skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, this is how you continuously re-kindle the startup environment. It's kind of like reformatting your computer and installing your OS fresh. You have to do it, it's a pain in the ass, you don't want to do it, but when you're done you have a clean, speedy computer without all the built up logs, junk etc taking up the hard drive bogging things down. Tesla will rehire again shortly and we'll be seeing employee numbers rise back again. I'm seeing a lot of commentary that will be irrelevant in a month or less once the careers page reopens positions listings.
My point is that text doesn't necessarily convey how they meant it. Their experience of the advisor's passing was indirect, so it isn't all that crazy that what stands out to them is how it affected their SO and the obvious effect it'd have had on the advisor's family.
it's relational algebra. think sql but replace all the keywords with symbols
Full story: https://scribe.rip/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-pizzatool-2...
Most of the links there are dead.

That's a descendant of Festival Singer, which was well respected in its day.

What's a current practical text-to-speech system that's open source, local, and not huge?
It’s (one of many) pretty yuk chain. In my 20s I probably wouldn’t have minded. Later I’d be internally going “really?” unless it were some area that really didn’t have good alternatives.
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Technologies: C# (SDK, Xamarin, MAUI), mobile (Objective-C, Swift, Java), Lua (I use mainly for hobby game dev), ...

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Got 20+ years of experience as developer in various capacities. Flexible regarding work times, so willing to adjust my times of work to e.g. Europe or US times.
Is remote from India a possibility?
> It’s also patented, for what that is worth.

You picked my curiosity here. What exactly is there to patent here? AI training is being done a computer and that computer happen to be physically located inside a car. How do you patent the location of a computer?
i really dont get this

the entire point of design time is to understand and design your data first.
Small correction: 328 feet (100 meters).
Who is hiring –> Google Sheet
May 2024 - Who is hiring?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dDTY8Hw-cIayuAglcgc9Jxc3fF9pAP_BKn5AL7EXFjw/edit?usp=sharing

May 2024 - Who wants to be hired?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zc18nOkuza1-Y6PxTAAGm9E3VqWhbWefYHxxB5DZtaM/edit?usp=sharing

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I made an automation to convert the HN posts for hiring into google sheets! This sheet is automatically updated every hour.

Hope this is helpful to everyone hiring/looking to be hired!

Uses LLMs to parse out the information to be put into the sheet.
Show HN: Merchandise for Indiehackers
Title: Show HN: IndieHackers Merch - A Fun Community Project!

Hey IndieHackers! Noticed we lack our own merch, so I started a project to create unique, community-inspired merchandis.

Would love your feedback
Onsite in the city that made WSDOT raise the max HOV lane toll to $15 because of all the car traffic in the morning? Are you mad?
Ceasfires have a tendency to extend. If the hostages are returned Netanyahu won't be able to invade Rafah and this round will effectively be over. Forces will be withdrawn and it would be too much to restart the war effort.
At the time I owned a tv capture card and recorded a number of super video cds (SVCD) encoded in MPEG-2.

The good thing is it was better quality than VHS and DVD while still using cheap CDR and it was readable by most DVD players.

The bad thing is you would only store ~30-40min in a single disc, so sometimes multiple discs were needed. But it was still significantly cheaper than buying a dvd recorder and DVDR medias.
May 2024 - Who is hiring?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dDTY8Hw-cIayuAglcgc9...

May 2024 - Who wants to be hired?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zc18nOkuza1-Y6PxTAAG...

(easier to click links in comments)
I am researching formal methods systems to conduct cryptographic proofs; I think a big issue in that space is having syntax sugar in the core compiler, so I am pursuing ways to move syntactic sugar into a separate macro language.

Your post sounds like an interesting research project, but the examples given in the blog post seem somewhat discouraging to me. When I gaze at one of your examples, they seem obtuse and while I am sure I could understand the examples by not just skimming the article, this does tell me that the grammars you used are not very self-explanatory: Your syntax expresses meaning relative to the specific grammar as opposed to expressing meaning relative to the English language or pre-existing, well-established programming languages.

Is there some example of self-explanatory grammars and self-explanatory bootstrapping code in your language?
Why is the quality of open source TTS so horribly, horribly, horribly behind the commercial neural ones? This is nowhere near the quality of Google, Microsoft, or Amazon TTS, yet for image generation and LLMs almost everything outside of OpenAI seems to be open-sourced.
Blind person here, ESpeak-ng is literally what I use on all of my devices for most of my day, every day.

I switched to it in early childhood, at a time where human-sounding synthesizers were notoriously slow and noticeably unresponsive, and just haven't found anything better ever since. I've used Vocalizer for a while, which is what iOS and Mac OS ship with, but then third-party synthesizer support was added and I switched right back.
Fwiw, in many languages that's correct. Coming from Dutch' "meer dan honderd", being taught to say one hundred is like teaching an English person to say "more than one ten" for values >10
Shadowbanned riding like the wind.. Gives model-citizen a whole new ring..
Keep in mind if you are putting in enough speed to get rotational acceleration of 0.5 G on Earth, that would be around 1.3 - 1.4 G total acceleration (depending on the bank angle). But on the moon it would just be 0.5 - 0.6 G.
> (As a simpler example, try converting 4 equally likely values into 3.)

No, but you can convert a RNG that emits 4 equally likely values into an RNG that emits 3 equally likely values. Just - anytime the RNG returns 4, try again.

Here's a fun puzzle / annoying interview question: You have a biased coin. You can flip it as often as you want, but heads and tails are not equally likely. Without figuring out the bias of the coin, how do you produce purely random bits?
Also the subject of an opera. http://www.henryakona.com/the_blonsky_device.html
I also think you get the best results when thinking about using them this way too, any other way of using them seems to end in disappointment.
> It’s so comfortable to iterate quickly without schema constraints

I'd be very careful about this simplistic reasoning. The whole point of schemas is data validation, and the hard part of "iterating quickly" is migrating data in a way you ensure it remains valid.

Neither of these requirements are tied to relational databases.

At most, breaking a schema ensures you cannot proceed with broken data without undergoing a migration, or completely wiping your database. But you are already doing that, aren't you?
Many of the girls|women in my part of the world would rather go freediving for crayfish and eat them on the beach than hang out in a chain resturant.

https://youtu.be/yk6wa0YcUN0?t=60
I mentioned experienced people, not students.

Once you have experience and maturity you also have more obligations (family) so taking a job where entire teams can be wiped out whenever a late-night twitter rage goes bad, becomes ever less interesting.
> It's only when you engage in user-hostile practices, such as tracking, that you need to ask for consent.

Which is what the majority of sites want to do which is why there is a good reason for a cookie banner, by definition.
The issue with stack-based languages is that my brain is not good at keeping the stack in my head.

It's like packing things into a backpack and then only at the end learn that we are going to Alaska instead of Hawaii.
Because you're looking forward at the platform that's moving down and toward you. Kind of like if you were to stare down at the belt of a treadmill while it's moving - it would be disorienting after a while.
With Google Cloud Storage you can simply set a header with the max size allowed when signing the upload URL.
Very interesting point, thanks!
Or in a matter of months they'll be back on track expanding charging infrastructure, nobody knows.
Automated Multi Agent Chat
I just tested it with The Rookie. Why is the country list not sorted alphabetically? And why does it show for Germany, that I need NordVPN? Are you sponsored? Because it IS available on Netflix Germany. Last, only season 1-4 is available, not season 5-6. This is important information left out.
I think having some level of gravity is important for the simplicity of it. With a downward force it acts somewhat like a velodrome. You start angled upwards and as you gain centripetal force you gradually go more and more horizontal.

Theoretically you could achieve the same result in zero-g, but getting started is much more difficult, as are microadjustments in speed and balance.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is nearly a billionaire
Mn-Rich Sandstone an Indicator of Ancient Oxic Lake Water Conditions on Mars
I love that the "comparison for size" person is pudgy, wearing a hoodie, and UGG boots. It's a Queenslander for sure. With flat feet and a beer gut, he's the one you just have to run faster than, to escape this raptor.
Agree on that point. It has yet to be challenged but my mind suspects it would be difficult to go far in that direction. Plates are in public view and unlike gps trackers are not planted in your personal property. The only challenge afaik is due to their issues with permits and utilizing state property. They are atm not allowed in two states but not for the reasons you have listed.
> I thought the point of nosql was O(1) GET and UPDATE operations

Tha was never the case. It would be silly to assume that given ultimately your GET and UPDATE operations are inter-process requests which involve serialization/deserializarion, and most of the time even require at least a network call.
As a rule of thumb: AOT has shorter cold start time, but similar overall performance to JIT.

In fact, JIT can perform slightly better once the program reaches "steady state" because it can target the exact processor running and also perform the dynamic profile-guided optimization, which may or may not yield meaningful improvements in real life.

Nick Chapsas did some benchmarking of .NET AOT vs JIT, if you are interested:

https://youtu.be/gJcPqdbKF90?si=PnSPnFvVhr0pjLL-
A long tradition in the Java, C and C++ ecosystems.
Isn't Avalonia better?
I am curious to know if this type of network can help with causal inference.
> Being unable to survive if you had to enter into mutually consensual agreements with your suppliers is a pretty good sign that you’re rent-seeking or stealing.

1) Infringement is not theft and is usually handled differently. The (poorly-named imho) NET act, which criminalized some non-commercial infringement, had to do so explicitly.

2) Sometimes exclusive/monopoly rights are not in the public interest, and compulsory licenses are desirable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license
Rasterization is actually why 3D Gaussian Splats have been so successful. Being able to render 3DGS scenes by iterating over the objects and drawing the pixels each one covers is much faster than ray-marching every pixel, which is how neural radiance fields (the last hot 3D reconstruction technology) are rendered.
> Tesla no longer effectively donating EV charging infrastructure to competitors.

They weren't donating anything to anyone. EV drivers pay money for the kilowatt hours they use at Tesla's chargers. Tesla has been doing exactly this in Europe for a long time.

All brands of EV charging networks should charge all brands of EV. No mess, no fuss. I can fuel my ICE car at any fuel station and I should also be able to charge my EV at any charging station. That's just a common sense infrastructure outcome.

Europe achieved it. One day North America will too.
Microsoft announces largest-ever corporate procurement of renewable energy
> #1 - You need a new car

At this point I'm settled on the fact that I will never own a car newer than 2014.
For images we simply use Cloudflare Images which takes care of everything.

Images are easy to display but for other media files you will probably need some streaming solution, a player, etc.

We're in the audio hosting and processing space. We still don't have an api though.

For video maybe look into Wistia, Cloudflare, BunnyCdn, etc.
Block accused of mass compliance failures
The OP1-F has velocity sensitivity now.
Deaths CAN be a great inconvenience, and nobody implied choice but you. It sucks when people die, and impacts can vary with connection.

It is more honest to the dead to honor and state your real loss. A dead human can be both a loved one and teacher to different people, depending on the connection. This person didn't lose a lover, they lost a teacher, and that matters too.

You don't even need to have liked someone to have lost something when they die
Show HN: Raise Hand – Coordinate who is talking during video calls
Like how you raise hand before talking when you are in schools, this tool can also help people coordinate who is talking during video calls. No more overlapping voices.
I wonder if this is a cultural thing imported by the original immigrants to the nation or some other factor. The American desire for uniformity is almost German. There needs to be "consistency" and "unity" in design. This is probably why so many houses are all grey and stuff. I much prefer the organic Asian form of things, and I think the US (which is generally quite awesome) would be well improved with that.
No Silver Bullet with Dr. Fred Brooks – Papers We Love Raleigh-Durham [video]
Exactly. There's absolutely no reason to think that advanced life did not exist on Mars except for the lack of evidence. That sounds funny, but the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially in a case like this where the planet has been probably sterilized on a time frame of potentially billions of years.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is a massive and extremely hardy structure that will outlast all modern buildings. Yet it's substantially deteriorating after less than 5,000 years, and it will eventually just completely disintegrate, absent the already ongoing preservation/restoration efforts. It might take 20,000 years, maybe a million. A quick search on the internet suggests nobody really knows, other than that it will happen. And now we're talking about time frames of billions of years. So what would a sterilized, perpetually radiated, atmosphere free Earth over billions of years look like, paired with never-ending massive dust storms (as on Mars)? Well, probably not especially unlike Mars does today. But oh what treasures would await you far below the surface!

I don't necessarily think anything does await us, but who knows? It's a tantalizing possibility that we won't be able to dismiss until we have humans on Mars. It's vaguely analogous to the early observations of 'canals' on Mars [1] whose explanation ranged from running water to active geoengineering from another advanced species on the planet. Their exact meaning was debated all the way into the mid 20th century, until we finally were able to get probes that could take 'high res' photos of the surface that showed they were definitely just optical illusions. A disappointing discovery, but nonetheless emphasizing that the importance of actually testing things instead of just relying on indirect instrumentation/data of this era or that.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canals
Is government not allowed to put cameras in public places? Is government not allowed to collect use data from public places? I have not heard of any challenges on those grounds so is it really circumventing?

So by supporting the idea of both cameras recording in public spaces and the ability to collect data off those cameras, you’re trampling all over civil rights?
Interesting, I've always experienced everything under the sun depending on specifically adwaita (I don't use any DE).
The database engine would have to be designed for this, and/or the clients could request the level of consistency that they require. Most apps only care about “this age or newer”, except when paging through a data set where consistency matters.

E.g.: indexes can include the timestamp and then queries can filter out new rows implicitly. Physically this can be implemented with tiered indexes where the topmost layer is in-memory only and queries older than what it contains are rejected. The on-disk indexes then don’t need old row versions or timestamps.
Why would you need to “see” it? Unlike the distribution of the RNG itself, this is trivial to solve analytically.
> Public health authorities were proclaiming that there were no possible side effects, even as other countries were restricting demographics and discontinuing use.

If we're talking about the Astrazeneca vaccine in particular in this subthread, with its clotting side effects-- it's worth noting that it never received a US EUA. It's not surprising that US agencies never restricted its use, having never authorized its use in the first place.
(2017). Dr. Brooks passed away in 2022.
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> the entire point of design time is to understand and design your data first.

What's hard to understand? You design a data store to store data, and aggregate data is still data. Do you care about low-level details of an aggregate data type? Do you care about how a UUID is implemented, or even if you store it as a string, a 128 bit integer, or a bitmap? Do you care if you store the UUID type along with the UUID?

Or do you simply want to store an ID that's produced/consumed by a client?

Now, replace UUID with JSON and you arrive at the same conclusion.
Totally agree that it seems like a reasonable feature. My only point is that it isn't a requirement, and if Facebook decides to only offer an algorithmic feed and users don't want that they can just not use Facebook. The idea of legally requiring manual feed curation effectively implies that access to Facebook is a right to be protected rather than a product offered by a for-profit business.
Because the moon still has gravity, and there would be some asymmetrical force on your legs either which would be reversed if you went the other direction. So switch directions all the time to be less lopsided.
A tree is a type of graph. Is the headline meant to reveal the fact that not all graphs are trees (which is obvious) or is it meant like "not all graphs are trees, and here's how you deal with those non-tree graphs?" Even then I'm confused about the title of the article.
The way I see it, this is actually a good thing. Superuser access should impose a tiny bit of friction in this regard, to enforce discipline where discipline is warranted.

Run0 builds character. :^)
Just to point out: the planet isn't perfect for us. We evolved to fit it, not the other way around.

Your point still stands.
Without sacrificing health working with chemicals
This is really cool. Which tech does it use for ecommerce functions?
There's a lot to explain, and it has occurred to me that I have explained it in a suboptimal manner. Writer of this post, by the way. The problem is that there is just so much to communicate (the design for this language with Matthew took 3 weeks of back and forth communication over several hours a day). A lot to fill in for people that don't know me in real life.
You might try out Plang, plang.is, not hypercard like but the syntax is natural language,

For the kids, they can write the the code in their own language, so non-english

Bit of self promo, as I created it
Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) on Helm
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Yeah. "Why should / shouldn't code be put in the standard library" is a really interesting question that I think people don't think about enough.

I think a lot of the benefit of putting stuff in the standard library is interoperability. It seems obvious but - having a string and list type in std means you can pass strings and lists between packages. I think a lot of standard stuff that acts as "glue" should be in std. For example, in nodejs the standard library includes HTTP request and response types because of how useful they are in their ecosystem.

Notably, unlike swift, rust doesn't have an "inlined string" type in std. There's a lot of crates that implement small strings, but most interfaces that need to pass an actual string buffer use std::String - and thats way less efficient. (Thankfully, &str is more common at interface boundaries). Rust also doesn't have much support for futures in std - which upsets a lot of people, because tokio ends up being included by a lot of programs.

Anyway, when it comes to crates like rand where interoperability isn't important, I think its fine to keep this stuff out of std. Code can evolve much more easily when it lives as a 3rd party library.
Weird thing is the sales video is quite good so they just need to spend a bit for an editor or proofreader to fix it up.
It's very expensive. The plan needs serious improving.
Regarding the "whitespace thing" I think they're doing themselves a disservice by not starting with predefined rules allowing them to use whitespace delimited words and deferring showing how you can bootstrap to that point until later.

In general, show more of what is possible in a more accessible way first, before presenting "line noise".

Overall that document would be helped by some editing to bring out more of what a reader who haven't spent months thinking about this will find interesting first.
Dish and DirecTV are rapidly bleeding customers, the latter is not planning to launch any new birds for this dying business. It might only be a decade before this industry consolidates further into the remaining satellites, with some large providers going extinct entirely.
Self explanatory grammars: there's the stem-like syntax that I showcase and you could write a lisp like syntax in it pretty easily. I'd imagine you don't want to use this in production yet. As for self explanatory bootstrap code: the bootstrap code is the way it is because cognition doesn't want to assume some complex syntax from the start.
They aren't prosecuting the miners who mint the coins - they are prosecuting the companies running mixing schemes.
”The Emperor of all Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee is fantastic
Elixir, Ruby, Go?? Maybe because the C/C++ and JavaScript/Typescript user bases are about 10000 times larger and we have relatively robust cross platform UI solutions for both in the forms of QT and Electron. C# is a weird outlier for having a very large user base but very few decent cross-platform GUI support.
> Nooks is: - A virtual office: you can work from anywhere in the world, but still work with your team and get feedback and coaching like you’re sitting side-by-side...

And yet you don't hire remote? ;-)