skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL, what?
Most countries will take your away your phone but not criminally charge for refusing to unlock your phone.
>Is this AI-generated? It certainly has all the signs of being so.

Current generation LLMs does not make smelling mistakes, only humans do.
A long dormant side project of mine to design a realtime raga [1] detector.

For the uninitiated, it can be roughly seen as detection of a sequence of musical notes. Raga is a term for a particular scale of notes (both ascending and descending).

Until now, this has mostly been in the domain of research and there is a ton of published literature out there. At the very basic level, if you have just voice, it is trivial to apply a pitch detection algorithm like YIN to get a pitch estimate and then analyse the sequence to figure out the raga. This doesn't work as well in a concert setup where speeds are higher due to gamakas, different instruments are used alongside and counterpoint melodies may make the music polyphonic. A lot of papers apply a variety of ML models (neural nets and otherwise) using several different features (cepstrum and mel-cepstrum, pitch distributions etc) with varying results.

So this is an interesting exercise in Signal Processing and Machine Learning. If anyone else is working on or has worked on this, I'd love to hear from you.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga)
This is an ad for some limited edition sculpture.
A Planet Money about dynamic pricing in grocery stores[0]. The Norwegian chain in the story had a reasonable policy where prices were only allowed to fall during the day. I suspect the American model would be significantly worse for consumers.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1197958433/dynamic-pricing-gr...
In 1981, I spent two weeks on Greyhound buses, traversing the entire country. I only had 1 night off the bus, visiting a hero of mine in Albuquerque.

It wasn't that miserable, but it was sort of miserable. And I was 17/18.
Apple has invested $95M, and missing $14.75M. So they have reached 86% of the 40% target. Based on this logic, 34% of the iPhone 16 was sourced from Indonesia? Not trying to be snarky, I'm probably misunderstanding this.

Sidenote: this website is unreadable on a mobile browser due to popups, auto-playing videos, etc.
Transcontinental train travel across the US? No, it probably doesn’t make sense to design a system for that alone.

But just like European trains don’t only run from Lisbon to Moscow, US trains could very easily set up popular routes from small, medium, and large cities that are around 100-500miles from each other. The new Borealis route, which is nothing more than an additional short run of the Empire Builder, from Chicago to Minneapolis started turning a profit a few days after it started running.

What do you get when you add up all the obvious city-pair routes in all regions? You get a transcontinental system that while likely not most people’s first choice for a NYC-LA trip, is possible without being painful. Not unlike the system that existed before the subsidized highways destroyed the private passenger rail system in the US. We know it’s possible here because it already existed.
The USofA has antiquated First-past-the-post system; this is largely how a system founded by people opposed to party politics spiralled into a two party non representative bog hole.

Being opposed to MAGA and simply not supporting MAGA doesn't make a voter pro-Democratic Party nor does it mean they want to waste their vote on a minor Libertarian or other third party with the result that Democrats win.

The US electoral system fosters the stupidity that results .. the still Republican anti-MAGA are (mostly) afraid to vote Democrat, minority parties aren't viable, and popular opinion and public support for various policy is never reflected in legislation.

If the US had a better electoral system it'd see better outcomes.
I'll accept these as being legitimate, but that doesn't explain "dodr" nor "eneeavor".

Edit: there's also "secrate" and "Pres dent"
PKI and DNS are centralized and any of the _three_ major browsers rely on them and actively deny features if they are not present.

I mean, sure, packet routing is decentralized, and if you're a military operator, this might matter to you, if you're someone who wants a public voice it's not significant.
I didn't think the 9 inches added to the gears on the telescoping mechanism were enough to fit the LEAP or the PW1000, I thought that they needed more clearance than that.
At university there were classes where anything less than 80% was considered a fail and there were other classes where anything more than 35% was considered astonishingly good. It really depends on the lecturer and their style.
Hey there. Been where you have been and can safely say, there is always a way out of it.

Sounds like you just need a bit of consistency to make some progress. I'd be down to chat once a week for 15 minutes and we can figure out the focus for the week. Hit me if you think that would be helpful, sounds like you can build some good stuff.
> Environmentalists are pissed wind turbines kill birds.

Those are not environmentalist, but people who are trying to find any excuses to oppose renewable energy. Environmentalists know that wind turbines kill a fraction of the numbers of birds killed by things like house cats or power lines.
The seats on long distance Amtrak trains are not at all like you're imagining.

Think of them as more like a lounger/recliner. Not the most comfortable you'll ever sit in, but it's reasonably easy to sleep them in, and even more so if you're young. Someone next to you matters only if they snore or smell.
Atlas Shrugged was her objectivist/philosophy of selfishness novel and it's a terribly wooden and poorly written work of literature. The Fountainhead and Anthem were both written before the formalizing of objectivism and are much more philosophical novels of individualism. While Anthem does lean a little towards her philosophy of selfishness called "objectivism", The Fountainhead is almost completely absent of this. It is the most similar to Clavell's novels, in the way of it's individualist protagonist. Running themes in it include shirking of orthodoxy and cultural norms, and finding success against the odds to achieve lofty unorthodox individual goals, despite much easier orthodox life paths existing. I find it somewhat bewildering that it is sometimes referred to as a conservative novel when a running theme of the novel is to cast away conservative tradition in pursuit of the new progress, as is done by the iconoclastic protagonist.
Well done. I spotted weird on its own but I had to go looking for the others.
Strictly hobbyist here. There is nearly zero overlap between game genres I like to work on as a developer and genres I enjoy as a player. I get the itch every now and again but the stuff I like best as a player is either art-intensive (so well outside my skills) or a huge technical undertaking.

What style of game is it that you're working on?
Hmmm, but why are the passenger trains late in the first place?
"99%"... sure.

So just follow the accounts you're interested in? If you just signed up, how does the "for you" know what you like? You can spend all day on X and never see any of that stuff you mention.

Do you prefer "ultra-left wing" content? There's plenty on X, including angry marxists, anti-capitalists, de-colonisers, race-baiters, compulsive virtue-signallers, tantrum-throwers, Musk-haters, dis-information trolls, intifada-fascists, take your pick!

I remember back when Trump was president, every single post he made on Twitter had a torrent of abusive replies bubbling to the top. Even ordinary mundane posts about routine things happening in government were met with endless insult-memes. Surely you don't think Twitter was once a place where inflammatory posts were rare and everyone had good manners?
> but the most famous is TikTok

Are they proposing to arrest people who have TikTok on their phone and encouraging you snitch to the police of you see people using tiktok? what Indonesia is doing is on a completely different level.
Right. In order to design a significantly better computer system, you first need to design a better (smaller feature size) EUV lithography process which can produce decent yield at scale.
Your reactions are as interesting as the video
Do you really think the US is incapable of asserting economic or policy pressure over some random third world country? These countries' economic health is practically completely at our whims. Look at Cuba.
We can talk about how a region moves in relation to other regions.

I’m still not following your objection based on relativity:

We have one frame where I’m on Earth; we have another where I’m in a rocket traveling away at a fixed velocity. In one case we see the rocket traveling away; in the other, we see Earth traveling away. But neither one tells us that the spacetime itself is moving — they’re both just local coordinates.

In the case we see the spacetime itself move, eg with a gravitational wave, both the frame from the rocket and the earth agree that the manifold has been changed in a way that left a wake — moving relative to its local, original shape.

As a side note, “inertial reference frames” are a useful fiction: we’re always being accelerated, eg, by the galactic center, fellow galaxies, dark matter filaments, etc. Conclusions based on such a fiction may be practical, but cannot be used to derive conclusions about physical reality — as they don’t exist.
Amusingly, I am also non-American, although I have lived and traveled there quite a bit.

I use Turtle Island as a shorthand for "the US and Canada", since it is/was a term used by indigenous peoples who lived in the area that's now split by that border. It feels a bit less inaccurate to me than saying "North America" when you are not including Mexico.
I've been teaching kids programming 1:1, off and on for 10 years or so. This time around I'm collecting my various impromptu puzzles and exercises into a single app anyone can go through at their own pace on any device, computer or phone (though iOS unfortunately requires jumping through some hoops). All on a platform that is open source and live-editable and lets you write all-new programs with graphics and sound in addition to the puzzles and exercises.

Download: https://akkartik.name/carousel-cards.love (really just a zip file containing source code, 169KB)

Installation instructions: same as https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel

Repo for the core app: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/carousel.love

So far I have 111 little "levels", each good for between a few seconds and a minute. I think a full curriculum/game will need maybe 2000 levels?
Trying to build a chess club management app for our school/district. It's mostly basic CRUD, though it's an avenue to learn Svelte & SvelteKit. I'm becoming more involved with the club and can't stand that everything is run on paper forms and giant Google Sheets. (If it was all smoothly running, I wouldn't rock the boat. But when I found that we're writing out dozens of match cards by hand every week and have ~0 way to track progress, I couldn't resist.)
You only have to store a single 340-bit password (or something equivalent) in order to secure something with a 340-bit password. You can do this by, for example, writing down a 103-bit number on paper, which you can do on a business card with a pencil. Your argument seems to depend on the defender needing to store all possible 340-bit passwords, which they don't.
Deep Q & A for friends, family, and strangers. My goal is to create a space where people can get to know each other a bit more deeply and spark conversations. Would love some feedback!

App: https://hey.shaya.so/
Website: https://www.shaya.so/
Putting the finishing touches on my LLM based town simulator. Once it's finished I'll have it simulate 4 hours in the town every 2 hours in reality.

It is designed to solve the problem of "RPG hero just killed a dragon in front of the town and no one says anything about it." All the NPCs realistically react and talk about the Hero's exploits.

Visitors to the site can vote on what quest the hero undertakes next.

I'm running into the problem what the site isn't much fun. I'm honestly not sure what to do about that!

An only slightly buggy build is at https://www.generativestorytelling.ai/tinyllmtown/index.html

Importantly, I am aiming to have everything (except voice gen) working on a small model that can be ran locally.
Rest areas, if you want to go cheap.
I'm maintaining Basti, an open-source AWS Bastion Host management CLI that lets you connect to RDS and other resources at almost no cost. Check it out: https://github.com/basti-app/basti

This project also inspired me to explore a commercial analytics solution for CLI applications — currently assessing if there's demand for it.
Americans are a friendly crowd and lots of them drive pickup trucks.
youtube-dl has been dead for many years now; it's a lot like XFree86, where the original project is a zombie with very few real users, but the original maintainers refuse to acknowledge reality and just shutter the thing, so newcomers get confused. Everyone's moved to yt-dlp now.
Thank you, I appreciate the support. But this doesn't explain the intermittent nature of the issues. For example, just now I tried to open a word file. I got the error message. But then I tried several times and restarted the app twice, and eventually the file did load. It just took five+ minutes of trying over and over.

I also had to add a new user yesterday, so I went to admin.microsoft.com in Edge. 403 error. Tried Chrome and Firefox. Same. Went back to Edge and suddenly it loaded. The like an idiot I refreshed, 403 error again. Another 5 or six refreshes and it finally loaded again and I was able to add the new user. There's never any real error messages that would help me debug anything, it's just endless frustration and slowness.
Generative AI tends to produce this sort of output.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/fcell...
> You're discounting the joy you get from actually solving a problem for yourself and other people which can provide serious long term satisfaction and monetary rewards.

Key word: can.

You can also waste your time and end up with something no one will use. In fact, that's the likely outcome — there are many repos on Github with 0 stars, after all. Factorio is designed to reward you for your efforts. The real world has no such guarantees.
So if I was to be insultingly reductive, is the vibe of the idea sort of "fantasy football league for GitHub stars"?
Then make those free. We can't stand behind other poor implementations as an excuse to avoid appropriate levels of public service. What I'm trying to project is there's no reason to cast this as "people don't want poors riding trains."

Of course people want this. It's absurd to suggest otherwise. Solve actual problems and stop giving contracts to people who abuse the public trust and effectively siphon tax money away from people who need it the most.

The level of argumentation here is bizzare. We can't use IDs because of privacy but we will give them unique smart cards? We can't let them use IDs because those cost money for historical reasons but we will pay a third party for a single use smart card?

This is why people don't engage with public service. It's absolutely punishing for no appreciable reason.
Do you have examples of this that aren't 20+ years old?
How long have you been living outside of a Russian-speaking county?
Is this proof that the universe cannot understand itself? It seems weird that there can be a set of information in the universe that can be hidden from the rest of the universe.
Any easy way to make apps not recognize they're not running on an actual android phone?

I've read some apps that love to take too much control run CPU related checks amongst other things.

No android experience or usecase, just wonder how that works and how one would workaround that.
As someone who doesn’t listen to podcasts what perils will I suffer from not making podcasts in notebookLM?
"Next town" in rural America may mean 100 km walk.

You clearly do not understand what bicycling 6000 km unaided and heavy load means. Everything breaks down constantly.

Chains and sprockets last only 2000 km, unless you constantly rotate 3 chains.

I bought new tyres 3 times. And then I had a problem with 622mm rim, there was only "700C" type racing tyres in Wallmarts.

And I also broke back axle, because Samsung-type axle was not yet invented. Luckily Minneapolis had America's one good bicycle shop.

And at the end and I started loosing spokes. I had spares, but you need certain heavy tools to remove screw-on sprocket. Getting new spokes of certain size is impossible anywhere in America. Probably mail-order from China.
It's a nice claim, but ultimately Wikipedia is publishing its own truth based on the sources it allows or doesn't.
That’s a pretty enormous handwave.
Amtrak loses money on basically all of their long distance routes, and are pointlessly forced to live up to some profitability standard the highways don’t and the airlines privatize (only possible due to the government paying out of pocket for all the complicated expensive stuff).

They have no incentive to add more sleepers, which would be a pain in the cock to procure, for a service that loses money. Amtrak should not be required to really care about that last part, but they are.
Fantastic! Thanks so much!
They do appear to be simple typos.

edit: The test seems to come from this page from the county's museum: https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam191.... The WayBack machine records the first snapshot in 2012, so AI seems unlikely.

They note the spelling errors

> Note that there are several typesetting mistakes on the test including a mistake in the spelling list. The word "eneeavor" should be "endeavor." This version of the exam was probably a master version given out to the schools (note that the spelling words wouldn’t be written on a test.) The museum has been told that the exam was handed out in a scroll form (that is why the paper is long.) The typos would have been corrected simply by contacting the teachers and telling them to mark their copies accordingly, much like would be done today. And there might not be quite as many typos as you think; "Serbia" for example was indeed spelled "Servia" back then.
> To date, there has been much controversy as to whether we can create human equivalence in a machine. But if the answer is "yes, we can", then there is little doubt that beings more intelligent can be constructed shortly thereafter.

I find it bizarre how often these points are repeated. They were both obviously wrong in 1993, and obviously wrong now.

1) A nitpick I've had since grad school: the answer to "can we create a machine equivalent to a human mind [assuming arbitrary resources]?" is "yes, of course." The atoms in a human body can be described by a hideously ugly system of Schrödinger equations and a Turing machine can solve that to arbitrary numerical precision. Even Penrose's loopy stuff about consciousness doesn't change this. QED.

2) The more serious issue: I sincerely have no idea why people believe so strongly that a human-level AI can build a superhuman AI. It is bizarre that this claim is accepted with "little doubt" when there are very good reasons to doubt it: how on earth would such an AI even know it succeeded? How would it define the goal? This idea makes sense for improving Steven Tyler-level AI to Thelonious Monk-level; it makes no sense for a transition like chimp->human. Yet that is precisely the magnitude of transition envisioned with these singularity stories.

You might defend the first point by emphasizing "can we create a human-level AI?" i.e. not whether it's theoretically possible, but humanly feasible. This just makes the second point even more incoherent! If humans are too stoopid to build a human-level AI, why would a human-level AI be...smarter than us?

I just don't understand how anyone can rationally accept this stuff! It's so dumb! Tech folks (and too many philosophers) are hopped up on science fiction: the reason these things are accepted with "little doubt" is that this is religious faith dressed up in the language of science.
I went out of my way to buy an old Sanyo radio alarm clock so that I don't have to rely on my phone or keep it on my bed side table. The neat flip digit display is a bonus.

One dial to set the time, another to set the alarm.
I'm not sure I'd interpret "preference" to "right-of-way." Sounds like a much softer expectation, but could be wrong.

Amtrak is a joke either way. The train I took from Chicago to Las Vegas was over 24 hours late, hit a car, flattened the wheels in the emergency braking so they could only go about 20mph to the next station where they had to change out the entire train, then had a mechanical breakdown, and when we finally arrived they had lost our luggage.
I think it's just easier for beginners (or teenagers) to go from phonetic to meaning. I guess advanced Chinese readers don't even read the words out loud in their head and go directly to meaning. I'm beginner/intermediate at Chinese and surprisingly, I noticed that my pinyin often seems better than many Chinese natives.
$250 Analogue 3D will play all your N64 cartridges in 4K early next year
> race-baiters, compulsive virtue-signallers, tantrum-throwers, dis-information trolls,

are hardly exclusive "ultra-left wing" users, arguably there's more of that to the far-right .. and that's just Tucker Carlson on a slow day.

> Even ordinary mundane posts about routine things happening in government

In your honest opinion, if Trump only ever made ordinary mundane statements about the routine day to day functions of government would there be anything like the level of anti-Trump anger exhibited?

Is it possible the insult-memes are an unsuprising result of a tendancy to praise Hitlers Generals, demonise the people he should work with as "the enemy within", suggest removing licences from news organisations he objects to, etc?
We’re talking about a hypothetical thing we don’t even know exists. Maybe it’s like glass that can be drawn out. Maybe you could have cables that are a series of straight ceramic rods with flexible interconnects made of other metals. It’s all just hypothetical.
Lots of different projects. Recently finished:
beatcode: https://github.com/yudataguy/beatcode

this is built w/ the help of claude 3.5 sonnet (new) and cursor. The idea came from want to space repetition memorization for leetcode.
There’s a very big difference between knowing “how” to solve a problem in a broad sense, eg “if we shared more we could solve hunger”, and “how” to solve it in terms of developing discrete, detailed procedures that can be passed to actuators (human, machines, institutions) and account for any problems that may come up along the way.

Sure, there are some political problems where you have to convince people to comply. But consider a rich corporation building a building, which will only contract with other AI-driven corporations whenever possible; they could trivially surpass anyone doing it the old way by working out every non-physical task in a matter of minutes instead of hours/days/weeks, thanks to silicon’s superior compute and networking capabilities.

Even if we drop everything I’ve said above as hogwash, I think Vinge was talking about something a bit more directly intellectual, anyway: technological development. Sure, there’s some empirical steps that inevitably take time, but I think it’s obvious why having 100,000 Einsteins in your basement would change the world.
Do you have a prose description or repo you'd be interested in sharing? I'm acquainted with Zotero and Omnivore, but I accumulate papers to read much faster than I get through my TBR pile and it's getting pretty unwieldy already.