skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With things like 1812 one of the problems was not always recognized back when vinyl was king.

The recording can be so realistic it captures the actual earth moving along with the heavier-than-normal sound waves hitting the microphones.

The bigger speakers and higher power amplifiers were always favored to reproduce the shock waves, and that's what happened.

It was the speakers' high volume not the smallness of the micro-groove that pushed the needle off the record and it emphasized the need for far better isolation of the turntable during the reproduction process than was needed for the microphone during the recording process.

A well calibrated turntable pickup/arm will not jump until you turn it up past a certain point, but that point is much lower when it's the 1812 Overture, and you don't really need an audiophile setup to shake things when the source material captures that to begin with.

OTOH with radio-friendly pop music a dancer or two in an upstairs room could make the needle jump to the next song on the disc :(
"I believe apps like this, which use AI to enhance or scale functionality rather than simply acting as a wrapper over APIs, will be the major beneficiaries as LLMs improve."

Can you elaborate a bit more? Are you training your own model? Or do you mean this is a task that uniquely needs AI to solve and couldn't be accomplished with traditional APIs?
> take more chances

That seems to be the key here.
Pen names aren't sketchy.

If it's focusing on SEO, they could be spreading their platform risk to not be across one or a few accounts.

Although if people feel pop music is authentic they might feel betrayed
You can work harder at tossing coins and toss them more often but previous outcomes do not affect current or future outcomes in any way. No matter how many times in a row a coin lands tails up, there is still only a 50% chance that it will land heads up on the next flip.

Working harder/smarter than someone else at something for which each try increases your capability to influence the next try should give you an edge in a competition but now it's not about luck.

> I wonder if those who believe they are lucky work harder and take more chances than those who don’t.

Now, if anything, you can also postulate that people who believe they are lucky don't work harder and take less chances (hey, they are lucky, they don't need to try as much as others).

So the question would be: why do some people who think they are lucky try their luck more than some who don't think they are lucky and why do some people who think they are lucky try their luck less than some who don't think they are lucky ? It's two opposite behaviour but they have the same belief. Why ?
Serious competitive athletes break their bodies in youth and never fully recover.

For the rest of us we probably didn’t do enough when younger.

There is a wiiiiiide space of healthy activity levels between couch potato and 100 mile per week future Olympian hopeful.
> Baryon number, lepton number, strangeness ... all lost.

Even for classical black holes I don't think that's the consensus among physicists. The general assumption seems to be that quantum numbers are still conserved when you throw stuff into black holes, just like electrical charge.

Now, as for Hawking radiation, it's worth pointing out that Hawking's calculation only works for large black holes (low curvature near the event horizon). Once a large BH has shrunken down to a tiny BH (-> high curvature at the event horizon), the calculation no longer works and it is unclear what will happen. Some people say the BH will evaporate completely, some say there will be a remnant – who knows. (Both solutions have their issues.)

All in all, I'm skeptical of the "shaving" you describe.
Open source livestreaming for developers, built with Elixir & Tigris
Thank you for this! Would you accept a PR to support Backblaze B2?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797064

https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage
Wait. Crypto has a moral compass??

;)
> In 2016, Microsoft released their chatbot named Tay on Twitter to learn from human interactions by posting comments. But after the release, it started to act crazy.

> It started using vulgar language and making hateful comments. This was one of the first incidents of data poisoning.

Is this true? I remember when this happened but I thought the story was that 4chan basically found an “echo” type debug command or something like that. The ML mode wasn’t being trained to say bad things, it was just being sent some kind of repeat-after-me command and then the things it was told to repeat were bad.

It seems odd that somebody would write a whole blog post without bothering to check that, though, so maybe I’m mis-remembering?
Yeah I was gonna provide essentially the same feedback (so I'll just tack on here).

I definitely didn't see what I expected when opening a book for the first time -- I can already read or watch content in Italian. What I do today is pause (or stop reading) when I encounter a word I don't know.

What I expected when picking a level was definitely to see all Italian, though in retrospect I can imagine it's near impossible to do that without lots of paraphrasing.

But to me personally (much as I think this space needs more things, and that you OP are awesome for sharing it) that I'd not personally use something which wasn't entirely in my target language, as I find the way I've learned languages best so far to be similar to my current workflow, and over time I have to look up fewer and fewer words.
Check out the book “Born to Run”
Yet most Go code in the wild does nothing but bubble up the error. Three out of every four lines of code dedicated to doing nothing more than that. If only there were syntax sugar doing so automatically, maybe even a compiler mechanism for forcing you to declare those that you do push up to the caller in such fashion...

I don't even particularly like exceptions either, I just like having to implement them by hand even less. Meanwhile, all the Smug Lisp Weenies™ are chuckling and mumbling something about "restarts".

What really kills me is that Go has a structured exception mechanism with panic/recover/defer, and it's actually better than try/catch/finally at that. It just doesn't seem to have caught on as the standard exception handling idiom.
I didn't suggest that. Just illustrating how the incredibly moronic logic of "weeding out people who don't meet my standards of fitness is a civic duty" can be easily extended to non-financial areas of life.
I'd I'd be drinking milk, it would be out of my nostrils right about now.
Thanks for the feedback! Admittedly the practice feature needs a bit more work. Helpful to know the issues you are experiencing.
Angery
It's not hard to mock peoples' trust of the market.
'The final act': fears that US journalism crisis could destabilize 2024 election
A similar issue is happening in San Francisco in Mission Bay, who's builders are the exact same as those in Kendall Square
Thank you for the links! I think I had read this before but I’d forgotten it was explicitly called out like that.
It was consumed by undefined behavior.
What distribution are you using? I’ve been running k3os (with etcd) for about two years without issues, other than Rancher Labs dropping support for it so it’s well past EoL.
If you're good at a thing, you can easily make a lot more than that on Wall Street. $500k is just your bonus.
English eBooks, with French, Italian and Spanish as the target languages to learn. I will also start looking at integrating German.
That's technically different than what OP is asking about. She could have a perfect memory for dates and experiences in her life but not have indefinite perfect recall for something more fact-oriented like the periodic table.

It sounds like her fact-recalling abilities are deeply tied to memories of experiences and conversations, so she could probably intentionally structure a study session to take advantage of that, but it doesn't mean she automatically can recall everything she reads.

Edit—looks like in general people with HSAM do not have better than average memory as measured by other kinds of tests:

> So far, the studied conducted at UC Irvine suggest that individuals with HSAM have superior abilities in autobiographical memories but are no different from age- and sex-matched control participants on standard laboratory memory tests.

https://cnlm.uci.edu/hsam/
You can “rip” all these formats (downloads are of course “pre-ripped”) and the physical formats I mentioned are definitely not designed to rot. Unlike Vinyl, they also sound exactly the same each time you play them, since they are not worn by the playback head.
Tracking-free link:
https://youtu.be/khPMITqp91I?t=1125
My money is on option a
Pardon the tone but where is the "bleak"? I don't see anything that comes close to the dicey parts of Philadelphia (or any other major US city). I don't see anything that might parallel the local (Philadelphia) news. That's is, shootings and deaths from shooting day after day after day. Theft and robbery is also a reoccurring theme.

I'm not doubting NK sucks for a number of reasons. But the USA has plenty of issues as well (e.g., the incarcerated are paid slave labor rages).
Definitely, but I did manage to seriously injure my back doing some deadlifts for light strength training, so the space probably isn't as wide as you might think.
> It's the old "I don't want to have a compiler installed on my system, that's dangerous, unnecessary software!"-trope

(This is a genuine question). In what circumstances would you need to install/run dev tools in prod?

Of course having a compiler installed isn't necessarily an issue... but it might well be a sign that there is an underlying problem!

(FWIW, I used to build everything from source. Yes, also in prod. That was a while ago...)
Android Offline LLM for Kids and Mental Health AI Support
Was in a constant state of inflammation and pain. Could barely even get out of bed.
I got desperate and did an elimination diet of chicken, sweet potatoes, and broccoli.
No oils, spices. Baked or boiled for everything.

Body completely calmed down and it’s the best I have ever felt.
i might be misremembering too but i thought the whole thing was that tay was supposed to learn from the conversations it had, and that people were just deliberately teaching it racist things that were then carrying over to other conversations rather than any kind of hidden command
They say a raider dies twice, once when he becomes a casual and the first death is more painful
UX things.

Let me click anywhere to close the popup. Having to target a small button when reading means I have to stretch my thumb to reach it as it can be far from the word I clicked. Don’t make me have to think about the targeting. Eg when reading I never want to think about HOW to turn a page or where I need to swipe.

Make the scroll bar stay visible or at least make it big enough to easily grab!

Not sure why the reflow is causing a horizontal scroll.

Can you retain chapters from the original epub?

Text size options.

Hide the bottom logo and percentage when reading if I want.

Its possible to convert html to epub but it would be better if you handled web pages natively.

This is a really great language app!
The answer is that if people expect high inflation across the board, it's a good opportunity to raise prices more than inflation, because no one is going to notice 10% vs 13% increase.

That's only 1 explanation, but it's a plausible one.
my wife absolutely loves them and would like to have one here, but i think the roots can be pretty troublesome for use in a residential yard.
Right but it's very clear from the context that they were talking about normal listeners, not DJs.
Except the tape gets overwritten/looped over. What GP was referring to is event-sourcing the state in an append-only log and running finite state automata on this sequence.

Here is a java lib that apply regex to stream of Objects that could be used to achieve this purpose.

https://github.com/norswap/skelex
Comments are always wrong (2009)
I seem to remember socal edison doing preventative brown outs during the santa ana winds last year. Maybe its not a load related brownout, but for customers it hardly matters why the power is out, only that its out.
Archival with a universal virtual computer (2014)
How can we keep Nintendo games playable and WordPerfect 5.1 files readable in the 23rd century?

Kragen Javier Sitaker, 2014-06-29
There are places in the world that is an apt description. The US is closer to that than previously (as judged by effective tax rates on millionaires comparing the 1950s to today), but nonetheless, the US us not "there" yet and still has a ways to go
In theory this should be a perfect match for TPM-powered secure booting: your machine starts every time with a clean TPM, which validates the BIOS into it, which validates the bootloader into it, which validates the kernel into it, which derives an RSA private key from the resulting TPM state. If an attacker compromises it, it'll present the wrong host key and you get a big fat error message.
I have a handful of USB C devices and a metric fuckton of USB A
Just saw the 1st episode, great start, thank you for the recommendation!
GPT-4, without specialized training, beat a GPT-3.5 class model that cost $10M
Web app over mobile app every single day of the week. Precious few cases require a native mobile app.

I have web apps for iPads that haven't needed to be updated in ~7 years. Conversely, the maintenance and updates and complexity-overhead required for mobile apps is overwhelming for a solopreneur.

If you're on your own, optimize for maintainability, understanding, and tools within your control, not features or environments that someone else can (and will) change or deprecate tomorrow.

Source: solopreneur with both web apps and mobile apps.
wish i could find the source, but apparently it’s not a simple engineering change. i went down that rabbit hole years ago trying to find a doc with many C ports.
Those were overwhelmingly women.
"We and our 152 partners use cookies" Your website is a virus! One Hundred Fifty Two Advertising Partners? And you want me to be afraid of the AI boogeyman!?!? What a zombie... Can you just go watch television? Please go back to your zombie masters.
Matching mentors to mentees using OR-tools
this site also ? http://whois.educause.edu
I don't quite understand. Are they saying that eccentric walking (lunges) can take the place of the suggested strength training?
We already have this pill. It's called steroids.

Although based on the article, this seems more about burning fat, rather than gaining muscle, which isn't as useful.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240324161517/http://www.emulat...
I've been using this for a few months:

https://www.amazon.com/SIIG-Universal-USB-C-Docking-Station/...

Works great! I connect to it with 1 USB-C cable, and it charges the laptop and drives up to four 4k monitors, and it also has 2.5gbps ethernet. Love the convenience of it all.
That makes sense. The vast majority of trivia I have seen on such shows feels attainable by anyone with dedicated study.
If theyre working as quants now, they were probably around before RS3 as well. I remember daytrading the grand exchange personally. There were plenty of profitable patterns that were basically guaranteed to work. I can see how someone who could program at the time could get much higher volumes by automating multiple accounts. The problem was finding profitable new trades at different levels of wealth, what worked at one volume would have to be replaced eventually. I never got into clans and such.
I got scammed a few times especially memorable was a scam with a sort of party of social proof around the scammer and they would rinse repeat in every world, some things were so organised that you got really surprised by the intricacy of the scams.
TALA is a separate install from D2, to keep a clean cut between 100% free and open-source D2, and proprietary, closed-source TALA.

It seems the 2 are distributed separately and D2 supports open-source layout engines also.
I agree - the dream would be to bridge from beginner level vocabulary all the way to a full translation in the target language.

The limitation now is getting consistently high accuracy for whole sentences - but something I'll keep working on as the underlying technologies improve.
Simulate lid closure with a magnet? https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/691627/Not+going+to+slee...

Avoiding lid closure will improve cooling and avoid throttling.
Pure functions are useless without inputs and outputs. The missing piece of the puzzle here is that we only want transitions between valid states. One way to define valid states is by enforcing invariants which must always be true. Armed with these, all the stuff that happens in-between can be guarded against, much like constraints in a database schema.

Contrast this with non-pure functions which incrementally mutate from a valid state, to a sequence of invalid states, and end up at a valid state again. If something goes wrong along the way, we end up with an invalid state. Think about program state like it's a journaling file system.
Do need to have Parallels and Windows installation on macOS. But other than that, can run a native version of Visual Studio on ARM64.
Everyone in every industry is overworked unless they actually properly say no and manage things properly.
> This makes me wonder if finding a low-key, sane culture is the key to sustainability in the industry, and avoiding burn out.

Finding a culture where you feel that you are being treated as a human being and feel properly rewarded for what you do seems to be the key to avoid burnout long term. I think it's in the nature of SWE that there is a substantial pressure on everyone to treat themselves (and unconsciously their peers) as if they were machines. Depending on the context you are working in, the factors that play into that can vary. Start-ups are especially high pressure in my experience.
I see comments like these all the time Haskell/Erlang/Elxir/Elm/Ocaml are the greatest thing ever. However basically no one uses them for work. There was a post on HN about how OP has given up on using Haskell in production after 10 years of trying to do so because its just not feasible. (I couldn't find the story on a quick search.) But they still use it in all personal projects. They appear every now and then and have scared me away from non popular languages for the most part.

I just see too many comments on HN from people that have decades more experience than me that say that the theory of these amazing languages simply does not survive contact with the real world most of the time. I'm sure there are great things built with them somewhere out in the world. I just don't think its worth it for the vast majority of developers to worry about.
The app doesn't do anything to remove DRM, so it'll only work with DRM-free files.
Be a bit wary of that book. While I can't speak to its main thesis, people have found serious faults with claims about various cultures/groups having great health outcomes due to their walking. Apparently some of them have very poor health outcomes (perhaps unrelated to walking, but you get my point).
Stress within the industry (or really any industry) occurs (IMO) most often in roles with a disproportionate amount of responsibility/autonomy: i.e. you are responsible for doing X but you must do it via Y. Typically this happens mostly within senior roles, where you can't affect much change but carry all the burden, but also management too.
I read somewhere years ago that each subsequent recall of a memory is remembering the last time you recalled it—in a sense, an entropy-like phenomenon called memory reconsolidation.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/memory-rec...
I went from a FAANG to a twenty-ish person local business. I found out that what matters to me is not money or status. It’s a short commute, work that ends at the same time every day, liking my coworkers, and working directly with the people I help. Some mix of these might be right for you, assuming the bills are covered.

My job has less (no) global impact. What I did previously affected far more people. I told people what project I was on and they thought that was cool. But I don’t hate my life or job and I very much did before.
Tails are extremely useful to mice, especially for balance and climbing: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/30/why--mi...

Be careful with assuming functionlessness, in general. Evolution does not like spending energy on sticky-out bits that are prone to injury, or good handles for predators to catch, unless they provide some serious advantage.
I feel burnt out every year, it's a cycle and it's a small startup
Strangely I see the opposite sometimes: the work is not so bad but constant politics, management issues (and lately layoffs) are affecting mental health a lot. That still leads to the burnout when you're not interested in coding anymore even for a side projects
It all comes down to selective enforcement by the not-actual-real-judges at the SEC.

You have to go through their kangaroo court with an ALJ, and arger likely getting a judgement against you, can you actually go to a real court.

And this is combined with different rules for different income classes.

Kid from middle income family gets smacked down hard. Whereas billionaire employees doing work on wall street either get low scrutiny, or pay 2% of what they made (Read: cost of doing business).

The "rights" of the rich are not for the rest of us.
https://bananas.space/
Ask HN: Crypt.ee or Ente.io for Photo management e.g. Google Photos replacement?
I'll keep it simple:

In the past few weeks, I've been seeing Ente.io posted and reposted, too much praise on HN.

I have not seen much for crypt.ee.

Lazily using google to look up reviews, the most alarming is: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/rjzc9s/compare_cryptee_and_enteio/

I'm aware that Google and Reddit aren't the best sources of reviews or content anymore -

I'm also double aware that self hosted is the best for privacy and owning data, and I may just head towards photoprism or memories/nextcloud -- but it does seem great to let someone host infrastructure!

But from personal experience on HN, would you suggest one or the other or really would you push just self hosting? I don't lack the skills, I just lack the time and like it to "work." because my normal everyday work is basically SRE and I've been limiting doing tech stuff outside work hours, though, it is something I do enjoy - but time/value fallacy.
Not a surprise it is loser stocks.

The pump and dumper wants cheap, low volume stocks, preferably those with a plausible turnaround story.

The pump and dumper does not disclose holdings or the prospect for them to acquire or sell. Hard to then know if the shilling was unsuccessful or not.
Burnout is your brain giving up because it doesn’t think the benefit is worth the effort anymore. If you don’t have a purpose for what you are doing all your brain will do is obsess over the negatives. Every job in the world has massive negatives. You have to find a positive purpose for what you are doing to balance the negative.

Even a low key sane culture will feel like a soul sucking grey blob of a life it you don’t do it in service of something you care about: supporting your family, cabinetry side business, rock climbing passion or whatever.
Yes sex bad. Think of the women. I can’t even begin to imagine being in this pathetic neutered headspace.
There’s a non-interactive solution to rebooting safely with encrypted disks: Mandos <https://www.recompile.se/mandos>

Reboot your server while you sleep!

Disclosure: I am a co-author of Mandos.
The first climate catastrophe :-D or as Bob Ross would put it, a happy little accident.