skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a podcast he is on:

https://www.relay.fm/cortex/1
I'm genuinely curious
It's a representation of basic fractions that I think most people on HN recognize, and is not at all precise.
People are motivated by viewers, but once it gets above a certain amount I think it becomes a different motivation. When I write things on reddit on a specific topic subreddit that have few posts in it, and those things get a few upvotes, I am more motivated to continue than posts in huge subs which get boatloads of upvotes. Because in order to get those one or two important ones, you need to know something specific and valuable, but to get thousands you have to find a way to appeal to a lot of people in a broad way.

Trying to chase the broad appeal will lead, in my experience, to a downslide where content gets less and less useful and more pop-culture oriented, or it becomes outright fraud or manipulation.
> On last few teams I have been pulling most of the project while being unpaid (southern Europe devs rejoice) so I m thinking about incorporating as well...

Not getting paid? Are you trying to break into an industry with an unpaid internship or is this a hack-a-thon side project?

I don't understand how structuring an independent contractor offering will get you paid by the same folks who aren't paying you at the moment.

Doesn't sound like it would solve your issue.
I wonder if YouTube has a department that keeps track of what is coming into the public domain in which country at what date. Or will their systems be out of date and still flag copyright violations on this content?
Proxies — For Performance, I.e. local mirrors, security, private IP range in a corporate network, etc.
There are just so many great educational/maker channels, here's a bunch more that are least known on my list (in no particular order):

Not David

iforce2d

Chronova Engineering

Posy

SuperfastMatt

Michael Rechtin

AlphaPhoenix

Hyperspace Pirate

Nicholas Rehm

James Biggar

Casual Navigation

Kraut

Spanning Tree

Geo History

EgyptologyLessons

Carl Bugeja

electrosync

Historia Civilis

Jeremy Fielding

there oughta be

Andreas Spiess
Writing fish completions is really easy, too. I never bothered when I used Bash, but I write them for various utilities in Fish and it makes the shell more pleasant to use. Several of my custom ones have been supplanted by upstream completions having been added in a subsequent releases.
My guess will be under investment in nuclear energy... I just don't believe in global grids and scaling of storage.
I'm not sure exactly how to define it but this is the end of something — certainly something for that clique of British YouTubers (e.g. Tom Scott did the graphics for many jay foreman videos and so on)

And really YouTube in general — Tom Scott understood the medium of youtube very early on. https://youtu.be/MrppkAIVhH4?si=6y2yRkk2QY6hknwF from 17 years ago is basically the exact same rhythm as a modern video, Tom Scott doesn't like memes so its also not massively dated either (other than the obvious).
What do you mean by „can‘t do airport return trips“?
> It's the reason they ...

A recent nytimes opinion on the subject:
https://twitter.com/emmma_camp_/status/1726390207740608823

>> It's generally a sign of progress when diagnoses that were once whispered in shameful secrecy enter our everyday vocabulary and shed their stigma. But especially online, where therapy "influencers" flood social media feeds with content about trauma, panic attacks and personality disorders, greater awareness of mental health problems risks encouraging self-diagnosis and the pathologizing of commonplace emotions what Dr. Foulkes calls "problems of living." When teenagers gravitate toward such content on their social media feeds, algorithms serve them more of it, intensifying the feedback loop.
Ask HN: What do you use for note-taking or as knowledge base?
I went down the rabbit hole of digital notebooks, knowledge bases and co. After reading and trying a lot, I came to the idea of writing a blog article about the topic. For that, I would be thankful for some of your personal experiences and tips (or the reason why you avoid them all together). Originally I just wanted to find an open source alternative for onenote (with focus on the pen input and linux compatibility)...
Thanks for your answers!
I invite you to use the Hebrew calendar - its currently the 20th of Tevet, 5784.
I was able to adopt fish shell and get many features from bash that were provided from plugins. I prefer the more “stock” shell configuration for easier maintenance across computers and over time, and a less complex dotfiles project. https://github.com/andyatkinson/dotfiles

On a team I limit my fish shell use to my own machine though, and would use bash for scripts to share with a shebang line. I also switch to a bash shell when needed.
Vitara Biomedical: A New Era in Neonatal Care
Ahaha completely forgot about that one, perfect.
Any time A* comes up, someone plugs this great resource: https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction...
Smart Terminals: Personal Computing's True Origin?
The big thing for me was the intuitive auto-completion which I hadn't seen anywhere else at the time, but this is now also available in zsh via this plugin:

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
Part of a general trend? Another two keywords related to the same issue: trauma and self-medication.

I think the same ADHD diagnosis problem is happening in New Zealand too.
Any audio recording will have its own copyright separate from the base text, so it'll be a while before any quality audiobooks enter the public domain.

For now, your best approach would be to take high-quality ebooks like what Standard Ebooks offers, and use text-to-speech software.
Standard Ebooks is fantastic! In fact, I love what they're doing so much that I actually built a little SaaS product on top of their ebook collection.

The site is called Modern Serial, and it lets you read books from Standard Ebooks in 10 minutes a day as Substack-style email newsletters.

https://modernserial.com/
Tolka AI Therapeutics: Personalized Treatments Against Superbugs
Yeah, there's a lot of bad information around dieting and blood sugar more generally! It's important to call it out when you see it!
Holy crap this is impressive
This is a waste of resources. I mean, the idea is neat, but the meta-data is just too fragile. Regardless how much effort you put into this technology, the social media platforms have ruined the way folks intake content.
Totally. Sadly I’m focused on GUI use cases and not AST. I’m more focused on making distributed version control for tasks that are handled better by visual editors than plain text. Universal AST diffing and merging is probably an impossible problem to solve (entirely). You could write a driver for llvm that would work for any language that shares the same IR state. Even then there’d be a lot of cases where you’d have to depend on a developer to manually resolve syntactic conflicts and enforce consistency in the IR state, which makes it pretty impractical. But two things, first, I would look at Pijul, my understanding is there is (some) support for AST diffing and merging. Second, git does support custom merge and diff drivers — I’m not sure if this is where you’re going with your xml hack but I don’t think it’s too cumbersome to write a custom differ if your painful conflicts are relatively constrained to certain functionality or part of your code base.

My site is half built (lots of broken links and only half of the documentation is done so please don’t judge me), but I think my technical explanation does an okay job of talking through some of the complexities to think through in regards to structured diffing and merging. It might be helpful to you if you do decide to write a git merge driver. https://floro.io/technical-overview-part-1
> RTO is “free” and does not hit the financials in the same way

To wit, most employers aren't paying for each hour of employee time wasted by commuting, nor fuel/ maintenance costs for vehicles.

It might lead to higher employee turnover and difficulty hiring, but that is delayed and indirect.
Hmmm I thought it ran its own web server instead.
StyroPyro :)
VW wouldn't locate car with abducted child because subscription expired (2023)
Tom Scott is one of the great YouTubers. I don't know him personally but he does come across as a genuine down to earth guy who just wants to share knowledge with the world.

I also only recently learned that he has a newsletter. He mentions it briefly in some of his videos but I have never seen him ask people to sign up. The only reason I found out about it is because he included one of my articles in it[1]. Definitely highly recommend checking it out[2].

1 - https://mousetrack.co.uk/blog/mosquitoes-at-disney-why-do-yo...

2 - https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/
Thanks for the real example. Sounded quite generated to my ear as well. Wonder if it can do any better with more source material.
Yeah, I was just looking through A Christmas Carol and observed a handful of editorial changes in the commits <https://github.com/standardebooks/charles-dickens_a-christma...> (bran-new → brand-new, frouzy → frowzy, and “Lowercase some gratuitously uppercased words”). Frouzy → frowzy I’m mildly in favour of. Ditching bran-new definitely loses character (he omitted the d on purpose!). One or two of the lowercased words were mildly strange capitalised (e.g. Idol was inconsistent with the previous paragraph); but the lowercasing of many introduces broad stylistic inconsistency, and direct local inconsistency sometimes; and most of the capitalisations were not gratuitous. In fact, more than a few were clearly to be pronounced, as a form of emphasis (e.g. Poor, One, Us); and some were distinctly proper nouns in the context, the removal of which increases the parse difficulty (e.g. One¹, /(Cold )?(Roast|Boiled)/); and some reflect customs still common or even preferred in their domains (e.g. Act, Angelic, Apostles, Star). I just reckon that commit should be reverted, because from my perspective it’s mostly actively bad, and the rest subjective. I’m curious what your reaction is to my opinion here.

But yes, I see that you’re practising some editorial oversight and not aiming to faithfully represent the original in all regards, which I gather is more generally Project Gutenberg’s goal; and this would obviously contraindicate upstreaming.

On the other hand, when it comes to more stylistic matters, I tend to wish Project Gutenberg had more consistency. There’s too much gratuitous variation in presentation and ridiculous 256-colour backgrounds. It’s often too obvious much of it is the work of a group of individuals rather than a coherent effort.

I’m curious about the footnote-to-endnote thing, because I’m not sure how the various formats in question handle them all, but in print endnotes are almost always just awful. If anything, I’d be expecting to replace endnotes with footnotes. (Me, I’m partial to sidenotes.)

—⁂—

¹ Hickory dickory dock, three mice ran up the clock; the clock struck one, and has been charged with assault and battery.
My daughter would literally sit and stare at the wall instead of doing her English class homework.
The Road to Artificial General Intelligence
A high level overview of AGI, what it is, what is necessary to get there, and why we probably still need a major paradigm shift.
I've been eagerly awaiting the new Lord Peter Wimsey novel! To avoid burnout, I've been reading them as they enter the public domain instead of reading the whole series all at once, and I was hoping that it would be in the first batch this year. Thank you so much for your hard work!
while the electric truck exists, it is in short supply and so you can't really get it. So they hake time.
Anonymity Check
This site detects whether or not you are using a proxy, anonymizer, VPN server, Tor, or any other means of anonymization.
I suspect that it would have a similar number of edge cases, but they would be harder to interpret and reproduce. That's just been my experience with moving from unlearned algorithms to deep learning in general.
Half way in, i find this a tiring style of narration. Less enthusiasm would require less focus and thus less energy from the viewer.
Just have to check how much solar power solar panels produce during day now in areas beyond Artic Circle... Doesn't seem exactly great technology.
> I 1000% blame social media companies for intentionally designing their apps

I'm not a smartphone user, so I ask out of curiosity:

Do people really have no agency anymore? No self-discipline?

I've read this statement that it's "the machine's fault" in numerous versions but I'm puzzled by it. If you don't like the screen, why don't you just turn it off, or toss it in the bin?
You got that reversed: EVs match well with off-grid / decentralized power generation like solar.

ICE vehicles otoh depend on gas stations & all the infrastructure behind those. Yes they're still everywhere & you have range, but sooner or later you have to visit one. Only exeption are engines that take fuels like plant oils (some diesel engines) or perhaps ethanol.
> People will anonymously scout docs to determine if your product can help them

Regular users don't do that: developers and techs do. That's what marketing material is for.

> If public, docs are discoverable by Google, which means they are part of your marketing awareness effort

Purpose-build marketing materials are better than technical documentation. They can contain technical information, but they serve a different purpose and work best when created for that

> Writing docs is cheaper than shipping code, and therefore can be worth implementing to compensate (as you wrote)

Sure, doing a bad job is usually cheaper than doing a good job, but if you do a good job designing your interface, and you do a good job creating marketing material, there's no comparison. Trying to shave pennies off of marketing material, especially, is about as penny-wise and pound foolish as you get. Your average end user probably reads exactly zero lines of formal software documentation in their entire lives, and that probably has a lot more psychological inertia with them than interest in your product. Even if it's well-written, they're not used to it. They find it intimidating and off-putting; using it as marketing material with it is a surefire way to turn off a whole lot of potential customers. It would be like a nightclub trying to save money by firing the models they pay to hand out flyers and hiring a couple extra hulking, chipped-tooth bouncers to pick up the slack-- it's not like there's any technical reason they can't do it, and it's the same flyer either way, right?

Let the appropriate professionals ply the expertise they went to school for and built their career on rather than pushing that onto a developer who only thinks they can sub in as a technical writer and interface designer because they don't quite understand what those people add to the process: they just know how its technically implemented. I was that developer for years before I went to school for design. Devs really really can't intuit their way through those processes like they assume they can- That's why damn near any FOSS that's been taken up by non-technical crowds is controlled by foundations or corporations with professional designers and writers.
It's not about React specifically, but about whether pre-rendering will make any difference from an SEO perspective.

Not only do most frameworks do SSR, but Google is able to crawl dynamic content just fine. Here's an article from 2015 on the topic: https://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascr...
The data is right there at the top of my comment.
The SPC700 Talk [video]
why not just debloat win11?
Microdot creator here. Happy to answer any questions about Microdot if you have any!
That's roughly what I did. I often do side projects with two goals: there's something I want to exist, and something I want to learn. And I'll learn that thing by using it to build something I want.

At one point, the thing I wanted to learn was "call something done". So I did that, and because it was a side project with learning as an explicit goal, I was able to actually do that - it was literally impossible to ship something imperfect, as shipping would already mean I'd perfectly reached my goal.

But that turned out to be enough faking it to make it - the feeling of shipping it felt good, and gave me the confidence to spend a small amount of time to polish my side projects up enough for shipping, rather than a large amount of time to do everything I want. And it's way more fun now to be able to occasionally pull up an old side project of mine that's still usable, because I got it to a usable state in the first place.

(In case anyone's interested, you can see the project, and how small its scope was, at https://agripongit.vincenttunru.com.)
We could move the earth just a little bit closer to the sun. I am sure someone here could work out by how much.
I really hope we never do get there...
If you want to go further down the LIDAR path, you might be able to improve the public data by making manual improvements to the point cloud classification.

For that sort of terrain it's common for classification algorithms to put vegetation (e.g. deadfall, small bushes) into the "ground" class, so when the terrain model gets triangulated using all the "ground" points there is erroneous bumps. If this is the case, you could reprocess the point cloud yourself and tweak the settings being used or make manual adjustments.

I'm not sure of the quality of the linked dataset, so maybe it would be difficult to find improvements. But you knowledge of on-the-ground conditions (and smallish scale of the area) means it's definitely possible.

Also, just in case you haven't stumbled across it, a "Digital Surface Model" (DSM) is different than a "Digital Terrain Model" (DTM)!

(surveying student here, very much enjoyed the writeup!)
I wrote my first web app on netscapes commerce server in C around 1994. It was an online aptitude test for a distance learning college. I still remember banging my head against the desk trying to figure out why it was producing a 500. Until I realized that Content-type: text/html needed two \n’s after it, not just one.
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TLS 1.1 and 1.2 are supported by Windows 7 SP1

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-to-enable-t...
Yeah we haven't gone the "need managers" route yet. Right now we're sorta creeping in process like ... uh actual good testing, and so on ;)
Network Address Translation was invented the same year that Netscape Navigator was originally released, and it took years for it to become the de facto way to get a private local network onto the Internet. In the 90s I installed proxy servers at several small businesses in order to share a dialup connection to other PCs in the network.
>The counterpoint is that we don't need a new gimmick every year, and the companies that do chase new gimmicks (like Samsung and Xiaomi) do so at the expense of overall fit and finish

I think you're sort of making my point for me in a roundabout way. We don't need our consumer computing devices to come out with new iterations every year. That's more down to the process people who listen to Wall Street's wanton cries of "QoQ growth for all of time must happen or else we will riot". They look at Cook and say "we have to copy that". Instead of following the gaming console trend (a new device every 4-5 years that was clearly several technological steps up from the previous console), they become addicted to releasing nearly identical products with a few marginal changes because that gets them nice quarterly numbers.

I'd rather own a device, use it a few years, and then upgrade when the product utility and usecase demands I need to.
> The sort of thing preventing this from working would be if you would e.g. prohibit people from building parking garages. But you don't have to prohibit them in order to not require them. Requiring them is a subsidy.

That assumes that markets work well in every circumstance. I think that pretty clearly isn't true. It would be interesting to learn the facts of the parking space market in cities.
At least right now, there is a literal add_watermark function, so probably easy enough to remove that surface level. Unless they added something cute to the training data to poison the well.

https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice/blob/a33963c3d764bee...
That's the next step though. SMRs, Small Modular Reactors. Basically the same sort of thing that's in a submarine but dotted around our neighbourhoods and cities.
I too am an SBC hoarder. It has gotten bad. :D

I bought the original Raspberry Pi 2b as part of a homebrew NAS. Later I bought the Pi 3, Pi 4, Pi Compute 4 + board, Pi 5, 2 RISC-V boards, and a bunch of other boards. I don't have a need for them, I just enjoy collecting them.

Currently the only one I'm using is a Pi 5.
The Thing That Is Silence
Anecdotal evidence is they are still flagging this content. https://x.com/quijanophd/status/1741897926924726449?s=46&t=c...
That's a fascinating idea. Like a self managed, queryable, updating project requirements corpus.
I’m happy to see Standard Ebooks here! I’ve read their editions of Nostromo by Joseph Conrad and Vanity Fair by William Thackeray and the quality great. I recommend it if you’re interested in classic literature.
Basically I want TDD(make it run!). I want something runs and everyone can see it. Ship faster, get it run faster, get feedback faster, improve faster, iterate faster.

Perfectionism comes from iterations
>No, we wouldn't magically have developed modern computer-controlled battery packs of lithium ion batteries in 1920 if we just wanted it hard enough.

That's not what the commenter said. Don't put your interpretation of the words into theirs.

It is very feasible that the investment of 100-some-odd years of battery research and a marked non-future invested as deeply into oil and gas as we have now would have rendered our entire world vastly different. This is not a claim that the future would have happened sooner, but rather the events that unfolded and the research would have been different.
AGI is not super intelligence, it's "merely" human level intelligence across most economically valuable domains, there's no reason to think an AGI might not be net positive.
The “depth too small” problem shown in the last animation produces an interesting behavior appearance; it looks like the monster is “waiting to see” which way you’ll go. I think you can even “fake it out” by starting to go in one direction, then switching, right?

Thankfully we’re quite forgiving about this stuff, humans seem to model everything as intelligent, haha.
What are the standard dimensions produced by se build-images?
YouTube already doesn't validate copyright claims are valid - the DMCA makes even trying legally perilous, and YouTube's motivation to keep on good terms with the publishers goes even further. So in that regard, this changes nothing.
What You Should Know About Linear Markov Chains
>Economic regression and forthcoming demographic collapse

Isn't the same happening in the west?
To be honest, I actually give them the benefit of doubt at first, because what you said does have merit.
TLDR: Fish throws out old stuff (sh compatibility, mostly) in order to be very user friendly (at least to users who aren't used to sh), and is very good at doing so.

(Written as a user who is very accustomed to sh and gave up after trying fish briefly)
What are the dimensions produced by se build-images?
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