skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also important to note that Google Analytics, while dated now, and technically an acquisition, was category-defining in how it anchored the concept that analytics should be something every company gets for free. The competition at the time was IBM! And of course, it allowed Google to gain a foothold on every page and set cookies wherever it desired.

https://digitalstateconsulting.com/knowledge-is-power/brief-...

> Phil Mui, the former Group Project Manager of Google Analytics, explains how Google’s initial version sought to democratise advanced web analytics to the masses. “The primary focus was to make sure that not only people who are willing to pay a million dollars or more on analytics products are able to get access to a very decent set of tools to understand the behaviours of online browsers”, he said at a conference in New York 2011.

> Google realised the infinite potential of data to create a better experience for web users. “By liberating this tool we could empower companies of all sizes to become smarter and more effective online”, remarked Muret. “We assigned considerable resources to our online solution and released it to the public for free [and]…has since grown beyond anything that we could have expected”.
This thing synthesizes dolphin squeaks? Wow!
Pension fund managers should stick to what they (pretend) to understand: investments. Electric cars have a ton of environmental issues - Lithium mining and related water consumption and CO2 release to name but a few. Toyota should be hailed for sticking to hydrogen instead.
One of my favorite examples from that era:

https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf

And in case you were wondering what this little pony did next...

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TDk_NfkAAAAJ&hl=en
Can someone explain in the latest movie why the US couldn't use its 5th/6th generation fighter?
Is there not an equivalent text representation for UUIDv7?
Relevant to this conversation, my experience is that Apple’s market tends to more cohesively track new products while Android and PC markets tend to be extremely fragmented with lots of users still dangling on the tail — often because they’re either budget users or enterprise managed and subject to slow upgrade patterns.

Unless my Android app has a demographic that’s biased heavily towards flagship phones, newly announced OS and ecosystem features just won’t be important to me for a while.

Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure the majority of my iOS users will be on iOS 16 by end of year, and a huge share more by next fall. So being attentive to what iOS 16 means for my app is more immediately important.
Stall no. Moderate yes.

I think a large part depends on if they are able to translate their infrastructure spending away from unprofitable or marginally profitable ventures like bridges into high-tech nuclear industry, more battery and solar tech, semi-conductors & lithography, etc.

They are certainly capable (we saw that with EVs, batteries and solar already) but proof will be in the pudding.
The documentation itself can be regulated, and changing it requires more than a PR code review by another software developer. As an example, the instructions for building and releasing the software could come under the controlled SDLC process.

I see where you're coming from, but you're not correct that this is misguided, nor that this is just busywork for project managers. If you're doing safety-critical stuff in the automotive, aviation or medical industries then process faults mean lives could be put at risk. A drive-by PR to update a document could have serious implications, and that's why change management processes are in place. They are a safety-net above the level of the code review and activity in the VCS, because you have a different set of eyes on what's going on.
Show HN: Vstwebview, write VST3 audio plugin UIs using webtech
Background: VST3 is a crossplatform (Windows, OSX, Linux) API and SDK for developing audio effects and synthesizers to be run inside digital audio workstations etc.

Steinberg's VST3 SDK includes their own bespoke cross platform GUI framework.

No offence to the super talented devs at Steinberg, but it's kind of frustrating. It's missing a lot of stuff, is badly documented, has no facilities for accessibility, etc. So I went looking for alternatives.

Embedding something like QT ends up with a bunch of issues involving the threading model and so on. Others have tried and failed.

There's stuff like JUCE as well but it's not just a UI framework but a whole toolkit with its own world view and licensing etc.

Then I got thinking about how -- as much as I kind of hate it -- the web is really the standard for cross platform UIs. These days it's pretty fast even on fairly low end devices. Lots of toolkit options. Canvas support. Multiple languages. Decent security model. And both Windows and Mac come with embeddable webview components (Edge and Webkit).

So I threw together:

https://github.com/rdaum/vstwebview/blob/main/README.md

Still a bit rough around the edges and somewhat untested, but would love contributions.
But if you can live in a cheaper place than Palo Alto, you’ll make back that $15K per year in lower house payments. And if you only have a comfortable commute of 15-20 min each way as opposed to an hour (or more), your standard of living will be much nicer too.
You're thinking about the dead zone in the wrong way: There's a height X where you can drop the aircraft and it'll absorb all the forces to have the people live. There's a height Y where the parachute has enough time to deploy and bring the aircraft to terminal velocity. If X is less than Y, there's a height where there's nothing to save you.

Options to resolve this are: make X higher by making the structure able to absorb more energy, or make Y lower by having it deploy faster.
Is this achievable by the size of the craft itself? Or the fact that these bigger planes have 1000s of engineers behind them optimizing every possible factor to squeak out the best possible lift to drag ratio?
As Steven Wright says, "I kept a diary when I was born. It said, "Day 1 - Still recovering from the move. Day 2 - Everyone talks to me like I'm an idiot."
I am from Europe. Can someone explain why the US Navy has so much presence in the air, why isn't that the purview of the US Air Force?
I guess the question is - can we maintain the standard that is ‘qualified pilot’ as it is today while making it accessible enough for this to scale.

Learning to drive and learning to fly isn’t the same bar today.

And if Lilium think Palo Alto to San Francisco could be $50, they’re gonna need _alot_ of flights to balance their costs.
Whether we are more than computers is almost a religious question (I believe yes, but I can't prove it). However, any computation that we can prove through finite language, in the sense of absolute mathematical proof, can be checked by a mechanical process or, equivalently, a Turing machine (computer).

If there's something more, we don't have the tools to prove it.
pretty sure the point of the Y combinator is to server as a definition for recursion in languages that do not support it natively (ie, lambda calc)

if you're making a recursive function call then you're just making something that kinda looks like Y but isn't.

FWIW i don't think you can write Y in haskell, it would not make much sense.

according to this thread you can't, because it doesn't type check.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4273413/y-combinator-in-...
They still look pretty interesting. But, just like a magic performance loses some of the... um... magic when you know how it's done and the mystery is removed, so it is with crop circles.

(Of course, you can have transcendent magical acts that are still awesome even when you know how they're done, as Penn and Teller love to illustrate with their cups and balls trick. But the bar is a little higher.)
I did everything on the software side including extensive use of Max and Reaktor.
> What’s the advantage of watching Google IO when they’ve rarely if ever dictated the future?

The difference here is hardware vs. software. Android and ChromeOS devices are mostly not marketed as Google products (aside the Pixel stuff), so there's really not a need for big launch events. Apple's entire year can be made by a great launch, and no one does it better than Apple.
You probably mean to return a new current state. If so, as others already said, the function isn’t a state machine, but the (current state, function) pair is.

Advantage of that approach is that it makes it easier to test the state machine (if you want a test that checks what it does on receiving input I while in state S you don’t have to somehow get it into state S, but just call it with those inputs) and that it means you can (easily) write the function so that it is reentrant, and thus allows you to instantiate the state machine multiple times (if only for running tests in parallel)

For some state machines, it may not even be possible to get them in state S enough times to test them with all inputs you want to test them with, if you ‘hide’ the current state inside the transition function.
The cargo here is humans
Isn't this argument basically true of any major open-source project? There's always a commercial user somewhere who benefits from your work without paying for it.

A contribution to Bitwarden would benefit the paid hosting, sure, but it'd also benefit folks who are self-hosting.
And here's the original discussion at the time of the announcement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30944881

ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile
177 points by mitchbob 66 days ago | 49 comments
Ah, I was wondering why they were so concerned about attribution.

The truth is that, today, if I was going to use a tool to generate voices (say for YouTube), I wouldn't necessarily pick a small SaaS tool. I'd use Amazon Polly or some other GCP-style platform voice creation tool. There are already a few products in the space, and their costs are so low as to be almost negligible (example: Polly, 5 million characters free). For a commercial project, I could probably stay on a free tier for a whole year.

With Dall*E, it seems like the only option, and it's such a superior option that a website could abuse it for commercial profits. But for voice synthesis, it's already dirt cheap and commercially available without limitations.
Using microarchitecture bugs to beat authenticated pointers
I strongly disagree with this. Just the fact that the homepage was minimalist and just a search field and the results made it category defining. And the results were way better as far as my memory goes.
I didn't even know Google I/O still existed, which about sums it up.
Human stereoscopic vision could also be fooled by specifically designed optical illusions in science museums. We just avoid them when designing roads.
You’re correct - Maps is a good example. I think the relative point still stands though. On the whole, Apple releases fewer higher-signal products and a better track record of industry wide impact.
Last summer, I rode in a Rubik R-26 Góbé glider, invented by the father of the man who invented the Rubik's cube. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik_R-26_Góbé

Pretty fun experience. And if commercial airplanes ever start using this sort of launching technology, I imagine the takeoff would feel a lot smoother.
Ha -- I've actually been a Digital Library subscriber for a long time due to my association with ACM Queue, and tried in vain for years to get the ACM to do something like this. I did convince them years ago to let selected practitioner DL subscribers "unlock" interesting articles, which I promptly did myself with one of my all-time favorite articles[0] -- but ACM didn't publicize the program (or really even mention it?) and to the best of my knowledge, that article was the only one made available.

[0] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/07/18/revisiting-the-intel-...
I see a lot of claims like this. I believe you believe it's true. The scientific evidence is to the contrary however.

Memory at this age is extremely malleable. And I mean "malleable" even years later. I mean "malleable" as in you can create false memories. Consider this experiment [1]. Participants were told about meeting Bugs Bunny at Disney. A significant number of participants then added their own stories of the same thing happening. Bugs Bunny isn't at Disney. He's a Warner Brothers character.

What I suspect happens is that you're told about these events at various points, enough that you start to fill in the details.

Dating memories from childhood is even more difficult. It's easy to be years off the mark. Often it's only successfully dated by corroborating details eg you remember a dog that died when you were 4 or you remember your room in a house that you moved out of.

[1]: https://www.washington.edu/news/2001/06/11/i-tawt-i-taw-a-bu...
Dalio:

"I’m a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But I think everything’s got to be reformed. The bottom 60% of the population has not had a rise in per-capita income since 1980. There are big opportunity gaps in areas like education ...
I almost don’t care what’s done as long as it’s bipartisan. The most important thing is that we have to develop a solid middle — a bipartisanship of smart people who can work together across party lines to make the reforms."

Amen to that.

Since the 1980s debt, currency account deficits have risen under both parties. There's nothing in sight from either party that suggests either had the appetite or aptitude to do a darn thing about it. Paul Ryan? Please. He took a zero here. Democrats definitely deserve criticism about constantly talking the income side rather than the spend side, thereby leaving spending all for the Republicans to soap-box on. But you wanna know what? Republicans can spend money just fine too.

Some things I'd like to see for the USA. Our kids - yours and mine both --- are getting screwed over right now:

- A 25% shift back to US based supplied chains

- A plan to bound the current account deficit and debt. We need the US dollar to continue to be a desirable reserve currency

- A short term plan to get our hands and Europe's hands on fossil fuels, and complement our portfolio for electrically with fission. In the medium to longer term fossil fuels need to become an under 30% energy source. I do worry about climate. Modern countries have no experience fixing problems like bees gone (so agriculture suffers), or temperature beyond human control. Energy independence will reduce our need to get involved in wars.

- A return to the middle. Frankly that's where the power is, and it's where the fun is especially if you like direct and powerful criticism. In Washington DC it's twice the target rich environment: you can hammer Rs and Ds. DC is like the first half the Breakfast club: it's regressed to stupid inbred, sterile clubs. If we can meet in the middle we can grind off the silly right and left. MLK is a great example here: he neither sat on his hands or went to violence. He stayed the middle requiring more backbone, guts, intellect, a better message for all, and better organizational skills to get people engaged despite being a really tough problem.
Yep, I was aware of the acquisition. The work to make what we think of as Google Maps today happened after the acquisition. That’s why I mentioned Google Earth as a counter example, as it fundamentally didn’t change (obviously got better, but didn’t change in a foundational way) post acquisition unlike Maps did.
So “Only if you’re OpenAI” :)

If the weights were public, the community would figure out a way to fine tune it.
Let me help you, if you type `/hangout` command in Slack, it opens google meet...
There are definitely jobs that start before 09:00.

My workplace starts at 06:00 or 07:00 depending on how much work is on, there are no other options.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_of_t...
It's interesting that the nostalgia for "pixel-perfect design" comes from a company that seems to have been on a mission to remove pixels from the user's perception for the last 20 years.

First, Apple promoted skeuomorphism as the most visible difference from the pixelated look of Windows (OS X, 2001).

Secondly, they made pixel-perfect designs irrelevant by making a powerful, small handheld computer. It made the goals of pixel-perfect design futile and triggered the RWD trend instead (iPhone, 2007).

Thirdly, they successfully pushed Hi-DPI screens to the masses, which make the smallest elements on the screen too small for the naked eye to be seen. (Retina, 2010).

I say it with all due respect. These are absolutely brilliant achievements. Still, some "Yeah, thank us for killing pixels" would be in place.
The Big Mac Index simplifies McDonald's into a perfectly efficient burger producing machine, in all possible countries, and then evaluates purchasing power parity between currencies by normalizing against a Big Mac.

An average burger price in a given city would be different. There the intent would be to assume profit margins are consistent (albeit perhaps not hyper-thin) from city to city, and thus get a sense of the relative costs of burger-related inputs (chiefly: labor, real estate, utilities, taxes, and transportation).
I basically wrote a separate blog just for replying to this https://blog.the-pans.com/when-and-how-to-invalidate-cache/.
Wow. I would consider it unacceptable living more than 25 minutes walking from school.
I don't know what you refer to. But I have some kind of memory that I think may be from the womb. It is very hard to put into words, but something similar to waking up from sleep. Just a memory of consciousness.
Even if this memory may not be real, just "remembering" it makes me dizzy, because it feels like it is a memory from when the light was turned on inside me, so to say. A very strange feeling.
They fly from naval aircraft carriers.

Exactly the same in European countries with carriers - naval aviators usually come from the navy. (The UK now also hosts Royal Air Force and Army Air Corps on carriers.)
Aren’t you just proving my point? For each of these categories, Apple’s entry massively expanded the entire category and redefined the form of all future post-Apple products.
That could become a huge problem.
What is the tldr. Got a wall of terms of service I didn’t want to agree too and clicking reject was a Rickroll.
That's a good point. I don't think I've used a new google product in 10 years, but it use to be a major and exciting thing.
Because of aircraft carriers. Those are the purview of the Navy, and are a mobile base of operations.
If Google hadn’t been so obsessed with making messaging special (one way or another) they might have managed to make it good.
Ukraine war: Evidence shows widespread use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv
Oftentimes constraints are a feature. What was the title of the paper and what did you winnow it down to? If the latter is clearer, then maybe the constraint does more good than bad
Those 2 comments sum up the web in 2022
> deterministicly reverting to a sane state as agreed to by the individuals involved when they loved each other.

People aren't computers. We often don't "deterministicly revert to a sane state." Your approach is far too limited. The laws should be more understandable and expedient, and the overriding well-being of the child should be taken into account. The child's wishes should be taken into account as well to inform the decision but not decide it. CASA in the US do this well in the majority of cases
In world war 2, naval strategy shifted from battleships to becoming aircraft carriers. The only role of naval ships in modern warfare is to carry attack aircraft.

The US Airforce needs a land base and small aircraft that has to travel longer distances. It's not tactically advantageous.
now how do you get anyone to read your document? Is there some secret trick involved?
Why charge differential tax rates based on what the property is used for?

https://www.gov.uk/introduction-to-business-rates

Just enact a full Land Value Tax across the isles.
The original double deck hamburger
Is it wrong though? Maybe its because my immigrant (S. Asian) parents emphasized education heavily so they busted their ass to put me into the best public school districts. Believe me, being the poorest kid in school had its downsides, but doing well in school and sports was a great equalizer.

Now that I'm in my 30s and interact with the broader world, I can't help but realize that most people I meet outside of tech are... how do I say this? Not that bright? I'm talking people who can't add small numbers or multiply, and seem to have short term goals and interests. BTW these people are in the same socioeconomic level (or better, as many of them own property here within their family) as my family when we were brand new to this country.

In Los Angeles the schools are garbage and failing for the most part, and it is pretty sad to see the result - adults who can barely make ends meet and continue the cycle. Since I'm in the tech bubble, everyone else I hang out with is quite well to do and smart, but any time I've met people outside of this bubble I feel depressed and sad.

Like I said, I grew up in the districts where most of the people were focused on providing a good education for their kids. It was in the midwest suburbs right outside of the city metro, and my peers were involved in sports and also studying. Our football/basketball team were AP/honor roll students who also played in the orchestra, and most of them went on to higher education and have really good careers. When I see their Linkedin updates, I'm always happy to have been around such people who also motivated me.

I honestly believe that China, India, and other Asian countries will dominate the next century and beyond. They're pumping out engineers (people who can think, use their brain) while Americans talk shit about themselves and want to degrade. The USA needs to stop treating children like equals/adults (they're not, their brains are still developing) and focus on making sure their kids can think their way out of a box instead of crying or needing therapy (just stop giving them iPad games since they're 2 years old to make them shut up). We need to get off this addiction to instant gratification - that leads to mental retardation because when people don't have to think of alternatives or creative ways to do things, MOST people will just be lazy. We've proven this in animals, and we see it every day with people.

I'm honestly pondering if I should raise my family in the same midwestern suburbs I grew up in because I can't see my kids succeeding here in California. The schools suck, the people are not interested in education, and tech basically carries this state in terms of brainpower.
I used to not care about owning, but then I experienced the Vancouver rental market. Long term I don't want to live under the stress of maybe having to leave the house in 30 days because the landlord wants to kick me out so he can increase the rent.

Yes you can make 200-400k. After taxes and rent, that is more than halved. In the end of the day 400k in Vancouver is less than 150k in Brazil. Full remote salaries of 200-250k are totally possible nowadays.
I agree this is an amazing demonstration of what AI can do, but I think that the current method of "learn and repeat" that depends on having tons of computing resources available is still too inefficient in many ways. Personally I'm more interested in what parameterisable formant-based synths can do, since they are extremely efficient and can produce a theoretically infinite variation of voices, although the output quality is still not great. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31604299