skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they not have a large chalkboard on the wall for daily specials and the beer rotation? Here in Maine it's normal to just stare at a giant list of available beers

Granted, we have an insane microbrew industry for some reason, so the wall is 37 garbage IPAs that all taste like a burnt eraser and 1 sour if you are lucky.

Nearly every pub/bar here has an entire wall display dedicated to which beers are available. They vary from the chalkboard to brass plaques!
> “which charity saves the most lives?”

> “None of them,” said a young Australian woman to laughter. Out came story after story of the daily frustrations of their jobs. Corrupt local officials, clueless charity bosses, the daily grind of cajoling poor people to try something new without pissing them off.

Never fails to disappoint...
> "Timbre’s role in music has always been underrated, or even ignored, probably because it is an intangible that’s difficult to describe, hard to categorize, and so far, immune to measurement. "

In the mid-to-late 1800s, Herman Helmholtz was building spectrographs of musical sounds by listening to them through a bunch of resonators of varying sizes that acted as band-pass filters, and recording how loud each harmonic sounded.

His writings are still relevant today.

https://www.amazon.com/Sensations-Tone-Dover-Books-Music/dp/...

I've heard that the Sethares book (which is much more recent) is really good too, but I don't have a copy of that one.

https://www.amazon.com/Tuning-Timbre-Spectrum-William-Sethar...
Eternal summer...
Interview with Telegram's founder Pavel Durov [video]
I remember this well. Crime, drug, and gang hysteria were very big in the 90s. "Gangs are using pagers to sell drugs to children" was a quick and easy way to demonize them and ensure that they get banned hastily, without a lot of questions.

The funny thing is that in political discussion, drug, crime, and gang hysteria are back. Rates of crime and gangs are much lower than the 90s. With drugs, fentanyl and its difficulty to dose correctly is definitely more deadly. But the rhetoric is pretty similar to the crack epidemic and the period shortly after.
At what point can we start suing companies on behalf of the commons for taking words from the lexicon? I miss the days when this would be called “Wilson & Co.’s automated testing solution” instead of such a beautiful, philosophically meaningful word. Same thoughts on that Devin.AI scam taking the name “Cognition” and Vercel somehow bribing their way into claiming the “ai” name on NPM.

Technically awesome post tho! Love the heatmap esp. Maybe bring up changing your name to investors because some rando online doesn’t like it though, please.
An analog CRT is as close to zero latency as the source (in this example, Rock Band 3) can provide[0].

More-modern displays (obviously including LCD and OLED, but also CRT displays that themselves have a framebuffer, as was also a thing) always add additional latency.

0: It's not like we can just somehow convert an existing closed-source thing like Rock Band 3 into a 240Hz source.
There are straightforward interpretations of negative numbers that map intuitively to regular everyday situations, such as a distance in an opposite direction, moving in an opposite direction, or an amount of money owed.

On the other hand, there is no straightforward intuitive mapping for complex numbers. Geometrically, they arise out of the spiral motion needed to provide a continuous solution to an oscillating function such as y=(-1)^x, but there is no regular everyday situation that mirrors that. Algebraically, they arise in solving certain polynomials, but in practical situations they are generally only a required intermediate calculation, and in practical (engineering) usage it is usually only the real roots that have any meaning.

Complex equations are used greatly for modeling waveforms, but that's mainly just because it's more mathematically convenient than dealing with a bunch of sin() functions. Not because waveforms are inherently complex/imaginary -- they're not.

So the idea that negative numbers are just as unintuitive as complex numbers, is an idea I think should be firmly rejected. Negative numbers make easy, intuitive, real-world sense in a way that complex numbers simply don't.

There's still an ongoing philosophical debate as to the "reality" of complex numbers, and the formulation of QM plays a part in that debate. But it doesn't answer it -- similar to waveforms, we can argue whether the math behind QM is "essentially" complex, or if we use complex representations merely for convenience. It's entirely possible to express QM without complex numbers at all, obviously.
They're not awful, they're just very average, IMO.
Bang on. I deleted my account when I started to notice that I would grow older (and wiser) while the average Redditor always stayed the same age.

When I created my account more than a decade ago, I felt most people knew more than I did about the world. Now almost in my 40s, and there is the definite feeling that the average redditor you're replying to is a white, 16 year old American boy. The apex of civilisation indeed.
> Google started dropping hints in 2022 when it promised to do a better job of promoting sites that weren't just chasing the top of search but were more helpful and human.

Wasn't this Google's policy in the "don't be evil" stage, until they started encouraging SEO in 2018?
Don't worry about the copers. Just be ready for people who

1. Think this research is pointless because of course stochastic parrots would exhibit knowledge collapse

2. Use this research to argue more advanced models will always have knowledge collapse, even if grounded in empirical data

These are not bad signs. They are screening signals that let you tell when someone has no genuine interest in uncovering the truth of the matter. That is very useful to know, since otherwise you will waste time trying to get useful contributions out of them, which is beyond frustrating.
It really upsets me that the VHF pager networks were shut down.

VHF pagers were the last way you could recieve notifications without having to offer up your location to surveillance. All satellite pagers require transmit-before-receive, and of course LTE requires that plus actively cooperating with the towers' triangulation of the receiver.

VHF POCSAG over large urban areas is something we never should have let go of.
Why is it not available in the EU? Is this just the Delta developer wanting to promote/push people to their App Store, or is there some other reason e.g. Apple don’t allow the app in the EU? I’m a bit confused why it would be on alternative store at all, if Apple now allow these apps… can someone ELI5?

(I’m in the UK so can download from the App Store, finally a benefit of you-know-what lol)
I think they are referring to the use of JS as a compile target
btw: it turns out openparsec is back under active development: https://github.com/OpenParsec/openparsec
Good question.

F6 half moon key is to enable disable focus, handy if you have ADHD no doubt.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255111106?sortBy=best
As someone maintaining a project with its own event loop: don't do it in larger projects.

The problem is that you'll start having dependencies on external libraries. And when those then need event loop integration, things get messy. We've introduced bugs before, caused by subtle differences in semantics. (Like: does write imply read? Are events disarmed while running? What about errors?)

If the lib and event loop are reasonably popular, someone else probably has integrated them before. Or the lib supports the event loop natively (or uses libverto.) Either saves you some trouble.

Also: please add libverto support for your event loop :)
https://github.com/latchset/libverto
I would never want to be one of the CEOs because of this gap in options between having the money and skills to manipulate Bavaria in to selling you the real Neuschwanstein and then moving it brick by brick and living in a converted olive garden.
Children own their stuff. Parents can control the child’s things like they control other aspects of child’s life. They give some of the control to schools.

What happens when child becomes an adult? They own all their stuff from before, the parents do not keep it. It can be complicated since parents let child use stuff, but anything given to or bought by the child is theirs.
If a humanoid robot can assemble a car, it can probably assemble another humanoid robot…
We find a ton of glitches in Mario, and even more in other games. See, e.g.: https://vimeo.com/807601164
> Should this just be an input on a website or an OS level keyboard remap?

Up to you, I didn't bring all this irrelevant personal stuff up. Or instead of doing either you could bring up another one: faux inconsistency

> to assume I don't know how to remap keys.

No, I assumed you didn't

> I know how, I just don't care keeping a keyboard map on me all the time and remapping everyone's keyboard just because I'd like to type numbers not using the number row.

This is also hyperbolic nonsense, you don't need to do any of that (why would you ever keep a keyboard map on you at all???), keyboards you use 99% of the time is literally just a few of them, so remapping them is nowhere close to remapping everyone's

> So not only is it skewed

Which I've already addressed and you still couldn't respond. Your fingers are skewed, so ergonomic numpad wouldn't be linear

> you're wanting it flipped from how normal keyboard numberpads are.

Or I want it matching how (very frequently used) normal phone numpads are. But that's also an sidetracking nitpick since proper design would match whatever the use wants, so 789 would also fit

> FWIW it was a line of Dell Inspiron laptops

FWIW this is false, there were/are no such laptops, you're just too tied in trying to twist your personal story into some argument to address what I'm actually saying. Laptop is not aware of your input fields, so they can't dynamically switch to a numpad on the main alpha keys. And yes, they reused 789, so again, no laptop used an ergonomic no-mod numpad input mode.

> just saying I used that kind input before and personally didn't care much for it.

That's not all you're saying, and more importantly, that's not what I was arguing against since, again, how is your experience relevant this? Yet you keep bringing it up...
I suppose blocks with the same hash as existing won't get re-requested.
There is a concrete pour next to the place I lived as a child which was done around 1970. A cat walked through and my parents showed the traces to me when I was a small kid, explaining how fossiles were created.

Fast forward 35 years or so, I live 2 km from the place I was born after travelling the world and I went there with my own child to "discover" the steps again, together with the story about fossiles.

I then had my kid take my parents to that place when they were visiting so that he could show them the traces and explain how fossiles are formed.

Full circle of life :)
I remember my buddy casually controlling the volume in his car by rotating the index finger cw/ccw with his hand on a gearbox handle. It was round 6-7 years ago. Nothing projected on his hand though, as it was all projected on a windshield, only visible to him. BMW 7, iirc.
As said above, it was not banning mosques, but minarets specifically. There were only 4 minarets in Switzerland at the time, and no plan to build any more. You could try to build a minaret in Switzerland, get the permit refused, appeal, and try to go up to a court high enough to make that law illegal. But it seems like nobody cared.

It was more political theater at the time. Not that it was a good vote, but I wouldn't say that the Swiss democracy doesn't work based on that. Switzerland is an example of consensus, and a functional democracy.
> The core argument for CRT's is their low latency and high refresh rate

The article is outdated (like you said) because LCD/OLED displays have long since surpassed CRTs in latency and refresh rate.

A modern gaming LCD can refresh the entire screen multiple times over before an old CRT scans the entire frame and returns to the top to redraw the next one.
You're right that what I described isn't what people commonly think about as embeddings (given we are more advanced now the above description), but broadly an embedding is anything (in nlp at least) that maps text into a fixed length vector. When you make embedding like this, the nice thing is that cosine similarity has an easy to understand similarity meaning: count the number of words two documents have in common (subject to some normalization constant).

Most fancy modern embedding strategies basically start with this and then proceed to build on top of it to reduce dimensions, represent words as vectors in their own right, pass this into some neural layer, etc.
I think it is interesting to read about sound initiatives against HFT: https://www.ft.com/content/4906c3a2-5ac3-11e4-8625-00144feab... and papers like https://publications.gc.ca/site/archivee-archived.html?url=h...

Here I am not arguing against HFT per se but it is a interesting topic and being critical is a good way to learn.
We can get closer to the mathematical definition of timbre by talking about the strength of the harmonics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRAXK4QKJ1Q
Monetizing passions is essential these days... The music studio doesn't really improve unless you generate money to build it up, computers, guitars, mixing tools, studio monitors etc., all cost an enormous amount of money. A hobbyist is far different from an enthusiast, and I think thats the distinction that many of people who say "I don't need to make money for my work" simply don't get... By spending money generated elsewhere on passions, you threaten your ability to survive by reducing savings and survival funds. It's not egotistical at all to expect for passions to at least earn back their investment because most creatives aren't born rich. I work to dispute that toxic & low aiming mindset every day. no one should ever have to work for no expectation of returns.
Communist teenagers detached from reality.
Both of those are important to me, as I am the one who would need to remember stuff like this when I vote in my local elections.
Sugar is normal and delicious. There's a whole world of pastries, cakes, desserts eaten in every culture in the world. Fruits are sugary and delicious. Not all sugary treats are an addiction conspiracy. I don't understand 0-sugar people, as if there is a "default state" of being where 0 sugar must be consumed? According to whom?
Perhaps a bit hyperbolic on my part, it is fine, but it’s poor for the velocity of content it produces. Up until 2 years ago it lacked comment search… [1] which afaik can only search only so far back as well. It also doesn’t search it’s full corpus. There are third party tools which which allow for search a specific time period for this reason [2]. Although google works better here too. With better listing.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/u3oz2x/whats_up_wit...

2. https://www.redditsearchtool.com
Hmm... looks like Vimeo is currently having some kind of outage. If anybody at Vimeo is reading this and wants some help with testing backend systems, email is in bio.
I only can see the first post, which is basically useless. I see its a 1/9 post but Twitter is no longer a good place to have these kinds of discussions.

Nitter.net is also dead, so my #1 way of reading Twitter posts is gone. I've never posted to Twitter before and rarely read it, so I don't expect to ever need an account.
If I'm rolling the dice then we've moved from d00 to d20 and saved a ton of time. Here are a few general examples of things I'll look at:

- Can I tell what the actual point of the job is from the job description? Does it describe what their services are in service to?

- How many non-technical, non-domain experts will I speak with before I'm talking engineer to engineer?

- How jazzed are the interviewers about speaking with me, in the moment? Are they interested in the details of earlier projects? Are they curious about me, or just running down a list of questions?

- Do they use leetcode or similar? There are a lot of really good reasons for a company to use leetcode in their hiring process, but none of those reasons are particularly good for me, as an employee.

- Do their interview questions make sense, given their context? E.g are they quizzing me on recursion from an environment where recursion wouldn't be a particularly great idea?
Yes! And the follow up that cosine similarity (for BoW) is a super simple similarity metric based on counting up the number of words the two vectors have in common.
It’s not a problem with FA, it’s a problem with people using the DSM who don’t understand how the math behind it influences what they are doing. Ditto for IQ. If you use IQ measures professionally, you should grok FA.
Regulations. Regulations. Regulations.
> Unfortunately, that's uncomputable

Minor nitpick, but while Kolmogorov complexity as typically defined is uncomputable, I would argue that this result is only a theoretical curiosity and mostly irrelevant.

That is, the "uncomputable" Kolmogorov complexity computation presupposes that you have a Turing machine, i.e. a machine with literally infinite memory, which is not possible to construct in our universe. Or alternatively, it presupposes that "computable function" is one that can be computed by a machine with an infinite amount of storage, which amounts to the same thing as having a Turing machine.

You could probably define some version of Kolmogorov complexity that is parametrized by the memory size (e.g. of a linear bounded automaton or similar model that better represents a computer with finite resources), which should make it computable. That said, in practice it would probably take an unreasonable amount of time to perform this computation (but that is orthogonal to whether it's computable or not).
Sorry if I am missing something, but why not run max-flow? Max-flow is simple to implement; basically just DFS/BFS in a loop. Also, a more advanced variant with better runtime, scaling max-flow, is not too much harder.

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp11/cse202-a/lecture8-final...
Have you found any that still have service over a significant area in the US?

Particularly the one-way (RX only) pagers.

Very interested in this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40070092

> - Basically 2 companies, operating with antequated websites (and prices) still provide service at the historic prices

If you get a chance to add the names/links of these companies I would really appreciate it.
If you have enough money for it to be worthwhile, you can essentially approach a financial advisor with exactly your needs and they will manage your money to ignore Nestlé (though check their actual qualifications and whether they're a fiduciary).

The pro of this approach: you don't have to think about or manage that task.

The cons: you'll need enough money for that to be worthwhile, you might not see as good a return as you would simply parking your money in an ETF, you will likely face higher fees than normal for active management.

You could save money by actively managing your investments yourself, but that would be quite time consuming and generally requires you to have more upfront capital to invest.
AT&T's 'You Will' Ads from 1993 Predicted the Future (2018)
The main oolite repository is [1] and the repository for the launcher is [2]. Everything, including art assets and configuration files, is under the GNU GPL 2-or-later [3]. You can alternatively use the art assets and config files under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License version 3.0, a proprietary license.

[1] https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite

[2] https://github.com/HiranChaudhuri/OoliteStarter

[3] https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite/blob/master/Doc/LICE...
Any business idea built almost exclusively on AI, without adding much value, is doomed from the start. AI is not good enough to make humans obsolete yet. But a well finetuned model can for sure augment what individual humans can do.
Related, from earlier this month (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/jane-stre...):

> Jane Street Group sued Millennium Management and two former traders over their alleged theft of a highly confidential and “immensely valuable” proprietary trading strategy.

Here's the complaint: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rEXVjFfB...
Mechanical Turk: 84 Years of Chess and Deception
Am I correct in understanding how firms like Jane Street work? They are a market maker - they run an exchange where buyers and sellers can transact. They can arbitrage these trades by connecting buyers and sellers where there is a price discrepancy. Something like that?
From a Tiny Island in Maine, He Serves Up Fresh Media Gossip
Paywall: <https://archive.is/Bf7pW>
RHttp: REPL for HTTP
I love this place. I lived in Tokyo a while back, these are all over. I had one down the street from me in my neighborhood in Meguro-ku. Notably, the tables and counters had big metal (I think?) tubs of sauce planted on them and there were all these signs warning you not to put your kushikatsu directly in the sauce. I think I always ended up putting a bit on a small plate and taking it from there.

I would go there and get a bunch of fresh grapefruit sours and just eat deep fried, breaded meat, eggs, veggies, etc. for practically nothing until I was stuffed. The vibe was working stiffs meeting up to hang out and complain or long-lost friends enjoying some fried food and draft Kirin or whatever. Very casual, tasty, and fun. 懐かしいな
I hate how it's translating words or when you highlight something on mobile and select search web, it prefixes "define" or replaces the word entirely with a more generalized term. Just this week, I searched for Clătite. The first result is a giant full page (on mobile) information box about Crêpes. Which, yes, the same, but also not the same. If I wanted to read about crêpes, I would have searched for crêpes. When I'm searching for Clătite, it's because I'm interested in the specifics of what is different. Giving information about the French variety is missing the point entirely. If you're on Android, try it yourself. Highlight the word Clătite and see what it puts in the search box when you click "web search".
> He's not saying the race is stupid. He is saying that it is more stupid

I think the fact that you're reduced to asserting that it's logically possible to assert that a group is "more stupid" without asserting that they are in any way stupid pretty neatly demonstrates my point about comparisons between races with disparaging adjectives being almost tautologically racist.

(The second half of your post is even more pointless to engage with. :)
That's all nice, but you can't draw on an LCD screen with a whiteboard marker.
There's some value, in that language choice is often about ecosystem and legacy issues, so there's often reasons to use a language even if it by itself isn't interesting.

But, if you know one OOP language you can pretty much start working on any of them with a few Google(Or ChatGPT I guess) requests.

Beginner programmers can easily get in a "Using what they know" trap though, and sometimes it's some obscure thing like VB.Net they happened to learn first, stuff that might teach you programming fundamentals, which is good, but it won't teach you about making use of modern tooling and all the random stuff mainstream projects use.
easy, add a new version on a table every time you change anything, poll to check version, update FE if version changed.
There are lots of us.

But I've learned that, aside from mentioning "I don't have a phone" it's really not useful to discuss it any further on the internet. There seems to be a large cohort of trolls who love arguing with anybody who doesn't have a phone. I guess it bothers them that some of us can be free from what so many are addicted to.