skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to me that dataclasses seemed to be a slimmed down attrs but in practice I find it replaces namedtuple not attrs

For my use the key is how easily you can add simple conversion of values to attrs. IIRC this was intentionally omitted from dataclasses. For a 1-off using a factory with a dataclass is easy but repeated uses send me back to attrs
The complexity of a field you are leaving doesnt make it hard to drop out. A dentist is very well prepared to be a hair stylist, but I've never heard of that choice.

Dentists also don't have a lot of job related debilitating injuries, aside from depressions.
The salary range mentioned is yearly/correct?
If you have no imagination - look at Japanese fridges.

Couple of really nice ones - vacuum chamber for meats, humidity controlled area for vegetables.

Or just being able to put hot food without worrying it will spoil everything else (probably ok with most modern fridges tbh).
Japan is utterly desperate. They are selling out the whole country to tourists, investment funds, and whomever has a penny to spare. The political class is going for broke, grasping at every penny they can now, before the mountain of debt comes crashing down, or the population has enough of hidden immigration, inflation, and tourists driving go-carts on the streets of Ginza.
If only manufacturers would use knobs instead of those horrible and often unintuitive touch interfaces. Here's hoping the slow acknowledgement that touch controls in vehicles are usually a bad idea makes its way to other appliances.
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Same, bitwarden is essential, as are ublock origin and privacy guard.
What makes e natural? (2004)
A few solutions for this:

- "Ask HN: How to reuse waste heat and water from AI datacenters?" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820952

- "Ask HN: Can CPUs etc. be made from just graphene and/or other carbon forms?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719725

(Edit)

- "Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water" (2023) : "Extreme salt-resisting multistage solar distilation with thermohaline convection" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39999225 ... "AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40783690

- "Ask HN: Does mounting servers parallel with the temperature gradient trap heat?" (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033210 :

> Would mounting servers sideways (vertically) allow heat to transfer out of the rack?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39555606
Wow, congrats Sony!

I watch videos of a 50 year old Japanese man who thinks his life is meaningless because his financial situation dictates he will have to work around 30 more years to pay off his debts.

Government debt steals from future generations. Inflation, Quantitative Easing etc. steals the value of money from everyone. Bitcoin is the one money Government can't touch, and I think this is a great sign of hope for Japan.
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Humans are social creatures and it’s trying to create a social environment. Where is mystery here? Oh yeah, this is an internet forum where asocial people tend to gather.
My assumption is that only part of those $1 tn will go specifically into generative applications. The Goldman Sachs' paper in most instances mentions AI in general.

But one can also argue that actively seeking and choosing targets is a generative task, given a proper encoding of a battlefield situation and current mission.
Are you saying that Australia is extracting the gas in the North and West then shipping it to the South and East directly (using ships instead of laying pipes) or that they are exporting to whomever buys it and then importing from anyone selling it (buying foreign gas)?

There's a lot of joking/confusion around US oil being sold to foreign countries while buying foreign oil. However, a lot of that has to do with the fact the refineries are built to use heavy crude oil while the US oil is light/sweet crude so that they aren't really compatible. Sometimes, the export/import practices sound dumb on face value, but turn out to have some logic once the surface is scratched.
It turns out I was not as wrong as I thought. From the opening of the paper:

"...the term halting problem, the modern formulation of the problem, as well as the common self-referential proof of its undecidability, are all, strictly speaking, absent from Turing’s work. However, Turing does introduce the concept of an undecidable decision problem, proving that what he calls the circle-free problem is undecidable and subsequently also that what we call the symbol-printing problem, to decide if a given program will ever print a given symbol, is undecidable. This latter problem is easily seen to be computably equivalent to the halting problem and can arguably serve in diverse contexts and applications in place of the halting problem—they are easily translated to one another."

So I was basically correct, just wrong about a detail: it is the symbol-printing problem that is easily translated to the halting problem, not the circle-free problem. So I am going back to standing by my initial assessment: saying that Turing's paper was not about the halting problem because it doesn't actually use that exact phrase is like saying that the EPR paper was not about entanglement because it doesn't use that exact word.
Candidates MUST be eligible for full-time employment in the United States.

JD apt?
Tangential, but fun fact about Zeckendorf: In addition to Zeckendorf representation, there's also dual Zeckendorf (sometimes also called lazy Fibonacci), where instead of requiring no two consecutive ones, you require no two consecutive zeroes. (Not counting the implicit zeroes at the big end, of course.) It was surprising to me that this also works, but it does!

Actually, just as you can do bijective base-b [0], you can also do bijective Zeckendorf (using 1 and 2 with no two consecutive 1s). Although, as happens with bijective binary, bijective Zeckendorf is closely tied to ordinary Zeckendorf, so it doesn't offer much new. But bijective dual Zeckendorf doesn't work -- lots of numbers can't be represented!

One more fun fact about Zeckendorf and dual Zeckendorf: Write n>0 in Zeckendorf, and count how many zeroes it ends in. This will be even if the dual Zeckendorf representation of n ends in a 1, and odd if it ends in a 0. Similarly, if you write n in dual Zeckendorf and count how many 1s it ends in, this will be even if the (ordinary) Zeckendorf representation ends in a 0 and odd if it ends in a 1.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration
Wonder if these were related or just happened to occur at the same time.

If creatine helps you lift more, which increases testosterone levels, which speeds up balding, then it could be (at least part) causal.
I like using UV, it is painless, a proper in-place replacements and blazingly fast.

I have seen occasional hiccups, so we don't use it in prod just yet. But I use it in local all the time.

They've been responsive to issues, so give it a shot.
I suspect part of it is a performative marketing towards potential investors. "Look at us, we can do this because we are already successful and shall inevitably grow further, here are also some signals that try to establish that we are a member of a group of other past or current success-y companies or executives."
attrs looks interesting, can it be used in workflows for processing GBs of data? I don't see any Cython compatibility or other Python to compiled code options. I typically just get by with numpy recarrays, but I'm old fashioned and looking for something more modern.
Im losing it without the creatine so why not get the benefits.
Their stock valuation and chart is looking strong over the past decade. Is Japan playing with their currency valuation that much that it's making failing companies look like rockstars on the charts?
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> More specifically, I have a log file that says I'm thinking, therefore I am. :-

More specifically than that: "My ability to read the log file proves my existence"
> Use requirements.txt Files to Install Packages Into Environments

Isn't this obsoleted by the previous section on using pyproject.toml?
> what's wrong with pip freeze?

I prefer my requirements.txt to include only the packages I install with pip myself (and not their dependencies).
Yes absolutely: any supp. should only be reached for after an intervention to lifestyle through physical activity and diet.
If you’re trying to get a react job then probably a good idea to use react. If it’s to get clients for indie work they won’t care.
That's not what you're saying though. You're also putting requests/limits for CPU and memory in the same class, which they're not.

Lack of CPU will never cause a pod to be killed. Evicted, yes. Killed, no.

Lack of memory can cause a pod to be OOM killed. That's an entirely different failure mode.

Eviction should always be expected by your pods. They should be able to handle eviction gracefully. On the other hand, there is nothing you can do to handle an OOM kill gracefully.
Thanks. That helped understand it better.
A self-coup, also called an autocoup (from Spanish autogolpe) or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a nation's head, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay in power through illegal means.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup
> There's now a hole lacking vibrant economic activity in many major business districts, and a delicious fried dough of new business opportunities in the suburbs surrounding them. Office workers need their doughnuts, coffee and sandwiches near their office, which is now more often at home.
Unfortunately I don't think that would work - I would guess that the current situation will resolve before any reactors are online. Possibly even our export contractural obligations would expire by then, too!

(Should have built the nukes 20-30 years ago...)
“It does whatever it does,” the training data is the specification, is ignoring the actual problem, which is to predict what the LLM would do on unseen inputs.

It’s not a smooth function. Change a prompt a little, or the random seed, and you might get a much different result. Furthermore, how much do you really know about the function it’s approximating? The training data isn’t shared and it’s too much to read anyway.

For ordinary code, there are mathematical properties that we expect to hold true for all inputs. A sort function should return sorted output regardless of how it’s implemented and not just for the test set. If your function has properties that you can test and maybe even prove then maybe it doesn’t matter what the implementation is.

With LLM’s it’s hard to know what specific properties we want or how to formalize them and test them, so the situation is not much like approximating a mathematical function, even if it’s technically true in some sense.
If the PSN is anything to go by, this is primed to be the next Mt. Gox.
Has anyone tried orchestrating Python code using Elixir/Erlang? I feel like the true concurrency can only be achieved in the actor model of BEAM, and async still just does concurrent code, not parallel.
The 6M is included in the 9. They're not separate counts.

That CSA also includes Baltimore so not a vary fair example. Absolutely not the same metro.
No conversation about Australian East Coast gas supply stupidity is complete without mention of West Coast gas supply. Somehow it frequently escapes mention that gas on the west coast is subject to state required supplies to domestic markets and shock horrors the world has not ended.

East coast state governments were craven and stupid. They took royalty deals and didn't require supply continuity and exposed their voters to world prices.
Here's a thread breaking down showing how it they managed to get the viral transporter to self-regulate and "turn itself off" after target gene silencing in the brain: https://x.com/cureffi/status/1806404934658892013

And for further context, this work came out of the Weissman Lab at MIT and a collaboration with a group called CureFFI. In particular, there are two scientists there who have had an utterly incredible story. I don't like it when VCs and such try to attach onto someone else's shine, but seeing their story develop and constantly push forward after getting a start on a little website that I helped to create has been one of the most awesome things in my life. For over 10 years they've been going and going and going. The incredible sci-fi technical achievements here aside, it's also just an amazing human story of tenacity and curiosity. It's hard to talk about them without getting emotional once you read their story.

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, etc. Will be exciting to see what's next.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-prion-love-sto... , https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/health/rare-diseases.html
, https://experiment.com/projects/can-anle138b-delay-the-onset...
pyenv and poetry always my goto
> investment uncertainty due to the alternative nuclear proposal

I think it is a stretch to say that the nuclear proposal is creating any investment uncertainty. What is there to be uncertain about? Optimistically the coalition has to win government then the plant will take >10 years to be designed and constructed (probably much longer assuming that something goes wrong politically). The power produced by such a plant will almost certainly be expensive. Unless Labor makes more supportive sounds it'd be quite reckless to invest in the project as a private investor.

That is far enough out and a small enough commercial risk that it probably doesn't change the investment landscape in the here and now. We could see any number of similar policies as we feel the political backlash from mismanaging our energy infrastructure.
They will, just not at a good price.

And sure, OpenAI can build its own ad platform, it's just that it will take a while. It will also conflict with Apple as they won't want to give OpenAI that data for free.
when you install the wallet, does it also come with a free rootkit?
I only use it when training hard, otherwise, you might as well flush it. Anecdotally, I feel I can squeeze out a bit more and I am not as fuzzy during the activity. I can't speak too much about how I feel during recovery or muscle growth. I do body weight, boxing, and range of motion and coordination drills with kettle bells and medicine balls.
- "High-sensitivity terahertz detection by 2D plasmons in transistors" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38800406
Minor nitpick (for the Spanish language table) - Chile's ISO code is CL, not CH. CH is Switzerland.
> No, but that could change. As china did, we can orient towards an electrical future too and there are generator designs without rare earth elements. So chinese dominance is not a given.

True. But looking at the problems we are experiencing in the silicon world, a transition could bring a generalized crisis and quite a long time to return to "current" production levels. We're already struggling now with decarbonization, and China's is just one possible problem that we can't afford on the roadmap. So the priority should be to diversify to minimize these problems

> I prefer the term "sustainable" and by framing it with energy sources and waste products i am giving you the higher order problem at hand.

That's fine, but "sustainable" is a very subjective term. What is the threshold of sustainable? And I bet we have different views and different priorities.

> I disagree because my scope is broader. I agree with your statement that NE is "cleaner" than fossil based power plants for now, because as with carbon, its just a matter of scale too. In an inverted scenario where nuclear waste is the main concern, i could, like you, argue in favor of fossil power.

But somehow it seems contradictory to me in some places.

The materials and rare earths from which panels, wind blades and batteries are made are finite. Recyclable, but finished.

Uranium is recyclable from spent fuel, and renewable from the sea.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s...

Then in addition to uranium other types of elements can be used such as fuel, Thorium, Plutonium, etc. (CANDU reactors for example can go with Thorium)

Also this basic argument seems a bit lacking to me, all these energy sources have a finite life, a panel a few decades, a power plant 60-80 years. When new more efficient ways to generate clean energy are discovered they will be used and replaced, we have this now, and it would be better to use them.

Plus, regarding the term "sustainable," and its subjectivity, I find it a priority to minimize the materials required. Because having billions of tons of waste to recycle, it's much harder to control, do it effectively, and in a sustainable way in every corner of the earth.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-amount-of-raw-materi...

So I much prefer very small amounts of hazardous material (highly controlled and localized) over endless amounts of inorganic material everywhere.

Plastic, even for noble uses, has already demonstrated the worst of man's carelessness. So nice democratization, but one must also recognize its problems and limitations.

Regarding the word "democratization," however, I see a lot of propaganda in it. Whenever it's used it almost seems like people are naming a divine entity. And all kinds of issues, accountability, feasibility, etc. are omitted. And conversely, any kind of "centrality," is intrensically a problem. I really have a hard time seeing past something of the rhetoric of the "mighty and evil."
I’m not sure. I’m an older developer that has never used Docker until this weekend. I was going through the beginning tutorials and something didn’t work and I was stuck. There is so much magic going on I wasn’t even sure where to look. I think you need to be a Linux-computer literate person, and that’s still a small niche outside of IT.
Nice work. I wonder if there may be a better application for the Vectara capabilities than search?

Algolia has already done the search thing, can the Vectara search be 10x better?

What I do find missing from HN is the ability for me to see things that may be of interest to me, but that I may have missed. I like how I get everything in the main feed which is pure popularity, but I don't have the time to go through all posts, and definitely likely miss things I would probably have been interested in.

Though this can be done with collaborative filtering, or other non-AI methods, might this be a decent use case for your AI?
The only Sony product left in my house. The iPod/iPhone made the Walkman obsolete, and that was way back then. I had a PS3, but only because it was the best Blu-ray player on the market that also just happened to play a few games (as used in my house). After that, nothing. Not even a cinema camera any more either. Sony is the ghost in the shell at this point.
A little while ago, an article about a “plan-execute pattern” came up, feels like a clean fit to better progress bars to me! I think the most annoying thing is definitely when only 1 part of the process is represented in the progress bar, like a video upload that only shows upload progress, but not the transcoding that happens after.

Feels like having some standard plan + execution status interface would at least force you to consider a whole process even if that multistep plan is basically hardcoded.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40749401
For what it's worth, I still prefer to use pip, python -m venv and virtualenvwrapper. Solves 99% of the issues with 1% of the complexity
I like miniconda for managing personal python projects.
What’s an alternative to meetup? Facebook?
My understanding is that it’s a bit of both.

The best analogy for USA equivalent is that imagine Alaska is where we have a bunch of oil / gas, but we need it in New York and Miami.

We can’t lay pipes because of terrain / distance, and the road infrastructure is pretty spotty too.

The companies extracting / producing / selling the oil/gas off in Alaska are private and separate to the companies wanting to buy it in NYC or Miami. There’s minimal government oversight.

It might work out cheaper for the companies to buy gas coming from eg Europe or Canada or Mexico for NYC/Miami vs Alaska (in our instance it would be SE Asia / China). Or from Alaska.
In my experience you can quickly tell if the quality of somebody’s resume material lines up with the person across the table. I suppose at more attractive workplaces there are folks spending serious effort to game the system, but I haven’t seen it.

If anything I am most accustomed to seeing a light GitHub profile and an out-of-date personal site, and the candidate clearly has the skills to do way better today, they’re just not touching open source or spending time on their site.
I think it will come down to distribution. The current crop of browsers are already open source and available. I'm not sure that a closed fork will really work for much or be a significant risk.

At least not now or the foreseeable future. I also don't think community support would work towards that.

I'd favor the more permission mit/isc as long as reasonable myself.
Sorry I could be much clearer. Was typing amidst cooking.

I meant that Prisma got so much traction despite not supporting JOINs early on.

And then there's me postponing projects because 80/20 doesn't cut it for me. I need to get each and every feature completed before launching.
Here's one example, where they measure the separation of spectral features from the OH molecule in a fairly distant galaxy and use that information to put a limit on how much variation there could be in the fine structure constant over the past 2.9 billion years: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018PhRvL.120f1302K/abstra...
Since we're going down the road of interesting ideas, let's add declarative programming to the mix

The Metamine language allowed for a magic equals := if I recall correctly, which had the effect of always updating the result anytime the assigned value changed for the rest of the life of the program. Mixing it with normal assignments and code made for some interesting capabilities.
> That's typically _not_ what post-modernism is

It's not what post-modernists typically say post-modernism is. But I'm not relying on what they say it is. I've read enough post-modernism to form my own opinion.

> Read and think by yourself.

I have. See above.
Yes, that's a vending machine in your pocket that happens to make calls.
Funny, pretty much everything on my Meta Quest seems to be "fake" detailing, without much detail in the actual geometry.

I mean, yes it's obvious because the GPU is only so powerful. The difference against my Xbox is night-and-day.

But even if VR is unforgiving of it, it's simply what we've got, at least on affordable devices. These models seem to be perfectly fine for current mainstream VR. Maybe Apple Vision is better, I don't know.