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Show HN: Scholarstream.ai – an AI-generated feed of articles from ArXiv
Hi HN,

ScholarStream is a project I built over the holidays to explore OpenAI and ChatGPT.

I’m trying to read more interesting academic papers and less social media, but have a strong firehose itch. ScholarStream tries to solve that with a feed of academic papers presented in a more engaging way using AI.

I leaned into the “AI makes this page” idea by using ChatGPT to create the site name, write the landing page copy, and OpenAI to generate the logo. I wrote the code and the /about page.

Feedback very welcome
I wonder when ergonomics started being a thing when designing computer workplaces.

Look at what Douglas Englebart used for the "mother of all demos"
If someone is found guilty, he can appeal. Is the opposite also allowed?
Clean-room doesn't work for trademarks. No matter how you do it, you're not allowed to sell Mickey Mouse merchandise.
"removing impediments" - just sounds like good managers in any process. Bad managers often are an impediment.
Differences Between Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music
That's fair, there's no code lineage, and it's hard to see Amarok's XMMS/Winamp descent from 1.4. But the design lineage is maybe more credible if you look at historic screenshots like https://amarok.sourceforge.net/amarok_20040203.png . (Note the "PL EQ" buttons, straight off the Winamp main widget.)

edit: Even further https://web.archive.org/web/20030815185552/http://amarok.sou...
One bit of complexity that lots of tools like this seem to always punt on is the fact that most chords (at least in jazz) are typically played rootless and inverted and with lots of 'upper extensions'. It would be nice if a tool really did a deep dive in actual chord voicings that one would play in the real world (i.e. in a context where the bass player is covering the root and therefore it is best left out of the chord).

As an example of something that is very systematic (easy to put in an app), a rootless C maj 7 is equivalent to an E min 7. A rootless C min 7 is equivalent to an Eb maj 7. etc.

It is a pretty tough leap to learn rootless jazz piano comping when almost everything out there (except for the old-school dead tree books) only ever shows rooted voicings.
> To anyone looking for this, you have this option to remove all Microsoft spyware crap while creating bootable usb with Rufus.

Rufus just burns the image to usb, where is this option to remove the bloatware
Every scenario is going to be different, I took the plunge as a software consultant and can provide some datapoints.

I was laid off from my job as a software engineer about 5 years ago. I had previously worked in software consulting and knew the operating model and had a handful of potential clients. I had some savings and my wife works full time so I decided to give it a go for 6 months to see how it would go. I partnered with a colleague who was also laid off and had same appetite for risk as I did.

* The first year was a grind, especially doing the non-technical tasks like networking/business development/invoicing/etc.
* We ended up being profitable on year 1, I made less than my previous gig as a lead engineer. We grew from 2 of us to having 1 FTE and 3-4 dev contractors in year 1.
* Keep in touch with engineers you liked working with, hiring is WAY harder than I expected. If you decide to grow, you will need a team for larger contracts.
* Business development is largely a numbers game, you have to get out of your comfort zone and talk to a lot of people/companies and get on their radar.
* One of our first non-technical hires was business development. We did this when we hit $1mm/yr rev.
* Being in a niche can be helpful if you are able to explain your value prop AND to differentiate yourself.
* Don't view other consulting firms as competition. We've formed some great relationships with other companies that align with our engineering process and refer work when we have too much and get work when they have too much.

Over the last 5 years we grew from 2 "founders" (along with some former colleagues as contractors) to about ~40 employees (80% FTE's/20% contractors) all remote, US based. In hindsight, I think my favorite size was when we were ~8 people. It was big enough to take on 1-2 large-ish contracts, but less stress in keeping pipeline full. The risk tolerance for having a 6 figure payroll every 2 weeks is not for everyone!

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Doesn't sound unlikely.

LHC@Home had big issues[1] with AMD and Intel machines giving very different results to the same work unit. They traced it down to the exp() function behaving different, and ended up using a library[2] for anything more fancy than basic arithmetic.

[1] https://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/sites/default/files/OPENshort....

[2]: https://github.com/SixTrack/crlibm
When you type in "Mickey Mouse" as a prompt and pay for their generation tool, they are in effect selling you a Mickey Mouse image.
That thing looks really nice, and not too expensive either. Too bad it's only IPX4 rated, would have bought it instantly if it was better in that regard.
The article mentions one of the lawyers for Madison Square Garden saying they where banned from several Italian restaurants due to their involvement in mafia prosecutions. However, I'm not sure how sympathetic the court is to citing Mafia practices as precedent.
This was a great read. Informed, intelligent, and opinionated* (in the best sense of the word). Definitely recommend it.

(* As with the author, my intent is not to start a flame war with Lispers /g)
I've used spamex[0], for a couple of decades, I think.

[0] https://www.spamex.com
lokedhs said "ostensibly" because the internet advertising industry has long maintained the pretence that tracking users and showing them relevant ads is helpful to the user, when the truth is the advertising industry cares about the opinion of users like the thanksgiving industry cares about the opinion of turkeys - which is to say, not at all.

There's a reason these things are opt-out rather than opt-in.

The answer to marcus0x62's question - why would a person want advertisers to correlate their behavior - is that they wouldn't, and if they want to advocate for their own self-interest they should install an ad blocker.
That’s a rather bold claim without explanation
Saying we shouldn't spend a ton of money treating a 90 year old isn't even close to eugenics. It's just an acceptance of reality: they are going to die very soon and all the money in the world won't prevent that, so why spend it? Maybe you'll restart the heart, maybe you'll get their cancer into remission, but then they'll just die of pneumonia in a few months anyway.

At least in my country, healthcare is paid for with taxes, so I don't think there's anything wrong with withdrawing the government funding for the more expensive treatments past a certain age. If someone chooses against that and wants to save up over their life to pay for extraordinary interventions in their later life, I have no issue with that, but I don't think it's a sensible thing for society in general to pay for when we are in a funding constrained situation.

Socialised medicine already makes funding decisions regarding who gets healthcare, for example in the mental health example, that is really poorly funded relative to the amount of benefit it provides compared to cancer care for the elderly. We actually already do incorporate the concept of "quality adjusted life years" into calculating whether to fund a medication, it's just that decision is only made once, at approval time, using the average impacted patient's age/health. However, that has the even worse side effect of causing very effective treatments for diseases that mostly only affect the extremely elderly to not be approved, meaning the odd 35 year old who gets that disease can't get treated without the paperwork of an individual funding request. That is to say, this choice is already in the hands of other forces - and actually in the UK, it's up to the medical team, not the individual or their family to decide whether to withdraw care, but typically (though not always) they do what the family requests.
There’s zero experimental evidence to suggest this.

I actually went down a fairly deep rabbit hole to try and get to why GR proponents believe > C travel allows for “breaking causality”.

It basically comes down to a box plot mechanism they have breaking down when FTL is used, and is absurd.

I’ve yet to see any evidence that FTL would break causality.
Apple watch cellular
Next time you should also get a good an expensive wife. JK
I’ve always wanted to build one of those projector sandbox combos. I’m surprised no one has commercialized that.

It seems like it would be a hit.
I'll second Fastmail. They do subdomain addressing, which is cool: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plu...

And they allow arbitrary rules for processing incoming mail, so you can use characters other than the plus sign. And you can also take addresses that have been compromised by spammers and route them right to your spam trainer, so that spammers help improve your defenses.
This "blog post" is nothing but an entire chapter copied verbatim from "Psychology of Money". That seems to go well beyond fair use doctrine.
That was not a good decade for MSY aviation.
Look after your parents, all. Given the state of the world and the intentional tearing down of health care and dignity, it's better if you can take care of them yourself.

One of our pipe dreams is to save up enough money to buy a little homestead (take that phrase with a grain of salt) somewhere, still within our country but with the space and ability to build a cottage or two to house our parents, so they can live out their retirement somewhere nice and without relying on an overworked and underpaid system.
Half of Russian production or 30% of Chinese consumption is a massive amount of oil!
Yes, storage is hugely expensive.

A barrel of oil is about 1,700 kWh. If we have an optimistic cost (https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2022/utility-scale_battery_...) of $300 per kWH capacity that is $510,000. Divide by say 5000 cycles that you can get out of a battery: it costs $102 in what is capital depreciation/wear to store one barrel of oil.

Of course projections show that reducing to 1/3 of that...eventually.
Nevada lithium mine gets conditional $700M government loan
There are times when life gives us the opportunity to be that guy; just not exactly in the same way. Pay attention, it has and it will happen.
What has Mozilla done which is so bad? The only thing that annoys me is their refusal to support any api for writing to an existing file, but I am aware this is a niche concern for most of the web.
Right, so you work for some large company that is in some dispute--maybe it's a patent or maybe it's something of a thousand other things (large companies are in disputes with each other all the time)--with Amazon or Google. Should you be OK with Amazon or Goggle canceling the accounts of all the employees of the company they're in a dispute with?

Yes, that's probably an extrapolation too far but it's not that much of an extrapolation.
There is an RFC but it just mentions + as an example of a possible sub-address separator when discussing sub-addresses in Sieve filters. Whether or not + acts as a sub-address separator is server-dependent.
Scanning a mostly healthy population for issues is going to mean that you end up with at least some false positives. Those people are going to get expensive follow on investigations & maybe treatments, with all the psychological stress that entails & it will all have been for nothing. In a few cases long term harm will be done to people who never needed treatment.

Medicine is often uncertain & going looking for problems can end up being a good way to create new problems where there weren’t any before.

If you propose a universal program to catch diseases early then you need to demonstrate two things: 1) there are people with these diseases that are currently not being picked up and 2) the false positive rate & harm caused is less than the existing harm being caused by missed opportunities to treat real issues.

By way of example, many health services have abandoned screening programs for prostate cancer via PSA tests - the harm done was judged to outweigh any observed benefits. Even in those places that are still screening there will be an age cutoff as, below a given age, the costs are thought to outweigh any possible benefits.
Haha, I like how the article starts by saying that becoming wealthy has multiple books on it and there's a million ways to do it (as if it is something easy).

Don't get me wrong, the writer is a very good and the article is very well-written, but the the thought process of the writer was very weak.

The reality is that most of the people in the world, 99% will never become wealthy, much less because of their investments.

To start writing a story that basically outlines that the stock market has up and downs, with nothing really important about it. Anybody that has invested in the stock market for sometime knows those obvious things and if that's all I need to stay wealthy...

I guess I already know how to stay wealthy, as I've lived all my life frugal and worried about what may happen. Now, can you please write an article on how to get wealthy?

Thanks
So you'd be fine with being denied entry because some part of your employers business did something to annoy the venue? Or are lawfirms somehow special?
Ooh, I love the automatic comparison of destination address with sender address. Would you mind sharing your Sieve rules for this?
Are there any true analog adder circuits? If so are they also less error prone like digital.
And then there is the N64 which used optical chopper rotary encoders in it's stick. It is a weird design, you can tell the engineers were trying to figure out how to make a small joystick and managed to do it with ball mouse tech. Don't get me wrong the stick still sucked, but it was the mechanical pivot that wore out not the detectors.
I've done contracting and it's ok, but it's best if you have something more to sell than just your time. "Do you earn money while you're asleep?"
What's your point? What "law" are you wishing to uphold?
I owned one (with Rockbox), unfortunately it broke after 2 years and then they were discontinued.
20k files in one directory could hit filesystems hard in general - not only a PHP app on top of that
What happens if you stop paying for the iCloud service? Obviously you won't be able to create new hidden addresses, but do the old ones continue to receive mail?
two comments made by others in this conversation:

> Ok, at that price point (or even a quarter of that) it ceases to be a music player to become a luxury good to be shown by paid influencers on social media. Nothing to see here, move along...

> If you think that is bad, check out the Walkman NW-WM1ZM2 (who at Sony thinks that these names are a good idea?) for a cool $3500

Your response is what everyone will sound like once our robot overlords finally take over. It certainly didn't come from an understanding of the human condition.
The author is the writer of "Psychology of Money".
You can use a rubber second hand and put a nail at the 5 seconds, same effect.
The point of Keynes' saying is that capacity is what matters. If you have enough beds, nurses and doctors you can find a way to pay for it. If you don't have enough beds, nurses and doctors you are screwed and throwing more money at the problem can have more impact on the price you pay than the capacity you are able to buy.
Shameless plug, I wrote a similar post a few months ago focusing more on the APIs side of things:

https://www.the-investing-desk.com/nvidia-will-lose-its-grip...
A mastery in short story writing. I had to call my mum immediately after finishing it.
If you have an engineer the whole point of them being able to claim the title is they are educated and expert in their field. Without knowledge and expertise in a field you aren't going to get any engineering done.

Which is different to saying anyone trained to be an engineer will be able to get stuff done. But getting stuff done was always a recnognised requirement of an engineer; i.e. by definition they should be getting stuff done.
The blogpost is written by the author of the book
Show HN: Windows port of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition model
This project is a Windows port of the whisper.cpp implementation: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

Which in turn is a C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model: https://github.com/openai/whisper

The implementation has no dependencies, usually much faster than realtime, and should hopefully work on most Windows computers in the world.
> The nice thing about frontiers is that there's enough space (and lack of oversight) to try new systems of government

This is a nice idea if the frontier is accessible by foot, horse, or boat.

If the frontier is accessible only via corporate-owned spaceship, then the frontier will inevitably be a corporate-owned dictatorship.
Notion 101 for Software Engineers
Exactly, which is a much more sane and useful discussions to have, and something any serious process engineer will do using for example a simulation.
I really like their phones, in theory.

I don’t trust them though. It’s a lot of money for a relatively unknown device
The post was published by the author of the book, so while the copy/paste may seem lazy, there probably isn't a copyright issue.
I really don't know anything about the ad space but the linked project seems to indicate that ids get grouped into value classes. It describes IDs built off of normalized emails and also off of phone numbers to create identity-validated IDs which are of higher value in the ad market. Obviously phone numbers will be the most useful of the validated IDs and emails normalized.

Of course if you have "@gmail.com" that's not going to have any value vs the identity-validated alternative. But at the bargain bin end of the ad selling universe does "amazon@2d0d4809.com" that has never been seen anywhere except amazon have more value than "@2d0d4809.com" that has been seen recently in a handful of other places consistent with use by a single person? It's obviously not an identity-validated ID class, so it's not going to demand identity-validated bids. But having a tracking history might add a tiny bit to the bid. So I wouldn't put it past people to use that rule.
So the conclusion is... Things have been good that means things will be good forever!
Let's see about that
I feel burned out from my job all of the time. Believe it or not, the best way for me to zone work out is to work.. on my own stuff.

If you feel like you're stuck at worth, it's pretty therapeutic to feel productive on things outside of work. For me, that's been side projects, my blog, ice hockey, running, and my family.

There was a point in my life where I really seriously considered quitting everything and just traveling southeast asia for a while. But there's this saying, "wherever you go, there you are". A lot of the issues in my case where actually intrinsic and not related to my environment. I did travel around a bit, but it was actually just super lonely and isolating. All of these cool things to see, nobody to share the view with.

Ultimately it's better to just work with what you've got and set up roots, start growing them. If your job root isn't growing, that's fine, work on the other ones.
How was Servo "shackled to Gecko"?
Luckily space is already clean, the trick will be converting current production processes to work in microgravity - process heat offtake without convection etc. LEO or higher orbit based manufacturing will probably occur before 2050, once that is solved then deploying infrastructure onto the Martian surface will become relatively trivial.
I am getting lost in all these semantic considerations.

How can you build a business or form a romantic relationship or a friendship without one-to-one connections?
Oh good find, of course they can make a special rule for gmail, which is such a large portion of email addresses it's worth it.
Wyoming wants to ban electric cars
Define "'creative' ideas".

Do you think improving your critical thinking capacity would help?
Thinkpad X220 has 500 times better keyboard than X.
> You can't just "3D print" a clean room to build semiconductors or furnaces to smelt metal.

The idea isn't that you'll <<just "3D print" a clean room to build semiconductors>>. But yes, the idea is to "3D print" furnaces to smelt metal (basic furnaces are prehistory-era tech) using heat provided from the solar, wind and/or nuclear power you arrived with. Then use that to mine more ore to smelt more metal to "3D print" more... and so on, and so on, adapting production processes to local environment piece by piece, until you eventually reach basic self-sustainability, and yes, eventually you may be able to build a clean room using entirely local resources and processes.

(Of course, there's the matter of whether people living on other planets will want to go for full self-sufficiency, and then if Earth even allows it. There's a potential for trade here, but the flip side of that is political power. E.g. as long as a Mars colony depends on Earth for complex organics or high-tech industry products, they're effectively under control / at the mercy of Earth.)

> Pretty much all heavy industry on Earth that makes all our high technology runs on petroleum products in some fashion.

It didn't until recently, though. I imagine that between those older techniques from early-to-mid XX century, and modern advances in organic chemistry, you'd be able to eliminate some of the hydrocarbons used and synthesize others, without a need to dig dead plants/dinosaurs out of the ground.

> You can't just "3D print" lubrication and good luck building heavy industrial pieces without it.

That's all part of the R&D work for off-world habitats and industrializing space.
Resisting the structure requires an epistemic shift; resist applying a license.
Thanks, I missed that. But yeah, I don’t suspect “the Mafia did it, so we can too” will fly in court.
It wasn't a miscommunication. The pilot understood and was attempting to correctly follow the instructions of ATC. The error (as far as we can tell) was that the pilot wrongly believed that they were following those instructions, but the pilot did not know where they were.

So the next logical question is 'why didn't the pilot know where they were?', and there are a lot of possible answers to that question, which could conceivably be linked to communication (e.g.: not enough signage, they were told incorrectly, their maps were written in Klingon), but the primary problem was that the pilot believed they were crossing a different runway to the one they were actually crossing.
Hmmm.... My spam nose is tingling.

Second post today on HN with a link to a blog post on collabfund.....
Extinct animals could be brought back from the dead
Do python mains not know what FastCGI or mod_python are?
So the conclusion for 90% of the public is... index funds?
This only partially ticks the box of "physical buttons," but this is what I use and don't regret it. Apple Watch cellular paired with Bluetooth earbuds (I prefer Powerbeats Pro when running) is a delightful and magical experience that I highly recommend.
Have you looked at CPU/energy utilization of applications during this? It could very well be that some update to your workflow is causing increased consumption you're not aware of.
No. They're a private company now, so all their profits / losses / etc. etc. can remain private now.
Step 1: have money
Step 2: don’t lose said money.
With regards to clients not paying on time or going bankrupt, one data point, after being freenlance for 18 years, I have lost about 3% to unpaid work, conflicts with clients etc... Besides this, I've had quite a few clients who have been late (up to 3 months)

When I first started, I remember researching a lot and reading that to expect 5% loss as a rule of thumb and have enough runway to last a year without income, I think that's a good rule to keep in mind.