skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see some more science behind the claims about frequency responses of different types of wood. While they must resonate differently, I'm very skeptical of the claim that this leads to a qualitatively different sound.

edit: I will say there is an obvious influence of the wood type on the drums' response to temperature changes, and thus their tuning, so to the extent that that influences things, yes, there will be a difference. I'd like to see experiments controlling for all except wood type, however.
These kind of comments trying to invoke some tangential hobby horse ("safe driving") by taking a word out of context are soooo web forum.

Obviously, driving requires attention and is always one's main focus. Having driven various sizes of vehicles, it's quite clear that this amount of attention varies. For example, the sheer amount of work required to drive a 26 foot box truck gave me a healthy respect for truck drivers. On the original topic, I'd imagine a lot of RV drivers don't pull over or are actively hostile to being passed because they're so overwhelmed they don't want to pile on any more requirements. And while this means that they should be taking the opportunity to stop and recover, try telling someone who is drowning to stop thrashing.

Piloting a 2500 lb manual coupe barefoot in a non-wooded area on an empty road requires the lowest amount of work I've experienced. Driving that same car while having to continually gauge how hard the person in front of you is applying the brakes takes much more. Braking extra and creating more buffer room gives a slight reprieve, but at the ailing speeds ruined views tend to go on non-straight roads you'll inevitably catch right back up.
Looks like Stockton Rush is about to win a Darwin award
Holy crap. The speed is so high you can't even catch the intermediary phases on that video. And the casual distortion of the carrying frame is such that the rear wheels of the car no longer contact the rails.
Short for "Apple Silicon", the marketing name for Apple's own series of ARM CPUs used in Macs since 2020.
What blame? There is a newsworthy connection between Glencore, Tesla and their CEO's political activism against ESG.

Seriously, are we supposed resist being reminded of anti-ESG activism when the topics of Musk or conflict mineral comes up? Report me to the thought police.
Something not obvious to me with these VC diagrams wrt the memory tier being just vector DBs vs also including knowledge graphs

Good: We're (of course) doing a lot of these architectures behind-the-scenes for louie.ai and client projects around that. Vector embeddings are an easy way to do direct recall for data that's bigger-than-context. As long as the user has a simple question that just needs recalling a text snippet that fairly directly overlaps with the question, vector embeddings are magical. Conversational memory for sharing DB queries across teammates, simple discussion of decades of PDF archives and internal wikis... amazing.

Not so good: What happens when the text data to answer your question isn't a directly semantic search match away? "Why does Team X have so many outages?" => What projects is Team X on" + "Outages for those projects" + "Analysis for outage" . AFAICT, this gets into:

A. Failure: Stick with query -> vector DB -> LLM summary and get the wrong answer over the wrong data

B. AutoGPT: Getting into an autoGPT langchain that iteratively queries the vector DB, and iteratively reasons over results, & iteratively plans, until it finds what it wants. But autoGPT seems to be more excitement than production use. Many questions like speed, cost, & quality...

C. Knowledge graphs: Getting into use the LLM to generate a higher-quality knowledge graph of the data that is more receptive to LLM querying. The above question now becomes a simpler multi-hop query over the KG, so both fast and cost-effective... If you've indexed correctly and taught your LLM to generate the right queries.

(Related: If you're into this kind of topic, we're hiring here to build out these systems + help use them on our customers in investigative areas like cyber, misinfo, & emergency response. See new openings up @ ttps://www.graphistry.com/careers !)
maybe google should've, i remember it was basically "buyer beware" with cables. there was this benson something guy who was testing cables and found that a bunch of them would blow up your phone, until he literally had his test equipment blown up by a bad cable. compared to the usb-c situation, apple mfi is a godsend.
> While I’ve done a few mistakes...

We all make mistakes. If you are in an environment where making a mistake risks your job, or even your morale, maybe leaving is not so bad.

Even so, I've found that situations like that often can be fixed by talking about it openly. I'd try that first -- say everything you said here to your boss and see if he can help resolve it. It might go well, it might go badly, but either way it will tell you whether or not this is a job worth fighting for.
How can they discount the possibility that inmates may annex Austria and invade Poland?
"Keep non-temporary files intact" was not part of the design document.
How do you not test this at the bottom of a harbor rather than in prod.
How are you gonna use a robot hand if you don’t know how to program?
The enormous profiteering of deep ocean exploration is certainly an interesting angle, but I highly doubt it. If you want money from that, I think you’d want to be a military contractor instead, or consult for offshore oil. A $250k “leisure” trip to titanic would be an… unusual anniversary gift.
For me it's less the dopamine hits and more the assurance. I don't need to invest 3 months testing something, I spend (maybe) 3 weeks. Instead of a full day of setup and testing something small, I can try and check within minutes.
I've been taught DP via tabulation and struggled to get it. Then I learned the memoization trick and I am never coming back simply because memoization is much easier to reason about, and the resulting code is often much cleaner. As the result, I would only resort to tabulation if I need to match some performance goal and memoization does not cut it.
Your response basically confirms the parent commenter's assessment that you're completely full of yourself and sound awful to work with.
I still have my rumblepad 2, it is a fine controller. Why they would use wireless here is beyond me however.
Local or remote is a property of a filesystem. This has been conventionally understood as whether the block device or the file service uses a directly attached to the host bus, versus more indirectly through a NIC or other networking technology. Of course, this idea breaks down pretty quickly; many servers used SAN, "storage area network" which gave local-like performance from physically separated storage devices over a fiber optic network. And as you point out, you can "remote" a block device since block devices are really just an abstraction.

I don't see what your point is; many applications support multiple storage backends, which is what I was referring to. The performance issues I was discussing were comparing applications that use the host system's VFS layer, compared to the S3 API layer.
> Naval submarine hatches rely on the pressure to keep the hatch shut

I don't remember which company it was, but there was an aircraft company that made the mistake of relying on screws instead of pressure to keep the cockpit windows in place.

The windows were installed from the outside with outside screws to hold them in place. During maintenance one of the windows got replaced and the worker accidentally used the wrong screws which were much weaker than the correct screws.

Next flight when the plane got high enough the difference between outside pressure and the higher pressure in the pressurize cabin blew the window out and one of the pilots got sucked out. Someone else in the cockpit was able to grab his legs on the way out and hold on keeping him from falling, although he spent the rest of the flight dangling out the window getting buffeted around pretty severely. The people left in the cockpit were sure the guy dangling out the window was dead, and they were having a hard time holding on, but they didn't want to lose his body and managed to keep him.

They also were having a hard time communicating with each other or with air traffic control because of the noise from the missing window.

They did get down safely, and the everyone's surprise found that the guy dangling in the window was alive, quite bruised, and had frostbite all over his face, but nothing permanent. He made a full recovery.

They redesigned the windows so on newer planes they installed from the inside with inside screws, whose job was now to keep the window from falling into the plane instead of keep it from falling out.

A "wrong screw" accident then might mean losing a window when taxiing or during takeoff or landing or at low altitude, before there is much pressure different between inside and outside. No one would be sucked out then and the noise would be a lot lower. At higher altitudes the pressure difference would be keeping the windows in place.

As I said I don't remember what company's plane had this accident. It was on one of those "air disaster" documentary shows.
At CodeSandbox (https://codesandbox.io) we're also working on this! Main focus of us is that we're running the environment in Firecracker microVMs, which allows us to snapshot and clone environments very quickly. This enables us to create a VM for every branch, which comes with the added advantage that every branch automatically has a snapshotted preview environment that can resume in ~2 seconds.
There's gotta be a middle ground between doing whatever with no repercussions and literally dying by your own stupidity.
> The confederacy was not being invaded when they chose to start the war.

Marching into a country and killing hundreds of thousands of men isn't an invasion? What do you call it where you're from?
Trying to force centralization onto something that was fundamentally designed to be decentralized.
It is well known that coral atolls naturally adjust their height to the current sea level.
I would say, they are not Stripe, yet. Unless you go through underwriting, it means nothing.

Also, they just failed a basic sniff test. I called their 800 number to ask if they would work with a firearms business and reached a voicemail. They say department is available between 8AM and 8PM Eastern. It is just after 6PM eastern right now. That does not instill a lot of confidence.
Fasteners (screws, rivets, etc)

Metal and plastic Stock

Castings and billets

Clothing

Bulk sacks of material

Lumber

Items to be recycled

Most consumer goods after packaging

Hand tools (wrenches, pliers, etc)

Most food items
I never heard of them before, but, their quality seems pretty good.

https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/a44258552/oral-history-big-g...

That's a whole article with extensive interviews/content/context without (as far as I could find) a single affiliate link (not even a buy link?).
I'm suspicious of Feedly. Their privacy policy which should be here[0], redirects to this: https://feedly.com/i/welcome

So I can't research how they handle my data. There has to be more privacy-centric alternatives to Feedly.

[0] https://feedly.com/i/privacy
Is there enough room inside the sub to turn a long enough wrench to apply the appropriate torque?
yep, it is agonistic to 4-bit. You can deploy a 4-bit model and still use vllm + pagedattention to double or even triple your serving throughput.
It seems as if about the only things WA State Parks has invested in for the past 40 years are parking lots and a new headquarters building in Tumwater.
Its just you, one of Google targetted experiments
Whether it's your fingers or an on-screen pointer, it's the same paradigm in the sense of it being the same model of interaction. You move a pointer around and activate controls on the screen by touching them. I'm not knocking gestural controls, just saying if I had to classify them, I'd say they're an evolution of the mouse or touchpad rather than a whole new model.

And they aren't an evolution in all aspects, either. Multi-touch controls are easier for some things, harder for others. Fine-grain manipulation, for example selecting cells on a spreadsheet, or playing an FPS video game, are harder with touch controls than with a device like a mouse. They've also got a size constraint (the size of your fingertip) that makes many interfaces harder to use.
SIGABRT would have to come from the process itself; IDK when if ever the shell would do that.

And SIGKILL can't be handled, so that is indeed pointless.
The demand for simply converting from fiat to crypto to hold or spend it does exist, but is probably negligible compared to wanting to do the equivalent of investing or day trading.
Twitter is harder to move off of because so many companies use it to report news. celebrities, media, even governments now deliver news on Twitter. Those entities were never going to care about small squabbles.

Reddit, not so much. Not that I don't think a lot won't simply go back, but a lot more people will probably leave, maybe even enough to create a network effect to begin the sparks for a new, proper competitor.
> It's a little harder to scam/dupe someone with cash (especially in the US with USD because of the centralization) and you have the government to help if you receive counterfeit money.

How is this any different?

If you give someone a stack of hundred dollar bills and they rip you off and disappear where you can't find them, you're out of luck.

If someone commits fraud and you do know who they are, that's still illegal even if you paid them in Bitcoin.

The primary difference is that you can send someone Bitcoin over the internet. And then if they're on another continent your local law enforcement isn't going to have much to say about it and their local law enforcement may not care.

But in many cases that doesn't really matter. How many times do you actually pay anything to disreputable nobodies over the internet? It's mostly established merchants with known reputations that they're not inclined to sully just to rip someone off for a couple bucks, regardless of whether the customer can do a charge back.

It's not the irreversibility that's the problem. It's the UX, or the regulatory overhead, or the network effect. It has to get to the point that Netflix says "hey, Mastercard is charging us 3% and we could avoid that with Bitcoin, why are we leaving money on the table"?
Yeah, I had exactly the same thought! If it’s a single hull and not a double hull or something, and that’s the actual inside of the hull we are seeing, how the fuck is that safe? Someone uses too long of a screw and bow you have what, 400 atmospheres of pressure pushing against the presumably sharp point of the screw?

Strain monitoring built into the hull only helps you if you can surface in time once you notice a problem, and not at all if it is a catastrophic failure.
Actually, SO leadership recently pissed off their moderators by updating their moderation guidelines to de facto allow Generative AI answers on the site:

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389811/moderation-s...

So it's the opposite, they decided to unban it just as they started selling the same thing.
Logitech is a "cheap third party"?

I like MS hardware, but my goodness, calling Logitech that is clearly missing something in the accuracy department. Logitech is way more experienced at making and selling input devices than MS.
A Book About Owls, in Which Each Species Is a Marvel
According to the NYTimes, OceanGate refused to undergo any sort of external audit/certification process [0]. I would imagine using an off the shelf, cheap controller would have been one of the first things to be flagged. Makes you wonder how many other critical components did they skimp on

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/20/us/titanic-missing-s...
So, uh, who pays for social security and medicare/medicaid?
Tether is a problem. It's one of the reasons I would not go all-in on btc, but it's not insurmountable. There are plenty of use cases that do not involve USDT.
Ha, I had the exact same reaction

I feel like lots of paper are getting published and reviewed which is good as bad ideas don’t get to propagate for ages
In fairness, op asked for high compensation, not cheap housing.
“<Language> seems to have all sorts of crazy gotchas in addition to the weird syntax.”

Says everyone about every language.
Does node do static type checking?
The standard OS file handlers they mean are the UNIX and Windows APIs to open and read/write file content. The open(), read(), seek(), and write() library calls, which wrap the OS's system calls that use VFS.

HTTP is now a de-facto transport standard. S3 uses, and many other data storage systems do as well. It's highly tuned for performance and there is an entire ecosystem around it. You could implement a system like NFS over XDR-over-TCP-IP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_RPC) or HTTP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV).
You are what makes the market slightly more efficient.
What's the difference between that and Go?
OpenJDK doesn't do the AOT compilation part, you have to use GraalVM native-image for that and it's somewhat experimental for desktop apps. But otherwise it's pretty easy to bundle stuff up.

1. Go grab https://conveyor.hydraulic.dev/ (disclosure: my company makes that)

2. Run `conveyor generate {javafx,compose} my-test-project` (pick your preferred UI toolkit). You now have a JVM desktop project.

3. `./gradlew jar; conveyor make site`. You now have a directory with self-updating platform native packages for Windows, macOS (ARM/Intel) and Linux that you can upload to a web server of your choice. Or supply upload creds and it'll do that step for you. Provide certificates and it'll also take care of signing.

That's all it takes to get a self-updating JVM desktop app these days. The same tool can do Electron, Flutter and native apps too (i.e. C++/Rust), so you could also use it with Tauri, but the nice thing about the JVM support is that it'll both strip down and bundle the JVM for you whilst cross-building/packaging so you don't need CI to do releases. From the user's perspective it's a normal app, from the developer's perspective you just hack on your local dev laptop like you could for a web app.

Binary sizes depend on how much functionality you use and how much effort you put into minifying. With the default level of effort (i.e. none) a simple hello world JavaFX desktop app will be about 33mb and a simple compose app will be about 52mb for macOS (skia is a very large graphics library). However, the Mac versions are larger than those for other platforms, and these sizes are still quite wasteful. There's a lot of low hanging fruit. You could make it a fair bit smaller by using ProGuard and other more aggressive dead code elimination techniques, as well as more heavily compressing bytecode. There's also plenty of fat to trim on the native code side.

GraalVM native images are interesting because they have much faster startup time and low memory usage - competitive with C++ apps, even. They take more work to create though. You can see a robotics app that's natively compiled here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxVoG1ft7w8
There was never a substantial amount of informational content on AOL proper, it was all advertising or mass media-generated stuff. User-generated content in the discussion boards that I remember was insubstantial and in any case there weren't really proper search engines back then anyway. None of your friends were like, "check me out on AOL keyword Bob Smith", putting content on AOL was effectively impossible outside discussion boards or chat. (Which IIRC was inundated with a/s/l bullshit)

I'm OK with the patchwork of image hosts fading out because they are archivable. I can still right-click to save what interests me, and the image is hosted at a URL anyone could punch in or scrape. Except more recently, where we all apparently hate bots and we've let our bandwidth providers become highwaymen for a resource that is supposed to be free.

I'm not saying this stuff needs to be immortal, it just needs to be distributed, archiveable, linkable, and accessible from the client of your choice. Reddit suppresses scraping and nobody seems to have anything cached in an accessible way, at least judging by Google results.

> And isn't it telling that all those generations still ended up going with The Man or becoming The Man? Maybe it isn't an effective approach.

Where there is an effective ecosystem that avoids "The Man" I think you will still find those people. They are not highlighted or lifted up by the masses. Instead most folks will make the contemptible choice of sucking off the corporate cock in exchange for a relatively easy and mindless, monotonous, consumptive, pathetic little life. I know this because I did it too. But I am much happier having weaned myself from its bosom.
Wait, I don't understand. You want to write code but you don't want to bother documenting it or expressing its design?

I must say that any coder who won't document their code is detrimental to the world of software engineering. It is Job Number One to accurately document, from the start, what your code does and what it's supposed to do. If a SWE can't write a design document, comment their code, accurately describe source commits, and at least assist a technical writer in writing the manual for the app/tool/framework, then that SWE should be fired and re-educated.

I have strong feelings about this, but I find that an enduring problem in my experience as an end-user is poor documentation of just about everything I use. I mean, vendors don't even bother bundling the manual anymore, not even as a PDF. It comes in little WWW help-files that are like tasting baby food.

I will always harken back to the 80s when my family purchased two Commodore computers, and they had the best documentation ever. That user manual explained the 6502/6510 architecture, the memory layout, sprites and sound, as well as BASIC programming. I learned those computers inside and out, because they were well-documented. Hardly anything lives up to that now.
MythBusters did this with a realistic (pig?) manikin. Pretty gross, yes.
I see the option in their mobile app as well.
There is never enough knowledge workers these days, so there's always a gap in the market somewhere. I would say leave the LLM/AI hype-train alone and let it mature a bit before trying to master it and then sell those skills.
The more I read about this, the more it (sadly) reminds me of a bungie jumping accident years ago: the bungie cable contained many separate strands, all ending in loops. The habit of the operators was to hold all the loops together and pass a large carabiner through the bundle, catching a number of the loops.

Until one time they caught few enough (none? I remember "none," but that seems absurd) that the whole thing failed, and the jumper fell straight to their death.

Going down in the ocean to a depth far deeper than any military submarine goes -- I don't see any info online, but I wonder if fewer people have been as deep as the Titanic than have reached Earth orbit -- in something that apparently was put together and vetted by effectively hobbyists seems the pinnacle of lunacy. Apologies to the missing for saying it.
> lower living standards

Not lower but different living standards.

Also, please mind the context. Lying flatism is originated in China, that is famous for the absurd work-life balance. You know, work 6 days/week, 9am to 9pm or even stay later. Find a romantic partner, but spend time with them only Saturday evenings and on Sundays. Bring kids into this amazing lifestyle, see them also on Sundays (the rest of time, grandparents will take care of them).

It's kinda obvious that people started to understand that something is going wrong and now are testing the way to fix it.
>>>> How much do drums cost?

Not much, until you get to the cymbals.

Most of the drummers I've worked with are willing to put up with pretty much any drums, but always bring their own bag of cymbals. I don't think it's just a portability issue.