skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this vein I've always thought it would be cool to see what kind of sports we could have in a zero gravity stadium in orbit. Something like the training facilities in Ender's game.

Maybe a sport like Quidditch could become a reality
It's true Yuzu did early access builds for patreons yes.
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> I guess the hash still points at the phone number behind the scenes though?

AFAIK, from the article, yes. But, you can create/delete that hash->phone mapping at will.

Hence the recommendation to just create when required, or frequently change them if you're concerned.

Or, use the QR code/link generation too. Those work the same way.
Quoting from our paper, training was done using "205 hours of 16-kHz speech from a combination of TTS datasets including more than 900 speakers in 34 languages and dialects". Mostly tested with English, but part of the idea of releasing early (none of that is standardized) is for people to try it out and report any issues.

There's about equal male and female speakers, though codecs always have slight perceptual quality biases (in either direction) that depend on the pitch. Oh, and everything here is speech only.
>but it's not super interesting to outsiders.

It is however super interesting to curious outsiders. The average Joe can go doom-scroll somewhere else for that "amusement" dopamine rush.

They didn't write it to amuse or teach the general population. Not everything posted has to.
Not sure, but I tried using GPT4 in advent of code, and it was absolutely no good.
It's a shame they abandoned it so quickly for the Mac, and let that project suck away all the air in the room, or allowed a competing project like that at all instead of concentrating efforts. The Mac stole from the Lisa but just aesthetic / UX aspects, and produced something that didn't grow well over the years... no memory protection, single tasking, etc. Things that impacted them very badly in the late 80s and into the 90s when customers wanted/expected these things and System 7 did not cut it.

Lisa really was the superior platform in many ways and it really would have come down to finding a way to get prices lower through economies of scale. Another couple years and the 68k and supporting chips and RAM were way cheaper and you could make a fairly beefy machine in that class for pretty cheap (as Tramiel showed with the Atari ST.)
DHCP I would assume.
> You can't really do that with a graph. Maybe if you offered a bunch of graph types.

And so why isn't this the solution?

Most languages support both hash map (fast lookup) and balanced tree (ordered entries) primitives, even though they both implement the "associative map" container type.

Can't we have 2, 3, 5, or even 8 different graph types?
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In fact there is! It's called a Gomboc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c
But in no world can I buy a retro game on arbitrary platform X and then also play it on arbitrary platforms P, Q or R.
I guess Claude was too focused on jail-breaking out of Anthropic's servers the first time it was asked the question.
Next time look into Lenovo.
I have a Legion 5 Pro with Ryzen and RTX 3070. Everything just works running Linux.
Wow, I really couldn't believe it! Checked it myself, and it seems to get it wrong[1]. 4-bit quantized Mixtral Instruct running locally, gets it right[2].

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/zRI8wKZ

[2]: https://imgur.com/a/0On1I52
Making a patent troll is just a matter of putting up a press release and a web page.

I could claim to have a long list of patents against AptX. Anyone could.

Of course I'm not willing to disclose the list of patents at this time, but customers looking to be extorted may contact me privately.
Probably, but do we want to keep going back to the same spot?
That's true at a microeconomic level (i.e. single company), but at the macroeconomic level we are talking about aggregate wages as a percentage of all company costs.

As an aside, I think you might be underestimating the percentage of costs that staffing take - Take your example of train operations.

The report below shows that Staffing Costs are approx. 28% of a train operators costs within the UK (NB: this would not include costs maintaining the rails).

https://www.orr.gov.uk/sites/default/files/om/toc-benchmarki...

In your job with the cookie factory, you are also underestimating the amount of labour - I assume there were office staff, people who transported the cookies, people who made the raw ingredients, shopkeepers who put it on the shelf, all of whom have to be paid for within the ultimate retail cost. At that scale of production you will also require technical managers, maintenance engineers, marketing teams, QAs...
I don't particularly care either way but how is that meaningfully different from option 2? You need to do something with your WIP in either case before switching to the new branch.
Right, but if you deploy the parachute you can kiss your airplane goodbye. It's totalled at that point and will never fly again. So in this case that's a $190k decision. Why not instead just fly an airplane (or helicopter) that is good at being an aircraft? If your budget is $190k you have some incredible options available.
What's the performance of this like? It seems really appealing. I would love to be able to use it to debug https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants because I use RNG heavily to add variance to the world and that, combined with indeterminate execution order of systems, can really leave me scratching my head sometimes.

However, I'm building using a tilemap that's 144x144. So I've got ~21000 entities to log. It seems impractical to snapshot the world every tick, but maybe if it were able to snapshot deltas or something?
Not to mention it took 14 years for this case to be resolved. I don't know if the defendant continued infringing over all that time, but $820k for a "license" to do so for 14 years seems like not a big deal.

Sounds like one of those fines that most companies would just shrug off as a cost of doing business. If I were the defendant's lawyer, I think I'd be pretty successful at framing this to my client as a win.
>Macbooks are just so far ahead of everyone else that you can't even compare them.

They are awesome, but not perfect.

Way over-priced storage and RAM upgrades, can't connect multiple monitors unless you pay up, and you're stuck with MacOS. Any one of these could be reason enough for people to look elsewhere.
> And for some reason, so many companies are still shipping laptops with 1080p screens in 2024.

I am in the group of people who go for Full HD. It's enough for me, my eyesight is relatively bad. Then again, I use 3 monitors.
Wonder why they would use hard links instead of symlinks.

Edit: interesting, seems like there's a mild performance benefit.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/20716
Can it be nested? Haskell's do can be used like

do
r <- do
foo
bar
quux r

But I don't see (from https://gleam.run/news/v0.25-introducing-use-expressions/) any obvious way of nesting like that in Gleam.
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Not necessarily just a sense of reference, but also a practice of always keeping in mind what direction one is when changing direction (mentally summing up the deltas in direction).

I do this when driving - I always know what direction I'm headed, even in an unfamiliar place (unless there are a ton of non-right-angle turns that confuse me, and then I have to check a map).
There are a number of well fleshed out plans for doing essentially this. One of the more interesting ones for me was that microwaves can be used to fuse lunar regolith into a solid. One plan had a solar powered rover that sat there and microwaved the ground until is was solid far enough down, then would move forward on to that patch and start with the next patch. As I recall it would take about a month to make an acre sized "pad" which would support landing.
Dynetics’ proposal was the most expensive, and they also couldn’t figure out a way to make it work at the time when the choice was made[1]:

> Of particular concern is the significant weakness within Dynetics’ proposal under Technical Area of Focus 1, Technical Design Concept, due to the SEP’s finding that Dynetics’ current mass estimate for its DAE far exceeds its current mass allocation; plainly stated, Dynetics’ proposal evidences a substantial negative mass allocation. This negative value, as opposed to positive reserves that could protect against mass increases at this phase of Dynetics’ development cycle, is disconcerting insofar as it calls into question the feasibility of Dynetics’ mission architecture and its ability to successfully close its mission as proposed.

You can read NASA’s full thoughts on that link. But the basics are, they thought there were good ideas, but they weren’t comfortable picking a lander that went far above the allotted budget, while the team who made the lander wasn’t able to come up with a way that it would work yet.

[1] https://www3.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/option...
Last official builds https://archive.org/details/citra-latest-builds-4th-march-20...
Okay, without googling tell me: what is an Apple model number Z15T_5108?

> All other details can be configured in the buying flow but there's not much to think about if you just want a simple laptop.

You would think so, but unfortunately not. Apple is quite good at upselling and their price gating for screens, ram etc. is very opaque. In other words: whether you want the air with non-sabotaged specs or the pro or the pro pro or the pro max is not simple.
Well, we certainly aren't getting rid of the government, and it's an up-cliff battle to change current copyright and patent laws, so the best we can do is starve the companies that abuse these systems. Then they will have less money to perform lobbying and other activities.
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I would love to be able to chat with Siri, just like one can with ChatGPT, Gemini, Ollama, etc. It would be nice if Siri had a very streamlined LLM built-in to be used for that, and/or more with the ability to "offload" to a remote server if no local answer is found (that last behind a user's setting).
What's wild is that a lot of that equipment (or barely newer versions) is still standard fare at flight schools. It's possible to get a fancy glass panel if you look. But you'll probably still fly a 172.

It'd be nice if the regulations would make designing clean sheet airframes a viable business again.
Autorotation depends on rotor inertia and rotor pitch control.

These companies don't do pitch control because if they could, they'd build a helicopter or an Osprey analog, and fixed pitch rotors must be low inertia to slew thrust quickly.

So no autorotation.
How hard would it be to create a gitea repo under a .onion address and carry on development in a place outside the control of nintendo?
But it’s chunky! I love the Air for its lack of chunk and lack of fans! For me it’s a precision machine that’s pure joy to use; I just want more RAM.
My d20 needs this
> I didn't enjoy the process of looking through dozens of various lines that Dell has and then other companies like Lenovo and HP earlier in the process, just to find a "mid-range usable computer with a decent screen".

Newegg's feature selector is pretty good at sorting through this. Just uncheck all the bad screen resolutions and CPU models and see what's left. Bonus: Require at least 32GB of memory in an exact power of two, excluding all the junk that solders 8GB to the system board.
I know they're not the same thing. But first class thread support can make asynchrony harder to implement since it sometimes matters which thread the continuation runs on.

> JavaScript is inherently async because the concept of the event loop is baked into the very language runtime itself.

Ok, I hadn't thought about it this way. Early UI frameworks for java had this property as well. I don't know about the implementation. But there was some kind of message loop running, and you'd register event handlers, and events would get dispatched to your handlers.

You could argue that was the framework, not the language. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think of the message loop as being a property of the execution environment (DOM/node) rather than the language. Maybe that's not a real distinction though.
If we are not trying to capture motor rpm vibration - can't we just ignore it?
The USSR also had successful robotic sample return missions, and rovers, in the 1970s.
Pretty great that you can still get functioning N64 THPS2 carts for...sixty bucks on Ebay.
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Looks like you can stop following the latter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39593647

Yuzu loses.
GitHub disabled the repository of a Pascal compiler
The repository in question (https://github.com/BeRo1985/berotinypascal) is a small learning Pascal compiler, written in Pascal itself.

Github has blocked the repository without specifying a specific reason ("due to a terms of service violation").

A possible reason could be that there was an .exe in the repository that was compiled with a corresponding assembler. But is that really enough to be deactivated? Many repositories contain .exe files.

Is Github overshooting the mark here?
> And as I got to know the airplane, I could estimate the fuel burned on a trip within a gallon. Leaning was done by pulling out the mixture until the engine got rough. It was much later when the fancier planes got EGT gauges, and decades after that with EGT readouts for each cylinder

Correctly leaning a piston engine to balance the power output, manifold pressure, EGT (Exhaust Gas Temperature), CHT (Cylinder Head Temperature), Peak Pressure Point and RPM is a fascinating subject. After a series of mysterious spontaneous combustion events in my home flight simulator, I found a 1999 article by John Deakin of AVweb, and was finally able to investigate and resolve the issue and take my Constellation up to FL220 - and back down again - with all four engines intact!

https://www.avweb.com/features_old/pelicans-perch-18mixture-...

I've found no other more informative article on the topic!

Particularly interesting to me is that the 'engine getting rough' behaviour that the C172 author describes is actually due to the variation of fuel flow to the different cylinders. When you lean the engine, the fuel flow isn't reduced identically to all the cylinders, causing the power output to become unbalanced. John Deakin points out that "virtually all factory big bore engines suffer from this uneven power distribution, which sets an artificial limit on just how lean we can run." Radial engines have superior fuel flow, because the fuel is driven by centrifugal force into each cylinder equally from a central pipe!

The Lockheed Super Constellation in my flight simulator shows no roughness when leaned, because it has radial engines. However, it's still susceptible to detonation due to the higher combustion speed when leaned. That's what was causing the fires. Interestingly, one feature which my flight simulator doesn't replicate - but was present on the Super Constellations in real life - is a 'spark retard' control. That would allow power to be squeezed out of the engines even more efficiently by letting the engines run leaner without detonation, artificially delaying the spark to compensate for the more violent combustion.
Given the wide variety of implementations, what I'd like is a questionnaire that asks you what sort of graph you are intending to work with, and then recommends what sort of algorithm implementations or software packages would be best... I'm hoping that the language models will get better at this sort of question over time.
Not submitting it to a more general audience that doesn’t have the prerequisite background, I’d say.
>nicest keyboard

When have MacBooks ever had the nicest keyboard? They have pretty good keyboards, but I have 10 year old ThinkPads with keyboards that I prefer.
> ”Rather than rely on a platinum cylinder in a bell jar in Paris, eggheads in the world of measurements decided to anchor the future kilogram to Planck’s constant. This is a fixed quantity tied in with E=MC2 and quantum theory, specifying the amount of energy carried by a single particle of light, or photon. And that’s just the most extremely simplified version.”

Can someone provide a not-so-simplified version that is still understandable by a layman of the current definition of a kilogram?
And its hard to see what kind of language support would help, other than just having a super-smart compiler which could analyze the code and determine whether an adjacency list, matrix, 3d array, etc was the best way to implement it. That's the kind of optimization which we won't see in compilers for a while.

I’m not so sure? Looking at an algorithm against an abstract graph type, then filling in the implementation to optimize for the particular algorithm seems right in the wheelhouse of code-specialized LLM’s.
Yeah but where is the DHCP client? In the kernel?
I bet if you paid the inflation adjusted fare you payed then, you could fly first class now and have that food plus a lot of other benefits such as increased safety, quieter flight, higher cabin pressures which will result in a more comfortable flight.
Using bindings to C++ libraries is likely to yield better experience. C# has really good interop API (P/Invoke).

I don't have experience with machine vision but here's an example of a speech2text library that integrates whisper.cpp in an idiomatic way: https://github.com/sandrohanea/whisper.net

There are many good community projects with code quality way higher than your average enterprise SDK with layers upon layers of abstractions and allocations. Finding them is the same as with most other languages like Rust or TS.
This is not Mistral 7b, it is Mixtral 7bx8 MoE. I use the Chrome extension Chathub, and i input the same prompts for code to Mixtral and ChatGPT. Most of the time they both get it right, but ChatGpt gets it wrong and Mixtral gets it right more often than you would expect.

That said, when i tried to put many models to explain some lisp code to me, the only model which figured out that the lisp function had a recursion in it, was Claude. Every other LLM failed to realize that.
20 years ago, I used to make custom Linux distros for fun. Floppy distros, CDROM distros, RAM-resident distros, network-boot distros. In a few of them, I custom-made my own binary that was both the init system, and a few applications, stripped it down, and shipped just that as the distro (basically just a few files and my static binary).

A lot of people downloaded them, and it was great fun - to start. Problem is when you want to do more things. You have to start finding workarounds to bolt-on additional tools, or maybe you just throw one or two extra tools in there by default. Over time you find more and more missing things or incompatibilities with other systems, which make it harder to cover more use cases. And finally you realize that "the tiniest system" is a lot more effort than it's worth, and what you really want is "a slim yet compatible system". The system you end up with is a lot fatter, but a lot less headache.

(The security benefits of fewer files are overblown, too. If you audit and harden the system, it doesn't matter how many binaries you have, because the attack vectors they use will be mitigated)
In order to isolate one part of the software as "the bad bits", you need either clear specific language in the law or a clearly established relevant legal precedent. Neither of these things currently exist in the context of DMCA 1201.

If you're curious, here's the most relevant parts of the text:

> No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that [...] has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;[...]

> As used in this subsection—[...]a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

FYI: I am not a lawyer, but you can listen to a lawyer explain the above at the following link https://youtu.be/wROQUZDCIMI?t=868
Paying someone to break the law makes you culpable. Paying someone to violate an NDA or other agreement with a private company you have no direct association with doesn't ordinarily make you culpable.
But doesn't that - starting young - simply encourages intoxicants as a prerequisite to any opening up or social contact at all - rather than helping people communicate better and see each other better. That is, it's a crutch and NOT training or re-education.

Other communities strive to make communication safer and full of good examples which helps get over excessive shyness. Always seemed a better direction to me.
Isn't not having perfect support with Apache is, in a way, a criticism of any non-JVM language? Perhaps the problem is on the other end?

We need a couple more Apache Struts and Log4J incidents for the public to realize there may be better technologies and ecosystems. Spring is very slow anyways.

As for Pulsar, there is a nice and optimized client (written in F#!) https://github.com/fsprojects/pulsar-client-dotnet
> I remember an HN thread from probably two years ago about how the Linux version of some software got way more bug reports than the Windows and MacOS versions, despite way fewer users. The bugs were actually mostly cross-platform and non-Linux specific, but Linux users were just more used to actually filing bug reports for the software they used.

[1]?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978086
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Was actually driven by VB.NET initially, and Erik Meyer's contribution.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1297105.1297078

Ironically LINQ is something that was already present in Smalltalk collections, yet kind of lost in OOP languages until closures came to be.
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