skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're classifying letters in the abstract, Y doesn't get included in the vowels.

There is a school of thought that says you should also be able to classify letters as they appear in specific words.† That's where the idea comes from that "Y is sometimes a vowel".

But people who believe that they hold to that school are generally unwilling to say that M is sometimes a vowel, despite the fact that the spelling of the second syllable in rhythm is "m". This is difficult to reconcile with the justification given for Y sometimes being a vowel, that any syllable must contain a vowel.

As far as the phonetics go, they support the idea that "m" /m/ in rhythm is not a vowel [it would be called a "syllabic consonant"] while "y" /i/ in homily is. Obviously, this requires tossing out the idea that all syllables must contain vowels. Phonetics assigns an intermediate status to the "y" /j/ in "yell" - it is a vowel as far as the mechanics of producing it go, but it clearly behaves as if it is a consonant, so it is called a "glide".

As far as the etymology goes, Y represents a foreign sound, a vowel in ancient Greek, and it's always a vowel. Interestingly enough, the ancient Greek vowel is sometimes a consonant (what you'd think of as V) in modern Greek.

† This doesn't really work; any particular word will have a definite spelling and a definite pronunciation, but that doesn't mean that it's possible to consistently map the letters of the spelling to the sounds of the pronunciation.
>People with the M1 laptops are frequently waiting almost 2m for their builds to complete.

I guess M1 laptops are here to stay until M5 laptops come out.
A self hosted editor is the key component.
How do you measure spending that will only affect people living in the distant future? This is the problem with the longtermist end of the EA movement.
You might want to check out Fedor Pikus' The Art of Writing Efficient Programs.

Also see Victor Eijkhout's books : https://theartofhpc.com/
I used it. The user experience is not remotely close to Delphi, but it has WYSIWYG. The closest Python had to Delphi was Boa Constructor, but it stalled quickly, decades ago.
Typical enterprise logic: $20K for an ordinary display that can be "repaired in the field" and comes with "support", instead of $200 for a display that can be replaced in its entirety for... $200.
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Ask HN: Was the UK tech scene in the 80s anything like Silicon Valley today?
Or rather, how close was it like Silicon Valley to be working in tech in the UK during that time? For their time, lot of name brand products in computing came from the UK, and even though the market today is not very lucrative, the nation still left a legacy to the computing industry as a whole. So when this sort of activity was in great flux in the 80s I can only assume it must've been really great to work as a software engineer, comparatively speaking.

From someone outside the UK who doesn't understand the economics of the nation it's sort of a mystery to me that they had quickly become a shadow of what once was.
His mother was a teacher at my high school, and a very nice and unique person - she had this looong flowing hair that she kept up in an Elmer Fudd style hat until the last day of school.

Mark was a really nice guy as well, I randomly passed him on a hiking trail far from there 20 years later and recognized him. We had a fun chat about his mom and his career.
Till the time they fix it, there's this add-on which fixes the issue: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...
I would also check insurance if those rates aren't going to skyrocket.

And what about governmental regulation? Knowingly driving a car that doesn't meet the safety regulation, in my opinion, should be banned.

Just like people who put a quick-release steering wheel in their car and then get rear-ended. Sure they didn't make a mistake, but because of their own choice they exacerbated the problem.
FAST is just some 7km away from a city (Tangbianzhen 塘边镇), and is sorrounded by villages.

Human settlements are very radio loud. If they already can manage radio signals from their sorroundings, I don’t see why an amusement park should be any more challenging for them…
HubSpot popularized collecting emails before providing pricing. A lesson from corporate sales in other industries. (Urgh)
Even Visual Basic for DOS had a TUI designer. Wasn't addressed in the article.
Because usually you try to prevent race to the bottoms.
Lesson is to not say it's ready before it's ready.
That seems a bit odd since the tibetan plateau and the Himalayas already provide a great barrier between Hindus and Chinese Buddhists. I don't think there was a lot of movement between the two based on stories like journey to west.
Canada has many issues.

Housing crisis is because of unsustainably high immigration levels.

In 2023 alone, there was a net inflow of over 1.3 million people. It's a lot for a country of 39 million. Where will they live?

Another major issue is the suppression of wages this causes.

Also there is a serious lack of diversity in the immigrant population (no cap by country as in the US). This is tearing apart the cultural fabric of communities.
The glaring omission in the article is Visual Basic for DOS.
It had a visual TUI designer in DOS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDpzoYgNd0
Yes, certainly I agree. Solar is the best option, for the first 60-70% penetration. I am, like most in this thread, very optimistic about solar. We are nowhere near that level of penetration in most regions. But after that 60-70%, adding more capacity just doesn't move the needle. Once you hit 100% for the day in solar, a spare panel doesn't help your nighttime situation.

So then what. You could overbuild solar, build distribution, build battery banks. I'm not wild about that. Mining for batteries is nasty business and we need all of the Lion we can get for electric mobility. Distribution? It's alright, but you run into problems -- like, what do you do when the sun goes down on the west coast? What do you do when a line goes down? Your system is larger, more centralized, more vulnerable.

Nuclear under the current regulatory regime is clearly a nonstarter. But the capex of nuclear is almost entirely artificial. Something much closer to "too cheap to meter" could be a reality. All it takes is a cultural willingness.

By the way, nuclear having an extraordinary capex makes it even tougher to compete with solar in the mix. Because your capacity factor goes way down if you are only generating at night. This is why we build oil and gas plants -- they're cheap. What we need is for nuclear to favorably compete with oil and gas. It does not need to compete with solar.
Take OpenSSL. Their open source product would be free of liability. Their commercial support offering of that same product would not be.
I can look at it. I'm a hobbyist like you but I have been using KiCad and making PCBs for a few years now.

If you want to be anal you can print the PCB from KiCad on a regular laser printer at actual size and "stuff" your paper PCB with the components you intend to install. I've used a push-pin to poke small holes in the paper PCB and then threaded the resistors, etc. into the holes to get a sort of sanity check that the components are going to actually fit with one another.

The latest KiCad has a 3D viewing mode that seems to have a similar benefit. But I had a few components on my latest PCB that KiCad didn't know about so there was no 3D model for those components. (I could probably hunt for these component's 3D models on the web but I am too lazy.)

Otherwise, I see lots of "can you review my PCB?" on r/PrintedCircuitBoard/ (https://old.reddit.com/r/PrintedCircuitBoard/).

Here's another YouTube video I've sat through: https://youtu.be/3FGNw28xBr0?si=57iSLz2EFxOdUmXn

I'm interested in the course as well though. I suspect there is a lot I could learn.
I can give a real example. At work we were testing pulse shaping amplifiers for Geiger Muller tubes. They take a pulse in, shape it to get a pulse with a height proportional to the charge collected, and output a histogram of the frequency of pulse heights, with each bin representing how many pulses have a given amount of charge.

Ideally, of all components are the same, there is no jitter, and if you feed in a test signal from a generator with exactly the same area per pulse, you should see a histogram where every count is in a single bin.

In real life, components have tolerances, and readouts have jitter, so the counts spread out and you might see, with the same input, one device with, say, 100 counts in bin 60, while a comparably performing device might have 33 each in bins 58, 59, and 60.

This can be hard to compare visually as a PDF, but if you compare CDF's, you see S-curves with rising edges that only differ slightly in slope and position, making the test more intuitive.
Could you not just keep gas as a backup? I don’t see why you need both coal and gas?
This is really cool but I will never trust an app like this to have access to my emails.
That's really cool channel to stumble upon. Thanks for sharing
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We figured this out with guitar pedals. Analog circuits sound awesome. Taking one of these analog processors and layering a digital interface on top provides the best of both worlds. You can save presets, program the parameters using MIDI, etc.
Great, it's still too bad about all the QoL options only accessible via about:config though.
How can life be sustained with free water? Who is going to provide it?
My guess is that the future of war looks like Ukraine, where small, cheap automated drones will overwhelm expensive, low volume hardware, munitions, and defensive positions.
Irregular verb joke incoming:

I log in.
You backdoor.
They exploit.
I've wondered why that is. Both Linux and MacOS take several seconds to change low level screen parameters like this. It made some sense in the age of CRTs, but today I struggle to understand why it takes more than 50ms. What is it doing during all that time??
React seems so unapproachable compared to when it originally came out.
Not in depth, general understanding
I'd recommend setting them up in parallel and using this fantastic driver: https://iosoft.blog/2020/09/29/raspberry-pi-multi-channel-ws... . Anecdotally I was able to drive 16 200 pixel strings at ~180Hz with a Raspi 4B.

Running in series with the regular adafruit library would work as well but at this number of pixels the refresh rate might start to get a bit choppy, and you probably want to add power in the middle of the string regardless so the wiring isn't any harder.
> non-Americans are confused by "cheese products" like Kraft Singles and think that that is what we think cheese is, rather than being well known as not cheese

Just to be clear to non-Americans, we don't think that "cheese products" are real cheese. There are a number of welfare programs that help low-income Americans buy food; for example WIC [1]. If you take your WIC card to a grocery store and scan it in, the grocery store computer system will refuse to sell you "cheese products". You are not allowed to use government money to buy fake cheese! The computer will beep at you, the store clerk will say "sorry, you can't buy this, it's not real cheese", you will be embarrassed, and you will never, ever, ever make that mistake again!

There are enough people who buy that stuff (or else nobody would manufacture it). But it isn't because they are confused and think it is cheese.

[1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/about-wic
my company did this. fuck i hate it so much. if anyone wants to hire me away from this remote desktop hellscape, please do.
People seem to constantly confuse biometrics.

As your post implies, it should be a username … not a password.
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In 1970s a large scrolling LED / neon sign would use a bunch of shift registers as the backing store and the scrolling mechanism. You only needed 1 bit; likely in 1980s you could add another bit (for red and green). This approach makes the display highly modular.

The input likely would have been a punched card for a fully bitmapped display, or something more complex for a character-syntherizing display with a ROM inside it.

In late 1980s you'd likely already use a 8-bit CPU and a bit of SRAM, with scanning.
Low tech stupid solution: carry a sharpie.
Somewhat ironically his https://jgthms.com/css-in-44-minutes-ebook is 404
>I find references to some ISO decision from June 2018 to recommend renaming the Bengali script to Bengali/Assamese

Yes, that seems to be stuck and no progress made there AFAIK. For those interested, this Twitter thread covers the timeline - https://twitter.com/KabirFiraque/status/1066392176689643525
Are you in Mathia yourself?
I doubt an n2-standard-8 is remotely close to the speed of an m3 pro. Did you test the performance?
The OP distinguished between snow crystals and snowflakes in this way.
I've had luck doing this (in mkdocs) with:

https://github.com/orzih/mkdocs-with-pdf
There are always CVE reports on popular code eventually.

The question you have to ask is: "are you better off not knowing?"

Minimizing attack surfaces often means role specific servers, and some sort of proprietary virtualization/sandbox. There are some good arguments to rotate and burn mail server instances every 3 months like clockwork, and expire your keys. i.e. makes sure permission rot, deleted user files, and failed binary sums are auto-deleted or captured in a peer forensic log.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGOtZDk6wRc
I often hear references to Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake as if they’re two peas in the Open Table Formats pod. Yet…

Here’s the Apache Iceberg table format specification:

https://iceberg.apache.org/spec/

As they like to say in patent law, anyone “skilled in the art” of database systems could use this to build and query Iceberg tables without too much difficulty.

This is nominally the Delta Lake equivalent:

https://github.com/delta-io/delta/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md

I defy anyone to even scope out what level of effort would be required to fully implement the current spec, let alone what would be involved in keeping up to date as this beast evolves.

Frankly, the Delta Lake spec reads like a reverse engineering of whatever implementation tradeoffs Databricks is making as they race to build out a lakehouse for every Fortune 1000 company burned by Hadoop (which is to say, most of them).

My point is that I’ve yet to be convinced that buying into Delta Lake is actually buying into an open ecosystem. Would appreciate any reassurance on this front!

Editing to append this GitHub history, which is unfortunately not reassuring:

https://github.com/delta-io/delta/commits/master/PROTOCOL.md

Random features and tweaks just popping up, PR’d by Databricks engineers and promptly approved by Databricks senior engineers…
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The thing is, if I were to buy a vial of some research chemical and disregard the warnings and actually want to take them, I’d still have no idea what to do with a vial of liquid. Presumably it involves needles which I’ve never prepared. What’s in there could be totally safe to take and I might still end up with an infection or some other nonsense because I don’t know what I’m doing. I do appreciate a certain hacker spirited, DIY approach to medicine, but it could be a bridge too far for me.
Ah I just meant "the problem" in an academic sense. I.e. what is the thing which it is trying to do.
The $200 monitor can be replaced in its entirety but then union rules mean you need a full-time union tech to swap it out and you need a bunch of them on payroll to ensure you have 24/7 coverage vs a vendor support contract
What kind of app would you trust to have access to your emails?
here is the Nokia ‘Snake’ game in its natural environment

"Snake" pre-dates Nokia phone games by two decades.
That just limits rpm
Exactly this. SW productions are side characters who had some kind of relationship with a skywalker at some point getting their own shows. The recent movie franchise didn't manage to open new directions for bigger plots that can be presented as tv shows therefore all Disney+ SW productions are stuck in the past trying to unsuccessfully expand on existing characters.
They're government supported, is my guess. There's no profit motive so everybody can do whatever they want.
He specifically said Chinese. But given the era it might have well been conflated.
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I trust liability laws in the US to keep those chutes solid.
Sour grapes? My point was he was right. Having to work for the things I wanted was good for me. For example, to get a car I had to work to buy it, and all I could pay for was a clunker. Hence I learned a great deal about auto mechanics, which has paid off handsomely.

For example, just today I drove my car after it returned from the shop after some major maintenance. I noticed it was spitting antifreeze out the bottom. Oh crud, the shop must have screwed up the hoses. Looking under the car, the outflow was coming from the radiator overflow hose. This is a normal thing if the radiator overflow tank was filled a bit too much - nothing to worry about.

If I didn't know anything about cars, I would have wasted an afternoon taking it back to the shop.
He's referencing the time Krebs doxed the admins and mods of pr0gramm (a German image board). https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/angry-users-d...
Yup, I would like to see a similar third party audit performed at Toyota, too. Toyota and Daihatsu cars share a lot of the same technology and engineering resources, similar to the relationship between Lexus and Toyota. I can’t help but wonder if they also share a similar approach to safety testing.
Squid game show not the actual Korean drama series
Oh, I know people don't, and shouldn't, use Gentoo.

What's weird to me is that it works for me. And it's weird because I see how Gentoo is just not a good fit for most things, so fitting it feels weird.
People lost their assets on FTX, I personally lost some assets on OKCoin.
Which life?

If we're talking about basic necessary water for humans, that's a tiny little fraction of use and easy for cities to provide.

For anything else the water doesn't need to be free or actively should not be free, depending on which use you look at.

Water used to grow food goes in the second category.
They can still be carbon negative if at EOL we don't release the carbon. Turn it into charcoal is an obvious idea, but other options may exist.
I built an LED scrolling sign in my basement using the same 8x32 panels as the OP, controlled by the more-than-fast-ish-enough ESP32.

I never got around to making a proper video about the construction and installation, but I do have this demo of one of the applications I wrote for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSq8dYBHVBQ

I should do a full write-up so I can submit it to HN. Code's on GitHub anyway. https://github.com/masto/LED-Marquee
"We only support Gmail and Gsuite email accounts today"

Nice work here but here's where innovation could start with another smart email client in the crowded market. It seems they are all "gmail now and outlook on the roadmap" I know these are common email suites but why not friendly and open protocols like Fastmail's JMAP?

Gmail is also precisely the product that needs this extra functionality the least.
Yup, next generation crypto wallets could come from

1. Large companies

2. Large open source communities

3. Some existing wallets could continue to grow and pivot

Which one would you prefer?
What would you be interested in learning about Elixir? I'm writing educational content now.
I feel the opposite for Netflix, which has better writing but worse acting, casting, costumes and generally plastic feeling on most of its original shows.
I want to know how a socialist or communist approach can produce a viable open source ecosystem, and I want to learn about it by studying the actual results of an existing system, not the whim of theory.
Retrieval-augmented generation: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/retrieval-augmented-generatio...
How do we burn them? Heat them in a low O2 enhironment would result in enough hydrogen released to renerate power and fuel the reaction while leaving carbon to behind. Not very efficent but it is known to work.
I've found that 512 characters, more or less, is a good length for embeddings. More than that, and a bunch of models will just ignore the text. Less than half that, there isn't always enough context in the text to be able to group the chunks by keyterm or other labels. I do this type of additive context using the first few results from the embedding search.

If it's tweets, it makes sense to use shorter chunks.

I was dissatisfied with the results of chunks "broken off" from sentences, so I use nltk to find sentence boundaries and then approximate the lengths of chunks. I also built a custom splitter function for Jinja2 that will chunk by length, page offset, and also does overlaps, where bits of the beginning and ends of a chunk will run into the previous and next chunk.

I have a pipeline for this particular type of use, running on an Open Source thing I built to handle indexing texts: https://mitta.ai. The RAG pipeline is under cookbooks.
Analog data plane, digital control plane. Yeah, it’s great for some circuits. Digital pots and other bridging tech doesn’t always work well for some especially funky analog circuits, e.g. the Fuzz Face. OTOH, those circuits usually have one good setting anyway.
The origin of this particular line of rhetoric? c. 1787:

> "A republic, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
My Dell XPS was an excellent Ubuntu machine. 16 cores, 3x USB-C ports, 64 GB RAM. Slept better than my win11/lenovo. Used it for two years writing firmware in C++ and python and matlab. Worked great with dual external 4k monitors.
This is the opposite of what happened.
It is self-proclaimed as a "research Language" on the homepage, which has kept me away so far.
Hey all! My name is Hannah, 1/2 of the Hexcodle dev team. First of all, thank you for playing! We woke up today astonished with the amount of visits on our site and we can't thank you enough!
Reading through these comments and we have been working on some of the feedback from you all: we have been working on the concept of a points system so playing will hopefully be a bit more engaging for those familiar with the binary search method! We're hoping to have this implemented within the next few weeks.

If you have any questions or want to give us feedback, we have a feedback form in our navbar, make sure to leave an email if you'd like me to follow up with you in the future.

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you should include seed phrase and private key detection. a few crypto protocols that offer public docker images have been drained from accidentally committing keys to docker hub.
It basically means "shouldn't be recycled"... Unless there is some desperately compelling reason to.
I would like to use this. I have used Hugo only once and was only half successful in creating a webpage, because I am not so familiar with html and css. Do you have a ready to use GitHub repo somewhere? That would be really nice.
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Hey Andrew!

Thanks for sharing all the resources and giving me guidance a few years ago. Still very thankful for a few of your posts and pointing me to read Venture Deals, all made me a much better CTO and founder. Hope your current journey is going great!