skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A barebones single-channel sound driver shouldn't be complicated. It should also be simpler than "some kind of compatibility wrapper to emulate the PC speaker in firmware".
My user name at a major bank was Thomas Anderson (of Neo fame) but got locked out too many times, so now it's a long random thing.
From my experience people who start with Java or Python have problems understanding programming. They learn the syntax and tools.

Programming is (my definition, everyone has a different one) breaking down problems in different layers until you know how to write that as code and then abstracting up.

E.g. in LOGO:

Drawing a house breaks down to: draw the rectangle for the building, draw the rectangle for the door, draw the triangle for the roof.

The abstracting up: Write a procedure that can draw triangles and rectangles and replace the code with that.

It's not learning syntax, but programming. I wrote code in 30+ languages and was paid for code in 20+ languages, I think it is more imporant to understand programming than language syntax, which is easy to pick up.

(As a counter example to myself, I've learned programming with VIC-20 BASIC)
https://archive.is/I55sb
It’s the data, stupid.

Apple Maps works fine in places where there’s a high penetration of iPhone users. The quality falls off a cliff everywhere else:

1. Apple lacks organic data sources. Businesses everywhere care about their Google places profile. They don’t necessarily care about their Apple Maps profile if there’s not many iPhone users around. Google maps has a lot of organic reviews for businesses all over the globe, Apple is reliant on external data sources like TripAdvisor which is woefully incomplete compared to Google.

2. In places without a lot of iPhone users, Apple doesn’t care to improve Apple Maps because from their perspective it’s throwing money away.

I don’t see Apple Maps as being a competitor for Google maps. Google maps is a global mapping app, whereas Apple Maps only works properly in a few countries.
It can tow 10,000 lbs like their ICE vehicles.
Don’t conceal your hatred behind a mask of a desire to understand something novel, you just don’t like it. Consider being more open to viewpoints that differ from yours, instead of setting up ad-hoc verbal jousting games that make actual communication impossible like, “Oh my, I simply do not understand why somebody would want do such a thing!”. Imagine if someone said that to you about something you liked, would you make a sincere attempt to explain why someone might do such a thing?

In my own foolishness, I will say something sincere to your insincerity. Risk-aversion varies wildly among people, and everything you choose to do exposes unconsenting members of the public to risks that could have been avoided. For example, getting in an 8000-lb NPC mobile that is designed to numb you from the outside world with 25” touchscreen infotainment centers might (in some ways) be more hazardous to the health of pedestrians and other vehicles that a 2000-lb car that was designed, engineered, and is now driven for the sole purpose of engagement between driver, machine, and road.

And with respect to the matter of maintenance, the only cars of vintage that are in perfect condition are those that are never driven. These machines are incredibly complex, and as they age, they take on many problems that have varying degrees of seriousness, any owner that can afford to will take reasonable steps to bring the car into a drivable state, but there are many quirks, odds, and ends of operation that the machine will exhibit that are either too mysterious at present or too expensive to fix, and so the operator does exactly what any rational person faced with using a legacy system that is complex and undocumented, they make an attempt at patching the problem imperfectly and dealing with some technical debt in the future instead of rewriting from scratch today.
This is the only valid take against LLM's I've seen to date.

At the same time, could it not be construed as humanity leveling up? We've abstracted away that, now low, level of thought. Much like we don't have people pressing the button in the elevator.
Most developers and writers are still better than an LLM, but its good enough to replace their input on simple tasks.

Writing is being commoditized much like other industries. The moment you release a new vacuum cleaner there's ten others that do the same thing and nobody is fussed over who invented it. People still know who to go for a premium vacuum though.
For context, early vision is easier to map than you might expect.

Here's a radiograph of the primary visual cortex created in 1982 by projecting a pattern onto a macaque's retina:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100814085656im_/http://hubel.m...

An injection of radioactive sugar lets you see where the neurons were firing away and metabolizing the sugar.

(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7134981/)
So... a less capable dosemu?
Still cheaper and sturdier than the cardboard house in USA. European houses typivally made of brivks and mortar. Cant say that in USA.
Even 5mil house in San Fra, a significant portions the house is made of wood and drywall. Pounching through American wall is hollywood pastime. Cant find a similar think in other countries hollywood.
Indeed, it reminds me of the movie Arrival (and the short story upon which it's based) where the heptapods are able to show a complete sentence and story within one glyph. I thought it was interesting just how much the movie focused on linguistics, which is rare to see in Hollywood films.

Something else that's interesting about language is it's just a form of compressive medium for thoughts; I think of a concept, then I put it into words (compression) that you the listener then have to interpret and understand (decompression) and then fit your brain state to the new data you've received. It's overall a very lossy medium compared to what brains can do. It would be much easier to beam my thoughts and images and videos in my mind directly to you.

Unless you or I have aphantasia, of course.
It would have been more exciting with a video out port like NTSC/PAL or VGA.
It works on canary on M1 mac and Windows w/ an NVIDIA RTX GPU. I believe there are custom command line options that have to be passed to make it work. The MLC site has the deets that work.
Sounds like a recipe for conflict.
No parking brake is the one that gets me. How do you do a hill start? I guess you need to use the actual brake, clutch and accelerator at the same time?

How hard to fix the gearbox and retrofit a choke too?
Bad example. That $90 mower works as well as a $600 Honda, it just has fewer fancy features.

Walmart is the master of the commodity. It’s dumb not to buy many things there. Whole Foods will sell you a gallon of vinegar for $7, Walmart will same the same product probably made at the same place for $2.50.
The customers want to donate money to local taxi operators and drivers?
The taxi drivers who barely understand what open source is?

This can work, but definitely not through crowdfunding. This better works through say business associations, say a national taxi association (composed of all small/regional taxi operators). That association can allocate a small portion of the funds to build this open taxi framework.
They feel very different to me. I grew up in the desert not too far from Death Valley and have been outside many times when it was ~120°F / ~10% RH. And I've experienced 90+°F / 90+% RH on the east coast of the US several times.

Wet heat feels like it's going to wear me down until I collapse. It also feels disgusting to me - I remember leaving my hotel in Manhattan at 4 am when it was 85° and foggy. It felt bad through every one of my senses.

Dry, extreme heat feels like being burned to me. It never felt like it would wear me down as fast (maybe because I grew up with it?), but it felt like my skin might dry up and slough off. And my lungs might dry up as well. I always had nose bleeds because of the dryness.

I think which is worse is quite personal. But "feels like" temps or wet bulb temps don't tell the entire story. They feel completely different to me.

Oh, and I only drive white cars now, even though I no longer live in the desert. My first car was a dark navy blue and that car was brutal when it was 115+°F out. It had A/C, but it couldn't keep up at all. Keeping a white towel in the car was a must because on hot summer days I couldn't touch the steering wheel without the towel if it had been sitting in the sun for any length of time (and there isn't much shade around). When getting out of the car, spread the towel across the seat to keep the seat under 140°F when you return. I didn't get much sympathy from my future wife - neither her car nor her childhood home had A/C.
Austin Kleon's books are not hustle porn to me. In fact, it comes across as the opposite. It feels like tips for being creative. Some of the advice is for unplugging, pursuing side projects, practicing procrastination -- things that do not sound like your typical "top 100 tips to succeed" tripe. The third book -- Show Your Work -- could be taken as hustle porn. But if you read it in context with the others, it doesn't seem that way. Just a way to get your work out there without being spammy. If it seems hustle porn, you might be missing the point.
Same, few more labels and a more stock mapping but I’ve seen people give up after seconds of attempting it.
What? The use case is to easily run it on your own computer. Without needing to be a programmer or install an application.
Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds
If you ever find yourself writing strcpy() followed by strcat(), consider:

snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s%s", a, b);

This as safe as strlcpy and strlcat, but more efficient, and has been standard for 24 years.
Wow I just noticed that archive.is automatically appends selected text reigons to the link in the address bar. neat
https://archive.is/I55sb#selection-887.146-887.383
Integrating WASM into React with Rust
Apple maps has more friendly driving directions.

Instead of something like "turn right in 250 feet" it says something like "go past this light, and at the next one, turn right".

That's a much better UI.
well I mean diabetes patients have to take metformin and it of course prolongs their life but it also subjects them to potential lactic acidosis, because it's toxic.

Medicine is taking the lesser of two poisons because you literally don't have a choice in the matter. It can be way better than it is but we have such awful perverse incentives and lack of responsibility rampant in the field.
If they are performing according to the profession's own standards, then they spend their working days involved in other people's problems, delusions, traumas, grievances, morbidities, obsessions, suicides, etc, (not to mention various mental disorders). This probably accounts for high rates of burnout among them. But, ask yourself, what about the ones who don't burn out? What is it about them that allows them to do this sort of thing day after day? Is it the $300/h? Is it a strange fascination? Is it some mental disease of their own? Questions worth asking.
Thing is, you can block both IR and UV light, without impinging on the visible light spectrum.

The UV light will cause things inside your car to break down faster, and of course the IR is what carries the heat.

So, you don't need dark tint to block IR. You just need a different filter material.
The reality of the sickness is our lifestyle. Humans are not wired to sit in a fluorescent office for 8 hours a day staying at a screen. Humans are designed to build physical tools and persistence hunt wild beasts on the plains of Africa and the Eurasian steppe.

Decades of sitting down and staring at a screen in that office is bound to start to deep into someone's mental health at some point.

No amount of therapy, vanity spending, grindset mentality, family support, or PTO can fully fix the mental wound that a deeply unnatural lifestyle inflicts on a person. Those are all bandaids on a gaping bullet wound that is most likely permanent.

Tired of hearing these hackernews biohackers and their silly blog-inspired solutions to life satisfaction. It's time to wake up and realize that there is no way to achieve the type of satisfaction they are claiming they can achieve in the modern world.
I'm sorry to say I don't think it's struck yet! Not to say what you experienced wasn't real by any means, but I think it just sounds more like a different, but normal thing. The coming to terms with reality after your 20s. I think you'll see another round more characteristic of the mid-life crisis as you all enter your 50s.
is it possible? yes

is it illegal? also
it's funny the person is upset about some taxi driver cheating them, but okay with paying tribute to some app developer middleman with every trip
Sorting may seem simple, but as developers, we often overlook its importance and the complexities it can bring. In this blog, we explore a case where a less-than-ideal Comparator caused issues in managing room options. Discover how we leveraged an algorithm commonly used in Leetcode challenges to overcome this problem.
> The quality of their product has ceased to matter.

Most people don't go to the theater (or even stream) to watch "quality," they go for entertainment. Artsy films might have a lot of artistic quality (like The Green Knight, for example) but most people don't care, they'll watch the latest blockbuster, which is where studios make the most money. For the people who do watch artsy films, understand that the blockbusters make the bulk of the revenue to even greenlight artsy films; without the mass market films, there wouldn't even be any artsy films (of a sizable budget like 10 to 50 million dollars, not true indie or art house films).

Interestingly, it would be ironic if, were these strikes to go on for a longer time, studios would simply think to invest more into AI which doesn't have the sorts of problems mere humans might, hastening the demise of writers and actors. This must be why it was reported that negotiations broke down as soon as AI was thrown in there, they definitely want to bet on that as the future and I'm not sure what leverage actors and writers have, honestly. It seems like whichever way the strike goes, studios won't budge on that issue.

Edit: removed art house label as it was inaccurate.
Sure, it's the risk of taking the drug vs the risk of not taking the drug. What about Fluvoxamine and Ivermectin though?
They're not happy about it. I think a lot of people make that decision under a form of (personal financial) duress. Or put better than I could, by the master of pithy observations:

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
Previous discussion

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757296
I've always visualized it like fractals
One "hybrid" solution is to base the drones on a truck that drives around the city.
I think people are down voting because Astrology but yeah it just seems like the coming to terms with reality of adulthood. Midlife crisis is later.
I am not quite old enough for a midlife crisis, but suffered a period of extreme burn out which was followed by some kind of crisis/breakdown and I am actively in the process of destroying my life and everything good I worked for.

I at this point both hope that I'm still here to experience a "midlife" crisis and that it isn't even half as bad as this has been.
Tell me you've never visited Seattle or San Francisco without telling me you've never visited Seattle or San Francisco...
Whatever you're trying to do humans have been doing it successfully for thousands of years before the invention of sodas, mainly with water and alcohol.
I think you just answered your own question, actually.
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Renton Airport, Boeing Field, Seatac, Paine Field Harvey Field, Arlington Field, plus scores of smaller poorly marked airstrips if you check OpenStreetMap. It turns out very few places in the US are sufficiently far away from an "airport" to allow drones to operate. Even out in the boonies.
You get good at very rapidly transitioning state, or heel and toeing. Both are useful skills.
This is good advice. Sadly, many on HN are very pro "mental health professionals". I see the opposite advice proffered frequently. These "professionals" make things worse by pathologizing normal life. Their availability to function as ersatz "friends" discourages people from making the real kind, imho.
the best recons I've seen so far are from Jack Gallant and Alex Huth's labs (at least what was shown publicly at SfN)
It probably only applies for as long as CoD is marketed on any platform. Couldn't a spin-off-of-a-spin-off be made and CoD shut down within that timeframe? E.g. CoD: Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare: Xyz, and finally just Xyz 2028.
Just like what most web apps allow- quick applications in a sandboxed environment on almost every type of hardware
Because as you've described it, that wage won't scale with inflation. It sounds irresponsibly high now, but wait around and $100 in the future will sound like the $2.13/h + $30+/wk we have today.
I just finished a new build today. I’ve been daily driving macOS since about 2006 but tomorrow morning my main dev rig is a fresh Debian 12 workstation running KDE :)
Lyft driver typically takes 7-10 rides a day.
From this data it seems the Year of the Unix desktop is 2023 with macOS at 21.38%...
I'm not concealing my hatred of this, sorry if I somehow gave that impression. Let me say this clearly then;

I hate when people make selfish and reckless decisions that can severely impact the lives of others without their consent. It's unfair and should not be allowed, and I think they should be judged harshly for it.

I always try to maintain an open mind however, so stating that I don't understand the appeal of making such decisions isn't some game I'm playing. I legitimately don't understand the appeal and am open to hearing arguments for those decisions.
Jfc remind me to never write for nerds. You guys are insufferable.
> There is literarily a table in the FAQ flr what PPP can be used for and what it cannot be.

Yeah, and it says "Uses with limitations: To analyse changes over time in relative GDP per capita and relative prices".

> PPP cannot be used to measure growth, period.

> PPP increase indicate absolutely nothing.

No, refer to paragraphs 32-34 of the overview from the PPP Manual: https://www.oecd.org/sdd/prices-ppp/PPP%20manual%20revised%2...

> Nominal GDP increase indicates an increased production

No, it doesn't. Value = price x volume. If value has gone up, it means either price or volume had gone up, but you cannot say more than that; for that you need real GDP.

> In fact PPP often increase or maintains its level in times of crisis when income level drops and unemployment rises.

Yeah, GDP and GDP PPP are both imperfect metrics. They are just proxies and should be treated as such.

> The US is far bigger than NY and SF and even then many EU cities can more than compare… The housing stock is far cheaper in the US and you get far far more for your money.

So what? It doesn't change the fact that nominal GDP fails horribly as a metric for such cases.
It also took fascism way further than Europe, so it kinda balances out.
I don't think "nothing more" is the right conclusion here.

From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8658706/:

"Long COVID-19 anosmia fatigue could result from damage to olfactory sensory neurons, leading to an augmentation in the resistance to cerebrospinal fluid outflow by the cribriform plate, and further causing congestion of the glymphatic system with subsequent toxic build-up in the brain... SARS-CoV-2 can either travel via peripheral blood vessels causing endothelial dysfunction, triggering coagulation cascade and multiple organ dysfunction, or reach the systemic circulation and take a different route to the blood–brain barrier, damaging the blood–brain barrier and leading to neuroinflammation and neuronal excitotoxicity."
Horrible overhead. If the loop does something simple, like summing integers, 99% of time will be spent switching between goroutines.

From TFA:

"Because scheduling is explicit (without any preemption) and done entirely without the operating system, a coroutine switch takes at most around ten nanoseconds, usually even less. Startup and teardown is also much cheaper than threads."

"For this taxonomy, Go's goroutines are cheap threads: a goroutine switch is closer to a few hundred nanoseconds"

Also check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29510751

and https://ewencp.org/blog/golang-iterators/index.html:

"Finally, the most natural channel based implementation is… slow. By a factor of nearly 50x. Buffering does help though, reducing that to a factor of 25x."
>that life ain’t that great unless we’re out there crushing it all the time.

Where in the hell did you get that from? I wish I hadn't wasted 20+ years of my youth working so hard.

>I guess it fits nicely with the declining notion that having children isn’t worth it either.

Dunno where you got that from either. My kids are the best thing that happened to me. Are you projecting or something?
You're not black, you're not gay and being driven by a socially conservative immigrant, etc.
What happens after LLMs kill off SO and then seek more updated training data?

It seems like these “deaths” are either temporary or something else will pop-up that continuously improves and trains an LLMs with proprietary data.

There’s def a shift in the social contract of the internet. We’re shifting from “publish a few things you know a lot bit in exchange to read stuff other smart people have shared” to “solve a problem with an LLM and train it in a manner that can be helpful to others”

What’s unclear is how the middle of that will be monetized. Search engines figured out how to do it for the “publish and share” paradigm and made a boatload of money off of it after paying for the massive infrastructure required to index everything. How will LLMs do it without killing the data that trains it?
Guessed so...
It's a perfectly fine objective if you trust your drivers to meet a minimum standard of a good job. It won't work in an adversarial system like Uber where drivers are just numbers but if the drivers are also invested in the success of the platform it's fine.

Given that drivers are driving the shorted distance/time route at the speed limit, treating customers with respect, arriving on time to scheduled pickups, etc. The next thing to focus on is scheduling/filling orders such that drive time is maximised.
Thank you dang!

There was certainly some heated opinions being shared there. Fair to say I may have set the tone with my initial comment. I grew up around cars and car builders and spent quite a few years working with them so I am opinionated in that field.
An aircraft carrier aircraft carrier!
> saw there are two different ways they are implemented

What do you mean by that?
> The expectation is that men provide.

The 60s want their gender roles back.

In my experience, if a man fails at being a provider, he usually fully commits to the failure too. At least this was the case with my family. A healthy in between narcissistic Walter White provider and fully leaving your old life behind would seem healthier.
Yep, I think you're on to something!
Donate? Customers would BUY utility tokens to use later for rides