skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get it. The unnecessary content games the Adsense algorithm, convincing it that the site now has value as a "place for adverts".

That, in itself, is not actually a win. There would need to be traffic, clicks on ads, and so on to be a win.

There's no evidence (either way, it's simply not mentioned) if the site actually makes any revenue from the ads that are now on it. Perhaps the automated Adsense algorithm was correct "the original site isn't a good ad site" - and the mistake is that it can't see what "seems" to be true to us, which is that the new site is no better.
MIDI is just good enough for the vast majority of musical needs. Any more complicated and the protocol would have been too hard to implement on early computers.
Personally I have one use case left for Google: Product Search.

If I'm looking to buy something, I will frequently end up using Google. The engine that matches my product search to a relevant ad is excellent. Basically anytime you need to search for something that could lead to a purchase of a physical product, Google will be extremely useful. For services and software you can't use Google, you will get hustled by fake review or top 10 XYZ for 2024 sites.
So many good machines: the Amstrad CPC range, a whole slew of Sega consoles, the early MSX stuff and of course the Tatung Einstein. 3 inch disk machines of the world unite!
Props for mentioning BirdNET as a potentially more accessible starting point for less technical folks.

There are a couple relative advantages of your approach that I feel are notable though:

Squeezed wav2vec2 (SEW) architecture leverages Transformer layers and operates directly on time series inputs. But BirdNET converts audio to a spectrogram first and then uses 2D convolution layers (ResNet-like backbone).

This over-representation of inputs to BirdNET implies that SEW will be much more computationally efficient for a given audio classification task (all else held equal).

Plus, simply using a pre-trained SEW model and then training a linear classifier on the embeddings would almost certainly produce strong baseline results. No GPU would be necessary for that.

P.S. Minor typo - precision and recall are confused here:

> “precision” (how many of the animal calls it notices) and its “recall” (the rate at which it makes accurate predictions).
Oh dear, I've ruffled a few feathers here...
I guess I am just more confused.
It needs to be correct in the US as well.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/credential-aut...
It costs next to nothing for one person. A different policy that applies to a population of 67m is a different order of magnitude

NHS policy isn't about the individual
Put it out by the curb with a $10 sign on it. Someone will steal it within the hour. Easiest way to get rid of stuff. Worst case scenario someone gives you 10 bucks for it. No one wants free stuff but if it has any value associated people will want it.
Ask HN: Good interview preparation (for Meta and others)
I need advice on how to prepare.

I'm seeing a lot of interview prep questions now have tricks, in that, if you know the trick, the problem dissolves down to being trivial to solve. This is interfering with me not being able to prepare/feel good about interviewing as I feel I'll just `know` the questions' answers or I won't. It doesn't feel good.

Do you have any advice? I am a software engineer, been one for over a decade and this is making me lose motivation to the point that I can't study!
No. I'm saying that German did not subsidize those at all.

There is not a source I read about Germany as a country did this.

I understand that German people were using those lines and made it therefore profitable but that's not what the word subsidize implies.
Great to see a local lad on HN! For those fortunate enough to be visiting the North East of England, there are plenty of great engineering tourism opportunities - see the Rocket at the Locomotion museum in Shildon, try the Stephenson Railway in Wallsend and of course Cragside, Lord Armstrong's house up in Rothbury is always worth a visit!
It wouldn’t be so appalling if the clothes were made from sustainable, biodegradable materials.

I appreciate that the article calls out the trash as being like an oil slick, which is a sticking point I think we all can be upset about, and use our agency to demand change.

Don’t buy plastic to wear. Tell manufacturers (brands) they are grotesque for using plastics in clothing.
https://archive.ph/gOAIW
For some reasons I thought they were using Linux for their hypervisor layer so Xen/KVM. Yes I think hyper-v is fine.
This was a discussion about historic presidents. It certainly interested me, as a person who is curious about American history of the late 70s and early 80s. If there were any politics in that discussion—I’m sure there were, it is hard to leave politics out of interpretations of history—they didn’t affect the thread in a way that made it less interesting.
Biden nailed the state of the union speech so well that republicans accused him of being on stimulants. He was specifically called “over caffeinated” by hannity. He’s literally not sleepy joe, and “Zion don” would best stop throwing stones while they live in glass houses.

Meanwhile we have this fking gem from trump circa 2016 and he’s only gotten less coherent:

“ Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
Architecting ML Pipelines on Snowflake
Foreign workers make up less than 20% of the US workforce according to: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-immigrants-are-in-the...

Over twice that proportion founding startups sounds very significant. It's not too surprising though - if you're able and willing to take the risk of migrating for work, you're probably more likely to be able and willing to start a company.
He's obviously talking about the nonclassical regime, where the fundamental quantum nature of reality matters.
My concern is simply labor. If trading is 24/7 that means people will be working or on call 24/7. Not much sympathy for finance bros, but for the tech people and others.

Then again, it may create some jobs if they have to hire night and weekend staff.
24/7 reminds me of when I used to work with crypto. It was basically madness.
Search can still serve ads on their own pages (which Google calls "AdWords"), and (iirc) makes the most revenue for Google.

AdSense is serving ads on third-party websites, which is very different.
They even mention mosquito larvae, which pop up fast and are fun to watch.

When they grow up, not so much.

Check around your property for puddles and unregarded containers: you may already be breeding more skeeters than you'd like.
Although somebody used to have to actually sit down and comb through the footage to do that. Although not so much these days, so that point is moot.
OHLY SHIT
Harnessing Geothermal Energy from High-Level Nuclear Waste Repositories
Not allowing custom nameservers is the one thing stopping me from switching to Cloudflare.

Bit of a shame, as I had a bunch of domains with Google, which I suppose are now owned by Squarespace, which is a company I never saw myself using...
> Why do you care as a search engine?

Wait, are you really asking why a search engine would care how well it finds what the user is looking for?

Granted, there are a lot of search engines that sell themselves on other metrics ("it's fast!" or "it uses AI!" or "it's in the cloud!") but any serious search engine player strives to learn how good it is -- in practise -- at helping the user find what they are looking for. That's ultimately the purpose of a search engine.
Catch and release. I was (and still am) a proponent of decriminalizing small use and non-distribution; or at least something else.

But certain class of drugs are just too much.
The markers for wheelchair requests arn’t very accurate. Depending on the flight 0-100% of passengers who have wheelchair requests in the system end up using them.

Sometimes they get put on the wrong passenger, sometimes the passenger decides not to use it.

No airline staff is going to assume they are carrying an infant as they are not allowed to travel alone. But they would definitely assume as wheelchair request is an error or mistake.
The Art of Observant Living and the Currency of Words
OP's website is heavy with affiliate link listicles, which have been recently heavily downranked in favor of forums and content like Reddit and Quora.
Ha! Nice.

Would be fun to use arbitrary events as time, like WW2. What time did you get up today? Germany invades Norway.
If something simple removes a useful site from the search results Google should fix its algorithm not the otheway around.
There's a lot of compromise in UPS design.

For example, a common topology in offline UPS is that the inverter and the charger are the same circuit driven differently[0] - so you can't charge the battery while the inverter is carrying load. This is popular at the low-end because you have literally half as much UPS, but makes what you're describing impossible.

Another common issue at the low end is that the inverter isn't thermally sized to run non-stop, they know they can cut a corner because your battery presents a finite and known duty cycle.

There are ways around this, but at some point you end up fixing the wrong problem - eg, it's cheaper, safer, and more resilient to buy a transfer switch instead of uprating two UPS to be capable of daisy-chaining.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5302858A/en
It's really hard to know what a "steady stream" is without useful quantification. I mean to you or me a steady stream might be 100 people a day. Or a million. It's hard to say. (And clearly that would be useful knowledge in the context of evaluating the value of the site.)

On the other hand, if I was getting a million users per day, I'd probably figure out who would care about that audience, and sell to them directly.
You refuse because visibility of an article shouldn’t be based on who can pay the most money to push its visibility.
There's no reason to think that quantum computers will have any fundamental advantage at knapsack problems; the √n advantage from grovers is not substantial when classical computers are going to be many orders of magnitude bigger than quantum computers for the foreseeable future.

If a problem can be reduced to efficiently sampling from the summation of an exponentially large numbers of FFT's, then a quantum computer will destroy a classical computer.

It's largely an open research problem whether there are useful quantum algorithms between those two problem classes.
> But there's no shortage of modern-day pictures and videos...

...of things that turn out not to be aliens, which is the OP's point.
I suppose they want more transactions and thus more revenue.

Edit: During the Internet bubble around 1999/2000 several markets extended their opening hours by a few hours. Later, after the bubble had burst, they went back to the old opening hours.
That's part of the campaign to discredit what others see and to encourage anyone who sees something to keep quiet.
Vidu: Text-to-video model from China, comparable to Sora
Fzf is written in go fwiw
If you read the bio of the head of Google's Quantum Computing (now "Quantum AI") org, you can connect the dots:

https://www.xprize.org/about/people/hartmut-neven
Cloudflare isn’t forcing people to use their services and can be swapped out for other providers.

DDoSes and various internet attacks suck to deal with.

I blame the people thinking attacking other people’s infrastructure is funny.
I haven't tried any others but have had no problems with Namecheap
The first day of epistemology 101 (it wasn't actually a 100 series course) the initial exercise was to spot the flaws in Descarté's arguments. So yes, we can't even know (know used in the epistemological sense) that we ourselves exist, so everything else is just gradations of levels of justification and belief. Some explanations have more justification than others.
I don't think that's necessarily required. Google has always done well, even without pushing ads as hard as they are now. The problem is that Google / Alphabet has become to reliant to the money from ads to finance other non-/less profitable products.

We've seen Google sell a profitable business, Google Domains, because it didn't make enough money for Google to bother with. For some reason Google believes that it is entitled to make some insane profit, rather than being content with having a reasonably profitable ad supported search business.

Google Search sucks because of the current financial model they, and most of society works under.
Ask HN: Rust projects to do before internship
Hi HN!

I'm about to intern at a big tech company, likely using Rust. Do you have any suggestions for projects I should do before so? (to make my internship less stressful). All projects are welcome (even if it's not in Rust!)
Does Adsense pay for impressions? Legit question, I have no idea... I imagine $-per-impression would be impressively low... Isn't $-per-click pretty low anyway?
I see this frequently asserted, but rarely substantiated.
Commercially I agree with you, search traffic is much better than social media traffic.

But people are reaching huge audiences through social media without even having any domain that can be indexed by Google. That is also the world wide web.
Here migrants should not be blamed but the system
And old empire became successful because of colonialism and exploitation.
I'm not sure from where you are concluding that people are less willing to buy software. Most people buy Windows, Office, Adobe's suite of programs, video games, and much more enough for there to be a burgeoning market.

Of course, I agree a lot of techies and especially the audience here (who aren't normal people for conversations like this) don't like buying software, nor selling them for that matter. Actually, sometimes I get the impression they hate the very concept of money, but I digress.
You're just making a long winded argument from ignorance, and strawmanning what Carter said. He said his knowledge influenced his belief. That is different from saying he knew it wasn't possible.
JQuery UI I’d in maintenance mode : only bug fixes and security fixes are addressed, there are multiple CVEs addressed to its date picker in this release. For those that have to be concerned about such things :

CVE-2021-41182

CVE-2021-41183

CVE-2021-41184

https://jqueryui.com/upgrade-guide/1.13/
Does it need to? How large does it needs to be? Can it be treated as 'essential infrastructure'?
I adore Makefiles as they're a very simple way to create a higher level abstraction in my projects. It builds data and runs small bits of code, so I can concentrate on the business-level value. I haven't found a better/simpler way that good old Makefiles.
If you took out a loan on a meaningless value where the value is later "corrected" to a more sane "value" that forces one to be underwater is not anyone else's fault but the person taking out the mortgage at the higher "value".

Just because someone doesn't have a mortgage doesn't mean they magically have free money. More than likely, they paying rent. Unless you're a zillenial that's moved back in with the parental units, but that's a tangential conversation.
Exactly, so if there are multitudes of great individualss both have and haven't studied nature then why make a bald statement about the practice of a single individual? I'm asking what was being initially implied.
Unfortunately some of Carter's contemporaneous head's of state were not so clear headed. In 1977 Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada, spent 45 minutes discussing his theories about UFOs to the United Nations. He claimed to have seen many and was convinced they were driven by “highly intelligent aliens of extraterrestrial origin." He even met with Carter about it. Two years later Gairy's government was overthrown by revolutionaries and he had to flee his home country - his strange obsession with UFOs is just an historical footnote.
> accusing Israel of Apartheid, which is an even more stunningly clear-headed claim for a US president to make.

Carter explained that he is not using the word to describe racism, but the desire to acquire, occupy, confiscate and then to colonize Palestinian land.

Source: https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2008/january/cartervisit.html

The problem is that that is not apartheid. Apartheid “separateness” is explicitly a racist ideology and about forcing people to live in separate lands, not about colonizing.
Yeah, for the most part using them to transform text (e.g. summarize, translate) rather than generate it from scratch is the way to minimize hallucinations.

It's a bit like the difference between thinking when awake, grounded by reality, and dreaming.
That’s why it’s better to distribute and thin out social housing across every neighborhood, rather than concentrate them all in a handful of places.

It’s easy to police one or two “problem” residents and maybe some positive habits will rub off; likewise, ground the wealthier residents to reality.
I saved this link to a list of project ideas from (probably) a HN comment a while ago: https://www.andreinc.net/2024/03/28/programming-projects-ide...

It's got a lot of stuff on it, so I'd suggest picking one thing that looks doable and interesting to you?
Most trading happens just after market open (reflecting information released since the market closed the previous day) and just before market close (because end-of-day prices are important in many contexts).

So maybe there could instead be a chill stock exchange which is open for just two brief 15-minute windows, one in the New York morning and another in the evening.
That sounds… wrong.

A simulation of a plane is a model, implemented by humans, of how physics works.

A simulation of a quantum system is still a human implementation of mechanics. A quantum computer per my understanding should not be able to add anything to that. You’re not able to just say well this thingy has quantum mechanics and this is a quantum computer so it’s better able to do that. Quantum computers are about speeding up calculations by structuring specific problems such that wrong answers are not calculated. Not emulating quantum mechanics and then pulling the answer from the ether.

So… what am I missing here? How could quantum computer aided search spaces specifically aid simulating quantum systems that are not quantum computer aided search spaces?
I wouldn't use a book like this for foundational learning. It's more a precis of existing information on a topic. Looking at one of the entries for Numerical Weather Forecasting, it presupposes at least a solidly-established understanding in Applied Math or Math Physics. If you're approaching that topic without a basic knowledge of what a divergence is, what vorticity is, what a gravity wave is, or the difference between implicit and explicit FD equations, etc. it's probably not going to teach you much. But, if you do have the background it's a great resource - a really super resource. It's a bit like Wikipedia, I suppose. Super helpful at some level, but not at others.
There should be no stock market. At least not one that is operated by people.

The market for assets would be more efficient if we tokenize the assets. Then they can be transparently traded according to fixed rules. No opening times, no downtimes, no questions about how the system works.
Fuzzy Pay-Off Method (FPOM) Calculator for Real Options
Forex markets are already 24/7.
>perhaps not for the reasons the organizers intended.

>This is pretty much the minimal toy problem for self-driving,

Why? The website says this:

>Autonomous racing is not only a new sport, but it is a platform for research and development in the field of autonomous vehicle technology.
By competing in these events, researchers and engineers can test and refine their algorithms and systems in situations otherwise impossible to reproduce, helping to advance autonomy.

What insight did you add or do you have that the organizers missed from their own purpose for organizing this event?
But who would do that? And why?
National Rail stations almost never have queues - but get queues in the 3 minutes before train departure.

If your habit is to arrive in good time, or using the tube where there’s another one along in 2 minutes, you might never see a queue.
I suggest using := as in `APP_URL := http://localhost` vs raw "=". The colon-equals format means "set value now", so it's easier to understand.

I've never used eval.

Make's use of Bash can lead to hairy quoting/escaping. I use Make as a "dumb high-level runner" and put any sort of intelligence, like conditionals or loops or networking, in lower-level scripts or programs.

Make is an orchestrator.
130nm process puts them at roughly Pentium III era. Not bad!
> is going to cause liquidity issues.

why would a market open for long periods cause liquidity issues? I would expect that it _increases_ liquidity, as there'd be a trade available at all times, rather than just business hours.
Yes.

The format for date of birth is
DDMMMYY

Eg January 12 2023 would be

12JAN23

And February 17 1994 would be

17FEB94

I think you can see where this is going

January 12 1923 would also be

12JAN23

https://hasbrouck.org/documents/APIS.html
That’s the wealthy’s issue: Fund reliable, efficient, and safe mass transport.

I attribute most of todays problems to NIMBYism and highly-selective and classist—as in, target the ones without the funds to fight back—use of eminent domain.
> In contrast this effort is trying to imagine and monetize GPS before relativity is discovered.

The theory of relativity was discovered decades before GPS. Similarly, the theory of quantum computing was discovered in the 1990s.

I agree with the sentiment: trying to find applications for a technology (Large fault tolerant quantum computer) that doesn't exist yet. I just think relativity is the wrong comparison. I do not think that this effort if not worth it due to not having fault tolerant quantum computers. Theory alone can take one very far.
I was feeling lonely and hopeless then I read your post, saw the cure was “ecstatic dance” and lol’d, loudly. I was reminded of the episode of peep show (the great British sitcom) where the lads try out ecstatic dance. I will have to rewatch that today. I thank you for the smile and for one of the most unique loneliness cures I’ve ever read, and I’ve read many. For me the super market has been the easiest way to encounter other humans, but maybe I’ll try ecstatic dance.
Turns out software is for humans, mostly :)