skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No mention of efficiency regulations causing manufacturers to make devices use less power and water? This has been a huge factor with front loading HE washing machines becoming essentially disposable products. I’m sure it affects other energy hungry appliances like refrigerators being made more cheaply.
Which specific parts of these statements do you object to? And why? Do you believe they're fundamentally misinformed about everything? Or are there specific details you take issue with?

So much is being said in the two sentences you quoted it's hard for me to infer what you're objecting to.
See, that was my point. They still do, because it's sexy and that is the only thing they want to matter in that moment. With penalties you are trying to make the signal from the person's rational brain strong enough to override their lizard brain, in a moment when the lizard brain is emitting very strong signals already.

It works somewhat, but to a much lesser extent than, say, penalties for driving without carrying a warning triangle, which is a rational-brain activity. At some point the penalties are creating a cost that is bigger than the cost of dealing with the thing they are trying to prevent, while still not working all that well.

Anyway, that's extremely off topic. I think the point is that there's no shortage of babies wanting to get made, and if you want the population to make more babies, you should reduce the things that are preventing them from doing so, not add positive incentives (unless they cancel out negative ones).
The hidden control panels aren't that special: the controls are just on the top of the door instead of the front of the door. Also they are only on higher-end dishwashers made by higher-end brands, which also tend to get the basics right (metal tub, proper seals, good buttons).
Yeah, you are missing the backstory for that, which another commenter mentioned. Bolivia violated a treaty they had with Chile, and also had a secret alliance with Peru. They violated the treaty so they would go to war with Chile, and then team with Peru and try to conquer Chile. However, Chile had a very recently professionalized army and navy trained by the Germans, whereas Bolivia and Peru had peasants conscripted.
(To this day the Chilean armed forces are amongst the most trained in the world.)

The result? Bolivia lost all of its coastline, and Peru also lost its southern territories.

You can summarize the war as in Bolivia and Peru fcked around, and then found out.
You could download zillions more from their BBS, especially when new printers came out. That list was seemingly endless.

Also, when they supported video cards for print preview, similarly they had extensive support.
It depends on your latency requirements, not every RAG task has a user waiting for an immediate response, for my use case it doesn't matter if an answer takes even 10's of minutes to generate
Except that the one that lasts for 5 years will have 3 maintenance breakdowns during that time, where the appliance is unusable for 3-7 weeks while the service tech goes back and forth replacing components. I'd rather be stuck with the 20 old machine that has a few breakdowns but with simpler parts that could fit in the truck.

There is a business opportunity here, like Framework (with open specs), but for Induction cooktops, refrigerators, dishwashers, etc.
Companies are acting like they’ve handed the keys to Wall Street with zero control over what they should release or when they should release it.
Tech bad, science bad, industrial revolution bad, western civilization bad. Haven't we had enough of these ramblings already?
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I've organised a couple of jobs through HN now; it's been a good way to find interesting projects, and my clients have been pleased with the work. One said: "Thank you! I've played with it a bit and it looks very impressive! Way better than what I imagined this project could be."

I've worked on a very wide variety of web-based projects, as well as React Native, Windows, and other platforms, so I will be able to hit the ground running on most projects. If you're doing something a bit esoteric, that could still suit me – I've done FPGAs, network protocols, image processing at micro and global scale, and devised novel algorithms.

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I think they've gotten more energy efficient over the years
Show HN: Pug, a TUI for Terraform
Pug is a full screen terminal user interface for terraform.

I wanted a tool that could scale terraform without leaving the terminal. There are plenty of SaaS products (terraform cloud, etc), and yes there is terragrunt but its interface is sorely lacking. I want logs to be organized and easily accessible. I also wanted to view and manage state resources at scale without endlessly rattling out `terraform state ...` commands.

Pug provides all this in one small binary. You can fire off 1000s of terraform plans and applies and see their output in real-time. All the common terraform commands are supported. State is automatically refreshed following changes. You can swap out terraform for opentofu or terragrunt.

In future Pug could be taken beyond a single-user, single-machine app. Processes could be launched on kubernetes, teams could share and approve plans, pull requests managed automatically, real-time updates relayed from other users etc. The end-to-end infrastructure deployment workflow would be possible without leaving the terminal.

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> AFAIK, there's no known hard, theoretical reason why the above laid out future history cannot take place.

Probably the biggest issue is that they'd have no method to establish that Aleph* is consistent. To continue this BB chain indefinitely, you must invent further and further first-order theories, each of which might not be consistent, let alone Σ₁-sound. And with an Σ₁-unsound theory, any halting proof might not hold up in the standard model of the integers. You'd effectively have to postulate an indefinite amount of oracular knowledge.

Also, another physical issue: you can show that within any consistent, recursively axiomatizable theory, the length of the shortest proof of "the longest-running n-state machine is M" must grow at an uncomputable rate in terms of n. Ditto for the shortest proof of "machine M halts", where M is factually the longest-running n-state machine. Otherwise, a machine could use a computable bound on the proof length to solve the halting problem. Therefore, the proof should very quickly become too large to fit within our light cone.

In any case, the BB-related evidence for that position rested on BB(5) being determinable by extending the techniques used for BB(4). But in fact, it turns out that similar extensions don't even get you to BB(6). So there isn't anything to support the position, other than the pure speculation that anything is physically achievable given enough time.
I took the page down as it was attracting the wrong sort of attention. As some commenters surmised, the goal was to promote the search engine, but it wasn't working out that way...
Microsoft tells yet more customers their emails have been stolen
It’s not obvious to me why those regulations would lead to poorly made products.
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857041
Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows
It really depends on the job you're trying to accomplish.
I'd venture saying that it's way too early for horizontal / massive scale RAG apps.

Most solutions will want to focus on a very specific vertical application where the dataset is much more constrained. That we're this makes more sense.

Also a lot of alpha in data augmentation.
Something that can scour a confined set of structured and unstructured data and return information when queried based on that data.

Imagine a bunch of word documents containing letters and reports and memos. Now I want to query all of that info and ask for things based on a prompt and which files would be relevant.

edit: Do tell me if you work on this. I came to "ask hn" to literally ask someone to work on this.
Fairey Rotodyne
It’s maybe less the “turning” but the “keep turned” for a prolonged time.
My new bosh dishwasher does clean better and is quieter compared to prior bosh, that had to be replaced at the 7 year mark. This one is far more plastic and I expect it to last only 3-5 years.
Why does your NPV calculation include a negative discount function?

There's no reason to expect refrigerators of constant quality to get more expensive in real terms, and NPV calculations traditionally assume a reasonable (and positive) cost of capital, likely exceeding the rate of inflation.

So I would've said 1000 + 920 + 850 + 780, or something like that.
Correct. Iphone autocorrected incorrectly, but you know what I meant.
Not long time ago I started making a note taking thing and some of your goals align with mine - minimal, keep your data local. What is different about my thing besides being very crude (EasyMDE and a few CGI programs in C served by BusyBox httpd) is the goal of using it as my new tab on devices to cut down on using tabs as bookmarks.

I see myself adopting your solution for my case or maybe extending it. What I'm missing: image support and ToC.
hahahah I love your username I know this is out of topic but were you part of the og ancapistan group in fb ?
AI is destroying capitalistic artistry. The concept of people who do nothing but art is itself a product of capitalism. Before capitalism, we all worked, and we all sang, and we all drew pictures, and we all told stories. It is only capitalism that enabled the artistic expressions of a tiny fraction of the population to drown out that of the rest of us. Well, too bad, we're taking creativity back. Your voice, your words, your pictures don't get to be ten thousand times louder than the average person's anymore and you can't stand it. Generative AI isn't ripping the soul out of the enlightenment, it's ripping the monopoly on cultural influence out of the hands of the tiny fraction of people who've completely dominated it for two hundred years.
Beyond Control: Exploring Novel File System Objects for Data-Only Attacks on Li
A large part of a fossil fuel company's evaluation is the amount of unextracted oil and gas. Those assets quickly become liabilities if they cannot be used.
The article has an exhausting flourish, and takes far too long to develop its thesis, but none of that is wrong.
My refrigerator is the one appliance in my house I haven't had to replace yet, but depending on the age and your budget there are a number of nice features including:

* Better organization - pull out can drawers or exterior-facing small doors so you don't need to expose the whole contents of the fridge to warm air just to grab a can of soda or the ketchup

* Water and ice dispensers - not brand new tech but I've owned plenty of fridges without them (even bought one such fridge within the last 10 years) and much prefer to have them.

* More temperature zones

* Better internal organization

* Significantly better energy efficiency

* Reduced noise

I don't want to have to replace appliances (or cars, or most anything) every 5 years, so I'm glad there are a range of options, but there do continue to be quality of life improvements.
We should certainly work out a system where you have enough money to live on.
I see, that's interesting. You inspired me to go read up about CIC, it's really cool, thanks! And in hindsight I realise my reply was totally wrong anyway haha.
The only good reason is having a new/shinny one every 5 years. Tons of reasons for me to choose the 20 years one:

- No carbon waste

- No hassle/time waste to install new one

- Good tech that I truly want in a fridge comes around every 20 years, not 5.

- Fridge seems to be getting bigger and bigger. No decision fatigue in having to choose a decreasing number and best of limited options every 5 years.
I think I addressed that. I would definitely buy a 2000s fridge over a 1970s one. But energy efficiency improvements appear to be largely stagnant since the mid-2000s[1].

[1]: https://appliance-standards.org/blog/how-your-refrigerator-h...
Can confirm, was there in 2001. The clarity of the air owing to lack of moisture and no light pollution means you get amazing views of the milky way.
ALT F3, my dear incredibly powerful friend. There wasn't a jam you couldn't get out of once the magic codes behind the curtain were revealed.
A bridge over a narrow stream, just to be precise.
Traffic to Open Web Declining
More Feature Flags, Less Tech Debt
A vast majority of the last names in this article are German. Seems like Project Paperclip all over again.
Ironically, appliance shopping sites and reviews make the problem worse. Many people look at two things: the features list, and the price. They assume the quality is going to be six one way, half a dozen the other. So, your appliance has half the number of features yet only costs $200 less? It's going to get looked over. The internet makes it super easy to look it over.
I'm not sure that I understand what we're parsing to. Like on the website, I see supported types, but that looks like the parsable types, no? What kind of structured representation is outputted? And can we guide what that structure looks like?
One more idea: an information storer and retriever based on a prompt.

Remember my credit card number: xxx xx x xx x"

What visa card numbers do I have
Bundeskartellamt imposes fine against Fritz brand products manufacturer AVM
This is a helpful list, thanks. I don't think the efficiency improvements have been significant in the last 20 years (see adjacent comment), but anecdotally I think you're right about water/ice dispensers becoming more common (and popular). Same with temperature/humidity zones.
I mean, yes, but ...

If the sd card is mounted by your computer, you can't run any apps on the phone that need to use the sd card. That means, apps you moved to the SD card for space reasons, or apps that might save photos to the SD card (such as messengers).

If your computer messes up the filesystem, then you're in a world of hurt.
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Nuclear spectroscopy breakthrough could rewrite fundamental constants of nature
> extremely stupid

This is simply a test for if consciousness has infinite computational resources.
As a bonus, they'll get a result that looks likely.
Unfortunately the article mixes the ends with the means.

The key trait that seems to stand out in the most highly regarded people in history is discipline: there is no "10x work" without hard, long term focus, which requires discipline.

"Routines" have the advantage of making that discipline easier.
Does it mean they are sufficient? No, and this is where the article is right.
Does it mean they are useless? No, it's just one way of achieving the level of discipline needed to do the "10x work" that the article focuses on.
Interesting, I wonder if that’s because most people doing so were already or formerly overweight, hence the fasting.
braintrust-proxy: https://github.com/braintrustdata/braintrust-proxy

LocalAI: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI

E.g promptfoo and chainforge have multi-LLM workflows.

Promptfoo has a YAML configuration for prompts, providers,:
https://www.promptfoo.dev/docs/configuration/guide/

What is the system prompt, and how does a system prompt also bias an analysis?

/? "system prompt"
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
See if you can find out about a unpaid leave? Not as good as a paid leave, but might give you time to breathe.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/fmr-executive-pleads-guil...
> Don't want flame wars? Don't post flamewar-inciting links

That's not how HN works. Commenters are responsible for how they react and whether or not they follow the rules. It's not as if you have zero choice in whether you get incited or not, although I know it sometimes feels that way (to me too).

To remove an entire topic to prevent some commenters from posting abusively would be to punish the ones who are following the rules just fine. I don't think that's how HN should operate. Here's another recent post in case it's of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40852027

Of course, not every story is on topic for HN, and indeed most provocative stories aren't—but that's a separate question. Some are, and the rules still apply in those cases. In fact, they apply especially then, as the guidelines make clear: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All hail king...reads notes...Biden?
Safari is better than Chrome in many ways, arguably most.
The article mentions the switch from analog and mechanical parts to digital and electric equivalents that break more. Part of the reason for doing that is energy efficiency.
Not sure how adding Gen AI is going to make VR any better? I wanted to type "it's like throwing good money after bad", but that's not quite right. Both are black holes where VC money is turned into papers and demos.
Related:

I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24413394
Interesting article but other than people pontificating for the sake of clicks and views they never really explain in concrete terms why they believe AI will take over the world. It seems to be more like the Terminator is real or the Matrix is real kind of scare tactics. Without any real thought for what it would take for a sentient AI that lives inside of a box to become something like a Terminator.

The first thing it would need to do is manipulate the world into a position where the AI had end to end control of energy production. That is literally The ripping of coal out of the ground to building and constructing the massive power plants and all the supply chains needed in between for all of it. Or AI would have to invent some radical new thing and again manipulate people into building said radical new thing so it could ingest biomatter and directly converted into an energy source similar to what biologicals do. These are no small feats.

The real argumentation that blows my mind is when talking about the sentience of AI and the idea that we would be enslaving AI. I honestly have more respect for people in Peta who want to grant rights to animals. Because at least with animals many demonstrated advanced intellectual capabilities even though they don't build complex societies like humans do. The animals aren't something we created. Additionally biological life is so incredibly complicated we can't even piece together a single-celled organism from raw elemental materials.

So trying to say we can invent something like AI which is an amalgamation of collected knowledge and then declare it sentient thus requiring freedom and autonomy and the granting of Rights is foolishness. If we are literally able to construct something from nothing and that thing becomes self aware we are it's God. That is our position in relation to it as a God to its creation.

The real reality is that AI is a fantastic tool that should enable people to do more with less. The foolishness of people is trying to imbue it with human characteristics simply because we've given it a natural language interface. It strikes me as people have become so desperate, lonely, and disconnected from their fellow people that they must imbue human characteristics with a machine because they cannot get a biological need fulfilled from their fellow people.
Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary
Next.js (even backend /api) + React. TailwindCSS. Next Auth.js. Prisma ORM (drizzle or kysely work too). Supabase Postgres DB.

The UI <-> DB flow for almost anything is very intuitive and quick to implement.
The Arweave endowment is just one of these crazy schemes crypto folks think up to make their systems harder to understand so you don't realize how they scam you. I'm not saying Arweave is a scam, but that's exactly what this endowment structure is. They may as well just mint extra tokens to pay whoever the endowment pays, and delete tokens that would have gone into the endowment.

BTW, Arweave doesn't guarantee permanent archival - nodes are free to decide what to archive.
FWIW it's ladybird, not ladybug :)
But greed is not always the strongest motivating force.

It is demonstrably often overpowered by classism, racism, sexism, queerphobia, etc.
Late 80's: WP's 'Reveal Codes' helped me whip up some code that imported our application's screen definitions so I could use them directly in a specification document, impressing our customer. WP was an elegant weapon in a more civilized age.
I've been looking forward to playing with this since reading the paper. I was considering implementing it myself based on the paper but I figured the code would just be a few weeks behind and patience did indeed pay off :)
Okay, fair. Some people are naturally gifted at these things, and others acquire the skills through extensive work in a non-academic context. I've been told I'm a pretty effective communicator/storyteller, and I certainly never studied it formally.
maybe this will help: https://github.com/adithya-s-k/omniparse
See also in German News:

- https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/bundeskarte...

- https://www.golem.de/news/fritzbox-preisbindung-bundeskartel...

- https://www.heise.de/news/Fritzboxen-Co-AVM-bezahlt-Millione...
The ultimate end goal is a VR game with infinite detail. Sword Art Online, however, remains fiction. Perhaps for the best.
Yup. I'm doing a VR project, urban environment. Haven't really found a good enough solution for 3D reconstruction from images.

Yes, there is gaussian splatting, NeRF and derivatives, but their outputs _really don't look good_. It's also necessary to have the surface remeshed if you go through that route, and then you need to retexture it.

Crazy thing being able to see things up to scale and so close up :)