skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Augmenting Intelligence
I just trained a Taylor Swift voice model using Lamucal ( https://lamucal.com/ai-cover/share/66be2087bc3fdb000baf3cac ),

The mid-range is eerily close to Taylor's voice - there were moments when I almost thought it was really her singing.
But, If you listen closely, you can still catch a tiny hint of that robotic sound.

A Bar Song : (Taylor Swift Cover) https://lamucal.com/ai-cover/song-share/66be244cbc3fdb000e76...
Original: A Bar Song (Tipsy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7bQwwqW-Hc
This is precisely why I use Bear [0] (although Bear does hide the link URLs) and just cannot get on with Notion. The worse thing about editing in Notion (and other editors where the syntax is hidden) is trying to adjust `mono-space text`. It always seems to get confused about whether I'm inside the mono-space area or outside it and I end up making stuff mono-space that shouldn't be or vice versa.

[0] https://bear.app/
Going back to the original post, it sounds like the central argument is that as a VC investor, you care about the size of the market, which I read as the opportunity to massively scale. Then getting the right product into that market.

So I think that’s pretty valid from a VC investor perspective. Doesn’t mean that some other approach isn’t better by some other metric. Just that a VC investor is looking for those massive returns on a few investments to make up for the losses on the majority. It’s such a skewed distribution if you don’t believe in the ability to sell a product into a massive market then it’s not a VC deal.

Lots of great businesses find some demand for their product and do just fine, or great.
It's useful to use a Postgres-compatible syntax. The point of Cockroach was always to compete with globe-spanning DBs like Spanner, not with (possibly) sharded PG.
We can vote for different politicians after a few years. The politicians can vote to remove laws that were problems. There’s a straight-forward solution to that.

Building critical features on a single, closed-standard database means you can’t leave unless you rewrite all code that relied on it. The new code must integrate in the system well. The change must also happen without taking down the business.

For these reasons, politicians and laws change regularly but companies rarely escape database lockin.
> do we own our devices, or not?

Ownership is a bundle of rights that takes colloquial meaning based on context [1]. (Owning a cat, ornament, painting, apartment and freehold plot are functionally distinct.)

The words this discussion demands are possession and control, the machine codes of ownership. You possess your device on purchase. You do not control it. Even if you controlled the OS, the carriers wouldn’t let you control the chipset connecting to their network.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership
This is cool but I never understand most DSLs, looks like most of them can just be defined as some functions in your host language. The example on the main page just looks like JavaScript and you define the parallel(), radial() functions yourself to return some data, and a run() function to deal with these data / run the game. Writing a compiler and VM for this is a huge overkill imo, if it aims to be productive and not just a programming practice. Am I missing something?
Every year, we post this story and mostly just update the incidents… just like The Onion:

https://qbix.com/blog/2023/06/12/no-way-to-prevent-this-says...
Same here: the default option is not to put your website on the App Store, I’m sorry but it isn’t. It’s 2024 and there have been so many advancements in web technology, I’m tired of people arguing that the web isn’t even an option for the vast majority of websites out there.

I get that some apps need the computing power and unique APIs that you can only get via building a native app, but Patreon should not be an app. And the crazy thing is they already have a great website that works really well on mobile. What do you need the App Store for?! Just leave Apple to their practices that you disagree with and focus on yourself, making the best possible product for your users that is distributed via the open web.
I read Practical Guide to Evil to the end. It started out amazingly strong, but suffering from increasing worse pacing problems as the series progresses, where the plot progression slows to a crawl with increasing amounts of build-ups and sidetracks.

Also every second character is LGBT, which was deeply distracting when reading it because of how much it's emphasized. I'm normally not be bothered by such things but APGtE did it especially badly.
To copy what 2 Minute Papers always says, what's important isn't so much where we are right now. But if we've accomplished something notable but not very useful now, we will see something much bigger 2 papers down the line.
Zig is moving away from LLVM (https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270) and Rust has added Cranelift as a debug backend (https://lwn.net/Articles/964735/).

Not sure about Jai.
Ahh, yes. I, as a developer, think Markdown is wonderful – simple even – so I use it all the time. It finds it's way into my applications and interfaces. The pure elegance is the stuff of dreams.

Then I bring a client into their app for an onboarding meeting. When they see a bit of Markdown, they start to fidget, then sweat. "Will I be asked to perform these magic incantations?" they wonder. They feel a bit of queasiness but try to hold it back. Perhaps this will be ok. But, after about 10 minutes, I show them that `# Header` is how you make a header.

Their disdain is now total...How dare I imply that a hashtag implies a header. This is hard.

Then, I show them a link. "It's just like this", I say: `(https://example.com)[example link]`. "You'll get used to it."

Finally, the client pounds his fists on the table. "That's CODING DAMMIT. WE PAID YOU TO DO THE CODING YOU *$$HOLE. I want it to be like...well...Microsoft Word."

---

You see, my friends...the real problem here is that Microsoft Word is a nightmare but it is _the_ nightmare to which all other dreams are compared. And thus, sheepishly, I awaken, and install TinyMCE.
I'm skeptical of this kind of multi-master horizontal DBMS to begin with. Never used Cockroach but have used Spanner, and even besides the $, you pay with complexity, slowness, and limitations. Even the in-betweens like Citus have their issues. As far as I can tell, the world runs on traditional DBMSes like Postgres, maybe with HA. If you're big, you run multiple and shard at the application level. I don't think there's a better option yet.

Btw, Spanner and Cockroach both have fully serializable transactions. Even single-node Postgres doesn't do that by default (though it can) because they didn't think the performance tradeoff was worthwhile. Read-committed is good enough.
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I'll have to fix the OSNAME thing, my apologies. That's an env var I have in my local ".zshrc" I had overlooked. I'll fix it later today.
Related Massachusetts 'Reviewing' Kei Car Ban After Uproar over Canceled Registrations (41 points, 8 days ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41180154
I don't think your point stands.

How would US citizens would feel if another country, say China, wanted to extradite a US citizen because he allegedly violated Chinese copyright law?

Dotcom is absolutely right in saying that US is playing world police.
Thank you! And not just any website, a good mobile website, too.
> Our legal system would grind to a halt.

Because it isn't a system so much as a kafka-esque nightmare.
Isn’t that exactly what they said?
“…quantum number of dependencies, depending on which features you enable…”
BitTorrent uses SHA-1, not MD5. It's not ideal, but hardly vulnerable.
Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich People, and Moby Dick (2017)
Unfortunately that's 2.5x what I paid for my current Toyota hybrid (brand new), and while I know prices for cars have gone up a lot since 2019, it still makes no sense for me to get another Toyota if that's what's on offer.
"Just Enough Dev": Personal Open Source Knowledge Base
I see, the old slippery slope.
It only took twelve years, but the heroes working at the FBI are finally on the cusp of ending online piracy!
> And of course arbitration is not supposed to be completely controlled by one of the parties. It may be in fact, but it’s not supposed to be. When the arbitration is between equals, it’s probably pretty fair; when it’s unilateral, it may not be.

When one party demands arbitration and has the deeper pockets, it is likely to fund the arbitration process - it's unclear how fairness can be reached.

I have seen this play out with an insurance company in the UK. The insurer have offered to pay 25% of a vehicles market value after complete destruction, a value too low to buy any comparable vehicle. The only recourse is to offer quotes for similar vehicles to their 'arbitration team'. They then decide what is offered. If you remain unhappy and reject the offer you get nothing, there are no other options available. They offered a £50 'good will gesture' which was also rejected. There is an ombudsman, but they really don't care and side with the insurer, stating that £50 was a reasonable compensation.

I spit blood and feathers at any suggestion that an arbitration controlled by the company is not going to lead to corruption. It needs to be a truly unbiased third-party. I feel sorry for the family who have suffered such a loss, and now have an almighty uphill battle against Disney.
Another issue you'd run into, I suspect, is that in practice text engines/editors/etc will often repaint only fragments of the content, and so the syntax highlighter would not necessarily see all the context it needs.

E.g. if you have a comment that starts with "/*" and ends several lines later with "*/", but the editor decides to just redraw a line in the middle, the highlighter won't "know" to use the comment color as the text-drawing operation won't include the delimiters.

(This issue already exists in a small way, as mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251114, but it'd only get worse as the syntax highlighter becomes more sophisticated.)
The last time I priced out CockroachDB it was more than 10x what multi region SpannerDB would cost.
They have license and royalty agreements with labels now and takedown methods for rights holders who object to things as well as quite capable detection machinery.
Actually both. Our internal closed source projects are only in our GitLab. The open-source stuff is both on GitHub and our GitLab. Since our GitLab instance isn't public we only use the issue tracker on GitHub for public stuff.

Another bonus is that we don't pay Microsoft.
> If what comes after is not better, then we waited too long to break this monopoly up.

I don't follow your logic, because it does not have any logic.

Can you clarify your line of reasoning? I mean, if breaking up a company creates more problems than the ones it solves, what leads you to believe that anticipating the breakup would have any impact whatsoever in the fact that breaking up the company creates more problems than the ones it solves?
It’s very useful to point out that it’s a Box Filter because the article moves on to using other filters, and larger clipping regions than a single pixel. This is framing the operation in known signal processing terminology, because that’s what you need to do in order to fully understand very high quality rendering.

Dig a little further into the “bilinear filter” and “bicubic filter” that follow the box filter discussion. They are more interesting than the box filter because the contribution of a clipped polygon is not constant across the polygon fragment, unlike the box filter which is constant across each fragment. Integrating non-constant contribution is where Green’s Theorem comes in.

It’s also conceptually useful to understand the equivalence between box filtering with analytic computation and box filtering with multi-sample point sampling. It is the same mathematical convolution in both cases, but it expressed very very differently depending on how you sample & integrate.
Customer satisfaction is high and there are other platforms with lower bars.

The high bar is the product differentiation that Apple is using.
Spanner is cheap in comparison depending on your storage requirements. I've seen CockroachDB quoted as 10x more, and for a product that is harder to sell to stake holders.
CNC Open-Source Cloud Infra CLI Adds AWS Lambda Support
Hey HN, Zach here, cofounder of Coherence (withcoherence.com). We’re excited to announce the launch of AWS Lmabda support for our open-source CNC framework. Let us know what we can do to make it better!
We used these to make Crash Bandicoot and we even had a mode where you could run on the game on the SGI. It was ... sort of ... playable.
For me it's Zettlr on MacOS

You can also set Slack to not render the markdown until the message is sent, which I would thoroughly recommend
You don’t. I assume the free version is not licensed for that use case.

:/
Show HN: Kardinal–The lightest-weight Kubernetes dev environment in the world
Any plans for offline access
I bet, if I would take your copyrighted work, create a deritative work, have the gall to call it "Standard YourCopyrightedWork", and then go back and forth if it is a derivative work or not, you would certainly not consider me friendly either.

As someone who contributed a bit to the early CommonMark spec I think some of us were really doing it the shitty way towards Gruber.

How would the Rust people react if we created a "Standard Rust" language?
Low magnesium levels increase disease risk, new study shows
> Why would Honda, a company who's brand is "highly reliable and competent engineering" sign a strategic partnership with GM

A major reason for Honda's laggardness is because it is much smaller compared to other Japanese competitors, and lacks the horizontal integration that other Japanese competitors have.

In Japan, the entire economy is basically directly or indirectly owned by Mitsubishi Group, Mitsui Group, Fuyo Group, and Sumimoto Group. These are conglomerates that are so big that they de facto own entire districts and cities

Honda is nowhere near the size of those Keiretsus.

Toyota Motors (Toyota Group + Fuyo Group), Mitsubishi Motors (Mitsubishi Group), Nissan Motors (Fuyo Group + Renault), and Suzuki Motors (Mitsubishi Group + Toyota Group) are massive Keiretsus that are able to make strategic partnerships or have ownership stakes in other players like Idemetsu Kosan (Toyota), Panasonic (Toyota), AGC (Mitsubishi), TDK (Mitsubishi), CATL (TDK/Mitsubishi), Hitachi (Nissan/Fuyo), AESC (Nissan/Fuyo), NEC (Sumimoto), etc that puts players like Honda on the backfoot.

Nissan at least made a partnership with NEC (Sumimoto Group) and AESC (formerly part of Nissan Group) for battery R&D much earlier than other players in Japan (partially thanks to help from Renault Group).

Honda was just too small of a player to make strategic partnerships or gain ownership stakes in the battery supply chain, and by partnering with GM they are able to indirectly piggyback off of Samsung SDI (who are the Battery manufacturer for GM and now Honda, and were the tech partner for BYD back when it was getting started as a South Korean-Chinese JV).
The way the scripts are presented in a text box makes it feel like I should be able to edit the text box contents and have the change represented in the image. It's a bit disappointing that I can't play around with it like that.
For typical solar neutrino energies, and given Fermilab and South Dakota are about 750 miles apart, around one in 10^15 neutrinos would interact with the ground (more specifically, the nucleus of an atom in the ground).

It would take about 10^14 miles (17 light years) of solid lead to block 50% of neutrinos.

Imagine that you are a tiny, tiny, tiny neutrino. You are a million times smaller than an electron. You are drifting through space, and the only other component of space that you can interact with is the nucleus of atoms. But atoms also have electron shells that repel each other, so the nuclei have to be centered inside electron clouds that refuse to go anywhere near each other. The nucleus of each atom is only 1/25,000 the width of the electron cloud, or the "full width" of the atom.

In other words, travelling through solid lead, for neutrinos, is like flying through mostly empty space.

From the perspective of a neutrino, in solid lead, if each lead atom was centered on a star in the Milky Way galaxy, each lead nucleus would be the diameter of Jupiter's orbit. Everything else would be pure emptiness.

Continuing with this blown-up scale, you would need to fly your spaceship for 10^27 lightyears before you have a 50% chance of flying within the Jupiter orbit distance of a star.

The universe is only 10^11 light years wide, so you would need to fly through 10^16 universes before you have a 50% chance of passing within the Jupiter orbit of a star. And this is assuming the entire universe is as dense as the milky way's disk around us.
Well, the program does different things. Some people might like that. Others might not. It's just one more factor in the generally observed quality of software.
> artificially suppressed rates

I don't follow your point. All rates are set arbitrarily according to the monetary policy followed on any specific moment.

What leads you to believe that arbitrarily setting a rate one way is natural, but arbitrarily setting it another way is more natural?

> Zooming back out, whatever pain comes from breaking Google up today will be less than the pain of doing so in a decade.

Will it, though? Think about the problem for a second. Do you think it would be more painful to break up Yahoo now than it would have been a decade ago? What about Intel? What about IBM? I mean,do you think Google of all companies is doing great?
"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"
I spotted this company in their seed stage and wanted to invest. The founders asked us to provide names for reference checks, etc - a bit unusual, but we were almost done with the commitment, so why not?

After quite a lot of work, introductions, and back and forth, they told us: sorry, Google Ventures is investing and we're kicking everyone else out, despite we expected an allocation at that point (50k, not very large). Not nice by them, and not nice by GV, but... Just another lesson learned in the epicenter of startup investing which is San Francisco. This was Feb 2015. Wow, almost 10 years ago. Time flies.

I am still happy to see they've been successful at building the company. I loved the product from the very beginning.
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190604173131/https://www.cockr...
>but this vindictive pursuit seems even worse.

Seems to be pretty much how the US government operates on these high profile tech cases. They are going to turn you into a martyr.

Ross is a great example of this. He received a double life sentence + 40 years + no chance of parole. By comparison, El Chapo, a dude who most certainly ordered the deaths of many and imported billions of dollars of drugs, only got a SINGLE life sentence + no chance of parole.

That is not justice, its a message.
Disney Springs is a mall.
Is it not more about who does the development?

If cone entity does the development, they can change direction or licensing and it is hard for anyone to fork.

If you have more of a bazaar form of development with many contributors neither is as easy (even less so if you do not have a CLA). Even if you have a small core team of developers, a really bad direction is likely to lead to a split.
I work in this space and there is still a ton of illegal content on YT. As stated earlier, the main difference is that YT complies when infringements are eventually found.
They seem to have fixed it.
>Sub-replacement fertility is human extinction.

Um, why would you say that? Only if you stay at sub replacement for hundreds of years will you reach extinction.

If we get back to 1 billion people in 200 years we can go back to having replacement level kids again.
Surprisingly entertaining video. It was on a workstation similar to this one that I first used the Mosaic web browser circa 1993. Strangely, the first web site I visited featured a picture of Al Gore (not making this up) then US VP. I cannot find a reference to that web site anywhere or what content it may have contained. Does anyone else remember this?
A lot of the best things we have in the modern world are "socialism". Libraries and parks are socialist. Socialism isn't a dirty word, nor is it an argument or a criticism.
I would say it works incredibly well. Everyone knows what it is. Everyone knows what they are supposed to do in an emergency. Everyone knows there are emergency exits. Everyone knows there are life jackets. Everyone knows they are supposed to wear a seatbelt. At least some people will get it right.

Do not underestimate how even minimal training can be extremely effective at scale. I know from experience that I am a person who does not freeze, I focus. When shit happens, I act but I can act without thinking. Because of that mantra, I have a plan to follow and I will act correctly.

Also don't underestimate the effect of priming. It reminds you there is a plan. When pilots prepare for takeoff, they briefly review how to handle emergencies during takeoff. Not because they don't know, but to bring those procedures to attention and have them ready in their mind.

For the mantra to work, all it has to do is remind you those procedures you vaguely know exist.
Basic LoRA can do >7km in the 25mW ranges, but the bandwidth is minimal. Note, under some situations the range can hit hundreds of km.

CB/11meter range depends on many parameters, but even at 4W you would be lucky to reach beyond 80km.

The main difference is Lora Gateways receiver sensitivity is <-139dBm, and can recover data from what looks like the noise floor in most hardware.

If Lora had at least 3 manufacturers, I would have stuck it in every station years ago.

Cheers, =3
44 landlocked countries, out of the current ~194 countries in the world, seems a pretty feeble source of specialness.

Vs. double-landlocked countries, of which are are only 2 in the world. That's the black card.
I never connected the b-1 and the Valkyrie, either. That’s a fascinating thought, the B-1 is the Valkyrie that we had all along.
If you guys want, there's a Discord server you can join for the game since communication through a forum is hard: https://discord.gg/UTvaAAgku3 .
Weird that they don't mention Triton? I only skimmed it, but I'm not sure what the pros and cons would be vs. Triton, which is the tool I'd use if I wanted custom quantized inference kernels.
I think LoRA in particular is TDMA, but I believe a CDMA radio system is much less vulnerable to timing based attacks, since multiple users can broadcast at once.
I love these work stations. Many (15+) years ago I used an Indy like a sort of dumb terminal, using X forwarding. It was very cool to use an application like a modern Firefox on such an old Unix installation even if it really ran remotely. It worked quite well remoting from a modern Ubuntu computer. I still have the Indy (and a small assortment of other old SGI machines, including 2 Indigo 2s), reviving these machines is on my bucket/todo list. This video sure makes me want to grab one (the Indigo mostly) and get all nerdy. Would love to see more!