skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used SBCL for an algorithmic trading framework for EXACTLY this reason.

More precisely, this was SBCL/ANSI C application where most of the application was implemented in Common Lisp, some OS / low level stuff was written in ANSI C and same things were written in Lisp to compile to machine code and inserted into "C world".

There would be no Common Lisp virtual machine on the critical, low latency path. Instead, the high level code would be used to configure and construct the low lever path. For example, I would have a bunch of Lisp code to create decision trees, then get them simplified and compiled to machine code, then machine code would be inserted into the path of oncoming market data.

Or Common Lisp code would be used to take a bunch of XML files with descriptions of binary messages in XDP format, but then those macros would be used to generate efficient machine code for parsing and serialising messages. I actually stole this idea wholesale from fantastic book Practical Common Lisp (thank you Peter Seibel!)

SBCL was wonderful to work and tinker with. Love cffi and vops and the macros that bring it all together.

The sad part is that it was impossible to get anybody else working on it and I had to rewrite it in Java (and destroy performance in the process).

Such is the curse of Lisp, unfortunately. And polyglot programming is not really for large corporations. It is hard enough to find people good at one specific programming language, it is almost impossible to find somebody who will be good at both extremely low level (like understand what the CPU does when it gets an instruction) as well as the highest level (complex abstractions with Lisp macros, etc.) for a project where pretty much everything is custom.
For bonus points fire up a Windows VM that will run the original Doom files...

Or maybe a remote desktop into an OS with a sandboxed browser that runs a Windows VM that ...
> To be fair, almost all product PR teams do the same.

No, mongodb’s PR approach and results were largely uncommon at the time. They didn’t advertise directly but instead targeted and amplified dev communities - as detailed in the article linked earlier.

The result was that people not associated with mongodb talked about mongodb at various dev conferences and in blog posts. People didn’t want to listen to PR teams then too, but they followed their peers.
As someone involved in the AI creator sphere, that's a very cold take. Big studios pay top shelf voice talent to create the best possible experience because they can afford it. Do you think Blizzard is using AI to voice Diablo/Overwatch/Warcraft? Of course not. On the other hand, there are lots of small indie games being made now that utilize TTS, because the alternative is no voice, the voice of a friend or a very low quality voice actor.

Do I want to have people making exact clones of voice actors? No. The problem is that if you say "You can't get 90% close to an existing voice actor" then the technology will be able to create almost no human voices, it'll constantly refuse like gemini, even when the request is reasonable. This technology is incredibly powerful and useful, and we shouldn't avoid using it because it'll force a few people to change careers.
NYC's AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law
I don't disagree with the thought that large companies are going to try to use these technologies too, with typical lack of ethics in many cases.

But some of this thinking is a bit like protesting the use of heavy machinery in roadbuilding/construction, because it displaces thousands of people with shovels. One difference with this type of technology is that the means to use it doesn't require massive amounts of capital like the heavy machinery example, so more of those shovel-weilders will be able to compete with those that are only bringing captial to the table.
Well a bit exaggerated. Seen two Fortune 500 companies moving all never stuff to Kotlin on backend on my own eyes (for the reason I mentioned above) in some branches.
Can confirm it’s terrible. Part of the reason my long-time teacher wife got out was that so little of the work is actually productively teaching and it’d gotten worse with each year.

The other reasons were… everything else. Consistently toxic work environments across several schools, a culture of “just do a little more—it’s for the kids!”, shit pay, low social standing, watching students have mental health crises or terrible troubles at home and occasionally kill themselves while not being able to do much about it, corrupt petty-dictator superintendents, constant flailing between expensive “frameworks” implemented so incompetently that they plainly have no hope of working right, et c. The small part of summer they’re actually off and not prepping for the next year was the only good thing about it, by the end. The insulting demands, organizational dysfunction, and lack of support during Covid was the final straw—for her and lots of others, now the field has a severe teacher shortage.
Bazel is the externalized version of Google's internal build system. I think it has likely been overused by the overzealous in situations where its complexity is unwarranted and so a lot of people dislike it.

However it is absolutely fantastic at what it's intended for, providing a single build system across a large multilingual codebase, and building/running quickly, with extras for running tests, etc.
The issue is not anything to do with Twitter in specific, but part of a wider societal problem that needs discussion where people feel they are losing their voice or belonging to the world. Put another way, yes, on other social media speech can be suppressed in favour of official speech and/or themes, but it hasn't changed how people feel.

It doesn't surprise me if people made cracks about the ship's crew. Where I am, we're familiar with the extremely low technical proficiency of graduates of strip mall diploma mill schools.

Given that the ship has had issues with systems that were flagged in the past, is just par for the course. Seemingly cheap, and apparently incompetent on the part of the owners/operators.

In this link, https://fortune.com/2024/03/28/maritime-law-francis-scott-ke... we can see that the ship has already crashed before. Baltimore wasn't the first time.

It's not Twitter's fault. Fix the ship's systems and operating procedures properly, and address societal imbalances.
> I think the real issue here is that a subset of people simply have fewer fucks to give about school, and that has been accelerated by the distance and space that COVID created between students/parents and school.

Some parents are even giving negative-fucks about school, in other words being actively against public education, teachers, and so on. I know of Facebook groups where parents share tips on how to maximize the number of absences without triggering various flags. And, a surprising number of my wife's friends from church have opted for homeschooling, so they can teach their kids from the Bible and skip all that science and math "liberal indoctrination". It's scary.

I can't believe how much of this is creeping into even HN too, a group of presumably above-average educated techies. Just look at the comments in this article dunking on the school system! Education is, for most people, their only shot at achieving the ever-shrinking middle class.
> pipe in an epub, output an audiobook or video game content.

That falls into “replacing voice actors”, mentioned by the OP.
You know, surgeons don't wear masks solely to protect themselves, right? They wear them to protect their patients as well as themselves. In fact, that's kind of the main idea.

When the droplets that you exhale through a mask change direction, they lose velocity, and consequently range.

I blame the lack of hands-on science education for the large number of people who don't intuitively grasp concepts like this. It's easy to blame things like right-wing media, but the media would have less power over people if they were given the opportunity to cultivate some common sense in childhood. In that regard, it sounds like things are only going to get worse.
> This may require “watering down” the results being described — stating corollaries or special cases instead of the full theorems in their maximal generality. Sometimes you may even need to leave out technical conditions required for the results to really be true.

This is a trade off, don't you think? Without the marketing, the paper would be more complete and correct.
My immediate reaction is to doubt some of this: isn't it what you'd expect to read about someone who agrees to testify against a well-funded, well-connected defense contractor? It was a time when the press was the undisputed king of information. But then I read that the case against General Dynamics fizzled and the one against Veliotis did not; maybe I should look at it as a caution against excessive skepticism.
I mean if the end result is that no one can access the repos how is that not basically deleting them? Are we just arguing semantics because the end result is the same?
Evan Gershkovich's Stolen Year in a Russian Jail
Request HN: Can someone please make an iOS app as an alternative to Dex Mode?
Still a bit robotic but better highs and lows for sure. The Catalog is huge! Thanks for posting
Factually correct. But clearly a road to serfdom for anyone that writes software.
Failure of Francis Scott Key Bridge provides future engineers a chance to learn
In my mind, MySQL no longer exists. It’s a weird Oracle thing that I wouldn’t touch with a lineman’s pole. MariaDB is what happened after MySQL disappeared.
Building an mvp or a single container app.

I’m actually trying to get Postgres to work like this right now.

SQLite being embedded is simpler to use and more performant in this environment as there is no IPC overhead.
No, it isn’t. I work side-by-side the CEO and as a colleague and he works more hours than anyone else. He’s a great person and a friend.

We have multiple people in a company of about 15 who have worked there for over 20 years.

Who are you working for?
Whoops, thanks, meant people who graduated HS in 2020, not 2000. Edited.
No, I'm not blaming the kids. I'm blaming the parents, I felt like I made this pretty explicit in my second paragraph. Virtually no kid wants to go to school. That's irrelevant. Some kids don't want to eat anything but junk food. You shouldn't let them. You're the parent. You cannot allow your kid to be truant. You are nearly guaranteeing them poverty, that is abuse and neglect, and it should be punished. There are some stories here of people saying it worked for them, this place isn't "most people," most people on HN came from families with money or had opportunities bestowed upon them. Reeks of privilege.

Forget the doomerism of what a child might think, again it's about perspective. That's not even why these kids are skipping class to begin with, that's just some invention people here have said. We're talking about kids that can barely read or write, not HN poster kids with educated parents or good surroundings. People are skipping classes because their parents allow it, kids will look for excuses and always have. The parents should be held liable, and it's not just bad for the kids, it's bad for all of society. People arguing in favor of truancy are totally detached from reality for -most- people.
I know basically nothing about computer engineering or electronics, so bare with me on this, but conceivably could tech like this be used inside a computer?

As in, instead of just using fiber to make different computers talk to each other really fast, could we use it for like a RAM bus or something? Is there too much latency associated with it compared to the copper we've been using? 301 Tbps seems like insane speeds, even inside a computer.
Or fight back! Sometimes successfully. Popular usage is not immune to deliberate attempts to change (or freeze) the language. Prescriptivism is thus a subset of descriptivism.
Hi! You can filter out which standards W3C/WHATWG/Other/Non-standard you'd like to focus on the site. The data is driven by caniuse.
Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher for Some Workloads
For the same reason that Ponzi schemes are so successful.
Cisco Patches DoS Vulnerabilities in Networking Products
>What’s more, one single test cannot evaluate multiple things. It must be focused. Historically, the research has started with the bias that autism is a negative. They just start with the bias that autism is a positive.

Both approaches are ridiculous. Maybe they should try doing science and not set up experiments to provoke an outcome? This is why the replication crisis exists.
I used it to translate a short set of tv shows that were only available in Danish with no subtitles in any other language and made them into English for my personal watching library.

The episodes are about 95% just a narrator with some background noises.

Elevenlabs did a great job with it and I cranked through the 32 episodes (about 4 mins each) relatively easily.

There is a longer series (about 60 hours) only in Japanese that I want to do the same thing for. But don't want to spend Elevenlabs prices to do.
Because flying anywhere during those few short breaks is about 3-5x the cost vs. traveling at some other time. I'd rather fly to Europe for $400 per person vs. $2200 per person; it's the difference between going and not going.
I know, right‽ Soon everything is going to be AI-enabled and our toothbrushes will be singing us Happy Birthday!
> SBCL has definitely proven itself to be a good companion to explore the generation of domain-specific machine code. I don’t know of any other language implementation with that kind of support for interactive programming and machine code generation (and inspection). FWIW, I believe LuaJIT + dynasm will soon be comparable.

Julia! It's very lispy, actually, but it does a very good job of exposing different layers of parsing & compilation through llvm

see the interactive utilities documentation[0] -- there are a few macros and functions, prefixed with code_, that output the generated code

[0] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/InteractiveUtils/#In...
Yes, but the deep ocean is where almost all the CO2 we've released is going to end up, eventually. This is just accelerating that process.
Charitable take on Elon’s powers of foresight. Not so sure he thinks much further out than tomorrow.
> To some degree elementary school has always been a large part daycare and small part teaching.

This was definitely a fashionable thing to say last decade. But in a post-Covid world where we’ve seen meaningful deficits in skills as a result of disruptions to in-person elementary school attendance, I think we should re-evaluate this prior. It seems evident that there’s a lot more going on in school than just babysitting.
paradedb is mainly just a package of established/battle-tested postgres extensions like bm25 and pgsparse all on top of cloudnative-pg.
>Am sure you can get over the kernel module tun creation and other limitations by using something like --privileged but at that point, why not just use docker if you are going to run containers "insecurely".

Because at least you can tell that it's insecure, rather than insecurity being the default?
If selling 99 stamps is legal, I'm not inciting them to crime, I'm selling them the maximum allowable amount that isn't a crime. Similar with conspiracy and organized crime.

And yeah, these loopholes don't work because people tried them and now counterfeiting one stamp is illegal. That's my point.
I think the guidance on colds is that they're less contagious after 4 days of symptoms, and more than 24 hours after the fever is gone. For covid it was different because you could be contagious before having symptoms, and the different strains had different numbers of days and even different sets of symptoms.
> I am looking for something where I can keep my header and footer separate and then include them in every other page.

As others have said, this is a perfect fit for SSI. You could also deploy a simple php page (just using php as a template engine with server side/host support).

I've experimented with m4 for something similar in the past.

I would probably recommend going with Hugo, though:

https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/solved-using-html-for-content-...

https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/

An article from 1997 on using m4 and make - would strongly recommend just using php cli these days...: https://tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue22/using_m4.html

For rolling your own in php, see:

https://rosswintle.uk/2021/12/hang-on-php-is-a-static-site-g...

https://www.dah5.com/staticphp/
People tend to have strong opinions about this sort of thing, but the fact of the matter is there’s no way (currently) to know. (But also, it’s effectively metaphysics as it makes no testable/falsifiable predictions.)

We could in principle discover a physical process that causes subjective experience, and a detector for same (say, it’s a particular string vibration in one of the coiled up dimensions).

But it’s also possible that a physics-based explanation is forever out of our reach, and this remains armchair philosophy.

An interesting experiment when we have AGI would be to evolve a new mind from sensory data, but carefully omitting any human dialog about subjective experience, and observe if such an intelligence also makes reference to those things. Not a knock-out experiment either way, but could be fun nonetheless.
> which are almost impossible for modern AI to break.

... and for humans, sometimes :)

"Standard" captchas sometimes also bring up major philosophical questions like "what is a bicycle?".
Yes, the parents question is meant as "where did the idea that doing 99 'at a time' would somehow bypass a law about >= 100 being illegal comes from?".
I like the idea of cloning my own voice and having it speak in a foreign language
Wire Transfers are a logistic service you may have someone perform for you in exchange for cash.

Half the point of a digital cash is that you never need a wire transfer because you can just exchange the digital cash directly. Effectively the same as handing someone an envelope full of physical cash.

The currency exchange step needed to convert that BTC back into real money is probably more annoying than just dealing with a wire transfer. And that is essentially my point. If you send someone USD, they can use that directly to pay for expenses like food or rent. If you send someone BTC, they need to first convert that into a real currency before they can use it. That is what I am referencing when I say "The 'Killer App' for a cryptocurrency would be the ability to use it as a currency".
> Imagining what would have been required for all this to work together gives me a headache. In addition to the shared backbone interface, there would need to be software written to make an almost-endless number of configurations work smoothly for the most demanding of users.

Uh, what? It's not like there haven't been several standards for busses, I/O, and DMA inside a PC case for decades. Somehow wrapping plastic around a PCI connector makes this harder? I just don't get it. Seems like a great idea to me.
They confirmed[0] that the Hubble Tension[1] is a valid discrepancy between the two different ways of measuring the expansion of the universe.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad1ddd

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law#Hubble_tension
Taking your comment, it sounds like mechanical / industrial scale carbon capture is only viable if we have large amounts of cheap and renewable energy. That won't happen anytime soon either, any excess is bought up by datacenters, hydrogen production (which is used like a cheap electricity sink), or storage (batteries, water pumped up into a lake, etc).

But yeah, carbon emissions won't be solved until renewable energy production out-competes emitting energy production by a significant margin, and even then it will take a while due to market forces.
> And, a surprising number of my wife's friends from church have opted for homeschooling, so they can teach their kids from the Bible and skip all that science and math "liberal indoctrination".

Thank god (ha, ha) for immigrants I guess.

The Internet’s been a disaster for civil society.
Computers used to look so damn cool.
The biggest problem I see from 10,000 feet is you’d need to constantly be converting electricity to light and back again… there is a penalty for that in speed… so far putting ram on die with the cpu has been the best way to reduce that particular form of latency…
What happened was the hospital weote it off. It doesn't detract from the fact that it was thousands initially.

Also that's just for the ride. If they need to stabilize you in any way it's going to increase drastically.

When my ex-wife was pregnant with our first child she caught valley fever and we went to the emergency room.

While there a tatted-up tough as nails gang-banger came in cradling his elderly dad in his arms. He was crying hysterically that his father was having a heart attack and please help.

The lady at the front desk tossed a clipboard at him and told him to fill it out and have a seat.

His father was turning blue. He cried please help he's dying and her response was he should have taken an ambulance.

He replied his dad didnt want to cuz he cant afford it. While crying while holding his dying father.

An EMT was coming out from just having dropped someone off. He heard all this go down and told the guy to call 911. He did while the EMT took his father and placed him on the gurney to wheel him outside.

He then turned around and came right back in, past the receptionist screaming at him and wheeled dude's father to the back while ignoring her.

This same hospital that night told my 7 months pregnant wife with coughing fits and lesions on her legs to go home they dont have a treatment for valley fever and tried to charge us for an overnight stay and stabilization.

Fuck the healthcare system in the US it's completely insane.

I have way too many horror stories I've experienced personally to ever have faith in it.
This site is perfectly usable on mobile, without even trying to be "mobile first"-garbage.
Google hints that Apple is set to support RCS by this fall
Objective-Driven AI by Yann LeCun at NYU 2024 [slides]
The whole Mona Lisa thing just saddens me. What if it was painted by someone last year in their garage. Would people still queue up to see it? Art with a capital A just detracts from people just doing stuff and other people enjoying it. The money and mystique is just like NFTs.
> I'd say in a way my consciousness comes from the sun.

Our star is the major, "central" (chuckle) factor in our Goldilocks existence, but Anthropomorphism is an anthropocentric game. [1]

Cyanobacteria [2] , flowering plants and pollinators would also be part of our complex Goldilocks consciousness.

Our awareness of this fragile existence should encourage us to be the best version of ourselves and enjoy every moment.

[1] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

[2] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
This specific tech perhaps not. But yes, silicon photonics is a thing.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-demoes-8-core-528-th...
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The deep ocean is naturally acidic due to the natural carbon pump. Because of this, below a certain depth (typically around 15,000 feet), calcite and aragonite just dissolve (the "carbonate compensation depth") and there is no accumulation in the ooze. The carbon pump involves dead organic matter falling to depth, where it is consumed and oxidized, producing CO2 there.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624
This does not seem strange to me, since time does not flow the same everywhere - and phenomena occur at different subjective speeds.
Odd NuGet package for industrial equipment raises espionage concerns
In the US, it lasts a lifetime but you have to tell them you're still alive every ten years. This is free, but if you don't file the form, your license is no longer valid.