skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Low code" is not just literally some software library with a GUI on top. There is a whole CI / CD pipeline which kicks into gear. What does that GUI do, and what does it look like? In some fashion or other it lets you compose the application GUI; it doesn't have to be WYSIWYG like DTP or composing a slide deck, but many are. Although the GUI is ubiquitous, it isn't necessary. What is necessary is the CI / CD and devops pipeline in a box and the extensible ETL plan which allows it to be tied to business logic.
> Everyone fails. Not everyone gives up.

The flipside is that not everyone can afford to not give up.

It's very easy to dimiss successful people as lucky without acknowledging the perseverance that goes into pushing through all the failures until you get a success, but it's also easy to dismiss people who never hit that success as lacking that perseverance.
There's a world of difference between eating food that's had some sugar added to it and consuming explicitly sugary things in large quantities. Really if you just do three things there's an enormous health benefit:

1. Replace all sugary drinks (soda, starbucks drinks, etc.) with non-sugar alternative (water, plain coffee, etc.)

2. Make whole fruit your dessert and/or snacks, replacing ice cream and candy and stuff

3. Cook several times per week with recipes that don't call for adding sugar
> The US could have won militarily if they were willing to kill several hundred million people. It's probably best that they weren't.

Could they really? Would the nuclear-armed Soviet Union idly stand by and watch US commit nuclear holocaust against it's close neighbour? They wouldn't. Would US allies back them in a war that turned into genocide? Unlikely.

So no, they probably could not have done that because they would not risk escalation into WW3 where most allies abandon USA.
Just curious...why would anyone here cheer? Have HNers been desperate to launch their own Mickey Mouse novelty tee Etsy stores for years?
Same! IRL everybody I know is at least positive to neutral on gen AI, with a few who don't like it. In school, it is very very widely used for obvious reasons, and I've seen a few friends use it for emotional support as well. The most opposition I've seen is always from online strangers.
the context of this discussion is that someone described a character in a fictional cartoon animal comedy as an 'animal abusing asshole', so judging interactions between fictional cartoon animal comedy characters using the standards applied to real-life interactions between humans is the entire premise of the discussion. i agree that it leads to absurd conclusions; that's what my comments are designed to demonstrate

it's nice that you internalized my thesis so thoroughly, but it's unfortunate that you seem to believe i was arguing against it

(unless you think the key difference is that steamboat willie wasn't episodic)
Ironically, the production of this video has the feel of a sugar spike
Sometimes there is just more work to be done than that small team can handle. It’s often extremely effective to have a small highly skilled team explore an area and chart out a path, and then expand that team so the core won’t be working on the problem for the next ten years.
Show HN: Flame – Data Model and Query Library for Firestore
Hi HN, I've been using Firestore as a DB for various projects and web applications since it was launched after Google acquired Firebase.

I built Flame to clarify and reduce model, serialization, authorization, validation, query, and paging code in my projects. In large projects, I've found Flame reduces my Firestore related code by around 90% compared to using firebase-admin directly in each API/Lambda/Function endpoint.

After re-designing the library more than once over the past few years, I've finally put together some docs and published to npm+yarn+etc.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.
For those wondering where to start, I just began going through the meal plan in Danielle Walker’s Against All Grain. It isn’t strictly about no sugar but it definitely cuts out any processed garbage, including added sugars or course. When I did my grocery shopping for a week of meals, I spent more time in the produce section than ever and ended up with at least one vegetable I’d never heard of.
And he's why I know I shouldn't roll my own time zone library.

https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY?si=eL38cruwJZDiuHVS
Off the top of my head (please add):

Any website with JS is bad

Everything is cancel culture

Startup culture is bad (ironic)

Anything cryptocurrency is bad

HN's design/layout is perfect

Joe Rogan is a god

SWEs are underpaid and not respected

Everything is a cargo cult

dang is a god

Everything is a logical fallacy

Vercel is evil

Piracy is harmless and good

Correlation never indicates causation

Paywalls are bad except on my Substack

I think Elon flipped from being worshipped to being hated

Steve Jobs was a god

Being a contrarian makes you smart

Everything is virtue signalling
As you say, right at the bottom https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice
It became popular among some English protestants who didn't like to use Anno Domini because it's Latin.
Totally had not heard of the fellow. But HN is a gateway to so much goodness.
See also Mark V Shaney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney

This was a class assignment in college, we had a lot of fun with it, and one of my classmates, the brilliant Alyosha Efros, decided to apply the exact same technique to images instead of text. It turned into a paper that revitalized texture synthesis in the Siggraph community. The most interesting part about it (in my opinion) is that he ran it on images of text, and it produces images of readable text nonsense! With the right window size, perhaps there’s a nonzero possibility of being able to produce the same text either way. This always struck me as very meta and makes me wonder if there are ways we could go in reverse with image processing (or other types of data); if there’s a latent underlying representation for the information contained in image content that is much smaller and more efficient to work with. Neural networks might or might not be providing evidence.

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~efros/research/EfrosLeung....
It's essentially a static image with a mouth moving when a sound plays. There's no real connection between what's being said and what shapes the mouth is making and the lack of any movement on the rest of the face is just incredibly awkward to watch. It might be a first step towards something great, but seems far too rough and early to be showing it off.
What was the vegetable you hadn’t heard of?
DARPA Triage Challenge
VALL-E is on Github for over a year already...
1) find the doi number [1a][1b]

2) find sources that cite the doi number -> google scholar[2][3]

3) filter for 'github'

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[1a]resolve a doi name : https://dx.doi.org/

[1b]find a doi number : https://answers.lib.iup.edu/faq/31945

[2] : https://scholar.google.com/

[3] : google with "site:http://doi.org/"

[4] : finding a doi in document page : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27910/finding-a-doi-in-a...
The 2022 Nobel confirms reality is non-local, the culmination of 50+ years of physics, and we seem to have diddly. Where are the breakthroughs? They’re not in QC. I feel something is amiss. There’s a mismatch. Einstein was the strongest opponent of non-locality, for what? Not sure where the mismatch is exactly. Believing Einstein you’d think science is now in peril due to its non-local nature being impossible to conduct experiments. But AFAICT there’s so little interest.
Jicama
The most effective antidote to procrastination for me is to get up at 5am.

I have literally nothing to do for 4 hours, and I'm awake, and I have loads of energy, and no one else is up, so I may as well just do that thing I've been putting off.

Also, literally just starting the task, regardless of how I feel. That works too.
That literally brought tears to my eyes. We love you, Tom!
Wars?
The copyright owners persuaded other countries to make copyright very long, then persuaded the USA to fall in line with other countries.
Those shows aren’t very good to say the least compared to Bluey.
There is basically nothing a beginner could learn with that is completely novel.

We can probably assume this gentlemen already knew about yt-dl and it's derivatives; that wasn't the point of the exercise.
I did. It depends what you want, for an overview of how ONNX Runtime works then Microsoft have a bunch of things on https://onnxruntime.ai, but the Java content is a bit lacking on there as I've not had time to write much. Eventually I'll probably write something similar to the C# SD tutorial they have on there but for the Java API.

For writing ONNX models from Java we added an ONNX export system to Tribuo in 2022 which can be used by anything on the JVM to export ONNX models in an easier way than writing a protobuf directly. Tribuo doesn't have full coverage of the ONNX spec, but we're happy to accept PRs to expand it, otherwise it'll fill out as we need it.
Thanks for the link to the repo. It's very useful.

As for the checkpoint, I'm not allergic and I don't do security theater:

https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice?tab=readme-ov-file#i... links to

https://myshell-public-repo-hosting.s3.amazonaws.com/checkpo...
Cuphead should absolutely add a Mickey Mouse DLC.
The GND (or Earth/GND) is there for safety and equipotential bonding. It’s not meant to carry current and running current through it will trigger your RCD, because that’s how a ground fault is detected. And detecting that is important so when you trip with your hairdryer into the bathtub you won’t kill yourself.
We are abstractions, with no substantial reality apart from everything else. And thus, not worth getting hung up on most of the time.
However, this reduces the number of potential members quite a bit. In some areas, there would probably only be one.

That's not adapting but retreating.
Genuinely curious to hear what’s wrong with what I thought a cool, curious fun time implementing markov chains. We learned a lot about statistics and linear algebra, matrix diagonalisation and exponentiation, I find it very relevant and can answer questions if you don’t understand.
Holy cow! If this works without curated audio...this is amazing!
Clone management's voices and post it to their social media/etc. Super undo it!
I'm surprised this video links lack of sugar intake with ketone excretion. I did keto for about a year a long time ago and just cutting sugar was definitely not enough - I had to cut carbs in general to get keto readings or keto breath.

I dropped keto after some time, but my sugar consumption never went back up to pre-keto levels. Checking nutrition labels for sugar content is just second nature at this point. If craving dessert, I usually make something like Greek yogurt with blueberries. If baking, most recipes end up tasting way too sweet now so I generally cut the sugar by at least half the amount listed.

I do sometimes have a larger "dose": For example, if I'm at a new restaurant and want to try a unique dessert. Or my boyfriend's mom drops off some delicious pastry she made.

But that leads me to the skin part of the video, which really resonated. Every time I do have a day or two of eating more sugar than usual, it shows up very quickly in my skin - I break out like crazy within days.
Great to hear, whirlpool has helped me quite a bit over what seems like decades at this point. It's a great resource!
Now ask it to render a deepfake of Noam Chomsky waving his hands saying "Nothing to see here."
My guess is some combination of:

* Python -> Java jump (e.g. CS1=Python, CS2=Java) is difficult.
* First real world job in Java in a larger enterprise with lots of older baggage
* And by a few handful, related to sound technical reasons in their niche area

For me, the jump from Java -> C/C++ in university was hard and I still don't have a good handle on those latter languages. In my first job out of school I was handed a massive C++ library to build an application around with no mentorship and I failed spectacularly. I reacted similarly to the negative Java hate: "Why would anyone use this?"

For me now, as a principal eng, building a greenfield project with Java 17+ now is extremely enjoyable. Interestingly, we've had some HTML/CSS/JS bootcamp devs with no prior coding background succeed in doing Java. And we've had some Python/C university devs struggle. Sample size is too small to be meaningful, I just thought it was interesting.
A very unsweet sugar at that. It's all the downsides of sugar and almost non of the upside (taste).
Your comment prompted me to consider the ratio between two kinds of information: (a) that which already exists and (b) has yet to be created.

By "information" I'm hand-waving around concepts such as code, organizational hierarchy, processes, lessons learned, sales pipelines, industry connections, brand awareness, etc.

I will toss out some claims: the human mind, operating in the context of an organization with more stuff that already exists, will largely "anchor" on what is known. In an organization, people share common knowledge -- and people know this about each other. It shapes how they interact and what they think is worth doing and trying.

So, to put a finer point on it: To what degree will existing information provide a productive jumping off point for what needs to be done?

To the extent my simplifications above capture the core dynamic -- it would perhaps explain a lot: (a) why some pivots feel incredibly hard, while others feel easy; (b) why some teams evolve fluently while others struggle to modernize; (c) why some cash cows transition to adjacent profitable opportunities while others languish; (d) why the idea of "skunk works" is so compelling when rapid innovation is needed
Reading the datasheet for one of the most common radios used for meshtastic devices (Semtech SX1262) the lowest bitrate is pretty slow: 18bps. But, with larger channel sizes and lower spreading factors, it goes up to 62.5kbps. I cant tell exactly which mode meshtastic uses by default, but it looks like there are 8 presets.
They promote their best schmoozers to management.

They have so much money that competence no longer matters and bootlicking will get you much farther.
I see this sort of clickbait a lot and don't actually click and don't want to again, but what does this person claim? I've been keeping detailed daily food logs and preparing my own food largely from scratch for a few years now and the net result is I don't eat a lot of sugar. Most of the time, no sugar at all, unless you count all the berries I eat.

What happens is nothing. I've never had a cavity, but that was true when I was a kid and still ate sugar. Seems to be genetics. Out of myself and three sisters, only one of us has ever had a cavity and it was only once. I'm not fat, but again, neither are any of my sisters. I'm very lean but that still required lifting to build muscle and intentional calorie restriction to lose fat. It didn't happen magically based on food choices. I suppose I'm less likely than most to get diabetes, but again, no one in my my family has diabetes, and as far as I'm aware, they all eat sugar. I'm the only one who has been religious about making my own food from scratch and never adding any kind of sweeteners.

If anything has actually happened, it's not outwardly noticeable. I still get sick. Still get injured. Even still get some occasional minor acne.

From looking over this video's transcripts, it appears they're fixating on cravings and ketosis. That seems to be something that happens if you eat no carbohydrates at all. Simply dropping sugar will not put you into ketosis. Whether it leads to any kind of more specific cravings will depend on how much you were eating before and what you replace it with, if anything.
The steam deck is amazing for Linux gaming, a great power efficient general computing device, and has a very nice form factor.

I get to have NixOS on a portable gaming device, play cyberpunk, retroarch, and more?

Unbelievable!
Depends on the ads. I remember circa 2005 there was a peak in television advertising being saturated with ads in poor taste for the problems of older people that could make somebody think "I want to die before I get old"
Yes I have seen the thread. Catching a player using just the winrate is hard. 9k hands is peanuts and some of the assumptions in that thread (like a 53% VPIP player must have 0bb/100 winrate) are slightly far fetched.

I know for a fact that GG has a GTO detection algorithm. If you play too close to GTO/optimal strategy they investigate. Lot of RTA folks got caught this way.

Jason Koon and Fedor Holz are part of the team which manually reviews statistical anomalies. Its stupid to think they dont know about the data side of Poker. Moreover, a ton of Poker players end up becoming traders and data scientists. There is a lot of skill overlap.

I agree that some of the stuff is PR nonsense but to dismiss their entire anti fraud operation is just stupid. They are literally the best in the world at this.
Focus on recipes that reheat in a microwave without destroying the texture so you can meal prep a week in advance.

Soups and braises are the most optimal in that regard.

I recommend short ribs braised in red wine (I like Barollo but you can just as easily use a three buck chuck). Works great on mashed potatoes and by changing up the wine you can change up the flavors. Thai curries are also great and easy to make.
I didn’t mean to give you a hard time - I think you’re right about the limited returns on reading after a while!

It just seemed a shame not to mention hackernewsbooks since it is probably a good resource for the OP :)

It makes more sense though if you have sold it! Congrats on that.
From experience, you lose weight.

Gradually cut out sugar and eat basically only whole foods, mainly meat and vegetables. Also try to time restrict eating to avoid morning and evening consumption.

Lost over 75 pounds over a few years (no lose skin) and feel much better although colder without all the fat insulation!

I’m am not overly active and generally spend most of my day sitting, so it’s mainly just diet control for weight loss.
This discussion brings again that polemic statement about those 10x engineers https://1x.engineer/
Sure, if you blindly accept code just because the LLM has executed it (and maybe written tests for it too) without actually understanding what it does you'll run into trouble.

But if you use it responsibly, LLMs can help you get to that accurate mental model. Code explanation is on of the things that they are really good at.

My personal rule is that I won't commit code generated by an LLM unless I'm confident I can explain how that code works to someone else.
> The US also helped rebuild Japan and Germany, which was sadly lacking in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bingo! There would be no Taliban if USA made Afghanistan an unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico, handed out passports and rebuilt infrastructure / governance.

There was a plan for what to bomb, but no plan for what to build. Basically a huge waste of time.
Unfortunately those employees are the minority. So yeah in an ideal world this is correct, in the real world that’s not possible as the avg dev needs direction and be guided hand in hand.
It's a real mystery. Some popular conspiracy theories:

* Scala projects the Haskell-on-the-JVM image too much to scare off the practically-minded. It has no ORCL or GOOG behind it (its cousin F# has had official MSFT support for a decade at least).

* Kotlin is strongly associated with the frontend. Just try to search for a backend Kotlin role in the Bay Area to see.

* Java 17-21 is catching up with Kotlin fast enough to make many people doubt the upskilling effort.
Oh good another "quirky" white American discovers China article. So many things I can pick on but mostly how some one from LA never went to the bare minimum effort of walking through a CHAIN Asian grocery store and just looking at the tofu section.
At least Java cares about JIT and AOT compilers, unlike Python that needs to ping back into C, C++ or Fortran for anything beyond UNIX scripting.
They aren't seeking information. They are seeking drama and attention. A thread has many users (eyeballs) looking at it, talking about things. If it's drama they want they may find it in the comments. If it's attention they want they may engage with the users in the comments like they would be able to in a chat room.

The easiest way to get someone to actually read your hot takes isn't to post it on Twitter where you have no followers but to reply in a tangential and practically non-sequitur way to someone in a thread where there's a lot of eyeballs looking at the comments. You know, exactly the way I'm doing right now.
E pur si muove
You’re talking about the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act aka the Mickey Mouse Protection Act?

Claiming that was due to foreign pressure was just scapegoating / misdirection from its supporters.

The US forced all sorts of copyright extensions on the international community back then (including DMCA-style DRM protections).

The support section of the Wikipedia page lists the main lobbyists for the bill. They are all US based, and Disney started lobbying for it in 1990 (the year after the US was brought into compliance with the Berne convention).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Ant Completes Process of Removing Jack Ma's Control
That session on air quality wasn’t bad, but just didn’t fit my needs in the moment.
Glad you liked it so much.
The fact that it was brought up early in the article, tells us which one is a more common operation as well.
This is a great video! I’ve been writing about UTF-8 on my blog and I noticed that many programmers don’t understand it, after 10 or 20 years

The main impediment seems to be that languages like Java, JavaScript, and Python treat UTF-8 as just another encoding, but really it’s the most fundamental encoding.

The language abstractions get in the way and distort the way people think about text

Newer languages like Go and Rust are more sensible, they don’t have global mutable encoding variables
This video is…weirdly researched. Like, they researched the effect of cutting added dietary sugars for various lengths of times, and picked seemingly random bits to talk about from the research.

Please don't give it much weight.

Also, they indicate that a water fast is when you have no water. It's when you have only water. Which also isn't a good indication of what happens if you just cut added dietary sugars.
Sounds awful. And I can guess exactly how that boss responded to any feedback or criticism directed in his direction!
The Procrastination Matrix (2015)
Because Java, alongside .NET, are the heirs of Xerox PARC tooling and development school.
This aera is barely new. Look at how old some of the projects are:

https://github.com/underlines/awesome-ml/blob/master/audio-a...

The thing that changes is the complexity to run it. I was training my wife's voice and my voice for fun and needed 15min of audio and trained on my 3080 for 40 minutes.

Now it's 2 Minutes.
This so accurately describes my own experience a couple years ago, down to the specific anecdotes, that I had to double check the username to make sure it wasn’t something I drunkenly wrote last night.
I think it's also popular among some Jewish people, because they're OK with giving dates in terms of Jesus but they don't believe he was Christ/the Messiah.
I agree! But the thing is— I’ve got about fifty Tom Scotts in my subscription list. I’m perplexed by doomsaysers’ laments about the state of online educational media. I’ve got far more high quality content for a huge variety of topics than I’ve ever had before.

My theory is this: your favourite hobby store expands and adds one more aisle of fantastic products and five aisles of garbage. You’ll likely perceive quality as having gone way down. In a limited sense, sure: it might be in the way. But it didn’t replace the good stuff.