skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Amateur cellist)

Instinctively I find this absurd too. I always thought it was funny that, at least at the level of student instruments, the more you spend, the more beaten-up your new instrument looks. Basic ones have an even spray varnish (which I generally quite like). My slightly better* Chinese factory instrument is antiqued to the extent of having a more worn-looking patch where the hand rests when playing in higher positions, as if to suggest decades of performance as a soloist. It's nonsense.

But plainly people do like this and makers do make it. See e.g. the instruments at https://www.myluthier.co/category/violins (I can't afford to shop there, I just picked it because they have pretty preview images) which stand as quite good evidence against any suggestion that "reputable luthiers would never". Yes at some point you just have to make a living, but there's enough skill put into it to suggest there might be something more artistically interesting going on as well. The results are certainly quite personal.

There are practical arguments for antiquing. It's kind of handy when you're playing in an ensemble: from a distance my cello looks basically the same as the others around me in the orchestra even though some of them are a century older and genuinely quite harshly used. And you never have the pain of getting the first obvious scratch or chip in a pristine instrument.

Curiously this doesn't seem to be a very new practice either - I think even 150 years ago, new instruments were being turned out designed to look like much older ones.

* Sounds and plays better, not just cost a bit more. I didn't choose it for the antiquing!
Nothing in the product page explains how you generate the HTML code and/or the image.
definitely culture expectations. Japan is a very conformist society that expects every member to contribute. So someone more or less dropping out is a big deal, for them and their family
API company Kong is launching its open source AI Gateway, an extension of its existing API gateway that allows developers and operations teams to integrate their applications with one or more large language models (LLMs) and access them through a single API. On top of this, Kong is launching several AI-specific features prompt engineering, credential management and more.
Author here. I'm using Svelte, which is great for interactive applications. For the event handling I'm very influenced by what https://mlu-explain.github.io/ does.
The 3d plot is made with Threejs through the Threlte wrapper. One challenge was animating the 20k points in the 3d plot, which is handled by a custom vertex shader.
humans are already becoming more and more depressed. Makes little difference at this point.
I've no idea what you mean. Did you read the article?
TL;DR: They asked Github to take down a repository that acted as a Plex share proxy.

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If I understand it correctly, this software allows you to bypass some Plex sharing permissions by allowing you to re-share other people's libraries.

While this can be seen as DMCA abuse by Plex, I personally think it's partially justified (it probably goes against the TOS), and no "regular" user would need it.

It's not a surprise, since they are constantly at "war" against people who use their software to do illegal business. Since their software is relatively polished and well-supported across multiple platforms, some use it to build Netflix clones with illegal content. The repository referenced by the article is probably a helpful tool for such actors.
A new React component
> the type of an influence you are thinking about, with an evil man twirling his moustache

No I never imagined or implied that.

> some kid in eastern europe watched Kobe Bryant play and got inspired to sign up for a local basketball team

That's just the cultural adoption reproducing itself. No American is influencing i.e. changing the course of events meaningfully in their advantage. Some cultural export that's all.

> People in some countries outside of the US that never had Halloween as a holiday now unofficially observe it

Again, just the same cultural adoption reproducing. At best this represents some incremental exports in intangibles. Pay-per-view games, some costumes from China. Hey now American influence is favoring the Chinese economy.

Yeah there's cultural hegemony. There's a lot of talk and hand wrangling about "soft power" and "influence" but even letting your imagination run the best you could come up were nothing more than some examples of aesthetics choices.
I doubt that a month of so of full work will get someone fully proficient on e.g. the finer details of integer promotions and how they can break things in non-obvious ways (think of situations such as combining signed and unsigned operands of different widths). The fundamental problem is that sane production code written in C will generally deliberately avoid some aspects of the language precisely because they are so footgun-prone, which means that if you learn solely by experience, you may never even become aware of the footgun behind the pattern.
Hi, made an AI art generator and midjourney alternative, also lets you search what others are making.

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Doing a build in public thing so making some tutorials on Youtube for how i made it https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC99WzS0KTNLl2hbx-xXA5lg
Vercel creates confusion around new pricing changes
>there may be so much entertainment, and yet there's nothing on the internet either.

There's plenty on the internet. There may have been more outside, but cultural shifts are decreasing that. So the Internet is becoming surprisingly (and depressively) more competitive.
I'm not sure if it's because of the alchohol, or the pre-selection of type of people that don't drink, by choice or health
https://posit-dev.github.io/great-tables/reference/#export
Hammers aren't a good example because there's already an established market for interoperable nails, but batteries for tools is a more appropriate comparison I think.

They should absolutely get regulated, there is no good reason for Parkside batteries not to be compatible with Bosch tools, or Makita, or Ryobi or whatever else. They all have their slightly different battery interfaces, that don't have technical reasons to be different.

They only provide vendor lock-in, so that people who already have a Ryobi drill will also buy a Ryobi grass mower and a Ryobi trimmer, regardless of their actual individual merits, unless they want to also buy batteries (and chargers!) for each of their pieces of equipment.

This is bad for consumers, bad for competition and bad for the overall market. I hope this gets regulated in the future in the EU, but who knows.
> Finding a process server was the hardest part.

Why? Search brings up lots of them.

I once used a process server service called "Attila the Hun School of Charm".
They are gone, but there's a "Gotcha Process Servers" in San Francisco.
> imagine if McLaren did this

In some sense car manufacturers do do this - their designs are famous for being full of functionally empty retro cues that customers nonetheless go for.
Whilst true, Europeans do have more freedoms around not getting shot. :p

That's the thing about a framework of freedoms. In anarchy, the strong will subjugate the weak, and thus only the strong are free.

Thus if we want to protect your right to not be shot, we need to prohibit someones right to shoot you, and in some societies that extends to your right to bare arms with actual positive outcomes behind it.
Yes and thats not the case for crypto. For crypto you need to choose a cryptocoin, need to understand what a wallet is, best case install a secure wallet from the internet etc.

You don't need to know how visa works as long as you know how to register for a cc and know how to put that card into a device when paying.
The fact that I don't have to worry if the newfangled clipboard manager my grandma was tricked into installing is sending the passwords she is copy&paste-ing to a server in China is wonderful.
this coupled with thought leaders that have the sole purpose to create controversy in the field
> It's not that the Fed thinks Windows or Office is better than the open source alternatives, as much as it is that if/when they do fail they have a direct point of contact with strict SLA guarantees to get things fixed

Does MS provide SLAs? Are there no suppliers who will provide similar SLAs for FOSS software?

> and they have full control of all of their software to do so without hindrance.

That puzzles me. How can you have more control over proprietary software than over open source? If you mean MS have full control, how does that benefit their customers?
With GDS, we get to skip the CPU and go straight to parallel arrays of network/ssd cards, where 100GB/s is very doable

We don't have a lot of our customers doing that yet... but they're definitely some of the more fun ones!
Nah, even recruiters who mix up Java and JavaScript aren't as bad as politicians :P
Surprisingly, it does matter! The key abstraction here is partial evaluation combined with memory safe languages.

Look at how the JVM world does it with GraalJS (or GraalPython or the other langs). This approach eliminates the sorts of vulnerabilities V8 is talking about, because the semantics of the language are defined as a memory-safe interpreter, which is then converted to JIT compiled code directly by having the compiler treat interpreter data structures as constants for the constant folding passes.

This gives you a 1-2 win:

1. The example given at the top of the blog post wouldn't be exploitable in interpreter mode in GraalJS, because the VM intrinsic would be written in Java and thus bounds checked.

2. It's also not exploitable once JIT compiled, because the intrinsic and its bounds check has been inlined into the user code function and optimized as a unit (meaning the bounds check might be removed if the compiler can prove that the user's implementation of ToNumber doesn't modify the size).

GraalJS has nearly V8 levels of peak performance, so this technique doesn't require big sacrifices for server workloads, and client workloads where latency matters more are now a focus of the team. In this way you can build a high performance JS engine that still has tight security. It supports code sandboxing also.

(Disclosure: I do part time work for Oracle Labs and sit next to some of the people doing that work)
> No amount of signage can remedy this

Having a gigantic stop sign right in the traffic lane seems to be fairly effective[0] though it's absurd that's the length you have to go to to make people notice.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImU1mG7QC4I
>Except shut-ins rarely procreate, and just that will be a huge hit on their average contribution to society.

it's already decreasing in first world countries, so this isn't a problem limited to shut-ins.
To some extent, I imagine that moderate alcohol consumption is an almost necessary consequence of having an active social life. If a couple tells you that they both drink, it's likely that they do so together and with friends, which is a good thing. There are myriads of exceptions, I am sure.
I don't know that having so many codecs is a good thing unless they really add something. How does it compare to av1 (which I was under the impression is coming to be the natural successor of hevc, with hardware support)?
They are like an 18th century Japanese katana. The masters were unparalleled at creating revered quality. They would be my first choice in collecting. Tho, if my life depended on it, I'd take a blade crafted with modern technology.
Because you tend to hold phones right to your brain.
I think it’s because a NEET in other places, like Italy or the US, is not a shut in 99% of the times
There's a huge difference between NEET (which basically everyone goes through periods of) and complete shut-in.
Only for now. This is a brazen bad faith effort at compliance and the EU courts will see right through. Apple would not be the first FAANG to make multi €B donations to the EU budget.
Synthetic aging... there's quite a lot of this going on in the guitar world. On the purely cosmetic level, you can find a lot of 'relic' electric guitars, made to look like they've been on the road since the 60s. Some acoustic makers are experimenting with torrefaction and other techniques to age the top wood, and opinions are divided on whether this makes any difference.

But I'm just a pleb here... if an instrument feels good to play and sounds good, then that'll do!
Not at all. The most likely explanation to me is the causality is reversed. Poor health or limited social life causes both abstinence and mortality.

Nothing in the abstract suggests they did any analysis to determine causality which makes their statement at the end "showing that survival varies as a function of one’s own and one’s partner’s drinking" misleading, as it could easily be interpreted to imply causality. Of course they phrased it that way on purpose because implying causality makes their results sound way more important than they are.
Eco-guilt and eco-shame in everyday life: a study of triggers and reactions
This almost happened to me taking a rented U-Haul down the parkways in New York, which have notoriously low overpasses. It was like the 2nd smallest box truck you could rent and I still seem to recall having to pull off to the side of the road and download a trial of some specialty trucker GPS app. This was maybe 5 years ago.
It seems the authors implicitly chose the Flan-T5-XL model based on a previous paper they refer where it outperformed prompted engineered ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 on a slightly different but similar task. This should definitely need to be further explained and possibly confirmed on their tasks.

"Our best-performing fine-tuned models outperformed zero- and few-shot performance of ChatGPT-family models [...]" from Large language models to identify social determinants of health in electronic health records (https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06354)
You must be right, those thousands of professional violin players who've been playing since kindergarten are just deluding themselves.
> True, but that problem pre-dates capitalism by at least several thousand years--humanity has never managed to reliably instill lasting morality into any institution, not even those ostensibly centered on it.

Completely in agreement, it's just a general disappointment I have given that we are leaps and bounds more knowledgeable than at any point previously in history, even with all that knowledge about our past, about how systems work, incentives, etc. we haven't been able to tame the beast of greed and let it roam free to destroy as it pleases. It's just my wishful thinking that we should be better by this point but we aren't, that's not reality.
History teaches us that people every possible gains available to them to hurt others.

From salting the earth[1], to gifting smalpox infected blankets[2], through carting away the grain[3], and a literal strong man sneaking literal nuclear waste material into tea to terrorise others[4].

What do you think reading more history will teach me?

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth

2: https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smal...

3: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

4: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvi...
I wonder if the problem that LLMs solved was not the lack of "intelligence" of logic driven systems but the lack of a particular intelligence that is so crucial for is to make effective use of the interaction with such tools, namely the ability to actually understand our natural language.

That feature by itself is not enough, but can be a very effective glue to be used with other components of an intelligent system. The analogy with the human brain would be the broca area vs. the rest of the brain.

Now, there are open questions about whether the _architecture_ that underpins the LLMs is also good enough to be used as a substrate for other functions and what's the most effective way for having these different components of the system communicate between each other.

The analogy with the human brain can guide us (as well as lead us astray), in that our brain, like biological systems often do, re-purposes the basic building blocks to create different subsystems.

It's not clear to me at which level we'll find the most effective re-purposable building blocks.

It's easy to try (and people do) to use the top-level LLM system as such a building block and have it produce plans, connect it to external systems that feed information back and have it iterate again on it (ab)using it's language processing as an API with the environment.

The human analogy of that is when we use external tools to extend our cognitive capacity, like when we do arithmetic using pencil and paper or when we scribble some notes to help us think.

I think this level is useful and real but I wonder if we also need to give more power to some lower levels too.

Granted, some of that "power" can already be emerging during the training of the LLMs but I wonder if some more specialized blocks might enhance the effectiveness
As others said, it mostly makes sense as seasonal energy storage. You could have these Terraform installations at storage sites, and also gas power plants in the same place.
Thanks a lot! That was my goal. It's a trick I learned: if you zoom in from a distance, everything appears flat. The effect is achieved by zooming out while simultaneously moving the camera closer to the subject!
Dear dog :D that happens when you write English with an Android Keyboard that tries to correct your words into German language
> It's funny that Apple is condemned here for applying inside their own platform the exact same strategy the EU is applying inside its tech market.

The EU is a regulatory body and a union of democratic sovereign states. There is no comparison to be had whatsoever with a multinational for-profit company.
"Je suis le Roi" moment (LOL)

IT was the French
Well, except that they do. TFA says that the clipboard app in question had to include a map because it requires a dirty workaround to stay active in the background, at apple's demands. Yes, they're not "app store rules" and they're "notarization rules" but the end result is the same, they could choose to make those rules the same and yeah maybe a European court could force them to comply but in reality land apple has more money and lawyers than god.
I am curious, what could have been done differently?

This started more than 30 years ago. The internet as we thinking about it did not exist. Computers were just going around. Most it was physical copies which could not be centralized/shared at scale till the internet came around.

I am just trying to think about what kind of system would account for all the changes that have happened and prevented this while also accounting for the reverse where the real person suddenly had someone trying to steal their identity also accounting for the fact this system has to be valid for the future. Maybe it is a failure of my imagination, but I can only think of ways to do it for the current state of the world, assuming the world never changes.
Tbh any system cannot be full, because it will malfunction. Not sure about Windows (which warns that it might misbehave once the disk is fully full (￣ー￣)//”” ), but Linux will be unable to spawn processes once the /proc is full. I remember I had problem to login to my linux server, because sshd was unable to spawn bash
How is it better than a compiler written by people?
Nice article! The resulting Pareto front really highlights how hard game design is. You can get millions of possible combinations but the reality is that only a handful of them will ever happen in a competitive environment.
It is annoying, but there's nothing in the guidelines about paywall content. Just how to make titles. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This finding keeps coming up in social science research: being connected to people seems to increase longevity. Which begs the follow up question: what is the underlying mechanism(s) that causes this effect?

Does social comparison promote self maintenance? Does the sharing of ideas lead to better cognitive hygiene? Does sharing power tools lead to less household accidents? Do we need to sniff other people's pheramones?

On a sceptical note, do extraverts, the sort of people who consent to be studied, continually arrive at conclusions that justify extraversion, missing the huge cohort of introverts who are quite content with minimal social contact?
You're only correct about Qwen's MoE. I presume that Chinese model builders feel more pressure to be efficient about using their GPU time because of sanctions.
>I don't see much downside in having it open.

on the contrary, that feels like the step right before the good ol' dystopian VR reality that many sci-fi literature dive into . I don't see much upside to that happening.
Generative text-to-image models based on neural networks have been developing since around 2015. Dall-E was the first to gain widespread attention in 2021. Then later models like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.

"Quadrupled" is a very specific and quantitative word. What measure are you basing that on?
You could have cited a hundred valid examples to make your point. You picked a stupid one.
works perfectly for me!
I have realized you are uninterested in reasoned dialogue and prefer sentence fragments and manipulation. I don't think you have anything more to contribute so I'm ejecting. Good day.
I appreciate your input, I don't necessarily believe that it's all the fault of a few "left-wing" personnel. I have a lot of Israeli friends who are conservative like me, and I've never heard this. Even from guys who are IDF careerists.
Facebook caught snooping on Snapchat users. What is going on?
I would be very interested, if somebody can access the full paper, to know what amount of alcohol is "light drinking" for them.
2 glasses a day ? a week ? a month ? with people ? during dinner ?
Exactly. This won't stop any determined bad actor, if anything, it's just going to boost their credibility when they inevitably come up with a bypass that allows them to sign any piece of media as "authentic" (in a few days or weeks after a device implementing such a scheme is released).

What then? 99.9% of honest actors are paying with their privacy[1] and usability again, while remaining 0.1% of dishonest actors are using a bypass - which sounds a lot like piracy and various DRM schemes. We've been here before, and it never works.

[1] While this might not be an immediate goal, I think it's pretty obvious any such scheme would eventually be corrupted to encode a traceable device ID into every photo and video taken with the device - to protect the children and stop CSAM, of course!
It’s fine. I did 3 or 4 over the years. They stick a probe up your butt a little, with some numbing gel, which is uncomfortable but fine. There are a few pricks of local anesthesia and then you feel nothing or extremely little, apart from the pressure of the probe. You hear some clicks as they shoot needles in to take samples, but it doesn’t hurt. It takes like 15 minutes. You take an antibiotic and do an enema beforehand to ward off infection.

The worst part for me was you have bloody semen for weeks after. I thought that was so gross. But it’s harmless and resolves completely.
I think there is some survivorship bias at work. An instrument that feels and plays great was just more likely to survive several hundred years.
And yet for centuries, the freedom of the sociopaths, as you described them, was valued higher than the freedom of gay people. We decided that we should protect the latter from the former by restricting the ability of religious people to act in accordance with their worldview very recently.