skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warning: Tangent bordering on fringe science

HAARP can, for the price of a megawatt, modulate the conductivity of portions of the ionosphere. That same ionosphere is in contact with a few gigawatts of direct current in the form of solar flux. It's possible that you could modulate the ionosphere and a few tens of hertz and capture a large portion of the resultant power.

I think this is what Tesla meant to do with Wardenclyffe Tower. His definition of unlimited energy actually isn't that much in modern terms. The disruptions it would cause would cause the existing power grid would likely also be far worse than the possible gigawatt of power it could yield. The effects of such harvesting on the ozone layer are also likely to be negative.
It’ll run on CPU in decent time, it’ll also depend on the kind of cpu you have and the model you pick. In my m1, the base model can do 5-10s in about as long.

I uploaded it to a hugging face space if you just want to fiddle with it without installing

https://huggingface.co/spaces/jerpint/babelfish
so why do you need this to be distributed and why can you not use a monolithic server application, perhaps with background threads?
Economy is roughly proportional to number of people and economic growth is roughly lagging indicator of birth rates. China for instance has a billion people which is why it’s economy is so huge but as the birth rate has collapsed so has the economic growth.
I don't like the "blame engineers" part.

I think the problem goes much deeper, engineers in most cases are just doing their job. Not that they couldn't do things better, they can, but it seems to me like this is actually a political problem. At some point in the history of the US it was decided that public transportation was not the way to go and instead every American should own a house in the suburbs and a car.

It's culture and politics that needs to change, not signs and lines in the roads. And this means the problem is more difficult to solve as it is not a tech problem but a people's problem.
Impressive that they seem to have worked out the licensing, which is usually much more expensive for karaoke (presumably some sort of "public performance" license) than for personal listening/streaming.

So when can we get an Apple Arcade Rock Band/Guitar Hero type game that includes vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard and drums and works with any song on Apple Music?

And how about an automatic Dance Dance Revolution/Just Dance/etc. with the entire Apple Music catalog?
Yes, it runs well enough on CPU. https://modal-labs-whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.modal... runs on CPU, and chunks up podcast audio to parallelize over dozens of CPUs.
I don’t think any of the answers there are unambiguously correct.

Did you even need 120 responses in the first place? Did you truly expect every single student to respond to an optional survey? How did you train 75% of your student population to respond to a survey in the first place, 10% seems like a more reasonable estimate.

The correct answer is to account for non-response in the first place, but I guess that was option C.
Why not route a single ISP connection into two seperate nattes subnets to save cost? Are you worried about your work correlating with ISP data through some data broker service or is there a different risk that I’m missing?
Thanks for linking that, didn’t get a chance to see it the first time around. Oof.
Presumably because of emacs-ng [1], from the page " additive native layer over emacs, bringing features like Deno's Javascript and Async I/O environment, Mozilla's Webrender,".

[1] https://github.com/emacs-ng/emacs-ng
Thanks for the reference. But this does not seem to make sense. Email delivery is about interoperability. How can that be achieved if parties make their local decisions?

P.S. As you probably guessed in my previous comment "3 months later" should of course have been "3 months earlier". Sorry about the mistake.
The fact that you're aware that most people can't sing well is evidence that lack of singing ability in no way deters people from singing along to their favorite songs. You've kind of answered your own question: "most people" are probably the target demographic.
It is wonderful to read such nice pedagogical text explaining an interesting and innovative bit of syntax like this. Thank you to the author.
Searching around and I also found this: https://www.fable.app/
If you have an iPhone it will tell you if an unknown AirTag is near you. Apple provides a free app for Android phones that will let you see if any AirTags are nearby. You don’t have to buy anything
On one hand, I'm aware that most of what he's saying is wildly divorced from the vast majority of tech reality.

That being said: I never want him to stop or change. I still find his ideas and notions incredibly valuable and extremely good sticking points to always consider seriously, even if (perhaps ESPECIALLY IF) there's not much of chance one could actually practice them.

I've learned to listen to him before I judge strongly.
> [00:03:46.280] However, the language that we above all shouldn't support is JavaScript. That's not because of the language itself. I don't know the JavaScript language, I've heard people say it's rather clumsy and not well designed
I never stated my own position on this piece of knowledge, so no, __I__ did not have anything to do with your point.

C and C++ (and Assembly and compilers) are not part of the standard college software engineering curriculum here. Your opinion on that doesn't matter (just like mine doesn't matter) because it is a verifiable fact. And as such, it is also not strange to not see this bit of knowledge being prevalent. K&R isn't used much except if you are either taking the purely theoretical CS degree courses or if you tack them on to the normal required courses. Even the Gang of Four is only mentioned in passing when talking about patterns.

You __could__ argue if this is foundational knowledge, and if so, you __could__ argue that therefore the curriculum is in need of adjustment. But I didn't.

Regarding what this was all about (WrtCdEvrydy's comment), he might be talking out of the wrong hole, or he might be in a similar location as I am where this is how it works and that might be different from where you are.
Sends me back to the mid-1960's. My bedroom wall covered with QSL cards. Tossed by my parents when I went to grad school. Sigh...
One major problem, in my opinion, is that people think what they see online is a representative sample of the population. It’s clearly not.

You don’t have to browse Reddit for long to to see plenty of self-described loners, people dealing with anxiety and other mental issues. And it makes sense that these people would find community online.

But if kids are going online and being bombarded with “the world is doomed”, and “what I thought were just the challenges of growing up are actually a mental illness” or “once I did [unhealthy coping mechanism], I felt like my problems were solved”, they developed unhealthy and distorted views of how kids their age think and act. I can see it being very easy to get sucked into the worst kind of community.

And if kids isolate themselves further the online world is literally 99% of their entire world view. And what an awful distorted world that is.
I'm not a fan of hub motors. I don't like that much "sprung" weight on the wheel.
These niche phones never fail to run old versions of Android. This phone runs Android 11, which was released October 4, 2021. Android 13 was released 15 August 2022.
Since it's a multiple choice question, one assumes there is a correct answer, and presumably that is A, because there is a clear argument for it (you wish to sample from the population distribution, which can be viewed as a mixture of an initial-respondents distribution and an initial-non-respondents distribution and so you cannot claim to have sampled from the mixture until you've sampled from both mixture components, since they are probably statistically distinct).

Tangentially though, a big question here is how wise it is for the US education system to be based so heavily on multiple choice questions. There are other countries with decent education systems that do not do this.
Right? What does the browser's execution of JavaScript have to do with how it should or should not be used in emacs?
This is not my understanding at all. Blockchains (speaking broadly) are based on an incentive economy which often historically struggles to support itself via its own transaction volume.

What happens when a coin is no longer profitably mined, e.g. if no one wants to buy them? What happens if, one day, there is no node that feels like serving your request? The data is gone. All gone. There is no system that guarantees redundancy, just upload and pray that the economy sustains itself.

I can appreciate this is much less of a problem for the more popular chains, but in any case, there are wayyy more than 1M tweets a day.
I don't understand the argument that Javascript isn't free. Every library I'm aware of is MIT or otherwise FOSS licensed, and (at least before Node.js and NPM came along) it isn't owned or licensed by a specific corporation. It's probably the most free programming language ever created.

It's RMS, so I know he's going to throw the baby out with the bathwater on this, then throw out the bathtub, then disassemble the plumbing, brick up the bathroom and never bathe again on principle, but Javascript has probably served as a greater benefit for FOSS culture than any other language. Certainly more so than lisp. Making it out to be an implicitly evil language seems... out of touch?

quick edit: I know the argument about privacy invading javascript software, but software can be free and still invade your privacy. That's got nothing to do with the language.
The streaming I was speaking to is from a url or network resource. I keep a directory of m3u files which is just a url inside that you can open in vlc etc. `So ffmpeg -i [url] -c copy [file-name].mp3` does the trick for now. `mpv` can do this while saving to a file but it's a nice point to start from as I'm already getting some ideas how I could use this or roll my own, thanks!
The problem is finding which apps have the SDK embedded in an SDK when the apps are proprietary.

The very few proprietary apps I have are installed on a separate profile of my Graphene phone, and they are given very few permissions. I sometimes use rotating burner SIM's to thwart the telcos and never make calls with the SIM. I am pretty sure I am in the >1% of people taking these precautions, which is why Anomaly 6 has the location of almost everybody else.
It’s not about morality it’s about pragmatism. I don’t want to live in a dying country like Japan with suicide forests and old people committing crimes so they can go to jail and actually have human contact, I want to live in a young and vibrant and growing country.

A big part why people are so lonely in USA these days is because of birth rate collapse, people have less siblings and young people are heavily outnumbered by the old, which means that after college they are a minority wherever they go.
You speak too confidently about what people realize or want but your advice on how to properly vogue is spot on. You can't take that damn thing to the dance floor, can you? But I don't think it correct to ignore the idea of aesthetic preferences that are not about status or visibility, but rather invigorating and seductive 'things' ;-), the way a properly loved piece of machinery to whom we trust our fragile lives to must and should behave. Sexy. Now that is not about glitz or attention whoring, is it?

Also, I mean, you are right in that over doing anything is likely an error, but Nature is our teacher (so say the same "people") and Nature is rather keen on bright colors. I guess it really comes down on who is doing the splashing around and nothing definitive about saturated colors in themselves.
Lawyer here, completely reasonable to feel that way -- but this is still incredibly important. It's hard to even begin to hold people to a baseline when there's complete cynicism that the baseline even exists.
Maybe ask why you care so much and why you think someone else needs to do something. Why not just not use it if it's something you don't like.
A quick workaround might be getting it to generate the code it thinks should be in that library.

(I get tho that you were just reiterating that it makes stuff up, not looking for solutions).
There is often attrition when doing surveys. If the correct answer is always A then that implies there can be no attrition for completing the survey. Since the list of topics asked don't seem to correlate with non-responses (such as doing a survey about sexual harassment where non-responses may be very important), the correct answer would be likely D, to discard the subpopulation.
For those curious, I recommend you do not buy the "Ultimate ADOM" release. It is pretty but was not even nearly half-baked before being abandoned. Go for the original one, "ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)", which has ~unlimited replayability.
It would be interesting to try to map this tree with a language model like GPT.
Your app is very similar to our demo app! https://modal-labs-whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.modal...

How come you don't support audio files longer than 1hr? Is it because of $$ cost?

The above demo app gets faster transcription by chunking audio and parellelizing over dozens of CPUs, so you can transcribe a about 1hr of audio for $0.10.
I was visiting Singapore, and I had to take a family member to a hospital. We went to the emergency room by recommendation of the private hospital’s front desk.

The front desk also had a menu of pricing options there for us to see - a rough cost of the entirety of the visit’s potential costs was glanceable right as you walked in the door. It was amazing, excellent, and I’ve never seen anything like it anywhere in the USA or Germany.
What do you mean? Does a more efficient way of biologically using sun's energy exist?
You probably want to check this port : https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
That seems like the opposite of him saying he hates javascript.
No mention about thermal camera resolution, even in the "Full Tech Specs". Although it does mention it's using FLIR Lepton 3.5 sensor. Seems to be 9 fps at 160x120. [0]

[0]: https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/f/flir/lepton-3...
> This ultimately polynomial direct-connection approach is clearly fatally unscalable.

Is it? I mean, let's assume you post something popular, and 17,000 servers request it. How many people do 17,000 servers cover? Like even if we assume only 10 people per server. That's 170,000 people. How many people have 17,000 followers, nevermind 170,000 ? And 10 per server seems implausibly low for an average.

17,000 hits is... not particularly notable from a server perspective, triply so when they're all requesting the same "just posted" item which is still cached.

Sure if like, someone with multiple millions of followers is on your server you're going to have issues, but seriously, twitter had issues with that too.

Also keep in mind that there's no algorithm pushing people towards the same "popular" posts. Things grow organically.

So, at what point are you suggesting that this becomes "fatal" and is that a point that anyone that isn't hosting literal superstars is going to encounter?
As a market, yes. For an individual, not so much.

Think “market for lemons” type information problem.
> cheaper

Cheaper is a non-goal for me. Better is the goal. And nuclear delivers consistent stable baseload that supplements renewables while having a lower carbon footprint than both wind and solar.

> less dependent on oligopolies and hostile foreign actors

Not sure what you mean. Plenty in Canada.

> more able to be deployed in unstable regions

Existing designs are already not a proliferation risk.

> less polluting

Nuclear is not polluting.

> produce less non-radioactive waste

A non-goal if appropriately sequestered.

> use fewer materials

Also, IMO, a non-goal.

> Nuclear waste is very much an issue....

[citation needed]

Renewables have to factor in the impact and cost of storage. That means today pumped hydro, and also battery storage. Batteries are not environmentally friendly, cheap or easy to make. Renewables require base load. Nuclear provides base load.
This phone has been out since Spring 2022. Any reason for the post?

If we want to talk about the utility of a thermal camera, I found it neat. I used a $150 Seek camera to diagnose poor insulation in my bedroom, and one contractor even offered free advice over email since the images were clear enough. I've also used it to find hot ICs on a PCB. The resolution of these lower cost modules isn't great, which you can see by all the postprocessing they advertise. But it's enough to see which wall is leaky, or which IC needs a heatsink.
Okay. Then what? It would be free? The codes would be cleaned up and complexity would go away? Magic!
There isn't even a compilers course here, unless you go for a science masters. This likely got shaped this way due to the lack of interest and a push from industry to deliver more 'ready to use' engineers.
Right. I'm not saying it isn't a reasonable hardening choice, only that it isn't a proof of security. It's table stakes for something claiming to be secure hardware in 2022.
Upstate of SC (so AC is a must), prefer windows, up to 20k budget. Have to get approval from HOA. Spousal attention is directed to this project so no room to DIY and mess it up 3 times :)
I don't think none of us are in any constrains, we both have high-speed network (around 300 Mb/s down and 50 Mb/s up).

What I am trying to optimize for is the transfer rate, I would prefer this transfer takes less than a couple of hours.

The data is not that valuable, it would just be nice to have.
San Francisco supervisors bar police robots from using deadly force for now
The Puritan and the modern intellect-centered (technical, ideological, on social media a lot...) type person have something in common. Both put "the life of the mind" first and the real world second.

Maybe they both seek to surround themselves with drab, undistracting stuff so they can focus better on their mental life.
That sounds like the best option at the moment.
> Excuse me, a toddler? A toddler and any kind of sexual connotations?

Her words: “As a toddler, Jackie always headed for the dolls in toy shops.”

In her Tedx talk, Green says that as soon as her baby boy “got mobile” “he was gravitating to things that you would think are stereotypically female”. [...] “the Polly Pocket and My Little Pony”, she says, and then quickly adds “that was fine – but not for Dad”. Green’s then husband disapproved of his son playing with My Little Pony toys and therefore banned them from the house.

> I have no idea what you're talking about, but you're packing a lot of red flags in that sentence.

Adults projecting their gender insecurities and stereotypes onto children should raise red flags.

> I know too many people for whom transitioning has been a very real solution to think it might be "hard to say" if it really did.

What do you mean by transition? Sex-change operations or "social transition"?

Because if you mean the latter then a main part of it is to act in a way your internalized gender stereotypes wouldn't have let you, so of course kind of by definition you'll feel better. But it's hard to say the transition caused the improvement because they're also changing their expectations for themself at the same time. Could they have simply dropped the regressive stereotypes they were inflicting on themselves without declaring a new identity?

I would save the phrase "it works" for something that we know works better than a null intervention and doesn't introduce any new problems.
Saw it on LinusTechTips and had to pause the video for a moment, thats a very very useful feature, not much else to add. The phone is certainly being targeted towards professionals which at least from me takes the shine away to a degree, as the features I would love to go along with it such as AI assisted night vision or the 3.5mm audio jack won't be in it

It is certainly on my radar wherever my current phone finally kicks the bucket so to speak
That is not scary, at all /s
> averaging 3 Terabytes per minute of egress traffic across our infrastructure. That’s 4.3 Petabytes per day!

I’d hate to get that AWS bandwidth bill.
Way way way more of our code in Ruby.

Go (and now Rust) is really only used for very low level services with a high SLA (Like Infrastructure). Almost all business logic is Ruby + Rails.
It's probably if they use the word カラオケ, that might cause inherent expectation of what services would feature, like mic echo, scoring, ranking, etc., that's most of major karaoke apps, even on mobile platform would feature.
Whisper has done extremely well for me with a number of challenging audio transcriptions: background noise, heavy accents, music playing... you name it.
A $100B Lesson in Why Building Public Transportation Is So Expensive in the US
How can we determine whether an answer used ChatGPT?
7% is in the ballpark of the speedup most programs get from changing the allocator to not give almost every allocation with the same huge alignment and around half the speedup most programs get from using explicit huge pages. These changes are both a lot easier, but e.g. Microsoft doesn't think it's worthwhile to allow developers to make the latter change at all, over 26 years after the feature shipped in consumer Intel CPUs.
No; this is simple, if difficult. If you want to be ethical, you cannot sign an agreement knowing what it says in full, and then violate that agreement when the counterparty has operated in good faith.

What the person in your Jimmy Johns example has is the ability to seek work elsewhere.

They are indeed acting unethically if they choose to work at Jimmy Johns, knowing what Jimmy Johns requires of its employees, then proceed to quit and then go work at Subway.

I'm concerned you're considering "acting unethically" as a kind of condemnation. It's not. Life happens, and nobody's being sent to the stockade for acting unethically, but that is what you're doing when you violate a contract.
That’s a great catch! That would also explain the “…part of a larger deal…”: the larger property (homegrange house: https://housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-18883-hom...) was up for sale and is a care home owned by the same seller (McCarthy) that sold the little bit of beach to West London Lets, so I think, if we are to believe that leashless is just mistaken, your theory holds up.

I can’t reconcile how it never twigged for him that a little bit of beach would be worth so much money and how he is so committed to the belief in the face of so much evidence, but I guess there’s some time required to swallow this big of a mistake — hopefully he’ll get an apology from West London Lets, and maybe do some due diligence in future…
I know it’s sad and scary to get death threats.

But having a gay guy have a wide following of women in love with him is hilarious
Some reports say that some Japanese women like aggressive grills because looks aggressive is good feature to avoid harassments from badass on road. JDMs are really nice to make small cars to behave looks big and aggressive.

example: Toyota Roomy, Toyota Esquire, Suzuki Spacia Custom
I agree with the sentiment in the article, but I also believe this kind of development is inevitable. How else are you going to to create increasingly complex high-level software if not by gluing together pieces that have already been written? Are you going to create your data layer from scratch every time?

I just don't see how you can arrive at today's productivity without running into this issue. Sure, it's not fun. Just like the author, it makes me miserable too. I have much more fun writing a parser or database from scratch as a side project. But it looks like you have to pick one: Do you want to be productive and get stuff done in time, or do you want to have fun and make art?

It's not a problem. It's an inevitable tradeoff.