skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I love technology, don't get me wrong here. As I wrote: I still want to work with computers, software development, the web etc. The thing is, I don't want to feed (surveillance) capitalism anymore.
But finding companies with decent leaders and half way decent pay, preferably those which aren't listed at stock markets and don't exist to simply increase shareholder value at any cost, has become increasingly difficult.
We have a small community over at the Feldera Slack channel you could join. We often have have deeply technical discussions about the incremental computation space, papers, concepts etc over there.
Audio is noise, no songs.
I'd go even further than "hold no value" and say it's actively detrimental on both the individual and society. We already have an avalanche of dehumanizing technology that isolates and placates us. We see the results of this with problems in mental health and socialization. This is a downward spiral as AI content will likely appeal to those who lack social skills as they don't have to cope with tricky vagaries of other humans - which is part of which makes us human and gives us social growth.
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some daft way so that oil, coal, and gas generators of electricity don't lose money to cheaper renewables, so the price per unit is set to the least efficient method - absolutely ludicrous.
Thanks for the interest. I will post it publicly soon, but right now it's on my private github. Basically it's a small python app running on a raspberry pi with 2 USB QR scanners. It uses sqlite with a database of QR codes assigned to the students. They wear lanyards with those codes on them. When they start running it logs their start, and every lap they can again. It tracks personal records, total laps, laps per day, and time per lap.

We've received a lot of positive feedback from the kids compared to the old system that was using proprietary software. The problem with that software is it used cell phones for scanning codes, which is very error-prone and takes a long time to register on some phones.
Yeah it's abduction/induction over deduction.

Part of the reason why we misunderstand other processes in the brain and have since the Lobotomy times enshrined that approach.
See Pauling, Shockley and Josephson for scientists who did fantastic work to win a Nobel prize who then went crazy with alt health, racism and psionics. Appallingly to me there are people taking Penrose's "I can do math because I am a thetan" seriously in another discussion running now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696434
But you can totally charge for free (as in free speech) software. While you're required to provide the source code to those who pay you to use the software, you don't have to provide it to those who haven't paid. You could also charge for each update and only provide the versions that the user has paid for.

Also what do you have to say to the open-source projects that take a "dual licensing" approach, like how Google profits from creating their own proprietary browser Chrome that has more features than the open-source Chromium? Isn't it practical for companies to freely provide an open-source version with fewer features and sell a better, proprietary version? I havnen't done any of this, but to me it sounds like there's plenty of ways to make money developing open-source software.
Marriage? What time do you have in mind by "at that time"?
How the Product Bubble Burst
That's kind of like saying hamburger buyers are funding McDonalds.

Buyer typically do not have a direct say in how businesses are run. They exert influence by either buying a product or not.
The power grid will always be absolutely essential. I have no idea why you'd think otherwise.
Want to use this with more layers of data
My mom is getting up there in years so whenever she comes to visit, I make a point of cooking up some of our favorites from when I lived at home many (many) years ago. Her "recipes" are that in name only - lacking key preparation details, changes to ingredient amounts ("I never used that much sugar"), zero mention of cooking times or temperatures, etc. I'm lucky that her memory is still very sharp so she still remembers all of that missing information. We make the recipe as a "mother - son project" and I take detailed notes along the way so I'll be able to recreate myself the food I remember eating growing up. We have a great time doing it too and it brings back lots of good memories in the process. Most importantly, I don't want to say down the road that "I wish I had the recipe for those cookies but now it is too late".

We nailed the poppy seed squares, the perogies are still a work in progress (the recipe was a little too vague even for her), and dumplings are next.
How is that "the main problem in science"?

We can study brains just as closely as we can study anything else on earth.
I'm working on https://exeud.com. It's an open-source VR framework, including a Unity toolkit that includes character control and interaction, and a Web3 template that allows you to self-host your VR scene on the Internet Computer, which is a website-in-a-smart-contract.

I see it being useful for artists, indie devs and anyone else who want to fire up their immersive ideas and keep control of the content, code and costs of running it.
Please don't refer to an investment as "income". It hurts the ears of those of us who know a little accounting.

I have no objection to, "half a million in cash sure helps you . . "
Relevant to the first book, but last year and this year have been awesome for women's achievement in ultrarunning:

- Last year Courtney Dauwalter won the three most iconic trail ultras in a single season, when most professional runners will only target one. I've seen a lot of people consider this to be the single most impressive trail running performance by any athlete. https://run.outsideonline.com/trail/trail-racing/film-about-...

- In the spring, Jasmin Paris (featured in Better, Faster, Farther) was the first woman to finish the Barkley which is considered one of the hardest running races out there. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/us/barkley-marathons-jasm...

- This happened after the article was published, but Tara Dower just set a new overall FKT for the Appalachian Trail and crushed the previous women's FKT by 5 or 6 days. https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a62330229/tara-dower-appal...
Discrete conclusions with no continuous path connecting them? Apt!
Type II fun https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale
LLM’s are not the last incarnation. I assume that all the money, research and human ingenuity will eventually find better architectures.

I’m not sure we really want that, but I am pretty sure we’ll try for it.
That would be really cool. Unfortunately there's not much you can do on mobile with Anki extensions, so what you've described would have to be a standalone app. You could definitely wire up TTS fields with this add-on, but you'd still have to manually rate your answer.
I don't think the AirPods support anything better than mSBC for bidirectional audio on iOS either. (AAC and aptX are only unidirectional, and macOS already supports AAC and uses it for the AirPods.)

But maybe iOS just uses the built-in microphone more often to avoid having to switch away from (high quality) unidirectional audio on Bluetooth?
The popular alternative to brackets is "begin" "end" markers you see in Ada, Ruby, and Pascal:

Ada: https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/impe...

Ruby: https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/Manual/man-1.4/syn...

Pascal: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Pascal_Programming/Expressions...

For most of these, "begin" is equivalent to "{" and "end' is equivalent to "}".

However, I prefer Ada's more explicit "end $THING;" because it gives more context about what is ending and many Ada compilers can also check that $THING matches the corresponding "begin" block.
Presumably, this is talking about some remote devcontainer configuration. None of that really applies to using vscode locally, at least not any more than any other editor.
I heard this phrase often when studying for my license, "Your license is a license to learn". It took me a few months to really internalize that.

Getting into the hobby, I was looking to unlock exclusive frequencies that would give me more range than FRS and isolation from FRS traffic.

While it did that, I found that benefit largely went unused. My comms aren't private. What I wanted from the ham bands didn't benefit me in the ways I wanted them to. Heck my identity isn't even private. In addition, anyone I want to communicate with have to be hams as well.

Like you said, outside of an emergency, there are more reliable, private ways to communicate by using the Internet. The use case I was trying to solve for is better suited using VOIP on a phone.

What I found instead in ham radio is the a world of experimentation. I'm building antennas and radios. I'm hooking radios up to computers to communicate across the planet. I'm hooking up my phone to a walkie-talkie to send messages over APRS and Winlink without the Internet. Not because I need to, but because I can and it is fun to figure out how to do these things.

On top of all that, it is just enjoyable to turn on the radio with a cup of coffee and call out and see who can hear you. It is reminiscent of the early days of IRC and ICQ when you just turned it on and someone interested in the same thing as you was just waiting to connect. For the most part hams are just happy to have someone to geek out with and that's reason enough to connect.
> gross nationalism

How on earth did you get that from the original posters comment?
Cool solution! But have you actually tried it?

Once you try it you may find out that for some reason sometimes it will revert back to AirPods mic. I filed a bug report for that, check it out: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/763583

Therefore you will have to iron out the edge cases. Are the AirPods considered connected when you switch to your iPhone when using your Mac? Yes the continuity stuff.

Also, you will have to actually maintain that script. That is, you will need to find a place for it where it lives and it’s not lost when upgrading the system etc.

My app is for all the people who don’t want to deal with this and rather pay $2 a month to have it maintained and have someone they can report the issues they have and get them fixed.

Anyway, I made the app for myself and decided to put it on the market to see what happens, so it’s alright to have a competition:) if it happens that this is the better solution I may just drop mine and use it.
Really?

Not a huge expert but this is a huge talking point on the right. They don't like the carbon tax. E.g. second result from a simple search: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carbon-tax-political-popula...

Yes, Liberals (such as me) like carbon taxes. But even among liberals taxes aren't a popular subject. Especially not a potentially regressive tax like some carbon taxes.
Ground.News (no affiliation) is great for anyone interested in getting actual news and comparing biases. I particularly like that if you have an account they will show you news stories you're missing based on your typical reading patterns.

I do wish the partisan categorization was a bit more nuanced/intentional. It basically boils down to:

- Major national news outlet? Left.

- Local affiliate of major national news outlet? Center.

- Blog you've never heard of? Right.

There are certainly exceptions but that heuristic will be right 90% of the time.
Not sarcasm. Where I work, they talk a big game about "we don't want know-it-alls we want learn-it-alls", and "upskilling" and all that.

But we don't get any dedicated time to actually do that training during business hours. The implication of course is that managers expect it to happen on evenings and weekends.
Sure, that would be a theoretical failure mode. But that's not really what's happening right now, is it?

YC doesn't look to have a problem of people joining just to get the stamp on the resume and then "half-assing" it after they get into YC. I think that's something that YC is still quite actively selecting against. As long as they are selecting companies that make it to a series ~C (which most founders will stick around for as long as they are on an good-enough upward-presenting) YC can (partially) liquidate at good enough fund performance.
I understand that.

However review my last month or so of post history for my views on earned/employment income, unearned income and asset income.

In essence I differentiate between revenue within income, but not income/investment. I don't think taxes should either. Specifically, I think capital gains/intermingling of asset taxes while requiring up to date taxed-upfront employment taxes is one of the worst decisions society ever made.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41697929

Hn claims to be largely independent of the YC fund. But we will never know the full truth.
yc is a club looking for members. A lot of the members share similar traits/backgrounds which is why there's sorta this "populist" backlash. It's not meritocracy for ideas or viability.
Yes they definitely need to slow their roll and sit back and listen to both sides of this instead of those who think AGI will happen in a year or two and the T1000s are coming for them. I think LLM have a bright future, especially as more hardware is build specifically for them. The market can fix most of the problems and when it becomes evident we’re heading in the wrong direction or monopolies and abuses occur, that’s when the government needs to step in, no based some broad speculation from from the fringe of either side.
I really enjoy these. I’ve listened to them while driving —- blog posts by Astral Codex Ten or Paul Graham that I had never bothered to read.

There are millions of real podcasts, but now there are an infinite number of AI generated ones. They are definitely not as good as a well-made human one, but they are pretty darn decent, quite listenable and informative.

Time is not fungible. I can listen to podcasts while walking or driving when I couldn’t be reading anything.

Here’s one I made about the Aschenbrenner 165-page PDF about AGI:
https://youtu.be/6UmPoMBEDpA
Even more catastrophizing. Do you get upset when you read the abstract from an academic paper? Or when you listen to a real podcast that does summarize a difficult topic in easier/shallower terms? Is it the fact that an AI summarized it the problem? Can you point to a real harm here, or will you just hand-wave, instead of seeing the reality of making information more available being a net positive?
Automated video localization tool, generating Netflix-quality subtitles
Pretty sure that's not the case here. To "turn down" is a common phrase (at least in the US) that is used to describe changing something by use of a control.

As described at Wiktionary [0] - it's an idiomatic way of saying that you're going to lower the volume through use of a control to do that. The context that was used has nothing to do with party.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turn_down

EDIT: My bad, thought it was in response to...

> I guess it will mostly reflect the musical taste of assholes who turn their music up loud. Hmm, but maybe all culture works like that.
With the recent drop of batch quality comes more lifestyle companies and less disruptors. I can't imagine the YC of even 10 years ago funding quite so many zombies 3+ years no product but still holding out for the fabled founding engineer...

A half-decent Schemer in found3rm0de would've built 5 failed MVPs and exactly one unicorn in that timeframe.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-complex-path-to-becoming...
I think the real pain point you're hitting on there is that people feel like they don't get selected when they deserve to be. While there are those who don't deserve it but get selected anyway.
This is a little annoying. He vetoes the bill, agrees with the intention, paints the "solution" as improper, suggests there is some other solution that is better, doesn't entirely describe that solution with any detail, and encourages future legislation that is "more right."

I'm exhausted already.

I can't think of a less efficient way to go about this.
I remember seeing an earlier version of this, and one interesting thing the 2.0 version adds is a pre-commitment value to each beacon that has the hash of the random value in the next beacon. This allows users to combine random values from multiple beacons without having to worry about malicious beacons choosing outputs based on the outputs of any other beacons, because they have to choose their output before seeing the output value of other beacons. This helps fix one of the major weaknesses of the earlier version where you have to somewhat trust individual beacon sources even if you pick multiple sources.

As an aside, I find cryptographic commitment schemes to be one of the more interesting ideas in cryptography. The idea that you can later prove you had selected a value at a particular time, without revealing anything about that value, is a pretty cool property that you can do some very interesting things with.
CO2 is about 20% higher when accounting for imports:

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-kingdom#consum...

But both are still trending down.
May be true, but if there are no other pathologies that require frequent visit to the hospital, and the quiet living might help the mental side of things, why not? Maybe giving it a go for a while at first.

Maybe it’s just me, I only once in almost 40 years required urgent medical attention and would have survived without.. so I don’t understand the worry about not having an hospital close to home.
Everyone already does.

They just define lying such that the shielding and misrepresentation they do don't count.

Nobody brings their "whole selves" to work, let alone their "selves." I had a lot of blue collar jobs as a teenager and still pick up the occasional shift at my uncle's shop for a call-out. They're guarded but somehow also make professional office life on the west coast rn look like a pearl clutching competition hosted at a flooded blanket factory.
The dead satellites sit at roughly 0 deg inclination initially and then the moon causes their inclination to shift. Depending on where the moon is in its orbit relative to the satellite it can pull the argument of perigee (lowest point) in different directions. The end result is that the inclinations are all roughly between 0-20 degrees but they all have different RAAN and argument of perigees.
Too bad. I mean it to be fair
The music industry has a long, long history of people paying to put songs in prominent places. If you built it yourself you would be 100% confident that nobody was paying the person compiling the playlist to put songs on it.

Well, at least at first. If your playlist derived from the ambient music of a particular streetcorner in Berlin becomes popular enough, someone would probably try hanging out there blasting their new song 24/7. Someone else might try approaching you about working out a deal to pay you to slip their new song into the mix. And of course you can never know who's paying to put songs on whatever stations or playlists the locals are listening to.

Some pretty interesting things would probably happen as the result of your goofy little fun project getting big enough to start having these problems though.
There is a database called clickhouse, while the company offers services and hosting many run clickhouse on their own infra.
More seems like young and immature (X posts) for virality than an evil intent to me.
I guess people are hating on Youtubers launching products now?
DirecTV agrees to buy Dish for $1
Dupe? Recent discussion:

US Trademark Office Cancels Marvel, DC's 'Super Hero' Marks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41676297
Not really, the main issue is the Bluetooth profile[1] here. HFP is the profile used for bidirectional (i.e.: when you're using both the headset and microfone) while A2DP is the profile for unidirectional audio (i.e.: when you're only listening). The main issue is that HFP uses a much worse codec than A2DP, that is optimised for voice and not music. Newer versions of HFP supports mSBC that is a simplified version of SBC (the main codec used in A2DP) that is better but still significantly worse than SBC (and SBC is not considered a good codec anyway).

However I can't really answer OP question. I am not sure how iPhone get a better sound quality if what OP is saying is true (I don't have an iPhone). What I know is that in Linux you can activate mSBC and this improves the quality a lot when using HFP profile, but it is still significantly worse than anything A2DP has to offer. I also think Android uses mSBC if available, but I am not completely sure.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles
Also on whether you use it in clamshell mode (I believe the microphone openings are under the speaker grills), and on your habits during meetings – I like to walk around while talking.
This assumes those people have a credible alternative, which in most cases they do not.
“Win for America” is gross nationalism. Zero sum thinking with combative implications.
Randomness does not give you free will, any more than determinism does.

What do you mean by free will?
Playing with Tortoise-TTS-v2, it's quite slow, although I tried it in WSL which may or may not have direct access to the GPU and may or may not be defaulting to CPU. I will play some more on my Linux laptop/Macs, but thanks for the heads up
(thanks for the jade!)

TIL why I also got CGI results when I had earlier been searching for Jiang Ziya.

[In a Super Dimension Fortress crossover, the singer would get a chorus of おぼえていますか while the old man destroys the staircase?]

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CToPsT1UF10

EDIT: for western weeping: porque no El Cid?
possibly you are a time traveler because in this timeline open source did become the default way to make software
What I want from bookmarks it's not manage them as files, since those files are just links, I'd like to have eventually collected snapshots (like Zotero does), eventually DIFFING through them (because often articles get modified, without changing title/URL etc), instead of a full snapshot maybe just the "Firefox Reader" version saved so I can avoid wasting space in useless bits, check their on-line status slowly and regularly so when a bookmark is broken I got a small alert and I see it "greyed out" and appear in a dedicated "broken bookmarks" page I can try to update (often the same bookmarked page exist but under a different URL and thanks to the cached copy I can look for the new version or a mirror with a search engine).

Files for UIs was an ancient concept trying mimicking paper files, it's about time to use textual pages and search&narrow UIs more than files for many, many things.
There was a discussion a few weeks ago about YC betting on essentially the same product of adding support for chatting with LLMs inside your IDE (Continue.dev, Void, double.bot), which is a great example of this. No differentiation between investments, just spray-and-pray technique hoping that at least one of the contenders will succeed.

I understand that in broader terms, VCs operate in this way - investing in many things hoping that one will stick. And if this is spread across different products, industries, ideas, then it is a good signal that your company was handpicked and got attention of one of the best VCs, among many many contenders.

With examples like this, this signal is basically gone and getting a YC investment means nothing.
The target audience is people who don’t want to deal with this stuff and have their sound working as expected and don’t bother to pay $2 a month for it. It’s not free because freeware also requires to provide support.
> The larger they get, the more that running them at all is the "high-risk situation".

Absolutely no evidence to support this position.
How easy is it to triangulate a starlink terminal?
How do you get the data out of the Shazam app (?)