skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these calculations are essentially horseshit.

Norway is an oil company with a nation state subsidiary. Salaries and purchasing power are significantly lower than the in US. Is there an alternative to GDP that doesn't include externally invested oil profits?
Sad to see "Jennifer" listed as a "newer name". Aside from that spelling being more than a century old, it's just a newer spelling of Guinevere, a name which dates back to at least 1100, when it started appearing in written Arthurian legends. The Welsh form, Gwenhwyfar, is attested before that.
FTA: “In the US, shared e-bike trips increased from 14.5 million trips in 2021 to 20 million trips in 2022”

https://data.bts.gov/stories/s/Bikeshare-and-e-scooters-in-t...: “As of June 30, 2023, 56 docked bikeshare systems open to the general public operated 8,796 docking stations in the U.S”

That’s about 2300 trips per docking station in a year, or 6 per day. Per bike, I would guess it to be less than a tenth of that.

And that’s ignoring the dockless bike-sharing systems.

Is it really possible to do “just fine” at those numbers? At best, I guess they have razor-thin margins.

As to Lime’s “unadjusted $20.6 million profitability”, https://www.fastcompany.com/90851725/lime-reports-first-full... says that “does not include capital expenditure, such as the cost of designing and manufacturing their scooter fleet”, so I think there’s still some wishful thinking there.

(Because Lime’s site (https://www.li.me/about/press) doesn’t seem to host press releases, but just refers to third party articles, I had to guess at whether those figures are what the article referred to, but I think that’s correct)
When of course while yes the schools ultimately get the money, it's not a direct handout/appropriation to the school it's a vessel to get the student an education

Since the schools have high demand there is another student that will replace the loan recipient so the private school will not suffer one iota.

However the poor or middle class student just had their bootstraps cut off, the same ones that they'll be told they should've pulled themselves up by in 10-20 years when it's explained to them why they are not to have help with healthcare when they get cancer and have to stop working or why the banks are getting bailed out directly but their mortgage is definitely going to be foreclosed in the next housing crisis
That is another somewhat hacky thing.

I have a mix of shame and pride that the chart (everything in the rectangle) is entirely hand-coded SVG elements emitted by the ESP web request handler.
Caltech used to do it too (also ECSI)
Last thing I know about trying to purchase commercial Dovecot, you had to harass the sales team to get an answer, and a few thousand users with 10TB+ data was "too small" for them.
You can use music you ripped yourself and transfer it to your iDevice. I don't understand the argument. I don't know every detail of how my motorcycle works, but I use it frequently and rely on it to get from A to B.

If I had to understand how everything worked in my life before I could use it I would die. How does my gut convert nutrients in my food?!
Technospeak for stamps, vouchers, warrants, and probably means testing too.

Paternalism with cool name.
It isn't, why would you think so?
The USB-C headphone adaptors sold by Google / Apple / Samsung / etc are DAC + headphone amps. They're inexpensive (under $20, some under $10) and can have better components in them than a phone, laptop, etc. These should also work on laptops / desktops.

Do some research first for your use case, but I suspect one can find one that will work for your machine + headphones.

Soundguys has a review from October up on this topic: https://www.soundguys.com/best-usb-c-headphone-adapter-10130...
It is also interesting that some of highest income people on Earth use the archive trick instead of paying to get through the paywall.

Who actually pays for legacy media anymore?
Is it a coincidence that the username is an anagram of "at plane"...?
Goggle translate ;

> The unions Sekos and ST's sympathy strike with IF Metall to persuade Tesla to sign a collective agreement with the union has led to Postnord not being able to distribute shipments to Tesla, which stops registration plates for the company's new cars.
Tesla has requested that Postnord send the mail items. But no such obligation exists due to the circumstances, the court reasoned.
"It is gratifying that the Court of Appeal reaches the only reasonable conclusion, that the constitutionally protected right to strike trumps Tesla's interests," writes Seko's union president Gabriella Lavecchia in a comment to TT.
Hi HN,

Today, we are excited to be open-sourcing GPTRouter, an LLMOps tool we have been using internally at Writesonic for handling millions of monthly requests for our users.

Universal API for 30+ LLMs, Vision and Image Models
Smart Fallbacks based on latency and uptime
Automatic Retries
Supports streaming

Since embracing OpenAI GPT-3 in production in 2020, we at Writesonic have been serving millions of users and faced the typical scaling pains with generative AI models:

1. Dependency on a single model risked total downtime.
2. Latency issues with models like GPT-4 affected user experience.
3. Integrating various models was tough due to different APIs and SDKs.

Early this year at Writesonic, we set out with a clear vision: to become model agnostic.

Faced with single-model limitations and diverse AI challenges, we began building GPTRouter - our bespoke solution to navigate and thrive in a multi-model AI world.

With GPTRouter's Universal API, you're the master of AI models.
Swap between OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Replicate, Cohere & more with just one line of code.
It simplifies model management to a great extent.

Downtime isn't an option.
GPTRouter's Smart Fallbacks mean your service is always on.
You can define a hierarchy of models for each use case. GPTRouter will constantly check for uptime/downtime, latency and other factors, and automatically fallback to the next best model with zero interruption.

Say goodbye to manual retries.
GPTRouter does the heavy lifting with Automatic Retries for failed requests, keeping your AI services sharp and consistent.

GPTRouter's Edge:
Universal API for seamless model switching.
Smart, automatic fallbacks for continuous service.
Reduced latencies for quick interactions.

Additionally, we will also be open sourcing our frontend LLMOps layer that provides a playground to test multiple models in parallel, keep a tab on the latencies for each model, track tokens and costs for each model and user all in one place.

We are looking forward to seeing how developers leverage GPTRouter in their own use cases.

Thank you!
The factorio team hired the person behind the space exploration mod to integrate it into factorio.
That's still not a complete picture.

That 18K BTU of gas is heat under and around the pan. Most of it licks around the sides and up into the room. It's 30-40% efficient.

Induction coils are 85% efficient. 85% of your 12K BTU is heat energy in the fabric of the pan.

You certainly can get very very hot burner rings. They're commercial units usually. But they're wasting so much energy.
is that open source?
I think forums these days attract three or four people

It arguably failed because of Yahoo, and it was just one hosting service, not a model
Agreed. And I've been accused of it before (here, by dang).

But my point was that the gnu ideology was pushing contributors to use info pages (which many of us (myself included) tend to not use.

So perhaps the ideology should be reexamined from time to time. In this case, it should be: how do we make sure documentation is of highest quality and availability to our users (I'm more than happy to be challenged on that).

In that case, it might be worth considering making man pages a first class citizen again, along with html, as those are the natural destinations a user turns to when looking for help.
I use joplin, but this looks nearly the same as joplin.
I do support creators on patreon, but I find it is too expensive to scale to every creator whose content I enjoy.

I wish there was a tip jar under each video and that it integrated with alternative frontends such as NewPipe, but I also don't want to hear "don't forget to like and subscribe, make sure to hit the bell, and consider leaving a tip" in every single video.
What happens when Tesla decides to have the cars go on strike?
/lol
Postfix: SMTP Smuggling had zero advance disclosure before holiday freezes
I heard on the radio an AP report of restrictions on the gaming industry in China, including incentivizing users to login to earn mana.

China drafts new rules proposing restrictions on online gaming (December 22, 2023)

https://apnews.com/article/china-tencent-netease-video-games...
I've been using it for around 6 months, maybe once a week. It's pretty awesome. Syncs all my notes to Nextcloud.

I use the Nextcloud Notes app on my Android phone and it works perfectly together with this on the desktop.

I wish it had support for simple file uploads, sometimes I want to attach spreadsheets or PDFs to my notes.
>Taking debt without income or profit to service said debt is a highly risky move and this may mitigate the number of risks taken thereafter.

Stanford and Harvard issuing a lot of useless basket weaving and women's studies degrees that no one can use to get a job, are they?
Does it have to be from GitHub, or are you also interested in cool projects that may be hosted somewhere else?
I mean, I'm sure there's also still plain old bugs from human error in there.

But yes, if it breaks on YT specifically it's almost always due to YT.
There’s nothing stopping them from taking Pell grants, and most of these universities are need blind at that income level anyway
"There is a secret known only to parents of twins, medical residents, and Alexey Guzey: the human body does not actually need sleep. After 31 hours awake, you get an integer overflow in God’s database and go back to being well-rested again. Also you gain the ability to see angels."

LOL. Amaze.

On that note, I've heard some amazing things about the Snoo. It was banned from our house because of Luddit-ian reasons, but I still maintain you're not bonding with your baby at 3 am and parents should get that extra sleep and let a robot handle the near-robotic motions required to put a (< 6month old) baby back to sleep.
They're to busy sending legal threats to OSS projects
GDP being a weak and misleading metric has been known to be a factor from many decades.

It's just an easy and lazy measurement most can (or think they) understand.
I don’t think you get the aero gains at safe stopping distances, though.
That doesn't really work on narrower walking paths, with other pedestrians also coming from the other directions; but maybe I'm just unused to it.

I'll... try to be more assertive, I guess we'll see how that works out.
In Logseq, you can open the current note in the default system editor - I do this for long form note taking (in my case in emacs) but everything is back in the Logseq graph for connection and search and all its syncing goodies.
Harvard has $50 billion dollars and only accepts about 2,000 students/yr.
This is a robust LLMOps tool that brings unparalleled flexibility and reliability to AI service delivery. With its Universal API, Smart Fallbacks, Automatic Retries, and support for streaming, GPTRouter addresses critical production challenges, ensuring uninterrupted, efficient operations.
Good writing advice says that each sentence has a single goal. The goal is to draw the reader in, and convince them to read the next sentence.

This article does it masterfully. The title drew me in. The opening sentence finished the job. Well done.
The GPT Router is an indispensable tool for anyone working with LLMs like OpenAI and Anthropic. It provides an open-source API gateway that streamlines the integration process, making it easy to harness the power of these models. With its robust features and user-friendly interface, the GPT Router is a must-have for efficient LLM utilisation.
Just a few from a quick search:

https://mazesforfun.com/maze-generator

https://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/maze

https://multimazegenerator.com/

https://keesiemeijer.github.io/maze-generator/
I reported a similar issue to Google early this year and they declined the submission because it "can only result from social engineering" and "we think that addressing it would not make our users significantly less vulnerable".

I won't mention the details here but Google Search sometimes rewrite URLs in such way that an attacker can spoof the actual URL.

My advice is to never trust URLs displayed by websites and apps.
Very esoteric app, however I think Ymusic needs to be mentioned whenever YT alternatives are brought up. It streams only the MP3 of the video and the UI is cleaner imo - so it's easier to use if you intend to only listen to "podcasts" or music as an alternative to Spotify.
PaperQA: Retrieval-Augmented Generative Agent for Scientific Research
The Snoo worked very well for us with baby #3 (#1 and #2 were before it was released). I'm optimistic that we will continue to make progress in this area and find something that works for a larger fraction of babies!
I think this is amazing since it's open source and customizable so people can use it as a base and build new products or modify it as per their needs instead of the modification living behind an enterprise paywall it's out in wild that makes the MOAT for this
Several early comments here looking like an organized effort to prop up the post.

Please see the posting guidelines, this is explicitly called out as something you should not do

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Edit, @~5min, there are way more rolling in now, definitely looks like coordinated effort to inflate the post

Of 9 comments, 7 are of this type, 1 is OP, and 1 is mine
Why do people feel personally offended by these statistics?

It's a GDP per capita with some adjustment ranking.

Don't understand why is it triggering you. The news isn't about average salary or purchasing power.
While "RCS" is an obscure standard nobody cares about, "being able to send reactions, high-res photos, videos, and voice memos in text messages" is a pretty universal concern. iPhone support for RCS would let iPhone users have those features in conversations with the green-messages.
Your comparison is RL dogfighting? I think you need to brush up on recent autonomous driving systems…
The client should probably be aware of whether the user might be expecting RTL text and maybe display a warning if not? Arabic users receiving a URL containing the character shouldn't raise any eyebrows, but if a random Anglo user clicks on one it might be worth displaying a warning that it's backwards text? At least the first time.
Super thrilled to discover this solution - it mitigates the risk of OpenAI going down during crucial demos, offering a robust alternative.

Thank you for this solution, adding fallbacks asap in my project!!
This was much needed

I also found out that you did integration within Langchain ++ :D
Thank you for sharing. It gives me hope as I work on my own side-saas
It is worth pointing out that we Northern Europeans can only afford this because we have a small group of highly competitive and wealth generating companies and sectors. We would be in a dire situation here in Denmark without Novo Nordisk. 1-2 years ago it was Maersk, DSV etc. that held up our economy because freight prices were high.
Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
Hey!

I made Heynote entirely for my own use case. For many years, I always had an Emacs instance running with the scratch buffer open, even long after I had abandoned Emacs as my programming editor in favor of more recent IDE:s.

The simplicity of having just one big scratch buffer appeals to me, but I still want to separate the different things I jot down somehow (without using tabs or similar). Previously, my solution was to insert a bunch of blank lines between the notes, but hitting C-A would still select the entire buffer. That's why I came up with the concept of "blocks", which turned out really well for my use cases.

I decided to release Heynote, thinking it might be useful to others.
You have the difficulty sliders and the death world preset and an entire enemies tag on https://mods.factorio.com. What more do you want?
Still depends. Using SHA-256 for password storage is bad. Argon2 would be a much safer bet. Or maybe scrypt or yescrypt.
I read of an inconsistent mindset.

God this. God that.
"Natural selection didn't design" which is contradictory.
Evolved murder monkeys. Happy to have babies.

Women are indeed saved by childbirth. Men too.
There's a lot of reasoning for it, mostly summarized by "this.abc and this.#abc are not the same fields".

The goal of #-private properties in JS is to have total runtime isolation, so that there's no way at all to access it from the outside. If you're fine with a compile-time error, use TypeScript's private keyword instead (JS does not have a compiler).

But why can't `otherObj.abc = 3` throw an error if abc is declared as private? Because it would incur a runtime cost on all property accesses to check whether it's public or not, even if private properties aren't used anywhere within the class. Not a sacrifice anyone would be willing to make.

So, the solution is to make sure that private property accesses can be distinguished from public property accesses. You could have had something like `private.abc` instead of `this.#abc`. But I don't think that's better, either.

Honestly, you'll get used to # if you use it for a while.
They were using 3-4 horses per rider.
What’s happening with the Whatsapp osx app. It’s so bad to use nowadays, slow, buggy.
I've always thought that it is a bit close-minded to focus on wearable technology when it comes to human augmentation.

It's not me that's being enhanced. It's a device external to me.

That's why I am not excited by stable diffusion. It doesn't make me better at drawing.

Now, you might say that it doesn't matter technologically if your brain is doing it as opposed to a computer doing it. The result would be the same. Sure, I'll concede that, but that would be more about me or you as a person getting better skills, which feels more empowering than a tool that does all the work for me.

It's not closed minded, it's a different perspective.
I really hope "Fix app not responding, background app crashes and issues with starting the player" actually addresses the issue. Getting an ANR popup and having to either dismiss it every 15 seconds or kill the app, search again for your video, and hope it doesn't happen again is a horrible experience.

The only other experience-breaking issue I ran into is lack of support for multiple language tracks, which also seems fixed :)
GPTRouter is a game-changing LLMOps tool, delivering unmatched flexibility and reliability in AI service delivery. Its Universal API, Smart Fallbacks, Automatic Retries, and seamless support for streaming tackle crucial production challenges head-on, guaranteeing smooth and efficient operations. A must-have for anyone aiming to elevate their AI service deployment!
Looks like Postfix developers are quite pissed at this release with months-long advance disclosure to commercial vendors, while learning about it right before the holiday break:

http://www.postfix.org/smtp-smuggling.html

Others are even calling for the cancellation of the 37c3 talk:
https://gay-pirate-assassins.de/@moanos/statuses/01HJ8D8XQ7Z...
Wish there was a way to do energy intensive work during such spikes.. Automated factories spinning up, alu foundaries smelting preloaded scrap. If you can't store it, use it.
Reminds me of the excellent Ted Chiang short story, "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling": https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterrane...

We're absolutely already cyborgs.
Google Chrome December update: New performance and security features
I have no problem with a ram paging me, but yes, I would have a problem with a long-term memory thing. And as for organ transplants, I have no problem with them, as long as they are made from material that has not been taken from another human being. Yes, I know, when the time comes, I would like to live to at least finish the project I have on my desk. But.
How do you reconcile the lack of tag support in Nextcloud Notes?
Show HN: Pgvector for Sparse Vectors
Oh, that is amazing! Thanks for pointing me to the blog!
> Modern academics have a perfectly reasonable explanation for all of this.

It's only perfectly reasonable if you aren't familiar with the broader context.

Breaking the levirate marriage custom was not in itself considered an action worthy of severe punishment. Indeed, there was a well-defined ceremony, spelled out in Deuteronomy 25:8-10 [1], intended to humiliate a man who refuses to marry his brother's widow. But being given an embarrassing nickname is a far cry from being smote by God. And if you get to inherit your brother's riches, it might be a fair price to pay.

But Onan's sin is described as something he did, rather than something he failed to do. It is pretty clear, when you look at the text the way someone of that time would have looked at it, that Onan's offense was not merely that he was being selfish, but that he was employing a method that severed the procreative element of the sexual act. He could have refused to marry Tamar. He could have refused to have sex with Tamar. But instead he fulfilled the letter of the levirate marriage custom without fulfilling its spirit. He used her for his own sexual satisfaction, but then deprived her of the natural ends of that action.

[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%202...
> A more personalized and proactive Safety Check

Safety Check for Chrome on desktop will now run automatically in the background. You'll get proactively alerted if passwords saved in Chrome have been compromised, any of your extensions are potentially harmful, you’re not using the latest version of Chrome, or site permissions need your attention. These alerts will appear in the three-dot menu in Chrome so you can take action.
What you say may be true, but never the less, when I first encountered it and tried it, I could not stand it. Just as a user not as an author. I've never looked at it since. I do like good old simple man pages as long as they aren't the stubs that just say "see the info".

Maybe it was just the keybindings, maybe it was something about the screen layout and navigation hints (lack of maybe). I can't say precisely what was so wrong, and have no interest in even trying nor need to.

If it was so great, no one would need to try to convince anyone of anything. I'd have just used it in prefference because it was better at getting the info I wanted to me.
Very disorganized text. Poorly written, or AI generated.
My Noets app[1] editor is built on top of the Markdown syntax highlighter of QOwnNotes.

My new app Plume[2] is built on top of Notes but features a completely revamped and advanced block editor with a new design.

[1] https://www.get-notes.com/

[2] https://www.get-plume.com/
You're not wrong, but I'm wondering how many of those top 50 schools (by wealth) already have guaranteed scholarships/grants that are income based. Stanford, for example, guarantees free tuition (not sure if this covers room & board, or fees) for any students with household income <$250k/yr, which is a pretty darn high threshold. Princeton has been similarly generous for a long time (UVA modeled their program after Princeton's about twenty years ago), and I suspect a number of others have programs like this, too.
“…at some point the challenge becomes a thing unto itself.”

Erector/Meccano set is a solution waiting for a problem.

And you don’t get to the front of the internet making a daft version of Leonardo Da Vinci.
this solves for some of the most important problems we've faced when one of the models goes for the toss, this solves for this problem really well
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-...