skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the cost function has a multiplication of a base times the floor of the log of the value with respect to that base plus one, area is a misleading analogy to describe the applicability as any geometric dimensional value has to taken with respect to a basis. For a visual, (directional) linear scaling is more in line so to say.
Discussion (16 points, 11 hours ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41198808
Panacea Launch – Novel Artificial Intelligence Platform
Anote is an artificial intelligence startup in New York City. Today, our team at Anote is excited to launch a new product called Panacea. Panacea is a novel end-to-end artificial intelligence platform that leverages human centered AI to label data, train models, make predictions, and evaluate LLMs. This technology can be used to accurately classify text, extract entities, answer questions and chat with your documents. See our launch video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk4hSnoOofA

Within Panacea, there are a number of technological advancements that we will highlight over a series of webinars, tutorials and product demos next week:
Improving RAG - 8/12 at 5 PM EST
Novel ML Approaches to Human Centered AI - 8/13 at 3 PM EST
Classify Text, Extract Entities, Answer Questions - 8/14 at 2 PM EST
Private Chatbot and Applications of RAG - 8/16 at 4 PM EST

Feel free to use the link here to register:
https://anote.ai/panacea
If you could patent pulling up the ladder after you, Disney would hold that patent.
> Oh, and just in case your first rebuttal is "having thousands of containers means you've already failed" - not everyone works in a mom n pop shop

The majority of folks, whether or not they admit it, probably do...
Impure functions lack referential transparency, which is often sacrificed but kind of important to being a function - getting the same result every time you call it with the same input. Alternatively, you can say that every function has an implicit input parameter of the the current program state, but that turns every function on one bit of input to a potentially astronomically complex function of gigabytes of input.
The return type of a function is an assertion. You’re saying that values of the type exist. The return value is an assertion about the arguments. You’re saying that they imply the result. The issue is that your code is incorrect, in a logic sense, if it states that for some given value the mathematical operation of division results in both an error and a number.

The issue is not one of usability or (direct) understandability, it’s an issue of correctness. Something like “well it works fine for me if I just remember to check if I receive both” or “everyone on my team understands that receiving both means an error occurred” just isn’t a valid response, it doesn’t address the problem.
Ask HN: Are any databases implementing own memory paging (swapping)?
The question is - Are (any or all?) database systems engines implementing own memory paging (memory swaping mechanisms) beside just what Operating System is providing so they can still work even when memory available trough OS virtual memory is exhausted? Or in other words - so they could work on data sets far exceeding size of memory that virtual memory can provide? Can you provide examples of database engines that do have such functionality implemented?
Discussion (86 points, 2 days ago, 82 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184420
Probably. It was just that previously the victor wrote the history books, whereas now everyone has access to all the information all the time.

Admittedly my comment is a bit trite - purity contests are just as despicable.
"Sugar Pills"

Yeah it happens a lot more than you think - the entire everything - about USA pharma is absolute evil.

I've pissed off a lot of people in my statements about how chemists are a very unscrupulous profession, and many are downright evil. (you need to really learn about the history of Sandoz, Bayer, Novartis, Du Pont, J&J, Monsanto, and all the others.... <--- LONG history of chemical weapons, chemical poisons, super-sites, deformed babies.
The lack of regulation and oversight in the chemical industry has enabled these scandals to occur.

Watch the Devil We Know, for example about Teflon

https://i.imgur.com/vGIcL0d.png

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One of my pet peeves. ;)
I have some staff with combined hearing and visual needs. Have you researched the one-, two- all-party consent requirements? Asking because I hope to identify transcription as "non-recording".
Thanks! That is something I might offer in the future and is definitely possible with a library like pyannote. Would be really cool to add for sure.

I am also experimenting with post-processing transcripts with LLMs to infer speaker names from a transcript. It works pretty decent already but it's still a bit expensive. I have this feature available under the 'enhanced' model if you want to check it out: https://docs.spectropic.ai/models/transcribe/enhanced
Rarely the intended star, but steals the show regularly, especially with his voice-over work. He's well-known as Goliath's voice in Gargoyles, was pretty much everyone's favorite part of The Princess and the Frog, and recently took a ton of people by (pleasant) surprise with his interpretation of Pluto (Astroboy)'s Dr. Tenma.
What happens to his hacker News account? What about email account, cloud servers, etc ...?

I know Google has a nice tool to share your account after you are gone, as for the rest, I have no plans.

Anyone has good suggestions on managing one's own digital legacy?
Why nothing happened to Law professors parents of FTX founder and Sequoia?
These people enabled things and Sequoia wrote a love letter in their own webpage, why not fine to them at all? they deleted the article and that's it? is this some game. They have DD and promoted a real fraud.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlight/
They like money but if they keep this up the EU will be forced to fine them into submission.

Do they think this is the US where the DMA will be ruled unconstitutional or the Commission will be defanged by the ECJ? It ain’t gonna happen.
What size is the software you are using? If it's niche, you might be able to straight up aquire them.

Or at least get a source code license so you can have an inhouse time improve it.

I would recommend against building something from scratch without having the necessary experience
Well, this is stuff I read 40 years ago about tech nearly 30 years prior!
Based on his LinkedIn profile: a writer, editor and researcher

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-seliger-03363819
Jetbrains Amper – Project configuration tool
There are likely ways to have your cake and eat it too. Rather than replace the existing system, consider augmenting it with your own and then eventually, over time replace the existing system.

Showing short term and long term wins concurrently is a good recipe for success for tech as much as it is for business.

Some questions that may help you:
1. What are the biggest problems with your existing system and how does that relate with the biggest problem for your business?

2. Is there an API or any manual process you can use to communicate between new systems and the existing system?

3. Is there an engineering leader you can bring on to help or consult?
The Madness of Mobs
Well my idea was that Android phones typically have some kind of hardware decoder chip, so it might be fast enough.

I'm not saying it was the best idea ever, and I haven't pursued it in like 8 years.
Soon scientists will decide that base 10 beats base 3 and those ancient Egyptians were right the whole time.
The difference being, that about half the population has zero chance against the other half in most sports. And for vast majority of the cases, it is very clear-cut as to which group someone belongs. Phelps, on the other hand, is a singular individual.

Sports is not the only problem. All public policy, as a consequence of some agreement between a large group of people, should be based on something objective rather than what a person thinks or feels. So how do we know when a person should be able to retire with benefits?
Second this. It's currently available free on the RSS feed in every podcast directory. The whole back catalog can also be purchased, and IMHO it's well worth buying. I bought it a couple years back and have been very happy with it. I think it's like $80, but you get countless hours of good history from a master storyteller.

His series on World War I (aka The Great War) called "Blueprint For Armageddon" was one of the most interesting and captivating of any podcasts or audiobooks I've ever listened to.

When I was younger the older folks would talk so highly about the days of theater radio, when actors and storytellers would tell audio-only stories. I used to wonder how that could possibly compete with video. After listening to Hardcore History, I get it now. There's something really powerful about listening to a natural storyteller lay things out, and Dan Carlin is a master of the craft. If you're new to him, the last few years of shows are always freely available through the RSS feed that's in every podcast directory.
Tariffs on China could help the world
The employees can also store their desktops in specially cooled, centrally located lockers at work if they want. And as a perk, we’ll buy and administrate these computers for them.
Isn't every monad a state monad?
It can take an arbitrary amount of time. Modules are just code executed top to bottom, and might contain anything beyond mere constants and functions declaration.
A Few Little Ideas and Short Stories
> I mean we have whole college courses about it.

Doesn't this have more to do with the fact that it's not part of the standard math curriculum taught at the high school level? I'm no math wiz and discrete math was basically a free A when I took it in college. The most difficult part for me was memorizing the Latin (modus ponens, modus tollens - both of which I still had to lookup because I forgot them beyond mp, mt).

Being a college course doesn't imply that it's hard, just that it's requisite knowledge that a student is not expected to have upon entering university.
It’s a theoretical result, not something happening with current self-driving cars.

“Our work is the first to demonstrate the feasibility of controlling mixed traffic via robot vehicles at real-world, complex intersections.”
That applies to every country with any kind of universal draft or conscription. For example, that’s more or less the argument that Hamas was making to justify its hostage-taking some months ago.
Completely left out of this post and most of the conversation is that being on K8 makes it much, much easier to go multi-cloud. K8 is k8.
Same with actors becoming directors.
Ah, yes, my droogies and I know well that a proper swig of the old moloko plus, with a dash of drencrom, gets us sharpened up and ready for a night of ultraviolence. Really keep things horrorshow!
Why, Are Ultraprocessed Foods So Hard to Resist?
Oh, I'm sure it's great for industrial, as long as you can live with the hardware security issues. In college, my first serious task as an intern was to take a Cortex-M0+ and make it pretend to be an 8051 MCU that was being obsoleted. Unsurprisingly, this was for an industrial automation firm.

I mimicked the 16-bit data bus using hand-written assembly to make sure the timings were as close as possible to the real chip. It was a pain in the ass. It would have been amazing to have a chip that was designed specifically to mimic peripherals like that.

It's great that there's a community growing around the RPi microcontrollers! That's a really good sign for the long-term health of the ecosystem they're trying to build.

What I'm looking for is a comprehensive library of PIO drivers that are maintained by RPi themselves. There would be a lot of benefits to that as a firmware developer: I would know the drivers have gone through some kind of QA. If I'm having issues, I could shoot a message to my vendor/RPi and they'll be able to provide support. If I find a bug, I could file that bug and know that someone is going to receive it and fix it.
Sorry, what’s the point of these links? Don’t worry, another pill is on the way to solve the exercise problem?
Just wait 'til you start in Dresden!
Corrupting memory without memory corruption (2022)
This is what I did with a scammer. He kept rationalizing his theft, claiming he's just taking "a little" from many people who are well off and wouldn't miss it. Of course, not only is that bullshit, but it wouldn't justify the theft even if it were true. I appealed to his conscience, sternly, and didn't give him an inch. I ended the conversation by wishing that he will come to renounce his evil ways.

The very fact that he didn't hangup, that he felt he had to explain away his guilt to me (a few times) shows that he himself wasn't convinced of his rationalization and that he himself believed he was doing something wrong. I can only hope that the guilt gnawed its way into his conscious and that the worm that never dies led him to rethink his life and to pick up some honest work.

May the guilty lose sleep, and may their ill-gotten goods taste of ash, and thus be led to remorse and reform and the righteous path. This is love of neighbor.
> The business can jump up and down all it wants, if the customers decide to leave.

I think the point is that, for a few minutes of downtime, businesses lose so little customers that it's not worth avoiding that downtime.

Just now, we had a 5m period where disney+ stopped responding. We aren't going to cut off our toddler from peppa big and bluey for 5m of downtime per day, nevermind per week.

You appeared to be under the impression that 3m downtime/week is enough to make people leave. This is simply not true, especially for internet services where the users are conditioned to simply wait.
The other day I noticed that the only platform where illustrators post that supports CC is DeviantArt, and it doesn't have a way to search for CC work since its redesign years ago. There doesn't seem to be anything like Flickr but for cartoons, clipart, and illustrations. There are free clipart websites, but those are mainly third-party. This means illustrators on Instagram, Twitter, or Tumblr who choose to license their work as CC have no machine-discoverable way to do so. This is a very unfortunate turn of events. It's very easy to find CC photography and music made by someone on the Internet, but it seems almost impossible to find a drawing licensed the same way.

When I see an article with an ugly AI-generated cartoon at the top, I can't help but think we could have articles with cool random artwork by real people instead if it was as easy to find freely licensed artwork by living artists as it is to just generate something with AI. It feels like there's a huge hole there that doesn't exist in photography (thanks to Flickr), doesn't exist in video (Youtube lets you tag your videos as CC), doesn't exist in audio (many years ago Newgrounds created an entire audio section just for CC music that could be used in flash games/animation by other users), but somehow exists in illustration.

Even in OpenVerse, if I search for "illustration," most results will be historic. I realize that in most cases it doesn't make a difference, but I really wish I could have a URL to link to. I wish I could say "here's this picture, and here's a link to this guy's portfolio, who put this on the internet and let me use it."

Is there some method I'm not aware of or is this just how it is?
Coffee shops have been around for centuries. How popular they are varies as fads come and go, but they have been there.
What I learned about ultra-processed foods food from technology event
Very little information in that news item

> More detailed information will follow beginning next week

May as well have been a toot.
I'm not convinced "big digital projects" in the private sector fare any better. As far as I can see, the scale of the project is a bigger problem than whether the originator is a private or public company. Public companies just have more of an obligation to be transparent with their failures.
Dropping/gravity had nothing to do with it or an impact. When it dropped it fell onto the pile and once there the total mass was now enough for it to go supercritical.
It's clear that you do not own your device. It comes with limitations that tbf were agreed to upfront. For mobile, there is no real choice. Devil 1 is apple, devil 2 is google.

Imo, Apple should be allowed to charge what they want - I'm ok with that as long as I can sidestep their thrall and sideload whatever I choose at no cost. If I get burned, that's on me.

I think their costs in running the AppStore are the cost of doing business. They need this for their product. Without it, the product is nothing. And they get to suck 30% out of everything. Got to admire that.

Better would be a replacement OS but is that even possible?
Is Programming an Art?
F# Computation Expressions, 'do' notation and list comprehensions (2020)
I hear you loud and clear! In robotics, every company has the same make-vs-buy dilemma with respect to fleet management software (quite comparable to logistics). I've been in your shoes. This is why I believe in third-party solutions that don't try to be one-size-fits-all, but instead enable you to build your own, perfect system yourself, and that's what I'm working on now. I've recently written about it here: https://transitiverobotics.com/blog/make-vs-buy
Feel free to find me if you want to chat and compare notes.
There are regular articles about breakthroughs. Solar power drops in price quickly. You don't need to compile a list in order to connect the dots.
I'm willing to bet that whomever originally came up with the 'auspicious' 9 days never did it themselves.
Solar doesn't compete with coal or gas - it's still not reliable enough to replace base load requirements, and skewed economics around solar have killed new or replacement base load projects. Indeed, the California and Texas screwed up politics and economics are chief contributors to their power instability. My favorite is in CA - mandatory switch to electric cars then ban people from charging them due to electricity shortages. You can't make this stuff up.
If you’re happy working remotely then you potentially have a much larger pool of talent to choose from.
Got any sources for this?
Self-Organizing Systems: What, How, and Why?
Yes! GLP-1 agonists came out of nowhere (from a relative timeline perspective), and the positive potential is massive (with some side effects, which may be acceptable in the aggregate compared to the aggregate benefit). What is more likely to occur, based on all available evidence? Humans are going to change their behaviors at scale? Or we're going to use bioengineering to help folks achieve their goals? Don't be mad at the human, they are only human; help the human be a better human via path of least resistance. The human didn't elect to be here, nor exist with the genetic makeup they were given.

If you can build a system to stick to strength training, excellent, but many cannot. I struggle myself sticking to my strength training routine.
This looks great. Did you have an API or plan to release one?
Ya, if it’s two accounts controlled by the same person I agree it’s disingenuous. I think (hope?) that’s not the case here though
Strategic bombing were attempted multiple time during the war (first by the Germans on UK, and the UK/US on Germany then Japan) without success (and in most cases it actually strengthened the resolve)
California has an exception for hearing aids and other similar devices, but it’s unclear if transcription aids count, or if this has been tested in court. https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632/ (Not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.)
In limited, specialized domains where big chunky (comparatively) transceivers let you abuse "actually analog" naturę of the medium for higher speeds.

Not for internal logic.
Yep, and you can get far with k3s "fake" load balancer (ServiceLB). Then when you need a more "real" cluster basically all the concepts are the same you just move to a new cluster.
If I recall correctly, that is why it is illegal for clinical trials to charge for experimental and unapproved medication. The patient's "payment" is in taking the risk, and the 'pay-off' towards the experimenter is that it helps get their drug approved to a saleable state, if it works. That part sounds like a good ethical system design to avoid perverse incentives - the drug maker doesn't gain anything unless it works and even then it is indirectly.
China's super-secret space plane spotted above Europe
Show HN: Listen to articles in your favorite podcast player
I use text-to-speech (TTS) to keep up with my reading list. It's really convenient to be able to listen to newsletters and blog posts while I do the dishes or commute. But I was constantly disappointed with existing solutions. They either use bad TTS with unnatural pronunciation, or awkward audio players. But it doesn't have to be like this! Excellent TTS exists, and most of us already have great audio players installed on our phones--podcast apps. So I wrote this service that combines the two. Simply send text to a special email address, and the audio will show up in your podcast player.

Sign up and give it a try! Every account comes with trial credits and doesn't require billing information to get started. I've also prepared a demo dashboard for Hacker News: https://www.readit.bot/demo You can add the feed URL to your podcast player if you want to see it in action. For copyright reasons, I've populated the feed with public domain books, but I've put a lot of effort into making it work well with newsletters and articles. I'm excited to know what you think.

Demo dashboard: https://www.readit.bot/demo
and a third option: telco carriers are liable for allowing this to go on.
I'm sure it exists when the problem itself is distributed. For example, I can imagine something like YouTube would require a complex distributed system.

But I think very few problems fit into that archetype. Instead, people build distributed systems for reliability and integrity. But it's overkill, because you bring all the baggage and complexity of distributed computing. This area is incredibly difficult. I view it similar to parallelism. If you can avoid it for your problem, then avoid it. If you really can't, then take a less complex approach. There's no reason to jump to "scale to X threads and every thread is unaware of where it's running" type solutions, because those are complex.
Thanks!

Googling more about this, it seems the Russian portion of the ISS has 4 docking ports, but US portion has 2 docking + 2 berthing ports, and the Russian ports are not compatible with the US ones.

There is also apparently a US "pressurized mating adaptor" (PMA) that adapts a "common berthing mechanism" (CBM) port to a docking one, which sounds as if it might (if one were available, and could be installed) be able to adapt one of the US berthing ports for use by Dragon.
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