skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a big fan of Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan series. It’s not hard sci-fi. Earth is in the stories, but not the central location for hardly any of them.
I recommend reading them in chronological order, rather than published order.
Interesting. I was running KDE too, but I never was forced to use Windows 7/Aero until later. Personally I feel like Aero was by far the best-looking Windows ever, even though I never liked using Windows due to non-aesthetic problems.
Disappointing to see Jessie Frazelle building closed source centralized tech.

This approach mirrors "Open"AI sending all queries to central servers with no mention of any privacy measures. The admins surely get to see who is making sex toys, prop weapons, or medical parts and that data will be sold or leaked, as is tradition.

This is a great idea though and I look forward to supporting whoever makes an open source alternative I can run locally as a Blender, FreeCAD, or OpenSCAD extension.
To be honest from the sample prompts they provide you would be lucky if any two pieces fits together.
If you need a menubar calendar, Cron (cron.com) is particularly nice because it gives you a universal keyboard shortcut to join the next meeting.
Those sound like terrible CAD programs that aren't terribly usable for real work. I don't know how I'd do my job with them.

Proper modern 3d CAD systems like Solidworks, Catia, Creo (was ProE), Fusion360, Inventory, etc. have super robust 2d drawing and export functionality. If they didn't we couldn't make the built world the way we have.

It's the same for 2d packages like Autocad. You can draw in 3d in Autocad, but it's not solid modeling its just drawing in 3d, totally different. But it works.

Why would you use tools that don't work?
My suggestion is to pick a templating engine and markup language you like, wire them together with a bit of glue code, and try not to spend too much time fiddling with it instead of writing. When I do realize there’s some feature I want to add, it’s a lot easier to tweak ~100 lines of code that I’m already familiar with rather than trying to figure out the documentation for some plugin system.

I’ve written about this in a bit more detail previously[1], and I’ve also published the source code to my personal blog[2] if you’re curious to see a fully-baked example.

[1] https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2022-01-16-blog

[2] https://github.com/wolfgang42/linestarve-blog/blob/master/bu...
This is also an interesting game on Wikitree, especially if you've connected a few of your own relatives: https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:Connection&...
> Dune and sequels by Frank Herbert are the next logical option, with similarly large scope.

Not worth reading past God Emperor of Dune, the best book in the series.
BigDecimals aren't floats, though. They're arbitrary precision rational numbers.
Exactly, because the end result is a 3d object in the real world that needs to function with its surroundings in 3d space. How we write down that shape to communicate it to eachother doesn't matter so much. It's like language vs content
Bobiverse and Weirs books are great.
And Europe even did it better than China. Connectors are also standardized in China but AC and DC use completely different connectors. And the AC connector had enough pins for 3-phase power but two were unused.
Would you recommend the 64 over 128? What kind of models will 128 open up over 64? Can you get most of them out of the 64?
For the most part, I choose books where I know at least the author's reputation. I am willing to leave a nonfiction book unread or partly read if it doesn't seem worth my time.

One exception is for books chosen (by others) for the neighborhood book club. Those I read through, however bad.
Yes -> No: 658 paths
No -> Yes: 2 paths
The struggle is real :)
Daihatsu to stop all vehicle shipments over improper safety testing
> we do not have a score

of course you have a score, it's just implied rather than explicit. how many missed payments? how much were those missed payments? that's the score.

> an implicit trust in your declarations

...but we still look you up in the central database ;-) sure, we trust you
This is such a privacy leak that I have a hard time thinking you're serious.

“You want to talk to Family Lawyer D. Ivorstein, but you haven’t verified their keys yet. However your contact Wife has confirmed D. Ivorstein’s identity”
Statement from the company:

https://www.daihatsu.com/news/2023/20231220-4.html
I really enjoy those "X for programmers" kind of materials. I wish there were more of them, especially on less popular topics.
I agree that there's been some progress in therapies and robot-assisted surgery, but the reason for the improvement in mortality seems more to do with early detection. Cancer deaths overall are also improving due to fewer smokers, but that should be accounted for by "health standardized" measurements.

I think this paper explains it: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27175568/ "the major factors that accounted for these favorable trends were progress in tobacco control and improvements in early detection and treatment"

I feel like the treatment progress for most metastatic solid cancers have not significantly improved. A significant improvement wouldn't be just improving overall survival by a year or so. What seems possible to achieve (someday soon perhaps) is making cancer either a manageable condition, like HIV now is, or curable.
Sorry but you don't get charity when you are asserting a point which is completely unfounded. Please find something which will back up your point besides 'they all happened at once' because that isn't even true. There is no correlation with 'capitalism' 'industry' and 'profit' with 'demise of slavery'. I beg you to look up what was happening in the Congo by Belgium when the automobile was being popularized.

There happens to be a correlation with a bunch of nice things because we happen to live in the modern era, but you can't attribute everything to capitalism because, as we noted it was not the only system in place which did these things.

I would like you to find some scholarly research which can bolster your theory.
> we thinking of cutting slice through a multivariate distribution, and then normalizing. If you have some distribution P(X, Y) where X and Y are both real, then its density is like some landscape (i.e. each x,y is associated with some height). P(X | Y=y) is like a slice through that landscape at Y=y, which leaves a 1-D plot of the density along X. If we re-scale it so that the area under it is 1, then it's a well-formed PDF.

How intuitive!

/s
If we just experimented on and killed lots of humans we would be both further ahead and behind.
Historically, it has never been uncommon for older men to marry (<20yr) age gap women. Browsing the marriage records (ie ancestry.com) reveals just how common.
Been using Shadcn this week, definitely like the component concept and this has arrived just in time.
It seems to me you are looking for a syntax highlighter in a note taking app. Which modern language are you looking for?

There are encrypted backups. Actually, backups are encrypted by default.

Notesnook also works offline by default so there's no need for a special mode. It's also, obviously, local-first since everything gets encrypted on your device. We don't have a lot of options there.

What "might be better" in the editor?
Ruby (the gemstone) is just a red sapphire, in fact[1]. So maybe?

1: https://geology.com/gemstones/ruby-and-sapphire/
This is the approach I've tried in the past although I'm interested in models that generate an AST that could then be translated back into code.
"Peanut Gallery" here... These types of conversations are the reason I'm still addicted to HN.

Thank you both. And /hattip
Speed test against my six lines of verilog cpu when? *

https://gitlab.com/VitalMixofNutrients/vISA

* Only six lines of verilog if one only uses FPGA LUTs as Ram.
A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative
> Android, ChromeOS and WebOS, have replaced most of my needs

Great! I really hope you're happy with that setup! It's your personal computer and by all means, do what works well for you. In the end that's always a personal thing that's different for everyone. Who am I to judge how you use your computer?

But maybe ... stop complaining about Linux desktop then? If you don't like it? This must be like the 3rd time I've seen these types of single-line dismissive "Linux will never win the desktop"-comment from you in the last few days. Just one line, little or no context, or explanation, and IMHO also zero value, and an entire discussion derailed.

This is just becoming disruptive. You don't need to say anything you know. Personally, I rather dislike a number of things, but you don't see me complaining about it with one-liners every chance I get – and when I do say something, at least I make sure it's something of some substance, when I feel it actually contributes. And I sure as hell don't go around complaining people are "children" for disagreeing.
Windows Vista was the best-looking version of Windows ever. It didn't work all that great, of course, but it looked good.
i think its because sample based virtual instruments, while enormous in hard drive space, do a good job of approximating many classical instruments and have advanced enough to be useful without being difficult to implement.

I could learn a new synth or I could use the Spitfire Labs BBC Symphony Orchestra pack and spend a lot of takes playing with macro wheels and maybe some adjusting after to try to improve articulation to something more natural sounding. It would by a bear live but in the studio its easy.|

The synth would offer more customization but the sample one is good enough for most things, especially in a small/home studio setting.
Mercedes Gets Approval for Turquoise Automated Level 3 Driving Lights
Beeper was released at least two years prior to that.
I love cities, never want to move out of my very downtown apartment, and also never want to work in an office again. People (especially city people) who equate a preference for remote work with a "strong desire for physical isolation" must live very different lives than I do.

The fact I work remotely means I have more flexibility and social energy at the end of the day to spend socializing with friends or at after-work sports leagues. When my best friend's mom died it let me spend TONS of time at their apartment so they would not be alone. It let me housesit for my partner's mother. Before we moved in together it let me work from their place and see more of them. I can, and often do, have lunch with friends who live nearby. Working remotely and isolation are just not on the same axis for me. It helps that my company has a very strong remote culture, but the job I had during early COVID did not and I still felt quite satisfied when we went remote.

100% agreed on the depth thing though. Nothing worse than staring at a wall while working-I like that from my desk I can see my entire living room, my front door, my bookshelves, etc.
For me, it's the commute that's unbearable. When I was younger, I'd move so that I could walk to work. Now I'm married, and own a house full of things, so that isn't really practical any longer. I'd still happily physically work anywhere that's within a short walk of my house.
What I wonder is how you define "neat" if not related to "useful".

Personally, I think something would be neat to build if it (1) does not yet exist and (2) would be useful to have and (3) the technology at hand lends itself to build the thing with it, but the poster downplays utility. Since you have spend time only once, working on one neat thing comes at the expense of all other things you could build instead, so it does matter what you choose to spend it on.
Speaks to the robustness of the legal system, and code simply a crude layer on top of it.
looking good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2KpPUOsBCs
There's no point in offering users self hosting if you are going to throw them into a fire by doing so. Notesnook is rapidly evolving and changing, and hoping for self hosted users to keep up is impractical. Instead, we want to first stabilize the backend, and then think about self hosting.

After v3, our primary focus will be on self hosting and getting an audit done.
Gold bars don't need to be maintained and don't degrade. They just exist. That's the type of asset to own.

A white elephant needs a living are, food, elephant experts, vets, etc. That's much closer to the type of asset most code is.
They don’t make that claim as far as I can tell. Just that they support llama2 models.
>Model merging is, to me, one of the most counterintuitive empirical results in modern deep learning. It turns out that you can actually more-or-less naively merge the weights of two different models and produce a new one that captures some or all of the abilities of its parents!

I would hope the article give some more details on model merging. Is it merging two different fine-tuned models, one fine-tuned on dogs, another fine-tuned on cats, and the merging of the two different models is good on cats and dogs as if by magic?

Like fine-tune one model just on Python and test it thoroughly, fine-tune one on Java and test it thoroughly, and then if the need arises for a project that uses both Java and Python, merge the two together and use that. If there is no need for Java, use the one fine-tuned just on Python.

Pretty magical indeed! Let alone the fact, that a separate smaller model of half a billion parameters could figure out how to merge the two together. If the cost of LMs could be reduced by a factor of 100, why not reduce it by a factor of 1000?
GM's CarPlay replacement software is off to a disastrous start
This story is about high school circa 2005.

It is far, far harder to qualify for an elite high school math team or get into Stanford now.
I don’t know about Switzerland but that’s at least a few years away?
You can just say the “cumulative inflation was 272.6%”, or even “the inflation was 272.6%”.
2D materials ratchet up biorealism in computing
BOSE - Buy Other Sound Equipment
My wife died from metastatic breast cancer, in 2011. Even then there were advancements. As much as I miss her and envy those who may get advances now, or a “cure”, I am excited to see progress. Maybe she’ll be one of the “last to pass” from this disease.
I take meeting notes and jots in plaintext. I like to have deeper thoughts and observations on paper, often a journal. When I need to synthesize a vague idea, I will jot pieces down on index cards and shuffle them around.

For what it's worth, I tend to reflect on my systems every year (now) and revise. I try to stick to the new system for the year, and it works quite well. No 'distro-hopping' of productivity hacks.

On plaintext notes: I once worked with a VP who had a very specific approach to something. Years later, she is CEO and I am a consultant. I was able to pull up her requirements and deliver exactly what she needed.

On paper notes: Last New Year's Eve, I reviewed my journals from 2006 to today (my wife was asleep, I was bored). It was fascinating to see arcs and patterns that you would not if recorded electronically. Flipping pages, seeing handwriting change, these subtle clues cannot be dismissed.

Hope this helps.
Training a VAE on LAION-6B, for example.
I bet you five gold bars that five gold bars left "unmaintained" won't be there when you pop back in a year.

It's not a big thing and there's no need for us to fall out over this .. but gold bars are famous for requiring additional ongoing security costs.

Even just burying them in the desert isn't as secure as it used to be.
> “Success inspires more devotion than friendliness and affability”

Seems to ring true with a lot of leaders.
Usually, the best code to read is something that you already need to understand. So, if there's a library you use at work, for example.

Also, for every language there's a really important project written in that language, like SQLite if you want to learn C, or finagle if you want to learn Scala.
Many synthesizers do not use samples. Physical modeling oscillators have been available in good synthesis engines for a long time. These generate sounds based on a physics model of real acoustic instrument designs and materials, dynamically reacting like real instruments. These used to be dedicated synthesizers but are now buried in a long list of oscillator models available on general purpose synthesizers.

I used to own a Korg Z1, which had one of the first physical modeling synthesis engines. While it could produce relatively realistic acoustic sounds, that is not what people ended up using these types of synthesizers for. Unlike a physical acoustic instrument, where the basic geometry, material properties, and other parameters are fixed, most parameters of the synthesized physical models could be dynamically modulated and manipulated like any other synthesis parameter.

Modulating the fundamental physics properties of an acoustic instrument at audio rates produces some really interesting timbres and effects that are not reproducible using any other type of synthesis or (obviously) acoustic instruments. Consequently, no one ended up using them for realistic acoustic sounds; it was much more interesting to use the synthesis engine to do physically impossible manipulation of the acoustic model to generate novel sounds.

These days almost everything in a synthesizer engine is based on modeling due to the inexorable increase in available computing power. Nonetheless, there is still considerable convenience and economy in using acoustic instruments or samples for many purposes. Just because we can create incredibly detailed and realistic physical models doesn't mean it is worth the effort and they often have terrible UI. I could see this as being something where AI could do a lot.

Omnisphere is a good example of where the term "sample-based" isn't entirely accurate (ignoring its modeled oscillators). While it does have a large and excellent sample library, many of the oscillator engines use the samples as spectral feedstock instead of as a sound to be played per se. The raw sample is not identifiable even though it imparts a characteristic quality on how the oscillator sounds. (Omnisphere is also massively popular because it is an excellent synthesis engine with an unusually good ease-of-use to power ratio. Still one of my all-time favorites.)
Seems like the same system Decathlon has been using since 2019.
You said it was worth noting, which is more than just stating a fact.
Thanks for sharing, that's an interesting social component of the equation. From your comment, I assume you're referring to something I've also encountered as a maintainer: we filter out signals where no efforts were put in. If I get the feeling that a PR is perhaps a bit useful but that the author has committed an LLM-generated piece of code, I'll be on the fence. If I'm asked to review a PR with the bare minimal added value, but the author has tried their best and is seeking help to get them started with OSS contributions, I will help. Was that your experience as well?

In that regard, the proxy for "no effort" usually defaults to "it looks like the PR doesn't check any of the guidelines in the CONTRIBUTING.md or the PR template". Here we're trying to always bring that guideline context, make it requestable, and inject it into your coding workflow. In the process, we want to educate those developers about your specific engineering culture.

Besides, code generation is inevitably going to become a growing part of software engineering. Here we're making sure this transition isn't operated without proper alignment or context. It's already challenging to get everyone on the same page in code reviews, so team alignment isn't a trivial problem and it's not gonna improve with the extra thousands of LoC developers will be able to produce each day. Or do you foresee a significant proportion of OSS maintainers consistently rejecting automatically-generated code?
I'll give you some unsolicited advice: You come off as rather arrogant and I would suggest reflecting on it.

The idea that "legions of HNers" are telling you you're wrong sounds like confirmation bias. I basically see the same old discussion about free markets vs. market regulation every day on HN and it's not as if there was ever a clear-cut consensus. Maybe somewhat expectedly, radical positions such as "markets should be 100% unregulated" or, conversely, ones espousing something close to communism are comparatively rarer than ones in the middle (most people don't tend to have radical views), but that doesn't mean you can't see them often enough here (ok, maybe I haven't seen communist takes here that often, but definitely libertarian ones).

More importantly, even if everybody was disagreeing with you, it could be that they're right and you're wrong. Or that nobody is right or wrong because it's a matter of opinion. I haven't seen you take that option seriously, instead it's just other people who "don't understand" free markets
If HN suddenly dies there will be 1000 former HN users who will create a clone in a weekend.
Even Cloudflare isn't building their own datacenters
idk why I see so many comments like this on the medical threads of HN lately. Laboratory mice are close enough to us to do testing on and have provided reliable results throughout their use. A basic Wikipedia search shows references for all of those claims and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_mouse
> by 2030

> a company projecting to sell 10 million cars by that time

At their latest investment day they very clearly said their goal is 20 million cars a year by 2030.
And when someone installs some obscure or outdated and vulnerable codec on these systems, it's then automatically exposed to all sorts of applications to exploit. Maybe Windows sandboxes that these days(?) It was definitely a problem in the past.

No perfect solutions here; both "system-wide codecs" and "every application brings their own codecs" have their own up- and downsides.

Besides, with ffmpeg and gstreamer the system-wide codecs paradigm also works on Linux.

This is one of those "it's different but it doesn't really matter much" type of things. Most people "just" install vlc or mpv or whatnot and things will "just work" for them, not really different from Windows. That it's technically slightly different is almost entirely transparent to the user.
Sure, that's supercharging Tesla vehicles. They are of course going to charge more for non-Teslas.
3 phase is stupid. DC or bust.
How do you account for the behavior of Promise.all? Or do you mean parallel?
Imagine all the time, money and energy we would all collectively save if both home and commerical real estate prices were just reasonably priced.
My sincere sympathies. I lost my kid sister to breast cancer about 6 years ago, much too young. I'm glad the fight continues.
> China is barely building nuclear anymore.

That's a funny way to look at things. China built 40 GW worth of nuclear power plants in the last decade [1], which matches the best decade of France, and almost matches the best decade of the US. In 2022 they started work on 5 reactors (GW-sized), 2 more than the rest of the world combined.

[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...

[2] https://world-nuclear.org/getmedia/0156a8d7-01c6-42d9-97be-3...
Stanford is from the area.