skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this IEEE article, ICE fires are a greater danger than EV battery fires.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lithium-ion-battery-fires

Recharge time is not the problem as much as recharge frequency. I can go on long trips with my Tesla. I don't mind the recharge time -- it's a good chance to get a cup of coffee or take a bio break -- but their frequency is a little irksome (if you're being cautious to protect the battery life). But then, generally I'm traveling with at least one person who needs bio breaks pretty frequently, so it works out fine.
Voronoi graphs are a fast option to get you in the approximate area, then a fine grid can do the last-mile part if need be. It does require preprocessing the map first though.
Can you please remove the background music? It scared the "sheet" out of me when I opened the tweet!
Is it possible to use this (or Eleven Labs) to generate a voice model to plug into an Android phone's TTS?

I have a friend with a paralysed larynx who is often using his phone or a small laptop to type in order to communicate. I know he would love it if it was possible to take old recordings of him speaking and use that to give him back "his" voice, at least in some small measure.
I would rather my television not include a microphone at all. But should they want to listen, they can always just use the speakers as a mic.
I would think if he invested well and lives a modest life, he could live off the investments and effectively retire. Not that he’d want to stop doing things, but he could focus on what he finds interesting rather than what will pay the bills.

Of course I have no idea what his financial situation is like, but he doesn’t strike me as the type of YouTuber to blow all his income on fast cars and other “status” symbols.
This is a tragic, wrongheaded move, and I say that as a big Git enthusiast (but a Github hater, to be fair...)

I don't think PyPy gains anything from this, not even a reduction in the annoying messages that have been psychologically torturing the maintainers. If anything, you're just opening yourself up to more common and frequent low-investment pestering.
Yes. I've had to place objects in front of LEDs that can't be disabled before. But there are smoke/heat detectors that apparently need to blink all night and I wouldn't want to go taping those up. I now wear an eye mask.

My favourite discovery, though, was in Spain. I started to notice all the hotels were wired up with a separate consumer unit per room. Me being me, I looked inside one and noticed someone had simply flipped the switch on the emergency exit sign to disable the green glow all night. Genius!

Unfortunately not all hotels have individual consumer units nor do they put the exit sign on its own circuit.
For sure. The term should be rolled back to sane levels. Breaking DRM should not be banned and so on.
Wikipedia: "NASA's stated short-term goal for the program is landing the first woman and first person of color on the Moon."

That's the goal?
Lots of things are called X, so either you call it Twitter or you disambiguate in some way.

You can't claim a letter of the alphabet in the global namespace. Not even C gets to do that.
I’ve never been in a situation like the author, but I grew up in an incredibly frugal family and I’ve had moments where income was very tight.

Those were some of the most stressful times of my life. My mind was fixated on making money and escaping that situation.

Now that I have a high paying stress free job, I finally feel able to enjoy other parts of life.

I applaud the authors ability to lean into that lifestyle. I know I couldn’t.
>There's nothing set in stone

It's not about setting in stone, it's about setting a goal. That means something to some people.

>he's just shifting into different types of content, which is fine

He wasn't waiting for your permission. ;-)
What would be nice is a residential power over Ethernet standard. With standard crimp connections.

Some advantages power limited and low voltage means it's safer[1]. Ethernet means you can control lights and other devices. Smaller diameter wiring means it's cheaper. Not needing a licensed electrician to install it saves $$$.

[1] Can imagine for a non North American not having to deal with 230VAC would be a big bonus.
Really? Coming from physics (B.Sc only) the notation is refreshingly familiar and straightforward. My topology and analysis classes were basically like this.

In fact, this pdf is literally the resource I've been searching for as many others are far too ambiguous and handwavey focusing more on libraries and APIs than what's going on behind the scenes.

If only there were a similar one for microeconomics and macroeconomics, I'd have my curiosity satiated.
The article mentions Glenn McDonald's musical genre page (https://everynoise.com/, no longer refreshing with new Spotify data) as an example of a flexible graph-like exploration format, without being burdened by explicit connections.

The author also has a thorough description of pros and cons of the general concept.
Kapton tape.
hell yeah, brother
It would also mean learning Julia, but you can write GPU kernels in Julia and then compile for NVidia CUDA, AMD ROCm or IBM oneAPI.

https://juliagpu.org/

I've written CUDA kernels and I knew nothing about it going in.
One of my favorite scifi/fantasy series as a child was set in our world, but in which things like magic & Baba Yaga were real, historical entities. I forget how their eventual disappearance was justified, but I loved it as a kid.

I think it was this series here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisa_Selezneva

One of the stories was turned into a great piece of animation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Third_Plane...

And apparently this movie is also set in the same continuity?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guest_from_the_Future
PyPy being a Python JIT written in Python with an ouroboros as a logo is pretty much the perfect name.
Yeah the energy consumption of even the small advertising displays is insane.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/09/electronic-a...
Using a better, higher-resolution bitmap font? They don't have to look as awful as that

https://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/img1/12x24b.gif
First one is free and if you are correct another free request is available to you.
This article + this HN thread have some nice tricks. I haven't needed A* for much (yet), but I do know there's a nice Haskell library for it https://hackage.haskell.org/package/astar-monad-0.3.0.0#read...
Yeah, they're fundamentally solving different problems. I was confused to see it benchmarking against them in the first place.

The number of items isn't the best metric alone, making it harder to demonstrate in a benchmark. I've reaped benefits from bigcache with ~600k-900k items — but there's a lot of eviction, each item is a pointer and can have a bunch of nested references itself. (protobufs)
He has a video too.

https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas...
Knuckledragger: Experimenting with a Python Proof Assistant
The idea is to identify the casualties that could benefit the most, and fast.

Imagine if there is a bomb that goes off in a stadium or music venue or whatever (e.g. Manchester bomb in UK that was during a music concert where hundreds of people were injured simultaneously) or a major train crash etc where there are loads of major injuries simultaneously. There are say 10 first responders on the scene, but 200 casualties - who gets treated first? Blankets won't help.

Chuck a drone up and it might identify the "priroity list" of who gets first aid first. E.g. someone could be in cardiac arrest who would benefit from immediate CPR, but you might not even get to them if you are manually triaging hundreds of casualties across a wide area, and they'd die "unnecessarily" just because the people on the scene didn't know/were overwhelmed/stressed out/panicking etc. I've only ever been in much much much less severe circumstances and can only say that it is hard to think straight and clearly even in such a "minor" situation - I shudder to think about what it would be like if you are amongst the first on the scene to something big.

Anything that can help save the most lives is laudable.
There are two forces at work. The existence of copyright on the one hand means that the effort of creating learning materials is split between freely available and not freely available materials. On the other hand, it creates more (financial) incentives to create learning materials. Maybe removing copyright would result in more learning materials to be freely available (or maybe not), but at the same time it may also mean that less high-quality learning materials will be produced (due to the lack of financial incentives). It’s not clear-cut in my opinion. In addition, I believe that one should have the right to monetize good material that took a lot of effort to create, without being immediately plagiarized by the rest of the world.
I get these were all submissions, but the curation is a bit wonky too.

Number 1 is "don't use an alarm".

Literally two down from that, at number 3 is "Leave your phone downstairs and buy a good alarm clock".
Seems like optimizing for edge cases might not be the most practical.
> Students will generate an LLM text, and then copy it out. If you lock down their machines, or university networks, then they'll access the LLMs another way. It's cat and mouse games all the way down, and we'll never win.

I think this is more a product of low standards than anything else. Let's bring the mean down to 2.0GPA. Not everyone should pass. Not everyone should graduate. Failure delivers valuable lessons, too. But I'm sorry, throwing up our hands and saying "oh well, I guess cheating is the norm now" is fatalist BS.

> Reading complex texts, and learning and imitating good writing, teaches people how to write. And, you know, that only works when they want to a) read complex texts, and b) learn how to write well.

I agree with this. Inspiration is super important, and inculcating a love of learning and the life of the mind is the whole ballgame. If the vast majority of students aren't in this boat, and instead they're just trying to check a box to graduate, the whole thing is super broken. But that doesn't mean it can't be fixed, and it doesn't mean we should lower standards in the face of a threat like LLMs. Instead we should raise them.
I had a bunch of classes in undergrad (physics) that had basically the same notation and style.
Without discounting the point made by smogcutter about Penguin's edition not actually being public domain: for a classic work, I'd expect to be able to get a paperback for less than $10.* And that involves a real-life physical artifact which (a) necessarily has lower margins than an ebook, and (b) doesn't come with the omnipresent threat that it will evaporate from your device (or your managed online locker or whatever), nor that you'll have to stop reading if your battery dies, nor that you're unable to easily hand it to someone else to let them thumb through or borrow it. For an ebook, $3 or $4 sounds about right. Maybe $5 for a relatively modern translation, as in the case here. Recall that Netflix in comparison is $X per month (fill this is in; I don't actually know, but I know the number is not high) and libraries are free-ish. Price points at or around $10 per work or more feel like a shameless ploy to trigger the sensation of "economy" in "false economy" and push people into rent-seeking platforms where they consistently hand over a continual stream of monthly payments in perpetuity for "unlimited" access—to select items within the very limited one month term that the payment gets you.

* NB: whether this is actually the case or not is a separate matter
It's not just that they dropped the ball, they actively sabotaged whatever goodwill they had built by adding malware to software. Not only was this a massive hassle, it ruined the reputation of lots of FOSS projects with folks who just wanted to use some of the most popular consumer-ish open source software like Filezilla.

While SF was crapping where they eat, GitHub built a lot of trust and goodwill with a lot of people.
I agree with this viewpoint. IMO, a lot of these types of threads fill up fast with gimmicky things that sound good at first but do nothing to increase security against realistic threats, plus are at least inconvenient to set up and maintain, if not prone to misfiring and blocking you.

The real advice for setting up new servers IMO is, SSH pubkey auth is perfectly adequate security. Set it up normally on the default port logging in as root, disable password login, and don't worry about the noisy failed bot logins. This is a lot more convenient for automated setup and maintenance and has no practical loss of security.
I really appreciate that on my ThinkPad, I can turn off most of the LEDs: the power LED, and the LED on the back that dots the 'i' in ThinkPad. However, annoyingly, there doesn't seem to be any way to turn off the bright charging LED that's present when the device is charging.
I think there are a few that are more technical if that's what you mean:

* Stages to Saturn

* Digital Apollo

* The Apollo Guidance Computer

The last one may be too boringly technical. Some parts can be a slog even for me who breathe that stuff.
Not a farm example, but trolley buses do this in cities

Apparently there was one in 1882: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_Trolleybuss_of_Siem...
Fail2ban could be potentially useful in an era of passwords, especially when systems allowed anyone to login remotely, and you only had the one server because servers were very expensive.

However, the moment the industry went to SSH Keys en masse, and got away from passwords, fail2ban stop serving any real purpose other than to make people feel like they had done something to improve security. Which it didn’t really, especially if you enforced key usage only for logins.

Literally, the only argument you can make is that fail2ban might reduce the number of log entries.
Reflections on ten years of LLVM weekly
Most of electron apps have compatible website version.

A website has the same problem as non electron: the browser is always different, so this doesn't seem that dramatic as a downside
It's very funny and odd that they retained the "God's in his heaven, all's right with the world" text.
Panasonic-grade
Refreshing to hear this approach. Grounded in reality. As a dad, I know the value of “deep work,” but rarely find myself on that state. As a result, I procrastinate my way into inactivity. “Oh I only have 45 min.”

Great article to break out of that cycle.
They were amber, and quite dim. Just enough to notice if you were looking.
The main point you're making is fair

The only gripe I have is
> Being an empirical science does not mean that the field is a "wild west"

I think what you meant to say is:
"Being an empirical science does not <b>necessarily</b> mean that the field is a \"wild west\""

you clearly haven't seen the social sciences

> Good practitioners know this

sure?

Edit: Removed unnecessary portions that wouldn't have continued the conversation in any meaningful way
As a PhD econ student, the mathematics just comes down solving constrained optimization problems. Figuring out what to consider as an optimand and the associated constraints is the real kicker.
For you it seems to be all about having a nice site. For me it's about having a nice world in which people can enjoy intellectual curiosity without being monstrously guilty for it.

> Between 8 December 2023 and 7 February 2024, the entire population in the Gaza Strip (about 2.2 million people) is classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse). This is the highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area or country.

This is right now. And this is HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833350

Given how dedicated large sectors of the US tech industry are to silencing discussion, I can only say, I'll think about it. I might prefer to take my leave from this site than participating in it, to preserve something more valuable, more fundamental, while you explore this local optimum of discussion within a framework of normalizing genocide and sophistry with generous helpings of plausible deniability.
> It's obviously computer generated to my ear.

From the README

Disclaimer

This is an open-source implementation that approximates the performance of the internal voice clone technology of myshell.ai. The online version in myshell.ai has better 1) audio quality, 2) voice cloning similarity, 3) speech naturalness and 4) computational efficiency.
I listened to an interview with an astronaut earlier today. He talked about the selection process and how there’s very little to choose between the pool of candidates as they are all equally incredible.

So the choice can often be nothing to do with who is technically or physically the best as they are all the best and equally suitable.

The choice then comes down to completely different criteria.
How so? Adding 1 commit adds at most 1 (but usually 0) git bisect steps.
Yeah, any edition of a book that's "updating" modern English loses me, including messing with capitalization. Not interested. I love the formatting on Standard Ebooks, but they're no use to me if they're "updating" language, aside from things like repairing typesetting and formatting lost or mangled in PG editions.

Agree on notes in print, side notes (on very-wide editions) are best, then foot, then end of chapter endnotes. Full end-of-work endnotes are awful. Maybe they're better in ebooks, than footnotes, though? E-readers' poor UX for not-even-that-advanced features of books is part of why I barely use them, and practically never for any work that'd have notes of any sort.
The company behind it is called gehirn to add more fun to the story. :)
We understand exactly the implications of that action. There are no implications.

Simply downloading a zip from Amazon has zero risk. Even opening an arbitrary zip has essentially zero risk. RCE from opening a zip is obviously a really critical and valuable vulnerability and would not be wasted with a public link.

Combine that with the fact that this comes from a voice cloning GitHub repo and the chance of this having some 0-day are infinitesimal.

Finally just making the link non-clickable does not add security. Nobody can take any action to increase their security because they have to slightly edit a link (not that they would because it's sensible a clickable link in the GitHub readme).

So yes, I fully understand the implications and it is definitely security theatre.

I suggest that those who think that it isn't probably haven't really thought about the threat model.
> The name and logo of "NERV" are used with the explicit permission of khara Inc., the copyright holder of the "Evangelion" series, and Groundworks Corporation, which manages the rights to the series.
Here's a serious question; public domain is different for each country. How do you technically restrict people from non-US countries from accessing the content that is legal to remix in the US? Is it acceptable to just ask them to confirm they are US citizens and then keep a cookie with that acceptance?

For example, in one of the threads on Gutenberg, a German user complains they cannot access the site. Just ip blocking? Is that sufficient?

Man, I love Corey Doctorow's writing. So fun.
Thanks a lot for the link, I needed an improved `ts` for a long time now.
Apparently that's deprecated in favor of monad-dijkstra! https://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-dijkstra
I have this cat which started sitting on the couch next to me where my hand would land just above her tail on her back and I would scratch here there and she’d start having spasms (ticklish?) where she would lick or bite anything in front of her. Pretty soon she got really sensitized and even a little bit of irregular petting would cause her to start shaking her head and have another spasm, even being super careful and being perfectly regular would flip her out and we are thinking about what to do about it.

I was in a glass on geoengineering that got dispersed in the first Covid wave and in the last class I described it as “a fire drill for global governance”. Little did I realize how much the pandemic would set us back. We paid for COVID-19 vaccines with being able to vaccinate the population for things like measles in the future. You still find people online who are red-in-the-face angry about decisions that could have been wrong years ago. But they suddenly found meaning in their life when they could wake up every morning and share a bunch of newspaper clippings about how the government was wrong about this and that. Meanwhile, other people wear two masks because somebody else isn’t wearing one and will talk you ear off about how deathly afraid they are they’ll die of covid.

Either way we lived though this crisis but it is not like the Marines where “that does not kill you will make you stronger” but instead the culture has become anti-resilient and ever trauma just makes people weaker.

Right wingers have become like my cat. 5 years ago you could talk about “15 minute cities” and the only one who cared were the people who listen to John Lennon’s Imagine and really believe it. Now that kind of talk immediately brings people with their knives out.
It's going to be really field dependent. Computer science has fewer problems than social psychology for example.

To put a figure on it, consider that about 0.04% of papers are retracted but about 2.5% of scientists admit in polls to having engaged in fraud. Obviously though most fraudsters won't admit to it (they often convince themselves it's not fraud via mental gymnastics), so another way to approach it is to ask them to estimate what proportion of other scientists commit fraud. Then they answer 10%.

It's a bit hard to know how many papers are published per year, I've seen estimates of anywhere from 2 to 5 million. If 10% of scientists are committing fraud and they were all detected, that would yield on the order of maybe half a million to a million retractions per year, as we'd expect fraudulent scientists to be much more productive than the ones that play fair.

But fraud isn't the only reason that papers should be retracted. You'd expect serious non-fraud problems to be a reason too. If papers were retracted for all the reasons non-scientists imagine papers are retracted, e.g. being foundationally based on another paper/dataset that's been retracted, using invalid methodologies, internally inconsistent statistics, serious software bugs etc, you could probably get up to 50% or more in some fields.

This sounds absurdly high but is the number estimated by Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet. And according to Marc Andreessen, when he asked if it could be true that half of all biotech research was fake the head of a major US funding agency actually laughed at this figure and said no, in biotech it's more like maybe 90% is fake. So the problem does seem to be huge.
Citizen does this (https://citizen.com)

I used it for a bit, and it had decent UX, but it seems designed to raise your anxiety until you pay for a snake oil subscription. YMMV
You failed because you didn't follow instructions. I can empathize with this - I too went to college, and was very annoyed by stupid instructions.

I thought upon graduating, I would be free to basically do what I want. What a rude awakening starting at my first programming job was. The reality is the world is full of red tape, bloat, and processes that may appear inefficient to you. A lot of the world will just appear plain "dumb".

You can and should try to change the world for the better, but, maybe on things of bigger scope than the gui of your sql assignment. Some things you should just follow the instructions on.

It's just part of the world. Pick your battles. For a SQL homework assignment, just do what the professor asks.

Here's a random anecdote from Jeff Bezos I like that kind of feels relevant, why it's better to be kind than clever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmGN4Tn_d5Y