skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this in part because so many cities need all the cash they can get to fund individually-insolvent infrastructure? [0] If the goal is to be able to maintain roads that can't pay for themselves by enabling revenue generation, then I can absolutely see why cities would need to accumulate income in whatever way possible.

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/8/25/if-strong-town...
Reference-counted[1], just like, say, Swift.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting
Look at your diet, it controls you more than you realise, its something even medical experts dont give it enough credit for.

Having a plan or bucket list of what you want to achieve in life helps enormously as well.
The current Rust experts probably spent more than 10 years learning the concepts that made them Rust experts.
https://github.com/johnmichel/Library-Detector-for-Chrome
> If one ends up creating a large list of prime numbers with this generator

But one does not always end up creating a large list of prime numbers, do they?

> why not just return a large list of prime numbers?

Because that requires upfront knowledge of the filtering factor or absence thereof.

A generator means you don't care, you generate an infinite sequence and the consumer is free to do whatever they want.

> It is obvious that returning an array of prime numbers is what one would do in C/C++/Rust.

It's certainly not obvious for Rust.
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It runs locally, using Whisper.cpp[1], a Whisper implementation optimized to run on CPU, especially Apple Silicon.

Whisper itself is open source, and so is that implementation, the OpenAI endpoint is merely a convenience to those who don't wish to host a Whisper server themselves, deal with batching, renting GPUs etc. If you're making a commercial service based on Whisper, the API might be worth it for the convenience, but if you're running it personally and have a good enough machine (an M1 MacBook Air will do), running it locally is usually better.

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
Might want to update your general knowledge. The ISRO Chief explained this in an interview. It wasn't just passed off as "software glitch" with no explanation.

Chairman S Somanath has given three main reasons that led to the crash-landing of the Vikram lander on September 6, 2019 just minutes before the touchdown.

The ISRO chairman said, “The primary issues were: One, we had five engines which were used to reduce the velocity (called retardation). These engines developed higher thrust. When such a higher thrust was happening, the errors on account of this differential were accumulated over some period. All the errors accumulated, which was slightly higher than what we expected.

When it (lander) started to turn very fast, its ability to turn was limited by the software because we never expected such high rates to come. This was the second issue.

The third reason for failure was the small site of 500m x 500m for landing of the lander.”

Rectifying those mistakes this time, the Isro chairman said, “This time we have kept an area of 4.2 km (along the track) x 2.5 km (width) for the landing site. So, it can land anywhere, so it doesn’t limit you to target a specific point.”

Somanath said “instead of a success-based design, Isro has this time opted for a failure-based design” and focused on what all can fail and how to protect it and ensure a successful landing.

“We looked at sensor failure, engine failure, algorithm failure, calculation failure. So, there are different failure scenarios calculated and programmed inside. We did new test beds for simulation, which was not there last time. This was to look at various failure scenarios,” he explained.

The ISRO chief said the Vikram now has additional solar panels on other surfaces to ensure that it generates power no matter how it lands.
The US is sort of loosey-goosey partly because we're not real big on getting registered with authorities and partly because the states have their own jurisdictions. So, if you're legitimately a digital nomad you sort of would have to do one or more things that are probably in a quasi-gray legal area so you can get ID and not be considered a tax evader.
I’m curious, aside from it going into a bank account (so it isn’t actually anonymous), my question is the mechanism of how the deposit works. In the UK we have deposit machines but you must put a card in the machine before depositing money (and my bank in particular make you input your PIN to make a deposit, so I just use the counter staff)
i don't think this is as contrarian as the writer thinks it is, even in 2020. everyday there is a post on the front page of HN glorifying server-side rendering/html/htmx/hotwire or denigrating react.
It seems to really depend how you use Rayon, and the size of the data. The overhead of setting up the parallelism can't exceed the savings basically. Wherever it's possible to use ndarray broadcasting (vectorization), I do that instead. But I do think Rayon and the Rust compiler have gotten better about being smart, and I'm super impressed with the speed.
This is absolutely true. I spend some time in trades before tech. I recall my first day, squeezing into a rocky and mildewy crawl space with barely enough room to flip over, only to fix up some busted plumbing using some very strong smelling chemicals with little ventilation. I knew then this wasn’t going to be a long term fit for me.

Trades work can absolutely destroy you. It’s also not really avoidable with good ergonomics - there are no good ergonomics. Some situations are just going to require you to do really physically awkward uncomfortable things to get the job done. There’s also the general slow erosion of health. Exposure to chemicals, saw dust, metal shavings, things getting in your eyes, getting poked by random nails, rolling over onto a bit of glass, tweaking your back trying to prevent a piece of lumber sliding off the roof, being constantly dehydrated and sunburned, etc. There is a reason tradesmen look like tradesmen. It’s the toll they pay.
Insufferable East coast elite gawking discretely at the plebs, nice.
I would be more than happy if my tax money could bring joy to these people who normally couldn’t afford these things.

Make better to have the money spent on luxury food items than killing people in foreign countries.
It was much later than that, I remember sleeping on the back shelf of my parent's little 240D Benz on long road trips.

Of course, people still do things like sleep on the floor of a minivan, but it's not quite as common now.
Also he's got to approaching retirement age at this point, and there is no backbench corps of other DTS who do what he does. Maybe another decade we'll have his help, then what?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but if you could have a test that doesn’t say anything if it isn’t sure, but if it is sure with very high confidence gives you a true positive, that has a lot of value.
For sure. But would you really be a year behind? I don’t think it’s necessarily so. For example, if GPT-5 can write a full, deployable application from a text prompt with no errors, is it worth trying to hack something like AutoGPT to do it while waiting? It feels like in some cases you might be ahead and in others you’ll have wasted effort.
This article keeps using the word "non consensual ", but I don't get it. Is it actually illegal to modify an image to add porn elements to it? If these models are really trained on images that are shared on the internet what's the issuHollywood.

Fake porn has been around for decades. When I was a kid it was easy to find fake porn of all major actresses in hollywood. Is it just that it's now easier to get and more realistic that makes it problematic?
This implementation runs until it crashes. So you need a way to output the values as you go, or they will be lost when you run out of memory. It also lets you control how many values are generated if you just want to see a few without actually using all the RAM.
It costs some money to have a bank account, bank transfers don't have a fee associated with them. Card processing costs a small fee.

Cheaper than handling cash though.
These objective ecosystem overview articles are pretty interesting to get a good idea of what options are available and what their respective state and rate of adoption is. Especially as a senior developer or consultant, it pays dividends to keep up to date and be able to give the right advice when new projects are started. Choosing the wrong language, ecosystem or paradigm is in my experience the main cause of project failure, being way over time or just general frustration all around.

If it's your job to make those technology decisions, you better stay informed lest you paint the whole project into a corner, if not immediately, then a few years down the line.
It is subject to code review, but I typically spent much more time writing code than having it reviewed (I am very methodical and slow writing code)
> The universe is remarkably empty, and photons can easily travel across the entire visible universe without hitting anything.

The universe is remarkably empty, but any small probability can be multiplied by a really big number, to get ~1.

For a simplified example, the lowest density of interstellar space is 100 molecules per m3. The number of water molecules in water is 3.3E28. If a photon travel 3.5E10 light years (35Bly), then it's roughly equivalent to passing a 1m3 of water (by density, regardless of optical properties of the medium). 4Tly is a rough equivalent of 113 meters of water for such space. Most of this mass will be hydrogen molecules, of course.

> There are very specific conditions for blackbody radiation. Other conditions give rise to different types of spectra, such as synchrotron radiation, Bremsstrahlung, etc.

Dark sky is the perfect absorber. Bremsstrahlung spectrum will approach black body spectrum anyway as density increases.

Gray body is not real, as I see.
imo it's a prototypical anti-truth because it's not that contrarian even though the speaker thinks it is.
I wonder if it's actually overloaded or if there's a bug.
The PlayStation Portal doesn’t have Bluetooth, so you won’t be able to connect to wireless headphones or Sony’s Pulse 3D headset. Instead, it uses a PlayStation Link wireless technology — a new proprietary standard for PlayStation devices.

I was literally thinking about this today. As usual, I had problems with my not too cheap bluetooth headset, and started to curse the whole world: "it's now like 20 years old technology, and it is still unusable. Apple had the chance with Airpods Pro to create a wireless audio tech that just connects, doesn't drop out, sounds good, and works all the time, but they decided against it. I would pay a lot of money for a wireless audio tech that is actually not crap!"

Maybe Sony made it, instead of Apple. I'd be so hopeful, if it wasn't Sony, and it wasn't PlayStation, because it means it will remain niche tech, regardles show great it is. Still, I like to dream.
That kind of thing is sometimes not allowed even here in the US, precisely because it's a form of malicious compliance.
I agree to an extent, but a person who's managed to end up doing the simple thing (option 1) has a superpower! They're able to say "no". That makes simplicity much much more achievable. If you can't refuse to keep adding crap then yes, simplicity is very very hard.

I honestly think most people who are currently doing an option 2, and are capable of some restraint, would find it easier to do option 1. And if they were allowed, and if it paid as well or better than option 2, and if their career prospects were improved by doing it, they would.

Absurd is the right word, but that's just the world we live in. Why am I paid more than a doctor? Madness.
I saw this HN post make the front page a few minutes ago, on a Mac app wrapping Whisper and used for text to audio. The comments include at least one other product. Maybe that helps!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37228821
I don't know about you, but the quintessential "retro" product in my mind is the record player, and while it might not have "boot times, glitchy screens, unresponsive controls, failed Bluetooth connections, etc.", it's still decidedly less convenient than something modern like your phone + wired speakers. I'm not really sure how reliable wireless speakers are, but in my experience bluetooth headphones are reliable enough that establishing a bluetooth connection is less hassle than putting in records/stylus and swapping them out later. People might like record players for other reasons (eg. they like the ceremony of all that), but I'm skeptical that people like them because they like "having it instantly work".
I have regular pain with the team because they don't know anything beside option 2. No middleground to dig and plan at least to some amount. It's a strange swamp because they justify that because that's what agile is (according to them) but they feel angry every month, and then do less and less work because they think it's too hard and requires a higher TC.
I'm pretty sure I had a semi-severe case of hiatal hernia, but when the doctor shoved a camera down my throat to check, he actually fixed it by accidentally pushing the hernia down :D

Most of my worst symptoms went away after the checkup, but it took a LONG while for my digestive tract to fully heal. I couldn't burp at all for ... maybe two years, the pressure just stayed in my stomach. Drinking small amounts of fizzy drinks and rising on my toes + slamming my heels down got the air out sometimes.

There are still things I can't eat because they instantly irritate my reflux, buttery pastries being the worst ones.
Exactly. There is a balance, and when you suggest society should go in a certain direction, some are quick to assume that you mean to take it to the extreme.
What part of it is cool?

- His claim that he took on his deceased brother’s identity at the direction of the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations while participating in an undercover operation in the 1960s?

- The fact that his benefits were previously investigated by the Social Security Administration in 2010 for potential fraud, and his benefits were upheld?

- The fact that state/government agencies are using facial recognition software in the US to bring potential criminal charges against citizens in ways similar but yet different from authoritarian governments like Iran and China?

- The suggestion from his legal team that incarcerating him at 86 years of age will cost the government more than what he allegedly stole from the government as part of his alleged Social Security fraud scheme?
So far OpenAI's modus operandi was "does it get better if we make it bigger". But now we've reached "good enough" (arguably already with GPT3.5, as evidenced by free ChatGPT running on GPT3.5-turbo).

There has been promising work about making models smaller without losing performance (e.g. by training them longer), or quantizing the weights (llama.cpp etc) to make the model cheaper to run. I believe we will see a lot more focus on this over the next couple years, and given how there's been comparatively little work done in this direction I wouldn't be surprised by 10x or 100x efficiency gains.
HN Effect
aren't fish with that feature also technically "under the sun" (dependent on visibility gained by the sun)?
> Apple pulls apps made by 6-person firm Digital Will. No actionable explanation was offered.

> 5 months afterwards, the firm's lawyer sent a letter to Apple.

> 2 months later, Apple reinstiated the app without any explanation.

> The firm is now suing for damages & lost revenue. $765k.
These designs are usually added to show the executives of the company that a branch of the org chart and its Important People can "add value".

Conversely, the fastest way to turn around a failing company is to search through company e-mail archives, find everyone who has ever used the phrase "add value", and purge them from the company.
Why don't we have slower air travel?

Eighty years ago we didn't have laptops to work from, or global connectivity. Now, we do. I'm thinking about total time, not only the travel time part.

Thinking total time, I can leave the office a day in advance as my 6 hour flight of 3000 miles now takes 20 hours. I can spend an evening in a large properly convertible chair/bed, have a stroll around the next day, perhaps enjoy the observation deck or a sit-down meal. I can have a proper day's work while on the move, watch a movie in comfort, have another sleep adjusting to timezone, and arrive at the destination in great comfort.

Instead of chasing speed, why are we not chasing that? It could be an airship. It could be a hydrofoil at sea or in waterways. It could be a train! It's a superior form of travel.
For me, the amazing thing about the Vagus nerve is that you can stimulate it with your breathing. And since the Vagus nerve affects the autonomic nervous system (involuntary, not consciously controlled) while breathing choices are conscious, this is one of the few ways that humans can directly impact important aspects of their psychology and physiology, like how calm they feel. Mindfulness + breath choices + vagus nerve => altered state. And that's why traditions including yoga and buddhism empathize breathing. Couple great books that touch on this are:

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
https://www.amazon.com/Breath-New-Science-Lost-Art/dp/073521...

and

Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Brain
https://www.amazon.com/Altered-Traits-Science-Reveals-Medita...
> In conversations over the course of a year, the only person I hear him express something like friendship for is Tucker Carlson, the recently deposed Fox News host. “He’s my type of guy. We’re the same type,” he says, though he won’t say more.

(...)

> He begins to unspool a series of conspiracy theories, threaded with racial slurs: The United Nations was plotting to take away America’s weapons. He writes, “The Jew has been poluting the country with moral filth through the movies radio and TV” in a campaign to push Black men “next to the white woman.” People like them needed to band together to protect the country, he concluded. “Every person in this country who is white and Christian has a job to do.”
How common is having 10 month long projects ? I've always had the never ending milestone marathon. At best we had a 2 month wide sprint.
WinRAR can _create_ RAR files. In fact it's one of the only pieces of software that can. The decompression algo is free, so it's implemented in 7zip. compressing files in the format is what they want you to pay for.
Interesting point about the period. I hadn't thought about it before and now I'll never be able to unsee it.

To me ellipses really just are the passive aggressive marker

> We can do that...

We can do that, but it really shouldn't be necessary, or it's a really dumb thing to do, or I really just don't want to, or you should just do it yourself.

There's always something negative implied that the author doesn't want to say outright.

Then you have people who obviously don't use it like that, which makes it absolutely impossible to interpret their texts. At least if you are conditioned to interpreting it that way.
Formatters, linters, and compilers: Oh my
Interesting.

I wonder, though, about the quality of the code produced. Is it idiomatic Java? Or is it just something that a Java compiler will compile, and that functions the same, but no human can read?
A Green Revolution in California’s ‘Carbon Valley’
> What's the economics that make these prices so low in comparison to other cloud providers? (asking with real curiosity)

Less greed, the 80/20 rule (solve the important bits) and less support.

I mean AWS could cut prices by 50% and still make $$$.
Gesture based Window management has been around on Macs since early versions of OSX and is feature that Microsoft has attempted to copy, poorly.

> An interesting addition is the ability to use a three finger swipe up gesture to activate the new Task View feature of Windows 10. Not only does Task View look like OS X’s Mission Control (Exposé) feature, the three finger swipe up is the same gesture. Microsoft is also borrowing the three finger swipe left and right to activate switching between apps

https://www.theverge.com/2014/10/28/7082441/windows-10-new-t...

> it's not possible to switch between apps on macOS via gestures

It sounds like you aren't quite familiar with how a Mac works.
FWIW, I will add that most laptops made in the past 10 years are fast enough for real-time transcription. Unless you're trying to transcribe in bulk, running it locally will usually be the best option.
I can see a future where “AI” Image generation is so good it provides perfect plausible deniability. There will be images of every type of every person that proving one is real becomes impossible.

For content creators, it may become irrelevant who provided the original source material. Someone can take your likeness, voice, etc and produce more content, possible better than the original. There may come a day where being the original doesn’t really matter, and producing the best fake is where the money’s at so to speak.
By having a well-defined syntax, it allows:

* Other Python implementations to correctly and confidently implement f-strings

* CPython to use its regular parser to parse f-strings rather than have a special sub-parser

* Lots of edge-cases with f-string syntax to work consistently

As you could have read in the discussion rather than a bad-faith comment of "they are doing this just for <bad thing>", obviously no one wants to put a lot of effort into something for it to not have any benefit at all.
> Publishing someone's real name online isn't doxing when his real name is already publically available online.

You're being deliberately obtuse. It's the connecting (obviously) that's the issue. It's like saying, "publishing someone's address online isn't doxing when their address is already publicly available online." Yeah I only care if you say it's my address.

> I don't "feel strongly" about it at all.

> also contributes while creepily pretending to be a female child on Twitch

> Grow up.

Insults, condescending remarks, yeah I believe you don't feel strongly about this.

I usually try to be cooler on HN than this, but this is super toxic. You've obviously got some kind of beef--regardless of what you say--and I think it would probably behoove you to get to the bottom of it.
Don't need to be addictive if they are mandate to keep your job.
Unnecessary is up to you.. it's been shown that you still get and transmit covid just as easily after the vaccine. So unless you were in a high risk category for death from covid, was it necessary?
i use firefox, but I think it might help someone
The underappreciated benefits of wild bees
On the plus side i think at-home LLMs will continue to get a lot better. ChatGPT 3.5/4 both seem in reach for Llama2 and seeing all the amazing fine tunings that were available for Llama1, i suspect we have a very functional future of at home LLMs.

I say functional because i don't think we've seen the larger reasoning skills scale well for smaller deployments, so that may be out of reach. But i think a future were we run something far better than Siri, entirely at home, hooked up to our home APIs in a functional spoken interface seems in reach and awesome (to me hah).

I look forward to hooking all my at-home cameras up to a voice recognition, image recognition, and LLM detection suite and just speak aloud and have the AI-suite "do stuff". It sounds really, really fun to me.

If it's cheap it'll be slow, but imo that's okay. For home use i think these systems can be the glue that tie our DBs/Ingestions/etc together, rather than the big-brain that knows everything.