skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the fear of living near such a heinous crime, but you have to see the difference between the two situations. Random crime is scary, but is random. All signs point to this being an assassination. Brian Thompson wasn't the victim of a random criminal, nor was he murdered by some person he has a connection with. He was assassinated. So the right question is why do we investigate assassinations differently than murders? And to me, the answer is clear - an assassination has far larger societal implications than a murder.
Not as a direct response to the call to action, but this comment reminded me of the entire plot of the 2014 videogame Watch Dogs[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Dogs_(video_game)
This doesn't seem any more esoteric than lambda calculus. In fact I'm not entirely sure that it isn't a notational variant of lambda calculus.

It will take some more investigation than a quick glance to see what truly distinguishes it.
No it's not. I worked at places with mandatory TDD and pair programming for years. 100% coverage or nothing, so it's not as if I have not seen what the advantages can be. But doing that kind of work also makes it trivially easy to see the tradoffs.

There are areas at the edges where the mocking/stubbing required to really follow TDD cause make changes harder but never find bugs. There are entire families of bugs that are far better handled via strong types than by building tests. In the right languages, there's functionality where some kinds of tests are just testing the library, but hard red-green-refactor mandates tests with negative value. We all have been in situations where a small code change requires 6 hours of changing tests for reasons that weren't tied to the real reason the test was there, but ancillary reasons. There are tradeoffs.

When someone asks me whether we should use TDD on a project, the right answer depends on what it is, which language it's written, and whether we are mandating it across the entire codebase, or there are specific things where we will ignore the worst cases. Are we writing payment software in Ruby? a data pipeline in Haskell? Making a bunch of API calls in Clojure? It's not all the same.
Because the post said "Funko called my mom" and it sounded like someone's internet alias. I guess that was more believable than the company doing it, which speaks for itself.
That's a fantasy constructed by people who want to keep idolizing their favorite musicians. Labels do exactly what the musicians signed with them want them to do. Heck the vast majority of record labels are owned by musicians.
Discussion (24 points, 4 days ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42333499
It's a very funny way to structure the main landing page—it takes cues from trendy programming language and framework websites (single word headings that feel slightly buzzwordy, animated code samples, etc), but then the text body is in quite overwhelmingly dense and lengthy academic language, but then it doesn't actually provide enough details in the academic language to really understand what is going on.

I spent a while parsing the paragraphs in the hope of understanding what this is, only to discover that in spite of its verbosity the text on the landing page is no more informative than PL landing pages usually are—it tells you a lot about what the author thinks is great about the language while not actually explaining how any of it works. I guess I need to go to the specification for that?
I don't think he was banking on that, but I thought it interesting that posts about jury nullification were all over the front page on Reddit today, e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1haimhk/til_... and https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1haejf4...
I am from Spain. We have 340 million olive trees on 28 000 km2 of farm land. Please tell me how we are going to do it indoors.

Example of an olive grove in the province of Jaén, that alone produces 20% of the olive oil in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Ja%C3%A9n_(Spain)#...
If it's important to cumgirl8 and Couch Slut, it's important to me.
If you're using a javascript frontend like React there is no real benefit of Stimulus. Even with turbo frames you can have React handle the updates.

Stimulus is just a minimalistic way of binding javascript classes to dynamic dom components.
Curious about that too. There are plenty of forks left, for example: https://github.com/plastic-labs/llama3_interpretability_sae (no affiliation)
name 5 high profile ones in the last decade? :)

all of those you are referring to are not plastered 24/7 over all media world-wide
That doesn't make sense. When your business account stiffs a bunch of customers who get their ACH transactions reversed, and you're insolvent, your bank has to pay off those transactions. It can't just go to the Fed and say "give me money to cover for this insolvent business".

Your bank is not in fact literally just a front end for the Fed.
It doesn't appear to be competition. David is basically saying there are two tiers: the big stars and everyone else. Everyone else is making their money from selling their music, not from touring.
> Is there a word for these types of snarky quips that trigger off a single word but fail to address the point?

No but please let me know when you find one! And indeed you are correct, this is a fairly new pattern and it's absolutely increasing.
I was debanked by a California bank for selling holsters, a product that is legal nationwide and protected under the Constitution. While the bank has the right to choose its business relationships, it’s concerning to see decisions driven by political positions. This sets a troubling precedent for the direction we might be heading as a country.
I happen to like the Herb Alpert remixes of the Beatles' songs even better than the originals.
people are always so impressed by this kind of stuff but i'll never get why. doesn't your intuition already lead you to recognize what's going on? or do you recognize and are still impressed?

look if it walks like an expression tree, talks like an expression tree, and quacks like... something else... then it's basically an expression tree with extra sugar and spice. that doesn't mean the sugar and spice isn't fun, it means the basic idea is exactly what you think it is - expression trees (plus in this case enough semantics to define combinators).
So you acknowledge a problem and think it’s perfectly acceptable to have our healthcare broken and using some other country’s resources is an ok substitute? Laughable. And this isn’t even getting into all of the denied cases under the direction of this CEO for actual insurance that is supposed to cover you. Kids not getting cancer meds. Give me a break.
Open source projects like Relisten [1] depend on the Internet Archive for long term storage of legally recorded concerts from artists like the Grateful Dead, known for their unique concert experiences. This is an invaluable public service for millions of music fans and a boon to American history and culture.

[1] https://relisten.net
> The only place to reliably make money on merch IS BY SELLING YOUR CDS AT SHOWS. RECORDED MUSIC!!!

uh oh
HN few days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42332688
I really don’t think we should be giving it any attention right now without any verification of it. Probably some loser asked ChatGPT to spit shit out.
> popularize it enough for consumers to want more of it, package it in a way that consumers will pay for it, and distribute it widely enough

But labels don't do that anymore. Bands do their own insta / youtube etc.
So, eyes like every human being has?
It wasn't just the one crappy photo where he lowered his mask - the taxicab photos were quite clear even if they just showed his eyes.

And they also made use of other tech, like the fact that the Citibike has GPS.
> So I don't think the Swiss cheese model really can justify any particular intervention by itself; you have to evaluate the specifics of whether the particular intervention is worth it.

You don't need to prevent too many maimings to pay for a whole lot of these and their occasional consumables.

Sure, risk homeostasis will claw some of the benefit back, too.
Maybe in the future, recordings could have an AI component to them, such that every time you play it, you get a subtly different performance.

Some artists may choose to lean in the technology more than others, with one extreme being soloists and improvisations published in the form of a bespoke model, trained on the entire history of jazz and refined by the artist to suit their tastes and the particular piece of music.
A $31B Ad Deal Shows the Mad Men Are Scared
Oddly a talk from emacsconf a few days ago comes to mind:

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/blee/
Right, and they're done to juice the declining sales of the original. My idea was to release slightly different versions at the same time. Have two albums, identical cover, identical catalog number, same songlist, just the songs are different takes, maybe a different arrangement. The fans will be impelled to keep buying the album until they get both.
English doesn't have a set word order anyway, its just that nobody bothers to determine the rules for it since whatever system we've arrived at is far more arcane than classically "analytic" languages.

The analytic/synthetic divide doesn't make sense anyway, it's just pulling from Kant and a poor reading of him at that.
nice! i got 8/10. got tripped up by a russian programmer that was also a serial killer, but didn't design a language (that we know of)
Lolol. Were thinking of the ones who break into your house and kill you thinking it was their’s, the ones that killed Breonna Taylor, chased a black man running etc.
Engineers are technicians/craftspeople, not elites. They are compensated well much of the time, and respected, which means that many of them have more opportunities to become elites, especially when considering the intelligence that engineering degrees tend to filter/correlate with.
Is there no way to try it even without subscribing? After you log in, it goes straight to a screen asking for subscription to create videos.
Under the new administration the DEA (and FDA, etc) risks going extinct.
But it's pretty obvious left-wing communities are supporting this guy, while right-wing ones are condemning .
Yeah, was glad to see some Reddit posts that when folks like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh tried to say "This is why the crazy left is OK with CEOs being shot" that they were bombarded with comments saying "It's not just the left".

On that point, Zeynep Tufekci once again shows to me how she has the most insightful analysis (I became a big fan of her during Covid, I thought she had the most measured takes). I totally agreed with what she wrote in https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/opinion/united-health-car...
I feel like you are omitting the content that visa and mastercard find particularly objectionable that is commonplace in japan but not elsewhere.
who exactly is taking bluesky seriously? what’s their moderation policy?
> So you found the “derivative” of a single, arbitrary chosen representative of an infinite family of functions. What if you chose (tanh(Nx)+1)/2? What if you chose Logistic(N^2 x) instead of Logistic(N x)? You’d get different derivatives.

They all differ pointwise by an infinitesmal! This flexibility is a feature, not a bug.

Of course, I agree with you that mathematical progress should proceed on rigorous grounds, and there is a lot to be proven here. But my point is mainly that this is so easy you can just go and see what happens in these cases yourself without much trouble. For applications you really don't have to care.

I've done a course in analysis that covered distributions, but your reply made me chuckle. You've told me that distributions are just as simple and then proceeded to dump paragraphs of jargon at me. L^infinity? Dual space? Support? Penrose defined? Inner product via integrals?

(to be clear, I know what you're talking about, but our hypothetical high school student will have a lot more luck moving infinitesmals around, I guarantee it)

> Do your results depend on ZFC? stronger axioms? At what level of infinity do we stop? You can brush aside the formalities but then what better is this approach than physicists?

For physics, just pick a representative, compute and do some sanity checks. Who is ZFC? =P

Just kidding. Anyway, as you probably know the deeper theory of nonstandard analysis has been worked out in detail already, so if you want to get stuck in the weeds there are answers out there.
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Long Range Zip tends to give faster decompression. Anyone know which command line switches gives optimum results?
The universe is also fine-tuned to produce every other species in existence.
Agreed. What are the practical alternatives to GP’s suggestion?
They protect their own and serve themselves. But they have the state backing them up and we don't.
I get trying to make headlines juicier, but there was no 'firing back' in any semblance of the expression by Gelsinger.

He simply responded to someone who claimed an article was false, thanking them and saying he was proud of 18A.
Show HN: I made Gyroscopic Gyro Sandwiches
Have you noticed that a gyro sandwich is only cooked in one axis? What a missed opportunity.

The following details an elaborate way to slow cook food, using a handmade contraption. Not only is it tasty, it's mesmerizing. Feel free to copy the design for your own festivities.
It's also a great way to codify "hey we found this edge case once" and make sure it doesn't happen again.
A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation
I think unit testing, property based testing, TDD, and the like are valuable and I can’t imagine doing development without them, I consider it good engineering. In fact I always make sure to write good tests even for interview take home tests etc.

I’m providing this background because I’m still fairly wound up by a terrible interviewing experience I had with the only company so far that specifically mentioned TDD and made a big deal about it.

I’ve never experienced such a farcical technical test. It was an hour, and the interviewer (only one, red flag already as it allows for bias) spent twenty minutes debating the name of a single test and kept circling back to the topic when I tried moving past it.

Kept making a big deal about “TDD test names”. Refused to let me write anything. Refused to elaborate on any requirements or even what he really wanted me to do.

After the hour was up I’d written one working test and one broken test. The actual system under test was a one line method, because he spent another fifteen minutes getting angry that I wanted to even run the test.

Absolutely ridiculous and it’s unfortunately made me very wary of anywhere that makes a big deal about TDD despite being a big proponent of testing myself.

So yeah, if that’s people’s exposure to TDD I’m not surprised some people don’t like it.

If you’re ever interviewing for a UK based company that works in the arts and theatre booking space that mentions TDD, run a mile.
Beat'cha to it, I have maybe 6 versions of Holst's "The Planets". And I love them all.

But they're each done by different musicians. They're not different takes from the same studio sessions.
So wait. How is this not a lisp? And consider that a compliment, we need more lisp in our lives.
Sure, but I imagine the reason you haven't started your own company to do it is you need 10s of millions in compute, so the price would be 500k + 10s of millions... Or you can't actually do it and are just talking shit on the internet.
It's gone from Substack now, but I agree with you that we should be cautious in assuming anything at this point.
There's a whole Pinkertons TV series out of Canada, from 2014. Available for streaming from the usual sources.
You'll lose any apps that use play integrity or other similar checks that check for a non-google OS. Some banking, media, or gaming apps may use those checks, but I haven't encountered many in the US. Other than that, everything will work as stock if you use the sandboxed play services. If you don't use play services, there's perhaps a longer list of things that won't work, including notifications for most apps that rely on FCM. The OS supports different types of isolation schemes like private spaces and additional user profiles. So you can find some middle ground on whether or not you want play services, which accounts are logged in where, etc.
> it tells you a lot about what the author thinks is great about the language

I did not get so far as to understand that it was a language. I thought maybe it was some kind of higher order function to be implemented in a language of your closing. Like a map/reduce sort of thing.
Not sure why you didn’t name the company.
> On the other hand, there is no way to measure the "effectiveness" of TDD as compared to not using it.

There are definitely ways to measure, for example by it's impact on bug resolution time. The following study looks at static code quality, but it could be applied to TDD:

This study is about static code quality, but could be applied to TDD as well. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359129462_Code_Red_...
Many years ago I was in my apartment and could hear chanting and the like in the distance from an antiwar protest.

Suddenly I heard sirens, yells, and gunshots and thought something horrible had happened.

Turns out I left Scaeffer playing in another room.
Immediately I'm reminded of the SKI calculus as an extremely minimal model for computation [0].

Edit: in fact, they even define the SKI combinators in their demonstration of Turing completeness, so I wonder how the tree calculus differs aside from being based on only a single combinator.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus

[1] https://treecalcul.us/live/?example=demo-turing-intensional
Who legitimately asked for, or wants this? It's cool on it's face, sure.

What legitimate problem does it solve? Isn't AI supposed to make our lives easier, or is that just "not what it's supposed to be bro", or whatever. I've lost track at this point with all the hallucinations and poor/bad/really fucking bad responses. It's not 100% of the time, but that's the point of companies like OpenAI releasing stuff like this to the public... to be helpful and believable.

Deep fakes were bad enough. Shit like this is not helpful when given to the largely ignorant public. It's not going to be used for anything helpful, conducive, or otherwise beneficial.

It's impressive. Sure. I just fail to see what it's the solution to.
I notice that murder is apparently eminently justifiable when corporate profits or geopolitical influence are threatened.
I'm wondering how this Google announcement will have an impact on their future revenue, and how easily competitors can replicate this breakthrough?
> So my idea is, why don't bands produce a dozen or so "radio edits" of their better songs? I bet they'd increase sales, especially to people like me.

Because, to a first approximation, you and I don't result in any real revenue no matter what an artist does.

If you're a mid-tier artist, you want to fully extract money from your 100 rabid fans who will show up every single time you appear in that area and everybody else can go hang.

> So my idea is, why don't bands produce a dozen or so "radio edits" of their better songs? I bet they'd increase sales, especially to people like me.

When was the last time you heard anything off of Blackstar by Bowie? Or any of Johnny Marr's latest stuff?

The issue isn't creating music. It's getting any of your music played anywhere.
You can't post like this here and we ban accounts that do, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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The "How to Play" example seems to claim that IA and MB are words.
Didn’t want to get the wrath of the mods etc. I’d have to check my email to find the name.
I disagree. Participation is optional. There is always the option to move to the woods, live in a small cabin or group of likeminded people, and keep to yourself. There is always the option to listen to the music you want.

If that isn't enough for you, then your goal must extend beyond wanting to control your own experience and into wanting to shape society, which means shaping the experiences of others. Others who are doing just fine following their own preferences and don't particularly need you to limit their options to conform to your preferences.

Meaning is purpose, purpose is reason, reason is intention, and intention is by definition an artifact of the mind. The only one who can reduce your meaning is you. If the fact that music spreads far and wide to many people whose taste doesn't match you reduces your meaning, then that's because you choose to reduce your own meaning.
Too Many Interfaces (Java)
Is there a way to fork and add a quantum-proof encryption layer on the existing cryptocurrency paradigm i.e. Bitcoin 2.0?
I too find it hard to apply TDD to the big existing project I am working on. Most of my day-to-day coding is adding small bits here and there in the right place, discovering the architecture of the whole thing as I go. Without knowing what I have to do to achieve the desired result in the first place, I cannot begin writing a test with the half dozen mocks it needs (I know it's bad). The only tasks where I can succesfully apply TDD are bug fixing, where I write a new test to prove that I understood the bug (the test should fail with existing code), before I fix it.

But I have colleagues (working in other projects) who told me how they are succesfully applying TDD to refactor an old codebase. They start with big, not-so-"Unit" tests to make sure that they don't break the thing at any step, and then they move to more specialized tests when tackling specific parts of the code.
Musicians choose to sign under a label because it helps them. It’s like paying for a plumber… it’s so they do the boring work for you.

There are hundreds of thousands of record labels. Your uncle could be running a record label in his garage.
Grok replaces Flux with in-house image generation developed in 6 months
_Alleged_ manifesto. We still don't know if it's real.
they still make CDs???! :)
Server based services are different because they are required for me to keep using the thing I purchased. If my hardware requires an internet service to keep functioning, then they should have to make that service available for self hosting or for someone else to host it if they go out of business.

There should never be a case where something physical that I bought stops working because of an internet based service.
A Toy Evaluation of Inference Code Tampering
> Counterpoint: our CEO spent 25 minutes shitting out a bunch of AI ads because he was frustrated with the pace of our advertising creative team. They hated the ads that he created, for the reasons you mention, but we tested them anyways and the best performing ones beat all of our "expert" team's best ads by a healthy margin (on all the metrics we care about, from CTR to IPM and downstream stuff like retention and RoAS).

My guess is that the criticism of AI not being that good is correct, but many people don't realize that most humans also aren't that good, and that it's quite possible that the AI performs better than mediocre humans.

This shouldn't be much of a surprise, we've seen automation replace low skilled labor in a lot of industries. People seem uncomfortable with the possibility that there's actually a lot of low skilled labor in the creative industry that could also be easily replaced.