skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Troll claims he's not a troll. I guess we have no choice but to believe him.

Seriously?

You are the living embodiment of Brandolini's Law.

Dave's CV shows he's deeply embedded in the climate denial (now climate slow rollers) strategy. Former DuPont exec. Henchman in Trump Admin's efforts to dismantle the EPA. Member of f!@king Heartland Institute, ground zero for the loons.

Oh yea, definitely a champion for our renewable energy future.

> The CRI does many things.

Yup, grifters gonna grift.

PS- ExxonMobil's wind energy bonafides are that they'll sell industrial lubricants for windmills. Separately, they're part of a group effort to stop new offshore wind in Texas.
Not just another discussion on programming style, but program development, with a focus on data.

I like the idea of having models and enforcing themselves. For example, testing that three different API endpoints of a service match each other's idea of their objects. This is a sanity check when we verify the frontend state.

If we could separate scraping from modeling constraints, we could potentially collect data separately from the verification step. Then we aren't left waiting for UI DOM stuff when we verify the model. The latter can happen separately, and extremely quickly.

See also

Data-Oriented Programming. Sharvit, Yehonathan. Manning 2022.

Principles of Program Design. M.A. Jackson. 1975.

SAM Pattern. Jean-Jacques Dubray. https://sam.js.org/
I love how the response to a complaint about unreproducible builds without any versions being specified is an install script that straight up clones the "current commit" of a Git repo instead of a specific working commit id or tag.

Astonishing.
in lieu of making it public, publish a table of timestamped youtube links
They operate since 2007, they can track who is reliable and who is not. It's not like IPs change[1].

[1] yeah, they might be some people trying mail servers on dynamic IP, but I'm not talking about those and Google would have some justification not categorizing them as reliable. I'm talking about using business level ISP offering with a static IP address and matching RevDNS.
That's newfoundland for you. Check the place on a map they got roads with names like "Spread Eagle Rd" and "Willie's Walking Trail"
It is useless for everyone except singers. If you’re a singer, you can cold-start a song in tune and have the band come in seconds later. Hard to do that without the confidence that you both started correctly and haven’t drifted.
Show that landing gear that can handle an impact at 1km/s, I'm pretty sure there's a lot of nation states out there that would be interested.
Should be TL;DW

I watch videos , don't read them, you?
Deadly Banana Spider (Or Not)
I do sometimes think there are other words that might be more appropriate for the context: parsimony or consistency are related concepts that could be more precise.

But there are some things that are just simple, like a Bankers Box.
I get what you're saying about the representation, but I think it's fair to say COBOL numbers are stored as decimal fixed point. i.e. it stores a certain number of digits, and the least-significant digit always has the same place value. (Though, again, correct me if I'm wrong).
> It's a lot easier to search one repo then it is to search a set of repos.

Maybe, but searching any repo or combination of repos with billions of lines of code would be challenging.
[Music]

you know the rules

[Music] gotta make you understand

[Music]

goodbye [Music] we've known each other for so long your heart's been

[Music] going aching

[Music]

never gonna say goodbye

[Music] never gonna make you gonna say cry

[Music]
Getting Things Done in a Pandemic (2020)
I wonder if APM performance traces could be used to determine unused code paths.

A lot of these tools sample stack traces at intervals, collecting statistics of how often functions are used. If you had enough samples, then with very high confidence you could find code paths that are never used in production.
Because you don't get to carry enough fuel.

Like most things in rocketry, it would be straightforward if you had plenty of fuel. It would be comparable to landing a helicopter, although you'd need more stabilization.
Fuel-limited, you have to come in too fast, decelerate too hard, pick a landing site too quickly, and can't go around and try again. When the Apollo landers touched down, they had fifteen to thirty seconds of fuel left.

Space-X boosters returning to the takeoff site have even worse constraints.
What? Appeals to standards are appeals to authority.
Once I got this feedback from GaggiX, I was actually looking in HN for a way to remove my post, but then discovered I could not! So I have tried to fix it as soon as possible.
It’s the whole internet as far as small payments go.

Nobody wants to pay, advertisers pay… we become the product and everyone is upset.

I wish there was a small transactions system where I could pay or tip quickly for a view and it is worthwhile for everyone.
Some people appreciate being able to choose whether or not to continue browsing. Infinite scroll is not objectively better.
Just Intonation and everything from https://en.xen.wiki/ and related, maybe some of the YouTube stuff from "Hear Between the Lines" is a good start for new accessible stuff.

Music cognition such as Sweet Anticipation by David Huron and everything like that… especially note Music and Memory by Bob Snyder which expresses everything except harmony in a style that avoids traditional notation, and Sounds of Music: Perception and Notation (out of print) by Gerald Eskalin who also wrote Lies My Music Teacher Told Me

For the most part, "music theory" amounts to music-notation-and-style-grammar because very little of it is actual theory (i.e. explanation) until you add real science which means music psychology (because notation patterns and physics patterns are not music, music is a mental experience).
There is a turbine in the supercharger… does that count?
Kerbal Space Program can reproduce the intermediate axis theorem, as demonstrated here: https://www.reddit.com/link/10zd76y/video/gt9kpti7whha1/play...
Of course, KSP just uses the Unity physics engine which is based on PhysX; this is more of an emergent property of things being represented by several separate physics objects connected by joints, rather than a single object.
Not true. All the books in the New Testament has a clear connection to Paul or the other apostles and were penned within 50-80 years after Jesus's death. The only exception is the Book of Revelation.
Most sponsored segments are just ads. Often the video creators do something clever to introduce them, but that's about the only difference with YouTube ads.

Yes they are picked by the video creator, but unfortunately, the choice is often not that great to the viewer, sometimes worse than what YouTube gives you. I mean, what good is watching the same pitch for the same VPN providers over and over? Some sponsors are downright scammers, which saddens me when the video itself is of high quality.

Some do a better job than others. ElectroBOOM is one of the best, they are well introduced and presented, clearly marked and also well chosen. For example, he may be sponsored by the brand of oscilloscopes he is using for his demonstration.

There are also cases where the content itself is the result of a sponsorship, this is a different thing an not what I am talking about.
> This strikes me as scared and somewhat defeatist.

You make good points, but this stuck out the most to me. It's less scared, but somewhat defeatist. I make videos that are mostly entertainment (so less likely to be summarized) but are also technical for the subject matter. I can tell you from years of experience that my typical audience is dramatically more likely to use tools available to circumvent things. When I have a video that has broader appeal that gets significantly above average views I can see a nearly exponential increase in ad revenue as I tap into a group of viewers less likely to be using adblock.

So for some creators I can see an LLM summary crushing their ability to monetize by having their views eliminated. If people are searching for these things, there is market demand for them to exist. This is introducing a middle man that skims off the top of that market.
Is this just doing data flow diagrams from structured analysis?
I made the same mistake recently! It doesn’t help that there are so many poorly documented repos that make similar mistakes (and worse yet, half baked medium articles that blatantly give false information). Directly translating papers to PyTorch is hard too, I really wish there was a better API to express these models in that aligns better with how they’re actually documented in papers.
Sabine Hassenfelder is more known for her videos about theoretical physics. I won't spoil the ending but she looks to be applying her skills in probability and statistics to the subeject. Make of it what you will.
Thanks, be sure to check out the part 2 as well :)
Oh really?

Conc is quite shit in tension and great in compression (there's rather more to it than that). Avoiding too many technical terms: a beam ("member" of a structure) under normal loading is in compression on the top and tension on the bottom. Push down hard enough on a length of Lego and it will split on its underside.

Steel is rather good at tension, So you might put steel at the bottom of the conc member - imagine the letter C stretched vertically to roughly match the member length and then rotated 90 degrees anti clockwise so it actually fits. The steel reinforces the member, hence steel reinforced conc. Slabs etc can use mesh instead of C shaped strips.

Now you can also pull another rather neat trick with conc n steel: Compress the conc member with steel. Embed threaded rod(s) within the steel and wack on some washers to spread the load and some nuts. Tighten the nuts at a suitable point in the conc's set and curing process. This is pre-stressed conc and it's a bit useful. However you have now locked up an enormous amount of potential energy within the conc. Do make sure it isn't allowed to explode.

Wood is another wondrous material. It is made up of fibres and comes in an incredible number of examples with a huge range of properties. Think balsa vs bamboo vs oak vs pine etc. We can also make wood into all sorts of derived materials too eg plywood and chipboard.

I've barely touched on the properties of all this stuff. I once spent two years studying Civ Eng and that's just to get the basics in place - I'm no civil engineer per se but I have built some small structures that work safely.

You describe a material (re-conc) surviving something but that's not the real issue. A structure is really what we want to survive - actually we want us to survive but ideally both survive!

So what's best to deal with an earthquake? That's a job for a Struct Eng and not a casual comment on HN. However we can look into it a bit.

What stresses and strains are placed on a structure in an earthquake? There will be a huge amount of vibration for starters - wood is far better than brittle old conc with soaking up that sort of loading (in general). How is our structure formed? Is it a single box or pin jointed boxes?

Building materials in general have a vast number of properties, many of which the casual commenter is not aware of. For example, with concrete you can make a canoe or the Three Gorges dam or a station platform or the thing that stops my home clothesline from falling over.
Yes, and its so rare that it may be deemed not to exist.

Are we arguing about semantics ?
For systems use, binary manipulation is essential. Elixir/Erlang's binaries are nearly optimal in this regard. I maybe wrong, but it doesn't seem far removed to include such features.
”As seen in the burning of dozens of cities”

Hang on, you’re claiming that no less than 24 US cities have suffered significant fire damage by critical-race-theory-espousing arsonists? What are some examples?

For level-setting purposes, personally speaking, I do not consider one or two buildings burning to be equal to a “city” burning — that wording evokes major widespread arson on par with 70s race riots.

And if you are referring to protests in response to a police-involved killing incident, the protesters cannot automatically be assumed to have any tie to “critical race theory”, it needs to be a firm provable connection to make this claim.
I scrolled down far enough to find something mentioning this, dozens of comments above just saying that robot landers must work better just because.
I'd like to understand you situation a little better. I'm wondering what people mean when they say they are living paycheck to paycheck.

I think paycheck to paycheck means essentially spending 100% of your paycheck on average every pay period, right? That would imply you're not saving anything. Is that correct? Assuming you're in the US, you're not saving anything in a retirement account, eg, 401K or IRA? When tax time comes around are you getting a refund, or do you owe the IRS? I think a refund counts as savings (although not the best way to do it as you don't have access to the money except once a year and you don't earn any interest/income from the government.) Also, do you get bonuses, vest in equity or participate in an ESPP program? Any of those would also count against paycheck to paycheck unless you're immediately spending them as well.

I'm just trying to understand what people mean when they say they live paycheck to paycheck. Although the article does say "many struggling to pay off their bills every month" which really does imply paycheck to paycheck. But it doesn't say what percent are in that category.
> I think if even 1 developer has a court order for them to push to master, it will happen whether anyone wants it to, since GitHub is already known to mindlessly abide by government requests. (see popcorntime dmca)

No, it will not happen since a majority of the devs are US-based and developers in the US can't be compelled to produce speech in the USA. Neither will it matter even if someone with push commits pushes a theft-branch to the github repository, since nobody would run it.

> The question of who is forking and is who isn't raises from 50%/50% to 25%/75% until the numerator approaches zero. For the sake of networking the question isn't "whether I want to accept this patch" but "whether I think most people will accept this patch."

This is false, no. There are literally tens of thousands nodes worldwide and achieving a worldwide-jurisdiction hostile patch push when compelled speech is illegal in many developed nations would be essentially impossible, and I would be glad to bet you impossible unless Bitcoin were already dead. In any event you're presuming nobody would be able to mount a legal defence in the first place against illegal court orders.

A hardfork change of this nature literally requires global, immediate, coordinated roll-out, or it will simply fail. There's a reason why there have been no contentious hard forks in the entire history of Bitcoin.

> For the miners to have leverage with developers they need to be able to take over the code themselves. The next set of developers will have this issue, ad infinitum, unless the cycle is broken somehow.

This is a fantasist scenario, completely at odds with reality. There are literally hundreds of billions of dollars wrapped up in Bitcoin. That block of wealth and capability won't just sit there and be pushed to run something that would literally wipe them all out overnight. It's fantasist nonsense.

The scenario of one bloc or another demanding some change or other is similarly nonsensical due very specifically to the carefully-curated decentralization of Bitcoin and the nature of its consensus—again, the hard forks you are envisioning have a zero chance of being committed as locally-compelled speech, let alone by some legal jurisdiction attempting to compel tens of thousands of people worldwide into running backdoored software which literally none of them would consensually run. Like it's nonsense.

Similarly, miners who produce blocks which reassign any money without cryptographic signatures behind the money will be very simply, producing blocks which are the exact same thing as not producing blocks at all.

At this point, with the newness of your account and your odd half-blind awareness of how Bitcoin works, I'm going to presume you're not actually discussing this in good faith.
For the best, IMO. That was a great interaction, and anybody running into issues in the future related to this problem actually stand a chance of running into this thread now.
Nonono, this regulation is a conspiracy theory. How could NYT print such disinformation.
Great to see 12tone and 8-bit Music Theory in the YouTube and Podcasts section!

I'd also recommend:

- Nahre Sol - https://www.youtube.com/@NahreSol (Composition, reinvention, exercises, more theory recently)

- David Bruce - https://www.youtube.com/@DBruce (Composition techniques)

- Sideways - https://www.youtube.com/@Sideways440 (Film and musical soundtrack analysis/rants)

- Tantacrul - https://www.youtube.com/@Tantacrul/videos (Maybe. "Music meets sociology"?)

Those 6 channels plus r/musictheory (pre-2018) are basically my entire Music Theory / composition education. A quick note that r/musictheory is not the same thing as it was back then. IIRC there was a big switch/restart some years back, not sure what happened. Still a good Q&A forum today.
I’ve got 4 different llama models running locally with CUDA and can freely switch between them, including LLaVA which is a multimodal LLaMA variant.

None of them are particularly difficult to get running, the trick is to search the project’s github issue tracker. 99% of the time your problem will be in there with steps to fix it.
Requesting a list of AI tools for musicians.
Not to say that you had a very unique set of experiences but having been in many doctors offices and worked in a number, in the US there are generally brochures, pamphlets, pens, note pads, and the worst of all TV SCREENS advertising pharma crap.

The only place I haven’t seen brochures is my direct patient contract doctor (concierge) and even then he has natural herbal supplements for various things.

So just saying your experience is atypical. But it sounds like a dream.
Because landing on the moon is hard
US-based companies don't view employee information this way. The (unfortunate) US approach is: "once available, it's no longer your property, and can be bought and resold to anyone."
There’s often many tests for the same things with various levels of accuracy and cost.

You really didn’t provide enough information for a more detailed analysis, but for example there’s a reason hospitals don’t just use the cheap COVID tests and call it good.
I've managed to convince limo drivers at the airport to match uber's rate plus 20$ a few times. Pretty fun but I think it's an indication of how they're probably not getting a lot of business
Not right now, it's do-able as the streams are online. (could use that instead of listening to airplane sound)
I suspect Iphones actually cater to the way people have recently been educated.
As I grew up my schooling taught me as a first principle that to learn something you had to understand it. Now my children/grandchildren are quite happy to learn about things and never seek to understand them.
As consumers those same people just don't want/need to know about security or crashes or how everything connects they just want it to work seamlessly.
Iphones do exactly that. As consumers they don't care that IOS is Unix based, they just want to send messages, photos text etc. You get a choice of 1 for most programmes.
With Android you get multiple choice to do anything, some work some don't. Political propaganda says that this program or that is monitored by (insert choice of "nasty" government) so consumers can't tell what is correct or not so they avoid making the choice by going Iphone.
By the way it is probably more likely that we do not have to understand things to use them.
No?
Ask people how the stock market works and you will never get 2 answers the same.
...which means your movement is completely predictable if your thrusters work within the specs.
Sure, and you can run Stable Diffusion on normal Snapdragon SoCs, and there's a very hacky way to get llama.ccp running on a Pixel phone https://twitter.com/thiteanish/status/1635678053853536256 but I haven't seen any good apps yet.
This is an interesting use of some of Pinecil’s capabilities. Maybe I’ll upgrade the OS of mine and check it out.

Part of me screams to myself: “what are you thinking—upgrade the OS of your soldering iron?”

Another part of me muses: “I bet something like this could make a chart of days when I soldered, or make use of the accelerometer of the iron with the temp to act as a technique coach.
So did you have root access? I can’t figure out if you attempt to su all the system accounts worked or not.
Sounds like it's not very eco friendly..
> I've never worked at a company that hasn't wanted to improve their interview process.

My point isn't that fixing the process is easy. It's clearly not. And I absolutely sympathize with the issues of hiring. My point is that improving peoples' interview skills doesn't make them better employees, or make qualified candidates easier to find, since it's not a skill that is unique to only people who are actually qualified for the position. Just as qualified people will seem better, so will unqualified people learn how to seem qualified. It's applying a fix that does nothing but: (1) reduce signal to noise, and/or (2) satisfy the "gut feelings" of interviewers on what a good candidate look like.

If companies are goading applicants to improve interview skills, all else being equal, assuming this actually leads to increased job offers for the candidates, it means companies are filtering too hard for unimportant "interview skills".

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> EDIT: my personal favorite is when the candidate has a system they've worked on in the past that they can explain in detail and describe challenges and solutions for... but... the pool of people who can do that has been even smaller than the pool of people who can at-least-pseudocode their way through some mild live problem solving and design questions.

This lightly touches on part of what I mean. Companies frequently test for things outside of what they intend to. Its not possible to completely avoid, but, based on my own interviewing experience, it's doesn't seem like much work goes into adjusting for it. Just breaking down this example, I'll explain what I think you are looking for, and what you end up asking for.

Intentionally testing for:

- experience working with a complex system

- able to identify issues in a complex system

- able to figure out solutions to said problem

- able to identify tradeoffs to said problem

- able to communicate the problem, solution, and tradeoffs

Unintentionally testing for:

- ability to recall, on short notice, details of a complex system from (likely) months ago, including it's tradeoffs and outcomes, without resources on hand.

- the ability to recall challenges and learnings from (likely) months after they've been experienced and absorbed. (This is a big one for me, personally)

- knowing how complex is complex enough. An applicant may think bringing up a system they do not consider to be particularly complex may hinder their chances by not meeting expectations.

Every point from the unintentional section is something that could completely prevent someone from coming across as a good candidate, but have no bearing on how well they can actually do their work.
Schools are supposed to be the place where students can break things and break rules. It's part of the education.
I'm not a "journalist" nor do I, fact-sharer or opinion-spewer, have hundreds of thousands of followers. The obligations I have to society in this regard are lower than cable news.
There is no terminal velocity on a body with no atmosphere
Indeed. Hopefully it stays stable for a while so developers can catch up.