skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the late 90s, Borland's installation support phone line would tell people to turn their computer on its side 90 degrees so that the CD-ROM would read the installation media.

It usually worked.
> If you play a game with infinite ammo, infinite health it becomes boring quite easily.

Minecraft Creative mode would dare to disagree.
> Maybe that’s because I mostly took math and engineering classes.

The second you step outside of the stem bubble into liberal arts courses, it's like woke everything

Now I will say, there's good woke and bad woke.

I had one class that was about sociology and demography of the US-Mexico border. The professor was very respectful, etc etc. Seemed like useful history lessons for someone about to move to California or the southwest

I had another that was about the pre-kantian post-scholastic era of western philosophy, the professor didn't actually try to teach, showed up late, when she did show up it was some lecture about feminism. Left a permanent bad taste in my mouth
Nope; not with the abysmal pay. Or actually not unless it's my toddler. I mean it; respectfully.

(Longer PS. Teachers taking care of toddlers usually have a miserable time doing that and most of them are not there by choice in case you were wondered about that. While they are there they take care of them not out of some love or fulfilment but because that is required of them as part of their roles. That's it. It's a job for them, like yours is a job for you.)
Show HN: Privacy friendly Data Anonymizer that runs in the browser
Scamicry: Are you deliberately putting your customers at risk?
> properly-licensed and verified datasets is immensely more difficult, expensive

Arguably the bigger problem is that many of those datasets e.g. WSJ articles are proprietary and can be exclusively licensed like we've seen recently with OpenAI.

So we end up with in a situation where competition is simply not possible.
Why would that follow? Are you defining robots as people?
using ai might be bringing out some low-effort success but at the end of the day, it is skill issue on our front.

a common heuristic to look out for is "badly"-written/spoken communication. the "AI vs Actual Indian" comment and nigerian prince emails stand out for most people, but they still ended up working well enough to become this wide-spread.

you just need to employ some critical thinking now for most external communication now. it is no different from some highly-motivated scammers doing it the old-fashioned way. at the end of the day, we are trying to replicate the success of some native-speaking teens (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32959001).
The analysis seems great and I find the subject interesting enough.
However, the presentation is really bad, in a way where it is actually making very difficult to grasp the content.
The actual main information from the graphs is hard to read (why isn't it showing all numbers?), with colors that are too similar. It does not support the niceties that html chart provide (like dynamic filtering or alternate views).
It is really hard to find where we are in the article, so going back and forth is painful.
In terms of accessibility it is also quite bad as it does not show the charts.
If the information is presented on a standard format with a ToC I would definitely read it in its entirety.
> My guess is the higher-paying jobs are more interesting and fulfilling;

Numerous surveys show the people happiest in their jobs are hairdressers.

It's not highly paid, but it's a simple job in the warm and dry, chatting and making people happy.
You don't plan to carry this in a pocket?
Sure, it's doable, but it was in this case the source of the issue, along with some obfuscation of where and when those particular sections of code were being executed through shenanigans with encapsulation and inheritance (I respect people who can manage their pointers well, but I genuinely dislike a lot of OO practices even aside from if they're done "well"). People write exceptional code in C despite and sometimes because of it not protecting you from writing it wrong. I respect the view that some people don't need their programming languages to protect them from these problems. In this case, it helped quite a lot, especially since the application was essentially reimplementing vector processing, getting the memory management wrong, and not doing anything to justify not taking advantage of the insane degree of optimization that's gone into std::vector
Thanks for the interesting article. Lots of things seem to happen in SQLite land at the moment and I appreciate that the SQLite team documents their quirks so openly, it gives great confidence.

Since I don't know where else to ask, maybe this is a good place: How do async wrappers around SQLite (e.g. for node or python) work? SQLite only uses synchronous I/O if I'm not mistaken. Is it just a pretend async function with only synchronous code?

And, as a follow-up: If I have a server with say 100 incoming connections that will all read from the database, I've got 100 readers. No problem in WAL mode. However, I still could get congested by file I/O, right? Because every time a reader is waiting for data from disk, I can't execute the application code of another connection in a different thread since execution is blocked on my current thread. Is there any benefit to having a thread pool with a limit of more than $NUM_CPU readers?

And one more: Would you recommend actually pooling connections or just opening/closing the database for each request as needed? Could keeping a file handle open prevent SQLite from checkpointing under certain conditions?
By this token, the flu vaccine is not a vaccine either. You have to have a new one each year and it doesn't confer 100% protection.

It seems pointless to argue about the definition of the word vaccine though. Let's call them "shields" instead. The issue is whether the shield provides useful protection, not whether it is perfect.

It's perfectly sensible to evaluate the risk of a given shield versus the protection it offers. I was happy to have it, others were nervous because this was a new form of shield which had not been tried before.
I was somehow reminded of this guy who once wowed me in an interview by coding up a small graphics demo rather quickly. Turns out later that that was the exact one program he could code without being hand-held EVERY SINGLE MOMENT. I laugh whenever I remember that incident (from early on in my career, in my defense).

You have to build a repertoire of questions that defeat rote memorization, prove real experience, and show genuine ability to solve unseen problems...
> We have research that it might help with PTSD, depression, etc. but it's not like you just take it and you're done.

Worth noting the research is on psilocybin with supportive psychotherapy, not just take some mushrooms you got from a guy and have at it.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...
Concierge services, and for enough money whole company is set up. Rich folks value their free time the most in the world, so pay others to lose their (less worthy in financial terms) time on pesky daily grinds like maintaining stuff they own, investments, bureaucracy etc.

Very few don't do it this way, basically all 'old money' work like that for generations, employing non-trivial amount of folks.
Yes, you're right. I didn't find a proof for the fact that elliptic integrals have no closed form, though.
I understand the frustration and the anger of authors, and not using KDP may be indeed the sane thing to do for an author. But it appears that the root of these dystopic situations was not an evil overlord, but people trying to use KDP as a SaaS (Scam as a Service) platform [1].

We can still blame Amazon for only catering to the consumer side and effectively ignoring the authors' side.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/amazon-tries...
It can't be "all sophonts" either ...
High-level intro to reinforcement learning with code example and downloadable Colab notebook.
It's very complex and depends on everyone's life situation, I've had money issues in the past, I was stressed but at that time I had many friends and family close which made things ok. Now I am more successful and live abroad, but loneliness kills me, even though I have everything I dreamed of, I think back at the times I was "poor" and I was happier. I also tend to compare myself more with my successful friends and that makes me also a bit jealous. I don't think money will make you happy because there is always someone who has more and there will be always be better things you can't afford. Also we get used to everything fast, you will get used to your "Ferraris" at some point.. What makes you happy is having nice people you love around you and finding a purpose in life.
So do a lot of anti-epileptic drugs
Some would argue we are already living Cyberpunk, just without all the cool stuff.

BTW, why single out "the EU block becoming regulatory" as something negative prophesied by Cyberpunk? I have recently watched a video about the timeline of Cyberpunk 2020/2077 (which is just one universe, granted), and the EU sounded like the only ones who had their shit together, even though they were facing sabotage from all directions.
>what business doesn't depend on contractors?

The sub-contractors at the very bottom of the contractor ladder.
sorry for out of topic: your surname reminded me of the great Polish poet, a Nobel laureate - Wisława Szymborska (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82awa_Szymborska)
Frugal living is very easy when single, still OK when in couple with compatible person, but gets darn hard with kids. Not impossible, just much, much more constant friction, and choices done easily by you for you gets harder when they negatively impact your own children.
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Depends on the slope.
Yes, the procedure you mention works, but it's a numerical method.
I'm not saying such numerical method's are impractical or something, but depending on your general setup, closed form formulas might be faster.
If you know about the events in advance, you can hand them to watchOS and have it display them for you. So I'm surprised to see calendar apps struggling with this…
... for 10 minutes of music! You can't do everything with them, but module files are awesome for some kinds of music...
Matt Levine gave his opinion on this today (perhaps that's why it was posted here?).

The major flaw in the study is that the HNWI survey was made in 1985, fourty years ago. Lifestyle and social behavior is much different now.
SQLite is not SQL standards compliant. It doesn't even support data types from core SQL-92. One needs more than INTEGER, REAL, TEXT, BLOB for applications. Adopting it as WebSQL would have been a terrible mistake.
This is really one of the use cases of TinyML. On-device ML to detect motion, etc. As microcontrollers are getting more powerful, more and more is possible. Just look at https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/microcontrollers
Swift 6
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As if US politics was in need of foreign help to undermine itself. In the end it's just a taste of their own regime destabilization medicine.

Just make sure you're supplied with sufficient popcorn.
It's very Decartes before the whores;

> I’m going to talk a bit about what I think the impact Trump’s policies will be for the tech industry,

is exactly arse backwards, from the initial POTUS45 term the leasson learned was that Trump's policies were whatever you told him they would be if you were richer than he was.

That came at the steep cost of supporting a buffoon leading a clown convention, the early VC enthusiam for advising [1] appears to have faded [2].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-16/peter-thi...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/27/peter-thiel-says-if-you-hold...

The dot points listed are too complicated for Trump to base policy on, but he's open to pass the policy that people will pay for.
Same here! In 1997 or so, I was so excited that I could put a 1-minute track on a floppy and play it back in real time...
> Arguably the bigger problem is that many of those datasets e.g. WSJ articles are proprietary and can be exclusively licensed like we've seen recently with OpenAI.

> So we end up with in a situation where competition is simply not possible.

Exactly, and Technofeudalism advances a little more into a new feud.

OpenAI is trying to create its moat by shoring up training data, probably attempting to not allow competitors to train on the same datasets they've been licencing, at least for a while. Training data is the only possible moat for LLMs, models seem to be advancing quite well between different companies but as mentioned here a tidy training dataset is the actual gold.
Coming from Bloomberg.... Who'd have thonk

I'm sure it won't apply to me. If I had a few million I'd be just happy. I have no desire to be "important". And after you already have enough to buy a nice house, pay for some hobbies and not have to work, really the real big money sink is influence. I just don't care about that at all, and I wouldn't if I were rich.

I'm sure the bloomberg crowd do, though.
> The rest is up to you. To your goals. To your motivations.

Which are limited by... your money. Money means options, the more of it you have, the more choices you have.

Of course happiness isn't O(n) with the balance on your bank account. Having money doesn't buy happiness. Buying happiness buys happiness. Money is distilled, fully generalized power. You have to exercise that power to get the benefit.
Show HN: Shorts Generator – Make AI voices talk to each other in your videos
Hey Guys! Just wanted to share something cool I've been working on.

So, I've been kind of obsessed with this idea of AIs talking to each other. There's something weirdly fascinating about multiple AI voices chatting - it just feels more real, you know? Or maybe I'm just tired of all the single AI narrations everywhere these days.

Anyway, I finally got around to adding this feature to my app, Shorts Generator. Now you can make shorts with multiple AIs chatting, just by clicking a few buttons. It's pretty neat!

For those who don't know, Shorts Generator is just this little app I made that helps create short videos quickly. And now you can have AIs talk to each other in those videos. All you do is flip a switch and add some speaker tags.

Under the hood - what I do is parse the speaker tags and run inference based on the voice selected. Maybe there is a more intuitive interface but I just did this today.

I tried it out with some dad jokes between two AIs I named John and Jane. It was as cringe as you'd expect.

Let me know what you think.
From the article:

> As the figure shows, the wealthy individuals are considerably happier than the high earners in the income group.

Absolutely, 100%. Money has made me very happy. Once I saved up enough money from a high-paying job, I was able to quit and do whatever I liked. And I love every minute of it now. No 9-5, no wasting time doing things I don't want to do.

The more money you have, the less you have to waste your precious finite time doing shit you don't want to do. Money allows you to pursue your hobbies, travel, and just have time to appreciate life.

It does take less than people think. You just need enough to buy a cheap house in the middle of nowhere, an ability to give up some luxuries (big city life if you like that, new stuff all the time), and the intelligence to set up a few sources of relatively passive income and/or set up a way to make a little money from hobbies in a surfer-like part-time fashion.
> Any of those can integrate into modern Apple ecosystem?

They can't because Apple does not want them to.
Exactly what I was thinking about! There are some nice studies being done in Switzerland with a trip + 7 (I believe) sessions before and after
Almost certainly usage that doesn't justify the investment
Not who you asked, but I work full-time as a Ruby dev. Off the top of my head, I don't remember the order of arguments of the #reduce method block (it's the opposite of what Elixir uses), the exact syntax of the throw/catch mechanism (in Ruby this isn't exception handling), the methods and parameters for writing into a file, bitwise operators, I always ask a LLM about packing/unpacking bytes between arrays and binary strings and many other things. I also mix up #include? and #includes? because these differ between Ruby and Crystal, and there's also #includes in Rails (AR).

So, the equivalent of creating a dictionary, yeah, sure. But there's loads and loads of stuff that I only use maybe once a week (and someone else maybe uses daily) and that I'd have to awkwardly Google (I use Kagi btw) even during an interview.
You did good.
> I expect this to be... an unlikely one

On what basis? Do you know how many people die in poverty in countries with no social safety net?
Numerical solutions are usually much more accurate, yes.
However, especially when computing with fragment shaders for example, closed form formulas tend to be faster. But the main reason for looking into it was because i had fun doing it.
Hallucination perfectly describes the phenomenon.
Agreed - but on the other hand (no flippancy intended) it's not hard to imagine AI would have done a better job in this instance.
the "futuristic world if <X> was true" meme fully applies to the core idea that sw guys don't get the hw (and vice versa). even more true for the business people that leave no room for bridging the gap.

abstractions exist for a reason but it is refreshing to see some examples where researchers leverage the underlying hw architecture (see mamba architecture that works around GPU design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38932350). but we can do so much more instead of pushing the new version of the existing process node.
I'd argue that a lot of people who are wealthy and don't have children might influence the over all data. Not having children in itself can be a great source of happiness for some.
As well isolated as anything else on the bus.

So you better actually use IOMMU
Also see https://github.com/kilobyte/colorized-logs which is very performant and available in every distro.
> You will be happy with having at least one in your office

I would be very happy with zero toilets. It means office has to close, and we work from home. It happed a few times when toilet broke.

> but what about having 10 toilets

How about 200?! Personal private toilet is pretty reasonable minimal requirement for some people.
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GPS should be expected to be an option given its prevalence, the consideration that the supplement(s) are required to be derived using an electronic device - a telephone does not work without electricity, and the urgency to implement.
I also agree with this. The high-paying job I had was extremely unfulfilling but gave me enough money to quit and try something else...
There was similar scheme of percussive maintenance with ČSD Class M 152.0 [0] railcar. It suffered from engine stall problems until some train driver kicked into certain spot of train undercarriage out of frustration and found by accident it fixes the problem.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8CSD_Class_M_152.0
Well, some bridge maintenance would be nice. Additional work to strengthen highway passes, communication infrastructure, government owned buildings...maybe some seismic engineering or reinforcement done on the unreinforced masonry elementary schools, some of which (in Seattle) were last touched in the 1990s. On an individual level, homes built before 1980 should be updated to meet modern earthquake foundation codes.

All of these problems are known, but not funded, because who cares? Disaster management nerds?
e.g the 2022 cascadia emergency exercise: https://mil.wa.gov/asset/6390e374e0f21
Don't the bouncers usually have the clipboards? And wouldn't they be aware of other people of clipboard status by face/name? seeing a rogue clipboard might prompt questions and credential requests. Clipboards on strangers make me curious, ladders make me glad someone else called to have whatever it is fixed.
What is CERN using instead of CentOS or Scientific Linux now?
Yea, my bad I guess. I tend to think people mostly get that biometrics are, well, mostly immutable and that not being able to switch them up in response to a suspected breach is a huge inherent weakness. So the only defense I really get of them from anyone is that the effort for the user is minimized while the effort for the attacker is still fairly high. The problem with that is why I mention inferrability: The existence of a computer system that can authenticate via a biometric implies the existence of one that can capture and spoof it, and we don't have any reason to believe this involves, say, more of a cost disparity than cracking a password, let alone anything approaching a strong one-way function. If your face is your key, do you start hiding your face on the street so no one can steal it? Same thing for behaviorals
It's kinda funny all/most of the initial goodwill towards the Rabbit was purely because of the Teenage Engineering design.

I hope TE chooses their clients better in the future. The guy behind Rabbit is a known grifter.
As a lifetime contractor, I felt this all the time. So I spoke to the boss of one of the recruitment agencies and said, hey. Isn’t this a job I’d be good at? Recruiting? Because I actually know what the hell I’m on about?

And he said, sure, and I’d hire you! But you’d be bored to death within a week because every day is exactly the same.
Proven? The link basically says "we do not operate anything, Tesla is just leasing the space".
It's hard to say because there are so many different preferences. For example, for people who just want to be by themselves, live in a secluded area surrounded by wildlife, a lot of money would help them fulfil that dream and be happy there. Money allows you to disconnect from the system. For others who like their job and just want enough to live "within the system", there might be a levelling off factor. Ambition to reach some level of social standing might be a factor too.
I don’t think these are equivalent. You might get special cases such as a charging station in the outback of Australia where this is necessary but it’s not like it’s a standard option on any install.
The problem is that HR is the first line of entry, and if you're not keyword stuffing every possible technology under the sun, they'll pass you on, because they don't know that being a python expert is fine for a Ruby job. So you have to put both down, lest the HR screen say "well they didn't specify Ruby, they don't make it through!"
Excellent example of Betteridge's law of headlines [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
This is more of a C question than C++.

In a C++ library you would probably make the format function type safe. But both Clang and gcc have annotations you can add to functions using format strings so they are type-checked
I switched to Wayland 10 years ago when it became an option ok Fedora.
First thing I had to do was to drop NVIDIA and switch to Intel GPU, and past 5 years to AMD GPU.
Makes a big difference if the upstream kernel is supported.

Maybe NVIDIA drivers have kind of worked on 12 month old kernels that Ubuntu on average uses.
Carmel already is everything the no address loving lawbreakers imagine Carmel will become if it is compliant with the law.
The key part is the second bit - a world where we build loads of air conditioners so that a few people can comfortably cool their mansions in the desert while others boil in their apartments or on the streets is unacceptable.