skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man ... remember when Rebirth came out? lol that was fun

Having owned/used/borrowed ALL the greats and weird ones (Moogs, Junos, EMS, etc) I can safely say that "close enough" is good enough. I prefer not using a computer for music making these days because I already crunch 8 hour days debugging load balancer configurations ... I just can't give another 8 to the PC at the end of the day. It's so relaxing having a dedicated machine that is stand alone to tinker around with after dinner.

Let's face it, our dreams of becoming the next Trent Reznor isn't happening. If you're new, yeah use a PC and some Free VSTs. If you got the cash, sure go buy something. What's important is how YOU feel about it. I understand it can be fun comparing SERUM patches to a real ARP 2600 but in the end ... it pretty much does not matter and as long as something as 2 or 3 OSCILLATORS you can figure it out.

Does anyone really need anything more than Synth 1? https://www.kvraudio.com/product/synth1-by-daichi-laboratory...

If you read this far I'd highly recommend looking at these phone apps if you are new to music making.

KORG GADGET (surprisingly good)
KOALA SAMPLER (incredible mpc style sampler)
I know almost nothing about this apart from being vitamin D deficient and taking supplements. My doc says that vitamin D absorption through the gut is much less efficient than vitamin D created by the body.
https://archive.ph/vuLDn
Free Frontend Challenges – #100DaysOfCode – Design to Code
because its a reductionist view of the value of sunlight exposure
> Yes, this is not about perfection, but one of those effort sinks that can take all your sleep time

How? Who wakes up from an email? Phone call sure, but an email?
What Happened to Egghead Software?
I think calling it a panic response is appropriate. To me, that evokes a person doing irrational things to try and fix a sudden and distressing situation.
My second thought was "Wow!" My first was "I hope everyone with these nails has a bidet!" I mean, how do you...
They did. Under "Perceived v. Actual Uniqueness" it says:

> we conclude from the available data that [...] perceived and actual uniqueness are uncorrelated

(Though as other comments suggest, their method of arriving at this conclusion might be flawed.)
When Cosine fine tunes a model to be generally better at coding than gpt-4o that leaves me vaguely confused about the role that each part plays in building the best LLMs (and I would not be shocked to learn that this confusion was also SOTA)
If the UTXO model was no mistake, no one would've inventing payment channels, which in CS literature are called: pseudo-conversational transactions.

And that's assuming Nakamoto-style Consensus (which in CS literature called Leader Election) will prove working in the long term.
>They also point to nitric oxide, a potent blood-vessel widener capable of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
https://github.com/pragtical/plugins/commit/54096a6461f5c034... makes me long for The One Grammar To Rule Them &trade;

I thought for a while that TextMate bundles[1] were that, especially since JetBrains[2], Linguist[3] and VSCode[4] honor them. However, in the spirit of "the good thing about standards ..." highlight.js does[5] almost the same thing that Pragtical does which makes me feel even worse

I had high hopes for Tree-Sitter since it seems to have really won mindshare, but the idea of having an executable grammar spec[6] is ... well, no wonder it hasn't caught on outside of that specific ecosystem

1: https://github.com/rspec/rspec.tmbundle/blob/1.1.12/Syntaxes...

2: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/24...

3: https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/v7.30.0/lib...

4: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-textmate

5: https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/blob/11.10.0/src...

6: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/blob/v0.22.6/test...
I'm confused. The article ends up using a cloud service (NVidia NIM) as the backend anyway, so is it still self hosted?
> Put your damned messages where my attention has already been directed to BY YOUR UI.

Ok, so where does the toast go if you've already scrolled or otherwise navigated to a different area of the UI? These optimistic updated could take multiple seconds to succeed, and maybe as much as 30 seconds to fail.
OP has it confused. They lay out the plot to Children of Time which is the first book but call it Children of Ruin. Ruin was the second book that focuses on something else (no spoilers). Time focuses on the spiders.
FYI the syntax highlighting on some of the code blocks makes it unreadable.
People are generally taught things like this through mildly hysterical news broadcasts from moralizing non-specialists. This is why it's surprising for people. They've been taught the sun is scary.

If you don't put sunscreen on your kids, it's tantamount to abuse. (I recently experienced this walking through the woods at 10 AM with a family member, no I don't need any sunscreen for a short hike through the trees)
This paper, "Insufficient Sun Exposure Has Become a Real Public Health Problem" [1] states "thus, serum 25(OH)D as an indicator of vitamin D status may be a proxy for and not a mediator of beneficial effects of sun exposure".

That is, while vitamin D can be used to deduce someone's amount of sun exposure, the benefits of sun exposure are not coming from the vitamin D.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7400257/
This is not at all true, and I think it's an example of what statisticians have to fight against in order to explain anything. Most people have an almost religious belief that inferences drawn from statistics should be intuitive, when they are often often extremely counterintuitive.

> After all, most statisticians thought Marilyn vos Savant was wrong about the goats too...

This is the opposite of the argument that you're making. Here you're saying that probability is so confusing and counterintuitive that even the experts get it wrong.
I think this is a very reasonable question. The climate models are full of parameters and there is a concern of overfitting. If a model were to predict the
cooling that would help countering those concerns.
A year is barely noticeable, especially if you can fill the empty space with some learning projects.
To get a direct feel of how it is working with such a 'computer': the UBOAT game on Steam (spiritual successor to the Silent Hunter games) has somewhat recently added a Torpedo Data Computer as used on German Type VII submarines:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/494840/view/37127138...

The user interface is surprisingly intuitive even by today's UX standards.
In his TED talk, Weller gives a potential alternate benefit source in nitric oxide production which leads to potential cardiovascular benefits. So, the short answer is it may not be (just) vitamin-d. The bigger point though is that there are a lot of very complex things that happen when you go outside and benefits could come from many of them. We want an easy 'this one thing happens so we can replicate just that' but maybe it is actually a combination of many things so there may be no easy one pill replacement.
I've started to ignore studies these days that contradict how most humans would have lived, for most of humanity. Most humans would have had plenty of sun exposure and genetics would have adapted accordingly. I'll seek as much sun exposure I can on work days, but will never sun bathe for hours on end.
This was easily the most memorable thing I learned during my statistics degree! Nothing else has stuck with me this well.
IIRC Jack Dorsey left a bit under a billion in Twitter. Larry Ellison invested about a billion. There's another couple of billion in co-investors money in the deal. 13 billion in lbo financing, and the rest is Elon's money
Ctrl + f harmonics: 0 found
Ctrl + f overtones: 0 found

When comparing painstakingly replicated plugins vs their real deal, I’ve found you can spot the difference if you know what to look for. Until harmonics, overtones, and even how each voice’s signal effects the heat and capacitance of the electronics, it can’t get it exactly…

Note that I didn’t say it can’t be good! There are a tonne of more than excellent emulations like the TAL-UNO-LX, MPC MiniD, and the Oberheim OB-X. Those sound magical!

We waste a lot of time and money chasing GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) but deep down we all know that there’s nothing wrong with plugins these days
Links to a Twitter thread for some reason, here's the site: https://www.codegen.com/

You can't use it, you can "request a demo" but only if you're "a new enterprise customer".

So it shouldn't even be a Show HN
The general concept is called Hormesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis

It's one reason why the "linear no-threshold" model for biological effects of radiation is probably not accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
It comes from experience. I had several professors who did not even release the script for a course, much less the problems and never solutions - everything had to be written down by hand by students while you were supposed to listen, understand, and ask questions. If you couldn't read something or were too slow, you could not study this part.
Interesting that they avoided mentioning the term "spreadsheet" entirely.
What if you needed the laxatives, medically?
It is probably AI with suboptimal training, despite the massive dataset available to them.

It might even just be conventional speech-to-text, which can struggle with accents and poor acoustics, etc.
Question for anyone who has done something similar : how feasible would the hardware part be for someone who has some basic electronic / breadboarding knowledge but no pcb design experience? Besides this excellent article what would be a good resource to learn to do something like this myself?
> A fact-book, that lists the current heads-of-state of all world nations, then possibly yes.

If you want to sell an up-to-date, 2024 factbook, you should commission one. Providing up-to-date fact books is not a function that a back catalog can or should serve. You shouldn't take a 1950s fact book and try to make some ham-handed edits to it and sell it as if it's the same book.

> if a book says something dangerous - like a cook-book saying "add a few flakes of cyanide for flavour" is that grounds for an update, or editors note in an otherwise historical record text?

If a publisher feels that issuing a particular book in ebook form would be injurious to the public, than they are certainly within their rights to not issue it. Or to add an editorial note "This book is for historical interest only, don't try to use the recipes, because for some reason the author was trying to kill all their readers." Again there are a zillion cookbooks and it's not hard to get someone to write a new one.
My proudest SRE moment was when, in a team that dealt with a key system where seconds meant millions, I was able to find a precursor to the problem, so instead of having to intervene on a page in 3 minutes before disaster, the alarm now had 20 minutes of headroom.

We all slept so much better after that
>My oldest cloud stored data that I can verify is a 25 year old email in my Yahoo mailbox.

I'm surprised by that, yahoo mail has went through several cycles of randomly deleting people's emails and contacts. I think of of the times they did it to me, it was because I hadn't logged in within 90 days.
How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet's Biggest Scammer
This has been happening for at least a year, probably more. I always assumed it was something the creator had to manually mark, never considered that it might be automatic.
The article is about a new paper in the journal Health & Place. That paper is open access and can be found at:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135382922...
I'm still looking forward to a fine-tuning vendor publishing an interactive real-world example of one of their fine-tuned models, accompanied by the exact training data that was used to create it.

OpenAI's examples here are artificial, and there's no mechanism to try out the results: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning/fine-tun...

Fine-tuning is expensive in terms of both time and money (more so time these days, a lot of the vendors have free trials now). Before I put that work in I want to get a much better idea of the kind of results I can expect.
I think it will confirm the same.
How are people feeling with regards to GPT-4o versus Claude 3.5 Sonnet? I recently watched this Primeagen video [0] about how, because LLMs don't actually understand anything (yes, AI Effect included [1]), one does not actually gain as much usefulness as they'd expect, especially with subtly wrong outputs. Over time, it just wastes way more time and becomes a form of learned helplessness (and yes, I do know about Socrates' dialogue, I saw it originally elsewhere on HN and had been quoting it for some time [2]).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-hk3JaGlSU

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40920318
100go.co isn't an article; it's an online summary of my book listing 100 Go mistakes. There's a sense of progression where we navigate through topics and go (generally) towards more complicated topics at the end.
I can answer that first question: For my personal website I wanted to add some updates for different things. But making an entire webpage seemed a bit much and inconvenient for those that wanted keep up to date. So this solution is just less effort (if you subtract the time taken to create an application for it ;))
My favorite doctor joke, semi related:

Patient: Doctor will I be able to play piano after the procedure?

Doctor: Yes, I don't see why not.

Patient: That's wonderful! I could never play piano before!
> but somehow preventing inmates from hurting each other is beyond their power.

For many Americans, this does not seem to be a bug rather than a feature. I regularly see comments joking about or often encouraging the physical or sexual assault of inmates.
> Button doesn't glow when when you say "SLAP like NOW"

> Davie504 in pieces
This always strikes me as a tough discussion. With the odd hostility between the two extremes of "all sun is bad exposure" and "you should get more sun." With the later taken to be "all sun is good exposure."

Just observing a typical yard, it is easy to see that grass can both have too much and too little sun. Indeed, cover it up and it will die. Expose it to direct sun all day for several days with no water and it will similarly die. (Well, not similarly, it will die in a different way.)

I realize we don't photosynthesize, and burning is clearly bad for us. But I don't understand why people seem so resistant to the idea that some sun is probably beneficial.

I also realize that literally "basking in the sun" is almost certainly taking it too far. :(
Some more details...

https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
European Commission cuts funding support for Free Software projects
His Signals and Systems book is still around and not bad either.
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of using the DJ X feature in Spotify, it does a decent job mixing in some new things I like, but you’re definitely on to something when it comes to popular record labels. I don’t like any of the new pop, but every other “set” that DJ X provides has Chappel Roan or Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter or some other flavor of generic pop I never am interested in. Play counts for some of these popular artists are probably inflated due to that kind of thing.
> Orders of equipment over $10k are days late, no explanation provided, no number to speak to a human, just ineffective support robots.

I would be furious. If I spend $10k I want to be speaking with a human if something goes wrong. I feel like in the US we have given up on decent customer experiences.
I wish I grew up with educational videos like these. Simple, to the point, foundational videos that teach complicated topics from building blocks. I love the practical demonstrations. If I saw these as a child, I would have certainly considered majoring in engineering.
Feeling old? Your molecules change rapidly around ages 44 and 60
get the government out of the way and people will build to surplus

streamline permitting

knock down ridiculous fees and paperwork

don't try to tax the builder out of business

don't put stupid mandates about forcing builders to sell to demographics the current administration prefers

basically, get out of the way and homes will be built
https://archive.is/2024.08.15-222511/https://www.washingtonp...
I would argue it certainly does — heat/cold is comfort vs injury. Pressure is massage vs. crush injury. Trauma, I suppose, is definitionally bad. Repetitive motion is muscle mass and strength increase vs RSI. Exertion is cardiovascular health vs exhaustion. Posture, I'll give you — I don't think there's such a thing as posture that is /too/ good as long as you're staying mobile/stretching/taking breaks.

Perhaps a more intuitive way of stating it is, "Some classically bad things can be good in small or optimized doses. Some classically good things can be bad when taken to excess."
Oh, yeah, all of those issues of enforcing transitive dependencies that need busy work to update, fluid APIs that make all the code around it break, lack of semantic boundaries that make it hard to decide if a problem is local, inter-component interference so that you have to select them perfectly well...

All of those are enabled by monorepos. And once people learn to do them, they seem to want to apply everywhere.
Exactly! Go for plugins UNLESS you’re chasing a particular sound and don’t want samples.

I’ve tried every 303 clone, and other bass synths, and until I got a RE-303, I was never truely happy. This thing IS what I was chasing all along and at half the price!

Everything else? Meh. A bass is a bass, a lead is a lead… but NOTHING can squelch like a real 303 if that’s what you’re gunning for!
People evolved to live in a fairly small area of the world rather than flying to distant places with different amounts of sunshine than our ancestors likely dealt with in the areas where they spent generations.
The Global Computer and Evolution of Key Managemen
I'm 60, and from mostly Irish descent -- meaning I burn easily and don't really tan much. I've never been a beach-goer/sun-bather. The sun I get is just incidental to mowing the lawn, walking the dog, etc.

The skin on my arms looks like a typical 60 year old -- spotted, thin, little elasticity. But lift up my sleeve and the skin of my upper arm and shoulder look like that of a 20 year old. My torso skin is young too, but it is weird to demonstrate that to young people.
Eh, a bus ride is a bus ride. They're all outside of the 'comfort window' so to speak. When I was heavily dependent on nicotine I could still go a couple hours and not really mind it.

Maximizing the minutes doesn't track but people are irrational. When I got an e-cig my use went way, way higher.
I totally share your concerns about data (especially data that may be sensitive). We have a simple non-legal-speak privacy policy here: https://minusx.ai/privacy-simplified.

> Are your LLMs running entirely locally on your own hardware, and if not, how can you say the data is not shared with third parties? (EDIT: you mentioned GPT-4o in another comment so this statement cannot be correct.)

We're currently only using API providers (OAI + Claude) that do not themselves train on data accessed through APIs. Although they are technically third parties, they're not third parties that harvest data.

I recognize that even this may just be empty talk. We're currently working on 2 efforts that I think will further help here:

- opensourcing the entire extension so that users can see exactly what data is being used as LLM context (and allow users to extend the app further)

- support local models so that your data never leaves your computer (ETA for both is ~1-2 weeks)

We are genuinely motivated by the excitement + concerns you may have. We want to give an assistant-in-the-browser alternative to people who don't want to move to AI-native-data-locked-in platforms. I regret that was not transparent in our copy.

Thanks for pointing the error in the FAQs, we somehow missed it. It is fixed now!
I have yet to meet anyone who would admit to this except AI people saying they have observed it happening. Just seems like more AI hype to me.
If you’re talking 909, then there’s a reason why - the high hats on the 909 were samples lol :)
Well, El Al 1862 crashed anyways, isn't it? You can't compare losing 1/4 engines to 1/2 of the massive GE9X engines and center of mass will be off by a lot. There are several crashes related to weight imbalance (usually cargo bay) and there is a reason why there are several precautions regarding how to load a plane. We also have the 737-Max, that needs a counterbalance mechanism to make it work.
Just-in-Time Nodes for Any Kubernetes Cluster
Anecdotal, but the parts of my skin that see more sun exposure (forearms) look healthier compared with parts that are more covered (upper arms). I wonder if maybe gradual sun exposure starting from spring and increasing towards the summer is healthier compared to sudden intense tanning of the area that is otherwise constantly covered by clothes.
Strictly speaking yes, but I think it can be applied well enough in some cases to things like exertion/repetitive motion when thinking about specific contexts.

Running is good for you, running 20km every day for years will prematurely destroy most people's knees.

I guess applying the adage in that way makes it become a tautology though, too much is in fact, too much.
Doesn't seem anything definitive to me.
Is it a death sentence or do the higher ups just want you to think that? If many people start doing it, the people hiring will just have to accept it. When I was a kid, they said people shouldn't get tattoos because you'll never get a real job. Now everyone has tattoos, even people with real jobs.
I did it three times, in 2007, 2010, and 2012. Each of these were 8-10 months. The key is that you can't spend your time on the couch. You need to have a story. Live in a foreign country. Write a book, even if it doesn't get published. Spend some time working on an open source library that you've always wanted to help out. Walk the Appalachian Trail. Ideally, you're spending 5-10 hours each week (after an initial decompression) keeping up with the industry and keeping your programming skills fresh.

When you start, make sure to write down all of your stories and accomplishments so that you can come back and interview like you never left.

And have twice as much money in reserve as you think you need, because your job search after the fact will take a little longer. However, you will find a job again.
Show HN: LiteScript library for reducing the Python import boilerplate
LiteScript
documentation: https://litescript.readthedocs.io/

installation: pip install litescript

After finding myself writing loggers for various scripting tasks. I made this library. By one line of import it imports standard imports, colored logs, etc planning to add more features for whatever boilerplate I found myself repeating again and again. Let me know your views. It'll be cool if there is something you'd want to include in this library.
We're building an assistant that works across all your analytics apps. This means MinusX can use context from multiple apps to better fulfil your instructions. You can imagine a future version of MinusX reading data from a spreadsheet, putting it onto a Jupyter notebook / Metabase Table, and running further analysis.

When Metabase (or any other tool) builds an assistant, we aim to use it to further extend MinusX's capabilities!
NT ran on DEC Alpha.
Forms are super important for web development. That's how you collect information for the most part. They are usually used to build web applications, but most of the time all you need is a simple contact form to collect information and save that information somewhere. WebDigital makes that super easy and it has the most flexible visual form builder you can imagine.
I know 5.