skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love an experiment to prove this out. Take a room roughly equivalent in size to an average classroom and containing chairs, desks, wall hangings etc as would be found in most classrooms. Put a target dummy at one end of the room that can measure impact forces to various parts of the dummy. Define "death" conditions for the dummy - not just raw force, we want to allow for things like a knife to the throat.

Have people attack the dummy, starting from the other end of the room. Some participants will be given weapons like guns or knives, others will have to improvise with what's in the room. Measure the time it takes and use health monitoring devices to estimate the level of physical effort the participant applied.

Without doing this experiment I'm already pretty confident that a plot of time to kill will show the group given guns far ahead of the knife group or improv group. After all, they only have to aim and pull the trigger while the other groups have to move across the room. Likewise, the gun group would show far lower physical effort than the others, from the movement across the room as well as the greater need to directly apply human-sourced force. The knife group has to swing / stab / slice with enough force to meet the death conditions. The improv group has to potentially disassemble or rip apart something to then have a sharp or blunt instrument, then they still need to apply their own force like the knife group. Naturally this might change somewhat if we go nuts with the guns, like big heavy rifles or machine guns. Those would require some substantial physical effort. But handguns or the average AR-15? Not really.

Guns are a fast, low effort way to apply potentially lethal damage to a human target. You can absolutely apply lethal damage to a human in an uncountable number of other ways, but they are almost universally slower and higher effort.

Thus, we see frequent mass killings using guns, but knife incidents with high death totals are pretty rare.
Did he do that consistently or is it just an artifact seen in a single very heavily edited record? Is the same timing seen in this section of live concert recordings during those years?
the guy looks like a ghoul, his health metrics might be good but he looks way older than his age.
There's a reason it's called a "race to the bottom".
Automotive EE here, I could not disagree with you more on the state and expectations of self-driving vehicles.

I can tell you with confidence they have not really put effort into weather and it’s a problem “to be solved later”.

It’s all a joke. If we actually wanted this, it would be long haul A to B routes. Turning semi trucks into rail.

Self-driving was already slowing down before the era of free money. So I expect this is just PR to set expectations for Uber and prepare for a scenario where Uber is eventually swallowed by someone else.

The article to me (an Automotive EE/CE of 20 years) that “Fairy dust makers combine efforts to bring genie wish program forward”.
I would point out this

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/31/22-tenu...

as one of the elephants in the room. It's particularly a problem for DEI because someone who diagnoses their problem as "I am a woman", "I am black", ... is missing the major factor that the people who seem to fit in just fine in academia just fine are working in the family business. That is, at best you can erase "black stigma" but the privilege you are looking for is not a "white privilege" shared by all whites but rather a much more specific privilege, and if we just got them to where the average white person is they'd still feel lost at sea.
Yes, a College Degree Is Still Worth It
There is a great hack that makes caramelizing onions a breeze and cuts down the cooking time significantly. The secret would be adding a small amount of water* at the beginning of the caramelization process. Not only does it reduce the overall cooking time, but it also ensures that the onions caramelize evenly without the risk of burning.

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzL07v6w8AA
Analytics tracking pixels normally ARE GIFs, specifically a 43 byte transparent 1x1 GIF.

But most “GIFs” are not GIFs but rather Mp4, mov, or webm or some other compressed file format. Actual GIFs are extremely wasteful of bandwidth and not hardware optimized. The name lives on though.
> The best example I've seen so far were David Lebovitz's recipes.

Nice to see a +1 for Lebovitz - not really familiar with him, but have been getting into home-made ice cream and just ordered The Perfect Scoop last night as my first/only ice cream recipe book.
This sounds like the plot of Terminator and the birth of Skynet
I thought this was going to be about the Elm email client. I guess I'm old af

I don't think I'd ever use "elegant" to describe Go

it's a workhorse language that's readable and full of utility.

When I think elegant, I think Clojure. Not that I'd want to use it day to day (I have)
"Rock solid" in my day to day experience; obviously there are the issues reported on GitHub but I haven't come across these issues in real-world development. This bug is admittedly very poor, but it is straightforward to workaround.

I don't think the language is complete, but that we should aspire towards completeness over churn.
America's Test Kitchen tests all their recipes, multiple times with different variations, so I tend to trust them.
I should have used scare quotes. "In a way which someone other than the performer may call incorrect." Which is the case here.

I guess my point is, playing "accurately" (according to the traditional musical rhythmic grid) and "precisely" (repeatably) are independent skills. I for one am stronger in the latter than the former.
What's the gain here? Can they pay you less than another driver who will sit in the car?
Because dealing with signal being lost sounds like a huge problem to deal with for very little payback.
And Linnstrument is open source. And is a generic MIDI controller that works with any MPE compatible synth and any MPE VSTi instruments - such as Audio Modeling. The Push doesn't support VSTi.
Neat! I like your game, hope the API doesn't cost you too much.
> I have a lot more faith in the value of my Monero than the USD

I've heard people say this about various cryptocurrencies over the last few years and I just cannot take the statement seriously. It just always comes across as a deliberately exaggeration of belief in a cryptocurrency in an attempt to persuade others to get in on it. Not only that, I cannot imagine a world where USD collapses and somehow things like Monero or Ethereum stick around and continue to work just fine.
I remember making WADs when I was a kid. The whole modding experience was amazing for early games. When I look at the locked down ecosystems that our kids are playing in, it hurts a little.

I bought Minecraft on Nintendo Switch to play with my step-kids since they have an XBox and it was so soulless compared to the one I bought back in 2012. The mods I used to download and mess with for free were now paid for in the Microsoft Store. In addition, they spent so much time locking down the game it was barely playable. I remember applying for a mod license and they allowed me to download the entire source code for the game... I was just blown away.
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It would be shocking to me if apple released a AR headset without at least considering Unity and/or Unreal support. Think about how long it takes to make a proper VR game, let alone a quality one
I'd assume/hope Navy crew would be trained in and regularly drill non GPS navigation techniques. Even in the civilian/recreational sailing world you do (or at least did when I took my exam 15 years ago) blind pilotage where you have to sit below deck and navigate the boat through a harbour, without use of GPS, as a standard part of yachtmaster exams. Celestial navigation and use of a sextant was required for ocean yachtmaster.
We're all lucky that Nintendo is so technologically inept that they're perpetually 20 years behind the latest trends. Imagine what a shitshow Tears Of The Kingdom would be if it had Genshin-style gacha bullshit.
Banks require us to give them large amounts of trust. We deposit our money. They lend that money out, while the general public is under the impression that you deposit money and it stays there. The bank's very business model relies on all of their depositors not needing/withdrawing their money at the same time; should everyone happen to need/withdraw their money at the same time, the bank would fail. Fractional reserve banking at its finest.
Uber is a very different market player. Waymo only does autonomous car rides. People pick one over the other for a variety of reasons. It’s why local taxi dispatches are still in business. It would be ignorance to think they are the same.

Uber opened up people to the freedom of going anywhere and getting a taxi. This took market from a lot of players. But there was always a market it could not take.

Waymo will have to do the same. Carve out a specific market share for itself, from a lot of transportation options.
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It is anything but strict. In fact they’ll help you circumvent it.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/27/business/binance-cftc-law...
The idea was: give all (relevant class) people a bonus that compensates the tax. If they can forgo the car, they get more money. If not, they break even.

relevant class: big families, construction workers, whatever
I know - its the brashness, level of ease and amount of pardons by the Trump presidency that makes it different. Not that it isn't done by other parties.
Ish. It's talking about changing the guidance, how the law is interpreted by enforcement agencies. This is regularly handled in departments, not statute.

A change in guidance would lead to action, and probably an appeal. The following court action would set a precedent and become the accepted meaning of the existing law. Which would spur or stymie more enforcement.
What's the gesture?
Seems like it’s an inertial navigation system [0] but they’re using some quantum device for precision.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system
I'm gonna take a bit of a "people-pleaser" stance on this and say that there's merit in both mindsets.

Personally, I tend to prefer using and abusing all the sugar and tools that a compiler gives me. I find that I'm not a terribly smart person most of the time, and if a compiler engineer has a figured out a good bit of abstraction to make the code safer or more readable or faster, I'm inclined to use it.

There are plenty of success stories with this approach. Love it or hate it, I think SQL is overall a reasonably pleasant language, and almost completely removed from the underlying hardware. You think relationally with SQL, not really in terms of for loops or memory allocation.

All that being said, I will admit that sometimes I don't want to spend the entire day trying to decipher whatever the hell GHC is trying to tell me with its weird errors. Go makes you do a lot more manually, but at the same time you also don't need to understand the intricacies of a sort of approximation of type theory or linear logic.

IMO, I genuinely think that right now the two best languages in terms of abstraction usability are Clojure and F#. They both allow for lots of great abstract stuff, but they also do allow you to cheat when necessary, and being on the JVM and .NET Framework respectively, there's no shortage of libraries available.
Yeah, but you have done a good job of delegating that responsibility!
Why has his work not turned into a public bug fix update in 2.5 years?

This feels a lot like Patrick Rothfuss on his Kingkiller Chronicles. The creator has a fan base he doesn't want to disappoint and who will defend his honor as long as he can give them any evidence he's actually making progress, but all the evidence suggests he's actually lost interest or doesn't know where to go from here.

Not that there's anything wrong with losing interest in a hobby project. The problem with Elm is that it was pitched as more than a hobby project but then held so close to Evan's chest that no one else has been able to take over now that he's not maintaining it.
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I just want to chime in to say that it is ridiculous that such information is not so easy to come by. Billion-dollar corporations should not be allowed to keep their external investments so opaque! Especially businesses that are publicly-traded.

Also: I don't give a damn if the business isn't publicly traded either. If they're that big they have enough influence over any given market that the public should have the right to know what they're up to.
In many cases it's not the same lounges. i.e. The international airlines still maintain their own 'exclusive' lounges, with whatever access policy. The public-access lounge is often not owned by an airline, making deals with card companies and smaller or budget airlines that in the past would not have offered any lounge.
the puppet in office that needs direction on where to walk and how to talk. Also, no questions allowed.
The customer network is the hardest thing to replicate
Its a pity that a decade and more of hyperactivity, speculation and noise in cryptofinance will not leave much to show for it but the smoldering ruins of bizarre house-of-cards.

We have financial systems that are certifiably broken, there are countless ideas about how to fix them, the digital era makes new ideas easy to explore and everybody would objectively be better off with some genuine innovation

yet all we've got is this manic obsession spawned by bitcoin that has no economic objective whatsoever.

If that is "efficient allocation of capital" one wonders what inefficiency looks like.
Very hard to compete against Push as Ableton refuses to document their nightmare of an API. Even with Push source code decompiled, it's very difficult to make sense of it all.
This just in, a mans opinion is that others opinions are all made up!

All kidding aside, life is full of choices just like programming is. It's also full of, at times, cascading tradeoffs. Following popular patterns isn't new to technical fields, even if they can have sharp corner cases. When your income is dependent on delivery then you'll often side with whatever presents a high-confidence score in terms of success.

There are also very few definitely right decisions to make in software architecture and much more definitely wrong ones. How many times have you heard, "I shouldn't have used x full stack framework because I wanted to do y" or "I shouldn't have written x from the ground up because I could've used y". Many of these decisions you can only fully know what category they fit into after the deed is done.

A lot of this derives from the fact that most of these things are learned on the job. There is no course you can take that will succinctly teach you to migrate a hulking, interconnected monolith to microservices or vice versa. You just have to have been the sad sap who's done it before and have enough knowledge of the standards and innards involved.

What I take some umbrage with is just labeling everyone snake oil salesmen.
In grad school I learned a bunch of stuff and pushed forward a research topic that was outdated at the time but I just had no idea. Once I got into industry it was obvious and I had to catch up. The degree ended up providing nothing more than a signal for job interviews.
You're right, we don't have to trust them, because we know we cannot trust them. Regular banks are not keeping your money ready for you to withdraw. They are investing your money (the profits are for them, the losses are for the taxpayers), while they hope that not everyone want their money at the same time. Binance is accused to mix customer funds with their own funds. If it were a bank, that would be essentially a given. Not necessarily defending Binance, but ...
Dava Sobel’s Longitude is a great book on this topic.
Yes, in a couple of small geographies where the local governments have been particularly accommodating.

Can't you see why Google may not want to do this for dozens of places and handle customer service for rideshare, etc, at scale?
Quintessential experience of talking to Elm core team: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773#issuecomment-418...

What's funny, rtfeldman uses case expression with numbers in his (in OP's blogpost) praised library elm-hex, so it's not the problem of numbers vs variants. Only negative numbers are the problem.
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> I think it is a bit different when they regulate that one US company can’t buy another US company. This has no direct effect on UK citizens.

Incorrect.

What the UK decided is that this acquisition can be harmful for UK citizens, and in order to continue doing business in the UK, they must comply with regulation.

This is actually the regulatory institutions of the country acting on behalf of the citizens instead of allowing corporations to freely pursue their monopolistic tendencies.

There's no overreach here. Meta is free to tell the UK to just fuck off and ignore the regulation. But then they would have to stop doing business in the UK (and possibly later on the EU, that tends to be even stricter).

These are countries acting on their own jurisdiction, and companies deciding that doing business in that jurisdiction is more profitable than keeping the acquisition.
In a recent Ezra Klein show interview [1] with social scientist Jean Twenge on the documented rise in teenage depression, Twenge found it correlated with a rise in social media use, but also found that increasing social media use was correlated with fewer hours of in-person social interaction among teens than previous.

While Twenge wanted to talk about both things (and I'm somewhat suspicious of the certainty of her conclusions), I found it pretty thought-provoking to focus on the drop in in-person social interaction as the driver. Social media use can quite likely lead to lower in-person socialization (I do think it's likely causation, and in that direction). And there may be other social factors doing such too. Covid obviously. (note that rise in teen depression trend started well before covid though). Over-protectiveness (for teens) or general fear of risk of "the world"/focus on risk reduction. (They talked about this a bit).

To me it seems pretty clear (just my intuition/perception, not from actual social science) that our society is having a crisis of lack of meaningful relationships/community and lack of feeling of purpose in one's life, and this is leading to depression and anxiety. (As well as possible political disaster). What exactly is causing that lack of meaninful relationships and purpose, and what can be done, is harder. I think the internet is a (large) part of it, but so are other parts of the social/political/economic system.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
re famous Elm error messages. This one I got when I was learning Elm 4-5 years ago.

Elm uses a different name for the “not equal” operator:

5| text "Hello!" != "balbla"
^^
Switch to (/=) instead.

Note: Our (/=) operator is supposed to look like a real “not equal” sign (≠). I
hope that history will remember (!=) as a weird and temporary choice.

Wondering if it is just me, or it really is passive-aggressive? It was the first red flag for me.

upd: formatting
Shockingly, even the smallest micro-states participate in surveillance of non-citizens.

> San Marino

Is 23 square miles of land with a population of 33K and is land-locked by Italy. Even still -- as a tiny micro-state land-locked by a friendly NATO and EU member state -- San Marino participates in foreign surveillance in a variety of ways; e.g., a member of the Customs union it collaborates with Europol on counter-terrorism.

> Tuvalu

Is 10 square miles with 10K people, and even then collaborates with a Five Eyes nation on maritime surveillance.

> Costa Rica

Unlike the other two examples, Costa Rica is a reasonably sized country. Like other countries which are not tiny micro-states, Costa Rica has its own dedicated intelligence agency independent of collaborative agreements/treaties. It additionally collaborates with both INTERPOL and western intelligence agencies.
True, but think about how lucrative it can be for a VC. We as a society obviously back VCs over the youth and the future of humanity.
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There’s no way to get 10x unless human drivers are earning 90% of the price currently which is clearly very far from the case.
Disney used to be a brand known for creating magical experiences for children and adults alike. You turn that into a factory churning out mediocre content in large volumes and jump on a moral bandwagon that appeals only to a minority of activists and your brand loses its magic very quickly.
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I think some of that may just be how _well-suited_ Moira and David in particular are to that sort of use. You also see a lot of reaction gifs using Lucille from Arrested Development, who's very much the same archetype as Moira.
Show HN: Willow Inference Server: Optimized ASR/TTS/LLM for Willow/WebRTC/REST
Hey HN!

Willow Inference Server (WIS) is a focused and highly optimized language inference server implementation. Our goal is to "automagically" enable performant, cost-effective self-hosting of released state of the art/best of breed models to enable speech and language tasks:

Primarily targeting CUDA (works on CPU too) with support for low-end (cheap) devices such as the Tesla P4, GTX 1060, and up. Don't worry - it screams on an RTX 4090 too! (See benchmarks on Github).

Memory optimized - all three default Whisper (base, medium, large-v2) models loaded simultaneously with TTS support inside of 6GB VRAM. LLM support defaults to int4 quantization (conversion scripts included). ASR/STT + TTS + Vicuna 13B require roughly 18GB VRAM. Less for 7B, of course!

ASR. Heavy emphasis - Whisper optimized for very high quality as-close-to-real-time-as-possible speech recognition via a variety of means (Willow, WebRTC, POST a file, integration with devices and client applications, etc). Results in hundreds of milliseconds or less for most intended speech tasks. See YouTube WebRTC demo[0].

TTS. Primarily provided for assistant tasks (like Willow!) and visually impaired users.

LLM. Optionally pass input through a provided/configured LLM for question answering, chatbot, and assistant tasks. Currently supports LLaMA deriviates with strong preference for Vicuna (I like 13B). Built in support for quantization to int4 to conserve GPU memory.

Support for a variety of transports. REST, WebRTC, Web Sockets (primarily for LLM).

Performance and memory optimized. Leverages CTranslate2 for Whisper support and AutoGPTQ for LLMs.

Willow support. WIS powers the Tovera hosted best-effort example server Willow users enjoy.

Support for WebRTC - stream audio in real-time from browsers or WebRTC applications to optimize quality and response time. Heavily optimized for long-running sessions using WebRTC audio track management. Leave your session open for days at a time and have self-hosted ASR transcription within hundreds of milliseconds while conserving network bandwidth and CPU!

Support for custom TTS voices. With relatively small audio recordings WIS can create and manage custom TTS voices. See API documentation for more information.

Much like the release of Willow[1] last week this is an early release but we had a great response from HN and are looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks!

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxCO5eONqSQ

[1] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow
Curious to learn more here: everyone was praising the M1 so much, but here’s a case that based on this wouldn’t fit the bill.

also how high do you think the penalty for running an intel binary is?