skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have lucid dreams regularly until I was 17, until I told a friend and never had a "real" one since. I am not sure if it is connected.
I mostly used it to avoid nightmares as a child, unfortunately after a while, I got psychological nightmares instead. Waking up multiple times within a dream (There is no Limbo from Inception for me) with something really stressful having happened (dead body under the bed and police knocking on the door, it's just a dream there are no police, but the body is there, type stuff).
I still have partially aware lucid-dreams occationally.
We've launched AIDE AI: your context-aware AI assistant for Mac
AIDE AI is a powerful AI assistant deeply integrated into your Mac workflow. It offers three key features:
- Real-time screen awareness: AIDE AI can see and understand what you're currently working on, providing contextual assistance without switching apps.
- Historical context (similar to Microsoft Copilot's Recall): The assistant remembers your past actions and interactions, allowing for more personalized and relevant support.
- Incognito meeting assistant: AIDE AI can listen to and transcribe meetings across any application and any language (100+), offering summaries and insights without disrupting your workflow.
> A "trivial" doubling of production

More like 7%, if there's the political will to build it in only 15 years.

1 year production / 15 years = 6.666… %

And 50% of current global aluminium production comes from factories that specifically China switched on since 2006: https://international-aluminium.org/statistics/primary-alumi...

> How many 44 000 kilometer cables with a cross-section of 1 meter have we produced so far?

Assuming you continue to ignore that that's the aggregate cross section and that the resistance is identical if it's one single cable that size or a hundred of 10cm by 10cm?

And also ignore that all things on this size are normally done by making small things and joining them together?

For the dry bits, dig a trench and pour liquid metal into it.

And for the wet bits, make a 'trench' out of concrete and pour liquid metal into it.

Heck, given how aluminium is produced, you could even dig the trench, fill it with ore, and electrolytically reduce it from the oxide in situ.

But the traditional approach is probably going to be of more interest to investors. Less risk, and you get benefits from the sub-systems without having to complete the whole thing before seeing anything.

> I very much doubt that you do

You doubt that I know the thing I just told you in the line you're quoting to say that you doubt it?
> These beautiful keyboards move the Shift and Ctrl keys to your thumbs, which have more power than the lowly pinkies

Absolutely. IMO the CMD key on Macs used with the thumb feels so much more natural from an ergonomic point of view than the Control key used with a pinky.
Show HN: Quick Calories – Efficient Weight Loss for Software Engineers
I faced a sudden career twist recently and I used it as motivation to revisit and improve Quick Calories, an app that helps software engineers quickly track their daily calorie intake.

The original idea was born out of my own struggle to find a dieting app that fit my style - something that allowed me to quickly log calories without tedious manual entry. And now, I'm excited to share Quick Calories with HN!

What is Quick Calories?

- A minimalist app that makes calorie tracking lightning fast.

- It keeps a running calorie total and automatically resets daily. Just track your intake and move on with your life.

- The math-friendly input lets you perform arithmetic operations on calorie counts, making it easier to log complex meals or snacks.

As someone who spends hours staring at screens, I know how hard it is to prioritize health when work-life balance feels like an oxymoron. Quick Calories can be an indispensable tool for a busy software engineer.

I'd love to see more software engineers using Quick Calories to improve their health and I'm excited to continue improving and expanding the app based on your feedback. Let me know what you think!
Fireworks vs. the Cloud: Which Is Louder?
> Why is this an interesting problem? What do we hope to learn from it?

Because it's a complicated puzzle, not necessarily because we hope to learn something from it. Which could happen, but it's definitely not the primary goal here.
Fittingly, it was a Yorkshireman who discovered you could use inert gasses other than argon for gas-tungsten arc welding.
Backgammon is arguably a much better game for casual play. In Chess, unless the skill levels are pretty close, one player (the stronger one) is going to win almost every game, and many of the non-wins will be draws.

Backgammon has just about the perfect amount of RNG injected into it... weaker players can win, especially a single point (backgammon is typically played to a point target.. a game is normally worth 1 point (except for a few edge cases where one player loses very badly), but there is a doubling cube that starts in the middle. At their turn either played can pick up the cube and double, at which point their opponent can either accept, and play for double points, or resign for the _original_ stake. The cube is then handed to the acceptor, and then he can redouble later, etc, etc.
Now pull yourself out of the 1800's and ask that question of the face of further automation and replacement of employees by 'intelligent' machines.

Workers rights are just a bullshit statement of the same classification as 'landowner rights'. Human rights should be paramount regardless if you have a job or not.

But to have these rights, you must organize and concentrate this power or you'll just be scattered by the owners of capital that have already concentrated their power highly effectively.
This sounds awfully similar to actors in Actor Based Programming.

Side note, are there other similarly seminal books you can recommend on AI?
Show HN: Paird.ai. I Made a AI-Powered Real-Time Platform for Developers
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Really hope you have time to check it out! HN is the first platform I’m sharing this on (I’m not a marketing person).

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I think all of the blogposts are just transcripts of videos from his youtube channel. You could use the feed from youtube to tell when there's a new release.

Wait, I just checked the page source after writing the above to confirm and it looks like it does have one: https://practical.engineering/blog?format=rss
Social Costs of Species Collapse: Evidence from Decline of Vultures in India [pdf] (2022)
You are using a dark pattern. 1st you ask for email and you follow up witha $45 offer. Not ethical and certainly I feel now you are holding my info hostage.
How do I ask to be deleted from your repository?
> is it illegal to carry any type of blade in public ?

My impression from what I have seen through the years in the news (I live in the US), this is the case. I remember seeing London police would setup check points in the metro and check passengers for knifes. To my surprise, most common weapons they would find - kitchen knives.
Semicolons are already supported in Python, for the cases where it might be needed (one liners on the command line), just not required.

import sys; print(sys.executable)
x = 5; # this is fine
We have many prime meridians for longitude. The location of 0° on Earth is not the same in every datum.

We also moved the traditional prime meridian by a hundred meters back in 1974 with the adoption of the IERS Reference Meridian.
There is none. Gorbachev himself called it a myth: https://twitter.com/splendid_pete/status/1650735533826375680

In the same clip, USSR's minister of defense says the same when journalists ask about it: don't know anything about it. Other people from USSR's top leadership have said the same and I've never seen anyone of equal weight dispute them.

The hoax doesn't even make sense, because not even American presidents can promise what their successors will do or will not do. It's up to the electorate to decide who will be the next president and what policies they will pursue. Gorbachev briefly touches upon this too by mentioning sovereignty.
No doubt those will be single hose stand alone units, the worst kind

[Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn't like them] by Technology Connections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mBeYC2KGc
14 points, 19 comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868323
How does this compare with mixed integer programming? For problems in physics
@dang can you add "2005" to the title?

It's cool but very dated.
This has now been published in the American Economic Review (behind a paywall) here: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20230016&from...
> That level of sea level rise just isn't going to come across as world-ending flood

I'm entirely open to being skeptical about meltwater pulse 1A being responsible for the universal flood myth, but I don't agree with this refutation.

Many of our stories do not exist to relate literal events, they exist to explain natural phenomenons. And there are many ways for humans to frame these explanations, but for whatever reason the human brain seems hardwired to prefer stories, so the explanations that survived to be transmitted through the ages were the ones that happened to take the form of stories.

So rather than saying "the pulse event wasn't rapid enough, therefore it can't explain the story" is IMO too hasty. Consider a sedentary people living on the coast, where a child asks her grandmother where their ancestors are buried, to which the grandmother responds by gesturing out at the Persian Gulf where, 60 miles from shore, their village once clung to the coast 500 years ago. It only takes one curious child asking "why?" and one bored grandmother willing to come up with a story to get the ball rolling on a tale that still gets told 10,000 years later (a tale that, indeed, would likely also have been informed by the experience of annual river flooding).
My highschool teacher in 2008 taught us how to use the "mail merge" feature in Word. Out of the whole class it was the most "advanced" feature we learned and I wondered if I would ever use it in reality. Nope. Good to know it was outdated in the 90s
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I worked on agent-based systems >20 years ago, including large research projects and standardisation/interoperability work.

Ultimately, that effort failed but I don’t see any awareness of that considerable volume of work reflected in today’s use of the word “agent”. If nothing else, there was a lot of work on the use-cases and human factors.

It’s just a bit disheartening to know that so much work, by hundreds of researchers (at least), over 10+ years, has just slipped into irrelevance
>How much of our societal progress and collective thought and innovation has gone to capturing attention and driving up engagement, I wonder.

trillions, easily. People wanna sell you stuff, and they will pay to get your eyeballs. doesn't matter if it's to sell you a candy bar or to enlist you into the military. Even non-profit/charities need awareness. They all need attention and engagement.
Thanks for that information re. the ARM based QNAP device. I'd not heard of that before. Would you mind pointing me to the u-boot code you mentioned?

I think I'm right in thinking https://ukstore.qnap.com/catalog/product/view/id/215 is the machine you meant?
There was a short moment when I thought the future looked like no fumes and no noise (well, at least no engine noise; tires are quite loud at speed). And then the government decided that EVs should not be quieter than ICEVs, in fact they should be louder. And some of the hybrids on the roads (looking at you, Toyota) are the loudest of them all.

Different strategies for different cars, though.

My neighbor's Highlander hybrid is audible a couple blocks away as it comes into the neighborhood.

Our old Bolt EV was not quite as loud, but still distinctive and never a surprise to anyone as it came down the street.

My Model 3, however, makes a white noise sound going forward that you don't really notice aside from very low (single digit) speeds in a very quiet environment. But in reverse, it howls pretty loudly, and is probably louder than any of the hybrids.
How do you press Ctrl+Z that way?
I personally like to know whether the software I use/endorse is developed with broad inclusion in mind. It is a pretty solid indicator of thoughtfully-designed software.

A developer assuming, for example (not related to this instance), ~all the users are able-bodied men with perfect vision and motor skills, leads to an inferior product that is guaranteed to alienate people who don't match the "target audience", and those people already experience a life full of being ignored or not getting the same degree of accommodations the majority do.

Using gendered language is just a small facet of the full spectrum of ways that people are excluded (even if it's just to a small degree), and it's nearly effortless to think "yeah, it would be good to use wording that makes sense for any reader of this text", and is simply a kind thing to do. When a developer actively fights against this, I can only imagine their motive is exclusionary and prejudiced, or perhaps just ignorant.

It's disappointing my post was downvoted to oblivion but I'm not surprised. If someone doesn't care about using inclusive language, that's not really a reason to suppress someone raising a concern about it. What is especially surprising/disappointing is that it's flagged, despite being a totally valid "PSA" about the exclusionary stance of the software's founder (at the time of the linked PR -- which I already disclaimed in the OP). The post violates no rules/guidelines and adds value to the conversation.

Regardless of all this, to any dev reading and thinking "why do I care", I would ask, why are you developing software? Fundamentally, it's to provide some value and use to people, right? That value/purpose shouldn't come with the caveat of making someone feel excluded or overlooked. Or, if you only care about providing that value to a certain set of people, at least make that very clear up-front so the rest of us can know to skip over and look for something else.
>in GMail you can move emails to "promotional" and "social" folders, and then GMail automatically does that for you for future emails

It's not quite as elegant, but you can create a rule from an existing email in the mail options. It will try to guess at the best set of filters to match that type of email (and obviously you can refine that manually if needed), so you can send those types of mails to a Marketing folder.
You will never find a cheese steak listed under the hoagie section in Philadelphia, even the cheese steak hoagie goes in the steak section.
In AArch64, `BR LR` and `RET` do not perform the same logic when FEAT_BTI (Branch Target Identification) is present.
Just skip all the thinking ourselves and see if some AI can come up with plausible sounding nonsense? I’m not interested
Microsoft updates the Linux kernel in WSL
The Dvorak Keyboard Layout
You don't need a license to explore and have fun.

Cheap, firmware hackable HTs are hawt, in particular the Quansheng UV-K5,K6.

Tons of SDR receivers out there to explore, and many extremely exiting transceiver projects out there also. Just so much:

https://github.com/jopohl/urh

http://websdr.org/

http://kiwisdr.com/public/

https://meshtastic.org/docs/hardware/devices/
Author here. Yes, I explicitly called out the danger of thinking application layer startups are easier, because it totally depends on the founding teams' backgrounds and interests.
If you categorically define an ideology to be a system of pure concepts, independent of any practice of thought, speech, or action by a professed adherent, then you will inevitably see it as a category error, yes.

(You'll also have a hard time enumerating those concepts in a complete and consistent way)

But if you're even a wee bit of a subjectivist, as many (not all) social scientists and social philosphers are, then a definition like that isn't interesting or productive. From that perspective, ideologies are something that people profess adherence to and express statements about and behave in self-identified accordance to.

They gather in elections, they discuss power through the lens of capital and labor, they recycle or avoid eating meat, they recoil at government overreach, they expose fraud in purported miralces, they pray, they trade trolley problem memes unironically, they protest against inequality, etc

If these don't make sense to you as "rituals of ideologies" for people doing cross-cultural studies, that's fine, but then I have a sense that a lot of cross-cultural studies just feels like hogwash to you anyway. I doubt I could change your mind here. :)
Thanks for your links and information re. AM4,5.
It's accurate from the perspective of "there's a single company with the right to change the licensing arbitrarily".
It's there something like this for Apple?
Not only its built in, but syntax is on another level, i.e. you don't need to learn special syntax if you know PowerShell. This thing alone makes pwsh worth it instead of using number of other tools.

@{ Hello = 'world'; array = 1..10; object = @{ date = Get-Date } } | ConvertTo-Json

{
"array": [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10
],
"object": {
"date": "2024-07-03T21:07:21.6562053+02:00"
},
"Hello": "world"
}
Hey, can you point to some live instances for these fun quotes ("The masters will be back!", "We can show it again!")? Particularly from anyone public and notable? Original Russian is fine; no need to translate.
well the biggest tech companies with 100x's the computing power are. I'm sure if the collective FAANG all focused their funds and hardware on getting to Mars we'd see the seeds of terraforming in our lifetime.
So i tried their demo on https://www.moshi.chat/?queue_id=talktomoshi

It is very fast and has no delay in answering. And while talking to it, you will find out that its fast because its predicting what you are going to say and will prepare the answer beforehand (that's how it feels like).

While talking it gets stuck in a loop like answer. It will keep saying the same thing no matter what you tell it. And the responses will be immediate, no delay. No matter what you say, answers will be the same.
I guess I still dont see the problem.

If you store claims when they login, and update when they update their profile you simply join users table to comments table.

That is no different than any other data in your system. You could have a view, or do the join in SQL to join Users + Comments when someone requests a page. Thats not really a problem is it?
It’s a non triggering term that Chomsky himself uses to characterize his anarchism.
This topic is so interesting. If I were creating a system for everything, it seems like empty space needs awareness of anything it could expand to contain, so all things would be aware of all other things as a base universal conscious hitbox.

Panpsychism seems neat to think about.
Just drive an hour away from your nearest city, to the "rural" parts of your state. That's all you need to see a gorgeous night sky. You will see a beautiful sky even just a mile or so outside of a small town of 10k people.
Can we even change viscosity meaningfully?

(Coastlines already form natural "dams". All we would do is move the coastline inward a bit, so as the tide flows through it it spins turbines. The water gets moved the same. The energy is already dissipated at the coasts, it would happen at the dams. Total dissipated energy is the same this way. Okay, if we start putting 4 km tall dams in the middle of the ocean we might somehow meaningfully change the viscosity.)

The thesis in the PDF seems to be that somehow we can push the brakes more. Maybe. (So if we let the Sun/Moon grab some water then use the Earth to get it moving again, then it necessarily slows down the rotation. But there's already a lot of energy in moving and compressing water itself, sure it's "uncompressible" compared to gases, but there's plenty of molecular stuff to move around where energy can go. There's some tidal heating too.)

It's verbose, but in a bad way, and it's structured in a way that makes it hard to comprehend. (And the whole pro-fossil-fuel framing is just .. huh.)
So I spun up a Linode, installed CapRover, bought ultra cheap DNS from NameCheap using their guide to get cheap domain name and did a few deploys. Its really cool. Much easier than my approach.
how much do they take ?

yeah im at like prototype stage need $$$ to run inference
Moshi – Fast Audio Chat with AI
As you can see, I am polite to you and you use that opportunity to invoke the most grave insults you can think of.

Russians did indeed win World War Two as a part of victorious Allied coalition. The "raped their way to Berlin" is represents a completely undeserved slur. The German army did not consist of fertile women but of seasoned and well-armed German males who invaded Russia previously (under Meth as we've just learned) and they had to be killed first.

The Germany after the atrocities that they have done was at complete mercy of winners, who in their wisdom and kindness has chosen to spare it. We didn't have to.

The only way Russians may care about Eastern Europe is extinguishing the sources of such unpleasant noises.
Aptronym: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
That’s a fair point. I think “censorship” was really a poor word choice. I should have used “refusal” to emphasize that this is from an LLM.

It’s really a sign of my poor writing that the ensuing thread is arguing about something other than my main point, which was really just a simple observation about how refusals can tell us something about laws and values of a society.
Not at all. Islam can be verifiably traced back to a single source, and mainstream Islam belief today is the same as it was 1400 years ago.
If you think back to when cars were introduced, knowledge of how to drive a car was actually a rare skill! People weren't born with that inherent knowledge, so someone who could operate a vehicle (and do some basic maintenance) was an expert.

Nowadays, that would be laughed at. But AI is more comparable to cars from 1900 than modern vehicles.
You can agree or disagree, as you say, with SoM (Marvin was my undergrad advisor so my opinions are...complex) but that book can in many ways be considered a summation of decades of research in the field. To reinforce your point: even if you disagree with modeling cognition as a set of competing/cooperating "agents", there's enormous ahistorism in the paper. Which, TBF, is quite common in CS.

Also the thermostat has been extremely usefully used in an exploration of agency by Daniel Dennett, in his famous "The Intentional Stance"

(I accidentally typed "Intensional Stance" which really would be a fascinating book to read!)
If you just want a mirror, that's easy (I like ZFS but any software RAID should let you add/remove mirrored disks easily). If you mean mirror until it's full then automatically convert to striped, I don't think anyone does that and I don't think anyone would want that, because people who care enough about protecting their data to use a mirror don't want it to automatically stop being a mirror.
...therefore we should burn through our budget as fast as possible?
And is completely made up nonsense pseudoscience