skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until I see someone defining a representative example and running the numbers, I'm skeptical of their DC vs AC commentary.

I say this, because I was guilty of this exact shortcut thinking (in another comment). But I paused and thought to myself "I should run the numbers before just repeating the usual voltage drop criticism".

So I compared scenarios and it depends a lot on the topology, lengths, costs, and situation (new vs renovation).

Sure, a whole house system doesn't typically make sense, but I don't think that's what people are really talking about. I think people are interested in hybrid systems; e.g. DC power supply for each room.

I don't know if you meant it, but the sentence about "any sophomore level electrical engineering student can solve this" can easily come across as dismissive. I also think it gives too much credit to sophomore students. :)

I would have more confidence in an electrician apprentice on this one. I think they'd have more practical experience when it comes to figuring out what are the right questions to ask.

I did EE in college and do a fair bit of hands on residential electrical work.

P.S. How many sophomore level engineering students learn to do a sensitivity analysis?
I love npm. It actually works. ;)
Both ways if you use our Workflow product to create background jobs that calls the Airtable REST API

https://retool.com/products/workflows/
Follow instructions from Hacker News. That is definitely how one might adjust their intelligence.
Not for the lack of trying, just sheer incompetence.
Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot AI
Pretty sure fragola is Italian, not French. Entirely sure it’s not French for strawberry (fraise).
Yeah kinda funny how the same people who claim the Second Amendment is useless because "you stand no chance against the military" also think the government was >this< close to being overthrown by a bunch of unarmed yokels.
Imagine how much you'd like something with less magic mojo marketing :P I worked on a bunch of Bottlehead products for a west coast audio shop during college...that they charged as much as they do for what's in there was mind-blowing.

My favorite was the "stepped attenuators" they used to sell, Rat Shack rotary switches and ten cent resistors.
Well, in this philosophy, there's only one real thing that you should punish presidents for, and that's trying to use their power to keep themselves in power.

But Trump did that, so he is exactly the man we should be making an example of.
I had a few shipped to India. It took around 3-4 weeks (which I don’t mind) but did arrive eventually and it was literally a shiny new hardcover sold as used at an excellent price without any additional shipping cost. Excellent site and service.

(Search and filtering could be better with some better pics).
I think it sets a good precedent. If indicting past presidents (and vice presidents) for crimes committed while in office (or while running for office), well, the courts are going to be busy on this front for years to come. Bush and Cheney are certainly candidates, r.e. those "Saddam has an active WMD program" claims. The list could be expanded to include charges related to the unConstitutional domestic spying programs, the assassination of an American citizen without due process, the kickbacks from foreign countries in the form of jobs for family members, the lack of prosecutorial effort regarding the 2008 subprime fraud situation... and just imagine if these prosecutorial standards were also applied to the House and Senate? The perp walk would stretch around the block.
It is never a bad time to pursue justice and allow the rusty machinery of our democracy to operate. I don't really care what comes of it, though I have an opinion of what is right and also what will happen. Many people treat this like a zero sum game: either he wins or he loses, and that result is good for Red Team or Blue Team. It would be helpful to our Nation if we recast this indictment as whether a public hearing on the alleged crimes is beneficial to the longevity of our way of governing. To show that none is above the law sends a powerful and unifying signal. So many of us -- my self included -- have already lost faith in our institutions, and while one trial will hardly restore them to glory or depolarize our politics, we must give our laws and processes credence by engaging them. Otherwise for what good are they?
One does not simply tell people to use pyenv, poetry or anaconda...
There's all kinds of unprecedented legal and political ramifications nobody can predict from this.

Don't get me wrong, I think every POTUS in recent memory should be locked up for war crimes, but going after living presidents for petty nonsense isn't worth what falls out of it. This is complicated by the fact Trump is going to run again in 2024, putting this further into uncharted territory.
Sounds like they're focusing on the profitable part.
This Is What It Sounds Like When Plants Cry
Meanwhile, adjacent to presidents, Henry Kissinger remains both alive and not charged in any international criminal courts. I think he's literally 99 years old now.
Wow, just by the number of seconds into that video (knowing 3600 is an hour), that seems like quite the rabbit hole to go down.
> If a domestic factory starts cranking out tubes, even with a similarly high price, the impression of rarity and unavailability won’t be there, and I suspect that people then won’t buy them.

I expect that would improve tube sales, rather dramatically. Lower priced, high quality tubes, made without slave labor or something near it, and with actual quality control? That would be rather popular in many circles.

I'm aware it's an unpopular thing to point out on HN, but we are very much in the middle of a vinyl resurgence, with LPs having drastically outsold CDs in 2022, and showing no signs of slowing down. Make fun of it however you want, but there's very strong interest right now in analog, non-digital, non-consumer-tech, non-tracked-and-data-collection sound. Tubes go well with that, and quite a few high end audio vendors these days have various tube amps in addition to their semiconductor based amps.

It seems a good place to be, and I wish him the best of luck with it - I may have to see if I can acquire a set or two down the road when prices drop a bit.
The DNA code is software, the hardware and the runtime are RNA and proteins.
Any rust equivalent of faiss?
Are you hiring backend engineers in the near future? Asking for a friend, naturally
Imagine T. Rex. Now Imagine It with Lips
>Why wouldn't github count forks?

Internally all forks are stored in the original repository. So it would be reasonable to expect Github to just count the number of repositories that exists.
Heretical opinion: the government does a good job with postal mail. Let them handle electronic mail.

Most of the problems of spam have to do with who's an approved sender and who's abusive. Regulate the mail, it's much harder to be abusive.

You're in this country and sending spam? We arrest you. You're in another country? We rate limit your mail, report you to foreign authorities, and flag anything that looks like your mail.

You can burn me at the stake now.
Absolutely agree, and something we were discussing today as it happens on the docs crew. We have some ideas we'll try in the next few months to bring more docs directly into the product, and beef up coverage and examples in the component docs.
"B) Sell your product to startups and see a lot of benefits from gaining access to the YC network."

Keep everything inside the distorted reality of the "tech" community. The "YC Network" sounds like MLM, something like Herbalife or Amway.

This reminded me of a recent NYT article that mentioned YC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/technology/svb-tech-start...

The article discussed how SVB made loans to "tech" start-up founders who had just received funds from "tech" VC, the bank's primary customers.

First, cults require some "reality-distortion" to use Steve Jobs' term. Close people off from the outside world, e.g., traditional banks.

"These companies put a priority on breakneck growth, shift strategies frequently and celebrate failure as a learning opportunity. They are often worth billions before ever turning a profit, and they can go from silly idea to behemoth at astonishing speed. Most crucially, they rely on a tight network of money, workers, founders and service providers to function.

That unique and often irrational reality required a specialized bank."

What about the common, rational reality that we all share. The one that informs us that, e.g., MLM, cults, Ponzi schemes, and the like are not what we want. For example, the reality of getting a mortgage for a first home.

"SVB's dominance was well known at Y Combinator, a start-up incubator. Dozens of tech founders who participated in Y Combinator last year were told to open bank accounts at SVB, and they were introduced to SVB bankers at Y Combinator events, said three people who took part in Y Combinator's 2022 class of tech entrepreneurs over the summer.

One described a cocktail hour mixer in which he was introduced to an SVB banker who could provide a loan to his start-up once he graduated from Y Combinator's program. Six months later, when he needed a loan to buy his first home, he went to SVB. The bank looked at his company's valuation, based on the money it had raised in its first round of funding, and spoke to investors of his company. It granted a loan after two other banks turned him down, he said.

SVB's home loans were significantly better than those from traditional banks, four people who received them said. The loans were $2.5 million to $6 million, with interest rates under 2.6 percent. Other banks had turned them down or, when given quotes for interest rates, offered over 3 percent, the people said."

Let's see. "Tech" VC use a special bank. The special bank's customers are generally only either "tech" VC or "tech" start-up founders. The "tech" VC deposit funds into "tech" start-up founder bank accounts. Then the special bank loans money (that likely came from "tech" VC) to "tech" start-up founders, based on dubious valuations made by the bank's "tech" VC customers. The entire scheme is fully insulated from the reality of the outside world.

Someone I know who studied finance read this NYT article and commented that the term "venture debt" reminded him of "EBITDA",^1 specifically Munger's comment about replacing every instance of the acronym EBITDA with the words "bullshit earnings".

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvnKylAyLbQ
Can it write code or suggest ffmpeg command line? If not you can’t seriously say this is nearly as good as ChatGPT.
At least with one of the factories in Russia, Electro-Harmonix ended up buying them when they were in financial trouble, just to secure their supply of tubes. I'm sure the current situation with Russia has messed that purchase up (it was done years and years ago), but they probably still need tubes, as they have products they still manufacture that require them!
In spite of learning Logo at 6, I didn’t try to introduce programming to my kids, but my 7yo daughter picked up Scratch-based web programming during school where they did Hour of Code. (Pleasantly surprised considering Texas’ slow bleeding of public schools.) It’s a free site filled with focused, guided activities using block programming and probably other languages. One is Dance Party where you sequence dancers and their stage to a music track, and in another you teach Elsa to skate patterns into the ice in a modern twist on Logo.

They do a lot of Minecraft now but are interested in TinkerCAD, which I’ll solidify by printing some of their designs. Not sure any of the beginner CAD apps are really easy, though.
Point of order, it was Atari rather than Nintendo who killed the industry with trash games. Nintendo came later and actively took steps to distance themselves from Atari, including monopolizing the ability to make games on their platform (ostensibly) to prevent such a thing from happening again
New AI Has No Guardrails
Exactly. The issue tends to be that you need Oracle Financials or PeopleSoft, so you are forced to build in-house expertise, or bring in consultants.

Once you’ve introduced the Oracle, unless you firewall these people, those people end up “infecting” other processes. Oracle pays salespeople more to cross-sell their colleagues, and your Oracle SMEs start seeding Oracle shit wherever they can. You inevitably violate a license agreement, and then end up buying more Oracle shit as a penance. And the cycle continues.

Once infected, it’s difficult to cure. You need the rare combo of strong IT and business leadership and hands on, aggressive legal over a period of years. While battling, the vendor will do whatever they can to undermine that leadership and reward allies.
Check out:

NocoDB (https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb) - works w/ MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, MariaDB

Baserow (https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow) - PostgreSQL based

APITable (https://github.com/apitable/apitable) - MySQL based
I enjoyed that a lot, thanks. No doubt he’s massively talented. I do wonder if, just as it takes a certain amount of education to appreciate classical music, there might simply be a certain education or ear required to appreciate Jacob Collier that I lack.
This. It's so simple to just use tubes if you want it to sound like tubes and don't need to carry it in your pocket.
It’s only a few $ more.

And it says on the box.

I usually stick to the same brand too. All Phillips bulbs are 90+ CRI and some are 95+ so I just buy Phillips. Problem solved.
Doesn't the US credibly threaten to invade the Hague should any international court there decide to pursue charges against an American citizen?

Best you could hope for is domestic charges or for Kissinger to make a visit to Viet Nam and get arrested there.
Something I learned a while ago is that if I can't remember the commands and args to any tool, not just git, I make a bash alias or function so it makes more sense to me and I don't have to remember all the things. In the end, there's still no substitute for learning the essentials about how a tool works.
“Advice to Bride and Groom” by Plutarch (C. 100 CE)
That is one sad link.
You’re free to hold your own event. Doesn’t mean people will care. Especially if you disappoint/annoy them multiple times.
Corresponding paper to RFdiffusion: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.09.519842v2

Some context: Been waiting for this to come out for a while! Main innovation is leveraging RosettaFold (protein folding neural net) to generate protein backbones via diffusing in 3D space! From backbones, we can generate sequences that would fold into said structures via sequence design algorithms (check out: proteinMPNN, Rosetta FastDesign).

In terms of applications: This is super relevant for our ability to create strongly binding protein binders (ex timely creation of proteins that bind to virus spike proteins), and designing enzyme from scratch!

Prior methods suffered from much lower success rates for generating “good” backbone structures. Extremely exciting!! If you want to learn more, check out the Baker group at UW!
Yes... but it takes a global pandemic at exactly the right time. That doesn't change his support, but it does get people off the couch who might otherwise have decided that Both Sides Are Bad.

Other than that most news is Heads I Win Tails You Lose. Any publicity is good publicity when it puts you in front of cameras to cast aspersions on your opponents.
It's possible to "vouch" stories by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.

(It's also possible to dispute various actions, including HN mods disabling/overriding flags, if you feel that the decision was ill-founded, in the same manner.)
Note that Trump’s legal problems started decades before he was president.

It’s not like there was some global conspiracy to target him all that time. He repeatedly scammed people, stole money, withheld payments, and worse.
systamantics book explains most large organizations pretty convincingly by explaining that systems live to propagate themselves, not to serve the purpose for which they were created.

There are a ton of other good insights in that book, but that one is essential (in works so nicely with Parkinson's law)
Nice web app.

Would me nice if there were an option to show the volumes in ml instead of oz.
I'm extremely impressed with the Vicuna output for the Hawaii blog post. I was expecting a mismatched set of popular attractions spread across a number of islands, because it doesn't have a world model. ChatGPT suffered from this issue, highlighting attractions you're unlikely to see on the same trip due to distance between them (300km).

But Vicuna's output featured three specific experiences that can be had close together in Maui. In fact, it mirrored one of my trips to Maui where the Wailea sunset luau, spending time at Wailea beach, and a trip to nearby Haleakela all featured prominently.

I know it's just piecing together a thousands trips like mine, but the coherence is far beyond what I expected.
We will see where Georgia lands in regards to this specific crime.
I don't think one NATO country can credibly threaten to invade another, so not really, no... But clearly the US did not sign up to the international criminal court / war crimes courts etc because they were worried about random US DoD personnel who killed civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan being hauled in front of the court. Somebody like Robert Bales for instance:

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

As he has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole the US takes the position that they want to prosecute such things within their own system.
> "To what degree should we defund the police? And how else might we limit their power?" are perfectly germane ways forward with a discussion.

You're completely correct, and it's a topic that the US urgently needs to have a serious, non-inflammatory discussion about. And that's why when you start off with shouting slogans:

> ACAB. Defund the police.

you get a response which is not one of the "perfectly germane ways forward with a discussion." Because the way you began things doesn't sound like you want a discussion. Maybe lead off with something that still gets at your point in a more productive way, e.g.:

> "To what degree should we defund the police? And how else might we limit their power?"
> always-on voice chat

omg this sounds like hell.
if anyones wondering why an indictment might not have charges announced, its generally because the prosecution is working to limit the ability of the defendant to influence the court of public appeal before the trial. The prosecution is certainly versed in former president Trumps histrionic theatricality.
The thing with that is, it's way cheaper to use what already exists. The "we need new CRTs" thing seems to come up all the time, when the reality is they're still readily available as long as you're not depending on them being free and/or available right this second at a retail location near you.

Same reason we (Glitch Works) haven't done a new 8-bit ISA Ethernet board. They're still available for $5-20 basically any time you want one.
The second meeting was scheduled for after the CEO checked his references.

Then the second meeting never happened and "things got weird."

I wonder what his references said.
Sure, though they could easily run the training and inference in non-US subsidiaries.
Poles used to come to England to do lower level jobs, pick fruit, clean houses. Definitely racism and resentment here. Old school European racism sees Eastern Europeans as a lower level white, a concept I don’t think a lot of Americans are familiar with. There were white slaves back in the day too. It’s where the word comes from; the Slavic people.
I play guitar thorugh an ADA MP-1 MIDI-programmable tube pre-amp.

All the clean presets I use go through the solid-state signal path; no tubes.

That shows you where I stand.

Tubes are for the blatant distortion everyone can objectively hear. That effect is so undeniable that all the modern digital modeling equipment purposefully reproduces it, using specific amplifier names in the settings.

(Why can't that modeling shit come up with something original and leave the tubing to the tubes? Hundreds of millions of transistors switching in two voltage levels, to simulate an evacuated glass bottle with a couple of electrodes. That's like using Postgress DB to construct a thread mutex. Abstraction Inversion: http://tunes.org/wiki/abstraction_20inversion.html)
ignoring him?
"as long as possible" is two terms, in the US, no?
I 100% agree.

I just have no idea how to go about doing that, short of demonstrating that people are willing to pay good money for good mixes on vinyl, and perhaps a few people getting the idea that a good mix on CD might sell too. But this, historically, has been the "SACD" and related versions of an album, which seem to mostly not exist anymore.
Amazing aesthetic, but absurd price. I realize that they are the only game in town, but still.
Yikes! Please don't do this on HN. I'm not going to ban you because we haven't had to warn you before, and also because I sense an overtone of good humor in the scorching remarks, but we can't have people posting like this—it leads to flames.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Been using them for more than 10 years. I must have saved thousands of dollars so far. They always deliver.
I think this will be solved well with the plug-in system - so that the bot can refer to systems that hold the information, rather than having it make it up entirely on the fly
Hacker News is better without unrelated political news.
Is it weird that I don't care? When he was in office he drove me insane. Now I really couldn't be bothered. I think I'm desensitized to... politics, or justice, or something.
There was an earlier iteration of "remotion" that was drop in break out always on video with optional audio vs. music per 'space' (main room, library, chatty room, pairing spaces, etc.). Lived in a custom widget with space bubbles top middle screen or side middle screen.

It was very cool. There's been a pivot to live coding:

https://remotion.com/

I liked the hanging out thing.
I have actually eaten eight 1/8 lb hamburgers during a 100 mile bike ride — once. It was a whimsical tour of a local fast food chain.
Have you seen the documentary that came this year, think it's called "Last Of Us" - fungus can turn humans into zombies :)

But yeah, fungus directly controlling ant muscles, while it's brain is helpless is quite terrifying. Also terrifying is the raise of fungus infections in humans recorded in hospitals in India and UK in the recent years. If they do adapt to living in a warm human body we will have a major problem - fungus are killing more trees, bugs and reptiles than viruses and bacteria combined, the air in our cities is full of their spores.
Burger Commandos.
I just asked to create an HTTP server in python that returned the code I am a tea pot, this is what it said. Not exactly what I wanted it to do lol

(Using a paste bin link because of HN formatting)

https://pastebin.com/hcBubZUn
I think the reason this indictment is tolerated is precisely due to it not being about any of those things. Anyone who wants to be President will be comfortable doing all the things you list, and probably worse we don't know about, but they are also generally savvy enough to keep their non-political crimes plausibly deniable. So, go after Trump specifically when he wasn't able to do that much.
All Aboard the Train from New York to Paris – Via Siberia
Ah yes if you need sorting then indexed are def the way to go!
On the Trump side, I like TechnoFog's analyses. They're also heavily involved in tracking the Epstein scandal: https://technofog.substack.com/about
Nothing special under the hood!
Sedition is a crime even if your cunning plan is unlikely to succeed.