skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is being downvoted but it's an important thing to consider. As we move to doing more with these systems we're going to start seeing restrictions on which AI tools we can use at work/school/home.
Bingo, banks are realizing that they underestimated their deposit risk so are lending less to build their reserves up to levels they now think are healthy. It sucks if you need access to capital right now, but it means we'll be less likely to see another bank failure next month.

If someone wants to chicken little about anything it should be wages not rising to keep pace with inflation. If unchecked this would eventually cause a collapse in consumer demand that WOULD melt down the economy.
you are blessed. I know millennials who can't do any of those.
It definitely has a web search bias, no surprise, but that's kind of its superpower too. It lacks the snappy responses that Assistant can give, especially with routine questions like the weather.
I grew up in one of those places, it's truly awful. Most of my life has been defined by the constraints and effects of that environment. Popular portrayals of "getting out" or escape are basically fantasies. There are no opportunities meaningfully available.

The only paths out require incredible foresight and near perfect discipline in the face of continual hardship, grief and trauma. Skills difficult for anyone to acquire and apply in their youth, and absolutely not provided by that environment. Even if you "make it" do you have the ruthlessness to abandon the family you're leaving behind, who did their best by you inadequate it may have been, who did nothing worse than fail in the ways you were expected to? A six figure salary doesn't go that far when you're paying for the kinds of medical problems your parents likely have in these places.

Almost everyone I grew up with either stayed and succumbed to one addiction or another, or left young with not much better results. Anecdotally the most reliable path out was to join the military and hope you make it through without a tbi or traumatic sexual assault to grapple with afterwards. The rest of us ran to the nearest big city with no plan which goes about as well as you'd expect.
The newest macOSes aren't available for HW that old. My 2015 MBP is already in the death row, update-wise.
> The boomer playbook has always been voting themselves benefits to be paid for by their children and grandchildren

The Boomers were in their prime working years when the Silents under Reagan did the US’s biggest tax burden shift onto them, and cut their expected benefits along with it.

What are you referring to, specifically?
In my opinion, easter eggs that aren't against the rules aren't actually easter eggs at all. The whole point, and the thing that makes them awesome, is that they're illicit.
Webb telescope discovers oldest galaxies ever observed
I can't even find anything which works as the simple Palm "ToDo" application. No free ones at least. PalmOS had this developer requirement that nothing should take more than 3 clicks. I used the ToDo tool as a shopping list. I kept all my common groceries in that list and used a single tap to indicate that I was out of something, and a single tap when I bought something I was out of. Whatever I try to do on a phone is just too much hassle so I end up not using it. My old Tungsten T3 was easier in so many respects.
In a recent interview he [edit to clarify: "he" here means Richard Dawkins] completely dismissed the fact that a lot of new atheists had religious fervour for their humanistic non-theist beliefs and that he had been on the wrong end of their fanaticism ("cancelled" many times by Universities on the grounds that his speech was contrary to diversity, inclusion and equity, and thus it was hate speech).

He was completely dismissive to the fact that religious people had perfectly predicted that in the absence of religion, people would have the same sort of fervour for superficially rationalistic, but otherwise deranged, views.

He just said that it might be true but it didn't seem interesting or relevant to him.

That's exactly what a fanatic would say. I didn't see it coming back in the early 2000s but his critics were a lot more correct that I could ever have predicted.
SAC305 melts at a slightly higher temperature but has a lower melted viscosity than Sn63.

So it takes a smidge longer to heat a joint than for leaded, but you don't need to hold the heat there as long once it flows.

It's slightly not eutectic, though, so you must immobilize parts as the joint solidifies.

Sn99.7 is eutectic but has a still higher melting point.

I find SAC305 to solder well at 340°C/650°F.
OP here. I purchased the first device privately from resmed (one of the main cpap vendors), but the actual one i needed was an ASV and this was refused privately and only available via the NHS. Reading between the lines, I expect the NHS is one of their main customers and had ordered a huge backlog, so they got priority.
yes, it's using webGPU to render the whole thing
GPT-4's SQL Mastery: Solved 'Text to SQL' Problem?
A study highlighting GPT-4's exceptional SQL generation capabilities through fine-tuning and optimized techniques has been published. With the right optimizations, GPT-4 achieved a 94% execution accuracy on the Spider dataset, significantly surpassing the existing state-of-the-art solution at 84%. This breakthrough paves the way for streamlining data professionals' work and enabling non-experts to excel in the field.
Professional Priorities in the Age of AI
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And if they survive rigorous testing, they become "standard care". Sience is the borg of all ideas, the good ones get integrated, the bad ones stay outside. Opposition to the borg is appreciated, as it raises the assimilation value.
What a great read. Loved this:

The birthplace of jazz wasn’t far away, so Mack hitchhiked to New Orleans, where he met an inscrutable record collector named Orin Blackstone, who was working on a set of books called Index to Jazz. Blackstone asked the teen to be the Texas editor of the final two books and find jazz and blues 78-rpm records made in the state. The meeting changed Mack’s life. He had never liked being an introvert, and now, working as a field researcher, he was pushed to connect with people, hitching out into the rural areas around Houston and knocking on doors, looking for old records.

Sometimes, those little serendipity encounters lead to opportunities that can truly change the course of your life.

But the guy was also quite devious. Inserting “hoaxes” into research notes as an insurance policy against people who might cross him?
> And because they can afford to sit on cars for 3-6-12 months

That's the question though. Can they? There's a carrying cost to all that inventory on the lot.
Ask HN: Where do you shop for durable clothing?
Title says it all. It used to be that premium clothing lasted longer, but it no longer seems to. Most of my clothes are either old and holding up or new and falling apart - cheap or expensive, ethical or perhaps not.

I'm fed up with being stuck between paying medium amounts for unethical, fast-fashion clothing that falls apart quickly, or paying a lot for perhaps ethical clothing that falls apart almost as quickly. Usually you also can't pick-and-mix - companies that treat their employees fairly also seem to invest in reforestation or social schemes, which I'd rather consider separately.

For example, I used to buy some things from Patagonia, but even they seem to have gone downhill. I bought a shirt about 5 years ago, which I still have, and last year I bought the very same "model". The newer one is failing, the old one is going strong.

Can any HN folks, better than average at finding signals among the noise, recommend brands that make quality clothing that lasts, presumably above Fast Fashion prices in $/item, but better in $/month of use? Many thanks in advance.
People get that a podcaster who's partial twitter bio is "#Bitcoin + Football" (and linked to this article) say it too it's just that you made a comment so generic as to be confusing
> LLMs take so much engineering effort, research, and compute that it's unlikely there will be good open source alternatives in the near future. Right now your only real option is OpenAI (or maybe Anthropic) and that seems unlikely to change anytime soon.

does it though? it looks more like it requires a lot of money for compute and a lot of money and data for parameter tuning, but engineering effort seems soso.

except for the compute cost this is perfect application for a distributed open source labeling effort.

Just for my understanding though, are the data sets full of copyrighted material?
Both can deal with time, but Alloy is a high level language to describe structures, their relationships, constraints and feels like writing SQL schemas and property tests. It is easy to use.

With Alloy, you can very quickly iterate over software designs.

TLA is more heavy weight and geared toward verifying concurrent systems, including algorithms and such. It is much harder to learn.

With TLA, you can verify concurrent systems and algorithms.
I agree to make a valid comparison exclude gun and car deaths from healthcare statistics. Unfortunately, Horgan has citations, but you don't. So I can't really do much with your claim because without facts it is an opinion. If this were a debate that would score a point, but we're not competing with rhetoric: this should be a forum with facts. Because I *believe* you are correct, but I have no data so it remains a belief: facts would have helped!
The concept of "Kata" seems to be a popular repetitive method for learning/practicing programming skills: https://docs.codewars.com/concepts/kata/
Ask HN: Is SaaS really so bad?
It seems like every time someone brings up SaaS offerings, people immediately begin dunking on the idea.

Fundamentally, is the business model really so bad though? On one hand, I understand that many of these businesses tend to resort to predatory practices like vendor lock-in, price hikes, manipulate sales tactics, and more. On the other hand, it's not like businesses can't maintain their software for free forever, regularly rolling out security patches, bug fixes, and new features.

I honestly believe that we've been spoiled by the huge plethora of FOSS offerings that you never have to pay a single cent for. For example, too many people threw a tantrum when Red Hat decided to stop supporting stable releases of CentOS, but what duty do they really have to support an enterprise grade Linux distro for free forever? Even if you pay $2 for a mobile app, people will expect the developer to support it forever at no extra cost. Maintaining software isn't free, not even cheap. I believe SaaS could be a fine business model for software that requires constant maintenance and support, at least when done with trust and care. I think it's the predatory practices that many of these businesses engage in that has shattered trust in the SaaS model.

Other models simply don't work for most people. Very few independent open source developers are able to live off of donations alone. Most mobile developers aren't surviving off the sales of their mobile app. It's simply not sustainable.

I'm curious to see what you all think.
Dominos is pretty modern as far as restaurants go.

There’s even an API for several platforms[0], and integrations with IFTTT, Home Assistant, etc.

In university, I helped my dorm neighbour build a big red button that would order a pizza and then set the lights to green once it on the way.

[0]: https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-dominos-pizza-api
The whole movie is free on the Mosfilm YouTube channel with English subtitles, in case anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUtZOl_QxvY

I'd definitely recommend it :)
second this - purchased and use non-cloud Adobe software, BBEdit, the nice terminal apps and a few minor things, on hardware that is at least six years old. I look for good condition older Macs and have a few of those that I keep safely.

Really big aversion to the "phone like" OS, secret changes to the filesystem, app-store apps, increasingly intrusive phoning home and other "modern improvements"
For many companies this type of promise is not useful. It doesn’t matter that they say they won’t, they still can look if they want to. This is the primary concern when you’re dealing with trade secrets where the secrecy of the information is its only protection.
Why do you think they haven’t updated the OS and browser?

Also, how can you patch a zero day?
This stuff seems pretty good https://www.beretta.com/en-us/mens-clothing/
> Inflation was already high when the last large spending package passed and succeeded in over stimulating the economy.

The others answered you pretty well. My comment speaks instead to this recital, which is incorrect and thus undermines the rest of your argument.

Inflation in the US was averaging around 2% since 2008 (https://www.worlddata.info/america/usa/inflation-rates.php), and 2% is generally considered healthy (https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/5D58E72F066A4DBDA80BBA65...).

"less government spending" doesn't address the pooled-up liquidity in the economy; it just addresses government spending. Hence the need for the scalpel (finely targeted taxes)... or in the absence of such, the blunt instrument (broadly-impactful rates).

They both extract money, but one's specific to things such as luxury goods, gas-powered vehicles over a certain weight, homes over a certain size or cost relative to local income, a tax per stock trade, whatever makes sense, whereas the other... not so much. Targeted taxes without an increase in spending would result in a net reduction in the budget deficit or even potentially a budget surplus, which then is essentially how the money is removed from circulation. And without using the mallet, businesses can continue to grow in a cheap-money environment.

I'm not an economist; I've just absorbed a lot from working in FIs in the past. But there's probably an economist here who can affirm or debunk what I just put forward.
Just dunking on the establishment whiners, I don’t care if all of this confuses you.

Try watching the video while taking notes, maybe?
I had a CPAP machine on the NHS a few years back. The machine was OK, a low-mid range model. But they supplied everyone with a "medium" size of mask, so I had to buy a bigger mask myself.

I'd say the quality of care I got was... shit. A very bored and uncaring nurse gave me some brief instructions, and got almost angry with me when my mask didn't fit and air hissed out the sides.

I figured it out myself, and had zero follow ups for the 2 years I used the machine. They even made it difficult to give the machine back!
> but this is my health we are talking about

I think that this is the point of the article. In the end, you are responsible for your own health. From the article:

> I am in the system for NHS treatment, but things are so bad that I have not even received an inital letter with a date for a test. It would likely take up to year for the NHS to treat me.

So he could have just waited, trusting that the professionals will eventually diagnose him and give him the right treatment.

But it was his health, so he had a strong incentive to take independent action.
Those cheap "adjustable temperature" irons are "adjustable power" with no actual temperature feedback control.

The middle ground is the Pinecil, which is $25 but needs a laptop power supply.

It's… okay. It has less than half the heat transfer rate compared to the Weller, but it at least won't burn pads off your PCB.
The point of the original Flynn effect being a big deal was that the changes were faster than was possible with genetics alone.

A big part of "The Bell Curve" was arguing that no interventions could change IQ except genetics and so any money spent on low IQ people (African-Americans in the book, but the author followed up by attacking poor people more generally) was a pointless waste.

It turns out he wasn't just an asshole, he was also wrong.
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Python is bad at:

- chaining together small functions to make more complex things (due to the lack of a pipe operator)

- immutable data structures (the built ins are mutable)

- working in a monadic context (option, result, etc)

Clojure can handle all of these.

Python list comprehensions are not very good compared to those in other languages.

Additionally there is the benefit of an expression orientated language, which is hard to grok at first.
Two notes: in a modern insulated home in not so cold climate 1kW absorbed is enough to heat a home with -20℃ outside, with is still far more than a simple fan but a power level a classic small generator can provide. The second note is that if you get gas from pipes the supplier need electricity to pump it, so it might have autonomous power or not, you can't be sure.

As a safeguard I prefer a classic wood burning stove, witch is far from being comfy but works alone, reliably and I can stock enough woods or emergency source it almost anywhere...

Living in the French Alps I do not know much about New England homes (insulation, ventilation, power system, ...) but IME gas heating systems are in the mean LESS reliable than heat pumps and electricity + wood is the combo to be comfy normally and backed up in case of trouble.
Taking responsibility beats not taking any any day of the week. And the world doesn't have a lot of people ready to take responsibility for the functioning of a company or to see an idea through to the end (at least, not during the incubation, anyway).
Do you honestly believe the world WILL NOT transition to autonomous vehicles in the future, even if that future is far down the road?
Yeah, I should probably say "they're treated as CP systems", in that they purport CP guarantees, when in reality they adhere to almost none of them (but, they also adhere to none of the traditional expectations of an AP system, i.e., a way to heal partitions and restore some form of consistency).
Ah you must be one of those puritan porn addicts who are just mad about the "naked pics on the internet". Get with the times man! Everything you described is completely normal and children of all ages should be given access to all of it as early as possible. Anyone who says otherwise just needs to get laid.
Run the author's article through Google Translate: https://habr.com/ru/companies/floor796/articles/673318/

Hand animated, custom video format
'30 years ago' is 1970 to 2000 I bet :)
It can detect bad sleep patterns, and modern versions can detect pulse-ox, but not specifically apnea, AFAICT. It is definitely a useful too, and there are cheaper alternatives (I’m using an $80 Garmin) that give “good enough” info for personal tracking, but in my experience, Drs. don’t care about it.
Well sure, instruction following was my second point.
Show HN: Digital Surface - Automatic Screenshots turned into Timelapses (MacOS)
I use Alloy extensively both to iterate designs very quickly and to communicate concepts to my team. My company is a SaaS for cap table management. I use it to formalize the core business logic as well as testing designs on non core features, like an account management system for example.
Also the “search entire device” feature. It used to be so easy to find something across contacts, calendar, and memos.
Cycling to work could save you £750 annually
That's a very funny theory but it actually makes sense. Add to that a bit of social contagion and maybe that's the story.
And even if someone replies to you specifically, the only way you would know is noticing your karma increased on the top right of the page.
Video cameras on everything now and are so cheap and easy plus you could see yourself gasping. The sound may be too low to pick up and video may supplement the recording.
Only discussion titles (some payment information also leaked though).
Ah yes, the 12 year old adults, how could they have forgotten.
I did some electronic soldering in my teens and in college. I've occasionally done it since then to do minor repairs like replace part of a mouse I liked when it wore out after years of clicking. This past week I discovered that one of the spigots on the outside of my house had failed over the winter. The spigot (sorry, "spillcock") and the piece it screwed into had both been damaged by ice and caused a leak inside the wall. I took a picture of the joint and accompanying piping and sent it to my dad for advice. He was pretty horrified at the quality of the surrounding joints, so he strongly suggested replacing more than just the two parts that were causing the leak.

I went out and bought some lead-free solder and flux, but didn't think to look up anything about flux or solder quality. I was having trouble getting a joint I was happy with, until I finally gave in and asked my neighbor (a plumber) for some advice. He give me some very useful advice (give the excess flux a wipe once it starts bubbling, start applying solder at the bottom to let steam escape out the top of the joint and then work your way up, among others). He also gave me his favorite (lead-free) solder and flux to use. The flux looked really grody, and unsurprisingly made a huge difference in how well everything flowed. In the end, I replaced the suspicious section with my much less janky piece and it's now dry as a bone.
They still have ed though, do they not?
I just ran across a mention of gpt4all in another thread, and it looks like the team is working on training up GPT-J as an open alternative to the Llama-based model: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all#short-term
Why wouldn't they pay for a human that did the same thing?
Exactly this. I've also dealt with the whole CPAP thing, and the extent to which the whole industry is obviously infantilizing-for-profit is infuriating. Over the years, it's gotten increasingly difficult to just "buy the supplies yourself," (aka easily and/or cheaply) and the extremely condescending "reasoning" we get is "oh, it's medical equipment and therefore dangerous so we get to control it."

And here, having done it for years, I can tell you this is nearly absolute BS. It's a hose hooked up to a fan that softly blows somewhat filtered air through a tube. That's IT. There's no remotely signficant way that this thing will hurt you even if used improperly; especially as compared to so much other dangerous OTC drugs and/or medical equipment.
Combining it with AutoGPT (or the ideas it's based on) and a formal prover like Lean might be the answer. Have you tried?

Basically, if you don't allow GPT to iteratively write, execute, criticise and then correct its code, you won't get good results.
This by defsult is using the zero shot agent attached to Google, it is burning trough tokens.
I once hypothetically saved a few dozen colleagues from dying in a fire. All of these people had at least a degree and many were educated to PhD.

The fire alarm sounded and at the bottom of a stairwell the exit door would not release until someone operated the emergency release break-glass panel. But none of these educated people grasped that. Worse still, none of them thought to use a nearby heavy steel trolley as a battering ram. One guy is trying to phone for help, which was pointless as the alarm sound makes conversation impossible.

I'm one of the last down the stairs. I look at the people, the closed door, the steel trolley, and the emergency door release panel. Realising I'm not going to have the fun of trashing the doors, I operate the release panel and we all leave.
And intentionally choosing not to blame your tools doesn't transform you into a good craftsman, either.
This Youtube playlist helped me immensely.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL926EC0F1F93C1837