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Show HN: Parsing books for time expressions with Python
Hey HN,

I'm Gabriel (I go by the Law on the internet), I'm a fullstack developer and I make little projects on the week-ends

A while back I found this thread on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644960) about Author Clock.

Their website sells a clock that tells the time with book quotes. As an experiment I tried my hand at finding time expressions in books.

Here's the repo with my scripts (it's a mess)
https://github.com/The-Law-1/Write-On-Time-Data

I also wrote a tiny blog about the process
https://medium.com/@gabrielcodes/parsing-thousands-of-books-...

The website and data both have a lot of bugs, but it works for a lot of times, and it was a fun little project :)
Let me know if you have any thoughts!
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I'm very interested in this topic, but currently ignorant enough about NES game dev to make this repo fairly cryptic. Is there anyone here with more knowledge that can explain what exactly this does (more deeply than "enable writing NES games in Python, kind of"), and how it compares to other tooling out there?
Microsoft did weather forecasts?
Only because people treat them like harddrives and stubbornly run desktop distos on them.

Keep log files and other things frequently written in RAM and the sdcard will last forever.

When was the last time an sdcard in a digital camera wore out?
Mea culpa.

I watched this "Birth of the Browser" episode. It was a nice stroll down memory lane. Plus I dug a bit more to find corroborating stories. marca's recall of history and arcana is very impressive.

My low esteem for marca's acumen, abilities, and accomplishments was very wrong. Most importantly, his instincts and advocacy wrt HTML, HTTP, etc. was right, whereas I was mosdef wrong. (Repeatedly.)
Sorry to be very selfish. but reading your story gave me a sad flashback. I also had a similar problem writing. And I also learnt typing and LaTeX by the time I was 11. However, teachers refused to accept "computer-generated" homework saying you don't learn without writing by hand. And I was condemned to a stressful childhood.
macOS Sequoia Supports HDMI Passthrough for Dolby Atmos Content
Why didn't he point out what he thought is a great response to the bird flu epidemic as well? Coverups in other countries? Countries actively manufacturing and increasing the anthropic virulence of viruses for "proof of function"?
This is an interesting question but assumes that the interstellar species has the same motivations we do. Us showing a metric doesn’t mean they’ll interpret it the same way we do.

Possibly too broad but non-old-age death due to lack of resources (food, water, medicine, shelter, etc.) compared to surplus/deficit of those resources.

Attempting to show whether as a society we have the ability to stop those premature deaths and whether we’ve chosen to do so or not.

Maybe then also NEET (not in education, employment or training) relative to poverty rate? High NEET, low poverty means that AGI very likely exists. High NEET, high poverty means society is in trouble. Low/high means people are struggling to get by. Low/Low means things are likely somewhat efficient?
Thank you for this. In college, for some reason, i hung out with architecture majors instead of my fellow computer science people. They would talk about "w flanges" when, to me, they meant I-Beams. I never cared enough to ask but knew better than to try and correct them because that's pretty annoying heh.
> Now we are only focusing on the speech-to-text API as the other areas are already very crowded and there's a lack of innovation in the speech-to-text space.

I'm legitimately wondering how your hosted Whisper API for $0.17/hr is supposed to compete with groq's exact same API that costs $0.03/hr.

You may be about to find out how crowded all of the AI infra spaces are.

I strongly recommend narrowing your scope far beyond modality. If you've been working with this tech and getting familiar with it then you already have valuable expertise. Pivot now or panic later. If you want to stay in the speech space find what markets are being underserved with speech AI related solutions. Are there pain points there that can be solved by a STT API? If so, build those solutions. You can't compete at the infra layer and I'm not sure why you would want to try if you don't already have something unique about your offering beyond hosting open source models. It's never good if your competition is potentially just a single developer in a company standing up your entire service internally in a week.

If you are determined to stay in the AI infra space then you'll need to be tackling a hard problem that companies want solved. Maybe take a look at fine-tuning models. Hard problem and maybe there's a hunger for it. (It's a risky one to tackle too though since it's very possible general/foundational models will maintain a grip on "good enough".)
Looks like a decent set. They support simple tables, which is great.
https://proton.me/support/drive-create-edit-docs
It’s really quite sophisticated.

John Oliver actually did a great segment on it, but I won’t link it, because a lot of folks don’t like him.
censorship where people tell you to f*ck off because they don't want to hang out with you and censorship where the government, with the monopoly of violence, takes you and/or your family away for torture or hard labour are very different things.
I keep hearing the phrase "generate wealth" in regards to advertisement and from the mouths of startup founders, but in almost no other context. I'm not familiar with the economic concept of "wealth generation" or its cousin "creating value".

Is the idea that any and all movement of money is virtuous? That all economic activity is good, and therefore anything that leads to more economic activity is also good? Or is it what it sounds like, and it just means "making some specific people very wealthy"? Wouldn't the more accurate wording be that it "concentrates wealth"? I don't see a huge difference in the economic output of advertisement from most other scams. A ponzi scheme also uses psychological tricks to move money from a large amount of people to a small amount of people. Something getting people to spend money isn't inherently a good thing.
I have high hopes Ladybird will remain truly neutral and avoid any infringement on user integrity/privacy. Please never let the money dictate.
"As for random volunteers disappearing, the protection against that is easy - increase the bus factor, by multiple people having necessary access"

That is not easy. It works till the first drama and then some angry person deletes it all, or changes and takes the keys with them. So you have to really take care who to trust.

"If the project leadership does not see a value in using open infrastructure"

And I do not think he ever said that. He just said it was easier this way for the moment. Not that discord is meant to be the solution till eternity.
Am I the only one that hasn't noticed the search input in the footer? :O
I guess the point is that in cycling - relative to other sports - money gives you an easy edge. You can afford much better equipment, nutrition, coaching etc... . Compare that to (say) football in the UK: you just need a £5 ball and a few friends, and if you show promise you can track into your local team's programme and get top quality coaching at minimal cost.

It depends on the culture as well. From what I read about China, they're constantly scouting primary schools for Olympic talent, so you can come from any background and reach the top in a sport that would be limited to wealthier people in other countries.
> it's basically conjectures pilled upon one another.

It's not just archeology, history is not much better either. They're both basically pseudosciences
That is indeed why you don´t see them collapsing and also why the finals are much longer nowadays. Riders train their guts to be able to eat up to 120g of carbs per hour, for the whole duration of the race.
We should make it illegal to die
Microsoft and Nvidia bet correctly to leapfrog Apple
> I can imagine cases of pilings running into large underground caverns

Example being the Lake Peigneur disaster.

https://64parishes.org/entry/lake-peigneur-drilling-accident

On the morning of November 20, 1980, the crew drilling near the salt mining operations reported that the tip of their drill shaft was stuck. After the crew removed the tip, they heard strange noises and abandoned the platform in the nick of time. A giant mud crater began sucking down barges, rigs, and almost some fishermen who escaped with moments to spare.
That is probably overly specific.
I have a PhD in physics and even physics itself is in a poor state, yet I totally get why all the other sciences envy physics: they're even worse
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> without needing to wait for a Time Lord to determine it.

They're not to blame - Davros is responsible for the leap seconds.
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When the president uses the power of the executive branch to enforce an ideology you agree with = democracy.

When you disagree with the ideology = king.

How does that make sense?
Agreed. The LLMs have effectively been democratized. As much as people deride "LLM wrappers", the quality of the wrapper and how creatively they use the LLM api is the differentiator.
When I started here, all there was was swamp. All the kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in these islands.
Wait you are telling me they were not for some religious rites? Or had some religious significance? Isn't that the usual reasoning for nearly everything found ever...
Really impressive indeed, but I do get the interest. I, for one, will give 1% of my yearly income now that they're on my radar. It instantly ranks among the top 3 most important open-source projects in my opinion.

In terms of SWE, it doesn't get harder than an OS in my book (and not even from scratch). So them coming from success in that space is more than enough to convince me they can deliver a world-class browser core engine.
And wear out starters that are costing over $1k to replace for some vehicles.
I'm as skeptical about LLMs as anyone, especially when people use them for actual precision tasks (like coding), but what they actually IMHO are good at are language tasks. That is, summarising content, text generation for sufficiently formulaic tasks, even translation to an extent, and similar things.
I personally don't think so. It's something you know + something you have with you.

If your computer is compromised, the 2FA should be somewhere else, not in a keychain.

This is why I like Yubikey and other forms of 2FA (phone based TOTP, mostly).
It sure as heck is inspiring to a critical thinking adult. There's been enormous value added to all world's citizens.
What are some examples of data theyre trying to use as input?
New Open Source Etcd-operator is released
etcd-operator is a project aimed at simplifying the deployment and management of the etcd clusters within a Kubernetes environment. It simplifies operations such as deployment, scaling, and disaster recovery through Kubernetes custom resources, enabling easy configuration and management via YAML files.

The etcd-operator is designed for developers and operators looking for a robust solution to handle etcd clusters as part of their Kubernetes applications, offering reliability and ease of use for dynamic, distributed systems.
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Persistent Memory for Chatbots Using PostgreSQL and LangChain
To be fair, the vast majority of new businesses and projects fail, OSS or not.
web components are great replacement for a bloated react framework.
So AI infrastructure startups are tarpits and so are the wrappers? Is it just tarpits all the way down?
As a consumer of Product Hunt (I used to browse it at least 4-5x/week), it has become completely overrun with AI "spam," low effort apps, and comments that are just variations of "this looks nice!" (likely AI-generated spam too). It's genuinely hard to find good apps there any more, although I assume it still brings a decent amount of traffic.
JWST lives in the Earth-Sun L2 point, so I suppose that's still technically true.
New Supreme Court decision could make this rule obsolete before it even gets made.
Christmas, well winter solstice. Day or two off, but the timing works too well. Of course it was co-opted by christians. But celebrating shortest and longest day of the year are not bad picks. Specially when there isn't that much work at those times.
Ken Burns' documentary [0] about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge was really fascinating discussing the innovative (at the time, late 19th century) engineering methods and challenges. It's pretty short, only 1 hour. Highly recommended.

]0] https://kenburns.com/films/brooklyn-bridge/
This is explained by complexity. The more components involved in a field, the less feasible the scientific method is. (E.g. math > physics > chemistry > materials science > cell biology > human biology > psychology > sociology)
Time is attached to the orbit of the earth (very precisely) so when time goes out of sync of the earth, it won't be a good day for anyone.
They more or less survived 12000 years healing themselves like that. Let's check back in 12000 years of what medicine that actually works leads to.
Likely suppressed by Colonialists.
PostgreSQL is definitely going to be the de-facto database for all things AI. It is a database for the future with extensive integrations, advanced extensions for semantic and hybrid search involving vectors and keywords.
Ask HN: How did you learn Cloud Mastery and System Administration
I've been a fullstack developer for a while, using backend services like Vercel, Resend, Supabase... However, working on large apps in terms of users, the costs of these services have become too much for me.

I'm now looking to train myself with cloud structures like AWS or OVH, containerize my apps with Docker, make them scalable with Kubernetes... However, this is complicated because I can't figure out where to learn.

For those who are good in these areas, I was wondering, where did you learn??
Any particular books? YouTube videos? Online courses?...
Besides being dirty I imagine how people thought of “healthcare” was very different. In that most people didn’t see a doctor until things were bad so they’re naturally worse afterwards. “Preventative medicine” is a recent idea.
Regarding drugs, yes it´s most likely still happening, but nowhere near the levels it used to be.

Riders are tested a lot and have to provide year-round whereabouts for random testing. They also have a frequently updated blood passport to detect sudden changes in values caused by PEDs. It can never be fully waterproof, but at least serious efforts are made.
In professional sports taking drugs is not considered a secret, it's common practice

Fixed. Cycling has one of the strictest out-of-competition testing regimens. Which isn't to say doping doesn't exist - it does, no question - only that it's WAY better now than during the Armstrong era.

Some details...
https://lanternerouge.com/2023/03/26/how-clean-is-cycling-an...
Why GPS Is Under Attack
I know we're supposed to ascribe the most benevolent motive to a comment.

So the above is both rather absurd and also rather patronising.
They were working on that years ago. After several decades with no success I think they've mostly given up and just profit from it now.
ASML expansion in Veldhoven can proceed, Dutch court rules
Not sure if you reflect at all over your own texts. You come off as projecting, incoherent and cognitively dissonant.
I think pure math might be better off.
This is wild speculation, further an insult to the dead. Shame on you.
I think whoever abandons the game should forfeit, otherwise you get weird incentives (like to quit anytime your pip count is higher)
I am far FAR from the tour de france but I do train for and run ultramarathons.

When I started the general guidance seemed to be about 200 calories (50g of carbs) per hour during training and races. I followed that or a little above for a long time, and constantly had problems both physically and cognitively near the end of races.

It took about a year to get used to fueling heavier (for me...about 400 calories per hour or 100g). Lots of figuring out digestion and timing and sources and other factors. But once I got there it was transformative...I could push much harder for much longer without a deep bonk and recovery was faster. More importantly, my ability to think/plan/make decisions at the end of races was orders of magnitude better.

I'd bet if you went to an aid station around 80 miles on a 100mile ultra marathon you could pretty reliably identify who had been on the 200cal end of the spectrum and who had been on the 400 + end.
UML suffers from all of the same flaws that most graphical / non-textual programming environments do:

1) Not expressive enough - Most graphical programming environments, UML included, are not as expressive as the programming languages that they are being used for. Most graphical systems will need to be converted into a text-based programming language or some kind of code generation performed to create code that can be compiled. Frequently, the resulting code will be missing details or nuance that could not be represented in the graphical system and will need to be added. Should the slightly altered code become the new "source of truth"? Does the system have some kind of "side car" system so that future generated code with include some additional changes? (Sometimes called "round tripping".)

2) Inherent difficulty with version control and diffing changes - In most graphical programming environments, it is difficult to work with version control systems and show diffs. It is difficult to visually see differences in large, complex graphs compared to side-by-side diffs in text.

3) Poor organization / composability - Most graphical programming environments do not have a good way to organize the graphs in composable ways. Many will try to do automatic layouts of the graphs, but usually you still end up with large spaghetti networks of connectors between different program elements.

4) Typically proprietary and expensive with high vendor lock-in potential - most graphical programming environments are proprietary and rely on expensive tooling. UML or another graphical environment might be used to design the system, but the environment is specific to the vendor and does not follow open standards because few standards exist and those that do are underspecified.
It’s all circumstantial evidence because that’s all we get.

Circumstantial evidence is not “weak evidence”, it is evidence concerning the circumstances.

For instance, DNA is circumstantial evidence. It’s evidence that can imply a connection between events, but it is not proof of such a connection. Fingerprints: circumstantial. Call logs: often circumstantial.

The opposite of circumstantial evidence is direct evidence. Direct evidence is rarer and often not as useful. Direct evidence would be an actual witness to the event. To call back to prior examples:

Fingerprints are direct evidence someone touched something. But they are circumstantial evidence they then used that object in commission of a crime.

Here, the direct evidence is that things were burned and sticks were sharpened. The circumstances in which they were found implies the rest.
There isn’t. Especially in the south. Floods, fires, and killer bears. It’s like The Purge, but every day. Don’t come.
As do theirs ;)
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> Does this mean that I should private my GitHub-mirror to my personal blog, because this can become a common thing?

You definitely should mark this email as spam so this cannot become a common thing.
At levels lower than the very top, it's easier and cheaper to lose 10 pounds of your own body than 10 pounds of bike. You can go far - even into racing at low levels - on rather cheap equipment.
How good is the proton ecosystem if I have multiple mail addresses and calendars?

Say I have hello@example.com and hello@example.net, can I use one unified inbox, and can I use both addresses to send and receive calendar invites?

Moreover, how easy is it to combine my calendars with my work calendar?

I heard it's also not possible to sync contacts with iOS, is that true?
It is 100% realistic to read books and play board games. Both markets are massive, and board games in particular are having what I would consider a renaissance. Maybe it depends on your crowd, but everybody I know plays tabletop games and reads books.
Have you ever watched US State Department press briefings, and paid close attention to how they use language (ie: "X is linked to Y")? Or, heard the public subsequently discussing what was said in them (say, right here on HN)?

Humans are a story based species...always have been always will be. Stories are our weak spot, the ultimate attack/control vector.
What I'd like to know is why my 2023 phone is still every bit as flaky as my 2018 phone was. For a while I was blaming my Linux solution but every time I try to use it on Windows it's just as flaky.

Fundamentally, accessing files on a live filesystem is a solved problem, and has been since before smart phones. I don't even know how they made such a broken setup.

(I believe the problem with USB mass storage is that it's closer to an IDE/SCSI protocol than a filesystem protocol. You can't have one bit of the system running around "accessing files" while you've got something else "moving the simulated drive head and writing this sector". In principle you could put the work in to make it all work out, but then it would be as flaky as the media access is now, only for a good reason rather than laziness/lockin.)
I've been on full time pairing teams but noticed 2-5x more throughput because there's fewer meetings, code review, and surfing the web. It's exhausting because suddenly I'm actually writing code 7+ hours a day and that's really hard.

Every other team I've been on without pairing, writing code is at most 3 hours a day. The rest of the time just gets chewed up by other communication channels.
Another article on the same topic:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/indigenous-au...