skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like exactly what I'm looking for, it sounds and looks great. Unfortunately, don't own an iPhone. Any plans to make an Android version?
That doesn't change the fact that it can make a reasonable diagnostic marker.
I am not sure if you heard about it, but there's a war going on to the east, and the stance of the government currently saying yeah or nay to launching European stuff to space is far from being guaranteed to remain the same.

I'd wager to say that this is hardly a matter of competition, but simply to guarantee continuation of a basic need in a situation where it might become much more important
Shouldn't same system+same version+same flags produce the same result?
I really don't understand why Texas has such a problem with energy.

It's a HUGE state. There's opportunities for plenty of solar or wind, and I'm sure they're not opposed to some natural gas and coal to make up the difference.

It's not like it lacks wealth to pay for those things, at least as far as I know.

I know it lacks inter-state interconnects, but that can't be the sole reason.
AI is super useful for building systems, but now with layman AI == ChatGPT and ChatGPT isn't useful for building every system.
As a household, to me most important question that I want an answer to is expected remediation for my home.

I would be surprised if a Texas power utility company doesn’t provide that to their customers. I get that here in California.
Honestly, I have found LLMs to be much inferior to my usual methods for this sort of use case. So much so that I've stopped using them.

I am fascinated by how different people have such different experiences with these systems. A study into what the difference between the "best thing since sliced bread" camp and the "meh" camp is would be very interesting.
This is very easily searchable. Here's the first result:

Gastrointestinal Disturbances Associated with the Consumption of Sugar Alcohols with Special Consideration of Xylitol: Scientific Review and Instructions for Dentists and Other Health-Care Professionals - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5093271/
Thanks! I'm going to sound really old now, lol, but what is a "Zoomer"? Is that the same thing as Gen Z?

Edit: Wikipedia says it is. What a funny term. Wonder if it comes from a play on Boomers or from growing up with Zoom through the pandemic?
I read through the comments, here are the "core" issues/features an app like that has to meet:

- 1. Fast startup
- 2. Fast adding an extra note
- 3. Editing
- 4. Sync
- 5. Crossplatform
- 6. Easy to forward messages
- 7. Stable/Trusted/(Encrypted?)

2, 4, and 5 are the main ones probably

- Telegram lacks 1 (fyi I use telegram)
- WhatsApp lacks 1 and kinda 3
- Discord lacks 1 2 and 6 (I don't remember discord working well offline)
- All other note apps lack 2, 4, and 5 (core features) and focus on markup instead.

Feature 1 - fast startup seems to be the only problem with existing messengers. The best solution would be a custom crossplatform telegram client or similar that piggybacks off existing trusted messengers for sync etc.
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/inclusion-equity-dive...

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/dei-backlash-diversity

etc. There is a backlash underway against any effort to expand workplace diversity beyond the representative fractions circa 1990.
Ah I didn’t catch that Quickwit had immutable records. That explains the focus on log usage. Thanks!
Why is it being viewed as a medical condition? As something to be "cured"?
It is pretty fascinating the more we find out about out gut biome and how it affects us.

I can't read the full paper and the article also does not have this information but I have a few questions.

I am curious more about the sample size, all we know is that 1627 Children were studied, but what was the breakdown of neurotypical and Children with ASD. The only percent given is female (which seems odd that in the abstract that that is the percent they chose to give).

I am also curious about the diversity of the children studied. From a culture, income, etc. All things that would impact their diets and possibly the biome.

Finally, "considered neurotypical", does that imply that they were actually tested or that they are assumed neurotypical?

Just some questions I don't see answered that jump out to me as big questions that I wish this article brought up.
Relevant research post from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vall-e-x/va...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05370

> Our experiments
on the LibriSpeech and VCTK datasets show that VALL-E 2 surpasses previous
systems in speech robustness, naturalness, and speaker similarity. It is the first of its kind to reach human parity on these benchmarks. Moreover, VALL-E 2
consistently synthesizes high-quality speech, even for sentences that are traditionally challenging due to their complexity or repetitive phrases

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vall-e-x/va...

> This page is for research demonstration purposes only. Currently, we have no plans to incorporate VALL-E 2 into a product or expand access to the public.

If you go back and look at older cities they almost all have the same pattern: walls and gates.

I figure now that the Internet is a badlands roamed by robots pretending to be people as they attempt to rob you for their masters, we'll see the formation of cryptologically-secured enclaves. Maybe? Who knows?

At this point I'm pretty much going to restrict online communication to encrypted authenticated channels. (Heck, I should sign this comment, eh? If only as a performance?) Hopefully it remains difficult to build an AI that can guess large numbers. ;P
What's happening to the app?
So I went straight to the killer and "it" (as to not spoil the mystery) confessed after 3 prompts, hope next time you make it more challenging :)

Good use of AI though.
I don't think it's hard to get more than a few seconds of voice from many people.

'hi, sry to call you I'm Cindy and I'm from your insurance. I'm calling regarding your car crash ...'.
"That", i.e. the economic branch of Liberalism, is Capitalist, which is a combination of the right to private profit and property + market economy.

> Every system in the world since the Neolithic used tokens to interchange goods.

They used a bartering system. Price signaling came later. Coinage was technically existent rather early but did not see widespread use.

Systems devoid of price-signaling a) don't scale, b) are irredeemably terrible.

I guess you agree that it ought to have nothing to do with morality because this appears to be a non-sequitur.
Singapore has just approved 16 insects to eat as food
The issue is more that it might not be true that "genAI shows great promise but is still in its early days"

What if the technique has inherent limitations, and is already delivering diminishing returns.
I publish a daily updated AWS IAM dataset at https://github.com/tobilg/aws-iam-data as well as historized managed IAM policies at https://github.com/tobilg/aws-iam-managed-policies

There's also https://www.awsiamdata.com/ which analyzes the AWS IAM data and also contains a changelog. Maybe this helps some people.

You can also query the data from your browser: https://tobilg.com/chat-with-a-duck#heading-explore-aws-iam-...
do people not know about the built in dedicated note-taking app, literally called Notes, by default on the first page of their home screen
Like, in general? Suspect there’s an article for every topic under the sun once a week, somewhere out there.
You're right, of course. Unfortunately, however, we're all just actors in a giant, multi-player, iterated Prisoner's Dilemma here. If I decide not to pursue human-level automated speech generation, or I end up developing it and don't release because it's "too dangerous," someone else will just come in behind me and take all that market share I could have captured.

It's like we're stuck in some movie that came out in 1994[0], or something. Except, in this version, everything is gonna up sooner or later, anyway. Might as well profit from it along the way, right?

Le sigh.

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[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111257/
Many of them are going AGPL, including the one we're discussing. Also recently Minio and the Synapse Matrix server from Element.
Totally, they sound gross, but already there is loads of positive research (and anecdotes) on the benefits.
I'm curious how this deal happened. There are a lot of LLM shops out there, how did this nordic co get the attention of AMD and why did they think this co stood out among the crowd.
I suspect the problem might be some people at Cloudflare writing code for the checks who are not aware of how to make it work for most browsers, and e.g. demand/expect some header behaviour that's only seen in a small number of browsers (say, Origin:, which has been involved in the past). So the issue would manifest itself no matter the kind of approach involved. At one point, the issue was even that such a header behaviour was requested in the fallback code intended for other browsers, causing a redirect to step zero and a DDoS against Cloudflare.

I haven't tried to debug the issue yet this time, and I'm not sure I want to, because that'd be the (at least) third time I'd get deep into the network inspector to try to compare headers and identify the issue in the middle of obfuscated and/or minified JS, and a chain of requests that are probably intended to defeat this kind of analysis (making it more difficult to identify what is causing the issue). If this was one occurrence every two years or so and Cloudflare were willing to help, and receptive to comments about it breaking in some configurations, the matter would be different (one of the times, their support kept dismissing reports as "unsupported!" and it might have been solved only because someone from Cloudflare saw it here on HN).

On top of that, I'm dealing with a hardware issue that means I don't have enough memory to do the debugging comfortably now...
An article about that from 2000. https://www.theregister.com/2000/04/17/playstation_2_exports...

Brilliantly it says:

Register readers with very long memories indeed will recall similar concerns being raised over Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX-81. The fear then was that the sneaky Sovs would try to buy heaps of ZX-81s for their Zilog Z80-A CPUs and might 1KB RAM to upgrade their nuclear missile guidance systems.
That would only work if there was a one-to-one correlation of autism with having a selective diet and it being the same diet for all.

And diagnosing selective diet by itself by just asking questions isn't that hard anyway, is it? If it was a cheatcode to a diagnosis I think we'd figured it out already.
> but is Ariane actually competitive with SpaceX

I think you're correct, Ariane isn't "competitive" with SpaceX, but it is "competition", which is a minor but important point.

I've been following SpaceX since the beginning, and I'm a huge fan of what they're doing. At the same time, I really want Ariane and others to be not just "competition" but also "competitive".
> There's opportunities for plenty of solar or wind,

According to Newsweek article in January: ”Texas wind farms generated nearly 120,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity in 2022, about as much as the solar output of the four next-most-prolific states combined, and 17 times more than California. The 20 gigawatt-hours (GWh) put out by Texas solar panels in 2022 took a back seat only to California's 35 GWh—but only because California vastly exceeds Texas in the number of home-roof-mounted panels, thanks to homeowner incentives that Texas doesn't offer. The electricity from Texas' solar farms already exceeds that produced by California's—and has been doubling each year for three years. "Solar costs have dropped 80 percent in the past decade," says Metzger. "The state is pouring enormous investment into it."

— https://www.newsweek.com/texas-greenest-state-energy-wind-so...
Who's going to pay for this investment?

Government? Thats socialism.
> Rush hour had a train there every ~2 minutes

actually 2 trains every ~2 minutes
on the east side of the yamanote loop, it runs in parallel with keihin tohoku line every station from tabata to sinagawa.
The platforms are arranged side by side, so if you miss one train, the next train is probably right behind you.
it's fun to see trains racing right next to each other.
Other than that there are also rapid lines running in parallel that takes you straight to major stations by skipping some smaller ones.
The Laboratory for Extraordinary Microbes
Any hope for a “cure”? Autism might be a superpower for a tech career, but it’s debilitating in every other way. I’d love to get rid of it from my self as soon as possible, even if it means losing the ability to make the $$$ that all other spergy techbros use to protect themselves.
Maybe I'm naive, but doesn't it depend a lot on the situation? If I'm being told to be on-call for a system I don't know and can't debug, then I would set the expectation that I'm going to reduce my availability for other work while I learn this new-to-me system to the point where I feel confident that I can debug prod issues (to the degree that any of us can debug prod issues, anyway), understand the major risks to that system and common operations, etc. If they say, "sorry, you have to be on-call for this new thing and also keep working 100% on something else", then I fully agree - bad situation, incompetent management, time to go. But needing someone to be on-call for a system isn't a bad sign - in a different viewpoint, it's a good sign that someone is anticipating a future problem and actively planning ahead.
The algorithms used might not produce a deterministic result (like order is different), and maybe it also depends on timings of the CPU with threads scheduled on different cores, or faster/slower cores, etc.

Deterministic builds aren't always that straightforward
Because it makes one's inner life difficult and intense for no good reason.
Limit your spending, save as much as possible, learn about investing. Start planning your life of financial indepdence way before you attain it - i.e. where will you live , what will you be doing, with whom etc.
People say “not all jobs” but a great deal of them certainly can be remote. I think we all remember 2020 when hourly workers still had to show up to their job, office workers didn’t and this was sufficient to clear all the roads and even affect local air quality.
Falcon 9 is 'subsidized' by the USA in the way that businesses 'subsidize' development of new products and services through profit from selling products, getting investors and completing contracts at fixed cost to the customer. Ariane is subsidized in that their development expenses are fully paid for by government coffers, and additional money is provided yearly regardless of services rendered to make the sticker price for a launch seem lower.
Rocket Factory Augsburg or Isar Aerospace might become the Space X of Europe. ;-)
The biggest frameworks are still from other players though. Pytorch, tensorflow and jax aren't funded by Nvidia.
Any ideas on what employees can do if it turns out that a company cannot support their in-office mandate?

My gf's company (EU, with a US parent company) have started mandating in-office days for new contracts. But this is after moving to a smaller, more remote (and thus much-much cheaper) office space, which is plainly inadequate to accommodate every employee.

Older contracts are off the hook for now, but there are worries for when they try to apply the mandate to everyone.
How to program a drawing machine [video]
This is the natural outcome from their anti-government politics. Any legislation that would increase their reliability is shot down as ideologically "wrong". Practical Engineering has a great review of their outage in February 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwXICY4JM
"Too dangerous to release" - I could use that line to promote my services :)
So if they're making so much power, why is their grid having trouble keeping up? Or is it not and I've misunderstood?
Defunding the ACA is challenging because it would throw the health insurance markets off a cliff ans lead to millions of people losing their insurance. Thats much more scarier than losing access to a free software provided by IRS.
Thank you. I can relate to the importance of simplicity. When there are too many features, I find it distracting and difficult to focus on the content I’m writing.

There really are so many different needs when it comes to note-taking apps, including my own. This discussion has highlighted that for me once again.
Unfortunately in the US there is a political party that is attacking education and doesn't want people to learn critical thinking skills at a time when critical thinking is sorely needed. They happen to really "love the poorly educated" for some reason.
The article is about diagnosis only.
Twitter’s been broken on my phone for months, feel honoured by this high level of functionality.
As far as I understand, modules like an ESP32 for example, carry their own FCC certification. If you include them in your product, you do still need certification of the product overall, but you don't have to worry about the radio certification, just unintentional radiators.

For instance, if your widget includes an ESP32 and a switching power supply, you are (notionally) guaranteed to never fail certification due to bad behavior from the ESP, but if you botch your power supply design and are spewing out noise in the KHz to MHz range, you still fail certification.

Even if every individual component in your device carry their own certification, you still have to certify the product as a whole. Poor PCB design can produce bad EMI. Maybe you're running SPI over a long wire or your traces are routed in a way that accidentally creates an antenna at your SPI clock frequency. Hell, even something as simple as toggling a GPIO pin once a second can emit high frequency EMI under the right conditions.

There are a lot of ways to unintentionally produce harmful EMI, and that's exactly why FCC certification is required for everything. This stuff is hard to get right and there are endless gotchas and exceptions and edge cases and you have to know about and account for all of them.
Yeah? And? So? As if CUDA was developed overnight and never worked on again. Such a weak comment
I didn't catch the Developer Voices episode, but it's on my listening list now!

At a low level, I'm guessing that we do many of the same things - batching writes, aggressively colocating and caching reads, leveraging multi-part uploads, and doing all the standard tail-at-scale stuff to manage S3 latency. We have been testing with Antithesis, and we reached out to Kyle Kingsbury.

Zoomed out a bit, a few differences with Warpstream jump out:

- Directionally, we want Bufstream to _understand_ the data flowing through it. We see so many Kafka teams struggling to manage data quality and effectively govern data usage, and we think they'd be better served by a queue that can do more than shuttle bytes around. Naturally, we come at that problem with a bias toward Protobuf.

- Bufstream runs fully isolated from Buf in its default configuration, and it doesn't rely on a proprietary metadata service.

- Bufstream supports transactions and exactly-once semantics [0]. We see these modern Kafka features used often, especially with Kafka Streams and Connect. Per their docs, Warpstream doesn't support them yet.

Disaggregating storage and compute is a well-trodden path for infrastructure in the cloud, and it's past time for Kafka to join the party. I'm excited to see what shakes out of the next few years of innovation in this space.

[0]: https://buf.build/docs/bufstream/kafka-compatibility/conform...
i don't know the real reasons, but i have the impression that in those countries STEM careers give women more freedom, and that would be why they pursue them. the added freedom makes it worth the potential downsides.

in the west they already have more freedom, and so the downside of having to endure sexism does not make it worth the effort.

not sure if that is true, but it makes sense to me
> I really don't understand why Texas has such a problem with energy.

The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1004840920/the-disconnect-power...

You can save money by not preparing for a 100 year storm. When there is a 100 year storm, you can make money by selling your power at a higher price.
People aren’t randomly assigning wfh and measuring output though its just whatever middle management think is right. If this stuff were informed by data the office would have died in 1995.
OP probably meant /g/ which is the tech board
I really want something that can do a voice change and match the emotion and articulation of a voice clip that I provide. I don't care (or want) it to be based off a real person and the manners in which they would tend to articulate a sentence. Are there any decent open models out there?
Ariane 6 is booked for years, SpaceX use most of their launches to put Starlink satellites in orbit. They have a lot of capacity to sell more launches, actually.
Stuff like this is why Europe will always forever be extremely economically uncompetitive. The language you Brit’s use, “redundancy” is tailor made to psychologically prime your population into a productivity death loop.
Poor governance. ERCOT are simply not very good at achieving reliability, and the tendency to culture war of modern US politics is very bad at focusing public attention on any kind of problem that requires wonkish detail work to fix.

The state needs a lot of new power lines to connect up renewables. I believe there's a huge queue of renewables projects that have money and planning permission lined up and just need their grid connection approved.
We're slowly moving from pathologizing difference to acknowledging that people outside the normative still need support to survive our very normative society without developing adjacent issues, particularly mental health problems. That's of course putting cultural issues aside, medical professionals don't really handle those.

ICD-11's rationale for moving F64 out of F is a good example of that.
Simple solution - get a decent launcher instead & deploy your nukes in orbit. Problem solved! :)
Good thing we have regulation.

I actually had Seveneves and Termination Shock in mind, as more "optimistic" novels.
As soon as one train brakes, the train behind should automatically brake. The separation distance can be maintained. The problem is if the first train hits an object or derails, this might cause it to slow down faster than the brakes would have done, and the following train may not have time to stop.
That assumes that the reason AMD's software stack sucks is because of skill, not company culture, management or other reasons that won't change with this acquisition.