skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second sentence of the comment.
I think that continent has better things to focus on before AI.
I got on in late '93. I definitely feel like I visited every web site. I seem to remember most of them being HTML tutorials :D
This is pretty awesome! Nicely done! Some questions:

- Can the out be used as a thru MIDI port? So I could just jam the device into my workflow without having to acquire a new MIDI splitter?

- What of MIDI it captures, exactly? I understand note on/off, velocity and such is obviously captured, but what about CC values and everything else? Would be wonderful to be able to hook this up to synths that have more controls, and be able to capture those values too
Well that's the thing, I don't think they care whether it would benefit the climate. They want to do it either way. They're also trying to de-extinct the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger. So why should I trust them that they've done the research?

If it does work, that would be awesome. A wooly mammoth certainly sounds cool and it's not my money, so whatever.
What Is a Crash?
that's actually a violation of the Antarctic Treaty, unfortunately (?)

(one of the few things I remember from the myriad videos they make you watch before you go down to the ice)
Seriously. This can be visual, stunning, imagination engaging possible success that can be leveraged for more support for conservation. You won't build that kind of awareness with obscure rodents, that's just not how human civilization is wired to direct it's energy/attention.
Man, that's pretty sweet! Do you ship to Europe?
We kind of have, that's what fine tuning is trying to achieve.

We haven't seen wholesale specialised models yet because creating foundation models is expensive and difficult and the current highest ROI is to make a general model.
This comes across a little aggressive and braggy. Perhaps a better way to write it would be:

> I much prefer reading something that is imperfect but written by a human to something auto-generated. That feels as if we someone would say "I'm busy, talk to my agent instead."
The Kilowatt Human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhtKkl0L7Ek
shell=True is a security risk unless you're very careful with escaping inputs. In this case any filename with a `;` in it (or various other shell characters) will run arbitrary commands on the attacker's computer.

best to pass a list of arguments to subprocess rather than a string, and avoid shell=True
aka sweat
> That graphic of the Indic glyph is very interesting! Definitely explains why shaping is so complex for those scripts!

So _this_ must be why the Affinity suite doesn't properly render Devanagari, yet Inkscape can.
This is unfortunately one of the ambiguities in notation. But usually not a problem because it should be quite clear when figured bass is being used.

In jazz/pop notation inversions are indicated with slash chords.
"CHR" is an abbreviation for "character".

Its purpose was to convert ASCII code point values (integers) into the character that the code point value represented. The primary use was for creating characters that you could not otherwise type via. the keyboard, although it was usable even for type-able characters (i.e., chr$(65) would output upper case letter 'A').
Speaking of cleaning your teeth, has anyone used the Waterpik device? A dentist recommended it to me some time ago, but I could not find one online then.
I am glad I was not the only one that was taken aback a bit by that. I am not one to be too critical about loose ends or roughness in things that are provided for free and my ability to contribute a change, but it is a bit surprising that Microsoft would now have QA on this considering it ties into the current image they are trying to build.
Do you know for sure they agreed explicitly to it being public?
Space Station OS
Neither of those two points is even narrowly proven… you might want to tap on your own tinfoil walls before speaking of others.
I wouldnt be so conclusive. I'm open to the idea that hypoallergenic branding is garbage, but non-shedding certainly is a phenotype, which can have an impact independent of allergens in hair samples.

It is also worth nothing that the cited study showed 4-5 orders of magnitude difference between allergen samples from different animals (0.1 to 1000 ug/g). The results just didn't group well across breeds. IF someone showed me this data at work, I would say they are either failing to isolate causes of variability or have a shitty measurement system.

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(12)00793-2/ful...
Don't forget that lawyers that present cases before a judge day after day are get a form of 'the trial tax' imposed on them if they take cases to jury. They are very much biased to accept pleas.
Andreessen holds major investments in many of the companies that will benefit. The paper says that tariffs make the US economy less efficient. Inefficiency == profit. An efficient market is one where prices are close to costs. Inefficient markets provide more profit to capitalists.
The majority of healthy people develop a latent infection, and won't manifest symptoms in their lifetimes. The bacteria are encapsulated into nodules by the immune system, which weaken if the immune system weakens. The bacteria escape and active symptomatic infection occurs.
> The Greek theoria (θεωρία) meant "contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at", from theorein (θεωρεῖν) "to consider, speculate, look at", from theoros (θεωρός) "spectator", from thea (θέα) "a view" + horan (ὁρᾶν) "to see".

"Theory" should refer only to the beatific vision or its analogical precursors in temporal existence achieved through mystical union with the Uncreated Light!
well that's why I'm skeptical too, what are the odds that a big vanity project just happens to also be a great climate change fix? They also want to resurrect the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger. It's hard enough to find climate solutions that work when you're motivated by that, when you're motivated by "doing cool stuff" you might stumble onto a solution, but the odds do seem rather low.

They would be trying to resurrect the mammoth either way, so it's not like there's any real incentive to actually research whether it will work.
Thermodynamics dude here. :)

All moving air does is increase the rate of the heat transfer from the higher temp substance to the lower temp one. If the air outside is hotter than your body temperature then a fan will be heating you UP not cooling you DOWN.

Without electricity or chemical reactions the only way to stay cool in high heats is to use evaporative effects. Evaporation is endothermic (takes in heat) and actually cools down the thing being evaporated off of. So you can basically soak your shirt and as it evaporates it cools you down. There are things called 'evaporative vests' which can cool you off for hours.
I wish there was more on the philosophical change from server less to containers.

And on the video, I like it

And the docs are very nice
That's incredible. I wonder if that business still exists. Quite a few tech companies starting and busting in Ottawa still.
Oh I don't disagree that it isn't easy to do that. It really is.

I'm saying it's likely not needed.
I use a wooden chair for my home office and I find it more comfortable than office chairs, although it may not be a fair comparison since I spend most of the time squatting on it.
Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP
Hmm - I'm not sure those sorts of things would require a fork per se, but I can see making it more familiar to windows/mac users could be a good thing. I was just curious as I was a big KDE fan back when I used Linux full time, and wondered what had changed.

The two biggest issues I'd have with Linux full time would be audio and video. I haven't even attempted to run Linux audio in like 5-10 years - it was always so titchy with multiple 'standards' to configure. Video was not quite as bad, as I don't game much so I just needed basic functionality. But now I have multiple 4k monitors, high dpi, and all that jazz, I don't know how big a pain it would be. I just run linux in VMs (standard device drivers and setup) or ssh into a linux server for now.
Physiological signal analysis and open science using the Julia language
The reason a “10x developer” can work on whatever they want is because it only takes 10% of their work hours to complete their job requirements- they are then free to experiment and play with a lot of their time.
Interesting to see the Law of Leaky Abstractions at work:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...

I admire this kind of low-level, first principles exploration which I personally don't do enough of.
> March 2022. Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus publishes a scathing article: “Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall.” [...] In March 2022, no less! Was he out of his mind? That’s what the experts said back then—amid laughter and barely concealed scorn. Yet, with the evidence The Information has now presented, Marcus seems almost prophetic.

Gary Marcus has been saying this since at least 2012:

> Yet deep learning may well be approaching a wall, much as I anticipated earlier, at beginning of the resurgence (Marcus, 2012)

To me it feels like having continually predicted rain throughout the longest dry-spell in history. Eventually you'll be right (assuming that we'll move to some other paradigm in due course), but it's hardly prophetic.

I think that the challenges of intelligence and non-shallow reasoning will inherently involve fighting against diminishing returns (which is what the supposedly broken scaling laws predict) regardless of technique. Same as for computer graphics - doubling the compute doesn't double the perceptual quality, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's hitting a wall.
> So you can basically soak your shirt and as it evaporates it cools you down. There are things called 'evaporative vests' which can cool you off for hours.

Or like, sweat? Which is something people who aren't dehydrated tend to do at or above 95F (35C).
Apple's iOS 18.2's New AirTag Location Sharing Feature Coming to 15 Airlines
Thanks for the insights. I've only written one PIO program, and it's for a DHT22 sensor. I divided the clock down to 1 MHz so I could count microseconds. Really, CPU bit-banging would have worked fine at those speeds.

Now that I think about it more, you're right. Best case scenario for reading a bit would be to wait for the pin to go high/low, then push the corresponding bit into the input shift register, and have that automatically flush to DMA every 32 bits, say. Can't do better than some fraction of the clock speed because of the multiple instructions needed.
> Some "should"s are also what we think that others want us to do, often just assuming that without asking.

Yep, and to take it further, I'd argue this kind of thinking is a reflection of any shortcomings that you think others perceive in you. It's an inadequacy complex.

You think about others saying: "Bill doesn't read enough. He isn't intelligent enough. He isn't informed enough. He spends too much time doing other things..." -- says who? Sometimes this can come from loved ones or colleagues priding themselves in their own hobbies or activities. Other times it can come from past criticism you've received from friends or family.

There is so much freedom in doing something for yourself (because you know it's right) versus pleasing others, when it doesn't really benefit others.

As an example, I don't cave to the pressures of working out because I know I'd only be doing it to impress others. I'm at a healthy weight, but I play recreational sports instead to get my exercise, because I enjoy doing it. I also benefit from socializing with others and being outside doing something competitive.
That's part of the problem though: It's not an intelligence, artificial or otherwise, yet we still call it "AI", giving people the impression that LLMs are almost AGI or a step on the way while a true artificial intelligence would be a completely different animal.

A parrot can produce human sounding speech and associate certain prompts with desired responses, but there's no internal process that actually understands the meaning of either the prompt or the response (other than a shallow connection of sounds to a specific thing, rather than understanding human language). You'll never be able to train a parrot well enough to have that process in the same way a human does. Our current terminology would be like calling parrots "artificial humans".

LLMs are still great tools for various tasks, they just shouldn't be categorized as AI.
Very cool- always good to appreciate how tech has evolved and some of the culture and technical branches that have stemmed from that
> (To the best of my knowledge, I'm no music theorist)

I know this is considered off-topic, but I’ve refrained a thousand times and now I can’t help it…

Please stop abusing commas! This sentence deserves a semicolon or a dash or a hyphen or a couple of full stops/periods or… anything else! With a comma it’s actually harder to read and is semantically indistinguishable from the sentence ‘I’m no music theorist, to the best of my knowledge’, which is obviously not what is meant.

</unpopular rant>
It appears that at least one person working on this is connected to Prime-a tech streamer that has blown up recently.

So I think there are some people who don’t love the idea that tech is being driven by content creators.

But the reality is a well marketed product will always perform better than a well engineered product.

Given the fact that all these tools are interchangeable based on where you want to sacrifice, I actually think it’s pretty cool they are doing this kind of marketing.

You can’t win in that area on just product. And I think that really brothers a certain kind of HN poster.
I can't believe how many random memories YouTube may contain!
It's amazing!
Since most species appear to have some variant of competition, why do you think it is a human construction?
Discovery sucks, though.
….every ERP sales process includes an you can customize the edge cases…

This isn’t what you think.

First, large ERP vendors will repeat the mantra that you shouldn’t customize and that they don’t advise it. At best, implementation consultants will be the one talking about customizing.

Secondly, ERP sales process isn’t as simple as you think. Buying firm have a detailed and documented list of requirements and these are checked off as they’re being demoed. If customization is needed, that specific customization needs to be shown before that item requirement is checked off.
> The actual reality is all drivers suck everywhere in the world.

Some countries require much more training, have higher standards of vehicle maintenance, and have other cultural differences.

Did you know [1] that Germany, land of unlimited-speed-limit autobahns, has 3.7 road deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and 4.2 deaths per billion vehicle-km?

While the USA has 12.9 road deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and 6.9 deaths per billion vehicle-km?

Australia, with 4.5 road deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and 4.9 deaths per billion vehicle-km is in between.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Doesn't moving air help evaporation anyhow?
Forming Terrestrial Satellites Through Binary-Exchange Capture
Godel Terminal – A powerful web based Bloomberg Terminal alternative
Yeah, agree. "Jolted" is not as evocative as "stirred".
DynamoDB is a very crippled product what does it have to do with using computers.
Here's a quick way to start this running if you're using uv:

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/tinytroupe
cd tinytroupe
OPENAI_API_KEY='your-key-here' uv run jupyter notebook

I used this pattern because my OpenAI key is stashed in a LLM-managed JSON file:

OPENAI_API_KEY="$(jq -r '.openai' "$(dirname "$(llm logs path)")/keys.json")" \
uv run jupyter notebook

(Which inspired me to add a new LLM feature: llm keys get openai - https://github.com/simonw/llm/issues/623)
Coding as a Lifestyle
llmcat – Copy Code from CLI to LLMs
i remember seeing tiktoks where elephants show intelligent behavior so I am glad that tiktok is of some use.
so, for 70/80's (pre alto / mac / xwindows); vector/pixel font map were designed by hand (vs. postscript, etc).

inaccurate, but more apt to behind the scene process, chr$: configured/computed hamiltonian reference string. aka typed godel number.
Have you ever spent hours sweating (working) in humid 35 degrees? You wish you'd rather die. Any help is appreciated.
They do that with the closed trains by opening the doors you aren’t supposed to open anyhow. And you can’t lock them due to their need in emergencies.
There's also a different way of "getting water from food": methabolizing (burning) carbohidrates with oxygen produces CO2 (carbon dioxyde) and.. water. I think that desert mouse eats very dry grain (which does not contain much water), but does not need to drink water because of that by-product of metabolism.
> Hetzner will arbitrarily null route your traffic

Never happened to me, been using Hetzner (dedicated though, not VPS) for almost 10 years. What exactly were you hosting before they pulled the plug on you?
Those two paragraphs are at odds with one another, no? Moving air also increases the evaporation rate.

This is why fans are found to be generally effective to 104 degrees. https://time.com/5644737/fans-can-make-you-hotter/
Not many people have wet-bulb setups.
Trumps new border guy's website is what UI / UX looks like in 2025
I wouldn't say it's predominant. It just influences it, and for some people it's all about that and much less about anything like appearance or the sex itself.
How does looking at "real cases" help me? They don't make my own cases any less real?

Just because cases don't go through the court system, doesn't mean employer abuse doesn't happen.
Yeah but the US has very low levels of latent TB in the population at only 4%. Compared that to places like Brazil where 40% of the population has latent TB. It’s not the climate because in Russia 80% of the population has latent TB.
Because of Trump's planned tax cut renewal the profits of US companies should not only keep at current levels (whereas they were going to drop when tax cuts expired under Kamala) and even rise a little bit.

Making stocks rise is pretty much the purpose of the whole sector. Hence ...
They're supposed to have fans in them.
8 Steps in Writing Analytical SQL Queries
At $300k, your "cost of living" argument falls apart pretty much everywhere in the US.

Even at $200k, only NYC/SF are so expensive that cost of living changes are meaningful.
It’s not that arbitrary. A lot of what we define as consonance comes from the harmonic series, the set of overtones you can access by doubling, tripling, etc the frequency of the fundamental tone. If you look at this series, the third is the first interesting interval.

Fundamental - octave - fifth - octave - third - fifth - flat 7
Even if I know (or can trivially decipher) the definition of a technical word, reading an article saturated with technical words takes more work than reading an article written in more common language. Articles that take more work to read are going to be read by fewer people, and the population of people that do read them is going to be biased to the well-educated.

If you're trying to communicate to the general public something like "Gophers are actually good sometimes", you probably want that message to go beyond the well-educated.
Thanks. I forgot to mention De Blob (and its 2).
New Mobile 3D Printer Can Print Directly on Your Floor
Allowing the forest to face an eruption, uninhibited, is probably what will keep it old. Most of these truly old ecosystems have developed with natural disasters common to the area in mind. Trees have to function on a centuries long timeline.
I suppose the Microsoft researchers default to 4o because the models are free in their environment…
We know that infection with COVID causes permanent changes to the body, and that those changes are damaging to health. There have been studies that indicate this damage might be cumulative.

We do not yet know what the long term impacts of acquiring COVID repeatedly will be, but we're going to find out.

It's my suspicion that those healthy young people will have lungs like chain smokers, higher rates of certain cancers, and a much higher propensity for certain cardiovascular ailments in a few decades.
Next Steps on the Rust Trademark Policy
Earth worms provide a similar service in mixing clay and organic material to create clay-humus aggregate.

In oceans, whales also mix different layers of sea water with their vertical movements.
I am currently sitting in a dot-com crash Aeron chair that I got for a very good price 25 years ago, behind the IKEA Jerker desk I bought at the same time. They are the best purchases I have ever made.
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I'm a full-stack developer with 10+ years of experience. I've done work for small startups to big tech firms like Microsoft. Most recently, I worked on a RAG based Gen AI application. I'm a passionate Software Engineer who believes in knowing the fundamentals of programming languages inside and out (mainly JavaScript) which allows you to pick up and learn any new framework/library. Lastly, I'm a strong team player looking to take on projects/tasks no matter how ambiguous and turn out exceptional user experiences!
We've already established that the number was true when Einstein was a baby (about 3% of the population of Palestine was Jewish in 1879).

You're pointing to later figures on the number of Jews in Palestine to argue that the native Jewish population was substantially larger. The problem there is that you're considering European Jews who had just recently immigrated to Palestine (or at best, who were born to European parents) to be part of the "native" population.

The basic conflict in 1948 was between an overwhelmingly Arab native population and a European Jewish population. There was also a tiny Jewish population with mich deeper roots in Palestine, but they were actually very skeptical of Zionism.
Ukraine and Russia both actively use wooden, inflatable, and painted decoys in the current war. [1][2]

China's ICBM silo fields are almost certainly a strategy of mixed decoys and real silos. [3][4]
China builds new silos under inflatable domes so you can't easily tell via satellite. [5]

Decoys and camouflage are very much so still a thing. I don't think they would persist if they were not cost effective.

[1] https://read.bradyafrick.com/p/russia-adds-decoy-aircraft-to...

[2] https://iari.site/2024/10/13/the-strategic-role-of-decoys-in...

[3] https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1212340/chinese-icbm...

[4] https://fas.org/publication/a-closer-look-at-chinas-missile-...

[5] https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/OrdosSilos-2002x8...
Something tells me he will never work for Microsoft. Even though they would probably love to employ him.
My place of work is like that, but I'm allowed to keep my door mostly closed because they keep the place at subarctic temperatures and I keep a heater running all day. Gotta keep the heat in!
It got me thinking, what might it look like to natively train a binary quantized embedding model? You can’t do calculus per se on {0,1}, but maybe you could do something like randomly flip bits with a probability weighted by the severity of the error during backprop… anyway, I’m sure there’s plenty of literature about this.
Engineering Thelio Astra
A Microscoped Microscope Museum?