skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. I'd never heard of that. Definitely removes half the hassle. It seems like EVs could implement a plug "pusher outer" that could do the same.

https://kussmaul.com/super-auto-ejects
The VAX POLY instruction is generally held by s/w folk to be the poster child for CISC over-complication.

Evidently they were mostly correct, as it's disappeared, but one thing that is missing from many criticisms: POLY as part of the ISA should have enabled the h/w folk to play games with representations of intermediate results (higher precision than the visible register set, or maybe even carry save?) that would not have been possible with RISC algorithmic implementations.

[I once worked with people who provided additional crunch for your POLY-heavy problems via extra VAXBI boards. Their bugaboo was that their approach (like GPU offload today?) often succeeded in turning what had been compute-bound problems into i/o-bound ones]
I don't think Taylor series (or, for that matter, Fourier series) will ever stop seeming magical to me.

It seems to defy all common sense that things could really add up and cancel each other out that perfectly.

I understand all the intuition behind them. But they still feel like magic.
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Nor do they have require(). That’s not the point.
Oh my! I've been looking for this comment
Will be using it in the future to explain my feelings about Java and Python
Hi HN, Harrison (CEO/co-founder of LangChain) here, wanted to chime in briefly

I appreciate Fabian and the Octomind team sharing their experience in a level-headed and precise way. I don't think this is trying to be click-baity at all which I appreciate. I want to share a bit about how we are thinking about things because I think it aligns with some of the points here (although this may be worth a longer post)

> But frameworks are typically designed for enforcing structure based on well-established patterns of usage - something LLM-powered applications don’t yet have.

I think this is the key point. I agree with their sentiment that frameworks are useful when there are clear patterns. I also agree that it is super early on and super fast moving field.

The initial version of LangChain was pretty high level and absolutely abstracted away too much. We're moving more and more to low level abstractions, while also trying to figure out what some of these high level patterns are.

For moving to lower level abstractions - we're investing a lot in LangGraph (and hearing very good feedback). It's a very low-level, controllable framework for building agentic applications. All nodes/edges are just Python functions, you can use with/without LangChain. It's intended to replace the LangChain AgentExecutor (which as they noted was opaque)

I think there are a few patterns that are emerging, and we're trying to invest heavily there. Generating structured output and tool calling are two of those, and we're trying to standardize our interfaces there

Again, this is probably a longer discussion but I just wanted to share some of the directions we're taking to address some of the valid criticisms here. Happy to answer any questions!
Here’s one of the studies:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009167492...

And here’s the ingredient list for a major brand of residential rinse aid:

https://www.rbnainfo.com/product.php?productLineId=654

It sure looks like the same stuff.

If you have low enough water hardness and TDS, then rinse aid serves no purpose and you can just not use it. Even with higher hardness, the main benefit is just aesthetic.
We add clear vinegar to the rinse aid container, but only when the particlar detergent (we don't always buy the same one) leaves residue.
Seventh Generation (sadly bought out by Unilever) still makes decent detergent.
However, what's the environmental impact at and around the factory? I'd rather wash fewer dishes by hand (I've measured, after our old dishwasher broke, and can wash a day's dishes with less than 1.7 gallons of water) than contribute to demand for a manufactured item with non-zero embodied energy and the boxes and boxes of detergent scaled to hundreds of millions, perhaps billions.
It's important to notice that you are not providing any counter-argument here at all.

One can live his life one way due to practicality and believe in another. In fact, if this is any news, almost everyone disagree with their country's laws in at least some matters. This doesn't mean anything.

I believe that killing some conscious stuff is OK and others bad, but not because me or others feel bad or good about it or because the ones I agree to kill taste good. Because believe in a complete moral system that isn't based on another human's fallible reasoning or worse, feelings.
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Yes it’s not a de jure rule, but it is a de facto one. HN has plenty of norms not formally in the guidelines
So do you think that people should be required to become members of a "regulated profession" before writing a VBA spreadsheet macro, or contributing to an open-source project?
I have a uHoo for a few years, and it’s still working fine, but the app is pretty bad and the device paywalls the raw data behind a subscription which always felt scammy to me. Also the refresh interval is 1min.

So recently I went the diy route and pretty happy with a setup from m5stack: an SCD41 sensor plugged in to an AtomS3, running EspHome. I set the resolution to 5 seconds (can go down to 1 second), and then data goes to HomeAssistant -> InfluxDB and I plot it in Grafana. Cool to see the quick changes when using gas stove or opening up window.

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/co2l-unit-with-temperature...

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atoms3-dev-kit-w-0-85-inch...
The way the headline was written it seemed like this was the second iteration of Lady and not just a 2.0 release announcement

It would have also gone a long way if you had mentioned the licensing, which I am always interested in: https://github.com/Eliah-Lakhin/lady-deirdre#copyright

As for a question: why the seemingly needless location of everything down in a "work" folder? Is there something else that you envision one day living at the top-level which you just planned for by putting everything someone would care about one further click away?
If you are spending masses of money and time on something, there is little to no chance anyone in their right might would take any more risk than they have to.

If you are living on a trust fund, sure, give something risky a try.
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This is heavily outdated. Dimensity 9300 is ahead of both SNDG3 and A17 in MC benchmarks. The GPU is highly competitive too.
It's somewhat laughable to compare it to Exynos :)
> If you are in Myanmar, PHP or many other countries, you are SoL

Okay, but this is not the same as "outsourcing your customer service to taxpayers".
gaming on linux is pretty good these days. been using Fedora as a daily driver since ~2009 and with Nvidia and AMD cards.

it's had some rough points, but both the nVidia proprietary, and AMD open source drivers are solid. CP2077 works just fine, ditto for the Halo collection. Proton is amazing and works out of the box.
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Since it tells us nothing about the magnet's characteristics wouldn't iron qualify?
I'm from the US South and am well traveled in Europe and Russia, including minority Russian republics like Adygea. In my experience, Russians are way less racist than Americans and Western Europeans - I almost never heard a racist word from them (I understand the Russian language).

Please watch these:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_xq7WcM_J0

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtCCi249xE

Also, feel free to hit that translate button on videos like these, especially the top voted ones. The comment from Russians are generally very positive (even heartwarming) towards foreigners who are adequate, learn the language and follow the local laws.
> yes, most of the economy actually works by privatizing gains and externalizing losses.

This is a recent trope; it's not really true. Gains are the only things that are taxed. Financially, we tax gains and let investors absorb losses.
I can confirm this is true. Czech republic is cca 2x the population size of Slovakia and its historically more developed part, so during one state union a lot of media were in czech language and it became our second language without thinking about it. Also Czechs did get a decent exposure to slovakian language.

But if there is no exposure, its becomes visible how grammar is very similar, but most words are just a bit different (very few are completely different), and pronunciation varies so much across whole region (even within given country) that its not easy or even possible to understand each other out of blue, without prior exposure.

I got some exposure to Polish TV during 80s, since commies couldn't put together more than 2-3 channels on TV and those were anyway pretty bland. I can cca understand it, but can't say a single sentence well enough. If I read polish text, I have to read it loud in my head and then I grok it easily, otherwise too much 'cz', 'w', words are too long etc and I lose meaning very quickly.

But in general Polish is a bit further away from either Slovak or Czech languages. We were and still are literal brothers (CZ and SK), extremely similar in so many regards, still see no good rational reason why we split up (of course I know real reasons, but those are nasty as are the people responsible for the split).
Yes, the first thing I thought was, “Tomb Raider”!
Coqui's XTTSv2 is good for this because it has a streaming mode. I have my own version of this where I got ~500ms end-to-end response latency, which is much faster than any other open source project I've seen. https://github.com/jdarpinian/chirpy

These are easy to make and fun to play with and it's awesome to have everything local. But it will take more to build something truly useable. A truly natural conversational AI needs to understand the nuances of conversation, most importantly when to speak and when to wait. It also needs to know subtleties of the user's voice that no speech recognizer can output, and it needs control over the output voice more precise than any TTS provides. Audio-to-audio models in the style of GPT-4o are clearly the way forward. (And someday soon, video-to-video models for video calling with a virtual avatar. And the step after that is robotics for physical avatars).

There aren't any open source audio-to-audio models yet but there are some promising approaches. https://ultravox.ai has the input half at least. https://tincans.ai/slm has a cool approach too.
100 %. There's a sweet spot. I worked for both, start-ups and huge corporations. It's not one or the other, you want the right combination of maturity and fresh attitude. We often don't realize it can take years to steer back to find the balance again, but not oversteer, which is usually the default :) Just as with any other organism.
My guess is because when you make it so stupidly obvious it's unbelievable, people will respond exactly like you have, ask exactly your questions, and end up convinced it's not true. Ad hominem doesn't help (as much as I may agree!).

The fact remains that these people the guy found look extremely similar, but correctly aged and have the same names. If it's not indicative of some bizarre conspiracy, it's still extremely weird a coincidence.

I'd have hoped someone could calculate some odds based on names and looks or something and make it make sense.
Your point is that modules has a conceptual underpinning. My point is that the actual world in not the same as that concept.

I use modules for all the reasons. Your assertion that require() or importSync() represents a willful misunderstanding is silly and arrogant.
I'm not saying they would be compelled to. The legality of quote obligations is not really what the analogy is supposed to highlight.
The comment above the one you replied to was. The comment you replied to was not, and it'd be reasonable to suggest it didn't really address what it replied to. But its intent was clear.
It's funny that everybody remembers Pythagoras for the right-triangle theorem, but that wasn't what made him important at the time. The right-triangle square equality had been known empirically for centuries. What he proved that was so completely earth-shaking is that for some right triangles A, B, C there is no rational Q for which QA = C. That was what was so important about his proof.
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I immediately thought of the government. I interned for the transportation department. I was one of these "innovation heros". It was a budget thing as explained to me. If I didn't have work to do, they told me to do homework, I wasn't even allowed to help people on things outside of my department, since they'd have to report on that in budgeting details and be accountable of it to the taxpayer.
> To get promoted beyond a certain level, you must have brought some new product over the finish line

This always confused me. It looked from the outside like Google does so many things right on the innovation front, but after some early success they have had a rough streak.

I'd argue that one thing that Google is doing wrong is gatekeeping promotions based on (overly) well-defined criteria such as new products. Goodhart's Law applies to this situation: you're sure to see lots of new products if its highly rewarded - a lot more than you'd see naturally. As the author mentioned - this might still be desirable depending on the market conditions, but there is a lot more to this discussion, and it's not entirely clear that Google has it wrong.

I'd argue that they emphasize comparability of assessment results(e.g. being able to quantify someone's output like a percentage grade in a course) over the actual relevancy of the assessment criteria/work/kpi to the company's bottom line(e.g. does the course's test actually prepare students for the real world). This probably comes as a by-product of the organization's heavily academic-focused staff - so it might actually be the best culture choice for them given that context - but it might also lose to companies that can successfully put a bigger weighting on the right "intangibles".
Yes, his point in the newsletter is that if you want to short something you can’t borrow, then you should (cynically) make more of it.
The thermoneutral zone in women takes an 'Arctic' shift compared to men
I'd love to be able to [someday] transmit LoRa but at higher wattages (1w-5w). Maybe the FCC would allow it the GMRS band someday on some dedicated frequency centers.

Rant: Unfortunately a lot of crusty hams are vehemently opposed to using frequency for _anything_ except voice, despite the vast majority of current generations communicating digitally.
Well, except when they do.

Can you really imagine a military that didn't have and celebrate heroes?

If a large organization can't have those that sacrifice themselves and break rules to achieve the greater goal, then they're unlikely to succeed against a significant foe. At the same time communication within large organizations is challenging and leadership is unlikely to know what the challenges at the front line are. Fostering all innovation is as likely to lead to regularly scheduled mediocre "improvements" and "features" that nobody really wants in order to meet whatever metric is in place (to the detriment of what is not explicitly measured).

The argument of the article seems to be, just be so good and well directed by both senior and middle managers that exactly the "right" innovations occur within the process. That likely means those in the trenches aren't getting what they need.

The most effective rapid innovation method I've seen (though painful and challenging to implement) is having separate teams competing to several performance milestones (which allow more generic goals and targeted metrics). At the milestones they share their results and innovations, which competing teams can then use/combine to compete against them. Management needs real goals with known tradeoffs, 2-3x more people than a single team, and it's stressful hitting deadlines knowing that failure is an option. The failure mode is putting all the "best" people on one team which is supposed to win, though I've seen even that get broken by a team of underdog "heroes" who embarrassed the chosen team, and luckily senior management rewarded that.

It's similar to "red" vs "blue" pen-testing or wargaming, but you can have more than 2 teams and the goals can be aligned against the status quo (sometimes a tweaked current solution is the winner).
Yep you have to have both. I think thats where the early to ripe, early to rot misconception comes from. If you think a kid is a genius just cause they are a little ahead for and just assums they will figure everything else out, then yeah the kid will likely not achieve much.
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Not sure that you can fix a calcified bureaucracy with "doctrine". I sort of get the angle, I think -- if the org operates within a rigid rule framework, you need to speak their language to get anywhere -- so, doctrine is best, because everyone is used to being told what to do? I feel like that approach is counter to the spirit of innovation, that's akin to being forced to have fun; nothing truly innovative will come from it.

I think it's more of a lost cause, really. If you want to work on cool new stuff, don't work at a large org. I play the "innovation hero" role often enough, and the diversity of pushback we encounter is impressive. It ranges from thinly veiled hostility, the sdev equivalent of NIMBY, lies through omission, through nonviolent noncompliance, all the way to blithely unaware absurdity.

One amazing moment stands out to me - we were jumping through the usual hurdles as described in the article, trying to get a prototype to prod, and in one meeting the head of IT indignantly exclaimed "I am not here to solve problems!". To paraphrase a scene from the Big Short: he wasn't confessing, he was bragging. The top brass exist to stifle any and all deviation from the norm.

Another commenter in this thread makes a very good point: most of these innovation initiatives die stillborn, because the existing power structures exist, their MO is to maintain, and the C-suites would rather buy a successful startup than take any political risks internally.
Please realize that you are not, in fact, providing a counter argument.

I agree that the modern livestock raising and slaughter practices are not good. But not because it just doesn't look wholesome. Neither surgical operations nor the sewage system look very wholesome.
Seems like there's controversy here, but what an interesting and uncomfortable revelation to find out that I'm either as old as or older than Tetris. I'm sure as time goes by that claim will sound as outlandish to the younger generation as it should.
The problem with this particular anecdote is that 'innovation' and 'government agency' are used in the same sentence.

Most people do not equate any government agency with an innovative environment. Bureaucracy is the watchword where the status quo is not only encouraged but fiercely protected.

Any new hire or politician who threatens to reform the process is treated as the enemy.
It means you know when to open the windows more to maintain fresh air.

I think much better and am in a better mood when CO2 levels are lower, or when air is fresher generally (the two generally correlate).

But I don't want to keep my windows wide open all the time because that wastes AC or heat.

So if the monitor is reading above 650, I open windows a little bit. If it's reading over 800, I open them wider. If it's under 550, I'll go back to closing them.

It's just a few times a day, but it really helps. And it's not something I can "tell" otherwise easily, because if I have brain fog or am in a bad mood then high CO2 is just one of many possible reasons -- is my blood sugar low? Did I get enough sleep? Etc.

A CO2 monitor feels just as essential to my health as weighing myself every day, no bright or blue lights two hours before bed, not overeating carbs, and so forth. It really helps with my overall alertness and productivity in a major way.
To add to what everyone else has said, there was also new competition from mailing lists administered via the web, and from web based forums.

I feel like Google Groups deserves a (dis)honourable mention here — it was a free web-based interface to usenet (which led some people to think that usenet itself was a Google service), which Google lost interest in, let whither, and eventually shut down. I don’t think it killed usenet, but it didn’t exactly help.
For good measure, it is an operation that executes by the runtime for every execution, not as a redeployment.

Turns out that the ESM purists struggle to find reasons to condemn those of us who don’t have the need or resources to the chase bleeding edge of purity.
Been running the wave plus for 2 years and can recommend
10x speed up; what more do you want
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...

I'd say they're on about the same degree of (low) popularity.

You may argue the comparison vs. Swift is overkill, but that's actually the kind of fame that's "household name" territory.
Basic test for "Is this a good idea" is to check to see if someone else has already had this idea or one that is similar, and if they have ever executed on the idea, and how did that go.

So they shared their idea, and I showed them that Randall Monroe has already done the math and shown that the idea is dead in the water due to the extremely small amount of energy available to be extracted from rainwater on roofs.

If they didn't know this, hopefully they will stop here and pivot to something else.

If they did know this and made a functionally terrible but somewhat flashy looking website in order to sell this device anyway, then they are just looking for a sucker to bilk money out of.