skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This page is great and anyone who buys a microphone should really have a look at it first. Especially anyone who buys a side address mic[0]. There are so many people on YT who buy one and then position it incorrectly and speak into the wrong part of it, resulting in very poor quality recordings.

0. https://www.homebrewaudio.com/27738/podcasters-on-new-tv-sho...
This guy is trolling Elon.
can you get a display with same technology but larger?
Remember this paper is only one data point. It even points out that:

> These results are directly at odds with the differences of 0.20 to 0.33 SD per decade observed by Flynn, 1984, Flynn, 1987, Flynn, 2007 and the 0.15 to 0.195 SD per decade observed by Trahan et al. (2014), where more recent norming samples had higher IQ scores

It may well be that the variability in this sort of analysis is too high to say anything.

Not only is there the well-known problem that "intelligence" isn't easy to measure (and different tests give different numbers), but also people don't always make the same effort at doing the tests. If there's a secular trend to not caring about these tests then the numbers would likely go down. (Call it "Facebook quiz burnout. :)

The paper then goes on to say:

> these findings are consistent with studies that have found a reversal of the Flynn effect (Dutton and Lynn, 2013, Dutton and Lynn, 2015; Rönnlund et al., 2013; Sundet et al., 2004; Teasdale and Owen, 2008; Woodley and Meisenberg, 2013).

Those studies are from Finland, Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands, so if it's something like pollution then it needs to explain how that trend appeared in northern Europe even back in the late 1900s.

I say "late 1900s" because I skimmed through the Sweden study ("Secular trends in cognitive test performance: Swedish conscript data 1970–1993" at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602... ). It says:

> Finally, evidence that the FE has ceased during the last decades has been provided in a recent set of studies. First, a study based on Norwegian conscripts revealed gains up to the mid 1990s after which a tendency of decline was actually observed until 2002 (Sundet, Barlaug, & Torjussen, 2004; cf. also Teasdale & Owen, 2005). ...

> Finally, performance on Piagetian measures showed a decline corresponding to 4.3 IQ points per decade, over the years 1975–2003 in British samples (Shayer, Ginsburg, & Coe, 2007), suggestive of a reversed FE.

Since pollution levels decreased by the end of the 1900s (more emissions control, no leaded gasoline, etc.), that broad category seems unlikely.

Similarly, my knee-jerk thought was a cause might be the negative consequences of focusing on high-stakes testing in the US. But that can't explain any negative trends in Europe which started before "No Child Left Behind."

But again, this might just be the sort of result you get from trying to analyze noisy data. Sometimes it's high, sometimes it's low, and your measurement tools are bear skins and stone knives.
The slavery connotation of "master" is highly USA-centric.

The rest of the world, especially us who speak english as a second, third or fourth language, has no such cultural weight behind the word. It's just a word among others we had to learn, we didn't learn the culture behind it.
If their plan is to make their app crossplatform (Windows,OSX,Linux) and be very versatile with the UI customization , then maybe writing a small/focused specifically for your needs UI crossplatform toolkit is not such a bad idea (after all this is what Sublime Text is doing as well)

But the HW accelerated brag is pointeless. Even if they manage to squeeze some extra performance over native toolkits, that is not necessarely going to matter in the grand scheme of things. Drawing the UI is never the bottlneck in a text editor...
Looks like it's Substack and Linkedin. Still very useful, but I hope OP adds organic newsletters as well
i am in the process of a bootstrapped startup and i would consider it a flying success if i can get my initial monetary investment back, forget about the time and efforts and other intangibles i put into it.
Separating the logic thread from the render thread doesn't end up being the silver bullet to performance. If I press the letter 'a' on my keyboard and my IDE suddenly stalls on a bunch of code hinting logic, that new state is still not going to make it to the render thread for a couple frames. As long as the render thread is dependent on state coming in from the logic thread, the stalls still propogate.

You could have some wins around scrolling and any animations that you can commit ahead of time
I really have no electrical engineering knowledge, so this question might be naive. Given that we are approaching a hard limit (the size of the atom), I wonder wether we could branch out into (true) 3d? So far everything is 2D and if I think of the brain I picture it as an interconnected 3d-blob, which just seems much more sensible.
Or you'd never qualify for a FAANG, and startups are your only chance to riches...
They should fix their god awful results first
That's because the <body> element consists of an empty <div> and 2 <script> elements. Clearly one of them newfangled surveillance "apps".
I see what you are doing there. I'm actually seeing it more and more lately
On 2nd march I did 105 searches and Kagi tells me it costed $1.31. I'm currently paying more than I search. Still, with the new model, I'd pay more. Guess I'll cancel my subscription, too.

The lenses are still garbage too, where "wiki.*" doesn't match "wiki.domain.tld".
Sbemu: Sound Blaster Emulation on AC97/Intel High Definition in Native DOS
Right! I remember clearly when I registered on GTAF too. I'd discovered a bug/trick that allowed you to store a helicopter in a garage (I want to say in GTA 3?) and was itching to tell someone about it.

Of course it was already a known thing on the internet, but that was the start of my online career. From there I ended up on IRC and in there I wanted to make a bot, so I learned mIRCScript.

Spin on a couple years and I was helping run the IRC network, which got me into sysadmin stuff. From that rattling off how email works got me my first real tech job. "How in-depth do you want me to go?" "Uhh.. as far as you can"

I got the job offer before I'd finished with the DNS lookups haha.
Define "useful"
This is really cool !

I built a self hosted Spotify alternative a while back. The idea was to be able to listed to your own music from anywhere with most of the useful features of Spotify.

https://github.com/yzdbg/dstream
Show HN: Ask questions that the social media Zeitgeist will answer
Hi HN,

I'm building a tool that let's you ask questions that the social media Zeitgeist--with focus on investing--will answer.

Examples:

Question: Is the S&P 500 going to rise or fall in 2023?
Answer:

> The comments have mixed opinions about whether the S&P 500 will rise or fall in 2023. Some predict a drop in the first quarter of 2023, while others believe it will rebound and end the year higher than it is now. The average forecast expects the S&P 500 to end 2023 at 4,009, but the predictions range from a low of 3,400 to as high as 4,500. Overall sentiment remains bullish on the stock market despite some downside risks.

Question: Is it a good idea to DCA in the S&P 500?
Answer:

> The comments are mixed, but the majority of them suggest that DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) into the S&P 500 is a good strategy for long-term investment. Some comments suggest waiting for the market to drop further before starting to DCA, while others suggest starting immediately. Some comments also mention the importance of considering the volatility of individual stocks and the benefits of investing in low-cost index funds. Overall, the comments suggest that DCA into the S&P 500 is a safe and effective investment strategy for most people.

Question: Who profits from the war in Ukraine?
Answer:

> The comments suggest that the US is profiting from the war in Ukraine through its military-industrial complex and arms sales. Some comments also mention that the war is hurting the world economy and that Russia is allegedly providing material support to prolong the conflict. There are also comments that suggest both Ukraine and Russia are profiting from the war.

Highlights:

- Real-time social media comments

- Shows hyperlinked sources

- Let's you apply a date range filter

- Supports asking questions in 20 languages

10,000 foot technical view:

Social media API / crawlers -> DB -> SentenceTransformers -> pgvector -> ranking by Cross-Encoder for MS Marco -> build prompt -> gpt-3.5-turbo (ChatGPT)

Data is currently limited to:

- Hacker News: All comments starting from August 2021

- Reddit: The following subreddits: wallstreetbets, superstonk, stocks, investing, options, thetagang starting from October 2022

- Twitter: Currently only user replies (with users having at least 50 followers) to @elonmusk starting from February 2022

I hope you enjoy playing around with it, feedback is really appreciated.
It isn't overreach if you have a warrant. Seriously, police (and agencies like the FBI) already abuse any power they have and should have more oversight. These government agencies already undermine democracy - usually in other countries, though - and I'm not sure of any example of this sort of thing being purchased to undermine democracy (except at government levels). Sure, it could be used like that, but folks have monitored locations of assassination targets long, long before we ever had such technology.

All that said, I don't think this sort of information should be for sale to anyone. If the police agencies actually need such a thing, they should have limited scope and a warrant. The larger the scope, the more folks should have to sign off on the warrant. Police - because of their power - shouldn't have free access to such things even if the criminals have them. Following "rule of law" doesn't mean folks are doing immoral or wrong things as the laws aren't always just - and often, the methods of change include illegal things, hopefully nonviolent.
That's why I would rather call this tool a Spotify desktop remote control than a player...
What did you feel you needed to change on your project because the default template had changed? If the code works, then it keeps working.

I've run into this with the Phoenix generators a bit because you need to make changes to your project if you want to update to newer versions of the Phoenix libraries, but they produce documentation about what you need to change.
How big is your database? I mean in terms of GB.
I am going to go ahead and say it. ChatGPT is the Blockchain of search - a solution in search of a problem. There is nothing preventing Google from being better right now - except for its quest for more money.

Everyone is making funny outputs by prompting ChatGPT to tell a naughty story in voice of an old cowboy, but fundamentally it's useless, because you cannot trust it.

This sort of AI can convincingly lie to you, so if you are looking for facts, then each one of them still has to be corroborated. So, why not just go straight to Wikipedia?

This is exactly what DuckDuckGo is doing now, as a matter of fact.
I don’t think you can have both ad-free (e.g. paid) search and anonymous search at the same time.

You have to pick one. And you can’t really fault Kagi for providing the one when the other is already “adequately” covered by Google.
Hey there. Yes the search isn't perfect yet for certain terms but I'm working on improving it.

Did you use the topic search for Javascript? I get quite a lot of relevant results. Note that we only show the top 6 for free users.
Great job on creating CodeGPT.nvim! This plugin for neovim seems like a useful tool for code-related tasks such as code completion, refactoring, and generating documentation. The clear instructions for installation, including setting the environment variable and required plugins, make it easy for users to get started. The use of the ChatGPT API is also an exciting feature that adds a unique aspect to the plugin. Overall, I appreciate your hard work in developing this tool and look forward to seeing how it continues to evolve. Keep up the good work!
Typically chatGPT yes, but it is not the reply it pretends to be, since GP admittedly concatenated the original post with undisclosed text of themselves to produce this output.
Yesterday, instead of trying to search for information on the interaction between the tangential velocity of an O'Neill cylinder and internal air speed and how it'd be affected by various other factors, I asked ChatGPT, and was able to keep probing it with questions and have it explain pieces I didn't get first time around.

It gave me the formulas to solve various problems I stated, showed how to use them, have me relevant keywords to dig into further.
It was so much better than searching and hoping to find something close enough to be able to figure out the missing bits myself.

I have found plenty of things where ChatGPT falls totally apart, and I still had to try some things a couple of times because my initial wording caused it to veer off in the wrong direction, but when it works it's truly amazing...

Where it truly shines is where there's nothing in Google that answers exactly what I want, but plenty of explanations of how to solve different aspects of the problem which ChatGPT can assemble and plug things into...
>Yes, that is exactly my point. You cannot start threads at 0/25/50/75 if your data is in CSV format.

My mistake, I misread your answer!
It's 54GB on disk.
How does the hardware talk?

If it's not via software, I'm willing to bet the hardware is not remote. Or if not exactly software, it's contractual signaling, which we can model and understand and MITM in software.

If it is by software, we can model these problems just like software. Known problems with known solutions. With the understanding that individual systems may incur side effects (like hardware bugs or . . . UI!).

Most of this is not about hardware and a lot of it is unproved conjecture. There is also a smattering of hardware-specific knowledge (this wears out that way!) that is not about building large systems, but about problems in the small.
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz, WSL 2.

A better benchmark https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...
Guaraná Antarctica is my all time favorite soft drink. I've stopped drinking soft drinks more or less entirely, but I still allow myself a can of Guaraná Antarctica every now and then. Luckily it's very hard to come by, and at $3-4 per can, prohibitively expensive to buy in any quantity.
Why doesn't Python have a sign function?
I wonder if this is because the default theme for it is somewhat ugly, and most developers aren't designers to make it look better. It is perfectly capable of rendering standalone applications, if you want it to...
Mics are still pretty simple though. Cameras have all kinds of onboard computing, and often built-in mics are more advanced although lacking the quality you can only get with larger size.

If mics advanced like cameras, wireless handhelds would have IR time of flight sensors that adjust the EQ to cancel out proximity effect, remove handling noise, and automatically detect feedback. They'd probably also have a tuner since they'd need a display anyway for all the extras, and they'd have modeling to pretend to be different mics built in.

But at least VocoPro made decent wireless mics affordable.
Depends on what you are looking for.
People want good search, with AI ingurgitating content and answering to simple questions like: "how much time is needed to hard boil an egg". Instead people will get more spam and more ads.
Adding a new game object to a game increases its complexity ("combinatorial explosion"). Good tools are needed to deal with this.

"Great tools help make great games. Spend as much time on tools as possible" (c) J.Romero.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFziBfvAFnM&t=884s
Knowledge isn't the only thing you acquire during your education. You also learn how to analyze a problem, how to process the information given, or in general: how to think.
I used to build crystal sets that would have two receivers in - one to harvest power from the strongest local station and then a second one that would take some of that power to bias up the detector diaode or to even use a germanium transistor to amplify the audio.

The first receiver would be able to drive a loudspeaker through a transformer loud enough you could hear it across a quiet room, so some power there, but only milliwatts.

I have wondered if these days with the zero volt FETS if there would be enough power for a regenerative receiver, some kind of negative resistance version seems most likely.
Wrt bias it's actually a refreshing change for some of us to hear the voice of a traditional (old-school) leftist, as they tend to be more interested in actual social problems rather than the made-up ones that infest modern discourse, and - perhaps - shift the centre so much that plain common-sense is now perceived as "bias".
biodiversity loss is surely a huge one. "even in undisturbed forests" is the headline, but these undisturbed forests are lesser in size every year. Ireland's forestry cover has dropped from about 80% in the 1600s to 1% in the 1900s. It's back up to 11% now and that seems great on paper, but its all monoculture forestry for logging, with zero wildlife. meanwhile, hedgerows and wild land is shrinking all the time - the place where wildlife actually lives
As a Canadian, in Australia, I was surprised by the random breath test. That is not allowed at check stops in Canada unless there is another reason to suspect you have been drinking (smell of alcohol, slurring words, that sort of thing).
Is it? The numbers may be pushed a bit to their respective limits, but with all the talk about cost of living in the Valley, $200k there may poorly approximate a similar quality of living as a sub-$100k salary does in a European city. Something about apples, oranges, and generalization.
> Flowering plants is way smaller domain than dicos plants

It's the other way round. Dicots are a sub-domain of angiosperms (flowering plants).

There are lots and lots of flowering plants. All (bar a rounding error) make seeds. Some of the seeds have 1 seed leaf (cotyledon), so are called monocotyledonous plants: monocots. The others have 2 cotyledons: dicotyledonous plants, or dicots.

Some monocots use insect pollination and some make edible fruit. Bananas and coconuts are monocots. All cereals (except some false cereals like buckwheat) are monocots, but all are wind-pollinated. Hand-wavey generalisation: most monocots are wind-pollinated, and don't need insects.

Many dicots use wind pollination, but most of the ones that make fruit we can eat are insect-pollinated. Some plants are self-fertile and don't need to be pollinated at all (e.g. dandelions). Some can be bred to be that way. If insects disappear it doesn't mean all fruit will.

But OTOH it's not just about pollination. Insects do much more than that. They are also vital in decay, in the soil, in turning dead plants back into soil. No insects means much slower decay, means soil that's much less fertile, means plants grow much more poorly, means more crop failures.
> Whoever solves this problem will probably get to be the new google

I think it can't be solved without humans curating or vouching for content.
No statistical correlation between new construction and rent decrease (German)
VALL-E X: Speak foreign languages with your own voice
now i am confused. Would you have cheered for saddam hussain when the world (except US) knew there were no WMDs and this was a straight up coup and a massacre and annihilation with what repercussions?
If you want to hold russia to the lofty standards of human rights and sovereignty, why not look around and also start blaming others for doing so? Again, i am not saying dont blame russia because US was never blamed or faced any consequences, on the contrary i am asking to hold US and allies in the same light as you are holding russia.

saudi-yemen? why isn't saudi being sanctioned and bombed for committing more of these "human rights" crimes? oh wait, they are allies.
Ask HN: Resources on the management of small teams, and people
Hello everyone

I am looking for resources on the management of small teams of engineers, or generally people. This could be, for
example, a startup, or a unit in a established company (say, with max. 50 people). I would like to learn methods
and best practices on the management of people in such setting.

I have background in research in tech, but no formal training in the management science or entrepreneurship (but I
have some project management experience). I find myself progressively transitioning to managing R&D engineers.

I'm not in a situation to take a formal master's program or similar. I am thus looking for a resource that contains
most of what is required in practice.

I wonder if people here have suggestions for, say, a good (text)book or online course?

I don't need books on self-help, motivation, or otherwise generics, rather, a proper, preferably academic, standard resource.
I appreciate general advise and suggestions on management as well.

Thank you!
No. You don't even know which disk controller you use right now. I'm referring to the one in the disk.
How long did you play it?

I think the "intro" is designed to show the core gameplay loop quite explicitly – find a dead body, see the vision of the past, find another, see a clue, find a third, put 1/2/3 together and know what happened, and have that confirmed by the game.

This took me 15-20 mins while reading the tutorial and notebook content and at the end it was pretty clear to me what came next. I've seen similar experiences in reviews of the game.

If you quit before the end of that loop it would be pretty unclear, but it's fairly short so do try to push through. If you did complete that and aren't hooked, that's fine, maybe it's not your sort of thing. If you completed the loop and didn't understand what was going on then it might be worth playing through it again and taking more time to read the instructions as it's all fairly explicit.
Dang. You’re right.
>It's easy to tell at this point because chatgpt always gives overly verbose and polite, positive comments. Which is completely out of character for a HN user.

Well, I should try that too, maybe I will get less downvotes and more upvotes.
1 GPa is less than half the yield strength of the best steels. All you would need to maintain the superconducting state is to put the material in a steel pipe.
Yeah, I'm not sure why people are surprised that having a safety net allows poorer people to take more risks.
Would I own tax then on the classic car I bought 20 years ago which is now worth 10x the buying price and I can actually sell it for that, even though if I won't sell it?
There was an issue in my previous post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35029289

There was no option to delete the post. Hence, I re-submitted with corrected post.
Did someome say Housing?
The problem with those social mobility scores is they rank it by “chance of going from lowest quintile to highest quintile”.

But the quintiles aren't the same.

A good example is Canada vs the US vs the UK.

The top US income quintile is 153,000 USD.

Canada is 131,000 CAD (98,000 USD).

The UK is 87,000 GBP (105,000 USD).

So you could have less social mobility in the US (going from 1st to 4th quintile) than Canada (1st to 5th), but end up better off financially.
Where this space does (or may) get interesting again in scanning fiber displays and other experimental optics for HMD's: https://blair-neal.gitbook.io/survey-of-alternative-displays....

Not only does this break from the the display being a rectilinear grid, but this can also vary over time. This enables the actual physical display surface to be foveated, rather than lensing between a foreground/background layer, or just having foveated rendering that still renders on uniform resolution display.