skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All you need is zeolite crystals and a compressor. Zeolite fixes nitrogen under pressure, so you can use it to separate nitrogen from oxygen. This is how those "oxygen concentrators" work. I'm sure you get can hold of a relatively-cheap chinese one, they don't have dangerous parts or controlled substances. But it wouldn't be that hard to build one from scratch either.

https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-oxygen-concentrator.h...
Except it literally was just tested.
And not only a homophone - they have the same etymology.
If they feel they can bring in even more revenue from investing that money elsewhere then yes.
This was a plot point in Avenue 5. The office of the other president.
It feels like a meme in CEO/executive social circles. Work from home is "seen" as inefficient and unproductive, especially once some studies making this connection came out.

I think the most dramatic example is Mark Zuckerburg's about face. Here is a huge company that literally bet their name and future on remote work, that is extremely well equipped to operate remotely for that exact reason. That decision to bring everyone in is not some managerial preference or slight inefficiency. To be so dramatic, the root must be an existential distrust of remote work from the very top.
That won't do it, also need to close other stuf

{"this": "is valid json so farrrrrrrrrrrrrr

But yeah the general idea makes sense. Once you hit a timeout, change the mask to things that will close existing open things in a valid manner (}, ), ], ")
I have noob thought on the potential of these in Formal path planning.
Specifically given a set of functions that basically map {State -> Actions} given preconditions, transition functions (heavily paraphrasing STRIPS[1]) can a correct and optionally "realistic" plan be generated[2]? I am quite interested in this. It seems clear that the issue is that there is no "guidance" like DFA on what is the correct next symbol for a Plan, but perhaps the AI can generate some kind of a probability or order on what is the best step and one can go from there...

Are you guys thinking about this direction?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Research_Institute_Pr...

[2] Formal Planning decision problem(plan exists) given STRIPS spec is at least NP-Complete[1]. There are several mathematical, logical and statistical "tricks"(e.g. [3]) that are used to bring down the complexity and try find a plan using heuristics(thinking MDPs, POMDPs here). This is not new, everyone in LLM research knows this.

[3] "Between MDPs and semi-MDPs: A framework for temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437029...
Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted
“Not putting anything in writing” is an ages-old power-wielding technique. It’s easily to move the goal posts back when there’s no authoritative written record of what the goals are.
Even in Node I found the rx* libraries to be a bad abstraction and slow. I tend to just have my own observable stuff as I only want a small feature set in that regard anyway.
But also "whatever timezone that office building will exist in" may not actually be the same as the timezone that is actually used by the occupants of that office building. There are numerous communities which unofficially observe a different timezone to the one officially assigned to their locality.
I think you missed the entire point. Botany is great and important for some exceptionally talented person. The kind of kid that gets scholarship to a top university because they’re super smart and conscientious. These people will make a difference.

It’s pointless for a middle class kid of average or even slightly above average ability with nothing to fall back on. These people need to make a living.

Once you’re earning a living then there’s nothing stopping you from exploring botany. The internet is full of resources. Your local college will probably let you sit in for free. Do that.
And that was the thinking at the engineering school I went to. We offered an English major.

Why?

Because engineers should take a fair number of English courses as part of their major, and you attract the best teaching talent if you have an actual program, even if you only have a few explicitly-majoring students.

Eliminating foreign language requirements seems insane to me, though. How much of the world is missing to you without a second language?
I think you're being unnecessarily harsh considering that it's not a paid option. That being said the lack of a graceful reflow option that allows you to delete/add/insert notes and have everything reflow across the musical bars drives me absolutely nuts, and is one of the foundational reasons why I don't use MuseScore.

As a result, I end up having to do a great deal of musical arrangement work in guitar pro of all applications. Then I can export and import it into MuseScore for final touches.
Conservation to enable ongoing future exploitation. That's a very different brand of conservation.

There's a reason those same groups refuse to support policies that would stave off climate change: it would require less exploitation of natural resources, and thus there's no money in it.
Want to give a shout out to an alternative to Apollo, which is GraphQL Yoga[0]

It tends to support the latest accepted RFCs of the GraphQL spec, works with subscriptions, can do a form of federation via Schema Stitching[1] and is a blast to work with.

The company behind it (The Guild) also has a service called Hive[2] that can provide analytics, schema checks, manage gateways etc.

For complex cases, they also have GraphQL Mesh[3] as an alternative to Apollo Gateway

[0]: https://the-guild.dev/graphql/yoga-server/docs

[1]: https://the-guild.dev/graphql/stitching/docs

[2]: https://the-guild.dev/graphql/hive

[3]: https://the-guild.dev/graphql/mesh
That is false. They juggle the numbers and hide all kinds of surcharges.

There are tiered plans and time-of-use plans that make it almost impossible to get the rates other states have 24/7.

for example, an electric vehicle plan that discounts electricity to 27c/kwh at night for charging, makes you pay 58c/kwh during the day.

Basically they outlaw air conditioning (and any kind of daytime appliance use).

The upside to this is that it lets people install solar + batteries and make themselves independent of the utility.

I expect the long game is to bow out of residential electricity (which has more expensive infrastructure), get some sort of "minimum payment" plan in place to cover it anyhow, and collect ruinous rates from city dwellers with no solar ability and where infrastructure per household is efficiently deployed.
> It concluded that the nitrogen in ambient air slightly but measurable impairs human performance

So would a modified cabin air mix improve the performance of pilots?
Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript
Hi HN community! We want to share AI-town, a deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI simulation - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.

Inspired by great work from the Stanford Generative Agent paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442).

A few features:
- Includes a convex.dev backed server-side game engine that handles global state
- Multiplayer ready. Deployment ready
- 100% Typescript
- Easily customizable. You can fork it, change character memories, add new sprites/tiles and you have a custom AI simulation

The goal is to democratize building your own simulation environment with AI agents. Would love to see the community build more complex interactions on top of this. Let us know what you think!

Demo: https://www.convex.dev/ai-town

I made a world Cat Town to demonstrate how to customize AI town. Using C(h)atGPT :)

Demo: https://cat-town.fly.dev/
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yes but during the day the ev plan is 58c/kwh
Chicago public school are extremely effective given the population they have to teach: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/upshot/a-bett...

The core problem is poverty, not the school system.
How does learning other language increase empathy? Can you give a specific mechanism or metric for that? This sounds like a feel good idea, but I’ve taken foreign languages in a formal setting with 3 different languages; I never felt more empathetic afterwards.
Ed Yourdon did a book called "Death March" which might be apropos, though more of a cautionary tale of what NOT to do.
The most relevant quote I could easily find: "Rewarding soldiers with loot and using conquered lands to form colonies wasn’t new and Marius doesn’t standardize it, Augustus does."
Wasn't healthcare.gov outsourced to contractors in the first place? I'm not sure that government actively maintains much in the way of dedicated employees or teams to build stuff like this.

The problem lay with picking the cheapest contractor bids. If anything, the FAANGs should establish consulting arms for this kind of work.
I am in a similar position as you. And I feel like I am avoiding burnout by shifting the productivity ChatGPT provides me with to my own projects. I mainly work for clients as a independent contractor (web dev), initially they got A LOT more output from me, in the hours which I worked in. I stopped doing that, I actually started to reduce my hours, and gave them the same expected output. 8 hours billed usually where 4-6 hours of sitting behind my desk, now 8 hours billed are 2-4 hours. I would have expected to burn out by now, if all I did was client work; even if they paid me by my output.

Now, I have a mountain of free time, and all this free time goes into working alongside ChatGPT on my own startup. It's a non-AI B2B app, where before ChatGPT I would have needed at least 2 other people working with me. Instead its just me, 8-12 hours per day, next to my work. Its absolutely NOT a work-life balance, but the potential in pay-off which is slowly starting to become realized (2nd B2B user signed on just yesterday), off-sets any fear of a burn out at the moment.

I often feel, that people who say, that ChatGPT can't help them be productive, or makes them "10%-20% more productive", are too far ahead of their own progression curve, or just don't know how to prompt well. For me its easily a 2-5x productivity boost. I stopped talking with some friends who were constantly sending me ChatGPT memes or tricks to get AI to see weird things; its been ridiculous.

> Personally, in my early 40s, I feel my brain is back in 20s.

I am nearing my 40's now, and it feels the same.
sugar is a grass, or corn syrup, which is from a grass...

edit: also opiate and opioid are different, i'm talking about the brain chemical, not the drug.
no luck, applied months ago, wondering same
the response Andrew Lunn seems reasonable.

the Linux kernel is 30 years old. its pretty big already. do you have any idea the monster it would look like, if they just said "yes" to everything? I want people like Andrew and Greg looking critically at additions, not just rubber stamping everything. otherwise, the kernel will be reading email soon:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law
The string stuff in abseil is mostly a historical byproduct of what google was doing in 1998: manipulating lots of strings. at the time, the C++ standard library string implementation (mainly the GNU one) was immature and slow. The string library was written in the early days for performance reasons, as well as reliability (at the time, the libstdc++ was so bad that most string operations just made garbage, not strings). And then it got too expensive to change the entire codebase.

I remember Sanjay Ghemawat or Jeff Dean mentioning that one of their big "optimizations" was to inline short strings into the string object- instead of a string that was "size_t len, size_t capacity, char *data", anything less than 24 bytes was just stored directly instead of with a pointer. when you're running mapreduces with trillions of small keys, this makes a big difference!
Agreed. It’s confusing as hell
There’s obviously a middle ground between the two extremes, where the prediction would still be significant.
It is Omega Star that doesn't support ISO timestamps, correct, but it is EKS (Entropy [K]haos Service?) that getting deprecated at the end of the month. Without that you can't provide a time stamp for the end of the universe to Galactus.

Having said that, I am probably wrong too.
Are there many car factories in Montana?
Are there strip mines?
Frakking oil fields?
This is Montana not North Carolina
./configure, make, make install have been more reliable than any pip install I had to deal with.

I read about a C++ package manager written by Microsoft few years ago, maybe it's now somewhat usable?
Just curious what ever happened
unless they want their population to live on nothing like North Korea

The exchange rate is irrelevant to people who are not importers or exporters. A ten-rouble cabbage is always a ten-rouble cabbage within Russia. And a five-dollar coffee in the US is always a five-dollar cup of coffee, no matter what any of the external exchange rates is.

For importers a high rouble-dollar exchange is required, it makes imports cheaper in roubles.

For exporters, a low rouble-dollar exchange is required, it makes exports bring in lots and lots of roubles.

Russia is a net exporter of goods. The lower the rouble-dollar exchange rate the more roubles that Russians receive for their sales. What's not to like?

For countries like the US, who are net importers, a high exchange rate is necessary, otherwise imports would be too expensive to buy.
Should the title read "PicoLisp"? Looks like there's a typo in the title of the article lol.
I think offpeak EV charging is a relatively small fraction of overall electricity consumption.
When people are working remotely it doesn't feel like you are at the helm of anything
We’ve seen this too. We run them as two separate stages - “reason”, log the intermediate output, then parse.
also there is not clear roll out plan either. The system seems to be very useful for large document. I am willing to pay but they don't let me lol
I completely sympathize with the author and his colleagues. However, I would respectfully say given the state of the university, please do not contemplate staying back.

It seems most of the authors’ colleagues have external funding sources which they can take with them.

Make a clean break. The relationship right now is broken. I wouldn’t try to mend it. It’ll just cause more stress as time goes on.
Tenure prevents you from being fired individually but does not protect you if your whole department is axed. That may be why the cuts are structured the way they are (entire departments) rather than culling specific faculty in departments that are over staffed relative to enrollment.
There need to be a license change for this to be possible.
Like a store and forward wifi mesh network? I worked on this in 2008.
A NUC in my garage
For extra context, Linus' response to this so far: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1526180-gamers-nexus-alleges...
Just the coal power plants that TFA mentioned that got to skip regulatory evaluation because of friendly politicians.
Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is great.
I can only imagine that you are trolling, at this point. You understand the concept of profit, right?

Let's just do numbers here:

* Option A: you have 1mUSD to invest into Department X.

* Option B: you have 1.2mUSD to invest into Department X and you get Department Y for free.

Option A makes zero sense, logically.
Ethical Considerations in AI Development
I used the Docker instructions on their website. Just follow it very closely and make sure the right ports are opened. Then work on configuring it. You can adjust the video quality up to 1440p in the config.js - this quality blows away Zoom.
I read this article, linked on HN, and when I went back to the comments I saw the post was flagged and there was no option to comment.

I changed the title of this submission to reflect what I see the essay as; a statement of concern about how large language models are being developed and used.

If the fact that the five people featured and quoted are all women bothers you, consider exploring that on your own before whining about or diminishing it. My feeling is that we're all the richer for including people from diverse backgrounds because I am so far from knowing everything, and I'm curious what others know and why. Whining and diminishing diversity, equity, and inclusion feels small-minded, fearful, ignorant; I get enough exposure to that destruction, and I'm neither a person of color nor a woman (I'm a White cisgender male who grew up financially poor and experientially rich, thanks largely to caring adults and public libraries).

I'd rather AI not be made, and that we do something more like what an Amish community I'm familiar with does: they decide what technology to allow. I'm not putting them on a pedestal here, as they have plenty of problems, too (the often autocratic way in which such decisions are made, for one)- we will always have problems, incidentally or intentionally.

I recommend reading the whole essay before reacting to the title of it. Feel free to react to anything I wrote here, though; I have my own insecurities and ignorance of so much, including unknown unknowns of course, and I don't claim to profess "the one right way" to proceed; I have a value set based on my life experiences, and I appreciate living in a representative democracy where other people can argue about and vote their values.
Are you really sure your machine isn't running malware that intercepts queries?

The query [ google stock ] would never return zero results.

If this is really happening to you, please post an actual screenshot demonstrating that a standard browser in incognito (not logged in) mode on a standard OS returns no results for [ google stock ].

I'm not saying Google's core product hasn't slipped but that's one query I run every day.
I have zero empirical data to back it up but as a freelance I.T. consultant, my gut instinct is that part of the trend (at least within the realm of I.T. infrastructure/security/management that I am most familiar with) has to do with increasing development of derivatives from other OSS projects, which generally involves adoption of the parent project’s license, in whole or in part, so there’s a function of OSS spawning more OSS.

It could be an interesting data analysis project to work out some mechanism for establishing OSS “family trees”.
Way too many parameters to be interesting. Talk about fitting an elephant.
It's not the method you shouldn't believe in, it's the teachers that are malicious. But yours is still an important point to make. The reason that all tests are standardized now, is in large part because of this reduction in bias. plenty of teachers are biased against students and will abuse said power, it's not a defect shared with multiple choice tests.

It seems insane to me to return to something we know is bad just because a new calculator was invented. At least before we figure out how to fix it's known issues first.
This argument could be extended to anything by just dividing up the target into smaller chunks, just because individuals have negligeable impact on global climate doesnt mean nobody has any responsibility to reduce emissions. No raindrop thinks itself responsible for the flood.
The boredom itself that is solution. They moan for 5 minutes then find something useful to do.

Same like you going on a walk without a phone. It opens your mind.
To clarify my earlier comment, if your goal is to prevent or delay dementia, then you would want to know whether dementia causes poor vision or poor vision causes dementia (via reduced visual stimulation or reduced engagement in cognitively engaging activities that require good vision like reading, some sports, etc.). This is because there may be effective interventions and strategies for dealing with vision impairments.
thanks for the valuable contribution to the conversation.
Father of Artificial Organs: The story of medical pioneer Willem J. Kolff
>The Register's schtick has long been disregarding journalistic appropriateness

AFAIK, they're writing in the style of UK "red-top" tabloids. It's a decent gimmick.

I wonder if they ever considered adding glamour model photos on whatever counts as page 3.
> operating profits of more than $800,000 in each of the last three years

while I'm sympathetic to their plight, the notion of "profit" for an individual department of a university is probably laughable to a real accountant (which I'm not).

College finances are indeed a disaster, though, and it's mostly their own fault:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090403
That will happen when you are a̶r̶t̶i̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶g̶r̶a̶m̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶s̶ [1] making technology for selling ads every day.

[1] https://youtu.be/ISkAkiAkK7A
The description of people who are excluded “from their definition of press”: Julian Assange.
Montana is not an island. Behaviors and precedents spread.
He showed that in the past already.

Being pro unions... unless it is in his own companies.

Warranty on products... unless it's his own products.

His employees are seemingly pretty underpaid too and that while having some of the strictest rules around letting them build their own online presence of "youtube / new media companies" out there.
Tbf, on the last point, I'm not sure if he ever criticized other companies for underpaying their employees in the past.
Linear is nice although it’s getting more and more like Jira (read: bloated)
The C++ standards group should treat this problem as a high priority. If they define something reasonable, we can gradually migrate code to it.
Hopefully some of them will stay and work in Montana and not leave for greener pastures. It would be a shame and unbecoming if they don't follow through on their promise.
Downloaded the extension and tested that it's working. QQ: What does it mean when there is a "hit" (e.g., 1 appears), but when I click the extension to investigate all extensions show 0, and the original displayed number disappears?

Also, if I delete an extension, it still appears in the list of extensions in Little Rat. Any easy way to fix this?
Please add something to the conversation?
While I agree that almost everyone uses IDEs when doing C#

then I'm not sure about this folder thing.

I've been shocked many times when seeing Java repos that they have like 5 empty folders nested just to have 3 java files. I don't see that in C# world.

>it makes reading the code stupidly hard, unless you download and load into an IDE or something like GitHub with essentially a web IDE. so anyone used to just a normal editor like Vim or similar is basically out of luck.

What does "normal editor" even mean?

Shouldn't "normal" be dictated by market share? so VS Code, Notepad++ according to SO Survey 22
Great clarification, thank you! Did not consider that option.
I think it's (looesely) tasks vs threads. Threads have a stack trace and a well defined state in the JVM, tasks are objects on the heap.

I work on moderate sized async reactive pipeline with lots of CompletableFutures throughout (and chaining of them so you can process a batch in parallel and commit contiguous offsets periodically) and there's several bugs that have been undebuggable because they happpen _infrequently enough_ in prod, the heap dump is huge, and there's no stack trace to tell you what is going on. The best you can do is lots lots and lots of logging and turn it into an analytics problem to find out what happened (to be fair, logging is only marginally better than wading through a heap dump of completable futures).
I'm a software engineer and I don't find much value in ChatGPT. It provides a bit of help when writing very specific and short pieces of code for languages I know but don't use often. I'd be curious to have actual data on how other SWEs use it.