skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waiting to read about the artist that displayed their work — pretending that it is the work of AI, ha ha.
I have explored those, but I ran into many many issues when i wanted to build routines of routines. I wanted to compose a routine from others. I couldn't simply/directly invoke a routine from others without voice interpretation, and it led to strangely phrased triggers just to get it to work. It's frustrating that I should be able to make these explicit actions in the app, but it's just very clumsy. In the ideal scenario I should be able to configure all of that through the voice interface itself. "Hey Google, create a routine that initiates from "It's dinner time" that turns on all the lights in the dining room and sets them to 50% with the 'candlelight' color"

I hate how many products need to be configured from apps nowadays. You gave me the voice assistant and I can't use the voice assistant to manage the voice assistant. I shouldn't even need an iPad or phone to set it up. Give me a minimum local processing/interpretation so I can get it online and it can begin interpreting more articulate requests.

We are so far away from zen.
If someone had told me that driving my car down the street was a differential equation:

- instantaneous position in some coordinate system

- velocity on the speedometer

- acceleration on the gas pedal

The whole class could have sucked much less.
What a depressing reality where hostile US corporate data privacy practices and hostile US surveillance law take de facto priority over the EU's own privacy legislation meant to protect its own residents.

The EU has provisions for very similar "hostile surveillance law" in its own member states. It just gave them a get out of jail free card in the GDPR. There is a considerable amount of hypocrisy about the EU's positions on privacy and data protection.

The trouble with this whole subject is that you get grandstanding politicians trying to make big statements that go so far that it becomes unrealistic to enforce them because you'd cause catastrophic economic and/or social damage. If you really want to improve things what you need is steady, incremental progress towards restricting unwanted invasions of privacy. You can start with the most invasive commercial spyware. After a while you have moved the Overton window so that the worst excesses of governments' own surveillance programmes start to become viable candidates for reform as well. Ideally you eventually move societies away from the politics of fear that motivates those kinds of mass surveillance laws but that doesn't seem likely any time soon.
Vermont Public did a story a while back covering the Vermont aspects of this—Space Research Corp and Gerald Bull. Interesting story.

https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/202...
The evolution of whales from land to sea
Is there any hardware accelerator / co processor / for the PC
that will read a file into RAM autonomously mainframish and notify
the OS when the file is fully loaded into memory?
(bypassing the CPU entirely)

Leaving the CPU to bother with other things during that time.
> I'd argue the exact opposite

I'm truly interested in hearing your reasoning beyond "it is obvious to me." What background do you have in this field? Because if we wander over to the papers published in SAS we can look through the ways in which various systems model programs and they do not choose to model physical computers as FSMs. We've got decades of people thinking hard about this problem who've come down on the complete opposite side as you. Maybe literally the entire field is wrong about this. I doubt it.
> You just said introducing banks means paying fees to the banks instead of spending the money on housing. Now you say that lowering fees paid to the bank doesn't help? You have to pick one or the other.

Those two statements can be consistent with each other. If we pick on the US because that is the default economic canary, you can see that very low interest rates [0] hasn't had a sustained impact on home ownership rates [1]. So, obviously, excessive amounts of credit hasn't helped with home ownership even as the rate of interest went low. It isn't much of a stretch from there to say that giving the banks all that extra help hasn't assisting matters.

There is a market level of credit that would be extended, but the system has been purposefully pushed to provide much more than that.

[0] https://www.aboutinflation.com/_/rsrc/1307805149788/interest...

[1] https://dukewarner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/home-owner...
Having played with this a previous time it was posted and looking at the profiler results, the main difference between the Go and C isn't due to any memory allocations but rather the lack of in-place update and slightly higher cost from being general-purpose in Go's hash table. (This is also probably why Rust, without the GC overhead, clusters with Go rather than C.)
No decent, intellectually curious person should deny religious perspectives in topics like this. Religious writing is literally the prior art here, and still where one can find the richest live discourse.
The file is only being read once according to the blog and then it is in memory. This isn't an I/O intensive application at all.

I have written a small script in python that does something similar. I have a word list with 1000 words and I check the presence of the words. Here is the thing. For every word I go through the entire file. So lets say I scan the file one thousand times. In fact I did something more complicated and ended up going 6000 times over the original file and yet it still took only three seconds. If all these scans had to reread the file it would take forever.
I'd say there's a good chance both of those artists are going to grow "beyond" the artist they are emulating (and by "beyond" here I don't mean better than but rather grow into something unique).

Lots of bands (nearly all?) learn their craft by playing covers. At some point the artists in the group start to find their voice.

I suspect AI never will.
Well yes it's a total ripoff

I installed a DB-Server for a Customer around 2years ago, in a DC near him with 16 cores 48GB Ram and ~6TB -> 12 SSD, vDevs mirror with 2, and Stripe over the mirrored vDevs (kind of a Raid10 but zfs), compression zstd (1GB could be compressed down to ~200MB so 5 times less reading/writing, and in theory ~30TB of pure DB-Data, 20TB realistic, remember never fill a zpool over 72%) record-size 16kb (postgresql). After 3 month the machine was paid (compared to the "cloud"-price) and the performance kind of 10-12 times higher.

Called the customer about a two month ago and he said the DB-Server is still to fast and maybe he wants another one who uses less power... ;)
The oscillator bit is, but I don't appear to have uploaded the one with the filter which I will need to find.

https://github.com/ErroneousBosh/slttblep

The filter is just an SVF with, with a precomputed expo scale "bent over" at the top to correct for quantisation. From that the two SVF coefficients ω/Q and ω*Q are calculated every time there's a control update and of course because you can't divide on an Arduino it uses a lookup table of reciprocals just as for the blep. I could probably use a "wider" table of 16-bit values for better precision.
I wouldn't make that argument that way, I'd say I don't like what they're doing. It's not useful to say "no normal being would do that", given that millions of "normal" human beings do it.

It makes it sound like they're inhuman monsters and that we'd never do that. The truth is, if you and I were raised there, we probably would, just like we eat meat.
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This is not what an oil well looks like, and the article doesn't help with phrasing like "depleted cavern". An oil well is not a big cave filled with black, bubbling oil and a big "straw" poked into it. The hydrocarbons are held in the porosity of the rock, and pressures (both natural and introduced) force them to the wellbore. A very poor sponge is a better visible analogy, but even that over-represents the voids.
I wish you luck in your new life in Somalia.
I'm not discussing that argument, I'm not OP. But I answered your question.
> Probably some smart SIMD lowercase function could help here but I don't think any language is going to offer that out of the box.

No, but at least you have direct access to the intrinsics in C. To get vectorization in Go, you have to implement it in C and link that into your Go program.
Nowhere did I say or even imply that people are “lazy or misguided” for not learning Rust.
New intuition and abstraction are what allows us to make progress where we previously were stuck.
Isn't this what a DMA controller does?
Its harder as Europeans are scared of debt, its just a system based on misery and poverty where the rich are richer and the poor just produce cheap migrant workforce for northern europeans
I am not even sure where to start. What are we afraid of? What can happen with the data? In Sweden all tax filings are public. No one cares.
I think this is a relative concept. It's less secular than pretty much all other developed nations and also less secular than many other less developed countries
You can usually counteract that by sending large enough batches to the processes.
This is really fascinating.

I wonder how much was informed by i-mode.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode

It was an alternative to the other content delivery offerings at the time, like WAP. Japanese handset manufacturers created devices that catered to the needs of that format. Japan is an interesting case study as always because they were always in tight coordination with software and hardware before it was widely popular.
What's acting western for you? Drinking alcohol and wearing jeans?
I'd really like that one where you give it a ref sheet and out comes a 3D model, or at least a baseline to tinker with in, e.g., Blender. I think NVIDIA was doing text-to-3d recently, but it did so from a single image and I'm not sure as to the accuracy of the model.
Do people have any tips on getting started with paredit in vim? I'm pretty happy with Parinfer but it sometimes makes working with other people's code painful...
Scientists demo first continuous-wave lasing of deep-UV laser diode at room temp
Meanwhile, my 500-person company switches from MS Office to Google Docs like it's no big deal. Because it isn't. Excel isn't the main skill, using spreadsheets is. Formulas, tabs, references, filters, sorting, pivot tables, scripting, blah blah blah.

Apart from Excel specialists with highly specialized workflows when the rest of your finance department is also using the same, nobody cares whether you're good at Excel. They just want something to easily tabulate rows and columns of data and get some insight of out if. LibreOffice does that as much as Google and MS.

Don't put "LibreOffice" on your resume, put "spreadsheets" and 95% of the time it won't make an actual difference anyway. You can learn the location/naming of most relevant functions of your employer's preferred spreadsheet app in a matter of hours and then you know several tools, which is always better than just knowing a single one and puts you ahead in other ways.
That is how I/O works already.

The problem is dealing with an asynchronous filesystem API provided by the kernel.
365 is the cloud base suite of Microsoft Office, you can still use the Microsoft Office 2021 Professional or older versions.

365 is a nice way of collaborate at work, if you are a small business is a nice product, for the big companies this is just going to be more headache for their I.T department, so now instead of relying in the Microsoft servers to allocate and store the documents, they will use any other server from who knows what company and hosted who knows where, some will be hosted with e2ee including at rest while others will end up using some shit show of servers from a company owned by some dude from not so friendly countries.

I understand that privacy for companies is a big risk, but regulating it this way can easily end with a cobra effect.
It isn’t even slightly difficult to believe - there were a couple of very public examples in London a few years ago, where people were jailed for attacking Muslims with bacon. I’ve literally seen, first-hand, people screaming slurs about terrorism at assumed Muslims on the tube.

I am baffled that you would assume some kind of fictional story as part of a conspiracy aimed at replacing a crew, rather than the much less complex idea that there might be bigoted people in some workplaces.
I always thought that mathematics would be a much more interesting subject if it was taught along with the history at the early stages, like other sciences are.
Works very well for Cuba and North Korea
(1) is a one-time investment and allows you to take advantage of compiler guarantees. (2) is what every other language does for FFI anyways. In Rust, you could have a lightweight wrapper around the C API, but you would lose out on some benefits.

OP said performance was critical, so why would they use a GC language?
You mean DMA?
Apple computers used to break their own plastic by hitting themselves with the closing magnets and some protruding pieces of plastic.

I guess it's why they make them of metal now… Less problems with bad design and using the user as a heat sink.
Great with these types of learning materials. Seems like the general public still has a lot to learn here.
How is that great news? The competition is literally decades behind.

This is crippling Europe.
That, and the insistence on 1-1 device:identity mapping (so you can't use the same account with multiple devices). And verifying an append-only log, so "show me Jane's recent posts" can't happen until it's downloaded & verified signatures for Jane's entire post history going back years.
If you think Microsoft is a "US Megacorp" you are tuly underestimating their global reach and ownership.
If your business processes are based on that: yes. You may argue "adapt your processes" but that's not something that you do within a week. Besides that it's also about exchanging information. Excel is a quasi-standard in some cases. Again you may argue "change that, its ridiculous". Still it's not something that you "just do".
Ron Fricke's other works, namely Baraka, are also worth a watch.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/
It's not great for Microsoft...

I have to admit though that O365 is handy for collaboration. I hope we can do something like a LibreOffice-based similar thing that companies can star using as a platform for online collaboration.

Where I work we already have lots of regulations on what we can and what we can't store on SharePoint or work on O365. My job is mostly safe from those inconveniences, but one of my first jobs was to build an asset delivery system that would comply with a number of US and EU regulations on what asset can be delivered to whom from where. Took lots of meetings with legal.
These look like nice tools. In CL land I think we can find some of their functionality in other tools than Slime, such as SLY, a fork of Slime with more features:

> - Instrument any Clojure form

This would be Stickers: annotate any Lisp form with a sticker, run your code, interactively walk through the recordings.

https://joaotavora.github.io/sly/#Stickers

> - Provide a GUI to explore your values and execution flow

SLY has an improved trace dialog: https://joaotavora.github.io/sly/#Trace-Dialog Also LispWorks' visual stepper is easier to use than SLY or Slime's. There is also an in-progress portable visual stepper for CL: https://zenodo.org/record/3742759

> time travel stepper

ah. Nice job.
I adore Philip Glass, and it was through Koyaanisqatsi that I discovered him back when the movie was released.

I have been fortunate enough to see PG & the PG ensemble perform Music in 12 Parts (I heard the piece twice that day: once traveling to the concert hall, and once live) as well as attend an evening of piano works by him performed by him and a series of other pianists. On my bucket list is seeing Einstein on the Beach live – easily my favourite opera.

I have been collecting his music since the early nineties, and much prefer his earlier works – his later symphonies, etc, while fine, do not, to my ear, retain the stark beauty of his younger days.
> TLDR: they're now using anycast for egress, not just ingress.

I don't see this behavior in my setup. I have a server in AMS and connect from IST, but `netstat` reveals a unicast IP address that is routed back to IST.
Relative to other currencies and relative to its own past.
I guess the difference that I see is that with photography I’m not generating a completely random image every time I push the shutter button. I think the corollary might be if I pointed my camera at some trees and pushed the shutter button resulting in my camera then picking a random picture that someone else has taken of trees anywhere in the world and I now have to hit the button many times to find the “right” one.

I understand that photography generates waste images. I just don’t feel like it’s the same.
Random I/O with NVME is slower than sequential I/O still, but the gap between the two has been narrowed considerably and is quite high in historical/comparative absolute terms. To get close to peak random I/O limits, you need to dispatch a lot of commands in parallel—that’s an I/O idiom that doesn’t really exist in high level languages, and I think that’s where a lot of the challenge is.
Leaving behind real world intuition doesn’t mean that math can’t be experimental in nature. The mathematical proof is itself experiential, is it not?

I wouldn’t mind if math education followed science: split up the course between lecture and lab!
The stories never heard. Love these.
PCIe 4.0 SSDs are pretty common nowadays and are basically limited to what PCIe 4.0 x4 can do (around 7 GB/s net throughput).
I am an European, too, and I do agree with xwolfi. Therefore "most European" is an accurate statement.
Microsoft 365 is extremely widespread in companies in the EU. Not because they love Microsoft but because this is a relatively simple setup.

Like Google (US) or Zoho (Indian).

I do not know European companies providing a cloud solution easy to deploy (I wild truly be glad to know one).
I'm not saying the author does that. My point is that too many articles do the West vs country at hand. You can, of course, write from the perspective of South Carolina vs Saudi Arabia and make all your comparisons that way, but I think authors could sometimes take a broader perspective, since the internet is, after all, international.

Maybe more importantly, I take issue with the identification of concepts we like (democracy, human rights, etc) with being Western.
What's funny is that many Europeans I have spoken with from across the continent have the attitude that you come to the US when you are young to make money then retire to Europe to take advantage of the social safety net.

Perhaps not yoir personal opinion, but definitely one that is anecdotally common among white collar workers.
I thought for SSDs it didn't matter whether data was adjacent on disk?
Let me fix that for you: "industry standard products" -> "monopolist's products".

Microsoft spent decades aggressively lobbying European governments and companies to use their stuff. Even if this finding has any short term impact (see the other comments about this point), I find it hard to believe Microsoft wouldn't swallow the pill and simply become compliant. If not - yeah, companies who are entrenched in Microsoft products have to find alternatives, which is gonna cost them significant efforts, but also open the door to more competition. Sounds like a short term problem for European businesses even in the worst case scenario.
> To get vectorization in Go, you have to implement it in C and link that into your Go program.

Go has an assembler which does not require implementing anything in C (though the assembler uses a more C-style syntax), nor critically does it require using CGo linkage. It's used to implement many hot paths in the stdlib.
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I totally agree with you. I think the EU should innovate more, than just relying on the usual tech giants.
These four paintings alone are sufficient reason to visit the National Gallery if you find yourself in DC.
it's on the EU to negotiate an agreement with the US

Wouldn't it be equally on the US to negotiate an agreement with the EU to maintain the global dominance their tech sector currently enjoys? I don't see a categoric reason why the EU should blink first.
Author's github: https://github.com/corkami/pics

He works on things like hash collisions, image files that contain an image of their own hash, "polyglot" files and such like.

I think this is intended as a "minimum viable mp4 file" to show what the required binary parts are.
Would love if you could name some books that teach like that, since we can't get you as a teacher.
> This also happened when Macs transitioned to Intel and Core 2 Duo laptops were released. At the same price point, PCs were much noiser and had much poorer battery range.

I had one of those macbooks… very silent but the fan broke quite soon and to use it I had to limit the cpu frequency or it would overheat and shut down.

I take the noise over the sleek computer with the air intake and outtake placed in the same hole that overheats constantly.

The machine was completely unusable in the summer, the bottom would get scorching hot. I could NOT place it on my legs.
I’ve never met a designer that could color within the lines for more than a day or two. Everything has to be special and custom always.

Why?

I couldn’t tell you.
The GIL won't prevent you from parallelizing I/O will it?
Do we need a coprocessor for that? Any protocol using DMA already does exactly this through interrupts or other message passing systems.

DMA capable controllers are everywhere, I don't think you'll find any storage controllers in your modern computer that don't do this.

Of course DMA only operates on byte ranges and not on files, but adding file system parsers to drives and disk controllers sounds like a way to introduce awful bugs and corruption. Assuming the OS keeps the necessary file system structures cached in RAM, plain old DMA should be good enough here.
I feel like python has never been a good introduction language. It is simply too abstract and hides too many details that are often required in other languages (Python is simply too flexible). It is good to learn if you are only scripting or calling library API, but I feel like it is a poor starting point if the goal is to transition into languages with more rigid structures such as C++.
So much potential in this category and yet so much hate. Yea, elements need to be sorted out around IP and similar, but the potential this offers over time for artists is massive.
You can split your make file in two CI steps, one cached, and the other one depending on it.
> Because mathematics, like most tertiary disciplines, has always been taught in a teaching style suitable for the 5% of the audience who aim to go on to be mathematics professionals (who then teach mathematics).

I agree with the rest of your comment, but this is not true. I teach university maths. We are well aware that most of our students are not majoring in maths and will not go on to teach it. Most of them at my university will go on to be engineers, so we teach for that in their courses, light on proofs and derivations and focused on grounded practical knowledge and techniques.
I've lived here in Japan for nearly a decade now and had a couple interactions with police. None of them have been targeted, and even when I was doing something illegal (riding a bike with headphones in) or plausibly illegal (sitting in a park drinking alcoholic drinks with my bicycle parked next to me) they were polite to a fault and also didn't seem to care about my immigration status.

Anecdotes are difficult - some people get unlucky and extrapolate their experience to something that is not statistically sound.
thanks for the source