skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check this out, I am using these systems as pcengines replacement. Its fanless, low cost, reliable. I am using these systems for more than 3 months in a very harsh environment. HDMI model is available too. Works with Windows and FreeBSD, Linux. Intel based but gives a real feel of PCEngines. One point that I like about it that RAM is replaceable and current systems working with 4GB can upgrade anytime to 8GB.
Relying on past me is cheating. Current me needs to finish it all in one go.
Kids find lots of reasons to exclude.
My mum has a heat pump install which she hates for being lukewarm all the time. It feels underspecced!

When I've looked at one for my home to replace a 24kW gas boiler, all I can find is 14kW kits. Am I missing something? Can I not match the output of a big gas boiler?
Quoting from the article "Newton's theory of gravitation, while incomplete over vast distances and enormous speeds, is perfectly suitable for the Solar System. Halley's Comet appears punctually as Newton's theory of gravitation and laws of motion predict. All of rocketry is based on Newton, and Voyager II reached Uranus within a second of the predicted time. None of these things were outlawed by relativity."

We need relativity to correct the atomic clocks on GPS satellites so as to maintain positional accuracy to a few feet, but getting the satellites up there needed only Newtonian mechanics.
Which is all very well (and for something simple like str.endswith might well be enough), but for many things, even a professional Python programmer might either a) not remember the exact name of the method or other thing they're looking up, or b) want a more detailed explanation or examples showing usage.

None of that is going to be given either in an IDE or from help().
Yeah, not suggesting feature withholding per se, but a differentiator on why one would buy vs run the OSS build.
As a counterpoint, people acting in bad faith can continue asking questions. It's usually known as "sealioning"

https://wondermark.com/c/1k62/
With you on this, haha. Big tech has heavily crowded the wearables space, with questionable intentions and uses of personal health data.

Additionally, when doing research around kinetic / thermal energy harvesting technology for a wearable design project (gesture recognizing smart ring) for school, we found modules to have far too low a volumetric energy density (W/mm^3) to be useful, where size matters more than anything else.

Musical instrument design is a well saturated space as well…
DeepChat – customizable AI chat components
I have been using Django for 10 years and it still is my tool of choice when I need to build something quickly that needs a full HTML and form handling interface.

There is an excellent tool - https://djangobuilder.io/ that can also really speed up the boilerplate even more.
Innovation isn't just about speed; it's about understanding the nuances of user needs and market dynamics. Even the fastest CI can face hurdles if it doesn't align with the broader ecosystem's expectations and requirements.
I believe that having an open, verifiable public record of events - of communication about and for ones government, past and future - during the voting process, should be treated as a public utility.

With this function, a vote not only becomes a static erg towards ones favoured party - but a way for the future government to a) be sure it was voted in without corruption, and b) address any corruption occuring during that process, based on open, public, verifiable data.

Yes, this is just theoretical, and thanks for the time anyway .. it was just a thought experiment.
But wait, there's more!!!

https://twitter.com/JohnDraisey/status/1701620078419251255

> They eliminated Unity Plus subscriptions as of today, Plus members are being switched to Pro automatically. Be careful not to have auto-renew on your account if you can't afford the price. And this is with just 2 people on my team with project access.

I mean... Jesus.
Whole Foods, too.
It’s victim-blaming which apparently is still a thing, even though we practically banned that talk in regards to rape victims.
Not OP. He might be referring to the looping or enumeration pattern: evaluate some clause to get the first solution, “fail” to trigger backtracking and to get the next solution, etc. At the very end after printing all solutions, the program returns “No” because there are no solutions left.
As a fullstack dev working with c#/.net backend and react frontend, I can say that c# is great, and I wished more projects would use it.

<rant> Unfortunately, I agree that Microsoft was too late in realization that it is important to make it easier for developers and that they need to cater to the devs, instead of getting in their ways and making it harder for devs. The visual studio pro is still expensive (it should be FREE! community ed doesn't count) and still not as good as Jetbrain's Rider, which runs circle on VS. In fact, if MS had any sense, they should've bought Jetbrain just for Rider and scrap their bloated/slow visual studio, which only runs on Windows. MS needs to improve their tooling and also make VS for Linux if they want c# to be taken seriously for cross-platform dev. And stop changing the platforms and remove their absolute convoluted naming scheme. Why do we have .NET core which is now .NET 6, .NET framework is now supported and deprecated at the same time, desktop apps were written in WPF, and then UWP? and MAUI, and now is it called WinUI3? I have no idea because I can't keep track of changes anymore. One day it's called .net, who knows in few years it's going to be .azure, or whatever.
</rant>
With respect to graphene, it's possible to make reasonable quantities fairly cheaply using several different methods.

See here for a recent rundown (yeah, I know, youtube, but it's worth it in this case if you actually care about the subject.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q4UQL5k4wI

Graphene will be commercially cheap fairly soon, I suspect. Meantime, it isn't that difficult or expensive to experiment with for yourself.
(mods: please forgive the off-topic personal question here)

Hi Spivak,
You're not Lee Spivak (formerly of Upromise in the early 2000's), are you?
Django-Ninja is fantastic and based on pydantic.
Sorry, I misread your comment as GitHub, not GitLab. I was unaware you can run CI runners on GitLab community version.
Yeah, there's a lot of those types on the site. Like Super Mario Bros has Pacifist achievements to complete a World without hurting any enemies or becoming Fire Mario. I'm sure some people appreciate them, but it's not something I'm going to try.

https://retroachievements.org/achievement/40405
It's very tld dependant. .com and .edu have been there forever, so there are no problems.

But .xyz are usually spammy domains, so they are rejected by default.

My personnal .email address is also often rejected because the tld is quite recent.

The sites I have the most problems with are:

- small shops

- state own ones

- public utilities

Some bugs are not even pure rejection. E.G: my electricity provider, for the longest time, accepted my email when subscribing or using "forget password", but not when login.

On site once tried to autocorrect my email (!), to "fix" the tld.
> I’d love to read more about how Campbell specialized in irritating Asimov

Campbell (John, not Joseph; you got the wrong Campbell) specialized in irritating lots of people.

First, he was one of Scientology's early advocates (Dianetics, actually), and all kinds of pseudoscientific ideas. Even other scifi authors thought this weird.

His pseudoscientific ideas obviously clashed with Asimov's atheist and rational mindset about the world.

Campbell also bought into bizarre scifi/racist/supremacist theories which were not well received by his fellow authors. He was very pushy and meddlesome as an editor -- that alone wasn't unusual in scifi & pulp magazines of the time -- but he was also obsessed about specific and weird directions that he insisted most stories he published must follow.

For example, Philip K. Dick didn't really like Campbell's insistence that most scifi stories must feature telepaths, and also that telepaths must be benevolent and superior and take over humanity. PKD thought this reminded him too much of Nazi "master race" theories, and didn't like Campbell as a result.

The one good thing in Campbell's record: he wrote "Who Goes There", the original story then turned into the "Thing" movies. The story is quite good, too!
my bank disallowed me from using my google voice. they said to reduce impersonation. but i said this now makes me vulnerable to sim swapping attacks and they had no response
Why are drug dogs still even consider grounds for a real search?

The whole claim is predicated on them being unbiased, but it’s been well established that they will signal based on cues from their handlers.
Re #3 - depending on the area, two mentors offering conflicting advice is not inherently bad. I meta-advise my mentees to always get multiple mentors for that specific reason - to better understand what advise/suggestion/knowledge is likely to be universal, vs specific/circumstantial/personal. Other times, there's just more than one way to taxiderm a feline.

Like a surprising number of things, mentorship and advice should be actively sought if you want to benefit from them. It's one of a number of things I thought was automatic/granted early in my career :-/
I don't see any links on that page that take me to any code or documentation...
Interesting project! After diving into the codebase and looking around I found that iOS is not native... any plans on switching?

otherwise are there some docs/papers on how this has to be implemented so I can start my own?
Perhaps the complacency was assuming people would treat dangerous viruses as deadly weapons, and we've decided it's not worth the risk.

So not:

"Scientists working in this field might say—as indeed I have said—that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484390/

(Of course, common sense would say that if you're not willing to do this in your own backyard, you probably shouldn't let people with laxer standards and do it in theirs)
Thousands missing and feared dead after floods submerge eastern Libya
What can you do with the data that you get? It seems like a really cool project but I feel that it has been a long time since they posted something and the analysis sections seems incomplete.
I want to do one of this, but I want to know what is the data that I get and what cool stuff you can do.
I don't see any actual comparison to fossil fuels. They use a measure, COP, which is coefficient of performance, which doesn't seem applicable to fossil fuel furnaces or if applied there would give those furnaces an enormous COP number.

Anyways, I don't understand the need to draw these types of "total" comparisons. If you have reliable electricity, a heat pump is probably great, if you don't, then fossil fuels are clearly the way to go.

There is no "one size fits all" energy strategy.
You get customer when you solve a real problem for them. CI-Systems exists, slow or fast doesn't be a problem for most of the devs, cause you run normally everything local and only on publish in a remote CI-system. So CI-Systems exists and solve their problem.

I think only for a really small market the CI-performance is a real pain. Sure, everbody wants it fast, but that is not a reason to change a huge complex setup.
>Has anyone come down to why we were so against the lab-leak hypothesis?

Because the reality is that there just isn't that much evidence either way, because China was never going to let any real investigation happen, because it would always be a lose lose for them. "Comes from nature" is also sort of the DEFAULT and expected source, because that's what we are familiar with, what we prepare for, what we have experienced in the past, and what we expect to see in the future. The onus for most people in the area of virology was on those who claimed it came from the lab. Add to that, the lab leak theory was always touted with EXTREME certainty despite a lack of evidence (all evidence was circumstantial at best), and most people were skeptical. It also came from very untrustworthy sources for most people, including things like other, definite conspiracy theories. If it DID come from the Wuhan lab, it feels more like "A stopped clock" effect than people actually having any evidence.

I'm still not convinced either way. I saw plenty of virologists claim that the "evidence" being touted as proof of artificial origin could plausibly originate naturally. If it was a jury trial, I could not convict.
Creating a fresh account to accuse someone of a vague conspiracy is pretty on-point for the "scam/grifter" vibe described. This feels like "analog crypto" and sure enough Scott's got his own coin.

I'm disappointed because it looks like I resonate with a lot of his ideas, but the marketing turns me off more.
Tangential: syntax-highlighting math! This is the first time I’ve seen it. Not yet sure what I think about it, but I can definitely see the allure.
This is why some people don’t leave the house.
Looks really well executed, nice! I'd shared this idea with a few people. GPT and other LLMs don't allow you to use their output to train competing models, but the implication is that it's fine to use their output to train your own internal alternative models. So you can't sell access to the output as an API, but you can use it to replace your GPT API calls.

My other thoughts to extend this are that you could make it seamless. To start, it'll simply pipe the user's requests to OpenAI or their existing model. So it'd be a drop in replacement. Then, it'll every so often offer to the user - "hey we think at this point there's enough data that a fine tune might save you approx $x/month based on your current calls, click the button to start the fine tune and we'll email you once we have the results" - and then the user gets the email "here are the results, based on that we recommend switching, click here to switch to calling your fine-tuned model" - Helicone and the other monitoring platforms could also offer something similar. (Side note I'm working on an "ai infra handbook" aimed at technical people in software orgs looking to deploy unspecified "AI" features and trying to figure out what to do and what resources they'll need - it's a 20+ page google doc, if anyone can help me review what I have so far please let me know and I'll add you.)

If it's latency/error/speed competitive, and cheaper, and equivalently accurate, then for anyone doing production scale LLM API usage it'd make sense to use something like this - either the fine-tune is worse so you keep using the regular API, or the fine tune has parity plus cost and/or speed advantage, so you switch. (It wouldn't make sense for prototyping scale, because the additional complexity of the switch wouldn't be worth it unless it could save you 4/5 or more figures a year in API costs I'd think.)
I would look at BTUs rather than wattage and o would expect an equivalent heat pump system to use less electricity.
If you have an ability to force web-style updates on the client apps (which a tool like Conveyor supports, see my other posts or profile), then all you need is a database that supports many connections. You can then atomically upgrade all the clients by e.g. writing a version number to a db table that's checked as part of each transaction, if the version doesn't match the app proceeds to upgrade itself before continuing (unless it's marked as a soft update, i.e. not worth interrupting the user for). The versioning issues aren't much different to the ones you face once you decide to have multiple web servers and rolling upgrades.
Removing the splash screen, guess I'm supposed to fork X thousand dollars yearly given it's about 2K per seat now, jesus christ
If I had to guess, most Python users would rather read the farm sites than use the official documentation.
> You begin by creating a window. Then you draw some pixels or render a texture. You add events and controls.

Yes, but without an engine, how do you make this all cross-platform?

Using something like Unity, you can theoretically write your program once and it runs on damn near anything. Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, PlayStation 4/5, Switch, and more.
Thanks, it didn’t report back progress of charging, it was connected to a sensor (light sensor in this case but could be anything really) and would transmit that back to a base station.

The main use of energy harvesting is for powering wireless sensor nodes, so this was a simple implementation of that.
Wasn't a problem for me as it seemed to be normal for my role and location. Recruiters that I spoke to didn't say it was a problem.
Likely very little. But a merchant capable of writing (or paying a scribe to write) a formal cuneiform complaint about bad copper, then having it delivered, would know quite a bit more. Great question IMO - thinking critically about exactly these kinds of questions is one of the goals of the assignment.
You can, but central units aren’t great right now. Mini-splits are much better. Price is lower, cheaper to install, regulation between rooms is more even, and you can turn off unused rooms to save energy.

Not sure why the market has moved this way but it is what it is. That unit probably is underspeced
I would argue their main motivation for keeping iOS separate from MacOS is that it's much more locked down. If they were to try to merge the two, they would either have to give up a sizeable portion of revenue from their app store and advertising monopolies on iOS, or handicap MacOS making it much less competitive with laptops that actually treat you like the owner of your own hardware. But if the EU is successful at tearing down a few more of the iOS garden walls, Apple may start to think convergence is a good idea.
How do you know their users don’t actually want these other sites and would rather read the formal docs?
>Garbage in garbage out, and there is a ton of garbage in the Falcon/Llama (and OpenAI?) datasets. It feels like such a waste of compute and parameter space.

This is true and most researchers understand this on some level (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759) but understanding it doesn't really make the problem any easier. How do you curate a general purpose model's dataset without throwing the baby out with the bathwater ?

EDIT: This paper seems to take a good stab at the question.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04564
Can you please share how you learned leadership, communication, negotiation etc. and how you measured your effectiveness as a manager?

This thread is mostly just like these management books - collections of anecdotes disguised as a training manual. Which is incredibly frustrating since most of them can be applied in that particular situation with those particular people. Are there really no principles that can raise your effectiveness in any situation?

Some time ago there was an army manual shared on HN, which taught leadership from first principles. Pure gold, I thought, and read on, until page 4 where the anecdotes of how some captain or other led his men to battle and captured the hill started...
If you have a SteamDeck, it's built in to the setup for EmulationStation. You can just enter your Retro Achievements username and password and it will automatically be hooked up for all emulators (It's case sensitive though, as warning. Didn't work for me until I updated it to match the case).

Then when you launch a game, if it recognizes the game (seems to be based on checksums and not the name itself, renaming didn't seem to help for the games I had it didn't recognize) and achievements are set up for the game, you'll see a banner appear that says the game name, icon, and '0 out of X achievements' and you're golden.

Really breathed new life into retro games for me. Now it's not just me playing many games for like 5-15 minutes an moving on, I try harder to complete the games now. Already gotten much farther in some NES games than I ever bothered to before, likely because of these achievements.

One minor downside though, is you have to be online while doing the achievement for it to be recorded, there's no syncing after the fact. So if you're bringing your SteamDeck somewhere, either make sure you're online or play a game that doesn't have these achievements implemented yet (still quite a few games that don't still, including all Gamecube and Wii games) if you care about getting them.
I wonder if young Americans would make the association between elder wood and elderberries, from reading Harry Potter — the Elder Wand is a significant object.

Elderflowers are also used in drinks, both cordials and liqueurs.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St-Germain_(liqueur)
Interesting, in the Java world Thread.stop is deprecated too: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/concu... Which means there is no good way to actually stop a thread involuntary. Of course in most simple apps it's not a big deal, but I would not do it in long-running apps.

OTOH in Rust async model is based on polling. Which means that poll may never block, but instead has to set a wake callback if no data is available. So there is no way to interrupt a rogue task and all async functions should rely on callbacks to wake them (welcome to Windows 3.1, only inside out!). Thread model is much more lax in this sense, e.g. even though my web server (akka-http) is based on futures, nothing prevents me from blocking inside my future, in most cases I can get away with it. As I understand it's not possible in Rust async model, I can only use non-blocking async functions inside async function. So in reality you don't interrupt or clean up anything in Rust when a timeout happens, you simply abandon execution (i.e. stop polling). I wonder what happens with resources if there were allocated.
> GPT and other LLMs don't allow you to use their output to train competing models

I didn't allow them to use my output to train theirs either, so fuck 'em.
Sure, but once you have speed you can use aerodynamics to get grip (e.g., F1 cars). So this is really only relevant if you need acceleration from low speed.
What makes you think this website is any different?
Graphics card to what?
Then it would still be only 2 orders of magnitude, not 4
Don't be so modest. Citation needed. :-)
Microsoft will stop accepting new third-party print drivers in Windows
Famous last words, even with the optimization in the latests net core clr, it's nowhere close to C++.
Source Engine. Greasy but fun and Valve provides you literally all the assets of all of their Source Engine games to work with.
Twine seems interesting, but it looks like these are mostly for helping writing out the branching bits of dialogue which would be mostly the LLM's work anyway. Guess some amount of reinventing wheels is gonna be necessary when adapting experiences for AI. Thanks anyways!
Here's a post I put up just a few weeks ago showing how a completely dynamically generated blog with zero caching or performance tuning handles the traffic from ending up on the front page of HN, being served off the free tier of Fly.io: https://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2023/08/19/hn-traffic

It's Phoenix in my case, but I've had a dynamic blog with Django for a long time and it's not massively different in terms of performance. I also do like static site generators, but more for being able to dump stuff into S3 and avoid some deployment complexity (but they introduce other complexity).

The main point is really that Wordpress, with the default configuration is just off the charts terrible. Like, it had to have taken massive amounts of engineering to make something that performs so poorly. If you don't pile a million features into a product and overengineer the living daylights out of it, it's really not very hard to handle quite a bit of web traffic.
As someone using matrix currently: Is there a reason i'd switch to something like this for my business use or is their really only legit use cases around journalists/activists?