skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't remember the last time I thought of winamp, I moved on to foobar2000 and then to streaming services. Even with this announcement, there's no mention of a licence... Too little too late, maybe if foobar2000 became open source but I'd doubt it.
It turns entirely on what is meant by 'controversial.'

Applying a 1950's sense of the word would indeed be hard to square with the rest of the statement. But a 2020's sense of the word completely aligns with my own experience both as a student and as someone with several minority professors as close family.

The most vocal and internally-conformist group, by far, are white female grad students and professors under 40 or 35 or so. Change any single parameter and the population of anti-controversial (in the current sense) voices drops sharply.

Also familiar is a general undercurrent of sentiment among departmental and field-adjacent colleagues that the behavior of this group is noxious and counterproductive, even among those who broadly sympathize with them.
Along with a resigned and quiet dread that nothing can be done about it.
Oh it won't be a waste. DoJ will seize, fine, and disgorge enough to cover the prosecution and some. An easy cash grab from an unsympathetic defendent who lacks the lawyers of the corporate bot runners.
This leaked a couple years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29379346
Thanks. Not actually really special purpose. One-click import from any SWF project, though no easy WPF/XAML sdk for lack of motivation. The GUI is fully app agnostic.
See here
https://github.com/berthubert/trifecta/issues
for the image hosting service that Bert wrote and the issues that wandernauta found
With the source code someone can port it to make Linamp.
That would be amazing if it was the case (and wind would get a lot more support if so), but it doesn't say that. It says it pays for itself emissions-wise.
VCs or Record companies missing "Superstars" is as common as mud.

Here is a fun article showing everyone makes errors. https://medium.com/mba-chronicles/the-vc-antiportfolio-top-m...
Terry Tao finds it promising https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/110601051375142142

I am a first year grad student and find it useful to chat about stuff with Claude, especially once my internal understanding has just gotten clarified. It isn't as good as the professor but is available at 2 am.
Is it meaningful to do linear regressions through clouds like the ones shown in Figure 1?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916241252...
Everything new is well-forgotten old.
Not necessarily, folks are incentivied to keep the cars clean and undamaged.
don't forget Macamp.
From "Kolmogorov Complicity And The Parable Of Lightning" (https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...):

"Did Giordano Bruno die for his astronomical discoveries or his atheism? False dichotomy: you can’t have a mind that questions the stars but never thinks to question the Bible. The best you can do is have a Bruno who questions both, but is savvy enough to know which questions he can get away with saying out loud. And the real Bruno wasn’t that savvy."
Meanwhile on NPR they have just been telling today how wonderful and cheap and loved in Europe and Australia the Chinese EVs for which US has just made a new prohibitive import tariff.
How's the recycling of burned oil and coal going?
Army soldiers not impressed with Strykers outfitted with 50-kilowatt lasers
Reddit stock is up almost 10% in after hours trading.
If you can pipeline upcoming requests and tie state to a specific request, doesn't that allow you to change how you design physical memory? (at least for inference)

Stupid question, but why wouldn't {extremely large slow-write, fast-read memory} + {smaller, very fast-write memory} be a feasible hardware architecture?

If you know many, many cycles ahead what you'll need to have loaded at a specific time.

Or hell, maybe it's time to go back to memory bank switching.
and then there's sixth street, south of market.
took them 20 years to figure out that they can't monetize their media player
This isn't a Tesla issue, (un-)fortunately.

Hertz constantly is getting sued for something. They once sold cars that did not have certain features that were considered standard on all versions of that particular car, including some mandatory, by law safety features and did not notify the owners that the cars Hertz specially ordered did not have them.

Somehow, it was legal for Hertz to rent these cars out to potential victims and did not notify all the people who drove those around that they were potentially death traps... and then sold them to more potential victims.

IIRC, they lost in court, but Google is busy memory hole-ing news more than a couple years ago.

They also got recently prosecuted for calling the cops on "stolen vehicles" that were in Hertz's possession and had rented them out again, and had the new driver arrested for the crime of doing business with Hertz. This was not an isolated incident, and happened hundreds of times. This one has visited the HN front page a few times.

Don't do business with Hertz, they will call the cops on you. Don't buy used vehicles from Hertz, they will not be safe to drive.
I thought wind was often quoted as the cheapest per MWh compared to everything else?

(I realise that profit in $ might differ in that the wind doesn’t blow on demand while eg gas might - but even then businesses will spring up to fill every profitable niche).
This style of embeddings could be quite lightweight/cheap/efficient https://github.com/cohere-ai/BinaryVectorDB
They can be built much more quickly than nuclear plants and they take coal and oil out of furnaces right now, which is exactly what we need. That's nothing but good.
Thanks! I should have been clearer -- embeddings are pretty fast (relatively) -- it's inference that's slow (I'm at 5 tokens/second on AKS).
I am a huge Rust fan, and also a huge FFmpeg fan.

What exactly does a complete rewrite of FFmpeg achieve given the absolutely monstrous complexity involved?
Maybe 20 years ago. On-shore wind and solar are currently the cheapest practical way to make electricity based on LCOE.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/electricity_generation/pdf/...
> Nope. I meant departments. The T10 programs handle CS admissions at the College (Engineering) and Department level.

Stanford at least doesn't for undergrads. Admissions is handled at the university level and you're encouraged not to even declare a major (CS included) until after your freshman year when you've had a chance to explore options for a major.

Stanford is a more traditional LAC though, so falls under your last paragraph.
You’re right, but I get frustrated by the ignorance and hubris of some people. Too late to edit now.
I don't like when politicians only respond to overwhelming public discontent or desires in an election year. This reclassification is a good thing, absolutely, but it angers me that policymakers wait and treat us like baying kittens eager for a morsel of acknowledgement from our elected leaders.
Hello - I am the author of this article. Yes, my choice of pronoun was deliberate. I will allow you to determine why.

In regards to the litigation, your interpretation is wrong. The main reason why the default was granted is that LFJ lied in the affidavits to the court. It was stated under penalty of perjury that the IPs were absolutely necessary for the site to be able to stay up.

The site is still up and you may access it on the normal Internet with a normal browser. No IPs from Flow Chemical are in use. Therefore, LFJ's claims that the IPs were necessary are a lie.

The other claim significant to the litigation is that I am unserviceable. That the need to sue Vincent was that there is no way to sue me. I am currently involved in two, soon three, separate ongoing civil litigations in the United States. My attorney's address can be found by a link present on every single page of the Kiwi Farms. Simply put, LFJ lied that there is no way to service me.

Perhaps, if my website was Australian, it would be within the Court's jurisdiction to object to its contents and order it removed. Fortunately, it is American.

I hope this helps.
What he actually said (according to TFA anyway, I haven't verified he actually said this):

"It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. And that the programming language is human, everybody in the world is now a programmer. This is the miracle of artificial intelligence."

How do we get from this to "future of coding as a career is dead"?
The meme is that appending "reddit" to your searches is the cheat code to access high quality organic results written by actual humans. It's basically internalized SEO--you don't have to spam your way into search results if you convince users to search for you intentionally.
Not lightweight, but I've fallen in love with MusicBee (https://getmusicbee.com/) and it's been my only music player for at least the last 10 years. Love everything about it.
> What does that mean?
> It absolutely does on NixOS, which is all I have looked at.
files in /etc are still where you would expect them to be, files in /var are still where you would expect them to be, files in /boot are where you expect them to be.

You won't find stuff on /lib, /usr, or /bin but even if you did, well it defeats the inmutability if you could just manipulate them, which is pretty much the purpose of nix.

This is my problem with your article, so you can map these files with nice names; now what? want to hack something with them?, then why use a declarative system? want to manually modify them? then why use an inmutable system? It totally defeats the purpose of nix. Thus my opinion, and not trying to be dismissive, that you don't understand what nix is trying to do.

> I suggest reading the comments on the article, which it seems to me are strongly in agreement with my points.

I just did on your suggestion, and I'm not impressed. The top comment is saying that if the OS get's borked they restore from backups, so not interested in software generated paths... which hey, it's a valid workflow if it works for that person, yet the whole point of a declarative system is that you can rebuild your system in mins without any backup.

That's my whole point, I don't care about where the packages are, they could even come from a magician hat, what I want is to be able to write a configuration of the exact packages that I want and that it actually works instead of some mess like ansible/salt/whatever. I don't particularly care about isolation, even if that's kinda the reason why the system works, if I were interested only in isolation or running multiple versions of software I would just use containers.

> In other words: it gives isolation and the concurrent versions, but it does so via more complex packaging tools that need users to learn a whole new programming language, and it eliminates the familiar FHS and replaces it with a new flat programmatically-defined one that is almost unreadable to humans.

I agree that the packaging tools (nix lang and underlying scripts) are complex, that might be something to fix, but I fail to see how knowing the path of packages works to do anything but to encourage the mess that people who love nix try to avoid.
Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels
Сorporations can face serious consequences for illegal activities. And these consequences can completely destroy them
Embedding models are generally lightweight enough to run on CPU, can be done in the background while the user isn't using their device.
Why would it be a prudent move to take on the corporate real estate costs associated with RS if it was already a profitable retail channel? What does that change other than increasing overhead for Sprint? And if RS was working, why would converting them to solely cell phone stores make things any better?
I knew those quotation marks were going to ruin my elation when I clicked the headline.
It's not either or, it's both and. Of course there are different options that have better results in some axes. Building wind does not mean not building nuclear, solar, hydro, tidal, biomass pyrolysis, etc.
For those who also wondered what that word was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perovskite_solar_cell and https://news.mit.edu/2022/perovskites-solar-cells-explained-...
Who's gonna build TempleAmp?
I'm willing to entertain the idea that the god kings had some delusions
Kinda late. Maybe it would've been cool in 2006 when I still used Windows.

But what I really want to know is: will it really kick the LLaMAs ass now with AI features?
how is the blockchain under the purview of the us govt? these were transactions submitted to a blockchain created for the sole purpose of not being controlled by the government

all these code is law folks are constantly exposed as just looking to get rich quick
There really aren't many major platforms left for artists at this point - DeviantArt and ArtStation have both dove down the AI hole, Twitter needs an account to view now, that leaves what, Pixiv and Tumblr?
I think those of us who use the REAPER DAW and its customizable themes are the main beneficiaries of that functionality.
It still is up to the states but I suppose they would lose 10% of their highway funding if they went against the law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._history_of_alcohol_mini...

To be honest I think Federal laws like this that carve out "obey or be punished financially" dictates should be outlawed and unconstitutional. Or if the Federal government wants to make funding conditional then the taxes for that initiative should not be enforceable for the state that chooses to forego that service.
Archie, the Internet's first search engine, is rescued and running
> Wouldn't you need to sign over your name, image and likeness (along with an affidavit that it isn't already exclusively owned) in order for them to legally reuse it

Legally? Probably yes.
Practically? Fuck no.
No, the causal portion of reality. (Philosophers of metaphysics are still arguing whether acausal aspects of reality are, in any real sense, real, but we don't need to listen to them.) If we discover something non-physical (the usual example being ghosts), that'll just become a new branch of physics.

Physics currently talks about dark energy, the geometry of spacetime, and quantum superposition. I don't think you can get much less physical than that.
That's basically what's happening with them besides the ones that are burned or buried.

One potentially bad thing is that plastics degrade and leach into the environment over time.
Okay, take care.
Yes, I agree. That's a less loaded way of explaining it.
I tried to clean the dirt on top of the Š with my finger..
It's Windows only for now.

The architecture of Winamp is made of various plugins. WACUP is replacing them bit by bit.

Once everything is replaced then porting could be possible, though it's been only built for Windows so there must be a lot of Windows-isms in there.
If you really want to see what the SOTA model can do, look at the posts on the web page for the mind-blowing image output. That is not released yet. https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/

Mark my words, that is the sort of thing that Ilya saw months ago and I believe he decided they had achieved their mission of AGI. And so that would mean stopping work, giving it to the government to study, or giving it away or something.

That is the reason for the coup attempt. Look at the model training cut-off date. And Altman won because everyone knew they couldn't make money by giving it away if they just declared mission accomplished and gave it away or to some government think-tank and stopped.

This is also why they didn't make a big deal about those capabilities during the presentation. Because if they go too hard on the abilities, more people will start calling it AGI. And AGI basically means the company is a wrap.
The argument of "we can't say because of all we don't know" needs constant updating.

Early on, you have Elihu in Job arguing that we can't understand creation because why it rains and where snow comes from is beyond human understanding.

Now we learn it as a nursery rhyme.

Maybe we should entertain the idea that we do have adequate information to assess our overall situation and see what we find.
I use 2GB a month and I thought I was a doom-scroller...

I guess 2GB of text / forums / newspapers is very different from like, Netflix every day on the phone though.
Since Android Studio was mentioned, I think software development is one of the use cases that requires a powerful PC/laptop, especially if you are dealing with large enterprise apps. For everyone other than developers and content creators (artists, editors, etc), it's probably true that hardware has already peaked a few years ago and those use cases will not take advantage of the more expensive cutting edge hardware.
idk, this is all appealing in an abstract way, but I don't think it results in a world most people want to live in.

we all draw the line in different places, but I think most would agree that some subset of user-submitted content is purely abusive. if the only recourse available to the victim requires identifying every individual poster, it's effectively impossible to stop.

imo some sort of safe harbor mechanism is a reasonable compromise. we can't expect the host to prevent every single instance of abusive content, but we should require them to make some kind of reasonable effort.
Reddit is an application so it doesn't really matter to me. The web is a platform that enables applications like reddit. The fact that reddit installed a moat is a problem for reddit users, not web users.
I actually had never thought about whether I would want my roof to be transparent. OT1H, more natural light; OTOH, unless I am gravely misunderstanding the situation, that feels like a fantastic way to turn ones upper floors into a greenhouse
Isn't the real problem here not Deviant Art, as much as people making low effort bot nets to trick Deviant Art into paying them?

It's a spam problem, only worse, because they're actively paying the spammers.

Even Spotify has this problem. All too often I'm getting recommended crappy remixes "slowed and reverbed" or "sped up". Just recently I got some guy's crappy techno with the artist field spammed with completely unrelated bands I follow. Of course, when I tried to report this, Spotify only cared if the guy was selling bootleg merchandise.

The whole thing made me click, "hide artist" and "hide song" for the very first time.
(Borland) Delphi also made creating non standard form shapes; the secret was in leveraging the win32 api, which was really easy to do in Delphi.

Here's an example: http://www.delphicorner.f9.co.uk/articles/forms4.htm
> I'm also tired of seeing people say "It's a private company, they can do what they want." I don't know why the average person is so enthusiastic about the idea of getting taken for a ride by huge corporations.

It's especially humorous when you see those same people claiming that talking out the other side of their mouth about the danger of fascists.
> people who have provably low income

You want to give all your financial info to your brokerage?

What increasing latency will do is widen the markets. We’ll go back to the days of multiple cents or dollars between the bid and offer prices of stocks.

It will definitely increase the time horizon to make an investment profitable. But maybe that’s a societal good for some people…

In the modern era, adding a speed bump might just mean that all the trading moves overseas, to derivatives, or mutual funds. Money finds a way of flowing downhill
wow, I even found the skin I used way back when... very cool

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/d77a144cdb775a0937617389b6e0e4...
Whether this phrase bothers you or not seems entirely to depend on whether you think replacement means not having to have such missiles on hand at all, versus not having to waste them on specific tasks and therefore not have to manufacture replacements as frequently...?
It would involve unsafe rust anyway, which does sequester but not eliminate the concern. I think it would be difficult to make a case that this effort is worthwhile.
What on earth would that accomplish?
It is becoming more and more difficult to find a role in IT that won't be affected by AI in the long run. I'm sure there are some out there, just difficult to see them with clarity. There will always be a need for some folks but not as many.

AI will need to be managed/implemented? Perhaps become an AI Manager of some kind helping deploy it into industry. I'm sure it will need to be cared for, hardware breaks, power outages, tuning, environmental controls, etc. There is a whole industry that will need to support it until Robots/Androids can do that job.

I'm semi retired and I am worried for you too.
> here have been 888 cases of H5N1 reported in humans in 23 countries

888 cases in 23 counties... reckon the population of those 23 counties is 3k people?

Here is another piece of data. In 195 counties, 100% of people who drank water are dead or will eventually die.
Isn't there an unstated simplification here that:

* the tape is perfectly flexible

* the tape has been rolled with absolutely no gap between layers?
I think it’s likely that they would have been dug up and reused, given the relative scarcity of wood.
Sure but there's no incentive not to be hard on the powertrain. Probably less of a problem now with so much drive-by-wire preventing you from drag racing a Camry.
Sigh. Memory/storage hierarchy vs. cost tradeoffs is why.
I think Tao finds it promising as a source of inspiration in the same sense that the ripples on the surface of a lake or a short walk in the woods can be mathematically inspiring. It doesn’t say much about the actual content being produced; the more you already have going on in your head the more easily you ascribe meaning to meaninglessness.

The point is that it’s got seemingly nothing to do with reasoning. That it can produce thought-stimulating paragraphs about any given topic doesn’t contradict that; chatting to something not much more sophisticated than Eliza (or even… yourself, in a mirror) could probably produce a similar effect.

As for chatting about stuff, I’ve been experimenting with ChatGPT a bit for that kind of thing but find its output usually too vague. It can’t construct examples of things beyond the trivial/very standard ones that don’t say much, and that’s assuming it’s even getting it right which it often isn’t (it will insist on strange statements despite also admitting them to be false). It’s a good memory-jog for things you’ve half forgotten, but that’s about it.
Here is one more anecdata point: we bought a used Hertz rental eightish years ago and it's been great. Nissan Versa Note 2014. There was a scratch on the dash and faint cigarette smoke smell that made it a particularly good deal.
i'm with you my brother
Perhaps you don't need it. But that doesn't mean a lot of others find them very useful.
Have you ever rewritten a project in a completely different language?
The case you are referring to on the missing safety features is probably this one, renting recalled vehicles:

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-pro...

> Don't do business with Hertz, they will call the cops on you.

Even that is not enough:

"Hertz Is Even Sending People To Jail That Never Rented Cars From Them" - https://viewfromthewing.com/hertz-is-even-sending-people-to-...
Cosmetically maybe, but Hertz has very good incentives to do minimal maintenance and only fix things when very broken. The renter has little incentive to report issues like weird noises or anything mechanically broken, especially if it may have been caused by them.
That's possible but it was a Sprint-branded device bought from Sprint that was clearly supposed to be compatible with its new 4G network. And they charged an extra $10 4G access fee every month!

The other bonus was that being a CDMA device, there was no connectivity when traveling internationally, and no option to buy a local SIM card. Wifi only.