skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand shook me when I was younger. I know it’s popular to vilify her, but it showed how commitment to one’s own principles is admirable and at the same time not appreciated by society at large.
Hey, I'm Andrew.

I'm a pretty big online shopper and wanted to solve the cycle of opening new tabs so I built this solution.

It works as an infinite canvas similar to Figma so you can add as many items as you want. The items are drag and drop so you can better see what clothing goes well with others. There is also a Chrome extension to make shopping even easier for people who don't feel like manually going back to Curate to add items.
> projected scaling trends aren't an inevitability

Reminds me of a projection I read back in the early 1960s (I think). The author charted the rise in speed of human beings over ten or twenty thousand years, where that speed had increased when horses were tamed, clipper ships were built, steam trains invented, automobiles, airplanes, and then rockets. (Assuming this was just after Gagarin, that got "us" to 5 miles per second.)

He pointed out that the acceleration was (ahem) accelerating, with thousands of years between humans running and horses being domesticated, vs. about sixty years between the Wright brothers and Gagarin. Extrapolating, it was clear we would exceed the speed of light (using a warp drive or something) by the year 2000.

Of course the current record speed was set in 1968 at about seven miles per second, and not even equaled since 1972. So much for extrapolation.
You really don't have to use langchain. I usually don't except on a few occasions I used some document parsing submodule.

The APIs between different providers are actually pretty similar, largely close to the OpenAI API.

The reason to use a paid service is because the models are superior to the open source ones and definitely a lot better than what you can run locally.

It depends on the task though. For this task, I think a really good small model like phi-3 could handle 90-95% of the entries well through ollama. It's just that the 5-10% of extra screw ups are usually not worth the privilege of using your own hardware or infrastructure.

For this particular task, I would definitely skip langchain (but I always skip it). You could use any of the top performing open or closed models, with ollama locally, together.ai, and multiple closed models.

It should be much less than 50 lines of code. Definitely under 100.

You can just use string interpolation for the prompts and request JSON output with the API calls. You don't need to get a PhD in langchain for that.
A bit OT: The little remembered thing with Lockerbie is that they knew something was really weird before the debris hit the ground.

It wasn't the super deep check of the debris that pointed them to a bomb,it was a process that started with watching debris on primary radars fall away from a point where a moment before a transponder was squawking, it was finding the pressure spike on VCR and FDR, it was finding explicit explosion-affected parts, which guided which parts to reconstruct in 3D (very rare thing to do), and to finally find remains of the bomb itself.
Yes but my point is whether the system can be "never on the Internet" (hence never subject to constantly evolving hacks) and it doesn't seem like the systems you describe are necessarily that.
Occasionally I'll get spam from numbers in my contacts. I got a virtual kidnapping call from my wife's number the other day, which would have been terrifying if she wasn't sitting right next to me.
I think it's going to be 3, but a split between mobile and laptop/desktop without any concern for competing with dGPUs. It makes no sense at all for them to.

If they can give good enough, on par or better with current iGPUs, with a lower power usage and potentially even fanless, they're going to sell a billion of them. They'll be in every Chromebook in the world.
Both Poland and Iran have lost regionally inconvenient heads of state to crashes in fog.

I think there is concern there with undiagnosable crashes, but also a more pronounced concern with hijacking. If you have access to the plane you can just plant a bomb. With this you could capture the plane for hostage or turn it into a missile.
This is a great idea that I've wanted to see built for a long time.

How are you determining the calories? What AI are you using and how are you using it? How are you assessing the accuracy?
I was blown away by this the other day. I do know the user's handle and started typing it, but GitHub would prefer to suggest every random person with the same first name before the actual user who is already affiliated with some of the org's other repos? Wild!
Prior art here would be relive.cc which pretty much built their whole business on this concept applied to the cycling market
Nah, they're too late, ZIRP is over.
Most (not all) EVs still have a 12 volt lead-acid battery: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a38537243/electric-car....

I understand 12 volts, but why not a 12 volt Li battery? I don't know.
I noticed the final concept doesnt have much (if any) visual cover - which I imagine plays a large part for a prey animal looking for a safe place.
If you're in the US, I don't think you need to pull a permit if it's not on your house. So you could build a small installation in your backyard and hook it up without too much trouble.

This channel on youtube is an excellent resource and explains everything for anyone one who is a DIYer.

https://www.youtube.com/@WillProwse
This is all technically true, but the thesis is that PowerShell makes it all horribly clumsy to use.

From the perspective of the Lisp Machine or, hell, even the AS/400, PowerShell (and, while we're here, the CLR) doesn't quite go deeply enough, pervasively enough, across the system to make it truly useful in the same way.
New nature paper shows tungsten microelectrodes inserted into single neurons of conscious humans reveals individual neurons encoding words into semantic encodings (e.g. responding to only certain semantic categories but not others)
Let’s say your test data is a record with two fields that can be generated independently. After the property test framework finds a bug, it can independently shrink each field to find a simpler failing test.

Contrast with a test data generator that randomly chooses the first field, and then calculates the second field based on the first field’s value. The framework can’t directly mutate the second field because there’s a data dependency. If it just changes the second field, it will get a record that couldn’t have been generated.

The Hypothesis test framework took a different approach. Instead of mutating the test data directly, it mutates the “random” input and reruns the generator. If you do shrinking that way, you always get valid test data, though it might not be very similar to the original.

This is similar to what fuzzers do - you start with unstructured binary data and build data structures out of it. Your “random” test data generator is really a parser of random (or maybe not so random) input.
Yes, I have built many. Also, have you met any humans? What about their lack of precision?
I often miss the HDD noise/light grinding away mid game. But I suppose that that is the type of thing that causes hds to die
I think this is for situations where customers can choose a 3rd party energy provider. The utility transmits energy to the user and settles with the energy provider.

Makes sense to settle that up near real time, I guess.
Heat pumps use less energy when there's a small temperature gradient (assuming a good turndown ratio, cheap ones aren't so good), but they're more efficient when there's a large gradient. That's why they require careful modeling before being used for hydronic heating.
I have been predicting over the last year that with many US and European manufacture suddenly giving up on ev growth rate and feed in tariff for solar not getting a good price. The next big thing is going to be home batteries. Looking at what Tesla is charging for powerwall and the actual materials cost which are still dropping people will start trying to get in on these margins.
Extremely clumsy, yes. And not idiomatic - a vanishingly small people learning PS will be able to usefully discover, use, or troubleshoot this utilization.

At the very least they could have helped with the discovery/usage problem, but that would probably have been a really tall order for one little language to do.
Yes exactly, though not exhaustive, so more like beam search actually
Which raises the question, why would you connect your monitor to the network?
Spanish my second language and I concur
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846883
I did mostly scripting as in sysadmin work. No FT programming per se.

I found no free optical design software that would run on Mac, so I coded something up to do some paraxial ray tracing ( maybe more, I'd have to dig up the code) and (this is the good part) draw lens diagrams from the specifications.

Pretty simple, but it was fun to do. Very little available for Linux either. Physics and optics people want to have fun, too.

Much of it was just parsing the input data.

I do recall a design and/or analysis program written in Basic, but it wanted a particular basic interpreter, and I forgot if it had porting problems. Must have. I don't recall using the program.

Oddest bit was something I did on my own for Sun flex office. I would get the list of scheduled occupants and their office choice and overlay that on a map of the office suite, for a "who is where" map.

On a "real" work task, I learned how to write graphics commands in Illustrator 3 format. I may have used that on this project.

But more generally, tacking the AI header code to the file made it valid Postscript/Illustrator format.
> How are they not extinct?

One species of beaver, the European beaver, almost did go extinct. The American beaver was simply lucky to live in a vast unpopulated land where it wasn't a highly desired hunting target.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocast
Ahh didn't even think of that level of the stack… It is true that the OAuth2 tango can be represented by a state machine…

I’d probably do CAS instead, it’s simpler IMO.
Not really. There is an ancient curses-based spreadsheet program called "sc" (spreadsheet calculator).

It sounds like "scim" is to "sc" vaguely like "vim" is to "vi": new program with more features cloning/imitating ancient program.

"vi" was written by Bill Joy in 1979.

"sc" by James Gosling in 1981.

sc-im claims to be based on "sc".

It's a direct lineage unrelated to GUI spreadsheets.
Let’s vote for democrats so that it wouldn’t be.
The fight against light pollution
In the 2014 election, a party calling themselves "UKIP" won 13% of the vote (but only a single seat). UKIP were right wing populist, attracting people who would otherwise have little choice but to vote for the Tories, and after this election and a previous strong showing in the European Parliament elections, the Tories felt threatened. In FPTP, UKIP cannibalising Tory votes could be a big problem, constituencies that would normally split 50% Tory 45% Labour suddenly becoming 10% UKIP 40% Tory 45% Labour could lead to a big swing in seats.

Tory leader David Cameron's solution to this was to undercut UKIP support by offering a referendum on leaving the EU, their core policy. Eurosceptic voters would be appeased by the offer, and return to the mainstream Conservative fold, but the anticipated Remain victory would confirm Cameron's business as usual leadership.

This did not happen.

The moral here is that far from stopping a dominant party agreeing to the demands of a fringe party, FPTP itself led directly to a fringe party being able to pressure a dominant party into lurching towards an extreme position. It is a stupid system.
it's amazing how this metaphor from fiction drove so much of how people in the field of education think about teaching, I had no idea Stephenson resonated outside tech. the author problematizing what he calls authoritarianism is freighted with some implicit ideas about truth and enlightenment that are predicated on some radical presumptions as well.

the best educated people are those who were mentored into a competence and that's not ever going to be evenly distributed. imo the primer was an expression of replicating that, hence the guiding structure the author criticizes. if you start with what are essentially gnostic ideas about unraveling the illusions of the culture by initiating people into critical mysteries vs. just giving them tools to practice with and guide them to adopt the implicit morality of competence, the primer is less problematized. I think the author may be bringing some prior critical ideas to it that are worth looking at objectively.
Interesting, I caught the end of this on the news last night - I guess Australia is getting the equivalent of AWS GovCloud.

I assume the Australia government mostly uses on-prem stuff now? Plenty of big business is Australia seems to be slowly dipping their toes in cloud, though not for their core software.
Deliberate. I’m working on a comic set in a dystopia run by AIs that have decided that “cartoon clowns” are the best way to tell humans what to do.
Really surprising coming from an org like IEEE. One expected the data to show a significantly detrimental effect, but it looks like it was slightly positive overall, at least based on the data they're displaying.
> What benefit does excellence derive for the excellent then, other than feel-good bubbly feelings?

Ultimately anything can only give you feelings. I don't understand what else would you expect from (pursuing) being excellent (just to clarify, I define "being excellent" here as being extremely skilled at some ex ante selected task or creative process; both individuals and organizations can have that property).

But I get what you're saying. You feel like being excellent should give you money, fame and ladies. But you can get these things without being excellent. At some point, being excellent is a burden, and it's irrational to pursue it if you have those goals (of money, fame, etc.). (Someone else said in this thread that they want "a credit" for the excellence. Well if you want that, you don't need to be excellent, you just need to be good at pretending that you're, in front of people who you ask for the credit.)

Now, corporations (and private companies in general) are setup to pursuit profit, not excellency. If excellency gets in the way of profit, and mediocrity is sufficient, they won't pursue excellency, regardless what the individuals in those companies want. That's organizational laziness. Note that organizational laziness is rational (and we teach it to MBAs), because rationality only ever makes sense with respect to your goals (which here is pursuit of profit, not of excellency). But that also means, rationality is never gonna tell you which goals you should pursue. Therefore, to decide to want excellency will always be an inherently irrational act (therefore, you only do it for good feelings).

The point of the second comment I made was that yes, some people choose to build mediocre (capitalist) organizations (based on profit maximization and labor market) in pursuit of organizational excellency. To me as a socialist, this is a foolish mistake. If you're interested in excellency, you should build organizations of peers (like cooperatives) who intrinsically share that goal, not subordinates who have to be motivated extrinsically. I should also note, every organization will get parasites who have different goals, like work for less effort. Unless these people are somehow a burden on the goal of excellency, they are less problematic in organizations that pursue excellency than in capitalist organizations that pursue profit. Therefore, the organizations where the excellency maximization is a goal may seem to be collectively less efficient (more wasteful) than those where profit maximization is a goal. Again, this comes from the fact that being excellent is not necessarily the optimal way to pursue an extrinsic goal, such as profit.
>steadfastly pursuing various methods during thirty years of experimentation,

And the best was yet to come . . .
Once material costs fall far enough, other costs start to dominate. Design and permitting, sales and marketing, transport, finance and insurance, installation, support structures, safety systems, interconnections (wires), converters and so on. $11/kWh seems optimistic for 2030.
Taguchi Methods
Reading The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler may be interesting for you. Science and cosmology has progressed tremendously because of people like Kepler who have had right conclusions despite incorrect methods.

One relevant excerpt:

“A phrase seems to have been humming in his ear like a tune one cannot get rid of; it crops up in his writings over and again: there is a force in the sun which moves the planet, there is a force in the sun, there is a force in the sun. And since there is a force in the sun, there must exist some beautifully simple relation between the planet’s distance from the sun and its speed. A light shines the brighter the nearer we are to its source, and the same must apply to the force of the sun: the closer the planet to it, the quicker it will move. This is his instinctive conviction, already expressed in the Mysterium Cosmographicum; but now, at last, he has succeeded in proving it.

In fact he has not. He has proved the inverse ratio of speed to distance only for the two extreme points of the orbit; and his extension of this ‘Law’ to the entire orbit was a patently incorrect generalization. Moreover, Kepler knew this, and admitted it at the end of the thirty-second chapter,18 before he became airborne; but immediately afterwards, he conveniently forgot it. This is the first of the critical mistakes which ‘as if by a miracle’ cancelled out, and led Kepler to the discovery of his Second Law. It looks as if his conscious, critical faculties were anaesthetized by the creative impulse, by his impatience to get to grips with the physical forces in the solar system.“
I've open-sourced most of my stuff, but one thing I haven't is a gambling simulator - I feed in odds and results for a season of sport and I can tune some parameters to try different strategies.

Someone once told me that apparently some local sports reporters' weekly tips are used with some seed money and the proceeds are given to charity and I was intrigued enough to spend a few days building something that could test that out.
NFL is liable for $4,707,259,944 in 'Sunday Ticket' case
But what's the problem that is being solved with a productivity app ? I actually use a spreadsheet program for this and it does a better job than most apps. I don't it matters what "the vision" is really.
It's a crying shame that Apple don't offer a desktop mode on iPhones. The chips are more than powerful enough to give a no-compromises experience (for most use casual use cases at least), the disks are large enough to store 2 OSs, and they have a full desktop OS sitting around ready for use.

It'd make it a lot harder to sell macs, but it would be an absolutely killer device.
Not just at the top, you have to go higher than that. It starts with the idea that the market success always leads to excellency.
> read that it's absolute immunity in core function, which seems pretty damn broad to me

It's limited in scope, and still subject to impeachment, which immunity comes from because otherwise going through impeachment would be pointless.

> Can you explain how nonreviewable power over control of the military and DOJ fits the description of "limited"?

The President can't just kill anyone he wants, it's just a power he doesn't have. The President is not judge, jury and executioner. Having control doesn't mean you can do what you want with it.

> e won't need to -- the whole point of giving the President this broad unreviewable power was so that non federal officials couldn't harass the president by charging him with crimes for carrying out his official duties.

You're beginning to understand

> Where again what constitutes an "official duty" is left up to SCOTUS.

And?

> The prospect of this very ruling was considered so insane by legal scholars so as to be implausible, and yet here we are!

These same legal scholars were fine with not charging the last 4 presidents with war crimes and other atrocities. Because it was always the case, nothing has changed except limiting the scope of presidential immunity.

> Judges don't have to find the assassination of elected officials to be legal, they just have to find the Supreme Court doesn't allow them to use most of the evidence of that crime at trial, and that they must presume motive for the assassination was good. How do you prosecute that case? Can't subpoena any evidence because it wouldn't survive an "absolute immunity" challenge by the President's lawyers.

If the armed forces are killing politicians then at this point the Constitution is a mere piece of paper and no amount of super-majority or SCOTUS rulings is going to make a difference.

> That is the implication of the plain text of this law, it's with Justice Sotomayor is worried about, and I think it's pretty beneath you to try to compare her vast level of expertise to Alex Jones.

Sotomayor is an emotional militant judge and not taken seriously outside left leaning political militant circles. The oral hearings over the vaccine mandates is a good example: "but there are millions of dead children" she said crying. Yes, she did that. This is JFK assasination level conspiracy theory whether you like it or not.
take a look at southern california edison's time of use rates. Summer day and night are the same price, but afternoon/evening 4-9pm are more expensive or you can opt for 5-8pm way more expensive.

In the Winter though, energy is cheaper starting at 8am, when the sun is out. Still more expensive from 4-9/5-8

https://www.sce.com/residential/rates/Time-Of-Use-Residentia...
Ouch, starting price $57k (98 kwh battery) and around $70k for the recommended model with 131 kwh. It's a rather large vehicle with poor "gas mileage" of about two miles per kwh. A normal sized electric car gets around 2x that, giving higher grid bills or needing bigger solar arrays (thus, more real estate). Idk if the Ford uses LFP batteries these days.

Certainly most of us who think of buying electric vehicles would want to actually drive them around.
1) People forget to send the photos from their phones.

2) I think the form factor is important. If you have a camera shaped object, it's more naturar to take a lot of photos than when you are using your phone.
There have been weather events and suchlike where it has been impossible to charge an EV, though gas was still available.
But it does need a warning. If the two wire suddenly tells it "expensive tariff," that's too late to cool down a little.
Obtaining an intuition for what it means to use an imaginary exponent takes work.

Exponents give us expoential decay/growth in the real number line, but periodicity in the imaginary domain, which is strange.

In physics, this lets us analyze decaying or amplifying oscillations in a unified way. (Laplace transform and all that.)
> Applefication

Apple does not punish users for jailbreaking or sideloading to their devices. There is no loss of function ‘due to security reasons.’
If I ever happen upon a large fortune, I'd gladly give it to you if you used it for this and let me play with all the computers until I knew how they work. I studied mechanical engineering, and work in other fields now. Although I see and understand their importance to society, I am always fascinated by manipulation of mechanical principles to reach an objective.
The functionality is not identical. Wget is much more high level. You should not need to be an HTTP and curl expert to download a file lol.