skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've touched on the reason why hierarchical corporations outcompete employee-owned-cooperatives:

> Hierarchical structures appear because power is naturally consolidating and most people have an extreme unwillingness to release power even when presented with evidence that it would improve their quality of life.

Yes, and that is a fact of human nature. Moreover, many people are happy to work in a power structure if it means that they get more money to have more power over their own life than they otherwise would. The employees are all consenting actors here too: they have the option of quitting and going to an employee-owned cooperative, but most do not, because they make a lot more money in the corporate giant. (If they did all go to the employee-owned cooperative, it would drive down wages even further, since there is a finite amount of dollars coming into their market but that would be split across more employees.)

Remember the yardstick here. Capitalism optimizes for quantity of dollars transacted. The only quality that counts is the baseline quality needed to make the transaction happen. It's probably true that people who care about the cause deliver better service - but most customers don't care enough about the service or the cause for this to translate into more dollars.

As an employee and customer, you're also free to set your own value system. And most people are happier in work that is mission- & values-aligned; my wife has certainly made that tradeoff, and at various times in my life, I have too. But there's a financial penalty for it, because lots of people want to work in places that are mission-aligned but there's only a limited amount of dollars flowing into that work, so competition for those positions drives down wages.
I suspect it's mainly due to the intuitiveness of folder-based file management. It provides a sense of location since a file can only be found on one path, which mirrors the physical world.
I hope the backups were mysteriously missing.

Or thrown out. On top of a very accessible dumpster.
The concerns about the magnetic field may be bunk, but I had to give up using a wireless charger next to my bed because I could hear the coils making a ticking sound. Qi interleaves data with power so I assume the sound is the coils reacting mechanically whenever they interrupt the power to send a data packet instead.

I found that some USB wall chargers emit a high pitched whine when used to power a Qi charger as well, even if they are dead silent when charging a device directly.
The Wikipedia article I linked mentions far more computers getting infected, and approximately 1000 systems being damaged. That's in line with what I've read about the program over the past decade, though my thirty seconds of research can't find more evidence.

If it only damaged the one system it was supposed to be targeting, why would we ever have heard of it?
I would assume yes, but it will all depend on how that corporate wind-down would go down. And I have zero idea how that goes, because it isn’t like TikTok assets and corporate liabilities just go poof overnight in the US on the day of the ban. They gotta be winded down somehow, and I am afraid that level of detail is significantly above my paygrade.

Also, I am not even sure that this applies here, as I couldnt even find anything about the US government suing TikTok. All I could find was that TikTok is the one that filed with the US courts to fight the bill that is getting them banned, i.e., they are the ones actually suing the US government[0].

0. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...
Do you understand that what you're writing is repeatedly saying it's everyone else's fault?

The people screaming think of the children are almost always the ones I want nowhere near children.
Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI'
I don't think so (except maybe crypto). Customers (obviously) prefer payment methods with customer protection as there is also the case where businesses scam customers.
I charge wirelessly next to my head every night for the last 2 years (With wifi and bluetooth turned on) and sleep like a baby.
Where is this nonsense coming from and why is it running rampant in a HN thread?
The GQ Electronics GMC-520 has been very reliable for me. It has a Geiger counter and other functionality also.
"Did you remember to change the needle between samples?"

"... ah ... shit."
> The AI system identifies and analyzes the composition of over 100 million potential alloys that would have the right properties to be a permanent magnet, be free of rare-earth elements, and meet the requirements of affordability and sustainability. The potential of this approach for the creation of new materials is enormous.

This is deeply annoying to me. AI didn't do anything - An engineer / scientist with a deep toolkit used a particular statistical algorithm (or just search + analysis?) to discover a useful thing. In the same way it might be newsworthy in some circles if a pure-theory mathematical result found surprising use in sports betting or medicine.

OTOH, I question whether I am moving the goalpost a little. Certainly it still requires a specialist with lots and lots of expertise to build a system that can algorithmically find solutions to a very hard problem. But those who look at an increasing amount of generality of a given algorithm and want to call it intelligence - who am I to say it's not?

So, I can see it both ways.
> prove that a hardline unrealistic zero emissions by 2045 won’t lead to a worse environmental

One, not how the law works. But also, not how debate works? Prove that not doing this won’t lead to worse outcomes. You can’t. It’s in the future.

> lack of food, lack of trucks for maintenance, lack of locally produced clean water, and lack of tourism

How does this result from zero emissions? The food is grown there or imported. Onshore aquifers can be pumped with electricity, like they are already. (Worst case, import.) And not sure how this hits tourism, either.

> am an automotive EE, we’re designing trucks now for 32-34 model year release, spoiler, they’re gas and diesel

Of course. Nobody is phasing out gas/diesel trucks in the 2030s on the mainland. But this is about Hawaii. Phasing out fossil fuels—of which they make none—makes sense on multiple levels.
i've been using table salt for this lately. of course this also creates microplastics
I'm not gonna lie, that's some brilliant design. Y'all don't have time to check all the things when you have to get to an emergency site, but I imagine you also need your lights and pumps and such to work.
Bad TypeScript is a PEBCAK.

Idiomatic and maintainable TypeScipt is no worse than vanilla JavaScript.
Yes- Goodhart’s Law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Same. Windows 11 control panel feels now complete to me, way better than the Windows 10 one which had me always reaching out to the legacy control panel.
For autonomous vehicles almost mandatory if you want to charge them without maintaince personnel.
> When we write, we leave spaces between words. Readingwordswithoutsuchspacesisdifficult.

immediately losing credibility because quite a number of languages, such as Chinese and Japanese (and I think Korean too), are written without space between words or characters. In fact, until quite recently (last 100 years or so), written Chinese had no punctuations.
FlowSnake
Show HN: I was bored of coding PDFs, I created a SaaS to solve this problem
hey hn,

I have wasted too much time in my career creating PDF generation systems for invoices, quotes, activity summary, etc...
I created this product so that I never waste my time on that again

I hope I can help folks with this product, what do you think?
Claudette
I'd say

> "Ground-Breaking" New Magnet Free of Rare Earth Metals Developed Using Machine Learning

Would've been a more accurate, but less click-baity title, that didn't imply the existence of an artificially intelligent entity developing something by itself. Human researchers used machine learning to comb through many possibilities and find one that fit the bill — which is still interesting and cool.
There hasn't been a lot of longterm research. Effects will also vary by frequency, intensity, etc. Some frequencies can cause heating, which is a problem for some areas like the eyes. Some frequencies increase glucose metabolism for the cells affected. No idea what that does longterm, but theoretically, that could create an environment for cancer growth.
> over an 4.75-inch gap
Why isn't extreme heat considered a disaster in the US?
How the square root of 2 became a number
That is actually a super useful and important insight, because the bridge to get there means unpacking interpretation, compilation, and things like compilation targets and CPU architectures. Not saying you're wrong!
Why? While Balmer's products weren't market conquering smash hits (Xbox 360, Zune, Windows Phone 7) but they also weren't full of anti-user features, ads and spyware like those launched under Nadella.

Balmer seemed to at least care a bit about (windows) developers and how products were received by the consumers which is why he spent 1,5 Billion on fixing the red ring of death issue to save the Xbox, only for Microsoft to run it into the ground today under Nadella. How many people do you know who would want to buy Xbox today?

The way I see it, Balmer was better for the products, Nadella was better at increasing the share price, but the way Boeing proved it, you can have stock increases even if your products are going to shit once you nearly monopolize a market.
No TypeScript version? :(
That bit is poorly worded. I should have had a comma before the last word. My bad.
Step back a bit and ask yourself: Why not? If it's a great car, and if it has been technologically updated, should you really care that much about a new front grill design?

We consider cars more fashionable than shoes.
This veritasium video was VERY controversial as it tries to make an edge case into the main thing and trick you.

Also made me unsubscribe from his videos.
In open air, it's merely really inefficient. Would still be like a campfire under your car.
>>China hasn't financialized their economy and turned it into a giant Ponzi scheme / wealth extraction machine.

OK, nevermind that China are struggling with massive real-estate and shadow banking issues that threaten collapse of their economy and serious global economic crisis. They may succeed, but it has been touch-and-go for years now.

And yes, their 'workshop of the world' initiative works when they can massively export at super-low prices, but that is ending for several reasons, in no small part due to the fact that they are an unreliable trading partner and have weaponized their trading position against partners in a variety of ways, including spying (e.g., Huawei), cutting off supplies (rare earths, etc.), and dumping goods under cost to corner markets.

You can get away with that for a while, and your numbers will look very good. But when you start to become a serious threat, you will find resistance. We are now at that point. China was supposed to have already surpassed the US as the worlds largest economy almost a decade ago. Now, it is no longer on that arc, despite having five times the population. Their BS is catching up with them.
>chat("Concisely, what is the meaning of life?", prefill='According to Douglas Adams,')

>According to Douglas Adams, “42.” More seriously, it’s often considered to be finding personal fulfillment, happiness, and purpose.

"Chattiness" still seems to be an issue with LLMs. For many use cases, it is desirable to just get a "42" back, or just the Douglas Adams bit; but that's still quite a challenge to set up in a reliable way. Even using the "command" or "instruct" versions of the best LLMs, answers still diverge significantly. Hope this gets fixed (i.e. trained) soon.
No, but that doesn't cancel the desire for law enforcement to pry in unbreakable encryption.

There is ample evidence that breaking or backdooring apps or devices (more or less specifically) targeting criminals, allows the cops to roll up huge crime networks. These are expensive and time consuming one off operations.

Main stream messaging apps like Signal and Whatsapp of course rely one very similar technology so it's probably safe to assume some illegitimate stuff is happening there. I wager that finding those criminal messages in practice has a more serious issue beyond encryption: there is far too much data.

And even if encryption were banned altogether, the criminals would surely find a way to whispers their mischiefs in stenography.
OpenAI Co-Founder, Who Helped Oust Sam Altman, Starts His Own Company
Some good input on this thread such as that from brendangregg - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648021
The OOP concept described by Smalltalk is message passing. The closest OOP-ness rivals are Ruby and Objective-C (and arguably Erlang). Java has no such facilities. Java is much more like C++.
Energy use is predicted to go down, while electricity usage is predicted to double or triple in western nations.

The dramatic comparative inefficiency of non-electric transport and heating makes this apparent paradox possible.
https://archive.is/NLWso
Is this a reassuring statement? What happens with loose screws and such? And at some point it’s gotta be interacting with biological matter, no?

I know nothing about this stuff though.
Reaching the Enchanted Forest
Learning LangChain is effort, but not as much as truly understanding deep learning, so you learn LangChain and it feels like progress, when it may not be
Not to mention that these kinds of systems tend to be very particular about alignment. The amount of effort saved in not plugging in a cable would be very easy to use up if the vehicle has to be precisely parked for it to work.

Also let's keep in mind the claimed efficiency of 95%. That's very good for a wireless power transfer system but if we're talking about 270kW that's still 13.5kW which is getting converted in to heat in the system. That's more power being wasted than a standard home L2 EVSE on a 50A can even deliver, just to avoid plugging in a cable.

I could certainly see specific applications where it'd make sense, like city buses where the pads could be installed at bus stops allowing buses to run their loops effectively infinitely. I'm sure there are also plenty of industrial use cases where a vehicle is constantly moving around a job site but stopping regularly at specific locations. I don't see any reason to desire this as a consumer though.
> If employees had ownership over which changes they think are best, a good employee would act on bringing the alerts back to zero before they take on new features or a new project.

You say this but as someone who's run a large platform organization that hasn't been my experience. Sure some employees, maybe you, care about things like bringing alerts back to zero but a large number are indifferent and a small number are outright dismissive.

This is informed not just by individual personality but also by culture.

Not too long ago I pointed out a bug in someone's code who I was reviewing and instead of fixing it they said, "Oh okay, I'll look out for bugs like that when I write code in the future" then proceeded to merge and deploy their unchanged code. And in that case I'm their manager not a peer or someone from another team, they have all the incentive in the world to stop and fix the problem. It was purely a cultural thing where in their mind their code worked 'good enough' so why not deploy it and just take the feedback as something that could be done better next time.
Could you please expand on what that is?
Guile is quite systems focused, as well, what with all the POSIX stuff it exposes. But neither Guile nor Gerbil can be used to implement their own runtimes. You need to write the GC, somehow. This is why Pre-Scheme exists.
When I read the zero knowledge proof part the first time, my thought was:

The person can just always give two different colors (and never two same colors) when you reveal two post it notes, so you could never proof them false.

Only after re-reading I realized _all_ the colors are to be hidden under the post it notes _beforehand_, not at the time you choose two post it notes.
I made the same choice for our stack last year.

We initially had problems diagnosing issues inside LangChain and were hitting weird issues with some elements of function calling, so we experimented with a manual reconstruction of exactly what we needed and it was faster, more resilient and easier to maintain.

I can see how switching models might be easier using LangChain as an abstraction layer, but that doesn't justify making everything else harder.
Compare this to the M1 release. You only get one chance at a first impression.
Where they can it's a statutory provision. For example, litigants who bring lots of nuisance suits.
Kind of saddens me that while I was born there - I never had a chance to see any of this.
I used LangChain early on in it's life. People crap on their documentation but at least at that point in time I had no problem with it. I like reading source code so I'd find myself reading the code for further comprehension anyway. In my case - I'm a seasoned engineer who was discovering LLMs and thought LangChain suited that way of learning pretty well.

When it came to building anything real beyond toy examples, I quickly outgrew it and haven't looked back. We don't use any LC in production. So while LC does get a lot of hate from time to time (as you see in a lot of peers posts here) I do owe them some credit for helping bridge my learning of this domain.
> The carriers are limited to those speeds to maintain specimen integrity. If blood samples move faster, for example, blood cells can be destroyed.

It’s not the overall speed that destroys the blood cells, it is the acceleration and deceleration at either end which does it. These tube systems just don’t have the ability to include extensive gradual-acceleration and gradual-deceleration systems at either end.
The most important thing here is the 92% efficiency and how "ideal" things had to be in order to achieve that.

Wireless power transfer typically has an efficiency curve that looks like the Washington Monument - or a middle finger, on a chart. Off by a hair and your efficiency is in free fall down the sides. Alignment, distance, frequency, impedance, parasitics...pick a dimension and it's all FU charts.

So I am wondering if they made a system that can actively dial all these in given a real world scenario, or if they hand placed everything to ensure perfect alignment on all fronts, then took an efficiency measurement.

Edited to add: A neat fact though is that when you dial in all those parameters as near to the ideal as you can, you actually can get over 99% efficiency. These are what transformers are. The electrical things, not the AI models.
Let’s see how that works out for him.
I can imagine it, but all I'm imagining is car companies doing a poor job on the protocol security and I get a $10k bill for power at the end of the month because someone spoofed my car token.
That used to not be the case. Has something changed?
Does the torus one apply to a wrap-around 2D map then? So if the edges don't wrap, the max amount of colors needed is 4, but if the edges do wrap, you could make a map requiring 7 colors?

EDIT: yep looks like it, the leftmost picture under 'snapshots' here is a 2D map of what's on the torus and looking at e.g. the blue band, it touches all 6 others (just barely the cyan and yellow ones with a few pixels of its tips when wrapping between top/bottom): https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SevenColoringOfATorus/
They don't need to do any of that. They'll just use AI analysis combined with mass surveillance to identify and crush any organized dissent before it can form into anything close to a threat. A very small group of goons is all that is required.
These one line fix always seem like a stupid bug , but in reality most bugs are like this and the fix is in the discovery
This spurred on some other videos from another youtuber that goes by AlphaPhoenix, he went way into all the details on it including measuring the complete flow of the wave of the electrical power and how it all works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_crwFuPht4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AXv49dDQJw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xvL_rYXpE (on his second channel, has a lot of "behind the scenes" of how it was done)

It goes into a lot of depth of how the wave propagates, including measuring it at effectively "a billion fps" (he goes over how he does this) along the wire and how impedance matching works, etc. It's about 2.5 hours of video IIRC but it's probably the most detailed and easy to understand demonstration and explanation of all of it that I've ever seen.
The main concern about reflecting light
are from astronomers in remote places.

The main concern for the rest of humanity is that Starlink is for nuclear war: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...
I always thought it's Persian, but it may be older, and it does certainly have cognates in Sanskrit too.

Wiktionary is amazing for such information.
Unpoly 3.8.0 Released
Enable all warnings.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#inde...
It's a C/C++ compiler flag, saying all warnings on.

Since I do Swift, these days, in Xcode, I use project settings, instead.

I also like to treat warnings as errors.

Forces me to be circumspect.
Lots of things create and feed addictions, including baking cookies.

Let’s not confuse the issue. Just because you find something distasteful doesn’t mean it’s bad or morally problematic.
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#inde...
Synthetic Data Benchmark [pdf]
Being able to hear the coil whine and finding it annoying is a fine reason to not like wireless charging. But I am pretty sure this is not what most people are going on about.
I wrote off Veritasium when they ran an advertorial about how incredibly safe self-driving cars are, sponsored by Waymo, mostly just citing Waymos own studies.
Yeah of course, now that they know all their chats can be scanned, they are balking
It’s a CLI flag to the compiler that enables all warnings.
And the number of phone cables I've replaced, especially beside my bed is already out of control. Switching to cables that plug in at 90 degrees has helped a lot, but it's something that can still wear out quickly.
And all this for marketing emails nobody reads anyway.
Could someone point me towards a good resource for learning how to build a RAG app without llangchain or llamaindex? It's hard to find good information.
Claims of electromagnetic sensitivity have been debunked. They show symptoms to fake EM devices, and don’t show symptoms to real but hidden EM devices, so it’s all in their head. It’s the nocebo effect.
> Money is the only metric that matters, here

Says who? Did I agree to that when I subscribed?

> Everyone wants to be rich,

Everyone? Like me too? Tell me more about that.

You in an earlier comment said that people believe that you are "a stuck-up prig". Are you sure it is due to your moral stance, and not because you are judgemental, and abrasive about it?

Perhaps if you would be less set in your mind about how you think everyone is you wouldn't come through as "a stuck-up prig". Maybe we would even find common grounds between us.
To adapt the old saying, 3 months of reverse engineering can save you 3 hours in the storage room.
“Lumped element model”
i really like this, but the images are just too small! can we scale up at least 3x or 4x
First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image
If that's true, then I'm officially notifying everyone in Congress and the Senate, they are terminated immediately and need to clear their offices by the end of the week. Let's see if it happens or not, and then we'll know whether you were correct or not.