skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adrenaline does make you stupid, but years of training makes you smart. The reason you train so intensively is that when the adrenaline is up you will fall back to muscle memory.

They're not being stupid by continuing the fight and trying to hide injuries. They are trying to get a w instead of an l, and sometimes that just means you need to keep the fight going another minute or two until the time is up. That can literally mean the difference between having a successful career and retiring with a mediocre record. It can be the difference between a shot at the world title, versus being on the free undercard fights. Fights. They are making a calculation, and probably the same one I would make in their same situation. It is very easy to look back on the reckless youth as being stupid. Fortunately, I have enough recording of myself from that era to see that I actually had thought it through pretty well, I just didn't realize how bad it could be in the future. But, if I had a world title under my belt, none of my current maladies would feel nearly as bad :-D
Right - the words themselves aren't as important as the concept. Any replacement word will suffer the same confusion. There's a reason that the language of debits and credits has largely remained the same for the past thousand years, and the language describing accounting is unlikely to be 'optimized' by first-principles CS concepts from people only loosely familiar with the field.
> and a lot of pop culture draws from that intersection, Metal Gear Solid for example

metal gear solid and later are best thought of as ninja stories that put on a tom clancy veneer. that a bunch of psy-ops and other initiatives kind of line up with that genre all the better, but when they didn't kojima just sort of handwaved them away. like there was a vampire guy in MGS2, and sexy robot ladies in MGS4.

"nanomachines, son!"
I won't say that Unions don't have issues or can't be corrupt, but I also have a hard time buying the idea that employers and employees can have symmetrical relationships under "right to work". Employers have far more resources at their disposal than individual workers typically do. The terms look symmetrical on the surface, but in practice the they clearly favor capital.

Maybe what you mean is that we need better unions.
A Cautionary AI Tale: Why IBM's Dazzling Watson Supercomputer Made a Lousy Tutor
Color PDFs and comics almost always assume good, full gamut color reproduction. e-ink can't do that. It can only do a few pastel colors well.

The typical books usage is much more in-line with the capabilities of the display. Highlighting is substantially improved with even a little color, as are interstitial art and cover icons.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/25/elon-musk-...
You’re absolutely right they should not!

I should’ve clarified that in my comment. I believe awareness and an encouraging and welcoming environment for all are the foundation for everyone to do their best work.
> Is this persona a data scientist/data engineer/MLE?

MLE, just a different name for it.
Similarly, it's a common misconception that boxing/mma gloves are there to make the sport safer when it's actually the opposite. They allow the wearer to throw many more and harder striks without injuring their hands, while not actually protecting the opponent at all.
That ad is from them, by them, and about them. And it matches what everyone in the 90s was telling me about them.

"Have you heard about the new 16-valve Skoda? It's got eight valves in the engine and eight in the radio."

"How do you double the value of a Skoda? Fill the fuel tank."

Etc.
Yes, each of those consisting of a number of (micro?)services of their own. The Async system alone is a monster. The question is can you build a monolith out of dozens of microservices? Answer - anything is possible with the right marketing spin
Ask HN: How to Transition from Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer
Background: I am a Software Engineer and over the years got opportunity to work on different areas (Frontend, Backend, etc). For past 1 year I had started developing Co-pilots using Langchain, OpenAI, RAG. Now my query is if I want to build expertise in this areas what courses/books I should read so as to build knowledge around this area? I am looking for suggestions.
That's not "less social" as much as "less social with specific people".
I once played an indie JRPG that took inspiration from Cordwainer Smith and some other authors. It's untranslated but the Santaclara drug is a usable item that acts like a Phoenix Down.

https://andymente.moo.jp/html/game2/rs/rs.htm
I personally thought the author was pretty clear in the article. My interpretation is that there is no `csvbase-client` API for a user to learn, manage, or even import. The end user continues using their preferred dataframe library, but now has access to data via the "csvbase://" URI as if it was a csv file on their local file system.
I've used a Pocketbook Color for over a year now. And yes, it is a somewhat darker screen, but that mainly just means I turn on the frontlight in some cases where I wouldn't have needed to with other e-readers. I've otherwise been having a good time with it - comics and PDFs benefit greatly from the color screen, and regular text is fine too.
Imho it depends on context:

For memory (ROM / RAM etc) the 2^x convention applies. 1GB = 1024MB etc.

For background storage (harddisks, USB sticks, optical, tape etc), that used to be true as well. But long ago manufacturers' marketing corrupted this into the decimal 1G = 1000M meaning.

But distinction can be fuzzy sometimes. And subject to abuse. So when in doubt: read the fine print.
Not only I don't understand it, the top tier European law firm the company hired also didn't understood it. The law ALLOWS companies to skirt around it. I don't know if that's intentional or not.

> If you want to comply it is easy.

That's the entire antithesis of modern law as opposed to monarchy. Law should be codified in as clear rules as possible.
To edgelords, any enforcement of CoC is abuse of power.
The KO in Koreader was originally for Kobo though ofc now it can run elsewhere. :)

I started Using it on a Kobo Aura but now I use a Boox Onyx which just runs the Android version of Koreader installed via f-droid or side loaded APK.
>Rest of world is moving toward 4-day work week
Where, exactly, is this happening?
Indeed. What happens on social media isn't conversation, it's a performance for an audience
This article and the subsequent ones will focus on how to build or engineer your own cryptocurrency. They will provide you with the foundational understanding of how cryptocurrencies work technically and all the necessary components needed to implement yours.
Strong no hire
> The 'Redditization' of the world means that sharing thoughts is met with hostility

I think the actual biggest problem with "Redditization" is not hostility, but instead the fact that there is really no dialogue. There's no back and forth discussion, at least not with the same actual individual. You post a comment and (maybe but usually not) get a reply, then if you reply to that reply, the next reply in thread will be from someone else. Very very rarely do you go back and forth with one person. And regardless, you'll never ever interact with that person again (except maybe if you're on a tiny sub).

It's such a odd and distorted version of conversation. I'm not talking to any specific "you" -- I'm submitting thoughts to a "mass-you" and hoping with fingers crossed that the mass-you will reply or at least nod in approval with a single upvote.
Ada, Past Present and Future
It is from 12 years ago.
Their minimization of the dangers of concussions cost the NFL over a billion dollars..

https://www.nflconcussionsettlement.com/
https://www.4dayweek.com/casestudies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39457728 ("HN: 4-day week made permanent for 89% UK firms who took part in Worlds biggest trial")

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/14/countries-that-are-embracing... ("4 countries that are embracing—or experimenting with—the 4-day workweek")

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/companies-around-the-wo... ("Companies around the world adopt four-day work week pilot programs to meet growing demand from Gen-Z and millennial employees")

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/08/1211632901/schools-across-the... ("Schools across the U.S. are trying a 4-day week. Why? To retain teachers") (My note: ~1000 US school districts have moved to a four day week, as they are unable to retain teachers otherwise)

https://www.police1.com/colo-pd-extends-32-hour-work-week-pr... ("Colorado police dept extends 32-hour work week program after successful start")
But that just begs the question because you have to remember the arbitrary assignments of what things go on the left and what things go on the right.
I just don't get how knowledge workers can slave away like that.

I can be productive for 12-15 hours a day when the conditions are just right, but usually they aren't and after a few hours I need to switch to something less productive than actual coding.

Do employers really see any measurable improvement in volume (let alone quality) of output after 30 hours a week?
I think he's been there, done that. What fraction of products sold on Amazon do you think originate in China?
Finally someone is doing something for the slowed or sped up versions of masterpiece songs butchered on TikTok?
end of text - alt 3 (or alt 03?) I don't have a numpad anymore
Im saying that it is better for beginners to start with a modern engine than try to make something for an older console. Newbies will see a course like this, think "oh I loved the playstation! This course will help me learn how to make a game for it? I will buy." When in reality, they will just waste their money because development is hard, especially for the PS1.

What I was saying is "If you are dead-set on making a game for PS1 for your first game" use a free course instead of buying something like this. Newbs don't realize how complicated learning CPU architecture and assembly is. What they want to know is how to get started making games, so I linked a free course while discouraging new developers from even trying to develop for the PS1, but to go for a more modern engine.
And this whole conversation is about laws mandating something and the resulting prosecution with comparisons to safety standards in saws, not your made up megaphone
I’m sorry, do people see “It felt like a weakness” as anything but a symptom of the sport as a whole, and a direct indictment of the negligent financiers?
Until just now, every time I saw someone in HN mention Xitter I assumed it was a third-party client like Nitter.
And what if there are no columns? Google "journal entries for X" and you're going to find something like this:

Dr accountX £100
Cr accountY £90
Cr accountZ £10

Left and right was fine when T accounts were universally used to record entries, but that's no longer the case.
Figma has been powered by WebAssembly for the past 7 years.
That said, no published policy on master clock division.
So, I talked to someone who had worked at AliBaba for a bit (Son Luong Ngoc) and learned a lot. Some of the 996 is related to the company campus providing everything at a pretty low cost and a sort of presentism where being around is rewarded. All that plus the jobs are considered great jobs within China, and there is cut-throat performance competition process.

Also, I think sleeping at work, taking a nap while waiting for something to run, or waiting on another team are encouraged. Excuse the link drop, but if you want to see some pictures of tents set up for sleeping scroll down to the bottom here:

https://corecursive.com/software-world-tour-with-son-luong-n...

To me, from Son's experience, some of it sounds like giant tech campuses in NA, but with competitiveness and cutthroat performance reviews taken to it's logical extreme.

I'd love to hear your stories if you've worked at ByteDance, Alibaba, or any other similar company. What was it like? What do we get wrong from the outside?

Also your experiences could be a fit for my podcast. Hit me up (see profile).
5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
Running FFMPEG in the browser through WASM is a game changer for me.
They also have abnormal access to financing as well, although that remains to be seen long term.

I believe that Chinese car companies are real, because the underlying battery manufacturers (BYD again, CATL, etc) are all leading in the mass market chemistries of LFP and Sodium Ion.

WHich by the way are the key enablers of the cheap car.

What should be REALLY concerning to car manufacturers isn't that this car is 10,000$. Sodium Ion is poised to be 25-40% the cost of lithium ion (cobalt/nickel), and LFP may be dropping from the 70% to 50% or less, for an equivalent pack. Both of those chemistries are improving on the roadmaps to being currently at 150 wh/kg (sodium ion) and 200+ wh/kg (lfp) to 200 wh/kg sodium and 250 lfp.

Anyway, what that means is that EVs aren't just going to reach ICE parity soon (probably already is in China and Tesla with their high car margin), they are going to shoot past in quickly.

So that $10,000 car might be $9,000 in two years, then $8,000 in four years, etc.

"Big ICE" is in trouble if it doesn't get its platform development and battery supply ducks in a row, Tesla won't eat their lunch, the Chinese will.

You know, assuming financial armageddon + autocratic dysfunction + demographics + Taiwan invasion sanctions don't crater the Chinese. As you stated, I can see Chinese companies diversifying their production internationally to hedge against their own government.

These are interesting times.
Not to be oblivious but what is the attack vector here versus attacking the router on the other end of the cable which has known vulnerabilities?

How much L3+ logic is in the NIC? Pretty sure by the time a packet hits the NIC it is encrypted. The lowest level (closest to hardware) encryption I know of happening is in the Linux kernel but isn't currently in production exactly because of security concerns.

If you are sending unencrypted packets on the network I can think of much more reasonable attack vectors for an attacker to try than planting a backdoor in the NIC firmware.

How would this not get detected by modern DPI?

And I don't know much about the internals of Palo Alto / Cisco etc network security appliances but I'm pretty sure they do have custom ASICs/ FPGAs for their switching logic purely because of this attack vector.

My conclusion:
1. Your home router is significantly more vulnerable
2. Your IoT devices are significantly more vulnerable
3. Any network packet going through the NIC is also going to the internet at large generally or see point 1 and 2.
4. The ISP hardware isn't exposed to this attack vector

Feel free to help my understanding, I could be wrong.
Nice work! Out of curiosity, is it calling the FFmpeg CLI or linking directly against FFmpeg libav?
There's no formal hierarchy so there's nothing technical about it. Field's medal is certainly prestigious but it's not widely applicable, it has a bunch of restrictions that don't have anything to do with math itself, including an age limit. For example no one who has ever been awarded an Abel Prize would qualify for a Field's medal strictly due to age.
Brute-Force SSH Attacks in the Wild and How to Stop Them
True, it is considered one of the two top honors in Math since last decade. Previously it was the only distinguished prize.

There was a growing need for another award which bridged few gaps. The 40 year cutoff age, awarded every 4 years to living mathematical prodigies failed to honor several prominent mathematical breakthroughs which came after decades of painstaking research.

As the field has progressed, monumental breakthroughs are harder to come by early into career. Many of the ingenuity comes from cross-study of disciplines for e.g. Riemannian hypothesis being approached by Algebraic geometry and Topology rather than number theory. These require years of mastery - not just prodigy. Also the prize money offered by Abel Foundation is a good incentive for research into pure math
Our current day is so dominated by nationalist rhetoric that I can't imagine what this would even look like on an international stage. It sometimes seems like there's always a convenient excuse to put state politics ahead of humanity itself....
The Sour Taste of Entitlement
Portability?

In some situations it is harder to support different desktop builds and this might unify that.

I don't think it is the strongest argument but at least on the margins it is an option I can see teams in some places choosing.
> Debit means an entry in the left column. Credit means an entry in the right column

But that just shifts the arbitrariness of the whole thing from the words "debit" and "credit" to the words "left" and "right".
It's not a rational phenomenon, it's social/peer-pressure based. Ever been in a situation where an open floor plan full of employees is typing away, with the boss walking the aisles, and you need to leave early?
Well, that’s because any org that has five layers of audits for this just has five layers of audits for everything and so rarely gets anything done. This is a clbuttic bug. It’s silly and damaging but easy to fix and move on with.

Not particularly different from Bluesky allowing one guy to own all of S3.
> I've played with Markov chains, and… no. While you can totally generate some stuff with them, they're not even close to the level of ChatGP

Even before ChatGPT you had things like Context Free Grammars [1] that could give results kind of like GPT, superficially. You could certainly get it to generate a bunch of sentences that could be used like business ideas. That's kind of what I was going for.

> powered vertical landing to reuse rockets

Most of your points are fair, but I reject that this is actually a clever thing on Musk's end. NASA experimented with reusable rockets in the 60's. The X-15, for example, while slightly different, demonstrates that this was something being toyed with quite awhile ago.

No doubt, SpaceX's achievement here is notable and cool, and to whatever extent Elon helped with that he deserves credit. But I think "having the idea" does not really count.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen
Humans are carnivores. Like felines, canines, etc. But it is tough, yes, to be a carnivore when these animals are so lovable and loving. As a beekeeper it's hard to to steal my bees' honey. But... I still do it.
I migrated from Kindle to kobo many years back to keep physical buttons. It's been a strict upgrade for me, though your fear of an update nuking koreader from orbit remains an issue. I just keep mine in airplane mode to avoid updates and a reinstall is only a few minutes if I forget.
Haidt is also co-author of the extremely relevant, data-rich, and well-researched book "The Coddling of the American Mind", which is definitely worth every modern human's time/money/attention. In the book he and co-author Greg Lukianoff discuss and provide numerous examples of how modern universities are promoting "three great untruths", namely:

1.You must strive to avoid bad experiences at all costs.

2.You must always trust your emotions over reason.

3.The world is a black-and-white battle between good people and bad people; there is no middle ground.

The content of that book made me feel some very visceral contempt (which I realize is not good for ME) tfor the administrators/university bureaucrats that are basically poisoning/corrupting tens of millions of minds every year*.

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-coddling...

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Coddling-of-the-American-Mind...

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*I wasn't sure how many people are enrolled in post-secondary educational institutions around the world so I asked chatGPT and it's response was:

me: approximately how many humans are enrolled in college or university in any given year

chatGPT: As of recent data, there are typically over 19 million students enrolled in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States alone. Globally, the number of students enrolled in colleges and universities is much larger, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. These numbers can vary slightly from year to year due to factors like population growth, economic conditions, and educational policies.
Lists price, but doesn't state the term (monthly, yearly, etc.)
Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator
Hey HN,

My cofounder and I trained an AI music generation model and after a month of testing we're launching 1.0 today. Ours is interesting because it's a latent diffusion model instead of a language model, which makes it more controllable: https://sonauto.ai/

Others do music generation by training a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder like Descript Audio Codec (https://github.com/descriptinc/descript-audio-codec) to turn music into tokens, then training an LLM on those tokens. Instead, we ripped the tokenization part off and replaced it with a normal variational autoencoder bottleneck (along with some other important changes to enable insane compression ratios). This gave us a nice, normally distributed latent space on which to train a diffusion transformer (like Sora). Our diffusion model is also particularly interesting because it is the first audio diffusion model to generate coherent lyrics!

We like diffusion models for music generation because they have some interesting properties that make controlling them easier (so you can make your own music instead of just taking what the machine gives you). For example, we have a rhythm control mode where you can upload your own percussion line or set a BPM. Very soon you'll also be able to generate proper variations of an uploaded or previously generated song (e.g., you could even sing into Voice Memos for a minute and upload that!). @Musicians of HN, try uploading your songs and using Rhythm Control/let us know what you think! Our goal is to enable more of you, not replace you.

For example, we turned this drum line (https://sonauto.ai/songs/uoTKycBghUBv7wA2YfNz) into this full song (https://sonauto.ai/songs/KSK7WM1PJuz1euhq6lS7 skip to 1:05 if impatient) or this other song I like better (https://sonauto.ai/songs/qkn3KYv0ICT9kjWTmins - we accidentally compressed it with AAC instead of Opus which hurt quality, though)

We also like diffusion models because while they're expensive to train, they're cheap to serve. We built our own efficient inference infrastructure instead of using those expensive inference as a service startups that are all the rage. That's why we're making generations on our site free and unlimited for as long as possible.

We'd love to answer your questions. Let us know what you think of our first model! https://sonauto.ai/
We train the fighters to go until the ref tells you to stop, for similar reasons to what you already illustrated. Which is why I blame the refs and the committee. They know exactly what goes through your head when you’re in a fight and it’s their job to keep your opponent relatively safe. And they aren’t, which is why I don’t watch.

But wanting to continue when even your coach knows it’s over is a kind of pressure sale situation. You’re in the moment and sort of trapped, and having a concussion and a brain full of adrenaline makes you have even worse judgement.
I agree that that question is important but I view it as separate.

I know nothing about car safety, so I have to take the recommendations on authority that they are necessary.
> So many graphs with the independent variable on the Y axis

I was perplexed by this as well and none of my profs could cogently explain it. The classic example are supply and demand curves, with price as the Y axis.

I finally realized they are actually trying to communicate that price is not under the control of the buyer or seller, but that the market dictates the price given a level of production. This kind of “spherical cow” thinking made me develop a healthy contempt for conventional economics.
Theoretical CS is not at all applied math. Ordinary computer science overlaps with applied math, but theoretical CS is very abstract.