skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting question. I can handwrite a note, never look at it again and remember the thing I wrote about. For me some notes are not about what the note says but the act of physically writing creates a flag in my mind about the thing. In fact, most of my handwritten notes are illegible (my handwriting is awful). I actually do two things during meetings, handwrite notes about aspects I'd like to remember generally, type notes about aspects I need to remember specifically. I'm sure it's different for everyone, that's just how it works for me.
"It was used in steam engines to translate circular motion into rectilinear. The full mechanism is shown in Fig. 6, where Watt’s parallelogram is the upper part of it. The machine transforms the circular motion of the point KK through the rocking of the points EE and BB into an almost rectilinear motion of the points MM and CC, which enables a truly rectilinear motion of the piston SS, but with some side tension."

I am pretty sure it is the other way around ?

https://technicshistory.com/2021/10/10/the-steam-revolution/
Set aside your political bone to pick for a few seconds and think about it. The author isn't "blaming" anything on diversity.

Diversity is just the "thing of the minute" in the context in which the author is writing about. In the 1950s he could write the same article and substitute in anticommunism. The "thing of the minute" will probably always be some broadly appealing subset of the culture and politics of the society and time in which the organization exits. It doesn't matter what the virtue everyone is professing is. What matters is that the virtue is at best ancillary to whatever the organization's goals are and resources directed at it are resources not directed at keeping the business running and prepared for the future.
so all 3 enterprises had to give up their hardware?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/havana-syndrome-not-caused-...

A more thorough version here if anyone haven't read it before.

I mean, maybe its possible such weapon exist, but if these cases are really caused by it, why not US can't find any clues? Its very hard to imagine due to the whole level efforts input into the investigations, several years, multiple continents, and still no clues. So I guess, its still possible some weird things happened, like supernatural?!
I usually write nodes on a nodepad, pen and paper. I hate computers and I tend to remember stuff better when I write it down.
Playstation veteran Shuhei Yoshida to be honored with BAFTA Fellowship
I guess you could say people are brainwashed about anything. So fair point, I take that back. I was just frustrated because it's such a "default" answer for people when the vast majority doesn't even consider that this is not the only way the world can work.

>Yes they are people, but a company is NOT responsible for them. Where does this come from? An employee has an employment relationship and not a friendship and while it certainly sucks to be let go, it's not the company who is the bad guy.

I agree the company is not fully responsible for them. But they have to have some degree of responsibility. There's an enormous power imbalance in play here and right now companies can just ditch people like garbage and increase stock prices at will just because they can.

The reality is that people don't choose to work. You either work or starve. So when we give companies that much power over our lives, I believe they should have a responsibility for those they employ.

> Is in your opinion no company is allowed to let go people, except if they pamper them with a big severance package? Sorry, but your post reads very childish and naive.

I don't quite get this. My point was that we've been conditioned to believe that letting people go is okay and it's every person for himself.

But you immediately go to the other end of the spectrum saying we can't ever let people go? That's quite childish and naive in my view.

There's a whole range here between basically zero consequences (what happens today) and you can't let people go. But once again it comes back to the conditioning that we all have that this is the system and there's nothing we can do about it. If we can't even imagine how it could be different, nothing will ever change.
Lol no. That's just what you tell yourself to feel smart.

They're are many who understand that don't think of it as dumb.

"I think GPT-3 is artificial general intelligence, AGI. I think GPT-3 is as intelligent as a human. And I think that it is probably more intelligent than a human in a restricted way… in many ways it is more purely intelligent than humans are. I think humans are approximating what GPT-3 is doing, not vice versa.”

— Connor Leahy, co-founder of EleutherAI, creator of GPT-J (November 2020)
it's called "The Sun" and you should ease on the magic mushrooms
Font engine that recommends fonts based on your preferences
Font Engine is one of the first apps of Tasarla project, which recommends fonts based on your needs. You can type a text with those fonts after Font Engine suggests those fonts to you. If you like a font type, you can click the link icon and go to the font website.

Font Engine is currently in an experimental version, so some results may not meet your expectations. These can only be improved with your feedback.
>Imagine working on your PhD on chat bots since start of 2022. Your entire PhD topic might be irrelevant already...

In fairness most PhD topics people work on these days, outside of the select few top research universities in the world, are obsolete before they begin. At least from what my friends in the field tell me.
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This is my attitude. Doing these kinds of things for your own satisfaction is something that gets majorly overlooked. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut talking about writing a poem every day just for the heck of it.

Even if you're not actively trying to progress, writing/coding/working out/cooking/whatever else can be done for its own sake and still be rewarding, and sometimes it's good to resist the urge to compete with others or even monetize hobbies.
It's not broken, _tons_ of money goes over it every day.

It just has basically no internal security once you get past the gatekeeper (your bank), and optimistic concurrency, and it's reversible.
This is an incorrect interpretation of this paper. It is comparing COVID positive to assumed COVID non-positive. Also, the methodology is deeply flawed as they took the first 1000 folks to respond. This is an incredibly biased approach, akin to believing that individuals who submit reviews online are from a normal distribution.
OCaml Jobs
Typically, video footage is not archived 24/7. Instead, it is common to retain footage for a set number of hours or days before deleting it. If you want to preserve specific segments of the footage, you can "lock" them to prevent deletion.

This process works similarly to a recording buffer, and it is similar to how dash cams operate if you are familiar with those.
'just' srsly?

Who cares if we live on a non diverse plastic rock...

I thought a lot would care but often enough I get corrected even on hn
Big corporations need to be seen to address certain things at certain times - so they are not in a vacuum. The c-suite doesn't have a free pass to ignore the world around them because their shareholders won't either.
I would've expected such drones to have a self-destruct feature.
The process of writing has been documented to make the information being written stick better in memory than mere listening or even typing.

Just one of MANY links you can find on the topic: https://www.lifesavvy.com/19204/why-you-remember-things-bett...
There's a timing element to it too. Because CRTs display pixels from top to bottom the timing gives information about the exact location of the hit too, not just a boolean hit/miss.
negative indexing!
Out of interest why would one presume that they are being actively supported? I haven’t read everything about this saga, but I’ve never seen any mention of a commercial relationship.
Because, especially now, we can see lack of it drastically impacting new Google products like Stadia. No one can trust Google to maintain their products at all.
> You could say that DNA "understands" biology, chemistry, and the natural world at some level.

Not really, I couldn’t. A text file with War and Peace does not understand any of its contents.
This is imo a wake-up call about the value of having "AI teams" embedded in companies.

Bad analogy- if you had an integrated circuit team in your product company building custom CPUs and Intel came out with the 8080 (or whatever was the first modern commercial chip), probably time to disband the org and use the commercial tech
Mentioning “knitting” and etc. is interesting, and reminds me of a variation on this theme:

Browsing BoingBoing in the 2010s, the maker-themed posts that gained traction were projects that were essentially structured as: An over complicated _______ but it’s actually a simple ________. For example, ‘a 3d printed diy wrist mounted display that actually only shows yesterdays’ tweets”.

In some ways today’s pattern of projects being either very complicated or very simple is a distillation/separation of the earlier pattern.
Errand Runner: RPG written by GPT-4 and DALL·E 2
Think. Sometimes I talk to myself.
YouTube-to-Webpage converts tutorial videos to text-based guides
Doesn't show install base, but the GitHub page shows which OS has which font https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks
>first war that is truly good versus evil without nuance

Jewish people would like to have a word with you. My grandfathers would too.
This is nice. I use `column` for pretty printing CSV/TSV but it fixes two tiny gaps in `sort` (skipping header lines) and `jq` (parsing CSV input. `jq` supports `@csv` for output conversion but not input).

$ cat example.csv
color,shape,flag,index
yellow,triangle,1,11
red,square,1,15
red,circle,1,16
red,square,0,48
purple,triangle,0,51
red,square,0,77

# pretty printing
$ column -ts',' example.csv
color shape flag index
yellow triangle 1 11
red square 1 15
red circle 1 16
red square 0 48
purple triangle 0 51
red square 0 77

# sorting with skipped headers is a mess.
$ (head -n 1 example.csv && tail -n +2 example.csv | sort -r -k4 -t',') | column -ts','
color shape flag index
red square 0 77
purple triangle 0 51
red square 0 48
red circle 1 16
red square 1 15
yellow triangle 1 11
What do you do with your accounts?
An example from the author: https://metasocial.com/@jesse/110028673740467398
Lovely response. Ah, kindness. So refreshing to see.
In another case, one word it proposed as higher scoring was “vizy”, with the wiktionary page being their “this page doesn’t exist yet” 404…
Pale skinned people in too strong sunlight develop folic acid deficiency which in turn causes birth defects. This is probably the main reason paleskins cannot thrive in tropic regions without supplements, at least for pregnancy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folate_deficiency
SV Bank and the Only Choice We Have
Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos
Pop goes the photo cache, all my family photos mysteriously vanish into the depths of Amazon Photos
Can confirm, saw somebody post this here the other day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-89vnqxkFg

I don't think it is a matter of years, it is a matter of months.
Not for nothing, but your dismissal here is tantamount to refuting the core thrust of this paper:

> What is important is the actual work product, which from a typographic perspective is vastly superior to most other math dissertations of the period.

They spend much of the paper attempting to figure out how this would have been typeset. I don’t think the product is quite as trivial as your comment paints it to be, at least. They ask relevant questions in the “Conclusion” section, unaddressed by your remarks.

> How did he (or some typist) manage to sustain such precision for 180 pages, with endless sequences of sub- scripts on superscripts? How did he manage the fractional spacing, especially horizontally, where so far as we know, the devices of the day did not provide a mechanism.
What left out there similar to this?

I want to provide remote instruction and see through a user's eyes to help them fix/debug hardware. 2D AR is good enough.

Hololens is winding down. What's the next best thing?
The aesthetic–usability effect has been studied in the types of experiments you describe. It is also pretty easy to find yourself if you do some simple usability tests.

There is a scale to it of course. It's not like aesthetics can fix unusable products, it's just one of the tools you can and should use. And this is just usability, ignoring the value of branding, identity, etc.

If "custom fonts are good or bad" is imo not something you can get a definitive answer on. The impact on perception of usability obviously depends heavily on the fonts that are loaded, how they are used, and the rest of the page. Making broad statements will probably miss the nuance of usability and user experience.

Loading time is also a bit of a strange thing to take as a downside. Loading fonts does not have to be blocking (see font-display css), also there is a difference between loading 2 font files or 17, fonts are usually cached, and we even have variable fonts these days reducing size significantly. In other words it depends on the situation.

As with most usability topics the real way to find out is to test your use case. In my experience a few kb's more or less is not going to have a significant impact in many situations, especially if they are loaded in a non blocking way.

By all means test your case, it's always a good idea to test, and you will likely find 10 issues more urgent and more important than a couple of fonts.
But that is a misunderstanding of the forces acting on a large corporation - they cannot abscond from society so to speak. The resources directed at the thing of the moment are meant to enhance long-term survival probability. Can it become disproportionate, sure.

There are also pretty hard elements to this. For example, clients might now start to assume that if your firm cannot attract women then maybe that is a sign of a bigger issue somewhere and that will impede sales.
Maybe you should point me to a source
But it is spinning! Fun DIY weekend project, but crazy that someone has guts to push this into mass market product.

Could use CCD sensor from old scanner for high res version.

OpenCV this with webcam and python script, but no spinning.
Get out of academia and into industry.

Why the hell stay in in academia? This is clearly the next technological wave, and you shouldn't sleep on it. Especially when you're so well positioned to take advantage of your experience. You can make $500,000/yr (maybe more with all the new startups and options) and be on the bleeding edge.

If you want to go back to academia later, you can comfortably do so. Most don't, but that doesn't mean it isn't an option.
NLP is nowhere near being solved.
ChromeOS’s Embedded Controller
Those plumbers probably don't have to deal with a "not invented here" cistern and related plumbing with bespoke thread pitch and piping diameter either.
And, the more you write, the better you'll get at it too. Same goes for reading, my desire to read has always been greater than my actual...well reading. But the more you "just do it", the better you'll be at it. I remember reading and just having a hard time retaining anything I read. But the more I did it, the better I got and now I can retain almost every kind of book/article I read (and I also cannot put some books down, haha).

"Just do it"! And the more you do it, the better you'll get.
One could rewrite the C code to pass a pointer to an array with a length in the function prototype. Then you could also get bounds checking in C with UBSan.

https://godbolt.org/z/dPWPo1rrv
AI generated media is here and it's more than just Art
The English translation of his famous book “Storms of Steel” doesn’t carry the same weight as the original German title “In Stahlgewittern”. (German compound words are the best).

Thinking about it it made me realize what a stark contrast that title is compared to “All Quiet on the Western Front” (by Erich Maria Remarque). And both authors talk about the same WW I.
Fellow German here. Funny thing about DeepL: It translates "pathetisch" as "pathetic". For example: "Das war eine pathetische Rede." -> "That was a pathetic speech."

I guess we have to get used to software redefining the meaning of words. It was kind of funny when that happened regarding Google Maps / neighborhood names, but with LLMs it's a different ballgame.
This shouldn’t be surprising. We as a society really like plastic stuff and really like pretending our actions as individuals don’t have consequences.

It’s like the hotdog meme guy.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/were-all-trying-to-find-the-g...
We are already quite touched by microplastics, checks show them everywhere in humans and their foods. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/micro...
Show HN: Keepo – Wix Pocket Version
Hi guys, we've been running Keepo for a while and getting good feedback about how easy it is to create beautiful and powerful mini sites.
Wonder if there's an HN technical report/analysis on recomputing/building hash functions[0] vs. faster flash[1][2].

[0] : https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-method-hash-function-online-da...

[1] : https://news.mit.edu/2018/device-allows-personal-computer-pr...

[2] https://news.mit.edu/2014/storage-system-for-big-data-dramat...
I'm not too worried about that. We don't actually understand fully how LLMs function internally, so research on how language works and how to process it is still useful in advancing our understanding. It may not lead to products that can compete with GPT, but PhDs aren't about commercialisation, they're about advancing human knowledge.
If the tech industry makes frictionless hypercalitalism possible, then isnt the problem both capatialism (as posited by you and parent poster) and tech.

The grocery industry absolutely lives and dies on capitalism, for example, but it isn't destroying teenage mental health.
Unfortunately, that doesn't apply to just Bethesda but to most games these days. Even some indies are starting to do the whole micro-DLC nickle and diming.
> What's the real job to be done by humans on Mars? What's the real economic situation? How does it map to human desires?

Human history offers plenty of precedent for this; "we want to run things our own way", "all the land is taken where we live", etc. I don't wanna live in Scottsdale, AZ either, but someone does.
All good points, cheers for the discussion.
Sickle cell patient's success with gene editing raises hopes and questions
GitFlow Considered Harmful(2015)
So many people don't seem to understand this.

They brag that technology moves faster than everything: society's norms, government procedure, the economy, human psychology. Okay, congrats. All that means is that the people controlling this cyber-age "miracle" are still tethered to paleolithic brains they apparently despise. And we've all learned something to the effect that business is cutthroat, so in order to be successful you're more likely to have more sociopathic traits.

But they're just going to play nice and share? Right, and I run a unicorn ranch.
I agree with the article, but I have also found that taking breaks from a task, such as 'Don't do X,' and allowing my subconscious mind to process the information while I focus on other things, actually improves my performance. Although I cannot fully explain the science behind it, I have noticed that when I return to the task after a few days, it becomes easier to grasp.

For instance, if I want to improve my writing, I would practice writing frequently, but I would also take breaks from writing to let my mind rest and process the information. This way, I can become better at writing more quickly.
The price of the Y is also "over double this"
Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out How Animals Follow a Scent to Its Source
> If there is "grind" that is truly not impactful, then why is it being done?

Because it's hard to measure and even harder to predict. E.g. Something that fixes Youtube's scam comment problem where scammers impersonate creators and lure viewers into telegram and whatsapp to scam them.

It won't be working immediately, so someone will have to work on it for a while and iterate against the scammers' countermeasures until it gets too costly for them and most of them give up. Should someone pick it up?

It's not immediately impactful as it won't increase engagement and ads, but it's probably going to prevent a big PR issue when some media company picks up the topic and highlights Google's inaction and their decision to tolerate the scammers and their crimes on their platform.

Fixing it has no direct impact on income, and the problem it mitigates hasn't happened yet, why would anyone work on it? And in the real world we see: they're not working on it (or it's taking them longer than a year, who knows).
All these people don't understand how hireable and desirable they are now. They need to get out of academia and plugged into AI positions at tech companies and startups.

Their value just went up tremendously, even if their PhD thesis got cancelled.

Easily millionaires waiting to happen.

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> That is not how it works at all.

Speak for yourself. I'm hiring folks off 4chan, and they're kicking ass with pytorch and can digest and author papers just fine.

People stopped caring about software engineering and data science degrees in the late 2010's.

People will stop caring about AI/ML PhDs as soon as the challenge to hire talent hits - and it will hit this year.
Anecdata of one: I finished my PhD about 20 years ago in programming language theory. I created something innovative but not revolutionary. Given how slowly industry is catching up on my domain, it will probably take another 20-30 years before something similarly powerful makes it into an industrial programming language.

Counter-anecdata of one: On the other hand, one of the research teams of which I've been a member after my PhD was basically inventing Linux containers (in competition with other teams). Industry caught up pretty quickly on that. Still, academia arrived first.

edit Rephrased to decrease pedantism.
> To point at a deer and call it a horse. Used for suck ups who says agrees to things that are clearly not right.

Love this. A good English equivalent is “the emperor’s new clothes.”
Magic Leap? I haven't looked at it much to be honest they're far too expensive for me to play with.
What's so hard about making your team build and host the images you rely on?

Install Gitlab, clone these projects onto it, it will usually detect and build the container images. You may have to manually fire off builds for older tags/branches but it will work
Pathetic can mean emotional in English as well. Though I only discovered that by reading the dictionary.

For anyone who doesn't speak German, pathetisch means with pathos, impassioned.
Thanks for pointing this one out! We just fixed this :)
Lambdalisp: A Lisp interpreter written in untyped lambda calculus
So you're advocating for the Matrix "life in a pod" life I guess. Painless, worry-less, peaceful life
Show HN: Schematic – A simple database management UI for Spring Boot
With respect to going outside, the sulfuric acid clouds extend up to about 70km, so at 50km I'd want a bit more protection than a breathing mask in case the habitat happens to go through one.

But of course at the right height breathable air is also buoyant on Venus, and that's one of the key things that makes floating habitats attractive - we can use air for lift and live inside the balloons, and thanks to the equivalence of pressure small leaks shouldn't be an issue. Multiple compartments plus some spare, un-inflated sections, and you can have decent redundancy.

(I am planning a book set in part on Venus, but it's book 6 of a 6 book cycle and I'm currently being very slow about finishing book 3)