skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have (had? getting better!) this same issue, and it really killed excitement of electronics for me for a long time.

I asked @theacodes on here this same question, on a post they'd written that like.. actually got into "ok, I'm putting this capacitor here, because it's gonna do <x> for me, another way I could do the same thing is..", and their reply is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33484848

I do think there'd be a lot of value in blog or youtube series of experienced circuit designers showing how they approach things, why and how they pick components etc, it's a great way to learn. The blog post that HN thread is about is really good as an example.

I've had several people recommend "The Art of Electronics" as a reference for circuits building as well, but haven't read it yet
I’m really amazed you thought that 7% yield from savings at a time of 0% interest rates was anything other than a fabrication

On the one hand, I agree with this: where was the 7% coming from?!
There's a basic level of skepticism that should have raised alarm bells for the "average" person.

On the other hand, this was an epic level of fraud. As an example, I was making ~8-10% off of peer-to-peer lending when rates were very low, done via very (seemingly) reputable lending platforms. Imagining if a SBF-level scammer was running one of these, and I very much feel for those that put trust in an overall system that generally doesn't have this scale of fraud.
> The lawyer. Needs walls of text.

Lawyer and law professor here: No, no, NO!

Wall-of-words text is a sign of a L.O.A.D. — a Lazy Or Arrogant Drafter.

I teach contract drafting to 3Ls and stress The Two Great Rules of Readability:

1. SSSSP: Short, Simple, Single-Subject Paragraphs. https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/Notes-on-Contract-Draftin...

2. BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front. https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/Notes-on-Contract-Draftin...
But it was windy in Ireland, Portugal and the Baltic sea.

https://www.windy.com/?100m,50.958,4.345,5
Other people seem to be suggesting that the user would do the retrieval of the relevant parts of the book from a vectordb first, and then feed those sections along with the question as the prompt. Conceptually it is very similar (and it too uses vector database), but with RAG it would happen as part of the inferencing pipeline and therefore achieve better performance than the end user emulating it.
All we can hope for is that the entire policule is crucified. These financial criminals keep getting away with stealing absurd sums and we need examples to be made.
Chat-UI, the codebase of HuggingChat, is open sourced
What do you think about Deno?
I think the "weight" here is weight as in mass and "convolutions" here is as in folds. The size/weight and folds of Einstein's brain have been the subject of studies, and the quote was from 1980.
Come on man seriously. I KNOW you know what "loss" means in this context. Please stop
I second this advice, and would add another reason: Buy an analog scope while you can still find them for cheap! They don't make good ones anymore. The analog scope is a lifetime purchase.

But the calibration point still applies. On my Tek 454, there are calibration knobs built right into the UI. The user is expected to tweak and calibrate as they go, and depending on the measurement. (Often the shape of the waveform is all you are trying to see.)
The IRS has been signaling hard the past few years -- to all employers, big and small -- that the "contractor" category only works if you meet a bunch of tests. Anyone with a Gusto account, or a working HR department, knows this.

From a social-equity standpoint, I'd rather see FTX depositors get some cash, instead of having the IRS book the biggest recoveries. But in terms of what the law is, if we're looking at total FTX contempt for the right way to classify people on its payroll, it's hard to argue against the IRS coming down hard on this one.
Because in a similar vein to Dr. Scheme => Raket, Pharo has moved from its raw Smalltalk roots.
In countries with socialised health insurance systems any political party that threatens to take it away (or defund it) tends not to get chosen at election time, strangely enough.
"Moloch"
If I saw a professional walking around with this thing, I'd avoid them like the plague. It screams "I care more about looking cool than making quality recordings" to me.

Prosumer pricing for these features would be €450-500 max. €1500 for €150 of audio quality is just smh.
> When you give MySQL invalid data, its standard behavior is to just silently store garbage

This is a common misconception, but this hasn't been the case for over 7 years. MySQL 5.7, released in Oct 2015, changed its defaults to enable strict sql_mode. All prior versions have hit end-of-life for support years ago, so there is no modern version of MySQL with this silent truncation behavior.

The only reason this problem persists is because Amazon RDS (all versions and forms, including Aurora) uses nonstandard default settings which disable strict mode!

That all said, I do believe Postgres is an excellent database, and a great choice for quite a large range of use-cases. But please, let's compare 2023 Postgres with 2023 MySQL, not 2023 Postgres with much older MySQL. It's only fair.
You mean if they took a job that paid by the hour?! Yeah they would be paid for their time, or they’d be put to work doing some other menial task.

But they didn’t sign up for an hourly wage - so either a) they value the flexibility to use their time in between assignments as they choose. Or b) they misjudged their economic earning ability in the gig economy
Thank you for the advice! I will think about this when looking through the syllabi for the courses.
Sounds expensive. I guess we know where the $580M 'investment' from SBF is going now.
I use Signal. It's ok. I don't use it amongst friends or family because in the US we usually stick to what's installed by default on phones, which historically has been SMS or iMessage. The only people in my life that use Signal are a couple of my clients. They are only on Signal because as they have confided in me, they are distrustful of the government.

I can't really start a campaign to get people to switch to Signal, I don't have that much social capital to burn with my friends/family. And I personally would never use WhatsApp, and while I understand the history of its ubiquity, I can't bring myself to pull myself back into Mark Zuckerberg's ecosystem.
Yep, no argument that I should have checked the FDIC's bankfind tool, which I do make liberal use of now. I guess I just made the mistake of thinking that Gemini wouldn't have been able to do this for so long if it were a scam, especially since they repeatedly claimed they were working with regulators.

I'm also reasonably sure that the FDIC insurance stuff was more prominently displayed on their site, though I'm having trouble confirming that so maybe I'm just misremembering.

And indeed, I have helped a few people avoid these scams now. When friends of mine ask me about investing in crypto now, I tell them "I think you should buy Treasury Bills directly from the government for safe short term stuff, and probably just find a good low cost index fund from a registered broker for longer term stuff".
Yeah, Javascript isn't even the only dynamically typed language out there, but you don't see people compiling strictly typed supersets of Python or Lisp because they consider those languages unusable otherwise. With any other language people are willing to learn the idioms and accept and work with the quirks, but for some reason Javascript alone seems to be the exception.
I dunno. I think that the Sound Devices MixPre-3 II is around $900, so things like this TE model seem kind of over priced even compared to professional tools that do more.

I have no problem with folks who want to pay whatever for whatever- I play pedal steel and own a modular synth, which are two of the dumbest, difficult, and expensive ways to create small variations in current.

But even professional level tools are less expensive than TE equipment.
It's probably also partly because of Rust's "zero-cost abstractions" — you can create helper structs and wrappers, and not have to worry about it, unlike e.g. C++, which really likes to use object-oriented design patterns. And of course traits really do help with swapping out implementations depending on platform, but I think the real benefit is the use of structs instead of objects. They're no longer magic entities designed to be heap-allocated, they are just data — value types.

Oh and the borrow checker is good too.
But vitamin D2 is useless.
Ah yes, the famous benchmark for all LLMs. I just tried your novel example with GPT-3.5 and it couldn't solve it either:

> After lunch, I like to snack on a juicy and crisp apple to satisfy my sweet tooth.

> In the fall, many families enjoy going to apple orchards to pick their own apples and make homemade apple pies.

> The new MacBook Pro features a powerful M1 chip and a stunning Retina display, making it the perfect tool for creative professionals who work with Apple software.
Only for the duration of the beta
Fun fact, the Kroll organization who's hosting the bankruptcy docs / helping manage the process is the successor org founded by Nick Kroll's father (from The League). He sold it and started several new ventures with similar names.

https://time.com/6095957/jules-kroll-private-detective-profi...
> Macs cpus are impressive, but not for ml

On Mac GPU has access to all memory.
> I am fed up with React, and the entire javascript ecosystem in general. The trend-based, article-driven development, the new framework/pattern you have to learn/unlearn every six months, the SPAS that made a simple web app spool up the user's laptop fan with all the javascript it was processing just to do basic stuff we could do much more simply in the 90s.

I must be living in a parallel world cause I write React & TypeScript code on a daily basis (among many other things, including writing Python and SQL too), I've done it for a few years now and I quite enjoy it. Last time I had to learn a new "pattern" was Hooks I guess, and it was like 3 years ago? I was hesitant at first, I didn't have any issues with class components... but Hooks actually increased my productivity and simplified my code. Otherwise I feel like coding in React hasn't changed much over the years. I would definitely not want to go back to the technologies I was using in the 2010s.
No way I could find anything at £10. Do you have any examples to share?
You can see the bench surface; things are neatly arranged; no cardboard boxes storing half-done projects, etc.

I have the theory our desks/workbenches reflect our own mind, but I digress... :)
Yeah, good luck with that. :)
They weren’t criticizing OOP per se. Before the class keyword, JavaScript had much more powerful OOP semantics using metaobjects.
User Identity in ATProto is decentralized, it's meant to use W3C DIDs.

That's actually one of the things that bugs me about ActivityPub... unless I'm running my own one-single-user instance I won't have control over my own identity.

It's also very weird how even on a supposedly "federated" system the only way to ensure you can access content from all instances (even if they differ in philosophy or are on opposite sides of some "inter-instance-war") is to have separate accounts for each side... it kind of defeats the point of federation. There's even places like lemmy which instead of using blocklists use allowlists, so they will only federate with pre-approved instances.
After taking some time to think about it, I see what you mean now. It makes sense.
Even if you were to be able to say that OpenZFS is not a derived work of Linux, all it would allow you to do is to distribute OpenZFS. You would _still_ not be able to distribute OpenZFS + Linux as a combined work.

(I am one of these guys who thinks what Ubuntu is doing is crossing the line. To package two pieces of software whose license forbids you from distributing their combination in a way that "they are not combined but can be combined with a single click" is stretching it too much. )

It would be much simpler for Oracle to simply relicense older versions of ZFS under another license.
Really weird to start with 'that one section that most of us skip' and then use an _instruction set emulator_ as the real world example. Who exactly is both frightened of the & symbol and wants to learn about instruction encoding?
Actually no -- things like FaceTime are more like 90 ms, while other common products like Zoom and Meet are around 150-200. These are minimums with somebody in your own city. This is actually from my own testing in the past, where FaceTime was the clear winner, since Apple seems to care a lot about latency and its software is custom written for its own hardware.

But networks absolutely can add major latency, have you never had a slow Zoom call? It's because of congestion building up and radio interference, not Zoom's software. That's what leads to things like 1,000 ms latency, which makes back and forth conversation very difficult. Moderate-to-major perceptible latency issues in conversation are always because of the network.

And yes some products do time stretching but that's also what people often call glitches because it's very weird.
Welcome to the Age of PostSQL
Meet . . . ‘Elona’!
I do wonder if ARMs business model works long term. Imagination Technologies crashed the exact same way.
I really like the concept and experience even though I almost missed out! I thought it was _only_ available as an app when I loaded the page on my phone. I rarely (basically never) install apps so I closed it immediately. It wasn't until I read on HN that I realized there's a web version.
Most of the mass extinction events in the geological history of this planet were related to rapid changes in the atmospheric composition, and we are currently living through a rapid decline in biodiversity caused by human activity. This statement is incredibly ignorant.
My local synth shop (Patchwerks in Seattle, heavily recommend, they even have an online store; no affiliation with them besides being an occasional customer) keeps restocking in noticeable numbers and selling out of their TE equipment (and no, not just Pocket Operator series) on regular. People actually buy it. The only time when it is somewhat not easy to acquire TE equipment is within the first month or two after the release for their more popular devices. You can even go on the official TE website now and easily purchase anything released last year (minus limited edition/limited run items, but that's just meh), with the only wait being the time it takes for package shipping from Sweden (which takes like a week or so to arrive to your address in the US).
I always hear it's so expensive, but compared to what? Just continuing to burn fossil fuels?

Costs I see to solar and wind that I rarely see anyone mention are:

What happens when you cover large deaths of land with solar and windmills? What does that do to the micro climates of those areas and what affects will that have on the global climate? What does that do to the wildlife (both plant and animal) long term?

What are the true costs of the mines and manufacturing and transportation needed to build and maintain all of that?

I grew up near hydroelectric dams and when I was young they were hailed as free renewable energy. By the time I hit highschool they were demonized for forever changing the river's ecosystem and nearly driving certain fish species to extinction. How does wind and solar not end up the same?
What? Nooooo, you must buy enough components for future projects to qualify for free shipping.
Ha! Was just scrolling about to see if anyone asked about rss. I think you are onto something, I know i will keep your app installed for a while. Good luck and well done!
The same way I can trust all the binary blobs vendors stick into GPL-licensed systems. How do I make an informed decision about those?
I got some 7" x 7" silicone kitchen saucepan mats from a bargain store. 89p each.
It was possible in a market neutral way in crypto and without much risk for a while.

You could provide liquidity for stablecoin swaps, collect the shitcoin rewards and regularly dump them. Withdraw at anytime.

Of course, in that scenario you had good control and the counterparty can't rug you because you could verify what was going on. There was some technical risk, but it never actually occurred.

It was because interest rates were zero, largely, that this was possible.

The mistake here was giving the assets to another party who can do whatever they like and where you can't see directly what they were doing.
If Wes Anderson were an Engineer I think he'd make stuff like this. Take a look at their new microphone as well https://teenage.engineering/products/cm-15
I've played with a variation of this called "Unbiased News".

The prompt asks to rewrite the article in an unbiased way and to also expose biases in the article. It feels 'good' to use.

Demo here: https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1647042056139968512

Code and prompt here: https://github.com/OrionBrowser/ProgrammableButtons
Apple Silicon has unified memory - all memory is accessible to both the CPU and GPU parts of the SoC.
> would have at least some familiarity with binary representation and bitwise operations.

There's a whole generation of programmers that aren't interested in, and don't need, "low level" bitwise operations. I would claim that's a "good thing", since it means they're letting someone else do the "boring stuff" by using libraries, allowing them to spend more time solving higher level problems.

When I was going to school, some sort of assembler was the first language you learned. These days, it's usually Python or Java. With a "not real programmers" silliness aside, I hope the tedium continues to decline, and is left for those interested in it, increasing productivity for everyone.
Thanks for the links!

I was wondering if bcachefs is architectured with NAND-flash SSD hardware in mind (as recently highlighted on HN in the "Is Sequential IO Dead In The Era Of The NVMe Drive" article [1] [2]), to optimize IO and hardware lifecycle.

Skimming through the "bcachefs: Principles Of Operation" PDF, it appears the answer is no.

[1] https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/9/is-sequential-io-d...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35878961
BBEdit is one of the few apps I miss from the Mac world. ResEdit/Resourcerer are up there as well, being able to naively open up the resource fork and customize applications and sometimes make massive changes to them was great fun.
This is not extraction. If they pay wages, this is profit sharing. At best you can argue that they should share more with locals.
The numbers there are just population average IQ scores by age. There’s so many potentially confounding variables that the data is close to meaningless.
I know. I have lived outside the USA and this is not lost on me. You are missing the point though.

The social issue exists in the USA and that is what they're complaining about. It does not matter what the rest of the world does when this thread is based on that - in a thread about US iPhone market share, no less. Cross-platform-apps would've been the solution for this already if they had any shot of doing so.
Because someone who’s under a contract at Apple will get paid during those times? Even a freelancer like me on a higher demand profession, I get paid by day and sometimes there’s only 4 hours of work.

The lack of empathy of some commenters here is truly shocking.
The problem with the news isn't that it's sensationalized, which of course it is, but that an ever increasing amount of it is completely made up.
The article you've been posting even supports the idea that IQ testing is good for identifying the unintelligent. I'm referencing your own material and suggesting that there is value in identifying and helping those people.

And why should we believe his/your assertion that capitalistic value is the only objective measure of intelligence? No surprise an options trader wants to equate financial success to greater intelligence.
API access or just access to the chatbot?

You can go through Poe.com
That is solved by hypothetical embeddings.

Background: https://summarity.com/hyde

Demo: https://youtu.be/elNrRU12xRc?t=1550 (or try it on findsight.ai and compare results of the "answer" vs the "state" filter)

For even deeper retrieval consider late interaction models such as ColBERT
It's really unfortunate so many VC's and people in the tech industry lent credibility to such naked fraud. It made (and continues to make) regulation politically untenable. One of our political parties _continues_ to insist the crypto industry is "innovation!" and it'd be a mistake to stifle such incredible innovation. It's all bs.

I'm sorry you fell victim to this. It's a shame the regulators, meant to protect consumers from this exact thing, weren't able to do their jobs. Don't take it as a personal failure. This was systemic, and you were served up by lots of deeply monied interests.
What lesson should I be learning here exactly? Again, if I had "custody'd my money in an opaque business" like, you know, A BANK, I would have been fine. Clearly the "opaqueness" isn't an issue.

But I agree, if you want to have your digital monopoly money, it's probably better to play with that on a hard drive and never actually do anything with it.
You are entitled to a refund of any excessive withholding you make beyond your tax liability.

The argument is that, as the now employees understood themselves to be contractors, they paid the (higher) contractor tax rate (employee + employer). If the IRS is retconning them as employees and FTX owed the employer's share of the employees' taxes, the employees are entitled to a refund of the amount they overpaid.
But it's precisely that handwaviness that should make you not have to do research at all and smell a rat, as ultimately rate of interest and risk come hand in hand. It doesn't matter whether the instrument is based on crypto, real estate or pokemon cards.

If someone is offering a high interest, very liquid investment with returns so high that you are better off taking a larger mortgage, and putting the extra money into the investment, there has to be a hidden risk component: Otherwise, why would anyone issue mortgages, instead of investing in this very liquid instrument? It's too good to be true.

It's not unlike the people that spent money ordering cryptominers from butterfly labs: The expected return from buying them (pay the whole thing off in two months, and afterwards it's all profit!") just doesn't line up, regardless of the justification. Extraordinary returns exist, but they either require that you discover them yourself, or have to carry significant risks. So when someone is selling the opportunity to you, and you are told there's no risk, you have to know you are being lied to, no due diligence necessary.
Unix Philosophy for AI
We use these interactive systems to describe the anatomy of "Agile Boosters", which rely on the data extraction, domain-specific modelling and appropriate representations. This work draws on extensive research in "awareness", a key concept in Computer Supported and Cooperative Work.
That's like saying, in an ideal world we don't need encryption because no one lies, everyone is responsible with the data they are entrusted with, and no one has any motives to look at data that doesn't belong to them.
Ok, but we don't live in that world. So we have encryption, and people have to take what they hear with a grain of salt.
Yeah, it's crazy how much of the end-game of so much tech essentially boils down to something like this.
I would be impressed if we could even find a case of an IRS agent pulling their service weapon out of it's holster on the job.
That’s not how the average Joe’s brain is wired
I don't like that in the code validation rules are applied to a "request" (and written in a controller) but not to a model. This means that if you want to create a model somewhere else, you cannot reuse validation code.