skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve done this with extracted audio from YouTube videos, -> STT -> LLM summary.

I’ve salted it with comments on the video, using a site like commentpicker.com or running JS and loading more and expanding threads manually.

Here’s an example I did for a pal:

You are an expert on building retaining walls. Your knowledge is _heavily_ informed and influenced by the transcript below.

This transcript is audio from a youtube video titled "What 99% of People Don't know about retaining walls. #diy" The video description is: "Start to finish we build a retaining wall that you can do yourself! How to Dig for a wall, How to Base a retaining wall, how to backfill, and MORE!. #retainingwall #diy"

Additional information may be included in comments, which are in the attached CSV. Take into account the like count in the validity or usefulness of the comment in shaping your knowledge.

In giving your replies, try to be specific, terse and opinionated. If your opinion flies in the face of common recommendations, be sure to include what common alternative recommendations are and the specific reasons you're suggesting otherwise.

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# Transcript

"""
[paste transcript]
"""

# Comments
See attached .csv
I think I would call it naive algorithm rather than greedy.

It looked like an interesting problem so I spent some time this morning exploring if there would be any performance improvement by pregenerating an array of X items (where X around 1M to 16M items) and then randomly returning one of them at a time. I explored the project and copied the functions to be as faithful as the original implementation as possible.

Generating 10M unit sphere (best of 3 runs, g++ 13, linux, Intel i7-8565U, one core for tests):

- naive/rejection: ~574ms
- analytical: ~1122ms
- pregen 1M elements: ~96ms

That's almost 6x faster than rejection method. Setup of the 1M elements is done once and does not count on the metrics. Using double type, using float yields around 4x improvements.

After looking at those results I decided to try on the project itself, so I downloaded, compiled and applied similar optimizations in the project, only updating circle and sphere random generators (with 16M unit vectors that are only created once on app lifetime) but got almost no noticeable benefits (marginal at most). Hard to tell because of the random nature of the raytracing implementation. On the bright side the image quality was on par. Honestly I was afraid this method would generate poor visuals.

Just for the record, I'm talking about something as simple as:

std::vector<Vec3> g_unitSpherePregen;
uint32_t g_unitSpherePregenIndex = 0;

void setupUnitSpherePregen(uint32_t nElements) {
g_unitSpherePregen.resize(nElements);
for (auto i = 0; i < nElements; i++) {
g_unitSpherePregen[i] = unitSphereNaive(); // call the original naive or analytical method
}
}

Vec3 unitSpherePregen() {
g_unitSpherePregenIndex = (g_unitSpherePregenIndex + 1) % g_unitSpherePregen.size();
return g_unitSpherePregen[g_unitSpherePregenIndex];
}

I tried as well using a psrng (std::mt19937 and xorshf96) in unitSpherePregen instead of the incremented variable, but increment was faster and yielded good visual results.

Next step would be profiling, but I don't think I will invest more time on this.

Edit: fix formatting
Can also recommend GrapheneOS. It's basically unenshittified Android sans the dark patterns.
care to provide some math? delta v calcs quite definitely disagree. no one is going to LEO on only 220 m/s. assuming an impact with the surface of course, which is clearly part of the equation.

if landing gently, then sure. but that is an entirely different problem.
The Burroughs-Wheeler transform has been described as a unique algorithm idea in that there are no non-trivial variations or related algorithms, unlike more conventional compression algorithms, which can be tweaked and improved in so many ways. There is no general compression theory in which BWT could be described as a special case.

It looks to me that the above still holds: Bzip2 and Bzip3 are simply combining more conventional compression algorithms with the BWT, which itself is still the same old transform. Bzip2 does Huffman coding after BWT, and Bzip3 does arithmetic coding.
App for intuitive painting of normal maps for 2D pixel art textures
I think composite-overwrapped pressure vessels could survive intact, though those are technically not fuel, but inert pressurant gasses. I believe Starship uses both helium and CO2.

One of the Falcon ones reentered as space debris in Washington state, in 2021,

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/2/22364582/spacex-rocket-deb... ("SpaceX rocket debris lands on man’s farm in Washington")

edit: There's a few other examples on page 47 of

(.pdf) https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/Report_to_Congress_R... ("Risk Associated with Reentry Disposal of Satellites from
Proposed Large Constellations in Low Earth Orbit" (2021))

edit²: Here's what the Starship COPV's look like (being recovered from the Indian ocean),

https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1h1l1gk/starship_s3...
So you now ned the account of a private company to view government releases?
>It’s just a single-character change in the .csproj file

When .NET 10 comes out, it will be 2 characters, double the work of the previous process. Unacceptable!

/s
To be precise, there are two functions, both defaulting on for Siri, each requiring manual, per-application, opt out:

1. "Learn from this app", uses NSUserActivity API: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...

2. "Show content in Search", uses Apple Spotlight to index all app data. For an E2EE messenger, that is not only notifications, but all text/image/audio data in message history.

As stated at the top of this subthread, these menu options preceded Apple Intelligence by several years. Implementation would have changed over time.
Very few teams have instant deployments. Even fast systems take a few minutes to run. If you can turn off a flag faster (because it’s a DB record), then you should do that.
Reddit comments seem reasonable until they talk about something you're an expert on. Then you realize the "Reddit consensus" is worthless: uninformed at best, actively misleading at worst.

A corollary to this: people who don't have expertise in any field might never realize this, and will believe whatever Reddit (or HN, Twitter, etc) tells them that matches their previous-held beliefs.

I recommend people become technically proficient at at least one thing in their lives. It gives you an anchor to reality (you can easily recognize bullshit), and it will cure you of the illusion that most people know what they're talking about.
To some extent, Apple has been like this a long time. They broke the compiler suite on macOS 10.3. Or rather, left it broken; there was a GCC ABI change and Apple did not deliver a GCC to macOS 10.3 that could produce binaries compatible with the new-ABI libraries Apple pushed in a security update. To continue compiling C++ code, in particular, for 10.3, you had to upgrade to 10.4 and get the latest Xcode there, it had a backwards compatibility setting.

The message was clear: if you develop for Apple, you need to always have the latest and greatest, because Apple simply doesn't care about you if you don't.
The problem is that the provenance of that data will be questioned. It’s one thing that researchers will trust and use that data, but that citing these archive sites will fall flat when their conclusions have to exit academia and be subject to extra scrutiny.
>Twitter seems as strong as it did in 2016.

It's a ton less interesting for me. A fraction of the people I follow post any longer and there's even less interaction. Maybe something I check into once or twice a week these days.
Actually I just did one of my test questions on GPT o3-mini-high and it got it. Very nice. Back in the lead over Claude. (My last check was with o1; although if they used the whole chat history to train or fine tune I gave the answer and in the end forced o1 to accept it. Lot of arm twisting language tho.)
I am neuro typical and always regarded “because I said so” as, at best, a last resort.

Your idea of normies seem to very controlling people.
Except for the times when “because I said so” means “you are about to incur risk of permanent disability or death to yourself and/or someone else, and by the time we can have a reasoned discussion about it, it will be too late.” Cars, fire, heavy machinery, electricity are not “normies” and do not care whether anyone is neurotypical.
My team just had an issue where a new feature caused our live app to grind to a halt. One of the key reasons it took so long to fix is that the dev in charge of the feature had removed the remote feature flag earlier that day.

Redeploying takes time. Sometimes you want to disable something quick. Having a way to disable that feature without deploys is amazing in those cases.

That being said, there’s really no need to rely for a dedicated service for this. We use our in house crm, but we also have amplitude for more complex cases (like progressive rollout)
Reminds me of this article about an AI model that can generate proofs for Math Olympiad:

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems...

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on AI.
Yeah, as if pledges by commercial entities mean something...
H2 is a terrible substance; it destroys whatever you use to store it, it leaks like crazy, you need to compress and chill it to get any kind of density, you need to store it at crazy low temperatures.

For instance, the toyota Mirai's tank has a finite lifetime of 15 years from when it was made before it has to be replaced.

A good setup might be a nuke plant with a couple huge batteries along side, mixed with some grid PV and wind, and per-home battery, smart hot water heaters, and local PV.

H2 is just a silly fuel and a silly battery. Except on rockets where it's still silly but not quite as silly.
It's fine, teams is on Android too.
I know but why an iPad and not a laptop? A phone has it's drawbacks yes, but is a very big tradeoff of always being with you, and being tiny. What does an iPad offer over just a laptop?
Show HN: A Python Script That *Concerts* Any *Videos* into Medium Posts
That for sure, note the sarcastic remark on my comment.
But then again the top mind of psychology are working at meta &Co getting paid big bucks to milk as much of your brain as possible

We're manufacturing the addiction and the cure, the top 0.01% are profiting of that while the rest of the world is suffering, we can just like... not manufacture the addiction in the first place. Same shit for opiates, it's not just an accident/coincidence, it's something that was developed and planned to make as much profit as possible, the addictive part of it was a feature.

Regardless of if you put the responsibility on society or on the individual it doesn't make sense to defend these addiction creating entities
I think the future of remote work is reserved for small businesses. Publicly traded companies have no choice in the matter because of the legal risks.

I have to work from home. A day at home is like a week at the office for me in terms of productivity. The office is a distraction.

Conversely, I have an employee who repeatedly demonstrates that zero office days translates directly into zero commits.

Small companies can afford to give managers the freedom to apply different policies to different people as suits their work habits and abilities. But at publicly traded companies, the risk of a discrimination case is far too great to go with anything other than a blanket policy that screws everyone equally.
There's definitely a purposeful political effort to string together true facts -- Musk pushed out the incumbent FAA administrator, they didn't name an acting administrator until after the crash, there's a government-wide hiring freeze, Trump disbanded an aviation safety committee, the controllers like everyone else got the resignation "fork in the road" emails, the new transportation secretary is a guy who got semi-famous being on "The Real World" -- into a narrative that Trump caused the DCA crash.

The reality is that most of this either had no effect or not enough time to have an effect, but whether it has bite politically remains to be seen. My view on it is that it's an explicit attempt to use Trump's own tactics against him.

From what information is currently available, the actual investigation will likely blame pilot error on the part of the helicopter pilot, but also decades-old systemic problems with ATC understaffing, crowded and awkward airspace at DCA squeezed too much by increased traffic and no-fly zones, and years of "accepted practice" that normalized an unnecessarily dangerous situation, all of which are solidly bipartisan problems. (The Philadelphia crash I haven't read much about; I would guess it probably won't have as much in the way of broadly applicable takeaways for the aviation system, but it coming in such quick succession certainly helps build narratives.)
Having worked at a competitor, I’ll simply say I know nothing specifically of Okta’s hiring practices, but it’s bold of you to assume they’re hiring any security engineers whatsoever. Still, this was twelve years ago when I was at the competitor in question so all the companies involved were was much smaller than they are today. But quite literally zero people at the particular competitor knew or even particularly cared about security.
List of Hoaxes in Wikipedia Articles
Snowden criticizes Nvidia's high GPU prices and 'next-quarter' release strategy
Sounds like you never smoked. The difference in taste is vast, much more than say the difference between Coca Cola and Peps or between different brands of ketchups.
Looks like the EPA is being targeted (Even though ninety-five percent of the funding going to EPA has not only been appropriated, but is locked in, legally obligated grant funding. The Constitution does not give the president a line item veto over Congress's spending decisions):

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-employees-warned-of-immedia...
Doesn’t seem corporate at all:

Foundation: a first important step
Chapter: the next stage of Swift
technologies: it is a technology
An area where hardcoding may not work is when multiple teams and services have to turn something on or off. It is much better to have something external.
Delaware throwing away its reputation as a reasonable, reliable, and above all predictable place for corporate law is an incredible own goal that more people should be talking about.
relevant citation,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect?wprov...
Indeed, just look at the perp walk of Luigi Mangione. I've never seen so many feds in one place for one guy. I guess the rulers didn't like that one bit.
ADHD for academic performance is not a problem, but it can be disruptive in a classroom. Until fairly recently, it wasn't medicated. Can't follow along? You'll just have to do lower levels. If you're medicated out of expectation, that's on your parents.

> How many early humans ...

That's a highly speculative argument for returning to the stone age?
That comment is from 2007-10-31, and it's at least a tiny bit comforting to see that in almost a year his thinking got a bit more humane.

2008-10-14 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K9ZaZXDnL3SEmYZqB/ends-don-t...
Software updates happen once per two hours, config changes happen once per 5 minutes or faster.

A few days ago I’m tuning performance parameters for a low latency stream processing system, I can iterate in 90 seconds by twiddling some config management bits for 30s in the CLI, watch the graphs for 60s, then repeat.
The toxic push for putting the start menu in the middle -- I don't need another reason.

Allowing it to be moved later wont change a thing. The whole thing is just cursed.

My corparate IT guy will have to push the "upgrade" button for me.
> The "thing" driving this emotion is essentially hard-coded in the author at this point, from early childhood.

I'll respond to this indirectly. I eventually learned that healing isn't restoration. We improve our being by layering better thinking over scarred ground.

The bad layers never go away. However, we can draw on better layers to improve our behavior. With enough layers we hope to stop perpetuating our parent's flaws.
"Awesome AI Turnoff"
> “It feels good,” Dettmers said when I asked him how it felt to have contributed to what some are calling a “Sputnik moment” in AI.

I'll present an alternative narrative for the "Sputnik moment" trope, as described by someone who lived through it.

In "Introduction of Computers in Chemical Structure Information Systems, or What Is Not Recorded in the Annals", once easily available at https://www.asis.org/History/12-lynch.pdf but now only in archive.org at https://web.archive.org/web/20130702201907/https://www.asis....

"There were great stirrings in science information at that time because of Sputnik, the challenge to the United States from the Soviet Union in October 1957. Sputnik’s beep-beep tones took the world totally by surprise. When the dust had settled, it became apparent that the Soviets had published their intentions in the open literature, but the science information system in the West was in disarray. The system had not been considered sufficiently important nor was it well enough funded to keep up with the vast increases in the numbers of scientists employed and publishing in the postwar period."

In this interpretation, the issue isn't publishing in the open, but rather who is paying attention to what's published.
Some of them make great beer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer
F-strings proposal for C++26 [pdf]
The steel on the fuel tanks of Starship is only four millimeters thick. The chance of it surviving are basically non-existent.

I imagine the journalist was just fishing for expert quotes that fit their predetermined narrative and leaving everything the expert said about the unlikelihood out.
I didn't realize I was talking to George Bush.

I guess the US gets to unilaterally decide what's right and wrong for the world, and kill however many people it takes to demonstrate the shining hope that is Western democracy!
One documentary I watched claimed that they tend to accumulate significant wealth so much so that their effects can be seen on the communities that surround them.

There are probably a lot of reasons for this. Much of the profit from the work done by the monks is often captured by the institution and used to purchase land and buildings. Large monasteries might have dozens or even hundreds of able bodied men engaged in light agriculture, bee keeping, beer production, etc. and that adds up over decades and centuries.

I think when we consider productivity you might be thinking of Silicon Valley hustle culture rather than the effect a community has over centuries.
> “I just never have seen colors like that in the sky,” said Lori Kaine, a resident of Providenciales, the main island of the Turks and Caicos archipelago. “At first, I thought it was an actual plane that had exploded.”

Starship broke up in beautiful rainbow.
> Canadians would gain access to U.S. social security benefits, which would be good for our seniors.

The nearly insolvent program compared to our fully funded one?
"Okay"

Can you describe for me what the product does?

It's not that hard to make a turnkey "just add power" appliance that does nothing but spit out tokens. Some sort of "ollama appliance", which just sits on your network and provides LLM functionality for your home lab?

But beyond that, what would your mythical dream product do?
> But why is this classified as a deficiency and a disorder

I think it’s because it’s outside of your control. Ideally you would be able to choose which impulses you want to respond to, and with ADHD that’s extremely hard.
The air traffic controller union was asking for a 32-hour work week and a $10,000 a year raise. The counter offer would give them salaries higher than the private sector, but keep the work week at 5 days instead of 4. So they went on strike.

After the workers disobeyed a Federal judge's orders to return to work, they were fired.

EDIT: It's so funny that if you make any comment that doesn't tow the left wing narrative here on HN you're down voted. I'm not right or left, but find it kinda sad.
> People with ADHD - and their parents and teachers - should therefore embrace their individuality as a kind of reservoir talent in the human gene pool.

Being a researcher with ADHD I find academia very very weird. I feel like my ADHD (and others I know) should be a superpower. Loving to dig down into rabbit holes and a bunch of different topics, which can allow connecting different things. Not needing reasons to go down the rabbit holes, but just because. Meaning you explore things others don't.

But actually academia is incredibly stressful and feels hostile. There's the publish or perish, so you can't go down the rabbit holes and deep dive. You don't have time to dig deep. Dealing with review is crazy as you have to argue to people who don't care that your stuff matters even though no one can tell if it does or not and you should just pursue knowledge for knowledge's sake. (We used to not review this way. We used to check for errors and plagiarism and if not, publish). Everything is just hyper metric focused even though everyone knows the metrics mean so little to the actual end goal they are everything to your survival goals. The goals are at odds and I don't think anyone wants to do anything about it even though many will admit it.

I know some people will say I'm naive to think academia should work that way but I think that's naive, so we'll have to agree to disagree. I think academia should be about pursuing knowledge and giving people the environment they need to do that, with the trade being teaching the future generations.

To be honest it feels the world is becoming more hostile to me. There is becoming less flexibility. Fewer opportunities to explore and hire punishments for doing so. Its harder to take things apart (physical or code) as the gardens close more and more. Harder to fix things, harder to make things to things I want (for utility and for fun). It literally feels like the walls are closing in and there's not enough adderal that can fix that.

I think you are right that the chaos helps escape local minima. If I've learned anything in my studies it's that noise is essential in optimization theory. It is also a measurement of error or uncertainty. So unless you can measure something to infinite precision then you should be incorporating noise into your models
5-8 times a year is a lot. You were really getting a cold every other month?

I feel like 1-3 times a year is much more realistic. For me, that’s a small price to pay for social activity.
And writing has costs too, so if someone is going to look for a way to avoid paying for photography, they are probably also looking for a way to avoid the costs of writing.
I think lack of in-person collab is the biggest drawback to remote work, but only because a lot of people still haven't adapted to or accepted the tools available.

> If you're an engineer with <5 years experience you probably don't see it

In my experience, the younger people tend to adapt faster and more readily use the tools. It's easier to form a good working relationship with them as a result.
I’ve been archiving data.gov for over a year now and it’s not unusual to see large fluctuations on the order of hundreds or thousands of datasets. I’ve never bothered trying to figure out what exactly is changing, maybe I should build a tool for that…
The Aviation safety industry considers near-misses as an indicator of danger, and worth reviewing. A near-miss followed by a crash is maximally damning of the system.
The point I don't understand is this: why are you so invested in Hyunday?

I think it's fantastic that a big company is exploring and innovating in one direction. The world needs diversification in research because you never know what you'll find.
It is not clear to me - can I seamlessly compile the same codebase to a TUI and web or does it require web-first design?