skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used anki for 4-5 years now, ~50% of days. I have a tiny worry that there is a "google effect"¹ of sorts associated with Anki. Before, in high school, I used to just read the chapter in the course book and then do well enough on the exam. In university, I also do well enough on the exams, however, I feel like I'm not learning the material/the bigger picture as well. For one, reading the book chapters takes so much more time when you're adding cards in between, watching a lecture video takes about twice the time of the video length. It's easy that the task becomes "creating cards" instead of "learning". I might be doing it wrong, adding too many cards, not reading the chapter and then summarizing it by adding cards. Still, the thought has struck me a couple of times, if I was braver I would stop using Anki and just do a lot of the practical stuff the knowledge would be useful for and let my brain do the filtering

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_effect
The risk of getting banned by Google seems pretty catastrophic, so I’d be pretty worried about using this. Even if you use a “burner” Google account, who knows what they could do to link it to your primary account.
... or "curl calls to python webscraping".
Although having to look for the right version of libraries with different number names and therefore different feature sets was tedious to do manually, AI might just guess fast and sometimes even right as to which import to use.
How do we add new ones? I have been advocating for “a happiness of poodles” amongst my friends, but it needs to go wide for more usage traction.
Show HN: A shorter alternative to Norvig's Spelling Corrector with deletes only
So, a law preventing children from receiving religious instruction would also be constitutional, in your mind?
A simple illustration of how symmetric deletion can be used to implement a spellchecker, based on Norvigs spellchecker.
I believe he's saying exacty that, they'll render it to the target size instead of rendering 2x and scaling it down.
He should really change his first name to "RMS" to make it another recursive acronym.
> I've used Jetson for a few projects as a hobby. Made an I2S Sodar array with a TX2. And some robotics projects with a Jetson AGX Xavier that I got to evaluate and then to work on. And a few both, professional and toy projects with versions of Jetson Nano kit and Xavier. But this was between 2017 and 2021 or so.

Nice! I'm sorry if I seemed dismissive or even disrespectful, in my experience Jetson certainly has it's place (why I've been using them for years) but compared to "bring your distro, apt-get/.run Nvidia driver" they can be a serious shock for casual users. Then they see the performance...

> Orin Nano being that slow in [0], it looks like you've been trying it in Aug 2023. It maybe worth re-evaluating on the latest Jetpack, it had transitioned to CUDA 12.2, TensorRT 8.6, cuDNN 8.9. I would expect that recent popularity of ASR/TTS pipelines and LLMs was not completely missed by Jetpack maintainers (there are some tutorials here - https://www.jetson-ai-lab.com ). And recently released JetPack could be optimized a lot more for these workflows.

Interestingly WIS was recently bumped to CUDA 12.2, etc and the performance improvements were very marginal. WIS uses Ctranslate2 under the hood (same as faster-whisper) which offers among the best Whisper performance overall but doesn't benefit much from changes in these underlying libraries. In the end even if it somehow magically doubled performance (it doesn't and won't) that still places the latest generation ~$600 Jetson board 5x slower than an ancient yet still fully officially supported ~$100 GPU. Power and form-factor is an issue but for the voice assistant use case a Jetson board barely doing realtime with Whisper medium is unacceptable to me and the vast majority of our users. Our goal is sub one second voice command sessions from end of speech, to command execution, to TTS response and Jetson just can't provide that at any cost.

I'm glad there are community resources for Jetson platforms (which I'm aware of) but their existence underscores my point - you'll notice when perusing through there are often various hoops to jump through whereas anything else is basically "install driver, container toolkit, docker run" and it just works and works performantly. Basically CUDA x86_64 and discrete GPUs is native/expected/developed for, Jetson is almost always a bit of an edge case with rough edges (relatively) all over the place.

> And your project is very cool!

Thanks! In terms of your suggestion I certainly might but in the meantime, overall (based on my Jetson experience) as I said in that discussion I'm very reluctant to officially support the Jetson line with WIS. I'm almost certain it will blow-back on the project and cause support headaches for us while all the while providing a sub-optimal user experience.
>Its solar cells are working again after a shift in lighting conditions allowed it to catch sunlight, the agency said.

>It could not generate power when it landed on 20 January as the solar cells pointed away from the Sun.

Sounds like they were just lucky with the angle of sunlight.
And then marvel at how many people it took, to work on the RPG manual. I've been the DM for a Forgotten Realms campaign and wow, is that a lot of material.
Logitech Squeezebox and UE SmartRadio servers will be taken offline in February
1: https://mysqueezebox.com/index/Home

2: https://uesmartradio.com/user/login
Their business model could change at any time though and it’s kind of difficult forgetting their links to NSA’s Prism or strange incidents like the iPhone malware that recently targeted Kasperky employees using secret API’s that were only known to Apple.

I trust then more, our house is full of Apple gear - but I still can’t trust them.

Re: Google. They weren’t always monsters, there was a time when they were positively viewed upon on the web pre-2006.
> this feedback applies to all electron-based apps

Yes absolutely, I'm not saying yours specifically is the cause of the issues, it's inherent to the 'platform'.

> I think it can be classified as a preference thing that many people don't prefer electron

I think 'preference' maybe doesn't convey quite enough weight to the issue but sure that's not far off. To illustrate what I mean about the 'weight' of it being just a preference: I would prefer not to use heavy Java apps, but I still use IDEA because there's no better alternative; I refuse to install Electron apps, so I use e.g Slack in a browser instead of the Slack Electron app.
To be honest I had read the entire article and did not get the very important fact that it landed upside down.

Perhaps people are reacting to the very bad reporting by the BBC, not at the slim mission team itself.
your dad dispensed some great game
Yes, some (all?) ask for DOB/age at sign-up.

If I remember correctly, at one time Google even tried to enforce it and there were usability problems with typos and wrong dates and things - there was no verification and no easy way to fix an error. IE, if a mid-40s adult accidentally entered 1/1/2024, they'd be locked out. And if a kid entered 1/1/1977, they'd have an account (but not way to correct that date when they eventually turned 18).
Checkboxes looking like radio buttons is a clear sign of things getting stupid. People defending this aesthetic is a sign of stupidity being trivialized. People being ignorant to the problems the stupidity causes is a sign of a subconscious desire to self-destruct.
Expand that concept just a bit and we're back at The Matrix and our world being a simulation
Personally I feel like the right thing to do is let the engineer closest to the incident lead the response and subsequent action items. If they do well commend them, if they don't take it seriously then it may be time to look for a new job.
If you want something with more rhyme, poco-quine can also work, I guess, pq for short.
There's a Caltech reference in Maria+Holic Alive episode 5: https://imgur.com/a/XUP62sN

At 1:13-2:20 and 3:55-4:35: https://www.hidive.com/stream/maria-holic-alive/s02e005 (requires paid subscription)
Your code example, I assume it's Javascript, is as unstructured as possible. The real world is less trivial.

For example, if you need "/routes" to list all routes you MUST have a map of routes to an object or function describing what to answer for that route, so that the code for "/routes" can inspect it and work without duplicating information.

Then populating and passing around this configuration object becomes the core business of your request dispatching framework, along with fixed, centralised behaviours (e.g. testing authentication and answering 403 instead of serving the regular document if not passed) and reusable mechanisms (e.g. extracting HTTP headers and request parameters into nice data structures and making them available to request handlers).

Can't you use a mature existing library?
Physical switches are labeled like that. Somehow, it's not a problem for them, but I do agree that on-screen ones are very unclear.
What makes that a full-time job?
Sorry for assuming wrong. I see this passive aggressive disagreement over definiitions not uncommonly online, and thought you were doing this. Here's an example between two people talking about US politics (but it doesn't just happen on the subject of US politics):

Someone says something about the American political left

A: What are you talking about? I don't know of any left wing parties in the US.

B: The Democratic Party?

A: The Democrats are also right wing, just not as far right as the Republicans.

Assuming A is American, there's pretty much no way they didn't know most people in the US think the Democratic Party is on the left. It's like they specifically wanted to feign ignorance so they could respond to B the way they did. Whenever I see this behavior I get annoyed.

I thought there was no way someone on HN wouldn't know that Visual Studio Code is based on Electron and commonly considered an IDE. So I assumed you were trying to make a point. But I was wrong; I shouldn't have assumed bad faith on your part.
All is forgiven. As a recent Atlanta transplant, sorry for contributing to traffic and thanks for highlighting local issues you've observed. I'd love to find out where I can stay in the know on these items.
Full-body haptic? Ha, we're yet to see that. Maybe with really powerful, quick-acting fans?
As the parent of an 11 year old, I wholeheartedly agree. The science is pretty clear that social media has had a very detrimental effect on teens' mental health. We should treat it like we do other substances that are harmful for teens; once they're older they are better able to make wiser decisions as to if, when and how they want to consume social media.

It may be impossible to enforce outside school, but so is the 13-year old limit on opening accounts (my kid's classmates all have accounts; they just lie about their age). But that's not a reason not to have it on the books, as it sets a social standard, and more importantly puts pressure on social media companies.
I exaggerate for a reason, because I feel strongly about it and think that it does do those things in a literal sense.

Besides, I've consumed tiktok and seen the content. It is nowhere near appropriate for children, it's night and day.
I'm in favor of kids not using social media, but not of the government forcing this on people nor spinning up whatever absurd regulatory regime is required. And the chance of actually enforcing it is zero anyway. It's no more realistic to expect this to work than to expect all parents to do it as you say. It's just wasted money plus personal intrusion that won't achieve anything.
I think uWaterloo's official anthem is the Steins;Gate Op
Does this mean Florida will be the first state off the Internet?

If traffic source is Florida, redirect to null

Easier than implementing an ID verification platform that isn't a massive tracking anklet for a 3rd party or government.
I understand the argument in the following way:

- Fictional worlds have are shallow compared to reality. They have to be, because an author or a collective of authors can never get to a depth comparable to reality.

- The only world with a deep "worldbuilding" is the real one we inhabit – Earth.

- Once we colonize space and let millenia of history go by, we will be able to take a look back and read about many complex "deep" worlds - because all of them will be real.

---

I think the argument is already falling apart today thanks to AI writing, that could perhaps generate the blanks to make any fictional world feel arbitrarily deep. We might also eventually simulate entire complex fictional worlds.

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As for whether it's even worthwhile:

> I wouldn't want to read an encyclopedia listing millions of fictional people and what they do in their life.

I believe the author is not talking about writing a fiction book with millions of boring pages that you would read in parallel. It is more about having access to Wikipedia on deep, complex and internally consistent alternative history/fictional world. I think it sounds fun. It's also fun to read about the actual world history, after all.
That sounds nightmarish. I don't want the verifier to know what porn sites I visit.
Someone else proposed the following system to me: a third party authority issues a certificate which I can then use to prove I'm 18. The CA cannot see where I use the certificate, though.
Right. But that's what you glean from listening to the performance. Not what you can gather from reading the 'score'.
Yes, green means "yes".

Now, does light-green mean "no" because it's light, or "yes" because it's green? That one you have to check on each application.
> government doing a parent's job

the govt already set the bar at 13, so what's different about setting it at 16?
I would like to see regulation on notifications to address reaction driven addictions as opposed to an outright ban. Classical conditioning is clearly the issue at hand but opponents are not referencing the proven science enough.

If we don’t teach children how to use these platforms in moderation now they will certainly not be educated on how to use them responsibly in adulthood. I’m not against an outright ban totally but we are missing educational opportunities with what is likely an unenforceable attack on the problem.
Your discussion of pricing isn't necessarily wrong, although I haven't bothered to ponder your words, as it has zero to do with political bans on oil extraction.
There's no constitutional right to drive, smoke, or drink alcohol.

As for voting, it's constitutionally mandated that 18 or older can vote, which implies there's no constitutional mandate for anyone younger.
Copilot seems to me to be a nightmare of copyright infringement. When you add a copyrighted piece of work from an open source project to your work, who is going to keep track of that? Copilot isn’t.
Reading this is one of the bleakest depictions of founders I’ve ever seen.
Lots of people like to talk about the downside risk of losing friends when things go south. What most people don't realize is that when the business does well, you risk your friends becoming just business partners. You lose that impartial party in your life you can talk to about anything and realize you and your friends now only talk about business.
gRPC, net/HTTP and connect go server boilerplate from SQL
Open Telemetry, LiteFS and Litestream support
Why not? Honestly asking here.

Let's assume oposition to the law is a "progressive" position:

If there is a constitutional right to absolutely 100% friction free access to information then what happens to all the barriers the government has erected to access covid, Trump, Russia and other "disinformation" progressive pushed for?

(You can invert this example for a right wing if you want)
Sure but a cat would probably have the same reaction if an arrow behaved like that irl, it's not the same as recognizing something as a living being due to how it moves.
It should. It's the same cognitive error one so often sees software engineers display, in this case reflexively, while speaking with undue confidence outside the field.
I'm not sure 1st amendment legally applies to minors since they are legally under their parent's jurisdiction.
Long ago (a decade or more before the GNU manifesto) he would sometimes sign his name as the root of the square, in ascii art.
I think the silliest part of complaining Middle Earth is based on Earth, is the fact that Middle Earth IS Earth, explicitly. Tolkien states that LoTR is a "prequel" of real world history of sorts.

Ditto for Wheel of Time, that instead is set in a distant future. It is obvious it will be based on RL cultures, because... it is.

Ditto for people that complained that Fremen in Dune are too much like middle eastern people. Seriously, their religion is literally called "Zensunni" and they are settlers that explicitly came from middle east cultures of Earth.
The world we see in the LotR and The Hobbit is what’s left over after a cataclysm wiped out the advanced civilizations. There are hardly any maintained roads but there are plenty of ruins suggesting a more advanced civilization once occupied and developed the land.

I think Tolkien was deliberate in not revealing how complex his world was. He told the story… and even then people complain about the amount of exposition. If it were any more detailed you would be overwhelmed.

What’s interesting is how he relied on linguistics and metaphor in literature to add layers. How the story of Aragorn is much like the story of The Wanderer. The cultural differences between Rohan and Gondor is in their language and architecture. Tolkien could have spelled it out for us but he didn’t. It wasn’t until Christopher started releasing the Silmarillion and supplementary backlog of stories that we get to see how deep Tolkien went and how little we actually saw.
Fairphone 5 full schematics released [pdf]
Walked straight out of a place the other day for that reason.

Could I have a menu please?

Sir, you have to scan the QR code...

I have a flip phone

Oh... pause

Oh... longer pause

They literally had no solution to the problem
..and all solutions use unsafe
That's closer to what I remember, but I don't think the advertisement was about a Chevy Pickup.

Apparently the group that did this advertisement was: https://www.americhip.com/ourwork/?product=product-magazine-...

And they have a whole slew of magazine inserts that they've done. I'm convinced now that I saw one of these magazine inserts, but not the one on the Chevy. Thanks for helping me track it down! I'm really close...

EDIT: I found it!! https://www.americhip.com/ourwork/microsoft-wi-fi-hotspot.ht...

It was this advertisement, I remember the cover. Sorry I wasn't very specific earlier, but I didn't realize how many "throwaway computers inside of magazines" that there were. I guess I assumed this was a one-off event with Microsoft's 365 WiFi cloud (now that I remember the chip, lol).
research without experimentation anyone can do. "What if we had lasers strapped to the heads of sharks? what if dolphins could do the work if we gave them waterproof paper?". It almost seems trite to call that research. Of course, you can use previously existing statistics to come to these ideas in a way that feels like work. But its still deeply unhelpful
> My grandpa's 286 was more reliable than an off-the-shelf Linux or Windows laptop today

Perhaps but your grandpa's 286 couldn't have animated emojis made out of gamma correct antialiased vectors in button caption for its GUI :-P
You can be in favor but in the US it is unconstitutional for a gov to broadly restrict speech. It's why each of these age verification + social media laws eventually get tossed. Legislators know this (or are too dumb to) but it's not their own dollars that are getting burned during this vote-baiting performance.
I’m normally anti-regulation as well, but as a parent I’m fully on board with this. The amount of peer pressure to be on social media is insane.
War and Peace has roughly 600 characters and that's already famous for its length, now I'm trying to imagine if Tolstoy tried to describe every single Russian participant in the Napoleonic Wars.
Job Scheduling in Node.js with BullMQ
> the cost which often gets quoted with those mistakes is not a real cost

Oh that depends entirely on the industry.. in social media maybe not, in banking and Fintech those can most certainly be real costs. And can tell you - that feels even worse
> unboxing an apple product is a bit like undressing a lover for the first time

no

> quite likely more satisfying than the ownership that follows

no
I don't completely trust them and I don't think I am claiming otherwise, but it is more than Google.

My key problem here is consent. I chose to use Apple, I theoretically can choose not to use Google but that doesn't mean anything since they will get my data anyways, at least some of it.

And agreed on Google, I used gmail, reader, and basically any experiment they came out with. For me it was somewhere around 2008 from what I can tell that I started moving away from them.
I call them simulations in my own internal vernacular.

There is time, rules, etc...

And an important element is the outcome not being known.

It is that last bit which makes these kinds of programs interesting to write and run.
Ooh nice. I'd heard of Stockhausen - attended a performance of his works once - but this is new to me. Very strange music with a wide range of harmonics produced by vocalizations of vowel sounds. Sometimes nasal, other times chant-like, machine-like, and even reminiscent of insects at night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hPkJW95jsw
It makes no sense to have a checkbox for "Unsubscribe All Lists". That should just be a link. There's no point in adding a redundant form element even if it's only conditionally redundant.
> I thought there was no way someone on HN wouldn't know that Visual Studio Code is based on Electron

I did know that.

The issue isn't that I didn't know what VSCode is. The issue is that I have no idea what "IDEs" OP was referring to when s/he said "IDEs have changed so much in last decade".
V Atlantic B789 after stopping climb returns Heathrow w RAM Air Turbine Extended
I believe Fastext was implemented with pre-caching. Since the page declared which the four page numbers were, the Teletext decoder was able to pre-fetch those pages while you read? This is what made it fast.

Essentially if you spent half a minute reading a page, the four coloured fast text pages were already received.
a lot of loopholes there
Dave Grohl on Downloading and Piracy (1997) [video]
How would you know that this article is itself not fake? In this case, disclaimers have been placed on the original article, but that doesn't usually happen.

This is the problem with confirmation bias. What if another article came out to reveal that this article was fake? And then recursively on and on. How would you know how to distinguish the reality? I sense most people will believe what they want to believe, and if that be the original article (possibly fake), or the rebuttal article (possibly fake). We have to go entirely on our ability to trust the source.
Ok, I also found that performance can drop in unexpected ways, causing workarounds, to get it flowing again.

And I don't use cacheasbitmap, but do my own caching. (Not because I knew of flaws, but because I was already doing it)

And for text I really recommend BitmapText. That is fast. (But not possible with all use cases, sure)

Also Pixi8 with WebGPU will be stable soon, looking forward to it.

But all in all I am really impressed, I used quite a few other js graphic engines before and Pixi was by far the best. Or which one did you find better?
My understanding is that the Coast Guard is pretty selective and it's not easy to get into. Something like 15% acceptance rate. I don't think they're having the same recruiting difficulties as the larger branches.
What an awesome idea! That's kind of like a library documentation but alive. Very cool.
There's a lesson here.
Carlo – Analyze Uncertainty with Google Sheets