skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an opinion, it's based on the author's appreciation rather than analyzing data. It's also dropping ideas as if they were solid facts. E.g the precept:

> Most economic growth comes from innovation, not the accumulation of capital or labor.

... triggers a big "citation needed" to me.

For a blog called "overcoming bias", I find that a bit ironic.

Also, as usual, what's the definition of economy being used there? Money? Production? It's even dropping fertility and population in the mix so it's hard to tell. I'm almost sure you can find innovations happening during recessions where both economy and production go down(1).

On the opinion itself, I could see that it as a theory worth pursuing, but I'm almost certain this is very "within system". We're on a finite planet, we don't have a choice but to continue innovating while limiting population growth and production. That's where the definition of economy matters, because if you consider production, I don't believe it. If you're talking about money, I'm gonna say, sure, but it's anecdotal.

1: not gonna provide an example since the source material didn't bother to.
If you submit a PR of more than 3 lines changed, a bot asks you to e-sign the CAA before it can be merged.
`while fetchRandomInt() != 0 {}`
I'm hoping that someone comes out with an open source version of Imagen or something similar.

https://imagen.research.google/

Or Parti https://sites.research.google/parti/
Also increasing due to Verisign:

"We expect our pricing to change from $9.73 to around $10.37 on September 1, so don't wait to lock in our low rate today!"
Five net downvotes (and counting?) for this anodyne observation.
I've been slowly migrating all of my domains over and have been very happy with them. Lower prices, faster website, almost ridiculously clean interface. Even has passkey support.
Probably read about it somewhere.
I used to hear the best things about namecheap like a decade ago, and have been using them since then, but I’ve heard too many horror stories since then. This comment tipped me over the edge. Porkbun officially has a new customer now.
Architecture for the dead, watchtower (Eastern Han dynasty) [video]
Do you really think that a company like Microsoft, with a ton of corporate software, couldn't already figure out where you were working based on the information compiled from other sources?
The WHATWG HTML spec [1] has various heuristics it uses/specifies for detecting the character encoding.

In point 8, it says an implementation may use heuristics to detect the encoding. It has a note which states:

> The UTF-8 encoding has a highly detectable bit pattern. Files from the local file system that contain bytes with values greater than 0x7F which match the UTF-8 pattern are very likely to be UTF-8, while documents with byte sequences that do not match it are very likely not. When a user agent can examine the whole file, rather than just the preamble, detecting for UTF-8 specifically can be especially effective.

In point 9, the implementation can return an implementation or user-defined encoding. Here, it suggests a locale-based default encoding, including windows-1252 for "en".

As such, implementations may be capable of detecting/defaulting to UTF-8, but are equally likely to default to windows-1252, Shift_JIS, or other encoding.

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#determining-the-character-enco...
There still are plenty of low hanging fruit to accelerate innovation like breaking up monopolies, tackling inefficiencies in healthcare and reforming patent and copyright laws.

I wish economists step outside of their academic bubbles and realize that some problems need political/social action, not more economic theory.
I've had this discussion here before about the HP paper archives. I suggested hiring some students to make snapshots with a phone camera of each page.

The general reaction here was horror. Digitizing those papers must be done with a professional archivist, despite the huge cost.

Of course, while waiting for budget for a professional archivist to handle them with white gloves and get pixel perfect scans, the archive burned down and 100% of it was lost.
I’m 100% sure this is one of those “joke” papers that show how bad pest-reviewed papers and journals are these days.
I have a sporadically-debilitating chronic disease and can't imagine how life would possibly work for me if I was not working a flexible office job.
Complexity vs non native speakers could make sense but IMHO they must measure how many non native speakers a language had along its history and when the grammar complexity changed.

A lot of non native speakers in the last ten years after one thousand years of isolation can't possibly change a grammar much yet.
If it is true I think it would arise from a bit more of a transitive relationship but with more straightforward leaps in logic. Sick people are tired, tired people want to partake in sedentary activities more than they want to take part in highly physical activities relative to the rest of the population, social media is a highly popular sedentary activity among the studied cohort of students.
typo on event page:

Bun will be production ready starting September 7th. Join us for the live-streamed event at https://bun.sh/1.0.

Bun is an incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler bundler, and npm package manager all-in-one.

missing comma between 'transpiler bundler,'
This is a deep problem that extends to sexual harassment, sex crimes and child predation.

You see entities like churches who systemically cover up and essentially defend child predators and you ask yourself why. Why didn't that organization "clean house" and report offenders to law enforcement? The usual answer given is they don't want the scandal and bad PR but that doesn't really hold water anymore given all the negative publicity surrounding, for example, the Mormon and Catholic churches around this issue.

What I think you'll find if you look deeper is the leadership is infected with a sufficient number of people who (as you put it) "get it". Religious doctrine complicates this as many such religions blame the sexual desire in men on women tempting them and yes, this can go to some horrific extremes.

Sexual harassment also seems to become endemic in organizations as those who should be holding underlines responsible for their bad behaviour also "get it" and don't see it as a problem.

Less horrific, I'm sure many on here have experienced bullying as a child. How many of you that have tried to report such problems and were told things like "boys will be boys" or "they're just playing" about abusive behavior, even serious abuse?

I've thought about this a lot: how do these people who "get it" find each other? I doubt it's ever verbally explicit. It seems to be a dark form of tribalism to identify people who are "one of us".

We had some significant cases in police departments recently (eg Antioch). This kind of clustering belies negligence, selection or both. This can get so bad that, for example, the LA County Sheriffs are essentially a collection of deputy gangs.
> Unlike previous machines which can take 1-2 jobs

There are many machines replacing hundreds or even thousands of people- farm equipment, trains, tunnel boring machines etc.
Show HN: Obscure Islands, Visualized
Details on dorm cancellation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213589

TBD, apparently, is an alternative source of ~$1B:

> Estimated Budget: The projected construction budget for Phases 1 and 2 of the Project is $600M – $750M.
> Why should namecheap subsidize the cost

Why are they entitled to have their profit margins protected no matter what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage-price_spiral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

Certain businesses get made obsolete over time. Namecheap decided to pass along 100% of the cost, what if their competitor passes along 50%?
Small investors aren't a problem? Bidding up the low end of the market isn't a problem? What?

Housing should be consumption, not an investment, but the perpetual-ownership structure of property rights combined with low property taxes turns them into an investment. But not a "consume less today, produce more tomorrow, everyone wins" investment, it's the "rich people get paid for being rich" type of investment. Yes, many/most of those people are less rich than a corporation, but the problem is exactly the same: deadweight loss in the economy.
From a quick read of the code, it seems like all this does is shift pitch; it doesn't change resonance or anything else that affects how your voice sounds. So it's great for sounding like a chipmunk or a demon, but not that useful for sounding like a different person.

Looks like it uses libsox internally. You can also use command-line SoX utilities to get the same effect. For example, this plays your microphone back at you, pitch shifted and with a delay:

play '|rec -p pitch +400 40 delay 5 5'

(To be clear, I don't mean to beat down anybody's pet project. Just spreading related information. There's very little accessible documentation of Linux audio stuff.)
> Why does having a DUI prohibit you from selling liquor?

The US is still really puritanical about alcohol, particularly liquor. It's still illegal to distill in many states, and craft distilleries have to bring per-state campaigns to have it legalized. You only have to go back a few decades to find it illegal to brew craft beer in many states.

This is all commercial, it's completely illegal to home-distill AFAIK.

Basically, prohibition was never fully rolled back, and it has taken ages for the restrictions to gradually be removed. Particularly in more-religious areas, there's still a deep moral disapproval of alcohol, particularly hard alcohol.
I get an SSL no cypher overlap error in Firefox.

There was always something iffy with that site, but I guess it's completely failed now. (Why do people use archive.li?)
I agree these things are going to move likely faster than we can imagine and become better than we can imagine. That said, last week I got a ticket that had no body but a title akin to "Add a property for this" with no specifications about the system. When I asked for clarity on the ticket the ask was very different than the title implied. When I started the work it started to look different than was described so I went back to the requestor and explained the discrepancy and we changed the direction of the change.

I say this to say, one skillset I have as a developer is taking the vague requests product owners have and figuring out how to turn them into actionable code steps in a massive existing codebase with several repos. I don't say this to say I'm impossible to replace but to say that half the time people don't even know what they want or how to describe it. Then from there you have giant codebases that wouldn't fit in anything but the biggest (current) context windows.

I agree the accuracy limitations will likely evaporate but these things aren't necessarily something an LLM can solve. I'm probably going to be proven wrong over time but I use GPT for code pretty regularly and right now I'm not too worried about my job.
> Don't you always know that there is at least one male or one female?

Knowing that there is at least one male or at least one female eliminates zero possibilities.

Knowing that there is at least one male or knowing that there is at least one female eliminates one possibility (a different one for each case, but the difference is immaterial to the probability of a mixed pair).

> What’s your answer to the following question?

> I tell you I have two children and that I’ve just sent you an email with the sex of (at least) one of them, and ask you what you think is the probability that I have one boy and one girl.

1/2

And if you know you will be told the sex of one child, with equal probability as to which the probability remains 1/2 when you are told, even though knowing without that constraint on how you will know makes it 1/3.

Because then the possibilities are (assume you are told “male”)

MM, told birth order 1

MM, told birth order 2

MF, told birth order 1

FM, told birth order 2
I mean, it's the choice between paying your full mortgage and partially defraying it. I am not sure what changes economically once you are net negative with the mortgage - it still makes marginal sense to rent it out
Never seen it get stuck, but I have seen it take 12 hours to get through that last 20%.
Contrast this with how Twitter ranks contributors. You have to post and engage frequently to gain traction.

I much prefer the quality over quantity model.
Related:

The Taos Operating System (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727565 - April 2018 (9 comments)

TAOS Operating System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15527936 - Oct 2017 (21 comments)

The Taos Operating System (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607 - June 2015 (93 comments)

Also related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=vygr

ChrysaLisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34415936 - Jan 2023 (16 comments)

ChrysaLisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25779930 - Jan 2021 (6 comments)

ChrysaLisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22019594 - Jan 2020 (61 comments)

ChrysaLisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18897817 - Jan 2019 (19 comments)

ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15466124 - Oct 2017 (121 comments)
Another way of looking at it is - software is not very different than ebooks. Imagine if an author of a book says “Books should only be sold as subscription. It’s almost as if my readers don’t want me to feed my family!” If every reader is not continuously paying me $5/month, how can I keep learning and providing little updates to this book, and make errata?! How dare they try to get my knowledge at once when they can be paying me so much more to keep me fed?!
It's not the receiving that's the problem, but the sending. Even with all necessary records in place and using a reputable email provider isn't enough in a lot of cases. You'll just end up in spam.
For what it's worth, the same thing is happening to human healthcare in the US.
I don’t think the uptake of innovation is that simple. Our economy goes through boom and bust cycles. Growth and pruning. Sometimes innovations are great but they can’t survive pruning because they’re too new.

Or sometimes entrenched industries are too powerful for innovation to take hold. One example is in payments. Credit card payments are horrible. I have to carry a physical card which has minimal security features and can be lost or stolen. We are also regularly expected to lose sight of these cards at restaurants. Cards can be skimmed. It’s old tech.

What is much better? Paying by QR code. It’s much faster, doesn’t require any hardware we don’t already have, and is far more secure. Countries which never had credit cards pay by QR code because it’s better. Countries (like the US) which use credit cards because they are entrenched both economically (big companies don’t want to switch) and socially (very few places support it because very few people use it).
I don't understand why these random wiki links are posted here.

What is the purpose?
You are right that there is a lot of plastic crap out there leading to physical waste.

But remember that capitalism doesn’t optimize for minimal physical waste - it optimizes for minimal waste overall.

This includes cost of capital, human brainpower, opportunity cost, taxes, input material, and of course, physical waste.

So the optimal product doesn’t necessarily last forever - that would involve an unaccetable amount of investment in material and labor.

One must also take tech progress into account - consumers may not want a product that lasts forever, since they might want version 2.0 some years down the line, and throw away a perfectly functional version 1.0.
You described me, for the past 50 years following an incident.
So you sometimes make $600/mo and, other times, you lose $600/mo?
> DBUs are on the order of ~100x the actual underlying compute cost

Where did you get that from? Sounds like it can only be true if you only take into account electricity costs, not capital or wages.
> Some film

So run the rest through the automated scanner.

Oh wait, that isn't happening, either, because they are not the most "at risk".

I can pretty much predict where this is going. It will all be lost.
Results and quality are almost never linearly correlated. Often it swings one way or the other. 80/20 rule, or you spend time creating something very high quality and get outsized rewards for it.
>I'd be shocked if they ever had enough human prey for that to be intentional.

this just made me think of the movie Annihilation where the bear like creature got a human like voice. that would definitely make a walk in the woods a lot more creepy.
Remember that 2-32Hz is the hot zone for photosensitive epilepsy.
Having a DUI speaks to a person's character -- having multiple DUIs speaks volumes.

Someone who thinks it's okay to drive under the influence is unlikely to follow the laws around preventing over-consumption by their patrons.
Technically isn't it the Board of Directors that sets the CEO's total comp?
This is basically the idea behind Chaos Engineering. Think of all the ways a system can break, make it happen, and see if we survive. If we don't, fix it so we do next time.
How does Bun compare to Deno these days?
A lot of them including porkbun make money on add-ons, like $40/year for an email account that likely costs them $3 to service.
TLDs may sort of be fungible, but not really. No one looks at widgets.com and widgets.tube as identical, whereas no one really cares about one car versus another beyond feelings of personal worth.
There are some real life “George” figures that I pay attention to. If they think something is a great idea and that’s in line with something I’m thinking about doing, I’ll take a hard look at what I might be missing since X’s judgment is usually terrible. In an odd way, their consistently bad judgment has proven a valuable tool.
There's still money in making music, just not in selling recordings. Biggest touring artists (the Beyonces etc.) bring in millions. They, in turn, require skilled producers to make their songs, who are also paid well.
And as long as you don't need custom nameservers, Cloudflare's Domain Registrar sells domains at that price.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
> "the AI did this picture, so we don't have to pay you."

If the court rulings hold and AI works cannot be copyrighted then us end users do not have to pay for it either... but that seems like a race to the bottom. Like the end of a craft. Why would anyone create art if it has no/minimal downstream value?

Artists need to band together in some sort of union or not agree to do art with that AI clause or perhaps only do art with a no-AI use clause. And have an allowed AI-clause that is prohibitively expensive (like in the multi hundred millions per piece). That way 'accidents that happen' have a prescribed recovery amount plus other requirements like pulling the generated artwork. "Hey, we understand it may have been accidental, but here is the bill."
Why should we even care about „growth”, instead of things that actually matter, like gross global wellbeing and preventing climate catastrophe?
> So it's great for sounding like a chipmunk or a demon, but not that useful for sounding like a different person.

RVC is what you're looking for. There's lots of tooling around it.

edit: This is the repo you're looking for: https://github.com/RVC-Project/Retrieval-based-Voice-Convers...
Not if they don’t believe that customers will be able to tell the difference between stringing along and honestly trying.

The problem is hard. It can’t be deterministically solved. Any likely statistical improvement is unprovable in a marketing sense (a competitor that is as good as possible at finding matches cannot prove it to the market that they are actually better at finding matches than a method that strings people along).

Your points are only true if there isn’t an information asymmetry, but there is.

I don’t think they are necessarily stringing people along on purpose, but they don’t have incentives to tell people they can’t help them, and they don’t have incentives to improve the product for those who aren’t successful. Those who are successful are probably going to be successful regardless of the platform they are using, and those who are unsuccessful aren’t going to be successful anywhere. And fixing that (rather than just milking money from the unsuccessful) isn’t really worth anything to them.
For context, after decades of research and stuff a lot of people still are regularly sucking all kinds of burning materials containing who knows what directly into their lungs. People aren’t always making great choices even when they’re the victims of the consequences.

Also, people just hate, HATE being bored. It has got to a point where boredom makes people anxious and upset.
I assume they are doing that to distinguish the Borland products (Borland C and Borland C++) from the programming languages. Everything in that sentence is the name of a Borland product.
How is a software license not a legal contract? Everywhere I've seen treats it as such.

A normal CLA is just making things that are implicit when contributing code explicit. It is a clarifying statement and agreement on who maintains control. So if the complaint is that CLAs force you and your company or institution to be explicit when contributing code, then I'm not sure I understand the complaint.
Find your Eddie Mush. Never bet the same way :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ulWjFfLsL0
When I was a kid I carried around a silver dollar and used it to fidget. I learned how to roll it on my knuckles and some other tricks. Sometimes I would flip it to make a decision. People just thought I was a nerd though, there definitely wasn't a movement.
If you get a normal cat, not on of those weird breeds with short legs or flat faces, they are great athletes and terrific hunters.

I have a couple of cats that are quite old: about 16 years. The male spends most of the day on the bed, but he can still jump about 5x his height.
> When working on MacOS 8.x (not sure which point release), they surveyed users […] They found that people were rebooting because of instability, not just once a day or once a week.

That didn’t require a survey. The OS didn’t have memory protection and typically got patched at startup by ten or so different extensions from both Apple and numerous third parties.

The rules for patching were unclear, to say the least (1), so an extension might, for example, have a code path where it allocated memory inside a patch to a system call that might be moving memory around (a no-no, as the memory manager wasn’t reentrant)

And that had to run code that typically was compiled with a C compiler of the time, with very, very limited tools to prevent out of bounds memory writes.
Making "Performance" the Y axis and stating "Lower is Better" is objectively confusing.
Their raw data is on github:

https://github.com/grambank/grambank.git
It's not that it won't be near "trendy". It's that it won't be near jobs. Look at median salary and workforce participation in places where houses cost $200k. Your affordability calculation will be re-calibrated.

Density is not a problem, it is a solution. Denser means more developed, more environmentally friendly, more productive, higher earning, more efficient. Increasing density increases wealth (pay a little, gain a lot). It almost always increases wealth faster than costs.

The issue right now is that we are not allowed to build dense cities. We are not allowed to build single bedroom apartments where young, single workers need them to live next to new, productive jobs. We can only build single family homes and even then only at the periphery of huge cities. Massive swathes of downtowns are parking, highways, and single family houses -- when those should have been demolished and replaced with transit and dense towers long ago.

The market is screaming for the opportunity to build us dense housing. All we have to do is grant it.