skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a lot of things compiling with web assembly, like the ODE solvers. See https://tshort.github.io/WebAssemblyCompiler.jl/stable/examp...
Vinyl's dynamic range is way inferior to CD's one, that makes it a natural compressor. Most like vinyl sound because it's compressed as well, albeit not awfully bad like modern digital productions.
Many vinyl records made in the 90s were mastered digitally before printing, and audiophiles swear they hear the same magic sound although what they listen to comes from 100% digital material.

> it seems much more "present"

That could be due to some low frequencies that vinyl can't reproduce and are reduced to avoid distortion. Also vinyl's poor crosstalk figures could play a role here.
this is the most entertaining article i have read on the internet in some time.

thank you for sharing!
Read the UN report on the Attention Economy.

It covers the problems in a way social media companies don't even talk about. Cause they don't like telling influencers and content creators whatever influence they think they have is extremely diluted thanks to the info tsunami these platforms generate.

So the Number 1 prob is not how to keep paying content creators. The real prob is there is more content than there are eyeballs to consume it all. Estimates are like only 0.5% of all the content generated is actually consumed by humans. Its become that easy to flood the networks with content. Even before AI enters the chat. When Supply is greater than Demand what happens to value of content and IP? It tends to 0.

So social media = information explosion.

When you pull everyone into one room and allow everyone to speak simultaneously (like an ever growing music orchestra with no conducter) noise explodes. The more people in the room the louder, more repetitive and ridiculous they have to act to get noticed by anyone. Beyond a particular Group size it turns into a pure sewage factory doesn't matter what the algos are ranking.

So new architectures and ideas are needed to solve the information explosion problem.
it also may have something to do with why CPUID is strongly serializing? that always really confused me..its not like, the CPU type is going to race with a load or a store
Those are user controls, to allow the user on one end to decide what to put into the container, and there are others to allow the user at the other side to decide what to take out of the container, not limits of the container.

The comment I'm replying to suggested that since one use case results in metadata that is meaningless or mis-matched between sender and receiver, the format itself should not even have the ability to record that metadata.
you mean like the "science" and "experts" paid off by the sugar industry to promote sugar for 50 years while demonizing fat?
> Universal healthcare systems remove this profit motive and market failure.

How does universal healthcare system remove profit motive? Are doctors going to stop seeking profit? Maybe if the government knows exactly how much to pay for a service such that there is no profit, but of course information is decentralized and central planning and price controls fails basically every time it has been tried. Plus profit serves a purpose. If I'm a doctor providing a service and there is more demand than I can handle, naturally I raise my prices, signaling to others that there is profit to be made by providing that service.

> Everyone contributes, and everyone is covered, regardless of pre-existing conditions

Is covered for what and at what price? Presumably you want to reduce overall costs, so total reimbursements will be less. So naturally with a lower price you'll have fewer providers willing to provide that service, which means there will necessarily be a shortage. And now you have to worry about rationing
I was watching Blu-rays for awhile (mostly borrowing them from a nearby public library branch, and also occasionally buying a boxed set of a good series I wanted to watch), and had a few problems:

1. The Blu-ray software/data design itself is a monstrosity, seemingly designed for hostility towards users, and otherwise indifferent to user experience and reliability. (DVD wasn't too bad by comparison, with the only offenses being DRM and the obnoxious unskippables mainly used for threatening police-state messages at the start of your entertainment.)

2. Even with a better recent Sony Blu-ray player, I frequently had problems playing, which slams the brakes on whatever entertainment you were having, and turns it into a work task or frustration. I guess causes probably mostly from library disc wear, but also a few discs that just wouldn't play due to to what appeared to be software problems.

3. Modern surveillance capitalism behavior by devices. Virtually all companies, and some non-companies, will spy on you and then sell/give the data to sketchy other parties, with how normalized this has gotten. Just finding a modern player console that was airgappable but should work with all/most discs was difficult, and it wasn't a great ergonomic solution.

4. Assembling a better media player with Linux (despite being very familiar with Linux tinkering) looked time-consuming, duct-tape-ish, and legally questionable. Out-of-box solutions I tried seemed piracy-oriented, with disc-playing an afterthought. And search hits would overwhelming be SEO pages full of BS-ing sales pitches to sell sketchy VPN services or occasionally trick people into installing malware.

(Streaming, OTOH, has gotten ridiculous, with the services I've tried recently having mostly disposable content, and sometimes user-hostile UI. I canceled Amazon Prime mainly because Prime Video had gotten blatantly user-hostile in such ways that I think Bezos would've picked up that customer's chair in a meeting, and thrown it at people pitching the changes. But Netflix does some anti-user things too.)

More generally, my current mode as a consumer who doesn't like to be violated is to pick up tablescraps of value while minimizing harm. While wistfully keeping an eye out for the elusive collaborations of people who aren't just expending their energy towards extracting money by making the world worse for everyone else.
It's interesting what Nature shows as related papers:

2020: retracted

2023: retracted

2024: (still not retracted)
I think keeping the sell illegal is not helping, it makes it look paradoxical: so what, I can own it but no one can sell it to me? Great.

Second side effect I see is that people which are occasional users (once a week, once a month) will end up having to invest in plants or membership in a club to be able to legally consume it, and that’s obviously driving higher consumption… it’s just a theory but it seems stupid to push occasional users to become regular users.
Fixed-Point Theorem
Cross-sectional data – An easy introduction
Distinguishing Cross Sectional Data Analysis: Key Features and Considerations

1. Understanding Cross Sectional Data:
- Cross sectional data sets consist of a sample of units at a given point in time, comparing differences between respondents.
- It is data obtained from all participants at the same time, ignoring minor timing differences.

2. Cross Sectional Data vs Time Series:
- Cross sectional data is collected from a variety of different sources, while time series data is collected from a single source.
- Cross sectional data and time series data have different purposes and provide different insights.

3. Analysis of Cross Sectional Data:
- Cross sectional data analysis helps understand the behavior and preferences of a population of objects or people.
- It can identify patterns and trends to make informed decisions especially in business or marketing settings.

4. Cross Sectional Data Example: Titanic Kaggle Dataset:
- The example includes variables like PassengerID, Survived, Pclass, Name, Sex, Age, and more.
- The fact that the ordering of the data does not matter for analysis is a key feature of cross sectional data examples.

5. Random Sampling in Cross Sectional Data:
- Cross sectional data is often assumed to be obtained by random sampling from the underlying population.
- However, there are cases where random sampling may not be appropriate, leading to violations that affect the analysis.
If our 'fundamental' physics is actually emergent from a lower layer then we might expect that our laws are actually leaky abstractions. Very occasionally things at the lower level will happen in an unusual way that causes the laws of physics to be broken at our level.
The hold that the origin of this subthread eliminated? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39802214
How’s that different from photoshopping images?
That study says that you can’t tell whether 12 or 24 month cleanings are better.

It does not compare cleaning with never cleaning. It is not evidence that you should never do a dental clean. It does not refute the idea that cleanings are beneficial.
Agreed! Statistics can be very bizarre!
does the iOS Jellyfin client have Chromecast support yet? That is my main roadblock to switching to jellyfin for everything.
If fusion powers the grid in my lifetime I shall, with relish (literally, or at least a chutney or other pickle) eat my hat.

And I’ll enjoy it. Especially as I watch both capitalism and the world order implode right alongside.
This is not what the judge says. It says that it was the Virgin Islands the ones that did not provide information: https://twitter.com/davidmaeztu/status/1771583859672441174
Wait, how do they legally buy it now?
Certainly not from being air passengers at all. Perhaps some seating/bunking options could be unavailable though?
surely most of those incidents are fiction?
The judge says it was because the Virgin Islands did not provide information: https://twitter.com/davidmaeztu/status/1771583859672441174 (Spanish)
It is interesting that the MIPI, PCIe and Serdes columns in the table of device models is "-" for all of them. That is the case for the other Titanium family and nothing is mentioned about Serdes in the datasheet, only in the text description and table for the whole family.
Interesting video. Thanks.

During the video the presenter mentions the loops need to be a similar diameter. If the loops were arranged in a drum formation rather than a disc you could have as many loops as you want.

Also, I wonder if this wirtz pump could be powered by tiny motors also created as part of the 3d print. This guy does something similar with a pcb: https://youtu.be/1taXx1L8YEs

Perhaps tiny magnets could be 3d printed as just iron beads that are then magnetised afterward?
we sort of know the conditions of early earth don’t we? if you can recreate possible pathways to the origin of life based upon those conditions that seems like infinitely better possible explanation something totally supernatural

i get what you’re saying with the limits of science but this seems like a bad example
Except that even in dead space when you zoom in you find the borders of all cells, and each of those borders is just as alive as any other live cell. I kept feel like, if I zoomed in to either an always-on cell or an always-off cell I would enter into something noticeably more static, but actually each one was just as alive as any of the universe around it.
Oh, I think Private Equity is quite in control of a large portion of the macro economy, much to the horror of American workers.
Yeah, loudness war is a plague, but vinyl and CD differences have nothing to do with it; it's just incompetent producers and sound engineers aiming at making their work more loud to attract listeners.

I miss vinyl records for only one thing: big sleeves and their art.
This approach works on merging finetunes.

Base model was still trained in usual, non distributed way (by far the most cost).

Fine tunes were also trained in usual, non distributed way.

Proposed approach tries out several combinations to pick one that seems to perform better (where combination means ie. adhoc per layer operation).

Merging is not distributed as well.

There is not much distribution happening overall beyond the fact that fine tunes were trained independently.

Taking weight averages, weighted weight averages, trimming low diffs, doing arithmetic (subtracting base model from fine tune) etc. are all ad hoc trials throwing something on the wall and seeing what sticks the most. None of those work well.

For distributed training to work we'd have to have better algebra around this multidimentional/multilayer/multiconnectivity state. We don't have it and it has many problems, ie. evaluation is way too expensive. But solving "no need to rerun through whole training/benchmark corpus to see if my tiny change is better or not" problem will mean we solved problem of extracting essence of intelligence. If we do that, then hyper-efficient data centers will still keep beating out any distributed approach and it's all largely irrelevant because that's pure AGI already.
It depends what these people are using a computer for. If they're writing software, then a shell, a text editor, and a language toolchain are what they'll be using. Bash/zsh/fish, emacs/vi(m)/whatever, gcc/llvm/cargo/babel/etc. These are all tools with UX. But these tools--the ones programmers use--don't change willy-nilly. Doing so would hurt us, so we don't do it. Why do we treat "non-technical" users differently?
Would taxation of intellectual property reduce rent-seeking behavior? Any idea how it might be implemented?
Why Do Men Dominate Chess?
You grow. 3 plants max.

Or you become member of a club that grows for you and costs 25€/month…
Just lately there was an article about one of the last 50 surviving video stores in Germany that has recently seen an uptick in customers. They have a huge collection of DVDs. They get a lot more requests for DVDs rather than Blu-rays.

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/dvd-vs-streaming-eine-d...
Millions of Americans may soon lose home internet access if lawmakers don't act
Can I connect to the environment over https? I'm looking for a good solution to use nvim from the browser on my iPad on the go.
Fraud /frôd/ noun. wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.

I would say that lying about your life story to write a successful book & then get a movie made about that book by the world’s most preeminent directory would count as a wrongful deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. But that’s just me.

His whole Wikipedia page is a list of constant fraud and larceny. Some persecuted, probably most not. As for how much damage he’s causing these days I don’t know, but he clearly has in the past.

Some examples:

> in March 1965, Abagnale identified himself as a Scarsdale, New York, police officer and entered the apartment of a Mount Vernon, New York, resident claiming that he was investigating her teenaged daughter.

> After being released into the custody of his father to face the stolen-car charges, 17-year-old Abagnale decided to impersonate a pilot.
> The city council minutes would likely be published by the city.

Have you tried to look for yours, in a smaller city?

> Government economics statistics are also published openly

Certain statistics are published openly. However, the most useful derived statistics are a result of combining these with other data sets.

> And as for a news investigation, there's almost no question you could ask in isolation that would be better answered by reading a full article, I think

I'm not arguing excerpt vs full article. I'm arguing as to whether or not the full article exists in the first place.

There is a huge amount of critical, socially-useful information that requires effort, money, or skill to generate.

Previously, journalists created it.

Now, nobody does.

> Which is to say, Google is doing nontrivial work to accomplish a specific outcome...

What would Google be able to provide without content provided by underlying sources?

Nothing.

Google doesn't have reporters or posters. They provide platforms, then take a cut (or all) of the revenue generated by content on those platforms.

That's worth something, but it certainly doesn't deserve the 100% they're getting now.

> Besides, how do you know the content Google is pulling from...

Google knows. And if it doesn't, then it's unattributable content, which should open them up to legal liability.

ML/LLMs shouldn't be GPU-powered copyright washing machines: feed copyrighted content in, get uncopyrighted results out.

> A passthrough system creates perverse financial incentives to answer questions that someone might someday have, without caring about whether the answers to those questions are genuine and ethically produced. And frankly, that's far worse than what we have now.

You've literally described Google's current business model, and what they've turned the web into.
I'm skeptical of that claim but I'll take your word for it.

It would very much be an unusual exception, in that era and now. First flights rarely even raise the landing gear, let alone push the performance envelope. Flight testing programs are designed to be incremental to manage risk as well as learn things in a deliberate vs yolo way.

Rockets are really where you see the opposite being the norm, because it's hard to do a rocket launch half way.
No. The centre of each meta-cell is full or empty to display the state of the cell. You could remove all that and it would still be simulating the Game of Life, it would just be hard to tell what was happening without zooming in.
ctrl-c was one of the first things I had to teach him :-)

He has a Pi with a 7" touchscreen and keyboard, with xterm and a notes app. Compared to other technology it seems to be fairly self-limiting.
I'd say it's certainly in the spirit of a quine. I feel like Hofstadter would love this if he isn't already aware of it.
His BP could be worse with salt.
> You realize that ads are pay per view.

Fun quip but not a sophisticated view on business models.

The big categories include: AVOD (advertising subscription on demand) is a different business model from SVOD (subscription video on demand) is different from TVOD (transactional video on demand).

There are 3 kinds of TVOD:

* Pay-Per-View (charge viewer every time you watch)

* Download-to-Rent (access title for limited time)

* Electronic-sell-through (one time fee for unlimited access)

Some business start with one simple model but embrace some hybrid for different content types or to reach a more diverse customer base.
Mastering engineer here. I supply less compressed versions for vinyl and would not sign under it if it was the same as CD/streaming. What labels do after the fact is another story...
I believe we would agree, yes.

My hope is to convey more texture here, that programming is more than just one thing. EG: "Today I was mostly debugging". That could have its own measures. I think in large part the measures of programming productivity are often too reductive, the measure is incomplete or tries to measure "programming" rather than its _many_ distinct sub-activities.
Sure but storing blu-rays is silly, just rip them to disk. Use a lossless codec if you're picky.
Regular economy is not even designed for normal sized people. :-/
People are already taking tranquilizers voluntarily. Have you never met an ambien zombie?

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/planes-sleeping-pills...
I mean, sure, if you have a sufficiently bonkers view on performance metrics, then, say, index finger diameter could be a performance metric, but in terms of things which could actually be seen by any reasonable person as a KPI, lines of code ain’t one.
Flick the scroll wheel a few times and it will zoom out continuously. Amazing!

I want this (continuously zooming out) as a screensaver 20+ years ago (or today, I can probably figure out how to enable screensavers on a modern Linux system). It would be amazing.
You can fit that many, maybe, but most of them won’t be able to effectively harness the wind as the other sails will interfere.
Both manufacturing corporations and mutual investment funds are ways to aggregate smaller amounts of capital into big enough sums that large factories or investments are possible. I don't think it's necessary to rely on multi-billionaires for investment in wild ideas.
> By your definition of "communism", it has never existed

Yeah in communist theory, “communism" as a thing is an ultimate goal (and in many schools of communist thought, a relatively distant one).

> and never will exist, since any country that tries it will get stuck at what you are calling "state capitalism".

No, only the Leninist-derived approaches that try to bypass private capitalism get stuck in state capitalism (or migrate from that toward a system that looks a lot like fascist corporatism, as in the PRC.)

The displacement of the system Marx originally described as “capitalism” with what has been described as “mixed economies” is closer to what you might expect if Marxist (not Leninist) Communists tried to implement their program of moving toward communism in the conditions Marx saw as necessary to begin that transition.

> While I agree that "state capitalism" is a fair description of the current system in the US and other Western countries

It is not, it is a description Lenin made of a deliberate choice made by the USSR as a transitional step, which doesn't resemble anything done in the US very closely.

> I don't think it's a fair description of the Soviet Union, or of Pol Pot's Cambodia, or of the People's Republic of China under Mao (to give some examples of states that are usually called "communist").

All of those involved the state acting in the role of a major or sole legally tolerated capitalist. It's possible to imagine, I suppose, central planning in a decentralized, cooperative, voluntary way without that feature, but no actual regime has done that (though subsidies and incentives that fall short of coercive directive commands in mixed economies are, at least, something vaguely in that direction compared both to the absence of central planning in pure [private] capitalism and the authoritarian central planning in “communist” state capitalism.)
It can be bad or it can be _worse_
It it "malingering" when someone disabled to the degree that they cannot sustain themselves live longer than expected?

The article is light on details - and misses a link to the primary source discussed - but emphasizes the degree to which the UK diverges from other countries studied in terms of labor-market participation post-COVID.

Missing is any discussion of how the UK's life (and quality-of-life) expectations and rates of disease and disability differ from other countries. The UK has notably high rates of obesity, poor diet, and low rates of physical activity compared to other (non-US) G7 nations. It's also got a National Health System that delivers above-average access to care and pretty good outcomes (but which is struggling with labor and demographic pressures.)

Forget malingering, I want to know if the problem here is just that people in the UK are less healthy than in other countries studied, and to what degree this may be offset with better access to care that inflates the share of the population out of the labor market. That might be a prelude to a more honest conversation about society's priorities than a "malingering" framing that blames the disabled.
Disagree. It's a lot more involved than that.
Americans are more than capable of changing these things through fiscal policies.

Or just impose regulations: an example of what we do in Denmark is to make house owners liable for having somebody to live in the unit (bopælspligt).

Would you seriously want the FED to solve the housing crisis instead of democratic appointed representatives?

that is absolutely absurd.

edit:

Anyways, to keep focus median house prices has seen a major correction after interest rates went up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

combine this with higher salaries, and you can infer yourself that you get more house for you money now.