skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The role singing and especially the festival plays here was very foreign to me when i moved to estonia. I have to admit I was initially reminded of the movie midsommar when seeing 100 000 people wearing traditional clothing and sing “mu isamaa on minu arm”, many with tears in their eyes. The only way to understand this is to look at the context:

- estonia is one of the least religious countries in the world, the independence day and song festival take an important role that is filled by more religious holidays in other countries, i would say both come even before new years
and Christmas for many

- estonia is a tiny country with less than 1 million estonian speakers. the importance of culture and heritage preservation is really high especially in lights of russias argumentation in ukraine. the song festival is maybe the most vividly lived example of this

- the singing revolution cemented the role of singing even further in national identity

- last and most importantly more than 130 000 estonians were killed or deported under soviet occupation and estonian identity was threatened to be wiped out. the song festival is a symbol for overcoming oppression and remembering the lost ones.
Silly looks like a colorized version of Steamboat. Not that different. Or at least I can't tell that it is, enough to say it is 'obvious'. So, for me, joe blow off the street, they don't look different.

Is colorizing enough to say they are different?

Then why can't I colorize Steamboat? Isn't that allowed.
> Usage of "literally" to mean "figuratively" dates back hundreds of years, with citations by top English writers.

Do you have a source for this? This is exactly how bullshit spreads.

> If you believed that "literally" meaning "figuratively" was a recent change, you were mistaken.

If you believe your authority as an anonymous commenter overrules the previous anonymous commenter, you have mistaken ideas about argumentation.
Oh those darned HOA types!
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39173775
What is your definition of progress?
So the big change seems to be foregoing the usual radiation hardened components. Was the calculation that this was less risky for planetary exploration, or the standard risk was acceptable given that it was not the central thrust of the mission? What would the total cost look like if you could launch several redundant cheap probes instead of an NASA-grade one anytime this is a question?

Interesting to see how the lithium batteries did with such extreme temperature cycling. And here I am bringing my mower batteries inside in a cold snap.
The submission title should be two hyphens (--), not an em-dash and a hyphen (—-)
Knowing when to speak is actually a prediction task in itself. See eg https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10874

Would be indeed great to get something like this integrated with whisper, LLM and TTS
I think this is what's happening. Code production speed has increased. But the speed and efficiency of review and testing hasn't kept pace.

Also, my current job limits the use of AI coding tools, because of the risk of our IP leaking out. To really be useful, there is a lot of context a programmer should be able to collate. Not all of it is going to be in the repo.
Wrist wearables that can track micro-muscle movements in your fingers (pinching, scrolling, etc) are in development as a pair to these devices
It's been running terribly on Firefox for me but works fine on Chrome.
Nowadays most GTK apps look very simliar. A sidebar, some actions in the titlebar, a details view. (Same story for Mac apps, 'Modern' Windows apps, Mobile apps.)

I wonder if a UX toolkit could be completely declarative and semantic - "I need a master/detail view, a list view with the following fields, some actions, ...". At the high level you don't give any positioning, or styling. It would automatically use the appropirate system widgets. Then on top you would add some polish by using a bit of CSS, or maybe an escape hatch to get the native widgets.

Almost everything that is not a browser, a WYSIWYG editor, or a media viewer would fit that mould. The kicker is that from such a description you could easily generate a TUI.
Yes, but when you change Whisper to make it live, to get WhisperLive, surely this has an effect on the WER, it will get worse. The question is, how much worse? And what is the latency? Depending on the type of streaming model, you might be able to control the latency, so you get a graph, latency vs WER, and in the extreme (offline) case, you have the original WER.

How exactly does WhisperLive work actually? Did you reduce the chunk size from 30 sec to something lower? To what? Is this fixed or can it be configured by the user? Where can I find information on those details, or even a broad overview on how WhisperLive works?
It says in the article that they do want it.
The Lunar Registry
Vaping isn't the same thing as smoking.
Another HN commenter[0] speculated that the R1 chip could be part of the path towards an Apple self-driving car. Since they're no longer trying to do level 5 FSD, I think one of the absolute coolest things could be using the Vision Pro to see straight through the car into what would otherwise be blind spots. Obviously there are implications to wearing Vision Pro while driving, especially since if the device loses power you will entirely lose the ability to see. The idea still fascinates me though.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39108792
Thank you ! I already read both.
- The Book of Five Rings, Musashi
- The Art of War, Sun Tsu

This is a good pick. I am interested if you have more.
As I’ve commented elsewhere, to the extent you are using machine translation: note that GPT is bad at translation to languages other than English. Telltale sign is not declining for gender. I saw this a lot with GPT4’s Polish. Better to use one of the standard translation services.
This is one of those things where common usage in the United States has given it a secondary meaning that does mean exactly what he meant, and of course this will have also spilled into UK usage.

So if you're a linguistic descriptivist then no problem.
> are they just going to demand that their current iPhone/iPad apps be supported by the developers for free

With what leverage? You can't just "demand" something of a developer that you've already paid.
In robotics, it's pretty widely used to refer to a 6-degree of freedom pose or relative pose in space, for example it's widely used in ROS, a de facto standard https://docs.ros.org/en/melodic/api/geometry_msgs/html/msg/T.... Not sure if there they're just using it as an example in the graphics.
Correct answer. Also the RPi is only just powerful enough to run all the synths (it's a 3rd gen) and the prototype was Mac + Arduino; so made a lot of sense to just move the synthesis program to the Pi to make it self-contained and leave the Arduino program as-is.
Heh I mean, I'm a frontend engineer too and agree with you that there's so much to be had in the frontend :) But I also understand that people have preferences and habits, and that there's a cost to investigating potential other paths one could take without knowing in advance whether they're right for them.
> That eye tracking though also supports dystopian scenarios such as being able to change the world right from under you by only changing things you're not looking at, "reading your mind" by seeing what catches your eye, etc.

For better or worse Apple isn't allowing this kind of thing, the eye tracking "cursor" is only ever known to the OS itself and apps only receive "click" events with a snapshot of where you're looking when the OS detects the relevent hand gesture. Apps are never allowed to know what you're gazing at passively.

It's a good move for privacy, but it's very limiting for games since they will only have (accurate) head and (not so accurate) hand tracking data to work with.
C Defect Report #260
I'm jealous. Unfortunately, people like me with aphantasia have no visual imagination. The hardest part in physics was converting the problems into equations. Once it is an equation, I could solve it (depending on the problem, with some difficulty or not, I guess).
Ask HN: How important is labeling for ML algorithms?
Trying to understand the depth and necessity of labeling for an algorithm, specifically having people or other algorithms label and check the labeling of data.

Do the data sets need to be labeled extensively every time an algorithm needs to be trained? How often does a new data set need to be labeled, is it only with novel data?
We will look into Albanian! We have some ideas on how to remove the language restrictions sometime this year.

When it comes to educational content, one of the things I'm most excited for is to have the stuff I'm learning hooked up into an SRS _and_ in another language. Not only will I remember things better because I'm learning it in another language, but I'll learn the other language better because I'm interested in the content.

Although I'm most interested in turning stories into language learning content. Instead of 'Jack was in the park in summer'', something like "John Snow stood on the wall in winter" I would expect to elad to much stronger memories.
> They can get this and a nice pair of headphones and have a great home theater experience. This is something that would be difficult to do in their current situations.

For that price you can get 3 of your friends a nice 1080p short throw projector and studio monitors which will outlive the vision pro and won't cause neck/head pain after an hour.
Whenever I walk my dog I find myself wanting a conversationalist LLM layer to exist in the best form. LLM's now are great at conversation, but the connective tissue between the LLM and natural dialog needs a lot of work.

Some of the problems:

- Voice systems now (including ChatGPT mobile app) stop you at times when a human would not, based on how long you pause. If you said, "I think I'm going to...[3 second pause]" then LLM's stop you, but a human would wait

- No ability to interrupt them with voice only

- Natural conversationalists tend to match one another's speed, but these system's speed are fixed

- Lots of custom instructions needed to change from what works in written text to what works in speech (no bullet points, no long formulas)

On the other side of this problem is a super smart friend you can call on your phone. That would be world changing.
Pupil tracking is in consumer VR devices, I can see it being further miniaturized, especially with advances in waveguiding.

In fact, this might be a great use for Zeiss's holocam tech [0]: high resolution, low definition, grayscale "window" that waveguides some of the light passing through, down to one of the edges, where an image sensor picks it up and decides it.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38881981
Most people probably think they are more rational than average.
related "YouTube did not slow down adblock users. Adblock devs admit to problem" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014268
Just wait until this AI-generated code is posted on github and is read as the source for the next version of Copilot.
Is Dr Strangelove a caricature of Kissinger? I heard that in an Adam Curtis documentary.
DigitalOcean now has H100 GPU clusters available with 3.2TB networking
Digital Ocean recently launched a NVIDIA H100 GPU cluster which provides on-demand (pay-by-the-hour) H100 cloud GPUs backed by a 3.2TB GPU fabric. The cluster is optimal for bursty training/fine-tuning jobs, no commit required.

Server specs (8-way box)
8 NVIDIA H100 HGX GPUs connected by NVLink/NVSwitch
1.76 TB RAM
128 vCPU

DigitalOcean now has H100 GPU clusters available with 3.2TB networking

https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/1747974629572911140
Certainly, if the loss means you encounter financial hardship, you'd be understandably resentful.

But even when the loss causes little financial hardship, it could put a strain on a relationship.

Imagine you invest $20k in my business and I buy a $5k industrial juicing machine for the office so my staff can have freshly squeezed orange juice. I tell you that employees expect free luxury food these days and it'll make hiring much easier. You have your doubts.

If the business does well and we both make a big profit - we're both happy. You still think the juicer was a bit extravagant - but it all worked out in the end, and maybe I was right that it helped with recruitment.

But if the business fails - you might resent the fact I wasted $5k of your money on a juicer.
Maybe the author could have used a more general notion, then, if omission and brevity were going to be present? Like, instead of a linear map or transform, he could have said an operator or something.

I don't know what is the general form of a transform or linear map. I think it's something like operator, though.
Population considerations are what make it low risk. If prostate cancer was most common in 10 year old boys, the risk tradeoffs for a slow cancer would be quite different.

>I really don't see how my post would be considered hostile.

To make a point, you are quite literally asking someone with elevated PSA, whos father died of prostate cancer, if they want to wear a diaper.
Their first one, maybe. But I've seen first-hand how much people vary in what they manage to learn from classes.
It was just guesswork based on other aircraft.
It says everything about C when you need a code generator for something like this. This is why development in python or node.js is so much faster.
Interesting project, thanks for sharing
DynASM: A Dynamic Assembler for code generation engines
Record breaking for that day of the year.
No, it's not that it's compute-heavy, especially, it's that the model expects to work on 30-second samples. So if you want sub-second latency, you have to do 30 seconds worth of processing more than once a second. It just multiplies the problem up. If you can't offload it to a gpu it's painfully inefficient.

As to why that might matter: my single 4090 is occupied with most of a Mixtral instance, and I don't especially want to take any compute away from that.
> The phrase I kept hearing from film studio/director types was that they didn't know how to tell a story with VR that could only be told with VR (profitably).

This was my exact same complaint within my group creating VR content around the same time. Gaming is a no-brainer. It was the live action that was the blocker. Directors want to control the narrative with various techniques like blocking, depth of field, framing, etc. Within VR, all of that control is lost. Within VR means that it is possible the viewer isn't even looking in the right direction as the director intended. Putting the camera in motion is weird for the viewer since the viewer did not initiate it (unless it was something obvious like being in a car/roller coaster/etc).
Even John Gruber (Daring Fireball) described it as a shit sandwich from Apple.
Not having controllers is absolutely ridiculous with this. I know it's focused more on AR, but what, can you not plug it into steam and use it in an FPS? What would you do, make finger pointy gun gestures? Is it only Apple Store apps and they're going to not allow anything like that?

My friend wants to buy one and use his Xbox controller. Just stupid.

I have 3 VR systems. Vive, Q2, Q3.. I have Skyrim installs with 300-500 mods, Assetto Corso with my racing sim wheel/seat. How am I doing any of that with this? How do I swing a sword? My Q3 supports hand gestures. They're nice when using virtual desktop sort of things, but in a game? no way. No tactical feedback sucks.
Carbon?
When I was interviewed on a technical subject by a local affiliate, I was told they are under specific directive to be as non-technical as possible, even if the result becomes technically incorrect. As a result, my answers were trimmed down to be essentially "be scared of scary things". The news is a product being sold to a demographic and the messaging must appease the demographic or they are out of their jobs.
Centralized planning doesn't work even if the people doing the planning achieved the centralization via otherwise free market means. This is obviously true of communist countries that have never shown compelling evidence that centralized planning is beneficial. It's also true of large multinational corporations that slowly fossilize with bureaucracy, paralysis, and lack of innovation as they become ever larger and concentrated the management of ever larger amounts of capital.

Society works best when small, individual property owners make good decisions regarding their properties and come together organically for the sake of organizing the meta structure of society.
Yeah, this is something we tried!

And yea, from an IDE perspective, it seems like maybe a sensible default would be to run `mypy ${CURRENT_FILE}` on save or something -- I've tried this manually myself, and it's decent, but it's not good enough to use constantly. I don't remember specific issues since I haven't done this in a long time.

Pre-commits are painful (on purpose!), but preventing people from shipping seemed like the wrong call. So we ended up dropping them.
To be fair, the secondary technologies available to support the preferred model now are far more advanced than what Quartz Extreme (in macOS) and DWM (in Win. Vista) had to use, and there's no longer a need to provide backward compatibility with software rendering.
Skipped down to make sure they don’t recommend WD40 and sure enough they get it exactly right!

WD40 is so grossly mis-used. In almost all circumstances it makes things worse over time after making them better in the short term.
The vape pen is the one object that contains within it the trajectories and tensions that defines the modern world, really? Even if you're trying to illustrate an overall point about how irredeemably evil contemporary capitalism is, surely the cell phone is a better example..
A data breach where?

The central authority should be someplace that already has your non-anonymous ID data, so using your ID for age verification doesn't give them any new ID information. The only new thing that them doing age verification adds is that they might keep a list of verification tokens they have issued.

Someone who obtained copies of the verification tokens you requested might go to various social media sites and ask them who used those tokens, allowing matching up your social media identities with your real identity.

That's fixed by making it so the token that is given to the social media site is not the token that came from site that checked your ID. You give the social media site a transformed token that you transform in such a way that the social media site can recognize that it was made from a legitimate token from the ID checker but does not match anything on the list of tokens that the ID checker has for you.
I would like meetings to be recorded, transcribed, screensharing portions should generated screenshots that are part of the notes.

All of this data dumped in to Slack, so that it can easily be searched along with other conversations on the same subject.
You can register a Nectar card (giving name/postal address/email address/phone number/date of birth), but I'm not sure how much verification of these things they do.

I am not sure, but I think you might need to register to redeem points.
Ask HN: Favourite Data Visualization Examples?
I am on the hunt for some inspiration on new and creative ways to display datasets. What is your favourite site that displays data in a fun way?

Ideally:

- creative: displaying data in unconventional ways

-natural: the flow of the data seems natural and the
additional elements arent just an add on but a part of the data experience itself.

-fun: graphic design and animations are always fun

- interactive: Is the data a pick-your-own adventure story or a linear experience?

Hoping to see what others have built and come across. Cheers.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see vaping turn into a prescription-only smoking cessation aid, but it's not smoking. I'm 100% happy with even a one-for-one replacement of smoking for vaping, even in kids, given the dramatically lower risk of resulting health problems.
Has anyone experimented with integrating real-time lipsync into a low-latency audio bot? I saw some demos with d-id but their pricing was closer to $1/minute which makes it rather prohibitive
This is a really cool project!

I did a not nearly as cool project several years ago, a command line NOS Teletekst reader for Unix/Windows. Might be of use to someone: https://github.com/sjmulder/nostt
I've found that it's useful for explaining things to me, and barely anything else.
From the article:

> It acts as a lubricant, rust preventive, penetrant and moisture displacer.

and the article is in the category of "Petroleum based lubricants"

So it seems just because it wasn't intended as a lubricant doesn't mean it can't be be.
Not in my experience. At the last few companies I worked at, meetings were annoying for entirely different reasons, but not because of filibustering. People got in and out as quickly as possible. You occasionally met with someone who wouldn't answer a question straight, or make a statement in less than five paragraphs, but at this company it is the rule rather than the exception. The only difference I can point at to explain it is that I now work with mostly academics and scientists rather than software product people.
I'm always happy to see Linux in unexpected places.
What about when you’re having a bathroom emergency on the way in the house???
For the PlayStation 3, another thing driving Linux's removal was that organizations were buying PS3s to use in data centers. But Sony sold them at a loss (IIRC over $100/unit loss, even being sold at $600 twenty years ago) and intended to make it up on revenue from games sold. They also didn't have nearly enough at launch because they were using a brand new processor (designed with help from IBM) and a brand new Blu-Ray disc format. That slowed down their initial production, and it had to launch in time to compete with the Xbox 360 (Pre-Christmas 2005), which also had a HD-DVD attachment.

Notably, the PS3 at launch was actually cheaper than some dedicated Blu-ray players, so some home theater enthusiasts bought them (few to no games), eating into Sony's revenue even more. It took several years for the PS3 to be profitable, but it won the format war.
All those engineers need to be hauled up because they’re killing people. Software engineers by contrast are high performance: barely any fatalities and so much value created. It’s why it’s not construction firms that are the most valuable companies but software companies. You can count on software engineers to build things that won’t kill, for the most part. Other kinds of engineers, on the other hand, are constantly killing people.

We need higher standards for engineers. They could learn from software folks. If you can’t do it safely don’t do it.
The value of metaphors is not their ability to stay relevant at arbitrary inclusion of scope.

That being said, the original "Sharp Knives" piece is talking about powerful language features and whether to ban them in your kitchen, so yes, it has plenty of effect on their coworkers. Because it's a shared decision to not ban sharp knives from the kitchen, but trust and educate, and realize that people who're doing harmful things can do so with dull knives too. It's about the techniques you allow in your codebase, it doesn't propose that ruby is one "knife".

And programming language features does not, generally, end up on the plate of the customer either. The fact that this site is written in a language that allows even more powerful meta programming than ruby is not bleeding through in the sense that we now have the tools of the language available to us. We haven't been served sharp knives. We've been served the consequences of the engineering that went into it, and the people doing that engineering had the opportunity to leverage or ignore the sharp knives of the language. That language being lisp, I'm pretty sure they had at it.
I've used 'copy as curl' a bunch. Often find I have to append --compressed so the command line will provide the uncompressed output.