skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this have semantic search of some form? May be possible to implement all client-side with local browser models soon
Desalinating Water Is Becoming "Absurdly Cheap"
Depending on who the attacker is, the attack being undetectable might not matter. Russia has assassinated multiple people using polonium, and what was the response? Crickets. They could easily do the same thing to assassinate other people they don't like (along with plane-loads of other passengers), and the only result will be angry words and "condemnation".
It's high time someone disrupted the damn desk phone network of these hospitals. It's definitely not a technical hurdle in 2024. All calls go on the data network. You route your calls out of the main router and any call that gets routed in such manner will have the ID of the router. Tag the router id to the hospital or hotel and be done with.

Is it not this simple ? With dual SIMs any phone can serve 2 lines so employees officially switch to the hospital e-sim within the hospital premises.
There's zero chance that the award amount will stand, but I hope it does and bankrupts the league.
This won’t directly answer your question, but it hit the front page here a while ago and I think you may enjoy it:

https://www.octomind.dev/blog/why-we-no-longer-use-langchain...
> Given the rise of Markdown for personal notes and technical documentation

This is your problem. You’re thinking a mole hill is a mountain. Tech dorks liking markdown doesn’t mean much.
Heck, you can also use the min instruction, which avoids a branch.
Darn, thanks. I only have a 7, will have to see if that ever happens.
> in the end the corporation has given a group of people what they wanted.

Has given an entity with spending power something that (it thought) it wanted. Context considered, there might be no humans involved.
We are a small automation startup in Europe. Our usual workflows include manufacturing a custom brackets, cases, etc. for out custom control equipment. We previously outsource everything to local shops, and recently switched to owning our own printing cluster. Started with 5 prusas and had to fix and repair things always. PLA dont stick to the bed at all. Switched to bambu recently and printing with ABS now with zero concerns. Printed >500 enclosures on 3x bambu X1s, much faster and better quality than 5x prusas. My personal recommendation for anyone who wants to print a lot with minimal maintenance. Bambu is slightly more expensive but ROI is very short compared to prusa in the short term
I've tried to setup FUTO with English as primary, added externally imported voice model, dictionary and engine and then added a secondary language (Greek) that I've only being able to add the external voice model.

I've been able to voice dictate in Greek but no suggestions or other features

The worst part I wanted to be noted is the keyboard layout switching method, in order for me as a user to press and hold the space and then while having one or two hands focused on the lower end of the device I need to reach out to the top to select the language by hand.

I would suggest implemented a different approach via Spacebar slide left/right or even a dedicated keyboard layout switch button.

After all that see if dictionary files can really be imported cause tar/gz or other archive files aren't working thru import.

Last I'd like to thank the developers of FUTO keyboard, I'll keep trying to replace SwiftKey with FUTO and when it l'll gets ripe I'll also jump on the donation / payment to the cause.

Keep it up !!
Being used to automatic instant login with 1Password on most websites, forced magic email links are very frustrating. They make you switch windows, wait for the email to arrive, sometimes look for it in the spam folder, and finally also leave an unnecesary browser tab open. In my view, you should always offer a username/password/totp or at least passkey alternative.
The cranial vault is an open space surrounded by bone. Yes, some evolutionary brain changes would reflect themselves in the endocast, but would all major brain changes do that?
Chest freezers are less convenient to access, and require different accommodation than an upright refrigerator.

In a chest freezer:

- You access everything from the top. This would require something like a section of cabinetry which opens to the top, or a chest freezer occupying kitchen or other living space. Since the freezer is low and wide, this has a larger floor footprint than an upright fridge.

- Contents are stacked vertically, which means you have to dig through the pile to get to items on the bottom. There might be designs which make this easier (e.g., fold-up shelving), but that would have to accommodate another aspect which is that ...

- Chest freezers tend to frost over fairly heavily. Cold air doesn't spill out, but warm air tends to settle down into the fridge, and as it chills, loses its humidity as frost. Many or most chest freezers don't have an automatic defrost cycle,[1] and frost will build up on inside walls, contents, and any moving parts such as the fold-up shelving I'd described. Defrosting is typically done manually with chest freezers.

- Chest freezers are, well, freezers. I suspect some might be able to operate as refrigerators, but AFAIU they tend to cool somewhat unevenly as refrigerators rely on active air circulation to cool contents and avoid hot or cold spots.

If you're aware of these limitations and/or can work around them, e.g., by having a trundle-shelf or top-access countertop to address floorspace / footprint issues, and can find a way to easily access contents, chest-type designs can be a good choice.

________________________________

Notes:

1. Refrigerator defrost cycles involve halting the cooling cycle and activating heating elements in the refrigerator (and freezer-space) walls to melt any accumulated frost. This itself is both a considerable energy expenditure, and tends to accelerate freezer burn and other ageing of food often giving unpleasant taste or texture.
You'd be surprised then how little I value tarantulas, yet I never see them...
I had to do a triple take and count the commas. That's 4 billion dollars.
I think if your runtime performance is terrible with Haskell, either the explanation is that you might be doing something a bit crazy, or that your application is memory-constrained.
Ask HN: How much money gets burned on July 4th in US
Predictions and models are not something i have experience in. I’m sat here wondering though as all I can hear are whizz and bangs and more bangs.. how much money does the US spend on fireworks for July 4th and then burn through the night?
You are probably confusing settlement time with transaction time.
Do you know how credit cards work?
Small world. I can guess exactly who _other_ Rowan is.

(It's Rowan from VLDL on YouTube right? ;) )
i too had this issue, and it persisted even after i uninstalled the extension. i had to restart the browser entirely
I laughed out loud when the “this call may be recorded for quality…” message came through and the police officer fell in line like everyone queued for a call center agent.
This article smells off. Unless I missed a breakthrough paper in the last few years, the mass/energy required to move an actual warp vehicle is measured in Jupiters. Given that we're talking about messing with spacetime, there's no reason to assume we can knock many orders of magnitude off that number any time soon. At any rate, it will probably be centuries before humans have the ability to start engineering something like that.
Make that $14 billion.

> Since damages can be tripled under federal antitrust laws, the NFL could end up being liable for $14,121,779,833.92
>I'm not sure if slaves were this expensive back in ancient Greek or Roman times, but I suspect it probably wasn't that different.

The price fluctuated heavily. After a successful conquest slaves were way more affordable. Generally, a lot of people were able to afford slaves, so it was cheaper on average too. It was also place-dependent, compare for example Athens where roughly half of the population was free, and Sparta, where most of the population was enslaved.

And of course even when slaves were expensive, most economically important labor was done by them anyway.
I maintain a fork of tt-rss[0] that I use to follow blogs, podcasts, and YouTube. I wrote a podcatcher that used the back-end database, too.

I forked it back in 2005 because the maintainer wasn't interested in the direction my patches were going. My version has diverged dramatically from the current version.

I have no idea how many hours I've put into it over 19 years. It has needed surprisingly little care and feeding (which I'd attribute to it being a simple PHP app).

I've used it nearly daily in the last 19 years.

[0] https://tt-rss.org/

Edit: I also maintain a set of scripts to import my SMS from phone backups into my IMAP mailbox. Having a single place to search for my written communication is wonderful.
This is a great post! Did you blog about it? I am sure HN would love a post like that. I would generate lots of interesting convos around similar setups in different countries.
India: An education scandal years in the making
This particular robot was revealed back in 2022.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190875
Agile practices and the elimination of proper QA are also part of the problem.
Waymos kind of act like drunk assholes in situations they dont understand. Hail one into a parking lot and they sit in the middle of the lane at the door rather than parking in a spot and block all traffic. They also drive fast and close to skateboarders, ignoring them completely. They constantly get stuck at bus stops that are in the right lane rather than having their own lane, and they inch out slowly and get honked at and stop, blocking everyone until the bus leaves. Im scared to watch one run a school bus stop sign when kids are crossing but so far they have always had humans in front keeping them in line.
The IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric Composer
> I had an occasion a long time ago where I needed to request an Uber for a ride similar to what you’re describing. At that time, apparently the driver didn’t find out the route until they’d committed to the ride.

A similar (though not a break down in tears situation) - My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford - https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/07/23/my-300-mile-lyft-ride... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20508238 - 186 comments)

The relevant section:

> I considered about it for a minute, and then thought, why the hell not, and scheduled the ride. The worst case scenario in this situation is that no one would take the fare, and I would be no worse off than I already was. After a few seconds, I was matched with a car, and I went out to meet the driver.

> I had a suspicion that the app might not tell the driver exactly where I was going, so when the driver — Victor — pulled up, I double-checked with him.

> “I want to be absolutely clear what you’re getting into,” I told him. “I’m asking you to drive me to Ohio.”

> “The state?” he asked.

> “Yes.”

> He thought about it for a second, consulted his own Lyft app (which hadn’t, in fact, told him the destination, just that it was more than 30 minutes away), and then looked back to me, and sort of shrugged. “I like long trips. This could be fun.” Then he popped the trunk for my luggage.
According to the article, the amount could be tripled under federal antitrust law, making it a whopping $14 billion.

I agree, it probably won't stand, but it would be really great to see the league bankrupted. NFL is considered "too important to fail" by US politicians, just like GM and Boeing.
I got three correspondence from fly on this matter when it happened. They absolutely were transparent and clear about it.
Math Behind Transformers and LLMs
Welcome to the Nextpart AI Wiki
This is definitely the case - if you have a time-of-use tariff and an EV you charge at home, there's a strong incentive to schedule your charging to the cheapest time of day.
Thanks for clarifying, I am seeing the same behaviour.

I think the codec changes once the microphone is enabled.
Beautiful analysis! Great to see the hard stats on the technology breakdowns on the hiring threads with a clever LLM approach. And the write up was super clear.
Ah, that makes sense - it’s doing the ‘tons of oil energy equivalent’, which those countries are petrostates/petrokingdoms which typically have things like free (or nearly so) gasoline, natural gas, electricity, etc. as part of the gov’t popularity equation.

Which those states need to do that typically because they don’t really care about any actual quality of life improvements, or developing any other parts of the economy.

Because why bother, when you can do those other things more easily, it makes folks dependent on the gov’t, and it avoids things like people being more educated and independent and asking tough questions about those in power.

So I guess I should amend my comment - ‘except for countries where the gov’t is incentivizing free unlimited petro energy due to gov’t policy, quality of life still roughly tracks energy consumption and availability’.

Though then we’d need to argue about what quality of life really means - most Spaniards would top most Americans in physical and mental health in my experience, for example. But Americans definitely have more stuff.
Here’s what the chairman of the federal reserve actually stated about payroll numbers:

> there’s an argument that they may be a bit overstated

Not one, not two, but three qualifiers[1] that you left out of your retelling.

[1] “there’s an argument,” “may be,” and “a bit”
Eating dinner no, but if your washing machine and dishwasher have an internal timer function (most relatively recent models of both appear to), it's pretty easy to load the appliance and tell it to turn on later that night.
Because .net was the center of the whole ecosystem
Yeah the thorns on these things are bad news. A scratch to the eye fron one = blindness. Even taking one to the hand can easily result in a hospital trip.

Was just reading last night: "the thorns are "particularly toxic to the eye". Corneal scratches led to loss of vision in more than half of 132 reported incidents in Ireland (Mitchell and Rook, 1979)." From this book: https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Edible-Weeds-Reference-Libra...
The e-ink display is going to make using the camera a bad experience, since you won't be able to really see what you're taking a picture of. (e-ink doesn't have very good color.) Plus the refresh rate is really low which will cause a lot of issues.

Anyway, the solution is simple: just get a regular smartphone, and simply don't install any distracting apps on it.
What happens when you lose your phone then?

Do you have recovery code printed out? Do you carry them with you? If you do then what's the difference between this and a password?
Works fine on my Pixel 7a using the release version of Firefox (I won't dare touch Brave), fwiw.
The Republic of Indian Stream
This was posted [0] ~ 3 years ago to HN, I felt it's worthy of a repost.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10636756
> They seemingly want to make sure you have a main Mac desktop always.

I’m willing to believe in this case it’s because they want the Mac to survive. I’m sure every Mac is profitable (in accord with one of Apple’s core values) but Mac sales are pretty tiny compared to other products.

Even when Apple fans say “St Stephen would be rolling in his grave if they got rid of the Mac”, he famously said he’d milk the Mac for all it was worth while doing the next thing.

Separately, there’s already a ton of writing on why iPad and Mac won’t completely converge
Fighting Distractions as a Software Developer
Gosling wrote sc? I had no idea. I was an scim user before moving to visidata like another poster mentioned, so I kinda-sorta feel like an sc user.

For those who don't know, James Gosling invented a popular VM-based "write once, test everywhere" programming language named after a tree. Then named after a coffee.
Or perhaps they are not struggling with the word "reconstruct"
A lot of smart meters also have a simple LED pulse output, that you can read with a light sensor.
Im confused about this. Does that mean a tv show, or podcast being exclusive to a specific streaming service could be next?

Also, the talk of the price being too high, If people are paying for it then the price isn’t too high right? this is clearly a service for “super fans”. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for it to be a premium purchase.

Though, I am kind of hoping this will end up with UFC events being cheaper, and not requiring espn+
So funny to see the results presented as animated circles! But really good too. I guess it presents the data as sqrroot(x).
Chippies are also known as "wood butchers" apparently. Amused me ;)
> With hawthorns suddenly scarce on the landscape, though, parsing out which species are real is next to impossible. “That’s the root of the problem,” Lance said. “They’re gone.”

Would population-scale (of those that can still be found) genetic sequencing help point the way to an answer? It's relatively cheap now, compared to before, and odds are will be more so.
They don't officially sell any hardware here since 2022. Every iPhone and Mac sold in Russia since then is grey import and costs accordingly, around 1.5x the Apple price.
The issue with scrum is that every 2 weeks you are supposed to decide next steps based on customer feedback, not a "business roadmap." Business thinks in terms of quarters, not 2 weeks.

Thus - how does one get predictability out of a process that is designed to be able to change direction within a small increment of time based on unknown customer feedback? I believe the answer is you don't. Business predictability is therefore an issue.
insert wolf hand sign

It’s very neat to see an NC State article on here
> remote-control exoskeleton

So like a robot?
I've been looking for something like this, but as a desktop app that runs locally. So far I've only found two:

1. HistoryHound - https://www.stclairsoft.com/HistoryHound/index.html

2. BrowserParrot - https://www.browserparrot.com/ (sadly seems abandoned)

Wish I could find something like these but open-source. Both of them parse your browser history, fetch the pages, and build their own index. Would be a "safer" and more space/cpu-efficient alternative to apps like Windows Recall and Rewind.ai.
Have you asked the Helm team why they don't ship their own package? It might be worth the effort.
I read Hacker News without understanding 90% of it for years.
I searched for "how much do americans spend on fireworks" in my closest search engine and found many results.

https://financebuzz.com/fourth-of-july-spend

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/how-much-americans-spend-on-...

etc... couple seconds of "research"
With any new technology with apple don’t look at how it is used now but what products it will enable in 3-4 years.

The iPhone streaming to Mac is most likely much more about improving AR inthe future than anything to do with Mac. Mac is just an easy platform to get more users using it.
This seems to have a similar problem in the Apple notes calculator where items that you set to as a variable in the new calculator mode can’t have spaces or any other delimiters.

The training data or some kind of enrichment of the data would have to make the systems understand node.js and nodejs are the same just like on the new notes calculator Apple-sauce = $2.50 * 8 makes the first statement a variable.
The scandal with truffle oil is how difficult it is to find anything remotely real even if you want to, because of the duplicitous wording on packaging and marketing copy.
IronPython also exists, although an older version of python.
Yep, that's unfortunately the case for a lot of public entities. Open Banking is similar: at first you may think it means your banking data is open, so you can access it, as a consumer, through an open API... But Open Banking only makes banking data open for licensed data processors under very strict conditions and with quite stringent limitations.
I don’t hold any high regard or positive feelings to these hacker groups. But I’m not a fan of how this article was titled. I wish our news sources held themselves to a more professional standard. Leave the personal emotions out and let the readers determine how they should react to events.
I have yet to figure out how to queue.
Well, I mean, it appears langchain just technically doesn't support structured response for Ollama (according to the link above). But, as I've said, I have absolutely no idea what all this middle-layer stuff actually does and what may be the reason why different vendors have different integration capabilities in this regard.

I'm totally new (and maybe somewhat late) to the domain, literally just tried right now to automate a fairly simple task (extracting/guessing book author + title in nice uniform format from a badly abbreviated/transliterated and incomplete filename) using plain ollama HTTP-API (with llama3 as a model), but didn't have much success with that (it tries to chat with me in its responses, instead of strictly following my instructions). I think, my prompts must be the problem, and I hoped to try the langchain, since it somehow seems to abstract the problem, but saw that it isn't supported for a workflow the OP used. But since this is a field where I'm really totally new, I suppose I also may be making some more general mistake, like using a model that cannot be used for this task at all. How would I know, they all look the same to me…

Ollama project itself is fairly stingy with explanations. Doubtfully there are many people out there trying to automate an answer to the "Why is the sky blue?" question.

So, I wonder, maybe somebody knows a more digestible tutorial somewhere, explaining this stuff from the ground up?
Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet
AI Generated Art and Music
Show HN: Bitcoin Smart Contract SDK, So Easy to Use
Bitcoin is hard. Especially for those not familiar with crypto, it is even hard to create a simple bitcoin transaction.

bitcoin-sdk-js provides various features which help to create various type of bitcoin transaction so easily, including advanced smart contract like multisig, hashlock, timelock, combination of them, and even your own smart contract.

Legacy, Segwit, Taproot features are all suppoted!
The paper (3 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40785030
Very cool idea indeed. Love the creativity level.
I never heard of "nuc" before this post. I found:

> Next Unit of Computing (NUC) is a line of small-form-factor barebone computer kits designed by Intel.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing

They look even smaller than one litre PCs.
Best I found is embedding LISP into .net

https://github.com/Lovesan/bike
Managing a team of software developers by fitting them into a project management process is certainly not "Agile". Yet, yeah - I would agree that is what happens.. The distinction between agile development and agile project management I think is often lost. The article starts with viewing "Agile" as a project management process first and only. The fact it was originally always intended [1] to be a development process and not a project management process is seemingly lost.

[1] Per interviews with Uncle Bob & Martin Fowler, Ward Cunningham, and other signatories of the agile manifesto [2]. I can try to dig up the specific interviews and quotes if requested.

[2] https://agilemanifesto.org/authors.html
There's https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori?tab=readme-ov-file . It works on bookmarks and uses SQLite to enable full text search. It's also a CLI so I thibk you can write a script that parses your history file and loads it into this
You charge the EV before the weather event. Not during.

Then when the weather event comes, you still get electricity at home supplied by your car. If the weather event is localized, drive your car to a place with electricity and charge it there and drive back. It's the best.
Really good write up. Thanks for giving some details about using Digital Ocean for the projects. Learned a lot, Standing by for part 2!