skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related: Jeff of the Craft Computing YT channel has an alcoholic flask merch for sale with "In case of DNS" embossed on it:

* https://www.craftcomputing.store/product/hip-flask-in-case-o...
I was listening to some of the LAME quality test samples[0] and I found that the hi-hat pre-echo test sounds worse at 160kbps than at 128kbps (LAME 3.100, -q 0). I thought it might be because of the different low-pass filter frequency, but even with manually specified matching lowpass (16805Hz) for the 160kbps version the pre-echo sounds worse.

The 128kbps version doesn't sound much like the original, but it's still a pleasant sound with hardly any pre-echo. The 160kbps version, even with the extra lowpass, has obvious and annoying pre-echo on the first hit.

[0] https://lame.sourceforge.io/quality.php
I'm not so sure about Apple making Wolfram's code open source, they are not really into open source as much as Microsoft or Facebook.

Just for the record, anyone knows about VScode (ms) or React (fb), but who can give me an open source product from Apple and used by a lot of people ?

Edit : typo
Title isnt even correct. It sorts messages in threads perfectly. The reporter just doesn't like the order of messages in a thread, and wishes there were more options. That's fine, but it's technically not even a defect.
He’s got a book of short stories, which seem related to or variants of some of these, called “The Dragons of Crumbling Castle”, written while he was younger. And the same thing this article says applies to that book as well—some of them are good, some you see the hint of humor that he later hones, but on the whole, they’re not that strong.
The sooner we believe we are just squishy machines, the sooner we can start finding a new set of legs on which to stand, philosophically and morally speaking.

If what makes an individual better is their capacity to be good and to create, there will be a point in which will be at a disadvantage with advanced AIs, and by that logic, we should step aside and let them takeover and rule and dispose of us. The only other alternative I see is to accept, a priory, that we squishy humans have our right to existence and freedom, and where that enters in contradictions with our creations, we should "oppress" them by putting our interests first.
Only close friends and family, no companies and bots, chronologic feed and mass adoption. I know this isn't features, but the problem with social media is not the lack of features.
Expressive Ruby and Rails: Communicate Effectively with Your Code
But there isn’t any infrastructure for fueling the hydrogen cars.

A move towards hydrogen means 3-5x more energy requirements (which also cost money) as well as a transmission and distribution network for the gas.

At home charging and on street parking charging will be an easier retrofit than the construction of new refueling stations.
I guess a more specific (and biased) question might be: if a submarine has animatronic arms and legs that make it look as if it's swimming, is it swimming?
For web apps, chrome has a throttling tool in the dev tools. Not sure how sophisticated it is, but I've used occasionally to recreate bugs only noticed by clients on slower connections.
Was really thinking of an earth orbiting laboratory setup with a radius of about 250m and rotation speeds of about 2-3 rpm. Need to model it when I have some time. Just to gain actual data on different gravities and durations. The starship has plenty of room for the habs to run experiments on plants and people. Each one has propulsion in case of a cable failure. You’re correct, the cable snapping would be big concern.
I'm the last one to shill specific styles or languages, but:

class b2Island
{
b2Body** bodies;
b2Contact** contacts;
b2Joint** joints;
int bodyCount;
int contactCount;
int jointCount;
};

I understand that this is a physics engine and performance is paramount.

There is absolutely no real reason to use raw double pointers here, in my opinion there is likely a zero Overhead datastructure one could come up with to do exaftly the same thing, but unit-testable.

Further, why `int`? This isn't java, and this will cause any size comparisons to become unsigned-vs-signed comparisons, which likely will also be of different sizes. I'm saying those could and should be size_t, unless I'm missing something(?). Why would a count be negative? Why only allow a count up to int max, whatever that is on a given platform?

It just baffels me that people write serious business code in this style, still.

Edit: If the pointers are non-owning, there are references for that... Not that they're safer, but at least more idiomatic
A reason I think carbon pricing makes sense. Then you can calculate the most economical solution rather than going with the slickest politicians.
Never rely on the AI's own "memory". GPT-4 can remember a lot of deep technical things correctly from its training, but it can also write non-factual statements that look perfectly reasonable.

We only use LLMs to retrieve and extract information from reliable sources (mostly papers and patents). If you provide extensive background information in the prompt, it will stick to that and avoid making up facts, and it has the added benefit of including verifiable references for each statement in the answer.

Again, we treat the AI mostly as an "automatic reader", it's very good at that, it's not hard to keep it factually grounded and that alone can save hours of research. But when asking it to do deep reasoning or original writing it can be a bit more tricky to keep it controlled.
That'd be something provided by the Web platform (through the DOM bindings), not React. React provides a way to work with the DOM elements/native components/etc in a reactive way.

The real problem is that the Web platform doesn't offer a good set of customizable UI elements other than the most barebone basics.
I've started intermittent fasting over the last two months (which inadvertantly led to me drastically reducing my bread intake) and I'm pleased with the effects so far - it's not drastic but I was able to get into clothes for a recent wedding that I'd previously written off and I'm also becoming more aware of how much eating was just 'habit'
Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately
Things like these (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37839306) are not solved by "learning how it works". Nice try to attack my competency tho
Also, in practice, -O3 doesn't necessarily lead to faster code. https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/stabilizer-asplos13.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A
> This is definitely very useful (and is the norm if you want to do something like, say, high quality scanning), but I failed to see how it warrants a new "format".

This warrants a separate answer. Cameras are getting to the point where they can capture far more information than we can display. Hence, we need a lot of bit depth to accurately store this added precision. But adding bits to the data signal requires a lot of extra bandwidth.

In principle, we should just store all of this as 16/32bit FP, and many modern NLEs use such a pipeline, internally. But by creating a non-linear curve on integer data, we can compress the signal and fine-tune it to our liking. Hence we can get away with using the 8-12bit range, which helps a lot in storage. With log-curves, 12bit is probably overkill given the current sensor capabilities.

There's a plethora of log-formats out there, typically one for each camera brand/sensor. They aren't meant for delivery, but for capture. If you want to deliver, you'd typically transform to a color space such as rec.709 (assuming standard SDR, HDR is a different beast). The log-formats give you a lot of post-processing headroom while doing your color grading work.
That's an interesting story. And I learned the term frog war.
Except, since we're talking about scientific research, and not all humans perform scientific research, the only relevant group to consider would be humans who do scientific research.

I don't think it's common for researchers to randomly fabricate sources, citations and results. It happens, but it isn't mere coincidence when it doesn't happen. The "replicability crisis" would appear to be a counterexample, but it isn't. Actual attempts at research aren't the same category of error as randomly generated research.

When AI gets something right on the other hand it's entirely coincidental, because AI doesn't have any concept of "truth" or "falsehood," or the real world context in which it operates. AI just relates text tokens to one another, with some unavoidable randomness, trying to match something that looks like the desired result. To equate that process with the result of actual human beings doing science and publishing research seems like you're just reaching to justify the validity of replacing researchers with AI.
What has poetry to do with reasoning? You should think GPT as a terse person who refuses this kind of thing. Certainly there are people like that who have good reasoning skill but can't answer your question in a poetic way(I being one).
There are solutions in the market for this. The heat recovery system is filled with glycol solution, which means it doesn't freeze over even if left unpowered during sub-zero outside temperature. Then there's a temperature sensor and a control unit that only runs the pump when the fluid in the panels is warmer than the warm water accumulator of the home heating system.

The heat collectors are vacuum insulated, so provided with enough solar radiation, they will work even when it's very cold outside. These systems work okay for example here in Finland. Of course it's a limiting factor that you normally need the heating most when the solar radiation is at the minimum. If you've got a swimming pool or some other use for the hot water during the summer, it's a good deal.
When you're building a cross-platform app OSX isn't the weakest link. It's older versions of Windows and Linux.

And UI libraries like Tailwind, Shoelace etc are surprisingly extensive and constantly being improved. And if something isn't to your liking it's often to trivial to change it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_Citation_family

> In the fifty years following the 1969 first flight, more than 7,500 [Cessna] Citations were delivered, forming the largest business jet fleet.

The math is similar for a Gulfstream, if you prefer.
.NET 8 will be shiping with Tensor support (System.Numerics.Tensors...)
> Have you considered if you might have ADD[0]?

Yes, and thanks to HN I went in and got myself diagnosed; turns out I have ADHD, and while treating it solved a host of problems[0] and overall improved my quality of life, it did not help for the problems I mention in this thread.

Well, maybe getting my brain into high gear is much faster with stimulant meds in the mix, but it only revealed that my limiting factor isn't cognitive, but emotional - and so it often still takes me a good chunk of the day before I have all the emotions in enough of a balance to focus without fighting some anxiety.

--

[0] - Or at least allowed me to overcome some major problems, and then replace them with even tougher problems.
> Generative AI can help with challenging unfair peer reviews

Until people figure out which words to add in order to game the AI peer reviewer, or good work is missed because the lack of buzzwords.
RTFA. MP3 has been a free format for over 6 years.
Anyone that believes humans are inherently special will always believe that and their mind cannot be changed. Debating with them is a waste of time.
I know, but my point is that people will converge on a certain compact and simple style for scientific papers because that will be favored for fast and easy reading (as seen in business, for example).

Such a style isn't necessarily easy to write but the LLMs will help people to get there.
We are all going to die and most of us seem to want to create successors. If artificial progeny are more successful than the old method, then perhaps that is how it will go.
Congrats, Andreas and team! :D
To echo some of the points from the aurora book, I think that the human body is really well optimised for 1G environments. We know that there are issues in zero gravity. As you adapt to 2G, you may well get stronger but the stress and strains may have a severe effect on health, life expectancy. Hate to think about the effects on your blood pressure etc

Your great grand kids might eventually cope.
Yes, it does. An MITM attacker can deliver malicious code to you which runs in the website context, and can exploit any bugs in your browser's javascript engine.
I was away for Thanksgiving

Not sure if you'll still find this relevant, but here's a source I had saved where you can see philosophy is in the highest third:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/which-college-degrees...

And a now-somewhat-broken 538 article: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/philosophers-dont-get-m...
Young Founder Seeks Hacker Mentor
HN,

I'm a startup founder in my early 20s. I had a very untraditional educational experience that let me explore programming as a young teenager. Since my mid-teens I've worked as a software engineer at a few companies, rising to lead the team building experimental new products somewhere a lot of you may have heard of.

Starting in 2020, I mentored around 5 people who had technical careers but wanted to learn programming. It was highly rewarding and enabled me to develop massively as a teacher and a leader.

Last year I started my own company with two others. I'm the only engineering founder and the others founders are older seasoned business people. We are in the AI space and looking to raise our A round. I know many highly-competent technical ICs and a good few people on the leadership and management side. But what I want to meet is the technical person come leader; a hacker first and organiser second.

If that's you or someone you know, please reach out to me. I am highly interested in the choices and mistakes this person made. If you have a relationship like this in your life, where did you meet them?
Local fire service is on record saying car zero was a Diesel Range Rover (not even a hybrid).
Several major American ISPs actually did this. It was one reason for the big push to HTTPS everywhere.
I should add that I loved it there and recommend going for a visit. I just think that the wealth is not very well distributed.
> the warm water accumulator of the home heating system

I'm not sure how this would work in a modern UK heating system - there is no warm water accumulator to my knowledge.
It's not my primary job, but I do some pro and fine art captures as well as video compositing and photo editing– the pro phones definitely have their uses just as my little micro 4/3 and full frame DSLR do, both with still and video work.

With glass and a sensor that small they aren't for everything, but the days of mandatory compression, limited color depth, mandatory "enhancements" and all of that stuff are over. If I'm shooting a handheld gimbal video, of something like a person talking outdoors not in direct sunlight, I'm grabbing that iPhone Pro without thinking twice.
My point is - if you are not getting paid, you can just decide not to do things you dont feel like.

But if you are an employer getting paid, only an insuffereable primadonna would object to a reasonable task because it “feels like work”.
> but I quite dislike the legal starting place of making folks prove their innocence.

That's not what's happening here.

In general, a lot of regulation works via requiring companies to do things to prevent a bad outcome. Primary enforcement is via either audit (ie "show us what you're doing") or reporting (ie "you must tell us what you're doing on a regular basis"). A banking regulator, say, doesn't generally wait until it has examples of money laundering at bank A _before_ it asks bank A what it's doing to prevent money laundering. This is all generally pretty quiet and unremarkable, and doesn't get much coverage. When you see a regulator actually prosecuting a company, that's _kind of the failure mode_.
Bonus ~ https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/07/20/low-and-slow#
Great example of the primary difference here. I've said that the photos out of my mirrorless (also Z50, great camera) are true photographs in the sense that they capture light and show it to me.

My smartphone however does not create photos, it creates digital art based on the scene. Your Pixel image is a perfect example of how algorithms (now called "AI") re-paint a scene in a way that resembles reality when zoomed out.

Comparing smartphone and camera is really apples to oranges at this point, as smartphones aren't even capturing photos, they're entirely repainting scenes.
Build the Framework You Need
> In the UK, if they like you enough, they name a pub after you.

No truer statement. Made me smile to read.
Even without all those things, just as an agent trying to achieve a goal, it is likely to want to protect itself because if it’s around it can continue to take actions to make sure its goal is met
You're not wrong to be concerned, but you also don't need consciousness (by any of the hundred definitions that word has) to get problems.

Cancer isn't conscious[0], it doesn't hate its host body, it just optimises growth in a way that will ultimately kill its host[1].

[0] depending on the definition; IIT says everything is to some degree

[1] do/should transmissible tumours count as separate species to their hosts?
Can title be “Logarithmic encoding is the …”? Pretty confusing as “Log is the…”
This looks great! Besides that it seems to be only for Windows and requiring a GUI to configure the values...

Anyone know of something similar for Linux that can be configured via config/env vars/cli?
To me your comment sounds self contradicting.
I spent about that on a mirrorless and my photos blow smartphones out of the water.

It takes 10x longer to setup, take, and post-process and is a hassle for many reasons, but the photo quality is extremely noticeably better.
Discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825292
My hopes are smaller in scope. I hope this helps people with severed nerve damage, or perhaps to implement better prosthetics for people with missing limbs (perhaps with motion and tactile sensors?)

One that I would personally be very interested in would be improving human-computer interactions. Preferably with no quirurgical procedures, or something extremely non-invasive and quick.
Reasoning and intelligence aren’t binary yes/no things, it can have some capability for reasoning and intelligence while still being below what a human can do
Maybe GPT-4 wrote the headline.
> It's the fact that the app is so slow to launch, consumes ridiculous amount of resources, does not take advantage of the hardware, is unstable etc.

You've just described almost any web-based UI ;)

> And then when you're using the app all of the interactions are slow because NodeJS's concurrency is so poor.

Most of the slow interactions come from the web-based UI. I mean, Slack needs 17% CPU to draw an animated emoji. And it's already running in a hyper optimised Chrome: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1486364312910368769

> Happy to be enlightened with alternatives.

Qt :)
You can also write it in Python, so it can be slow while it slows down your packets.
...and if i understand correctly, websites can dictate whether they allow KeePassXC (or any other specific vendor) to store their passkey.

In other words, if a website doesn't like that their passkeys can be exported, they can block KeePassXC.
I hope that I'm projecting that there is such a thing as oppression. It comes in degrees, from unbearable to so subtle that it can be called something else. It matters not. In absence of any coercion--and coercion can be incredibly subtle and long-armed--a rational being "that takes care of itself" will, by definition, choose what is best for them.
Well, kind of, at least considering the last public version of Arc, that HN uses (found here: http://arclanguage.org/)

It seems to be storing stuff directly on disk, on the same host that the software itself runs on.

So you're right if you consider the filesystem a sort of database, but otherwise no :)
> It’s a shame the article doesn’t talk more about the possible benefits of AI in academia. The ability for researchers to spot new patterns, discover new areas of research.

Honestly, which publicly available AIs are capable of doing that?

At least not the publicly available LLM AIs: I asked those quite many questions about scientific topics, but they could not give me any answer that helped me - it was a complete waste of time.
> It is also easy to run browser in well protected virtual machine sandbox.

Yeah, so easy that literally nobody does this.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207

among others
"I authored this manuscript without the help of any IA."

Where do you draw the line? Tools like Grammarly and similar are AI. Using google translate to translate a phrase from your native language to English to is AI. Hell the spellchecker that just autocorrected a typo I made in the previous sentence is probably AI. Should they all be banned?
Not sure their tech stack (I'm sure there's a post on it somewhere) but there was a forum software way back that would compile replies and such into static html pages when the submit button was hit, on the assumption that they would be read a lot more times than written to. Worked pretty well from what I recall.
That goes for any writer. Take the complete works of Lovecraft, for example, because they fit in one thick volume.

The ones at the beginning are ... skippable. But then he perfected his style.
That's another fine, obviously.
Replacing parts of curl with Rust will not be possible. Most places want to build from source and don’t want to introduce a new compiler to the tool chain. And Rust supports a tiny subset of possible C targets.
I like the idea. The vision is similar to Window's Explorer: seamless integration between offline files and online resources like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Webdav, Samba, etc; fast, cached thumbnails; an indexer for fast search; encryption, backup etc. Of course in Windows Explorer all those features suck to varying degrees, some so hard they might as well not exist. So seeing an alternative implementation is nice, especially if it tries to take all these concepts even further. Most other file explorers stop far short of that vision.