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Show HN: Formula8.ai – A formula-based approach to AI prompts
We just launched our new product, which we developed ourselves out of the need to have a better abstraction layer for ChatGPT.

Yes, we know; another AI content tool.

As a marketing agency, we produce different types of content such as newsletters for large public companies. We found ourselves typing the same prompts over and over again, even though the structure was often very similar or identical, except for the actual content or topic.

Formula8 offers us an easy way to develop parameter-based prompts for this and combine them in templates and make them smarter with helper functions, such as automatically crawling the content of an external URL for article teaser excerpts.

Frankly, we didn't really plan to turn it into a real product originally, but since our team adapted it super fast and we can certainly give those who have the same problem a useful tool with it, we're introducing it today.

Happy if it seems to be helpful to anybody and to collect your input or ideas.
Yawn. Yes, I'm not fun at parties.
Wow, brutal!
“And all the stones carried by one horse, Bassey.”
Wow, I am an absolute layperson, only having listened to the History of English podcast before from where I get some minor context, but I find the whole of linguistics so interesting. Thank you for sharing these details!
Firearm and ammunition manufacturers are already not culpable for people getting shot. Your argument would be better made comparing Comma 3X hardware + OpenPilot software to something that unintentionally causes injury despite being used as intended.

Then again, if you used that line of reasoning you'd have to show a comparable example of OpenPilot unintentionally causing injury, rather than just waving your hands and saying "it COULD happen, because unregulated!"
>>Right. In which case you may as well meet at an airport hotel with good meeting rooms.

Japan Airlines recently launched a "rent clothes" offering for overseas travelers.[1] This would dovetail nicely with your idea of meeting at an airport hotel with great conference rooms.

[1] https://press.jal.co.jp/en/release/202307/007481.html
> you can pick up a VPS these days for $1/mo

Don't play this game. "X USD per month, billed annually" is 12X USD per year, not "X USD per month".
Emacs requires fiddling. Once you get past a certain age, you no longer want to fiddle with your tools; they should just work. A tool that just works may well be therefore orders of magnitude better than Emacs.
Second law of thermodynamics?
That sounds like an ideal implementation partner for Worldcoin!
why is it so much smaller than debian slim?
Try reading just the Grand Inquisitor chapter and see what you think.
Nice. Already learned that I kinda fail at this. But learning.

Only comment I have is it is super hard with small islands. Not exactly sure of the solution. Maybe show a red circle around the actual location if you click the wrong one? So you can learn. I'm stuck on St Martin.
I've read that it is estimated that China has the largest recoverable shale gas reserves in the world and some think that its oil shale reserves may exceed those of the US.

So it's not that China hasn't got the natural resources, it's that at the moment it isn't exploiting them as much as the US do.
There have been various polls, such as this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33480849
Those are 'readline' keybindings actually, and available in many term, shells, repls... Sometimes, just a config away. See: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keyboard-shortcuts-ev...
If the workers control a company it's not a public company. That's what "public" means.

There are worker coops, customer coops, and state owned companies in the US.
Shameless plug: I've been working on Hyvor Blogs (https://blogs.hyvor.com), a blogging platform with multi-language support, custom themes, in-built SEO, custom domain, AI translations, and options to self-serve the blog from your Laravel/Symfony/NextJS apps. It's been very interesting (and not so easy) so far to work on a very competitive market.
Are paper bags for groceries a thing in any country other than the US?
If nuclear were cheap enough to do that, we’d just put the reactor on the ship.

Note, I’m not suggesting you could use the existing infra for refrigerated containers, but I am pointing out that containers that need an electrical hookup are not novel. The difference here is the current supplied via that hookup.
WordPress itself offers managed hosting plans on wordpress.com. They have a free ad-supported plan, and the cheapest paid starts at $48/year.

That's what they are competing against.
One of the most sold games ever has blocky graphics not much better than a boosted SNES on 3D.

Do you realize this graphics settings are done on retro purposes?

Go check Flightgear videos with ALS settings and graphics to the max. It might not be MSFS, but for something that also runs under an HD3000 iGPU/UHD600, the graphics are astounding for a community based project.

Also, MSFS gets rendered assets and maps from Bing maps, something Flightgear did with Google Maps with a custom build... 10 years ago.
Except it's not nihilism at all? There are all kinds of ways to increase your and the public's understanding and knowledge. Competitive debate is not it any more than a trial by combat is.
Speaking from the perspective of healthcare software:

ISO-13485 really isn't that heavy in the grand scheme of things. Once you establish your policies you can automate most of it with Jira, which can provide good traceability.

It's really the testing requirements that are the most heavy, and whether you can do that in a few hours is 100% up to how good your testing setup is.

I suspect that the quality management system is often this way at any mature tech company anyways, but who knows.

When you need to perform a 510k, that's where the heaviness comes into play, even a special 510k can be considered heavy.

For those uninitiated, here's the FDA guidance on when to perform a 510k: https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...

Rewriting a core piece of your software stack in a significantly different language is one such case (JavaScript to TypeScript? Probably not. Java to C++? Most certainly yes.).
"Piracy" is a bit of a strong denouncement. If someone puts something on the internet, and their server responds to your request for data with... y'know... the data, then the you can display that data however you want.

Certainly the server owners can try to do tricky things to make it so you can only display the data in ways they want you to display it, but there's no natural right that makes it morally or ethically wrong for you to display things how you want.
A list of Petrov buttons (2022)
Many thanks for posting about vast.ai, which I had never heard of! It's a sort of "gig economy/marketplace" for GPU's. The first machine I tried just now worked fine, had 512GB of RAM, 256 AMC CPUs, an A100 GPU, and I got about 4 minutes for $0.05 (which they provided for free).
Who said anything about social programs?

Also, people just get on here and disagree with Keynes?
what is pure rust,rust needs its own libraries which is a few MB as I recall
For long distance shipping anyway.

These are river barges in the article.
That’s very weird. I paste commands all the time without any issue like that. Is it a setting you changed, or some strange behaviour of your terminal emulator?
It's not, Debian slim is ~28.8MB compressed.
VERY GOOD BOOK!!
Accidental Gods
https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Gods-Unwittingly-Turned-Di...
What an ignorant comment. No real benefit? Really?

The website you're using likely benefits immensely from thread-safe code. The browser you're using benefits immensely from thread-safe code. Your entire user experience using the modern internet is in an ecosystem of thread-safe code which you apparently are completely oblivious to.

There are a lot of threading models besides Java and C's as well, which you're apparently also unaware of.

Why would you assume you know all the possible use cases of a multi-purpose programming language?
> Nobody is going to rent ground floor retail space in an area with no foot traffic

of course they will, at a low enough rent, obviously, which is the point: lowering rent is indeed a choice, as is going bankrupt, abandoning the property, foreclosure, or selling it at whatever price
Medicine gets things wrong no doubt, it’s subject to various fads and foibles but the redefinition of a disorder because of a change in societal norms seems different.

I don’t see the AMA voting to declare something that is a disease is no longer a disease. (Although maybe I’m wrong — alcoholism and addiction are now a disease.)
This is assuming you are trying to create a perfect system. The "good enough" version of this solves most Sibil Attacks[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
It is not mobile friendly and if you want how it looks you see a video: https://youtu.be/EZYA1cV53nw

Several years ago I was working a project of rendering some SVG information passed to client in json format. Unfortunately I lost time and money with this project because had some issues with the client. Then I just archived it for later use.

Now I had some free time and found that I lost the latest version but had some intermediate version. For quite some time I had crazy idea to try to render a game on a PDF. It is a crazy idea but it was itching me for several years. So I got merged some code and wrote I tiny game. The game is horrible, collisions don't work and a lot of stuff is just bad but good enough to test the idea. And here we go.

There almost no time spent on writing it properly and no optimizations done (and won't be).
I don’t understand how people don’t like War and Peace, aside from its size and the weird discursive turns he takes in the appendices. I’ve read it three times and every time it’s a page-turner. So good. But Tolstoy was an infinitely better literary artist than Dostoevsky could ever hope to be. (Tolstoy’s novella, Hadji Murad, is 100 pages of literary crystal, cleverly concealing itself from you as you look on through the transparent glass of words into the world Tolstoy points out to you, until you realize the whole thing is just Tolstoy and his astonishing talent).

But Dostoevsky had the real big heart, and I love him for it.
I feel like the world would be better off if VC money was funneled into more local small businesses and "lifestyle" startups, not 100m+ "moonshots" like this. Unfortunately that doesn't "scale".
Aces High 3 is a really fun similar fighting ww2 based combat sim
> Suburbs are simply incompatible with these ideas

Indeed. But you seem convinced it's the idea of walking to fulfill basic daily needs that's the problem...
To dovetail off the current sibling comment -- what you are describing is still a monoculture.

You could create a beautiful multi species meadow that would cycle through different plants with the seasons. Or you could build vegetable garden beds surrounded by wood mulch. Or use a low lying no-mow ground over.

I'm not sympathetic to the neighbors who might not like it, though. If their yard's ecosystems isn't resilient then that's their problem.
It’s a value of the database play and graph databases (association, social credit) gain most of their value (like social networks) from scale. You don’t have to have great data, but you need a LOT of data, for them to serve the purpose.

There is a lot of room for systems that are the silver standard and the math enables a great deal of reliability for those outside of the traditional financial systems (many people). It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be good enough.
Update, this seems to work:

function backup {
local SOURCE=$1
local DESTINATION=$2
local ID_RSA=$3

local VALID_SSH="yes"
local RSYNC_OPTIONS=(-av --no-perms --links)

if [[ "${VALID_SSH}" == "yes" ]]; then
RSYNC_OPTIONS+=(-e "ssh -i ${ID_RSA}")
fi

rsync "${RSYNC_OPTIONS[@]}" "${SOURCE}" "${DESTINATION}"
}

I got lucky and found this information with an explanation at: https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=bug-bash@gnu.org&q=sub...

So, is it a good advice to always use bash arrays to construct arbitrary options for commands?
I'd encourage folks to think beyond just annuals and diversify into perennials (especially tree crops -- fruits and nuts). In almost every place in the world, except the arctic or highlands, one can grow dozens or even hundreds of species of tree crops.

Check out a few resources:

https://crfg.org/homepage/library/fruitfacts/

https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/index.html

https://oikostreecrops.com/
I am all for privacy and encrypted communications. Until a legitimate law enforcent body gets a legitimate warrant against a specified organisation or individual.

Outsourcing some, or all of that to some VC backed companies, facilitating access for the various intelligence agencies, is what I have a problem with. And a crypto start-up setting out to build a global database of peoples retinas is exactly that.
>unintelligible, unformatted post

I'm not reading this
Median household income in America is roughly $70,000 per year. That is a roughly 20% real (not nominal!) increase over the past 40 years.

$10/month would represent 0.17% of that income.
The memory and bandwidth numbers are mind blowing. Going to be very hard to catch Nvidia. It’s as if competitors are going through the motions for participation prizes.
Oh, boy. "Musk's X social media platform" doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "Twitter".
My Intel Pentium 4 machine usually runs reliably and responsively, but you have to be careful: the default Windows picture viewer instantly freezes the PC if you click 'next image' before the current one has finished loading!
Carrd is doing fine at $19/year pricing. I am trying to play the same game here.
Where to begin.

Peter Hitchens is a bad blogger. An elderly white male points out all the things he already knows and how redundant making a movie about them is. He fails to acknowledge there are at least 2 generations of young people that did not grow up in an era where the cold war was "a thing" and may benefit from being exposed to a portrayal of the events which they know little about. He leaves out specific pieces of information such as German scientist actively sandbagging the atomic bomb idea to Hitler because they were afraid of what would happen if such a weapon were to be available to him. A similar belief held by the German scientist working for the Allies convinced them to work on it. He also neglects to point out the US was likely to lose 100s of thousands soldiers forcing Japan to capitulate the war. Maybe being British he does not consider that a problem.

I could go on but I might risk being as bad a Blogger as Peter Hitchens:)
The web is slowly being killed. The culprit? Capitalism.

Sorry, not sorry. Use Gemini, search with Marginalia, socialise with real people and reach your communities with email.
Tech is two parts wealth extraction for every part generation.
possibly the log value was reduced to just a string when it crossed an api boundary or something?
Stephan here, lead-developer of Formula8. For all who are interested in the technical implementation, I am available for exchange.

Quick overview of the stack:
- Remix React Application with Server-Side-Rendering (TypeScript)
- Supabase Backend & Database (Postgres)
- AWS Serverless Functions for batch-processing & fronted delivery
- AWS Cloudfront as CDN
Interesting. Peter Zeihan says (or said about 2 years ago) that the US is currently the only country with the engineering expertise to exploit shale deposits, so Washington could probably prevent China from exploiting that resource for a decade or 2 if it wanted to (i.e., by making it illegal for petroleum engineers and experts in the US to work in China).
School gyms and parish halls are also options, especially if you have a personal connection to one.
> Nothing cargo cult about enabling SE Linux, restricting access with IP tables, configuring AuditD and AIDE.

These are great ways to massively overcomplicate your system. Generally speaking, having encountered these tools, do not use them unless you're willing to dedicate about 2x the time you would otherwise spend administering the system.
Yeah the landing page is pretty poor at this moment, I did not work on the landing page yet. There are currently two different themes. Example blog can be seen here https://nanodevpro.com/blog

$29 is charged to attach to custom domain or /blog
That discussion was amusing. Removing the GIL opens up the possibility of actually getting a real performance benefit from multithreaded Python code. That's the value. Given every modern desktop and server is multicore (and increasingly getting to tens of cores if not hundreds), multithreading in Python unhampered by the GIL will be a useful thing. And no, multiprocessing is not a good alternative to multithreading. It's just an alternative, but it's slower, uses more memory, and coordination between processes is slower than between threads.
A lot of people in the first world are heavily deficient in vitamin D, and deficiency is linked to a whole host of health issues and vulnerabilities. It's dirt cheap and essentially completely safe below toxicity levels (which are quite difficult to hit -
I take 10,000 IU daily, and even with that my bloodwork shows me in the lower quartile of the normal range).

Its metabolite is a steroidal hormone, so it's pretty obvious why it would be beneficial for anti-inflammatory purposes, but it also modulates some key cardiovascular gene expression, too.
I know Dreamhost gets a lot of hate but here me our.

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Includes managed Dreamhost hosting, web hosting for anything you want, email hosting, managed MySQL, ssh, etc.
Yeah… doctors recommend supplementing vitamin D if you don’t get much sun. This almost feels comedic.
It's free if you do not attach a custom domain
Ah yes, just like how I know most of my american friends have exactly 0.78 kids.
https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/

Currently the UK vote is based on trying to get about 1/3rd of the country, in specific places, to vote for you, not 50%. It's a flawed democracy that has gradually evolved from an even more flawed democracy but now lags the state of the art by some margin.
Wasting Time to Waste Less Time
That’s a typical software engineer solution, though. In the real world, putting spaces in file names is much more natural than avoiding it at all costs. We find it distasteful only because we have PTSD from using such dumb tools.

The real solution is something that does not split a variable on spaces, or that offers some control about how it splits things. These exist, there is no excuse to stick to bash in this day and age.

We really don’t need another layer of obfuscation between GUIs and the underlying file system.
And https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.18.0-released.html puts that also nearly 3 months ago, FWIW.
Still not encouraged by the no-GIL, "We don't want another Python 2->3 situation", yet very little proffered on how to avoid that scenario. More documentation on writing thread-safe code, suggested tooling to lint for race conditions (for whatever it is worth), discussions with popular C libraries, dedicated support channels for top tier packages, what about the enormous long-tail of abandoned extensions which still work today, etc.
It's all about framing. Lobster was previously a poor person's dish, suitable only for prisoners, slaves, and servants. Servants even made moves to limit the amount of lobster they could be fed. And then it became a luxury food. Kale also became popular thanks to marketing.
That's only true for certain species in the Taraxacum genus. There are many Taraxacum and other chicories native to North America which most people would still call "dandelion".
If all the externalities involved in having everyone use cars for every trip where they don't feel like walking are managed (including health impacts from pollution, sedentary lifestyles etc., time wasted sitting in rush hour traffic, dominance of cityscape by infrastructure dedicated to automobile traffic etc. etc.) then sure, driving is objectively better. I've yet to come across anywhere in the world that's true though.
> I would've thought the bicyclists would have empathy and solidarity, at least against the cars ... And now we're getting dedicated bike paths often at the cost of sidewalks.

I live in another HCOL area allegedly famed for its walking and biking facilities, and I hoped the same thing. Unfortunately, the process here seems to have turned into "each individual group vs car drivers", probably by design. For example, where I live has separate pedestrian, bicycle, and transit advisory boards to the city council. Never mind that projects should be built to benefit all three, not just one.

What's wound up happening is, because we "obviously cannot" take space from car drivers, the precious little room given over to modes that don't involve driving are forced to compete with each other. A new train station was built on the north end of town and the former sidewalk area on one side of the train station has been repurposed as a bicycle-only lane. The other side of the street is still a pedestrian sidewalk...but the street itself is a four-lane thoroughfare with very wide lanes and a median turn lane in spots. Of course, narrowing the car space on that road to make the corridor more comfortable for people on feet and on bikes was completely out of the question.

Also, the sidewalk didn't get fully rebuilt so I routinely see people in wheelchairs and pushing prams on the "bicycle-only" side because that's much smoother and even.
You might well be right. Furthermore, English is on its way to become the universal language everyone speaks. You are however wrong about comparing AW to translators, which are probabilistic algorithms whereas AW is intended to be as exact as Wolfram Alpha. AW should be also able to use Wikidata to generate unique articles that do not exist even in English.

BTW, translation tech is not as good as you paint it here. I regularly translate my English blog posts to Slovak and every blog post requires 20-30 corrections. DeepL is marginally better than Google Translate. GPT-4 cannot even get word inflection right, an embarrassing fail for such a large model.
Benthy, maize, and arabidopsis are the three major plant models. Hundreds of labs specialize in benthy, thousands more use it. It is absolutely a model by any conceivable definition of the term.

One of the primary reasons it is a model is due to transient expression in the leaves via TMV. You can quickly assay many constructs on the same plant with a simple overnight experiment.
UPD: Bob Collins[0] (he done some work for EAA Radio) corrected me:

> different Bob Collins. That Bob Collins was later killed in a midair[1]

> we were both in the radio business. Both pilots. Both in the Midwest. But he was the famous one.[2]

Here is a Bob Collins (broadcaster) mentioned in the article.[3]

[0] https://mstdn.social/@Bcollinsmn/110770469781173100

[1] https://mstdn.social/@Bcollinsmn/110804927016032553

[2] https://mstdn.social/@Bcollinsmn/110805181367391087

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Collins_%28broadcaster%29
I second the Sports Research brand it's my favorite based on their obvious careful choice of fillers.

Anyway, yes the full spectrum of the sun provides much more, not only UV for vitamin D but the red/infrared part of the spectrum which is great for cellular energy.
My point was regarding the "no censorship in Scandinavia" comment that I replied to. The rest of your arguments are just ramblings about you not caring about individual freedom. You even justify their actions using your own made up arguments (which I'm not even bother going to sensibly refute). It is your exact attitude that gets us into trouble with power greedy politicians. You're an easy mark.
That was the opinion of a handful of vocal posters. The overhead of using multiprocessing and/or some network service is extremely high for a lot of applications.