skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope I am not wrong, but there is so much music out there already that success today is not about the quality of the music but instead about the audience's connection with the artist.

If there is no artist I don't see how any strong following could be built. (Obviously AI will carve easily into elevator music etc.)

Who will ever look up a song and favourite it on Spotify if there are no humans behind it?
Regions – Linking Prompts to Paint Layers – Krita AI Plugin [video]
I was wondering on how Stockfish encodes the destination and origin square in 5 bits each. I think they don't, at least the code on github uses 6 bits each, which actually gives you 64 possible values, so works out fine:

https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/master/...

Thats 16 bits.
Thank you for sending me down that (small) rabbit hole!
Show HN: Billy – Scan bills and split with friends
Hi all! This is a tool I made some time ago to quickly split bills with friends and acquaintances. May be useful for others too!
Birthday cards are slop too
That's an easy solution. But there is a lot of hidden complexity and it also makes you reliant on third parties https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/01/25/mid...
Me too, oof
Listening isn't illegal so you can do that without moving. People move just to listen to different things with limited range, one form of it is called wardriving if you're doing it to wifi for example.
In the same vein, Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jGuXSZgv6qfdhMCuJ/refusal-in...
Could anyone recommend a Noam Chomsky talk about language? I'm curious about his work but have never read or listened to anything from the man.
In Poland it’s 33%
Spotify Alumni Lead in VC-Backed Startups
Back in the 90's we had to leave our computers running all night, to get nice images out of POV-Ray, this brings back some memories.
The same view that is held by a plethora of senior western officials such as Obama, William Burns (Former ambassador to Russia), Gates (Former Secretary of Defence), Angela Merkle, etc.
You can't mandate retention on stuff you're not storing anyway - or because of encryption can't store.
The cynical argument is that Christie pulled out of ARC to win points with conservative voters ahead of a presidential run. That is probably where I land. However, construction started in 2009 (when NJ budget was massively strained) and NJ's public pension underfunding was a growing and looming crisis. Christie was the first governor to start making large payments to the pension in an effort to catch up. It is possible that he made a "pragmatic" decision of something easy to cut in the moment given the shrinking revenue and ballooning obligations. In other words, he could kick the can down the road on ARC but pension was a requirement.

https://new.mta.info/document/101141

It looks like the MCTMT tax is about $2 billion out of $9 billion of operating subsidies. It isn't clear to me whether that is levied on nonresident employees. The Metropolitan Mass Transportation Operating Assistance (MMTOA)is the biggest contributor to subsidy (which sounds like sales tax and a few others), along with the gas tax, property transfer, and a few others. All in all, I think it's fair to say that the NYS budget isn't meaningfully contributing to the MTA relative to other sources.

Personally, I wish the federal government would do more to help with the NY/NJ dynamics. Be the go between, manage the conflicting interests. We can do so much better with harmonization of transit networks, and the region already gives so much to the rest of the country. But I also think voters in both states need to be more aware of the actual issues we have been talking about here. There seems to be so little understanding of how things work and why things are the way they are. Maybe informed voters could tip the scales enough for NY/NJ politicians to play better together, or at least talk to these real issues.
> Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is an American government-funded international media organization

The purpose of RFERL is to produce news items that are covertly critical of the enemy. It adds up with other resources to paint a negative image of the enemy.
People will just follow curators, who pull the right AI music into the right playlists.
Hopefully the enshitification of the net kills the social net splintering the web into a pre facebook era.
NSA already has all our data and if they don't, they have direct contacts at Meta and Alphabet to get it same-day delivery.

I'm trusting Apple more in this case, they have an incentive to keep things private and according to experts they're doing everything they can to do so.

"Indeed, if you gave an excellent team a huge pile of money and told them to build the best “private” cloud in the world, it would probably look like this." - Matthew D. Green
I agree with his sentiment, but his wording is rather offensive to barbarians. Profiteering is enabled by the fine civilisational invention called "intellectual property".
https://support.apple.com/en-us/105004
> Gaming is a specialist activity poorly suited to general purpose computing.

I think this is terribly myopic. Gaming and game modding/development resulted from it hugely contributed to general purpose computing in general, possibly more than any other activity. And it was only possible with games running on a general-purpose platform, not a gaming appliance.
We wrote some small tools with Turbo Pascal to generate number of scene files, then rendered these to create small animations. Having a camera move over a reflective chessboard was pretty amazing.
His site has the same resolution, it's just scaled down on the page: https://sashamaps.net/images/roman_roads_original.png
> Since you use language like "neoliberal corporate capitalist" and "ruling classes" consider that you are so far on the left yourself that everything seems center-right at best to you.

That’s...very much not true. I use terminology more popular with people to the left of my own position because it is the most fit for the purpose.

> Is The Guardian not socialist enough to your tastes or something?

The Guardian is left of the median of major Western media outlets, not a representation of where the Western media is centered.
People like me who mostly take songs at face value, valuing them by music and lyrics, and don't really care about who wrote or performed them, much less what else they're up to in their lives?

That said, the quantity of music is in itself a problem. Half the value of art is in experiencing the same thing as others. It's going to get even harder with cheap generative art. The better it is, the worse the situation gets.
I've found them to be a real pain in the arse because they're implemented so inconsistently. Only the biggest sites are offering them, but it's those big sites where I'm worried about locking myself out because of setting it up wrong.
You caused the ewaste, not Apple. Why did you buy a device that you don't want to use, and why don't you sell or donate it to somebody who wants to use it?
Any apple device has much better usability than a windows machine, regardless of RAM.
Also reminded me of the internet ray tracing competition https://www.irtc.org/ where many submissions would’ve been produced using POV Ray.
It's like saying the war in Iraq has no effect on the current situation there.
I think you’re referring to my comment about this being huge for developers?

Just want to point out I call this launch huge, didn’t say “huge development” as quoted, and didn’t imply what was interesting was the ML research. No one in this thread used the quoted words, at least that I can see.

My comment was about dev experience, memory swapping, potential for tuning base models to each HW release, fine tune deployment, and app size. Those things do have the potential to be huge for developers, as mentioned. They are the things that will make a local+private ML developer ecosystem work.

I think the article and comment make sense in their context: a developer conference for Mac and iOS devs.

Apple also explicitly says it’s LoRA.
I think the logic is based on pragmatism. A different piece has a chance of capturing the pawn later, but a pawn would never be able to since it can't go backwards.
Debian Needs a WinGet
Personally 3/4 times I'll put my big Spotify playlist on random or play a Spotify curated playlist. Certainly there is scope there for Spotify to select songs based on their licensing costs.

I've certainly had a hunch that certain songs get much more frequent rotation than others on my liked songs playlist (although I appreciate humans are notorious for picking out patterns where there are none!)
But old iPads already work for yeeeears.

My work ipad pro is 4 years old, and I can't be bothered to replace it (I can upgrade for free at work, at the 'cost' of having to migrate my apps and data etc...)

My personal ipad mini 3 has been travelling with me until last year, as ebook reader. Sure it was heavily handicapped in the sense that I did not get app updates or any new apps really. But I still have my books and goodreader app, and still had VLC, and until very recently also netflix. That thing was 9 years old and I only retired it because work unlocked my work ipad so I only travel with 1 ipad now.
The M-series CPUs are stupidly effective in LLM operations. Even my relatively old M1 mac mini can do decent speeds of 7B models.

And Apple clearly has made some custom server hardware and slapped a ton of them on a board just to do the PCC stuff.
It takes 10+ seconds to load the 1Password extension window in Firefox after some upgrade this year. They really screwed something up.
Fun but seems a bit too easy, but based on the percentage of people getting to 23 it seems okay?

The last word was 7 letters I think? Would increase it to 8/9 letters to really make it hard
And if there is, they’re probably not going to be burning those resources on little people problems like phishing.
In Romania it's 24.7%
See also (from the same author) https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c — "LLMs in simple, pure C/CUDA with no need for 245MB of PyTorch or 107MB of cPython."
I encrypt the number and get the math formula.
Then I went to ChatGPT to get the results.
Unfortunately, because there were pi and e in the formula the end result was different.
Great tool but some potential issues with end results
Push notifications are on a whole different level than "full access to your phone".
I wonder what it would take to mathematically prove that consciousness can't be reduced to elementary math. Probably some kind of insane proof by contradiction.
I know, I lived through it, and it was great at the time. Note that I was responding to OP who said he he'd set aside a Windows PC just for gaming. That would qualify as a gaming appliance in this context.
Thank you, and well said.

> 2. forced to continually output tokens without...

I reference one paper that explores this. It lets a model output identical ellipsis tokens that are then discarded before the final output. It worked pretty well and is interesting.

There is another restriction that I thought about, and think I mentioned a bit in the article which is the grammatical structure. All model outputs must be grammatically sound so you would expect the first few and last few layers to be dedicated to decoding and encoding any thoughts into grammatically correct language. This restricts the number of layers working with free-form thoughts.

> I find most pessimistic dismissive arguments are based on criticism against some imagined standard of perfection...

We are in agreement there. They have their imperfections and issues, we have ours. Our natures are fundamentally different so this should be expected.
> The dead internet theory essentially claims that activity and content on the internet, including social media accounts, are predominantly being created and automated by artificial intelligence agents.

The theory predates the current era of AI generated content:

> The dead Internet theory's exact origin is difficult to pinpoint, but it most likely emerged from 4chan or Wizardchan as a theoretical concept in the late 2010s or early 2020s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

And just my personal 2cents; I believe this was the result of predatory SEO.
Impressive mental gymnastics.
I think artists should get some option of marking the music as AI generated. Right now that option does not exist on Spotify even if you want to.
>A while back, I made a rather fatalistic prediction: that barring a radical intervention, in a decade or two, most of exchanges on the internet will be faked. It’s not pessimism; it’s that our aggregate capacity for human-to-human interactions is inherently capped. In contrast, the ability to generate human-like text, images, and audio is now almost infinitely scalable — and from customer support, to marketing, to cybercrime, there are powerful incentives to crank it up to eleven.

I'm waiting for the first ChatBot to talk to customer support ChatBots for me.
> 2. Represent our users: We build deeply personal products with the goal of representing users around the globe authentically. We work continuously to avoid perpetuating stereotypes and systemic biases across our AI tools and models.

How do they represent users around the globe authentically while being located in Cupertino, CA? (more of a rhetorical question really)
Costa cappuccino has five times more caffeine than Starbucks
"ensuring that clients will refuse to talk to non-audited systems."

I'm trying to understand if this is really possible. I know they claim so but is there any info on how this would prevent Apple from executing different code to what is presented for audit?
The "relaxing piano for studying" type playlists get a huge amount of streams, and they're among the easiest to fill with AI slop
Ask HN: What is the best fashion photo annotation/labelling library?
What is the best ready-to-use open-source library for labelling/annotation of clothes photos? Adding annotations like "red dress" or "short sleeve".
You have drunk the Youtuber Kool-Aid way too much. Also, quit the Apple superiority complexe.

There are plenty of professional illustrators using tools other than iPad Pros, in fact most serious ones are still using Wacoms and the likes as you mentioned.
The Surfaces devices and the likes are just as competent as iPads (if not more) they just don't have the same halo effect and there are people like you spitting a lot of bullshit to keep the superiority complexe alive.

Apple would like people to see the iPad Pro as the only good illustration tool, but the truth is, considering the price and software support it's actually not a great one.
Since a "real" computer is going to be needed for work before delivery, if you don't need the extreme mobility, it's pretty stupid to buy an iPad instead of a traditional drawing surface.

But it doesn't matter, since Apple doesn't sell their devices to rational people, it's all about emotional marketing so whatever...
Some people, and some companies, are given too much soapbox time.

Elon Musk, and OpenAI. I would pay good money to never hear those names again.
So long as I know it uses AI generated vocals or instruments it's A-OK with me. It's an emerging genre. Whether it's junk is going to depend a lot on how the director corrals the output. I've listened to plenty of junk already. Amateur work can be fun to try and I'm curious how this will compare to Vocaloid or autotuned stuff.
Why don't the affected brands - who are being hurt by this - sue Google?

End-users might sue them too, but Google is more afraid of Disney suing them than random nobody
Showing my age here but povray is what got me into software engineering. I wrote a raytracer in Pascal + Assembly and then in C and ASM

This was in 1995.
Hey Arturs,
Great tool but I think you should highlight more the value that your tool is brining to the table.
For example, if it's a pitch deck then you should show some number and or insights that you have on the background of your (let's say LangChain tool) knowledge vector database. Or something like that.
So, basically, you created a great wrapper but it should target real pain points of the specific audience with specific knowledge.
Hope that would help ;)
> The first link appears to be... presentation software? I think?

Can you try to do at least the bare minimum of trying to understand the text instead of badly extrapolating from the pretty pictures?
> 3D-cards are not designed for raytracing.

That's a rather old statement. Nvidia and Apple GPUs have hardware-accelerated raytracing now. But even without specific raytracing features, lots of renderers use GPU compute for some of the raytracing workflow.
GNX to release a new version of their connectivity platform, GNX+
Nah, this news article (it's not very well written) is about the Defence attorney being held in contempt. That's because he shows up at the judges chambers where the witness and the prosecution are having a conference with the judge.

The judge demands to know who told the defence attorney about the meeting. It's a breach of court security. When the defence attorney, refuses he's held in contempt.

I did misread the chronology. The witness was going to testify, said he wasn't going to anymore, then changed his mind to testify again. I was wrong there's no intimidation, I guess the defence attorney was being a busy body?
Yeah, in my experience it's typically used by people who can't counter your argument and people who seem likely to be fooled by actual bots. They're the same people, as it happens.
So let people make an informed consent and opt-in to include their data. You are free to try to convince people of these benefits and that it outweighs privacy etc... But you do not get to choose for me. I reject technocracy.
Terrifies me. I can't really piss 1Password off, so that'll never be a worry. My iCloud Email can at least be re-directed to Fastmail as I own the domain (other than Hide My Email, which is a shame).
Are you telling me my 3dfx Voodoo card is useless?
Call me crazy but I laminate them (using this https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0C5CV65DQ ) and it works wonders.
Is it supposed to stand for something in the French language as 7726 does in English?
I want to take this opportunity to pitch FreeTube, a open source youtube player that features:

- Ad blocking
- SponsorBlock
- Subscriptions without account
- Latest videos from your subscriptions
- Use YouTube without Google tracking you using cookies and JavaScript
- and more

making youtube a usable thing again

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
A moving definition of intelligence isn't particularly useful though if we are trying to establish if something classifies as intelligent or not.

But I think we have at least moved from a state of computers that are less 'intelligent' than a fish, to more 'intelligent' than a dog (assuming by intelligent we mean 'ability to solve problems, and to apply knowledge to novel situations' - i.e. while GPT-4 will make illegal chess moves, it would make less illegal moves than a well-trained dog).

We have moved that quickly from fish to dog, so we need to be careful to not let hubris make us think we are that much more special! Dog-intelligence to human-intelligence is a big leap, but maybe not as much of a leap as fish to dog? Or at least dog to ape and ape to human?
Lets examine the major flash points:

Ukraine war won't lead anywhere unless Russia starts to loose and lobs a nuke or European powers decide to get involved directly to save Ukraine. For now its a stalemate.

The destruction of the Gazan Palestinians would also not escalate regionally unless Israel decides to one up and invade Lebanon. Which seems unlikely as America would stop them at the risk of loosing its own standing in the region further.

The Chinese invasion of Taiwan offers the most realistic chance of a World War :) But they have seen the Russian drubbing and know that victory isn't guarantied while defeat might end the Communist party as we know it.

The rest of conflict zones in South Asia, Armenia-Azeri, North-South Korea seem frozen right now.
Have you seen Zamba by chance?

https://arxiv.org/html/2405.16712v1
Not essential enough to pay for it to properly ask for opt-in
For years, Keychain Access would copy disk image passwords from custom keychains into keychains that opened at login, defeating my attempts at extra security.

I don't trust 'Passwords'.
Try reading a recipe for a simple chocolate cake. You get the author’s deep rooted trauma of being that weird kid shamed in HS for some reason as well as over sharing of political stances on the war in Ukraine ending with promoting penny stocks or some MLM pyramid scheme. FFS just give me ingredients and steps.
Oh missed that!

But kinda as expected: only works on 2 android phones (pixel 8 pro, S24).

Pretty typical: Apple isn’t first, but also typically will scale faster with HW+platform integration.
A historian I know rants a lot about the fashion to write historic books in anything but chronological order.

There's a lot of machinery in our brains that automatically parse chronological stories for dependencies and correlations. If you break up the order you throw it all away and everything becomes manual. It makes it easier to force people to agree with your interpretation, nothing feels "off".

It's like writing sequential imperative code vs a bunch of callbacks. Pretty obvious what's easier to debug.
> We have seen this with using old desktop computers to browse the web.

That's not always the case though. ;)

About 3 years ago I got hold of a fully function dual Xeon system from around 2004 (!).

Only really wanted the case (old workstation, built like a tank) but the system itself still powered on and ran Win7 perfectly fine. Each of the two Xeon cpus was a single core thing (this was from before multi core), ran at ~3Ghz, and used about ~100w.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_processors_...

... and it played back Youtube videos perfectly fine. I think they were 1080p ones too, rather then 720p.

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We've seen that in later years (past this example above), computing power become "good enough" so that even old computers are completely workable more than a decade later.

Later model iPads will probably be the same, "good enough" for years after Apple is done with them.
This might be true for competitive games with an intrusive anti-cheat, but not for gaming in general. I also keep an isolated PC specifically for these games, for my kids and myself - only because of the anticheat. But games like KSP always go to the main PC full of tools and possibilities to mod and tinker.
LLMs are basically attention machines. Just like the steam engine did physical work, LLMs do mental work.

You can't get a steam engine to dig a hole though. It was used to pump water. Then carry things. Then locomotion. They were limited to rails. They did take jobs. Then other kinds of engines appeared. They did things steam engines didn't do so well.

But turning an engine to a bulldozer isn't easy and that created a lot of new jobs. Right now LLMs are doing the equivalent of pumping water. Heavy, boring, tedious things that humans don't really want to do. I hated doing data entry and cleaning and LLMs are great at that.

One thing many creatives won't admit is that a lot of their work is generic and repetitive, simply requiring lots of attention to get good output. Screenwriters were one of the first people I've observed utilizing LLMs, because they understood this. Someone hacked Copilot to start writing scripts. There's probably a lot of things it can do, perhaps in animation and logo design and stuff. And there's a lot it can't do. But they're shocked because it's doing the "soulful" stuff that people thought made them human, when it's actually just the advantage of having a huge training database of tropes.

Will art go obsolete? The first knowledge worker to lose his job to AI was Kasparov, and yet human chess is still more popular than ever.
We will see, in practice Siri has been pretty much useless even if hyped in demos. I keep pretty low expectations