skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get it from all walks of life -- industry peeps, colleagues, academics, concerned friends and family.

I didn't always have a rep -- the first step is the hardest in any journey, and the criticism was just as strong (if not stronger) back then. But, I was also a hardware guy in a software world. I'm stubborn, idealistic, and a rule-breaker, so I didn't fit in to any traditional corporate roles; no boss could manage me. That made it easier to walk out the door.

The most bold critics were always VCs -- not ones that I met with because I needed investment or anything, just folks I would run into at conferences or do an odd job for as a mercenary. You'd wrap up the job, and they'd make some quip about how it's a shame I'm wasting my talent in a "lifestyle business" and how I should consider finding some honest work at one of their companies. It was like some sort of weird negging tactic. I eventually learned to shrug it off but really, thought I was the only one who heard that term applied so pejoratively.

Thankfully, I had a few lucky breaks, and I'm very happy about where I'm at. However, it helps that I found residence in a place with affordable public health care, a functional pension system, oodles of public housing, and low taxes. No way could I do what I'm doing and also be so chill about my future without a functioning social safety net. Unfortunately, "just move somewhere that suits your needs" is not scalable advice; I wish I had a more practical blueprint for others who want to do a lifestyle business, but I don't.
Those people who think the things Russians do in Ukraine are good for them.
Yah, that's it.
This is an excellent observation. Dressage (for example) is a set of evolutionary constraints about controlling a 600kg similarly trained million dollar animal through tiny movements (mostly in your thighs and buttocks) in order to win prestigious prizes including Olympic medals.

The horses react with puzzlement if you are not trained to a similar level - if you are a junior rider, expert horses are incompatible.
Eh. I have terrible taste, so I've eaten McDonalds around the US as well as in Paris and Bangalore.

Within the US, yeah, it's very consistent. I've not seen much variation, other than the one or two specially decorated locations and the menu is very consistent.

Internationally, the branding is very consistent, but the product isn't that consistent. The fries in Paris were very different (and not very good; my feeling is they probably used the same procedure but very different potatoes), but the burgers were pretty similar. In India, they don't serve burgers, but at least when I was there, they did have the delicious old school chicken nuggets that they replaced with 'all white-meat' bleh nuggets in the US. I didn't try any of their chicken sandwiches, because why when I could have the nuggets of my youth?

I understand there's significant regional differences in all the territories they operate in.
Same. I have been low carb for years, but at one point, I decoded to go full actual ketogenic. I never remember being more productive and focused than in true ketosis.

Note that getting there is something you need to test for. I did blood drop tests at home with a device to measure ketone levels.

Also recommend some materials from Tim Ferris on this topic including the Dom D’Agostino part of Tools of Titans and I think some podcasts on the topic.
My most recommended method for beginners has always been PD (https://puredata.info/) combined with The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music: (https://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques/latest/book.pdf) and this book (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262014410/designing-sound/).

Eli's tutorials on SuperCollider are also very helpful: https://www.youtube.com/@elifieldsteel

Of course, you can have a look at my project Glicol that can also be helpful for people to get some intuition on live coding in browsers immediately: https://glicol.org/
What I'm saying, it looks like those are pushed at EU level seemingly by bureaucratic apparatus regardless of ruling parties. Yet such ideas seem to be nowhere to be found at home, again regardless of ruling parties.

I'm probably wrong, but my gut feeling is that euro bureaucracy is playing it's own game. And it has little in common with democracy, citizen rights and citizen will at large. Infamous Juncker's phrase about how to push through unpopular regulations is the modus operandi of those people.
The Slow Restart of G.M.'S Cruise Driverless Car Business
Seems like democracy is working correctly in my opinion.
FineWeb-Edu: High quality LLM dataset
Glad to see this is getting attention again. But for those that don't know, this is several years old. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25507942
https://archive.ph/rFJ8C
If you're into this kind of thing and don't want a hardware investment, check out dexed which is free and multiplatform with VST and AU plugins available. It's ultimately the software that this post is based on. Check out this for the plugin and a bunch of patches

https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/

FM Theory and Applications: By Musicians for Musicians by Chowning is also a good companion book to play around with this with.
This is a very useful methodology. There's a similar blog post called "parse, don't validate" [1] which is very good.

[1] https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
is this good for someone with no music knowledge but loves programming and want to learn about audio and sound generation?
Russian speech in media and russian activities in Ukraine and pro-russian activities in my country.
For free. Side loading costs 8 bucks a month in the US but you can self-sign the binaries.
Inputs to standard libraries will obviously never NPE if you pass in a non-null value.
For outputs, a lot of standard collection .get() calls are unnecessary when you’re working with small collections or Optionals, where you simply use stream, filter, ifPresent.

Or simply wrap the return with Optional.ofNullable, checkstyle will not accept it if you don’t.
Maybe I just had clumsy technique. I was usually attaching the clip with not much room to open it beyond the component, which I guess might've contributed to pushing in the component-side pins.
Yeah I definitely agree that they’re doing some great engineering work in the company.

It’s a strange place because it’s fully owned by Mike Bloomberg without any board or other group of shareholders that oversees his decisions. There is a “board” equivalent but they report to him. It’s great in someways like how they’re able to spend so much of their profits on philanthropy but leads to a lot of quirks.
As I'm sure you know, there is a big difference between something a human can do when they pay attention to something, vs a completely automated procedure that can be done at scale.
Thanks for this. I don't get why most comments are about the browsers...

I tried kagi, the results start great and get noticeably better even within the free trial period. I don't have to worry about ads and I've blocked or lowered all poor quality sites on the fly. I sort results by tracker count and find most of the time results with lowest trackers have the best content for what I am looking for. Anything I couldn't find was also not findable with google or bing. I started a year of paid subscription and I don't think I'll ever go back to any ad-funded search or any free search that might be tempted to add ads later.

I really recommend to give it a try.
I'm pretty sure we're in total agreement.

E.g., with the right training you can tell the difference between the sort of particle board flooring that will balloon up and be destroyed when a drop of water lands on it, the sort of particle board flooring that resists minor water infiltration, and various grades of "real" floors, but most people don't have that training.

Separately (and I _think_ my messaging was clear about this -- talking about the corners being cut being ones that are hard to discover and describing the companies doing that shit as scammers), yes I totally agree; corporations are absolutely not passive participants in consumers being unable to make educated decisions. Even major brands will actively defraud consumers (e.g., Garmin revoking a bunch of lifetime licenses on Navionics software and trying to whitewash public opinion by claiming it was for the customers' own good, or Atlassian blatantly ignoring the CCPA because it's a fairly toothless law), and there exists a plethora of maybe-legal-but-obviously-wrong behavior from most successful companies, including but not limited to "lies, or at best misleadings."
You very clearly illustrate andybak’s point by showing that you just don’t even know what philosophy is.
This reminds me of PGP history [1]
Nothing like a good old physical media

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7885238
>Best way to digitize old photographs

Lovingly and carefully on a flatbed scanner.

All kinds of people are giving away the printer/flatbed combos once they fall into disuse, lots of times because the ink is too expensive. Plenty of them will still scan when the ink is empty, even if they can't be used as an office copier any more.

You can't really say for sure every time, but you have to figure that each unique photo took one or more people way more time in its creation and preservation so far compared to the insignificant amount of time it would take to scan it.
That's reasonable. There's a lack of good, free OSs for the space above Arduino and below Linux on Raspberry Pi. That's the land of VXworks and QNX, which are good, but not free. So people end up running an entire Linux environment, with all its vulnerabilities, on something that doesn't need it.
There are already plenty of those to chose from.
Indeed! If I'm met with several misunderstandings in a row, asking it to explain what I'm trying to do is a pretty surefire way to move forward.

Also mentioning what to "forget" or not focus on anymore seems to remove some noise from the responses if they are large.
As noted by @madeofpalk [0], Hotwire is the successor of Turbolinks, which dates back to at least 2012 [1].

That said, I'm not particularly interested in litigating who inspired who. Both libraries are neat and have developed in parallel for ten years. That's cool!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40555941

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577169
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-i...
Fax machines permeate German business culture. But parliament is ditching them
Blocking AI from Scraping Your Content
Who benefits from running empty buses?

What population density do you need to sustain a 15 minute service from point A to point B on a Sunday at 6am? Or 9pm?
You misunderstood. I meant the dangerous poisonous nature of the scorpion, not that I hate the insect; I am fascinated by scorpions, but I don't bring them home. I can rephrase - when Russian state official is at your doorstep, and makes suggestions that part of your space will now be his, don't negotiate.
I wouldn't say so. If we mark this a stupidity, then a lier's paradox is a stupidity also. If people could easily deal with such statements and understand them correctly, it doesn't mean there is no problem. Problem arises when you try to devise some formal system describing all the statements, and then you find some more statements and the system doesn't work for them.

Zeno's paradoxes for example show us the weaknesses of Ancient Greek's system of reasoning, the weaknesses of their kid of logic and math. But will have troubles seeing them as paradoxes if they do not know logic at all or if they know modern logic and modern math which solve all of the Zeno's paradoxes (or most of them?). Now Zeno's paradoxes are not paradoxes at all, but the silly mistakes of reasoning.

It reminds me of edge-cases in programming, you designed a beautiful program and then edge-cases started to pop up, you patch your program, patch it some more, and in no time at all your beautiful program becomes a heap of spaghetti code. The only way to avoid it is to code something that you coded before many times and know all the shenanigans allowing you to combine beautiful design with the practical applicability.

Here is the same thing, if you do not know what the system the author uses, you cannot judge if his reasoning stupid or not.

I don't know either, but I believe, that it is an interesting observation. The person said "I'm not here now", and it was obviously false, when they said it, but when answering machine says it the statements becomes true. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I think, that the problem starts biting you hard, when you try to define a set of all such statements and to choose a condition of their truthfulness. Of course, you can use your intuition as a tool for demarcation, but philosophy doesn't work that way, it seeks an objective criteria, preferably a formal one.
If you are in US:
https://www.lakesidepottery.com/Pages/ceramic-repair-and-res...
Yeah, then why all the whining about alleged "Russian meddling" in American and European elections?
i have a colleague like this whose main avenue of logic seems to be wearing teammates down. i wouldn’t fire him over this, but gawd are there days where i wish he’d move on. we’d be losing out on a few skills but i’d dread meetings a little less.
AI Agents with memory, knowledge and tools
"Vision improved" is a possible result of treatment. My wife has had cataract surgery--her vision in that eye certainly improved!

It also is possible to have your vision improve without treatment. I have some astigmatism, it's simply impossible to fully correct. My prescription changes a lot, it's possible for the astigmatism to be a bit less of an issue on a particular exam to the point that the best line I can read sometimes changes.
That is a paper every 9 days...
Indentation can be fixed with a code formatter in pre commit hook.
I recommend TAQOZ for the Parallax Propeller 2.
On the other hand, the other response to OP's comment is a perfect display of what he means. A lot of tech bro hubris/idiocy.
My guess, and it is only a guess, is that any civilization that could colonize the galaxy dies off from easily preventable problems.

They fail to prevent these easily preventable problems because their equivalent of copyright lawyers and ego-driven (r)eddit moderators delete every public posting of the solutions to their problems.

These solutions are independently developed and posted thousands of times, but they are always deleted or shadow-banned.

The negative effects of deleting solutions are exacerbated by the malicious destruction of the reputations of the authors of the solutions.

This leads to a society where cruel backstabbers get promoted while solution finding engineers are ground down.

Imagine a world where an Elon Musk (minus the showmanship) is only worth minimum wage while a guy whose only contribution is to complain about imagined grievances and sabotage his coworkers gets promoted to CEO.
Yeah, if you have perfect dilligence, you can work around many language's weaknesses. But we're in an imperfect world. It's not easy to influence my coworker's code style and impossible to do with other teams or people who worked on my projects in the past and left since, yet I still have to work with their code.

> then you can pretty much eliminate NPE.

NPEs is only one kind of cost incurred by the lack of null safety. The other is all the unnecessary "if (x == null) {" boilerplate code caused by the uncertainty and defensive programming, which increases complexity and worsens readability.
What did you do wrong and why was it dumb? What’s the correct way?
> There's only one systems-level/non-garbage collected language that provides rigorous memory safety. That's the Rust language.

Honest question: what about Ada? It was specifically designed to be a safe language for critical systems, and for a while was mandated for some military systems. Did the author not consider it, or are its protections just not as expansive as Rust's?
Philosophy is not and does not purport to be a 'science'. The fact that philosophers make and discuss propositions that seem incorrect to you does not mean that the field of philosophy is fraudulent or unimportant.
Tablet in traveling hand is worth two monitors in the bush.
Ironically we are now getting C Machines with hardware memory tagging, as there is no other way to fix C, and too much code around that will never be rewriten.
Shocking comment. Do you think the scientific method is inbuilt in our DNA or something? Where do you think it all comes from?
mtl is saying computers are big boxes of math and you can't ban math.

Though given how incredibly clueless politicians have become I wouldn't be shocked if they tried.
I think it is okay to philosophise about situations and events that seem a bit paradoxal but the explanation is obvious. Even more, that is a core trait of philosophy.

There are many similar situations where what we hear, read or see is technically incorrect. Since the sender (or the activator of an agent) of the message in such case assumes the interpreter has enough common knowledge, it is a perfectly okay communication.

A video tape containing a recording: "your watching this means I'm dead."

A secretary of a company impersonating the company when sending a message to many recipients.

An actor speaking about his character, as if they are somebody they know very well.

Writing that an AI hallucinates.

My car informing me that one of the tyres is low on pressure, even though it does not know what a tyre is, let alone how to measure pressure.
USSR lost many people not only because of the German invasion, but also because they had a terrible leader who co-started WW II and misjudged Hitler. And Europe and America made sure USSR won that war.
This is great! I used to hate all forms of webdev but ClojureScript actually makes it enjoyable, I really hope it gets more traction.
The Everglades are not pleasant. Vast swarms of mosquitoes decend on any people like a black cloud. They're a vast, flat grassland (about 75 miles across and more N-S) full of gators, snakes (including rattlers, water moccasins, cotton mouths, boas, anacondas), gators, Florida panthers, gators, bears, gators. And did I mention crawling with gators?
I don't know what you are talking about specifically, but per your other comment, all of that sounds like "morally justified" "civilized methods".
You can't really tell the scale of the craters because each time you get closer, more craters appear. I can imagine that even with stereoscopic eyes, a human could easily misjudge distance and scale too. We're not used to operating in such a barren environment.
They had two (or a small number of) high-profile incidents. There have been thousands and thousands of researchers at those Universities during the tenure of those specific researchers. I'm open to an argument that these behaviors are more widespread than the 1/10,000 that these numbers would suggest. But even if it's 10x or 100x worse, that's still around 1%. Not "pervasive."
Like most cases, the answer is always “it depends”. Without knowing too much about the application and the state of the startup (do you have users? do you have funding-related milestones or are you bootstrapping?), it’s tricky to recommend a production stack off the bat.

Most basic versions of production web apps could be backends coupled with an ORM like Ruby on Rails/Django/Spring/etc. No need to complicate things by splitting the front-end since you’re the only developer and your experience is ERP. Pick a tech that you’re strong with and reuse popular battle-proof libraries. Deploy to application platforms and offload the infrastructure management if your startup can afford it.

You can also leverage fractional CTO services to help guide you through the process. Personally, I’ve mentored a few junior developers on an ad-hoc, hourly basis to help them build out their expertise.
Well the whole conversation started by me saying that I think even when I am wrong I am not “put glue in your pizza” wrong. And by I, I did mean the average human. Which is unannotated data from Reddit.
Whether "burning calories" is used for nutrition or for "burning fat," both terms are common in everyday speech. The rate of "burning" increases during fasting. I have linked one study published in Nature.

Let's go over some excerpts that will answer your questions.

* Metabolism increases during fasting.

> Thus diverse, pronounced metabolite increases result from greatly activated catabolism and anabolism stimulated by fasting.

* The hormone t3 produced by the thyroid is used to control metabolism. In this study they instead looked at markers for actual metabolism.

> We performed non-targeted, accurate semiquantitative metabolomic analysis of human whole blood, plasma, and red blood cells during 34–58 hr fasting of four volunteers. During this period, 44 of ~130 metabolites increased 1.5~60-fold. Consistently fourteen were previously reported. However, we identified another 30 elevated metabolites, implicating hitherto unrecognized metabolic mechanisms induced by fasting.

* The study also mentioned prolonged fasting. Which is earlier stated longer then 24 hours.

> Quantification of blood metabolites from 4 volunteers during prolonged fasting. (a) Experimental procedures employed to study metabolomic changes during human fasting for 58 hr.
No. No. And no.

> It is the programmer's responsibility when writing unsafe code to ensure that any safe code interacting with the unsafe code cannot trigger these behaviors.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/behavior-considered-unde...

And they transverse

> However, violations of these constraints generally will just transitively lead to one of the above problems.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/what-unsafe-does.html
Or SPARC ADI and ARM MTE, already around, only Intel and AMD keep failing to deliver something that actually works, e.g. iAPX 432 and MPX.
Don't think Ars is above creative editing and weasel words to chase engagement
i think you can ask Anthropic to provide access data (IP addresses, User Agents etc) specific to your key.

Then you can challenge hugging-face (eg paying customer) even sue them if you wish to...
The Xorg foundation/whoever should have given Elon a C&D the instant he tried to name his hellsite X with also basically the exact same logo.

E: this article is deeply confusing and I should probably bill the owner for my time
"Did American helpers shoot people like Russians do?"

Their Ukrainian pawns burned alive 42 people in Odessa. [0] And during Maidan protests, the force that fought the police was Ukranian neo-Nazis [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes#2_May_city_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Sector#Entry_into_Euroma...
Awesome project with a great README. This makes me want to dust off my ancient analog electronics knowledge.

Does anyone know why the second stage op-amp cleaned up the signal so much? It appears to have removed a higher-frequency oscillation, leaving a very clean, nearly square-shaped wave.
No, this is not a democratic process. People are not voting on these things. A vocal minority with the time and ability to involve themselves in the process ruin things for everyone. It's readily apparent when it comes to things like building housing, and in this case funding transit.

And more generally, everyone voting only in their narrow self-interest is not "democracy working correctly". As numerous people have pointed out above, we live in a society and not everything that society needs to function well will benefit each and every person. Democracy working correctly does not mean everyone saying "I oppose any public spending that does not directly accrue a benefit to me personally". That's a recipe for a broken society with a great deal of deal being left behind.
So your argument, is that one must spend years studying nonsense, to have an opinion on its worth?

I've already clarified why this is not so. Thus, your main, true disagreement is that you do not agree with my assessment.
It is too obvious what you’re trying to do.