skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or have a fervor for something else and misdirecting it towards X.

Not allowed to have an alternate opinion anymore hey ?

It's interesting to me how the whole MAGA / Elon absolute "free speech" has now become the opposite of what it started out to be in favor of :)
This looks more like speckled noise than "soaring" to me.

You need to zoom out to the whole country to see an uptick.
The concept of a memory module, separate from a prediction engine, makes sense to me, our brains might operate like that (short vs long term memory).

Many research groups have been trying to implement this idea, recent paper from Meta comes to mind: https://arxiv.org/html/2412.09764

If they believe it’s likely to scale, they will try to scale it, so we will either hear about it in a few months, or we won’t.
A Nokia sale of Mobile, to the US, would be nuts
Tangential, but the visuals reminded me of the book Vehicles by Braitenberg (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/5b1c7c36-4582-4962-a89d-...). Although, it's less about evolution and more about complex behaviours from simple systems.
I mean, we could also just direct-pay websites (for example with Brave's Basic Attention Token model).

Imagine a utopian world where you just pay per site visit, and in return all companies selling stuff don't have an inflated advertising budget and free market effects force them to pass the savings on to you, meaning the net cost increase for you is zero. And as a side-effect, quality products float to the top, since you hear of them mostly by word-of-mouth, meaning products compete on value-per-dollar.

Sadly human psychology and economics does not work that way haha. We pay what the market will bear, and increasing sales via a torrent of ads is cheaper than increasing the value-per-dollar ratio of the product.
Actually many ordinary people have perfect pitch when it comes to hearing a song and singing it

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/singing-memory-u...

It's the being able to name a note and sing it or hear a note and give the name that's rare.
Is somebody using the brand on something that isn't OBS?

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/firefox/firefox.ja... is the config for what becomes Ubuntu's firefox package

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fi... is the equivalent for Arch

Both apply different configurations, use different versions of dependencies, and in Arch's case applies a patch to the upstream code.

Which of them isn't Firefox?
Free speech, pro choice, all the time.
RNN with extra steps?
I'm 38, and my pitch recognition will degrade a half step off sometimes, often when I haven't been playing much.
I’ve come across discussions about Swiss banks, but I’m not entirely clear on their advantages. My understanding is following 2018, it has become significantly more challenging to utilize these accounts for tax evasion or other illicit activities. Given these circumstances, why would anyone still consider opening one in the present day? Is its purpose to have money in another country in case the US collapses?
It’s definitely not political news. I don’t see any guideline term that it violated.
DEI doesn't affect who gets hired at all. If someone hires based on race, sex,etc... that's a blatant violation of the law. DEI just means making people who are not in the majority group of the country feel welcome and included in the organization. It would be ridiculous to hire or keep employed someone based on their biological characteristics instead of value to the business.

What I suspect everyone already knows is that the anti-DEI initiative is designed to do the opposite of what DEI was intended to do, make those same people feel unwelcome in society altogether. Look at musk's track record and racism lawsuits against him.

Personally, I found DEI stuff very boring and performative, I don't enjoy it at all. However, I would have to be naive and ignorant to pretend that it didn't actually make people feel welcome and included.

Think about the society these people are trying to create. in 1-2 decades, minorities will become the majority, short of a genocide this trend cannot be reversed. Now imagine a country where the majority of the population is explicitly disenfranchised and excluded from government and any decent job. This really scary stuff guys, there are now several different paths the country is most likely to take that all lead to a social collapse and a civil war. Not a fun time to be young at all.

I'm just going to assume anyone in a position of power (talking about CEO's and founders that lurk here!!) that isn't actively speaking out against the white supremacists in power is in bed with them.

What's more confusing is musk claiming americans aren't smart enough for tech jobs and wants more H1B hires but they're against making those minorities (immigrants or not) welcome (which is all DEI does).

I'll even go further than that. I expect everyone to be welcome in the workplace and government. if these white supremacists feel like white people are not being included then I really think they should implement affirmative action like policies benefiting white people that are legitimately being left out of schools,jobs,etc.. No problem with that at all. But please pay attention to this, they are not doing things to benefit white americans but rather to harm non-white americans. They are not acting to benefit their group but to harm other groups. There are plenty of impoverished mostly white places in America that need colleges, better schools, better infrastructure and social safety-nets. There are programs that pay people to immigrate to places like south dakota and the rust belt to be employed as doctors and even factory workers (the later, because of rampant illegal drug usage which could be solved by treatment focused approaches).
thanks for the nightmares
Very enjoyable read. Hope you do post that follow-up in the future. Congratulations!
> You can hate jwz as much as you want

I don't hate him and didn't write anything of the sort. I've never met him. He might as well be the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny as fas as I'm concerned.

> the fact remains that probably 95% of ycombinator funded startups couldn't exist without making extensive use of the gpl, bsd, Apache and similar licensed software produced by a lot of open source curmudgeons and greybeards.
Many of whom share his same opinion on VCs and late stage capitalism.

I've been using FOSS for personal use since I was a child. I'm a literal card-carrying supporter of the FSF. I'm more passionate about it than I am shitting on random people on the internet. If he has a problem with VCs then he can spam them with pictures of genitalia and ad-hominem attacks, not me, who's just some random dude who _isn't_ worth millions of dollars from a software business exit (along with thousands of others on this site).
What's going on at the moment isn't politics and that's why it's being discussed so heavily.
There have been plenty of government commissions in the past. None of them functioned anything like DOGE, not even the ones instituted by the current President during his first term.

I think this is a surprise to many…even Trump’s more ardent supporters. After all, they thought they were voting for President Trump, not Assistant (to the) President Trump.
>I think these policies were supposed to be impactful for us as society more so than for companies

Well, I believe the idea was two-fold, but it would depend on who you ask. Certainly the societal benefit was a consideration. But there are also those who do genuinely believe that DEI is good for a company.

A third consideration is the PR angle. That is, I don't think it's overly cynical to say that PR was a primary driver for some of these companies, especially given the moment. And that's really what I'm asking: how much actual work was done? How much real change was there versus the headlines?
I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone.

It's being rolled back quickly because that's what influential rich people want, and because DEI has become a politically charged term that pretty much invites conflict and toxicity at this point
this is why I cook everything - even lettuce. Ok, not everything(fruits)
It's a matter of degree. A _typical_ undergrad thesis is more spoon-fed from the perspective of "here's the idea, go do it". A typical masters project is still more advisor-generated than student-generated. A typical Ph.D. project is more student-generated than advisor-generated in many cases. Please add copious "not all"s to this paragraph as the variance is extremely high and everyone's case is unique. And the rigor expected increases substantially. Again, generally.

The major thing of a Ph.D. isn't really how much it moves the state of the art forward, it's how much it moves you forward. You will almost certainly approach research and your area fundamentally differently after.

That's true for me as well as a professor with respect to research: I'm pretty convinced that my largest contribution is the Ph.D. students I've mentored more than the chunks of research I've done. I'm proud of the research. But I'm more proud of the students. They've gone on to do wonderful things.

The thing it hangs on is "justifies" - financially, a Ph.D. in CS is hard to "justify." Intellectually, it's easy. Depends a lot on your individual utility function! I could have dropped out of my Ph.D. program to go be a pre-IPO employee at Google or Akamai and, ah, let's say that my financial picture would have a few extra zeros on it compared to where I am now. :-) But I'm really glad I didn't. It's been a very fun journey and I've never felt like I'm just doing the routine. That's worth a lot for me.
The concern is how much it's spreading
Maybe I'm missing some context, but how is some comment calling him weird related to right wing forums and needs the entire thread removed?
Why on earth are they trying to link HN to Kiwi Farms?
You're meant to go through published interfaces, such as the ones in kernel32.dll. ntdll is an implementation detail and so are syscalls.
Majority of Americans voted for Trump. Who openly declared he only concepts of a plan, no real plan for healthcare. Who openly said he will side with the billionaires and corporations. His policies are inflationary and gonna add trillions of debt for the next generation.

That being said, it's not like Kamala was going to go after making healthcare any cheaper. It's a duopoly that is funded by corporations no matter who we chose.

Bernie had some chance but the duopoly didn't like him.
He's not wrong, but he hasn't addressed the problem:

Some maintainers are rejecting changes as a way to block a project they disagree with - ie. there is no path forward for the contributor. I wouldn't assume this normally, but they're not hiding this fact, it's self proclaimed.

On the other hand, Linus has been largely in favour of the R4L project, and gave the green light for it to go ahead.

The Linux kernel maintainers need to figure out among themselves whether they want to allow Rust to be introduced or not, and if so under what constraints. If they can't come to an agreement, they're wasting everyone's time.

Once that happens, either the project is canned, or people can stop arguing over if these changes should be upstreamed, and start arguing over how instead, and that's a lot more productive.
I almost purchased a Kindle Scribe this year but went with a Supernote Manta instead. I couldn’t be happier. It runs the Kindle app but also KOReader so I can read pdfs transferred from my computer. It’s awesome for papers and pdf copies of documentation.
> Austerity is horrible for those that don't produce goods and services that are desired.

Even the IMF, who pushed for austerity

* https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2009/07/art-564828/

admitted that it can kill growth:

> This paper investigates the relation between growth forecast errors and planned fiscal consolidation during the crisis. We find that, in advanced economies, stronger planned fiscal consolidation has been associated with lower growth than expected, with the relation being particularly strong, both statistically and economically, early in the crisis. A natural interpretation is that fiscal multipliers were substantially higher than implicitly assumed by forecasters. The weaker relation in more recent years may reflect in part learning by forecasters and in part smaller multipliers than in the early years of the crisis.

* https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Gro...

* https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.103.3.117

You'd think they'd learn their lesson, but nope: post-COVID they were pushing austerity again.
Yes, but that has nothing to do with the Spark language that Nvidia is talking about in the OP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

Seems like a great example of LLMs getting confused by language and lacking any actual understanding, although I haven't yet looked into this particular case.
> The merchant vessel previously collided with M/V Common Spirit

Jikes.
maybe commercial hogs but homestead farmers probably don't raise them on concrete. This is good info to know though!
That is assuming everyone who is one of those groups first sees themselves as marginalized. imo it would've been better to not have that first question and just ask people which group they identify with.
It's a constraint solver. You can find the community version at https://github.com/TimefoldAI/timefold-solver
The map is a bit misleading since dots are drawn over each other.

Several of those "green" states have had detections over the last month (Iowa, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Main, Nevada).
Hey HN - I made a bunch of GenAI projects in 2024:

- 2 frontend React/Tailwind codegen projects (1 an agent, and 1 a really cool website builder)

- 1 Node.js codegen AI agent

- 1 ecommerce product placement image generator

I'm not working on these anymore (and the code and dependencies are probably far out of date now unfortunately - haven't looked at some of these for a year at this point).

But I thought I would just go ahead and make the code public and share it out there in case it can help anyone or inspire some new ideas.

Besides just sharing the code, if you click through to the detailed pages for each project you can see a demo video of each one showing how it works and read some of my notes about each one.

About the projects:

I really love the website builder, it's probably my favorite project I've done - so many cool details.

Other projects have some cool agent things going on, maybe some novel approaches to codegen in there - not sure.

The image generation one has a bunch of ComfyUI workflows that I spent a bunch of time on.

Happy to answer any questions here - although I'll probably have to review the code if anything is too in the weeds as I've forgotten a lot already.

Also the code is not very well-organized and there's some dead code and stuff floating around and things commented out or half-implemented at places. I didn't bother to clean it up too much besides making sure I'm not leaking any env secrets or API keys (if you spot one, let me know please!)

And last - these are mostly written in Node.js, React, and a bit of Python. I don't claim to be an expert in these languages and was pretty unfamiliar with using them before I built these - so don't use this as a reference on how to write great code, rather I hope you enjoy the concepts behind the features.

Hope it can be of interest and potentially of help to someone out there!
They actually had to use the non-cutdown version of SPARK that this company sells, called SPARK Pro.
You wouldn’t be able to hire people to enable your vision though.

You’re stuck with standard experiences that
any plebeian can buy with money.
True, but like the VC model with companies, it's very difficult to consistently identify those people in advance. Invest in a load of qualified, promising individuals and hope more than a few "hit".
> doesn't inspire confidence.

Haha what?

What are you comparing this to?
Thanks for sharing this - saving this paper too (from link in the github page): https://people.ee.ethz.ch/~loeliger/localpapers/FactorGraphs...

I'm not familiar with these techniques at all but seems like they have a ton of useful applications.
> The first words of the video are "we're going to do the hardest ear training test of all time", and the description contains a link to "The Beato Ear Training Program". I'm really not sure what it is that you're missing, it's pretty clear.

So you heard a word "test", then looked at a link that says "ear training" (and leads to a page that says "improving your __relative__ pitch") and decided that this 8yo went through the training and got this perfect pitch? Is that what you're saying?
Noted medical researcher and oncologist Dr. Vinay Prasad appears to be one of those people. I don't know whether his statements are accurate but he seems pretty knowledgeable about the system.

https://www.sensible-med.com/p/cutting-nih-indirects-is-sens...
The link (there's only one, to the same wiki article) has nothing to do with this website AFAICT.
When you look at the about box, does it say Debian Screensaver based on xscreensaver, or does it say xscreensaver? When you Google the name of the program, whose website comes up first?
I mean Costco kept theirs, and in a lot of cases federal grant money is now contingent on removing it, so this seems like a hasty conclusion.

That being said I'm sure a lot of companies just threw up a statement, maybe a meaningless committee or whatever with no interest in actually changing anything.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...
Fair. It’s probably companies that went above and beyond with their own programs. But the people in charge are either too ideological or manipulative.
Why is it HN's problem that search engines suck?
For those, they tend to deworm. Also, you can destroy the parasites in the meat with the proper freezing protocol.
The combined fandom of Elon Musk and Apple is a force to be reckoned with.
Thanks for explaining some intricacies about taxes, however this does not disprove my point.

1. Scandinavian countries impose higher taxes on their rich VS the US. It does not have to be a wealth tax. Think effective tax rate.
2. Income inequality is lower there compared to the US.

It is a very different system than the US, it's frankly strange to have to argue that.
Right, but their point is that if what the article you link to is true—if 44% of people are right on key when singing a song—then it should also be just a matter of collecting 12 songs with different starting pitches and mapping songs to notes and now you've learned a full scale of absolute pitch.

Few people do this because it's simply not practical, but that 44% of recordings match the pitch of their source exactly shows pretty conclusively that there's nothing magical behind absolute pitch, it's just that most of us learn to associate pitches with songs rather than giving them names.
I heard it was a Fedora-wide effort to make its own flatpaks, but I don't really know why.
This is a decent mitigation. It would be important to mandate that the one initiating the connection has to disclose the code if required (an important ask requiring verification). This seems like it would be obvious, but without being explicit in the protocol there may be some clever social engineering technique to reverse that role.

Not following this requirement would allow for a very lenient MITM attack where the attacker can initiate both connections and get one of them to leak the code and use it on the other.

Another option would be to have the TOTP code be a custom 10-digit variant (eg. KeePassXC allows this). One party starts with the first 5 digits and the other party must finish it. If this option isn't available, a less ideal one (inconvenient, lower compliance) is to wait for code rollover and have the second party provide the next code.

Another problem: A TOTP app is required, in which case why not have an E2E encrypted communication app instead? The only time this is useful is when you cannot have your secure device go online and use the E2E encrypted app and you need to authenticate an unsecured channel on some other device.
It generally means unopinionated. You should be able to access all the research on vaccines that exists and draw your own opinions.

At some point, there is a gray area where opinions and facts are hard to differentiate, but we haven’t reached it yet. We’re still at a stage where ChatGPT won’t answer questions if they’re critical of unions (or at least that was the case, I haven’t checked recently).
Law review articles are largely written by students. They are not authoritative.

Do you think that Rowan Atkinson was dogwhistling about undemocratic, racist, bigoted police violence when he named his police sitcom "The Thin Blue Line" or do you think perhaps your dislike of the police has led to you associating negative attributes with anyone that happens to use any phrase related to the police?

Where I am from, the police is a respected, largely unarmed institution. Imperfect, as all institutions are. American left-political dislike of law enforcement isn't universal and most people don't have instant negative mental associations with everything police-related...
I mean, it should tell you that not everyone here is irony-poisoned and redpilled and only ever using this language in bad faith.

Not that it matters, because of course to treat "woke" subjects with any seriousness is thoughtcrime on HN, and good faith only guarantees bad faith in kind. I get that. And I also don't care.
Companies that have no political ideologies except to make as much money as they can, resume doing <insert whatever self serving behavior it is> the minute it’s profitable to do so.

There, I fixed the headlines for you.
What's the gold standard for learning relative pitch?

Related, how can you learn to hear multiple notes at the same time? It blows my mind that people can hear a piano chord and pick out individual notes.
> I can't really judge based on this article whether taking a sledge hammer to that department is a good thing or not. The article seems to suggest it isn't but I can't say it's very convincing.

Right, exactly. And neither can Musk, really. So at this point, the answer isn't to just go ahead and take a sledge hammer to it. The correct course would be to actually go through the Congress and ask those very reasonable questions you pose. But Musk doesn't even want to work with with the Congressional DOGE Committee he set up. That's highly concerning.
Agreed. I imagine it as the same conundrum discussed in this book, but a "connected" kid's peers now include the entirety of the internet

https://drgabormate.com/book/hold-on-to-your-kids/
Nothing prevents anyone from creating a preprocessor that maps { to BEGIN and } to END.
It doesn't need to appeal to everyone. It's also very very lab dependent. I didn't find a lab at my European institute in my area of interest, so ended up not doing a PhD. I still do some science for fun though as a hobby.

I spent some time at Harvard as an undergrad doing research there though, and it was the most intellectually stimulating environment I've ever been in. Maybe YC is similar, but it's a lot about money in those environments and most startups aren't that interesting either.
It's not the maintainers job to make your project happen.

It's yours.

If you need someone to do free work but you can't convince them then you either get their boss to tell them to do it, you take over their job, or - the one thing that no one under 30 ever seems to do - fork and do the work yourself without anyone stopping you.
Yeah:

fns = [functools.partial(print, i) for i in range(3)]
for f in fns:
f()