skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As Terr_ said, HN has a feature that allows mods to give a post a second chance to get comments and upvotes.

The motivation is explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

If you don't know about it, it can cause some head-scratching, as you wonder whether the prior post was just in your imagination:)
I'm not in any sense a lawyer. I don't have the time or inclination to read all of title 47.

I wonder how well the FCC will stand up after Chevron. The AM bits I glanced at look really solid, this is a band, this is a channel this is the maximum rate of amplitude change, tidy technical details spelled out by congress.

But like, the PIRATE act is pretty explicit, 100,000 per day 2 mil max. Perhaps there's some other law that allows the FCC to adjust for inflation. but the bill, as I the non-lawyer reads it, doesn't say anything about inflation.

Seems like they could lower the fine a bit, at least.
I'm saying that expression-based languages encourage a style of programming which would resemble deep hierarchies in a visual language. They don't enforce abstractions via statements and whatnot.
A company that provides a phone service (mobile or other) has to conform to a large amount of regulatory red tape. Why? because either a company before tried to monopolise the entire country, or they killed someone.

Now, large tech companies haven't wholesale killed people (unlike say tobacco, or talc powder, 3M and half of their solvents, weed killer, most car makers, etc etc)

but they have been trying desperately to stop all competition.

They've also been trying to extract as much personal info as possible for profit. Because regulators in the USA are hamstrung, they are used to being able to basically doing stuff that would be illegal if it were in physical stores/pre-existing industries.
For agriculture at large I wonder if that's not going to be the final economic state everywhere in the world, regardless of government. That's just more efficient. Is there anywhere in the world where this trend is reversing and looking healthy?
Great. I feel like the music AIs are flying under the radar at the moment. I assume they will pop off shortly, once people realise how good they have become.
Hopefully they add an upscaling option for songs v<1.5.

Related thoughts -

- I struggled with Udio to get great results. This might be my poor prompting though.

- Suno was better for me - so far, and my prompting is far more successful. This Udio update will hopefully bring it into line with Suno.

- I have had quite a few 'HolySh__t!' moments with Suno, and can now often induce frisson with it.

- More and more, I'm referring to my own creations rather than my Spotify weekly suggestions and Spotify playlists. Probably 1:1:1 ratio now.

- Listening is starting to merge with creating, i.e. I'm listening, extending the song, choosing the best extension, and so on.

- I have a 3 part, 15 minute song that I am actually in awe of. Possibly just my simple brain that loves beeps and boops in my ears, rather than it being a work of art.

- I suspect I'm a layman musically and that some people would find some of the transitions and patterns formulaic / refer to pre-existing art, but for me it is firmly in the 'wow' stage now, and it can fairly reliably garden-path my brain.

- Generative music like this is making me relate music to comedy - Music can almost be like a joke where a slight adjustment in the song tricks the brain slightly and can trigger really interesting emotion, ranging from "ah of course!", "genius!" to "oh that's nice, I wasn't expecting that" and "like a key in a lock".

- The above, for me and for now at least, is only for instrumental songs. Lyrics and vocals still seem banal, robotic, boring, cookie cutter. I haven't managed to get any good lyrics on songs other than a bit of techno with intentionally repetitive/robotic background vocals.

- Suno's extend option for tracks seemed broken a while back but is now fixed.

- I've been thinking about how this affects the live music industry, and I suspect that the DJ scene will be partially eaten from beneath __soon__, once on-the-fly generation is launched - i.e. 'why should we hire a dj for our bar / party when we can just ask SunoDJ to do it for us'.

- Other than on the fly generation, what I _really_ want is for the tracks to be split into stems.

- Suno's paid tiers = you own the copyright. Suno's free tier = They own it. Not sure about Udio.

- Suno = a constant battle to keep it innovative. It does often go generic in terms of timbres, structure etc., but you can break out of that. I think. Again, it might be generic crap I'm creating, and it's my illiteracy that makes it seem unique.

- Dub/dancehall/reggae and MelodicTechno/AmbientTechno are the easier genres to wrangle IMO/IME.
I think each category of Bayesian described in the article generally falls under Breiman's [0] "data modeling" culture, while ML practitioners, even when using Bayesian methods, almost invariably fall under the "algorithmic modeling" culture. In particular, the article's definition of pragmatic Bayes says that "the model should be consistent with knowledge about the underlying scientific problem and the data collection process," which I don't consider the norm in ML at all.

I do think ML practitioners in general align with the "iteration" category in my characterization, though you could joke that that miscategorizes people who just use (boosted trees|transformers) for everything.

[0] https://projecteuclid.org/journals/statistical-science/volum...
Fast(er)API: Optimizing Processing Time – Fabrizio Damicelli
The Green arrays chips are quite interesting in their own right. The ability to have a grid of CPUs each working at part of a problem could be used in parallelizing a lot of things, including the execution of LLMs.

There are secondary consequences of breaking computation down to a directed acyclic graph of binary logic operations. You can guarantee runtime, as you know a-priori how long each step will take. Splitting up computation to avoid the complications of Amdahl's law should be fairly easy.

I hope to eventually build a small array of Raspberry Pi Pico modules that can emulate a larger array than any one module can handle. Linear scaling is a given.
> what you guys have right now is good for people and their lives

Let's see how long it lasts, Europe's economy is terrible and their people are significantly poorer. I don't think their current welfare state is sustainable without tax revenue from large businesses. Eventually every European citizen will be a waiter, hotel staff, or a tour guide.
I don't really get trout mask and I rarely listen to it, but I feel like it needs to be crazy and uneven to be that legendary.
If it was just good, it would be like any other record.
Unfortunately true, but one can also think that it’s a consequence and not the root cause. Why VC should invest if the environment isn’t supportive? A vicious circle :)
> Then it sounds like what you’re saying is there’s a financial market for users like you and I who would rather pay a subscription fee than our data be sold? Or an ad supported tier?

And the vast majority of users don't deserve privacy? Nah, that's a ridiculous argument to make and I'm not going to waste my time with this line of discussion. You're not making a good faith argument. I'm not playing your stupid games.
It was probably just easier to implement. The build script[1] already has the source code, extracting the number from a comment is trivial, while retrieving out-of-band data like Caller ID from the fax server is likely more complicated. For a joke it's not compelling to do that, especially if you've already been fighting the fax server...[2]

[1] https://github.com/lexbailey/compilerfax/blob/main/build_and...

[2] https://github.com/lexbailey/compilerfax/tree/main?tab=readm...
The xyY colour space is designed such that the colours of light you get by blending two points all lie on the line between the two corresponding points. This makes it extremely helpful when you want to figure out which colours you can make with a particular set of primaries. Similarly you can draw the colours corresponding to pure wavelenghts and figure out the entire space of physically possible colours by taking its convex closure.

These features are not really replicable in any other colour space, at best you can use a linear transformation of it (which XYZ already is, and it has almost all properties you could want of a choice of basis).
"Vandalism", "Malicious acts", "coordinated attacks", this is the language being used by European media.

Traditional media is doing EU citizens a disservice. This is state sponsored terrorism and we need to start calling a spade a spade.
In that thread, I mentioned the work on systems analysis and visualization done by the people behind Moose. (a framework for Pharo Smalltalk).

I didn’t follow that project for a while. It seems that their latest work is called Glamorous Toolkit, and the presentation is worth watching and relevant to this thread:

https://youtu.be/_ztGZpo9I9E?si=MiND4AXo43l50rAH

https://gtoolkit.com/
Ah, perhaps I filled in a context that wasn't there since the parent article was about Levittown's particular home manufacturing methods.

Simpler is better. Though where I am now every place is a flat-ish roof deck which is simple but comes with its own problems.
Not sure where that stat comes from - median wealth in the USA compares extremely favourably with the rest of the world, while the average blows everyone except Switzerland out of the water.

Also, living paycheck to paycheck != being poor. There are many people with high incomes but poor budgeting who live paycheck to paycheck, but will realistically be just fine if they have to tighten their braces.
> and typically harms no one

How would you know? If your equipment was operating improperly or out of specification, how would anyone contact you to let you know?

> these pirate stations became a great source of up to date crowd sourced information

This is a fantastic claim that should come with solid evidence. I know licensed HAM and other operators do practice and work to provide these services, but I've never seen them legitimately attributed to pirate stations anywhere.

> but going after someone in a neighborhood occupying an unused swath of spectrum

It's complaints based. The FCC does not "scout around" looking for pirates. If you step on my signal, I will record it, and I will report it to the FCC. If your station has been found and is being shut down then your actions rose to this level of notice.

> the best use of anyone's resources.

I agree. The airwaves are _everyones_ resources though. It's those who abuse the system that create the waste.
As someone from a country not supported by Stripe, it is annoying how frequently I find some tool that I might want to use, only to discover Stripe's the only payout option.
LOL. Being able to reverse transactions and freeze funds is a feature not a bug. With crypto you have no recourse when a criminal does criminal things or you make a mistake. Ransomware only started being a thing thanks to crypto, but governments could easily ban it (serious governments like US, China, Germany, that is)

Crypto is useless for anyone but criminals. If you can't use the real, state controlled financial system, then you also can't use the real, state controlled property rights system. Who cares about being able to prove you own some bits if you are not protected by the law when you buy any actual tangible goods with those bits, like a house or a car or a business?

Crypto is only useful when it's not needed (ie, you can use the state to enforce your physical property rights) and becomes useless once it's needed (you live in a corrupt or anarchist state that won't enforce your property rights over anything you can actually buy with the crypto)

Crypto is becoming a form of government blind-eye-turned corruption, for carrying out corrupt financial practices with less immediate oversight and more ways to overcomplicate the logistics. It will probably cause a financial crisis one day, like in 2008, for the exact same reason complex derivatives did.

I never take crypto jobs so my resume will stay clean when the house of cards falls down.
Short of the EU directly designing products there's always going to be ambiguity. Most of the "controversy" over GDPR and DMA appears to be completely artificial and caused by malicious compliance.
Starting with the function of the human eye seems like a good choice, I mean how else would you explain why a Bayer matrix only has 3 colours?
It’s fine to have an escape hatch when you can’t figure/don't care about types (yes sometimes you should use unknown but that’s another topic)

But at least TS forces (if enabled by strict flag) you to explicitly mark all those places. You can always revisit them later.

Case in point: I’ve written A LOT of redux-saga code and figuring out types for that was exceptionally difficult for me. Sprinkled all that with a ton of anys. Had a few bugs but not anything serious.

Finally rewriting all that slop with async-await and am really happy about it
In cases of food poisoning it’s hard to prove, but there’s plenty of cases where people have won.

Here restaurant negligence or lack thereof was considered irrelevant. Absolutely zero effort is still acceptable, that’s what makes it newsworthy.
There's plenty of interpretative room to view the above comment as honest discussion as opposed to dishonesty ("bad faith"). But now you've burned the bridge so hard why do you even bother making an argument? Just to get the last word?

One cannot unring a bell.
I've written roughly 250 words in this whole thread, following your original response to me. You've written 450 words in this single comment, which purports to summarize my argument. You're starting to sound like Vizzini. Unfortunately for you: I have built up a resistance to iocane powder, largely by actually reading the code you're talking about.

My experience, when simple, falsifiable, or technically specific arguments are met with walls of abstraction, is that there's not much chance a productive, well-informed debate is about to ensue.

I made my point about the currency of Ceiling Theo's take on virtualization. I'm happy with where it stands. I don't at this point even understand what we're arguing about, so here's where I'll bow out.
> stripe banned patreon-like services

When did this happen?
I don't know what the parent comment was referring to, however it's notable how brittle society actually is.

Society only works when people generally play by the same rules, ie. "The Social Contract". When people stop adhering to the contract, chaos happens and society rots or crumbles.

There's a plethora of recent examples of this - including mass riots, mass looting and mass shoplifting. Society doesn't have an automatic and efficient way to deal with people who collectively decided societal rules don't apply to them.

For some people, chaos is a means to an end. Tear down the things you don't like in society by literally breaking them.
I think OSS is still a default sound framework on FreeBSD?
It's literal Econ 101 that economies of scale push towards monopolization. It's why we used to have anti-trust laws in the US.
Researchers capture never-before-seen view of gene transcription
did goon lawyers in Silicon Valley write this?
oncontextmenu and ondragstart are preventDefault'ed _unless_ you are in a input/textarea e.g. leaving a reply. Truly bizarre and pointless. I've done something similar in a nonsense corporate context to stop people copying certain sensitive date, but at least I knew it was pointless.
Iteration is necessary for any analysis. To safeguard yourself from overfitting, be sure to have a hold out dataset that hasn’t been touched until the end.
They tried an anti-alcohol campaign. It failed.

https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/anti-alcohol-campaign/
> ... if a high quality house in that location would be worth £400k and cost £150k to construct, then the landowner would want £250k.

Is that wrong?

If the house+location is worth 400, and the house alone is 150, why isn't the location worth 250?
we will certainly never eliminate all bad players, but i think we can make them into a minority that doesn't have much influence.

what would make it impossible for future generations to rule themselves?

form of government matters in as much as it empowers the people and doesn't enable bad players. form doesn't matter if and only if we were to be able to eliminate all bad players.

the point is that reducing bad players is more important than the perfect form of government, but practically, once we have reduced bad players to a minority, we can tweak the form of government to render the remaining bad players powerless.

in the end that probably means that some form of democracy that allows people to remove bad players from positions of power is probably going to achieve the best outcome.

none of the current systems, including all western democracies, allow the removal of bad players in part because there are just to many of them.
It just adds complexity, as a default. If you are balancing a delicate mix of system dependencies, it may be worth it. For example, certain scientific software (eg for computational chemistry) may be easier to manage and set up with Docker.
Could be that fiber doesn't have any resale value. Whereas copper theft is a somewhat common issue.
Yes, "read 10 year old papers as a source of ideas ripe for commercialization" IS common advice in universities.
This is really sad. It seems like the main theory is that it's an inside job (France is doing it to itself, specifically people disgruntled by the government and by the Olympics). France has a HUGE culture of self-hate (although if you're not French and you criticize France then that's not acceptable suddenly). Any semblance of appreciation is often seen as being nationalist or "too far right".

On the other hand I don't think too much nationalism is good for a country, but at what point do people start appreciating what they have and start contributing at how France look for outsiders? I really wish we were more welcoming people as a whole, and less self-sabotaging.
It would honestly be even funnier if the compiler just sent back your code in x86 assembly.
Intel i3,i5, i7 and i9 processors are all the same
I think it's less about memorizing lyrics, tunes, etc and more about associating certain musical pieces with specific memories, feelings, and life events (like a grandmother baking pies in November while she whistles The Beatles, remembering navigating the pain of a breakup through Taylor Swift, or churning through homework with the soundtrack of Daft Punk)
I don’t think there’s need for anger, I’m not “playing games”. All I’m doing is pointing out that there has to be a source of revenue to run any given service - and if you remove all the sources of revenue then the service ceases to exist. Right now the only viable sources of revenue at that kind of online service scale is subscriptions, ads, or data collection and sale.

If there’s a method I’m not thinking of I’m genuinely curious what the financial model would look like.
You are way off base. The issue is with hiding information. It's fine if the white iPerson knows a black man with an android is getting a different price. I think the philosophy you are falling back on is that you offer something for a price, person pays price if they find value.

Turning the market against the consumer using a machine is outright dystopia.

The theoretical market that we are all striving for is one where all actors have as much information as possible. Profit garnered from information assymetry is waste, waste creates problems and ultimately slows economic growth.

Or we can just keep playing: "I got mine, fuck you."
How France seems to communicate on this is that it's French people who are behind these
So it's famously difficult to write a correct date-time handling program, but my empirical observation is that it's considerably easier with a library like Noda Time which actually attempts to model some of the domain beyond "ticks since the epoch".
Crooks Bypassed Google's Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Acces
What do you think the game's design is? Because I think it's a gorgeous open world single player ARPG. The story, character cast, literary inspiration, gameplay mechanics, and music, are all just incredible.

There are a thousand great things to say about Genshin before you even get anywhere near talking about the nonintrusive and ignorable monetization model. I think people hear "Gacha" and mentally lump it in with spammy 2d animated gif idle clicker games. But it's a better BOTW, and anything else misses the forest for the trees.
My understanding is that they do not predict the target of the next branch but of the one after the next (2-ahead). This is probably much harder than next-branch prediction but does allows to initiate code fetch much earlier to feed even deeper pipelines.
Unless you only look at the financial side of things, and only from the perspective of the larger corps benefiting from this trend, it's not healthy at all.
What they don't want is absentee or paid off landlords affording pirates an additional layer of protection. The article even points this out, if the building owners cooperate, and help the FCC end the broadcasts, it's highly unlikely the issue would be perused to that level.
>you could actually obscure the location of your transmitter by building multiple of them and doing some tricks with phase and frequency.

...Can you elaborate on this? I'm quite curious.
I just listened to a Zappa song for the first time... bobby brown. Sounds just like Reggie Watts to me! Add in some Weird Al.
The Gut and the Brain
IANAL either but I doubt Chevron will impact this because it is Legislation. Chevron gives litigants the opportunity to smack back regulations that come through the non-legislative Rule Making process. What we have here is the result of the 2020 PIRATE Act.
American agriculture already went down that path. This might be a global pattern following the adoption of improved technology. Is there a reason to believe otherwise in the case of Europe? Or maybe it's a multifaceted phenomenon.
Take Voice Control of the Apple TV App with Deep Link Shortcuts (2023)
In addition to Mike Acton's talk, there is also the "DOD Book":
https://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/
I'm asking for counterexamples which are healthy. What is the leading example in your mind?
Stripe is selective about which cannabis ancillary businesses they work with. Selective/preferential usage of the TOS.
> but they have been trying desperately to stop all competition.

Every large company in every industry wants to do this.

> They've also been trying to extract as much personal info as possible for profit.

Why would you expect a company not to pursue profits?
A metro station in Prague (JZP) got recently renovated and shortly after the opening, ads were absent. It was a breath of fresh air, finally being in a space without visual pollution. In the following weeks, the metro station was plastered with ads again and people complained.

I can’t remember the details of the story, but it was found out that whoever owned that space (council, city or public transport company?) charged a really small amount for the ad space, to the point where removing it was a very negligible loss in revenue. So they removed all the ads again.

It’s undeniable the most beautiful metro station in Prague. Freshly renovated, cool design and no ads.