skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did something similar here:

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2023/Dec/cleaning-up-speech-rec...

I now use Whisper with a much expanded prompt and have the flow integrated both in Emacs and my WM.

Prior HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174921

I've since done hours of transcription with it - often transcribing whole emails. The challenge is that my brain thinks very differently while talking compared to while typing. As a result, my output is very verbose, and is very different from what I would have typed. I haven't figured out how to speak as if I'm typing.
Given the sloppiness of image generation, and the hallucinations, this seems like a bad idea. We would inevitably punish many people who did absolutely nothing wrong. On the flip side, we'd all discover exactly how much a jaywalking ticket costs, and how much rolling stops speed up traffic.
congrats to Simon here. This post is ranking well for a lot of terms people will be searching for.
This is exactly correct. See distinction between “best produced videos” and “best YOUTUBE” videos - it’s not about making the best video, it’s about making the one that minmaxes the metrics
ACE score of 8. I'm mildly satisfied, depends on the day.

Similar thing with ADHD, also with sleep apnea (severe, 79 AHI, untreated till final year of college, which made things much better :)). Probably autistic, if you ask anyone close to me, I keep meaning to get evaluated for it (see ADHD).

But yeah, I have done a lot of awesome stuff over the years, despite a lot of my trauma sources remaining into my post childhood years.

Some of those folks have died, others I've since cut off. I am thankful for some close friends who I think of as family.

I've always been an exercise person, which I think is partially to regulate my emotions / depression. It mostly works, but I still take Sertraline for anxiety, which has really changed my life. I wish I had started before I turned 30, but better late than never.

By the way, this book was at least mildly helpful: https://www.amazon.com/Adult-Children-Alcoholics-Janet-Woiti... - Adult Children of Alcoholics.

Only one of my stepdads was alcoholic, but it applies outside of them. If you grew up in a bad home, it'll seem familiar.

I think in terms of the Hierarchy of Needs, I'm still struggling with the love and belonging area. I hope I can reach the upper levels one day.
medical expenses and lawyers I imagine.
I do agree that there is a thriving industry dedicated to finding ways to brand whatever process management currently uses as "agile".
Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel [video]
Interesting, because I was trained in writing classes to always have a "conclusion" where you make sure to summarize and restate your thesis for emphasis and focus. That AI does this feels like a result of training/emulating what humans do. If people think my writing is AI driven because of that, that's quite unfortunate. If we have to start introducing errors or mistakes into our writing so people don't assume it's AI, that seems like a quick race to the bottom.
Funnily enough, I actually wrote code that does that very thing this morning.
Forgive me Mr. Ghost Pepper. I didn't take the ear training seriously enough in AP Music Theory, and now I can scarcely tell my eleventh chords apart when I'm listening to Charles Mingus!
Thanks, it looked like a bad logo on the screen I was on.
Let's say a given intelligence agency's quantum computing efforts have Shor working for 16 bit keys in 2025, for 64 bit keys in 2028, for 128 bit keys in 2033, and for 256 bit keys in 2038. Let's say competing intelligence agencies are 1-3 years behind. Let's say we make it to Puzzle 69 over the next four years. Nice.

I don't know how plausible that timeline is either in spacing or accuracy.

Sometime in early 2029, a bunch of people suddenly find that they're eligible for a $400,000 cash prize if they manage to secretly steal a bit of time on a working quantum computer. In 2030, that group of people doubles, and incorporates a new agency with its own security weaknesses. By 2031 we're talking about four separate countries with their own engineers that have managed to achieve the capability to claim that cash prize. Private corporations are somewhere on the horizon. Very soon this becomes an urgent imperative to anyone inclined, because the prize, like cash, disappears the moment that somebody else seizes it.

It's hard to keep conspiracies, particularly with a verifiable open offer of large amounts of highly portable money on the table to the first person to reveal secrets, and a gradually widening circle of access. The gradually expanding circle of access is what ensures we get some kind of alarm LONG before 2038. Keeping that secret to even 2033 requires hundreds of people and four agencies with diverse motivation and values to consistently turn down cash money for years on end in the interest of keeping their quantum capabilities hidden from the world.
Ask HN: Why did LLM capability accelerate a few years ago?
When GPT was released, it was a huge milestone in terms of starting a massive growth of AI LLM's. But why? What made this possible? We've done neural networks for years, but why have they suddenly become so good? Is it hardware? Technique? What what the defining moment?
My favourite world was Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay of the 80s. It was explicitly early Renaissance, with analogues to France and the Empire, but also with the underlying darkness of the narrative that Chaos was sure to win in the end.
I'd have the straw man variant of waterfall every day in place of agile.

Like, the constant micromanagement and process lawyers pushing you down makes me misarable.

At least with classic project processes you'd have some oversight plan to follow.
About that article.

We absolutely learned something since the 90s that was beneficial. Corporative software projects now have about a two times higher chance of success than they had back then.

Also, we almost certainly learned that thing from Agile. There is no other credible source.

But the article has a clear point that places where people say they are practicing Agile has an even lower success rate than the overall one from the 90s. So it seems that the actual lesson from the Agile manifest was only learned by the people who don't claim to practice it.
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It not only was real, it still is real. Government in particular loves waterfall.
Wasn't "one ring to rule them all" a metaphor for nukes?
Yeah, I wouldn't take the score too seriously. Nothing about various types of abuse beyond some random measures. I think it's just a quick heuristic, nothing scientific.
Ok, that's a specific rule for <li>, among others for closing tags, that was ignorance on my part, I overlooked the "sometimes" in the "It's valid HTML because the spec allows you to omit closing tags sometimes" comment.
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I'm interested more in the game theory behind mining and corresponding economic stats....for example mempool.space tells me:

Reward stats (Last 144 blocks):

Avg Tx Fee, 1.01k sats/tx, $0.58

Avg Block Fees, 0.0449 BTC/block, $2,592

Miners Reward, 456.46 BTC, $26,352,619
> Astonishingly, this approach, done correctly, produces better forecasts than traditional simulations of the physics of our atmosphere.

It seems like this is another instance of The Bitter Lesson, no?
By his own admission in this onboarding document he admits his only goal is to make viral youtube video by any means necessary. It's all about "hacking" the algorithm and peoples' attention faculties.

Contrast that with very traditional Hollywood media - yes, of course they want to get people to watch their shows, but for the most part they try do that via a story and art. Not hacking peoples brains.

His content is like "Reality TV" on steroids. I don't watch or believe in traditional "Reality TV" either. Both are trash content - amongst the lowest forms of "entertainment" available.
Thanks for the kind words!

Regarding spaced repetition, keep in mind the following:

1. New tasks are selected only as you complete existing tasks (so if you come back after 2 weeks, you need to complete some existing tasks from 2 weeks ago to get new tasks selected based on your knowledge profile right now).

2. We are often able to implicitly knock out due reviews with new lessons. We're not just doing plain vanilla spaced repetition. We're doing a highly efficient novel version of it that we call Fractional Implicit Repetition (FIRe). I have a writeup on this that gained some traction on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954571

Happy to answer any questions you may have.
The requirements and design phases can/did often work very well. It's what comes after that derails the process.

When you spend more time trying to update your design to match the implementation (via change requests) than implementing you start to wonder if there's maybe a better way..
Chrome is going to continue supporting v2 extensions for enterprise users, so presumably it'll be pretty trivial to keep support for everyone else.
Probably by more common definitions held by people OP respects...

For example, millions of people would not call him a success because he doesn't have a family with children (although Mr beast has definitely implied he wants one in the future).

Many millions more would say that he's not a success because he doesn't do anything that's a net positive for society, instead he's mostly a drain on people's time and mental capacity.
For those interested, Xcode lets you configure sounds to be played when a breakpoint is reached. It can also be set up to conditionally play a sound.

Those breakpoints can also be configured to continue running the app instead of pausing.

It can quickly get out of hands though.
Why are you viewing them as mutually exclusive things? Drop Prime (aka Amazon Sunk Cost Fallacy), and just accept that your orders will take a few days longer with their Slow Spiteful Shipping. I don't think the the Walmart sunk cost program even affects the shipping time, which mostly ends up being quicker than Amazon's Spiteful Shipping. Same thing with Target and every other large vendor regardless of whether they're pushing a subscription gimmick or not. Hitting a minimum order amount is really not hard once you've got items you buy regularly from each place.
I use a mechanical keyboard at home and I can absolutely see the 'tacking' sounds that it makes as a form of audio feedback
No, the board simply isn't wide enough.
I agree but I need to find an alternative. I live in texas unfortunately and walking is miserable for 4 months out of the year. I should just move but can't currently.
Sounds cool. I'm definitely interested.

Were you procrastinating when you wrote this?
Which, to be honest, has been downhill - amazon used to be super focused on customer satisfaction, but these days pretty much every interaction I've had with amazon makes me sad - pages of promoted products before I hit the product I'm actually searching for, account execs that don't seem to understand that they're their to fix problems not create them, and honestly AWS is lagging -- too many teams fighting for promotion by creating new services, nobody supporting or maintaining the plumbing.

I make most of my money supporting companies on AWS, but I've stopped recommending it to new shops largely for the same reasons - if you're not big enough for them to knock on your door, they won't answer when you knock on theirs.
Netflix should make a documentary on why people in this modern day and age still gravitate towards Twitter-esque social media platforms. It has been shown over and over that they make people less happy, less productive, more stressed and (ironically) less social.
Why do you assume this is unrepresentative? Polling has gotten increasingly weird since 2004.
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I know we'll never know the answer, but I'd love to see a break down of AWS billings from expensive misconfiguration of cloud settings. After the recent Accident Forgiveness post from an AWS competitor it does seem like an area that AWS happily accepts. Small bootstrapped start up hires a 3rd party "expert" suggested directly by AWS to be experts. The 3rd party doesn't actually know everything and causes a 3000x increase in monthly cloud expense. Small startup uses their paid AWS support which resolves the expensive issue in under 10 minutes. The 3000x increased bill is still due. </rant> That's a story as old as time (of cloud), but it's gotta be a nice way to earn bonus for product managers
What I mean by their customer service moat is that they can afford to give full refunds at the slightest inconvenience to the customer.
iOS 18 and macOS 15 migrate passwords to Passwords app and sync to iCloud
There is currently no way to determine whether there's, for example, an application/json representation of a URL that returns text/html by default.

OPTIONS and PROPFIND don't get it.

There should be an HTTP method (or a .well-known url path prefix) to query and list every Content-Type available for a given URL.

From https://x.com/westurner/status/1111000098174050304 :

> So, given the current web standards, it's still not possible to determine what's lurking behind a URL given the correct headers? Seems like that could've been the first task for structured data on the internet
I really worry about them. We had the opportunity to build an entire industry and get in early. There were few of us (because only us 'nerds' were into computers in the 90s). And, demand increased exponentially. But, the industry has matured, the market feels saturated now. We've pumped up STEM programs to the point where everyone is doing software. I want to know how I can give back.
https://archive.ph/dvvn2
Glibc-Malloc-Trace-Utils
https://github.com/sindresorhus/modern-normalize

The goal of this project is to make itself obsolete.
British fantasy RPGs in general have far more Jabberwocky (1977) in them than the American ones.

Basically everything is covered in shit.
He was always like that, as near as I can tell. He became intolerable to me years before any of the Twitter nonsense.
Different strokes for different folks. Many people actively enjoy having a mass of written lore to consume, and prefer having a well-defined setting to act as a foundation to their stories. It's a safety net of sorts.
GraphQL reads are like that. You POST a query with the content inside the request body. This would be a nicer verb for it.
The Philippines are really ripe for fast e-bikes and trikes. Not going much faster than a 30mph e-bike can go anyways most of the time.
Yes, of course. Tolkien was massively well read and obsessively created whole worlds, as can be seen in things like The Silmarillion.

> thats a little reductive.

I prefer to think of it as dimensionality reduction :)
> It's always the same with Scrum. Every time you point out something clearly wrong, the response is always "well that's not really scrum, you're doing it wrong".

Well, you are.

Give this shitty process you’re being forced to follow some other name and stop blaming Scrum.

Do Scrum properly and you’ll see why it’s actually fairly good.

> if most attempts ended up implementing it "incorrectly" in the end, it's not a very useful framework to begin with then, is it?

You can’t say that as you’ve not actually done the thing.

The main problem is that most managers and senior company people feel like they want more control that scrum allows them to have, and their use their power to overrule it. That’s their problem and not the fault of the Scrum system.

You may be onto something with communism. It’s definitely not resiliant to the kinds of paychopaths that end up dictators for life. I wish I knew why. Probably something to do with threats of violence.
I'm hoping the singularity will coincide with a large-scale AI achieving simulated Earth consciousness. Human intelligence is only a spec compared to all the combined intelligence of nature.
Full text:

> iOS 18 will be released today. During the upgrade, your passwords will be migrated from the built-in password manager to the new Passwords app. If you don't use iCloud Keychain, you need to know that the Passwords app will sync your passwords with iCloud by default.

> The same applies to macOS Sequoia.
I've long wanted to explore this. There are two ways one can go about it:

- Airliner cockpits use certain audio signals deliberately and sparingly, to draw attention to important events.

- Some systems naturally (or artificially) emit sound as a side effect of what they do, and this sound, while not signaling anything specific, is part of what allows the operator to build mechanical sympathy for the system.

I think these two are completely different ways to use sound, but I imagine both could be viable.
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A lot of people really liked the website I had made for supersaas.dev (a side project of mine)

I am opensourcing the website and the entire tech behind automating the invite to users.
> This guy has clearly never worked waterfall, the progress bar doesn't look at all like in the graph. Instead, there are even more milestones throughout the project. Granted, they are usually spread out further than every 2 weeks, there is no such thing as just one final deadline where you can slack the first half of the project.

You are misreading the graph and then taking your own bad reading and projecting uncharitably on the author. Nowhere did he say that you can slack the first half of the project. Also, I know the author and I know that he has worked waterfall, so your conclusion isn't even accidentally correct.

Look at the Y-axis. It's measuring stress, not effort/work/slack/etc.

Also, the graph itself refutes your conclusion that it is representing only one single "milestone." Notice the graph falls after achieving the milestone, and then begins again. It's a continuous cycle.
> And personally I think in the occasional interminable "oh wouldn't it be wonderful if programmers were real engineers like architects" threads, where people fail to understand those processes used by other engineering disciplines are contingent based on the nature of their work rather than abstract Platonic ideals all should strive for, and those other disciplines would love to work with continuous integration servers and automated testing and strongly-typed components, there are a lot of developers that believe even today that if we just tried hard enough, waterfall could not only work but be the optimal design methodology, and it is we who are failing waterfall rather than the other way around.

You captured so much in this one sentence, especially the end, about how waterfall failed the developer, rather than the developer having failed waterfall.

This script-flip works on many other systematized orthodoxies, I suspect.
> I have the sense that Youtube is net bad for the world and the monetization of Youtube has incentivized and amplified mediocrity, stupidity, and social decay.

Interesting that you say this regarding YouTube. I've been saying this regarding Twitter for awhile even though I consume quite a bit of YouTube content. However, I've curated my YouTube feed to be almost entirely stuff that is interesting, educational, and that I think I'm getting value from. I've learned tons of useful stuff from YouTube such as how to dress better and tailor my own clothes, how to fix things that break around my house, more effective training methods to accomplish specific fitness goals...I could go on and on. When I go to YouTube in incognito mode, I definitely see the bottom-of-the-barrel content that you're talking about. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Do you allow replies to your Mastodon instance?

If so, you'll be policing the replies. And those replies can potentially be coming from across the Fediverse from other servers.
Out of sheer curiosity because it is such a different experience to mine, what are you shopping for online that you have so many returns?
Ah yes, the Agile Waterfall method. Lol
I made the mistake once of "flying to Frankfurt!" on some low-cost airline out of the UK and landed in Frankfurt-Hahn. Yikes.
I think it partly has to do with what level of security is around you, I don't live in a place (Denmark) where I have to solve that many other people's basic needs so I can optimize further up in the pyramid of needs.
Ask HN: Has the computer age made gift giving difficult?
Nowadays, it seems that money is the best gift you can give.
Just a heads up that there's an explanation for this; I responded to the original comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41556644) but I'll also paste here in case anyone misses it:

1. New tasks are selected only as you complete existing tasks (so if you come back after 2 weeks, you need to complete some existing tasks from 2 weeks ago to get new tasks selected based on your knowledge profile right now).

2. We are often able to implicitly knock out due reviews with new lessons. We're not just doing plain vanilla spaced repetition. We're doing a highly efficient novel version of it that we call Fractional Implicit Repetition (FIRe). I have a writeup on this that gained some traction on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954571
shameless plug for my defer header: https://github.com/aedrax/defer.h
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We used openSCAD in college for our 3D printing class. I think it was a good introduction to modeling in a 3d space since you really have to know what you're doing and the math you want to do, especially for CS majors. But, making anything complex in it is a GIANT pain.

Once we got past the few introductory assignments we were allowed to chose what we wanted and at that point no one in the class was still using it.

Its great for simple things but you'll find it tedious for anything complex, unless of course you like the challenge
Lots of reasons.

Kids drop things, lose things and tend to have less general awareness than adults.

I can't count how many times I've dropped my wireless earbud case and had the earbuds pop out and the case close. It's easy to imagine a kid losing one, both, or the entire set including case.

Wired headphones are tethered to the device when plugged in and easier to replace. Wireless earbuds turn the setup into 4 discrete items that can be lost (L, L, case, device).

Device+wired headphones is less to think about.
I would be very interested, potentially for future commercial purposes.
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Realism is a sliding scale. Some people prefer to count their arrows after every combat, some people prefer to go into a dungeon without even checking whether they have a backpack, much less whether it has any rations in it.
I’ve been using an AI chatbot powered by GPT-4 to manage customer service tasks for my small business. The chatbot handles basic queries, FAQ responses, and routing, and it’s been a great time-saver. The service operates on a freemium model, where the base features are free, and you can pay for more advanced capabilities like analytics and integrations.

One challenge I've noticed is ensuring it works seamlessly across different business needs while staying easy to use. For those exploring LLMs, starting with a targeted niche and iterating based on real user feedback has been essential in maximizing the tool’s efficiency.
Needs more participants. :) If there were thousands of votes I expect the percentages would align with traditional polling, although if they didn't that would be super interesting.
> Methods != end goals

Ok, but the methods (hustle, grind-culture, high pressure on marks) are here just as questionable as the end goals (Be the biggest Youtuber).

What can you learn from Mr. Beast? Nothing that a lack of conscience and some basic psychology of engagement couldn't teach you.

To reuse your analogy, what if you could communicate information by arranging the corpses of your enemies in a certain pattern, then use international news reports to get the messages across.

What could this teach us about communication? Nothing.