skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn’t intentional sabotage.

(a) MS expected to make money on the Mac, and did for many years with Word and Excel (well before they were bundled into Office), among others. The best versions of Excel and Word were on the Mac for a long time.

(b) Microsoft eventually released a QuickBasic for the Mac that was capable of producing apps with a real Mac UI. IIRC, the IDE wasn’t very good, but it was capable enough at the time.
Real science can be done by those who do not have the wherewithal to write or even read sometimes.

Publishing often has more to do with seeking eminence rather than qualifying findings.

People should not fail to respect the difference betwen natural science and other kinds either.
I doubt it is. Have been seeing several 'tok videos of "oldies" AI music and the album art featured in the videos looks like this. I think they are spending marketing dollars on flooding the typical social media distribution channels with content from their platform.
I don’t know, as a woman this is just my observation in matching with men.

It’s possible that there’s lots of spam bots and fake accounts out there that men have to sift through, however if the dating experience for me is similar to other women, I see no reason why a woman would bother with using AI generated responses to talk to men. It is really not hard to make a man talk to me if I wanted him to, but I frequently ignore a lot of messages from some men no matter how hard they try.
Good project. Personally though, I have made a resolve to not listen to and support AI artists/musicians.(Provided I recognize the artist is using AI of course).
This article is HN bait. This community is full of intellectual elitists who delude themselves into thinking that they are immune to the things that seduce common people. We’re all common people.
While this game is quite nice and fun to play, I find it kind of tempting to just experiment with the values until you solve the current problem instead of focussing on the "How does it really work" aspect of the problem, which would lead to a deeper understanding...

One way to solve this could be to allow more freedom in solving the problem as well as a small penalty on more than 2 or 3 tries.
> No, you still won't be able to buy a MI300X in Q4 2024

Why not? Because they’re sold out to hyperscalers?
I agree with the sibling comment: this is just broadly dysfunctional and the presence of a something formally labeled an "OKR" is not the cause. At worst, the OKR enabled or exacerbated it.
I'm fascinated by the quantity of audio stuff in the catalog. I guess audio was the mainstream nerd outlet in the 80s...computers were too new (I was a young adult, very much into my Commodore 64 in 1985. Audio wasn't on my radar, though I'd be getting my first Walkman in a few years).
Out of interest, what other tools might be "better" than Pandas?

I like pandas, and python.
Generating embeddings is relatively simple with a model and Python code. There's plenty of them on HuggingFace, along with code examples.

all-MiniLM-L6-v2 is a really (if not the most) popular one (albeit not SotA), with 384 dimensions: https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v...

Edit: A more modern and robust suite of models comes from Nomic, and can generate embeddings with 64 to 768 dimensions (https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5).

When the author talks about thousands of dimensions, they're probably talking about the OpenAI embedding models.
I promise this is not intended as snark: if you already have .php files used for the build, why then do string and memory management in C?
I think it's abundance in one's material conditions. That's not technology. Technology is knowledge. That's completely different.
> Show HN: Polymath: Convert any music-library into a sample-library with ML

I tried this the other day. There's several issues regardless of using the pinned versions in requirements.txt and trying to use debian bullseye and python 3.10.10 as implied by the provided dockerfile. At least these I noted:

- fix deprecated np.bool usage

- module 'scipy.signal' has no attribute 'hann' --> change to scipy.signal.windows.hann

- librosa.feature.melspectrogram(y, change to y=y

- needs CUDA 11

I got it to work without gpu acceleration cause of the last point. If I come back to this I'll probably just look at using demucs, librosa etc. directly (polymath.py is only ~600 lines gluing things together) and hopefully get it working with latest nvidia drivers.

Also if I have days to let this compile maybe I could get CUDA 11 from this https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cuda-11.7
Some random note:

1. Good: The answer is verified by checking the absolute position. You can pass the level with any valid answer -- including non-grid variant.

2. Ugly: It send google analytics for every attempt.
What do you mean by Bluetooth tunnel? I'm curious about that setup.
htmx was a mashup of $.load(), pjax and angular 1 style attributes (very different conceptual model but I saw how angular used custom attributes and thought that looked better than the JavaScript api I had cooked up)

later on I figured out that what I was doing was generalizing hypermedia controls, but that took me years to figure out.
> I'm glad we finally agree that wealth is finite.

Wrong, wealth is not finite and it can be - and is - increased. Yes, the amount of wealth at Monday, 03-Jun-24 04:12:33 UTC is going to be finite, because that's a fixed point in time. This is just a pointless tangent, because in our world time is not frozen. In our reality, where time flows, wealth is not finite and is indeed grown in absolute terms.

> That's cold comfort for people who never live to see a time when they can compete for those goods and services.

Yes, people who lived in preindustrial societies saw more or less fixed living standards for generations. But fortunately for us, we live in one of the most economically dynamic points of in all of human history [1]. Your statement does ring true for most of human history, but not in our age.

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_GDP_per_capita...
Udio's instrumentals seem to be better than Suno's, but the reverse is certainly true for vocals. God these tools are fun. Here's one I made a little earlier: https://suno.com/song/a6a53f5a-0c4f-4602-9654-404de0008719

Udio has some truly hilarious songs on the platform, I'm in tears listening to them with my buddy: https://www.udio.com/songs/sThXmpDS5Jt8e9cJgE6VQf
Many of those CEO I've experienced could be replaced with dice just as easily.
Crossing threads a bit: I don’t think I would put the LDS in the homeschooling bracket in the UK. From what I have always understood, Mormons have tended to be integrationists here; the opposite of extreme.

The minority faiths that engage in homeschooling are more likely to be Christian Scientists and some of the British minority groups such as the Plymouth and Exclusive Brethren. The latter particularly (think Amish, but with very English sensibilities and our commitment to petty bureaucracy, and you are most of the way there; come to think of it, they might be quite successful at some aspects of homeschooling). Even many Seventh Day Adventists send their kids to mainstream schools here.
I was going to mention that, too, but the author does provide a link below to https://erlef.github.io/security-wg/secure_coding_and_deploy... which does talk about the sensitive flag.

It also talks about the using `private` ETS tables. However, in general terms, I would say, stuff that prevents data being dumped into the logs is very useful, but trying to protect it against inspection assuming an attacker has gained remote shell access is a bit of a fool's errand, and it has to be balanced against the inconvenience of trying to debug the system when things go wrong -- tracing that sensitive process, checking the contents of that private ets table, etc.
This needs to be higher up.

I miss tabloids at the grocery checkout with aliens and Bigfoot on the cover.

I miss Mad Magazine.

Some of that old junk was good!
It seems hopeless to me. Clearly the company restructuring to separate assets from liabilities should be criminalized and corporate directors / executives should be subjected to criminal prosecutions but that very rarely happens.

The entire concept of corporations as a shield from liability is actually really dubious in my opinion.
This idea sounds familiar. Isn't this basically "Value-added Modeling", which looks at how much teacher contribute to individual differences in increases in student test scores? [1] Has this not been applied at the school level!?

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=valu...
I definitely don’t think everyone else is dumb, or that htmx is right for everything, or particularly novel.

I do enjoy the lols I will admit that, hopefully as much at my own expense as anyone
That's only part of it. Do you mean intra-city transit or inter-city transit? Highways are used by car drivers to move within the city (or between cities in the same metro area, such as between Yokohama and Tokyo), not just between far-apart metro areas.

One huge difference between the US and Japan here is parking. Having a car is one thing, but where are you going to park it when you arrive at your destination? If you're driving between two towns or smaller cities, this might not be an issue, but if you're driving between Yokohama and Tokyo, it probably is. The car is only a feasible choice if you're traveling between points where there's a place for you to park. So of course, this drives a lot of traffic onto the trains and keeps ridership very high.
I think he refers to FPU, not GPU.

In the old days, FPU do async computation.

FPU is now a considered an integrated part of CPU.
This actually made me chuckle, although it took an embarrassingly long second.
Surely growth measures require repeated testing (so one can see how the differences between student at Time A vs. Time B), not necessarily adaptive tests? Maybe I'm missing something; could you help me understand?
Great link and great article: I'm slowly working through it. A treat.
If a truck uses more gas than a car while going at the same speed, is the truck more gas-friendly?
I understand the economy these days isn’t the best, but ~$100 for a QR code is a bit too much.
Except for fun maybe, whats the use case of this thing though?
What they did makes sense if Microsoft thought BASIC was important for the Mac, and that their BASIC could satisfy that important need.

If they didn’t think BASIC was important, or if they knew their implementation was rubbish, makes far less sense.
> The wealthiest people tend to come from affluent countries with low poverty.

How do you think the less-affluent countries became that way? By enriching the affluent countries, that's how.
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Hey guys, if you haven't checked this guide out yet I highly recommend it. Really breaks down all the meta builds.
Technology is the application of knowledge. Often to improve one's material conditions. Even an average person in this day's age has amenities that nobody, not even the wealthiest noble, could have achieved in preindustrial eras. We have air conditioning, electricity, antibiotics, vaccines, antiseptic, and near-instant communication worldwide. Our material conditions have drastically improved. Wealth is not finite, not even remotely.
I like the sibling comment idea of using AI eventually.

But in general for public transportation I think running at a loss is not unreasonable. It's nice if it's profitable, but it's ok if it isn't. Hopefully it's reducing emissions, giving people who can't or don't want to drive reliable access to their employment, etc. is still worth it.
Do we think this is likely? Surely if we also have an incentive that compares schools to each other in terms of their test scores at the same time -- which we currently do now -- then schools could be both incentivized to a) maximize the scores at every grade, and b) increase the scores the most?
Lynx

Or you could just use the terminal browser Lynx, that will display all sites as text-only.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
Dealing with creaky legacy platforms – Making things better
I'm looking forward to use: https://github.com/extism/extism
Original paper:

>With its provenance, this astrolabe is one of the earliest Islamic astrolabes documented in early modern Italy still preserved today.

...

>The astrolabe is Andalusian, and from the style of the engraving and the arrangement of the scales on the back, it can be compared to instruments made in Spain in the eleventh century. The astrolabes made in Toledo by Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Sahlī during the period of the Taifa (ca. AD 1018–1085) present similarities...

https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/39/1/article-p163_9.xml
> Make intelligent use of VLANs.

What does this mean?
That was all the console modding scenes.

Toxic, necessarily so.
Try music.youtube.com, it's just music.
As I said, just because it happens all the time does not mean it's statistically correct. I've dug into enough statistical analysis to know that researchers whose field is not statistics simply do not understand statistics enough to know when they're screwing up. Most of them don't even know to apply a correction for applying multiple tests, and you're assuming they'll use statistics that assume they might stop early? Come on. You're imputing a lot more competence to the general case than I believe is actually present, which is my point.
Does this mark the moment in history where China has now surpassed the US and is the new global superpower?

The scale and rate at which China is innovating in space, science, and technology is pretty compelling for the majority of the world.
No there are a lot of asymmetries still. Knowing something is bad easy. Actually having access to something good, and knowing how to shop for it and acquire it and get it an affordable price, is hard. As is knowing, for the producers, that people want certain things and will pay for them, or would pay for them if marketed to correctly.
Unlike the other comment, I am a bit more of the extrovert kind but most 1-on-1 are just a waste of time, we usually ended up repeating same things than previous meetings or chitchatting which we also do on coffee breaks or lunch time.
There are some strange-looking ones too (圖-図、圓-円), but agree that overall it was lighter touch. I think all simplification projects have an inherent awkwardness in taking handwriting shorthand or cursive and trying to reformalize it back to print. In any case it's a shame that there was no coordination due to obvious geopolitical conflicts, that we're now left with 3 sets. It was easier last time, 2.2k years ago when some dude took over all places that wrote Chinese characters and forced a single way of writing :)
Comparison using the same prompt "A happy hardcore song about Java"

https://www.udio.com/songs/iM61w7bodYwQYiyrDkKL31

https://suno.com/song/b7cf4b70-d5a2-49ee-9355-16db743d988c

I think the suno one is amazing!
A sailboat costs $500+ on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace.

We had one when my mom was cleaning a convalescent home as her job, and commuting 35 miles one way to do it.

My dad worked 55+ hours a week, and commuted 60 miles one way to do it.

So unless you think my dad let my mom clean hospital floors and bathrooms while we weren't low income, I'd argue you can.
It's often public services that have reaffected resources while that place was closed, and found after Covid that they couldn't spare (of justify sparing) these resources again once they contemplated reopening the place.

Ie, while that historic greenhouse in the city park was nice and appreciated by some people, now that the two gardeners who were working in it part-time have to take care of the newly planted trees along the streets, it's not possible to put them back to the less essential greenhouse and they don't have budget for hiring two new gardeners. So the greenhouse stays closed.
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In the end if reading content, especially content that is emotionally evocative, does not initiate some sort of change in action or thinking, it is useless.

The overwhelming majority of political content is useless. Did you do anything? Did anything actually happen? You could spend a week in late October doing whatever reading you need to inform your vote, and nothing more, and it would still more than is ultimately useful if you’re not going to do anything about it.
The name has a similar vibe to Dynaflow and Hydra-Matic, also names from that era, and I thought it was something automotive at first.
I don't want to switch to Wayland for now, but I will check foot when I do.

I do the same thing with URxvt as a systemd daemon, Tmux as a transient service with systemd-run from .bashrc, and a script in i3wm to run URxvtd client or hide/get the window.

The way I use to run Tmux from a transient service locally and in ssh with the same .bashrc is nice I think. Tmux will survive the terminal and even if I close my session and come back to it:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# ~/.bashrc: sourced by bash(1) for non-login shells.

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
*i*) ;;
*) return ;;
esac

chmod 700 ~/.bashrc.d
chmod 600 ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.d/*

# check if we are already in a Tmux session and not in ssh then open/attach the default one
if [[ ! "${TERM}" == "tmux"* ]] && [[ -z "${TMUX}" ]] && [[ -z "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ]] && command -v tmux 1> /dev/null; then
# attach or start the local default Tmux session
if systemctl --quiet $([[ $(id -u) != 0 ]]; echo "--user") is-active tmux-local-$(id -un).scope; then
tmux -L local-$(id -un) attach-session -t local-$(id -un) ; exit
fi
systemd-run -q --unit tmux-local-$(id -un) --scope $([[ $(id -u) != 0 ]] && echo "--user") tmux -L local-$(id -un) new-session -s local-$(id -un) ; exit
elif [[ -z "${TMUX}" ]] && [[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ]] && command -v tmux 1> /dev/null; then
# attach or start the ssh default Tmux session
if systemctl --quiet $([[ $(id -u) != 0 ]]; echo "--user") is-active tmux-ssh-$(id -un).scope; then
tmux -L ssh-$(id -un) attach-session -t ssh-$(id -un) ; exit
fi
systemd-run -q --unit tmux-ssh-$(id -un) --scope $([[ $(id -u) != 0 ]] && echo "--user") tmux -L ssh-$(id -un) new-session -s ssh-$(id -un) && exit || echo 'Tmux Systemd unit failed/exited'

fi

# if Tmux is not installed or if we are inside a Tmux session continue the sourcing
for file in ~/.bashrc.d/*.bashrc;
do
source "${file}"
done
> If information is increasingly hyper-abundant and attention is not, we must increasingly learn to value high bandwidth / compressed communication. Like TikTok.

What has grown is irrelevant information. We don't need compressed communication (which loose nuance and is dangerous, because it leads to erroneous understanding) or high bandwidth one (which doesn't lead to reflection and internalization).

What we need is better filtering. Be conscious and mindful of what you're spending your time on. Instead of watching 500 hundreds video of making cakes, just buy a cookbook and go make cakes.

> However, I've seen a 10 second TikTok monkey-see-monkey-do beat a 10 page instruction manual full of diagrams and paragraphs at effectively instructing newbies who always struggled with cable assemblies -- until they didn't, because they had TikTok.

Short Training Videos existed before tiktok (I had a VHS tape for learning Windows and it was mostly a collection of these). But that's mostly like watching someone play a song on the piano and believing you can do it too. If you have a good memory, you can probably replay the same song, but you still can't play the piano. Some fields don't have that depth of theory. But books are still the best at transmitting it (watching an expert is best at understanding it).
If you hook this up to a vision model you can basically have a bard following you around and singing about your every move.
The thing is being reported on space.com. According to their owner's bio: "We're home to the world's top specialist media brands, reaching 1 in 3 adults online in the us and the uk"
The vocals seem to always come out a bit hot, also for some reason they turn out a bit worse when generating backwards.

I'm glad you like the song :)
I get a lot of interesting insights out of TikTok, as well as funny joke videos.

I like a good laugh. If something is boring or dumb I swipe past pretty fast. TikTok catches on quick and treats me pretty good.
I think one of the reason could be not applying to companies which is proper fit for you!

Also, in today’s world referral is also important. Reach out directly to people you know! I found a website which curates job related posts in one place - https://www.careerbrige.com/

Hope this helps!
The author is just talking about the usual problems of social media.

I thought he was going to address the academic problem of too many bad papers. Or worse, press releases from university PR departments. There are far too many "we got this modest lab result, trillion dollar world changing industry by next year" articles. Published journals are no longer real sources of authority. Academic link-farming is a thing.

It takes so much effort to push back. Remember the uBeam ultrasonic charging scheme?
That scam kept going for over a decade. Finally went bust.[1]

[1] https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/54800-92#overview
I’m not who you were replying to but I’ve had positive experiences working with polars: https://pola.rs/
Listening to some of these, it is so extraordinary to think an algo created and performed the music, all I find myself wondering is how much these songs resemble a particular song it was trained on.
I'm in SF but I'd be willing to meet in SJ for a book club. Email me at julian@excelsitor.com if you want to help start this. Replying to others who said yes too.
> This is circular reasoning

It's not circular reasoning because it's not even reasoning. It's a claim. I have not attempted to justify it. I could, and I may, but I haven't tried to (yet).

> This is stated without evidence.

Yes. It's another claim. I'd be happy to explain it if you like.

> It's a good thing economics isn't actually 0 sum because with more than 10x population growth since the 1700s we'd be fighting over loaves of bread.

People still find it difficult to obtain even basic needs like food, even in what another commenter referred to as one of the "affluent" countries.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
I'm in SF but I'd be willing to meet in SJ for a book club. Email me at julian@excelsitor.com if you want to participate.
The enshittification of Google Search and Social Network sites has made it much more difficult to find the local, high-quality option. It's hard to identify them among a sea of scams and low-quality China imports with a million different brand names.

I will say that the China imports have drastically improved in quality while the alternatives have consistently deteriorated or disappeared.
Don't have what? Teacher, restaurant workers and custodial staff have jobs.

But regardless, your argument is that new, higher paying jobs are bad because other people make less?

Do you hold a general belief that all progress is "bad" because deprecates existing things? If so, how far does this go?

Would you consider a new cancer drug "bad" because all those people who received an older drug didn't get to experience such good results?

This seems like an "anti-progress" mindset.
Youtube certainly has a decent amount of good content in most fields I've tried if you want it. Khan Academy seems like a good resource at the lower level. For university material, just add "lecture 1" to your search term and look for a playlist with ~40 items, and you'll probably find a university lecture series (I just tried it with "anatomy" and "contract law" it seems to have found some). For math and physics (and maybe other fields) there's even a decent number of graduate level courses on youtube.

Unsupervised youtube sounds pretty awful for most kids, but with some guidance, if you have a curious, gifted kid, it could be a dream for them.