skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is just a "things were better in the good old days" opera remix.

Anyone who thinks you can't hear dramatic new opera singers who can project to fill a house and last night after night just hasn't been going to opera and listening with any sort of open mind

For example off the top of my head

Jonathan Lemalu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-HTrrOBDxQ

That's a pretty big new voice right there.

Helen Charlston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19RJKnh9hbU

Amazing dramatic soprano with beautiful clear diction

etc etc I could think of tens of examples if I had a bit more time.
Longer than that. This guy,

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

made a name for himself a couple of decades ago with an approach to predicting earthquakes, financial crashes and other catastrophes:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.022581999
Probably Sweden.

Edit: I knew Sweden is a piracy hub but I was under the wrong impression regarding how Sweden legally sees piracy. Yes this is where TPB was raided, but also this is where TPB launched, and there seems to be a certain ideology in Sweden that propels sites like TPB. Either way, please stay safe online.
> but deploying "racks" of 4090s for AI tasks is (frankly) flat-out stupid.

You seem to be trapped in the delusion that this was anyone's first, second, or third choice.

There is workload demand, you can't get H100s, and if you don't start racking up the cards you can get the company will replace you with someone less opinionated.
Not once ever have I purchased a game because of a character's voice and looks. In fact, most of the time, I'm skipping the "I wanted to be a director, instead I make games" cut scenes. Does spending money on that actually increase sales for games? I get having great looking assets, but voices?
Not named "enron2", alas.
Maybe the effect can manifest when oils from the meat/fat and water separate similar to the effect with gas/oil? With this hypothesis the iridescence would be incidental to the meat having gone bad but more to do with age and not maintaining structural integrity/consistency.
Is LibGen & Sci-Hub at risk of coming down? I know it's a game of cat and mouse, but I was just under the assumption that they were both doing fine relatively speaking. And what makes Anna's Archive better/different?
I think Turkey would be fine but I don't know or have anything to base it off of
It wasn't that extreme, it was what I would consider a medium level of turbulence. I just realized my comment wasn't written correctly - the bank itself is what caused the issue, not that it just suddenly started banking unexpectedly. What was interesting was that it specifically started and stopped as it eased into and out of the turn.
they sell market protection. to google.

it makes crawlers much more expensive. makes everyone depend on their CDNs etc.
Lossy compression has its practical uses. Under ideal circumstances nobody is going to stop you from using FLAC.
A couple lists:

https://kycnot.me/?t=service (not just hostings)

https://bitcoin-vps.com/ (an extensive list for ones that accept BTC, most accept other coins too)

There are hundreds of VPS hosters that accept crypto, but the important part is that a lot of them are not happy about abuse reports either way, so you'll probably have to use a VPN (like Mullvad) on the VPS itself to not get it suspended :)
The 360 didn't pick HD-DVD as it's format, the built-in drive was just regular DVD. The HD-DVD drive was an external add-on that they sold along with the 360 Media Remote.
It does one thing BitTorrent doesn't — you can compose a new CAR file by combining a few new chunks with a bunch of existing chunks. So you don't get the problem where releasing a new version of an archive means nobody's seeding it; and anyone moving over to seeding the new version stops seeding the old version. Instead, the new file is already pre-seeded by all the old version's seeders on all but the new chunks (because they're seeding the chunks, not the file); and the old file stays seeded as the seeders find the new version and seed its blocks too.

Really, BitTorrent could do this by making all torrent files a small fixed size and then having "torrent files of a directory of torrent files" where the torrent client knows to queue the sub-torrents as they're discovered+downloaded in the parent torrent. But that's not how any part of the ecosystem works. IPFS is a "do over" that allowed them to fix this.
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Why is everyone acting like this is some radio active data.

If you don't distribute further, it should be pretty ok to download and play with this?
There are some server hosters that you can buy with a locally bought paysafe card. They mostly cater to young gamers that want to host private servers but don't necessarily have access to the banking system yet. They will however very likely nuke your server the second they get a dcma notice. So you need a vpn setup on that server too. Several providers offer bitcoin payment, with mullvad you can buy scratch-off tickets on amazon, which would be the most anonymous option. Of course setup has to be done on a public wifi and requires some custom setup.

Alternatively, there's /r/seedboxes over on reddit where most vendors accept bitcoin and get you a complete setup.
It appears that you and I are having different conversations. I said that 1. it is currently possible to run a terminal on Android, which lets you run commands as an unprivileged user on the Android system, and 2. both Android "typical" Linux are perfectly capable of booting into a graphical environment, though non-Android Linuxes frequently allow you to boot to a virtual terminal as well preferentially. Having gone through the whole thread, I guess by "is there an android terminal?" you actually meant to ask "is there an android terminal that gives you a shell inside a transparent VM like ChromeOS does with Crostini?" If that's what you mean, then it's true that that's less developed (though it does exist - https://www.esper.io/blog/android-dessert-bites-13-virtualiz... is one of the better practical guides I've seen for "how do I run a linux VM on my phone?"). Although if that's the main thing you're asking about, I don't understand why we're talking about boot processes at all; VMs in both Android and ChromeOS (and server and desktop Linux, while we're mentioning) are more or less just fancy user applications, they don't affect the boot process.
Laundry, try cooking new recipes, go bouldering with friends. I used to practice Brazilian jiu-jitsu and am thinking of visiting my local gym's open mat on Sundays.
It's fine that you don't agree with the laws, but the guy is asking what the actual legal impact may be if he participates. Answering with "who cares, the laws are dumb" isn't helpful to him... people get arrested and charged against dumb laws all the time, and it sounds like he'd like to avoid that.

edit: this is maybe the link he's after? looks like you need to be logged in to see it though.

https://annas-archive.org/copyright
For photo editing and manipulation

1) https://www.gimp.org/

2) https://www.digikam.org/

3) https://www.darktable.org/

Vector based editing tool

1) https://inkscape.org/

UI/UX

1). https://www.sketch.com/

Desktop publishing

https://www.scribus.net/

But I haven't found a tool that is as good as Adobe Indesign for desktop publishing.
In your effort to reduce bias you are adding bias.
You are projecting your morals and your ethics to be the superior.
Nexus - another very large archive - is using IPFS.
But in my experience Bittorrent works a lot better at this scale. The IPFS UX is full of papercuts, when it isn't outright bugging out or crumbling under the size of the dataset.
> Amber is designed based on the ECMA script syntax. ECMA aims to standardize the syntax for general-purpose scripting languages. This way, you get a familiar syntax across various scripting languages that adhere to ECMA syntax.

I didn't know that ECMAScript had such lofty goals.

Would TypeScript make sense to use? I'm used to having types everywhere but I'm sure many (especially coming from bash) wouldn't.

To me it feels like trading one set of idiosyncrasies for another (or a combination) and we've been warned:

> This project is in the early stages of development with only an alpha release at the moment. Experiment with it if you want but don't use it in a production environment.
That’s not necessarily true. Many companies make chips they won’t sell to support lucrative, proprietary offerings. Mainframe processors are the classic example.

In AI, Google (TPU) and Intel (Gaudi) each have chips they push in cloud offerings. The cloud offerings have cross selling opportunities. That by itself would be a reason to keep it internal at their scale. It might also be easier to support one, or a small set, of deployments that are internal vs the variety that external customers would use.
> Very few modern process so far has lead to more efficient / scarcer use of earths resources

Could you list some of these processes you are referring to?
You might want to remind Bill Nelson of that next time he talks to Congress
Much appreciated. TIL. Was wondering myself.-
Perfectly happy, sure, but also desperately afraid that they’ll someday be held even partially responsible - which is why they spend millions in lobbying to prevent laws and advertising / outreach to curry favour.
I had to do this:

git clone https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool.git
cd shpool
sudo apt install libpam0g-dev
# you may need to install build-essential and other packages too as the
# build-depends field in debian/control is incomplete
dpkg-buildpackage -b
sudo apt install ../shpool_0.6.2_amd64.deb
systemctl --user enable shpool
systemctl --user start shpool
Just delete your account, man.
Did you try it yourself? For me it falls apart if you try to generate anything containing humans. It also struggles with other animals.

If you want to generate an image of yourself, a city, someone sitting in a car, a store or a million other things, humans are often included. Try generating an image of a busy street with no people - it gets a bit dull.

Sure, I don't have to use SD3, but SAI explicitly said that this new model would be better att for example generating hands, so of course people are disappointed.
Isn't that where The Pirate Bay folks were prosecuted?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial
In qBitorrent or similar torrent clients you can explicitly set the vpn network interface they should use. Use split tunneling for you browser or other applications you don't want to use the vpn for.
Llama3Commas
My biggest lament with the PS3 is the forward incompatibility making many great games locked to the platform (MGS4, Demon’s Souls, etc.). Meanwhile in Xbox land there are *633* 360 games you can play on any new Xbox by just slipping the disc in. Now some of this is no doubt due to differing approaches to business by the corporate masters but from what I’ve read a lot of it is the unique and befuddling architecture of the PS3.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backward-compatible_...
Could just send it into the astral plane.
That structure wasn't very old, and yes the locals were furious, but there's extra background to Shadian: there was a locally famous event there where local armed resistance to the government continued successfully for an extended period. This is perhaps a kind of 'payback' from the government.

I visited some of the oldest mosques in China and documented them with photography. One that sticks out in my memory was in Qingzhou, the old capital of Shandong.

In the grand tradition of autocracy, like many other old things, many ancient structures will lose their battle to fate due to paranoid rulers. In the grand tradition of time, however, the rulers will surely lose their own. The difference is, nobody will weep for them.
I wonder if there is any benefit to using something like DwarFS (https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs) for something like this.
Many projects coming out of contractors are using React Native on Google Firebase.
> By seeding these torrents, you help preserve humanity’s knowledge and culture. These torrents represent the vast majority of human knowledge that can be mirrored in bulk.

I am having a hard time reading that claim as anything other than a bad-faith justification. Torrent nodes are not at all a good way to "preserve humanity's knowledge and culture".

EDIT: I'm no longer convinced I'm correct.
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Fair enough. I have heard the narrative that the chips are economic leverage against an invasion and agree it's an insufficient deterrent.
The service you're after, I think, is a Seedbox. Feral Hosting is once such service that accepts payment via crypto.

They're not a VPS in the traditional sense, but they give you a slice of a server, with a torrent client pre-installed.
What about a post or comment that includes proper names?
Devastating potential impact of Google AI Overviews on publisher visibility
>Though it does strike me now that any such service will be primarily used by criminals.

Just think of them as "anti-state actors"

Getting a small VPS with crypto and tunneling from your home seems like a better pathway to me?
That is the mentality that keeps the world down.

Perhaps Great Depression 2.0 will set our priorities straight.
I don't think they made up for it. They are training AIs off of personal data. The open stuff are a desperate red herring.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/meta_ai_training/
I'm told Anna's Archive forces a javascript Cloudflare human-browser check on the visitor.

Given how much data Cloudflare (and other similar giants providing this service) has, this pretty much identifies the person to them.

Any plans to change that to a more privacy-protecting solution?
> we mostly don’t have demand response pricing in the US

What makes you say that? Do you know of a region that does not have DR (demand response) options?

Every US utility I am aware of has had DR programs for commercial and industrial customers for many years. Back when I worked in electricity markets a decade ago only a few had DR programs for residential customers but since then many have added residential DR or have started pilots as they upgrade their residential infrastructure.

TVP (time-variable pricing) is also very common, though moreso with commercial/industrial customers. I'm honestly not sure how many residential customers have the option to pick a provider with TVP/TOU pricing.

Some crazy ISOs (looking at you ERCOT) even allow residential customers to pay rates pegged to RTP (real-time pricing) which is gloriously insane and very Texas.

> A hospital probably needs a backup battery (or a guaranteed slice of the grid’s battery capacity).

Yes. Hospitals often have special utility contracts and get priority when there are brownouts or blackouts. (One benefit of living next to a hospital is that you'll get power back more quickly after a blackout!) But most hospitals still have backup generators, and special circuits so that they only need to power critical equipment.

> we don’t have any incentive to try and automate that inconvenience away, so who knows? Perhaps we could see a resurgence in more efficient designs, like chest freezers.

This is already very common with commercial/industrial customers, but hopefully you're right that as residential customers get more exposure to things like dynamic pricing and home solar generation that more of them will alter their behavior and appliances.
Is it even possible to do this effectively using Mullvad after they removed support for forwarded ports?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113215
Anticipatory Anxiety
How so? We literally have libraries today, and copyright law hasn't burned them down.
More incidents are better? [video]
I never said it's impossible to beat the ARC challenge. It seems like you're making up arguments that don't exist.
Elon Says He Got His Money
The Art of the Epigraph (2014)
I'm currently only using Premiere Pro and InDesign from the Adobe Creative Suite and Inkscape and Gimp from old habit. Never god around to use Photoshop and Illustrator to be honest. I'm planning to end up with this suite:

Premiere Pro -> Davinci Resolve

InDesign -> Affinity Publisher

Illustrator -> Inkscape

Photoshop -> Gimp
Big tech has now added $3.8T in market cap this year
Show HN: We have created a platform that should cool down consultant market
Hey HN.

A few years ago, we realized that every agency owner faced different challenges in building a business. I think it's because they started out as experts in something, but at the same time they don't know much about things like marketing, distribution.

So we created a marketplace where mentors and consultants could help a business and earn money for their time. Sort of like a market for them.
Is PaintShop Pro still a competitive product?

https://www.paintshoppro.com/en/

What about Corel products?

https://www.coreldraw.com/en/all-products/
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Yes, there's an extra S in Fuchsia so I'm 3 trolls in a trench coat pretending to be me.

I hope your day gets better! However you're feeling, it's temporary, it's not worth trolling and doing a know-nothing thing in public, it's too demeaning to yourself.

People can see my comment, profile, and site, and then see you're completely anonymous.

Then they're left with either: A) you're so hung up on an extra S you're lying on purpose B) you're a vindictive liar: you don't care enough to find out who I am, even though it's right in my profile, but you do care enough to pretend it's unknowable or C) youre having some sort of psychotic break from reality
Apparently this "re-vote" on the same compensation agreement doesn't actually change anything about it being struck down in Delaware courts. At best, this vote might influence an appeal.

I had suspected there would be a problem since none of what the Delaware court found to be defective about the deal or the board that was not independent and did no arms-length negotiation has changed. Who knows how much of the rest of the propositions being voted on are also a no-op?
Save the date: Itanium will die at the end of 2025
The "uncanny" is the experience of a loss of control
The space suits are custom fit, but if two astronauts are about the same height, I'd imagine you could make it fit and have it be safe if maybe uncomfortable. Worst case, you could always just not wear a space suit for the trip home. You only need the suit in the case where the capsule depressurizes but still survives reentry. To my knowledge this has only ever happened once. If they really need to leave the space station and there are available seats, this seems like a no brainer. It would be like evacuating from a tsunami in a car that didn't have seatbelts.
The cell processor was pretty good at some calculations. Unfortunately, it wasn't great for writing video games and neither was the tooling.

I recall various news stories about governments buying up PS3s because they could be used for cheap and effective computation at scale.
Musk’s compensation package did not only have goals related to the stock but also profit and production
>releasing a new version of an archive means nobody's seeding it; and anyone moving over to seeding the new version stops seeding the old version

BitTorrent v2 would in theory be able to seed individual files even if they come from a different torrent. But clients have no reasonable way to look for other versions of a torrent that contain a file they already have.

The main Bittorrent clients already support creating and seeding v2 torrent. But there's just no infrastructure for seeding at the individual file level.
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I feel like Microsoft's current stand on this is weird. They're either not as enthusiasting as Qualcomm and just riding along, or their terrible execution makes them move really slow.
so what if I didn't answer their question? its called a comment for a reason. (also: its "them", don't assume their gender like that, come on its 2024)
Postgres is making continual strides, it’s great to follow. It looks like there are some incremental backup improvements on the roadmap too.

I’ll have to dig in deeper, I’m still running 15.
It also be used to track you by telling the site how far you've scrolled (and presumably read) on a webpage

There are add-ons that remove lazy loading but in firefox you can also try setting dom.image-lazy-loading.enabled to false
just because attachment parenting uses historical or "primitive" cultures as example to support it while there exists counter examples from other historic or "primitive" cultures, doesn't mean that the practice itself is a bad idea.

the article is not directly making that claim, but i feel it does imply it.

but does that really matter?

what we really need to look at is how different parenting styles affect children growing up. there isn't enough research on that because the effects are subtle and hard to see.

it took me a few decades to understand how my childhood affected me, and how i spend most of my life searching for the love that my parents could not give me.

i have had the opportunity as a young man to observe different parenting styles with friends, like lovingly involved dads but also the crying out method of putting a baby to sleep, which to me intuitively just felt cruel.

there is a lot of insecurity by young parents, so we tend to look to others for help. our own parents of course and our community. but in this modern times we also have access to examples from other cultures as well as history, and i find it only natural that we use those examples to support our beliefs. just because counterexamples exist, doesn't mean those examples are wrong.

the counter argument is rather, if attachment parenting were wrong, then we should not find any historic examples of it at all. of course the same is true for the opposite, which is why the truth is that we simply do not know enough yet about what is really the best way to raise children. more research is necessary. personally i feel that going with your own intuition is a safe approach.
I wouldn’t want this person managing my pension fund.
Does anyone happen to know if ChatGPT's voice feature uses audio compression similar to Opus? Especially the "heavy 30 percent receiver-side packet loss" example sounds a LOT like the experience I have sometimes.
The original sins:

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304405X76...
As a PSA, one additional reason to seed is because Anna accidentally doxxed herself via GitHub. So it’s worth preserving the archive on the basis that we should expect {the centralized portion of} it to disappear within the next couple years.

I was sad to see that happen, but it’s important to be objective and plan future actions accordingly.

(And sure, there’s always the chance that some random person on GitHub just so happens to be named Anna and is an archival enthusiast, but a jury of one’s peers may find that it passes the reasonable doubt threshold.)

My legal troubles with books3 weighed on me pretty heavily, and I wasn’t even the target. Yet. I can only imagine what it feels like to be waiting for an indictment.

There ought to be some sort of protection for preserving books in bulk. No one is going to read two million books. But of course, one could also argue that having a readily available archive is harming the economic profitability of the works, on the basis that content licensing for AI is now a multimillion industry. It’s weird, because it feels like important work, rather than criminal — someone should put into words exactly what the distinction is.