, some js, and bundle it into docker container, then make that docker container into wasm with container2wasm, and give that out as the executable.

It's wonderful honestly. You can get just about anything working with stitching together stuff, and then serve your 10GB executable to anyone :).

So MuCh BeTtEr ThIs MoDeRn WaY!
Similarly, I upgraded the GPU in my server from a decade old formerly high end gaming GPU to a modern lower-mid range because I wanted new video encoders, and a smoother Linux driver experience. But it's idle 99% of the time. The difference in idle consumption (80% lower on the new GPU) works out to €50/year, which means even if I didn't use any of the other features of the GPU, it would pay for itself in 3 years.

Video encoding power draw is also 86% lower and even if I found something to max the new card out, it's still 40% lower than maxing out the old card (for a lot more compute power than the ten year old card).
U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Human-level intelligence is a milestone on the way to a super-human one.
Related:

The insides of pro bowling balls - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073317 - Aug 2021 (50 comments)

I don't know how 'pro' they are, but also:

How Bowling Balls Are Made [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35581792 - April 2023 (14 comments)

One man’s journey to the center of the bowling ball - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27324564 - May 2021 (14 comments)
If you need to request multiple REST resources for a single "operation", then you don't have enough REST resources defined. [1]

Just make another endpoint for getting the whole thing in one go and call it a day, don't try to overly generalise your API.

Going even further, your server requests to the database could be similar as well, one query to get everything needed, then you don't even need to worry about server to database distance!

[1] https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...
I'm using GPT4ALL with Mistral on a $400 Intel NUC, so yes, if the use fits!
Conventional observation by restaurant staff isn't bundled and resold by data brokers. I find it astonishing that a reader of HN would be unaware of commercial data collection and resale practices.
It is quite simple with p2p WebRTC, like Jitsi did that, and perhaps still do.
If it were true, then we wouldn't have that great difference in opinions on this topic.
Or buy the wifi one and flash with esphome or similar.
I have been working in the space for a while...
I'd be dead. Along with quarter of million people in my city. Just because there's a very small civilian airport with one runway that serves about 12 planes per day, on the outskirts.

Screw the coldwar US.
The right to not use my things exists everywhere, universally. Good people usually ask before they use something of someone else's, and the person being asked can say "no." How hard is that to understand? You might believe they don't have the right to say "no," but they can say whatever they want.

Example:

If you studied my (we will assume "unique") work and used it without my permission, then let us say I sue you. At that point, you would claim "fair use," and the courts would decide whether it was fair use (ask everyone who used a mouse and got sued for it in the last ~100 years). The court would either agree that you used my works under "fair use" ... or not. It would be up to how you presented it to the court, and humans would analyze your intent and decide.

OR, I might agree it is fair use and not sue you. However, that weakens my standing on my copyright, so it's better for me to sue you (assuming I have the resources to do so when it is clearly fair use).
These arguments are so bewildering to me. Intelligence is very easy to define and has nothing to do with consciousness. It is simply the ability to model an external reality and then take action according to inputs.

After combining enough specialized modules together with a management layer, we will essentially have AGI. Of course it won't be human, because human intelligence is tightly coupled to human perception.
Rackspace charged me $5 recently for the first time in a long time. It turned out to be a few bytes of a log file for a service that I had long since removed to the best of my knowledge.

Time to finally get rid of them. Unfortunately they require for me to make an international call at my expense to close my account.

Naming to shame.
We're barely scratching the surface of all the cool and interesting things we could do. There aren't enough humans. Our knowledge and experience take 20 years from birth to become "rudimentary", and from there many more years to become "good". Then after a short bit, all of that passes away.

I want us to have enough time that the feeling of opportunity cost goes away. To visit all the places, explore all the hobbies. I want to answer the deep questions of the universe. Turn gravitational lenses into telescopes to map the surfaces of exoplanets. Solve cancer, visit the moon. Turn dreams into experiences, walk through vast expanses of wonder.

Instead we're here.

I'm alive in the wrong time, and I hate being stuck here with the lot of you. (I kid. This is in jest. But boy do I ever dream...)
I’m kind of surprised environmental or social activists haven’t used this product to destroy statues. Not advocating for it but busting things up seems a little more newsworthy than gluing yourself to stuff.
I can't wait for a cheating scandal where the balls are "active" and a computer inside steers it.
12: / 1:12:13 John Conway Distinguished Lecture – The Symmetries of Things [video]
> view them in preview on my m1 Mac mini

Now send it to anyone, in any way. iMessage? Doesn’t work. Received on an iPhone? Won’t work. Android? Definitely not. Etc…

There is no one file format that works across ecosystems. Apple is even internally fragmented, with some formats working on MacOS that don’t on IOS.

> Of course it looked different

That is broken!!

This is precisely what I mean: HDR is often incorrectly decoded as SDR in Apple operating systems. This is worse than just sending an SDR JPG because the HDR-to-SDR conversion is unpredictable, and making the HDR image was a waste of time and bits.

Note that I didn’t say HDR video! I meant specifically HDR still images, the type that JPEG XL can encode.

Right now, in 2024, if I want to send someone HDR anything, the only robust method is to make it into a video and send them a YouTube link to it.

That’s a sad state of affairs.
Most serious artists I know (at least in my community) release their high-quality images on Patreon or similar.
They’re already undetectable for most —- media consumers are currently making their own judgement calls to distinguish deepfakes, based on their intuition and what strangers and friends on the internet tell them. They may be detectable in theory, but every security issue is a zero-day for as long as mitigations are lacking due to accessibility or other reasons.
>There is no way that such tools will ever win, given the requirements the art remain viewable to human perception

On the other hand, the adversarial environment might push models towards a representation more aligned with human perception, which is neat.
"Likely" based on what? I'm not sure how much consideration NATO gave to neutral countries. Vienna is about 50 kilometers from Bratislava, it shouldn't receive that much damage.

Compare that with West Berlin (a NATO city) which is getting 5 nukes all around its borders, not farther than 10 kilometers. (with some more nukes in a slightly larger distance, but still less than 50)
Homegrown. Essentially Node-RED and some Go/Python.
I’m surprised they could put them back together. When I shredded top secret documents in the navy when I was a kid, what came out into the bin outside was effectively powder. Those shredders could shred a broomstick! Literally, I shredded a broomstick once, it didn’t even slow down. They were tall so you had to climb on a ladder to reach the top, and they had a massive electric motor that spun a very heavy rotor very fast that would powder the documents. You threw multiple reams worth of paper at once.
They might not consume a lot of power, but they're also not doing much work. How does their performance per watt compare to a modern low power laptop, an intel NUC, the N100, etc.?
Though FINALLY phasing out in a lot of places. My major hospital system (through consolidation) now seems to be on a largely electronic heath data system. But, yeah, manually faxing lab work requests to the hospital lab was still a thing just a few years ago.
> I am quite sure I do not have the ethical card in any of these discussions.

Realizing that you’re doing something unethical is philosophically better than denying the obvious. However, as a commercial artist, I’m not really interested in any gussied-up justification beyond that statement.
True, the “lying under oath” is compounded “not coming clean when people go to jail” and then the option of jail is on the table.

But for some cases, excessive monetary fines may be better (especially if the person who would go to jail is a low level expendable peon but the large fine would come from the company).

People may not be much deterred by punishments but large enough judgements scare the shit out of lawyers.
Yeah, or over https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?

And given the existence of those npm packages, is there any aspect of Bun Shell that required it to be built into the Bun runtime instead of published to npm?
Presumably it hardens first to self-seal and then slowly the solid expands?

But this[1] documentation implies it can expand as a liquid: "Forceful BLOWOUTS may occur once mixed with water! Keep safe distance. DO NOT look directly into filled holes. Use of Dexpan® in hot weather could increase chances of blowouts. DO NOT pour into hot holes. Use iced water in summer.".

[1] https://images.thdstatic.com/catalog/pdfImages/1d/1dc6a35d-8...
Thank you for playing Wing Commander!
> As a practical matter, if you’re strapped for time, having fresh meats on the ready isn’t practical. And canned/frozen aren’t great options.

At least where I live, you can get excellent quality canned soup with meat, like goulash or chicken noodle soup.

Also, cured meats like salami or prosciutto have long shelf life in the fridge and are excellent for throwing together quick pasta recipes. Cook pasta, slice a little salami, fry salami in the pan with some oil, maybe add some chili flakes or garlic or fennel seeds, put the al dente pasta and a splash of pasta water in the frying pan, cook for two minutes more, done.

Also raw eggs last more than a month in the fridge. Hard cheese lasts indefinitely if packaged well. Dry cured slab bacon is good for at least a month. And so on.
It’s a mason jar. If it’s cool enough for you to hold, it’s not going to permanently disfigure you. Plenty of camping recipes involve putting boiling water in pouches and then squeezing and shaking them.
Harvard morgue theft ring stole body parts, sold brains, flesh->leather (2023)
That is entirely my point. It can only be decided by the courts. This being a civil matter, it has to be brought up by a lawsuit. Thus, you have to be sued and it has to be decided by the courts.
Not digital artists, though.
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