skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a few uni/personal projects I noticed the same about Langchain: it's good at helping you use up tokens. The other use case, quickly switching between models, is a very valid reason still. However, I've recently started playing with OpenRouter which seems to abstract the model nicely.
You don't know what an LLM is - there's a difference.
You've been coming back to this post for 3 days to leave more negative comments, how sad.
same, i wont even play it anymore
This is basically pointless, but the economics of modern sailing ships can get closer than you might think. Historic sailing ships where 10x this size and carried 8,000 tons of cargo at close to the speed of slow steaming shipping. That’s only 1/15th of a Panamax ship, but 8,000 tons isn’t some inherent limit on sails it’s what you got from the technology of the time aka wood.

Modern weather forcasts, better hulls, more automation, and the economics get surprisingly close. So sure, today it’s pointless but PV looked like a dumb investment for decades before suddenly taking over the world.
Long term, I agree. But we already have methane and methanol powered huge container ships. Much better than burning bunker fuel.
This is where carbon tax helps. Having to pay the true cost of goods helps everyone make better decisions. Maybe, hopefully, it also pushes the needle towards higher quality, more essential items and hence less waste.

Yet, "make everything more expensive" is a challenging position to make progress on.
Indeed they do. It's a farce that schools, governments use MS Office and treat the document formats as a standard, because they are too volatile to work like that. But alas, here we are. The phenomenon I describe exist and it doesn't just exist, Microsoft made it happen consciously. Windows as the de-facto standard application platform for the PC is another such achievement of theirs. Is not perfect as well, is similarly entrenched.

For what it's worth, I use LibreOffice and I even conduct my business with open source tools, as much as I can. Usually I get away with it, and for the rest, there's a Windows VM ready to go.
I was never told any of that either nor was I taught that in any capacity in school. However, the key difference ive noticed is being in the moment IE paying attention to your immediate environment and not getting lost in thought (or phone) that differentiates those who have an intuitive sense of direction versus those that don't.

With that said, I don't feel comfortable when I don't know which way is north so I always try and figure that out first.
I believe dynamic linking has been a core feature of WebAssembly from the beginning. You have always been able to load multiple Wasm modules in the same isolate and make them call each other.

(But, language toolchains have to actually be designed to use this feature. Most aren't.)
Maybe most Americans or some Americans but really I do not enjoy imagining civil war.
I can support this.

In my view a mix of rando’s on quick-play and community run/moderated servers with voting is the only way to keep the riff raff out. You and your buddies play your server. Rando’s can join too but you get to control them and vote for ones you play well with. The ones who get voted up enough gain some limited power to also police the riff raff.

One thing is clear - we can’t keep relying on game dev companies to spawn hosting provider approved instances without oversight.
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> no other search CEO has shown up in my email inbox to mansplain their company to me.

Using your opponent’s gender as an argument shows that you truly don’t have any actual arguments.
He should ban chat and focus on development. Leave the political talk to the kids in their respective Discord servers.
> I prefer to use the word “value” for the various promises we track in accounting.

Value is the opposite side of the transaction, though. Money is the promise of value, not value itself.

> Which is basically bartering.

Yes, it most definitely is, but the difference with bartering, by definition, is that the value is always delivered immediately. As in, you give me grain and I give you sheep at the same time. We both have what we want, the deal is done, and there is no need for accounting as there is no reason to ever think about it again.

But if, instead, you give me grain and I give you nothing but agree to later give you sheep after they have been fed the grain and are ready for slaughter, then we have an unbalanced transaction. You gave me value, but I gave you nothing – just a promise.

Enter accounting. I record that you gave me grain and I record that I made you a promise (money created). You record that I gave you a promise and that you gave me grain. My books will show a loss (promises outstanding) and you will show a profit (promises yet to be delivered). This gives us both a reminder that the deal isn't yet done, which is useful because people are prone to forgetfulness. Also, perhaps even more significantly, you can pass on the promise. The person who finally receives the value in the future may not be the person who made the deal originally, so accounting is critical to settling the promises across a chain of trades.
Faker – generate fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers
> neoliberal media chanting the neoliberal chorus

Agreed.

Most people misunderstood the role of NYT, WaPo, and NPR. They aren't left, right, up, widdershins, liberal, conservative, whatever.

Rather, their (self-appointed) role is to defend the status quo. aka the establishment, the beltway, the village.

NYT only looks "center-right" to me because I'm way far to the left, "left wing" to you because you're conservative. But those views aren't really helpful for understanding them. Those labels don't mean anything inside the bubble. (As revealed by their evergreen appeals for "bipartisanship", "compromise", and "consensus".)

--

Not that you asked, but there's a similar disconnect between the folk understanding of politics and how politicos behave.

I've run for office. Dialing for dollars, campaigning statewide, door belling, interviews, endorsements, messaging & framing, debate prep, costumes and makeup, all of it. Very illuminating. And now I totally get why everyone in that ecosystem behaves as they do.

Everyone should run for office, do some policy work, try to get published, etc. We'd all be better off if more people had first-hand experience in the sausage factory.
Mass die-off half a billion years ago caused by shifting tectonic plates
I felt that maze/labyrinth bit was disingenuous, since the sense in which labyrinth is a winding path is more of an old religious one, but the common sense of the word is synonymous with maze, and so are some ancient uses, like the minotaur myth.

If we're being honest, the article contents were imprecise rambling crap, rather than useful reflections on language. That's why we're reflecting on the actually interesting title question, imo.
I'm happy enough having a stereo as a casual consumer today (with speakers in multiple rooms). But I doubt I'd assemble one if I were starting from scratch.
That's an argument from incredulity... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity
Milky Way's mystical role in Egyptian beliefs explained by astrophysicist
Many things in software are misnomers.

Personally, I think it’s an amazing name. The first time I saw the term, I knew exactly what it was without any further research.

You shake a tree to remove the loose things. In this case, it was clear that unused packages are being “shaken” from the tree.
> Calm companies are not exciting. They’re not inspiring. You won’t do your best work there.

Explain more. Also, ensure you're not conflating "calm companies" with "cheap companies" where the owners are focused on spending as little money as possible, including paying people as little money as possible and claim they spend so little in order to "spend responsibly" - those places are depressing and I am curious if there's a way to detect "calm companies" from "cheap companies"
Future Apple Pencil may work on iPhone and never need charging
I think for majority of use cases pyright is fast enough. Would be better to if it targeted mypy feature parity while being 10*3 faster.
The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes
Cheap Stuff on Temu Opens a New Generational Divide
If anyone’s curious to see complete pieces built out of this sort of technique, check out Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano (he does some other pretty crazy polytempo stuff too, like changing the speeds of different parts at different rates).

Personal favorites that use the same polytempo technique are No. 36 [1] and No. 37 [2].

I’ve been studying his music lately and am working on a piece with similar rhythmic experimentation, so happy to try to answer questions!

[1]: https://youtu.be/IOlId8O6D5w
[2]: https://youtu.be/g0gNoELvpPo (I prefer the Werco recordings, but this is a cool vizualization)
Why strategies? Ethics for example is taught as a bunch of rules or constraints to consider in decision making. It is mostly to control undesireable side effects of your actions.

It doesn't look for me as a strategy.
There are some interesting hacks you can do like replicating the K/V weights by some factor which allows them to be evenly divisible by whatever number of gpus you have. Obviously there is a memory cost there, but it does work.
Others have commented on ethics vs morality. As for maze vs labyrinth... These are synonymous words. One comes from Greek, the other is Germanic. I wasn't able to find a single dictionary that defines a labyrinth as having a single path that draws towards the center. Where did the author pick up that from? Doesn't the author find it strange that the example from Greek mythology (the word labyrinth is Greek...) is already a counterexample?
I suspect the biggest difference is the input data. Embeddings are great over datasets that look like FAQs and QA docs, or data that conceptually fits into very small chunks (tweets, some product reviews, etc).

It does very badly over diverse business docs, especially with naive chunking. B2B use cases usually have old PDFs and word docs that need to be searched, and they're often looking for specific keywords (e.g. a person's name, a product, an id, etc). Vectors terms to do badly in those kinds of searches, and just returning chunks misses a lot of important details
> maze vs. labyrinth

And from a math perspective, they don't need to be any different. A simplistic 2D line maze / labyrinth like those shown can have all the same features, just shaped differently. Secondary false routes, merging alternate routes, shape features designed to disguise routes, routes that loop back to the main route. And the center is effectively the same as reaching the opposite side. As long as routes do not cross, not sure if there's any known features that cannot be implemented in both topologies. That's too far off in math professor land.

Notably, Wikipedia appears to agree that most scholars seem to view the idea that a labyrinth is supposed to be the word for a single path puzzle, vs a maze that has any form of "trickiness". There's also a lot of the cultural issues, the article doesn't really touch on. That it's supposed to be relaxing, except most mythological labyrinths were "murder the monsters" or "murder the pyramid looters".
> I think we humans simply find following a series of steps easier than reasoning in an abstract mathematical sense.

It is not at all obvious that this is truly the case. If it was the case, why didn't humans intuitively develop mathematics from a computational foundation? It took centuries before we made the leap from mathematical abstractions to Turing machines, and the two are (in some great general sense) isomorphic.
> Being an activist about it

Straw man.
Could you elaborate on why this is not a method by which carbon emissions can be significantly reduced ?

This is only the second boat of a small company, they most likely don't have the ressources to get a bigger one. At this scale, the only way to make money is to move luxury products.

IMO it's a good start.
Just for fun,

Moral and unethical: a prosecutor purposefully crafts a poor argument against someone he knows is innocent but has awful legal representation.

Immoral and ethical: a prosecutor purposefully crafts an amazing argument against someone he knows is innocent but has awful legal representation.

I'm sure these fall apart under only minor inspection!
Show HN: I Built a Recipe Video to Text Converter Using AI
I'm curious to get feedback on my SaaS project. It's a tool that uses AI to extract recipes given a video link and generates accurate, formatted recipes. Let me know what you think and how it could be improved
We're so much faster these days than in the 1800s. That's pretty cool. Relatively fast boat!
Public domain with license fees? What kind of crazy public domain is this?
Also, currently about half of marine cargo is moving fuel around the world. As that volume decreases (energy transition), along with deglobalization also decreasing marine shipments, total volume potential for sailing is much more reasonable.
Heh you are right :) Consciousness really needs a three-part explanation because of the hard problem question. The debate usually goes like this:

A: Consciousness is X
B: But why must X feel like anything.
A: Erm..

That's mean posed as the Hard Problem of Consciousness - why does it feel like anything?

I'll argue there's also the Invisible Problem of Consciousness -- who is feeling it? that virtually no one asks because their theories are so imprecise and not computationally defined that it's impossible to even fathom we are close to asking that question. But we are.

Coming back to the conclusion as axiom:
What this is getting at is that X (the consciousness explanation) really has to do a couple of things because there are no turtles all the way down.

X has to offer a model of consciousness, X has to explain who experiences it, and X must also explain why this results in something we (the answer to the 2nd part) recognize as feeling or inner life.

So the bullet-list really is an answer to the 2nd and 3rd parts of the question here. Who's feeling it, and why does it feel like anything? The "I" and the "It" emerge together, so there's something neat to having the axiom prove itself for the first part of this question. The longer answer is in the book!
The chocolate has to be shipped cool, requiring more energy. That said: more and more producing countries are doing initial processing (roasting and grinding into liquor), and derivatives (powder and butter).

Processing cacao in North America means I have to pay to get rid of shell which could be brought back to farms. Hopefully one day I can buy good liquor.
I’m very good with knowing where I am and where I’m going. It’s like a sixth sense compass I have built in. I don’t know if it was learned or what but at times it feels like a super power. Grew up without GPS but did start driving around the time it got good.
Everything in map #4 is backwards with respect to left/right turns.
I don't think that's a very good goal. Jettisoning the DOM means jettisoning accessibility and being able to leverage everything that the browser gives you out-of-the-box. You have to render to a canvas and build everything from scratch. I think Wasm is great for supplementing a JS app, not replacing it (e.g. using a Wasm module to do some calculations in a Worker). I like to use the right tool for the job, and trying to use something other than JS to build a web app just seems a little janky to me.

At one point, there was a Host Bindings proposal that would enable you to do DOM manipulation (it looks like it was archived and moved to the Component Model spec [1]). That would probably be the ideal way to avoid as much JS as possible. However, browser vendors have been heavily optimizing their JS runtimes, and in some cases, Wasm may actually be slower than JS.

I've been following Wasm's progress for several years, which has been slow, but steady. Ironically, I think the web is actually the worst place to use it. There's so much cool non-web stuff being done with it and I'm more interested to see where that goes.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model?tab=readme-ov...
Sure thing, here is the solar panel: https://shop.green-cluster.de/products/405-watt-full-black-p... and here is the kit: https://www.netto-online.de/balkonkraftwerk-830-w-600-w-phot...

There are always lots of new deals, if you search for "photovoltaik" on mydealz.de you can find the latest offers in Germany
They are real as ideas are real, but not as truths and the "right" or "wrong" way to exist.
I think there's harmony, to live in harmonious way. To live a way that is benificial for everyone.

I think the words such as right or wrong and moral, ethics are made up to control people. These ideas are always changing depending on who controls the narrative.

I would love to hear what you think. I have a strange mind and I'm just trying to understand and learn.
Didn't work for me. I copied the share url to another browser and nothing happened, also tried to past it on the "enter peer link to connect" with no luck.
Funny thing is I first read about it on Hacker news

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36106925
> So compile down to a 'byte code' like thing, that does not run on a VM, but runs on the underlying HW.

I think you may be confusing "system" virtual machines and "process" virtual machines. The VM here is the thing executing the WASM bytecode; it works the same was as .NET and JAVA VMs.
Is the AI Stack the New 'Modern Data Stack'?
> produced almost two-thirds of the plutonium for the country's nuclear weapons

Nearly every nuclear waste problem is the ghost of a weapons program.

It’s so unfortunate the media insists on lumping energy production and weapons program waste products together.
Why did tree shaking as a phrase come to exist when “dead code elimination” had been around forever?
the london tube map is a classic of this - the map is all about how to navigate the tube system, not about distances above or below ground. i moved to london about 40 years ago, and it took me a while to work this out.
I am using "fact" in the most technical sense. For instance, horses have 5 legs is a fact, while elephants are large is an opinion. The difference between a fact and an opinion is falsifiability. It's not like a fact is the irrefutable "truth" - it's simply something that can be demonstrated, irrefutably, to be true or false.
We should ban them. /s
They are real as ideas are real, but not as truths and the "right" or "wrong" way to exist. I think there's harmony, to live in harmonious way. To live a way that is benificial for everyone.
I think the words such as right or wrong and moral, ethics are made up to control people. These ideas are always changing depending on who controls the narrative.

I would love to hear what you think. I have a strange mind and I'm just trying to understand and learn.
How are they different? Both use make and the C compiler.

xz is not different in this respect from any other C, C++, Go or Rust program.
$1000/gallon isn't cheap but with costs, labor, and profit margin it doesn't strike me as impossible (no more than design agencies charging $200+ an hour to write JS)
Because of human interpretation and knack for self sabotage, the sheer breadth of ways self harm can present is far greater than the ways we can imagine. This is why you need a psychiatrist, or many psychiatrists in order to prevent someone hurting themselves or others. And I'm sure you're perfectly aware of the many times chatgpt or another model confidently spouted bullshit as fact, so asking if something promoted self harm or is it speculation is a bit disingenuous, imo.

Hallucination is not an if, but a when. You need to show some sort of statistical analysis that hallucinating is kept to a very low percentage.

We are programmers, we can't do everything, or know everything, we must reach out to and include domain level experts. Anything less is simply hubris doused in irresponsibility. I'm sure there are psychiatrists that would even assist you for free.

I could see many ideas from your app, as I've had similar ideas. But it all rests on the reliability of the llm.
Wacom EMR pen tech has existed since at least the early 00's, I have an old ThinkPad tablet that uses it. Sadly, Lenovo and many other manufacturers have moved away from it due to cost cutting. I much prefer it, it's also way more responsive by default than the newer active stylus tech.
> This worked sometimes (I’d estimate >98% of the time), but failed enough that we had to dig deeper.

> While we were investigating, we noticed that another field, name, was consistently returning the full name of the state…the correct state – even though we hadn’t explicitly asked it to do that.

> So we switched to a simple string search on the name to find the state, and it’s been working beautifully ever since.

So, using ChatGPT helped uncover the correct schema, right?
https://github.com/deepdoctection/deepdoctection

Have you tried this ?
IMO, living in neighborhoods where the streets are not organized in a grid is the most disorienting thing.

You suddenly discover that those two places, that need completely different routes to get into are right at the side of each other. And you do that again and again, at completely random places.
Battle for the American West
I am quite happy with the quality of C. M4 not so much. In terms of supply chain attacks, cargo is the worst I have ever seen.
How does GC help with that?
Debasing the currency is not a push for outsourcing and, in fact, encourages exports.
Proving yet again that there aren’t enough gardeners in computer science.

The metaphor we use for optimization is “low hanging fruit” which no orchard owner would ever do. It’s massively wasteful, be you a programmer or a farmer. It’s what amateurs do. I do tree shaking. Pick a tree (subject matter in the code) and get all of the fruit that’s willing to fall off before moving to the next. It’s more efficient, more effective, and more sustainable. It works with human factors instead of against them.

What we call tree shaking is more like tree pruning. Specifically what you’d call thinning (tracing a misplaced or damaged branch back to the parent and cutting it there).
https://archive.is/Ddwkq
Websters definition of strategy: a careful plan or method

And in practice, a strategy can be expressed as a bunch of rules or guidelines to follow. Which I believe fits nicely, with what you've described.
I didn't know systemd had its own bootloader. I thought everything was still GRUB, I think all my systems are GRUB.

Course I'm a few years out of date
Could it be possible to do "profile guided tree-shaking" to build a small module with all the code that's necessary for the application and pull-in less used functionality on-demand using dynamic linking?

If tree-shaking was done based on production information it may be possible to prune a lot of dead/almost-dead code without having to implement sophisticated static analysis algorithms.
If you could choose between having hot sex without any chance of conception, or instantly producing a child (no sex involved), which scenario would you personally prefer?

Most people would enjoy the hot sex more.

Some people have this weird misunderstanding of evolution, where they conflate the behavior of genes, of human desires, and sometimes of morality. This is rather nicely debunked in The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins.