skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's cool that people work on DAWs for *nix/*bsd, but as someone who uses linux as a daily driver, I don't really see the point.

When I want to make or record music, I don't want to spend time debugging the system. I just want it to work, and I don't want have to worry if a plugin runs on my system. *nix/*bsd don't come close to achieving that, and windows is not stable enough for audio systems for my taste. IOW what is the hobby here? Making music, or tinkering with my *nix/*bsd system?
Wow this is the best content I have seen on prompt engineering, it feels much more like computer science than the usual prompt engineering recipes. This formalism of analytic augmentation and higher order augmentations seems like it is ripe for some kind of library or dsl to build and evaluate and monitor these processes. But somehow I feel like these capabilities will become so standard that they will be incorporated into the official apis.

[edit] Just noticed it looks like you are working on just that. I will keep an eye on this!
https://github.com/williamcotton/transynthetical-engine
ha ha, size (of your reflectors) matters
The problem may be worse than we think. Many Boomers hold a significant portion of their wealth in their homes.This “wealth’ has increased greatly due home asset price appreciation. To exercise this wealth, they must sell their homes. However, due to the same NIMBY politics Boomers have championed, there are few inexpensive downsizing options, leaving Boomers with little excess cash for the expenses of older age. Boomers have hoisted themselves by their own petard.
Apps that advertise “good place to store your racy photos” without front-and centre profiles of their executives?

Seems like a ridiculous security risk.
> As for C++–well, it reminds me of the Soviet-era labor joke: "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." C++ pretends to provide an object-oriented data model, C++ programmers pretend to respect it, and everyone pretends that the code will work.
> Myself, I think the probability of a human level capable intelligence/intellect/reason AI is year 100% in the next decade or so, maybe 2 decades if things slow down.

How is this supposed to work, as we reach the limit to how small transistors can get? Fully simulating a human brain would take a vast amount of computing power, far more than is necessary to train a large language model. Maybe we don't need to fully simulate a brain for human-level artificial intelligence, but even if it's a tenth of the brain that's still a giant, inaccessible amount of compute.

For general, reason-capable AI we'll need a fundamentally different approach to computing, and there's nothing out there that'll be production-ready in a decade.
Yes, it was a tangent, but just wanted to point out that, for many in the US at least, it is not like decades ago when kids were out playing in the neighborhood. It is very possible that most, if not all, social interaction between kids happens in daycare, school, gym classes, or otherwise supervised get togethers.
One of Don Rosa's books has the letters he sent to a friend in college, each with a drawing on the envelope and less and less address, until finally it was all drawing and barely part of a name - they all got (eventually) delivered.

There's a specific branch of the post office that works on these - the dead letter office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c
If Uber didn't surge-price during emergencies, the Uber drivers wouldn't disappear. Instead, a random selection of people would get an Uber - about as many as with surge pricing, probably - and the rest would see that they weren't available.

It's the randomness that makes it feel fair and prevents us from saving people based on their material wealth.
Yes. Their work is very mainframe-like.
This rings so true to me.

I'm in my late 40s, so sometimes I think this is just a consequence of my age -- everyone at this age, for a thousand years, has started thinking things were better when they were kids (get off my lawn!), and the cause is technological changes.

But frequently my much younger acquaintances will agree with me... on the other handn they didn't actually experience it, maybe they just think that's what they're supposed to say.

I still suspect I'm right, and all of this OP matches my thoughts/observations.

Especially that it's about social isolation -- and that the technology of connection in our pockets, despite everything 1990s techno-utopian Mondo 2000 me would have thought -- has led to drastically increased social isolation.

Covid hasn't helped.

I really believe that if we didn't have the internet, we coudln't possibly have isolated as much as we did -- as much as we, on the whole still are, with social changes that seem permanent -- in response to covid -- no matter the dangers. (They couldn't possibly have isolated to the level we did in response to the early 20th c flu epidemic, can they?)

The internet is what made it possible to have that level of isolation.

Or to seem possible.

In fact, it is disastrous for us personally and socially and continues to be -- what seemed possible is not in fact possible as a successful way to live and have a society.
Sure, there's lots of nice things to do in bed other than those two. But years ago, I took that advice from my business partner. Doing that improved my sleep (and life) significantly. It may or may not work for you (and you may not need it), but several people I know who started doing it reported that they benefitted greatly.

My hypothesis is because it trains your mind to associate bed with just those activities. Mostly sleep, because you're probably doing a whole lot more of that than sex.

So what ends up happening is that just getting into bed signals your mind that it's time to sleep. When you get in, sleep comes quickly.

I do the other stuff, reading, etc., in a nice, quiet place that isn't in bed. Then I get tired and go to bed, and I'm sleeping soundly very quickly.
I think Courier is the only one of the fonts listed above that’s not sans-serif. The retro typewriter effect is not probably not what he wants for displaying a lot of prose in a modern context. I don’t think it’s actually illegible.
Ah, but distributed systems tend to be hooked together. So the recipient device may itself feed into something else. And in the case of a message queue, generally does.
Rust Project Reveals New 'Constitution' in Wake of Crisis
I agree, I get the idea that a blog doesn't have to be fancy, but a simple css theme with nice spacing and good font size goes a long way. The examples they show makes me click away instantly, because it is so damn hard to read.
Looks like a W701 or W701ds. The W701ds had the graphics tablet and pull out screen. Very rare, I wish I had one just for the novelty!
I've seeing a higher than normal attrition rate. Unemployment rate among tech workers stays absurdly low, went down to 1.5% last month: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2023/02/07/tech...
You're still thinking of selecting a random datum from a set of known datums. I'm talking about generating new datums randomly, datums that weren't known beforehand, like random mutations we see in genes.
the teachers probably know nothing else either.

having said that, i started out with procedural programming in basic, fortran, assembler and c, but when c++ came along i saw immediately that classes were a (note "a", not "the") very good way or organising code for larger projects, and i still think they are. but when i was exposed to java my very first thought was "but i don't want everything to be a class!"
Modern textbooks usually have audio. If not, I would agree. But yes - you should also get a conversation partner.

As for the rest of your comment: if Duolingo works for you and your goals, OK. I still would never recommend it to anyone for learning any language and many people in this comment section (as well as on many language forums etc.) agree. People who have been around language learning communities have seen many, many people coming from Duolingo with a totally warped understanding of the language and essentially no progress. Maybe you're an exception or maybe the Hebrew course is particularly good, idk.
Because not all conversations revolve around easily researched facts. They can include things like feelings, anecdotes, opinions, and so forth.
"Time always goes forwards"
Why would you allow a mechanism where a family in a desperate financial situation due to the structure and function of capitalism can sell their dying loved ones to a wealthy capital owner for experimentation

That's absolutely bonkers
We're biological creatures evolved to be outside, to interact with the physical world and real people.

It's easily replicable. Go out for some more walks, plan more visits with friends, do some wood craft, gardening or whatever else physical. Your mood will instantly improve, reliably. Because this is your natural state.

At the same time, we also have the built-in tendency to optimize for convenience. That too is perfectly natural. Hence we fully embrace all technology but forget about the cost: drifting ever further away from our very being. We're our own enemy. A common example here on HN would be the excitement regarding working from home. I get it, I love it too. But let's not dismiss that this further tilts things into a flat, isolated, touchless society. You want it, but it's still really bad for you.

Further, as conscious creatures we're not designed to process the information avalanche of the modern age. We process more of it in a day than somebody did in an entire lifetime 2 centuries ago. Likewise we're not designed for the current speed of change.

And finally, we're social creatures but not designed for it at a scale of millions or billions of people. We cannot empathize with the culture, politics and differences of that scale.
Because <lack of paranoia> ?
I remember CGP Grey talked about staying with his wife's family in rural Hawaii, on his Cortex podcast. His address included something like "take a left at the big tree".

The additional complication was that the USPS wouldn't deliver to the house, so they got a PO box, which is common in rural areas. But the USPS won't allow private carriers to deliver to PO boxes. So you need to use a different address depending on which carrier is taking the package. A lot of stores (Amazon!) won't tell you which carrier they're going to use!

So he would see packages slowly make their way to his island, then be marked as undeliverable, then slowly make their way back. Eventually Amazon stopped allowing him to ship packages at all.
> Platforms that they actually released on? Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows 10/11, PS4/5.

> Why? ...

...not really, these are business reasons, plain and simple.

The problem with games on Linux is that the market is too small, the technical problems could be overcome if there would be a will and enough money thrown at it (see Steam Deck and Proton where this approach works pretty well) - for instance the technical problems for games on Android are arguably worse, yet the market is big enough that game developers have enough incentives to deal with those problems.

Also WebGPU is not released yet, so looking at caniuse is not really useful.

As for the last point: the CPU's ISA is the least of the problems. Most applications are no longer coded by hand in assembly.

Apart from being slightly faster, I see no difference between coding on an M1 Mac versus an Intel Mac or even a Windows or Linux machine (exactly because I hardly code in assembly these days).

My (same) code runs on all of those, plus the web, iOS and Android (granted I wrote my own set of wrapper libs to make this easy: https://github.com/floooh/sokol - but it's not like that's the only slim solution for cross-platform code).
And more thoughts for the developers of liblunar1, liblunar2, liblunar3 and liblunar4 each a superset but incompatible with each other (see gtk). /s
5000 year old fish would probably be excellent fish sauce by now
It means you're listening to a false narrative propogated by "US is broke" doom-slingers.

If your left hand owes money to your right hand, your left hand might be broke but you as a whole aren't.
Please, define "reasonably".

Because these people who created hilariously Finnish ThingDoerFactoryFacadeFactoryInstaniatorService also thought they do a reasonably reasonable job.

Per your comment on "use classes for data modeling" I would like to provide you with two historical facts: it took more than 25 years to get Simula (and OO) types right [1] and it took not more than 8 years for Per Martin-Loef to have intuitionistic type theory right [2].

[1] http://lucacardelli.name/Talks/2007-08-02%20An%20Accidental%...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_type_theory

Classes are much harder to reason about than other type systems.
True, but UTC drift calculations on earth are different from on the moon. Fundamentally there is another time standard on the moon. How we account for that is up to us, but it makes sense to formalize this IMO. You could perhaps try to first derive a galactic or stelar time standard, then make both the moon's and earth's a derivative, but that seems even more complex in a way, though perhaps the most elegant in another.

Point is, the moon experiences time slightly differently than the earth, so having a clear reference will help synchronization, both to familiar geocentric standards as well as while on the moon.

I don't think we should define days around the petty need of humans. Even calendars are setup to map roughly to larger systems like phases of the moon / tides or orbits around the sun. The fact that an astronaught needs to sleep many times in a single "day" should not be a concern for the reference day/time, but could perhaps influence the time zones?
Just slightly tangential, but the quality of writing and thought from this person, whom I've read quite a bit at this point, just towers above the rest. Where did all the developers like this go? People who can talk seriously about fundamental things almost totally unattached from the business world or hype cycle. It's the kind of dev I imagined was everywhere before greeting reality. More a Stanley Cavell than a Steve Jobs. Its like a little portal into a world where the humanities are (correctly) taken seriously and actually used in a field that needs it most of all.

Why are the good thoughtful writers like this? Why are the ones who do exist always lisp guys?
As a good example, his site is very readable (because of the limited width of lines), and the sites he linked to that were largely unstyled were very useful, but not very readable. It would be worth it to me, as a user, to use a browser plugin to add a few lines of CSS to those sites before I dove in.
I'm a big proponent of retirement savings. I read Bogleheads, know the rules and limits around IRAs, 401(k)s, capital gains taxes, backdoor and mega-backdoor Roth, Roth 401(k)s, and so on. Not an expert by any means but squarely a retirement savings nerd. A lot of the problem is nobody in their 20s and 30s wants to hear about it. Even here on HN, when you bring the topic up, people's reactions range from "La la, I can't hear you!" to "Bro take that vacation and live in the moment, don't save for a day that might not come!" I think my highest-downvoted post ever here was something like "Maybe it's not financially wise to spend your 20s backpacking and finding yourself."

I know a lot of people in my age cohort who don't have even a dime saved up. And these are not the average struggling American like in the article. They're privileged well-to-do techies. They don't have the very critical "pay yourself first before paying your bills" mindset. I don't know what their plan is if they get critically sick to the point where they can't work, or when their health inevitably deteriorates in their old age. They just kind of shrug and say I'll cross that bridge when it comes. Trading in the Tesla is not going to pay for assisted living.
Yup. Actual conversations were replaced by liking or commenting something short. Those micro interactions are almost useless.
Convince a few rich people to not expect infinite returns in order to bootstrap it.
Apsley House famously has (or had?) the address "Number 1, London".
Coral-friendly sunscreen shown to provide better UV protection
Fair enough. Like many of their companies, people are probably inclined to be a little more cautious in at least choosing the exact timing of their departure. I know one person who was going to leave their job at the beginning of the year but decided to take a few months until their next vest to transition their replacement.
The science checks out. Children of overprotective parents tend to live less:

https://neurosciencenews.com/overprotective-parents-child-lo...
I'm highly suspicious of saddling the younger generation, quite literally, to have their parents as dependents. Housing and medicine has only gotten more and more expensive. How are the children supposed to save up if they have to feed, house, and pay for the healthcare of their children and their parents simultaneously? At some point something is going to shatter in that generational chain if the cost of everything continues to go up.
transformers were not up to the task in Feb 2023, and I am hoping for some progress soon that will help.

I think that's coming, OpenAI is talking about some new "DV" model with up to 32k context window: https://twitter.com/transitive_bs/status/1628118163874516992

Hard cases really do require matching up parts of document A with parts of document B

The hard part here is not processing documents, it's determining which documents need to be "matched". This requires having some sort of a "knowledge map", a semantic search space of "knowledge patterns", or maybe even a traditional search engine, so that given a document A a model can find relevant documents - in its long term memory, or in a dataset, or even on the internet. Once the documents are found, you don't really need to load the whole thing into the attention window. When I read a long paper, I do it section by section - I just need to maintain a high level map of the paper in my head. I process one "knowledge pattern" at a time, and every time I do a lookup or a search for relevant patterns. I shouldn't be limiting that search to only what's in my current attention window, even if the window is a million tokens. But yes, the window should be big enough to hold at least two of such patterns (which map to chunks of text, or images/audio/etc) - the one I'm currently processing, and one that is most similar to it in the knowledge space.
Depends on your use, in the screenplay world Courier is mandated as the required font and anything not written in it is immediately trashed.
With how many bots there are voting on the Elon polls I wouldn't be surprised at all
"Build" in JS circles usually means transpile, not a replacement for JIT which will still happen at runtime.

In addition to that, often there are other concerns addressed at build time such as linting.
Asset Sale vs. Stock Sale
Stock Sale vs Asset Sale

Most small business sales are asset sales, meaning you are buying all the assets of the business, but not the entity itself. The assets probably include the name, the phone number, the client list, the website, any company vehicles, the computers, and the equipment. They are not buying your LLC or S Corp unless it’s a stock sale.

In a stock sale, the buyer takes over your entity by purchasing the shares of your business, similar to buying shares in AT&T or McDonald's. In a stock sale, the buyer takes over your bank account, your payroll accounts, all your liabilities, your accounts receivable and everything else you can think of.

The rule of thumb is, ”what’s good for the seller is bad for the buyer, and vice versa”. As a seller, you would prefer to sell your stock, because then your entire sale would be considered capital gains. Capital gain is the best type of income to have. It has the lowest tax rate and sometimes that rate is even zero. But, this will put the buyer at a disadvantage for tax purposes.

Depreciation is a group of random rules made up by the government telling you how you are allowed to write off business assets. You can’t write off or depreciate stock. If your buyer acquires your company in a stock sale, there will be nothing for them to depreciate. Whereas, if they buy your assets, your equipment, they can take full depreciation of those assets even if you had already depreciated them. That will go a long way to easing the buyer's tax burden.
The rule "what's good for the seller is bad for the buyer" is true within an asset sale as well. If you go the route of an asset sale, you and your buyer will need to allocate the total purchase price amongst all the assets involved in the sale. If you sell your business for $900K, you will need to negotiate how much of that $900K will be allocated to the equipment, how much will be allocated to the client list, how much will be allocated to the non-compete agreement, and how much will be allocated to goodwill. And yes, what’s good for the seller here, is bad for the buyer. That’s why it needs to be part of the negotiation. This allocation will determine how much you pay in taxes and how much and how fast your buyer can write off the purchase. The allocation also needs to be reported on the tax returns of both the buyer and the seller, so hopefully they match.

Without good tax planning, for example, that $900K business sale could result in $600K or less going into your pocket. Don’t finalize any deal terms until you’ve analyzed it through the tax lens.

Taxes must be considered UPFRONT, not as a deal afterthought.
> Cool, now I can by hundreds of things that cost $3.40

Why not?

> and only pay once.

Sounds like your rules engine is borked.
The funny party is that's the "old way" of doing things. Multigenerational households are common in basically every culture except modern Western.