skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
according to the law, the patent office has the job of rejecting patents that don't give enough information, and throughout the middle of the 20th century they seem to have done a reasonably good job of it. i've found reams of valuable information in patents from that time period, though not specifically about vacuum-sealing glassblowing

also, fusion (not online, but available in many university libraries) is the quarterly journal of the american scientific glassblowers society https://asgs-glass.org/fusion-journal-asgs/ and they also have had symposia which have published proceedings (not online)

and it's common for scientific papers from the period when this stuff was getting figured out to describe their apparatus in detail (rather than saying they purchased such-and-such a model from such-and-such a company), and those are online

finally, the bell jar seems to be defunct, but they have put their 27 issues online https://www.belljar.net/articles.html
Well, I'm not sure why this has appeared on HN after 14 years...
Cool, but I'll still get the OSSC Pro[0] instead, as that one is Open Source Hardware proper.

0. https://videogameperfection.com/products/ossc-pro/
> I do worry a lot about Western domination declining, and China taking its place

Chairman Xi made sure that won't happen. Maybe they'll take over Taiwan with disastrous consequences for everyone, but if they don't do it until 2030, they might as well give up. They might also exert their influence in Africa, the Midlle East and Central Asia, at the expense of Russia. I'd argue Chinese influence in Central Asia is somewhat better than Russian influence, which has only created frozen conflicts that Russia can reignite whenever it's convenient for them (see Nagorno-Karabah).

If Chinese trade with the US stays at current rates, there's less risk of war between China and the West.

As usual, Dan Wang's yearly letter is not only beautifully laid out but also an eye opener.
I found this single discussion? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19453745

And that's by avoiding the word "topaz", where I see no story results with discussions and not much of comment results.
HN doesn't nuke accounts. Also, who told you HN is not political or neutral? Did HN promise that at any point in time?
"conceptually heavy" -- complex, steep learning curve, extra build steps, bringing in non-Django paradigms

which i think is, for the most part an exaggeration.

if someone feels that learning a new framework is heavy and has a steep learning curve, then either they are juniors that need more practice and experience, or they have never tried learning a second framework, or they have become lazy. (but here i'd also like to blame employers that don't give their developers time to learn new stuff)
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As I read it, these physicists came across the notion of windkessel in some medical/physiological literature and realized that this is an understudied physical phenomenon. So I think the claim is less that they’re doing something revolutionary for understanding the circulatory system but rather that they’ve come across something whose underlying physics are a lot less studied than they expected.
Outcome of the trial mentioned in the article: "US judge allows FTC to temporarily block IQVIA acquisition of DeepIntent" [1]

1. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-judge-allows-ftc-te...
> They just released a proposal that effectively side-steps the problem of checked-exceptions-in-lambdas. Here is a link -- https://inside.java/2023/12/15/switch-case-effect/

This is fine but removes only about 10% of the pain of mandatory exception handling inside typical lambda.

Nothing short of making exceptions transparent to lambda receivers will cut it for me.

> Kotlin is using an annotation to disambiguate between Java style records and Kotlin style records

This is inherent risk of building on top of something you don't control.
Don't really see this as fair comparison. It's a known design constraint.
The only way to avoid it is to not build on top of Java or not adding any features on top of Java.

> To give another example with C#, there has been a lot of recent discussion about finding potential alternatives to their async-await concurrency model. They cite the level of effort it takes to maintain the async await style code and the costs that come from this.

I had a very different take-away. They did PoC with virtual threads and decided it's not worth the switch now and async-await that they have is good enough.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398

> Some of the languages it gets compared too aren't even that old yet.

C# is more than old enough to drink and Scala just had its 20th birthday this weekend :)
Java is only 4 years older than C#.
Happy 40th Anniversary, Mac
> It seems to be hyper-selected to just Silicon Valley techbros, instead of either the more general US tech industry, or the worldwide tech industry.

How do you validate this claim? The country demographic in the survey shows that USA makes up only 21% of responses.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-key-territorie...
While both practices are problematic, bribes are categorically worse. A flat fee only gatekeeps people who don't have enough money, whereas bribes gatekeep people who are ethical.

Furthermore, an author who pays a fee will still have their paper will still go through a (hopefully rigorous) review process involving input from independent peer reviewers as well as the editor. Paying the journal a fee does not directly and intentionally subvert the review process, whereas bribing the editor does.
i cycle the rain runoff from my roof through fish ponds - well, really 100 gallon stock water tanks. I don't feed or otherwise take care of the fish, but i do add water as needed and rotate plants between all my ponds and a nearby lake (lake is only input; i never put back into the lake). The runoff from the tanks goes to fields with small hills and native groundcover, but i can grow food in those areas.

The tanks and roof added a lot of carbon, but the tanks take CO2 out of the air and turn it into nitrogen via fish poop - and plants love nitrogen.
The compiler escape hatch is -ffast-math
It keeps getting recommended on HN - should there be a book club?
A few years ago I worked for a startup that was recently acquired. We were absolutely minting money, but all the devs got these little Dell ultrabooks with dual-core 15W i7 CPUs. It took around 20 minutes to build the frontend of our web app. People generally tolerated it, but I rocked the boat and rallied coworkers until we all got 6-core 45W i7 laptops. I was lobbying for my sanity, but obviously reducing build times by 10x adds up really quickly and the “managing out” from higher ups that I received subsequently was kind of insane considering the man-hour savings.
There is an issue for this: [1]. I think it's more of priority issue.

[1] https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/305
That isn't how 3D modelling works at all. Not to mention that one of the major examples where they compared meshes admitted they scaled the models [1], so it's not even a direct 1:1 comparison.

[1]: https://twitter.com/byofrog/status/1750193272419693010
> The downside is that the process is incredibly energy-intensive

> But the key feature of this is the extremely low carbon emissions.

The process is quite dependant on a clean energy source if the ‘low carbon emissions’ thing is to be claimed.
No, but I'm likely to rewrite it in assembler at some point, once I have a stable feature set -- still thinking I can improve the attribute clash handling in some way.
Another[1] relevant short-story! Also, I don't think MMAcevedo qualifies as an AGI, he/it is rather a VBI (Virtual Brain Image).

[1] https://www.fortressofdoors.com/four-magic-words/
Interesting! Reminds me a great deal of Judy Arrays: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_array

Judy Arrays are a radix trie with branching and a few node types designed to be cache line width optimized.
To see something new is great to move forward and learn new ways to improve ways of pay means of how we pay means of how we learn how to hire much more is involved and open to learn thanks for the opportunity to be part of this truly amazing
> For those of us who prefer not to ship to the cloud, have you used Kopia Repository Server and is it any good? Does it run on Windows?

I haven't. I use local Ceph S3 for backups, and then use kopia to mirror that to one a local RAID just in case my Ceph dies ;-).

It stores the password, base64-encoded, to ~/.config/kopia/repository.config.kopia-password. I suppose it would be nice, at least for workstations, if it supported keyrings—and it might, I haven't looked into it.
> One of the first decisions was not to pay the ransom demand of £600,000. …. The British Library is now expected to spend up to 10 times the ransom amount rebuilding most of its digital services — by reinstalling applications and restoring back-ups, for example — at an estimated cost of £6mn-£7mn (Keating himself is circumspect but admits it will be millions). The process will consume a sizeable proportion of its £16.4mn in unallocated reserves.

This is, I think, the most important part: The British Library isn't paying the ransom as a way to save money. They are taking that money (and more) and using it to rebuild, in (hopefully) a more-secure way.
Modest proposal for y'all: each season finale of GoT is an opportunity for great branching discussion about how the story should best develop from that point on!
For example: once John Snow's been stabbed, he's really dead, and replaced by the faceless man, working on orders for the Bank of Braavos, all are fooled by the statagem, except for one spunky skilled sister of his... What happens next?
Here's your rewatchability!
Not for the public, read the article
you have to write two conversion steps: first you have to convert your app's data to some wire format (JSON objects or something) on the server, then you have to convert the wire format into HTML on the client ("render" the UI).

disagree. the first conversion step also happens in the backend where you convert your data from the various sources into native (eg python) datastructures. converting that then to json is almost trivial. it just forces you to design an API and consolidate some structures to reduce the number of round-trips.
You can read "most helpful personal platforms" as personal platforms(chrome, android, bard, search, drive) being more helpful than competitors. I guess defining specific benchmarks and metrics should be included into the goal. Then it looks very specific without 10 bullet points like in your proposal.
You seem knowledgeable about this stuff — do you work in this space? I’m trying to do some feature extraction from multiple global shutters right now on limited hardware and its a learning experience!
Looks like that poll checks specific topic: "trust in data handling", not trust in general. Also #2 is Ok position.
> I wound up with a dual width, definitely fan-equipped card that wasn't dirt cheap. For some time I've been grumpy about this, and sort of wondering where they went.

The answer is twofold:

- AMD and Nvidia are charging through the nose for small die graphics cards. Mostly because they can.

- They are also clocking them to the stratosphere, in an extremely inefficient power band where dropping performance ~15% would massively cut power.

There are other factors like drastically changing silicon scaling and capital costs, and better IGPs obsoleting really small GPUs, but those are the big ones.

If you are the writer, you should keep an eye out for AMD Strix Halo, which could put your cooling assertions to the test. Technically the Mezzanine GPU cards (and the actual MI300A CPU) you see in servers use CPU-like heatsinks as well.
I'd also be really interested in seeing this
Imagine a machine learning paper that released no code, and no data, and was funded by public money, and the IP was owned by a startup that was also funded by public money, and the PI was on the payroll. Laughable, right?

Generally there is more trust when the theory, the data collection, the data analysis, the model development, the product, and the application, are all completely separate and open. It also advances the science much faster. However, it definitely kills a lot of those monopoly profits.

I propose that there’s really no reason that pharmaceuticals research can’t progress in this manner, with great public benefit. And it would be so simple to enforce: all public grants require everything to be developed in the open, not just data release at the time of publication, or pre-registration, but full release at each stage, no patents, and a preference for funding independent dataset production rather than results. As it is, we pay for the research, then we pay monopoly prices for the drug. It’s like these companies don’t really do anything but collect money.

Also, If anybody knows of a way to donate money to cancer research in a way that doesn’t feed directly into somebody’s profits, please let me know. I have recently become loosely connected to a foundation that has been dumping a lot of money into Dana Farber, and this is highlighting a lot of my concerns as I learn more about the industry.
Not directly related to what Ollama aims to achieve. But, I’ll ask nevertheless.

Local LLMs are great! But, it would be more useful once we can _easily_ throw our own data for them to use as reference or even as a source of truth. This is where it opens doors that a closed system like OpenAI cannot - I’m never going to upload some data to ChatGPT for them to train on.

Could Ollama make it easier and standardize the way to add documents to local LLMs?

I’m not talking about uploading one image or model and asking a question about it. I’m referring to pointing a repository of 1000 text files and asking LLMs questions based on their contents.
> Youtube is currently full of attention-bait, rage-bait, spam, scams, and AI noise.

there is a chance youtube ML gives you recommendations based on your interests.. I find a lot of good quality content on youtube.
extremly happy customer, i just really hope they live up to their goals, but i have faith.

the only thing i personally struggle with is deleting "google" as a substitute for "search for it on the internet" from my vocabulary. haven't used google search since then, feels weird… maybe it's because in german "kacki" is a childish saying for "shit". so "lass mich das kagin" ("let me kagi that") feels weird too :D but hey, wix (="wank" on german) made the best out of it :D
I wonder what makes it special compared to the existing frameworks. (Appart the fact that it is Mac only)
I didn't find the docs after a quick search
We should just start calling them “closedAI” I think it’s obvious who we are talking about when one uses the term “closedAI”
I believe it was some MediaTek demo code that could run directly on the modem for a 1-chip GSM featurephone or in a AP+BP 2-chip 3G configuration. Wasn't Symbian, nor CE nor Linux, more like a giant Arduino sketch. There were a lot more giant Arduino sketches / baremetal library-based big main loop RTOS in the '00s.
> This and, especially if the decision maker made it to their level based on merrit.

Assuming a competence hierarchy, that should equal competence. Unfortunately, oftentimes it's not a competence hierarchy. In those cases, it may take some time to trust in someone's competence.
now they have many more surfaces including actual search(lots of different panels)
"Retrieval Augmented Generation"
Makes sense. MSFT has potential for growth, Google is basically lives and die by their ad revenue coming from Search monopoly and Apple lives and dies by iPhone sales.
The syntax is definitely strange and not Java like, it doesn’t match any Java syntax I recall. Not a lambda, not a method call, not a keyword or even a static method

It should be 1 of the above. They also made the same weird new syntax choice with string template.

One of the most important things about a language is coherence and consistency. That’s why a language designer is a role/talent
would be nice to have the collaboration feature something like LSP with an easy to implement protocol. I can see that being useful but you gotta let the people choose their tools too. If I can run neovim/jetbrains/visualstudio and can connect to someones Zed Collab protocol beacon, that would be awesome af for at least the basic features (file browser and seeing live edits). This whole notes/chat thing can stay a specific zed feature IMO
certainly discussing whether liberalism or authoritarianism is better is a very normal policy discussion, but that doesn't mean that advocating authoritarianism isn't threatening. it's far more threatening than simply pointing a gun at someone. and when governments start prohibiting things because they're not necessary you have descended pretty far into authoritarianism; you're in north korea 'illegal microwave oven' and 'unapproved haircut' territory

how many of the things you did today were necessary?

even if the answer is more than zero, that's probably only because you interpreted 'necessary' as 'necessary to taylor alexander'. but you can rest assured that an authoritarian government will not interpret it that way unless you are the head of state
Ownership is really about being able to write meaningful additions.

And about not having somebody tell you what to do.

The rest is just legal bullshit.

In that sense you only truly own what you create from scratch.

Don't copy the wheel, reinvent the wheel:

http://move.rupy.se/file/wheel.jpg
| How could the board let this happen!
What do you mean? they tried and we decimated them. lol
‪Cool project and great write up!‬
‪I’ve literally gone through a very similar process just a couple of days ago!
I used a threshold screen with random element added, which worked really well (and isn’t toooo slow).
The Softek FP Compiler might help with performance, although failed to compile for me as it doesn’t support DEF FN.
Mine: ‬ https://github.com/deanthecoder/ZXSpeculator/tree/main#exper...
Their method relies on hydrogen and electricity, which can both be sourced from renewable power and extracts iron and potentially other metals from the waste. What's left behind may still be toxic but isn't as environmentally damaging.

Green energy and green inputs are already being sourced in heavy mineral processing operations:

Rio Tinto and Sumitomo to build Gladstone hydrogen pilot plant to trial lower-carbon alumina refining

https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/releases/2023/rio-tinto-and...

The project will consist of construction of a 2.5MW on-site electrolyser to supply hydrogen to the Yarwun refinery and a retrofit of one of Yarwun’s four calciners so it can operate at times with a hydrogen burner.

The trial is expected to produce the equivalent of about 6,000 tonnes of alumina per year while reducing Yarwun’s carbon dioxide emissions by about 3,000 tonnes per year.

Converting the entire plant to green hydrogen could reduce emissions by 500,000 tonnes per year, which is the equivalent of taking about 109,000 internal combustion engine cars off the road.

Driving the development of Australia’s largest solar farm at Gladstone

https://www.manmonthly.com.au/rio-tinto-driving-development-...

Rio Tinto is aiming to drive development of Australia’s largest solar power project near Gladstone, after agreeing to buy all electricity from the 1.1GW Upper Calliope Solar Farm to provide renewable power to Rio Tinto’s Gladstone operations.
You think it would be a big fork you?
Around here (almost?) every vending machine has condoms (cheap) right next to the pregnancy tests (expensive). I wonder why the States haven't ever adopted such a low-cost low-effort anti-baby-killing measure?
Reading this, it occurred to me that a good conscience is like a high intellect, a gift which only a minority possesses. Most contemporaries of Orwell surely convinced themselves that the way they were behaving was perfectly moral and upstanding.
There's very few people that have the capacity to self-reflect and question everything they ever believed in and to pounder the morality and justice of it all. These are the people moving society forward. We wouldn't have arrived to any notion of human rights, personal freedom or democracy without them.
Easy - any institutional buyer will want this crap, so they know when to replace filters.
It’s Go and React
Except good luck using ChatGPT for corporate environments like banking, healthcare, cars. The core strength of Microsoft is B2B and their ability to support it.
It's really not hard to give Clojure that... I'm a full-time Clojure dev, but also use Scheme a lot, and while some Clojure features are great (mainly the STM), in a lot of cases the terribleness of certain language features and idioms makes me sigh. Lots of bad decisions have been made.
Awesome! Glad to hear you liked it :)
If it can pierce a roof, then it can pierce the human body as well, so it's pretty deadly.
I don’t know if Ollama can do this but https://gpt4all.io/ can.
I thought Vue was in that lighter space where you can easily add it to a server side app too. Last I hacked on Livebook they were using it for the more complex front end widgets for example, and that’s primarily a Phoenix Liveview app.
Is Wyndly targeting food allergies, or just environmental/etc?
How would the article be relevant to Hacker News if AI wasn’t involved?
Reddit: IP Address Disclosure Puts User Anonymity at Risk
> That isn't how 3D modelling works at all.

That's a blanket statement that's meaningless.

Uniformly scaling a model, which is what the post you linked to admitted, is a perfectly fine method of comparison. If I uniformly shrink an object, that does not change the nature of the object other than to make it smaller or larger.

If I take an apple, produce a copy, shrink it, then compare it, the apple is still the same apple.

Now Palworld has changed some very minor details with some of these models but you'd really need to be committed to mental gymnastics to justify the changes between these models as anything but the weakest of attempts to dodge a lawsuit.
As a pedestrian, even saying "On your left" doesn't actually mean anything to me.

I'm going to turn around and look, because I can't tell which way is left in less than a second, then jump in a random direction in an absolute panic.

There's also a chance I might move right in front of you because I decided to move instead of look and got the directions mixed up.
not sure what you are asking here. if you use a frontend framework with django as a backend to build your site, you still use django admin as before. there is no need to replace that. you are only replacing the end-user facing frontend.
On some weird level actually insurances of the more expensive to repair or more often to repaired cars should go up. Even if their insurance is not paying for damage. This would be due to those cars affecting the outgoing costs.

So if your car is expensive to repair, it should have higher liability part. As on population level it has higher cost for other insurances.
Yep. For some reason, suddenly, vscode became painfully slow on my decently spec'd machine; 3 to 7 seconds per keystroke just to analyse the file to show intellisense tooltips.

Yes, that was in seconds per keystroke.

The irony is that I moved from neovim to vscode because setting up intellisense in (neo)vim was always a hassle and never worked quite well. Pylance seemed too attractive not to give it a spin.

Now the lag has as mysteriously diminished, but still vscode is very far from being as snappy as (n)vim.
Soon coming to you, "EU Agenda 2030: illegal to grow your own lettuce, gotta buy the new glyphosate lettuce".
Hm. Hitting an HN post with lots of comment noise (without upvotes) early could be a good way to effectively downvote it off the front page before a lot of people see it. Maybe that also interferes with legitimate comments resonating and giving the post legs from upvotes.