skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a useful tool that saves me time. My weekend project this week was literally just writing a canon for modular synth that used a moon bounce for the second voice. I figured I could compose it with a delay set to 2.7sec, and then play with the clock via Maths for a performance- but their plugin sounds like this is more complex and interesting.

Lunar bounce canons could become an entire form arising from that 2.7sec constraint.
which is offset by the fact that you just lost a ton of money, so it doesn't really add up
If there are no long-term side effects to taking GLP1 agonists (remains to be seen), then I think the following will happen:

- In the short term, the fitness industry (a multi-billion dollar market) and its dependents will crater,

- Smaller, European-like, serving sizes will become the norm, and

- You'll see more and much larger investments in de-alcoholifying beers, wines and spirits.

I do not think this class of drugs will accelerate the adoption of universal healthcare in the US.

For one, the healthcare industry employs a ton of people in towns like Bowling Green. (HCA, the biggest healthcare network in the US, is headquarted in Nashville, TN. Nashville is definitely bigger than Bowling Green, but people that lie in Murfreesboro and other small towns around Nashville work at HCA. Also, many insurance companies are headquartered in the Midwest, where jobs are relatively scant compared to the big coastal cities.) Any policy that ends with "and tens of thousands of jobs will be lost" is political suicide.

Also, the modern healthcare industry in the US was built and designed around private, employer-provided health insurance. Reverse-engineering decades-old business logic and institutional process to fit a government-provided system would be a gigantic and extremely expensive underatking that we would pay for (through taxes).
Don’t bother he is just saying things in bad faith.
It's pretty easy to get in contact with someone most of the time if you search for relevant roles on google with site:linkedin.com, or if you want to reach execs, on their business pages. I usually include several combinations of first and last names @company.com so like I will email to JSmith@company.com and JohnSmith@company.com and others. This is useful for escalating customer service complaints if you're just hitting a brick wall with the low level customer service staff.
Because it's fun.

I have my own ongoing decompilation/reverse-engineering project for a video game. As part of it, I've accidentally stumbled upon delinking, a very niche and esoteric technique for slicing an executable back into object files. This turned into a two year side-quest to create and improve my own tooling for it, which has been by far the most interesting and intellectually stimulating project I've ever embarked on. It's steadily attracting attention (with some cool in-depth technical email threads with various people around the world) and recently it has even gained at least one active user.

Is there a rational reason why I've tackled this project? Absolutely not. It's completely bonkers, both in idea and execution. I've committed some wicked acts of heresy with it according to conventional computer sciences wisdom, like delinking code across platforms/object file formats and shoving it into foreign systems in spite of ABIs.

Sometimes people just have an itch to scratch. Mine is to take a chainsaw to executable files and make twisted chimeras out of the torn off pieces.
In fission, it seems that most of the energy release is in the form of the kinetic energy of the daughter nuclei rather than gamma radiation or the kinetic energy of neutrons (from Wikipedia: For uranium-235 (total mean fission energy 202.79 MeV), typically ~169 MeV appears as the kinetic energy of the daughter nuclei, which fly apart at about 3% of the speed of light, due to Coulomb repulsion. Also, an average of 2.5 neutrons are emitted, with a mean kinetic energy per neutron of ~2 MeV (total of 4.8 MeV.) The fission reaction also releases ~7 MeV in prompt gamma ray photons.)[1]

Given this, I'm guessing that, for direct conversion to be at all efficient here, a significant fraction of this energy would have to be converted into electrical potential energy rather than be dissipated as heat in collisions between these nuclei and any part of the apparatus. Are there any nascent technologies of this sort?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission
So it’s a music composition programming language?
it's possible with virtlet or kubevirt
Every time I read about Nomad, I wonder the same. I swear I'm not trolling here, I honestly don't get how running Nomad is simpler than Kubernetes. Especially considering that there are substantially more resources and help on Kubernetes than Nomad.
19h's comment that started this sub-thread is a perfect example of the horrible state of civics education.

I'm not an accountant and I definitely don't know taxes properly either, but I do know enough about taxes to know that businesses pay taxes on their net profit (gross income - losses = net profit). Those losses can be payroll costs, costs of goods, shipping and handling costs, rent, loan payments, insurance premiums, equipment purchases and upkeep, travel and lodging expenditures, and so on.

Assuming that the losses are legitimate and can be audited if necessary, this is not tax evasion and to baselessly accuse anyone of it is literally defamation.
Another commenter says that the actual released film does not have the same clip twice and suggests that the TikTok maker watched a pirated version.can anyone else confirm the reuse of the clip?
> A major selling point for me was that they have a local network API which can be used to monitor and control everything without relying on their cloud services.

That would be a MAJOR selling point for me, too! Especially because most of the companies that do this for residential are getting a huge portion of the profits using YOUR batteries, rather than getting that profit yourself. Unfortunately, where I live, that is mostly because energy utilities are hostile to anyone except large middlemen installers and their VPPs. It would be simple for them to also allow individuals to sign up for dispatch if they were half-competent. I can't find any companies providing battery systems plus solar that are able to be fully local in my area of the USA, either, even if I wanted to try and go "off grid" using massively overbuilt batteries linked to solar.
Grace Hopper, Nvidia's Halfway APU
>Why bother remaking it?

Reverse engineering the source code makes it much, much easier to mod the game and add more fun stuff.
John Chowning, Computer Music, DX7 and FM Discovery
Its not a gross ownership model. These things are set up this way because different groups of people will pay different amounts of money for different bundles of things that are taxed at different rates/advantages depending on their use. The land lease has scheduled payments for the next ~100 years, long beyond the time horizon of DCFAs that anyone is doing for investors. Many buildings in NYC and elsewhere have this ownership model. Why should a land owner be into construction and and why should a land owner be exposed to the volatility of commercial real estate rents if they don't need to be.
Centrally managed dependencies are invaluable for small/simpler apps.

Not every program is backed by a company that provides continuous updates.

And what happens if the updates stop? Yeah right you have a giant pile of half-broken, bug-ridden and outdated random libraries.

I use some small Win32 and GTK+ utilities that weren't touched in years and they all just work, are nicely integrated into the system theme (even dark mode works without me lifting a finger) and use fresh and up-to-date dependencies courtesy of the OS.
There is no way in hell anyone would get an approval to frack anything in Manhattan of all places, and there isn’t really anything worth fracking under there anyways. Manhattan has never been a large source of mineral wealth.
> The distinction between farmed fish and wild catch is similar to the difference between raising livestock rather than hunting wild animals.

Silly thought: does this mean aquaculture could eventually lead to new "breeds" of (a given species of) fish by artificial selection, significantly different from their wild counterparts?
I feel like I just played the Uno Reverse card on the nerd snipe.
Whats with the doom laden tone of the article? I could have written "hackers figure out how to open the management engine, no longer need you be a serf on your own CPU" and it would be just as accurate.
Property owners are terrified of this becoming a go-to strategy, particularly funds that might have investors breaking down their door to get it to happen ("Isn't some income better than no income?"). Residential units go for less, and even an inexpensive conversion is a capital investment of some order, so you're putting money into the building to devalue it. Alternatively, you could not do that, and your balance sheet survives to see another day. Who cares about pathologically inefficient use of existing infrastructure?
Generating and detecting graphene plasmon polaritons with terahertz electronics
I'm sorry I couldn't reply sooner. The sibling comment took all my free time last week (lol).

I've taken great interest in Harrold. It'll be some time until I can deep dive into anything besides work, but he's made my top 10 list of thinkers to know and potentially assimilate into my research framework (I treat theoretical signals not as data but as methods, essentially, a panel of "ways to think about the data" itself).

Thank you very much for the suggestion (and for that write up, it really helped).
This is not entirely true.

Most of the data defending the economic harms of obesity are deeply flawed for various reasons, such as:

- Generally low-quality data

- Data that ignores external factors

- Data that doesn't account for behavioral issues like doctors ignoring or minimizing medical complaints made by obese people simply because they're obese

- Data that overemphasizes BMI, an extremely flawed health metric, etc.)

- The criteria for "obesity" itself having changed over the years (based on BMI, of course),

- and others.

There are definitely issues that obesity exacerbates in many people (mobility and cardiovascular), but the overarching purpose behind stats like the ones that you pointed out is to shame people who are (a) naturally hungrier than the average person with a "socially acceptable" frame, while (b) living in car-centric suburbs that discourage things like walking because (c) these suburbs are cheaper than living in cities that have somewhat-functional public transportation because they were created before the car was invented.

- Why BMI is flawed, from Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03143-x

- Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong, from Huffington Post (the author co-runs a podcast on the topic): https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-y...

- Obesity was long considered a personal failing. Science shows it's not, from USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/health/2022/07/26/ame...
I'm pretty sure that if letsencrypt localhost certs work, they'll work fine with .internal too?
Laundering requires earnings to look legal.
My kid wanted to try my Robotron 2084 standup in the basement. He first got confused by the lack of continues, then just gave up because he was playing for free.
Is there a non-docker version of this?
I looked around and it seems like no.
I'm not installing Linux to run this.
Neither is sugar a poison nor the general driver of the obesity epidemic.
So sorry for your loss, and grateful for Jake’s writings about his journey - tough but invaluable reading.
> it's unexpected/good

That depends on your interests. If you care about the finer points of sound editing embedded in a rather extensive personal narrative then yeah, it's good. Otherwise not so much.
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When in doubt, call it a data lake.
To add to Jason's point -

There is a big UI part here, because for multimodal data analytics, we think it's crucial for people to see and hear data.

For the RAG search, many DBs have built-in vector search, but chunking, indexing, and maintaining the index are kind of on your own. This may not be a problem for technical people, but it's a hassle for data people who own hundreds of data products within a company. Therefore, we have a semantic search index builder that allows one to build an auto-refreshing semantic search index with no code, and completely keep hands free from coming up with their own vectors.

In addition, data analysis often needs to interrogate the search results further. For example, let's say we have used pgvector to find all the photos related to the Golden Gate Bridge. But then we want to interrogate questions like which of these images has someone wearing a blue shirt. We have to apply another model, and that is outside of a normal DB's responsibility.
Without going into too many specifics, for a period during my career I was involved with an organization whose responsibility it is to track nuclear materials and keep them under safe surveillance—in fact my job had the words 'surveillance engineer' in its title.

I say that only bring to your attention how difficult this would be in practice. Putting safety aside for a moment, in most countries the regulatory restrictions are enormous because they are signatories to the NPT—Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons which tightly bind them to how they use and handle nuclear materials. This involves, use, tracking, short and long-term disposal thereof not to mention how to keep radioactive materials away from bad actors/those who've ill intent.

With safety, there are so many issues involved that I can hardly even mention them here. Just as an illustration, the once lack of regulations covering the manufacture and use of luminous radium paint turned out to be a disaster.

I've thought about this a great deal, whenever the batteries in my flashlight die I wish I had some nuclear powered ones and evey time I'm brought back to reality when I think how difficult it would be to implement in practice.
The alleged tax avoider is in no way harmed by a kook on HN claiming illegal avoidance, so the elements of defamation are not met.
I feel like the focus on trace/log/metrics terminology is overshadowing Charity's comments on the presentation and navigation tier, which is really where the focus should be in my experience. Her point about making the curious more effective than the tenured is quite powerful.

Observability databases are quickly adopting columnar database technologies. This is well aligned with wide, sparse columns suitable to wide, structured logs. These systems map well to the query workloads, support the high speed ingest rate, can tolerate some about of buffering on the ingest path for efficiency, and store a ton of data highly compressed, and now readily tier local to cloud storage. Consolidating more of the fact table to this format makes a lot of sense - a lot more sense than running two or three separate database technologies specialized to metrics, logs, and traces. You can now end the cardinality miseries of legacy observability TSDBs.

But the magic sauce in observability platforms is making the rows in the fact table linkable and navigable - getting from a log message to a relevant trace; navigating from an error message in a span to a count of those errors filtered by region or deployment id... This is the complexity in building highly ergonomic observability platforms - all of the transformation, enrichment, and metadata management (and the UX to make it usable).
I speculate that because of those few years of living as a rockstar you're left with a big gap on your CV.
[Trip Bitten] View of China after 12 years Living Here [video]
I knew it and it's amazing: I had already seen that song played on the theremin but never realized it was from Ennio Morricone.
Why not lease the building, too? In the case of McDonald's I can imagine it's because only McDonald's wants the specific building (which looks and serves a purpose specifically like a McDonald's), but if it's a generic office building, why wouldn't you prefer to lease both the building and the land it's on (assuming you prefer to lease at all)?
You can’t protect against a state level actor. They could just get physical access in most cases anyway and force got to give up the codes
What do they plan on using to generate energy then, oil, coal, solar, wind? Something else?
> Lots of organizations struggle to fully set up trust for the private CA on all internal systems.

Made worse by the fact phone OSes have made it very difficult to install CAs.
Also a lot of history books were funded by government money or NGOs. Which is understandable considering that it may very well take years of research to write one.
They claim to have performed fusion, but not yet produced net energy. So they're very much a fusion company, but not an energy company:

> In 2023, we will end operations on Trenta, our 6th fusion prototype… Our results suggest that Trenta is currently the best performing privately-funded fusion machine in the world. After these last weeks of plasma operations under vacuum, we will retire Trenta and move all focus to Polaris, our 7th fusion prototype, expected to demonstrate net electricity in 2024.

So, they have 143 days left to make good on their current timeline, I guess.
My deepest condolences to you, Bess, Athena, and your entire family.
Intuitively, I tend to agree.

To elaborate a bit, I think there are layers in-between raw IQ and practical proprioception, for instance. Balancing one's body involves the full neural chain, down to origin (which is the end-cell, the sensor/motor device), and quite evidently can be trained to orders of magnitude more accuracy.

So to think like a tech stack of sorts, from the meat (purely biological, since the first unicellular organisms) to the highest-level (call it 'sapience', 'wisdom', whatever; that which is even above IQ), you'd find something that goes

good-enough bodily genetics
+
trained sensor & motor neural precision
+
high IQ for good aim and strategy
+
sapient decision-making

in order to best navigate complex spaces.

Case in point: cliche nerds (not your best dancers/athletes), unwise yet very intelligent people, bad draw at the genetic lottery for negative examples; conversely a very gifted "natural born" athlete or musician (which doesn't mean that without training they wouldn't get beaten flat by any seasoned professional) doubling as a strategy prodigy, or zen master, whatever 'wise-r.'

If we admit that space[time] is the "language of the brain" (what IQ actually tests), and therefore that even social spaces—like love, business, or politics—are navigated from the same core skills than physical spaces like sports.
(That much perhaps is a stretch, it may be more complicated; but perhaps partially true for 'core functions' as it were. Perhaps like 'speech mastery' alone is a core function that contributes to a slew of more complex tasks/goals).
The Continental was much heavier than a Mustang and heavier than a Thunderbird too. It was also front wheel drive, which may have had an effect. In normal driving I never had a problem with the Continental, but I like to test the limits of my cars in the rain and that Continental was certainly harder to brake in the wet past its limits than were the Mustangs or Thunderbirds. I don't remember all the details, we're talking decades ago, but for anything other than straight line breaking I preferred cars without ABS at the time. Even if ABS ostensibly helps you steer.
That's the "thermal middleman" part they're trying to cut out.

By analogy, compare Concentrated Solar Power versus Photovoltaics.
This is probably the most delightfully interesting thing I've read in weeks.
Cloud hosts will offer 10Gb/s. Anyway, in my experience with training LoRAs and running DINOv2 inference you don’t need much bandwidth. We are usually sitting at around 10-30MB/s per GPU.
the DeepFilterNet 2 paper has benchmarks which include the RNN model used in the article. TLDR is that DFN2 does a better job.

I suspect they went with the RNN model because the Pico 2 could run it with the 10ms max latency they wanted.

DFN2 is fast, but I'm not sure it's lightweight enough for something like the Pico 2.
What an inflammatory and ignorant comment.
Well, yeah, once the distance gets out of the well of the strong force, the nuclei are at the top of a big electrical force gradient that gets converted to kinetic energy. With proper ionization of the daughter atoms that kinetic energy could potentially be converted back to electric, well, potential.
I pray 7 years at Google is enough to break through this with my own startup. Left a year ago. Before Google, I was a college drop out & waiter that sold a mildly successful startup. No one cared. Next best offers were $120K in NYC, or $50K in Buffalo.

You know, thinking on it, the factor you mention gets it more likely to get you funding, and the funding is what lets you live in an echo chamber.

Tis sort of close-minded navel-gazing happened all. the. time. at Google. I call it "rich people thinking" but it might just be the penultimate white collar thing. At some point the "success" of being there is widely considered enough, and anyone speaking up is either crazy or not a team player.

Even when you've been watching the naked emperor together for 6 months.

Even when "speaking up" is hilariously non-negative, ex. "just a thought exercise, is it possible the emperor does not have 1000 layers of clothes? if so, maybe possibly could I do some work to contribute to the team that could consider an action plan to account for any anticipated negative effect in the market if, possibly, it is shown they are lacking some clothes?"

There's plenty of obviously coarse contrarians, I used to think complaining about this sort of thing was for chumps who couldn't communicate. It's not. Social problems tend to be well-known, drive ~all variability in results, and simple enough that a middle schooler would grok them.
Authentication is a major hurdle. Back in the days of desktop software, there was no authentication. Mobile apps can often avoid authentication too. Despite decades of web coding, and lots of "this authentication system will make life easy" claims, it is still hard and easy to mess up.
This is my pet theory too. Routine home-work-home days pass by without much that makes them memorable, but there are weeks where so much happens they feel endless. It feels like we cram similar days in the same place as if memory space was precious.
Yes, I am sure, that's why ternary logic is such a widely studied math field compared to boolean logic /s.
No really, can you give an example where ternary logic is actually considerably more useful than the log(3)/log(2) factor of information density?
Understanding the Idiom: "For Shits and Giggles" – Meaning, Origins, and Usage
Near collision, safety violations led to crash of Marine Osprey in Australia
This document describes the process for requesting gTLDs. Some internal ICANN project could ignore the contents of the guidebook without breaking "the rules". Or they could invent some kind of new TLD system; branded gTLDs didn't exist twenty years ago and I doubt most people would've assumed them to become real, yet blog.google is a real thing that exists.
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