skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modulo the video, I did exactly this when I ran a team, only for what I thought were "important" or "gnarly" PRs. It works. I rarely had to spend more than an hour on a PR, because small, atomic PRs were all but mandatory on my team, with "atomic" taking precedence over "small". I would also review some of the PRs post-facto, after they are committed, as I was almost never a "formal"/blocking reviewer on them.

Recording a video seems excessive to me. No one has the time or desire to watch me bloviate about something that I could say in a few PR comments that can be quickly skimmed.
are you telling us AI slop is not Haram?
Show HN: Scratchpad – open-source AI notes app
Hey HN,

I built Scratchpad, an AI-enabled notes app designed for speed and minimal friction. No bloated "project management" features—just a clean, fast interface where you can jot things down and let AI assist when needed. Still early days, but here are some of the initial features:

* AI autocompletion

* WYSIWYG markdown support

* Auto-convert text to LaTeX

* Add AI-generated contextual annotations inline

* Cross-platform (electron)

Would love feedback—what’s missing? What would make this your go-to notes app? Thanks!
I always wonder how is it that you are allowed to post so much in controversial political threads, yet your posts are usually significantly voted down. Does the rate limiting not apply to you?

Also is anyone seriously suggested France or Germany would be next? Wouldn't it be more like Poland? And your perspective reeks of the weeks prior to the Ukraine invasion, where so many swore Russia would never do it, it was just Biden-antagonism. And this isn't me being pro Biden. These are just facts.
What does the ideal VST(s) look like for you?
How would you like it to be broken down?

For example, I tend to think of "composition" and "synthesis" as two very different topics.

One VST could spit out chords or melodies (not a common VST)
whereas another could render those sounds (very common VST)
As the founder of r/altprog on Reddit (been following random languages for 12 years now), my favorite "alt" language is Nim. It feels like Python & Javascript had a baby that was C++. Wish it had lambda operators like C# and JS, but it does have the cool feature of defining your own language constructs.

Also, shoutouts to Zig, Crystal, and Ballerina: those are other interesting ones off the top of my head, that folks should look into.
Both. eu-west-2 on AWS may be looked at now as a false dawn.
> If you don't enjoy composing music, just don't do it

This supposes that the music is the end goal, and the very point of my comment is that it doesn't always have to be, and in those cases "just don't do it" also means not doing whatever comes after.

Just as you state below, this doesn't replace creating music for the creation's sake. I don't believe it will, or should. It merely replaces having nothing at all, or having the 100,000th video with the same upbeat stock sound.
Probably the Notes app.
SwiftUI is excellent on iOS if you stay on the happy path. On macOS it needs a bit of work to get good results. It also has a built in escape hatch to UIkit when needed.
In actuality it's a matter of law, not opinion.
Why? Current action is no different than when Private Equity buys a company. The American public asked for the government to be ran like a business, and sadly, this is how big money men in the USA run businesses. Take control, fire everyone, leverage everything to their gain, bankrupt, then walk away.

This IS what people voted for. American business practices applied to the government.
Aside: What's that mouse pictured in the second pic?
I believe the answer is the hereditary nature of the North Korean system. That is what is different in North Korea compared to those other countries.

It leads to a country that is essentially a slave society. The owner is the Kim family. The other top people are overseers. The population are slaves. Propaganda and censorship of the outside world maintain the system.

This was true of the other Communist countries also but I think the hereditary nature keeps it going. It’s the only thing that distinguishes North Korea from the other Communist states.
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Grid scale power is being discussed here, not your house project (which is totally great)
It's incredibly elitist to gatekeep people having their plans, actions, opinions, and philosophical ideas taken seriously just because they haven't trudged through the onerous process of considering what humanity has already learned about those things. Do these people expect everybody that wants to profit must try to predict the damage that their actions could cause among people that will obviously be affected? Some people just don't like ethics that much, and expecting them to be beholden to their boundaries is pretty old fashioned.
One thing that strikes me about almost every AI-generated track (from academic or commercial generators), is that even if it's often "competent" - in that it has reasonable melodies, chord progressions, etc - is how average it is. Mediocre, taking the term literally. In a way that also highlights cliches and crutches that are common in human-made music. Somewhat reminiscent of GPT text that drones on and on in a grammatically correct way but conveys little of interest. This is of course not unexpected, given how these models are trained. I wonder if this will have an effect of pushing (human) musicians to be more experimental - to move away from the conventions that are now just a click away for anyone.
Is that one really doable?

It's one of the ones that's been at the top of my list, but my lack of engineering/tinkering experience has made me a bit apprehensive. Is it result really worth the effort?
They know exactly what they're doing. If laws A and B cannot both be complied with then they have power of arbitrary enforcement over anything that would be subject to both.

Legislators are literally law professionals and most of them are old lawyers. They know EXACTLY what they're doing.
Betting market for Musk staying CEO.
https://kalshi.com/markets/kxteslaceochange/new-tesla-ceo

gives you an idea - 27% chance being removed before 2027
I'm here to welcome the era of bamboo based spaceships
That's because the deaths would be lost in a sea of ordinary cancers. Hundreds of additional cancers would not be detectable; that would be below the statistical noise floor. Not being detectable does not mean they won't occur.

Anyway, let me steelman what you're aiming at here. I think you want to argue not that hundreds of deaths won't occur, but that hundreds of deaths don't matter that much. These are statistical deaths, so it's appropriate to treat them using the "statistical value of a human life". This is the value of a life to be used for policy purposes (like deciding if a safety measure is needed, if spending on a medical treatment is appropriate, etc.) In the US, it's around $12M per life. So, 200 (say) deaths would have a value of $2.4B. This is not enormous compared to overall cost of the accident, even to the utility. It could be reasonable to treat radiation releases as at Fukushima by fining the polluter by an amount related to this value.

Under this sort of regulatory regime, the purpose of regulations is not to avoid all releases, but to keep the releases small enough that the utilities would have the resources to pay the fines. So, no 100,000 death accidents. Nuclear power plants designed to this concept could allow some small radiation release in accidents.
The Enshittification of Everything [2024-07-25]
I heard war games indicate that the US would lose at least a few carriers if they try to defend Taiwan.

That may be more than worth it if they succeed.

Taiwan is not like Ukraine. As long as TSMC has monopoly on the latest AI chips, it's at least as important as access to oil.
Explainer on Trump's tariffs
Salaries in Seattle are sky high across the board. I've seen house painters getting paid 100/hr, that was obviously on the high end, but 60/he isn't unreasonable around here.
And OTOH, nothing worse than a manager that don't know what he wants nor how to do it, but he "will know when it is right", and keep you redoing stuff.
Lmstudio-Python and Lmstudio-JS
> most people could gain very useful skills/education from the training that joining the US military entails

And also can get very dead from the numerous conflicts in which the US keeps getting involved in.
I am suggesting it as a way to do a back of the envelope calculation that can be thoroughly checked manually. It's very easy to check the numbers yourself.
Timing the Markets: Is It Possible? (Part 2) [Deep Dive]
The debate over market timing is often dismissed with a simple “don’t try,” but Part 2 of this analysis digs into the nuances most discussions miss. Using historical data, behavioral psychology, and case studies, it challenges the binary "yes/no" framing and explores:

Why even rational investors fall into timing traps (spoiler: it’s not just greed).

Quantitative thresholds where timing might add value, based on market cycle analysis.

The role of algorithmic tools vs. human intuition in modern strategies.

For HN readers: If you’ve ever built models around market data, tested timing algorithms, or have strong opinions on efficient markets, this piece is a catalyst for debate. How do you reconcile historical volatility with long-term holding? Is there a middle ground between passive indexing and active timing?

Curious to hear from quant-minded folks, data scientists, or anyone who’s backtested timing strategies. What’s your take?
Firefox 136 brings the features that fans wanted
I wouldn't trust FSD for anyone who isn't a techie. Certainly not for my mom, ever.
The trouble with shorting is that unlike a long position, where you can just buy and hold until your thesis is proven, you have to time your short position perfectly.
It'd better not break Sidebery or tables will be flipped.
I'm not sure appealing to a walled garden is the right approach here? This is, of course, why there are no explicit pornographic apps on the Apple App Store. They've explicitly forbidden it (section 1.1.4 of the App Store Review Guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/).

You're basically trading one regulatory body for another. Perhaps Google makes the "right" decision now, but you disagree with their SEO metrics in the future? We are already beholden to undemocratic tech platforms for a lot of our life, why provide them even more power over our lives? I realize that sounds a little hyperbolic, but it's interesting to see that we are much more comfortable with a multinational corporation that doesn't even have a customer service department to make rules about the Internet rather than a democratically elected government.

Google doesn't publish statistics AFAIK about adult search terms, but evidence from several sources puts adult related search terms at around 10-15% of search volume. Given our metric-obsessed micro-optimization culture, if even a small proportion of those users decided to shift to DuckDuckGo or Bing because they suddenly couldn't search for porn on Google, that would have a material effect on their advertising and bottom line.
Plenty of countries have held elections during war, including war in their country. The US (civil war), Iraq and Afghanistan during the US occupation, Japan (WW2), etc.

I know it can be a challenge, but it has been done.
> the US made China it's (sic) manufacturing arm..

i think it's more accurate to give credit where earned: one thing the CCP did smart was _win_ foreign business (US Apple and Dell etc) by building the rentable factory system with deep dependable supply chains directly adjacent. That was uniquely able , globally, to compete and win business.

The US didn't seemingly even think to do that, perhaps distracted by the Cold War?
I spent an afternoon watching and re-watching this video just to figure out how the otherwise-undocumented behaviors of the API work. It was exclusively about Apple's implementation, and not in any way about the general CS topic.
Yes, the biggest problem with Healthcare AI assistants right now is that there is no way to "prompt" the AI on what a physician needs in a given scenario - eg. "only include medically relevant information in HPI", "don't give me a layman explanation of radiographic reports", "include direct patient quotes when a neurological symptom is being described" etc.

And the prompt landscape in the field is vast. And fascinating. Every specialist has their own preference for what is important to include in a note vs what should be excluded; and this preference changes by disease - what a neurologist want in an epilepsy note is very different from what they need in a dementia note for eg.

Note preferences also change widely between physicians, even in the same practice and same specialty! I'm the founder of Marvix AI (www.marvixapp.ai), an AI assistant for specialty care, we work with several small specialty care practices where every physician has their own preferences on which details they want to retain in their note.

But if you can get the prompts to really align with a physician's preferences, this tech is magical - physicians regularly confess to us that this tech saves them ~2 hours every day. We have now had half a dozen physicians tell us in their feedback calls that their wives asked them to communicate their 'thanks' to us for getting their husbands back home for dinner on an important occasion!

[Edit: typo and phrasing]
Yes, but it’s difficult because (as I understand it) the French refresh cycle is out of sync with the US/UK refresh cycle.

And even if the UK decided it was ok with spending extra money early, or going without nukes for a transitional period, the French option would be more expensive (not the same economies of scale).

Plus, the UK still wouldn’t have the expertise to maintain the things, so now it would be vulnerable to the French reneging instead.
Literally any of them? I don't even get this comment at all.
Real-time status of web services for your users
I think both are similar in that they obfuscate real discussion on the purpose of war and tradeoffs.

If the goal is to be global police, that is a conversation worth having. Same if the goal is to show solidarity with our EU allies for its own sake. I think these other topics are manufactured consent.
Solving SICP
I’m not completely following your comment but in 1954 they added a 7,000 sqft addition. We are using mini-splits for HVAC.
Capital is inherently conservative and this is a website focused around venture capitalism. It makes sense that more than average this website's users/staff would lean towards more conservative politics than a random sample of Internet users. This should be even more clear when you read pg's essays. Of course this has an effect on the moderation, including voting/flagging.
I guess KMT had red on its flag, but definitely wasn’t communist
When private equity takes over, they sell all the company's property (to themselves) then have the recently parasitically infested company lease back their old property at inflated rates, sucking as much as they can out of the company before bankrupting it and walking away.

This is what 'running government like a business' looks like to American businessmen. This is cutting edge American business thought being applied to the feds.
There already are anti-AI-bias organizations, so presumably those. They gave us results such as https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/google-gemini-ai-ima...
Wow I have never heard of this man before.

Inspirational figure.

Thanks for posting this! I’m going to try to donate blood more often! It’s a good way to help others.
it's not if i got the reference i think this was hinting at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks
You should take a look at for-profit prisons in the US..

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_St...
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Ah, but you’ve moved the goalposts! The original claim was that wasm would replace JavaScript. Now you’re just talking about wasm being another option from JavaScript for web development.

This distinction really seems to matter to some people. I suppose there’s something tribal about it. Is rust here to destroy C++? Rust gets a lot of irrational hate in the C++ community, and I think this perception is the reason. Is Fuscia here to destroy Android? To some, this will be a very emotionally important question.

> Yeah citation needed. The very first compiler release already described it as "a strongly-typed systems programming language (…)”

This is the article I’m thinking about, titled “The rust I wanted had no future”. Well worth a read:
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html

> Performance: A lot of people in the Rust community think "zero cost abstraction" is a core promise of the language. I would never have pitched this and still, personally, don't think it's good.
What is ML programming language? They say OCaml is the same thing with the different name, is it truth?
The paper links the code repo: https://github.com/lovishchopra/NL2FOL

But I don't see a pretrained model in there, so I'm not sure what to pass as `your_nli_model_name`:

python3 src/nl_to_fol.py --model_name <your_model_name> --nli_model_name <your_nli_model_name> --run_name <run_name> --dataset --length
Whenever someone expresses a desire for Apple to produce a macbook with a 5G or LTE modem, someone always responds with "tether to your phone" or "use a hotspot" and I don't find these comments particularly useful.

Hotspot/tethered data is a separate pool from general mobile data. Once you've consumed the guaranteed "high" speeds (60GB on AT&T's current Unlimited Premium Plan), all hotspot speeds are then hard capped at 128Kbps. AFAIK you can't even purchase additional data at these speeds if you wanted to. Mobile data on an iPhone or iPad won't have that hard cap. Although in the past, once the guaranteed 5G speeds were consumed, your mobile data speed was simply deprioritized but could still achieve 5G speeds based on current network conditions/congestion.

There are scenarios where a notebook would need this much data and speed and there are Windows notebooks available for this purpose. The "just tether your phone" cohort either hasn't considered this or simply dismisses it because they may have not experienced this limitation personally. I suppose that Apple doesn't see the demand for a macbook with a mobile modem or otherwise doesn't see the need to make this option available.
The Hierarchy of Hazard Controls
1. If the goal is to remove LGBTQ content, or stuff related to diversity, they’re using a rocket launcher not a scalpel - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/diversity-documen...

2. 7.6% of americans are LGBTQ - that’s about 26 million people - does the government not serve them as well? Is the government only there to serve some of the people?
I'm holding off on using it until the IDFK license is OSI approved.
It’s just that such a small startup don’t have the funds and resources to work on 2 CRUD apps at the same time.
This is an insane demo. Great tech so far, can't wait to see how it progresses.
Any plans on open-sourcing your ATC speech models? I've long wanted a system to take ATIS broadcasts and do a transcription to get sort of an advisory D-ATIS since that system is only available at big commercial airports. (And apparently according to my very busy local tower, nearly impossible to get FAA to give to you).

Existing models I've tried just do a really terrible job at it.
My favourite one is getting voicemail spam with no records in my call log for a number to block. Lovely.
I read M4 is about 20% than M3 in editing photos from Lightroom. That's seems significant.

I don't have skin in the game here, as I don't own anything from Apple. I was just curious.
> You might be able to identify your direct reports based on communication style alone, but I don't really find it believable that this is a property that naturally transfers to your leadership, and from them up the chain to executives.

And when your leadership says that we should help whoever "isn't a good fit" to exit the company, will you use your knowledge of who wrote what to make the right choice of who to fire?
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Sounds a bit like “you’re holding it wrong” tbh.

I understand your point, once you have absorbed the Apple logic it is reinforced continually and makes sense. But opening a dialog near the use interaction point is a very reasonable expectation.

For me, I’ve never noticed any logic to it, I just know I need to hunt for it.
My dad got to go out there in the 90s on an unusual artist permit and painted landscapes for a few days. It sounded incredible. There was white shark research going on and he saw a seal get eaten through a spotting scope.
I think many folks making the "music technology" argument tend to blur things so that human composition is reduced to "just another dial, just another new tech aid for music", "get off my lawn" etc. But its interesting to note that generative AI is unique in that it needs massive amounts of music that has already been produced to train on. Its a very unique development with some interesting questions once you sharpen the picture a bit.
We're about to witness the greatest wealth transfer in history. Create a depression, depress asset valuations, buy assets from desperate people for pennies on the dollar. IIRC, Musk pretty much laid out this plan before the election.