skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh. I'm not especially good at music -- I can play music but I don't especially enjoy it. I don't get the urge to dance, and I'm only so-so at feeling the beat. I'm not tone-deaf or otherwise pathologically bad at it. I'm just not better than average, and perhaps worse.

But I'm very empathetic, to the point that it's a problem. I'm not woo-woo about it; the word "empath" has taken on some really dumb new-agey connotations. But I am better-than-average at picking up on people's emotional signals, and they matter to me a lot.

(All of those are my own self-reported self-assessments, so take them with a grain of salt.)

That's the opposite of the arrow of causation in TFA, so perhaps it's not worth mentioning. But I take TFA to suggest that it's not just one-way, and if so, I'm a single, anecdotal data point against the other direction. Whatever I'm doing when being "empathic", it doesn't seem at all to be linked to music.
He's kind of amazing and I'm obsessed with him, but the problem with his original concept is how hard they are to insulate. He has a lot of living followers that have put a lot of time into designs that can be insulated well, but they lose the off-the-shelf quality of the original Segal concept.

The Architects' Journal Special Issue: The Segal Method: http://www.ianwhite.info/THE_SEGAL_METHOD.pdf

http://www.segalbuildings.me.uk/

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edit: It took me a little while to find Segal's followers' books, so I might as well list the ones I own here if anybody else is interested. They contain updated, insulated interpretations of Segal's process, and experimentation with alternative materials.

The Self-Build Book: How to Enjoy Designing and Building Your Own Home by Jon Broome and Brian Richardson

Out of the Woods by Pat Borer and Cindy Harris

The Whole House Book: Ecological Building Design & Materials by Pat Borer and Cindy Harris

The Green Self-Build Book: How to Design and Build Your Own Eco Home by Jon Broome
No one is talking about "never delivering any working software".
You definitely do need to deliver working software and should do it in increments.
That both shows the customer you are making progress and (more importantly) lets them adjust their requirements as they go along.

Software is different from most other branches of engineering in that it is far less limited by physics and that the requirements are far harder to define.

For example the requirements for a bridge or a building are relatively straight forward (size, load capacity, climatic resistance etc etc). That's not to say that designing the bridge or the building is necessarilly simple (though it probably is for small bridges and houses because we have centuries of experience with them) but even for complex construction projects the requirements are relatively simple even if the implementation may be very complex (think channel tunnel or mileau viaduc).

In software there are much flexibility that most customers don't know what they want until they see it. They generally aren't capable of saying up front what they really want (and when they try to they are often wrong and end up saying "yes, that's what I said I wanted but now I can see it it's not good".
This is such a westernized perspective. If you were Japanese or if you just grew up watching anime you'll find those videos perfectly watchable.
The article copyright notice is at the bottom showing 2001-2014. Or perhaps Norvig accidentally confirmed he followed the advice of the Abstruse Goose comic for learning to program in 21 days.
If there's one thing I learned with biomedical data modeling and machine learning, it's that "it's complicated". For biomedical scenarios, getting more data is often not simple at all. This is especially the case for rare diseases. For areas like drug discovery, getting a single new data point (for example, the effect of a drug candidate in human clinical settings) may require a huge expenditure of time and money. Biomedical results are often plagued with confounding variables, hidden and invisible, and simply adding in more data without detection and consideration of these bias sources can be disastrous. For example, measurements from lab #1 may show persistent errors not present in lab #2, and simply adding in more data blindly from lab #1 can make for worse models.

My conclusion is that you really need domain knowledge to know if you're fooling yourself with your great-looking modeling results. There's no simple statistical test to tell you if your data is acceptable or not.
Cameras don't work if the neighborhood transformer is down for unscheduled reconfiguration
ProjectM: LGPL Reimplementation of Ryan Geiss' Milkdrop from Winamp/Kodi
Ask HN: Where would I find out about leasing land to telcos for 5G?
I'm the president of an HOA, and we have a nicely-situated street-light--on a hill, away from neighbors' objections, power, and a dedicated fiber pedestal about to be installed for such purposes. The area is currently under-served by some carriers, so I think it's possible that there would be some interest. Where do I go to get the conversation started?
Having worked in Perl for years I agree that Perl is most often hard to read. I've also seen some horrific FP. Generally that's because it either FP stuffed into a language that doesn't support it or it's some crazy meta programming that you need a PHD to follow. Boring well written FP is much easier to read IMO than most OO.
This sounds really interesting but I know nothing about skating, the people, or this video. Any links that break it down?
Become an Estonian eCitizen, launch an Estonian company with you as a shareholder, use a dot-com with appropriately themed subdomains for each portal, host internationally, avoid using anything local to Israel, and even if you have Hebrew content you can tell them to go pound sand.
Show HN: C Injection Compiler – Program your text files in C
It's very early in development but it has just reached a working state so I'm
actually using it now to generate content for my website.

The idea is that it should be useful both for generating static files and for
generating responses live in a server, which it should be able to do very fast
since it all compiles to C code and one memory mapped file.
We all have a stake in preserving our society/way of life.
I'm interested to know the source of this figure. It sounds typical for a reported rental vacancy rate. Is this not just the percentage of available rentals that are not currently occupied? This would exclude things like second homes, homes on the market, homes being renovated, land-banked homes, etc.

See Melbourne's Speculative Vacancies Report[0] for a comparison (in some years I've seen this report indicate that vacant properties in many areas are over 10%).

[0] https://www.prosper.org.au/speculative-vacancy-reports/

edit: I forget which year's report it was, but they did once find a very strong positive correlation between the rate of capital gains and empty properties. I.e. the stronger the capital gains in an area, the more likely properties were to be left empty.
Hypothetically, what if you were to host the content on github and then reference that content from the website?
How Gas app cut its Redis Engine CPU Utilization by 80%
Housing price has skyrocketed in most developed countries, not just the USA. So the reasons are likely to be more generic and less America-related.
Good point! The percentage of the ticket price that the artists are getting is - conveniently - never revealed so fans are left to assume that it's evil Ticketmaster gouging them. I see a comment above yours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33290468 that suggests the artists usually get 85% of the profits, and of course we have no way to know.
The people's money going straight to the crapper.
I mean how many of us have a door we can close and no movement in our peripheral vision when we're in the office?
It's no different from not having curb cuts on your sidewalk. Culturally tech companies have gotten away with selling non-compliant products and websites, and feel like it's unacceptable to be required to follow regulations because everyone has level-set their expectations around not doing that.

A competent regulatory scheme would have had the government enforcing this from the beginning, instead of depending on private action that seldom happens, but here we are. Uber ignores taxi regulations, AirBnB ignores zoning regulations, and everyone ignores accessibility regulations.
Not a dichotomy, the third option of making your website accessible is right there within their reach. Them putting their hands up and saying "guess we'll do nothing" is not evidence that they couldn't have.

I could have done that with two interns over a summer in 2017, I've done much larger labeling projects with fewer resources. Had they even thought about accessibility before being called on it, they could even have done it over time as they were recording the videos, surely they put resources into that.
I agree there are laws that need reviews, ammendments and I would even go as far and say it is not my laws, we are all born into the system and have to suck them up.

However, here nothing has been disrupted, rhe meddalions are stronger than ever in Europe.
So all the little savings here by using uber will cost more in the long term now that the taxi cartell has been reinforced. Same for hotels.

At least taxi drivers know safety protocols, same for hotels.

So the fallout goes beyond of what people think.

If this stuff comes at the cost of pretend customer service or exploitation of work forces or customers, the regulatory hammer should be, swift and heavy hitting.

We are far from this as a society, the exploiters can use their ill gotten funds to pay for legal defense. The bit of damage done to society and people finds no representation. Try ripping of a bank or take from the rich and your life will be disrupted before you can do a ten count.
Given the highly regulated nature of healthcare, would it be a meaningful plus if a software engineering applicant had a legal background as well, or is basically irrelevant?
Thanks! Yep, I used to set the delay to a long time, but I gave it up because my post above is a slight lie -- when something pops up in the dock to notify me, I go to the dock to see what the heck it was. That one use case caused me to give up setting a long delay because of how f'ing annoying it is for something to pop up, and then need (I think I set it to) 5 seconds to figure out what it was.
If the deaf want to listen to the content I make they can use their own speech to text system. If it's a solved problem like you said there should be no issue with that. Deaf people can gain access to content without having to force everyone else to cater to them.
There's plenty of non handicapped parking. Handicapped spots don't take parking away from the rest of the community.
Amen! Inshallah! etc

> As that edifice of capital crumbles, consumers are likely to cut back on spending. Though a cooler economy is what central banks intend to bring about by raising interest rates, collapsing confidence can take on a momentum of its own.

Sounds like hitting 2 birds with one stone. Or maybe we don't need to hit one of the birds, not raise interest rates, and thus not cause the other problems mentioned?
The same thing it always meant. Like many things, just because it's a continuum and not binary doesn't mean it's a useless concept.
Yes, that system would be called government-driven enforcement. It shouldn't be my job, as a private citizen, to launch a lawsuit to ensure that vendors comply with relevant laws.
Or perhaps the business couldn't afford transcription/translation. The GP seems to suggest it's "trivial" to add subtitles. Great! What happens when those subtitles are terrible quality? The goal post will get moved further and further by those in charge until you need professional grade transcription. If you're a small enough business you probably don't have the XX,XXX in legal capital to fight a firm that can throw XXX,XXX in to prove their point.

The problem isn't how easy it is, nor how we should do this. It's that someone has a gun to every small business' head telling them to spend money/time/resources on something they may not have the ability to do immediately. No one should be able to tell me how to run my company, or my life. It's up to me to decide to be compliant to accessibility and if I don't it may cost me customers. It's not like handicap ramps that save people's lives in fires. This is a transcription. Ostensibly not NEARLY as important as other ADA regulations. But because of it's ambiguity and relative ease to determine who and who isn't following using data miners it's a cash cow for legal vultures.
Folks are reporting 40ms on Starlink and 638ms for Viasat.

I don’t know what is going on, and I don’t use either service.
I'd estimate the AirBnB post-fees was roughly 40% higher than HIE post-checkout. I chose to stay there because it was a great location, and like the idea of paying a person rather than a corp. For the record, this was a metro area, there was ample access and selection for corporate alternatives, if anything was not to my liking I'm sure I could have gone somewhere else easily.

Nice people, but just not what everyone might have in mind as far as accommodations go. Or maybe it is, who knows.
< captioning is a solved problem

It is! Every deaf person I know has a handy device in their pocket that can 'listen' to the audio going on and output the text on the screen.
The point is that Amazon doesn't have to fill that slot with a c6gd. They can also fill it with a c6g. They just choose not to.

The fact that you have to host a c6gd to get that price instead of a c6g is an inefficiency in the spot market that likely makes Amazon money, but is a little customer-hostile. I think the article is probably wrong that Amazon is foregoing revenue due to this. This is a form of price discrimination and it is likely making Amazon money, but in a scummy way.
Indeed. Language has been historically difficult for AI, but I think it's even tougher here — language is less and less reliable the further we get from a shared experience, and this is a problem when describing our experiences of our own bodies, and much worse when describing our own minds.

For example, when I was coming off an SSRI, I was forewarned that I might get a sensation of "electric shocks"; the actual experience wasn't like that, though I could tell why they chose to describe it like that.

How different is the tightness in the chest during a heart attack from the tightness in the chest from exercising chest muscles?

I have no idea how doctors, GPs, and nurses manage this, though they seem to have relatively little trouble.
CPUs use significantly more power to perform the same amount of computation that a GPU does, because they're optimized for different workloads.

GPU input programs can be expensive to switch, because they're expected to change relatively rarely. The vast majority of computations are pure or mostly-pure and are expected to be parallelized as part of the semantics. Memory layouts are generally constrained to make tasks extremely local, with a lot less unpredictable memory access than a CPU needs to deal with (almost no pointer chasing for instance, very little stack access, most access to large arrays by explicit stride). Where there is unpredictable access, the expectation is that there is a ton of batched work of the same job type, so it's okay if memory access is slow since the latency can be hidden by just switching between instances of the job really quickly (much faster than switching between OS threads, which can be totally different programs). Branching is expected to be rare and not required to run efficiently, loops generally assumed to terminate, almost no dynamic allocation, programs are expected to use lower precision operations most of the time, etc. etc.

Being able to assume all these things about the target program allows for a quite different hardware design that's highly optimized for running GPU workloads. The vast majority of GPU silicon is devoted to super wide vector instructions, with large numbers of registers and hardware threads to ensure that they can stay constantly fed. Very little is spent on things like speculation, instruction decoding, branch prediction, massively out of order execution, and all the other goodies we've come to expect from CPUs to make our predominantly single threaded programs faster.

i.e., the reason that GPUs end up being huge power drains isn't because they're energy inefficient (in most cases, anyway)--it's because they can often achieve really high utilization for their target workloads, something that's extremely difficult to achieve on CPUs.
Client side development isn’t trivial on any platform. Comparing a Go project with a client application just reveals that client apps rot faster because the devices that run them and the software on them are moving targets, esp mobile devices.
The murder of Sherri Rasmussen [1] comes to mind.

They caught the perpetrator decades later, mainly due to DNA traces left in the bite mark on the victim’s arm.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sherri_Rasmussen
I've listened to tracker music since the 80's and I still do it basically every day. Whenever I have a bad day or feel the lack of motivation; tracker music always helps. And to be honest, it's probably what's getting me through my 20 year long depression.

There are so many good tracker songs I could recommend, but I'll instead list a couple of my favourite artists:
Elwood, Radix/Rymdlego/Mosaik, Fearofdark, Necros, Purple Motion, Lizardking, Malmen, Beek, Dubmood, Skaven, Virt and so many many more!
That's actually pretty expensive! This site https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ says $15 in 1969 is equivalent to $121 today.
What was the total cost of producing those videos to begin with?
If I'm not mistaken US mortgage rates are several percentage points above what they would be if prepaiment was not "free". You have to pay for that option some way or another.
The disabled litigant is of course bottom feeding scum, but the real fault is with the law itself.
Yes, but the fact that someone had to do this makes it clear that the spec isn't complete. A complete spec would state the algorithm unambiguously. You might still need to fix bugs based on tests, but you shouldn't need to be working about behaviour because it's unspecified.
One issue with this is that the fake CSAM wouldn't be the cartoons of a Japanese Manga, it would (or could) be photo realistic. It could be photo realistic of real children. This is obviously possibly bad because it might fuel or encourage pedophiles, but it also has lots of other negative possibilities too.

One example of a bad thing - you could easily imagine an instagram bot that looks for pictures of people with their kids, then uses a Stable Diffusion like model to produce pictures of the people having sex with their kids, or horrible things happening to the kids, and reply to the target account. The bot might threaten to post the pictures and accuse the person of being a pedophile unless the person pays X in bitcoin (or whatever). Or, the bot could just post such pictures for fun.

I think we don't know if fake CSAM will have a good or bad effect on pedophiles and, sadly, there is no real way to reliably test that (so far as I know). Fake CSAM might placate pedophiles, or it might whet their appetite. It's hard to know what to do.

I think we will eventually get to the point where very good unrestricted image generation models are available to the general public. When that happens there will be chaos - you will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
This sounds like the sort of scam that a certain company in my corner of the world tried to pull - they bought rights to map data and threatened small businesses that had maps on their websites(even small, "hand-drawn" ones) that they'll report them to the authorities for copyright infringement(prosecuted ex officio), unless the businesses in question pay a "licensing fee".

Eventually they made the mistake of trying to silence a thread about them on a legal advice forum, which resulted in an interesting legal battle during which it was established that a fragment of a map does not constitute copyrighted material, so their threats were empty from the get go.
In my case I went for a 5 year fixed because if I save at the same rate in those 5 years as I have in the last 5 years (which given my mortgage repayments are 75% of the rent I was paying prior, for much more house, shouldn't be too challenging, even with the inflation), then if rates are shit in 5 years I can pay off like 40% of the mortgage after the fixed rate and still have lower payments than I do today.
I often post on HN that TikTok offers much more to the world than videos of girls dancing and silly pranks. It gives people what they want (for better or worse) and adapts very very quickly to tastes.

Once it learns you're a science nerd it fills your feed with some high quality educational content like this. The chemistry stuff they have is also A+.
Hi Dang, thanks for reading and commenting.

I know my position on the topic is a little controversial, but I wasn't deliberately trolling, I do genuinely believe what is wrong with today's internet is a lack of accountability.

TV, newspapers, books, magazines were all held accountable for spreading disinformation and harmful speech. I think we need the same protections on the public facing internet.
> When considering a new job, I almost don't care about technology. Engineering culture makes all the difference.

This resonated with me. Whether you are recruiting or looking culture is incredibly powerful.
I showed it to a native Japanese speaker and he thinks it's "Siera ga ookuri suru Thexder" though he said he was only able to make out "ga ookuri suru" part and was inferring the rest from context.

I feel like I can hear "Siera" at the start myself and you seemed sure the last word was Thexder, so that's what I'm going with. It's pretty nearly incomprehensible, though.
We are 18 years from the DARPA Grand Challenge and none of the vehicles finished.

Do you think a self-driving car can make it from LA to NYC by itself now?

What do you think 2040 AI will look like?
Importing of postman is very important feature, I will take a look definitely.
Similar to https://reason.com/2017/03/07/berkeley-deletes-200000-free-o...

> Berkeley had two choices: spend a fortune adding closed captioning to the videos, or remove them from public view. Cost-conscious administrators chose the latter option.

If the hosted on youtube, they would get auto generated captions for free correct? In this day and age, which open source models like Open AI whisper, almost every video could get auto captioned.

Does the law state how accurate the captions need to be?
The term is "reification".
One thing we can say with certainty is that every person alive today and every person who will ever be born is a descendant of successful hunters.
For utm the interesting tech is venus / virgl (https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2021/11/26/venu...) Like the other comments say this work is not really applicable to qemu.