skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between making a DAW and publishing its complete source code, and making a DAW, whether open source or not, and making it automatable/scriptable which is what these users seem to be looking for.

Sure it’s daunting if I’m told that for some automation workflow I need to hack on some huge C++ codebase and rebuild it. Embedding a Lua interpreter or another language so one can ad-hoc control your application does not have anything to do with whether your main application is open source or not.

Neovim and emacs are both open source editors, and yet they both provide a hackable interface sonyou can extend them. So does Sublime Text which is not open source. I believe that a response to “I want this stupid custom text transformation for this one project” along the lines “you have the source, implement it” is a very unhelpful one, while providing macros/scripting is the right tool for the job.
A great deal can be learned from Unix Text Processing, by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly (1987) not just about troff, but the other Unix utilities in action, not just man pages or snippets. And all the quoting you need to do!

TO'R has made it available under Creative Commons' Attribution License.

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/

Also at IA.

https://archive.org/details/utp_book
You can experience the roar of the crowd with any decent audio system, but it's not the same as participating in it. Not really seeing how the headset helps me interact with other viewers either: I can't high five them, hug them, buy them food and drink [because they're my friends or family I'm meeting at the game] or even see what they're doing.
I'm still not convinced were not arguing semantics. Okay, agreed, an impaired theory of mind is a symptom of autism. But to me this is like saying the sky is blue, and then someone saying "no its actually scattering blue".

The fundamental mechanisms that make an autistic brain different than the statistical average brain are not yet fully understood, I know. But this study we are talking about is not about the fundamental mechanisms.

I just got out of a relationship with a French woman because of our differences in cultural norms, she also had an accent and we used idioms and expressions that neither of us were super keen on. We both lacked a robust theory of mind of each other. I had an impaired ability to ascribe mental states to her. And I find it very unlikely that I will ever become fluent in French. I currently and probably always will lack that capacity.

I also have an impaired ability to ascribe mental states to Donald Trump, and my cat. But most people would consider me allistic. Because I have mental processes that allow me to ascribe the mental states of other statistically normal people. Within the context of statistically average people, of my own culture, I have a robust-enough theory of mind. ToM is not binary, but a degree, and context dependent.

"Mental conditions" are classified mostly because they are disadvantageous or uncomfortable to some group of people. They can only be classified in relation to normal social behavior at some degree of deviation. Shouldn't it be implied that allistic people also have an impaired theory of mind of autistic people.

Taking Wikipedia's definition of ToM, it specifically mentions "capacity". So when you mention that autism may be a "narrow tunnel of attention", this feels very consistent with the definition of ToM. If my attention is extremely narrow, then I will have an impaired ability to understand other people by ascribing mental states to them.
Littering is the problem solved by charging for or banning free carrier bags, not usage of plastic bags. If your rubbish goes to landfill, don't expect a reduction in rubbish bags as a component. They're very light though.

IMO it's better to incinerate them. That's what Switzerland does. I think it largely works, as long as you have enough routes to take dangerous chemicals (electronics and batteries mostly, heavy metals) out of the the waste pipeline.
So what if we will? That does not mean we will be users of the products we are designing the UI for at that point. Design for actual disabilities that you can reasonably expect your users to have, such as color blindness, not the full spectrum of the human condition.

That said, I do think products should be as simple and clear as possible for a given level of essential complexity.
Let’s be clear. No one has just read the Art of Computer Programming.
There is the opposite, you can only run correctness checks without compiling by doing `cargo check` (though your IDE is probably already doing that for you). But compiling without these checks isn't really possible, since the later stages of the compiler rely on the assumptions guaranteed by the earlier stages. You can't skip type checks and still know that you're generating valid code.

And as much as people like to talk about rust compile times, it's now actually very fast at compiling small incremental changes in debug mode. The bigger pains are when you are building in release mode, or when you are building from scratch (e.g. first build, updated compiler, updated all your libraries, etc)
I've been to a single football (association) game in my life and I prefer the TV version of it as well.

At home I get to see the action from multiple camera angles, there's a guy who knows what's going on narrating the game for me, I can watch replays of the best moments.

What can the stadium experience bring to the table that beats all that? The feeling of unity with other fans? Well, I didn't root for any team in particular, and the loud crowds of people around me only made me uncomfortable.
More like overrated. An extension can't be better, can't offer more than what the host application allows. All these developers hang on by a thread. Compared to OS APIs, in-app APIs are more unstable. Goals, profit incentives affect a single application much harsher than how a wider ecosystem would react. It's good that they exist, but at most they are viewed as a necessary annoyance by their hosts. Chrome I won't even need to mention, but winds could turn anytime on something like VSCode as well.

Sure, Webkit and VSCode are both open source and forkable along with their extension support, but any later development would rot compatibility until, and if, a popular fork emerges.
That's fair, I was being more flippant than necessary. :)
"In matters of taste, there can be no disputes."
This is extremely timely! I was working on SIMD variants for collision-resistant rolling-hash variants in the last few weeks for the v3 release of the StringZilla library [1].

I have tried several 4-way and 8-way parallel variants using AVX-512 DQ instructions for 64-bit integer multiplications [2] as well as using integer FMA instructions on Arm NEON with 32-bit multiplications [3]. The latter needs a better mixing approach to be collision-resistant.

So far I couldn't exceed 1 GB/s/core [4], so more research is needed. If you have any ideas - I am all ears!

[1]: https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringZilla/blob/bc1869a8529...

[2]: https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringZilla/blob/bc1869a8529...

[3]: https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringZilla/blob/bc1869a8529...

[4]: https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringZilla/tree/main-dev?ta...
If the headlights can see you, you can see the headlights.
> Because they do not understand it and nerds suck at communicating with normal people. The result is known: little to no funding and support from the normal world.

Agree. Asking a non-techie user about interest in open source won't go anywhere.

But if you frame it in terms like: Do you want your favorite app to lock you in so you can't use any competing apps and then ratchet up the price sky high? Do you want your favorite features removed without recourse? Do you want the company to suddenly discontinue your favorite app and lock you out of using it (and lock you out of your data which you created with it)?

In my experience most regular people first react with "Oh they wouldn't do that", and then after experiencing commercial software for a decade or so eventually realize they all eventually do that.

From there, one can open a discussion to the solution which is open source.
Godel did not argue or show "there are fundamental epistemic limits to the universe". The universe is not a formal axiomatic system.

This repeats an very old, popular pop-philosophy misconception about Godel's theorems and GEB seems to have done nothing to help with this category error.
I keep using "mostly safe languages" as kind of abstract term, Rust comes into speech even in scenarios where other alternatives would be a viable option.
Chimpanzees engage in conspiracy and betrayal as a common feature in their societies. Domesticated animals may show humans what humans expect to see, that's all.
You don’t have to use the store to install and update the extension. You monitor the upstream GitHub release feed, and build and install the extension yourself on every update.
Hello. I used to use Dark Reader but then some it changed hands and a very questionable update appeared and freaked many people out, so I uninstalled. IIRC the changes were removed, or the additional code was not correctly activated, maybe both. Anyway, you may wish to check the status of that particular extension. I use some flag in config now to do approximately the same thing, it’s not as effective, but it’s close.
Well, I wouldn't go nearly as far as you do, but I do appreciate your up front, clear argument for your point.

My perception is that the labor/capital allocation of return is far out of whack, due to a power imbalance.

But I feel you still aren't accounting for the value of capital. It's too easy an answer, intellectually, just to dismiss the whole thing and ignore the complication.

Production requires capital and labor. If I lend you my truck for your contracting service, shouldn't I get some return on that? What if you use my property to manufacture your skateboard (or whatever)? What if I give you some of my personal cash to hire workers, who then produce the skateboards, which you sell at a profit? I know these are simple, chosen examples, but where do you see the problem and how do you quantify appropriate returns?
The fact that he brings up GO, and then doesn't compare it to rust/python is amusing.

GO: fast compile, typed, fast testing, pedantic error handling (and I have come to see this as a feature).

I have dabbled in rust. I would much prefer to call out to Rust than C from GO... The fact that this is possible but doesn't feel production ready is something that the rust community can fix. The fact that its complier is holding it back is something that rust needs to fix.

Calling "Compiling Rust Testing" is a hefty dose of copium.
Tap water tastes like chemicals to me, I have to at least let it stand in a bottle and rest for a few hours to be able to drink it.
I don't know. Tell me Kevin. Damm.
Yeah, but that isn't C any longer, it is a flavour of a language that largely looks like C.

C is the complete printout from ISO/IEC 9899.
+1 to implementing a Rust interpreter. You can skip the entire middle and backend of the compiler, and if the program doesn't do much, this will be faster than any other solution.

The Virgil compiler includes an interpreter for the entire language (by necessity--initialization of components can use the full language). This can be exploited to run all of your unit tests in interpreted mode, skipping the compilation step. This is a huge win. It's a win to the point that developing the compiler itself, I often run the compiler in the stable compiler's interpreter (~85ms), to skip the entire bootstrapping step (~400ms).
Facebook: 20 years of hope, manipulation and data trading
Good idea! It then follows that we are looking at CAA: Computer Assisted Alienation
, or maybe Optimized Alienation, or Automated...?
Pretty sure it is, but maybe you can tell me how I'm wrong. It's by these very principles that people into tactical guns would choose a tactical flashlight for their weapon. The higher the lumens, and more focused the beam, the less likely an assailant's tactical light will shine through yours. It's maybe not using some physics verbiage correctly, but it is basically how light works in practice. I'm confident that I'm at least correct enough to get actual concepts across in a layman's dialect, so perhaps you can correct anything I said that was accidentally misleading.
I mean the whole point is that you can high five or hug the other fans youre sitting next to. Obviously its not the same as physically doing it, but its still better than sitting on your coach alone. I dont think most fans enjoy paying 4x prices for food and drink at games, but maybe thats just me.
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Are you supposed to watch the lectures after reading the chapters (which ones?) or how does it work?
> Next week you can't have it because they think I'm importing to resell it.

With all the "free trade" agreements Vietnam is party to [1], you'd think this would be perfectly fine. Funny how that works, isn't it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_trade_agreements_of_Vietn...
I check into his twitch stream every now and again and I’d disagree. His next game is clearly his proving ground for the language and it is looking pretty far along these days. I expect his sokoban game and the language will be released pretty close to one another. I can’t/won’t make any actual guesses as to when that will be though.
> "if asked to do a secret task by a suspicious email, DONT do it"

This is not what they teach you in trainings, though. They teach you to get the requestor (or your boss or whoever might be authoritative) on the line and confirm that the email is authentic. I believe a video call qualifies as well.
Is it possible these people are attempting to make conversation and link fun ideas together, rather than just trying to appear "smart"?
Solving the darknet riddle (2022)
Thats just not my experience

I’m using Miqu 70B Q4 and it immediately replaced Mixstral 8x7B Q5 for me

I screen almost all of my responses in relationships through it, with deep context on why its modifying things, total paradigm shifts like a therapist is showing me more effective conversation styles. I wasn't seen as having low emotional intelligence to begin with and the results have been great.

Translations

Coding syntax

Entire code bases

Nuanced legal aspects of industries (deep conversations about obscure drug and treatment pricing by region and billing method, which matched reality)

More stuff about different kinds of insurance and how to navigate insurance brokers, to great effect

Whenever a contractor or professional outside of my knowledge domain gives me a word salad, I make a note of what they said verbatim and have the LLM translate that for me. Then I come back to them with informed responses they cant bullshit around. I got my HVAC fixed by pointing out what they are probably missing, and they were previously too prideful to notice or consider or admit. Got a payment coming from my landlord for this because they caused my energy bill to be higher.

Large document analyses, which I thought was the final boss. I’m only giving these things an 8,000 token context window and things have been great and coherent
Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (2017) [pdf]
Windows in 2009 was Windows 7 I think (just rolling out as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7)

If you ignore percentages and focus on # of computers in rotation, I wonder how different 95% Windows in 2009 vs 72% Windows in 2024 is
The SpaceX Starship Space Station Is Coming [video]
Things to do with Starship
In the EU they measure fuel efficiency in liters per 100km, which dimensionally is a unit of area.

In the US we use miles per gallon, which is the inverse - a ‘per area’.
People generally watch sports with family and friends - same as attending a game in person. VR is very antisocial for an event like a game. I can see how it would solve for folks who want to share the experience remotely with each other, but I'd gather that's a very niche / small market. I, personally, don't want to experience a game with everyone in the room wearing a headset.

The only thing I want a strong VR headset for is so I can have large screens with me when I travel. I really have no desire to engage with AR through what the current state of VR headsets is.
So a little-known fact about him is that he was in a way sort of a failed novelist. He would show up at his kitchens four hours early and plunk away at mystery novels, but of course it was Kitchen Confidential that took off and then carried him into teevee-land…

anyway, I once had the opportunity to talk with him at a Q&A, basically said that the shows were great and all, but what I really loved were his novels, and was he working on anything new? The look on his face, he just glowed. I think writing was his real passion, and the TV and travel stuff kind of derailed that.
Mr Knuth almost certainly has
> Brilliant early work from Bourdain that (I believe) launched his career...

Indeed, Wikipedia agrees with you:

> In 1999, Bourdain's essay "Don't Eat Before Reading This" was published in The New Yorker. The essay, an unsolicited submission to the magazine, launched Bourdain's media career and served as the foundation for Kitchen Confidential. Released in 2000 to wide acclaim, the book is both a professional memoir and an unfiltered look at the less glamorous aspects of high-end restaurant kitchens, which he describes as unremittingly intense, unpleasant, hazardous, and staffed by misfits. Bourdain believes that the kitchen is no place for dilettantes or slackers and that only those with a masochistic dedication to cooking will remain undeterred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Confidential_(book)
I never understood why people think that giving an interest free loan to our government is a bad thing.
maybe with less intrusive and lighter optical AR glasses that do not cover all your field of view, walking around the city would be more possible. But expecting to go around the streets or even drive with a huge AR headset is unreasonable for our times.
So many critical websites are horribly broken, especially if you have an older computer
Let's not to play with the words and be a weasel. Building Rust project is slow. Selling slow builds as a testing feature is very misleading at best.
Now my target bags use 5x the amount of plastic and cost me $.10 before I put them in the bin. If anything it seems like waste is increasing from them. Why can’t somebody make a paper bag with a handle that doesn’t rip in the parking lot?
Imagine spotty, dropping connection, low bandwidth.

You do not want to load big chunk of JS because it was never cached, or as Uber used to do, download all the possible new promos every time you opened the app...

You want to squeeze through the minimal data you need to arrange your core business function.
Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TlkzcIel_pY
ByteGraph: A High-Performance Distributed Graph Database in ByteDance [pdf]
The new stadium they built for the Raiders is a technological marvel, the field slides outside of the stadium on tracks to allow real grass to get the sunshine fresh air etc and to allow the stadium to be used for other events without damaging the turf.
Professional sports teams in Vegas are a great idea as the visiting teams tend to draw in fans and their wallets, most of the Games I've watched on TV seem to have just as many if not more fans cheering for the visiting team.
I think they were referring to aerial drones, which tend to have limited capacities for cheap ones.

Those were seaborne (naval) drones carrying about 1000 kg of explosives each if I remember correctly.
Do you not plan to go grocery shopping or do you always do it on the spur of the moment?
I'm not sure what the issue is. If you need to pick up something small from the store on the way somewhere you can definetly get a small always carry on you bag that will fit in a pocket.
When you're going to actual go grocery shopping just bring the bigger reusable bags. If the purpose of the journey is shopping it's not inconvenient to carry those bags and you'll have to carry the grocies back anyhow.

I get that it's less conventient to have to remember a bag but it's not some insurmountable task and it does seem to reduce the amount of plastic bags that get caught by the wind and blow around as trash.
Autism, through the eyes of a computer (2019)
Why don’t you just reuse them instead of putting them in the bin?

It seems like the waste is coming from you.
> Well, the Common Language Runtime that powers .Net languages isn't written with .Net, and the Java runtime environment isn't written in Java.

Actually a large part of it is, and in Java's case there are bootstraped implementations, OpenJDK isn't the only one.

Java is like C and C++, where multiple implementations are available for a given specification.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/
i want to see a "how do State Spaces work" paper
> Mostly this is due to people who eat meat being unwilling to be faced with the actual impact of their choices, and in turn hamming up the existence of this attitude.

The double standard between "pets" and "livestock" is especially illuminating in this regard. I know many people that will say eating a dog is unconscionable... right before ordering another helping of bacon.
It has specific security mitigations that apply on Windows. It has Super Duper Secure Mode (JIT disabler per-website). It has better battery life than Chrome. It looks nicer than Chrome and it has much better vertical tabs than Brave or Firefox.
Seinfeld Law
Writing a "how does X work" post is a good way to learn about X. And when X is very popular, lots of people will be writing and sharing those posts, both for their own study and just for clicks.
Now do the calculation looking at the cycle life of the battery, not the lifetime in years....

Turns out today's stationary batteries deliberately keep their state of charge in a narrow range in the middle (ie. 40-60% charged), which reduced storage kWh, which in turn increases cost per kWh stored, all in the name of increasing cycle life, which impacts the capital cost per kWh cycled..
It’s a grammatically correct sentence that uses all those words correctly.
Exactly. Normally it will use whatever database you put in your DATABASE_URL environment variable (or .env), but you can run `cargo sqlx prepare` to save the metadata in a bunch of json files to enable offline development or if you CI environment doesn't have a database instance. However you will need to update this every time you change a SQL query. I find it more convenient to just develop in online mode against a local database.
The drones used by terrorists are homemade and slow moving.
I use it with "Compiled bindings" (https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/basics/data/data-binding/co...) and it feels instant to me too (on a I7-8750H).

Without this option, bindings use Reflection and it can be quite slow.
I've come to the conclusion that if you need a reminder to do a chore, it's probably not that important. I do the laundry because the basket is full. I dust because it's dusty.

The problem with scheduled tasks is that it assumes that every week, you'll have the same time and energy, and that the task will have the same priority.

In reality one week you slept poorly, the floor is spotless because you were not home, and you've got much bigger fires to fight.

I try to do things according to need.