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For anyone reading this and wondering about other good platforms... Discourse [1] is awesome. Of course, someone has to pay for the hosting. Can't have someone else's cake and eat it too.

[1] https://discourse.org/
I knew one of the authors, Mark Wells. After he retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory he moved, temporarily, to Las Cruces, NM, to be head of the CS department at New Mexico State University, so became my boss as a student employee in the department. I don't recall his authorship of the chess program being mentioned by any of the profs or grad students (it was a very small department). When I moved to Los Alamos many years later I discovered that he lived just down the street--they'd kept their house in Los Alamos while in Las Cruces and had returned (for the skiing, he said).

The first article linked below has some details about the chess program not in the Wikipedia article.

Chess was his (serious) hobby; his research was in programming language design, specifically concerning type theory.

https://ladailypost.com/former-lanl-mathematician-computer-s...

https://ladailypost.com/obituary-mark-brimhall-wells-oct-7-2...
I thought so too, but the article says this:

> 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022.
This is great! But it's also the 3rd platform I've seen in the research space in the last few weeks. I still haven't even gotten around to trying Elicit.com

You say "try it now", but then link to a sign-up, and you don't have any social sign-in, so I can't just click a butt on and go.

If you look at elicit.com, look at their branding, the quality of their design, then look at your competing site. You need to up your game to get trust.

I'm assuming the reason you don't want to just have an open search is due to the cost of running searches, but what's the cost of nobody using it? How can you provide examples at least that showcase what you can do?

WRT the name of your name, the first thing that came to mind is undermine, which is not a positive connection to research.

I hope you can take this as constructive feedback. Like I said, I haven't even tried elicit yet, I can't remember what the other competitor in this space was.

But also, here's a bonus. Emmitt Shear just posted on twitter looking for quality research on reaction time. I know of at least one paper on slow-wave enhancement for deep sleep (CLAS, PTAS) and a secondary finding was on slow-wave sleep. I said I'd get back to him with the link, but maybe you can do even better and show us what your product can do. What's the best research into reaction time? Is there something other than Clare Anderson's paper on slow-wave sleep and reaction time?
Did anyone else check each item manually one-by-one to ensure that the system was accurate?
Ask HN: Has anyone developed a single API endpoint to access all LLMs?
I wish there was a way to query OpenAI, Groq, etc. all using single API endpoint. Has anyone built an abstraction that lets do it?
Maybe Westerners are entitled, but this one isn't really our fault because we were led to believe it was magical automation instead of menial labor.
Astro Mechanica – Not Boring by Packy McCormick
Here is operating margins of car companies, it puts Tesla behind BMW but ahead of Mercedes...

https://companiesmarketcap.com/automakers/automakers-ranked-...
The set of unix utilities have been tested a long time. I just wish the kernel and key utilities keeps fixed and not changed. Unless absolutely necessary. Don’t fix it if it ain’t broken. The software empire seems out of control.
Excellent! Thanks for sharing this!
This always made a whole lot less sense to me then say, solving the logistics of grocery delivery.

Which isn't solved despite availability, because it's "solved" by just having someone else walk through a store, maybe doing a few customers orders all at once.

Like it would seem to me that for, at least packaged goods, an entire city could and should be serviced out of a couple of warehouses with better stocking and fulfillment systems?
I mean... the price is still more than twice what it was a year ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How is technical debt measured? It says 7% but I don't know what that really means! Do 7% of the total lines of code need refactoring? Also cool project!
Can someone explain the logic of "exempt" employment, essentially creating two classes of employees, burdening the more educated class with the possibility of working endless overtime as a penalty for getting an education?

Seems like a legitimate lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the FLSA...
If you find this interesting and find yourself in Berlin with a bit of free time, the Deutsche Techniksmuseum there has a great exhibit on Zuse, including replicas, actual units of later computers, design drawings, storage units... well worth your time (as is the rest of the museum).
a big problem in the space is that products that look very similar will be clustered in the same section. large models are very good at generalizing, so they may be more attuned to "this is a Christmas thing", but they won't know that it should be classified as the same UPC as the thing that was in that spot yesterday without you specifically telling it to. how would it know it's not a misplaced product or a random piece of trash? (you won't believe the things you find on store shelves once you start looking) you can definitely speed up your annotation time with something like SAM[1], but it will never know without training or context that it's the same product but Christmas (ie it resolves to the same UPC).

[1]: https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything
Man you’d fit right in at hubspot. Starts talking gibberish when a customer points out flaws.
I think "AI software engineer" is the wrong target for the current generation of models, though it's good for generating buzz.

I'm working on an open source, terminal-based tool that uses agents to build complex software (https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex), and I have found that the results are generally much better when you target 80-90% of a task and then finish up the rest manually, as opposed to burning lots of time and tokens on trying to get the LLM to do it all end-to-end.
The body gets used to it though
Tom Scott did a great video showing the last one in operation. They use totally unique keyboards with what is essentially a stenography system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c
The company Weee which primarily sells Asian products does this sort of batch order, and their prices are the same as grocery stores because they rightly knew that their initial Chinese userbase (and other Asians in general) is extremely price conscious and won't accept such increased fees for delivery. I just listened to a podcast episode about them on How I Built This which is where I got this information, people should give it a listen.
Super cool - reminds me a bit of The Secrets Hotline

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-secrets-hotline/id...
I wonder if the same "tech" could be used for "self-driving" cars.
LGPL doesn’t require them to license their project under GPL, it’s more permissive than you seem to think: https://fluendo.com/en/blog/gpl-vs-lgpl/
All that money down the drain now that people just wear hoodies and facemasks to shoplift
The U.K. has massively increased minimum wage over he last decade or so, but this has meant people who used to be on 50-100% more than minimum wage are now finding themselves on the same wage as shelf stackers.

They are of course now questioning why they bothered to do so much training, incurring debt and lost opportunity, to find everyone on the same wage.
I do not develop desktop apps professionally. But I have noodled around with a side project in windows. Professionally I work on Android apps, and I found Winforms to be very fun to develop in. I use it very differently from intellij/Android Studio, but I think Visual Studio might be my favorite IDE. So as far as dev experience goes, I think I'd prefer Windows only if it makes business sense. I did spend some time looking into the cross platform options, but didn't end up going that route, so I can't really speak to that. I think you should be able to distribute through the windows store, offer free trials and subscriptions. My project hasn't gotten that far, so I don't know how well that all works. Most windows apps I've bought seem to roll their own licensing solution probably to avoid the app store tax.
There is one grocery store near me that always has at least two staff members ready to work the checkout and no self checkout at all. There are virtually never lines more than two persons deep. The only time I ever go anywhere else is when I absolutely have to. Vote with your wallet.
I've adressed that point with the security camera (or adequatly positionned mirror in old-fashion store)

And the workers just sit idle when there is no customer and you have to physically go there. So I dont see the clear advantage, i see it more as a "choose your poison"
Why did anyone want pear trees whose fruit is inedible and whose flowers smell bad in the first place?
But even that isn't the true bottom line. If you want the true bottom line, you have to ask: What is the net effect on utility for the entire population?
I’d recommend Flutter Desktop if you/your team are already comfortable with React development. Even if you don’t know Dart, it’s easy to pick up, has mature tooling, and Flutter’s UI API is very similar to React and will be comfortable for a lot of devs very quickly.

It also leaves open the possibility of eventually supporting your app on web (with, say, a backend or even WASM doing the FFMPEG stuff). Few desktop UI lots offer this.
What is your monthly contribution level to open source software projects?

Are you able to prove theorems relevant to solving business problems? Give me an example.

Do you have good ideas for improving the accuracy of geometric reverse engineering pipelines?

Can you mathematically design optimal pricing strategies?

The technical challenges we face are too great to solve on my own. I need a second technical founder.
Hmm. He's suggesting a model somewhat similar to that of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Related:

Ross Anderson has died -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864210 - March 2024 (34 comments)
I'd just write a native Mac app; that's where your users are.
All3D.ai | San Francisco, CA | 75%-100% time | Machine Learning Engineer | Remote (in USA)

All3D is a 3D generative platform, built to supply 3D assets to ecommerce businesses. We've been around for four years and have reached PMF, looking to bring on additional ML talent to automate more of the workflow.

If you are familiar with the difference between NeRF and NeuS, then you'll be a great candidate. Background in diffusion models is a requirement.

Reach out to me here: kaiser at all3d dot ai
Classic inner platform effect.

WASM has taken 7 years ago to get where desktop C++ was 20 years ago. Or rather, within approximate psuedo-spitting-distance to desktop.
Home depot is so overengineered. They are using 24” high res touchscreen pcs with an i7 to just run self checkout. Whoever locked in that contract must be pretty pleased.
Ollama
This is like learning that there actually 1000 tiny elves inside of your television drawing the pictures.

This a real-life, genuine Flintstones-esque cartoon gag.
FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump
That's because all of the self checkouts in the US use the weight change to match against the scanned item and any discrepancy leads to having to wait for a self-checkout attendant to manually override to let you continue. That manual override is equivalent to the inspection you're talking about not seeing. And I in the US get blocked needing an attendant 60%+ of the time at some point in the process. Usually up front with the bags I brought from home.
I really like Wails (wails.io). I also evaluated Tauri, Electron, pywebview, pyqt, etc.
bimetallic strip doesnt necessarily mean magnetism, i believe in this case it simply deforms to flip a switch
Ouch. Big egos in tech are a cliche to be dispelled whenever possible by contrary example setting and not taking oneself too seriously. I turned down a ~ £ 2.5 million exit to avoid being golden handcuffed to an absolute dick co-founder for 3 years. Sometimes, your sanity is worth more than any amount of superficial or external stuff.

Genuinely cool, reliable peeps with a sense of humor are the best peeps to work with.
apparently OP did?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39714500
Thoughts from the Fourth Trimester (2023)
Why they build 24 bag claim desks when they ever staff two of them I will never know
One of the more ridiculous concepts in a completely ridiculous movie. The frogs and fish that "change their sex" just change what kind of gametes they make in their splooge. Totally re-plumbing their insides would a completely different kettle of fish.
These were rendered obsolete by shark-mounted lasers.
As a Californian I only eat out whenever I have to these days, such as while traveling, and even then it is more cost-effective to eat bologna sandwiches than to eat fast food. The prices are outrageous, and these minimum wage hikes will prove Sisyphean since those hikes will be eaten away by even higher costs, assuming they don’t get their hours reduced or face a layoff. Then we’ll have the same discussion a few years later when the minimum wage is $25 or even $30 per hour.

To piggyback off another poster’s comments, it used to be that we traded away quality and our health in exchange for cheap, convenient, reasonably tasty food. But nowadays even a basic combo meal costs at least $10. A decent meal at a non-fast food place is easily $20-25 after tax and tip. It’s understandable; housing prices have went through the roof, supply chain disruptions during COVID led to dramatic price spikes that haven’t fully recovered, and then there’s the effects of low interest rates and stimulus spending. But it’s painful: I’ve been getting by with 2-3% annual merit increases while I’ve had to deal with double-digit annual increases in the prices of food and other necessities. I also missed out on homeownership, first with the ultra-competitive market in 2021 when I was constantly outbid, and in 2022 onward with interest rates rising while home prices remaining stubbornly high, thus pricing me out the market. But I should count myself lucky that I haven’t been laid off like so many people have. So I make do by substituting McDonald’s for Costco food court items and for makeshift sandwiches, even while traveling.

We truly need better monetary, fiscal, and housing policies. No more deficit spending (even if this means tax hikes), no more artificially-low interest rates, and much looser zoning laws. Unfortunately I’m very pessimistic with American politics. While I do see some progress being made with increased housing construction and with zoning reform, both parties are addicted to deficit spending and easy money.
But seriously, I was hoping I could come work with you. I'm impressed by your developer prowess. I give you a short, somewhat vague explanation of how to deal with some of the issues you faced and within minutes you have it addressed and returned to joke around with me.

Most developers I know would spin their wheels for weeks with such little information, and once they finally get the job done they wouldn't have time to joke around because they'd be so far behind in everything else they need to get done.
Surely the data of what products you picked up is much less valuable than the data of what products you actually bought, which would be trivial to collect with a normal checkout system.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect the larger community to not use "real time" to mean things other than "hard real time as understood by a hardware engineer building a system that needs guaranteed interrupt latencies".
Yeah, I think we are done. This debate is neither interesting nor fun, and definitely not in the spirit of this site.
Ah, I either didn't see the L or you edited it in after I already started replying. I thought Qt was plain GPL.
We've had this since the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time

But it's not possible to directly measure your own coordinate time relative to a distant reference frame, so there has to be some way to express proper time at your location. And for roughly-comoving observers at a given location (say, on the surface of the same astronomical body) to coordinate their measurements of proper time, they need a common standard.
Version control needs to be visual and pervasive.

It also needs to deal with whatever files you want to dump into it.

Dropbox (as you guys mention) as well as Google Drive and OneDrive and I am certain a lot of others have already implemented.

All files are versioned and for the most part you dont have to do anything.

All of this is clear with it comes to Git, with the 100+ different programs
trying to give people a visual experience, over cryptic and inconsistent
command line interface.

I am working on a simple proof of concept on a new way to visualize changes in code. Still early. It is far from trivial, but I think it is needed.
There is a good chance I will fail of course. But if enough people think about
it someone will figure out a better way than what we have now.

Well some of the work has already been done, for a long time in more integrated
IDEs where the environment is much more interactive and interlaced.
Social safety net is more than just being able to afford it. It's a combination of not being able to afford it and general erosion of social values leading to "take what you can get away with" mentality. So even those that can afford it will still try to get more since it's everyone for themselves.

Instead of cooperation under a system with a social safety net, we get a game theoretic weighting on defection without a social safety net.
I got a epix 2 pro which has their new heart rate tech. It tracks my sleep very reliably.
If you did some kind of shell game with 5 different people all passing around their items, then you don’t get charged correctly is it theft? Did anyone ever try that?
> During the Age of Enlightenment ... as the scientific method replaced religion as the explanation for physical phenomena

This happended more than 2,000 years earlier. The author seems to miss basic knowledge in the history of philosophy and science.
Seems like they need to organize/unionize then, no? Their failure to do so isn’t the “shelf stackers’” fault. If anything, this gives them leverage to get paid more. But they have to use it, because capitalists will never pay someone fairly if they don’t fight for it.
Jokes on you, let me tell you about my prompt to binary LLM project.

Hello world is 10GB, but even grandma can make hello worlds now.
We used essentially this technique in the SMART Health Cards specification for vaccine and lab result QRs.

https://spec.smarthealth.cards/#encoding-qrs

It's well supported by scanners but can create unwieldy values for users to copy/paste.

For more recent work with dynamic content (and the assumption that a web server is involved in the flow), we're just limiting the payload size and using ordinary byte mode (https://docs.smarthealthit.org/smart-health-links/spec)
I just wrote a script that i captures the network requests as i scroll through, cleans it, outputs to a nice file that i can then insert into a database.
A lot of these robot delivery things need to go out with a human handler 100 yards back lest people try and kick them open it seems. Whats the point at that point? Just have the person walk it over.
Ceph – A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Might be your neighborhood -- stores with a low shrink rate might be more lax about inspections. I've only encountered it a few times myself but I'm also not the primary shopper in my household.
TL;DR - Scalable DNS, TLS termination, app firewall, caching, and CDN

Also check out fastly which was/is Varnish-based and built by ex Wikia peeps.

If you have enough budget, engineering talent, or customers & ARPU, you can build your own AnyCast CDN, DDoS defenses, app caching, and app firewall. Until you have very high bills with SaaS third-party vendors, that's the time to think about migrating to DIY, but otherwise stick with division of labor and specialization of trade for things that aren't your core business.
“Exempt“ employment reflects a mixture of practicality and legislative horse-trading.

I don’t really see a constitutional challenge, if you’re thinking of the Equal Protection Clause, since it would be subject to “rational basis” review (almost an automatic pass).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review
Easy, don't buy your stuff at IKEA. We have plenty of other companies in Sweden that cares for the swedish market.
> maybe all AVP apps automatically include a lot of extra cruft

I'm making a simple physics playground app for the vision pro and it clocks in at 7.8 MB total in the app store.

Granted, my app doesn't have any assets in it unlike this one. So maybe vision pro assets are heavy for some reason.
OpenRouter
Agreed, and I think this leads to the question: how much risk do we face because we want to support such a wide range of platforms that a complex system is required?

And how did we get to the point that a complex system is required to build a compression library -- something that doesn't really have to do much more than math and memory allocation?
There's a lot of mind reading there.
I have been able to dump about 7-8 items in there at once
IIRC, the qualitative (or proven quantitative) connection between exercise and improved sleep is most pronounced with morning exercise (HIIT/weight lifting).
cool, that's a clever idea. :)
I’ve used “Just Walk Out” at Amazon Fresh regularly over the past few years and it has been both convenient and reliable. But the machine learning is clearly stuck at a level where the need for ML data associates is cost-prohibitive: 70% requiring human verification is an order of magnitude off from their target of 5%.

Notably, they are continuing “Just Walk Out” at a few locations in case future advances make the technology more viable.
Have you considered why the cost of living is so high? If everyone in the community made a million dollars a year but the housing supply was artificially restricted so that way people had to pay six-figure monthly rents due to supply-and-demand factors, then even a million a year wouldn’t be enough. Under your logic, that community would be completely devoid of any businesses except those that could pay even higher multi-million salaries, since “the business is unsustainable.”

Where there are definitely cases where people are being underpaid and exploited, the high cost of living isn’t caused by people being underpaid. In fact, higher wages without an increase in the amount of goods available to purchase means that prices will go up. It’s the dog chasing its own tail.

We need to address the high cost of living not by giving everybody a raise, but by fighting NIMBYism, building more housing, and stopping policies that erode the value of our currency, making it harder and harder for people to keep up.
they introduced that last year? if you are looking for something older and you have to use the search function, things get pretty noisy... also most of big commuties despite having a forum, they still have a chat channel for help where people use; a lot
There's a cross-platform option that will give your users the best experience but will also be the most amount of work: make a separate - native - UI per platform.

By this I mean put as much of your core logic and functionality as possible into a shared library, and then make a separate Swift/WinForms/whatever codebase for the UI of each native platform you want to target. Each UI app would call into your shared library.

There is a bit of duplicate work in making separate UIs, but the UX is far superior (IMO) and you have the advantage of not needing workarounds or plugins to access platform-specific features.