skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not only 100 lines of code though, I think of Code Crafters.
https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
I often mix up the shininess of leaded solder with the shininess of tacly flux under a ring-lit microscope. Can be hard for me to know if the joint is complete or partly made of goo.

The cloudy diffuse look of lead-free SAC305 is more distinctive to my eye.
"gzip-parallel"?
Peter Singer's Famine Affluence & Morality (1972) argued similarly, that we allow human suffering & don't do anything, even though we could. And he said that makes us provably evil.

Recent submission, a video on Singer's paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35718342 https://youtu.be/KVl5kMXz1vA
Thanks for the summary, GPT
So why have a debt ceiling at all? A ceiling makes no sense if whenever it is about to be reached, unconditionally increasing it is regarded as imperative, with any attempt to link an increase in the debt ceiling to measures that would limit future debt being denounced as "holding the credit of the US hostage". The only point of a debt ceiling would be encourage such a linkage.
This is the kind of forward thinking we need. The issue is explained, in great detail, what happens in the future in the documentary called “Idiocracy” by the prophet Mike Judge.
The neat thing about this particular singing synthesizer is that it used a surprisingly sophisticated (especially for the 60s) physical model of the human vocal tract [1], and was perhaps the first use of physical modeling sound synthesis. Vowel shapes were obtained through physical measurements of an actual vocal tract via x-rays. In this case, they were Russian vowels, but were close enough for English.

While this particular kind of speech synthesis[2] isn't really used anymore, it's still fun to play around with. Pink Trombone [3] is a good example of a fun toy that uses a waveguide physical model, similar to the Kelly-Lochbaum model above. I've adapted some of the DSP in Pink Trombone a few times[4][5][6], and used it in some music[7] and projects[8]of mine.

For more in-depth information about specifically doing singing synthesis (as opposed to general speech synthesis) using waveguide physical models, Perry Cook's Dissertation [9] is still considered to be a seminal work. In the early 2000s, there were a handful of follow-ups to physically-based singing synthesis being done at CCRMA. Hui-Ling Lu's dissertation [10] on glottal source modelling for singing purposes comes to mind.

1: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Singing_Kelly_Lochbaum_...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulatory_synthesis

3: https://dood.al/pinktrombone/

4: https://pbat.ch/proj/voc/

5: https://pbat.ch/sndkit/tract/

6: https://pbat.ch/sndkit/glottis/

7: https://soundcloud.com/patchlore/sets/looptober-2021

8: https://pbat.ch/wiki/vocshape/

9: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/SingingSynth.html

10: https://web.archive.org/web/20080725195347/http://ccrma-www....
Yeah, but neither DA nor the judge considered lack of body or murder weapon a problem when bringing him in front of the jury.
true. all humans should stop having kids. imagine the environmental savings. then earth can finally heal
I am actually in the same boat. I have limited myself to the things I list, yet the problem is still there. And The human population doubles every 50 or so years even after I had a vasectomy [1], and yet my emissions aren't going to cut in two in that time.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth
UK tech entrepreneur Lynch extradited to the U.S.
To add some additional point to yours on animal waste, "barnyard run-off" into our water supplies has led to rapid degradation of our lakes, rivers, oceans, and ground water. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and pathogens are the most common water pollutants from manure. Nitrates that leave Minnesota through the Mississippi River add to the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. Added nitrates cause an excess of ocean plants and algae to grow. When the plants and algae die, they are decomposed by bacteria that use up dissolved oxygen. This causes areas of low oxygen to form where ocean plants and animals cannot live. Phosphorus is a major concern because it causes excessive plant and algae growth in lakes and rivers. This causes an oxygen-depleting reaction similar to what happens in the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. E. coli, Cryptosporidium, and Giardia are just a few pathogens that can cause serious health problems in people and animals that come in contact with contaminated water.
Show HN: We unified LLMs, vector memory, ranking, pruning models in one process
There is a lot of latency involved shuffling data for modern and complex ML systems in production. In our experience these costs dominate end-to-end user latency, rather than actual model or ANN algorithms, which unfortunately limits what is achievable for interactive applications.

We've extended Postgres w/ open source models from Huggingface, as well as vector search, and classical ML algos, so that everything can happen in the same process. It's significantly faster and cheaper, which leaves a large latency budget available to expand model and algorithm complexity. In addition open source models have already surpassed OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002 in quality, not just speed. [1]

Here is a series of posts explaining how to accomplish the complexity involved in a typical ML powered application, as a single SQL query, that runs in a single process with memory shared between models and feature indexes, including learned embeddings and reranking models.

- Generating LLM embeddings with open source models in the database[2]

- Tuning vector recall [3]

- Personalize embedding results with application data [4]

This allows a single SQL query to accomplish what would normally be an entire application w/ several model services and databases

e.g. for a modern chatbot built across various services and databases

-> application sends user input data to embedding service
<- embedding model generates a vector to send back to application
-> application sends vector to vector database
<- vector database returns associated metadata found via ANN
-> application sends metadata for reranking
<- reranking model prunes less helpful context
-> application sends finished prompt w/ context to generative model
<- model produces final output
-> application streams response to user

[1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

[2]: https://postgresml.org/blog/generating-llm-embeddings-with-open-source-models-in-postgresml

[3]: https://postgresml.org/blog/tuning-vector-recall-while-generating-query-embeddings-in-the-database

[4]: https://postgresml.org/blog/personalize-embedding-vector-search-results-with-huggingface-and-pgvector

Github: https://github.com/postgresml/postgresml
List of 63 Portuguese Startups:

https://www.seedtable.com/startups-portugal
Stop and think about that for just a second...

(As an aside, it seems a lot of people unwittingly are making this choice which I find both curious and very depressing)
> to mirror the Memcomputing method and create new state of the art algorithms that are faster by orders of magnitude?

i'm not so sure, memcomputing is not reliant on trasnsistors like regular computing is... the differences are deeper.

not 100% nonsense. but also not 100% correct.
Irrelevant.

See? I can do it too.
There is no true player in Brazil, but I think an easy access to news outlet for tech if you use TabNews [1], a HackerNews clone made by a tech influencer where he uses as source for his newsletter.

edit* Just a heads up: the tech influencer behind it usually doesn't give sources when getting content from TabNews. So it may be a flop.

[1]: https://www.tabnews.com.br/
Just reading this, I can tell that this person's whole approach to life would annoy the hell out of me
That’s fairly new, with threads and processes becoming basically the same. Historically threads didn’t exist, then they were horrifically implemented and non standard, then they standardized and were horrifically implemented, then they were better implemented but the APIs were difficult to use safely, etc etc. Also threads were much more light weight than a process. This shifted with light weight processes, etc.
Is this the first mainstream tablet without an audio jack?
Links:

[1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

[2]: https://postgresml.org/blog/generating-llm-embeddings-with-o...

[3]: https://postgresml.org/blog/tuning-vector-recall-while-gener...

[4]: https://postgresml.org/blog/personalize-embedding-vector-sea...

Github: https://github.com/postgresml/postgresml
> I love all the series about writing your own X in 100 lines of code.

Me too, they're a really good resource.

What are some other ones you've come across?
I do not doubt that organized crime is a terrible institution. That said, I wonder how much more effective the labor movement in the United States would be if La Cosa Nostra ran labor unions still. Probably just my brain romanticizing the power of those who operated mafia families to be harnessed for good but I think it'd be a wonderful counterbalance to the power of the American oligarchy to have to negotiate with such a powerful violent force over labor issues. Labor seems to have lost all of it's teeth in it's negotiations. Imagine Bezos sitting across from mafia to negotiate peeing in bottles? lol
yes, but they call that synthetic biology.
Europe has been and still is re-foresting, it's much more forested than 100 or 300 years ago, and in the last 30 years there has been a 9% increase in forested areas (https://resoilfoundation.org/en/environment/eu-forests-growt...)
Posted a question (now deleted) asking if it could be done on the gpu not noticing you already posted this. Thanks for sharing.
After digging a little deeper I figured out it's problem. It thinks your fucking up the problem statement.

here's some text from an interaction with the transparent door Monty Hall Problem:

The doors are mentioned as "transparent closed doors," which would imply that you could see through them and know what's behind each door. However, in the Monty Hall problem, the doors are traditionally opaque, so the contents behind them are unknown to the contestant. The correct description should be "three opaque closed doors."
I can picture a file.zip squatting site that shows a windows-styled "unzipping" window and says "file is protected, please enter <whatever information> here to unlock"
> don't know what else would bother you?

Like I said, it’s queasiness/stigma about hygiene, not a reasoned thought. This is a common sentiment in the US- we like to buy our sex toys new, for another example, even though they’re usually made of materials that lend themselves to cleaning/sterilization.
Yes, nation states can totally resist infinite money if they just tax a fraction of the people in their tax base.
Yeah, why was this story on HN?
Surely new cars sales volume per year is far more relevant than population to car companies who are making product strategy decisions.

I'd be shocked if a third of new car sales today were RHD. (It was surprisingly hard to google for that data; I gave up after about 10 minutes of searching.)
Operator SDK and Bundle Images
Some folks I work with are interested in chiplets for secure/defense purposes. If you don't trust the fab but you do trust the integrator, the fab can make multiple little modules with well-defined interfaces, and your integrator can instrument the interfaces more easily than an entire chip.
That's weird. I grew up in a big house and my parents had plenty of cars, meat and travel, but I wasn't particularly happy. I'm happier now in my small apartment. I don't really understand how a big house will make you happy. Really, doing electronics is more fun in a hacker space than at home, and you can always go to a park.
This kind of framing also keeps us from imaginative solutions, because only one solution is implied to the exclusion of all others. Hence, the suspicion is that it is merely another political agenda. I think its probably why nuclear energy - which is a clear solution with the least disruption to our lives - is less prioritized. It also allows certain corporate interests to make even more profit off their preferred solution.
I always install aria2c and set package manager + wget to use it for any system file downloads... basically it will open X connections to download files based on the file size and in the process give a pretty notable speed up on those slow single-connection package repos or download URLs. For reference it can cut 2-3 minutes off of an ubuntu dist-upgrade and even more if you're on a fast-but-far connection.
You can't do [n+100000] - the displacement field for the equivalent addressing mode is 16 bits.

I also wouldn't hold my breath while waiting for the 68000 to do anything... all the instructions are enormous, and they take ages to execute.
PostgreSQL 16 brings Load Balancing Support in libpq
I’m not sure I understand. Typically I’ve thought of threads called “threads” being formalized with POSIX threads. Before that, while my memory is vague on this, it was just lumped into multiprocessing under various names.
I never remember either, so I might as well look up the latter rather than the former.
The six-billion-dollar man you've probably never heard of
Do Nintendo keep their teams together longer?

You usually can’t get a great engineering team by throwing a bunch of good engineers together, it takes time and work.

I don’t know much about the game industry but from what little I have heard it seems there is a lot of churn.
If I leave my door open and someone steals my TV, it's not my fault I don't have a TV anymore.
This has been so deeply politicized in Illinois the last gubernatorial candidates for the Republicans have propagandized the subject so fiercely in Illinois that nuanced debate is nearly impossible. I say this as a person who lives outside Chicago in the same region as one of those rightwing candidates and between McHenry Times rag and the absurd signage leading up to the election it was exhausting and consistenly done in bad faith. This article is an opinion on a right wing bias site that is promoting a key right wing political talking point, so no I do not trust that OP is even working in good faith. This isn't HN, this is something else.
It is morally right, not because it is legal, but because I was never asked to make a market transaction for the content. By your reasoning, it would be theft to close your eyes during a TV commercial. I completely reject your line of reasoning.
Fuchsia RFC-218: An io_uring like kernel primitive
Semi related, does anyone else feel that the higher tier of tailscale is priced crazy high? I was investigating tailscale for a company and was really sold until I realized we needed SSH logins and that'd cost $18/user. That seems crazy expensive to me. I'd really expected it to be closer to $10/user. Am I crazy? Is this the cost of VPN + basic access control these days?
Doesn't that suggest that India should go to war with the world? I'm pretty sure that 110m2 is pretty luxurious for most people on earth.
The challenges and promises of climate lawsuits
yes yes yea, never tried typescript and probably never will
I mean yeah, that's one way to spin it. But it's interesting to observe the dynamics in the work force and how that benefits some smaller companies that were having a hard time hiring before.
> 6. Locating Your Misplaced Phone […] This feature is a great alternative if you don’t have an Apple Watch that you can use to ping your iPhone.

That doesn't actually work for iPhones, since (per Apple restrictions) KDE Connect has to be running in the foreground to do anything useful.

It's still my go-to file transfer app, although it would be nice if it were available from the iOS share button.
Randoma11y – auto-generate accessible color collections
Thanks for writing this bit of inspiration. I definitely feel this way.
I should be playing but this, but do not own a Nintendo Switch. As usual will be behind 3 years and will probably play it in 2025/2026.
It is, hope looks like is not enough, then you start doing something, again someone comes in to buy and monetize it. It became foggy with the currents. Maybe with the space in equation and infinit possibilities things may get exciting again.
I've done something along these lines with a very simple DNS and DHCP server implementation as an Arduino library: https://github.com/pkulchenko/DHCPLite/. It is fairly short and while I don't claim it being fully correct, it was tested with different clients successfully; it was great learning experience.
I think the real issue is that all it should take to get a prescription is a confirmation that you know the procedure for administering the proper dose and that you understand the expected efficacy and risks of doing so. It should be a process that could be completely handled by a kiosk. Maybe a drug won't help them, or even hurt them, but so long as they are informed they should have the right to make that decision for themselves. We let people buy peanut butter without demanding a note from a doctor saying they don't have a peanut allergy. Perhaps some things should have a traditional prescription but the burden on the government should be pretty high to prove that it's something so complicated or so dangerous that it would be catastrophic to permit direct sale to the public.
If nobody stole them then why were they moving around?

Unless you’re applying “finders keepers” here?
Some of the old ccTLDs are offenders too. Too many times have I pasted a shell script's file name into the url bar and it starts loading a search result page.

For more sensitive use cases a better default will disabling search in the "omnibar" altogether like in ungoogled-chromium.
Boomerang Fu occasionally goes on sale for $2 on the eShop. Even at full price it's one of the better cost/fun ratios of any game I've played with the kids.
> And they'll fail because the gap is too big at this point.

I loathe Musk and Twitter, but I actually don't agree with this prediction.

If he's hiring Yaccarino, it's going to give advertisers an excuse to get back on Twitter. I don't think they genuinely care about the politics or whatever, but the optics are bad for them. The optics will get much better once Twitter is run by someone who understands how PR works.
They added another photo to the article :)

> Since there were so many comments about how clean the bench is, I just wanted to leave this here to show how it normally looks when I am working on it.
I guess this could be a more common issue with zip, but any TLD could also be a file extension so in that sense this isn't a new problem
Make use of Btrfs snapshots to upgrade Fedora Linux with easy fallback
Plus the solutions are narrow in scope. For instance, we are led to believe that it will be solved if only we all buy electric cars. It might help for certain areas, but it is far from a complete solution. It comes off as a corporate grift.
Looks like the next Metaverse will get more exciting.
9. setting up wireguard and kde-connecting over the internet!

--

> 6. Locating Your Misplaced Phone

I've had an issue many times, in which my phone (possibly to save battery?) is not KDE connected when I need it; usually after not touching it for several hours...

So I recommend disabling energy saving feature for the KDE connect app. Nonetheless, it's strange, I blame Android for optimizing this functionality into uselessness (for battery's sake probably, but I really dislike this new trend of "uncofigurable" devices).
Show HN: Add button on HN submit form to automatically fill in webpage title
Ninety-nine percent of submissions have exactly the same title as the linked webpage, and in fact the HN Guidelines suggest that this should be the case except when the webpage title has been editorialized.

It's an unnecessary PITA to have to type in the title when it's exactly the same as the webpage title - particularly difficult on mobile - and this process could easily be automated.

I have seen a feature in some subreddits that does this: a button on the form which, when clicked, would pull the webpage title from the link that is in the form, and automatically fill in the Title field with that title. The button will be called "Suggest Title."

I don't code, but I asked ChatGPT to write some code that could work, and I'm hoping this gives whoever wants to work on this a head start. Everyone else can voice their agreement or disagreement. Here is the code:

// Select the necessary DOM elements
const urlField =
document.querySelector('input[name="url"]');
const titleField =
document.querySelector('input[name="title"]');
const suggestButton = document.createElement('button');

// Add text to the button
suggestButton.textContent = 'Suggest Title';

// Add click event listener to the button
suggestButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
// Fetch the webpage title from the given URL
fetch(urlField.value)
.then(response => response.text())
.then(html => {
// Use a regular expression to extract the title tag content
const titleRegex = /<title>(.\*?)<\/title>/;
const matches = html.match(titleRegex);
if (matches && matches.length > 1) {
const title = matches[1];
// Set the title field value
titleField.value = title;
}
});
});

// Insert the button into the DOM
urlField.parentNode.insertBefore(suggestButton, urlField.nextSibling);
From Manager to Compression Innovator: Yann Collet (Inventor of LZ4 and ZSTD)
Visual Studio is one of my least favorite IDEs and judging from the examples in the article, none of these changes appear to improve it. But I'm not sure they make it worse, either. I guess I'll find out when I have to use it.
Not sure I like that given there's a battery in them.

There's also a device which bombards small device like earphones with UV for a couple of minutes. Got it at work. My over ear headphones don't fit, but my Sony in-ear with noise cancelling do. Oh, and they still work afterwards, of course.
Not all hackers hack tech.
The problem may be that you cant delete the data on request once it has been used to train a model.
I've used the clipboard sync for the past so many years and it works "flawlessly" and transparently.

It just works.

Ctrl+c on your PC, paste on your mobile.

Same on the other side.
Oh, please no. Ribbons are terrible UI elements.
Ask HN: User- and privacy-friendly selfhosted alternatives to Matrix?
Dear HN,

We are a small community server, providing infrastructure for a handful of local projects in our town. We are looking for a messenger platform/protocol that
- can be selfhosted
- doesn't violate users privacy
- enforces E2EE
- has a UX userfriendly enough for non-tech users
- offers groups w/ +100 members
- if possible, offers "modern" featuers (chat-history, VoIP, typing indicators, etc.)

Matrix is being disussed, but we have serious privacy-concerns. [1]
XMPP is being discussed, but people are afraid that the jungle of clients wont talk together.[2]

What are your experience with on-boarding non-tech people to modern XMPP-cliens? Is it doable or too much of a struggle?

---

[1] "Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org" https://github.com/libremonde-org/paper-research-privacy-matrix.org/blob/master/part1/README.md

[2] https://xmpp.org/software/

[EDIT: Typos and formating]
I think the 286 was designed way before any of that was a consideration. It was first released in 1982, just a couple of months after the IBM PC.
I'm not sure what solution you are referring to.
For these situations, it is useful to type

?example.zip

and force the browser to perform a search.
The big difference is security updates. I get every security update that Apple releases, on day one. Android users get whatever security updates their vendor decides to back port and their phone carrier decides to allow if the phone is carrier locked. The modularity of Android helps a lot but there are still important security advisories for the core OS that go unpatched on users phones.