skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used email-based workflow for a few contributions I've made.

The git-send-email part isn't too bad. It's everything else I have a problem with:

- You can't subscribe to a single PR/bug/feature-request thread. Subscription to the mailing list is all-or-nothing. And no, setting up email filters is not a reasonable solution.

- Email clients are pretty much universally terrible. Especially if you want to use the same client for your git flow as you do for regular email. Most clients don't handle inline-replies well, and require some extra work to send plain text emails. Clients that do work well for that often have a steep learning curve, and are missing features if you want to use it for general email.

- The flow for "Dealing with feedback" in this tutorial will start a new email thread instead of replying to the existing one. There is a way to reply to an existing thread with send-email, but it is kind of involved since you have to look up the message id of the email you are replying to (which may or may not be easy depending on your email client). And even then, I've had mixed success with it.

- Although I haven't been on the other side of it, it seems like reviewing the patch would be somewhat difficult without additional tooling. Especially comparing new versions dealing with feedback to the original version.

- Again, I haven't been on that side of it, but it seems like applying the changes from an email would be a bit of a pain compared to just pressing "merge".

- You can run into issues if your lines of code are more than 78 characters long. I used git-send-email to send in a patch once that had this, but the email client of the receiver couldn't handle long lines, so I had to resend it with the patch as an attachment.

- Some mailing lists require you to subscribe before you can send a patch. And if the list is pretty active, that can flood your inbox. See my first point.

- etc.
Criticism for Foundry aside, it's an extordinary effort to implement a mature self-hosted alternative, especially as FOSS implies it's going to be a side project for most if not all of its developers.

Foundry's upside is that it's extensible (modules), which increases traction and nurtures a community.

Most of the FOSS attempts will probably die if they won't take that approach (extensibility that is).
Do you actually have a counter argument to the fact that a measurement based on one race or sex may not be applicable to all races/sexes? This is common knowledge in health care, so I’m quite interested in hearing your evidence-based reason for discounting it, sorry, calling it a “pile of garbage”.

You do have one, right?
Yes, and those businesses don't need to hire an AI person. This topic is AI research jobs, not for people who sometimes has to call an ML library once in a while in their normal software job.

Edit: You asked what it is about these jobs that requires expertise. I answered: it requires expertise to create competitive models. So companies that need competitive models requires expertise.
I don't care about the rest of the world. The rest of the world can do whatever. My state doesn't have natural gas or oil, nor a lot of sunshine or wind, nor a lot of rivers.

I care about my taxes (and I don't mean EU subsidies here) going to solar baron's pocket instead of nuclear reactors.

The few projects you listed - you seriously think that's enough? I don't. We can see in practice that all the money spent on solar and wind led us to over dependence on fossil fuels, not their abolishment, and now we have to spend another absurd amount of money on storage to solve that.

It's a failed anti-nuclear policy that's thankfully reversed now but that doesn't change history. I really don't care about the US, or frankly, Slovakia and France. I care about my own home.

BTW, it's funny that all the projects you listed were started way before the green deal. IMHO you just confirmed what I said.
My favorite is traditional Japanese time. Breaks day and night into 6 equal time periods each, and adjusts them as the seasons change. I made a Sahku Dokei (19th century Japanese pillar clock) simulator to play with it.

https://www.tdcmotorsports.com/clock/
Wild stuff!
If you have an ebook in mobi or epub or azw3 format that isn't DRM protected, Calibre has the ability to convert it to whatever Kindles like out of the box.

If you have DRM encumbered files obviously you're going to need to do something else, first, but why did you buy a book with DRM? Seems unwise to begin with lol

Can you imagine buying a dead tree book and have the publisher come up and say "no no no, you can't sell that when you're done!"

DRM'd ebooks. What a world.
The official announcement from Wordpress.com is also discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37847782
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Muscle is about 15% more dense than fat.
I'm still using Cardboard Camera. It installed on my new phone when I set up it (probably because it was on the previous device).

Have you tried grabbing the apk from somewhere?
No one is forcing you to contribute to, or even use, software that uses an email-based workflow. I’d also put money on the fact that the majority of contributors to Linux, an extremely successful free software project, prefer the email-based workflow.
I've had success with earasers, coming from the itchiness of eargasms.
During the cold was we feared the Commies dropping 50 megatons on the steel mills and oil refineries. Now we fear other Americans.

This is far worse.
I think I agree with basically your whole comment but I'm wondering if you could explain what you mean by "software-only AGI". Obviously all software runs on hardware, and creating specialized hardware to run certain types of software is something the computing industry is already very familiar with.

In the far far future, if we did crack AGI, it's not impossible to believe that specialized hardware modules would be built to enable AGI to interface with a "normal" home computer, much like we already add modules to our computers for specialized applications. Would this still count as software-only AI to you?

I've held for a long time that sensory input and real-world agency might be necessary to grow intelligence, so maybe you mean something like that, but even then that's something not incredibly outside the realm of what regular computers could do with some expansion.
Cardboard Camera was a great toy. It's amazing how much more immersive that type of capture can be.

Interesting to note that panoramas in the latest Google Camera app still have the option to record audio.
I wish they would have web/windows/linux version
It's almost impossible for people to consistently measure, which throws self-assessment out the window, and remains a challenge in clinical settings.

Pot belly guy measures his waist at his ribs, pear shaped lady rests the tape above her saddle bags, tape isn't level this time, tape is slack that time, etc etc

It might only require tape and might have useful health correlates given good values, but getting those good values is just not something epidemiologists or even clinicians can rely on in the field.
A good financial advisor will recommend keeping 3-6 months of non-negotiable expenses saved, not revenue. 6 months of revenue would be a quite significant amount of savings for most people.
This is pretty cool!!
Is this FOSS?
Black uses more lines. PEP-8 is generally more compact.

I'm more than happy to let something like Black handle formatting for me, though. Sure, there are some occasions where my own formatting would have been better, but the benefits far outweigh the (very small) costs here.

The silly thing is with tools like Black etc. it should be possible to use tabs again. If the only reason against tabs is people fuck it up, there's really no reason to use spaces in an auto-formatted project.
You're too generous, that's over the 99th percentile. 95th is 6'2"- https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set2/chart-07.pdf

It's fine if BMI breaks down at the 99.99th percentile, doctors can use their eyes.
It is mostly about taxation. Companies get taxed where the money is made/moved. A lot of the money in big company balance sheets is in Europe where they have lower corporate tax rates. If they moved that money back to the US, they would have to pay more tax on it. However, they have less need for the money outside the US, so the money just piles up.

Note, this is a very simplistic explanation of complex global accounting regulations (eg the money is likely "physically" in New York even though it is "legally" in Europe)
First, what a fascinating article on a truly exciting prospect!

Second, I hope that at some point, it will be explained further what the differences between the 'original', 'arithmetic', and 'geometric' Langlands programs are. I'm not entirely sure which objects are which here, and I think such an explanation will be illuminating for the reader (especially if the Langlands dualities or programs continue to be fruitful and multiply into yet more regions of math).

Third, I wish the authors and reviewers the very best of luck reviewing 451 pages of manuscript, which just on the face of it sounds like a daunting task.

Fourth, I hope to hear further updates on this as mathematicians chew this news and this work over.
The problem MS might run into is that cash might not be in the US so they would need to repatriate the money into the US potentially triggering more taxes.

(They could also get around this by taking a loan out and using the cash held outside the US as collateral).
Ensuring the next generation of open source leaders are "all in"
It's tongue in cheek or wink wink. No one uses it seriously but there is sometimes an undercurrent of resistance to what's seen as an external cultural standard. But you'll never see it used as a kind of rallying cry.
100% death rate ?

Sorry not a native English speaker.
I think you can still get it right from the Google Play app store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.sam...
It was pretty cool to watch this analysis play out internally to ClickHouse (note: I work at ClickHouse).

It was even cooler to see Vinay and Jianfie (authors) excitement to share the analysis, exploration, and detail.
If we were talking about something that right now makes quality of life better for the a small risk trade off, I get it. We risk our lives on vehicles because we have places to be. But food coloring? Just ban it if there is any doubt, what’s the downside? My gum will be white now?
Professional philosophers understand that many arguments rely on intuition. But they need intuition to create basic premises. Otherwise, if you have no "axioms" in your system of logic, you cannot derive any sentences.

Also, moral philosophy deals with what is right and what is wrong. These are inherently fuzzy notions and they likely require some level of intuitive reasoning. ("It is clearly wrong to kill an innocent person.") I would be extremely surprised if someone could formally define what is right and wrong in a way that captures human intuition.

It's also not worth debating philosophy with people who will argue that $10 is not clearly worth less than a finger. (And if you don't believe that, then we can consider the case with two fingers, or three, or a whole hand, etc.).
Already exists: "barrycentric coordinate time" (there's also some variations on it). It's generally used in computation of solar system orbits.
No, let's not talk about it.

Systems and tech bleed out concepts.

If you're a Dominic Monk, yes it's worth the conversation.

Serious discussion online is basically impossible, the shared frame of reference is orders of magnitude too weak.

People love to nitpick details on second-order concepts, but without a connection to first-order metaphysics, the conversation immediately dies on pre-requisite meanings that can't be communicated in 'one HN post'.

Mental health issues are a natural consequence of unbounded logic (machine supercharged),

unstructured knowledge (flat heirachy and chaos shaping the internet experience)

and 'public' relationships (random drop-ins trying to share common ground).

These problems will only get worse (sorry) and anyone who actually tries to fix it will take the blame for being mentally ill (unless they have serious prestige/support).

This post will not fix it.
Almost everything in this post is wrong. That's quite impressive.
Really? This was never communicated to me either! Can you provide some links?
Thank you for sharing. It's a month old, but even so, I just saw a pinned comment ppsted an hour ago about an announcement coming later today.
> Once you build an image you have a static disk state that doesn’t persist changes unless you make a new image. If your config is file based (only), then to toggle between test and production behavior you would have to build a whole new image.

You could mount a volume with the config file. The nice thing is that this lets you change the config at runtime (assuming the app watches for file changes). Env vars cannot be changed at runtime.
The IDF's "trauma" isn't the Holocaust. It's a long history of Palestinian terrorism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_against_Israel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_at...

We could track reprisals against reprisals against reprisals all day long without unraveling anything. But it's dangerously misleading to suggest that this is purely about what happened in the 1940s. Israel has to deal with the fact that this attack has a lot of precedent.

There is no fair analysis of Israel's actions which does not take this into account. They have very good reason to think that without the actions you're condemning that attacks like this one would occur every day.
> (I mean, what was the theoretical upper limit on the benefit of cryptocurrency for the world? Probably not that much.)

According to the crypto-faithful at the time: solving territorial disputes (Gaza Strip? blockchain solves this!), identity management, bank transfers, payments over the internet with no transaction fees, "the supply chain" (whatever that means), etc. Not as interesting to a layperson as AGI, but if all those (or ANY of those) ended up panning out, crypto would have been a multi-trillion dollar industry and fundamentally transformed vast swathes of modern society.

I do think LLMs are far more useful than blockchain, but claiming "the potential value of this one is extraordinary" is exactly what people said in previous hype cycles.
Impossible photo feat now possible via holography
Apart from the last paragraph, it’s a good debunking of that tired “he could have pulled out just by paying 1B$” meme. He could not, and this has been explained in quite a lot of detail on every public forum I have seen at the time.

“My man” itself is also obnoxious and condescending.
Let's not pretend that we're discriminating against a class of people with some immutable characteristic. Having a dog is a choice. Are you entitled to bring your pet into Mesa Verde? Obviously no.
Are there any recommended (preferably open source) Android app alternatives?
I agree, but eye-balling and self reporting is too subjective. In some countries you get priority in the covid-19 vaccination line if you have a high BMI because it was correlated to deaths.

Perhaps add another variable like volume to distinguish fat and muscle (measured as Archimedes in a bathtub), but as you notice it break the reason that makes BMI so popular. From the article:

> “BMI doesn’t cost anything — it’s cheap and quick,”
The only people still flogging "tech hub" cities are real estate companies stuck with trillions of dollars of unsaleable office space, teetering on the brink of total financial ruin after their calculated disaster-spending during COVID backfired spectacularly.

Folks like Richard Ellis and WeWork have every incentive to try and get someone, anyone, in tech to evangelize or at least attempt an acknowledgement of their slum-lord ant piles of dirt that have bled startups and established players alike for decades now.

WFH is here. its not going anywhere. the KPI's are real and established. its is a perk that snipes hot talent from places like Salesforce and Alphabet. It is, decidedly, to the encumbrance and disadvantage of commercial real estate and the octogenarian city councils that have gilded their pockets with daily commuters.
> The basic issue is that life longevity goes down with the vaccine, by many years.

Do you have a source for this handy? I couldn’t find anything with a cursory search.

I have a dog that’s getting on in years and would like to keep them around as long as possible. I do live in a very rural area so the possibility of infected animals is certainly not nil, though.
Gotcha title. Read the article. SF is definitely not coming back anytime soon. Most commercial real-estate is vacant, crime is horrible (they need batman) and the leftists policies are not going to change anytime soon. I was there recently and witnessed an armed robbery. There are lots of cars with windows knocked out from thieves. I wanted to go the OpenAI conference, but after my last experience decided to skip it.
This isn't want Joel is talking about here.

On the backend, all .docx files use XML. Joel is saying the root XML format was difficult to work with.

What my article is about is this: Microsoft used to allow users to write their own custom XML rules on top of Word. (This was mostly app developers using XML for macros rather than end users, and overall it was very rare.) This is the feature that was at issue with the patent.

Sorry if this was not clear!
If there is a Condorcet winner, it seems easy to explain why that option should be selected and I think it's a clearer winner than FPTP with the level of sophistication of the typical voter.

It's when a Condorcet winner does not exist that Condorcet compliant methods get hard to explain.
Show HN: Fediscope: Mastodon Post Aggregator
It always destroys my laptop, MacBook Pro i5 from 2020. Desktop app, chrome extension, whatever, it absolutely chews up my CPU.
Microsoft does not use LSP for its own language TypeScript. They have something that works better for VSCode: tsserver. When TypeScript evolves, Microsoft updates tsserver and VSCode as needed. To get the updates to Emacs, someone needs to make the respective changes to a third-party TypeScript LSP first. And it won't work as well because LSP isn't as good.
Interesting, I'll have to give that a listen!
Yeah I've always felt that it's unrealistic to expect a single number to effectively represent a person's health. Of course it's useful and of course there's caveats and of course a proper health evaluation should have a more holistic view than just BMI.
> GPT-4 boasts 100 trillion parameters

Source? I’ve never heard this.

I’ve heard 1 trillion and that it’s a 8 x 175B ensemble.
Random question. Why haven't we made a spinning space station yet to simulate gravity? Would fluids still work? Does the spinning actually work?
Though they like to pretend otherwise, there's still quite a bit of non metric use in Canada.
While I agree that it’s hyperbole, a family really does face vastly larger costs of living in SF.

Rent impacts more than just your personal rent. People only work on SF if they’re paid enough to make rent/cost of living so labor prices rise. Shops also need to cover rent and labor costs which then spirals.
That's a huge claim, which requires huge evidence. Source?

It's generally understood that rabies vaccines increase longevity against all causes of death.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X1...
Yes.

While variations may be present, the fact is that someone who is race X and position Y on the BMI scale in the obesity category still has the same risk factors from increased weight as someone who is race Z and position Y.

You do have hard numbers about what the differences are in terms of percentages for the risk factors.

right?
Great question. So far, I've just been doing this myself as a side project so I haven't spent much time thinking through how I would or could monetize it (open to suggestions on that). That being said, I think eventually, it would probably have to be some kind of subscription, if there's any real interest in it. It's not really built to be self hosted right now unfortunately.
> It's seems very rare for someone to openly say "I'm bad at [my native language]" or "writing".

It is actually even fashionable in non-english countries. Declaring "I'm bad at [my native language], I only use english anyway" makes you a better person somehow. And it's not rare in other areas either – in post-truth world it's trendy not to know things.
Show HN: Willow: the fastest and most private open source voice assistant
Hey HN!

Voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Home have sold hundreds of millions of devices.

Unfortunately, they come with less-than-ideal things like an always on microphone (doing who knows what), data collection, and limited integration options. Echo devices especially also end up being advertising billboards you pay for and install in your own home. No thanks, I've already heard of the Barbie movie...

Willow is an open source hardware and supporting software voice assistant platform. For $50 Willow hardware (from Espressif) is competitive with commercial products in every regard while being open source and completely self-hosted. Did I mention it's at least twice as fast as Alexa?

Willow supports integrations to Home Assistant, OpenHAB, and just about anything else with our REST command endpoint support.

With our initial release Willow received overwhelming interest here on HN and elsewhere when we first announced it several months ago.

Today (to the day) we're celebrating six months of Willow development! I made a (rare) demo video demonstrating our most recent release with features like wake only on device closest to the person talking, speaker voice authentication, dynamic configuration, over the air updates, device location, and our new web interface. All faster than ever. Check out our latest demo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhSEeWJ4gs

The team and I really enjoyed the feedback and discussion in our first Show HN post months ago and we'd love to hear what you think about our progress. We also feel that at this point we've optimized accuracy and speed and are interested to hear any ideas for new functionality, etc.
There was close to a zero interest rate during all that time, or does IRS use something way above normal for their rate?
It certainly did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36312385
Better quality all around.
Is this fact communicated in scientific literature? All I can find in my search is a study which found the rabies vaccine decreased all-cause mortality (in one population of dogs in South Africa)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X1...

If you have a link to another study I would appreciate it