skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always thought this association is partly from some intuition we have about the mechanical and acoustic properties of hypothetical things that would have this shape.

The shape with sharp, jagged edges would occur in real life if it were made of some hard material, perhaps, like glass, metal, etc. The shape with the soft, curvy lines would occur if it were made of something softer and possibly elastic.

It doesn't take much intuition to guess that the sharper shape will produce a sound closer to "ki," with sharp transients and lots of high frequencies - like a piece of glass or metal falling - and the rounded one perhaps closer to "bou," with softer transients and perhaps a time-varying resonant frequency as the shape is malleable (think of the sound of a drop of water landing).
What language is African
Interested to see the crate, and maybe I can help?
In the US, my sense is that letters of recommendation are pretty rare (at least past school admissions where they're pretty worthless). Oh, there's a ton of informal networking but very little official you should hire this person (or especially) run away now. I'd never do the latter.

Companies at least used to ask for references on resumes in the US but I'm not sure how common that is at this point and it was usually co-workers/clients/etc, and not sure how often it was even checked.
"SQLite Studio" seems like a poor choice of name given that it's already in use[0].

[0] https://sqlitestudio.pl/.
It's wild how many people here ostensibly agree with the premise of the article but, for whatever reason, still seem triggered by the title.
Java IDEs have had optional reformat on safe for a long time.

https://help.eclipse.org/latest/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclip...
Must be decades since I last read that. :)
This is scandalous! Where are 6mo retrospectives? Where are postmortems? Incident response report?
I seem to recall Microsoft being a bit scared of Linux in the early 00s. I'd guess installing DR-DOS on Windows-less PCs seemed less likely to piss off Microsoft and losing their contracts/licenses than installing Linux would have.
> If you’re wanting to build a high speed rail line, space rocket or nuclear power plant; a propaganda specialist is probably going to be more useful than an engineer.

And then it runs 10x over budget due to incompetence. The propaganda specialists creates more issues than they solve, they might solve this issue but they make many other issues not get funded in its place overall increasing incompetence by moving money from competent to incompetent people.
I remember when I moved to the U.K. and asked at my new workplace for some memory sticks.
- How many do you need?
- Two. And I raised two fingers accordingly.
- Here, in the UK, you don't do that with your fingers.

That day I learnt something new about cultural differences.
> a complete inability to communicate the challenges and successes of a technology, technique, or theory to laymen is a huge demerit against a claim of expertise.

Hard disagree. A person can be an internationally recognized expert working on e.g. a novel mathematical theory useful for cryptography, without being able to explain any of it to anyone without a university-level math education.

I posit you're combining two orthogonal properties, expert knowledge and being a good communicator, into one axis because that's a useful combo, or the make-up of an expert that you'd like to know and/or hire.
IMO Dunning-Krueger has become such a cliche that it’s more refreshing to _not_ read a reference to it in a piece where one could’ve been made. Kinda like quantum mechanics and that stupid cat in a box.
SICP isn't an algorithms book or a reference. It's very unlike The Art of Computer Programming.
It isn’t necessarily implied, but if this thing is pulling a nominal 30W-40W (assuming considering the 60W PSU) then I don’t know how much use this would be for a portable device, even for RVs. That’s a pretty significant load, even for an amplified antenna, I would have thought?
work. sometimes boardgames. sometimes long walks. but mostly code.
Elections replaces the government, not the state. Most people working at the state stays regardless who wins. Elections is like changing the CEO, it doesn't mean replacing the company.
Astonishing! I assumed it was only 49.5-50.5 max.
the underlying container runtime (usually containerd) will dedupe shared layers, but there's a lot of things you don't get to directly control, like third party apps, and the bottleneck when spinning up new nodes is real. Plus, envs where there isn't that much caching, like CI.
This is a very wise point I haven’s seen written out this concretely, thanks! I really do feel this additional detail is necessary to the above claims. No matter how much of an expert someone is, there are topics that have so many dependencies themselves, that are alsk advanced knowledge, that explaining it in one go is just not possible.

There are some topics where analogies can sidestep some of this difficulty in teaching by basically keeping the shape of the dependency graph, and replacing it with one that happens in ordinary life. But I don’t think that every expert topic can have such a homology, fundamentally so. Complexity is unending, while “problems common in ordinary life” has limited complexity. That math paper that 10 people understand on Earth will not be readily accessible to Aunt Mary not even by the smartest person on Earth.
The true expert is the one who can say "yeah we've done something like that before, here's what's going to be the hardest part".
Ask HN: How to extract product label from a sequence of 306 product images?
I have 360 pictures of a supplement bottle. I want to extract product label out of those pictures. Is there anything that could do this?

I would imagine the software would need to project series of images onto a cylinder, align them, and then recognize and extract the label.

Feels like I will need to write the solution myself, but figured I will ask before I start tackling the problem.
This was a depressingly accurate view of my limited experiences at large companies :(
Have you reached out to everyone you have ever worked under, worked over, and worked beside?

With twenty years experience, “why isn’t this person working with someone they know?” is a reasonable question an interviewer might ask themselves. Even if only subconsciously.

It makes sense to assume that’s the case. And it makes sense to ask yourself why that isn’t the case. As a person becomes more senior, what it is like to work with them is more constant and how it would be to work with them is a bigger factor. Good luck.
References are going the way of the dodo bird, anyway. In my circles, job seekers don't bother offering them and employers are ending the practice of asking for them. (411: I'm in the LAX market & a best friend is an HR executive.)
Video transcoding already worked with the version I tested.
> “We are working alongside our main suppliers at all tiers of the supply chain to improve data quality.”

But you're using the blockchain? We shouldn't need to trust any third parties, including Circulor, no?
Feels like this is a direct response to the Amazon / Project Kuiper 7” terminal announced last year: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/heres-...
Homepage seems broken, https://sqlite-studio.frectonz.io/
Is it an innate property of humans that the curly-brace style is more natural? I wonder if in an alternate universe where Lisp took off as the browser language people would find it more natural instead. It seems like somewhat of a chicken-egg problem.
The Jellyfin version I tested comes with an ffmpeg build with RK3588 support.
I think a great use case for this would be as a backup for when the regular ISP goes out in a rural area.

But I don't think they have any subscription plans priced for that? And there might be issues after a storm if everyone started using it at once.
The world, even the academic world whom this articles is aimed at, is much larger then only the HN crowd. Also, the title made me feel interested to read on. So they did win for me.
Let the expert be a native Indonesian person who speaks no English, and I don’t speak a word of his native tongue.

Can he explain anything to me, given such a language boundary? Even though he knows stuff from 0, that doesn’t translate over to ability to explain.
No, I'm talking about cases of not liking the way of doing things, e.g. how we ended up with CFS which was a watered-down reimplementation. (ReiserFSv4 is another example of code that met the technical bar and was rejected for purely non-technical reasons, as much as few would disagree with that).
From what I'm seeing in some game dev discords I participate in, AI is going to make the devs that don't learn the fundamentals way worse off than SO.
Show HN: Instagram artist finder for music producers
That was the highlight of the story for me.
I agree with most of what you said here but I want to emphasize that this is not necessarily a good outcome. Fitting the brains of corporate devs is not a metric to measure if your goal is to make the best tool for the job - the majority of corporate devs are extremely mediocre at their job even with a language that they’re not scared of.

All that to say, I completely emphatically agree with the original comment. The world would have been so much better off with Scheme as the language of the web.
If the Wikipedia is correct, in that;

> "In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods."

Then methodology is overlappable to "Sociology", "Psychology", "Archaeology".
Society essentially runs on 1 week sprints.
NUCs are very similar in size
Work from home 1 - Return to office 0
I thought the economist was the left one and wsj was the right one, relatively speaking?
Chatgpt can't reason about anything.
Reasonable worries about fraudulent work have led to some good ideas -- perhaps the ones discussed in the Springer Nature article -- but also to some that I think are silly.

I reviewed something recently for a journal that asked me to do the usual thing, selecting a pulldown menu for the outcome, giving me space to write notes to the author and editor, etc. That's all fine and good.

But they also asked me to state whether I judged the work to be "correct". This journal deals with arcane numerical simulations of physics problems. Between them, the authors had several person-decades of experience at the cutting edge of this field. Without access to their computational resources (and technicians and programmers to support the work), and without a year to try to mimic the work, there's just no way I can get close to saying the work is "correct".

And what's the point? If I thought the work was incorrect, of course I'd point that out.

I think the question is just the journal's response to public scrutiny of science. A way to give the impression of vigilance, without requiring more work from the publisher.

PS. if the journal starts insisting that authors provide enough material for reviewers to check the work in detail, they won't get any reviewers. We are not paid, and get no recognition for this work. We don't have the time or inclination to wade through hundreds of pages of notes about how models were set up, or to watch perhaps a hundred hour of videos of the authors discussing alternative methods. And we don't have the funding to buy specialized software, to pay server costs, and to pay technicians to get things working.

PPS. sorry, I'm on a bit of a rant. The rant I wrote back to the editor was shorter and less rambling :-)
Computer Lib/Dream Machines
RSA Illustration
Spam 3.0
when your goal is to improve security, the unreliability that comes with LLMs is not the answer.
No. Native python ops in string suck in performance. String support is absolutely interesting and will enable abstractions for many NLP and LLM use cases without writing native C extensions.
Why do you think this is? Are people worried their jobs will be at stake?
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees (2009)
I wouldn't mind wearing a mask in public again, maybe I should just do that as my own little thing, like veganism. An all-black mask is the most black bloc I can reasonably get away with
If every engineer needs to make two commits when they change the build file, that's a higher cost compared to having people dedicated to the migration.
This is a definite upgrade over a frozen screen.
A true feat of manufacturing and engineering unmatched by any other military.

Also unmatched in cost and rarity. It has been proven many time that quantity is a quality difficult to beat. The US military has been gearing and shifting toward expensive and hard to mass produce war machines. We will see how well a million dollar tank fare against 100k dollars worth of drones. Or what happen when a 10K rocket need a CWIS to take down that cost 50K to shoot.
> Peak vs now in Mwh: US: 105 (2005) vs 97

that's the chart i was looking at. you're cherry-picking years as well to get that answer. looking at all the years instead, the usa starts out at 94, peaks at 104, dips down to 87, and then rises back up to 97, with lots of wiggles in between. that isn't a picture of a secular decline in energy use, it's a picture of random fluctuation around an average. the others are largely similar. the main outlier among 'developed' countries is not south korea but the people's republic of china, though slovenia deserves a mention for falling 40%

why? what holds the usa line so steady? probably partly the usa has lost the ability to build not only high-speed trains, subway tunnels, highways, and leading semiconductor fabs, but also electrical infrastructure, but two thirds of energy use is non-electric, and other countries are succeeding in building trains and whatnot

the price of energy has not been holding steady during this time but rather going up, although in the last decade that is starting to reverse. perhaps the reason consumption-oriented energy use has gone slightly up rather than way down is the efficiency improvements you mention

[the following paragraph is completely wrong, and i appreciate the correction from h0l0cube. therefore so is my claim that the measure itself is cherry-picked. i had just misunderstood it]

this measure, incidentally, doesn't count energy used for exports at all. so if the us and japan are producing an energy-intensive good independently at the beginning of the chart, and then in the middle the us starts importing it from japan, the usa's line will go down while japan's remains steady, because japan's added energy use is for export rather than for consumption. that's what i mean about it being a cherry-picked measure even for those cherry-picked countries
Addr.tools: possibly useful tools for the Internet
75M is still huge for this type of thing.

My smallest Go CLI is 1.6M. This is probably about as small as you can get in Go and still do something useful. Some of my other (larger) Go CLIs range from ~2.5M to ~6.5M. Go is not known for producing small binaries.
I have the same issue. Even with uBlock disabled, but PiHole still enabled. Console doesn't log any errors and Network shows nothing blocked.
who checks those numbers? who watches watchmen
Graffito of Esmet-Akhom (last known hieroglyph inscription)
I will always love raspberry pi's, they are well supported and great for quick and cheap prototyping. I have used them to teach children how to code (They really enjoyed working with sensehat), research at university, and at work for rapidly prototyping. The size is also easy to work with.

There are better SBC's out there, but raspberry pi is familiar.

I really hope the recent IPO doesn't change too much...
> McClure applied as a covert organizer, or salt. He gave Respondent a resume that falsely claimed that he worked at a non-union company called Deem from 2018 to the time of his application... McClure testified that he believed claiming to work for a non-union employer would increase his chances of being hired, as people in the HVAC industry would generally recognize WMI and Habel as union shops and Deem as non-union.
> I suspect people are going to be "confiding" a ton in LLMs

They won't even need to rely on people using ChatGPT for that if things like Microsoft's "Recall" is rolled out and enabled by default. People who aren't privacy conscious will not disable it or care.
Roger Linn reviews MPC Live 2
Sounds like survivorship bias.
Let's Encrypt Domain Multiple Perspective Validation Ordering Change
Starlark Language
What about パクリ? and ぽっかり?
Idea generator? I tend to agree. But that is not what investors are being told. They’re being told it’s a problem solver.
The CTO's email is sortof in his profile [2]. I assume he would want to know if there is a business impact on someone assuming in good faith everything stated in the submission is accurate.

CEO & co-founder of CloudFlare. [1] Cloudflare CTO [2] Not listing their individual contributors.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eastdakota

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc https://jgc.org/
Yeah. They're probably still sort of a pro-forma sort of thing in many cases but I'd be surprised if people still checked them for professional jobs in a systematic way.

Of course, doesn't mean you don't check in with folks you know who have worked with the person at your company and elsewhere.
I started reading it around a year ago with the personal goal of doing every exercise. I'm not done yet (almost done with chapter 4). It has definitely taken a lot of my time, but it really has changed my thinking about a lot of language constructs I find in other languages.

For instance, the part about tagging objects with their type reshaped my thinking about static type systems in general. Static typing, for example in C, is essentially just moving the location of the type tag from existing at runtime within the struct, to the "analysis" phase of the compiler. It's a pretty simple idea, but it made the "degree of dynamism" tradeoff click in my head. All the information _has_ to exist somewhere, and the only question is where. And Scheme is just at an extreme where the _everything_ is stored dynamically.
I don't think that D–K really has much to do with it: as originally presented, it predicts that the worst performers tend to think of themselves as close-to-average performers, not as the best performers. (In particular, there's no "U curve" of self-assessment.) Imitation of expertise is more of a kind of personal bravado.
Sometimes news stories or other page contents have no useful hyperlinks yet they are still presented as HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

I operate in textmode, no graphics. There are few benefits I get from the use of HTML without useful hyperlinks.

In such cases, using a browser is unecessary, overkill. I use a pager instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_pager
Not exactly what the article is about.
Isn't this a major win for the PHEV ?

Through regenerative braking, so you get the benfits of a Hybrid. You can charge your PHEV at home during the week, and avoid the inconvienences of an EV when on a road trip.
> what is fire

It is the light of other days.

Feynman explains it here: https://youtu.be/N1pIYI5JQLE?si=APotFnCuOVKN0wc8
The Garmin inReach (and others like it) is probably the nearest readily-available solution for that use case. Not broadband internet obviously, but it provides access to basic, essential communication methods. It does so at a much, much lower price point than Starlink/HughesNet/etc can offer, making it more palatable as an "emergency backup" product.
It could work for classifying honest/innocent differences.

However, LLMs are incredibly naive, so they could be easily fooled by a malicious actor (probably as easy as adding a comment that this is definitely NOT a backdoor).
That's what nixpkgs does for Nix/NixOS. The package set is continuously built by a CI system and made publicly available: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs#continuous-integration-and-...
In a sense they're right then though. FOMO is the only way sales happen for grifters who have no value to sell in the first place lol.
Not exactly. All other parameters the same, the digital baud rate plays into how much bandwidth the signal uses, but not directly where it is in the spectrum.

Ex:9600 baud FSK signal centered at 440MHz still needs something capable of capturing around 440MHz, but this has nothing to do with baud rate. A 500MHz scope would do well for acquiring the signal.

Practically radios often divide the problem into two parts, first use a mixer to shift the signal down and filter out the parts you don't want, then decode the FSK which remains at a much lower frequency.

This is the governing limit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theo... and it considers things like SNR as well.
It must be a big issue in Japan, because every public toilet around here has a big sign telling you not to do that, and explaining how to use the toilet properly.
A bit niche, but one software I use for my Raspberry Pi powered 3d printer is camera-streamer: https://github.com/ayufan/camera-streamer

It provides a WebRTC stream for a USB camera (or Pi Camera, what I'm using). Rather than the old, inefficient, low-quality MJPEG stream. The software itself will run on anything, but the WebRTC only works on a Pi for now.
I don't think this is a relevant take. Your goal is to implement a system to automatically scan countless packages and run a heuristic to determine if a package is suspicious or not. You're complaining about false positives/false negatives while ignoring that packages that not checking packages at all is not an improvement.
Every year they get older, they have a higher chance of surviving until the next year. It’s a weird thing about aging. Of course until you die that is.
For a different point of view from someone with extremely credible credentials (learned this stuff from Hinton among many other things) and a much more sober and balanced take on all this I recommend the following interview with Nick Frosst (don’t be put off by the clickbait YouTube title, that’s a very silly caption):

https://youtu.be/4JF1V2hzGKE
They are a symptom of a gridlocked and extortionist political system that serves the elite.
The man who promised a healthcare plan in "two weeks" for about four years straight?
Amiga emulator on teensy 4.1: https://www.pjrc.com/amiga-emulator-on-teensy-4-1/
Sadly I think that extends to most people about most things. I’m certainly guilty of stating something I’ve heard but don’t actually know from time to time (though I do make a conscious effort not to).

It is funny (or depressing, depending on your point of view) to catch people doing this by asking them when was the last time they did X or how they know whatever they’ve stated and then seeing the gears turn.
It seems that they no longer publish an "election day forecast" regarding popular vote - something that they included in 2020: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachael-Meager/publicat...
(2020) Big discussion at the time (643 points, 285 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24637405
Association of a Low-Carb High-Fat Diet with Plasma Lipid Levels and CVD Risk
> Everyone loves MacPaint. Maybe you love MacPaint, and have noticed I’ve deftly avoided mentioning it. Okay, FINE:

To be honest, I'd bet Bill Atkinson knew every trick in the book and used many for making MacPaint work in the original constraints provided.

I'm not sure that's a fair fight for the author.