skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gemini 1.5 Pro multimodal with audio file input plus a text prompt that asks for a transcription. You can add all the relevant context you know to the text prompt. You can also chat with it before asking for the full transcription and clear up any confusions. There are no products for this yet, it's a new capability.

I just started trying this today with my wife's hour long interviews in Latvian language and it is extremely good, far better than any transcription model. This is a huge SoTA LLM with audio tokens, so it just has vastly more capability than Whisper or whatever. In my case it nails all kinds of brand names, weird neologisms and loan words, it writes inline quotation marks when the speaker is quoting someone, and so on.

This is what GPT-4o supposedly can do in the version OpenAI has postponed rolling out.

If you want, I can try to do it for you if you send the audio.
Doom 2 in gzdoom VR mode is amazingly convincing for how janky the graphics are. Even with the enemies as 2D sprites it’s quite compelling, so it’s my go-to rebuttal for all the “VR games need amazing graphics” sentiment. Good low-detail artwork is fine.
Why not? The government might take it out on the bank, but the point of the FDIC is to let regular consumers not have to worry about their money.
Got it. In your experience is maintaining AGE straightforward or not given that it's Postgres extension and not a managed db?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Change the Constitution then. If we have to tolerate spree killers and school shooters because the founding fathers wanted to make sure plantation owners could put slave revolts down, then we have to put up with flat earthers and memes on the internet because the First Amendment was written when speech never traveled faster than horseback, at a time when only the speech of rich white Christian men ever made it into print to begin with.

It would be nice to not have to deal with the negative externalities and technical debt that comes with being wedded to a 200 year old document written by a pre-industrial society that still believed in witches and vampires and killing the "savage Indian," but it is what it is.

Government is not allowed to police speech, full stop. It still does, but in some very limited and generally universally agreed upon ways (such as having laws against libel and slander, or labeling laws regulated by the FDA, or the FCC regulating the broadcast spectrum.) But having the government regulate social media because of the quality or nature of speech would obviously be beyond the pale.
Currently? No. They're funded by some of the richest individuals in the world, have a large network of connections and have been consolidating power in key areas in local, state and federal government.

However they are a very loud subset of Americans. It doesn't set them up well for a true revolution because in a scenario where they have to bring in the military, the odds are that we'll see a military coup before they start shooting.

There's been a growing problem of Christian Nationalism within the military but the problem is that they typically prove to be poor soldiers. The US military still relies on the 'classical' understanding of US democracy in order to exert soft power across the world and if a president sought to consolidate power and completely control the government there'd be problems. But the far-right increasingly believes in a reckoning/uprising that would be in their favor.
Already posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40840378

and here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40840397
If you like very detailed art with so much going on like in the image in article you will be in for a treat at https://reddit.com/r/wimmelbilder
I finished Infinite Jest without taking notes. I definitely missed a lot of stuff but I loved the experience and it ended up being one of my favorite books.

I think Infinite Jest is a great example for this sort of thing because I later realized that I had completely missed the entire main plot. By the author:

> There is an ending as far as I’m concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an “end” can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occurred to you, then the book’s failed for you.

Nothing converged for me at all and yet I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I’m still not quite sure what to think of that.

Aaron Swartz (yep, that Aaron Swartz) wrote a great essay that explains the ending and main plot in clear language:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ijend

But I don’t think I got any part of that plot by reading the book. It’s all hidden and disjointed, and there’s so much interesting stuff at the surface that you almost don’t even care to go deeper.
Art and an art have different meanings.
Why on Earth do people put up with this? I would actively vote against anyone who tried to do anything remotely like this and I'd ignore any website that charged government porn tokens for access. It's not as if there is any shortage of freely available adult material.

I have no idea what the government's interest in this scheme is, but because it cannot and will not prevent kids from accessing porn we can rule that out as a motivation. "Think of the children" is often just what people say to justify violating other's rights and it's a lot more disgusting when it comes from the Spanish government which ignores actual problems facing children. Maybe they should focus more on the fact that Spain has the highest child poverty rate in the EU
Let me try again.

You said:

> Everything outside of notepad already supports it—that was the point, dumbass.

As a response to me pointing out that it's not supported in the GitHub diff view. That response is nonsensical unless you meant to say that it's supported in the GitHub diff view
"Methinks he doth protest too much."
Free startup idea: Restomod an old Porsche/Mustang into electric and keep the rumble and feel of a big V8.

Needs: Engine sounds, haptic seats, and a few small modifications (e.g. clutch pedal, gear stick)
Study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aepp.13442
This seems right to me. Although Minecraft is far from open source, modding culture has kept it vibrant an interesting. For games with vigorous, interested players, open source seems like the way to keep that going.
For nginx and WebDAV:

https://gist.github.com/jirutka/5380770
Yes. When it comes to data, don't cheap out.
How good are you in math? Do you know linear algebra and calculus?
The Remote Workers and Programmers mus (short for micro-communities) have the most interest.

If you want to join either, you can use the links below!

https://zakaya.io/welcome/tech

https://zakaya.io/welcome/remote_workers

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# Why?

20-40% of people are regularly lonely, 3rd places are disappearing and people are spending more time online. Current social media platforms have been optimized to create crowds and now they struggle to automatically create more intimate and familiar feeling spaces. We're looking to create groups that feel more natural to participate in.

# What?

Mus have 50-200 people who share a common interest or identity trait. They have all the normal social features (chat rooms, forums, events, DMs) plus some fancy features (media rooms, shared content feeds, discord channel synchronization, LLM bots and LLM-based moderation) plus mechanisms enabling organic community growth through community votes.

# Who?

We're a small team right now but we're determined to figure this problem out. While we explore the D2C route, we're also looking to work with organizations who want a private, virtual space for their customers or users.

# You?

If that's you, leave a comment below and I'll send you an email to talk more about it :D
Your body can burn calories faster than you can absorb them. And if you’re concerned about what sports medicine says the limits of human absorption are, you’re either a nerd or engaging in extremely intense exercise.

The Tour de France did 124miles on its first day this year. Through mountains.

Many amateur cyclists have a 100 mile single day even or 150-300 mile multi day event as their yearly goal. And they can’t push the sort of power for the duration that a pro can. Something less than 75% as much power for less than half as long per day. And for days instead of weeks.
That only works on the flat stages. A small difference in power to weight ratio makes a huge difference in finishing times on the mountain stages where drafting is less of a factor.
Nothing wrong with a good meme. Everything used to be skeumorphic and used pre-tech metaphors — the OS desktop being a metaphor for the literal top of a desk complete with folder icons that look like paper folders. The World Wide Web was seen as a jungle to be navigated by browsers with names like "Netscape Navigator" and "Safari". Now GUIs are imitating early technology and kids have no idea what's being imitated.
I felt the same but upon checking they do more than I expected. I like it.
> I see non-tech people around me using ChatGPT for anything from comparison shopping to recipe adjustments.

This is baffling to me, because these are two use cases I have tried and in which ChatGPT completely fails to produce any useful information.
That encrypted backup isn't available via Takeout, only via the Google Maps app. You can use that backup to load your history to various devices or a replacement phone.
The last rider that finished and it’s not like if you or I go out and try to ride a hundred miles at 25 mph solo. Drafting and team dynamics play a significant role is energy expenditure.
Out of curiosity what are you using to measure developer productivity platform or metrics wish (if beyond typical sprint metrics)?
I haven't looked at package control in a while, I'll take a look! Thanks
Except JavaScript does it wrong.
LLM GenAI only knows the corpus it was trained on. It has no knowledge of what it is doing, beyond any context text is was given.
"An unforseen consequence" they say....but idk, having been to Vietnam where orange rivers can be normal, because of iron deposits in the soil, I felt like I knew the answer before clicking the article, and I'm just a schmo that knows almost nothing, not a climate scientist. I feel like this could have been fairly easily figured by someone who spends thier life thinking about such things.
Woah, out of the cringepan and into the cringefire!
Yes, I’m rereading Young Lady’s Primer right now and although Dr. X’s lair is far northward, my mind’s eye sees Kowloon photos tinted by Kar-wai and Doyle’s works.
The unreliable narrator doesn't help either.
Once you're embedding HTML, you might as well just use HTML or something like it - you don't really get any advantage from Markdown. Markdown is supposed to make the (human) writing easier, a finished book needs good rendering on the target device - something richer markup is better suited for.
That’s a one size fits some solution. Not more than 2x as slower than native floats is pretty slow for cases where you don’t need the extra precision.

If might be the case that it is the best solution if you do need the extra precision. But that’s just one case, not all.
I disagree. An obvious interpretation of what is quoted is entitlement.
Unlike braces, indent guides don’t take up vertical space, so it’s much less cluttered.
with what? how? there's already a lot of bad python/R code out there, how more of it will "overhaul" scientific computing?

> We have essentially standardized a way to approximately solve optimization problems.

.. what does this mean? we had simplex solvers before. do you mean things like protein folding prediction?
Sure, AI represents a substantial improvement over other heuristic methods in some areas. But that's a long way down from the "AI is going to be a permanent fixture in most people's day to day lives" claim that the tech industry is betting the farm on right now.
I'm not a pro cyclist but I've seen one stop before. By the intermediate value theorem, they can ride at 20mph.
No offense, but you’re group is just very early on the adoption curve and is not representative of at all.

I have a bunch of peers that haven’t used chatgpt at all and they are software developers. A bunch more tried it once, realized how terrible it was for anything you aren’t already knowledgeable in and then haven’t gone back to it.

Recipe adjustments has to be a joke unless they are really basic things like “cut it in half”. ChatGPT is terrible at changing recipes without fundamentally changing them and will offer multiple “substitutions” for an ingredient that have extremely different outcomes that it doesn’t warn or know about.
What I want as a non racer is different from what racers want so I prefer a cheaper steel fram, as the gains from an expensive one won't be worth it.

of course the above is a guess, if someone makes such a frame I may try it and decide it is worth it.
I've been thinking of doing something like that with a Synology
Is it the superstars or the line holders that have been the first adopters? I could speculate, but I am actually curious what you are seeing in practice.
I for one am grateful that governments are this inept. Can you imagine if they were well-oiled machines? We’d have lost all our freedoms a long time ago.
This isn't true. But how true it isn't is something even the best minds at OpenAI don't, and probably can't, know. Throwing black box magic spaghetti at the wall as hard as your GPUs can is a nasty shortcut.
ChatGPT is just statistically associating what it’s observed online. I wouldn’t take dietary advice from the mean output of Reddit with more trust than an expert.
If you assume Christian nationalism doesn't intersect with the military industrial complex and the very core of America's centers of power, you would be mistaken.
I do like some "hard" fiction like the Stephenson mentioned in TFA, as well as Pynchon and David Foster Wallace, but my mind immediately went to some of the harder technical writing I've enjoyed - The Art of Computer Programming; SICP and other Lisp texts, math books, etc.

I once spent a very pleasant short vacation on a beach on Lake Michigan reading Peter Gabriel Bergmann's "Introduction to the Theory of Relativity," finding pleasure in gradually unraveling the notation, the mathematics, and the ideas, in a quiet and beautiful setting.

It always surprises me when I meet engineers who don't enjoy reading technical books, but different strokes and all that. It takes a kind of patience and persistence to unravel a technical text, which can be its own reward if you're not trying to solve a specific technical problem at the moment.
> As Justice Robert Jackson put it in 1949, “if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”

This is similar to the frequent misuse of the "free speech does not include the right to shout 'fire' in a crowded theater" quote. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that in a decision upholding punishment for distributing anti-WW I leaflets, the same law that sent Eugene Debs to prison. In other words, it was not something to be proud of.

The "suicide pact" quote just said that protecting public safety always tempered Free Speech rights. Note that Judge Jackson didn't condemn hate speech, or hurting people's feelings, or supporting dangerous political candidates.

In other words, the First Amendment is not out of control. We already had all the limits we need.
I think you’re the only one.

I wouldn’t mind as much if the volume wasn’t 5 times louder in reverse than drive.
I have two files I use.

1. todo.md

2. scratchpad.md

I put my tasks for each project in the todo file separated by headings. I put random notes in the scratchpad file as they pop (ex, need to update x dependency in project y, etc). I then organize my scratchpad and create new todo items if needed at the end of the day.
(2018) Discussion on HN in 2021 (132 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28099928
Yes, other bottlenecks might be preventing us from seeing overall productivity improvements. We might require large organisational changes across the industry in order to take advantage of the improvements.

I guess we will see if smaller startups without many of our bottlenecks are suddenly able to be much more competitive.

> How are you measuring developer productivity?

We use a host of quantitative and qualitative measures. None of them show any positive improvements. These include the basics like roadmap reviews, demo sessions, feature cycle time, etc as well as fairly comprehensive business metrics.

In some teams every developer is using copilot and yet we can't see any correlation with it and improved business metrics.

At the same time we can measure the impact from changing the label on a button on our UI on these business metrics.

> Were those that adopted copilot and chatgpt now enabled to finally keep up with their faster peers

No.

> Is developer satisfaction improved, and therefore retention?

No.
I think intuition is not something you’re born with, it’s something you build through experience.

The best physicists I know don’t sit down and calculate that often. They rather play with “cartoon pictures” to figure out what problems are interesting and what their solution might look like, and only throw math at the most promising of these problems.
Users rarely mount network drives as root so not sure how this would work.

Also the conflict resolution to support concurrent updates would be crazy.
That's part of it sure, but anything which improves oxygen transport like EPO or blood transfusions will absolutely improve climbing performance regardless of training quality. For anyone with good fitness the main limiting factor is amount of oxygen delivered to the muscles.
The statement thing could also be fixed. CoffeeScript, for example, is indentation-based and supports multiline expressions.
Reminds me of the Queen River in Tasmania, which is unable to support life (runoff from old mines which have turned it orange):

Video of Beau Miles trying to raft down the river:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFFSFxjg-TY
Resources are interesting, but headline is wholly unsubstantiated, and topic list is overbroad and seems out of date.
Looked at their profile, total grifter vibe.
This is a good question, but it took me a few tries to write a satisfactory answer.

A hermetic build is one where the environment can change but the build outputs stay the same. This lets you aggressively and pervasively use remote caches, which can give massive performance benefits to large and complicated builds. I’m sure you know this, I’m just going through so I can clarify it in my mind.

If your Docker image depends on the environment but your final build does not, then congratulations, you’ve made a hermetic build. But I don’t see how building the Docker image in Bazel is helpful here. The more likely result here, I think, is that you have a build which is still non-hermetic. The inner build steps are isolated from your current environment, but they are not isolated from the environment used to create the Docker image.

As a matter of practical advice, try creating your Docker image in Nix. Nix is very good at creating Docker images hermetically and has a large number of third-party packages and toolchains available. Bazel is very good at fast builds and fine-grained dependencies. The easiest, simplest thing you can do with this combination of tools is to have Nix create a Docker image that contains Bazel and all of your build dependencies that aren’t vendored into the Bazel tree.

You can create hermetic builds by carefully designing your build rules so they aren’t affected by the environment. But it is a lot easier and more reliable to just stamp SHA-256 checksums on chunks of your environment, when that option is available.
>Which is how I learned that it's much better to ask ChatGPT to use Python evaluation mode and Pandoc and make you a PPTX, than trying to do anything with "Office 365 Copilot" in PowerPoint...

Can you elaborate on what this saved over just making the ppt the old fashioned way?
wcurl does a lot more than that, though: parallel downloads, retries, following redirects (and other things, that are all written in the blog post).

There's also some value in providing a ready-to-use wrapper for users that install the curl package. Maybe wcurl will also show up in other distributions after a while, especially since Daniel also likes the idea.
Noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store
Does this rule out pilot wave theory, in which a particle always has a definite position at all times?
I'm not close enough to anyone you'd probably consider famous to claim to know the inner workings of their mind, and you keep adding more weirdly circuitously specified conditions. At this point I'm not sure what point, if any, you're trying to get at, and it's hard not to form the impression that you're being deliberately obtuse here, though it also could just be the brainrot that comes of overabstraction
Man I was just talking hypothetical, now that they are doing something its even worse! :(
How would you say someone should express such concerns without coming off as entitled? Or do you think they're not valid concerns? Or do you really think that if someone has such concerns, their only recourse is to start contributing to the project? That project of course being one of the most security-sensitive projects one could imagine.
> society is so freaking leveraged

can you elaborate on this? in what sense?
I think you’re thinking about things very locally. Of course ChatGPT can help with some coding - I use it for regex quite often cause I never really learned that well.

The problem is that at the average medium sized company code looks like this - you have 1mln lines of code written over a decade by a few hundred people. A big portion of the code is redundant, some of it is incomplete, much of it is undocumented. Different companies have different coding styles, different testing approaches, different development dynamics. ChatGPT does not appreciate this context.

Excel has some similar problems. First of all Excel is 2 dimensional and LLMs really don’t think in 2 dimensions well. So you need to flatten the excel file for the LLM. A common approach to do this with LLMs is using pandas and then using the column and row names to index into the excel.

Unfortunately, excels at companies cannot be easily read using pandas. They are illogically structured, have tons of hardcoding, intersheet referencing is weird circular ways and so on. I spent some time in finance and sell side equity research models are written by highly trained financial analysts and are substantially better organized than the average excel model at a company. Even this subset of real world models is far from suitable for a direct pandas interpretation. Parsing sell side models requires a delicate and complex interpretation before being fed into an LLM.
No, "Polyhedral Code Generation in the Real World" (the paper you just linked) describes the code generation process of polyhedral compilers. Code generation is the last step of polyhedral compilation: first you model code using polyhedra, then you optimize in the polyhedral representation, and finally you generate new code from the optimized polyhedral representation.

The survey paper in the OP compares different state-of-the art polyhedral compilers on full benchmarks (the complete process described above), not just code generation.
Google Trends for parasitic symbiosis etal seems interestingly different for US[1] and Worldwide[2], suggesting the possibility of regionally divergent usage.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
[2] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%22paras...
Also there are those dot underscore files. Is there any way to disable creating these files on the network shares?

[0] https://superuser.com/questions/212896/is-there-any-way-to-p...
Samba and tailscale.
only the Canal
Nice. Thanks @gnabgib
Why not just use wget if you need all that? Wget does yet more useful things.