skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Guardian-Harris survey also found that 49% of respondents think the S&P 500 index is down for the year. In reality, stocks have been ripping: The S&P 500 is up 13% this year on top of a 24% gain last year.

This is kind of interesting. It would be more interesting to know how that misperception has changed over time. I suspect that at any given time half of people wouldn't correctly guess whether the S&P was up or down.
Anything that Homebrew works with.
https://payload.de/data/

https://ultrasound.money
That was how it started actually, I wanted to make a superset of WAT. But then I switched to a more familiar C-like constructs and that gave me a big boost in productivity.

I think the superset of WAT idea is very viable and someone more comfortable with s-expressions should explore that for sure.
> “pros" use SpinRite and charge you $50/hour.

Data recovery experts definitely do not use SpinRite (I cannot speak for every corner computer shop and random 13 year olds on the next claiming to be data recovery experts)

> Easily worth the $89 Steve charges for it.

ddrescue and photorec are free.
Same deal as LLMs. Police don't get to automatically input facial data into a database when on the streets.

If there was some guarantee all that data wasn't going into some government sanctioned back end, we can start to compare it to police out on the street.

>However, fundamentally, being arrested for looking like someone else is not a new phenomenon.

Was always wrong and still is wrong.

But if you want a modern difference: companies these days (even minimum wage) are really strict about arrests. Even a false arrest can cause complications in a background check, so there is more potential (albeit indirect) slanderous effects from mistaking people nowadays.
This was next level funny :D
To take this to the next level: what does [(a^b) & (-(a^b)) & a] compute? (Assume unsigned arithmetic.)

And then after that: what use can this be put to?
Crystallography Open Database:

http://www.crystallography.net/cod/result.php?year=2024

http://www.crystallography.net/cod/1570196.html
Do you think they are using some kind of inaudible-to-humans signal to coordinate this or is the unmodified audio good enough?
It’s lenticular but with 100 different possible angles, so there’s no eye tracking needed and it works with multiple viewers. The tradeoff is it seems you need to pump a lot of data in for all those views, and you probably need a pretty high resolution and brightness screen. There’s a good description in their docs:

https://docs.lookingglassfactory.com/keyconcepts/how-it-work...
No problem, just get everyone a Mutalk. Think of all the savings when you no longer need meeting rooms!
You ain't wrong. The lunchable's favorite has it's origins from Bologna.
Old story (2023): "Newsweek was able to verify the location and presence of a plane in images produced by Maxar Technologies for the platform. However, the plane is visible in imagery dating back to January 1, 2004—more than a decade before MH370 disappeared."

https://www.newsweek.com/flight-mh370-malaysia-airlines-camb...
>That timing shows that it's not just implementing headcount and budget reductions, which are somewhat defensible if still tragic. It was instead a forced turnover, which in some cases can be a route to wage suppression.

Apparently the person in question was fired within 3 months of being hired[1]. If this is true it seems like a stretch to characterize it as "forced turnover" or "wage suppression".

[1] https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501
No.

Meet has had echo cancellation from the start.

This is multi-device adaptive audio merging, as the title says. Completely different, and far far more impressive.
> weak empathy.

try empathy for the people killed by other drivers doing in excess of 100mph.
Why not just flip a coin then? It would be much cheaper?
> I don't take mine on the weekend, generally. I find it helps keep me grounded in terms of my capabilities on vs off the meds, as well as giving me some non-amphetamine-d time to work through emotions.

I did this up until about six months ago and definitely appreciated the chance to reconnect with my "nominal" self, but unfortunately it was causing significant issues for me and my family. I would crash and be tired (which was not unusual in and of itself, but more exaggerated), I would have extreme executive dysfunction, and I would be completely unable to get anything done around the house and/or spend quality time with my wife and kids. It was all the misery of my pre-medicated working life compounded and condensed into the most precious hours of my personal life.

I was reluctant to start taking meds seven days a week because I feared even more that it would start losing its effectiveness over time, but fortunately that has not happened (yet) and my weekends are much more productive and happier for everyone.
People should clarify what they mean by "Lisp". It's not a programming language or even a family of languages, it's a whole different computing system which just happens to have a programming language syntax on top. To get the most out of it and benefit from the powerful CL REPL, one needs to use Emacs (also written in Lisp).

Some variants just drop that part and focus on the language only. Clojure and Racket are in that category. They lack the full power of CL; so they're just Lisp-syntax languages, not an actual Lisp.

Maybe this high barrier to entry is why Lisp hasn't caught on even after 30 years of CL standardization. People often don't want to learn a new IDE to get the most out of Lisp. And if they stick to their current IDEs, they only get a glimpse of Lisp through its syntax (and much limited macro system). At that point, it's questionable whether whatever remains of Lisp does indeed provide any advantage over more mainstream languages (e.g., instead of learning Clojure, why not just learn a functional language like Elixir or Haskell? It's not like Clojure gives you the full Lisp power anyway.)

Addendum: As one of the comments below mentioned (thank you @lispm), what I meant by "dropping the full power of Lisp" is the ability to modify a running program (continuation/restart system). Does Clojure REPL drop you in a new REPL in case of errors so you can literally change the running code or enter value for a missing variable?
It's horrible slow on some computers/browser combos, which is my main gripe with it. Video quality is also much worse, but doesn't matter too much to me. And as with all Google stuff the UX is kinda weird and non-intuitive. What does all the different join options do? When should I use what? Why must all presentations be so small if I also want to see the presenter? Zoom is much better here.
> if people knows there is recession/high inflation the thing spirals even in a deeper recession/high inflation

It’s kind of funny how this is baked into the economic orthodoxy. It’s definitely not that admitting a recession or high inflation makes the people in power look bad, no no, us not admitting it is actually good for you and you should thank us!
It is at Costco /s

But note that this is the UK. Different issues from the States (where this wouldn't ever pass. We have weak social security specifically becsuse citizens rejected a national ID).
All variation in punishment for a crime is effectively due to being unsympathetic to a judge or jury. The death penalty isn't special there.

Gender matters more than just about anything else in sentencing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentencing_disparity
This kind of work can definitely lead to a type of malaise, and the idea of doing something purely physical becomes attractive.

I recommend traveling somewhere for a week or so. Like the outskirts of Mexico City, a remote village in India, or a rust belt city of former glory.

Realize that most people in the world live more like that than a typical SWE. After you’ve regained some perspective, rethink if you really want to become a garbage man.

Find a hobby that satisfies the need for physical activity first. Exercise, cooking, woodworking, etc. Anything that gets you away from a screen.
Feeds and Blogroll Discovery
I’m not clear about which part of my comment you are trying to call bullshit on. I’d love clarity so that I can better defend my first hand experience.
https://archive.ph/wbwC2#selection-1063.0-1069.161

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> CAN PRIVATE companies pushing forward the frontier of a revolutionary new technology be expected to operate in the interests of both their shareholders and the wider world?

No.

They use a top-down style of power-organization. These sorts of non-democratic power structures eventually devolve into a means to enrich the few in control at the expense of everyone and everything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Political_Surviva...
does this mean that when a new person joins a meeting that isn't on mute by default, we won't have to deal with the echos from everybody else in the office while they scramble to find the mute button?

because that sounds amazing
Spark Plugs for Iridium? Never hear or it. But they seem to exit:
https://www.autozone.com/diy/spark-plugs/iridium-vs-platinum...

Platinum for Labware? Really? The world would look very different without Platinum or Platinum group metals. Start with the Oswald Process (Nitric acid, fertilizer), car catalysts, hydration of carbons, cracking, catalysts for a gazillion chemical reactions.
https://finviz.com/ is pretty fantastic.
Unmodified audio is good enough, but using some signaling sound would improve coordination.
I don't have any experience with this, but these are related HN posts:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37286019

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36044797

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34367767
FYI, that's echo, not feedback.

It can happen on any service and it means the echo cancellation on their end got confused -- it's an adaptive algorithm but occasionally adapts wrong.

Best way to fix it is to mute yourself for ~5 seconds and then unmute, which should reset their echo cancellation algorithm.

If that doesn't fix it, then have both of you pause and not talk for ~5 seconds. This should absolutely reset it, as the echo cancellation algorithm has now definitively learned what silence is supposed to sound like.
"text" made the LLMs report offensive and give unfiltered replies to inqiiries. To think what I said above can't happen during the web scraping process is naive. Thanks for the down d00t.
Surround sound from the speakers next :)?

I however think (emulated) stereo sound and low latency would do wonders. Sadly this feature here will only introduce latency.

Feedback cancellation for external speakers would also be amazing, so you can get rid of your headphones at home. Close up mic and noise gate works, but is fiddly (and no easy noise gate and compressor on linux...)
Poe's law. Given a few comments here, some may parade the idea. Fully giving up privacy for security. I'd hope we give a better fight than that.
And yet our parents' generation (or our younger selves, depending how old we are) managed to get through a day without any way to receive notifications from their spouses or day care apps or school/kids’ phone numbers. You simply had to trust and rely upon the school or day care to take care of it if your kid got hurt or sick.

You might have been able to get a call at work from your kid's school, but depending on your job, maybe not.
I agree, but I just want to add that floating point numbers use sign and magnitude representation, so the GP may be confused by that.
100000000 is 8 significant places. If you build words by choosing out of 10 viable following letters out of an alphabet, you'll hit that in 8 characters. That's not an especially long word. (I don't actually know if that's a good heuristic, but at least it gives an idea.)

Maybe a lot of them suck as project names, but name collisions also suck. I'd rather have unique names rather than beautiful but hard to find ones. Collisions are fine if they happen across geographical and cultural boundaries, but the software culture, for better or worse, is pretty global.
It absolutely is. I see plenty of AI art used to illustrate websites that would previously have used stock imagery for which someone got paid, even if only a small amount. Even in contexts where it is used as a free gift (ie adding AI art to social media posts that would have just been text before), it has the function of crowding out human made art by its very proliferation. It's like Greshams law for media files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
Agree that Meet is the superior experience.

Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time until one their VPs decides to "improve it" with the usual imbecile ideas they come up with.

>Google Meet now scans all your files so they can get shared automatically with all members on the meeting when it is appropriate to enrich the conversation. You cannot opt-out this feature.
Nothing stresses me out like Tetris game of a calendar
I've hit one of these undocumented limits before where stuff would randomly start to fail. Once I was able to get a sales rep to talk to me about it, the problem suddenly went away. I didn't even need to buy an enterprise plan, but would have had they asked me to do so.
Minor correction: it's echo cancelation, not noise canceling.
Alright man you arent listening at all to what im trying to say, so I guess we'll just quit here.
I'd say the difference is that Apple made an effort to keep costs down for developers looking to add support for their new architecture.

That $500 DTK loaner included some major amenities:

> code-level technical support, access to one-on-one labs with Apple engineers

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Transition_Kit

Qualcomm and Microsoft don't even seem to be offering a major discount on the hardware.
https://www.wowhead.com/items
Average PhDs are by definition not the best though?
google meet is part of their office suite, called google workspace. the higher tiers of google workspace include access to the paid tier of gemeni.

also, in a previous iteration of google's AI branding, meet had a feature that would create llm-generated meeting notes for you. i'm unsure if this still exists

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23849056/google-meet-ai-d...
“It has numbers attached” does not mean something is backed by data.

Unless they are testing correlations between these target metrics and business success or some other external cost metric, it’s still “just feels”.

I’ve seen internal crusades against cyclomatic complexity that resulted in massive engineering waste to reduce and reliability saw no improvement.
I'm confused as to the use cases for this? Are you saying if I want to fit some "magic numbers" in my cpp program, I can now do that by pulling in discograd and wrapping those numbers with some code that says "please fit these", then adding some test cases somewhere?
I like that you have a vscode extension already - I'm making a similar language project, and you really don't notice how much you miss even basic syntax highlighting until it's gone
Yes, he SAYS that but it's not true which is part of what irks people. It has needed an update for a long time. He or Leo on the podcast have long said or implied 6.0 is more or less "bug free." But for example, read spinrite forums about unrecoverable division overflow errors, divide by zero errors that pop up with a red background. "Try updating your bios" or "try it in another computer" is the typical advice given, not a fix. And I think there is a drive size limit that has long been an issue.
you might want to consider changing the title to a "Show HN" https://news.ycombinator.com/show
The PDF has Illustrator Editing Capabilities, so it can be easily edited in Illustrator.
> a small macro system for WAT, that bootstraps a slightly more highlevel lisp dialect

Lisp traditionally has immutable data structures and a garbage collector, in which case I would consider it more complicated than LO.

I would be very interested if it’s possible to create an extremely simple garbage collector or an ergonomic Lisp that isn’t garbage collected, but a solution doesn’t spring to mind.
I looked into using Google cloud TTS or Azure for this but it was too expensive.

How have you got the costs so low? Also the GCP voices don't have as natural intonation. How did you do that?

I really didn't think there would be a market for this either.
it would be assembly script, the most simple possible typed language to make scripts for wasm. its almost identical to js.
I don't think we have that tech yet (outside of good ol' racism, of course).

Given current controversies around Her, I'm sure some techie will see Minority Report and view it as a dream to pursue rather than a cautionary tale.
> Don't put your eggs in one basket

Yet everyone in "ai ai ai ai" is buying up Nvidia/CUDA like there is no tomorrow and then pooping on AMD for even trying to do anything.

History loves to repeat itself.
I'm pretty sure the moral stuff is there because a lot of previous chatbots were tricked to make questionable responses that led to bad press. So OpenAI put a lot of effort into making their models behave ethical.

I'm not sure why people are so annoyed by the ethical disclaimers. I don't even recall running into them, but maybe that's just because I don't ask controversial questions.
> 190 investments

Maybe... don't be so greedy? You'll have lots of time.
Young women fall out of love with dating apps
It’s text by default, but you’re right. I would say it’s idiomatic to use text until needed, at least. But if the CRDT payloads allow binary it makes sense to avoid SSE.
> There is no textbook that explains quantum mechanics for smart 15 year olds

That's because you need a level of mathematical maturity to understand modern physics and QM that 99% of 15 years old haven't done. Maybe you were trying to prove a point but that's a bad example, pedagogically speaking. Point being by the time you're ready to meaninfully learn QM you don't need to dumb it down to ELI15.

Anything else is pop-science. IF you really want to learn this stuff you can start here: https://goodtheorist.science/. Note the first steps are learn enough math so you can 'speak the language of physics'.

> The CPAP Market in the US

Have you done a study like this before?, I'm not sure if you know but:

Again an LLM is not going to be able to know this because the data comes from private primary research, which you would either gather yourself, sift through trade reports, or engage a consulting or market research firm to go find out.

This is firmly beyond current LLM's ability to synthesize, since the data is literally:

a) private, paywalled, expensive to procure,

b) extremely temporal, in that the market landscape changes year to year or even faster.

You would start somewhere like https://www.bain.com/insights/industry-insights/healthcare-i... and then need to go buy things like https://www.premiummarketinsights.com/reports-tip/north-amer...

and then trawl https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/global-respiratory-care-devic... for experts who you might need to pay to interview.

Sure some of the companies are publicly traded, in which case you can go look at 10k forms etc., but the sources of knowledge are private, expensive, and rapidly changing for that kind of question.
> The client generates a premaster secret, encrypts it with the server’s public key, and sends it to the server.

It's already not true for, like, ages.
Not quite from scratch...
I've used Storyteller to create an epub book with Media Overlay but not sure it works in all ebook readers. It worked in Calibre.

https://smoores.gitlab.io/storyteller/docs/what-is-this/
https://archive.is/IqpWD
The train loop is wrong no ? neither x0s and eps are used in the expression of xts so it loons like your training to predict random noise
Er, not boring.tech; boringtechnology.club is what I meant.
That's exactly the reason I use Meet. I don't want native code execution; I want sandboxed JavaScript code execution.
Hugged to death

https://archive.is/2021.03.02-225345/https://www.adalah.org/...

Edit: now having read the list, the one that annoys me most is the law against boycott. Everyone should be free to choose who they give their money/labor to, otherwise that would just be extortion
This whole "discussion" indicates only one real thing: people who have been scammed by a sales tactic will most likely double down on their past poor decisions instead of reevaluating the facts, as they are now emotionally invested in their past decisions.
Not super closely related: the polytope model (to the degree I'm familiar with it) is used as a representation that facilitates optimization of loop nests. That's optimization in the sense of finding an efficient program.

DiscoGrad deals with (or provides gradients for) mathematical optimization. In our case, the goal is to minimize or maximize the program's numerical output by adjusting it's input parameters. Typically, your C++ program will run somewhat slower with DiscoGrad than without, but you can now use gradient descent to quickly find the best possible input parameters.
wars inside a single US city can be quite common, typically over “turf”
I love this line and can confirm: "That is why, perhaps, many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves—and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either."
I firmly believe now that this is a skillset missing in families/cultures that is totally developable in therapy (recognizing own and as a consequence other people’s emotions).

This is actually a missing education in my opinion.
I’d look for someone who has

1) A history of high retention. People want to work for them.

2) Actual management training. They know who Deming, Christensen, Senge, and Ohno are and have opinions on their work. Some people kinda fall into management positions and figure it out as they go. That’s not a good plan for a small business.

3) A history of high performance teams. The candidate should have a story about how they changed a process, worked with a stakeholder, or some other deliberate action to improve team performance. The signal is be looking for is an accurate diagnosis of a management type problem before making changes. You don’t want someone that randomly changes things and sometimes gets lucky.

4) Somebody who won’t try to copy-paste big business processes into a small business. You want someone who will never say “that’s just how it’s done.” I’ve seen this before and it’s cancerous. Agility and flexibility are one of the few advantages of a small business. Don’t let an unthinking manager give it away.
I dreamed of that type of content since I’ve been a teenager. Thank you for sharing, it’s fantastic to see more and more programmers streaming themselves working on fairly advanced projects. That removes so much layers of magic and complexity once you can peek behind the curtain this way
Just because some behavior can be imagined does not mean you should be able to carry it out in real life.
> This isn't the first crusade against raw milk.

Well, sure. It has always had a risk to it.

You'll see a lot of articles about washing salads when there's an active E. coli or listeria outbreak in bagged salads, without some dark conspiracy being involved.
I think the "no more coupons or discounts" played a huge part in this failure. This whole strategy was something brought in by ex-Apple Retail Store exec "Ron Johnson" when he became CEO in 2011.

My own speculation is that he tried to apply hard-line strategies that work when you have a unique good with strictly-set pricing (Apple products), but fall apart when you're selling goods that people can get anywhere for a variety of prices (e.g. Levi's jeans).
Clicked through to read the story and was hit with a popup supporting Palestinian campus activists. Closed tab immediately.
The patent [1] has more details if anyone is interested.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220132633A1/en
This is very nice! What is missing for me is the answer to question "Why?"