skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Usually planes have a decent catalogue

That has not been my experience unless you like a random selection of the latest big-budget movies mixed with weird artsy films.

> and if we are talking about watching on a phone quality doesn't matter (if anything plane screen is bigger).

Physically bigger (compared to a phone) but almost guaranteed to be lower resolution, have worse colors and contrast and the touch controls are barely working. You can also bring a tablet or laptop if you prefer a larger screen.
I agree with you that articulating your thoughts helps you to identify gaps in your mental processes. But in my experience, nothing beats writing in this aspect. Sometimes I start writing about a topic and I end up discovering flaws that I didn't even know could exist. If you only "talk" it's very easy to skip these points, but I guess one doesn't always have time to write all their thoughts and mental processes.
Looks like Blammo has a clear path to the top
Sounds like a manual variant of the mind-splitting tech in Severance!

It must take some cooperation from the others in the house, to avoid being often expected to make exceptions “just this once” and respond immediately.
They should embed a MIDI player like this: https://cifkao.github.io/html-midi-player/
This seems like the biggest failure point. Humans are basically unable to prepare for major but rare events (eg the pandemic response). Day to day politicing always wins, and when the problem is suddenly on top of us we've got nothing.

I think the best we can hope for (apart from not having an asteroid heading our way at all) is that we'll have sufficient notice that something can be done. If we had a couple of years notice, there's a reasonable chance the deadline would be motivation enough to get something built.
No it's not the same as trichloroethylene.

Trichloroethylene is [Cl-C-Cl]=[Cl-C-H]

whereas 1,1,1-trichloroethane is [Cl-C-Cl -Cl]-[H-C-H -H]

Trichloroethylene is really evil.

Whereas 1,1,1-trichloroethane much less.
I'll add my shameless plug: https://redactle.net based on uncovering a redacted Wiki article.
Parents pay for that, perhaps without realising.
> BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree

Ah, right. Too much content moderation is the biggest problem with YouTube. /s
Found one with 6 degrees of seperation:

Geronimus Polynomials -> Aenictus Raptor

You need to pick something that is only linked to in its "parent" article. So for example Aenictus Raptor is only really linked to on the Aenictus (genus) page, which is almost only linked to by the Ants page.

Don't do anything related to countries, because almost every article lists a country. So it's easy to traverse between them.
Show HN: LLM Reasonsers
I tried to go from 'Wernhout', which is the village I grew up in, to C++. Both have their wikipedia entries and also show up below the edit field when typing it in. Then it says 'Start page "Wernhout" does not exist'. Also, it removes the ++ from C++.
I have a tiny cupboard as an office. It was originally supposed to be temporary but I prefer it to my old big office.

It’s very cosy and focus is entirely on the screen.

However I’m alone in the house when I work. So I can leave the door open for fresh air and no noise issue.

I don’t think OP’s have much to do with the size of the office
> Even the notion of longest path will be debatable

The only debate would be between the diameter (longest shortest path, which is likely meant here) or the longest path (general version of the travelling salesman problem). The latter might be a bit slow on the entire Wikipedia dataset.
I hate these Luddite hit job articles on new technology.

We've had self-checkouts for over a decade in Europe, stop complaining it's tedious.
and yet hn is going on rants about all weedkillers and all chemicals in the comments. the limits of expertise
The article doesn't really explain the safety issue. Here's a run-down: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45474173/nhtsa-52-million...

And here's the initial decision in full: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2023-09/ARC-Init...

Apparently friction welds left "excess slag" on a seam in the inflator. During activation, bits can become dislodged and clog the exit orifice such that it explodes with excess pressure "shooting metal shrapnel into the occupant compartment".

Affected inflators were manufactured before ARC started using borescope inspection in early 2018, and were installed by several major auto manufacturers.

One driver was killed after a crash in a 2015 Chevrolet Traverse in which metal shards flew out. All other drivers, including one passenger, were injured primarily in the face. A second driver was killed in a 2009 Hyundai Elantra during a 2016 crash in Canada, while a passenger-side airbag inflator ruptured in Turkey a year later on a 2015 Volkswagen Golf that used an ARC inflator built in Tennessee.

Manufacturers argue these are isolated incidents but NHTSA predicts future ruptures at a rate of 1 in 370,000.
Burning up in the atmosphere is still a concern. In the Cretaceous–Paleogene, aka the day the dinosaurs died, most of the damage was done by matter ejected on suborbital trajectories by the impact falling back into and superheating the atmosphere.
This is a great book, I'd also add that the TV (BBC I think) mini-series does a surprisingly good job at getting the atmosphere of it.
Dude should have just said he invented it…

I imagine that’s what will happen from now on
Apple Develops Breakthrough Method for Running LLMs on iPhones
The money quote right at the start:

"I spent hours a day on LiveJournal doing writing practice..."

The moment my writing got off the ground was when I focused on the writing, not choosing the best blogging platform.
It seems difficult to "overproduce elites"? Consider literacy, which was a marker* of the aristocracy many centuries ago, yet now is nearly universal. It seems more as if "when former markers become common, new markers —based on cargo culting the extant high status population— enter popular consciousness"?

See also the (I am convinced originally a joke which got out of hand) U vs non-U kerfuffle.

* the Jaquet-Droz automata: the writer, the musician, and the artist were not a random selection of three accomplishments, but those which distinguished the elite of the time.
> Yes, dude is on a quixotic quest to get his AI recognized as an inventor, and is basically being denied in every jurisdiction.

What, in the end, seems quite useful for people in general!
It's an entity permitted by society under the premise that allowing such entities is a net benefit. We can and should continuously re-evaluate that benefit and adjust what we allow accordingly.
No, it was a standardized interface. Guy Steele talked about going around the office collecting keybindings from multiple people and distilling them down into a standard set.
The example of "lower quality ingredients" that I have noticed in Sweden on a slippery slope is milk chocolate.

In particular Marabou, which is (debatably) some kind of gold standard for kids chocolate in Sweden.

I think they gradually decrease the amount of cocoa and check if customers accept it. And when they do it a little at a time of course no one notices.
While true, that doesn't really matter. Prompts can be any experiential input, and it's trivial to turn them into agents. Even as high level controllers for robots, demonstrated by at least Agility with Digit and Boston Dynamic with Spot.
Toyota recalls 1.9M RAV4 SUVs as batteries can shift, catch fire
> "Meal Deals" are a fantastic scam that charge you more for eating less. If you don't take the crisps or drink it doesn't "count" as the meal-deal, and the individual items cost more.

How is "If you add a third item the price sometimes goes down" a scam?
If the human knows this though surely than can work backwards and do some busywork that makes it look like they did it all.
When the unit price is only shown for the non-discounted price, I usually pull up my phone's calculator out of spite if I don't know what it works out to mentally.

Another thing that annoys me is there being no indication of how long a sale or promotion is running. Lidl does this correctly, and puts a to/from date on the price tag in tiny text. (for internal use, I assume. but still super useful)

"Clubcard prices" somehow avoid the laws on misleading discounts as well, where the price you're discounting from needs to be the lowest price that product was on sale for for the preceding 30 days.
> Integration tests are a better kind of default test because they bring value under pretty much all circumstances.

I respectfully disagree. Not with the last part, that is true: they do bring value under pretty much all circumstances. But the first. Because integration tests come with (extremely) high costs.

They are expensive to run. They are much harder (costlier) to write. They are even harder (costlier) to maintain. The common pushback against tests -but they slow down our team a lot- applies to integration tests much more than to unit tests - factors more. And so on.

As with everything software-engineering, choosing what tests to write is a tradeoff. And taking all into consideration, e2e or integration tests are often not worth their investment¹. The testing pyramid fixes this, because testing always (well- it depends) is worth the investment. But when you skew the testing pyramid, or worse, make it an testing-ice-cream-cone, that ROI can and will often quickly become negative.

¹Edit: I meant to say that many of these e2e tests are not worth their investment. Testing edge-cases for example: if you need man-hours to write a regression test e2e style and then man-weeks to maintain and run that over coming years, it's often better ROI to just let that regression re-appear and have customers report it. Whereas a unit-test that captures this edge-case costs maybe an hour to write, milliseconds to run and hardly any time to maintain.
On Adaptive Stochastic Optimization for Streaming Data
If cars were invented today they 100% would be banned of cities for pollution alone, and doubly banned for pedestrian safety
I feel like this doesn't belong on the front page, not really trying to be negative here but it's a quite sloppy UI kit for something I don't like (Tailwind, after extensive research & some usage).
One thing that has always puzzled me is how many managers are seemingly less uninterested in low hanging fruit which would speed up development and more interested in creating metrics to measure the slowness.
Isn't it generally accepted that dogs are hierarchical pack animals and cats do their own thing?
CenturyLink accidentally told me they are about to run fiber in my rural area. We already have fiber through a small ISP that properly used its federal funding. Curious how many accidental fiber cuts this will lead to. Maybe they will help drive the costs down. Agreed that when talking to them I sensed old school telco which I used to be a part of.
Yeah that was what I meant! It wasn’t a miracle that happened all by itself. It proves exactly that opposite that humans did it though massive cooperation after listening to scientists.
In opposition to their findings I have a strong preference for cats despite scoring a 1 on their political scale with high consciousness, openness, and agreeability while scoring low on extraversion and extremely low on neuroticism.
Last time I was in Colorado I got yelled at by a driver for crossing the street (legally, via a crosswalk). Here in the south, motorists are often intentionally aggressive towards pedestrians and cyclists (especially brodozers). Not a very nuanced situation, unfortunately.
> keeping your cat indoors

What is the controversial thing to you? That people do or that people don't keep a cat indoors?
I guess I have to take a stand on this.
I don't care about social media, I said goodbye to it a long time ago. It is even a problem to measure or evaluate the world based on social media.

So where does the feeling of people not feeling heard or understood come from?
Well, firstly, because they like to be told first and foremost that this isn't true at all. You could say anything. But you overlook the simple fact that you didn't listen to the other person when you gave your reply. People neither listened to his reasons nor asked about them, nor were interested in them.
Second, people who like to feel entitled or special have learned to simply ignore other people's problems. As Taylor Swift aptly said - 'shake it off'. This 'shacking off' occurs all the more, the deeper and more complex, i.e. more incomprehensible, your problems are to outsiders, so that an enormous effort is necessary to make them understandable. And also very compressed, because the time span of attention is also no more. On the one hand, it is often difficult to communicate, but on the other hand, interest in listening has also decreased.
Thirdly, many people probably have similar problems and therefore intuitively avoid each other. Suddenly the company of others feels exhausting, perhaps demanding an imagined care that you cannot give because your own strength is not enough, or creating a fear of rejection because you need the care of others, but they also have the right to refuse this.

I could go on with many other reasons...
Many VCs have stopped investing this year
> And don't get me started on automatic checkouts, which are basically "mugging robots" designed to rob humans.

How does that work? Are you saying they charge more for the same purchases?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL
Growing up in the mountains and spending my childhood in nature.

LASIK. Crossfit / weightlifting. Learning programming and getting hired early at a unicorn.
Just because it's not THE biggest problem doesn't mean that it isn't A problem.

More specifically not YouTubes moderation itself but the way in which its systems can be abused.
microG itself connects directly to Google: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connec...

No shit, of course they do.

>In general, we obviously try to minimize the connections to Google, but some services strictly rely on them and would just not work without.

What exactly do you think they should do instead?
I much prefer the new generation Lime ones. Their center of gravity is lower, they have front wheel suspension, and they acceleration is smoother.
You may already do this but if you haven’t, check out the excalidraw plugin in Obsidian: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

Zslot has put an incredible amount of work into it and it extends excalidraw to have a lot of additional capabilities. You can also use it within Obsidian canvas for some of the flow stuff you mention but you could very likely just use the plugin.

Zslot is constantly updating it too so you get new features and updates almost every other time you open it. Amazing work done there.

And Obsidian is just awesome too :)
If on the other hand it IS balloon-like and hollow then let’s just let it crash into earth and pop.
Creating a Christmas Scavenger Hunt
How I created a Christmas scavenger hunt for my kids
The scale of asteroid impacts is much larger than nuclear war. An actor could take out an entire continent at once, or end human civilization globally.

It's not easy, but it's something like a 3-4 order of magnitude multiplier if you figure out how to do it.
>The real problem is that this is all live science being done as commercial development.

That's been my observation regarding quantum computing since I was first exposed to it around a decade ago. That these are really cool science experiments (in a very literal sense) that are being billed as early stage product development by the companies involved. It's giving the public the impression that quantum computing is at the stage of Woz wiring together the first Apple I in his garage when in fact we're at the stage of research done by Geissler and Crooke in the 1850s that would lead to the development of the first vacuum tube 50 years later.
Related: https://screenrant.com/coyote-vs-acme-movie-cost-price-warne...
While this is an increasingly arbitrary delineation as more things fill the previously empty gap between people and things[0], I'd count that as a human using a tool.

[0] except for all the racism and sexism and slavey and arguments about animal rights and if unborn foetuses are people etc.
I’m worried about a Dark Forest strike than an asteroid. But glad to see progress.
The actual paper [0] says approx 4860 joules per image, so 70 images is the same as boiling a litre of water.

Charging a phone takes 20k joules.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16863.pdf
I think that the bits hitting the atmosphere might heat the planet up a large amount. This might be bad.
How is the infrastructure and bandwidth paid for?
This might be a big mess up by the NYTimes but it isn’t doxxing.

Doxxing requires intent and the Intercept has provided no evidence that the NYTimes did this deliberately.
Many quickly got disillusioned when they immigrated though. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
That does not answer the question
It's a thing in Norway too. Even toilet paper has a price per meter.
If these are your worries you live a blessed life! Remember that your (and my) ancestors lived in fear of too much rain, not enough rain, raiders, pestilence and the local overlord getting upset about something.
My car is 7 years old and cost like $16,000 new (I bought it 3 years later used) and CarPlay had worked nearly flawlessly. I now even use some cheap generic Chinese "wireless carplay adapter" which I maybe need to replug once a month when it glitches out, still more stable than Bluetooth.
Bloody awesome, can you adopt me as one of your kids ?
It seems buggy to me. I tried Kodiak bear and Gdańsk (https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Kodiak%20bear&...).
The site found a 2-degree path through Europe article. But there is no link to Europe article form Kodiak bear article
The real price is the "meal deal" price. The individual prices are scam prices which buyers will often pay if they aren't paying complete attention.
>Too much content moderation is the biggest problem with YouTube.

But controlling what you see is easy! Just don't watch it. As opposed to controlling what you can't, which you are at the mercy of YouTube to provide.

Or is it that you want to control what other people see?
> Plus using your own machines allows you to do immoral stuff, such as pushing 100 MB files, if you feel like it. I have versioned controlled, quite a few mega-repos where the primary content is not text files at all. Shame me all you want, but being able to time-travel through my photo/video collections is fantastic. I don't really care that my 2 GB repo takes 4 GB on disk...

If one wants to avoid the downsides of just checking in big binary blobs, git-annex[1] is fantastic for maintaining archives (not backups). It also tracks locations of files (which of my drives is this file on?) in a completely peer-to-peer eventually consistent manner. It has a nearly unreasonable amount of features in multiple layers, though.

(Tip: set annex.largefiles[2] to avoid messing up your repo when you inevitably type `git add` instead of `git annex add`.)

[1] https://git-annex.branchable.com/

[2] https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/largefiles/
UK could obviously be a wind / wave energy super power. Despite multi-decade mismanagement by government, we can be bullish about UK prospects, especially now Scottish Independence is receding from the conversation
Partially agree.

Vector DBs are critical components in retrieval systems. What most applications need are retrieval systems, rather than building blocks of retrieval systems. That doesn't mean the building blocks are not important.

As someone working on vector DB, I find many users struggling in building their own retrieval systems with building blocks such as embedding service (openai,cohere), logic orchestration framework (langchain/llamaindex) and vector databases, some even with reranker models. Putting them together is not as easy as it looks. A fairly changeling system work. Letting alone quality tuning and devops.

The struggle is no surprise to me, as tech companies who are experts on this (google,meta) all have dedicated teams working on retrieval system alone, making tons of optimizations and develop a whole feedback loop of evaluating and improving the quality. Most developers don't get access to such resource.

No one size fits all. I think there shall exist a service that democratize AI-powered retrieval, in simple words the know-how of using embedding+vectordb and a bunch of tricks to achieve SOTA retrieval quality.

With this idea I built a Retrieval-as-a-service solution, and here is its demo:

https://github.com/milvus-io/bootcamp/blob/master/bootcamp/R...

Or using it in LlamaIndex:

https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/blob/main/docs/exam...

Curious to learn your thoughts.
I'm not confidently clinging, just saying there's a probable causality link.

My father has several brothers and sisters, none got Parkinson's but none worked with herbicides. An acquaintance that was also an agricultural engineer, colleague of my father, also got Parkinson's. There were lots of people in the town around those chemicals but noone kept track. They're almost all gone by now, but old age is also a factor. On the other hand it's almost certain not all got Parkinson's so funk knows. Again I didn't verify and I'm not in the mood to verify, although it would be possible since it's a small town. Go round every house and ask if their deceased relative had Parkinson's. But to what purpose?
>> No manager should allow any team member to attend meetings...

I say this as a manager: who do you think is scheduling many (or even most) of these meetings?
Have you considered that your 'different' ways of thinking may be flawed if they can't stand up to a little bit of dissection?
I use excalidraw for almost everything. Brilliant tool. I already mentioned it in another response in this thread but using excalidraw inside obsidian via https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin has been a game changer for me.
I'm using an ad blocker, the problem isn't really an ad but a big box asking you to sign up to Medium.

I could add this to my uBlock rules but really - does a call to action need to take up 40% of the readable space on the page, more on smaller monitors? I mean it's probably deliberate and a dark pattern in the hopes that people will sign up just to stop it showing up every time they visit Medium.
The comparison price is often tiny though:

"The price per unit is displayed with a font size of roughly 20 mm while the comparison price is just under 2 mm" (freely translated from Swedish)

https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/moti...
Well it’s wrong.

You need to do (cumulative inflation)^(1/ number years) to figure out what the actual average rate of inflation was over that period.

Raw cumulative inflation is really tough to do anything with unless you’re making apples to apples comparisons for two things over the exact same time period. Even then, using average rate of inflation is better because it’s universal.
Mixtral and some Mistral-7b fine-tunes seem to do alright on function calling.
Congrats on launch!

Login button: 3 times I see the word "Nsec" without any explanation, that would lose a lot of youtubers from transitioning

But a bigger issue is that googling about nsec tells me it's a very bad practice: "Some argue that the user should never enter their nsec into an input field at the risk of being compromised by the service.
Given the nature of nostr, users cannot recover from a leaked private key and must take greater
precaution than they would with a username/password combination."
https://nostrdesign.org/docs/how-to/sign-in-sign-up/

(also pip for some reason stops playing when I switch to another page on the site)
It's hard to do with sampled sounds but much easier with physical modelling, and yes PianoTeq is one of the best at this.