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Ask HN: Building a modular AI assistant for learning?
Hey HN,

I’ve been building a really useful qa bot and search engine as part of my CS master’s thesis, with the intention of helping you automatically extend your study and learning process to your laptop. The system answers questions, asks you about progress, and has a pretty good internal search across notes, files, emails.

Is there anything like this out there? Preferable open source and extensible?

It’s almost like a high level operating system for learning and work!
What you're saying on GST is correct. Ideally it would be higher while dropping the corporate and individual rates.

There is another issue of having a level playing field as a locally based company pays corporate tax while the transnationals realise their profits in a low-tax country such as Ireland.

At the same time the current exchange rate helps the local business as the cost of using services selling in US or EU currency has nearly doubled in the last few years.
This is a great idea, well done! I think as a next step you should look a bit more into routers themselves. You can flash them with an opensource os like openwrt [1] and run a chat (or some kind of communication) server on it so everybody connected to the same wifi can freely exchange data.

This way you can turn any wireless capable [2] machine into a small community network.

> great use case I've seen are college campuses where thousands of students connect to the same WiFi,

This is indeed a great use case. Right now you're only thinking about chat but its got more applications like semi-remote teaching,tests ,role calls etc. But (I think) its far easier to realize it if you work at the network level rather than at the app level.

Best of luck!!!!

[1] https://openwrt.org

[2] router, raspberry pi, laptop, your phone
"you still need to know if it works"

No, you do not. Just look at the market of dietary supplements.
Even more interesting is how the FBI knew they'd been infiltrated before they themselves did?
(There's the obvious conspiracy style accusation in that they were already in there poking around... but that doesn't seem to ring true in this regard)
What about "Towards Vim Fluency"? Just as click-baity, but maybe a bit more precise ;-)

BTW, even though I've used vim for a long time and consider myself fairly advanced, I had somehow forgotten about "I". You've saved me countless "^i" invocations... Wait... That's cording! It's cheating :-) (But it's OK because I'm a closet Emacs fan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SI_3jlAV9M
Privacy is also about solidarity with those who do have something to hide. We want to create a society with herd immunity for dissidents, free thinkers, and even the less controversial yet somehow still controversial; fetishists, (closet) non-traditional-sexuals, or simply those who engage in behaviour that we have only learned to condone, not yet accept.

Even if you are not any of those, it is our duty to provide a thicket where the free canaries can hide from the harsh environment. When they die, we best pay close attention.

Saying “I don’t care about privacy because I have nothing to hide” is uniquely selfish, on the level of “I don’t care about gay marriage because I’m not gay.”
It’s so frustrating that the crypto folks are basically the antivaxxers of finance. They refuse to understand how it works and yet are sure they’ve got a better plan because the status quo is a scam. At least unlike antivaxxers it’s only their own welfare at risk.
OT: Can anyone be kind enough to link to the specific model of TacticalCoder's monitor setup as captured in this Wired photo [0]?

Thanks

0: https://www.wired.com/story/a-programmer-solved-a-20-year-ol...
Ask HN: Have you ever enjoyed completing a form?
Why are forms so annoying to complete
Except in the crypto industry, where US bonds are likely to be seized, and therefore probably have an average payout rate below parity.
What about mass surveillance and gag orders, are they gonna be handled in an ethical way?
By that definition literally nothing that is produced/provided by humans is free, and I feel like it's unhelpful to insist on such narrow definition of free. Everyone here knows exactly what OP meant by that and there is nothing to be gained by pointing out that free healthcare was paid for by someone else - of course it was.
> Right now this is the case because the US AG announcements

NY AG, not the US AG.
Leftists struggle badly with this concept.

Which is funny as decades ago it was leftists who would have been fighting against police state mentality while right wingers would be dismissive of accused people. Bleeding hearts and all that.

Except when the accused is black, leftists can still get out To Kill a Mockingbird when it suits them.

Then 3rd wave feminazism happened and our standards of impartial police investigations, independent courts and a fair trial resemble medieval Europe. Or North Korea or China.
You mean: "the top dog in search, online videos, web analytics, web ads, and social".

It could have been a bit worse. It could have been a lot better as well: google already has one of its fingers on about half the pages of the Internet.
It’s time we start treating these folks for what they are: the antivaxxers of finance.
This happened in real time in my high school we were one of the first classes to use the two-way classroom cameras and we interviewed a writer. Our English teacher was sure that the writer had made items in a scene that was depicted in the book red because the "red makes you feel a certain way"I straight-up ask the writer why he made the curtains in that scene red and they responded with "well they had to be a color why not red!"
I think the concerns others have mentioned about the title/content level are valid, but even though I knew most of the commands I enjoyed reading this! I quite liked your writing style and page design.
It costs only 1% of the energy capacity of liquid hydrocarbon fuel to ship it literally around the globe. A penny per dollar of delivered value.

The chemical potential energy stored is proved stable for literally hundreds of millions of years. Few electrical energy storage options are useful for more than a few weeks, most operate in the range of seconds to hours.

The fuel and its combustion products are remarkably non-toxic (though excess accumulation at the scale of the globe over decades to centuries can be quite problematic). They don't attack or degrade most materials used in the construction of storage, transfer, processing, or utilisation.

The source elements are abundant and relatively easily obtained.

There is a vast infrastructure and 1-2 centuries' experience in working with and applying the materials.

The energy densities by both weight and volume are all but wholly unmatched by nonnuclear energy sources. Only hydrogen, by mass, is higher, and it presents numerous other challenges.

Fossil fuels have proved exceedingly problematic. We must stop using them for combustion.

Liquid and gaseous hydocarbons are amazingly useful and flexible. While they may be substituted for in some applications, it's likely that a base-level need will remain.

Electricity is an amazing power transmission and transformation technology, and is exceedingly useful in informatiin technologies. It does exceeding poor at storage, though, and likely always will, for reasons of basic physics and chemistry.
Shouldn't that be self-evident? Humans have a lot in common and so do the things they find attractive or memorable. Even if someone attempted to be the world champion of uniqueness, in a population as large as Instagram users that would be hard to accomplish.
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That's how Hearst funded the first round-the-world flight, on the Grad Zeppelin. Novelty stamps!

But mixed motivations can be confusing and demotivating.
Bloomberg: BTC price on Bitfinex jumps as USDT holders look for exits
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
We ssh into a box in production, run bpython and import the libraries ( some environmental stuff, boto3, our own code, etc). At that point, there isn’t much difference from a bpython session and the regular application code... Ssh’ing into a production box does involve connecting through a bastion, and knowing which box you want to connect to, but that isn’t too hard with spinnaker.
Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mike McGlone from the article:

"People on Bitfinex are getting out of Tether, off the exchange and what’s the first thing you’re going to buy if you don’t want too much broad crypto exposure? Bitcoin."
Google+ wanted real names too.
Yup. Installed something, which installed a new version of readline, which caused the old version to become garbage collected despite still being in use by other things I've installed in the past. I'm still finding things that don't work anymore due to a dylib being gone, and god help you if you're running an older OS version that's not supported by a core dependency (hello, qt).
Currency manipulation is what every central bank does. It's their job. The Chinese are not particularly special in this regard.
It runs on Linux too
>You say you don’t have time to research, but the you expect others to do it for you? Not really any constructive about that.

Why should I research since I am not the one that is promoting an agenda, someone said X and I asked for links to read that X is true. People that say that X is true but can't find the place where they found their claim then maybe it is super hard to find or maybe it does not exist.
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>> we have to dramatically cut emissions

The "we" in this is primarily China and keeping third-world countries from industrializing using the means that the Western world used to get up to speed. It is not the Western countries, as raynier pointed out. As long as we understand the magnitude - and perhaps incredible unfairness - of the problem, then that's fine.

But cutting emissions in the United States and Europe isn't going to do anything.
Most sudden changes were long enough ago that continents were in a different configuration at different latitudes, so it's not very prescriptive. It's almost definitely played some role but past climate change has almost always been the result of a number of factors coalescing, we have to estimate it's effects on our specific conditions.
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One of the considered hypotheses for the Permian-Triasic mass extinction event was the release of methane trapped in ice format (methane clathrates) -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis#Possi...
They'll die even if I do, assuming you are right and you think this problem is as large as you say it is. Our representatives care little about us.
From what I've read it was just a gimmick. It could drive but only technically enough to qualify for the Guinness record.

The "interior" was plywood with some quickly slapped down faux-leather bench seating. The only part that is real is the main driver's cab.

Here's a video of it in its current state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijWq1VxcUrw
I'm suspecting highly experimental drones here. Or a new type of experimental delivery mechanism. Supersonic drones with warheads. Terrifying thought.
>> But just taking China alone, they are shifting massively away from carbon emitting technologies and into alternatives.

The data in the OP does not support this.
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Anyone know a bit more about DScript?
Clearly he can be sedated, and that isn't an argument for letting the state kill people without trial anyway.

Just to clarify, the state didn't kill him. He died of GABA-transaminase deficiency, which was only diagnosed after he died. The treatment that his parents wanted to try was a shot in the dark. No one knew what was wrong with Alfie.

You are arguing that taking a child from hospital, causing him more pain and suffering, putting him through a frightening and scary procedure, that has no basis in medicinal science (as there's no way to know if it'll cure an undiagnosed problem) is better than letting him die peacefully, safely and surrounded with love.

You can take a "life at any cost" point of view but the UK Court didn't. It took the view that a pain free and caring death was better than an agonising and highly unlikely long shot.
U.S. Supreme Court Seeks Trump Admin Views on Google-Oracle Copyright Feud
Paper in Nature Communications journal:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09681-1
This is a neat idea! I’m traveling a lot presently so from my perspective two things that might be useful are:

- Make it really easy to exchange persistent contact info. Something like a 1-tap share of your phone number either to the group or to a specific person in the group.

- Scrape public WiFi databases like Wifi Map Pro for places travelers are likely to be (hotels and hostels) and prime the chat with local recommendations.
Maybe this can be handled by adjusting valve timing in software.
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A collective list of public GraphQL APIs
> Market is uninformed and do not know better...

The market knows and has known that Tether is a scam and not fully backed. This is not what is causing the price to be what it is. Price arbitrage is one major factor keeping it up, as well as pure old fashion faith. Plenty of currencies operate that way. Including, perhaps, the paper in your wallet right now.

This doesn't make it right, or viable, or stable, or anything else. It's just a known phenomenon.
I wouldn't describe it as "unsafe". It's neither. Locks aren't dangerous. There is a whole level of subtext going on there and if you are in on it (which you seem to be), then it makes complete sense. If you are not, it leaves you scratching your head (as I was). I will argue that it is completely ineffective wording as the only people who will understand what it means are the people who don't need to read it.
> Turning CO2 from the air into useful products like fuels and building materials

You mean something like DME synthesis from CO2 and H2? Isn't atmospheric CO2 capture sort of expensive at 400 ppm? Obe would obtain one kilogram of CO2 from 2500 kgs of air.

Turning atmospheric carbon to building materials is already being done with plant based fiber mixtures such as hempcrete or fiber cement.
No way does a social network require more compute than searching the entire internet. That is ridiculous.

They cut Orkut because Brazilians aren't worth much in advertising. Plain and simple.
Same, haven't used in 10 years.

The UI seemed to have a lot of modes. I mean quite literally they seem hard to learn.

Come to think of it, Blender has a very nonintuitive UI as well. Holy moly, yikes.

I like to look at Solidworks as an example of how to make a 3D user interface rather approachable. It has simple objects organized cleanly.

Granted Solidworks is mechanical and ZBrush is organic, but I can't fathom that organic modeling would require a more complicated UI than mechanical design...
I gave the article a read. I don't feel like the author made a case for "democratization in China is inevitable". It was indeed an example of the Tsinghua democracy discussions you mentioned.

Democracy isn't the only form of governance that can work, and it's _definitely_ not a silver bullet. I just don't see the majority of China's citizens clamoring for democracy so much that they'll revolt. My main point of contention with your original comment is that democracy is inevitable. I'd like for you to be right, but I'm just not seeing it. (I'd also like for the American system to be more effective for all than it is, but I won't betting on that...)
> This seems like it will inevitably discourage victims from reporting crime

Indeed. And this new policy will help the police/government to bring down criminality figures. I would be surprised if that is not the actual intent. In a few years they will triumphantly announce that the UK police is doing so well, that it has become a much safer place to live. Welcome to politics.
you cannot. That would be a perpetuum mobile
Sourcegraph CEO here. Yes, we are very happy that the Go core team is taking over. I posted about this 7 months ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042930. Language servers should be owned by the same core team that owns the compiler for each language because tooling is so important to language users.
Just think, journalists get everything this wrong, not just things that you know a lot about.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/journalism/gell-mann-amnesia-effect
What about this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=87&v=rvA7hDh_vhY
How often have you tried in non-emergency situations? I got 50% of at UCSF seeing a specialist there.
Adding one to the great article:

Shift+k on a word to enter the corresponding man-page if such one exists :)
> We can always vote and legislate for something better.

How? Which political party or independents promote a policy to reduce police powers?

And even if there were, or are, any politicians with such a policy we ought to be more suspicious of them!
There's a difference between a regular car and a hotweels toy
According to me, discipline is the key to every success. To remain in discipline means you have to do every work in a disciplined manner. Make it a habit rather than just follow the disciplined manners for a few days.
The only bit of news about FB that could possibly interest me is if they miraculously stopped collecting data about everyone who's not a user (hence never gave their consent). The tortures and abuses their users are willing to endure are really none of my business.
No, nobody is making accurate predictions right now and that's the fundamental problem. We want to enact change on future predictions, but the models we're using to predict things have a history that's shown them to be unreliable. Each time a prediction fails to pass it ends up undermining the entire system of climate modeling more and more. We can't expect national bodies to engage in anything other convenient changes based on predictions with a poor track record. This is why you need accuracy above all.

As for the temperature increase, I don't picture things in such a polarized fashion. I think there's little doubt that humans are contributing to climate change. But what really confounds this issue is that climate, even absent humanity, is a very unstable system. These [1] are the data from the ice cores over the past 800k years, so literally before humanity existed. And you'll note a regular and often quite extreme shift in temperatures. For instance check out the end of the ice age before our most recent one - about 130k years ago. In an extremely brief period of time the temperatures skyrocketed something like 14 degrees celcius. We then gradually made our way out of that ice age hitting unprecedented lows dropping some 15 degrees celcius before once again starting an extremely rapid rise about 12,000 years ago which we are now in. And we've yet to hit the 'normal' highs of times past. So even if humans did not exist, we would almost certainly be seeing rapid warming.

As for his comments referencing temperature, I'm also not entirely sure. His comment was somewhat unusual since the last ice age obviously did not only last 8,000 years. It also didn't end 10,000 years ago (though that's not too far off). And it would also be quite unusual for a UN speaker to use Fahrenheit. In this case, I think we can dodge this issue since 0.68C = 1.2F and that's given not only a failure to reverse carbon emissions but an unprecedented spike in them, so the point holds true in either case. Extreme CO2 increase = bottom or below the bottom of "most conservative scientific estimates" in temperature increases? We can't expect nations to engage in urgent action based on data like this.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.2_kiloyear_event
Without your explicit permission, that's committing an illegal act called "copyright infringement" in case that wasn't clear.
There's some bus lines with overhead lines as well. The problem is of course infrastructural, and you still need truck for the last X miles.

Which is where Tesla and that other electric truck company come in, of course.
There is some premium on the BTCUSDT pair, compared to BTC/USD pair. You can still, for a relatively small premium buy BTC with your USDT and change them back to fiat USD. And it seems that plenty of traders are ready to accept that premium and accept the risk of holding tether. This effectively solves any liquidity issues that Tether might have. And as other have noticed, 74% coverage is a lot more than many were fearing, particularly compared to other Tether news of the last 12 months. Also, this 74% would imply that if Tether had access to those 850 millions that went missing (leaving out the issue of wether Tether may or may not be responsible for the missing), then the coverage would be full and had been full during the peak of the crypto bull-run in 2017 (which was speculated to be supported by printing tether without any fiat backing).
I'm not a Mac User, but you should be able to use the AU (Audio Unit) in Garage Band.
If indeed the pot of gold is guaranteed, by which I don't mean a verbal guarantee, I think most people will go to get that gold. But if it is some sort of mad, mad, mad, mad world scenario https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Mad,_Mad,_Mad,_Mad_Wo... the smart person might be the one who took the free pizza.
Citation needed for that. (And by world leaders do you mean politicians, or wealthy people? Many world politicians have other reasons for avoiding the US.)
The state of system observability with BPF
True, many people don't realize this. But carbon capture solutions don't necessarily need to be efficient - we are not doing it to make more energy, we are doing it to clean up the many decades of mess we already made in the atmosphere. So yes, we will have to spend energy, to clean that up, naturally. The most important part is that none of these solutions is exclusive and shouldn't be pictured as exclusive. We need to offset fossil fuels, lower our energy use, and suck CO2 from the atmosphere. All three of them.
Only a small percentage of camouflaged deployments are about blending in with the background; observation, snipers and static roles like that.

Infantry and vehicles move too much to make background-matching practical, so the primary purpose of their camouflage is to break up identifiable outlines.
Their account is over $700 million short right now.. Several hundred thousand per day isn't exactly going to move that dial.
I plant more and more trees because its the only thing a person individually can do without asking others for any kind of help.
Collusion like that puts a downward pressure on the wages of all workers.

It also normalizes that behavior and makes it more likely that other employers will take similar steps.
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Every government in the world has dissuaded its citizens to get involved with crypto. If there is a bankrun on ING or WellsFargo the government will act. With Tether you're on your own.
Cryptocurrency places you outside the financial system- the system r/bitcoin professed to hate.
How to Install Chrome Extensions on Your Android Phone
This is an awesome idea.
The app is crashing on startup for me however at the moment

*edit Android version 9
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They should buy Tesla, could be too late now though.