skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Terroir is there before the wine is made and can't really be controlled by the winemaker (except insofar as they choose where to plant or what grapes to blend).

I've met winemakers who think of planting in terms of multigenerational experiments with highly intentional controls for different aspects of soil and micro-climate that may vary on a scale of a single meter, who work to find and train their successors because they will not see the results of some of these experiments in their lifetimes; winemakers who absolutely understand that blending is not just a linear combination of the characteristics of blended wines, but a truly complicated system where certain flavors may heighten others; winemakers who rely on centuries of experience in how funguses and other microorganisms can be used in safe and flavor-enhancing ways.

Winemaking is engineering, just as musical instrument design is (both physical and digital), and just as building a startup is. The presence of human subjectivity as an evaluating oracle in a complex system does not imply that its creators work without intention or without rigorous systems-level thinking.
> Right to repair will be even more important for this technology than autos or general computing.

It's going to be kneecapped far worse than phones or tractors. A general purpose humanoid robot is orders of magnitude more complex than a simple gps farming tractor or a cheap android phone.

Companies will absolutely NOT want to give up that moat after developing such tech for 10-20 years.
Was it ever taken seriously by anyone? It seems like just a distraction to keep ICE cars on the road.

If Toyota or anyone wanted hydrogen to be the future then they needed to make it be the future by investing millions in a refueling network.

Tesla made electricity the future by doing just that.
I got my pager at 18 (no one cool called it a beeper, this was when 'cool' was still a thing), and yes, my weed dealer had one, and knew my beeper code (it was a beeper code but you sent it to a pager, young people just do this). Beeper code is worth explaining: you'd send a number to be called back at, and there was room for more digits, so everyone had a three-digit number which was theirs, and you just kinda had to know it. Which could be tricky, so there would be conversations like "ok who is <three digit number>" "oh thats <friend>" "ah right". This let you page people from places which weren't your home.

The whole thing sort of worked, but we were happy to ditch it for cell phones when they became affordable.
Nuclear missile launches are a very, very far cry from phone company customer support operations.

To engage the comparison nevertheless, at least regarding silos, the two person rule is physically enforced using space itself. You could collude, but the likelihood of two people getting to that point and then going through with it is so infinitesimally small as to be, essentially, purely academic.

The risks to one or two actors fraudulently SIM swapping someone’s line are much, much different.

Proportionality matters as much here as anywhere. What would a sufficient deterring punishment look like in this case that would make others think twice? People have already lost their jobs and been tried under existing law for this and it continues to happen.
I've gotten a lot of use out of thinking of genre in relation to timbre. Not as the only relevant thing, but part of a constellation.

In most genres you have a palette of timbres to work with for each instrument based on the genre conventions. You can push at the edges or add things in, but have to balance audience expectations carefully as you do it. So for example the way an electric bass sounds in contemporary metal is just not normally going to "fit" into a chicago blues band, even though both are heavily dependent on the sound of electric bass.

Different genres have different relationships to this constraint, for example western classical has a huge palette available in an orchestra but is relatively averse to using instrumentation outside of that collection. Except in percussion, where there is a lot more flexibility! Jazz has a fairly small & rigid set of acceptable timbres for its core instruments, but is fairly tolerant of experimenting with new instrumentation.

So then the two genre-timbre relationships I find most interesting are electronic and pop. Pop is, more than any other genre I think, curious about how timbre effects emotional response in music. An album by the same artist could have a huge range of different sounds for recognizable instruments, using the tension between them for different effects.

And then large swaths electronic music are built largely around active change of timbre over time through a piece. Something you see used conservatively and carefully in most genres becomes almost the central practice.

IDK it's hard to articulate and I'm not trying to set a reductionist framework about how music sounds or anything. Just a line of musical thought I've been exposed to and found valuable.
I agree with you on just about everything you wrote, except the following passage which neatly sets up the widespread conspiracy theories and erroneous religious beliefs that currently plague our civilization.

>trying to explain things like quantum physics to the layman (as if scientists themselves really understand it)

There's this common misconception that physicists somehow don't understand quantum mechanics. The problem with quantum mechanics (and a whole host of other experimentally-supported theories) is that they describe things so completely removed from our everyday experience (and indeed, occur in regimes that human beings have never experienced even indirectly until the last 100 or so years) that our everyday intuition is wrong every time.

But if you understand the math of quantum mechanics, and you understand how the experiments relate to the math, then you understand how quantum mechanics works. Its not actually that complicated, its just weird.

There are ~1900 PhDs in physics awarded every year, so certainly, tens of thousands of people across the world do understand how it works. Now, if you're going to quibble and say "do the scientists understand what spin really is?" then congratulations, you've just reinvented Humean skepticism, I guess human knowledge reached its maximum extent in 1748.
Or maybe because this is actually the fascinating story about someone who -- in true hacker spirit -- creates a completely new genre despite having only two fingers available for fretwork after he got burned badly.

Which was all news to me. So now I am going to spend the rest of the day finding some of Django Reinhardt's music.
No, that's exactly what the McNamara fallacy is about.

"US Air Force Brigadier General Edward Lansdale reportedly told McNamara, who was trying to develop a list of metrics to allow him to scientifically follow the progress of the war, that he was not considering the feelings of the common rural Vietnamese people. McNamara wrote it down on his list in pencil, then erased it and told Lansdale that he could not measure it, so it must not be important."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
I personally like it when there is a demo video in the Readme so I can easily see how the product works. Maybe consider adding that
New Peter Thiel interview with Tyler Cowen [video]
you reminded me of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_clown_sightings

then suddenly, what comes out the next year? A long awaited remake of It

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(2017_film)

well, that's awfully curious.
I've very happily been refuting this verse lately by building a smart robot that could not have existed before modern tech.
> It's as if your product automatically becomes cheaper, more reliable, and more scalable with each new major model release.

and so do your competitor's products.
I responded to your other post, but I think the confusion is mostly about considering different forms of bikes, and their respective weights compared to the rider.

Also, I'll be honest I haven't ridden a snowmobile in so long that I don't really have a mental model of it. I'm interested though, Do you think they are a similar experience? Don't they normally have like many more points of contact?
Microsoft-OpenAI deal set to dodge formal EU merger probe, sources say
> don't take my statement as an assumption against parenthood

No worries, I didn't.
There's a sad bit of irony that the year is 2024 and the game console in your pocket could feasibly run anything you want, but the OEM region-locked it again.
Tangentially related, but recently I've come across a SYM debugging symbols file for a PlayStation game without its matching executable. I had another, more recent executable that wasn't a perfect match for the SYM file, so I couldn't directly make use of it.

I've ended up doing the following to leverage that SYM file:

- build a placeholder ELF program by hand in the shape of the missing executable, but with all sections being NOBITS

- import this placeholder program into Ghidra

- write a Ghidra script to layer the information inside the SYM file on top of the placeholder program

- perform a version tracking session from the placeholder to the real executable, to port the debugging information onto a tangible artifact

My point is, have you thought about the capability to view a debugging data file without having the executable file? This use-case is admittedly a bit fringe, but it can happen with split executable/debug files.
Ask HN: What's a batteries-included framework that's React-first?
What's the closest thing to Rails, Laravel or Django but works really well with React or Svelte like Nextjs?

Doesn't seem like it exists - why not? React/Svelte clearly won on the frontend, but nextjs leaves a lot to be desired on the full stack DX. I'm looking for something more opinionated and full-featured like the traditional frameworks but that has first class support for modern frontend.
Wikipedia is an odd one. If you're looking for perhaps the results of the recent Japanese F1 race, then wikipedia is a great source.

If you're looking for a high level understanding of some subjects then wiki will be a great source. But soon as you dive into intermediate expertise requirements and wikipedia falls apart. Most everyone knows how science study news is often misrepresented, but wikipedia often takes these as complete truth and represents it as the fact. Go into any subject where even the experts dont really know and wikipedia will speak as if it's settled science.

Then we come to subjects where there isn't some sort of correct answer. Politics is terribad on wikipedia. Political subjects are often misrepresented as 'science' and not politics. Accepted sources have been curated to only allow 1 viewpoint. There's clear abuse and misrepresentations on political subjects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...

Look at those 2050 and 2100 predictions which look very bad. But what is IPCC AR5 RCP8.5?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_P...

>Since AR5 this has been thought to be very unlikely, but still possible as feedbacks are not well understood.

Why would they choose the worse case scenario as if it's that predicted future?
Idk why you got downvoted. Clearly this feature is not about "string templates" -- it's very generic.
There are lots of white anti-white racists, there are Black anti-Black racists, and there are indeed Jewish antisemites. You're adopting a position of shock and disbelief that (some) Jewish people find JVP problematic. I'm telling you: that's not helping the credibility of your argument, because this is an old, well-covered controversy, and the points that JVP's critics raise aren't superficial. You don't have to agree with them, but to suggest that those critics have "lost all conception" of what "antisemitism" means mostly suggests that you're unfamiliar with JVP.

(I don't know what I believe about JVP! My confidence in any assessment is very low. What I do know, though, is that if I were doing persuasive work, like, say, getting a ceasefire resolution passed in my municipality, I would do my best to keep JVP's name off the enterprise.)

For a clearer example of this phenomenon, unrelated to JVP, see Jewish Currents, also frequently cited in discussions to insulate arguments from accusations of antisemitism.
Lua also allows you to redefine an existing function.
Thank you for this really cool and open contribution!

I will be watching llama.cpp closely for them to implement this!

I’ve been looking for ways to speed up CPU inference and I really like this idea of “effort”
We've had recorded history of people saying things for less time than we've had a formal scientific method. Surely the accumulation of knowledge through our recording of people saying things carries some weight? It truly has not been that long in which great acceleration of climate conditions have become existential- though I suppose in the timelines of life on earth, the era of recorded human thoughts is itself minuscule.
Without prior knowledge of programming it's going to be 3 months, otherwise 1 month.
While I do appreciate this reference and agree with CS Lewis here, I think it's a bit of a stretch to draw a connection between him and the present day Oxford philosophy faculty. He was a single don from nearly a century ago, who now really belongs to the canon at large rather than a single university. Perhaps the current faculty all hold some special reverence for him, but it seems more likely that modern mainstream philosophers (not only at Oxford) merely share with Lewis some basic grasp of common sense, which informs their skepticism of FHI and EA.
Concepts from Functional Programming can be used to reduce the state space.

First, do as much work as possible in pure functions. Pure functions can safely be run in parallel, in any order because they do not have side-effects.

Then the side-effects can be applied. This code should be smaller/simpler since any work that can be done in a pure function was already done.

https://grokkingsimplicity.com/ covers this topic in chapter 17: Coordinating timelines. The book even walks through a non-trivial example.
Elon Wants His Money Back
If you want to replace OS programs with browser apps you need it, and some thinks that you should be able to do everything in the browser.
I'm clearly a physicist through-and-through, I read "half a psi per foot" and wondered if it was ψ or Ψ, and why a plumber would use a Greek letter for anything.
inertiajs.com is one interesting approach to solving this by making React work somewhat natively in Rails/Laravel/Django - are there others?
He said "I think it is laudable if you accustom people to the offensiveness of the truth, but be prepared that you may suffer some personal damage".

Doesn't sound like someone doing introspection, it sounds more like he is lamenting that the world isn't as "logical" as he is.
Can someone tell me what it's showing? It won't let me enter, even if I turn off my VPN.
WebDBAN. WebRootFolderRemover. WebHardDriveMusic.
>>So do you have a problem with the elected officials who push for the policies you're against?

Yes

>>Or the idea of a bureaucracy

The discussion is about an article outlining the abuse of bureaucratic powers for political purposes. Of fucking course I'm against this.

I honestly have no idea who would be pro government abuse, are you? If so, you're part of the problem too.
> Another way to think about timbre is by comparing instruments. In an old stand-up bit, Steve Martin strummed the banjo and mused, “You just can’t sing a depressing song when you’re playing the banjo . . . You can’t just go, ‘Oh, death, and grief, and sorrow, and murder.’

Anyone who's played Outer Wilds should disagree with this.[0]

To say we can't describe timbre is a bit misleading, because there are concrete mathematical ways to analyze sounds; they exist in a three-dimensional space of frequency, amplitude and time. But that's helpful in the same way that describing programming languages as collections of 1s and 0s is.

What's lacking for describing timbre, I suppose, are the steps between "this sound is a sum of a particular arrangement of sine waves" and "this sound is a piano". There are common terms such as ADSR or "brightness" and "warmth" but those don't tell the full story.

The question is, how valuable is that intermediate step when you could just say "this is a piano, this is a banjo"?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_wIb_n4ZU
> As you’re pointing out, it’s not always evil to be told about something you like.

It's one thing to be "told about something you like" and another to be manipulated even if sometimes it ultimately leads to a good outcome. If I trick you into buying something you wouldn't have bought otherwise it doesn't really matter much if it turns out later that you actually like the thing you overpaid for, I'd still be a dick.
CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred
Don’t you have the same problem illustrated by this author? My perspective is the “untapped” people get diminished rewards for their inputs because they are being outplayed by politicos who inflate their importance to the process at the expense of others. For some people it is less work to make the system unfair than to excel on a fair system.
So, if any company in the antebellum South had taken a stand against slavery and fired its pro-slavery CEO, that would have been wrong?
Or, you know the developer could do what they did in other countries and just put it on the EU App store...

Clearly it works there, according to the verge it's identical. Could even charge the same $2 a year if they really want too.

Again, not complaining about the fee here.

You replied to me thinking I was upset about a certain thing, that is not in fact the thing I am upset about and you seem to be doubling down...

My core issue here, is being forced to download an alternative store by the developer making a choice. They did not have to make this choice. But they did, and now as the user I have no choice but to follow if I want to download it.

This really isn't hard to understand.

If it really is about the CTF, just charge the same fee.
I genuinely find it amazing that companies aren't changing the workspace so as to make working in it more productive and desirable.
At least Lewis admits it. For me, that goes a long way.
See also https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1779920066840055847
Electric motors dont have a lot of "give", like hydraulics do. But yes force-torque controllers can be tuned to be squishier. Someday I think electric motors will be the muscles and we'll have some kind of elastic tendons. For energy efficiency, it seems obvious to harness impact energy in a mechanical spring system, as nature does.

Or just use wheels / a wheel. This whole humanoid thing strikes me as an addiction to old sci Fi stories.
doesn't it make more sense to have robots like these drive cars? Then any car, even an old clunker, can be a "self-driving car".

You could offload the heavy processing to a larger computer in the back seat. Then even the robots get to suffer with backseat drivers :)
Announcement from CFPB Director https://twitter.com/chopracfpb/status/1780651320766058684
"Everything is overtones", or so I've heard somewhere. The pitch, or note you hear from an instrument is the fundamental frequency, and the combination of overtones determines the timbre. These overtones are other sine waves at different amplitudes and frequencies, and the combination of these are instrument dependent. Additive synthesizers do this to approximate "real" instruments.
Here's solution using networkx Python module:

cutset = nx.minimum_edge_cut(G)
for e in cutset:
G.remove_edge(*e)
size1, size2 = map(len, nx.connected_components(G))
answer = size1 * size2
Elon Musk – A small fee for new users is the only way to curb bots
Tough to say something as blanket as "it's slower"... there are lots of operations in any linear algebra library. It's not a direct comparison with other C++ linear algebra libraries, but hard to say Armadillo is slow based on benchmarks like this:

https://conradsanderson.id.au/pdfs/sanderson_curtin_armadill...
Right, a person running a group called "small bets" has no relation to people getting simps to gamble their money away. I'm sure you're right, you are not a simp after all!

Btw, ever heard of the duck test?

> If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
One straightforward way to get started is to understand embedding without any AI/deep learning magic. Just pick a vocabulary of words (say, some 50k words), pick a unique index between 0 and 49,999 for each of the words, and then produce embedding by adding +1 to the given index for a given word each time it occurs in a text. Then normalize the embedding so it adds up to one.

Presto -- embeddings! And you can use cosine similarity with them and all that good stuff and the results aren't totally terrible.

The rest of "embeddings" builds on top of this basic strategy (smaller vectors, filtering out words/tokens that occur frequently enough that they don't signify similarity, handling synonyms or words that are related to one another, etc. etc.). But stripping out the deep learning bits really does make it easier to understand.
I accidentally entered my birth year as 79xx, instead of 19xx, and it blocked me from reading the article. So that's cool.
Heineken seems to have created a concept phone that is a translucent flip-phone similar to what you would use circa 2007. Seems like it introduced typical t9 styled typing with a camera.

It’s unclear to me why a beer company paired up with a fashion company to make a smartphone, but the site doesn’t really explain much. I didn’t see a price, release date or specs. The site is behind an age wall and additionally an e-mail wall to receive any useful info. Overall, terrible execution on the marketing front IMO
From the context you gave, that sounds inappropriate and rude. If you're going to do this, you need to at least put in the effort to rewrite it in your own voice so it's not obvious. Also, ChatGPT output tends to be way too verbose, and replying to people with a novella when a short answer will do is inconsiderate as well.

That said, for technical issues I will sometimes include clearly labeled ChatGPT output that suggests possible causes, things to try, etc. This doesn't feel much different that including a bunch of potentially relevant links from e.g. stack overflow or GitHub issues, which I also do frequently.

Maybe it's ok to reply with something like "Here are my thoughts... [your take], and by the way I asked ChatGPT about this to get another perspective, and here's the output:..." You just shouldn't try to pass off ChatGPT output as a valid reply unedited and without context.
Really? As someone who grew up with PAL, we were pining for your 60fps NTSC output, especially in fast games like beatem-ups etc (PAL is 50).

I still remember the first time I saw an imported Japanese PS1 playing Teken 2, and how much smoother it looked on NTSC. I could never look at my PAL copy the same way again, I couldn't unsee the NTSC version. For me personally, those extra 10 frames trump the extra 100 scanlines in PAL etc.
Wow, I wasn't aware that was a correct sentence.
Well, fine. If you are a member of my family, and you think that the family is in cahoots with those commit crimes against humanity, you might as well do that. If you had a bit of conscience, I hope you at least implore of doing it.
Educational credentials are just an easy way for HR departments to filter applicants down to a manageable level when there is a labor surplus. They quickly throw out that requirement as soon as they have trouble filling jobs.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-degree-job-requirement/