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> It's just another arbitrary, an inconsistent point in the tech tree of real life. Solar panel powered server is low tech, but a firearm is not, for example.

Solar is not low-tech but I think you need to view it from the point of being able to have a computer and internet at all, in which case you'll need some form of electricity generation.

For hunting you don't need a firearm, bow and arrow does the job just fine for most game.

> So I think the point is to question the never-ending technological advance a bit, and especially its application to day-to-day life, which I think is good food for thought in general.

Yup. Lots of elementary stuff like do you really need to heat your whole house in the winter or could you just use a blanket (or some other form of localized heating) where you spend 95% of your time. Stuff like most people won't give much consideration to because the tech is there, it's easy to use and it's cheap.
AI will make it super easy to keep ads which won't draw the ire of law enforcement. TIFIFY.
One amazing feature of Lustron houses is that their enameled exterior has aged amazingly well. I live near several of them, and all of them, without exception, appear to have survived 7 decades in a harsh northern climate. The enamel appears to be colorfast, does not chip or stain, and the material must be nearly indestructible. It isn't obvious from the photos, but the roofs are also enameled, and I believe all the houses near me still have the original roofs. I'm guessing the individual panels are basically impossible to replace or repair. They have survived well in a very tough environment.
The article is about a single family home. And pretty much all the costs mentioned in another comment (and maybe more) apply to a manufactured home as well.
Was there still people buying Vault at that price? From my perspective it looks like Hashicorp has been overplaying its hand there, but maybe it worked somehow!?
Datadog? But I'm not sure you'll appreciate the pricing.
Yes, and that changes how long you have to wait for a fixed amount of data to arrive, especially when transmission windows are narrow and sufficiently low bandwidth would mean having to waste time waiting between several.
It's not 0 risk; 12 pedestrians were killed by bicyclists in NYC in 2021 (I don't have more up to date data, there doesn't seem to be a ton out there). Cars killed 1,927 pedestrians in the same year.

If we make a bold assumption that we can just scale those numbers by volumes, cars would have killed 100 people in the same period of there were as few drivers as bikers.

I think cyclists underestimate the difference made by the force focusing effect of landing on a bar as opposed to the roof of a car, as well as that bicycles are basically flat in the front instead of sloped, so people can't slide over the top.

If I could pick between getting hit by a Honda Civic at 20 mph or someone on a bike at 20 mph, I'm picking the Civic. Basically any car low enough that I can go over the top of, I'd rather get hit by that than a bike.

I would rather get hit by a bike than an F-150, though. There's no way I'm going over that, I would definitely end up under it.
As someone who had also grown to automatically ignore .tk domains, perhaps we've lost a reliable spam signal and honeypot
Well, because more and more farms are being bought up, making farms bigger and bigger, and reducing the amount of "hard working, honest small family farms" everyone likes to imagine they get their food from.

There is no reasonable difference between what "farmers" say and what Facebook says, or the Collection of sad landlords, or the conglomerate of weapons manufacturers for world peace. It's all the same lies to keep the cash cow going as long as possible to extract as much value from our planet before everything goes to shit.

If people did do research, they'd find out that the main, humonguous problem is animal agriculture. Whether it's water (https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-wa...), land, energy or CO2e production, it's not anywhere close to sustainable to eat meat every meal, not even every day.
To be fair. Celerons were really terrible. I ran them for a long time (even was running dual celerons on a board at one point) and overclocked the crap out them. Then I switched to an actual Pentium 3 chip and it blew them away. Never went back.
They don't religiously defend their existence, they're defending the second form of exist in which Unicorns are said to exist.
You should reread their post, libraries usage is incidental to what they’re talking about. Their point, that first sale should apply to ebooks, requires a fundamentally different approach to DRM. If I own my content and can put it on any device I want, how can the seller be sure I’m only using one copy at a time? Consider the case that I might have it on multiple different devices which aren’t connected to the internet, they’re saying I should be able to do that while keeping the requirement that only one copy be usable at a time.

My reference to quantum was saying that this usage pattern would require something like quantum entanglement to replicate the state of which copy is active among all copies.
I'd call it hysteria more than a meme. Similar to the Dutch Tulip Mania in the early 1600s.

Every company I worked at gave out cheap plastic tumblers with the company logo everyone threw them in the trash.
right, seems like sort of a no brainer that if a minor version bump of an OS completely breaks JDK8, that’s on the OS developer.
People with Karen-like behavior are rarely doing it for altruistic reasons and rather out of some sense of anger and spite
The main problem is that the ad targeting thinks I need Viagra.
Show HN: MusicLang – a controllable model for symbolic music gen (LLAMA2)
Hi HN, MusicLang confounder here !

After 18 months of R&D, we've just released our project to the open source community. I wanted to share it with you too, hoping it might be helpful for your projects.

We started MusicLang with the aim of addressing the limitations of existing language models in music composition. Despite the increasing popularity of LLMs, none have fully met the requirements for music generation. Similarly, existing generative models for music mostly focus on audio and lack controllability over the output generated. This poor UX was the reason why we built MusicLang, which offers advanced control features over symbolic music generation. MusicLang is ideal if you:

- Want to generate music exportable to your favorite DAW in MIDI format;
- Seek control over chord progressions in the generated music;
- Need to create variations or extend existing music;
- Require fast performance on a laptop without GPU.

MusicLang comprises several components:

1.MusicLang Foundation model: Our foundational model for creating and generating original MIDI soundtracks [0];
2. MusicLang predict: Our AI prediction API for the MusicLang package [1];
3. MusicLang Language: A new language for tonal music, enabling composers to load, write, transform, and predict symbolic music easily [2].

Instead of a long explanation, you can try MusicLang on our colab [3], explore our demo space [4], or our HuggingFace space [5]. For more technical details, visit our technical blog [6]. Mervin Prison also made a cool video showcasing our features [7].

We’re excited to hear your thoughts and feedback, this will help us a lot.

Thanks :-)

[0] MusicLang Foundation model:https://huggingface.co/musiclang/musiclang-v2
[1] MusicLang predict: https://github.com/musiclang/musiclang_predict?tab=readme-ov...
[2] MusicLang language: https://github.com/MusicLang/musiclang
[3] Colab:https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1MA2mek826c05BjbWk2n...
[4] Demo space:https://huggingface.co/spaces/musiclang/musiclang-predict
[5] HuggingFace space: https://huggingface.co/musiclang
[6] Technical blog: https://musiclang.github.io/
[7] Mervin Praison’s video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lWgP4F5Q-o
>plus mechanisms to synchronize internet data with Earth

Even in a future where there's a city on Mars, that seems unlikely.
The legalization lobby is going to have to really get their shit together if we're going to arrive at a sensible and humane drug policy in this country. I'm generally in favor of legalization, but the latest approaches we've seen in the states where full decriminalization has happened have had some seriously awful effects - videos of open air drug markets in Philly and San Francisco showcase a level of human misery that almost makes prison look humane.

To me, it seems obvious that there's a middle ground between the stupidity of the "drug war" and the suffering factories we're allowing to grow in some of our cities. There's got to be a way to thread the needle and not have legalization imply mass lawlessness in certain parts of our cities. But none of the places that have tried legalization on a big scale have successfully threaded that needle as far as I can tell, and I think the effect of that is going to entail a lot more skepticism from the general population when further legalization initiatives come to a vote.
> I would occasionally take my keyboard and move the mouse around which would confuse him.

SWMBO and I had the same mouse a while back. One day she grabbed my mouse and was complaining "my mouse isn't working" while wiggling it back and forth. On my screen my mouse was zooming wildly all over the screen.

She now uses a pink vertical mouse.
NoRoot Firewall app (I'm not affiliated). I must have brought it up in every Android security related post in HN that I've came across.

I use it on all my Android devices. I block all traffic in most apps.

Some Android phones allow you to allow/block Data and/or WiFi separately. My Samsung 4G tablet doesn't allow me to switch off Data or WiFi for some apps, especially the system ones.

This is where NoRoot Firewall does all its good work. It has Global Block list (all ads/trackers go there) and for each app I individually block or allow certain IPs.

So if "Samsung Keyboard" app wants to send your typing home, you block Data/WiFi and leave it trying :)
You might be asking the wrong bunch of people :)
That shows up in the “land” field.
2Pb(s)+ O2(g) + 2H2O(l) -> 2 Pb(OH)2(s)
Why is that terrifying?
But the US never developed two qualities fundamental to the Lustron: the idea that houses should be consumed like cars and the ability to mass-produce modular housing.

“Houses . . . consumed like cars” makes for an interesting thought experiment, like “The Roads Must Roll”[0] but doesn’t strike me as a meeting an actual need. Maybe I’m wrong.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll
The i.reddit mobile site sadly seems to have stopped working.
At least for me.
Have you ever seen a negative number of things?
An outlier versus the South, not the rest of the US.
What happens to their stock if they sell?
> The platforms don't work if they have to police everything. Proper moderation results in an increase in false positives which paints an overzealous image and will draw the ire of users while driving them elsewhere.

I'm unequivocally against any sort of drug prohibition, but this argument is pretty silly.

You know what other business model doesn't work if we enforce laws mandating anti-drug morality? Drug dealing.

If your business model doesn't work without doing unethical things, your business model should not work.
Perl gets installed wherever `git` CLI is available, generally. I'd say it's more ubiquitous. And it doesn't suffer from the python2/3 split.
Except LLMs cannot reason.
The people that the article is complaining about are subsistance farmers that are so poor, that NGOs give them free solar pumps. Then this article makes them out to be some sort of water thieves. They are not the problem.

Conflating dirt farmers in Africa and industrial farms in developed countries is totally wrong. No, I don't think industrial farms should be able to overuse water resources that belong to everyone.
I grew up with a basement (in MD) and have one now (in MA). Basements seem so incredibly practical and useful that if I could have one, I’d choose one for sure.
Swift concurrency does a similar thing. For the older dispatch blocks, Xcode injects a library that records backtraces over thread hops.
Looking for market research on customer trends in AI art
Hey, I'm looking for customer behavior trends in the AI Art market, e.g., image generators like DALLE-3, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

For example, are customers doing AI art for fun or for work?

Where can I find these studies?
There's no postulation - the insurance companies have the data. EVs are simply more to repair for similar damage to ICE vehicles. That's why many are seeing their insurance rates soar. Trust me, the people getting those bills aren't postulating about the higher costs!

Part of the story is EVs are getting into more accidents. I've seen an interesting theory as to why that is: they simply accelerate faster. Whether that increase in acceleration is causing accidents or causing people to get exhilarated with the new-found power and causing them to drive more recklessly is anybody's guess. Another interesting theory I've seen on that front is the earlier generations of Teslas were so expensive that only the well-off, and therefore tend to be older and more responsible, drivers could afford them. Now younger drivers are able to afford them and their driving habits aren't the same as their older counterparts and you're putting extremely capable muscle car capabilities into their hands that they've never had before. Many young guys get high on that kind of power and cause accidents.

It'll be interesting to see how this all pans out.
I have never seen any of these. What kind of things you need to trigger into your profile or shadow profile to get drug dealers on your feed?
Yeah I was going to say something similar, but you put it more succinctly.

It seems the message is really about efficiency and sustainability, not necessarily about low tech. Also, framing it as being about low tech sort of helps things but also hurts things.

For example, I was really interested to read the article about bicycles, and think they make a set of excellent points, points that don't seem to get enough attention in the cycling community. But my guess is the cycling community (to the extent there even is one cycling community), often (although not always) focused on the latest and greatest tech, would respond more to a bike being marketed as ultra-durable or upgradeable and efficient than being "low tech".
Live works fine through Wine, nowadays. If I'm not mistaken, the Ableton installer works fine too - you just download the Windows copy and it installs it like-native. Very odd stuff, but it works fine from what I remember (I use Bitwig now).

CoreAudio was definitely the better choice when Linux only had JACK, ALSA and PulseAudio, but now that PipeWire exists it's very close to a CoreAudio-esque experience. You can record out of other apps, route processed audio into a voice chat, or manage the world's largest DAC without issue.
I like your comment, it provoked some catch-up reading, so forgive me pecking a bit at what you wrote.

The visualization is pretty limited, and was probably just a fun way for the astrophys student to use his choice of tools. (Which we should encourage! His work is great!)

I am also not the only person to think the visualization would be useful when teaching early astro or astrophys undergrads. For example, <https://twitter.com/BenShappee/status/1769066245339402612>. (BTW, Shappee was in ASAS-SN from the start. ASAS-SN is awesome, I promote them whenever I can squeeze them in: <https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/asassn/index.shtml>).

Digging deeply into the consequences of this example of obviously physically improbable initial conditions could be somewhere between entertaining and enlightening, but would quickly go over the head of early astro students first encountering the virial theorem and negative heat capacity. "Getting the physics right" would be a significant research project. You'd also generally have to do without animations, unless you are very patient and have a big compute time budget (see the acknowledgments section of the MNRAS paper below, and my final paragraph).

Motivated by the previous paragraph's themes I found a recent (2022) MNRAS open access paper which among other things has a good overview of the (recent) state of the art in modelling star clusters, some good teaching material in section 2, and in section 3 we see their software packages. I'd suggest you begin with the summary in section 6.1.

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/516/3/3266/6668807

In principle simulating the Spongebob cluster could produce information in the top two graphs of figure 7, and a 2d version of one or two of the graphs in figure 6. The additional information in those figures is certainly interesting, but nowhere near as pretty as the Spongebob animation. And I'm not sure what extracting similar figures for the Spongebob simulation would be useful for.

Conversely, the Spongebob simulation could not generate figure 9, and that figure is especially interesting to me (q.v. §4.2 & final sentence in §3.2).

And finally, "The movies of the full simulations, from which Fig. 6 was produced, will be made available upon reasonable request as well and will be uploaded publicly in the future". Not sure the upload ever happened, although I didn't really search much (e.g. it's not linked at the arxiv <https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04470> or in DDG media searches on title or a few of the authors).
Apple's New CarPlay Becomes Last Hope to Crack the Auto Industry
That's irrelevant if the the resource usage is already far beyond what is sustainable. If you take on a lot of debt that you can't pay back every single year, claiming that you're going to stop taking on new debt is not the win you think it is.

In addition, resource usage grows when peoples lifes improves. So we don't need to have more people, we can just give more people basic rights and have economies like India grow. Their consumption of luxuries like meat is constantly rising, because more people can afford it.

An extreme example (from memory) is Ghana. One american uses as much CO2e as 200-ish Ghanans. Imagine a miracle happens, and we stop with the neocolonialism. Suddenly, Ghanans can afford the basics, and they use twice as much CO2e pP.
I disagree with the proposition that a person should be mis-citing irrelevant cases. My position that private companies can make editorial decisions to craft a coherent speech product in the commercial marketplace is well-staked.
The fallback should be fixed in extension version 1.9.0.2.
Show HN: How to pre-validate stock trades with objective-driven AI
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Let it ride!!
Maybe so but I also test things in a variety of browsers and devices frequently to try and avoid the problems described in the article.
The question was about the reverse mapping.
I think you're misunderstanding OP's objection. It's not simply a matter of going back and forth with the LLM until eventually (infinite monkeys on typewriters style) it gets the same binary as before: Even if you got the exact same source code as the original there's still no automated way to tell that you're done because the bits you get back out of the recompile step will almost certainly not be the same, even if your decompiled source were identical in every way. They might even vary quite substantially depending on a lot of different environmental factors.

Reproducible builds are hard to pull off cooperatively, when you control the pipeline that built the original binary and can work to eliminate all sources of variation. It's simply not going to happen in a decompiler like this.
It's not acceptable that's why it's news.

As to why it's advantages, lead is really cheap and really effective. In material science there are 2 groups, those making amazing new materials, and those trying to match them without using lead or cadmium
Reactive or Coroutines: Between a rock and a hard place?
Even ignoring all sources of irreproducibility, there does not exist a bijection between source and binary artifact irrespective of tool chain. Two different toolchains could compile the same source to different binaries or different sources to the same binary. And you absolutely shouldn't be ignoring sources of irreproducibility in this context, since they'll cause even the same toolchain to keep producing different binaries given the same source.
I don't know if it's mentioned in the article, but is living in these particularly noisy in rain/wind? How is sound transmission in general within them?
I love this subthread; I've tried to explain this for years and I've concluded it's simply impossible to convey to someone who never experienced it. It's sad, and really frustrating, to just hear the same clueless comments and memes repeated. So I'm glad to see there are still people around who know what it was like to work with a truly expressive language.

About 15 years ago I was put on a Java project that ran for a year with half a dozen developers toiling away (along with an outsourced team that management eventually added to write unit tests). I spent half that time fighting with Eclipse and the other half divided between tearing my hair out trying to wade through the AbstractSpringFactoryInterfaceAbstractFrameworkInjectorAbstractionBuilder nightmare, being lectured at by people who learned everything they know about computers from in-flight magazines that this is the way professional software development is done, waiting for the one person who could actually build the application (which he did partly by unzipping the jar files and manually tweaking their contents), and actually coding.

To my complete lack of surprise, the project never achieved a working milestone and was cancelled. What did surprise me was that a coworker who was sympathetic to my grumbling persuaded the CTO who was trying to rescue the project to let me try it my way. On my own (using Perl and PostgreSQL), in a couple of weeks, I had a fully working prototype. We got the green light to proceed and built the company's flagship product on that stack. It was not my brilliant engineering as much as Perl's extraordinary ability to connect mind and machine (coupled of course with my brilliant engineering) that made it possible. I owe Larry Wall for a huge career boost.
> “A lot of the cost has been masked: for a while paid-in-part by VC-style below-cost funding hoping to for winner-take-all success…”

Thank you for reminding me about the browser wars 25 years ago. People were scratching their heads at the time about how internet companies like Yahoo and Google were making money, despite not having clear income streams. In the end, what? Advertising and our data.

I’ve been working in the food service industry for the past 15 years. Back in the day I was scratching my head at the rise of delivery apps, mostly wondering how a business can be making money with 20-25% of the sale price as cost to participate. Now, we see it’s volume and low income delivery.