skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People had extended family around, now days they don't.

Parenting is easier if you have 5 family members in walking distance and they also have similarly ages kids who can all play together.
All the "Voice cloner" TTS I tried only work in English language, whenever tried with Italian language it doesn't mimic the original voice at all.
Ask HN: Best Software Finders
Do you guys have any recs for tools that allow you to find other software (with natural language would be great)? Ideally, it should shortlist possible tools and give me the cheapest, most functional gem that I'm looking for. A couple potential ones I know of are producthunt and theresanaiforthat.com. The issues with those are the overload of mostly junk results and just inaccurate search when long form natural language text is involved.
i have done something exactly identical at my current place of employment, and am always inquisitive to see how others have 'stacked-da-cat'.

we _unfortunately_ gravitated towards protobuf's despite my fervent appeal to go with capn-proto. that has caused a cascade of troubles / missed opportunities for optimizations etc. etc.
I haven't read the other comments or speak for any group. Musk says a lot of things that turn out not to be true. I don't trust him. I would trust him more if he told us where he gets his informatino. Also, if an AI smarter than any human is not an AGI then what is it? Humans are the gold standard AGI or am I wrong?
How often do you see the sizeof(array)/sizeof(array[0]) statement used to get the size of an array? I really hope it's not too often, because it's 2024 already. In this note, we'll talk about the statement flaws, where it comes from in modern code, and how to finally get rid of it.
SBF was robbed, right?
Seems like it has a small bay for torpedoes and depth charges, a number of external hard points and a "free fall chute" for dropping things out of the plane [0]. I'm guessing the latter is what was used here. Here's a picture of it being used from inside the plane [1]

[0] http://www.b737.org.uk/mma.htm

[1] https://picryl.com/media/aircrewman-assigned-to-patrol-squad...
I like to believe in a world where these guys recognised the alternative use for early mobile phone non-audible alerting and pivoted their business in a more Rampant direction, hence the dead store.
We do these things for the learning experience.

At least that's me. I've built sooo much stuff just because I wanted to learn how to build it.
Dig a hole near the sea, fill it with stones, light a fire on top, heating said stones, fill hole with water and catch the vapor?
Samantha, llama 2 pubmed, marcoroni, openchat, fashiongpt, falcon 180B, deepseek llm chat, orca 2, orca 2 alpac uncersored, meditron, tigerbot, mixtral instruct, wizardcoder, gemma, nouse hermes 2 solar, yarn solar 64k, nouse hermes 2 yi, nous hermes 2 mixtral, nouse hermes llama 2, starcode2, hermes 2 pro mistral, norskgpt mistral and norskgpt llama.

Nouse Hermes 2 Solar is the best model for Norwegian that I've tried so far. It's much better than NorskGPT Mistral/Llama. I actually got it to make fairly decent summaries of news articles, though it wouldn't follow any stricter commands like producing 5 keywords in a json list. Kept producing more than 5 keywords and if I doubled down on the restriction on the number of keywords it would start messing up the json.

The best competitor to GPT-4 was falcon 180b, it's still terrible compared to GPT-4. Mixtral is my new favourite though, it's faster than falcon and in general as good or better. Though I would still pick GPT-4 over Mixtral any day of the week, it's leagues ahead of Mixtral.

Tigerbot has a very interesting trait. It tends to disagree when you try to convince it that it's wrong.

I haven't been able to test out the new 8x22 mixtral or command r plus. These are the next ones on my list!
I think Python users are more on the mojo bandwagon rather than Nim now
There are abandoned city projects like Amravati, Lavasa and others. The scale and reason behind ghost cities in India is different. Most stop construction mid way due to financial or regulatory constraints.
> The meaning the listener imparts to the song is constructed in the listener's head, a combination of the song and the listener's own knowledge, experiences, personality and emotions.

This is reductionist IMO. The equivalent seems to me to be, "the meaning the reader of words imparts to the meaning is constructed in the reader's head..." but clearly the vast majority of the meaning of the words is derived from the writer's intention. Of course that can be misinterpreted, reinterpreted, co-opted, etc, but regardless, it doesn't mean the author can be simply ignored, or that a psuedo-random generation can be treated the same as human-generated.
> And in fact European airlines have a much slower turnaround time than Southwest

Comparing apples to apples, Ryanair (low cost, optimised to hell, 737 only, 3rd in the world by amount of passengers carried in front of Southwest in 4th for 2022) has a turnaround time of around 25 minutes, meanwhile Southwest's is around 35 minutes (official figures of what the airline says for both).
Right here on Hacker News lol, alone the situation in San Francisco yielded about one or two stories a month [1].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Right so zero net tourists, therefore zero housing pressure? Nope, that's why people complain about AirBnB.

My point is that picking a number at a point in time doesn't say much about the housing pressure - as the zero net tourists example shows.

Without knowing more about the number of temporary immigrants throughout the year (e.g. total number in Canada per month), the number of temporary immigrants as a yearly value is not much use (just as net zero tourists is not much use). Kinda depends on how quickly the temporary immigrants roll over.

Interestingly enough NZ and Australia have sharply reduced the number of working visas. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/513642/immigration-chan...

Also, I noticed an article implying that Canada is much more successful at getting wealthy immigrants:

Immigration lawyers [in NZ] are worried by a dramatic drop in the number of millionaires receiving so-called golden visas. "If you have investors looking at options they're going to go for an easier option, they're going to go for Canada", he said.
>>light a fire on top

On top of what? Again that implies you have some kind of metal sheet or something.
How sure are the devs that .idk won't become an actual gTLD?
In France I've flown Paris Toulouse and they still check your ID at the gate.
That just reminded me... This actually happened to me. I scanned my boarding pass to enter security at Heathrow and it didn't work. I had to a special desk and they had a picture of someone who had apparently already gone through security using my pass. I didn't recognise the face at all. I completely forgot about it until this moment. I guess I was allowed through after showing ID etc. At the time I probably thought it was a "glitch" but maybe someone photographed my pass? I'm always quite careful with stuff like that, though, so not sure.
What is Webb observing now?
This comment is like opening the box to a time capsule from 2010. I haven't seen anyone communicate like this since I last touched an IRC channel.

I'm dying at the idea that someone would think C is the "cool brigade".
I'm a bit annoyed by it. Censoring "lawful but awful" speech is the thin edge of the wedge. An existing precedent of censoring legal websites reduces my confidence that Wikipedia will be able to stand up to censorship pressure (including from its own editors) in the future.
> but the same could be said of conducting an orchestra versus playing a piano.

Conducting an orchestra is an important role but the music is mostly a result of first of all the composer, and then the conductor / arranger's interpretation as well as the skill of the musicians. I really don't see the similarity to a human input of "GNU license, sad, jazzy." The resolution is just way too rough.

In fact, imagine comparing the experience of reading Snow Crash, to reading the sentence, "Cyberpunk story with sci fi elements, VR universe, pizza delivery guy with samurai sword."
https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse/#id/48195007

Alarm system? Irrigation? Whatever it is, might be easy to find on a map...
That's probably an airline thing though. I've flown Newcastle to Belfast and at no point anyone checked my ID, just the ticket, even at the gate.
Hah we had this too in Holland. Except it was called Kermit, the phone company actually paid millions for the Kermit the frog trademark. Eventually they renamed it to Greenpoint because the brand was so costly.

It was only around a few years until it was made obsolete by mobile phones which became small enough to fit in a pocket too. But it looks like it lasted a lot longer than the UK variants of this system did. I think this is because the mobile networks were way too costly at first. Kermit was the poor man's mobile.

The hardware was also different, Kermit used pretty thin flip phones that, like Rabbit, were also very popular as home phones.
The whole anti death penalty is such a L take.

It’s always bad people who want to feel good who do these exercises imo to signal how “pure” they are to defend rapists, killers, corrupt fraudsters, etc.

Imo. Always some of the fakest people.
It's not possible in general, e.g. [3, 2, 1] can't be reversed.
Some post-quantum signatures like CRYSTALS-Dilithium are based on lattices. Makes me think that quantum key distribution (what I've been working on for the past 6 months) has a chance to actually become useful instead of being only of interest to academics and to a few companies that sell overpriced solutions to paranoids.
Chess: ChatGPT vs. Gemini
General takeaway: Letting your bar/QR codes hang out may mean you're exposing your identity, or your cash even. Same goes for RFID chips of course. Good general thing to keep in mind.
Given Tesla has not done this for years, I think you have to give them credit for not being stupid. Not every organization wants to create an ad infested product.
Eh, Condoleeza Rice was on the board of Dropbox. Probably just Stanford connections, and yeah him being an AI leader has some good optics on top
Oh no, 2 dimensional dynamic programming? I have seen similar questions in competitive programming.
Quake was fully 3D.
Alerting on Process Completion
Anticheat in League of Legends
I wanted to be alerted when long-running processes on my home-lab completed.
It's not "just" a website, it's the major app and social media ecosystem in the US. Frankly I think more people use the app than the website.

It is a website. But the original comment was that Facebook is "just" a website. That's factually incorrect. It is much much more than "just" a website.
It was probably an encrypted bucket, and the AWS keys had access to read/decrypt.

Encryption is easy. Meaningful key management is hard.
This is at least 20 year old news. See the work of Reggie Edgerton et al
lol v3.6.7845 doesn’t even self calibrate. Most people are on v3.6.8002a except Mac users and people using a venv. Works perfectly under newer plan9 emulators. I just use Albus mode in Emacs (trunk) and avoid a lot of those problems. If you forget to use trunk the mouse is disabled for some reason…
Neat. This FS is used predominantly in torrents of pirated steam games by a certain group that advertises their work with "play without extracting".
Nah, this would just mean that a mob can censor/cancel people they don't like, won't it? The majority doesn't care, but a small, loud minority does enough to break stuff like this.
I've been waiting for a while for the tech to catch up, but it should be more or less possible now to use Whisper and an LLM to run a virtual assistant locally. Virtual assistants always seemed like a privacy nightmare to me so I never pulled the trigger.

But if it's all local? It would be a great product. No internet unless I turn on a physical switch, no ads, no monthly fee. Just do the thing I want you to do. Maybe at the moment it will still need to talk to my GPU. But we're getting there.
Average is downplaying their IQ IMHO, but I agree with the rest. And at the end, same result in both cases.
That's easy: my "side hustle" is selling NOS DeLorean parts: transaxles, gull wing doors, flux capacitors, etc. Whenever a client arrives from that era they самиздат the emails to me; I send them via mcvax to SDSC, so in a day or two they're gatewayed via scdc.edu to unimelb.edu.au, and Bob's your uncle...

(Alternatively: if one can root the NVRAM on the Cosmic Management Engine it's possible to have mail stored by Vishnu before each cataclysm restored by the next Brahmā, thence passing to our time by normal flow. Recall that control theory tells us any sufficiently lagged input phase ultimately behaves like a lead)
People do unfun things if they belive the results are worth it. I get the vibe here that it was simply impossible to get this done above board because of a deadlock situation.
Wow I didn't know this.

I and thusly our team uses `NotImplementedError` all over the place and I know I picked up that pattern from a rubygem somewhere along the line (predates copilot or generative code by years).

Even though I'm technically using it incorrectly, I don't want it to inherit `StandardError` and thus blows up. Because, I want it to blow up in the worst way possible. The handling engineer knows this is serious, and it if made it all the way to production, then our specs are lacking so bad that we need to have a discussion.

That's a feature to me.
How?

“Discoverability” here means the ability for the user to learn the systems abilities. Historically, you could read a menu or list of app icons.

A chat box is empty - it tells the user nothing about the systems abilities, just its interface. A smart speaker is even worse - there’s minimal UX hints. Asking a chat box “what can you do” is not likely to be exhaustive, and and will likely require a series of “can you do X” queries.
I appreciate adding data for the crowd but "a very large proportion of students will write their first paper in their first year" is simply not true when talking about the whole population. My department, albeit not CS but stats/ML, the first year is dedicated to doing courses and preparing for the qualifying exams. Some students would publish a paper. A few more might be coauthors with an upper year student (read, very little involvement). Pretty close to half would not even have an advisor until the summer. I studied at, supposedly to US News, a top 10 in the US for CS.

Typically, non-US universities have 3 year undergrads and 2 year masters prior to PhD. End-to-end, you are looking at the same time. There are, of course, exceptions. UK I think shaves off a year by integrating undergrad and masters.

Hiding the years or a PhD by doing an extended postdoc is barely the point of the exercise. The median time for a CS PhD in the US is 7 years [1]. Subtract 2 years for good students but add a year postdoc and I think you have a realistic 5-6 years from start of PhD to first academic position for the top decile.

[1] - https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf22300/report/path-to-the-docto...
Insofar as one's beliefs about sacrificing for the greater good being an incentive, yes, it's all about aligning incentives.

But having a child isn't seen as a responsibility one has to one's own parents, who sacrificed to have them, or a responsibility to one's people, culture, or religion anymore.

That's the ultimate root of all these problems. People now get to choose whether or not to have a kid, and not everything people choose is good for society.
I agree. It also makes queries simpler. It's easier to handle

WHERE id = 123

compared to

WHERE site = 'HN' and username = 'hot_grill'

The last query is easier to write when you are querying the database manually, but I find the first more easy to handle programatically. It's easier to pass an argument from an URL or a message queue in this case.

As systems evolve, you may find that you need a third component to the natural key. If you don't use a simple id, you need to update every query that references the natural key
I actually enjoyed the misdirection on this one. And I really enjoyed the post itself.
The Japanese equivalent, PHS, lasted 25 years from 1995 to 2020(!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Handy-phone_System
It probably was, but Amazon's bucket checkbox encryption doesn't protect against an authorized user reading the data.

It's trivially easy to encrypt things on AWS, but the attack you're protecting against is someone walking off with the HD, which is not really the important threat. Well, that and making sure that the auditor can check off 'encrypted at rest' on the sheet.
In the hole you dug, so on top of whatever soil or sand you dug into and filled with stones/rocks. You fill the hole with water after the fire has died down and use the residual heat in the stones.

You can't make a soup this way, but you should be able to make some steam -- I think.
Reading this thinking "it's amazing that this outdated technology was so recent" and then realizing 1992 was more than 30 years ago :-/
Wikidata can also list a choice of URLs if there are mirrors, or URLs that, on the Wikipedia page, are censored.
That's not really accurate. Component based systems are designed specifically to address situations that traditional inheritance doesn't handle well.

Examples are usually something like having a base entity, a player that inherits from entity and an enemy that inherits from entity. Then you have a magic user and a barbarian inherit from enemy but now you also want your player to be able to use magic. Traditional OOP doesn't make it easy to share the implementation.

Even with composition and interfaces you still have problems with most traditional OOP languages when you want to do things like change the set of components of an entity dynamically at runtime (player gains or loses the ability to use magic during the game).

"Is a" is often not the relationship you want to model. A player and an NPC both have the "has a" relationship to an inventory, not the "is a" for example.
If there's rain then there's water in the ground, and that water will travel toward the ocean and visibly (if you can read the signs) run out at low tide.

https://bushguide101.com/freshwater-seepages-on-sandy-beache...

A thirty one acre island that has rainfall and trees that capture moisture should have some groundwater flow that with luck can be found.
I did not know about the double-click+drag feature. Thanks for sharing!
Roles ranged from compiler writing to embedded to full stack web dev. I stick to my own web framework now
Plus trying to extract a genuine reaction from your actors by surprising or manipulating them is a common occurence. A few examples from the top of my head: the alien bursting out of the chest in the first alien, jodie foster's nervousness confronting Hopkins as Hannibal the first time, Leone releasing a dog to spook Eli Wallach in the cemetery scene in the good bad ugly, etc.
> why aren't there any "peripherals" for this device

They made a bunch of peripherals but they never caught on.

They made media remotes, game pads, a sticky note printer, scales, and other things.
If you insert enogh backdoors,, some of them will remain undetected.
At this point might it be sensible just to leave some sort of radio there? Or satellite phone? Maybe with some food...
I had (well, still have) cat 7 in the house, while venturing into fiber as well. 10GBASE-T switches are noisy and surprisingly power hungry.

One big reason for fiber is a home lab. Transferring large VM images etc. is so much faster. Ability to run iSCSI fast is also amazing.

Single mode fiber is pretty nice. It's fast, has low power requirements and no need to worry about electrical issues. Prices have declined significantly. The only minus is that you can't have PoE, so the best option is to wire both.

(Ok, there's actually Power over Fiber, but that's just crazy stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-over-fiber. A huge fire risk.)
To be fair it's only kinda clickbait on HN. On their actual site the thumbnail is very clearly not a real rabbit and is visible before you access the article.
Incidentally the theme of a very nice dutch song, guy dies in rental car, burns out, wrong person identified, person is suddenly free, enjoys is, but is he brave, is he fleeing? Emotional ride for person. One of my fav songs, some beautiful sentences like "... And of all his boyhood dreams, only growing old was achieved..." [0] Over the years/decades of their career these artists return to the story of Herman (the main person). Absolutely beautiful (ultra-Dutch videoclip btw, it's how my grandparents lived).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZkbhA1NcTM
> So, inside Seven Sisters tube station, there's still a Rabbit base station sitting on the wall, more than 30 years after it last broadcast a radio signal.

I wonder what the chances are that it's still plugged in, waiting to receive connections from Rabbit phones that will never come.
I gave you a citation, I suggest you read it. The actual survey details were linked from it, and it fully falsifies your claim.

https://www.ndi.org/sites/default/files/November%202023%20wa...

They trust the armed forces and Zelensky without having to trust the government, see slide 26.

> And banned leaving, forced conscription and canceled elections - are pretty strong evidence

Churchill demonstrated otherwise.

Also, you keep saying "forced" conscriptions like conscription isn't forced by definition. And also like it's not really common when nations fear or are at war, which is why Israel and Finland also have it:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Finland

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Israel

and why the US had it from 1940 until 1973: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Sta...
> It seems most package managers were built with the assumption that you will stick to a single, officially sanctioned version of the language runtime and core libraries.

The problem here is that it's impossible to build a coherent distro if you allow arbitrary mixing of versions, without parallel installability. I don't think it can really be solved in the general case.
I've read (I have no sources) that while the "zerodium still pays more for an android 0-day" thing can be true, the conditions on the "top" payout are pretty strict, due to the same aforementioned variability between vendors. To get that payout you'd have to find something exploitable on nearly all vendors version of android along with working on 2-3 versions. In reality an iMessage exploit is going to pay out a lot more because it would be exploitable on nearly all iPhones running x version of iOS, for example. Finding an exploit in say "Samsung messenger" (I don't know if that even exists) would pay less than an equivalent iMessage one.
A New Dawn for Solar Cells: 190% Quantum Efficiency Is Possible
I prefer her singing C source, especially @karpathy's: https://suno.com/song/2a210337-62fc-49f8-8850-9af12e06e6e0
Alexa never yielded good results. It was a bad business and a bad product. Just like every other voice assistant.

Meanwhile, AI is the only thing that could possibly make a voice assistant product decent. But it will require a complete change in approach and these "skills" made the old way will be irrelevant.
In terms of community, what do you have to lose by hosting discord before moving to a freer option when an event like this happens? The friction seems to me the same.

In terms of logging history, you could use a bot anyway on discord. This is generally not more friction than fully controlling logs in a freer option.
You are the worst kind of person when it comes to mental health. Pretty insufferable “as a doctor, it’s harder!”