skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of feeding a troll... no, that is not the proposal. The proposal is to make it economically unviable to do socially suboptimal things with common resources.

The underlying principle is that land - including natural resources as a whole - is finite. It's a common good owned by humanity as a whole; or, failing that, at least in common by the nation-state in which it falls. Allowing individuals to hoard those finite resources is bad for society.

Under a land-value tax system, individuals can do whatever they want, but they're appropriately charged for their negative externalities. Just like we should have a carbon tax to disincentivize people using the shared natural resource of carbon fixing without a good reason, we should have a land tax to disincentivize people using the shared natural resource of flat, arable land without a good reason. You can choose to pay your taxes and do nothing with the land, if you have another source of wealth to make up for it - effectively, you need to express to society just how much it's worth it to you to sit on that land doing nothing, and the way that we express the strength of our convictions in a market economy is with dollars.

> There's also something very objectionable about attempting to use taxation as a tool to manipulate behavior and engineer outcomes.

The goal here is not to manipulate behavior for its own sake, it's to use the power of the state to correct for a mispricing in the market. Market forces alone are incapable of correctly pricing deals involving common goods, because most of the people who are implicitly participating in the transaction (i.e., the rest of humanity that is now deprived of that land/air/resource) are not compensated. It's a problem of negative externalities, for which a Pigouvian tax [1] is a perfectly appropriate remedy. In a democracy, the state is how the public as a whole imposes its collective will; having the state "bid" on behalf of the public interest is the most capitalist solution possible to the externalities problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigouvian_tax
I agree in especially the first one. It was quite a challenge from the original content as the bitrate is quite low still, and in that particular case it was quite severely compressed. I had to dig quite deep to get the headroom back.

The last one was my first attempt.

I think the middle one is okay considering. By the time I got to that I had figured out how to get Suno to create multiple takes with much more open mixes, which left me a lot more latitude in the studio.

I expect I will get better at it, and I don't doubt the compression artifacts and the rest will improve.

To me at least, it is quite impressive where we are at. A ways to go, but very promising.
> the underlying protocol does not matter that much

Then why is long polling the "clear winner?"
You sent me on a Youtube deep dive! I was not sure if you were joking and referring to the cartoon, but yes they do appear to talk to people!
It can be actually comfortable.
Basically, Google decides what’s real and what’s not. Cool.
Yeah, but without resident keys you’ll have to carry a file containing the key handle around with you from computer to computer (where you want to use the Yubikey-resident SSH key). And if you ever lose the file, your key is lost too!

This is because SSH doesn’t have a centralized RP model that’s kind of implied in FIDO and WebAuthN for non-resident keys.
But maybe you should. Once the software stack is ready for it there'll be more people since the performance gains are so massive.
I love your ramp analogy
Because it involved scaling in chip area needed for FP8. AI community realized that FP8 training is possible few years back so the transistors given for FP8 was scaled. Overall I think transistors grow just by ~50% per generation so most of the gains comes from removing FP32/FP64 share which were dominant 10 years back, but there is only some point it could go to.
If you change a core lib CI will build and test relevant code, which will be a lot, but it will scale over a massive CI plant.

Still best to run unit tests locally first of course!
If you prompt for "metal", it seems to always end up with hair metal. Prompts for "death metal" do sound somewhat harsher, though.

And "jazz" songs are generated with rather-unjazzy song forms (No AABA to be found). Asking for "hardbop", you still get generic hold music jazz.
It’s not that it’s a hard job, the labor cost comes in at around $100-$150/hr as you said. It takes about an hour to do.. But why am I going to do this when my time could be better spent elsewhere?

Saving $1000 tiling your shower? That makes sense. Saving $100 and potentially maim yourself in the process? Hello garage door repairman.
meaning elderly people falling due to mobility/balance issues vs some guy falling off his roof
No, this is filler generated by and for people that never appreciated music in the first place.
The supersonic plane that was faster than Concorde
With all those you could just use C# with much better outcome…
Full paper here[1].

Hadn't heard of diamond CMOS technology before so did some brief digging. Here's[2] the preprint of the article they refer to for the P-type diamond FET. It uses boron nitride as the insulating layer and graphite for the gate.

I also found this[3] paper discussing a P-type diamond FET using aluminium oxide as the insulating layer, which is also used for the N-type diamond FET.

Some excerpts from the full article:

For high-frequency operation, compared with H-terminated transistors with a cutoff frequency of over GHz, the series resistance is still large for n-type diamond MOSFETs, which is over 10^9 Ω mm^−1 at room temperature. Thus, the operating speed was limited to the kilohertz range.

By optimizing the device geometries, such as the reduction of the drift region space and gate length, the operation frequency can exceed the megahertz range [...]

So seems it's still some significant hurdles to overcome to make it widely useful, but should be good enough for certain niche applications already.

[1]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202306...

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05982

[3]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26941112.2022.2...
Amazon Studios in talks to acquire Duolingo-rival THINKIN
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The ability of LoRaWAN to transmit through almost anything is black magic. It works reliably down to 20 dB below the noise floor at maximum spreading factor. You can still get sporadic operation at -30 dB SNR.

We once tested putting sensors 8ft under ground, down a manhole for the water mains. They kept on working through dirt, steel and concrete even with the manhole cover in place.
I also slept on my floor for about 5 months - until I saw a huge cockroach (common in Sydney) run across my floor and hide under my pillow.

I agree, it felt great.

When I moved into my new, almost cockroach free apartment, I built my own shikibuton by taking a futon cover and stuffing it with a comforter and a thin foam mattress topper. The whole thing is about 7cm (2.7 inches) thick. I roll it up each morning and have been sleeping like this for the last 8 months.

I also use only 1 thin pillow, and for a while was placing it lengthwise along my spine, which is apparently good for fixing the hunchback posture of modern humans.
CUDA is a big reason for their moat. And that's not something you can build in a couple of years no matter how money you can throw on it.

Without CUDA you have a chip that runs on premise without anyone having a clue how good that is which is supposedly what Google does. Your only offering is cloud services. As big as this is, corporations would want to build their own datacenters.
Lots of art techniques-- e.g. a basic set of shapes to help draw heads with correct proportions-- are formulaic. That doesn't make them any less artistic than someone just throwing down marks based on their gut instinct. Music itself has been boiled down to a mathematical and artistic scaffolding that people have worked within for centuries. There are also a whole hell of a lot of creative decisions in between the sheet music and the finished product: instrumentation and all of the subtleties that go into it, recording itself is SO deep and heavily affects the outcome, everything that goes into post production to add all of the color and texture that makes it great... even within recording it, do you know how many hours people spend pouring over really great studio takes because they all land a little differently? This just takes what other people have already done and mushes it together. Is it interesting? Interesting as hell. Could it be useful to people making art? I'm a commercial artist in a different realm and generative AI has been very useful in generating specific references or doing some sort of concept test instead of sketching it out. It could be used as a tool to help make art, but is it making art? Not by any definition I think makes sense. The idea that this is just an incremental step in current commercial music production is only possible if you don't actually know what it takes to make it. The very same thing is true of video games, TV& movies, graphic design, etc. etc. etc.
granted, at this point we plug the computer into the GPU, so it might not make a difference...
There's another case for pessimism as well: cost. It's possible that many AI applications aren't worth the money required for the extra compute. AI-enhanced search comes to mind here: how is Microsoft going to monetize users of Copilot in Bing to justify the extra cost? Right now a lot of this stuff is heavily subsidized by VCs or the MSFTs of the world, but when it comes time to make a profit we'll see what actually sticks around.
AI is obviously the future, though current iterations will probably die at some point. but the dot com bubble ended up with the internet being more pervasive than may have even been thought of at the time, but regardless even the likes of Amazon's stock went bust before it recollected itself. Not a perfect comparison given Nvidia has really good revenue growth, but the point still stands.
It's spelled snasmug

Edit: no, you are right! Seems I misremembered dank pods, sorry.
While I have yet to work with a large Django monorepo, it's the architecture I'm leaning towards for a product I'm building. Are you guys using packages like nplusone [0] to help with some of this ORM complexity? As I mentioned, I am headed in this direction so I'm curious to hear your insight. I'd also love to pick your brain on any other pitfalls of this approach.

[0] https://github.com/jmcarp/nplusone
That happens with art in general.

British museums are full of ancient Greek and Egyptian statues, even a New York museum will not return mammoth bones to it's Canadian owner and excavator, thousands of them.

If you are not ok with everyone stealing art and ideas from everybody, everywhere all over the world, all the time, you will get used to it at some point.
Nice read, she is such a clear thinker.
I only use WhatsApp to communicate with my friend in a foreign country. Besides that, I use Messenger only because my friend groups are on there. I use Slack for work. Honestly I wish my friends would switch to Signal and I’d remove Messenger.

Meetups for me are usually done through Discord.
My guess is that old Reddit will disappear in short order once the IPO is done. I have no inside knowledge, just a feeling. Once there are external shareholders it will be hard to justify maintaining both versions of the site.

Hope I’m wrong.
Interesting. Seems like it could be useful for custom ethernet protocols, eg. USB or HDMI over ethernet
I did some testing with using SSE to send push notifications to my phone if someone set off a sensor, worked kinda good, but the browser had to be running in the background in order for it to work. After that i implemented a chat for a meme app that I've created to share memes with my friends, using websocket (Open Swoole) it is working nicely also. Never tested to see how many clients it can handle at once, but i guess the bottleneck would be in my server, not the software.

Open Swoole is very easy to setup and there's lots of tutorials online. Got my ass kicked a little bit trying to making my websocket secure (wss) but I'm the end it worked fine.
This looks amazing thanks for the recommendation! Much better than the LaTeX diagram thread I was starting to pull on.
Just to keep it Ars specific; Nvidia gtc today, revealing Blackwell and Ars doesn't cover. We do however have a new luxury car review and some Elon-baiting.
The second checkbox in Firefox's Settings panel is "Always check if Firefox is your default browser" and I have every reason to believe that Firefox respects that setting. Do the other browsers not have a similar setting? I don't have Chrome so cannot check but Edge doesn't seem to have this at the top of their settings and perhaps nowhere in their settings. Consider a browser that's not so hostile :D
"Platform company" means multi-chip in this case?

Seems logical since it's becoming impractical to cram so many transistors on a single die.
Formal logic / formal proofs. We have good systems for verifying that.

The proper flow is that you use LLM to generate decompilation steps, along with potential proofs, and then use old algorithms from 1970s that verify that the steps are correct.

Source: I built a decompiler for EVM, arguably the best one on the market, and to some extent it was how it worked (and others comparable in class).

The issue was always the exploration of possible transformations of code, once you manage to find the right ones (which LLMs can propose way better than old hard coded rules and SMT solvers), it's simple to verify that the transformations are correct.
TBH I always look at the worst case scenario. I was worried it meant it need 3 images inputted as a single image at direct steps of the process, so requiring different angles. I wasn't sure, but thought best to check. I feel like it would have been clearer to have said something like " generates a 3d models from a single image". ( not exact wording but you catch my drift ). Sorry I am over analysing but all feedback is good right?
mosquitos are hard, but with ticks there are a few different vectors of attack.

My understanding is that ticks first need to bite a rodent that is infected to spread Lyme, so maybe gene editing on rodents?
What's the testing situation like? Also, is this a body shop / consulting company?
Begone all you bitter luddites. I just generated the Taco Truck Shuffle about a taco truck's dancing monkey mascot, and the world is a happier place now.

https://app.suno.ai/song/67dac18c-973c-44b1-be89-96260a0ada9...
> Apple's crowd is more tolerant to BS too.

> That's the amount of copium one has to inhale when stuck to the whims of a single vendor.

These are such weird things to add here. Your comment was a perfectly good criticism of the way Apple markets their M1/2/3 CPUs, but then you added that extra nonsense and just came off as someone who spent way too much time in a PC gaming culture war on Reddit that the rest of us don't really care about.
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Squirrels flash their tails for a lot or reasons, including trying to attract mates, as well as distract predators, but they also use their tails to communicate with each other. Tree squirrels typically can communicate with each other via a kind of semaphore sent by flashing their tails and most of their tail flashing is squirrels silently communicating with each other.
Ai.nvidia.com catalog of AI algorithms as Cloud APIs and reference microservices
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Except you really can't, for the same reason in both cases. Asbestos is only useful if you can use it everywhere, that's it's whole value - cheap and available.

But it's literally worse then radiation because it's inert: you can't detect it easily, the dust persists and goes everywhere, and there's no way to reliably know without expensive testing if it's in a place. And once contaminated, you probably can't get rid of all of it.

My backgarden is filled with the products of people demolishing asbestos containing fiber-cement board from some time in the 70s where evidently they just tossed it all into a section of retained wall and buried it (guess how I found out? Because I had to dig up the sewer pipe, and then discovered the reason the whole area is subsiding because it didn't magically compact itself over time either).
I remember his opening line at NEURIPS 2017, to an audience of grad students and postdocs, "only Nvidia would unveil their most expensive product to an audience who's completely broke"

Then he went into a comedic monologue about GANS. But hey, at least that meant that the CEO was reading the actual conference proceedings...
I was feeling the same way, there is probably some camaraderie that develops in the waffle house staff just around this unique shared language.
It doesn't have to be Chernobyl level which are unlikely. It could just be radioactive waste contamination in ground water or things like that.
While their intentions are good, the solution isn’t. There’s a lot that they have left to the subjectivity of the creators. Especially for what is “clearly unrealistic”.
Does your perception of the song change depending on who the artist is?

What would you think of the piece if the artist was a young girl? A grown Turkish man? Someone who is deaf? A neo-Nazi Holocaust denier? A rich businessman using AI and just looking to make more money? A poor teenager using a computer at their library?

I think most people’s like/dislike/perception of the song would be colored by who made it and how it was made.

You can’t always separate the art from the artist.
Watching that video, it's astonishing to see him recalling that moment and having to pause and search for how to describe it, only to end up with saying "That was his genius". In two sentences Fermi demolished his theory and changed the course of this man's life.
Wilhelm Haller and Photocopier Accounting
Only if implemented naively.

The idea of LVT is to put an economic value (i.e. dollar amount) on the fact that you're preventing people from using land. It's a market correction. If you want to express that some values are actually good beyond what the market is equipped to reward, then you need to correct further. In theory, this means that the government - acting on behalf of the public good, or its citizens, or the future of humanity, or whatever your preferred vision for the social contract is - should offer its own contribution to the cost to be paid. In practice, this means there could be a significant tax credit for meaningful nature preserves, commensurate with the value of that preserve. Taken to its limit, this tax credit could mean a negative tax (i.e. subsidy) that's enough to pay for maintaining the land in its natural state, and oh look we just reinvented public parks.
I've been listening to some Frank Sinatra AI made songs, youtube for the song "Frank Sinatra - where is my mind". It's originally a Pixies song but as as recreation with Frank Sinatra's voice is surprisingly good. I wonder what took to produce that, it seems like there's a lot more artistry than just prompting make a song by artist X as a cover for song Y of artist Z.
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As someone who has used Ubuntu in the past and has now moved onto greener pastures, I appreciate everything Canonical and Ubuntu have done for the Linux community but there are many better options today and Canonical is already far from the company it once used to be.
LLMs are also good at connecting the dots and figuring out patterns in a program. For this case it's ok if they miss even 99% of the times, because you can formally verify which solution is correct, and checking a 100 solutions is orders of magnitude faster than checking millions/billions/trillions of possibilities that a traditional solver needs to check.
I believe that the feeling when tests should be added to asset a certain feature comes only with experience.

You just what logic is not trivial enough and where is makes sense to test it.
Are the people making those comments often in positions to be able to improve things?
But I don’t have a subset of apps that work in x11, and a subset in wayland… nor inconsistent display fractional scaling in MacOS. Wanted to love KDE, but in complex setups, it’s difficult.
I agree, but for those that truly value freedom, I would think that they would also value the freedom of choice.

Car dependent societies don't allow many choices, you are restricted to only choosing a car for transportation.
> If it wasn't worth your time creating it, its not worth my time looking at it.

God, I wish I could beam this sentence directly into the brain of every single person breathlessly excited about using gen AI to be "a creative".
I don't think you should exclude a single voice singing alone from truly human music. There are things that only a single individual can do musically as well as things that only a group can do. But I will say from experience that singing in a group (particularly improvisationally) is one of the best experiences in life and I seek it out as much as possible. Listening to ai generated blues on the other hand...
> It isn't an error, either. It's doing exactly what it's intended to, exactly as it's intended to do it.

If the output is incorrect, that's error. It may not be a bug, but it is still error.
On limitations that hide in your blindspot
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For interoperability with HTTP tooling (eg, curl) it is the clear winner
At which point is something slightly orthogonal - perhaps if it's between 1 degree and 45 degrees off topic, while if it is between 45 degrees and 90 degrees it is considered "fully orthogonal."
You would implement the relation type that maps to your data source.
Animals don't get a vote, but just as the government can forcibly set aside land as parks, the government can subsidize individuals to do so where it would be valuable to the common good.
NVIDIA launches NIMs and a variety of NVIDIA optimized models (plus partner models) for on prem enterprise applications.
We used to have an ecosystem like this. In our case it reflected an entrenched set of divisions between warring teams. In some ways it may have then enhanced those positions and we still bear a few of the scars today.

A lot of the old guard have left the company though and our main product moved from four repos to just one. The threat from the legal team to have enforced OWNERS files — essentially replicating the divisive politics of the old repos but in the monorepo — thankfully withered on the vine. We still audit what goes into each release but it’s no longer part of any active permissions thing. We trust our developers but verify, for legal reasons, that nothing went wrong.

You either want one engineering team to act in unison behind your company’s mission, or you want to live a divisive narrative that you are actually multiple teams “working” together with none of the advantages of living under one roof and all the disadvantages of hard repository boundaries crisscrossing your intellectual property.

So many factors threaten to curdle your team dynamic: multiple offices, multiple floors, work from home hermits, bad management, etc. It’s simply org entropy and it takes much effort to keep the weeds out of the garden. Multiple repositories is one less bullet you can keep out of your feet while fighting all the other battles that threaten to turn your team from 1990s Sun Microsystems into 2010 Sun Microsystems.