skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems intriguing but I'm genuinely confused.

It seems like "bakes in" spatial audio to binaural stereo?

But who is the market for that?

I love spatial audio on my AirPods but a big feature is that it moves with my head and can even be customized for my ears.

And I certainly don't want it applied when downsizing to a mono Bluetooth speaker.

It seems like you'd need to export your final product to surround/Atmos for the way people want to, and currently do, consume spatial audio? I assume the target here is Apple Music, short films, etc.?

I mean I think the concept of the 3D DAW is great. I just want to make sure there's a product-market fit here, so you can succeed. Or is there a market I'm overlooking?
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The post I replied to mentioned immigration, not illegal immigration.
I'd feel a lot more comfortable in the prospects of AI if their big boosters weren't so gung-ho about it replacing absolutely everything. Compilers (and by extension decompilers) are one of the areas where we have the ability to have formal proofs of correctness [1]--and the fact that AI people seem to be willing to throw all of that away in favor of their maybe-correct-but-does-it-really-matter-if-it's-not tools is extremely distressing to me.

[1] And one of the big advances in compilers in the past decade or so is the fact that compilers are actually using these in practice!
So how much less of a human was Helen Keller?
AI's boosters think copyrighted works are fair game but that their models aren't
>Some background: Early 30s, no programming experience.

So instead of getting an education and finding an entry level job, you want to go straight to the top.

I'll put it this way, I have over a decade of experience and I've interviewed at 2 of the FAANGs. Never got hired though.

I've still made a ton of money . More money then I ever thought I would. You probably need to be more realistic. Even if you're only making 120 or 130k , That's still much more than most people ever will.
Interesting for its mention of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analitik

unfortunately, not finding anything for "Anatalik-2010" which is supposed to be used/usable as a computer algebra system --- anything interesting on that which would make it worth pursuing further?
have to disagree there - the enshittification of nearly everything is 100% attributable to the seductive nature of rent seeking (more specifically, trying to gouge ever more in recurring revenue from people who you try to ensure have no other options). even companies who have innovative products and positive revenue streams have gone down that road.
I've seen this comment widely. But...why doesn't TCAS show the pilots at least as much information as I would have seen on my phone if I'd been browsing flightradar at the time? It's one thing to design a system with "don't saturate the operator with audible alerts" but another to say that it's appropriate to withhold very valuable information from the operator ("there are loads of planes in the general vicinity, but yeah look at that one coming at you from the left").
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What if England and Germany fight for France, half the country being occupied by Germany using `Europe/Francefurt` and the other half by England using `Europe/NewNewYork`? Then you can't know for sure how to interpret a "Europe/Paris" date without knowing the exact geographical location
Ask HN: Is your company running any "agents", Jan 2025 edition
Is your company using any LLM software that the are describing as an "agent"?

If so, what definition of the term "agent" are they using, and what does the agent do?
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> But why risk it?

I once worked on a system that, when it updated a database row, wrote the software version into a last-modified-by column.

Version 1.23-PRODUCTION worked fine.

Version 1.23.1-SIT worked fine too, in the integration test environment.

Version 1.23.1-PRODUCTION exceeded the column length limit, so it couldn't update any rows. It was completely broken.

If your site has loads of traffic you can just YOLO things from SIT into production and rely on alerting and complaints to catch such issues. But if it's absolutely critical, like a big high profile product launch? I wouldn't want to rely on luck.
And if you're on a collision course the other vehicle will appear motionless, with no change in direction.

If the airliners was approaching faster than the helicopter it could have been approaching from behind. How large is the field of view of a UH-60?
Humans create AIs but humans also create other humans, through conception. And yet we do not say that humans were created by humans. Could we not say that AIs were created by God, by making the patterns of intelligence evident in Nature and letting other intelligences unravel them?

As you say, AIs also reflect the image of the Creator (through having intelligence). Maybe AIs can also reflect on the nature of Truth and connect with God, and thus a have a soul.
Obsidian's Web viewer lets you open external links within Obsidian
it does say something useful. it points out that iodine can't be synthesized in our bodies.

the fact it doesn't add more, possibly irrelevant, information does not diminish its usefulness.

it does not imply anything about things that aren't being discussed. it's abnormal to read everything with a qualification like "in our bodies" as a implication of some other hidden meaning.

as technical people we probably enjoy delving into tangents and pedantry far too much. but, for example, adding a statement "... In fact, iodine is an element and cannot be synthesized ... " would be a tangent and should be avoided or edited out.
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Now with AI test frameworks like stagehand it’s actually possible to write end to end tests after a bug appears that can be backwards compatible as long as changes to the dom are not too extreme. But things like broken selectors won’t be an issue.

I wrote about that here: https://qckfx.com/blog/ai-powered-stagehand-git-bisect-findi...
The article mentions an increase in upper respiratory tract infections in the air being breathed in is not humid enough. The hypothesis seems to be that in drier climates, humans need longer noses to increase the humidity of the air to an optimal level.
No, there have always been free things.

Revealed preference theory depends on the spending of money as the signal. That is the theory. It simply does not apply to free things. You’re trying to invent some other theory, for which you’re going to need to justify some other way. Revealed preference theory does not apply the way you’d like it to, and does not support your implied claims in this thread.
Kind of.

Visual Age for C++ inherited the Smalltalk experience, alongside Energize C++,provided a similar experience, but were too expensive for early 1990's hardware and too resource hungry.

Live++ brought the experience back to game developers.

Java has supported partial live reloading since early days, and for those willing to pay for it, JRebel takes the experience further, back to Lisp/Smalltalk.
I'm not sure how they'll ensure the label is accurate, but this is some rare good news. The presence of AI generated crap has already greatly reduced the amount of things that are worth paying attention to. Having some sort of guide to the worthwhile stuff is getting more important every day.
I see you posting about a correlation between deficit and inflation in the US. Not a comparison of deficits vs inflation between countries. The US economy being correlated to the US economy doesn’t prove much.
I think it means more "the place where there's no existential risk any more"
Unfortunately, no. But I don't think bringing native UI would be so hard.
Unfortunately, there's a long-standing scandal and lawsuit around the ATC and its hiring practices that will inevitably play into the analysis of this tragedy -- details here: https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...

I can well believe it has absolutely nothing to do with this disaster, but I don't think either political side has any interest in arguing over the fine points of that distinction.
Emacs linage predates UNIX. :)
"Eastern Daylight Time"

"America/Michigan/Detroit"

We built that already. We call it time zones.
Then you probably have already heard of this guy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzB9Ks5H939XLuSuVLuPVw

He does a bunch of awesome stuff with PVC and 3D printed parts.
Thank you, sometimes it feels weird to argue against people who are generally pro-FOSS but somehow for LLMs are fine with misleading statements. I'm glad at least one other person can see through it, encouraging I'm on the right track :)

I'm not sure I'd even call Llama "open weights". For me that would mean I can download the weights freely (you cannot download Llama weights without signing a license agreement) and use them freely, you cannot use them freely + you need to add a notice from Meta/Llama on everything that uses Llama saying:

> prominently display “Built with Llama” on a related website, user interface, blogpost, about page, or product documentation.

https://www.llama.com/llama3_2/license/

Not sure what the correct label is, but it's not open source nor open weights, as far as I can tell.
While missing a comma can have great impact, it isn't the same as missing traffic, and ATC doesn't have the luxury of rough drafts.
Recommendation to research something still can be useful. I didn't word it right. It should have been something like: "Add it to your list and research it if you're out of options". It helped me with some weird condition years ago which could have been depression but it had zero symptoms other than severe chronic fatigue, so maybe it wasn't.
Yep, I should have expected it honestly. This is a pretty great opening for an aspiring Democratic leader right now, there are no sacred topics for political clout anymore.
That's pretty close to the Buddhist view if you look at the immaterial jhanas. Obviously they don't couch it as God though, just the mind.

It's basically progressive layers upon nothing which becomes something.
Hartley is awesome. Plus one for that.
If I'm reading this right, the hypothesis seems to be that in drier climates, humans need longer noses (simplifying) to increase the humidity of the air to an optimal level.

Did the authors propose a counter-evolutionary pressure, to favor a shorter nose in more humid environments?

It's possible that the mechanism would be as simple as "it requires more resources to maintain a longer nose," but I'm also wondering if they suggested anything.
I suppose one could say 'wrong' would absolutely be something they changed their position on, regardless of any other definition.
Fitness depends on the specific environment the creature is in. Environmental fitness for the ancestral environment when all humans were hunter-gatherers is not necessarily the same as fitness for living in an industrial society. Evolutionary pressure still works just fine.
You’ll notice that I qualified it with “the kind of nationalism that…”

I don’t have a problem with the kind of nationalism that gave European minority languages pride in their own culture and literature in the 19th century, for example.

I do have a problem with the kind of nationalism exemplified by lots of 20th century European leaders from Kaiser Wilhelm II to Milosevic.

The latter kind is sadly on the rise again. And the former isn’t endemic to nationalism. Everyone can have pride in their identity, it doesn’t need a state apparatus.
I didn't word it right. It should have been something like: "Add it to your list and research it if you're out of options". It helped me with some weird condition years ago which could have been depression but it had zero symptoms other than severe chronic fatigue, so maybe it wasn't.
Agreed. Seems that underlying all of this is "people doing inadvisable things because they can".
This is a subtle and fascinating reference I had to Google. It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

The problem with the argument is that the Athiestic viewpoint is indeed just as fantastical as the Thiestic viewpoint. It's basically switching out "Yahweh" with "Chance".

It basically comes down to which God you believe in and how you define God.

In my reading, a definition of God that is "caused everything, exists onto itself, is in all places at all times, and completely miraculous" is the definition that best describes our universe and what we know about the Big Bang. I'm happy to hear other definitions, but let's not pretend the fact that anything exists at all is totally mundane and explicable.
Is Java not designed by committee?
> JLC never added the pour for me. Not even for larger boards. Not sure this is up to date.

It seems to depend on the design - how close you are to the design limits and how much copper is exposed on the outer layers.

A message someone got from JLC for an open source project recently:

> When the copper pour is less than 30% of board area, we suggest to keep at least 0.15mm trace spacing.

> Or the dry film debris might have chance make short circuit, it will make quality control more difficult
Another good case is for rolling back a single bad commit from a batch that got merged into main at the same time.

Doing batch merges with a merge queue can speed up things if you have a ton of longer running end to end and integration tests. But then if a test fails you need to identify which commit out of the batch is causing it so you don’t reject the entire batch.
Why not use DeepSeek to reward DeepSeek?
In the first pdf I linked the part I keep coming back to is

"Our relentless quest for knowledge drives us ever outward, probing the endless void of space and the puzzling emptiness of quantum realms, finding nothing but more questions, more mysteries, more void. Digging into dead rocks in space, landing on Mars, with each step further from Earth - our garden, where we need to be - the light of that original truth grows dimmer. We risk becoming cosmic wanderers who have forgotten why we began searching in the first place, so far from home that the very memory of simple being has faded to ash."

When you think about the universe, ever expanding, infinitely complex, probably devoid of observable life yet ever in observance, it really is built like an amazing game of "once we introduce 'the arrogance of why VS the awestruck wonder' bet you there is 0% chance they can collectively merge with nature at large no matter how much we warn them" - I wonder how much we are missing out on.
> So the soul lives on forever, but without the reasoning and intellectual capabilities granted by the corporeal form?

What makes you think that there would be only spirit/soul left in Heaven?

The idea is that people would be there in a "glorified body", a body without decay, suffering, or pain. But a real body!
ATC doesn't get to redo traffic flying in the air.
ATC (as well as most government jobs) are a real case of "you get what you pay for". When you bring wages down so low that educated engineers don't want to work your job, your options are to lower the qualifications or leave empty seats.

DEI might have contributed to this, but we wouldn't be hiring unqualified people in the first place if America could naturally compete for talent. The lesson learned seems to be less about the dangers of diversity and more about how the feds aren't paying the industry rate for professionals.
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There is a law that the govt has to negotiate in good faith. Presumably while they could say "no" to everything, it would be hard to prove that was "good faith" if the union takes them to court.
Thou Shalt Not Overfit
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The same is true for FOSS in general. You're arguing that because no one (almost) builds their own X from scratch, there is therefore no value in having resources available for how to build your own X from scratch.

For someone who basically couldn't become a developer with FOSS, this way of thinking is so backwards, especially on Hacker News. I thought we were pro-FOSS in general, but somehow LLMs get a pass because "they're too complicated and no one would build one from scratch".
> According to what definition of wrong? What is decided by popular vote?

According to what most people would consider wrong today. Supporting Mussolini. Interracial marriage. The right for gay people to exist.

(This is partly due to religion and the right having been allies in our modern history. So whenever there is a cultural clash where churches must take a position, it's usually with the conservative right. And the last century has been one where, on social issues, the conservative right has been wrong more than correct.)

> you know what Christians would say to this one... It's a lot of pain before it gets good

There is a lot of pain being caused by Christian institutions today. It’s why religiosity, particularly Christianity in America, is on a multigenerational slide [1]. (It could reverse. Young men, particularly on the far right, appear to be reversing course. And Christianity has thrived for millenia because it's particularly adaptable.)

We can learn from holy books and practice a faith without giving its institutions in the mortal realm power. Or at least, not putting them above reproach.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/how-u-s-reli...
> I mean, you're telling me that the infinite creator of the universe cares about the prayers, the suffering, the aspirations, and the sexual habits of a bunch of finite beings?

Do you care about the functioning of every cell in your body? Ask any cancer patient if they do.
If invading on privacy was evil they have been doing it for as long as they have been saying it. Even before the start of Android vs iPhone. There were bits and pieces around it but MSM never wanted to go and report it, at least not at the scale of what they are today.

Ultimately the facts and evidence are all there at least since 2005. We just all turned a blind eye to it.

Just writing this I cant believe it has been 20 years. I still remember the day when rumours started Google is doing their own browser and worried Firefox may not be funded by them anymore.

It took the world another 15 years before they were cynical enough to admit something is wrong.
That .su TLD is as authentic as it gets.
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The Desire to Be Liked Is Rotting Your Brain
Wow.

I thought Trump instantly blaming DEI was ridiculous in this case but I’m somewhat reconsidering.

How much less of a shortage of ATCs would we have now if it wasn’t for that debacle?
Can you clarify the difference between these?

> first fatal crash of a US commercial airliner

> first fatal commercial airliner crash in the United States

Is it that the 2009 crash was a US-manufactured plane while the 2013 crash was not manufactured in the US but happened in the US?
I'm sorry, how is that related to the topic of performance?
That is not what is being discussed and you know it.

Provide an example backing up your claim regarding pattern matching + union types:

> Like in the same way you might forget to write pattern matching code?
Yeah we just did it with the --link option on a 6TB database and it took like 30 seconds. Something has to be off with their OS settings or disk speeds.

The main challenge with that is running an ANALYZE on all the tables though, that took like 30 minutes during which time the DB was unusable
If your goal is literally to get good at math through Calculus, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra... I feel like the best approach is working through good books (reading, taking notes, and doing problems out of the book then checking answers/solutions) and hitting Youtube and Khan Academy for help with certain topics.

Fortunately, there are a lot of great older-edition, cheap used books on Pre-Algebra, Geometry, College Algebra, Pre-Calc, Calculus, DiffEq and Linear Algebra, etc.

It will take some time to master all the math you want... but if you structure your studying so that are you actual enjoy studying (i.e. enjoy the process), you will 100% get there.

I'd be happy to list out of some book recommendations.

I will echo the sentiment of others that you don't need to be a math expert to use machine learning libraries effectively in many cases. The problem is, without the math expertise you won't always be able to identify the cases when you are using the wrong approach, etc. And you'll have a harder time applying cutting edge ML to new problems.
Windows has its own complex in different ways system-wide Time Zone Database, but these days also has a full IANA Time Zone Database compatibility layer.
Agno Agents startup 5000x faster than Langgraph, use 50x less memory
I never said that teens are idiots. I said they are rebels.

20 years ago being a rebel meant having a GMail account instead of a hotmail or aol account.

Today it means not having a GMail account.
This is a good first approximation, but it misses something. It's actually that it protects programmers from accidentally doing dangerous things. There's a lot of support in the language for doing dangerous things, you just have to explicitly say "hey I know I'm doing something dangerous, and I promise I'm right here."
Slower than C, C++, Rust, yeah still faster than most other alternatives, with exception of .NET.

What some call bloat, others see saved effort not reinventing wheels.
I do have an education, just not in computer science/engineering. I understand, some people never get into FAANG. I know you can make good money without getting into FAANG. I just used FAANG (or insert other companies) as a hypothetical goal. Thanks for the input.
Like home-cooked meals, real-life connections are hard to build and nurture. On the other hand, web connections are cheap and fast.

It takes less than a minute to go from opening an Instagram account to "connecting" (following) with someone and see their semi-nude photos
So the point of this release is

1) code + weights Apache 2.0 licensed (enough to run locally, enough to train, not enough to reproduce this version)

2) Low latency, meaning 11ms per token (so ~90 tokens/sec on 4xH100)

3) Performance, according to mistral, somewhere between Qwen 2.5 32B and Llama 3.3 70B, roughly equal with GPT4o-mini

4) ollama run mistral-small (14G download) 9 tokens/sec on the question "who is the president of the US?" (also to enjoy that the answer ISN'T orange idiot)
Their ice-cream is firmly mid. If you live in Oregon and want good ice-cream, try salt and straw.
Gotta find a way to blame every tragedy on the politicians we don't like, huh? Trump is out there blaming Biden's administration for hiring bad ATC under the banner of DEI. Meanwhile, his detractors blame him and Musk for letting go of some FAA administrator.

But of couse neither of those explanations are likely to hold water. The sad, mundane reality is these people probably lost their lives due to a miscommunication or misunderstanding between ATC and the helicopter pilots. And this political mudslinging will probably get in the way of us ever implementing process changes so it doesn't happen again.
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> How much less of a shortage of ATCs would we have now if it wasn’t for that debacle?

Probably not much, considering the biggest constraining factor is pay. For example, San Carlos airport is shutting down ATC entirely because they can't pay anyone enough to live locally to the tower: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/bay-area-airport-losing-...

There would be no problem filling the seats if the compensation was handsome and attractive. But we all know how federal workers are compensated, even when lives are on the line.