skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to make FM synthesis mimic a particular sound but I find it very difficult to search for something that even approximates the sound I'm looking to emulate (an elephant's roar). Do you have any tips?

Edit - from the comments I found this paper which looks promising

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cc/vox/smac2013som/upho2013.pdf

Which also leads me to this paper by Chowning himeself from 1980 titled 'Computer synthesis of the singing voice' which uses FM synthesis.

https://www.speech.kth.se/music/publications/kma/papers/kma2...
This is more fun than I expected.

I tried the strangest pairings I could think of.

The last one I tried was Barack Obama and Joanna Rutkowska [0].

[0]: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Barack%20Obama...
> The default keybindings for said commands are cursed. (Seriously, C-M-@ to call isearch-query-replace-regexp ?)

BTW, this isn't only a problem with `isearch`. I suspect that other multiple-simultaneous-keypresses tend to be hard on most people's hands. Which can be bad for your typing-oriented career, and for other humans uses of hands.

Some alternatives in Emacs:

* Try to press the modifier key(s) with one hand, and the non-modifier key with the other.

* If the modifier(s) require contorting in uncomfortable ways, consider whether moving from home row is easier.

* When an Emacs key sequence includes the "Meta" modifier (`M-`), consider whether pressing and releasing the Esc key first, and then doing the remaining key/combo, is easier.

* Make a better key binding. Examples:

(global-set-key [f5] 'call-last-kbd-macro)
(global-set-key [f12] 'undo)
(global-set-key [XF86Back] '(lambda ()
(interactive)
(other-window -1)))

* Learn fancier Emacs features which might mean not having to type this or not as often (keyboard macros is just one).

* Use or write a function or package that automates the higher-level task. For writing your own, you can learn from one of these two manuals, and just start experimenting in your running Emacs:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/
It should be clarified that adaptive trial design was studied for several decades before being applied to games and called reinforcement learning by computer scientists. The multi-armed bandit papers all reference "Asymptotically efficient adaptive allocation rules" because they derived the optimal lower bound for regret [1].

[1] - https://doi.org/10.1016/0196-8858(85)90002-8
Is that how long they’re actually kept for at grid scale?
Can it create FM synth patches in particular? Like a patch for a DX7.
We had a game for awhile at work of finding paths from random articles to Rome. We never failed, so we stopped playing.
Using Helm Chart to Deploy Distributed Databases on Kubernetes
> High value targets are highly likely to be following decent practices and at least staying up to date on software.

Not even close. The vast majority of journalists, lawyers, activists, even public figures, don't have the knowledge to secure their digital lives, don't have access to an expert to do it for them, and in many cases aren't even fully aware of the nature of the threat (beyond some vague idea along the lines of "I'm probably being monitored").

On top of that, it has been my experience that people who don't understand threat mechanics on a deeper level (such as active MITM attacks) quickly stop following whatever best practices they have been trained to adhere to (in this case, peer key verification), because those practices have no observable effect to them and without actually understanding what's going on, it's hard for them to see what the point is.
I'm curious about your perspective, but I'm unable to understand these abstractions. Can you give me some examples? What fears of person A makes person B a criminal? What parts of western culture are "fake"? What do you mean by "fake"? Or by "tame and sick"?

You sound a lot like Holden Caulfield - a quintessential part of Western Culture.
pro tip: if you're dwelling in apartments and can't spare a bedroom or closet, use a "grow tent" ($150-$250 on Amazon) to isolate your workspace from toddlers and spouses

- big enough for standing desks
- most noise isolation headphones will clean up your audio for meetings
- add whatever solid color backdrop or virtual backgrounds to clean up your video
- built-in air circulation to/from windows
Sure, they need to permitted properly and they can't endanger the local airports. Of course.

At the same time, the FAA drone rules website does lead you to "Are you a Government agency (Federal, State, Tribal, and Territorial law), law enforcement, or a public safety entity?" and the rules LAPD would follow to operate a large drone are not the same as a random enthusiast would follow to operate a small drone. If the hypothetical drone is over 55 lbs, they might be operating just under the heading "Public Aircraft Operations—Manned and Unmanned".

https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/advisory_circulars/...

And even if that weren't true, law enforcement is a government operation and it's very plausible to see them get permitted to do things an average corporation or individual isn't. For example, extra requirements for flying near airports that require specific capabilities and sensors in the drone and a special pilot license.
Came back after dinner, and it was done.

Trying some prompts:

- "1/4 inch bolt, hex head" -- result is a cylinder with no bolt head.

- "1/4 inch bolt" -- "The prompt must clearly describe a CAD model"

- "1/4 inch threaded rod, 3 inches long" -- same

- "0.25in threaded rod, 3 inches long" -- same

- "Plate, 3in x 5in, with rounded corners." -- same

- "Plate with rounded corners" -- blank result

Now it's too overloaded to do anything.

This is kind of an interesting idea. It's a good project to get a large language model and a constructive solid geometry model on speaking terms.

This needs to be a dialog. Something like this:

> Create a flat plate, 100mm x 300mm x 3mm thick.

> Round corners, 20mm radius.

> Drill four holes in the corners.

> Holes are inset 20mm from edges.

> Holes are 6mm diameter.

> Allow extra hole diameter for standard 6mm screw.

> Round edges of top surface of plate.

Those are all things you can express to Autodesk Inventor through its GUI.

What you'd really like to say is:

> Import this file. Here is a mounting plate for a motor.

OK

> The four holes near the center are mounting bolts for a standard NEMA motor.

OK.

> What motor frame size is it for?

NEMA 42

> Change the bolt holes to fit a NEMA 56 at the same position.

OK. (Drawing changes).
Making Music from Images in Python
Not sure what PE is in this example, but you don't need a neutral in 3 phase.
> PreCheck is pay to play too.

True, but typically doesn't involve cutting into the non-precheck line.

> all the lines would be long again because everyone would be on equal footing

Also true, but processed faster.

I certainly wouldn't mind it being free.
omg that is awesome. who made the building?
> factor in what people pay here for healthcare premiums you've accounted for most of the difference in salary

10x means 90% difference, all consumed by the more expensive healthcare? That's like one order of magnitude wrong.

> how many SWEs in SV make $400k?

Saved you a google:
> The average total compensation of a Software Engineer in San Francisco Bay Area, US is $242,000.

the topic was programmers, all "white collar workers" is not relevant to this conversation.
Not to mention that this is all baseload power and therefore comes out way cheaper than similar solar once you include battery costs. And ignoring the fact that nuclear is 92% efficiency of nameplate power compared with 30% for solar but people keep comparing nameplate power.
New software is buggy, news at eleven.
Software made by a hardware company is buggy, also at eleven.
Car software sucks, also at…

There’s just no surprise here at all. This will all be improved (but not fixed) a year from now.
My favorite story about this was when a plastics company's representative was secretly filmed saying:

"Those must be some stupid geese who eat plastic"
Purkinje neurons are found in mammals as well. Huge branches and a lots of input. This paragraph is odd.

This elaborate structures of neurons is a big reason why many neuroscientist don't like point neurons artitecture. Personally I don't think this structure can be approximated by a later or point neurons -- at least not without a significant cost. After reading "More Is Different" I am more open to the idea that substrate matter quite a lot.
GP was talking about “everything” being locked up, down to “the candy”.

Does the Walgreens you’re talking about lock up everything, including the candy?

If so, what’s it like at that store. Does every patron get a personal chaperone or is the store filled with patrons waiting for an associate who does the rounds to show up?
> The average price of a pre-owned Rolex watch increased from less than US$5,000 in 2011 to more than US$13,000 by the end of 2021, according to a report by the California-based firm published earlier this year.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/over-a-decade-rolex-watches...

Even if the price of a specific watch slightly declines (unlikely given statistics published), it sounds much better than a 100% chance to become eWaste in the case of Apple watches.
Your post resonated with me and you have a well-structured description of this sentiment. Are there any books/articles that you can recommend about this issue?
how does one fine tune it to follow instructions? I would have thought they have open source training set for these instruction-follow fine tunes?
For companies that were previously set up as in-person, it's the only way to operate successfully for any role that has any regular interaction.
That's exactly the problem, in a nutshell. Everything is tangled in a big ball of yarn with Apple:

Theoretically the iTunes/App Store/TV account is independent of iCloud – except that it's tangled to Apple Podcasts.

- iMessage used to be mostly standalone (iCloud sync was explicitly optional!) – but not it's tied to iCloud via contact key verification.

- Books is a weird mix of iCloud (for media) and iTunes (for purchases).

- Having my device as a trusted login factor is a complete mess: I still haven't figured out what makes or doesn't make a device "capable of generating authentication codes".

- iTunes subscriptions can somehow only be managed on an Apple device or iTunes – and logging in for that purpose messes up podcasts (see the first point).

At least on macOS, it's possible to make a second account and log in to most of these cleanly, but it's still a hassle compared to e.g. Google's seamless support for multiple accounts in almost all of their products.
in some cases, it was because the programs you're naming didn't exist at the time, except for autocad, which didn't have useful 3-d functionality

in other cases, because the 'tools that don't work' from your point of view can do things in minutes that would take hours in those other programs, which i don't have in any case. blender, for example, is terrible at making 2-d dimensioned drawings compared to something like solidworks, but you can model things in blender nobody has ever been able to model in solidworks, and then you can 3-d print them. and, though solidworks can do everything openscad can, there are things that are easy to do in openscad which are a real pain in solidworks. but openscad is also utterly terrible at 2-d drawings
New Brother printers are enshittified now too.
As someone who watches NCAAF, this is just the tip of the iceberg of confusing US college names.
> A targeted attack will encounter the risk of the attacker being exposed.

What "risk" is there? I'm not aware of illegal spying by intelligence or law enforcement agencies having ever had any adverse consequences for them, in any country, at any point in history.
You can order mice with specific cancer mutations: https://www.jax.org/strain/017835
I wonder, why now? Smells like a warrant canary.
I had to double take this, because I use a very different web framework also called Catalyst http://catalyst.perl.org/

Perl in all its glory and horror.
I agree! Or at least I’ve always been curious about this myself.
If you use two different Apple IDs on two different devices, how does that prevent you from using iMessage Key Verification? As far as this system is concerned, you are essentially two different people, both of whom can have key verification on independently (sort of the point).

The only scenario where this might break is if you log into personal accounts on work devices or vice-versa. I think that’d be ill-advised…
You're just not following the point - for example we could make laws requiring all cars to have pedestrian safety monitoring and driver attention detection. That would be safer.

We don't because of cost.

With airbags we're just used to legislation for them but the same argument applies. It's not enough to say a recall is safer we have to measure the cost vs actual safety of the existing airbags

It's a strange thing with people and existing safety laws vs actual safety. For example I've advocated barriers with automatic doors at Subway and train stations to prevent pushers, jumpers falls etc. this would increase safety but no one wants to because of the cost
Ah, I totally forgot that I read how to read a book so long ago, but thats how I decide, mostly... however - "How to read a book" left out that absolute quintessential lesson on how to read a book: "Pick up the damn book and actually read it".

For me selecting what to read though, is I was a voracious reader of non fiction when I was younger - but as I have aged, non-fiction seems like too much of a time sink (even though it is not), I find that when I am reading non fiction, instead of my mind engorged in the book with my imagination running all sorts of parallel scenarios, or sending me off into a daydreaming side topic...

I find that I begin to let the real world intrude, which is to me, is a function of my stress level.
That is incorrect. Nuclear is baseload power and as such is way cheaper than solar at that (no batteries). All those EVs charging overnight (only at 2% of the vehicle market right now)? Baseload power that will have exponentially more growth over the coming decades.

We should be building so much nuclear right now it isn’t funny (should be targeting 40-80% of all production to hit net 0 I suspect). That’s like another 3-10 Diablo canyons worth of production. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t build solar. We should to have it handle peak energy requirements and derisk things.

Also we should be building modern designs like molten salt reactors which are safer and cheaper.
> Just over five years ago, in November of 2018, when Structured Concurrency was a little-known peculiarity,

First time hearing about it. Wish the post would at least link to what it is.
Cooler model Rolexes for one.
I have felt the same. In the interviews I have listened to, she came across as robotic and fake. I know I am in the minority, but I can’t think of an interview of hers that I enjoyed.
Probably Brother.
Quite possible. I am not confident Apple Silicon has 2-cycle div latency, that seems improbably fast to me, but I had heard some reasonably well-sourced rumors to that effect. I have not measured it myself.

Even at somewhat higher latency it is still fast enough to not be worth optimizing around in most cases, which is great.
How does the saying go? If you work in a hammer factory...
P=sqrt(3) IV cos Theta not just three times IV
Thanks for that pointer, that does look excellent
Haven't checked out Catalyst but I have used TailwindUI. The components are really good but if you are not using a JS framework, it's a lot of work to integrate. The regular JS version of TailwindUI uses Alpine which doesn't have a CSP compatible version so you will have to write the Javascript from scratch.

Partially due to these and frustrated by lack of component libraries in Rails, I built and recently released a UI kit for Rails - https://zestui.com

Built with Phlex, styled with Tailwind with custom built Stimulus controllers.

It's got

- 25 themes

- Dark Mode

- Form Builder

- Icons

- Built in Flash Toast

- The components are responsive or have specific mobile views

- All the JS needed (Stimulus controllers) is wired up automatically

Phlex is a game changer. It is simple, powerful, intuitive and performant. I will never ever write a component as a partial/ViewComponent again.

A short video (50 seconds) showing it off: https://youtu.be/OQmDZddLtR8
Whether you deem that a luxury belief or not, you have to admit that there are some heavily favorable outcomes depending on who’s doing the stealing.

If someone walks into a store and steals $100 of goods, that person gets a heavier punishment then the corporate employer who steals $100 in wages.

You’d think that’s a coincidence?
The name is a bit confusing. I thought it was related to Apple's Catalyst and UIKit
Only tangentially related to your comment, but I've always found that people who live in dense environments complain about their neighbors less than those who have more space. People who have an acre or five of land see to ALWAYS be annoyed at whatever their neighbors are doing!

Maybe it's selection bias.
If mechanical watches had nearly the order of magnitude of demand that ICs do, then maybe they’d be faster at it.
No actually not the same thing. There’s a lot of local cultural expertise that you can’t import (ie regulatory environment and knowing how to work within it). You can import some technical knowhow but that’s only a fraction of the experience problem.

Also re cancer, nuclear power plants emit no radiation. All the radiation exposure risk comes when you’re doing certain kinds of maintenance (eg refueling). Nuclear subs are a different matter. I don’t know the safety standards there and the military is typically a lot more loosy goosey with safety.
The solution I landed on is having 2 iCloud accounts in the same “family” so things can be shared, but in a controlled manner.
Funnily enough, and not so concidentally, this has been well known in practice by...drumroll please...America's greatest innovators, the Adult Entertainment Hobbyists.

It doesn't have order-of-magnitude, or I'd even wager 50%, benefits in enabling smaller models. But you nailed it exactly. Fine tune on dogs, fine tune on cats, then...just...average the weights. And you have something better than the original with minimal loss from finetuning.

LoRA's end up being more popular for that use case because they're easier to combine and mix, match, and scale. Model merging is still a key technique for a successful base model.
I have the opposite problem.

We are beseiged by vendors promising the earth from their amazing AI tools and we peel back 1 surface layer and they are just shoving things wholesale into GPT-4. When I ask "can we please deploy this on a local model" they run off scared. I can't get any vendor to give us anything except OpenAI.
Do services like mailinator still exist? Temporary emails that you can use then throw away if there's no pay-off?
Good riddance. Those ugly scooters were an eyesore in most neighborhoods.
Yeah it did that in FF for me. Chrome worked.
Ask HN: Vite or NextJS?
I am building a new project from scratch. I have a backend already written in Python/FastAPI. I have React/Typescript experience with CRA and Vite (and I prefer the latter). I haven't used NextJS before, but I'm interested in learning more about it. I'm thinking of using it and figuring it out as I go along, but I'm wondering how much time I should expect this to set me back? If I'm already familiar with React, will NextJS take me a few hours to pickup? A few days? Weeks? I understand that this is a broad question and everyone has different capacity to learn, but I'm trying to get a rough sense since I don't want to push off deadlines too much.
This is neat!

It'd be nice if clicking the blurred background area on a Sheet closed the sheet like the x button does.
I hope Brother continues, but I hear Epson has some decent options higher up the price/quality scale that don't hate you.
If it does poorly enough maybe GM backtracks! One can hope that this dumpster fire persists.
We Can't Land - the Story of Air India 101 [video]
You can get a Canon Megatank for around $150 if you want color, and they have been ok so far. Brother lasers are still ok too at this point.
>There is an ISO directive to not use any of their standards when training an LLM

What? This seems mind bogglingly short sighted. You would thing a standards body of all places would want AIs outputting standards compliant output.
Ah, right, I see - thanks for clarifying that it wasn't just the usual GPT paste but the process you found cool.
Development of Deep Ensembles to Screen for Autism and Symptom Severity
The way I've heard this explained tells you to click on the first link on the page that's not in the disambiguation section. Never found a loop so far, and it pretty quickly hones in on it.
A lot of negative stories about the NYT in the related stories at the bottom of the page - seems odd.
Coal is even more dangerous. In other words, we can’t be so anemic to all risk and nuclear is comparatively very safe. At these levels, the talk of safety is a non-event (like the car everyone drives in every day in is riskier as is flying in an airplane which is also safer than driving a car not to mention gun violence which is “fuck yeah ‘Merica”). The risk here can just be largely ignored as statistical noise. You still need to manage the risk carefully when things do go wrong, but you existing reactor designs are pretty safe when Fukushima which ignored a bunch of warnings actually still turned out to be mostly a nonevent. Also modern reactor designs can’t even melt down so why are we even talking about Fukushima which is using heavy water reactor designs from the 80s?
> Naval nuclear reactors have the world's least price sensitive customers, run on highly enriched uranium, scuttling the vessel is deemed a safe outcome and military staffing is completely different from civilian. That does not match reality on land.

Congress is, in fact, very price sensitive about military procurement, and there are significantly greater engineering challenges in ship construction than in terrestrial construction. The difference is that the scale and regulatory environment around building naval ships is not completely dysfunctional.
I feel like stuff is pretty easy and solved for at gas stations for payment? Why wouldn’t I just pay at the “pump” (charger) exactly like we’ve all been doing for decades now?

Payment done by the car automatically seems like a solution looking for a problem.
That is planned as an option.i.e the developer decides whether to offer that. Some don't like it because accidental clicks close the sheet/modal which can confuse non tech savvy users.
It's recent. Walmart is removing them in my area.
Nooooo! Say it ain't so.

I have an old B&W MFC that I was thinking of maybe upgrading but to be honest I have to real reason to other than to get colour and maybe document feeding for scanning but I print so rarely that I probably won't now as Brother was going to be my one and only port of call for this.

When did this happen?! Can we get older versions still maybe?
I’ve been pretty happy with Xerox laser printers. If I was going inkjet I would probably look into those Epson Ecotank ones, but knowing how infrequently I use my inkjet today the nozzles would probably dry out in-between prints!