skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No at all. No one is suggesting it must cover all power needs. Sure, there may be municipalities that are advantaged by it due to the unique and perfect nature of their geography. But that's not going to be enough to put any realistic dent in the problem at a national level.

Many people have done the math.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/
Curious on this too -- no bites? Surprisingly very few deets on HN about colo & bare metal options. Weird.
Gestural view construction
Sometimes it's concretely a specific amount faster because you're replacing some other workflow with the software, but yes sometimes you're enabling something which would otherwise just not happen. Colleagues in our sister group, which doesn't have any actual software engineers, helped some academic librarians build a tool to automate something they knew they couldn't otherwise do at scale. They want to teach students how to use a library effectively, and while any of them could walk say, one student per hour through this, there are thousands of new students every year, it's not manageable. Midway through the presentation the specialist explaining it said "It's not a program" and I was glad to find I wasn't the only person who wanted to interrupt, because duh, of course it's a program. They've built a program. It's a bunch of instructions, for how the computer does stuff, it's a program.

Yes these people wouldn't have attempted Python, let alone Rust, but what they've built is a program, in a visual programming language. Is that intimidating and so they might struggle to maintain it? Yes, a little bit maybe, but pretending it isn't a program won't help. And that might mean sometimes you need a software engineer, the same way that if we want a bike shed (and sometimes we do, students like bicycles), sometimes we might need the staff architects down the corridor from me, don't just throw up a few brick walls and hope you got it right.
Splitting the Web
Excel was actually born on Mac OS. :)
Wow, I've been a consistent Uber-bear since 2016, so am pretty surprised by this. Only another 30 years or so of profits like this to repay their accumulated loss!
Plenty of practically mint human bodies just sitting around waiting to be repurposed.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9816703
Dwarf Fortress has some interesting mechanics that might be of interest.
> "a philosophy professor has a gun to your head and demands that you justify your work as a method for approximating reality"?

You probably won't survive that encounter.
Ivy ML Transpiler and Framework
Ivy is both an ML transpiler and a framework, currently supporting JAX, TensorFlow, PyTorch and Numpy.

Ivy unifies all ML frameworks enabling you not only to write code that can be used with any of these frameworks as the backend, but also to convert any function, model or library written in any of them to your preferred framework!
The biggest tree cutters aren't the government.

The big cutters are paper companies. Corporate forests are planted in nice rows like corn, so it is easy to plant, easy to harvest. Reduced time, reduced labor.

And, these small private groups have larger labor overhead.
Maybe tribes like this, or small family owned plots can do this.

But I wonder if they are really self-sustaining, or these groups have cash coming in from other endeavors, other jobs that help support them.
I love a good lyric swap, I like the original song, and I couldn't make it through one minute of the song. Song is not good.
Fantastic graphic artist.
Steve Jobs’s Son Gets into Venture Capital
Langsmith is broadly for tracing the chains - are you looking for prompt deployment solutions?
The best UUID type for a database Primary Key
Thanks for the chuckle. Last week I tried using the Win32 APIs to make a little ssh/sftp file browser, gave up, and started rewriting all my work in Rust. A half-baked fledgling Rust GUI library with a short gitbook's worth of documentation is more usable than the API Microsoft has been shipping for... decades?
Everytime people came up with a new curriculum or a new way to teach it seems to always backfire. Here's a thought, dont do anything. Let education be the farce that it is, save for some people who really believe in it, which are the only benefactors since the beginning anyway.
> It just seems strange to simultaneously claim to have discovered something 24 years ago, and to have been rushed into publishing prematurely.

They had to get other jobs to survive. Somone else forced their hand with the publication. There's nothing incosistent about that.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a portable posix shell script. They all rely on bash-isms and gnu binary behavior
They want a mix of both, I'd say.

People who go see a populist politician give a speech expect mostly to hear things that will reaffirm their existing views. But the rousing and titillating part is the blended-in surprise that explicitly goes against what they used to believe — e.g. "To preserve our beautiful democracy against these ruthless internal enemies, we must now [do thing that's directly against democracy]"
Thanks for the response.

You are probably right in the general case.

I'm only searching hundreds of vectors, and it seems to be working surprisingly well (astonishingly well really!) - but I've only spent a few hours working on this and are far from having a proper measure of how good it is.

I'll try the smaller subspace ideas - seems like it'd be easy to try and could work.

> How big is the data set (number of vectors) that you are searching among

The biggest dataset I've tried so far is 400 (it is searching similar scenes in a sports broadcast)

> and are you performing single queries or batch queries?

single - choose a scene and it finds similar ones.

Thanks for Faiss BTW. I love love love it - long time member of the FB group you have. I think I switched to Annoy because I had a packaging issue some time back or something.
I get the impression that you have children, and GP does not. You absolutely have to pick your battles, and you can't pick every single one. Trying to do so is not only guaranteed to result in failure, but it will riddle you with stress and anxiety that takes a real physical toll on your body (I speak from experience here).

A little while ago I took the kids hiking and they ignored my instruction to hydrate before we left, so 20 minutes into the hike we had a dehydration near emergency. There are a couple of (plastic) bottles of water in the trunk, but they sat for a long time in a hot car in July. Do I risk death or emergency room visit from dehydration? Or do I risk damage from microplastics? The latter seems obviously better to me. Agonizing over the potential damage won't do any of us any good. The only thing we can do is prepare better for next time. For example I now carry a Life Straw with us on all hikes, but we live in a desert and most of the places we go there aren't any sources of water.

We should definitely do the big things like not microwaving plastic, but trying to live a life where everything everywhere is toxic and it's our responsiblity to prevent it is not only doomed for failure but also a recipe for stress and axiety. I think it's important that we advocate for changes at the macro level.
> So you give a 5 star review when someone does their job? I always assumed such reviews should be reserved for those who go above and beyond

But why should they have to go above and beyond to get full marks?

If they put the undamaged package in the expected place at the expected time then what more do you expect, a song and dance?
Air-Ride Aviation Idea
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> postprocess the rendered depth map somehow, look for sharp dropoffs

This is fine, if you want a simple ~solid stroke. A simple edge detection kernel filter (e.g. Sobel) on the depth and/or normal map is the basis of most outline-like things you see (in games at least) today. This is useful, but it's not an accurate representation of the occluding contour, and it's in an unhelpful form for further processing (kind of like a raster vs. vector image).
> Did you know that the English way to pronounce "jujutsu" isn't how the Japanese pronounce it?

That's kind of tautological ...

However, yes, that is certainly true. Japanese has a pitch accent rather than a stress accent and all syllables are roughly the same length. English speakers don't tend to talk that way.
We visited three Worldcoin orb locations since its July launch – Rest of World
nVidia might be in a special situation here, so maybe they do sell at list price, but normally all of this stuff comes at deep, deep discounts.
Yeah just ignore the planet overheating
Or you use one of the many other search enabled LLMs (e.g. https://phind.com) or build your own via langchain etc.
I agree repetition is key. But here's what I noticed from personal experience. When I first read something interesting, it might not stick.

When reading it again (say: the same book a year later), knowing I must have read this very interesting thing before, but apparently forgot I more or less have the same reaction as being SURPRISED.
And more often than not THAT is when it really sticks.

This is from anecdotal, personal experience, but being surprised sort of unlocks things in the brain that make things stick (I could go on, on how this would be a biological advantage etc. but that is reaching) and I guess that is what Sivers is pointing at?
What do you mean with 'implementation of your startup'?
https://archive.is/9D6yR
> Humans have worked for themselves, for no master, since before we became Homo Sapiens.

Sure, humans worked for themselves, but that was not what ultimately got us here. Humans only survived and thrived by working together. Homo Sapiens won the evolution race because they managed to grow tribes more than others, not because of more individualism compared to other species.

I get that working alone is an absolute joy and for many tasks that's the most efficient way of doing something (I certainly prefer that for programming). But that's not true for every task or the way it was "meant" to be, like I refuted in the first place.

> The big societal achievement of capitalism is killing any entrepreneurial spirit and telling you you need to go to a good school and then find a good employer that takes care of all of your needs.

That's one aspect of it. But capitalism is inherently paradoxical and also would LOVE to not think of humans as... humans. If everyone was an enterprise they can profit a lot more. It's what we see today with the gig economy. A race to the bottom where everyone is their "own employer" with zero benefits, all the risks and easily replaceable. It's a wet dream for pretty much every capitalist. How many startups we have/had describing themselves as "Uber for X"?

Another aspect is that fostering entrepreneurial spirit is actually profitable. Whoever already has capital will pretty much always win, so if a naive person wants to bet all of their savings in a business that fails, that capital is transferred to the existing capitalists. It's a win for them. If they somehow succeed, the most likely outcome is that at some point this enterprise will be acquired by a larger company. It's a win/win for them.

IDK if we live in very different bubbles (it certainly seems like it) but I see an extreme amount of push from society towards entrepreneurship, not against it. It's simply a very good way to funnel money from the bottom to the top.
Seems almost like a spreadsheet once you hit a breakpoint. Pretty cool!
Wow, I didn't know anyone still uses Wing.

The modern debugging tools available in other IDEs work fine with PyPy (and have for years), so I guess that must be a wing issue.
I don’t think this is a valid argument. Airbnb specifically calls out including cleaning fees in these total, but this is something that affects small owners by default. The choice of cracking down on cleaning fees but not on resort fee? Purely on Airbnb. Moreover, when a host charges a cleaning see, it’s not the fee plus a tax on that fee, it’s just the fee. Hotels will tax you on each separate fee they add, so you really can’t trust that what you pay on Airbnb won’t balloon to 2x.
This is the scary scenario. What if AI does out pace humans, but the physical side does not, we don't succeed in making vast quantities of easy to build and maintain robots. Thus to keep industry going, the AI does need humans, and it gives the directions.

If you have ever worked in a modern warehouse, it is very evident, the humans are just following instructions from the system. Now scale that up to a manufacturing facility, it is already happening.

Everybody with an ear-piece or 'phone' type device, following instructions.
Are they really the same though? I mean we are talking about room temperature, not the"(relatively) high temperature", a term that is arguably misleading to a layperson.

I'd imagine most people who are informed of the difference would recognize that cuprate SC is nowhere near as useful.
The storage capacity is also limited by the superconductor's critical current. I imagine everything is fine until you add that extra bit of current that causes the material to switch out of superconductivity and all the concentrated energy has to find an escape real quick...
It's easy. Take for example the copper market (~$300B/year) and multiply at least by 10. Basically, it'll go everywhere, and more with the new applications. The only limit will be production.
or in this case, "Gοԁ" (following the example from fig 1b of https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14031).

Makes for an interesting DDG search: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=G%CE%BF%D4%81&ia=web
Founder of Socket here :) I'll be around for the next several hours to answer questions.
I'm with you on economists.

...not following all the way to lions. The list of reasons for a lion's fence to be high & strong enough to hold a lion, presumably, has more than just "lawyers" on it.

Kiwis are strange though, who knows. Maybe reduced liability reflects in large carnivore caging more directly than in places with cultural aversions to getting eaten.
Fermi check: Mu metal boxes are only good enough to reduce the influence of this planet's magnetic field, not eliminate, and that's a really weak field (in terms of flux density, it's of course also really freakin gigantic).
The funny part is that XMPP can essentially do what AP can with https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html
This is a smell that you should refactor how your configuration is done. What happens when there's a legit change to the config? If it's in git with `update-index`, you're going to have a hard time actually changing that file and getting the changes to the team. There are other reasons, but this is why things like 12 Factor recommend putting config in environment variables. It's made my life much easier.
https://12factor.net/config
I read that the development of the alloy used in the oxi pre-preburner side of Spacex’s Raptor engine (the main blocker to full flow combustion) was a trial/error grind vs an “a-ha” moment. Material Science sounds rough.
Non-JS Mirror [1]

[1] - https://archive.is/BeZ1v
Yes, I have personally used for some system admin tasks. I've used PyPy to write scripts and tools for automating tasks due to its performance benefits.
What Does It Take for a Lego Car to Roll Downhill Forever?
Ask HN: Finding useful/tech for good companies to work for
I can't find a less blunt way of saying that:

How do you find companies working on problems that are actually worth solving?

By that I mean:

- not making the world a worse place (e.g. ad tech, most of fintech, crypto)

- given that, those don't necessarily need to be NGOs, green tech, charities; "boring" businesses working closer to the user are also fine.

For context, here's my site: https://sonnet.io
I'd say that I'm a decent product developer/maker, designer and teacher (in that order), but I'm terrible at marketing, which is the main thing I'm trying to improve.

Here's how I'm approaching it so far:

1. I've taken a break from work to focus on research, and study (it's hard to keep focus otherwise and I'm generally quite engaged in my regular work)

2. I'm approaching (generally) smaller businesses directly instead of using recruiters

3. I'm actively working on smaller projects, focused on a specific user problem (e.g. mental health friendly apps, helping people discover alternatives to ad-sponsored social media) -- the goal here is becoming a solo founder (yes, I know it's hard)

4. I also run mentoring sessions via https://sonnet.io/posts/hi

Some of them turn into product discovery (people sharing their problems) or me becoming the mentee which I love as I thing this is a great personal/career development tool

I find it really hard to work "bullshit jobs", from a mental health point of view. The issue is that with the type of career many of us have followed here, esp. founders/software engineers it's easy to fall into a loop of solving more and more complex problems, then getting rewards for them, be it financially, through titles/labels, or (perhaps mainly) just more complex problems to solve... and it's easy to lose context, suddenly realise that the problems you're working on are not worth solving. I've grown out of that mindset, but weirdly enough, I'm feeling lost regarding how to get where I want to be.

So, how did you find a place like this? What would you recommend yourself x years ago, when you took your first steps?
Ha, good one! :)
The headline is misleading because this is not a "claimed successful replication" of the superconductivity experiment. All they're confirming is that they produced a diamagnetic substance: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-tempe... See Notes for the Huazhong University entry.

The translated sources do not have the scientists claiming superconductivity either.
Production takes more than a day - I don't know of any phone that can take videos lasting that long (if people are even willing to watch it). You can of course take several videos and splice them together.

Worse yet, I can with a bit of trick photography and standard liquid nitrogen cooled super conductors make a video that looks like success even though I'm working with colored wax for materials in the production process. (liquid nitrogen is hard to disguise, but with some trick photography and multiple takes I can do it). Or I can skip all that and spend some time in blender to do the above via CGI. (well I don't know blender that well, and most blender animations are obvious, but someone with a few months could pull this off)
Win32 definitely has some stinkers. But, video encoding APIs definitely take the cake for me. I've only tried a couple of FFmpeg's APIs and AV1's API, but my God, these are the worst API's I've ever had to deal with.

Just as an example, all I wanted was an API like this[0] for FFmpeg. In order to implement that API (which in my opinion is reasonable), I had to write this monstrosity[1]. It took me a solid week to find an example of how to do this, then another few days of fiddling until I finally just barely got something working. Then I threw in the towel even though the performance was horrible. I tried again a year later and spent another month wrestling with AV1 :/

The amount of leakage going on in these APIs is absolutely insane. I shouldn't have to know the intimate details of how video encoding works to use your library. If I do, then I may as well write my own encoder at that point.

[0]: https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation/blob/18c004bca...

[1]: https://github.com/ambrosiogabe/MathAnimation/blob/18c004bca...
> Louis Vuitton aside, it is well understood that even wildly successful businesses haemorrhage money for the first 5-10 years before reaching profitability.

What? You mean VC backed businesses only? So like 0.0...1% of all businesses? and btw LV is not one of them. You think that successful restaurant owner "haemorrhage money for the first 5-10 years"? He would be out of business 10 times by then.

> He did pay them more. Said workers went on strike last year because they wanted more, and shortly thereafter he responded by paying them more... Ask and you shall receive, as they say.

In France, after strike. What about Asia? where there are no unions and strong labor laws, did he pay them too? No he didn't.

> What are you expecting, exactly? Is it that you are appalled that workers have to make it known how much they expect to be paid? Do you want Bernard to walk the streets and surprise offer $100 bills to random passers-by?

> If so, what about you? Everyone on HN can spare a a few hundred dollars (you couldn't afford to be here otherwise), and more likely, given how much the audience is generally worth, can spare tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars. How many $100 bills did you unsolicitedly hand out today? Or are you one of those people who never pays more than the asking price even though you can afford to pay more?

Sorry but what the hell are you talking about? Do you remember the topic of conversation still? Because I'm replying to what you said "Not having enough revenue to pay the workers a sufficient rate is just a symptom of that.", which I proved is not the case in my specific example (because THERE IS ENOUGH REVENUE to pay workers more, he did it in France where labor laws and unions are the strongest on this planet) and it's also not the case in software industry and you talk about me handing out 100$ to random people on the street??? What?

I don't really know on which world are you living, but the reason most of businesses do not pay workers more is not "not having enough revenue" but because they choose to hoard money to themselves out of greed. I have many business owners in my family and they are driving porsches while paying their staff minimum wage, I assure you that they have enough revenue to pay their workers more.
I'm not here to offer solutions, I was writing this to show that the problem exists and that what you wrote is not true in majority of cases.