skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also the modern restaurant/bar interior is all tile and other hard surfaces: very noisy. This is partly for sanitary reasons but also to encourage people to eat and get out.
In addition what about an LLM or more specifically a next token predictor where the cycles of token exchange vs prediction are smaller and not in a 100% ChatBot way.

E.g. there's status update after each 10 tokens for the LLM.

Something like:

----

Battery: 67%.

Wind Pressure: 20%.

Noise: 35DB

... other stuff

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Action: Walk Around

Say: Hello

... 5 hours later ...

Battery: 13%

...

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Goal: Find charging station

Action: Look right

So the battery here for example would be important... And it would have strong meaning for the LLM/Token predictor because in its neural network it would strongly signal that now is the time to find the charging station.

So here this robot is an LLM that is in a constant token input/output loop with sensors data being the input.
Community solar has better economies of scale than rooftop solar.

Installing on the roof is a pain in the ass, and ties your roof replacement schedule to solar.

Basically small-ish 1-5MW solar farms on former brownfield sites is the future. Large commercial warehouses that can support solar on the roof are also okay.
> and we’ll be launching in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark this June

As a Swede this is by far the most exciting part of the announcement!
My hair on fire problem right now is i want to get a list of all companies and their company descriptions, headcount range and sector that match a single company name, sorted by relevancy. If you can create an API for that and charge per API call (say $100 for 5000 calls), i would be your first customer
Yes, there are two streams. But the handset could provide sidetone directly to the earpiece if it wanted to.
Amazing, you should add this somewhere public, like on the product description!

I think this will make Linux (ecosystem) support for VRR better, as it will be another thing for relatively sophisticated Linux users to tinker with (which have a fair cross-section with framework laptop owners it feels like).
This is pretty early in the game to be relying on proprietary embeddings, don't you think? If if they are 20% better, blink and there will be a new normal.

It's insane to me that someone, this early in the gold rush, would be mining in someone else's mine, so to speak
This just feels like poor marketing. I am not an avid movie goer. I saw Dune 2 this year and did Barbie/Oppenheimer last year.

In both scenarios I attended due to viral, word-of-mouth marketing. I didn't see specific trailers that compelled me nor was I anxiously awaiting the releases.

In contrast, I heard nothing about Furiosa prior to its release, but have read tons of content about its post-release failure.
Yeah, it generally does feel like a "Catch me if you can" situation. I'm sure that there will be different ad-blockers once those APIs are removed, as there seems to be a very strong desire from some people not to see ads.

I hope we'll not end up in a DRM-like system where ads are somehow really baked in and content stops working for lay-people if they try to circumvent ads.
IMAX used to cost $12.99 in 2018 in Bay Area. Tickets were way cheaper 6 years ago.
That's the only way to do it. You can't index the whole thing. The challenge is chunking. There are several different algorithms to chunk content for vectorization with different pros and cons.
People make their own airplanes. What nobody tells you is that most people who complete the airplane would be time and money ahead getting a job at McDonald's and buying a completed airplane once they saved up enough money. However there are not enough people who want an airplane to pay for the costs/liability of setting up a factory to build one and so you have no choice if you want a new one.

People also build their own cars from scratch. It isn't as well known, but it is done. Again not a good use of time or money but if you want something specific that isn't on the market you have no choice.
Yeah this was definitely an important shift. Before these changes the US wasnt really a country in the same way it is now. Antisocial elements in many states was dragging the rest of the country down and due to increasing federal power we were able to override them. Due to broader application of federal law and the bill of rights we were able to give more and more rights to the people denied them in the past. Due to broader application of federal power we were able to do away with things like state churches and gun bans. This is all good.
no one uses a PC for communication?
why even would you apparently equate that silly msft with desktop use?

that silliness aside, there are serious limits to how much access even bios/TPM/SMM compromises can provide. for instance, if I audit my network, your use of SMM to compromise my machine can be mitigated. the picture may be different if you seize my machine, of course, but we all know that most bets are off with physical access.
Wild. I vaguely remember this founder spending an obscene amount of money on some boutique firm to give homepage a small update.

Seems he exited the Google grind about 6 years ago. I guess salaries were between $180-250K during that time frame.

Google grinder for 6 years: $1,080,000-$1,500,000

Entrepreneur: “$920k over four years (with sale)”, but doesn’t include the 2 bombs he had prior to successful exit.

(None of these figures taken into account taxes or benefits)

Seems like he took an L, but in the end at least he didn’t end up in the salt mines. The education of learning as you go is truly underrated though.
You can find the comparison to uBO under 5.5
To call any software monkey an engineer is laughable. Engineers are generally responsible for a system catastrophically failing. In IT it's seen as a natural consequence of progression. It'll take another 3-5 generations before we have the proper body of knowledge to even have an engineering culture.

Even then though I'm not sure it'll ever really improve. Even beyond the human element I feel like the incremental building approach cannot and will not lend itself to ordered systems. Unless we go back to the ecosystem of objects that Kay talked about back in the 80s we'll always create frankenmonsters, and even if we do: we just create another kind of frankenmonster.
Fury Road was certainly not a cash grab, but a prequel to the blockbuster of the 10s except with a female lead definitely smells like a cash grab.
woah, what kind of sorcery is this?!
How fan we capture unencrypted packets from the network? I thought you had to run tcpdump or something like that to be able to do that. But you won't be able to run tcpdump if you don't have access to the interface (source or destination), no?
It does feel like TV series have capitalized on it. Fallout for example was truly excellent.
Eh. It's more like watching sports vs playing sports. They're both enjoyable but entirely distinct categories even though there's overlap in what's occurring.
"You are trying to get a product business off the ground. It has been an uphill battle due to lack of funding"

It sounds like you believe that lack of funding is the root cause of your inability to grow/scale. Almost always, it is something else first and not that.

If you have to ask this question, you probably know the answer already. Go invest in the other stuff and perhaps reconsider what you are doing with this product/business.
"Since a bunch of media outlets have adopted GPT-powered writing tools, future tokens are presumably going to be far less valuable"

As long as a human verified the output, I think it is fine. Training on unverified data is bad.
Same with This Charming Man by The Smiths and Mary Jane's Last Dance by Tom Petty
> All the "affordable" consumer FLIR options suffer from low resolution and/or low response time.

When I experimented with connecting two thermal cameras to a VR headset for stereo thermal vision, I used two Seek CompactPRO FastFrame units. They're 320x240@15Hz for $400 which is a lot more usable than the typical 80x60@9Hz consumer thermal, and it's easy to integrate the Android model into custom applications. They also have a 320x240@25Hz model for $1000.

I'm still impatiently waiting for affordable 640x480 thermal cameras, but in my opinion 320x240 at moderate frame rate is past the good-enough threshold to be legitimately useful for high contrast situations like identifying warm-blooded life on the side of a rural road.

> I'd love some sort of setup that outputs to >=8" 1080p display attached to my dash.

The Tesla Cybertruck has an option to display the view from the front bumper camera on the 18.5" main screen, but front camera display is unfortunately not available in any of Tesla's other models. With the proliferation of large touchscreens and camera arrays, more vehicles may support this from the factory soon.
This enables everyone to be great programmers like how easily available power tools enables everyone to be a great carpenter and general craftsman.

You’ll get a lot of shitty stuff and the profession will get hollowed out losing attraction of the smart people. We’ll be left with low-quality, disposable bullshit while wondering where all the programmers went.
Green apple over on Clement is a fire hazard. The other one is small.
I've long thought that the bus market would be ideal - the city bus doesn't take most of the roads in your city so you don't need to program them in (or than a dead in). Just make sure the roads department works with the transit department to program in just the detours needed before starting work.
My source is the IBC section 803 (1), which I only know about because I've had the misfortune of needing to know about getting building permits for acoustically treating an office space in my career (which itself is a long and boring story about a failed startup).

The way the building code is written doesn't explicitly ban any material from walls/ceilings, but rather sets the constraints on the performance of the material when exposed to heat. There are higher limits for walls/ceilings than for floors because flames climb. Wall coverings (including wall paper and its glue) have to be flame retardant to meet code. There have been some infamous fires in the past, which is why this code exists (building codes are written in blood, as they say).

Most carpet doesn't go on walls, so it doesn't meet code, unlike wallpaper. And building inspectors are conservative people that are unlikely to permit you to do anything weird, even if you can prove by the letter of the IBC that some material is up to snuff.

(1) https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2021P2/chapter-8-interi...

Scroll down to see the details on wall textiles, specifically.
Doesn't the eye lens solve that by concentrating multiple rays onto one point?
A broker is just a middleman between the seller and buyer. What’s the value add for sales like this?
I can still smell the place!
This is pointless and ill-informed cynicism.

Canada is not totalitarian. Frankly, I can't imagine claiming so unless you have quite an extreme view of politics (for instance, the appropriateness of blockading downtown Ottawa). There is plenty of MAGA-like conspiratory thinking in Canada, but it's relatively new for Canada, and definitely not widely-accepted.
This is what I do in Go. I vendor all of my modules. If it's not in my codebase, it's out of my control. I require control.
It is a vague claim. How do you decide what is “important”?

And if the backing is a non-public market analyst report, different such reports can reach different conclusions.

> you can test your guess against some publicly-available jobs data such as

Which I note has both JavaScript/TypeScript and Python ahead of Java. Both of which are being used for a lot of server-side applications-whether or not you consider them important is rather subjective. (JS/TS is obviously including a lot of front-end stuff, and that site doesn’t disaggregate front-end from back-end; but Python is almost all back-end.)
Prequel? Bad sign.

Fleshing out a weird movie world we’ve already visited? Rarely a good idea. See: John Wick.

… but it was pretty damn good anyway. I like it more the more I think about it.
Writing servers like this is a joy using Erlang and OTP. I assume the same holds for Elixir though I have not used it.
Thanks - that seems like a must-have for anyone anyone working with this level of tools. Glad to hear it's on the way. I would love to be able to use this with both external mics and storage, but I'm not sure how well the iPhone would handle both of those through a hub.
Brings to mind Douglas Adams Krikkit robots.
Another point that is rarely mentioned or tested in reviews: massively improved transparency mode compared to the older models. I can use these headphones for hours as headset in video conferences with enabled transparency and not feel isolated from my surroundings, it's almost like you're not wearing them.

My main quibble is the touchpad, which is way too sensitive and I had to turn it off (probably a defect, I guess I'll send them in eventually).
The reason is clearly "George Miller wanted to make it". In other words: not a cash grab.
Explanation of Disney's principled BRDF [video]
Firefox has 2.9%.
Safari has 18.12%.
Everything else is Chrome or reskinned Chrome, with Chrome itself being 65.3%.

Unless you’re running that 20%, Google controls it, and they basically write the standards anymore.
There are threee official posts the first day of each month for jobs. Try looking at it next week, or post yourelf in the correct thread.

Last month edition: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Yea this was strange, I've only ever seen swaps when my main memory was near being full. Maybe they're storing all embeddings in memory?
i am crazy about pets
I want to filter out all non-nature sounds. I dream of walking through the airport or the park in peace. AI seems the way to go with that since you have to predict the sound to counteract it. Good to see we are finally making progress.
[dupe] (because of Framework's i18n url scheme)

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40514312
It's a fuzzy line between "retiring" and "quitting to do something else" when nothing else a software engineer might want to do is likely to provide more than a quarter to a third of the income they are used to.

Second careers I have witnessed include: yoga instructor, aerial-performance studio operator, author & public speaker, eco-village manager, photographer, carpenter.

Second careers I have considered include: fashion designer, boutique drum-machine manufacturer, and DJ - but while I have taken a couple of long sabbaticals over the years, software keeps drawing me back. I don't suppose I will ever really quit.
I’ve been considering using elixir for a while. With these libraries, it’s now entirely feasible to move my backend over to elixir, getting rid of 95% of my python code in the process. The tasks leftover that still need python can easily each fit in their own <100 line file and work just as well using other languages to process the data. Most of it needs to be run on a gpu anyways so it’s already sandboxed wrt deployments

It’s not an all or nothing game, and I rue the day that I decided to do everything in python just because I needed a couple LoC to call a python module.
I'm old enough to remember people saying that about chess, finding things in images, translation, composing music, go, and creating artistically pleasing images.

At what point do we run out of things to say we can do that computers can't? And what happens then?
Everyone's foaming at the mouth so hard to eat the rich that they don't mind eating themselves to get there.

...which is exactly how all of their revolutions have gone in practice...

Jealousy is a powerful intoxicant.
LASIK is amazing when it’s no side effects. I’m needing to repair my corneas about 7 years post LASIK through stem cell therapy. My eye surgeon told me that LASIK severs an incredible amount of nerve endings and many eyes basically stop producing tears. The surface of the cornea then slowly erodes away. There are alternative procedures that don’t destroy as many nerves. I wasn’t aware of any of this before I went under the knife, wish I did.
LOL brute-forced the "adult knowledge" questions at startup, huh?
Best buy is being a valiant survivor. But I'm not sure if it will ultimately be different than the other electronics big box stores. Maybe someone should put them out of their misery, despite having not-so-bad memories of going to Best Buy to get stuff.
> Analysts have also said that the rise of artificial intelligence may have delayed purchases as some higher-income shoppers await upgraded laptops with AI features, such as Microsoft's co-pilot button, and televisions to hit the shelves.

Wait what?, does anyone here know someone who's truly waiting out for any of these features?
Sorry you ran into that. I distinctly remember testing the 13 mini, due to notch layout issues, so this is unexpected. As soon as the crash reports come in, we’ll dig into that.

Unfortunately, while we had a QA person on this, and nearly 100 beta testers, the iPhone camera APIs are a mine field. We’ll get a fix out as soon as we have details.
I think it is silly to think self driving cars gets rid of parking. If you don't use a car much it is cheaper to use a taxi service. However people who use a car often will be money ahead owning their own. Plus if you own the car you can keep your "junk" in it while doing something else. Most cars are needed during rush hour, so there isn't much need for cars the rest of the day.

All of which means we need nearly as much parking in the future. Sure we save a little because the car will leave your immediate area (read CO2 and other emissions) for free parking out of sight, but they are still parked. You will want it parked somewhat close to you because you never know when you will have a family emergency and have to leave early.
Fury Road is my idea of a blockbuster. But it was the 21st highest grossing movie of 2015! Financially, it was a mild success. Terminator Genisys made more money.
It's usually not the engine that fails. The transmission is far more likely to be the weak point, and after that it is rust destroying the body or frame.

The average age of a car is like 13 years old. Most people are definitely not buying new ones every 5 years.
The inference engine that I use to run open weight language models is fully free software. The model itself isn't really software in the traditional sense. So calling it ____ware seems inaccurate.
That is nonsense, if we know about 10 exact brands by name, then we can block their mentioning anywhere
At least in my area, the problem is labor costs. If you can do things yourself, it's great. If you need a mechanic to do it, you're looking at a big expense, because mechanic labor is expensive and there's a lot more covers and harder to get to parts these days. 'Maintenance free' transmissions are very common in newer cars, and they do tend to need less maintenance, but when they do, there's often not a great way to access them. Etc.
That said, the Conservative Leader has signalled that he will use it to override the Supreme Court on social issues. Now dropping hints in an election runup is obviously different than actually invoking the NWC, but it demonstrates that our Charter is as robust as our politicians' perceived risk of throwing it out. Having the loophole to preserve some level of provincial autonomy is one thing, but having federal parties signal they will use it is an attack on the institution itself.
I had a similar experience. I was trying to get GPT 4 to write some R/Stan code for a bit of bayesian modelling. It would get the model wrong, and then I would walk it through how to do it right, and by the end it would almost get it right, but on the next step, it would be like, oh, this is what you want, and the output was identical to the first wrong attempt, which would start the loop over again.
if you think newness of a technology, by itself, is a valid argument,
you are merely anti-science, anti-rational.

however, I'm most curious to hear of "left-over" Nazis practicing in the 80s. however, I agree that the medical establishment is an absurd archaism.
What would happen if a nuclear bomb went off in your backyard
"What Happens in a Bomb Blast?" is based on NUKEMAP created by Alex Wellerstein, a historian of nuclear weapons and an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Data on blast size calculations and associated casualties is provided by Wellerstein's application.

Please note that these casualties numbers are not definitive, but meant to be evocative of the effects."
65 years ago we had never traveled outside Earth's atmosphere. 50 years ago we had traveled to the Moon. Surely by now we are visiting the nearest star, no?

It's incredible to me how many people honestly believe they can predict the future, when the future is so clearly unpredictable. Even while you acknowledge that everyone's predictions were too optimistic, in the very same sentence you insist on an optimistic prediction.
Well congratulations! That's awesome!
Isn't that also what people always say out of politeness?
Yes agreed, I think that would improve it, although depending on the situation it may still cause substantial pain. Also apologies, after re-reading my previous comment it seemed unnecessarily harsh toward you, though that wasn't my intention!

On the subject though, an example of how it could cause a lot of pain, many bigger corps don't allow developers to have "real" API keys, and they certainly can't generate new ones themselves, so this might mean one slip-up with curl results in at best a ticket with another team. It also might end up bringing down production in a horrible way, for example if the dev or an ops person is debugging and curls the endpoint from a pod in prod and forgets to explicitly put the https, curl will default to http which would then immediately cause the prod key to be revoked with no second chances. That could even happen on a GET request, which normally GETs are supposed to be safe/side-effect free! If you're operating at a big scale, that could be utterly disastrous, causing a widespread production outage immediately.

If it's a dev that is just testing a key locally that isn't used anywhere else, then it's obviously less of an issue, but taking that into account starts to balloon the complexity around your token revocation code.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. The `os` methods are closest to the base R file operations and those in `pathlib` are closest to `fs` (which is a third-party library for R that requires installation).
Well my main and newest PC is a Thinkpad W541, it is 11 years old. It is plenty powerful and I expect it to be useful for at least another 10 years. All I did was replace the HDD with a SDD a few years ago.

There is no real reason to buy a New Laptop these days and to me, many people buy new just to get the latest OS from Microsoft or Apple. They claim "slowdown" is the issue for buying new, but mostly it is cruft those Operating Systems builds up over time.

With Linux or a BSD, you will see how a real OS is suppose to run.

If you do buy new, make sure it is user upgradeable. For example, memory is not soldered onto the board, hard disk (HDD/SDD) can be replaced.
Really interesting read, thank you for sharing!

You mentioned that building tinypilot suddenly sparked way more interest than your other attempts. Do you have a plan for your next product? Try out different things and hope you find something that gains similar traction? Or do you have some sort of evaluation criteria for your ideas?
No we have this, it just isn't as cheap as floor carpeting.

In fact, if you ever DIY some acoustic gobos or panels, rockwool insulation is about the best material you can find at the hardware store. But like another comment mentioned there are other concerns in commercial spaces, like cleaning/dusting.