skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool!

Do you anticipate going more towards improving the data modelling capabilities (take on dbt et al) or more towards Business Intelligence (dashboards then hosting then drag&drop query builder all the way until the dreaded pdf export)

Something that is overlooked in the dbt direction is how complex data models get.
BI nothing seems overlooked, it is just hard!

I like that you have a clear anti-ICP [dbt customers, analysts]. This keeps you clear of the BI/DWH space. I do wonder how you avoid getting stuck in the BI tar pit [], or avoid getting stuck in the dbt middleware zone. Maybe with a core focus on engineers getting further and further without needing a BI/data team!

[]https://twitter.com/generick_ez/status/1782844341674786952
Before: I had no idea this app existed.

Now: I know this app existed.

Having no polish can't be worse than having no app.
Because it’s 2db overall.

No camera is going to pick that up because no human is going to hear it.

They claim 37% reduction, but that isn’t true for human perceived volume.
The NCSC's 'Share and Defend' Capability
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise there would be no religious people.
- House MD
Chill mode is all upside in my book. There's still a ton of power when you need it, it's easier on the tires (and thus your wallet), and you get jerked around less.
This makes me thing of the stories I've heard stories from those who lived in communal apartments back in the U.S.S.R. days. Couples who had a creaking bed and wanted to go at it at night would just do it on the floor instead of on the bed. Which in turn makes me think if those beds are just some kind of kickback scheme, because I can't be the only one who thinks of suck obvious solution, can I?

Edit: Seems to be fake news: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anti-sex-beds-2020-olympic....
Absolutely true I think. My intent was not to be too cynical (but feelings do matter though, especially if all you have are weak signals meaning you have to call it by gut feel).
> I know it can be a sensitive topic so I try to make it clear that I am completely uneducated on the topic.

Two problems can be real while having different solutions proposed for them.

“AI companion” sounds like a weird solution but it sounds less weird specifically for men. For cultural or whatever reasons.
Stonebraker: Goals for Postgres [video]
We all know loud pipes save lives, so just think of all of the lives you'd be putting at risk by making quieter anything.
That isn't a good option - KDE needed to promise to other developers here is a base you should start working on and it won't get drastic changes.

There is no good answer to this problem.
They are not lobbing missiles at civilian houses in western countries. Do you disagree with that?
Vapor is on that list, although it has not implemented all tasks (and thus has no composite score). It has results for JSON serialization, and database interop. It places near the bottom in each task it has completed.
> people are sitting in smaller and smaller condos with fewer friends and relationships outside of work. This is all very concerning for the health and well being of humanity

i think we should start getting some of us used to very long inter-stellar voyages in cramped/impersonal quarters if we want to preserve the species beyond this rock :)
Yes, basically Method (2) with stable measurement window. Just put the camera down on a stable surface, click button. Let system wait some ms to allow click disturbance to pass, then integrate signal over some fixed time to establish the rotation, then pick up and continue...
Yeah that was one of my theories as well. If that’s the case I’d hope someone in the company does have access to their emails as I assume there are many prospects in that recruiters pipeline.
A man who turned his dead father into a chatbot
I don't think orgies at the Olympics will solve the declining birth rate. In fact, orgies usually produce unintended pregnancies, if any at all, which are not the kind you want to grow a healthy population.
I assume that this is in response to
> Do you have any evidence that plant-based diets are more "health conscious", and that that by itself explains why they are healthier?

Good to know, I didn't know this was the case. I wonder if going plant-based makes you more prone to engage in healthy lifestyles, or if having a healthy lifestyle makes you more prone to go plant-based.
I just posted a relevant comment on the F* article a minute ago.
I would subjectively prefer F* because of syntax over Rust, but for the show control software we are developing, we are going with Ada/SPARK2014. Rust needs a formal, published standard like the other legacy PLs to draw the same crowd currently using Ada/SPARK2014 and the formal verification tools and some real-world safety-critical, high-integrity applications in its back pocket.

"I prefer F#/F* syntax, but I had to go with Ada/SPARK2014 for the safety-related control systems I am trying to verify formally and use for high-integrity applications. Rust is making some inroads with AdaCore and Ferrous Systems partnering on providing formal verification tools for Rust like they do for Ada/SPARK2014, but Rust still doesn't have a published standard like C, Common Lisp, Prolog, Fortran, COBOL, etc. Plus, the legacy is immense for Ada and SPARK2014."
The innovative power of the hangover
In the near future, people can control appliances with purely their own consciousness, and the only prerequisite is that it requires a minimum consiciousness level, which is reachable for most of the human being. Lastly, we usually think that people living in the Stone age are primitive people. Are they?

https://twitter.com/Michell51304
"instead they blew it"

I see you!
You’re very welcome ;-)
There's this https://github.com/q66/cffi-lua, I haven't used it but seems to be used a bit

Edit and Alien - https://luarocks.org/modules/mascarenhas/alien, they both use libffi - http://sourceware.org/libffi
> None of the athletes are going there looking to conceive.

You certainly won't be winning a gold medal in conception with that attitude. At least you wouldn't in the progressive society that hosts said Olympic sport.
This is probably a good reminder. But you could write an article like this about every institution:

- The police aren't your friends

- Your employer isn't your friend

- Your colleagues aren't your friends

- The government isn't your friend

- Small businesses aren't your friends

- Big corporations aren't your friends

- Elon Musk isn't your friend

- Your landlord isn't your friend

- Your professors aren't your friends

There's no such thing as a relationship where the interests of both parties are perfectly aligned. And the pain caused by any misalignment will be more intense when the stakes are higher, such as startups/VC.
But that is NOT the same as human perceived volume.

Less 37% energy is not 37% less volume to humans.

You won’t be able to tell the difference in volume except for the tone which could be more or less pleasing depending on the frequency they say they got 12db on.
What are some other platforms excluding power apps ? And is there any foss alternative ?
I am not sure what you mean by this comment. I took the language from the developers. If you mean that commercial AI providers should give more specific information then I agree wholeheartedly.

I assume it is difficult for Elicit to give specific numbers because they lack the data, and confabulations are highly dependent on what research area you are asking about. So the "rule of thumb" is a way of flattening this complexity into a usage guideline.
> But you are again trying to make a non-binary problem into a binary one. We will never be able to soundly verify all the properties we need.

I literally said I did not want soundness for all properties no matter the cost, but that soundness for some critical properties is absolutely warranted. The binary for some properties is absolutely there and completely justifiable based on the reasoning I laid out (memory safety in particular).
>To start: an army is not only there for military response but also for threat of attack and denying defense. So I don't really see your point here. Europe bent over since they are weaker strategically, not because they are doing the same. Do you have any evidence for Europeans spying at the same scale?

There are many, many avenues open to states that don't include military force or the threat thereof. In the case of the spying scandal, for instance, Germany created a parliamentary committee into the issue, made public many embarrassing details about the US's role, and summoned the US ambassador for a diplomatic dressing down. They also increased oversight of the Operation Eikonal agreement and made it more restrictive. Given the relationship that exists between the two countries, that's enough.

>And just to clear up the other part: France and Germany were punished for their response to Iraq by the US. They also didn't do it again.

Oh please, punished how? By getting some nasty comments from Congressmen? Neither country had any ill effect from it, and in fact came out stronger.

>Re Russian forces in Syria. Yes they are in Syria. Are you really saying that the Russian army has a similar scope to the US army? The Russian army tries to actively invade the poorest country in Europe and gets a bloody nose. You really can't compare the two countries here, since the US is in a different category, financially (as shown above) and also by experience. Same counts for China. Saying that those armies do things too isn't really saying much.

In Syria Russian forces did have a larger scope than US forces there, with more personnel deployed and more aircraft deployed long term. There's a reason most of the world expected them to conquer Ukraine with ease. China, meanwhile, has built a Navy and Air Force that are beginning to rival those of the US in terms of numbers and capabilities.

>The US meddles in Afghanistan since the 70s. They have no rights there and particularly not in Iraq. They also had no rights to support the murderous Pinochet government, Islamic terrorists all over the world, murderous lunatics in the Philippines or central America. They had no rights to support Nazi refugees. Yet they still did all of this and more.

Way to go ignoring what I actually said and pretending I said something different. Also, if you're going to use examples dating from decades ago, there are plenty of similar Soviet and Chinese examples to draw on. I intentionally limited my discussion to the post-Cold War era.

>Blackwater? Halliburton? All the other companies? The economy of the States is hopelessly centralised and couldn't be tighter with government. You might want to say the companies own the government.

Not nearly the same, we're talking about what are de facto state-owned enterprises with a CCP presence on their boards. Moreover, Blackwater? Seriously? They were so damaged by the bad publicity they (rightly) got over Iraq that they had to rebrand and are a shell of their former selves.
Was it for replaying sensor data later for testing? Still funny that they lost resolution anyway.
>In that sense, the most important property of a language is its popularity: it will ensure connectors exist, and are used enough to be working fine.

I would have thought so too, but surprisingly we have seen completely new ecosystems emerge where incumbants had seemingly covered all the bases.

When Node.js and Go came along, we already had Perl, PHP, Python, Java and C# for backends (as well as tons of less popular options).

Each new player offered some technical benefits, but I never felt that these relatively modest technical differences merited starting a whole new library ecosystem and doing it all over again.

I can only conclude that you and I are wrong to think that the availability of mature libraries dominates other factors such as people wanting to get rid of the previous generation's culture. Wiping the slate clean seems to be a deeply felt desire.
>I think Gnome's defaults appeal to people who don't want to work with GUIs but have to.

I feel like this would apply better to stuff like i3, IceWM, OpenBox etc. , no? Gnome is definitely for those who want to use a GUI, not get rid of it, otherwise they would use something a lot more minimalistic instead of something that eats up 1.2+ GB of ram just to launch an app.

>For a lot of people it's a comfortably simple container for a terminal, web interface, or GUI driven config management tool and nothing else.

But you can do that with absolutely every WM/DE though.
This. I have both gnome and kde (work/personal) and miss kde at work
Also I would assume that a lot of hammer throwers and shot putters would end up on the floor (alone). But the top comment suggests this is fake news anyway.
I wasn't making a strawman, I was making a parody of his strawman. I thought it's obvious, since I was making an analogy, and it was an analogy to his argument.
I've never looked into actual products as this isn't something I'm interested in. I'm just saying that accomplishing this can be done without involving AI of the sort being discussed here. I'm not sure what such AI would bring to the table for this sort of task.

> given only my and your email address.

AI or not, such an application would need more than just email addresses. It would need access to our schedules.
Fantastic idea that will revolutionize the way people read
It's called hearing protection. People wear it while operating heavy machinery, shooting guns, or being at rock concerts. Might not hurt to keep a pair around your home.
The "healthy user bias" is a well-known phenomenon in this kind of research, and has been studied specifically with vegetarianism (for example, https://journals.lww.com/nutritiontodayonline/abstract/2019/...). But as mentioned in the comment, I suspect you'd find a similar bias in all sorts of structured diets - the group of people who follow diet X (including sub-groups who follow for health reasons, or moral reasons) will be biased towards being more health conscious.

Again, this doesn't negate the research on "diet X", but it does make coming to a conclusion more complicated.
I hadn't seen those! That's awesome, thanks for posting those. Love how many use cases there are for these kinds of models.
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How to Bridge the Last Mile in LangChain Application Development
Deploying LangChain applications can be complex due to the need for various cloud services. This article explores the challenges developers face and introduces Pluto, a tool that enables developers to focus on writing business logic rather than getting bogged down in tedious configuration tasks.
I also have UTOPIA and I'm getting 1Gbps up and down for $50 a month. And I think there's a slower option (250 Mbps or something like that) for under $40. Works like a dream. My only complaint is that my ISP (XMission) didn't add IPv6 support until relatively recently.
They know and have the supply chain setup, and they are arguably specialists in electric motors?

Well, and technically specialists in rocket motors too - at least access via SpaceX engineers.
I don't think it implies incompetence, but rather, an ability to not know the world outside of the one that was made for the recipient of the nepotism.

I grew up in a fabulously wealthy suburb of NYC, a town often dubbed the "hedge fund capital of the world". I went to school with the kids of people who managed or worked at some of these funds, or worked on Wall Street. These kids were not and are not dumb, let alone incompetant by any stretch. I'm talking top scores on SAT & AP exams, Ivy League acceptance, Consulting/Banking internships, and top tier jobs out of college. Some extremely book smart people, and some with a degree of street smarts too. They all ended up working for the same types of businesses their peers and parents worked at. People would hire their golfing buddy's kids without blinking.

However, there's something these kids all lacked: practical real world knowledge and a complete inability to see outside their biases and inability to perceive outside of their bubble. It's not on them though, not at all - it's just how their experiences shaped them.

It takes an outsider to see the value in another outsider. Insiders are clouded by their own experiences that they can't understand disruption or change in an unknown way.

That same disruption or change is what oftentimes makes for startups whose early investors see insane returns.
It's sophomoric, which probably shouldn't be all that surprising from those so recently sophomores.
Atomic physics on a 50-nm scale: Realization of bilayer system of dipolar atoms
I'm talking about man-made structures that are prone to retain moisture like sidewalks or decks.
Thanks. This is great feedback. Appreciate you taking the time to offer thoughtful advice.
> if it takes 1 hour to get one answer by hand, but only 20 minutes for the machine, and 20 minutes to check the answer, the user still comes out ahead

IF the machine actually got it right.
> What baffles me is that here the designers had a chance to make something truly quiet but instead they blew it and used a super-high-RPM motor-powered narrow turbine placed inside the pipe.

They didn't change anything about the blower. They made an adapter you plug on the front that tries to cancel out the the worst offending frequencies. Like a silencer, but for leaf blowers. It's the red thing you see on the pictures.
After C#, I learned F#, I loved language structure, but I was not able to run it on production effectively.

A language isn't enough, a language recognized from its support in ide/production and community
While I'm usually very free market, I think this is a case where we have such a high negative externality that we need regulation. Everyone is annoyed by leaf blowers, but the tradeoff for users, especially commercial, of paying the extra cost isn't worth it to them. I don't think we should ban them, but have a maximum permitted noise level.
"Johns Hopkins researchers' success in winning federal funding—which accounted for close to 87% of its 2022 R&D expenditure—enables them to pursue projects in an array of fields, from human genetics to artificial intelligence."
[1] https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/01/05/nsf-higher-education-research...

Oh yes... "private" org using public dollars is more appropriate.
The largest portion BY FAR of everyone's lives (beside infant fatalities) is the portion between 4 and 65.
Only if you have apple headphones though. If you've got some other thing, for some reason, it doesn't know how to tell you anything.
Per seat how? My Github repo has 10 members. Are each of them a seat or just the person who created an account on Ellipsis?
Moxie Marlinspike tried this. Pretty decent try.

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1582154037700399104?lang=en
Yup! And deciduous trees planted next to your house are an excellent green way to decrease heating and cooling costs. Shade when you need it, not when you don’t. This is the exact reason we blow leaves too.
I’m excited about these advances. And optimistic that they will save lives.
A quick off-the-cuff remark based solely on the title: in 2024, I think the state of the terminal has never been better, in large part to Microsoft making a high quality terminal easily available to everyone on Windows [1]

As an application author, I love being able to assume that all major platforms have a good terminal and that my favorite terminal rendering libraries should Just Work on all of them

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
I'd understand if you were coding PHP without an IDE, but coding Typescript how do you get the argument order wrong?
They could open source the tech and the take PR victory laps on how they are helping lower irritating noise, saving the environment, and being very cool about not trying to profit over it. That's the kind of thing that would blow up on this site.

How would an electric leaf blower (or anything electric/battery/motor related) released by Tesla be any different from a flamethrower made by Boring company? At least there's a bit of resemblance from the tech used, but a self-lighting gas device from a digs hole in ground company has nothing to do with anything.
Cool! All the best with the build and launch.

FWIW, I think that the conversion would be fine either way. If you haven’t already, it might be worth adding a free tier.

The data from the free tier then could answer the questions around what is a more effective model for your app. You’ll want to see healthy margins and you’ll want to mitigate for abuse that you actually see in the data from the free tier.
My son plays American football at the high school level. He rides the school bus to school every morning and I try to pick him up everyday and catch the tail end of his after school practice. It is one of the great joys of my day. Its about a 20 minute car ride home and we spend the entire time talking about football, school, gossip, whatever. As a single parent who works long software dev hours, I cherish this time.
Add to that how “small” and tight knit the VC community is and that’s a major signal.
… sorry, I’m having my first coffee of the morning, so I’m probably missing something: what would putting a RefCell inside a mutex buy you? You’re already ensuring unique access with the Mutex, how would you ever get multiple accesses to the RefCell?
Not in its current state. Thinking out loud, you could likely do this with the metadata stored on the photos. Desktop Docs does some metadata extraction and let's you add custom tags, but this is a good idea. Is that something you'd be interested in?
Hah! Not sure who this is. But email? jared.wyles gmail.com
The short prayer I say & religious gesture I make before beginning each new task.
From my understanding non of those are Ukrainian design and so it's as i said a testing ground for other countries.
Rethinking how we build pricing and packaging
Pricing and packaging is such a crucial part of products but it's often implemented as an afterthought in patchy homegrown systems.

Homegrown systems end up costing companies millions of dollars per year as they reach scale. They also carry huge opportunity costs along the way, as engineering is constantly diverted to work on logic that isn’t new value, and the business is regularly delayed in releasing new monetization initiatives.

There's no standard for folks to build from, but the solution we've seen folks arrive at (after a long, painful road) is to decouple business logic from the codebase and create a separation of concerns across components to maximize flexibility and control. We've tried to explore that here so others can benefit from it.
(Also for those claiming JHU is private therefore not majorily dependent on federal funding, please read JHU website:https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/01/05/nsf-higher-education-research...)
It's a pretty heartwarming and optimistic story. Really glad it's going so well for the first person in the world to try this.

For me, the scariest part about ever having a brain-computer interface is security. At the moment perhaps that's not a concern at all, but in the future, how can anyone guarantee that a security flaw won't result in a zero day exploit in your brain?
Oops you’re right!
Really? That fake news again, on HN?!
Can you elaborate on the difference between DM'ing someone with "Hey can I call you about problem X/Y/Z?" I'm not sure I understand the benefit of the walkie talkie solution. To me this sounds as or more annoying as a landline.