skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> harder to discern and then quantify the loudness of a sound or brightness of a light as a human modem but we are better and more certain of the color

Fair enough, this might be a sensory artefact. In this case, however, nature had a point. Energy scales proportionally with frequency but exponentially with amplitude. Increasing amplitude delivers more bang than increasing frequency.
they have to justify their non newtonian vibration dampeners (blutak) and custom AC power filter used to play noisy vinyls
If they did that they would lose the bulk of their paying subscribers.
Scientists have no right to declare what does and does not exist based on what their machines are able to detect. Did gravity not exist before the LHC was constructed and the Higgs data analyzed?

Jewish DNA is that which has descended from Abraham, through Isaac, to Jacob and the Jewish nation. Gravity is an attraction between masses. These things exist – regardless of your machines’ proclivities.
I held a more complex view of Musk and I pretty much devour at least two book on him.

He will probably still be the most influential and the most important entrepreneur in our lifetime, and I mean that mostly in a technological sense. But he's certainly not a kind of person I would emulate and not all his business strategy are advisable or necessarily efficient.

Anyway, to credit Elon Musk almost singularly with SpaceX and other big accomplishment does a discredit to the engineers who work there. What he provide is leadership, which means making final engineering decisions and taking responsibility for these decisions.

We often became complacent, unwilling to take even modicum of risk on a project, or only paying attention narrowly to a certain measure of success. Musk exemplify the lack of complacency better than anyone else.
I absolutely adore minetest and have an enormous amount of love and respect for the people who have built it into the phenomenal platform that it is.

But damn, they are not great at naming things.

I have long wished they would rename from minetest to something else, because as silly as it is, one of the biggest barriers of adoption I have run into is the name. When people hear the name, it is confusing and they think it is stupid and a joke. Hell, I even joke about it sometimes too.

Naming things is very difficult, so I do feel for them. I also will give this new name some time and see if it grows on me. I am a bit skeptical, but they have more than earned some trust.

Regardless, this is a fantastic game and a fantastic platform, and I really don't understand why so many people play Minecraft when there is an open open source alternative that is this good.

The code is genuinely very good, and is a pleasure to read. It is one of the things I love about a great open source project, where it was done for the love of the art, not just to grab a paycheck. The code is well thought out and well written, and dare I say even beautiful. Exactly my kind of project!
It's not just about the money. Most people want a lazy bullshit office job rather than hard physical labour.

Climbing ladders isn't a lot of fun when you reach 40.
Lots of musicians and composers are going to need help with applying AI to their music so plenty of scope for hobby tech projects if you insist on going with your heart. This will also give you the tech skills should you decide to pivot back.
I'd put it this way... if you're paying a company, you might still also be the product, but if you're not paying for something that a company is spending money to make, you're definitely the product.
Nah the new wave of ancient DNA analysis since 2010 has been a game changer. Especially with euroasian history. It showed us how populations migrated and how and when admixture formed. Including identifying the yamnaya admixture in modern populations

If they actually have Columbus’s DNA intact with a good SNP resolution, it will be trivial to find out what % of jewish he is in his autosomal DNA. They can and should release it publicly as part of their paper as well. So people can confirm their hypothesis
> ZWEI is no longer in the base system. EH does not exist, a Window system does not exist. Dynamic Windows is in the base system.

Nobody will use Genera without Zmacs or the error handler (aka Debugger)…

System 200 ran in the CADR and 3600. Using the same code base, with different microcode. With just bunch of #+ and #-.

And no, the target is not that important that it makes up “80% of the system”.

Your going into tangents and constantly raising neg things not being discussed, we aren’t talking about the host architecture but about the Lisp Machine system which is mostly agnostic of the target CPU. And between those two, Genera and the MIT system, are essentially the same when it comes to the base layer. To the point you can take the Dynamic listener or even DW and have it running on a MIT system without much work.

Genera 9 (which started development just a few years ago going of a system that hadn’t been touched for 30 years and under dubious legal situation) is essentially Genera 8.5 with several fixes.

Genera was carefully designed to keep compatibility with the MIT system. And that is one of the reasons why feature and code are so similar.
I didn't have much success with Kagi for Spanish/local searches. Has this improved?
I have a small shot glass of anise liquor
Anise is a common ingredient in liqueurs and alcohols, such as ouzo and anisette. Anise has many potential health benefits, including:

Digestive health: Anise can help with bloating, indigestion, heartburn, and low stomach acidity. It's often used in pediatrics to settle the digestive tract.

Anti-inflammatory: Anise has anti-inflammatory properties.
Antimicrobial: Anise has antimicrobial properties.
Antioxidant: Anise is a great source of antioxidants.
Antispasmodic: Anise can be used as an antispasmodic in high doses.
Antiseptic: Anise can be used as an antiseptic in high doses.
Expectorant: Anise can be used as an expectorant to increase productive cough.
Diuretic: Anise can be used as a diuretic to increase urine flow.
Appetite stimulant: Anise can be used as an appetite stimulant.
Hormone regulation: Anise can help regulate hormones in females.
Depression treatment: Some research suggests that anise seed may help treat depression.
Menopause symptom relief: Early research shows that anise can reduce the frequency and severity of hot flashes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricard_(liqueur)
And someone else can take up the mantle. But perhaps, just perhaps, a business can just exist and turn a modest profit, without trying to scorch the earth raising revenue infinitely.
This made me think of Charlie Munger. As he was getting into old age, he told an audience that "to get ahead in life, you should specialize in one thing and get really good at it"

Mr. Munger was really good at stock picking. As he neared his twilight years, he tried to dabble in architecture. To show that he was more than just a rich guy who was good/lucky with picking stocks. He made big donation to UC Santa Barbara conditioned on one clause... that he be allowed to design a dorm.

The dorm he designed was utilitarian to the extreme, maximizing the internal volume of the building. Dorms on the interior received no air, no light... There was so little ventilation that critics accused the building of being "worse than a prison". College administrators worried that the building would increase the suicide rate of this beach side perpetually sunny college campus, by making the students go insane.

So at the very end, Munger was forced to concede he was right...

So how's Elon's takeover of Twitter going right now?
When I see things like this where you need a package manager to install a different package manager to install the tool, and the only setup information assumes a bunch of stuff in Docker on a single machine, I just default to assuming it's deliberately over-engineered and under-documented specifically to dissuade self hosting.
You don't need to save.

And it has nice features like highlights selection
As in life, when a person is on a road to nowhere, it’s the homecoming that’s sweet. The only thing more exciting than an Earth landing will be a moon or Martian landing. Or the in-orbit fuel consolidation docking, if only because it will be a huge milestone.

https://open.spotify.com/track/7wFmJxJfGCN6DM5913y7pr?si=-Uo...
That might be a valid worry, but RedCap changes nothing here. This is the 5G NR replacement for LTE's Category 1. Other than some potential power saving (which doesn't matter to a smart TV plugged into the wall), the only reason you'd choose a RedCap radio today over a Cat 1 radio is preparing for a future where more and more spectrum is dedicated to 5G NR and less for LTE. Otherwise, the Cat 1 radio will be the cheaper option.
Everything except the stage connector ring (which uses pyro bolts I believe) should be directly reusable, after an inspection, light brushing, and refueling / recharging.

Maybe the bottom uses some ablative material, then a new coat of it needs to be applied / attached.

All the internals should have enough resource for likely dozens of launches, if Falcon-9 is any indication.
20$

1200$

I have an easier time justifying this
From the little bit of research I just did before buying one, most people are reporting that compared to their more expensive trackers, the heart rate, accelerometer, and sleep tracking functionality are all pretty accurate (good sleep tracking being dependent on a high sampling rate, which decreases battery life), but the blood oxygen and "stress" reporting is uselessly inaccurate.
Look, I'm an audio snob and will talk shit about terrible design of BT headsets that halve bandwidth in duplex until the cows come home.

But the reason that codecs have survived this long without substantial changes is because they're far and away good enough (*) for the vast majority of listeners. To the point where today, even trained listeners can't perceive a difference in audio quality between lossless and lossy encoded audio at high enough bit rates (which is 320kbps MP3, or comparable AAC which can be as low as 50% of that).

(*) what we don't talk about is the latency of the codec itself, where regardless of available compute resources is still atrocious outside of proprietary codecs. While a listener cannot perceive noticeable differences in fidelity, they can perceive the delay, and this is a problem that doesn't have good solutions outside of specialized equipment today, although OPUS (as a descendant of CELT) is pretty darn good for the cases that consumers care about. Professionals still spend oodles of money on the proprietary gear that have codecs that not even ffmpeg supports.

I would go so far as to say there is no practical benefit to uncompressed audio today at all. Lossy is fine for all consumers, and lossless encoding is faster to decode and playback (as well as encode and write) while using less disk/bandwidth than uncompressed for archival purposes.
Aim the fan at your legs; in my experience it cools effectively (I assume because blood is circulating) and dehydrates less.
Can you give an example or two of the type of terminology you have in mind? Something like first tier, or high level, or primary, or what? Almost any term that I could think of still carries with it a sense of politics. Perhaps someone from the first class citizen language, like English or French doesn’t really notice this dynamic, but someone who uses these other languages sure notice the lack of importance, or urgency, when they can’t live digitally with their own language. Whether or not they use the term,” political”, it’s still there. But I’m curious to see what your suggestions might include.
Oh this could be useful. I've been thinking a lot about this recently.

I built some older features in Vue with <style> tags in components (SFC, single-file components) and we used Vite to do builds, which extracts all the CSS from individual .vue files into .css files for production deployment. But we also had serverside CSS that didn't need that fancy stuff. So I've been wanting to move to a much simpler CSS system. Just letting esbuild do typescript/Vue and let CSS be CSS. But one of the only drawbacks was losing the automatic CSS scoping, not having to write wrapper .classes/BEM inside components was nice.

So this would certainly help migrate away from JS dependencies + spaghetti BEM CSS.

And even more meta I think the general trend in the frontend world is moving away from pure JS-driven frontends back to defaulting to server powered views, with JS tooling only used where it's absolutely needed (high interactivity) without the whole frontend being isolated in a separate build system. So backend devs don't need to worry about JS build pipelines for simple HTML stuff... which they should be trusted to do.
Great job. I was just looking for a good webrtc library. I am trying to build a multiple user video conferencing. Is this the right tool for the job ?
Kagi is great because SEO cargo cult haven’t caught up yet. Once Kagi gains traction I guarantee result quality will nosedive.
This is a very counter productive attitude. Ask any restaurant owner and they'll tell you the cost of ingredients and labor has more than doubled in recent years. Ask any waiter or produce supplier why their prices have gone up, and they'll tell you their costs of living and business have doubled too. A big point of having a competitive economy is to make greed self-defeating. Blaming inflation on greed is like blaming hurricanes on evil spirits. It's stupid, destructive, and seductive.

Inflation happens when demand outstrips supply, plain and simple. In America, keeping inflation in check is the Fed's job. They're the only ones who could reasonably be blamed for failing to take it seriously until too late. But the only way to reduce demand is to basically make people poorer. So ya it's not surprising that people get angry. But all this anger is misplaced and counterproductive
I wanted to quit smoking for good and that's one thing I am glad is not a part of my life anymore.

With alcohol and caffeine, I never thought I would stick with it for so long. But now that I have there is this inertia in me to break this period of abstinence. I am sure I would start again at some point with liquor although probably in much much lesser quantity and frequency than before.

Caffeine I probably have left for good as I have heard that the longer one goes without it the more pronounced jitteriness gets. And I am not sure I care enough to wait through the period before it normalizes again.
And the edict for expulsion of practicing Jews was issued in 1492, same year of Columbus's first voyage.
Pyramid Flow – Text to Video
> Other symbolics extensions are of similar nature.

Sure, and those extensions can run on the MIT Lisp Machine.

But we are taking about the base system. Not extensions. And why one can take those systems and for the most part just run them in another system is cause they are so similar!
Spent rocket stages are empty of fuel, but not necessarily of the ullage gases, the pressure inside could be e.g. 3 atmospheres and that could be enough to provide some stiffness in the direction perpendicular to the axis.
The Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham
Near-orthogonality allows fitting in more directions for distinct concepts than the dimension of the space. So even though the dimension of an LLM might be <2000, far far more than 2000 distinct directions can fit into that space.

The term most often used is "superposition." Here's some material on it that I'm working through right now:

https://arena3-chapter1-transformer-interp.streamlit.app/%5B...
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
Yeah I don't think any federal institution can or even should be capable of 'maintenance' of a thing like this, however groups like DARPA can function well as catalysts for some innovation, and to shape the development of solutions outside of its remit.
Vipassana Meditation formalizes this to a large extent and is extremely approachable. I would highly recommend anyone looking at guided meditation to give this a try:

https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index
> It makes sense if you think about it "evolutionarily" or whatever. Basically, your body feels warmth and it assumes the sun is what's heating you up, so suppresses sleep hormones and promotes wakefulness.

We evolved in places that were hotter [0] on average than where most HN commenters reside.

[0] ... unless paleoclimate in Africa was much colder than I guess it was.
I am on Family plan for over a year. Very happy z including czech sites.
(Also building a product in the productivity space, with an option for users to self-host the backend)

That's interesting, for us there was actually no trade-off in that sense. Having operated another SaaS with a lot of moving parts (separate DB, queueing, etc), we came to the conclusion rather early on that it would save us a lot of time, $ and hassle if we could just run a single binary on our servers instead. That also happens to be the experience (installation/deployment/maintenance) we would want our users to have if they choose to download our backend and self-host.

Just download the binary, and run it. Another benefit is that it's also super helpful for local development, we can run the actual production server on our own laptop as well.

We're simply using a Go backend with SQLite and local disk storage and it pretty much contains everything we need to scale, from websockets to queues. The only #ifdef cloud_or_self_hosted will probably be that we'll use some S3-like next to a local cache.
I would convert, but price is too high for me personally.

I'd be willing to pay up to 3$ a month for my searches, but also per-use.

If I make 0 searches, why do I need to pay?

A replacement for Google that is to survive should really convince and be super cheap, it's so easy to ignore sponsored search results (for now).
> A "Renaissance person" is not a self-educated generalist

> an old person who has had diverse interests and the motivation and the opportunities to pursue them.

How is that not the same thing? The only difference is that you added that they had to be old.
I’m curious if you (or anyone else) know of any other services that are paid-only in a traditionally free/freemium product space.

Perhaps for news, or video content, or music, or something else. What else do you use today for free that often feels like a Faustian bargain?

As a random aside, If Google released a paid version of their search engine, would you switch back?
Amazingly prescient. The original version of that article was written in 2019
The magic is in letting real humans curate what gets boosted and what doesn't. My results tend to be quite good because I've hidden tons of sites that I don't care about. It's the same reason uBlock works: filter lists can be shared.
You kind of cherry-picked two paragraphs and butchered the article. The article's point is that Reconquista, with capital R, is not a good designation for the historical events that took place. It does use the term throughout the article, though, which maybe is a bit confusing. But if you read a couple paragraphs past the one you quoted, you'll see it restated that the term Reconquista is a 20th century invention. "The idea of Reconquista" is talking about the idea, specifically, not the term; the term, and mysticism surrounding it (like the originating battle that actually never took place as such), part of which is debunked also in the article, is modern propaganda.
I am not sure the other comment was especially intuitive. Here is my understanding:

Euclidean space is a vector space and therefore pretty easy to work with in computations (especially calculus) compared to something like the surface of a sphere, but the sphere doesn't simply abandon Euclidean vector structure. We can take halves of the sphere and "flatten them out," so instead of working with the sphere we can work with two planes, keeping in mind that the flattening functions define the boundary of those planes we're allowed to work within. Then we can do computations on the plane and "unflatten" them to get the result of those computations on the sphere.

Manifolds are a generalization of this idea: you have a complicated topological structure S, but also some open subsets of S, S_i, which partition S, and smooth, invertible functions f_i: S_i -> R^n that tell you how to treat elements of S locally as if they were vectors in Euclidean space (and since the functions are invertible, it tells you how to map the vectors back to S, which is what you want).

The manifold is a pair, the space S and the smooth functions f_i. The smoothness is important because ultimately we are interested in doing calculus on S, so if the mapping functions have "sharp edges" then we're introducing sharp edges into S that are entirely a result of the mapping and not S's own geometry.
I closed as soon as I saw the picture putting elon as a Renaissance man. There are no great men only great con artists
I'm almost exactly one year into my Kagi purchase, and I've got to say I'm loving it. Since this was just an experiment, I purchased the smallest level I could, which is now Starter, but back then it was a bit different.

Some people want unlimited, and I understand that, but if you're on the fence, I'd suggest just getting Starter. Seeing how fantastic search can be is incredible. I can completely remove abusive domains (Fandom, Pinterest) from search results. I can get search results from only the small web. I just get better results overall.

For those curious, in the past year I've only made ~1700 searches. That seems low, but that's what it says. I have made some changes to my search habits, though. For instance, when I'm looking for a result on Wikipedia, instead of just searching for it, I go to Wikipedia, same with IMDB, and similar sites. Sometimes, I search for something that I know will need a result from a disallowed domain, so I use DuckDuckGo for that. And I still use DDG for work searches, and some other miscellaneous searches.

Again, if you're on the fence, just try it out. It is so, so, so much better than Google or DDG.
Agreed, a comparison table or even a blog post would be helpful.
> See caniuse for the support, at the time of writing caniuse says 82% support globally. Sounds quite good.

That's one way of making it sound good. Saying: “it won't work on Firefox” makes it sound worse. But perhaps OP wasn't implying it's production ready.
There's so much rent-collection in music streaming fraud almost seems inevitable because most of the pipeline is in competition with the musicians for that revenue AKA a massive conflict of interest. The outcome has been musicians get paid very little by any streaming service yet half-a-billion consumers are streaming music and apart from Spotify's ad-supported plan each service costs around $10 - $30 a month!
> And so, the journey to mastery of the mind begins not with grand gestures but with the simplest of practices: the practice of paying attention. Attention to the present, attention to what truly matters, and attention to the quiet spaces in between. In this way, step by step, thought by thought, we move closer to that elusive state of clarity, of peace, and of freedom.

I abhor deepity, pseudo-profundity that provides no path for the average.

Tell me, the dullard, what is the practical approach?

How do I recognize or pay attention to the present? What does truly matter? Again, how do I recognize quiet spaces in between? Finally, how do I recognize state of clarity, of peace, and of freedom? What is the benefit to me and what are the steps for a simpleton to achieve said state?