skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing people's distastefor gulf states can be explained largely by their ranking in the global slavery index [1] (three gulf states in the top ten) the global freedom index [2] (Saudi Arabia in bottom ten) and the global corruption index (gulf states are not as good at corruption as slavery or repression but they still give it a good shot).

This seems more likely to me as an explanation than hating on people with different taste. Otherwise everyone would hate Japan for example.

[1] https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/#the-scale
[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...
[3] https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022
Having said that, I've never personally seen my stratum #1 Pi loose sync due to weather and I run about 4 of em here. I also use a cheap 7 euro ublox 7m. So long as you position it or an antennae with a reasonable view of the sky that shouldn't happen I reckon.

Why all the complex solutions when it's so easy and cheap now to install a stratum #1 time server, even a Pi 3 will suffice. It works on a Pi Zero, but then you only have a wifi link.

The sbts-au project make's it incredibly easy to setup. git lone and then install. One command, it's that simple.
That might be a smarter way to do it! Right now I have this thing where if we don't unload the dryer it does a sort of warming cycle every 20 minutes or so. And that triggers another alert. We don't mind because that just means we _should_ unload the dryer to stop it from consuming more power.

But I suppose the countdown approach would still trigger the same thing. I suppose if I didn't really want the extra alerts I should be monitoring the duration of power consumption and exclude the ones that are of a shorter duration.

I might try the countdown approach for something different and see what results I get. Thanks for the idea!
I disagree, the industry participants still need to have this ability to look inside when doing their work even if they do routine/mundane work. That's how you get people who are better or worse in their jobs.

Maybe with exception of strictly technical work like people who remove background in mages or calibrate instruments. Those people are screwed yes.
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It's certainly capable of creating technically impressive music, and mimicry at a ridiculously competent level, but it absolutely will not replace the desire for recording artists. These tools will become part of an artist's arsenal, but they will not replace the artist any more than the countless digital composition tools that already exist have. It will just be the case that these tools enable more people to be artists than previously before. Music is a form of artistic expression. As long as people still care about what other people have to say, there will be a demand for recording artists.
My initial prompt for Udio was: a song about how Kevin is bad at ping pong, classic rock

I had ChatGPT generate the lyrics.

Based on that, Udio automatically engaged the following settings: Male vocalist, Rock, Hard rock, Energetic, Anthemic, Classic rock, Uplifting, Rhythmic, Rock & roll
I used Switzerland as an example because of its financial industry. I wasn’t making any commentary on the culture. Presumably if the UAE is the Switzerland of the Middle East and Indian Ocean, it’s more adapted for that cultural environment and not for what Westerners are looking for.

These laws are also pretty much never enforced in UAE, as far as I understand.
I fully agree, but that’s not what all music is.
Most commercial music is pure craft created by expensive professionals that the music corporations would be very happy to swap with expendables and cheap AI models.

It boils down to the economic model and the financial and political choices like in every creative industry.

Regarding potential displacement, I would apply the stock photography theory to any creative industry.
Ask yourself: is what I do in my creative endeavor the equivalent of stock content for the visual imaging industry?
If the answer is yes, you might want to future proof your craft.
If the answer is no (as in, your art is more than a simple soulless piece of easily digested and quantity-oriented content) then you will be fine in the long run after the current unsustainable hype cycle dies out.
No I mean in the case of Egypt.
I am absolutely convinced that these projects are going to fail.

Is there a way to make money by betting against them?
It would be an interesting experiment - a world where no patents exist, only production (though corporate espionage / theft is still illegal).

Some argue that this will effectively kill R&D, because the second you've created something - others would start reverse engineering, and copy the product. In some areas, like pharma, R&D is notoriously expensive, and the pharma companies have only that many years to recoup all that cost, before their patent runs out.

Would it lead to more money spent on making reverse engineering difficult? Both the products, and the manufacturing process.
We did look into such dryers as well but my girlfriend and I wanted to use our ecocheques and we also wanted a cheap dryer that just got the job done. The nearest smart dryer was at least a 100 euros more expensive.

And it ended up being a fun project for me ^.^
Believe it or not but not everyone shares your enthusiasm towards the idea of privatizing United States Postal Service.
Can you at least elaborate?
Germans who supported nazism were elected by german citizens by a democratic vote. Nazis came to power in a democratic system. Millions of germans voted for them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=40000000

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Yep. The city itself expands in all directions but Piotrowska is the main hub.
personally i use yearly folders + a sub-folder for the occasion :)

software: any common filemanager of your choice will do - be it GUI or text (for example midnight-commander :)

eg
2024/some-place-or-important-event/

btw. i know multiple people who organize their photos in this way and some of them have far larger collections than "just" 5 GB... ;))

just my 0.02€

ps. as with every "important" data, follow the well-known 3 - 2 - 1 rule for backups (at least: 3 generations, 2 different medias, one copy "offsite")

for example i know someone losing their entire childrens photo-collection due to dropping an external hdd...
I know plenty of people, including me, who has no real knowledge about those humans.

And sometimes not knowing is better like the example with Rammstein and row zero were some manager woman was asking other woman if they want to meet their rockstars.

Btw. on a good electronic music set, knowing the arist is probably more a quality sign than a personal aspect. Knowing that i like what arist xy does, means i might like to keep an eye on future work because i like the style of it.

Nonetheless, i do also think that fandom and doing real tours will still be the unique things for bands. There should always be a market for human content.
But when the battery finally has a terminal issue, you're looking at a $30k quote to replace it. Or scrap the car. That's a real figure from this year for US i3 owners. But other cars are $20k+ too.

It's hard to offset long term expenses against car values, but it's certainly something am insurer needs to consider for liabilities.
Wasn't this fairly special due to the amount of vapour?
I remember reading it increased atmospheric water content by like 10%.
It's so unimaginable to me that it simply is not related to record years.
True, but Germany was the birth bed of nazism.
The more payment service you have, the more likely it is random people will pay.

I used to not really pay for content, until an author blew me away, so I set up a patreon account, just for him. Three months later, I'm now subscribed to 11 people for roughly 100€ a month (which is the ballpark of what I want to spend for internet entertainment anyway). Once my account was set up and I knew how to use it, the friction disappeared, and I realized I was more lazy than cheap.
While Eclipse truely have an incredible incremental compiler for Java, IntelliJ's better integration with external build systems like maven and gradle, together with better cross-languages support, was what win me over.
So could you share a single set of keys on multiple machines and Wireguard will work, as long as all machines use the same ntp server?
There are other works by Da Vinci in other museums too but again the Mona Lisa had become uniquely and superlatively special over his other works, and indeed, all other works of art.
You’re right. It’s a gross generalization. But it is based on my personal and professional experience.
> In effect, you're lying to Amazon in order to use their property in a way they specifically don't want you to.

Well they aren't their property in the first place. Amazon is just the middleman who facilitate the exchange of goods/services.
In Saudi Arabia specifically, atheism is a capital crime. I think it's pretty sensible for atheists to hate a country that literally wants to kill them; do you find that strange?
Assertions in e.g. python? Missing the 'contract view', but you could generate docs that pull in any assertions on input args or return value to do something like that.
> give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.

TBH that's a pretty low bar; "radio" songs have been engineered and polished for a very long time now. I have no hard numbers but gut feeling says radio music only represents 1% of the music industry.
> But there is no way to know how much juice is left in the BIOS battery,

True, but its voltage can be used as an estimate. Most PC MB still around monitor the supply voltages, some also of the battery feeding the RTC. If you have the (Debian) package 'lm-sensors' installed, look for

sensors[<pid>]: Vbat: +2.91 V (min = +2.70 V, max = +3.63 V) ALARM

in /var/log/syslog.
TIL (en passant, by following links, that) even Vogue runs articles concerning alternatives to capitalism.
AnyDesk seems like the most obvious drop-in replacement. It's not awful either, I've used it for remote video editing quite successfully.

I'm less thrilled that for both AD and TV the client and server is the same application. I want to be able to connect to other people's computers without ever having something hook into or have the possibility to display my own desktop.
I use ledger: https://ledger-cli.org/

I believe this same plain text format is used by other tools, which you can find info about here: https://plaintextaccounting.org/ (In particular a lot of people seem to use hledger and beancount)

The ledger is written using a text editor. The purpose of the software is to add everything up, calculate the balances and make sure everything balances. I keep all of my 12 years of accounting in one file and haven't noticed any slowdown. But a real business would surely have many more accounts and may want to split files by financial year or something.

I use helper scripts to convert the data from my bank CSV downloads into ledger format. It uses machine learning to associate payees to accounts (e.g. "Tesco" gets filed to the account "Expenses:Groceries"). I haven't maintained the ML part although it works for me most of the time. In case it's useful, the code is here: https://github.com/georgek/accounts/
Considering the the stated goals of the Chinese government and past actions, I can’t see how anyone would consider the state owning a major share of a Chinese company to be either a net negative or neutral at best.
The Line (full length) is supposed to have a footprint of 34km2, that's a circle with a diameter of 3.3km/2 miles. That's a bike-sized city. You can easily add 50% of parks and waterways to get to a nice city, that makes it 4km/2.5 miles.

And you can still build mostly straight-line trams in a circle anyway.
It still takes less energy than heating given climate differentials, so any argument that air conditioning is “garish” and “wrong” needs to be applied to heating also (and anyone living in cold climates ie. Europeans, Americans, etc).

I see the argument that air conditioning is somehow “wrong” or “unsophisticated” on HN all the time (usually from Europeans) and it’s one of the weirdest things. I see no explanation for it other than racism.

To claim you are somehow more virtuous than Arab people because you use artificial heating instead of artificial cooling is downright hilarious given this context.
> The first patent was issued in the 1400's — it is exactly how humans have progressed technologically and sociality.

The last 600 years is a rounding error in the history of humans. Imagine if the different methods of lighting a fire were patented. Those humans also burned witches and imprisoned people for criticizing the church.

We would have a better world if our goal was progress for all over profit for a few.
> That you linked to his objectively wrong article shows Fred Lambert's smear campaign worked and continues to work to this day.

Say I claim to have tight-rope walked between two buildings. You notice an error in my video that suggests I didn't - maybe an incorrectly-keyed green-screen on one of the clips claimed to be the actual walk. I think it's fair for you to say "based on the footage in your promo video, you did not tight-rope walk between two buildings".

Maybe it turns out I did, and the shot was actually filmed afterwards just for the promo video. In this case your theory was wrong, but the error stems from my own (non-malicious, but faulty) misrepresentation of the clip as something it wasn't.

> 24 mph -> 17 mph is not a notable discrepancy. The car should not ever hit a child in that situation at a speed that sends them flying, period.

I'm very obviously not saying that it is okay to hit a child with a car, regardless of speed. I'm saying that the released clips do not align with the stated results of the test, with the numbers being different enough that it's not within regular measurement error.

Some take that to mean the clips do not show the original tests. I believe instead that the Dawn Project messed up repeatedly on recording the speeds in some way - but I don't think the Dawn Project have admitted as such.

> Of course the new tests invalidate their false accusations

> [...]

> That is why the Tesla community always makes sure to point back to the earliest videos

Returning to the tight-rope example: releasing new correctly-keyed footage, absent an explanation of why the previous footage contained the error, does not invalidate someone's reason for concern about me having manipulated the footage. If I did indeed manipulate the original footage, I would very likely avoid visibly making the same mistake that I was called out for in future footage. For someone to debunk my claims, I don't think it'd be invalid for them to point to earlier footage containing unexplained errors from before I got sneakier.
My sentiments aside, I'd like to know if it will actually help, and if my ebook reader (which doesn't scroll) is actually okay. So, looks like they could have extracted more knowledge here...
That's true but neither the students nor the instructors at those institutes are local.
>about having a good city to live in

I don't want to open a flame war, but I visited the city during the Expo and its a highway with a stripe of skyscrapers on each side and slums beyond. It's impossible to walk anywhere. (To be fair, the public transport is pretty good, as long as you live next to the highway.)

When I read "a good city to live in" I imagine something like Vienna.
The idea? It’s already a private corporation.
"Privacy by default" is a good motto when the mechanisms used to ensure privacy actually work most of the time. I'm sure that between ProtonMail users, it does indeed work most (if not all) of the time.

But once you leave the ProtonMail ecosystem, I expect you'll find that enabling PGP automatically doesn't work most or all of the time. It likely only works occasionally or even rarely.

> You can't change the world by copying someone else :)

Please take this as gently as I intend it: ProtonMail is unlikely to change the world on user privacy, at least when it comes to email. Larger providers are too entrenched, and most people won't care enough about privacy to change their email address (and very few people have a custom email domain to move between providers).

At any rate, it seems like you're copying Facebook: "move fast and break things". Not great when we're talking about messaging. You're breaking email for some people, and some of those people are your users. OP may not be one of your users, but OP's mom is, and you have broken her ability to send her son email with this misguided policy.
Its just a discussion and my personal opinion i'm sharing.

Its hn, i think its reasonable to discuss asthetics of langauges?

But yes the history of PHP is murky and i do believe, that a few small changes could have big advantages for PHP and because PHP was one of my first languages and i also developed for it for a few years, i do have some type of connection to it.

Just imagine having a more community / sig driven approach defining a spec first, than having a reference implementation and opening it up to others.

And a PHP base rework would also help. Rethinking the architecture and code, cleaning it up and fixing issues which are still there because of it like unicode support.
It would be hilarious to include the song instead of the license text in a codebase
Yeah you got it. Set the listening interface to eth0 or whatever the wan interface is. Might need to get full ntpd instead of the busy box version. The Interface option here: https://www.ntp.org/documentation/4.2.8-series/miscopt/

I’m actually setting up a router with a rpi4 right now, only using Fedora IoT instead of OpenWrt. It’s a bit more assembly required lol
I see AI as just another tool. Like Photoshop, a software mixer, electrical powertools in my wood-working shop, a 3D printer in my office.

All of these had immense impact on the way we create (or make art). And despite all this, we still use waterpaint, perform music on ancient instruments, make furniture with minimalistic tools, or use clay to make objects.

I'm not pessimistic about generative AI. If anything, It'll allow more people to create. Allow new and unprecedented art forms. It will have an effect on the way people make money with art. But so did photoshop, digital audio mixers, a table saw, and a CAD/CAM machines.
you need to dream bigger, we need a hypercube city!
Since reality doesn't care about this, wrong dogma can still bite you if it's not real even if non other people are involved
Mainly this. The project taught me a lot, was a good way to have material to work further on my blogging skills and will hopefully lay a foundation for more interesting projects in the future.
Yeah, and I went to Greece, a country with a population half the size of Saudi Arabia, a few years ago and got bad service everywhere. The economic data is also not good.

But I wouldn’t somehow think it’s accurate or acceptable to claim Greeks are all lazy and rude.
My thoughts exactly, like I just finished portal.
>that the folks who want to do away with anonymity finally win

I wasn't aware there was a sizable effort to this effect, and I'm not even sure that I'm proposing it. More just observing the impact of anonymity on society/civility and considering aloud that perhaps the price of anonymity is not worth its perceived benefits.

>Most of the negative effects and hostility of social media (youtube, twitter, facebook, etc.) come from named and publicly-identifiable individuals.

Citation? Because this seems counter to the accepted understanding, multiple studies (see my previous comment) and, anecdotally, my own observations.

But, even allowing that wouldn't preclude that a significant amount of toxicity is also coming from anonymous usage.
I guess the movie industry wants the VPN companies to be massively more profitable?
AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

719 points|amichail|7 days ago|268 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930463
So many comments here that will age poorly. Especially that AI output won't ever be indistinguishable from human. It's imminent that we will fail blind tests in most areas: text, still images, audio and video.
AI-5: I hope I’m not wrong about artificial consciousness
From what I’ve seen the motivation of Chinese workers is the same as any worker - to make money.
You are wrong, there aren't any back alleys in Doha.

It's just big lanes devoid of cars between the towers devoid of people. And then a small road connecting to the Industrial Area.
Human Progress is a lot more than open source software innovation.
[Dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39998849

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930463
>are there any positives for the use of social media at all?

Making tech- /ad- companies rich?
Hi. OP here. Can you please point to any link or resource which covers this n+1 step? Will be helpful for beginners. Thanks in advance.
Why would one even be squeamish about it! I would understand torrenting the whole bunch being something you might not wish to do (mostly since you'll be uploading and might cop a "you've been a bad boy" letter if you're very unlucky). You would be done pretty quickly though, depending on your network speed.

But ripping from disks that you own and paid for and keeping it private is like the very definition of a victimless not-even-a-crime there is going!
Nice list! May I ask what dictionaries do you use (I've just chosen from the internal list, but they seem not that "ideal" after Oxford)? By the way about backlight - on Android there is a bug with that feature: warm light can't be used and also if you start using automatic lighting it does not actually work. Not a big deal: just using system presets from device lighting menu.
Coincidental. Probably a case of this being one of the simpler solutions to implement. Convergent problem solving? (like how in evolution different species can converge on the same trait?)
> sounds cool, now what can we do with that to make it into music?

So a human using the tools of sound production is what transforms the function output into music. (Please let me know if I’m misunderstanding you).

I think I see what you’re saying, but that’s already happened here hasn’t it?
I mean, it's not as though an AI made the decision to generate this all by itself, a human had an idea to create this piece and wrote a prompt which created this output.

The order is of events is reversed from your Ableton example, but I would contend that this kind of production is no less musical than what someone could create using a DAW, simply that the tools are more accessible

(and I presume there is less direct control over what the end result is going to sound like, but the same could be said of conducting an orchestra versus playing a piano.)

Eta: For example, some people in this thread have complained that the AI generated voice falls into the uncanny valley. I agree, and I think that’s part of the art here.
I think even people who are writing songs for cash are actually looking inside, they just perfected a method of doing it and can do it all the time. AI wouldn't be able to do that unless is designed to work like human and has human experience.

The stock photography stuff is either documenting event or displaying low effort illustration for low effort productions. I guess AI can be good at churning Apple images for low effort Apple news.
Has been underway for a while. Look at the dates here, for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=rheinmetall+joint+venture+uk...

The business pages in the newspapers have published significant small stories in the past year. A small factory somewhere "plans an expansion" last year, "expands by 5×" or "switches to … round-the-clock production" this year.