skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those offerings exist as well. See East West Composer Cloud (https://www.soundsonline.com/composercloud) and Musio (https://musio.com/) (full disclaimer: I did some work on the latter). There are also related offerings like Splice for loops and Output Arcade (https://output.com/get-arcade/).
Reading too much fiction also leads to diminishing returns. The number of works that can be considered of high quality is not infinite, and it diminishes exponentially in relation to the number of books read. After a few hundred or thousand, fiction will be like cigarettes - forestalling a craving but providing little to no pleasure.
Sometimes, but I would argue that C is too simplistic and is missing various common-sense tools. It's definitely improving, but with things like namespaces there's pretty much no risk of "too complex" stuff.

Also, I wouldn't be saying this if people didn't constantly try to recreate C++-isms in C. Which sometimes you need to do. So, then you have this strange amalgamation that kind of works but is super error prone and manual.

I also don't necessarily agree that C's constraints encourage better design. The design pushes far too much to runtime, which is poor design from a reasoning point of view. It's very difficult to reason about code when even simple data models require too much indirection. Also, the severely gimped type system means that you can do things you shouldn't be able to do. You can't properly encode type constraints into your types, so you then have to do more validation at runtime. This is also slightly improving, starting with _Bool years ago.

C++ definitely is a very flawed language with so, so many holes in its design. But the systems it has in place allows the programmer to more focus on the logic and design of their programs, and less on just trying to represent what they want to represent. And templates, as annoying as the errors are, prevent A LOT of runtime errors. Remember, every time you see a template that translates into pointers and runtime checks in C.
Ackoff's Best
> This is really great work getting all of the evidence into one place.

It's not:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840891
Sure you can probably translate rough code and get something that "works" but all the thousands of small optimizations that are baked in are not trivial to just translate.
Psilocybin. (And I almost didn't.)

edit: instant, lasting relief from anxiety / stress disorder, depression, addiction...

For anxiety / stress, you have to keep taking it for awhile because your amygdala is enlarged. At least once per month. Once per week is great. After a couple of years, I was able to stop taking it so much. Before that, if I went longer than about 30 days my anxiety came back fast and hard.

I haven't been taking it much lately because I'm getting back into software after a mini retirement (growing mushrooms full time), and I don't want to lay in bed tripping when I have tons of work to do.

But now I'm going to try to balance software work with fungus work, and get back to taking it every Saturday.

I want to make it a social thing here in Medellín.
"What can be, unburdened by what has been"
-Kamala Harris
The mindbend was more of my approach to the construct. It began with disdain before even really using it much. Looking back, I really couldn't articulate what I disliked about it.
Minimizing civilian casualties is a moral imperative. I am sure the engineers behind "Where's Daddy?" are losing sleep if they have any semblance of a moral conscience. Same goes for anyone who is aware of the true nature of Israel's conduct in Gaza yet still providing cover for it.
That’s a lot of unsourced claims which appear to be rehashing people who famously lie for political reasons (e.g. Vance admitting that he fabricated the Haitian cat story), and you’re certainly not building credibility by pretending that they’re somehow being “interrupted” from a serious conversation.

If you have a reliable source for the claim that large numbers of people are lying on asylum applications and that this is being encouraged by the government, you should edit your comment to cite that so there’s something to be objectively discussed.
They'll probably be better able to compete once Adobe ups prices to reflect the actual cost of all that processing.
Likely, I'd just want to do whatever the best man made stimulation trap was at the time
But how can you know ahead of time which studies are valuable and which are less so? What about metastudies? How do you quantify their worth?
you can convert a short to an int without casting and it will roundtrip without loss of data; similarly you can roundtrip any data pointer through a void pointer without loss of data. It doesn't mean that an int has the same representation of a short or a void* has (necessarily) the same representation as any other pointer.

In C++ any pointer is also implicitly convertible to a void *, it is the reverse implicit conversion that is prohibited as it is not safe in the general case.

For consistency C++ should also prohibit implicit narrowing conversions (e.g. int to short ); I guess this was thought to break too much existing code and it is generally safer than a pointer conversion (although potentially lossy the behavior is fully defined). Many compilers will warn about it, and narrowing conversions are now prohibited in braced initialization.
> Germany's energy is 80% fossil fuels.

Where did you get that number from?

https://www.iea.org/countries/germany

> Renewables 39.4% share of power generation, 2022

vs. France's 26.1%.

Edit: I guess you might be talking about consumption whereas I'm talking about production.
I didn't know that bit of history about A* and Lisp! All roads lead to Lisp, it seems.

As mentioned at the end of the article, the next Lisp Game Jam starts next week on the 25th. Join in here: https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2024
And we are all so grateful that LinkedIn's aggressive innovation was allowed to flourish.
I used to live in a small town near Malaga in Spain and it was a very nice and laid back area. This was around 20min from the beach, maybe coastal towns get a bit more tourism and night life which might be a turn-off since they get flooded in Summer and I’d imagine there are more expensive as well.

It gets VERY hot during the summer though so that might qualify as “not nice weather “
On the plus side, for Adobe, is that they have a fairly stable & predictable SaaS revenue stream so as long as their R&D and product hosting costs don't exceed their subscription base, they're ok. This is wildly different from -- for example -- the hyperscalers, who have to build and invest far in advance of a market [for new services especially].
I'd love to see what this tool does with bad drawings, heh.
100%. Imaginary persons' imaginary lives are instructive too. And if they're not instructive, they can at least be entertaining, or interesting, or lyrical. The treadmill of turgid self-improvement is dull. A lot of non-fiction books were once bulleted lists, used as publisher's proposals, and then expanded to books. The fact they can be reduced to a bulleted list in summary is hardly surprising; and, in my view, of little value. They can't all be right. Do "X" for success. Don't do "X" for success.

Non-fiction is, like most things, best done in moderation. Fiction works differently on the mind. To me, it's more fun. The plot can be summarized of course, but the diction, structure and unfolding cannot be summarized without losing a great deal of the experience of reading.
Yeah I mean if I find out someone has read a thousand novels I'm not going to judge them about what they choose to read next.

Though actually. Stopping to think about it now for the first time I think I'm about there at this point. It has definitely changed what sorts of books I seek out and what I expect to get from them. But I still find reading fiction rewarding.
Is there a chance that this reinterpretation runs afoul of the administrative procedures act like some of the recent ATF actions (reinterpreting the Gun Control Act of 1968 without a new act from Congress) have been found? The act is similarly very old and mature.
> but you're ruining the experience of others when hacking in multiplayer games

What I meant was, cheating can be a good learning experience to programming for a lot of kids, because they get immediate feedback and rewards. At least that's what I see it as.
Sedevacantists
Specific to the NHS, Palantir not being a UK company was a big talking point, so yes, that's a tangible difference between Palantir and, say, Capita.

Your (and the sibling) responses also beg the question: must governments contract to big foreign consultancies? It's not illegal to do things in-house if they so choose, you know.
> Either the lockdown policy before March 2022 was correct or the sudden "back to normal" after March 2022 was correct

It's also possible that both instituting a lockdown and subsequently removing that lockdown were both essentially correct. While I believe the government waited far too long to remove lockdown restrictions I don't think instituting them in the first place was the wrong decision.
I'm not sure about this particular event, but companies often have employees who worked on the products in the crowd during launches to provide even more crowd noise.
Don’t bother studying most of them. The value is the fun you had along the way and being immersed in the world like you just mentioned.
Scientists can create virtual twin organs to plan for complex surgeries
First, the art and science of formal verification has largely moved away from proving programs correct to better/cheaper ways of catching more bugs (at least when mainstream software is concerned). So the most important question is "is a TLA+ specification a cost-effective way of catching bugs even without a formal tie to the implementation?" My opinion on that is an emphatic yes. (BTW, code reviews are an effective assurance technique even though they're not formal at all).

However, there are ways to create formal ties between a TLA+ spec and a running program. As always, the sounder the method the more costly it is (and the cost often grows faster than the increased confidence). One approach that is being research is checking execution logs against the model, perhaps online as the program is running.

At the end of this talk, https://youtu.be/TP3SY0EUV2A, I mention the technique and theory behind it, referring to this paper, Model-Based Trace-Checking [1]. I believe research is ongoing and you can find more recent papers on the subject.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2825
Gentables – an AI Co-pilot for table extraction from unstructured data
https://archive.ph/viRCx
The GP mentioned it working for pictures viewed in safari
Every time someone mentions Brave New World, 1984 or that thing Voltaire never actually said, I feel the same way. There should be a rule that you can't paraphrase an author unless you've actually read the work you're referring to.
Sounds like an interesting approach. I'm sure a gradual approach like the one you mention would be super-helpful for anyone trying to migrate a complicated CRA app. I'm hoping you're able to find time to share in the near future.
Why do you trust these people when for the most part, they are unelected bureaucrats serving their own self-interests?
Sounds like a modern version of an consultancy company but with a significant focus on data rather than business processes.
I don't even think it's always about "line go up". I've talked to real life engineers who evidently have no ethical bar whatsoever--if the technology is cool and complex and an interesting technical problem, they'll work on it, regardless of the real-world application. "Whether my code is used ethically is someone else's problem. I just love technical challenges!" You absolutely see this mentality on HN as well.
It seems that the brain needs sleep for maintenance/cleanup purposes to process and file away memories of the days activity.

Animals also burn less calories when asleep, meaning they need less food to survive. Any change to sleep less would need to have major benefits of offset the loss of this benefit, as well as only being possible if the "maintenance" need for sleep were reduced or eliminated.
Yeah, the Clojure community is definitely full of great people who are always eager to help. Many times when I've asked seemingly straightforward questions in the Clojurians Slack, I've often received more than I asked for - deep, thought-provoking answers. People genuinely try to give you good direction and guidance.
You can get pleasure from reading things other than fiction. I agree, though, that stories of made-up people that aren't intended to illustrate any particular idea are as profound as a series of random numbers.
In the grand scheme of things, sometimes one option just doesn't stack up to the other. If that's the case, which one seems to be the underdog?
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I don't think it's a Big Tech problem. Big Tech can come up with moronic ideas and be fine because they have unlimited cash. It's the smaller companies that need to count pennies who decide to flush the money down the AI Boondoggle Toilet.

"But Google does it. If we do it, we will be like Google".
public funds are allocated by multiple experts in various fields checking applications are in line with government policy. if you think you can do better, I'd encourage you to run for election and set different policies. from what I can see, the system is working as intended.
Once upon a time, even when political figures lied, few would suggest or assert it as such. The claim would be that they were mistaken or misinformed or that they were misquoted or that we simply did not hear what we thought we heard.

To some extent, this generous interpretation and public deference would/could be applied to things like:

* Trump's "fine people" comment

* Trudeau's "Fuddle Duddle" remark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuddle_duddle)

or even

* Rich Lowry and Fox's defense of his "combining" the words "migrants" and "immigrants" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Lowry)

However, the steady stream of outright fabrications/lies that now proliferate and saturate our political landscape has forced us to confront the reality that some (many?) elites just flat out lie and that many influencers know the lies and propagate them willingly. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox...)

10 years ago, it would have been unthinkable for the press to say a politician "lied", however the avalanche of false statements, doubled and tripled down on even in the face of objective reality now forces us to confront and I argue accept the assertion that we do in fact live in a "post-truth" world.

I don't want to or intend to signal out one party or world view (Trudeau was a Liberal icon), but here is JD Vance in his owns words explaining how the end justifies the means.

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/15/nx-s1-5113140/vance-false-cla...

So lies by politicians are now so normalized that some, when confronted with the truth, don't even bother to cover them.
Saving $750K on AI inference with one line of code and no quality loss
Legendary drum machines fall mostly in two categories : analog ones such as the Roland TR808 (and also electronic drums such as the Simmons SDS5), and early digital ones such as the LinnDrum and the Oberheim DMX, which use low bit samples (8 or 12 bits at most) and have an highly coloured sound (so that people still like to make new ROM kits for these, then sample the output).

Later models (starting in the 90s) have "CD quality sample" and probably aren't particularly worth sampling.

However some late machines such as the MPC series have audibly special sequencers, and "swing" in their own, peculiar way. So sampling individual sounds isn't particularly interesting, but sampling drum loops can be interesting.
At 40 non-fiction books per year I'd throw in the towel too.

Fiction on the other hand… I think I average 40 a year without it being an effort at all. Just read a bit in bed before sleeping and on holidays. That's not an abnormal number for anyone who reads for leisure.

Was the author conflating the two? I can't imagine properly processing the contents of 40 non-fiction books in a year.
Looks like Adobe finally found a way to cut down on piracy.

None of these new AI features will work on a pirated copy because it's all server-side processing.
I have read significantly more than a thousand novels, and there's so much granularity, so much variation in voices, so many weird thoughts to explore.

I worked in a video store for years and watched many thousands of movies as well, and while I am almost completely burnt out of watching movies because there's so little innovation going on I could not imagine that being applied to books, the direct interaction with someone else's mind is too interesting.

The only problem with modern books is there's so much trash along with the treasure, there's never been a lower bar for self publishing.
BettorEdge's James Seils Joins ELG 40 Under 40
I've used this on a very old kindle. I had a kindle voyage from 2014 and installed this, it gave my kindle new life I didn't know was possible. It was fast and it had all the modern software features I would want.

Suddenly I found myself being able to organise my library how I wanted (through the use of folders, like any directory). Very easy to manage.

Also it made it super easy to send books without having to rely on the cable.

Ultimately, it was the hardware of the device that made me look for an alternative. I just couldn't stand micro USB charging in 2023. So I bought a Kobo and later on a palma (for the form factor).

Being able to install Koreader has now become a feature I select for. Also, it's very easy to sync books in Koreader, if your device is always online you can do it automatically or the way I do it is with some swipe gestures to push and pull the progress.
I spent so many hours trying to do rotations with a pirated copy of Flash as a kid, and I never really got the hang of it, and it always bothered me how deceptively hard rotation was; when I would show my parents my work, they would do their very best to try and act excited but I could tell that they weren't really impressed with the effort because it doesn't seem that hard, at least to a lot of people.

This makes me irrationally happy.
For those who didn’t grow up reading and spent years doom-scrolling social media, becoming a good enough reader with decent comprehension takes real effort. You have to accept rereading, losing focus, and the frustration that comes with it. But after about 200 hours of reading opinion pieces over the course of a year, it has now become enjoyable and even addictive, offering deeper insights into life. Social media is now empty calories. I get why most people don’t read. Reading is a skill and like any other you need to actively develop that skill. Scrolling social media takes no effort.
I was just thinking similarly. I don't need any of these AI features and I'm certainly not about to start giving Adobe money, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous.
>A home costs ~25% of the down payment on the day you buy it.

They did this briefly after the 2008 crash, but I think they changed it back to where you can put no money down but pay extra (PMI) insurance.

2008 lessons learned, huh?
That explains my confusion. I am just getting old. The 2011 Kindle Fire still works though power is predictably degraded. I end up using the app on my phone more or my 1st Gen Paperwhite anyway.
> they are unelected bureaucrats serving their own self-interests

You seem to be pushing an agenda, not asking questions in good faith.
That's a lot of ambiguity for a scientific paper. Even if it's true (Cats are about 60-70% water), that's not the point of the title.

I suspect its because it makes for a catchy headline.
Sounds like we need to drop little relay nodes along the way to build the first SpaceNet
My sense working at an adjacent company and having talked with folks there is that they are more successful with their government projects than their corporate ones.
The Unwritten Rules to Becoming a Senior Developer: 4 Steps to Level Up
Hillsboro isn't big, but my bet is most people can find new jobs in the area. Intel is hardly the only semiconductor company on the west side of Portland. Hillsboro is on the west of the west side, certainly, but it's still only half an hour out from downtown Portland.
Not yet, but I imagine soon they will. Closed source is moving to video and open source is catching up to static images with incredible pace. I won't be suprised if not only GIMP integrates something like a couple of general stable diffusion models but pirated copies of photoshop find a way to hook up a local generative model instead of the online stuff.
Ah, got it, thanks! I'll know for the future.
Makes me think of

https://lookingglassfactory.com/looking-glass-go-spatial-pho...

which needs multiple views of your image from different angle and tries to make it up with AI.
Added support for dependency between commands.
So one can now write:

# [clean]() Clean build directory

```bash
rm -rf ./build
```

# [format]() Format the source code

```bash
npx prettier --write .
```

# [build](clean format) Build the project

```bash
npm run build
```

# [deploy](build) Deploy to surge.sh

```bash
surge ./build my-project.surge.sh
```

This doesn't include file time modification between files as in Makefile.

Thank you for feature suggestion.
As a US-American who occasionally shops for appliances, I can confidently say that you cannot easily buy a microwave in the US with knobs for any price. The vast majority of appliances these days still use resistive or pressure-sensitive panels. And I hate them. They sure LOOK like buttons but when you press them, there is no actuation feedback, knowing how hard to press is a guessing game, and often you have to press so hard that you fear breaking the panel. (Let's not even talk about how little thought goes into what the buttons actually do.)

Plus, the plastic panel eventually cracks over the most-used buttons. Built-in obsolecence.

If you want capacitive buttons, you generally have to climb a few tiers up the pricing ladder. But they don't advertise this as a feature, which means you have to see/use the microwave in person to know for sure that's what you're getting.

ALL appliances in the US are terrible in some way or another. Either they are cheaply-made chinese garbage that are frustrating to use and break in 5 years, or they cost as much as a brand-new low-end car. Sometimes even both!
As I understand it they come from Muslim heritage, from the 700 years of Al-Andalus in the Iberian peninsula. The word clearly points to "Persian".

I know them from Spain, but I'm not surprised that they came to Brazil from Portugal, and I assume they are popular in many places around the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
> That many many people think the above are just opinions refutes the point that we're not in "post-truth"

That's what "post-truth" actually is, though. It doesn't mean objective fact doesn't exist, but it doesn't factor in to the basis of people's subjective reality. Which shouldn't be surprising given how many people believe their lives are controlled by an invisible man in the sky.