skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking about a free replacement for the Listento service.

https://audiomovers.com/listento/

I do sound design work for media composers and very often I demo the work in realtime during a video call. The problem is that Google Meet, Skype, Zoom, etc don't have good enough audio quality for this. So in parallel with the call I stream high quality audio from the DAW to a web UI the service offers.
What’s fun is that you can skip step 1. The LLM will happily critique its own nonexistent output.
Shuttle's tiles were each unique. Starship is mostly clad with identical hexagonal tiles which can be mass produced and eventually refurbished by machine. A robot already welds on the tile fittings.
Begin rant.

I don’t want to be that guy saying this, but 99% of the top results on google from Medium related to anything technical is literally the reworded/reframed version of the official quick start guide.

There are some very rare gems, but it is hard to find those among the above mentioned ocean of reworded quick starts disguised as “how to X”, “fixing Y”. Almost reminds me of the SEO junks when you search “how to restart iPhone” and find answers that dance around letting it die from battery drain and then charge, install this software, take it to the apple repair shop, go to settings and traverse many steps while not saying that if you are between these models use the power+volume up button trick.

End of rant.
> Without guys like this, we don't have a next generation of physicists (most of whom will move into the private sector).

There are plenty of people who would be totally happy to step into this professor's shoes at his current rate of pay just to have a position in academia. We have too many PhDs—there are more people who want a position in academia than academia can support.

We're not faced with the prospect of not being able to train a next generation of physicists, but there's a real possibility that the next generation doesn't view academia as the ideal place to be—the physics equivalent of Broadway. If that happens, fewer people will put up with low-valued positions and a dangled tenure carrot, and the college job market will adapt.

In the meantime we're not going to solve the problem of academic jobs being overvalued by the workforce by artificially inflating pay for the lucky few who landed an academic job at all.
Thanks, I did miss that.
The answer will be more exclusivity.

The masses get ignorant dreck, and people in the know get the scoop. When the genx people like me are rocking on the porch in retirement, we’ll be babbling about the golden age we lost.
I can point you to the abstract of my PhD: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/3075889. Mutations in the daf-2 gene tend to result in huge shifts in physiological and metabolic makeup. The challenge is discriminating those changes that are relevant for longevity from those that are not.
Oook. I have seen worse. Its been my experience that the documentation is pretty good and the community helps when when there are discrepancies.
Is that long term or this year? Because honestly 6.6B is not a lot for their scale of operations.
> Other companies should have reusable boosters soon

You're way too optimistic. Starship will deliver commercial payloads, with SpaceX phasing out Falcon 9 outside of ISS launches, before anyone has a reusable Falcon 9 equivalent.

It pains me to say this, but SpaceX is in a class all its own.
Absolutely fine thing to do IMO. Takes a tiny amount of resilience but works great.
I'm certain that people did not spend centuries trying different formulas for the laws of motion before finding one that worked. The crucial insight was applying any formula at all. Once you have that then the rest is relatively easy. I don't see LLMs making that kind of discovery.
First, it seems that public restrooms aren't built for utter privacy and secrecy, but merely dignity, and blocking out the main parts suffices for that.

They're public spaces, so it's sort of helpful that I can detect someone using a stall, rather than walking in on them. At least I feel OK if someone couldn't lock that broken door (happens so often!) that I'm not barging in unbidden. There are often parents with young children who may put them in a stall and wait outside. (Not at a place of employment, but...) It's good that they still have some contact through that door.

Also, ventilation, right? A completely enclosed space with a tight door is going to get smelly, and that's not easy to clean or maintain. A partly-open stall is going to exchange air with the rest of the room, for better or for worse!
Probably the easiest solution to this problem would be—don't use GitHub.
Yeah, There was a reference in a paywalled article a year ago (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-made-an-ai-br...):
"Sutskever's breakthrough allowed OpenAI to overcome limitations on obtaining high-quality data to train new models, according to the person with knowledge, a major obstacle for developing next-generation models. The research involved using computer-generated, rather than real-world, data like text or images pulled from the internet to train new models."

I suspect most foundational models are now knowingly trained on at least some synthetic data.
Show HN: A dev-friendly, SEO-optimized router for modern React applications
Hello HN! I wanted to share my open-source project I've been working on, called Routerino. It's an ultra-lightweight, zero-dependency router built specifically for React client-side rendered websites. If you're building with modern tooling like Vite.js or focusing on JAMStack architectures, Routerino aims to be the simplest routing solution. I built it in response to the common frustration of overcomplicated web development. With just React and Routerino, you can ship a full website or application in HTML, just like we used to.

Beyond just routing, Routerino has some powerful built-in features to help make your React sites more SEO and social media sharing friendly right out of the box:

- Automatic support for Prerender tags, allowing your client-side app to serve up proper 301 redirects and 404 status codes to web crawlers for better indexing. No relying on fragile SSR hydration or hash-based routing!

- An integrated CLI tool to generate a sitemap.xml directly from your defined application routes. Keep your sitemap always in sync with your routes with a single command. I use this to generate a fresh sitemap with each build. I couldn't find another router that tackles this (only some abandoned plugins).

- Automatic social media Open Graph (OG) tag population based on your route props, making social sharing of your app's pages look great on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

- Best practice nudges like canonical URL management and robots.txt generation to help your app avoid common SEO pitfalls. My goal is to include support and documentation sufficient for any developer to easily handle SEO concerns.

The goal with Routerino is to create a routing solution that lets React devs focus on building great apps and websites without having to worry about the SEO and social sharing aspects as an afterthought. By baking this functionality in from the start, Routerino helps you build more visible and shareable web applications with minimal extra effort.

I've kept the API surface small and focused, so if you know React, you'll feel right at home with Routerino. The core fits in a single file for easy integration into your build process.

Check out the project on GitHub and give it a star if you think it could be useful! I'd love to hear feedback from the HN community on how to make Routerino an even better tool for the React ecosystem. PRs and suggestions are most welcome.

Happy routing!
What is real work? I manage a park, and can do all the work on the phone if need be. The only problem is the screen size.
I am a bit surprised that there is no mention of academic performance, which would be the most obvious indication for a successful policy.

Instead, what the article basically says is that banning phones results in kids spending less time on the phone, which is an improvement if your idea of an improvement is having kids do things that don't involve spending time on the phone. There is some circular reasoning here.

Note that I am not against the idea that phone bans have positive effects on general well being, academic performance, etc... but for me, this article doesn't sell it very well.
Well, I just asked ChatGPT to answer my "How to print hello world in c++" with a typical stack overflow answer.

Lo and behold, the answer is very polite, explanative and even lists common mistakes. It even added two very helpful user comments!

I asked it again how this answer would look in 2024 and it just updated the answer to the latest c++ standard!

Then! I asked it what a moderator would say when they chime in. Of course the moderator reminded everyone to stay on focus regarding the question, avoid opinions and back their answer by documentation or standards. In the end the mod thanked for everyone's contribution and keeping the discussion constructive!

Ah! What a wonderful world ChatGPT is living at! I want to be there too!
Free image video gallery viewing app like old picassa
Hey folks, just wanted to share the app I made to shuffle your pictures/videos.

Couldn't find one online so I just made my own. Hope you all likes it!
Awesome, thanks for sharing. What is the turnaround time on your in-house sequencing? Is it purely for cost savings that you do it yourself?

Would be keen to hear more about what you are working on. Separately - what is the current state of technology (price, accuracy, accessibility etc.) for synthesizing custom RNA rather than just sequencing it?
So the C-37B is basically an unmanned Space Shuttle?
The grid fins are what it's hanging off of.
If you think AI spam is bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet. Except for the outliers in the article or the author, the reality is the majority of people do not care or cannot notice if content is ai-generated or human-generated, so to save money we can expect more of the former. I have already seen this in news stories where there are weird typos and other artifacts of AI generation. If you are not paying attention then you would probably not notice.
Farma: Speculative Gastronomy
One day I'm eating only till 4PM and the other only after 4PM. And so on ... So the breaks are often a bit longer than 24h because I rarely have my last meal right before 4PM. But not as long as if I was eating every other day. Because then it would be two nights and one day between the periods of eating and I think that could be a bit much for me.
> Too bad openbsd people can’t even conceive something like this possible

maybe they prefer to use the right tool for the job?
Following the article’s conclusion farther, humans would stop producing new documentation with new concepts.
The quote I provided was from the article. I’ve read the whole thing and I’m still parsing it (and your statement about both being fed shitty diets) as going against your original assertion: “Studies of caloric restriction in monkeys didn’t cause lifespan extension, casting doubt on its effect in humans.”

According to Attia, the studies weren’t specifically studying life extension, and all the diets were non-typical for the monkeys being studied. So, to me, this argues not that caloric restriction doesn’t cause lifespan extension in monkeys, but that we cannot know from these studies whether caloric restriction with a healthy diet causes lifespan extension in monkeys, which is what we really want to know. I wouldn’t expect to extend lifespan by eating hamburgers and fries but less of them, and that seems analogous to what the studies did.

To me, this simply leaves the question of caloric restriction in humans unanswered instead of casting doubt on it. Big difference.
Beware of Economic Misconceptions
Thanks for posting this. I love Hugo btw, its been a great SSG for me. I have been putting off a 0.42 upgrade for a few years now. Wanting to use the new markdown renderer at some point. But I am using the Academic theme, and not wanting to code a new theme or migrate my current theme just yet. Paying someone to code the theme is a good idea.
It's a ventilation and safety thing.
First off, the booster was going about 1250 km/h when it started its landing burn, it relied purely on drag to get it slowed down to that speed.

Going by the telemetry of the seconds before the landing burn and noting the speed vs time, it seems drag was around 40 m/s^2 when it was going at around 3000 km/h. Since drag depends on velocity squared though, it had reduced to just above 10 m/s^2 just before the engines lit at 1250 km/h, and so would quickly become negligible once the engines lit.

Going by Wikipedia, the Super Heavy[1] has 3400000 kg of fuel at launch, so 3% of that is about 102000 kg. For the landing burn, it used 13 Raptor v3 engines[2] to scrub speed. Each Raptor flows about 650 kg/s max, so 3% fuel is enough for about 12 seconds for the 13 engines.

The empty mass of the Super Heavy is about 275000 kg, so about 377000 kg before the landing burn with 3% fuel.

Using the sea-level vs vacuum performance of the Raptor v2 engines, one can estimate that each Raptor v3 produces about 2.45 NM of force at sea-level. So 13 of them would produce about 31.85 MN of force.

Using Newton's second law, F=ma, this gives an initial deceleration of about 84 m/s^2 and about 104 m/s^2 when empty. If we do a rough spreadsheet integration, we get that a burn of roughly 4 seconds is needed to scrub the speed assuming no other forces.

Now, comparing this with reality, the full 13 engines were lit for a little over 5 seconds.

In my simplified calculations I was assuming full throttle the whole way, which obviously isn't realistic, and I also assumed 3% fuel. So over all I think that's a pretty decent estimation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Super_Heavy#Engines

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Raptor
Can this be the next thing tech democratizes?
Because the language here is unclear, Jekyll is not deprecated. It is still making releases (4.3.4, a few weeks ago)
Fair point - I actually had parsed OP's sentence differently. I'll edit my comment.

I agree, LLMs performance for coding tasks is super biased in favor of well-represented languages. I think this is what GitHub is trying to solve with custom private models for Copilot, but I expect that to be enterprise only.
I only use windows as a dumb terminal to access my Linux system remotely. I'd require a significant payrise to consider using windows as a daily driver.
Actually this is a good question - there's a lot of control engineering research on Data-Driven Control Systems.

Check Steve Brunton youtube channel, he is one of the leaders in this area: https://youtu.be/gb_C9LcjDSI?si=xUjqUZ9-0MIFohX6
AFAIK very few "Serbo-Croatian" words got adopted by Turkish/Ottoman - I only know of "kraljica".

On the other hand - during ~500 years (within last ~625 years) that Ottomans occupied most of Balkans - many words stuck around to this day.

For example: Jok, Jorgan, Džezva, Mašala ...etc
Yes it's possible. You need really good social and political skills, and a somewhat ruthless approach. Sociopathic tendencies, in other words.
Fair enough, but a straightforward solution would be to just not allow off-screen cursors in terminal mode, and allow them in GUI mode.
Slightly offtopic: many commenters lament that latex is slow. I switched to https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ which is very fast and have better error reporting.
also lets a mop get everywhere, and reduces water damage.
> And now real news photos of Hurricane Helene are getting replaced by AI fantasies.

50% of stuff I read about victims, is about some dogs. The AI generated fantasies are not far from "serious journalism". AI just captures current public sentiment.
DBahn was privatized in a way that combines the worst of both worlds: private but 100% owned by the state. Opaque labyrinth of 600 subcompanies.

Also, some textbook examples of bad incentives. For example, repairing bridges is paid by DB. If a bridge is beyond repair, then the tax payer pays. Predictable result: doing hardly any maintenance until the bridge fails. (That example is by now fixed, but shows the clear lack of planning)

Finally, the system is just over capacity. Many more trains but same infrastructure as decades ago. If you got rid of half the schedule and used a swiss-like system of stopping several minutes at every station, the trains could be on time. But the trains already are overcrowded, so then what do you do with all the passengers?
Agreed. Astro seems more of the same as Hugo, except JS-based. Note that for its intended audience, this is a feature.
Started drawing for the first time about 5 years ago in an effort to realistically draw what I see IRL and in my imagination/dreams. Here’s how I would go about learning this skill today:

- drawabox.com provides a foundational theoretical and methodological framework that’s free and effective. Exercise and task focus leads to right-brain acceptance and left-brain results.

- Knowledge of basic perspective is key as the human mind is unwilling to accept the “illusion” of 3D on a 2D sheet of paper without accuracy and making concrete decisions and sticking to them.

- Some shapes are easier than others to master. Humans, autos, animals, robotics, architecture are fun to imagine drawing but hard to accomplish because of perspective symmetry and familiarity. I found that drawing leafs, trash, rocks and miscellaneous shapes that didn’t matter to me lead to improvements.

- The time I spent observing the world was just as valuable as putting marks down on the page. Things in life do not appear as I thought.

- Understanding relative proportions of shapes was critical, and for a long time I was constantly measuring with my fingers or a pencil (vertical to my eye-line). The moon, trees vs people, heads and hands surprised me in how far my instincts were from reality. For years I was always measuring.

- I always made time to draw what stopped me in my tracks. Whether a radio tower or a room I enjoyed, taking these 15 minutes to sketch in person helped keep me sharp and focused even when drawing was a bit awkward due to time constraints or positioning.

- I found that carrying a small notebook and pen at all times meant the difference between drawing every day or not.

- I learned to stop caring what my drawings looked like. In almost all cases, there was at least one part of a drawing that didn’t suck…sometimes these were indicators of future interest.

- When I wanted to draw what was in my mind, I found looking at Blender or other 3D software was helpful. Starting with the horizon and camera aperture, then placing what I wanted helped with offline drawing.

- Light, shadow, and color are important and beautiful but I feel are easier to understand when simple line is mastered. Ornamental to the outcome.

- Now I can pretty much draw what I want from my imagination or real life. This is the result of focus and answering a stack of questions about how the world works.

- Unexpected upside came by just not stopping drawing. A lot of drawing is connected to math and physics. I’ve met wonderful people who stopped to ask me what I was doing (much nicer with experience…), I understand the world around me better - I can see how there are really only a few key shapes that reality spreads across my vision.

Talent is truly a myth. Dedication is real.
Machine Elves
Be a standout employee in a rapidly growing and transforming company, stepping into increasingly significant roles as opportunies expand?

Of course. Countless people on this very forum have taken that road and countless so are still doing so today.

But not everyone is able to make their mark as a standout employee, not everyone commits to one organization long enough to see it through (passing up on other opportities), and and not every organization grows or even survives well enough to open those doors to them.

It's common, but neither universal nor guaranteed -- and always has been. While the culture of loyalty (in both directions) has certainly changed over time and likely represents changes in how common, it's a misperception to not notice it still happening every day.
Can't speak for Hamburg since I'm from the south.
And frankly, even if a car trip ends up in congestion and you need 6 hours instead of 4, its still somewhat preferable to being dropped off at some random station in the middle of nowhere in the night and hoping the last regional train at 23:48 will actually make it to its destination. (Yes this happened to me)
The title reminded me of this article, that claims that the new culture war is weird vs normal: https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-new-systems-of-survival
LLMs show their limits as you try to ask something new(introduced in last 6-12 months) being not used. I was asking Claude and GPT4o about a new feature of go, it just gave me some old stuff from go docs. Then I went to go docs(official) and found what I was looking for anyways, the feature was released 2 major versions back, but somehow neither GPT4o nor claude know about this.
Wow. Losing weight by not eating apparently is not the correct, moral way to do it either. That's a kind of shaming that even Ozempic patients don't get. Apparently the only moral way is to struggle with terrible exertion and discomfort and mostly fail but sometimes succeed. Only then you earned joining the club of people with healthy, normal weight.
Synthetic data can never contain more information than the statistical model from which it is derived: it is simply the evaluation of a non-deterministic function on the model parameters. And the model parameters are simply a function of the training data.

I don't see how you can "bootstrap a smarter model" based on synthetic data from a previous-gen model this way. You may as well well just train your new model on the original training data.
This argument always conflates simple processes with complex ones. Humans can work with abstract concepts at a level LLMs currently can’t and don’t seem likely capable of. “True” and “False” are the best examples.
At Uni, we had to implement the same project on different paradigms/languages.

We had to do goddamn Paint on Prolog. Yup.
Ask HN: I'm in bad place in live. Where you search jobs? Where you've found it?
Anecdotally, synthetic data can get good if the generation involves a nugget of human labels/feedback that gets scaled up w/ a generative process.
Perhaps if the bands were wider it would provide sufficient incentive for adoption, since there would be more channels available (and a wider band would presumably be easier than two separate bands that are further apart).
He said about half of what Boeing had.
"The articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use shorter sentences and easier words and grammar than the regular English Wikipedia."

Sounds like the writing style in some major modern news media (e.g. USA Today). I call it "news for 8th graders."
> You’d need to rewrite orbital physics to make plane changes a better idea than new launch from the ground.

Namely, the plane change from the pre-positioned orbit to one that intersects with the target? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is it really that bad? No way to get the loitering orbits closer to an interception than launching from the ground? (Ed: well, those definitely wouldn't be the orbits starlink is on, I think I can see that at least)

(The guy you're responding to has mostly deleted their posts, so I'm missing context, but I did get as far as the wiki page for brilliant pebbles.)