skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain to me what's the upside of having multiple databases? I mean, I understand the downside, no explanation needed there.
True, but he did use quaternions (by 1873), which allow the field properties to be written as a single equation. It's kind of sad that more physicists don't use or teach quaternions, while math and CS have fully adopted them.

I really liked Kathy Joseph's historical reviews of vector physics and the people who developed it, which explain some of the reason's for how it's taught. Most texts don't even develop electrodynamics from relativistic electrostatics as a demonstration.

https://youtu.be/CdwxpSInhvU

I think I fell down the rabbit hole from Freya Holmer's "why you can't multiply vectors".

https://youtu.be/htYh-Tq7ZBI

The key being that all of the Hamiltonian fields can be found in a single quaternion equation, which is just what happens when you start multiplying vectors together.
I wonder how much of History can we trust? After all, history is written by victors. Something that was written a thousand years ago (or longer) - how can we verify?

In today’s world, how much of Netflix “documentaries” are rigorously researched and how much just made up, to save time and money? It is not like Netflix is going to get in trouble, legally or in public opinion…
Archive: https://archive.is/9TqEi
That was a well written article. I think my favorite thing about it, is how it showcases the power of long term thinking over short term thinking. It also showcases an organization that was not using hope as a strategy.

I think the focus on "blameless" is incorrect. It is a culture of responsibility that results in better outcomes and it starts with engaged responsible leaders. Blame is in many ways the opposite of taking responsibility, but you can have a blameless culture without having a culture of responsibility. A culture of blame is always a culture of irresponsibility.

Blamelessness was a function of a leader actively choosing to take responsibility for the problem. They said "it is our organization that is responsible for this tragedy, not the individual." "We caused this through institutional negligence, not the ATCer."

Boeing still has problems because Boeing leadership has not taken responsibility. Boeing leaders have not said "I have created a system of incentives and punishments that have resulted in unsafe airplanes," which is why they are still having safety problems.

The paradox of leadership is that "while a leader is responsible for the actions of the organization, the actions occur from the individual decisions of those who follow."

If the air traffic controller was not consciously making an error, it is a clear problem for leadership to solve. Leadership has a responsibility to make a change. Blame would have prevented that change.

Admiral Rickover brought this culture, a culture of responsibility, to the nuclear navy which has quite a good record of safety. This article echos a good amount of what I have read about Americas Naval engineerng tradition. These are quick short reads to give a taste of Admiral Rickover:

https://www.ans.org/news/article-1592/caught-in-the-leadersh... https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm

I am very confident that the author would enjoy reading about Admiral Rickover and his philosophy if they have not already.

I also think anyone who enjoyed this article would also enjoy reading Extreme Ownership, which is a much much much better book than the cover and subtitle implies and is applicable to every job in silicon valley.
All observable quantities are eigenvalues of some operator, which are real numbers but discrete. How can they contain infinite amount of information?
The article makes it pretty clear that Washer was not incompetent at her job, and that the role of the PATCO aftermath hiring spree was not to allow her to get hired when she otherwise couldn't, but to push her to apply when she otherwise might not have for specific personal reasons.
But someone asking Google can just check multiple sources. If they all agree with one another, the PhD astronomer is not going to come up with a different answer.
Defensive and Robust Design in AI Automation
As I was writing the second part to my Developing Intelligence series, I noticed that In my AI endeavors, I have always drawn a lot of inspiration from the elegant art of Defensive Design and Defensive Programming.

This article will (at least attempt to) synthesize and make clear some principles that can be followed in all phases of building AI projects.
Their spectrometer team picked candidate rocks within view of the camera, rock A, B, C... then one of spacecraft manager crew said names might be useful, and few minutes later they were all puppies. Forgot the source, sorry.
Over the last week or so I've become very fond of the "Pilot Debrief" channel on YouTube - basically an ex-military and current commercial pilot talking through the analysis of various incidents - I find it completely fascinating.
right here: 15 mln between 2020 and 2022 (https://www.who.int/data/stories/global-excess-deaths-associ...). For better, more up to date data check analysises by Ariel Karlinsky and The Economist.
Most of those are edited though
techniques >> tools

Work on encoding information, understand things deeply, relate concepts, and then create your cards.

For language learning, for instance, this means that if you have 10 new words you want to learn, you create f.ex. 15 sentences so that each sentence contains 2 of those words, and each words appears in 3 sentences. Then you run them eg. by your a tutor to validate them, and add it to your Anki deck.

Now you will only review each sentence 5-8 times, and you can do it very fast.

Doesn't need to be exactly like that, but you get the idea
That would mean blocking USA and Netherlands :)

Most of probing to my server comes from USA, and a far second place is Netherlands. Probably most of it comes from AWS and other data centers.
And yet I've met CEOs who keep saying how they want to quit and become carpenters.
I've never done this myself, but as I understand it [1] you can choose certain cores that the OS scheduler doesn't schedule anything on, then you can manually assign processes to them.

Assigning an entire CPU core to audio might be a bit much, unless you've got CPU cores to spare - the context in which I heard of this was high frequency trading, where the server really didn't need to do much except run this one application.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/530579
Nice find! https://github.com/FAlthausen/CoronaFaceImpact
> The problem is funding

The layoffs created thousands of solopreneurs, I'm expecting them (us?) to create the next generation of projects to take pieces of big tech.
Been working at a friend’s company for a long time — for me it has been one of the best decisions of my life - would definitely do it again.

We still separate work and personal life and it works out for me.

Lots of people who don’t want to mix money and friendship in this thread — while I understand where you are coming from it never was a problem for me.
With loans I just loan as much money as I would also be willing to give as a gift. I guess everyone handles friendship differently though.
This happened last October

https://nos.nl/artikel/2493147-bouwregels-voor-verduurzaamde...
The (Not So Subtle) Art of Not Giving a Fuck About Data
This is really cool. I used to do a lot of overtone ("harmonic") throat singing and playing with this tool reminded me of those days.

For anyone curious, vowels are mostly just how we perceive different harmonic distributions. Put differently, harmonics are the basis of what it means to pronounce a different vowel. The human voice is basically just a harmonic chord, with different distributions of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. harmonics.

e.g. https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/heal...
Your comment really triggered a trip down memory lane for me. I also remembered how crazy it is that we used to go and choose vacations out of paper catalogues at the travel agent.

I also remember reading the football results for my dad on my grandparents teletext on Saturday afternoon so he could check them against his pools picks. Strangely prominent piece of tech in my childhood.
I can also recommend Green Dot Aviation and Mentour Pilot
Anki algorithm's is extremely punishing, which is awful for language learning.

I think SRS needs to be only a small part of the learning routine, the cherry on the cake. For me that is ~15 minutes / day, and backlog is manageable even if I occasionally take 2-3 days off.
I think UI in general is changed so often for no reason other than because it's like art to the UI staff. And then others follow thinking that there is a good reason for those changes made by Apple or whomever. And some FOMO in there too.
First of all, the "expensive training now you'll be the guy we trust the most blabla" story has been around for decades.

Second, if this one is true it's a terrible way to phrase/present it.
They missed a flamboyance of flamingos!
No, its allowed to stop for emergencies. I agree that having a dog on the back seats is not an emergency but the intended purpose of the alarm would be having someone on the back seat who could not fasten their seatbelt. I don't know if that would count as an emergency in a German court but I certainly would count it as a emergency (and it would be illegal).
Dare I say the bible comes to mind
Work gave me a MacBook computer, the box experience is positive until you need to crush it for recycling (not to take a lot of space in the bin). All the corners are glued together super strongly, the inside mold just doesn't crush, there are boxes just to hold paper booklets... I'm surely a minority but Dell packaging is more delightful when you consider this (and surely the single material - cardboard - is easier to recycle too).
I thought the standard way to sound "important, intellectual and well educated" was to use quotes and phrases from other languages? ;-)
A hagiography. Suggest skip.
Show HN: TrackTales – An AI Narrator for Music Player Daemon
Accessing the Pinecil UART with Picoprobe
FreeCAD has some pretty hefty backing from the likes of Opulo, and a history (like KiCAD) of working with CERN and other groups like them. Fusion def has a larger laundry list of features, but if the question is "What open source cad tools exist" (and given the question is explicitly asking about open source electronics design, so I'd assume they want to stick with open source for model design too), then the answer is gonna likely be either FreeCAD or OpenSCAD. And given that most popular cad and edm software has repeated pushed back on the open source community (and given they are profit driven companies, they eventually have to), I don't blame a person for seeking exclusively open source tools. It's the same reason I decided FreeCAD's flaws are worth working through. I already had both Eagle and Fusion force me to scramble to recreate projects before, I wouldn't wish that upon anyone else who is doing this under- or at-cost.
A discreet unit of measure exists in dynamics & its relationship to position space is informed by Heisenberg’s theorem.

(My actual point is that Reality is neither continuous nor discreet - it is an infinitesimal point and it is our mind — that likes to name and number things and relies on duality to make ‘distinctions’ — that creates the universe, the subjective reality that we perceive as inhabiting.)
Often to solve problems you need to have multiple pieces of knowledge at your fingertips (without having to lookup each piece up or reason about it from first principles).

In mathematics that might be related theorems/lemmas. In programming it might be existing functionality of libraries. Problem solving is often chaining a few things together, which you already know.

Children should understand how to derive the quadractic formula but memorizing makes solving equations a lot faster.

https://tabularasaeducation.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/knowled...
Defensive programming is a good start. But increasingly, I am starting to think it is a mission impossible due to the too large combinatory space of natural language inputs. If you need to guard output against "malicious" inputs in this context, it would follow that your training data is ill-suited for the task to begin with, no?
My tinnitus does not thank you
What do you want the community to do? Pitch in with money from their day jobs so a gamedev savior can come in and make things render slightly faster? At the expense of hideous unmaintable code that only a gamedev genius could understand ?
> was never designed to survive in the lunar night

But does it mean it won't actually 'survive' ?

What's survival in this case, getting enough power from the solar panel to boot up and transmit again, when the next day comes?
You summed it up pretty well. I struggle to understand the idea that increasing consumption will lessen the impact of previous consumption. If this is our only approach, extrapolation says we're doomed.
Live Speech-to-Speech AI Translation Goes Commercial
You can't "unmount the file system" because you're writing directly to the block device, the thumb drive isn't mounted.

("Eject" is macOS's term for "unmount filesystem")
Very easy solution: start filming in 120fps and then the TV motion interpolation does nothing.
I agree however as a commentator pointed out in a similar thread a few years ago, mental visualization only works for relatively small problems with limited variables. Most reasoning after that is done via equations when the problem complexity surpasses the n'th dimension (where n is maybe 3 or 4).
As a rule of thumb, solutions starting with "just..." get something wrong.
I love the visual design of Apple packaging, and I do also keep the boxes. Although mainly for possible resale in the future, or at least that's what I tell myself.

I do absolutely hate opening iPhone boxes though, where a sort of vacuum builds up inside as you're trying to jiggle the bottom part out of the top. Maybe I'm opening them wrong (are you supposed to squeeze the lid somewhere or something?), but I do not find that part satisfying at all.

Maybe they could add some invisible air holes in the top somewhere. Just enough to make the separation go exactly the right speed.
Sadly I totally agree: Open Source is the playground of people who can afford it.

I benefited a lot of Open Source in my career, life so I am very thankful for all contributors (and try to give back in money/time, when I can afford one or the other).

What really annoys me, that my government does not mandate that software build with tax money must be Open Source.

That would go a long way to fund Open Source and improve the quality.
"First Man" (2018)

https://youtu.be/PSoRx87OO6k?si=OPCRv2nLyhdvh9Lo

https://youtu.be/w4GtJB5WAlQ?si=ASRrv1K0akxJwj-I

Armstrong's coolness under pressure as the Eagle lander's fuel dwindled to within 30 seconds of "Empty" is depicted with gripping intensity in this film.
Agreed, violence has its own characteristics, and there certainly are qualitative differences.

But as Stalin said, quantity has a quality all its own. When you steal large amounts of money like SBF did it’s different, but that doesn’t make it better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

A system that old that has been working for as long will surely have so many quirks, exceptions, bugs and workarounds deeply engrained in its users' processes. A naive port and rewrite will probably need many man-months of lost productivity spent recreating all the quirks of the original piece of software, resulting in an even less maintainable second iteration.
Oh dear, from copilot:
The term “Dark Weeks” in the context of the Scottish town of Moffat refers to a volunteer-led initiative where many residents and businesses in Moffat turn off their lighting for two weeks each winter, particularly in the village center1. This is done to reduce light pollution and preserve the wonders of the night sky2. However, public lighting around essential locations like the hospital and firehouse remains on1.

It’s worth noting that Moffat is recognized as Europe’s first Dark Sky Town2, and it’s home to the Moffat Community Observatory3, which offers beautiful views of various night sky objects3. This observatory complements the town’s Dark Sky Town status as recognized by the International Dark-Sky Association3.

However, an article from Atlas Obscura had to be retracted because it was found that the author fabricated the idea of “dark weeks” in Moffat, and also fabricated interviews with multiple sources1. Therefore, while Moffat is a Dark Sky Town, the specific concept of “Dark Weeks” might not be an officially recognized or widely practiced event. It’s always a good idea to check with local sources or official town information for the most accurate details.

Learn more

1

atlasobscura.com
2

visitscotland.com
Yes, I disable it using the suggested method of returning NXDOMAIN for "use-application-dns.net". I do also disable it in applications such as the browser to avoid the log entries.

grep appli /etc/unbound/unbound.conf
local-zone: "use-application-dns.net." always_nxdomain

And then I have about 80 IP's that I blackhole. People often counter that with, "but DoH can run on any HTTPS endpoint and you can't block CDN's", and whilst this is true I have never run across a CDN performing front-ending DoH and I am the type of person that will block a CDN. I can route HTTPS for specific applications through my own VPN mesh if it came to that and use Squid SSL Bump MiTM proxies to sanitize URL's which I have done in the past. It would just be a couple ACL's in Squid to block DoH end-points. The only domains I can not MiTM are those still using public key pinning such as Paypal which I will never use, eff.org, and a few Google sub-domains. There are probably a few others I have not run across on my Squid proxies.

As a side note, I think PiHole should consider adding a feature for Squid MiTM proxy mode so that more people can do this, with options like peeling off specific LAN clients to use the proxy or force everything through it.
It would be an easy way to implement sparkline type charts inline. That is, you could easily mix text and sparklines without having to deal with block elements in html. I can imagine that would make it easier to have the text flow/reflow. I'm certainly going to try it.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06688 studied this. (Check out figure 3.) In short, yes, multilingual transfer does happen. But importantly, not at 7B. Being English-centric is possibly okay for LLaMA 70B, but it really is not okay for LLaMA 7B.
If nothing’s changed, the Gtk 4 design tool Cambalache[1] by the former maintainer of the now-defunct Glade project uses[2] Broadway to render its design view, because it was there and an embedded Wayland compositor widget wasn’t. Broadway is awesome, but this just makes me sad.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/cambalache

[2] https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2021/05/18/merengue-cambalache...
What are the limits on the number of databases (say sqlite files) one can have attached (and queried through a UNION) at a single time?
Probably, though when your business is making billions this is still just a few hours outage, or one long-running experiment dragging your conversion down by a few percentage points.
I've had 5 covid vaccines, and never had covid (as far as I know). My wife and kids all got it, I never did... and yes i tested a heap.

I got sick the other night, the first time I've felt sick in about 4 years... I was achey all over, I got the shiver and shakes and I was sweating non stop. I went to bed and had a very very rough nights sleep. but when i woke up I was fine.

Yet, I definitely feel like in the last 2 years my cognitive abilities have dropped. Also If I dont get at least 7 hours of sleep I'm just a zombie.

My typing accuracy and spelling has taken a massive nosedive.

physical activity is very hard... I used to cycle and do push ups etc all the time, but I'm really struggling to do a bare minimum now. It just feels harder, and I'm not getting the "buzz" or benefits I used to get.

I turn 50 this year, Its got me really concerned about my next 20 years of employability.
I've given up drinking, I try very hard to get the sleep i need... but i'm just not seeing improvements.
I don't understand half of the post, but claiming that they're doing this for "architectural purity" sounds ungenerous to me. The post lists a couple of tangible benefits, most of which do, I believe, relate to performance:

> Proper color handling (including HDR)
> Path rendering on the GPU
> Possibly including glyph rendering
> Off-the-main-thread rendering
> Performance (on old and less powerful devices)

(Which is not to say that tracking performance isn't a good idea. It's just that "architectural purity" sounds needlessly dismissive to me.)
Some open source projects hire full time developers with donations / sponsor money (e.g. python, zig).

I'm not saying that's the correct approach for GTK, just noting is not an absurd idea.
A Large-Scale Analysis of Dataset Cards on Hugging Face
Probably a priority, as everything Ubuntu is on laggy, oversized snap.
Boeing fucking up with the 737 Max so much is merely a symptom.

They so desperately needed it to remain a 737 so it wouldn’t be a new type and therefore wouldn’t need a new type rating was mostly because the airlines demanded a better 737.

Yes, Boeing is at fault for the MCAS disaster (no redundancies, holy fucking hell), but in reality it was the entire industry.

My point is, had nothing changed, it would have happened anyway, and perhaps with Airbus and not Boeing.

The one big oopsie is “we want a better plane and we also don’t want to retrain our pilots”, which is an oopsie that absolutely was not Boeing’s fault.
> Maybe the US is better without so many people in the military. Do we really need to be everywhere?

Where do you not want to be? Europe as part of NATO? The Pacific to counter-balance China? The Middle East (to help protect shipping through the Suez Canal)?
False attribution bias in this thread. virtually all startups fail, and such failure always takes the form of a plane crashing into the ground, whether or not the founders and/or employees were friends before.
S2ST surely sounds promising, but I do wonder about the accuracy, given that even current T2TT engines contains plenty of flaws. Whether accuracy matters is another thing, of course.
One of the good reasons to be part of a union is to pool legal resources for such a scenario
Existing options like? Using 3rd party libs for basic data structures?
At least the devs can find some motivation in the fact that they'll get comments like these every time they do something good...
A.I. Is Coming for the Past, Too
But what's the context? The article does not mention motive.
Its hard to tell sometimes, there are certainly a lot of midwit true believers, and the capacity of man to hold contradicting beliefs at the same time seems boundless.

But yeah, at some point one gets really disillusioned.
If you like this type of stuff or history of words try the Rob Words YouTube channel he has a lot of this stuff often presented in a lighthearted funny way.

https://www.youtube.com/@RobWords
German trains also used to have actual chefs on board, but it proved to be very cost-ineffective. There was even a McDonald's on a train, called the MacTrain: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/streit-zwischen-mcdonald-s-u...
I would also recommend sporcle quizzes as a good way of learning and practicing information. Eg flags and countries.