skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's one thing for a kid unfamiliar with rigorous academic culture to be shell shocked during undergraduate school. I certainly was, and it was a long slog for me with plenty of scars and a below average academic record to show for it. (And as not a member of a favored minority group, the system was much more merciless--you don't get the benefit of white privilege at those elite levels unless you can at least walk and talk the part, and from those heights there's nary a difference between poor black or latino kids and poor white kids in terms of how they come across, and plenty of minority students who could play the part much better than I ever could.) But by the time you hit graduate school the rules of the game are clear; even if you're still not proficient in understanding how you're supposed to approach and regurgitate the material, the expectations should be abundantly clear, as well as the dilemmas academia faces which motivate those rules. Perhaps the problem here is that her undergraduate program had already been watered down too much, which is particularly shameful for a program in the hard sciences. My studies were on the other half of campus--liberal arts and then the law, the requirements of which are in some ways more inscrutable, but admittedly often less rigorous, at least in undergraduate.

FWIW, I often don't do well with scholarly vocabulary, either. I often like to do deep dives into historical material, and the vocabulary shifts over time, even over the course of a decade or less. So while I was often much more well read than any other student, I'd often use terms with more archaic definitions in mind, which could make me sound like an imbecile. (Ditto regarding concepts as the textbook delineations are always fuzzier for me having read various primary sources which progressed across time to give a concept it's modern shape. I understood that modern shape, but it takes so much more effort to articulate clearly as you're struggling to suppress and mask out the inherent complexity.) I'm also a stutterer, which means I often sound like an imbecile from the first moment someone hears me stutter.
> As a tech lead I see my primary contribution as saying “no” to features that co-workers think are important but can’t justify. The real trick is knowing when a new feature adds linear complexity (its own weight only) or geometric complexity (interacts with other features). Both should be avoided, but the latter requires extra-convincing justification.

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/norris-numbers.htm...

The main tool is to come up with a neutral system for measuring the complexity of a proposal, and then use benign punitive measures like "whoever broke the build has to bring donuts in the morning" to reinforce that the team favors boring stability over fragile complexity.
> At Eleven, we're fully committed both to respecting intellectual property rights and to implementing safeguards against potential misuse of our technology

Unlike Stable Diffusion trampling over the copyright of artists without their permission and OpenAI doing the same for code mangled with incompatible licenses and monetizing it and outputting the trained data verbatim whilst opening a pandora's box and then attempting to write detectors and watermarks afterwards. I'm skeptical on Eleven Lab's statement on adding their detectors before release, but we'll see.

Should there eventually be an open source version of a competing model by someone, it should be trained on public domain sources. This was the case with Dance Diffusion as Stability AI would have been sued to the ground by the RIAA had they done that. [0] [1]

It will only be a matter of time before the legal system catches up with AI generated content and scrutiny over the trained data on copyrighted content without permission and how it was trained. Any output generated by an AI is automatically public domain and un-copyrightable. [2]

This AI hype is another VC scam to unload their investments in AI startups to big tech once again and then pretend how AI is making the world better but when they know it is actually doing the opposite with far reaching consequences. Of course it can't be stopped, but it also cannot go unchecked and unregulated forever.

[0] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/record-industry-clamp...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/07/ai-music-generator-dance-d...

[2] https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...
No, it is a tool backed matrix. Illegal combinations are not possible, and we have logs of exactly what was installed so we can check that revision out anytime
I found myself thinking it was strange that a domain named science.org would have so many ads, as if it were some sacred place where only learning is allowed to happen. I realized that wasn't a realistic expectation.

I feel like this is an appropriate time to humbly present my easily auditable Chrome plugin that only toggles javascript (globally / every tab), and nothing more. It literally has one job, and that may not work for everyone. If you're in the habit of leaving unsaved work in background tabs then this extension probably isn't for you. It really will disable javascript on every tab. For browsing random javascript heavy sites though, I find it to be very useful.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/js-toggle/bnhjfamo...
I don’t see the need for TypeScript. A lot of people seem to see dynamic typing as this big bad thing that should just go away.

I haven’t used JS professionally so maybe I don’t know any better, but I think dynamic typing should be embraced. There are A LOT of applications where you really don’t need to worry about types. And from my experience working with app/cloud code bases in C#, I’ve seen a lot of ugly classes that I can’t touch simply because they were written 10 years ago and I don’t trust them. My guess is the web world is plagued with all sorts of old code you don’t want to touch, I don’t think TypeScript solves that with static OOP.

I think the prototype based OOP approach in JS is better because you don’t have to concern yourself with all these hierarchies. You can have multiple car object definitions with dynamic typing, it doesn’t matter because it’s all about what’s being used in the moment. In static typing we expect a single concrete definition to be extended, composited, and reused in an intricate way. That way never works because what is defined today as “just the bare minimum” mutates into something larger and now everything inherited “needs” it too. But they don’t always truly need it, they just have to satisfy some argument. And of course that “single” definition gets duplicated across the code bases anyway. Initially we think of these approaches as elegant, but it almost always rots in its own hierarchal casket.

Dynamic typing allows cleaner OOP and its approach is more honest. “I need a representation of this abstract type right now”, not that type and a whole bunch of other crap that it’s fundamentally forced into bringing along for the ride.
>I'm a little bit butthurt that no one wants to gaze in adoration at my cool toy

That's life. Did you call up the bus company and thank them for engineering a bus to get you to work safely?
Congress could defund them or perhaps even shut the whole org down. But I have to imagine a congressman that starts snooping around what the CIA is up to will almost certainly end up mired in mysterious controversy, accusations of malfeasance, etc.
> Jobs could recommend a successor, but the board of directors had the power to reject the recommendation.

And what point are you trying to make? Jobs recommended him, the board selected him. Saying the board had to agree doesn't change the fact that Jobs and board felt he was qualified and the best option for a successor, which was the point.

>> If you read the accounts, Jobs didn’t want more than two expansion slots

> I'm not sure what this is supposed to prove?

You said "Jobs was behind Apple II" and a host of other products, but at best in the case of Apple II he saw Woz's good design as something he could take and sell. He was hardly responsible for what that product actually was.

>>> Macintosh

>> Commercial failure.

> Um, no. No it was not.

Yes, it was. I'd suggest actually reading up on the product release and what happened after. If it hadn't been for the cash cow of Apple II, the company could have failed. That's according to numerous accounts, including Woz. I believe it was at least three years before it even matched the sales of (what was then an 11 year old) Apple II.

> Jobs was the leader of a team.

Like Tim Cook.

> By the way, Cook purged Forstall from Apple.

Yes, and if you understand what happened there, it was the right thing to do. And the rest of the exec team, especially Ive, was very happy about that move.

> I never argued that. What I argue is that Tim Cook is not a "product person" like Jobs was. Cook is not making design decisions; Jobs was.

By every account I've read, Jobs primary contribution was as an editor, saying "no" to bad ideas. And again, by every "insider account" I've seen published, Tim Cook is doing the same. Jobs wasn't spending most of his days brainstorming with the design team, although he did do some of that. More than Tim Cook, sure, but most of the idea generation in the company was coming from a large crowd of people, not Steve Jobs.
One line change, from a developer that consistently analyzed the decompiled data over the course of years, and with 2020's tooling.

The original devs were in a time crunch in the 90s with the limited experience they had for 3d games. It's possible that they were aware of the bug but said "eh, it's playable" and launched it.
This is the major issue with the majority of this technology at the moment. Theres a plethora of options available and soon to be unveiled by several startups who are talking up their tech... but they are almost all for "editing"/"after the recording" work. You have to have a complete recorded track you can pass into their software (usually by uploading to their service) and then it will crunch away at the file and work their magic.

The current real time options I've found are... lacking, they are mostly fake/toys (not actually using voice cloning, just old school pitch shifting) or tech demo videos, with a scattering of research papers which are highly variable in terms of "how easily can i reproduce this", ranging from "sure if I want to waste money on a google colab instance, to "only works with specific model of video card due to reasons"

If you know of any real-time (audio stream in -> audio stream out) voice cloning/transform/replacement tools, feel free to post about them in a reply, this is an area of tech I'm trying to keep on top of and I'm only human so I have no idea what new company or research I might miss.
A galaxy scale exploration game on the scale of Elite Dangerous where you could have more complex and varied interaction would be pretty amazing. The way you could apply these new AI models to video games has some wild potential. I think video games are one of the areas where I see the most potential for positive impact rather than negative impact.
Hmm, 7 minutes after your post, my Twitteriffic still fails and is stuck on the "Sign in with Twitter" screen.
Formula E’s faster Gen3 car starts season 9 Saturday in Mexico City
We have been using typescript in large scale JS project with 15-20 library modules and 7-8 product modules. I cannot think of building such product without typescript. When we compile all libraries and products and see no TS errors, we know at least that we are referring to correct properties, and wiring the shape correctly.

Typescript has bunch of "clever" things but you don't have to use it. We probably use 30-40% of TS features and that is more than sufficient for us. With that said, here is what I think about your questions.

1. Agree, and it is not any better without TS either. In case, a library is not compiling with your TS version, we ignore the error, put a FIXME there and remove the "ignore" sometime later

2. Yes but that is not TS problem. Without TS it is even worse.

3. Agree sometimes, we get so complicated errors. We search around and see if any smart people have figured what that means. If not, ignore and move on with a FIXME

4. Since many years, we are not writing any JS which doesn't need transpiling. If not TS, you would be using babbel or some other tool most of the time anyways so we haven't this to be an issue.
Without any doubt—The NIA Interventions Testing Program. They have 20 years of experience on effects of dietary interventions supporting longer lifespan.

https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/interventions-testing-p...
It's not so much the absence of vim as it is their apparent ignorance of the magic of hotkeys. Download a vim plugin for your IDE and you get modal editing (usually w/ vimrc binding support) too. imo that's the absolute best way to go. You get modal editing speed, modern UI, better autocomplete over a wider bank of languages, two key press project wide refactors, go to definition without needing ctags, a terminal in the ide so you can still run commands easily (typically better than vims term window does), git integration...the list goes on and on. And sure, you can download a huge set of vim plugins to get something close, but the ux will never feel as unified as it does in an ide and it takes extra work to maintain your rc+.vim...
This happened in ~1993. Crazy. People flew from Salinas to Monterey (<20 miles) as the Peninsula was cut off. Shortly after that, I had a business flight and flew out of Monterey and passed Watsonville (35 miles away), where ~1000 "trash" cans (used for storing Strawberries for making jam at Smuckers) had floated away and into the valley.
In Carmel, people got their houses fixed up after the flooding, and got re-flooded in March the same year.
>Because when said app is literally a police scanner, your default is fearful and you'll essentially be asking for an app to tell you when everything is ok. That's no way to live.

I probably shouldn't respond, but I can't help it. Do you just go through life telling people how they feel and contradicting them when they say they feel otherwise? I said I wasn't fearful, and gave numerous examples of not being fearful, yet you still assert that I am.

If you can't wrap your head around the idea that someone might want to collect information and make informed decisions without being some kind of paranoid, there's nothing that I can do to change your mind. If you can't see the simple value in knowing which streets people frequently are shot at, then I can't help you.

Good luck
As someone who has done a lot of development from Assembly, C, C++, Delphi, Java , Clojure, Javascript, Elixir etc, in my opinion Delphi's component/modular structure is completely unparalleled.

The Delphi component model - and the Visual Component Library (VCL) is such that:

a) It is trivial to create either visual or non-visual components for Delphi which can be installed at runtime into the IDE using its own registration process which is also trivial.

b) Once registered in the IDE, these components can be drag-dropped onto the forms and setup using "property sheets" which can also be heavily customised by the components. These property sheets can be simple screens or even very sophisticated screens with tabs etc. It is possible for components to even have run time property sheets.

c) The components can be installed as packs

d) These components can also be used at runtime without being registered into the IDE.

e) The components can be linked into the application staticly

Other than Delphi, I find the PHP's ability - especially in apps like Wordpress, to support a range of plugins that can be installed/uninstalled at runtime to be extremely powerful.
That is its default homepage now I just downloaded it to try. Works fine. Placement is off for some items, but i haven't found a page that simply doesn't work. I poked around wikipedia mostly though which is fairly benign. Both google and duck duck go jad search suggestions working. It isn't convenient, but it isn't hopeless either.
Because a single professor sponsorship is not good enough for such a degree. But why do a PhD if you dont like the rules, I dont have one and I'm happy, productive, married, rich enough...

The problem with leetcode is that it favors leet coders, but if that s what a company wants Ill apologize and say Im a dumb average dev who cant cast arrays into integers in javascript on the top of my head or whatnot, and move on.
The comments here are too harsh. The emotional journey of failing high stakes exams and the helplessness of the closest people around you not knowing what it feels like is such an emotional roller-coaster. I mean, I failed too many technical interviews last year, and I am still heavily drained by that.

Let's have more empathy to the author. 99% of us could all have bad streaks of exams/interviewing/fundraising rounds at some point in our life. Let's not let these setbacks define us.
Link to script on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20210109094851/https://www.daily...
It is not the most important cause of aging. In fact it may be a consequence of aging. There is much more going on during aging then just changes of methylation states.
Only if you SSL inspect which is a god awful maintenance/support burden even if you already have full control of every system which accesses the web from your network (pretty much excluding any usable guest access otherwise that becomes the next hole). There are definitely places that level of security make sense to maintain but typically as a requirement not something someone wants to do.

Even then you haven’t really solved that particular issue as it’s a people problem not a tech problem. It’s like trying to stop an employee from robbing the bank by getting a thicker vault door in that it’s just not the right type of incentive/disincentive to make an impact.
It would seem to me that the FAA NOTAM system had professional engineers working on it to produce that uptime.
> The crazy part is that whether or not you knew the person you ran over in your car can factor heavily into charges and sentencing.

Knowing the person leads one to question whether or not there was motive.
Lolwut? I use Vim plugin for Visual Studio every day and although pretty limited compared to full fledged Vim, it's still extremely powerful. Besides hjkl movement, I still get splits, registers, macros, search/replace, formatting and the aforementioned features are easily 95% of Vim features I used to use Vim for. So the limited experience is still pretty great and I don't know how to use VS without this plugin anymore.
Vim is neither a text editor nor a code editor.

Vim is a language. To speak Vim is to speak in a way with your hands that turns words into action and moves text at the speed of thought.

I have long mastered Vim after over a decade of experience. I can barely tell you what keys I’m pressing, but when I imagine some text in my head and how I’d want to change it, I feel the force at the ends of my fingers that guides my hands until the modification is done.

Much like how you can speak to express an idea without having to think about the way your mouth moves, I can easily edit blocks of code without really knowing how my hands will move, I simply trust they will do what I need and it happens. Vim has become the interface by which my mind can directly immerse itself into the conversation of code on a screen. Most will never understand the feeling of this power unless they deliberately pursue deep mastery of Vim, but once you’ve gotten a taste of it, it becomes intoxicating.

Vim is well worth investing your time in. I guarantee it is one technology that will exist for the rest of your career. The year will be 2100, and Vim will still be around and in use by the best engineers.
I have screens running at both 60Hz and 120Hz right now.

For mousing, I can see it but I don't care. I even used my main screen at 30Hz for a while, and mousing was fine.

For scrolling, I scroll at the click rate of my mouse wheel, which is usually 6-20. With no smoothing applied, because I don't want it, scrolling looks the same on both screens.

It's really only games where I care.

So don't be so sure about how universal your own preferences are.
Is plasma fluid dynamics the most important hated obligation of astrophysicists?
Any publications indicate whether Refracted Gravity (RG) predicts the same thing?

RG has always fascinated me, since it neatly explains flat rotation curves[1] without messing up the equations for gravity too much. If some refractory effect (TBD) causes gravity to bend toward mass concentrations, then this effectively "confines" gravity into a plane. Then the propagation law becomes 1/r rather than 1/r^2.

In effect it becomes a galactic analog of the SOFAR layer in the ocean.[2]

Intuitively the "self feeding" effect on disk formation should accelerate the process, but I'd be interested to see a full treatment.

[1] https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2020/05/aa35950-19.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOFAR_channel
Who among you can verify this isn't a huge gaping hack hole?

1. Never validated by Apple

2. Requires disabling Gatekeeper

3. Permitted to run silently in the background

4. Permitted to control any other application

How would you check that even building it could run something you don't want on your computer? And if running it exposes a trojan?

After all, it's the only app from user "onebadidea" on github.

Please be good consumers...
US debt to GDP ratio has been over 120% since 2020.

By IMF definition the US is in an economic death spiral that will become irreversible by 2028, meaning all of our loan payments will go to only the interest and not the principal, putting the US on track to insolvency by 2042.

We can't do any more quantitative easing because we can't print more money. That road we've been kicking the can down since Bush was in office, hell since Nixon took us off the gold standard making overspending for political points and cronyism and criminal profiteering possible -- we're at the end of it. Hence the Fed raising interest rates, forcing the people who took all that money to move it out of the stock market and into bonds so the government can keep it's head above water and make loan payments.

Yes, it's all fake virtual money that can be written down. But not without completely disrupting civilization by requiring The People to follow one set of rules and laws, and it's Elitist rulers to follow another.

A balanced budget amendment is required, as is strict control and regulation of social security and medicare so they cannot be used as slush funds. On top of that, MASSIVE spending and entitlement cuts -- MASSIVE austerity for everyone is required to give us even a chance of solving the problems. That's almost what we are doing now. It'll get worse because there's no path to it getting better. This is the point where historically there's a war. Hence all the ramp ups in military spending and growth by the US, Japan and China at the very least.
Is it fantastic for energy consumers? Somebody has to pay for it.
Is anyone advocating for electric stoves over induction stoves?

The only two real benefits to gas over induction are being able to see the flame size and being able to control the heat by lifting the pan up and adding distance between the flame and pan. The other theoretical benefit is being able to retrofit your gas stove with a wokmon, something I’ve been forbidden from doing anyways.

Induction heats pans much faster than gas.
"Use the EDN, Luke!"