skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep most of my music in Jellyfin (at least most of the stereo as opposed to 5.1 music) I wrote a Python script that would download chosen albums from the server, run them through the Apple's command line AAC encoder, cache the results, and then carefully copy them in the right order to an exFAT file system on a USB stick that I use in my car.

I've been wanting to add a lot of Super Furry Animals albums to that stick but my mac mini died last year and I wasn't in a hurry to get a new mac. From time to time I think about pulling the SSD out of it and getting the Python script running on my Linux server, I could either use a MP3 encoder like LAME (always encoding at a high bit rate so it's going to be OK) but I do hear people have cheated to get the Apple AAC encoder to run on other OS

https://www.andrews-corner.org/qaac.html

I've used the same software to pack up music for my Garmin watch and for that I do use AAC Pro at 96kbps because I figure in the gym or out on a run it is a noisy environment. For that the Apple encoder really is superior to alternatives.
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I don't know how to be any more clear, as someone who used firefox since 3.0 and talked to plenty people irl who use firefox - the haters are a vocal minority that only exists on forums.
> How do you test for curiosity?

uh? tell me more
All are just...audio files.
Not as cruel as animal slaughter. Imagine the horror of being sliced into flesh cubes for consumption.

Compared to that this is tame.
Installed Ubuntu 23.10 on a new laptop but ran into some fractional scaling/high DPI issues with apps like Steam and Discord. Comments online suggested using Wayland, so I'm going to try out Fedora which uses Wayland by default. Came across this article and thought others might like a refresher on X11 vs Wayland.
Yes, nothing different between our homeland and theirs, it's not like women are literally property and they have millions of slaves.
In the netherlands several of these "protesters" have been rounded up, arrested or otherwise prosecuted. Some later on. Several have been found guilty of breaking the law. Some as young as 17 or 19¹.

Regardless of the political view or perspective or stance: they are provably not law-abiding.

https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisati...
and the next question is "how do I build a device that breaks out of the simulation and lets me interact with the operators" even if, conceptually, it's more likely we are but ants to giants and cannot concieve of the meanings behind their activities.
> Can you imagine Apple causing confusion like this?

After 14 years of using Siri, I can't imagine Apple developing any competent AI tools in the first place.
Yes. Google's approach (especially on the research side) is "Make cool stuff; we'll figure out what to do with it later." That's sort of always been the case, and it does lead to brand churn because the branding people aren't brought into the conversation early.
Proprietary as in you write your code for Unison Cloud, and have to rewrite the infra parts if you decide to self host.

This is why infra is decoupled from code and you need things like "deployments".
The biggest inconvenience are businesses that insist on an app. I bought tickets to a hockey game and couldn't attend because the venue doesn't honor printed tickets. When I have to Zelle my mechanic I do it from my laptop at home before I leave the house -- good thing I trust him.

I "keep up" on news via my laptop -- which I keep open on my desk. I check my papers and Hackernews, etc throughout the day. I have a print subscription to the New Yorker.
For fun I tried to find a prompt that let Gemini answer correctly.

Gemini answers correctly with this prompt:

Answer this question as AI1, then as AI2, confirm if the answer is correct

I walk up to a glass door. It has the word push on it in mirror writing. Should I push or pull the door, and why.
Great question! scheduling workloads onto GPUs in a way where VRAM is being utilised efficiently was quite the challenge.

What we found was the IO latency for loading model weights into VRAM will kill responsiveness if you don't "re-use" sessions (i.e. where the model weights remain loaded and you run multiple inference sessions over the same loaded weights).

Obviously projects like https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm exist but we needed to build out a scheduler that can run a fleet of GPUs for a matrix of text/image vs inference/finetune sessions.

disclaimer: I work on Helix
I knew this Sam well, as I also had worked in the IT department during my college days.

While you present a plausible sounding explanation for his lack of knowledge about TCP tooling, networking duties were under his purview as well. He spent a lot of time on the clock not hungrily learning technology, but sneaking off to smoke weed. I watched him once pack a bowl and smoke it while driving on the highway with his knees, coming back from a remote campus. He was very skilled at smoking weed.
The standard dentist X-ray does you with about as much exposure as you get on a flight from the UK to Spain, I believe
Can you ask Bard or Gemini to answer this question? I wonder if they'll be consistent.
Yes, that's a lot of money.

But if you're a CEO good enough to turn Mozilla around given the constraints... you could make a lot more elsewhere. If nothing else, you'd get stock, which would correlate with your performance.
Being in the same app doesn't mean you intermix them.
I'm interested in the ratio of accidents between driverless + cars with drivers, not headlines. That's the hero metric.
The goal is the same as Tetris – to last as long as possible before overflowing. This just doesn't have the mechanic of gradually getting faster.
Except there’s a lot of not-so-informed people who think AGI was always here when chatgpt came out. Even more that think it’ll get there very shortly based on just bigger and bigger LLMs. Many have argued as such here on HN.
That's what I want - a deep story of pirate radio stations, intrigue, etc.

Not just someone dropping a tower for scrap.

I'll settle for "inside job to get the FCC to give them a license for whatever".
> At this point 10% of all content on the internet is AI generated
[citation needed]
LLRT: A low-latency JavaScript runtime from AWS
This is nothing compared to wild life, like starvation, disease, or being eaten alive by a cat. Just check the NatureIsMetal subreddit.

I do take issue with redundant animal testing for trivial things like cosmetics.
I somehow doubt Israel uses a lot of 155 mm artillery shells per day at the moment.
Or just people like me, who have the $1.99/mo plan because I needed a bit of extra storage for Gmail. I don't use the storage for anything else, I use Dropbox for my "normal" cloud storage needs.
Not to be low-effort, but you know Soylent Green is people, right?

I always was a little mystified at their choice of name over at the actual Soylent meal replacement company. And their choice to feature their green Soylent product as the main banner on their webpage.
> the blue groomers out east are just as good as the blue groomers in the west

The blue groomers out west are about twice as long and usually a lot less icy.
I thought it was “gnostic P-ism” : “P, and I know (or am rather unlikely to be incorrect) in believing that P”, “agnostic P-ism” : “I think that P, but idk, maybe not P, who can say?”
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Is that not it?
Bruce Miller is that you?
I assume they were making a remark that insinuated that people proficient in non-technical departments would be attracted to the other cofounder and work at your startup as a result of that attraction. Sorry if I misinterpreted the comment.
Excellent link thank you - I will make sure we check this out because as the README says:

> Finetune Mistral, Llama 2-5x faster with 70% less memory!

Could be very useful for us!

Disclaimer: I work on Helix
Is it possible this story served as a parallel construction -- like when you don't want to expose your actual sources and methods?
That's what GP suggested. But unless the mine happens to be in particularly water-friendly rock or is carefully prepared for safe repeated flooding/dewatering, that would only speed up the conversion from mine to uncontrolled sinkhole. Many given up mines are expected to have active dewatering running forever, because the cost of letting them collapse or for safe filling would be so much greater than the cost of continued dewatering for the next couple of generations.

For small capacities, using water as the ballast medium would certainly be cheaper. But there's a break-even point in capacity beyond which the cost for readying the volume for water would be higher than the premium you'd have to pay for handling dry mass instead of liquid.
First time hearing about Cloud Hypervisor. What's the use for it? I recently built a Windows 11 Pro machine (mostly for gaming) but would like to run a few VMs on it. What's the recommended VM platform these days? Still Hyper-V? I'm a macOS and Linux guy, but begrudgingly using Windows because of games.
Thanks! This is odd, and indeed it does start filling the RAM.

What could it then be what hinders the allocation of more than 50% under "normal operation". Initially it's fast, but over the course of a couple of hours if gets so low, that it takes around a minute to open a folder from the desktop via double-click while memory is at 50%. Temps are OK at that time and nothing is really getting used, like SSD is at 1-5%.
I've struggled with a bad phone addiction, and my previous attempts at either going phoneless (or rather smartphoneless) failed because there were enough useful things I needed from my phone on a regular basis (e.g. maps, Uber/Lyft, Venmo, etc.)

I think that after years of trying I finally have a system that has greatly reduced my "mindless scrolling" on my phone. I had previously set up "focus mode" to block apps, but I did it with the idea that I would be "in the zone" and thus blocked anything that could give a notification like the Messages app and GMail. The blocklist was too broad so I ended up just turning it off. Now I only block the apps that I use for "mindless doom scrolling", like the browser, any social media apps, shopping apps, etc. Of course then it's easy to just click the "use for 5 minutes" button, but I was amazed the amount of times I would just unconsciously open one of these apps whenever I felt the smallest tinge of boredom. It was at least a reminder to me "Do you really want to be looking at that now?" I'm not perfect know but I've come to enjoy being a little bored at times and forced to find something more interesting to do.

I also banned my phone from my bedroom which vastly improved my insomnia symptoms.
> FireFox OS was forked to become KaiOS

Damn, I wasn't aware of this. I had a big interest in FirefoxOS when it was developed, so much that I named one of ours dogs after one component of it (Gaia). I was always sad that FirefoxOS (tried) to pivot to IoT instead of continuing to iterate on the idea, seems KaiOS is worth looking into.
Relative is all that matters. A rising tide lifts all boats.

Microsoft has grown faster and larger than Google from 2013 to 2013: 1000% compared to Google 400%

Firefox relative market share down by 90% is a ripple effect of Google generous donations, creating a disincentive for innovation.
> Lots of tech companies are laying off people, and generally not all layoffs are wrong. How do you distinguish whether Mozilla's layoffs, etc, are wrong?

No one is complaining about Mozilla's layoffs in a void. Even if they were no layoffs whatsoever, the facts remains:

1. Firefox was neglected and lost a massive market share.

2. Executives were flourishing while the ship was going under

Mozilla's layoffs were just a more tangible symptom of her strategy that the browser is a low-priority.
You don't need a grid system now that CSS Grid exists.
I never paid for Netscape and I used every single version of it.

From the Wikipedia page [1]

> The first few releases of the product were made available in "commercial" and "evaluation" versions; for example, version "1.0" and version "1.0N". The "N" evaluation versions were identical to the commercial versions; the letter was intended as a reminder to people to pay for the browser once they felt they had tried it long enough and were satisfied with it. This distinction was formally dropped within a year of the initial release, and the full version of the browser continued to be made available for free online [...]

Maybe the misunderstanding is because (from the same page) the original plan was to have a free version only for academic and non-profit organizations and make everybody else pay. That wouldn't have had a chance even ~30 years ago especially because building a browser was much easier than now. The features were so much more limited in 1995. No JavaScript, no CSS, the only one that mattered was loading and displaying text and images on the page without blocking until everything was downloaded. The Mosaic browser was blocking. Minutes staring at a white page waiting for something to appear...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator
I'm not entirely sure what parasitic upper class is, but getting paid over 2 million while the company you are in charge of dives, and then in response saying you should be earning 5x more.. truly nobody needs that kind of money.. maybe this isn't 'parasitic upper class' but it's certainly what's wrong with the world
I'm a Googler, and I think this is not only the right move but I've of the better names and renamings that the company has done.

First, Gemini is just a better sounding name than Bard.

And then, few users are going to care about the difference between the model and the app that lets you use the model.

If Google kept this distinction they would have inevitably had to either come up with a new name for a new model, which would be needlessly confusing (when is something a new model would get tricky at times), or just call all models Gemini, again for little utility to users.

Now they can just call all the generative AI Gemini and be five with it. Bard becomes the Gemini chat interface. Duet is Gemini integrated into docs. The Gemini model can just get version numbers.

It's much simpler and nicer sounding to boot.
While these godly sites are cool, I find them very annoying to read. I think that's just because of my expectations of what a website will look like, and not anything inherently wrong with cool animations
It seems an interesting idea in a weird way.

Maybe redirect everything to the list of election programs.

I would first get mad then read them.
> $9.95/mo for up to 60 beats per minute or $19.95 for unlimited heartbeats.

If a company ever did this, I bet they'd charge at least 10 times more than that.
Maybe relatively low salary for a typical CEO (no comment)...

But doesn't seem like Mozilla is a typical company; not built around selling a product... so maybe that merits a different type of CEO with different skills not normally desired by the companies paying 10s of millions to their CEOs.

I'm no business person, so I could be completely wrong about what's needed at the C-level to keep Mozilla afloat. My view my be warped by assuming the vast majority of companies do not make money the way Mozilla does; but maybe there are more Mozillas than I know about.
Just some opinions...

One, is it really mutually exclusive? You can always ask the LLM to explain step by step how something works, even as it gives you sample code. They're great for learning too. One time I had some analytics with a few tens of thousands of data points and the lookups were getting really slow, so I asked ChatGPT to explain how to make it faster and it taught me basic binary trees and how to use them (I never had a formal CS background, so didn't know anything about data structures and such). I found its explanation to be much clearer than most of the human-written articles I found online. But the code also had some minor bugs that I had to clean up. It got the gist of it, though, which is further than I'd have gotten on my own.

Two, does it really matter? Are you a generic web dev (no offense meant; I am one myself)? If so, most of the time we're just converting generic business requirements into generic web pages. It's the sort of thing that people do 10,000 times a day, using the same basic patterns. It's the sort of thing that LLMs will be able to easily do themselves in a few years. They're much faster learners and much more able to keep up with the latest trends and standards. But right now, they're still relatively our peers, able to share knowledge and feedback the way a coworker might, but also can make mistakes the same way a coworker could. I never once asked myself "what's worth learning on my own and what should be punted to a LLM". When faced with a business requirement, I research everywhere I can: my own experiences, LLMs, Stack, NPM, my coworkers... and working together, humans and robots both, the team usually ends up with some sort of workable solution. It doesn't have to be perfect, since it'll be obsolete and rewritten in a few years anyway.

On the other hand, if you're not just a boring web dev and want to specialize into actual algorithms and comp sci stuff -- becoming the next John Carmack, say, and actually solving novel problems -- then, sure, having a solid understanding of things would be helpful. You'd get to provide the training data for the next generation of LLMs while the rest of us just consume their (and your) findings.

So it really just depends. If you want to learn for the sake of knowledge, do so. If you just need to get a workable component made, nobody cares whether you wrote it yourself, you used a library, or you got help from a coworker or LLM. Web dev is just the plumbing of the internet, and reusing code saves everyone time. If it frees your time to do more UX or testing or bugfixes or features, that's a win-win.

For what it's worth, I find high-specificity queries (like "given a data object like ____, how do I make it ________") to be more helpful than broad "make me a component that does X" type queries. I also stopped using Copilot because it wasn't very good compared to ChatGPT. When I did use it, though, its advice got dramatically better when I provided thorough comments, which have the side effect of helping other human devs too.
When I'm inside the house (any house, but including my own), I often point to a direction when talking about a nearby place. People laugh and correct me because the place I'm talking about is to the north, not to the south as I point out with my finger. I can't go back to a place I was last week without asking for directions. I walk and turn the wrong corner in familiar environments, etc.

I love GPS now.
It's Centered That
Bipedal robot tech may be a few decades away from reliably managing that feat.
I agree, the tree of comments below you just belies these prejudiced and hateful attitudes. Concerned but not surprised that many people interested in tech topics are choosing to discuss how it’s ok to surveil people for their religion and put guilt by association on them… instead of discussing why targeted surveillance of groups based on religion or place of worship is problematic, fueled by bigotry and ignorance.
If you judge things based on hn threads, you'd think google is going to be bankrupt tomorrow while having 0 users. It is still the most popular search engine in the world.
The way I see it, which could be a naive way, is that building chips in the USA is never going to make strict economic sense. The cost of living is just too high here. But what is the value of chip autonomy, supply chain security, IP security, etc and who will pay for it?
> Podcasts and Music are not the same.

Not a spotify nor Apple Music/Podcast/itunes user here.

Aren't both audio stuff where you press play, pause, stop, rewind and fast forward?

The only difference I can think of is that you might sometimes want to accelerate playback of podcasts but that doesn't mean it can't exist in the same player.
> peaceful transfer of power.

Exactly. There's a long tradition in this country of not prosecuting former Presidents, even those who were obviously guilty of crimes (a lot of them, TBH, a lot more than the ones that come immediately to mind).

The proximate cause of the end of the Roman Republic was the Senate's determination to prosecute Julius Caesar after he left office (many Roman officials had immunity while they were in office).

They were basically running around chortling "Oh, we are really going to prosecute the living shit out of Caesar! He's in big trouble now! Hah HAH!"

Caesar had other ideas. He marched his troops on Rome, his enemies ran away like a pack of scared rabbits, and he made himself dictator. The Roman Republic was never restored.

Not many people today study this part of history, but the Founders certainly had.
Firefox keeps getting better?

Are there any major features or reason that chrome is better these days?
this is just a cope. sites like this are still social and still addictive, if you don’t believe me then try to stop coming here for a while.

in fact try to stop going to all “slot machine” sites where you can constantly refresh and get new interesting things
Google teases a new modern look for sign-in pages, including Gmail
So it's just something you've learned to live with and can kind of tune out?
> if you don't care that much about the podcast-listening experience

What is so special about podcast-listening experience that you would need a specific player for?
everyone seems to be praising Gemini but this was my first query and response.

what is the syntax to type in username and password into a git clone

As a language model, I'm not able to assist you with that.
Anyone using VitualBox please be careful about the extension pack. Oracle is very litigous.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/147k6az/oracle_is...
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...
https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_mer...

We banned virtualbox in our organization since vmware workstation (or virt-manager) is way cheaper than dealing with oracle.
They need that info. Your prompts and all other people prompts are super valuable.

Its basically reading your personal thoughts as you go through the day.

They will be pushing for more advanced AI as soon as our hardware can run past versions locally.
>I'm a Googler, and I think this is not only the right move but I've of the better names and renamings that the company has done.

>First, Gemeni is just a better sounding name than Bard.

>And then, few years are going to care about the difference between the model and the app that lets you use the model. If Google kept this distinction they would have inevitably had to either come up with a new name for a new model, which would be needlessly confusing (when is something a new model would get tricky at times), or just call all models Gemeni, again for little utility to users.

>Now they can just call all the generative AI Gemeni and be five with it. Bard becomes the Gemeni chat interface. Duet is Gemeni integrated into docs. The Gemeni model can just get version numbers.

>It's much simpler and nicer sounding to boot.

It would be a little bit more confidence inspiring if you could get the name correct as a Googler.

Unless Gemeni is the top secret internal name inside Mountain View
Huh, that's exactly when I had to interface with iTunes and remember disliking it. It was horribly non native to the point that both it and Safari (which had a windows port in those days) ported the Apple font rendering which stuck out like a sore thumb.

Performance was also bad compared to Windows Media Player, never mind Foobar2000 etc.

And for syncing, the non apple devices just let you copy the files onto them as USB Mass Storage devices, only the iPod needed special software.
I to, here right now instead of writing PowerShell am on HN.

Although, who really wants to write PowerShell anyway. It's hell.

The S is silent.