skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't it be enough? Do we have to endlessly repeat everything that worked once? Hasn't enough pop been made? I feel the same way about actors and movies: if actors or set designers never work again because of AI, shouldn't we just mourn them (or watch the millions of hours of film we already have) and move on?

Recorded music killed people playing music to entertain the rest of the family. You used to teach your kids how to play instruments so they could entertain your guests or have a good time during a boring day. We can still do that, playing music alone is fun, and playing music together can be transcendent. Singing in harmony or in unison is intimate.

There's an athletic element. I'll always want to see somebody, in person, playing music live. It's like watching a juggler. What we've done is isolated music to these horrible alienating mass consumption venues, rather than it coming out of every bar, and every other restaurant, and from the street, and in people's homes. It's a debasing and commoditization of music, helped by the introduction of artistically unintelligible lyrics in the 60's, and draconian, authoritarian intellectual property laws that demand that you never play any song that you hear, you have to create new product.

And as above, this goes for movie entertainment, too. People will always want to watch plays, they're assemblages of memorization, vocalization, and coordination of movement. They astound. You can do it yourself: you can memorize a poem and bring it to a party, or you can come up with a skit. This is how people entertained themselves before being colonized by the tyranny of mass-produced recordings.

I don't know if it's clear from the above, but I hope AI completely devalues recorded music, and ends the celebrity worship industry that is built up around it. Generated music will be everywhere, and it will feel like slop. Watching someone in front of you, showing you what they can do, will never be devalued. Joining in because you know the song will bring back the feeling of the Irish and English broadsides that we derived this pop stuff from, through the blues, and that we enjoyed together for centuries.

Going to a concert in an arena and sitting half a kilometer from a band to listen to them play is dystopian. People who lived through a time where the production of music was commonplace and pervasive, not just its consumption, if they were teleported to this era, with its paid streams through earbuds, would be depressed.

edit: was a professional touring musician for a number of years a long time ago.
Robert Kennedy detailed how CO2 pipelines have ruptured causing people to die & become sick. And how eminent domain was used to profit companies rather than social welfare. Even though Robert Kennedy seems to believe that CO2 is the climate control knob, many Americans don't. They see Carbon Capture as a scam that enriches Billionaires at the health + wealth expense of everyone else.

This is one example where ideology becomes a mechanism of coercion to transfer wealth from the large majority to a very small group of people.
One thing that's struck me since Trump was announced the winner is how many Replublican voters are determined to invalidate the opinions of people who voted for the Democrats.

I'm left leaning, but I think jobs in rural areas, inflation, cost of living are all valid concerns that should be addressed regardless of who is in power. I disagree to varying extents with Trump's stance on abortion, immigration and gun control. But I also understand why people have a different opinion to me.

What I see online is a continuing anger towards the left and a determination to not only discredit their opinions, but also punish them for their dissenting views. There is this gleeful perception that it's time for payback.
It was an election interference case; not mundane. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/dont-call-it-the-hush-mon...
Right. I understand your point, but I think it's important to understand that if the risk here is not "extinction" in the sense that the human species will disappear, it is actually the end of the world as we know it. And I mean it in the catastrophic way.

If you imagine a big stripe around the equator where people can't survive (it's basically mars) and have no other choice than to "invade" the rest of the world that may already not have the capacity to feed its population anymore, with oceans rising and pushing another couple billions inside the lands (so you can't just build walls as a country, you have civil war).

That's pretty much where we are headed now, and the data seems to show every year that we are actually getting there closer than we thought we were (because when our models "forget" something, usually it's something that made it worse). Not only that, but we are accelerating in that direction.

I personally think we're way passed the point where we can call anything "alarmism". The most conservative scenario I can find without us making drastic changes are all "equally bad" (as in: I don't really care whether or not the human species survives if all my relative and I die in very bad conditions).

That's what I mean with "it's as bad as it gets": between extinction of the human species and the most conservative scenario if we don't change, none of them is acceptable to me.
I haven't seen this approach in action personally, but I assume you'd set it up similarly to how Homebrew builds + pins bottles for formulae:

- PR creation (or any update to the PR branch by a human) would trigger a CI workflow to build+push the container;

- if this succeeds, the workflow would push a commit to the PR feature branch that pins the container ref;

- and the base branch would have a branch protection rule that makes the success of this CI workflow a prerequisite for PR mergeability.

In the explicit-GitOps-in-monorepo case, you'd probably want to do this by having the PR author modify the release spec file of each component they want to build a release for, replacing the old static ref with a temporary symbolic ref meaning "hey CI system, calculate this." Then the CI's added commit would rewrite those temporary symbolic refs into new static ones.

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Although, that's all assuming that you even want to do CI builds in the first place. If you're developing containerized server software — rather than an operating system, a web browser, etc — then it shouldn't matter where you're building, and there isn't much impetus for deterministic, auditable builds, either. So why bottleneck builds by shoving them all onto some wimpy CI system—when every engineer already has a powerful workstation that can do builds often 4x faster, sitting there idle?

Here's what I call "local-first explicit GitOps":

1. you give your engineers the ability to push refs to the container registry (but you never use symbolic refs, always static manifest SHAs, so a malicious engineer can't do anything dangerous with this.

2. you add a script to your monorepo, that an engineer can run against their feature branch, that'll notice their current branch's local symbolic refs, and build+push containers locally in order to rewrite those into static refs.

3. On success, the script can use `gh` (or equivalent) to trigger PR creation.

Now every PR will come into existence already pinning valid new build artifacts by their static refs!
Emissions are the bigger issue. Unfortunately, some sort of mining is still required for emission and emission-free sources of energy.
What is the strategy here? Why does banning ByteDance from having offices in Canada do anything?
That's an impressive achievement, you have all the reasons to be proud of your son!
> that are using Large Language models to keep prices high

Where do LLMs come into this?
I have known the UI bring bad in general and I think it has more due to APFS… I used to be able to do backups but APFS is so different to everything else that at this point I wish Apple switched to ZFS but honestly that wasn’t gonna happen after the buyout of Sun to oracle .

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/18ez5b0/why_disk_utili...
networkQuality is in the article.
Ah, thank you for the clarification, I'm interested in reading up.

Your description reminds me a lot of a book called "The Hidden Persuaders" by Vance Packard, which I recommend as a distinctly uncomfortable read in the same vein.
> I get that it doesn't affect you personally, but to take it so far as to be offended is really distasteful to me.

When you grow up in a system that taught you from birth that you are a problem, a demon, a "danger", uncontrollable, etc you'd understand. When you've watched men be destroyed by the lop-sided family court system and divorce law, or have no sexual freedom when it comes to whether or not you want a child you'd understand. Masculinity of any flavor is demonized unless it caters specifically to "raising women up". Men occupy the most dangerous jobs, die earlier, and suffer the most in terms of suicide and lack of proper mental health resources, and are forced into a draft because of their gender. Is this equality you can stand for?

I'm offended the left preaches "equality" but doesn't actually believe it. I am personally tired of it. I am tired of feeling like a demon for simply existing. I am tired of having to uphold obligations that formerly had benefits, but now have at best negative benefit. At the very least with the right-wing I know exactly what I'm getting.

This isn't "me, me, me" it's ~50% of the population being actively railroaded literally from kindergarten to death by far left policy swinging the pendulum all the way to the other side of inequality.

> Women still face rampant discrimination

Is that why they are leading men on almost every happiness, work, and school metric? Or are the men suffering because "patriarchy hurts men too" or whatever nonsense they say now. I can tell you "the patriarchy" isn't the reason men are dropping out of society. Not by a long shot.

We have relevant examples of discrimination against men today. Trump voters are vile, white, male, homophobes and sexists. This is the message our boys are hearing. Does it sound appealing to anyone but a consummate masochist? If leftists continue to drive a wedge between the genders the R's will continue to win.
Virtually all of the buildings are residential. There are 20x more residential than anything else.
Did they pick $1? Isn’t it a math formula based on various consumer goods, which may it may not be right.
EVs are breaking this funding model.

I'd suggest curbside parking should be charged everywhere. Free omnipresent parking is what has hollowed out American cities. Car storage is an awful use of public space.
> I don't fully understand: he was voted out in 2020 due to the massive failures of his term and him personally, and now four years later when he has become even more deranged, they voted him back in? What the hell?

When you don't understand something happening in real life then you might want to consider trying harder to figure it out, instead of feeling smug about it. Just doubling down on the things you believe should matter is not very productive.
Deadline for mail in ballot delivery is Nov 12. Have to be postmarked on the 5th, but they have a week to get to where they're going.
They're presumably already being paid a salary to do this work.
It was a serious election interference case —- https://robertreich.substack.com/p/dont-call-it-the-hush-mon...
At least 1m in a year not week
It's ok to downvote without comment if someone is not following the posted rules: Please "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says"

Your response included the statement: "The left wants to chemically castrate gay teenagers and ban single-sex gay spaces." - I don't think that's a response made to the strongest plausible interpretation of mschuster91's post.
A physicist working on the project used this to compute the space contraction for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle, which presumably traveled at 0.9999999999999999999999951 time the speed of light. You cannot do that with your HP48GX directly using standard formulas, because it only has 12 digits of precision.
I guess it's been 15 years since the "fire challenge" was a thing on YouTube.

Is there an Eternal September construct for social media platforms?
Isn't it all rather self-defeating, then?

ByteDance will keep no data in Canada, will not employ any Canadians, will not report any information to Canadian authorities, and will have no reason to comply with Canadian warrants or court orders. (Or even judgments.) At the same time, all Canadians can continue to use the app.

On balance, this seems bad for Canada and great for ByteDance.
There is a free iPhone version as well (called DB40X). Maybe some day give it a try?
Could you open an issue on the project's web site about the trouble you had installing? (http://github.com/c3d/db48x). Thanks!

Also, were you aware of this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWy4N0lBOI&list=PLz1qkflzAB...
Working With Monsters (2021)
In this snippet I hear no „No“ to the disinfectant, he is just suggesting it an seems to go on:
https://youtu.be/zicGxU5MfwE?feature=shared
SharedArrayBuffer is necessary to run multiple threads with EmScripten.
This is done on that page, though on some browsers it requires an explicit page reload. This works with Mozilla 132.0, just tested on Fedora 41.
This works with Firefox 132.0, tested on Fedora 41 right now.
There are three floating-point representations:

- A variable-precision decimal floating point that uses base-1000 internally with 10 bits for 1000 values instead of 1024, so reduced memory waste, and LEB128 for size and exponent encoding. So 1.23 is 5 bytes, and each decimal value has its own precision. The precision only affects computations, not stored objects, so you can adjust the precision for each step of a computation.

- IEEE754 hardware accelerated 32-bit and 64-bit binary floating point.

In line with RPL, there are many other object types, including arbitrary-precision integers (123 is 2 bytes, 100! is 68 bytes), symbolic expressions, programs, lists, and so on.
Don't bother with unemployment, look at labor force participation.
In theory yes. In practice, the TI 83/84 are probably not beefy enough, and the NumWorks has a keyboard that makes the endeavour really complicated.
comparing the validity of existing documents is moving the goal posts and pretty dishonest to the conversation.

you're applying for a new passport. to be shocked that at a minimum the pictures would look like you at the time of the application is pretty...I don't even know what word to use here. there's a way to make dealing with gov't agencies simple and as painless as possible, and then there's this.
Another ad hominem attack vs addressing substance
It's a tribute to Hewlett and Packard, but taking the first names, and with the individuals reversed for balance.

I do not believe there is any possible infringement on a clearly new design, even if that design is intentionally reminiscent of the HP logo.
Help Mozilla improve its alt text generation model
ECG Analysis Platform Using Deep Neural Networks in Routine Clinical Practice
Because their constant stream of disinformation should be shamed
Your "for nothing in return" is actually for the capitalization of the US dollar as the world reserve currency. If you thought price inflation was bad after Trump's last spree of helicopter money, just wait until other countries' USD reserves are being dumped in earnest.
> by Twitter and Musk

Is there a difference? I thought Twitter was Musk's broadcast platform.
I don't know what the standard way to do it is, but, surely it's not too complicated to add some tasty minerals back in.

I make a water sweetener with a variety of electrolytes and sugar, and regularly add a tiny bit to my water bottle. Placebo or no, I love it.
But then to drop the HBO out of "HBO Max" is certainly a decision.
As global warming rises, offshore hydrogen hubs could carry renewable energy
That was essentially the slogan of the current coalition and they failed completely.
I stopped playing games in 2020 and when I started again late 2024 it was as if nothing has changed since say 2017. The most popular games are still very popular today. I think the reason for this is that I don't play games alone anymore. I always spend time playing with a friend I already know. All those single player games that come and go don't interest me.
Take a look at the results of the various referendums. Some of the same states that have voted for Trump with a hefty margin also voted for things like raising minimum wage or guaranteed paid sick leave.
Great project. It reminds me of the SNL sketch (can't remember which) where the character says "I like to keep a piece of sliced ham folded up in my pocket just so I have my own little secret."
I wish I could do that. I have to train fasted in the morning because it feels like my body is processing the food (even plain oatmeal) and taking away from performance. I'll try the coffee before sauna idea tomorrow though - never thought of that order...
Some jurisdictions have a "none of the above" option. I think Nevada has one. An early report there show 1+% voted "none of the above", or something similar to that.

It was just a glance on one of the shows during the returns last night, I maybe be completely wrong.
Since we are indulging in generalizations from our past. With separate repos you end up with 10 "cores" that are radioctive DMZ's everybody is afraid to touch. And those "disciplined" public API's will be universally hated by everyone who consumes them.

Neither a monorepo nor separate repos will result in people being disciplined. If you already have the discipline to do separate repositories correctly then you'll be fine with a monorepo.

So I guess it's six on one hand, half dozen in the other.
> You think you're going to get a solid answer interviewing some random person on the street?

Yes. We educate the population for good reason. People _should_ understand that a tariff is a tax imposed on consumers, and if done with reasonable intent it is to prop up a key industry despite the distortionary effects with a particular goal in mind, such as national security, improvement of the populace, etc.

"Bringing back manufacturing" is not a coherent goal, it just sounds like one, because as soon as the tariffs are removed the US is back to offshoring again OR the purchasing power of the dollar is so low that it doesn't matter.

"Establishing manufacturing in key industries" is a completely reasonable goal -- which Biden did (solar, among others).

So once again, the Trump policy set is not actually good policy.
Pulumi is really a royal piece of shit. Why the f*ck am I writing code to do "deployment". In C# --> new Dictionary<string, object> when dealing with a values.yaml for instance. The whole need to figure out when and when not to use Apply.

Give me Terraform (as much as I hate it) any day.
California has the second highest total lane miles by state[0] and it has the highest number of registered vehicles of any state, by a big margin.[1]

Being a such a populous big state with only tiny, regional public transportation systems means everyone and their cousin drives everywhere, all the time. That's how.

[0]https://blog.cubitplanning.com/2010/02/road-miles-by-state/

[1]https://www.bts.gov/browse-statistical-products-and-data/sta...
No, it can operate on a data structure as well. There's string rewriting which does operate on text (but this can be stored in a structure amenable to applying rewrite rules versus brute force copying it or something silly). For term rewriting, there are plenty of efficient ways to store and operate on the information besides just textually.
True, but I argue that losing money on a hobby (or "bad business") means you can afford to do it. It's just not making you money, not keeping you off the streets.
> I think the issue with compression is that they're scraping the online meeting services rather than actually reverse engineering them, so the compressed video stream is hidden inside some kind of black box.

I mean, I would presume that the entire reason they forked chrome was to crowbar open the black box to get at the goodies. Maybe they only did it to get a framebuffer output stream that they could redirect? Seems a bit much.

Their current approach is what I'd think would be a temporary solution while they reverse engineer the streams (or even get partnerships with the likes of MS and others. MS in particular would likely jump at an opportunity to AI something).

> What's odd to me is that even with this frame buffer approach, why would you not just recompress the video at the edge? You could even do it in Javascript with WebCodecs if that was the layer you were living at. Even semi-expensive compression on a modern CPU is going to be way cheaper than copying raw video frames, even just in terms of CPU instruction throughput vs memory bandwidth with shared memory.

Yeah, that was my final comment. Even if I grant that this really is the best way to do things, I can't for the life of me understand why they'd not immediately recompress. Video takes such a huge amount of bandwidth that it's just silly to send around bitmaps.

> It's easy to cast stones, but this is a weird architecture and making this blog post about the "solution" is even stranger to me.

Agreed. Sounds like a company that likely has multiple million dollar savings just lying around.
I don't know. I still have gigs every weekend. It's still a major part of my income. I fill-in a lot for other people too. Guitar, Bass, Percussion.

Can I survive only on weekend gigs? No. But then again, I can't go without them either. Most of the time I look at it as a part-time job.
No because voters eventually get tired of it, because they want a functioning government.
I have a tangential question, especially to the native Germans in this thread.

I've been living in Germany for a while now and have been trying to understand German politics in that time, including this whole concept of coalition governments and the crisis the Ampel is facing. Due to the latter, I came across this: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-could-face-snap-election/a-704...

In this article are statements such as (emphasis mine):

> Brandt called for a vote of confidence in the Bundestag with the aim of losing it, so that his chancellorship could be reconfirmed by voters in fresh elections.

> [Kohl] called for a vote of confidence, which he, too, deliberately lost on December 17, 1982.

> Schröder called for a vote of confidence, which he deliberately lost on July 1, 2005.

I just can't wrap my head around these in so many levels. The easier of these questions would be, how can a chancellor deliberately lose a vote of confidence? What makes the action deliberate exactly?

Brandt is a more complicated case to the point where I am, honestly, having a hard time putting my bewilderment into words. I'll try nonetheless: How can a chancellor expect voters in fresh elections to bolster their chancellorship, just right after losing a vote of confidence? I can only interpret this as some kind of political flex, basically telling the Bundestag that "I may not have your confidence but I still have mandate from the people".

(If it is, then, well, weird flex but ok, as we used to say a few years ago. It is a reason after all, even if I find it a bit absurd.)

Perhaps what adds to my confusion is, in Kohl's section we read: "Because Kohl's coalition of the CDU/CSU and FDP came to power through a vote of no confidence and not a general election, Kohl wished for additional legitimacy through a general election" which to me implies that Brandt's strategy would not have consolidated his position as strongly; indeed, the article notes his maneuver was fiercely criticized at the time.

I know I'm an idiot when it comes to German politics so I'd be glad if someone can make sense of my bewilderment. I know there is a lot of subtlety and context I am missing here and I'm sure I'm confusing one thing for another. But I strongly feel like this would go a long way to helping me understand the current machinations of the Ampel.