skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Building an analog synthesizer that was polyphonic – where many keys could be played at the same time – was stupendously expensive. The same electronic circuitry had to be duplicated many times, sometimes for each key. These instruments were mostly of academic interest – I can’t think of any band that used one on stage (but I could be wrong).

Divide-down synths like the Arp Solina and Omni were widely used in live bands and weren’t that difficult to trek around for the period. Certainly lighter than the contemporary transistor organs of the era

True Analog polysynths were also used extensively live going back to the late 70s with the arrival of the Prophet 5, Roland Jupiter 4 - and by the early 80s (before the DX7 arrived) there were a tons of artists performing with them live.
You're looking at it wrong: why ever renounce anything that is already yours?

Oracle should be assumed to always take the greediest and most antisocial position in any legal or economic matter.
Okay, let's call it "Zionists terrorism against the British Empire".

In fact, we can even top with: "And against the indigineous population of Palestine, of course."

Are you now ready to agree that, since the mid-1960s, some Palestinian resistance groups have also engaged in terrorism?

More to the point: why tailor your own language based on what the other side supposedly thinks or says?

Instead of just getting to the point, and saying what you know to be intellectually honest?
I think you are kind of both right. When TJ’S started they intentionally wouldn’t sell things like milk and eggs because they couldn’t compete with big chains. The niche they were after were “over educated and under paid”.

So they were famously cheap for things that poor and blue collar families weren’t looking for anyway. UMC goods on a LMC budget, really.
I have the thought that racial divisions are even more stark elsewhere, although in cases across different lines. I would, for example expect a lot more Chinese in to positions in that country alongside far lower diversity.

Is it not this way? How about where you are from, since you're "not from the US"?
That is where this doc directly came from, not the context (i.e. background) of this event.
How are you defining hallucination then? In some pretty useless way inevitably.

Hallucinations are precisely the generated expressions that don't correlate with reality or are not truthful.
I don't agree being old is really more expensive that being young. Why would it be?

You could live on a 10% yield indefinitely.
Maybe that's because profit obsessed entities who are run by evil people are like the Borg in that they adapt and find ways around obstacles.
oracle is a law firm that happens to sell a database
Perl might have been the original dual license. GPL or Perl Artistic license.

I remember learning about Affero at a Perl Conference in the late 90's or so.
What's the best way to use Ollama with a GUI, just OpenWebUI? Any options as well for mobile platforms like Android (or, I don't even know if we can run LLMs on the phone in the first place).
>With hindsight, the DX7 and its ilk look like a weird diversion in the path of musical progress. Operator synthesis makes no logical sense. It became popular because we had the capability to do digital sound generation, but lacked the technology to do it in a comprehensible, systematic way. So the DX7 enjoyed huge popularity for a few years, before fading into obscurity.

That's a weird take. I mean "Operator synthesis makes no logical sense"? He writes like FM went away.

While DX7 itself was eventually retired (and synths like M1 became popular), Yamaha made several further flagship FM synths, and FM synthesis is still widely popular, used in both plugin form (including several DX7 emulations plus lots of fresh FM implementations), modern dedicated FM synths (e.g. Korg Opsix, Elektron Digitone), and of course as FM sound engines in multi-engine synths (FM-X in Yamaha's keyboards like Montage and MODX, Hydrasynth's FM mode, Nord's FM engine, to name but a few). There are even boutique options (ReFace DX, Volca FM).

And of course even vintage DX7s go for a quite high price in second+ hand market...
They have something valuable and they gain nothing from giving it up.
True, if you assume a table here has 1 column. If you are printing multiple columns you print a full row at a time.
Resend looked kind of cool and thought of using it. There was a security incident a while ago that had me think it again.
Well done granny. I lacked your imagination and thumped in loads of machine code listings from a series of books to do basic graphics and sounds. Mind you I did discover about attack/decay/sustain/release and a few other things so all good.

I still have my C64. It now has a USB interface and I don't use it much these days sigh

I suspect you made your granny very proud and quite rightly so. A couple of little girls call me grandad these days ...
The Federal Reserve study classifies non-ordinary expenses with households by comparing against median data for a region. For example, having a massive house means the square footage is significantly above median for the region and classifies it as a non-ordinary expense. As far as I know, it doesn't look at interest rates on individual mortgages because I don't believe they have that data accessible. It is a pretty sophisticated multi-dimensional approach they look at household income levels, regional economic conditions, household composition, rural vs urban, local cost of living, etc. It accounts for whatever the team of economic phds who designed it could think of with the data they have available.
Publishing to Github should be considered a crime.
“…You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.” – Bryan Cantrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s
Starlink is a futurist project which is really what Elon Musk wants to be. For something like Google they wouldn't do this typically because as a company and their leadership they aren't futurists.

Google has typically invested in existing viable technologies and forced them into a lower price point to make them more available. Google fiber was introduced 14 years ago when that kind of speed was unheard of. At the time most ISPs wanted to have bandwidth caps and rate limits because they were afraid of people abusing the network. Google came in and showed that it was viable to do at a price point for the residential consumer. This forced the market to adapt. Google also had a similar program with cellular service as well.
You keep making statements from things you've read online about the US, but you've never lived here as far as I can tell. I've lived in Europe, and it's not for me. The difference is I'm not shitting on Europe. In my firsthand experience, some (not all) Europeans have a superiority complex towards the US. To those and you, get over yourselves.
We use Prisma in part due to its migration support, I want it to Just Work™ and not have to deal with writing manual migrations every time, it's a common feature request of many ORMs if they don't have it.
> Also, there is nothing innovative from Musk itself as far as starlink goes. More than half of research and implementation is funded by USG and Tax Payer funded rebates and concessions.

And the other half?

Isn't the system for delivering them to orbit at low cost an innovation?
There are no really easy answers there...

What I referenced above is the book I recommend, "Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra." It is a transcription of academic lectures Carl Jung gave on Nietzsche- where he offers his own semi-translation and interpretation of the meaning.

I cannot think of a non-arrogant way to say this, so won't try (Nietzsche sure wouldn't have): but Nietzsche was an extremely smart person with subtle ideas, and most people- including academic translators that are supposed to be experts on his work, simply cannot understand his ideas, and therefore cannot translate them properly. One needs to be able to relate to his ideas from personal experience and (for lack of a better word) spiritual development, and also be able to appreciate complex nuance to really get it. This is confounded by the fact that Nietzsche had an obtuse style on purpose- he actively wanted his work to be exclusive, and not easily understandable, and actually often tried to be misleading or confusing on purpose. Carl Jung had a deep understanding of Nietzsche, that none of the English language translators have.

I have read all of his work, and it took me quite a while, including reading Jung's seminars to really feel I could grasp the bigger picture of his ideas. And once I did, I could clearly see that the translators who had translated and commented on his work were really only getting at the surface, and not really understanding- and then also choosing the wrong words when translating as a result, which was making it even harder to understand.

Also, if you are going to directly read his work, don't read Zarathustra first as it is an especially hard read- it is written in the style of an ancient religious text and not philosophy- The Gay Science would probably be my recommendation.
How do you know? Have you walked in their shoes?
The analogy to theft is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Let's say it was a textbook that also had a label saying it was only to be sold in India. Would the US publisher have a right to steal such a book from someone in the U.S. that had it?
The less tokens produced at inference the lower the quality of the response will be.

The process of thinking for an LLM involves the use of words, which is why prompts that ask the LLM to only return the answer will cause lower quality.
You know, it's possible for both Europe and the US to be really, really nice - to different people. But some people need to feel superior. I have lived in both places, and I prefer the US.
A lot of the UIs, including OpenWebUI have the feature to expose over LAN with users - that's what I did to use my GPU while still being on my phone. Not entirely sure about native UIs though.

Also, I normally use Groq's (with a q) API since it's really cheap with no upfront billing info required - it's a whole order of magnitude cheaper iirc than OpenAI/Claude. They literally have a /openai endpoint if you need compatibility.

You can look in the direction of Google's Gemma if you need a lightweight open weights LLM - there was something there that I forgot.
I have seen this exact project on many resumes from new grads. Is there some reason this happens?
What is so excellent? That is the cumulative increase.

Real median earnings since Q4 2019 are only around 3% higher:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Real median household income is still lower than 2019:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
It’s kind of confusing but the comparison is not with input photos to the left, it is with reference photos to the right
The way I think of it, top executives or famous people are just someone with a different job than mine.

So I treat them that way, and that works really well for me.
Bigger LLMs, mainly for video frame prediction - that’s where we have unlimited training data.
"It" does not know when it does not know.

But it does know when it has uncertainty.

In the chatgpt api this is logprobs, each generated token has a level of uncertainty, so:

"2+2="

The next token is with almost 100% certainty 4.

"Today I am feeling"

The next token will be very uncertain, it might be "happy", it might be "sad", it might be all sorts of things.
How about the same statistics but for working age population
... And is $1 million enough to retire on?

Practically what probably matters is "how many years do you have to work to take care of your basic needs after you retire, and how does this change if you (a) have medical problems (b) want kids (c) [add your other variants of ordinary life choices people should be able to make]"
I just learned about this case today.

Based purely on the Wikipedia description, Sagan's request seems reasonable, from a moral perspective at least. I have no idea why Apple (or its engineers) would be so butthurt about it.
The Optimus-encumbered ThinkPad P16s Gen1 I'm currently stuck with has no exposed option to disable the Nvidia GPU in the UEFI. The environment variable trick, as far as I know, can't be used to prevent the entire desktop from touching the dGPU. Almost all of my issues are related to the desktop compositor crashing or freezing after too many DKMS power events, returning from sleep, [un]docking from my external display, or just plain running for too many hours. I'm on the latest firmware, kernel, and drivers, and it still gives me grief.
Strangely, it appears nobody has linked the data or the studies.
You can absolutely learn it. Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus. Set up a local Docker Compose deployment of the full stack and pass through some dummy events. Write an app to generate synthetic load. Play around with aggregations and visualizations. Tech blogs use a lot of buzzwords but you just need to know the fundamental concepts.
The average American watches 4 hours of television a day, and I don't think that includes cell phone web scrolling.

I don't think you can have a realistic conversation about American physical or mental health without centering this fact
I think financial education is a major problem. People need to be taught about investing. I'm talking long term investing, not day trading, crypto, etc. Start early, invest regularly. This is the simplest way for a normal person to build wealth within their lifetime. Wage increases aren't going to get you there.
Divisions here are between the Irish, British, French, Italians and so on -- each with their own prejudices, to say nothing of people coming from eastern Europe.

Each and every one of these groupings have faced discrimination in one context or another, and all of them would be described as 'white' in American terms. Actual Asian people are too far out of context to really be considered on more than an individual basis; there aren't a lot of them here.
I have a sneaking suspicion OpenAI will announce something very similar in a few days
IMO a major deficiency in this calculation is children. Raising children costs money, and families without enough income may not feel that they can afford to raise children, and they may therefore not have children. This means that their income looks better than it really ought to, and it also reduces the birth rate. And, while the US’s birth rate is not catastrophically low, it is below replacement. This may have some negative long-term consequences for the economy.
Its even more interesting if you look at the grade 12 scores for 2022.
... only using '4' colors.

Still a lousy name. Seems I had seen the project before, but the name didn't stick, unlike tic80, pico8, etc
More likely they have everything to gain and nothing to lose. They can do it in their sleep, as far as those managing business strategy at Oracle go. The legal department will handle the legal stuff and the PR department will the PR stuff if needed (unlikely).
I personally use a mix of Open WebUI, Big AGI, BoltAI, AnythingLLM on the desktop. The mobile space is where things are really lacking at the moment, really I just end up browsing to Open WebUI but that's not ideal. I'd love a iOS native client that's well integrated into Siri, Shortcuts, Sharing etc...
The OpenRA site is clear that the code is GPLv3 and the assets are used under the C&C Franchise Modding Guidelines.

https://www.openra.net/download/

https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con...
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My $0.02: it's too hard to build and iterate on complex workflows.

Every agent uses a meta-workflow (eg. ReAct is plan->act->observe, with some added steps to check for completion etc.).

The teams that have been successful with agents do so by building better but more complex workflows.

Most notably, AlphaCodium's "From Prompt Engineering to Flow Engineering"
https://github.com/Codium-ai/AlphaCodium

Our current tools don't do a great job of making it simple to build and iterate on these workflows.

For example, here's a HN post from yesterday where a user created their own workflow management platform because of their frustration with the leading tooling providers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299098

I think once we get this tooling right and start to build more expertise in the process of flow engineering, we'll start to faster improvement in agent quality.
He said it on Fox. You can go view the video here: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6330950198112

When you say that science is never "Established", that's horse pockey. Established means we have a high level of confidence (not absolute). Yes, things get updated, for example we now don't go around saying that "stress causes ulcers". And when it comes to vaccines, multiple high quality studies have failed to find a relationship between vaccines and autism, while the original work has been discredited (shown to be false) and retracted. Yet the news cycle about that caused large numbers of people in the US to not get their kids vaccinated for many different things (and also blame the vaccines for their children's autism). (to be realistic, vaccines do have side effects and there is an entire program detected to detecting those problems).

As for whether he's been a public health official: no, but he has worked on environmental and public health problems before (I don't recall if this is before or after he ate so much fish he got mercury poisoning).

I don't think many people are complaining about him speaking against processed food, but again, the policy he promotes should be thoughtful, not knee-jerk.
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> ... there doesn't have to be an undefined point for a function to be discontinuous.

That's right. In the example f(x) = (x² - 1)/(x - 1) for x ≠ 1, if we further define f(1) = 0, the function is now defined at x = 1, but discontinuous there.

> ... if the limit of the derivative from both sides of the discontinuity exists and is equal, the derivative exists.

(You probably mean "both sides of the point", since if there's a discontinuity there the derivative can't exist.) Your point that, if the left and right-hand limits both exist and are equal, then the derivative exists (and equals their common value) is true for all limits.

Also, there's a difference between the use of the word "continuous" in calc courses and in topology. In calc courses where functions tend to take real numbers to real numbers, a function may be said to be "not continuous" at a point where it isn't defined. So f(x) = 1/(x - 2) is "not continuous at 2". But in topology, you only consider continuity for points in the domain of the function. So since the (natural) domain of f(x) = 1/(x - 2) is x ≠ 2, the function is continuous everywhere (that it's defined).
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So how do I know which is meant in a given sentence?
"This story is about two kinds of workers in America"

Very pretty and very dark and totally impenetrable.
> Productivity has gone up consistently while wages lag far behind.

This isn't true for the US. The chart that purports to show this is misleading. Essentially, there are problems with the usual chart: the two lines are indexed to different inflation measures, and the wages line excludes certain highly compensated occupations which have been experiencing significant earnings growth (probably because these occupations are where the productivity growth is happening).

Edit: Actually, even more issues. https://x.com/AwayBerk/status/1483564925213683719
TypeScript solves this.
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I agree, it was bit of a bait and switch and (also as a non-American) the racial twist took me by surprise.

The actual data would still have made as much (or more) sense if it was white vs blue collar, but I suppose no one would be surprised by that, and wouldn't have clicked through long enough for the "switch" to hit.