skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many metrics. The act of selecting one metric or another metric to drive a point across is a key way to "lie with numbers". The numbers themselves are usually correct but they paint a misleading picture nevertheless.

A similar thing happens with fiddling with the axis on graphs, e.g. not starting a graph at zero or using the wrong scale.
I second the GP's thanks. I know nothing about synths and really appreciated your explanation, and the passion with which you expressed it.
Tangently, being poor in a wealthy area is far different than being poor in a poor area.

An example being "cast offs". In my early 20s, I moved from a poorer rural area, to a well to do city suburb.

Walking to various places, I noticed things cast aside that would never, ever be thrown away in the area I grew up in.

Examples being:

* an expensive propane bbq, with damage to one of the hoses. A $10 repair and I had a bbq worth hundreds.

(Even looked brand new)

* A set of cutlery, and plates. One of 8 plates had a crack. The cutlery was missing one fork out of a set of 8.

(For a young man eating off of one plate, this was a big bonus)

* a coat rack, mild discolouration

(10 cents in paint out of a spray can to fix)

Anyhow, you get the point. Very usable items cast off, and I would never have found this treasure trove in a poor neighbourhood.

Just being surrounded by a society of greater wealth, means better access generally.
Hi, we’re here to help if you need assistance (via GitHub issue, Discord, or email). Could you let us know the scale of your vectors—are they 1B or 10B?
Aa a Windows user, who just wanted something bare bones for playing, I found this[1] small project useful. It does support multi-modal models which is nice.

[1]: https://github.com/jakobhoeg/nextjs-ollama-llm-ui
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You either don't know a lot of people or surround yourself with a very particular crowd...
Meat cutting might be dealing with sharp objects, but it is also highly repeatable work and designed to be generally acceptable safety. Same goes for tire changing, you are very often using lifts and then you can use proper lifting techniques.

In both jobs the work environment can be designed to be ergonomic enough. Which does not apply to more variable work.
I find it so interesting that it's possible to develop a "feeling" of a new model.
In the context of economics and poverty, paycheck to paycheck is defined as having no ability to save because necessary spending is consuming the entire paycheck.

Necessary spending is food, utilities, clothes, rent. But not eating out, fancy housing is a nice neighborhood, designer clothes, etc.
The whole "BTC is the future of money" ship has sailed a long time.
Eggs and Gas are cheap right now! Why do we let these conservative politicans gaslight us and tell us white is black and freedom is slavery?
> I need both.

Definitely. We all do.
It does. I think this was used in a gpt4 version, they called it Chain of Thought.
You're forgetting about difficulty adjustment. Every time mining gets more expensive large number of miners drop out. This causes the difficulty target to drop. The remaining miners then start mining more blocks and profits rise. As a system it has built-in economic incentives to keep in in homeostasis.
Costco has full chickens for 5 dollars.
“Faster”.

> Ran each three times and used the lowest timing for each. Timings taken on an M3 Macbook pro with 16 gb RAM using the /usr/bin/time command. Input value of 40 given to each.

Not even using JMH. I highly doubt accuracy of the “benchmark”.
Well, not quite.

First off, the IMP to host interface was a parallel hardware interface. Each type of computer attached to an IMP had to have a custom-designed interface unit that connected to the computer's own I/O system. The effect was that the IMP appeared to each host computer as a reliable I/O device. Here's the description of the interface unit for the DEC PDP-11.[1]

There were several models of IMPs. There was even a distributed, redundant IMP, called PLURIBUS. That was a strange machine built out of 16 Lockheed SUE minicomputers, with partially shared memory. BBN put that together. That was the beginning of network switches bigger than one CPU, but that idea was not used again until the era of big Internet routers about 15 years later.

Links between IMPs had both reliability and flow control. No packet was sent until a receiving buffer was available. So no packets were dropped due to congestion. Not at the link level, and not at the end to end level.

Congestion problems manifested themselves as the network stalling. This was a problem in the early days, but was gradually fixed. There was a fragmentation and reassembly system, which could result in overcommitting buffers. Once someone locked up the entire ARPANET in reassembly lockup by sending a pattern of messages that caused buffer fragmentation.

The obsession with buffer space came from the high cost of memory at the time. It was generally thought that congestion management was about not running out of buffer space. Now we know better. See "bufferbloat".

The IMP to IMP system was trusted within itself. So protocol bugs in the IMP to IMP protocol could cause multiple connections or multiple IMPs to fail.

One of the reasons that IP is unreliable is because that prevents trouble on one stream from messing up other streams.
In exchange for less reliability per stream, you get better reliability for the whole system.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/unibus/IMP11-B_Arpanet_Inte...
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Of course they can. Carbon dioxide consists of quarks and electrons. I can divide it into units smaller than atoms and it's still quarks and electrons. All you did was a word trick by assuming a specific meaning of “substance”.
it's not even about the lack of fame, but the fact that I chose each composition or song very carefully and I don't have any left-wing songs on the list that I would fast-forward through.

in this regard, I didn't like the radio, in order to listen to what I want, specifically what - you need to listen for hours and hours until what I need appears. I don't listen to a mess of compositions, I care what plays in the background.

there were compositions that I've heard since childhood, but added to the playlist only now, because I understood the sound. this is called "time-tested". you want me to listen to everything in a row here and now. but I want to listen only exclusively to what I want. and not something else.

and it's not about the popularity of the groups. some of the groups that I listen to are little known.
That's a great point. Reminds me of the "feature, not a bug" Karpathy tweet [0].

[0]: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1733299213503787018?lang=en
I solve this dilemma with a standing desk.

(But I've yet to upgrade to a treadmill desk.)
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Yep, I really like my little reface DX, it's reasonably easy to tweak sounds, and with the help of the free reface DX editor panel ( https://refacedx.martintarenskeen.nl/ ) you can load any patch for 4-op FM synth of yore (DX 9, DX 11, TX81Z) into it.
Feels more and more like it's the best of times and the worst of times...

Things feel off,but you have (mostly well-off) people talking about how great things are going to be and are. I suspect a lot of this correlates to the stock market.

For the median millenial atleast, whatever you were taught growing up is just the wrong guide to understanding the world today.

I think social media by its very nature, has to be understood inverted. A high number of posts about how great things are suggests otherwise. Comparisons with Europe have gone exponential that tells you more about how the posters feel than anything else...
Where did you learn this from?

This interpretation is incorrect. The section you mention is a subsection of 296-128-500, which defines the minimum rates for certain professions to be exempt from overtime. In this case, computer professionals paid at least 3.5x the minimum wage and who are paid on an hourly basis are exempt. The level to qualify as exempt if an employee is paid on a salary basis is defined in 545.
Thanks a bunch for pointing me towards Levi-Civita field. Where can I learn more ? Any pedagogic text ?
Which difference? It is literally same code, it doesn’t even use any Kotlin std goodies.
I am still waiting for a good pattern for using multivector embeddings like ColBert and ColPali in postgres. I get that its fun to optimize single vector stuff, but multivector is that happy middleground between single vector and reranker that seems to be only validated in specialized exotic search dbs like Vespa
>And I expect that Asia is going to start developing some serious military muscle on the back of that because they have access to the history books and have a pretty good view into how Western leadership thinks.

The history books say Western countries abandoned conquest many decades ago. The leaders who initiated colonialism are long dead. Nowadays all we have are handwavey analogies to colonialism when someone wants to be provocative.

Countries aren't people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXz0kbMKPu0
They care because they think the claim that AIDS is caused by HIV is wrong, and that AIDS/ICL are in reality the same thing with a shared root cause.

The claim of a viral cause came from Team Fauci in the 90s, who we now know are all pathological liars who happily conspire with each other for their own ends. We can read the Slack logs where they arrange their conspiracies, even. Back then there were renegade virologists and journalists who claimed there was a coverup by virologists in progress, and the inventor of the PCR test agreed with them, but they were ignored because people thought scientists were ideal people who would never do things like that. That was wrong, so the prior for there being a COVID style problem back then too should be strong.

It's reasonable to disagree with that perspective, of course. You can point to pieces of evidence, other people can debate them. It's not reasonable to be like JumpCrisscross and simply roll your eyes at claims of medical malfeasance anymore - that's a severe case of non-memo-getting at this point. A rational person should default to assuming anything involving Fauci and virologists is unreliable. When Nobel-prize winning scientists and journalists speak up and provide a great deal of detail on an alleged conspiracy, priors should then get stronger (and they did). When Pharma companies do tests that implicitly claim to cure AIDS but don't actually test that claim, they should get stronger still.

Or you can be like JumpCrisscross and continue eye-rolling at anyone who has lost trust in the institutions. Don't be like that!
Rogue is a very cool game, but what get me into the genre is Angband and Nethack.

I played them with ascci tiles on my computer at the french university in 2002-2004 and my classmates where all playing Warcraft 3, Diablo or Call of Duty and they where very confused to see my little games!

I think that ascii characters are a good interface for this kind of game because the brain has to work to imagine the game which makes the memories of games more memorable.

I still play Nethack some times and I must try Brogue. I never had the time to get into Dwarf Fortress.
Figure I've got (from Bill McKibben's Eaarth IIRC) is that lorries average 59 ton-miles/gallon, whilst barges on canals net 514 ton-miles/gallon. (McKibben doesn't include rail, which is slightly less efficient though you can think of rail as effectively steel barges.)

I suspect the reason lorries are rating lower is that they're not typically filled to maximum weight capacity, and likely have greater idling losses.

Though a more recent (2017) source gives a better showing for overland transport:

The study shows that barges can move a ton of cargo 647 miles with a single gallon of fuel, an increase from an earlier estimate of 616 miles. In contrast, trains can move the same ton of cargo 477 miles per gallon, and trucks can move the same ton of cargo 145 miles per gallon.

<https://maritime-executive.com/article/barge-transport-wins-...>

The study being "A report commissioned by the U.S. National Waterways Foundation".

"A Modal Comparison of Domestic Freight Transportation Effects On the General Public: 2001–2014"

<https://nationalwaterwaysfoundation.org/file/31/final%20tti%...> (PDF)

Upshot regardless is that water transport is efficient, if not always convenient.
Show HN: A REST API to generate PDF document using JSON
Many of us reach the point in their project(s) where they have to generate PDFs

A great solution exists in the .NET echo system called QuestPDF.

Today, we open-sourced a rest api wrapper to allow any other platform to generate PDF via a simple POST request.
> Python was the slowest language in the benchmark, and yet at the same time it’s the most used language on Github as of October 2024.

Interesting that there seems to be a correlation between a language being slow and it being popular.
There is more to life than "producing much" and "getting rich". There is no single answer and it depends on preferences and tradeoffs. But, labeling an ideology that takes care of the unfortunate, and lets the people live life without "if you dont produce much or work every minute of your life towards getting rich" as lazy or incentivising to be poor is just naive and ignorant.

I'm saying as someone from Asia having lived equal number of years in both US and EU.
But they still make great stuff like Korg Volca FM or Dirtywave M8 and many, many other beautiful synths!

Apart from that, with music equipment, it's completely different than with computers. In our case, great hardware becomes outdated and goes out of use. You could say it disappears forever because its time has passed. With music equipment, it's entirely different. There, everything remains compatible, almost nothing "goes out of use" and it cannot become obsolete.
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Yes, I would say COVID accelerated what was already happening.
> "An AI assistant was tasked with {task}. The relevant information for their task was {context}. Their answer is {answer}. The correct answer should be something like {ground truth}. Is their answer correct?"

If you have a ground truth, what was the purpose of asking the AI assistant for an answer in the first place?
Python has had since Mypy and Pyright since forever.
> Well, with toilet paper I can wipe my ass. Even a dollar bill will do the trick

Wait, are you saying dollars are good because you can wipe with them? I think you're in full agreement with the person you're replying to!
Language models are known to be a bit crap at maths though in comparison to natural language prompts
Some telecom perspectives here:

https://www.telecoms.com/security/us-offers-telcos-tips-on-t...

https://www.telecoms.com/security/t-mobile-us-we-were-hacked...
Got an opinion on LwDITA ? Or are you deep enough into DITA that the complexity is not an issue ?

FWIW if you break up your content into reusable chunks and mark it up (with DITA or Docbook semantics, say), it should be a lot more amenable to being "understood" by a LLM... but I have not seen any data on this.
Hard to interpret this. It either shows that 55% do not have enough money to pay the expense, or that 82% may well have the money but 37% would prefer to pay it off after their next paycheck anyway.
I'm down voting this because two of these three suggestions make the code more complicated for no actual improvement and probably aren't advice that will help a 9 year old, in my opinion.
Bitcoin surges past $100k for first time
Based on impressions I'm seeing online (and freely admitting that this is hardly statistically-rigorous or -defensible sampling) I'd suggest at the very least that dissatisfaction with working within the system is highly palpable. Revolutions are rarely majoritarian viewpoints.
Yes people are fed up. Nobody is arguing that people are happy and somebody is misrepresenting that.

What I'm trying to say is that there is an explanation for why this sentiment exists despite measures of material wealth and economic success being positive.

The fact that there is an explanation doesn't magically make people feel better.

I think it all boils down to the attitude one has towards seeking explaination.

One is a scientific approach where one aims at understanding the dynamics of a phenomenon in a way that is detached from it as much as possible.

The other approach is moral one where one seeks an explanation in order to convince oneself (and others) how one should feel about it. "You shouldn't complain, you have indoor plumbing your grandparents had to pump water from a well; shut up".

I'm not making the latter, moral, argument. I'm trying to make the scientific one
But for the task of learning the letters, this does wonders.

This is just a tiny part of learning the language, but it's a great tool for quickly learning letters and new words.
> The types of US media that routinely dog whistles race issues and stereotype low IQ gun happy criminal types

That's the other side from the one that most strongly regards "race as an all important immutable inherited characteristic" as far as I can see.
So should we as “real humans” also set up our own lobbying channels in Washington? Or are there some problems that make that somewhat unfeasible for us “real humans”?
Might be a nice way to get into WASM development, but 4 colors sounds very limiting. Ok, I know the original Game Boy made do with only 4 "colors" (but that was on a black and white display where you probably couldn't have told the difference if there would have been more "shades of gray"), and the Game Boy Color showed these games using a palette of 4 colors, but actually even that device could show 56 colors at the same time!
You are also club socks in sauna?
> Not sure why 2019 specifically, it's 2024.

Because in 2019 real estate was not only expensive by itself, but also all the future growth was added to a price.

Today in 2024 you can buy very cheap in some places (north, for example).

> there was a stock-market crash in 1983

Not just stock-market. By the time of the crash, Likud laid waste to the whole economy to undermine "the left".
Looks like that there is recent work to make a pgvector example for this https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector-python/blob/master/exam...
No word trick. Just pointing out that there's some nuance to it.

> Carbon dioxide consists of quarks and electrons.

But this is just plain wrong. Carbon dioxide consists of carbon dioxide molecules. There is no "carbon-dioxidity" to the quarks and electrons (which are also made of quarks) that the atoms that make the molecules can be broken down into.
Nobody was killed because an AI product was inaccurate. If this was indeed the reason, this CEO was killed for killing someone's family member by denying them healthcare.

You're not expected to have a faultless AI but you're expected to supervise it, to have an appeal process, and to make things right when AI makes mistakes. In other words, this is a "high risk system" under the EU AI Act, which should have appropriate safeguards in place.

> Human oversight shall aim to prevent or minimise the risks to health, safety or fundamental rights that may emerge when a high-risk AI system is used in accordance with its intended purpose or under conditions of reasonably foreseeable misuse, in particular where such risks persist despite the application of other requirements set out in this
Section.

https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/14/
I didn't understand why the laptop was waking up by itself. Was the lid too close to the buttons and it was pressing it?

> S3 is unsupported (thanks AMD)

My AMD laptop (not a Framework) seems to have no issues with sleeping though (although I don't know what power state it is in).
1) EVs are not significantly heavier https://thedriven.io/2024/05/03/are-evs-really-much-heavier-...

2) One must also factor in the vast surface fleet that moves Gas and crude oil around : https://www.americangeosciences.org/geoscience-currents/tran...

3) Tyre manufacturers have taken notice and are working on this problem.
I'd argue the opposite, the DX7 worked great because it came with good presets and you could expand it with those cartriges, although programming your own was annoying as heck. But most people cared about getting the newest sounds and at max tweaking them slightly, which was a pain. But the FM engine was/is immensly powerful and the sounds are to that day extremely iconic.

Just as a visualization for the parameters that DX7 hides from its users behind that interface, Matrixsynth made thebDT7 which puts all parameters on knobs and it looks like this: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj...
I have a standing desk. I seriously need to force myself to use it, though. The last time it's been moved up is about a month ago.
Eurostat [0] would have you believe that you want 3 rooms for a family of 2 adults and 1 child. That's fine as an aspirational goal, but I feel that parents with a toddler living in a signle-room flat is good enough, especially for the baby.

[0]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
So does it track the users-role and reading path + searches? Like, if you searched for topic "XY" hop on rail XYZ other user with similar role hoped on.
Does that correlation hold if you look at let's say the top 20 popular languages?
>the speakers are not loud

Well, let's be clear: the speakers are just for noodling.

Nobody who performs would use the built-in speakers of such a keyboard, not even street performers.

- the only exception is the big-ass speakers in digital home pianos, and still those are only for home use.