skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Again, no one buys things using only such an interface.

I was talking about future possibilities, not the past. I would have thought that was clear from my comment. but maybe it was not worded clearly, or maybe you didn't get it.

>I am middle aged and have never done, not even in pre-e-commerce times.

you are not the same entity as everyone else. you are one, they are numerous.

just the fact that you have never done it does not mean that no one else has ever done it, or would not like to do it.

>It is a non-existent behavior, and there was no reason to think Alexa could will it into existence.

non-existent past behaviours can become future existing behaviours.

I meant Amazon building that feature into Alexa, not that Alexa would create it by itself.
Ooh grouping is a cool idea we didn't consider! Curious to hear what you want out of grouping -- I can imagine it's useful to label functionalities and move different editors at once, but would love to hear from you.

You can zoom in/out of the canvas with CMD/CTRL + scrolling! I do think this can cause blurry text, which we definitely aim to fix
It's Not Just B2C vs B2B Anymore
Moddable sandboxes like Minecraft and Roblox have picked up that role for younger people.
Show HN: AI Powered Virtual Phone Receptionist for Small Businesses
If we're sharing anecdotes from Greek-Americans, a research advisor of mine said the biggest change he experienced was getting a driver's license without bribing anyone
Interesting, either the store is selling you fake decaf, or there's really a whole bunch of other chemicals, other than caffeine, that can mess with your body.

I have an unusually strong response to caffeine (a cup of coffee, strong tea, or, on a bad day, even a small glass of Coke). It doesn't really affect my heart (as far as my Apple Watch can tell), but it obliterates my sleep and makes me feel quite a bit more anxious than usual. Decaf coffee solves the problem completely — no stimulation, no anxiety, normal sleep. Coincidentally, I had a tall glass of iced decaf just two hours ago, and I'm going to bed in a few minutes.
Because "Generally Intelligent" is a very broad and vague term.

"Better than Terrence Tao at solving certain formalized problems" (not necessarily equal to "Better that Terrence Tao at maths) isn't.
Did you read TFA? Please, the point of TFA is NOT that you don't need distributed consensus algorithms, but that once you have them you don't need to worry about partitions, therefore you can have consistency, and you get "availability" in that the cloud "is always available", and if that sounds like cheating you have to realize that partitions in the cloud don't isolate clients outside the cloud, only servers inside the cloud, and if there's no quorum anywhere then you just treat that as "the cloud is down".
I'm in the USA with many years of relevant software experience.

What I'm not is a resident of the Bay Area, Seattle, or NYC.

I know many senior engineer peers who earn nowhere near 250k. Not sure where your statement is coming from.

Plus, senior is such a weird term. I actually wrote a blog post about the many dimensions of "senior" here: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2812
Its not about 'going back'. Its about being smart and doing what makes sense.

Yes, before privatisation there wasnt a totally uniform strategy but BritishRail certaintly had strategy, both for the network and in term of branding and marketing different setvices.

This would not just be a BritishRail thing. It would also involve the government, local governemnt and related transport services like TfL.

The smart way of doing it is basically what Switzerland did in Bahn2000. You first look at your current network and timetable and think about what you would optimally want, make a priority list. Then you study and figure out what you can get for how much price.

Then you make targeted infrastructure and service investments to achieve those goals, and of course you coordinate between all the different stack holders.

In Switzerland you also dont just have SBB, there are lots of other imporantant organisation. RBB, SOB, BLS are signifcant in passenger transport. And of course the local governments with their Transport organisations.

Is it in Britain somehow impossible for people to work thogether and come up with a plan?

This could even have been done during privatisation. Japan has many private railway and do a lot of integrated planning.

Its just a weakpoint of UK governemnt.
The overwhelming lack of concern does seem to reflect that nothing but OSes can survive as very long-term open source projects.
Side note, if you use Emacs you can get the phases of the Moon by pressing “M” in either calendar or Org Agenda.
Yet another problem caused by the ad-driven lagoon of shit that is the Internet...
Pesticides as big a cancer risk as smoking, study finds
There's always someone who has it worse. Should we also not talk about the holocaust because others had it worse?
North Korea hackers trying to steal nuclear secrets, US and UK warn
I just read that Governor Newsom has ordered the clearing of homeless encampments. Where will those people go?
Sure, and if a chatbot can helpfully summarize factual content being gatekept in a Discord chat, then that's fantastic, but I don't think that's quite what I'm getting at. The internet has room for more than just an infinite queue of fact-seekers interacting with a bank of fact-repositories. Some writing (eg, poetry) is clearly art and the people who have created it are entitled to have a bit of say over how that art is consumed and under what regimes it is summarized/remixed. Or at least us as those consumers should have the discernment required to be able to say "this isn't authentic, let me seek out the original instead."

I'm not normally a purist on these things, but I'm recalling musical artists who bemoaned the destruction of the album format in favour of $0.99/track sales in the early days of the iTunes store. Concept albums in the vein of Sgt Peppers still exist of course, but almost every modern mainstream song is now prepared first and foremost to be listened to in isolation. I didn't care for those arguments at the time they were being made, but years later, I can appreciate how something was lost there and that it might have been appropriate to let artists specify that album X was to be sold only as an album.
Re: Insta-load

Please don't do this. Exec'ing arbitrary, obfuscated code you just copied from the internet directly in a running environment is such a bad idea it shouldn't even be suggested.

At the very lease please put huge warnings around this section to let people know that it is a horrendously bad idea and they do it at their own peril.
I don't find TypeScript to be burdensome when rapidly iterating. Depending on how you've configured your dev environment you can just ignore type errors and still run the code.
This was recently brought into sharp focus while learning a new-to-me C descendant. After working with it for a couple months, I've found a lot to like in the language itself, but the many paper cuts and bad ergonomics of its standard library have considerably drained my enthusiasm for continuing to use it. What a pity.
I strongly suspect that most or all of the modern "hardware" write-protect switches are actually just suggestions to the drive firmware. Which may very well itself be modifiable.
a tangent on K (that's been a dead end for me for 3 decades now, so maybe you'll have better luck?):

- K takes one argument and throws it away.

- S takes one argument and duplicates it.

Pareidoliacally, this is reminiscent of how in simplices:

- face maps forget and go down, eg face to edge.

- degeneracy maps "duplicate" and go up, eg from edge to degenerate "face".

Is there a way we could come up with a computational equivalent of Stoke's theorem? https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7e32...

restating those integrals in braket notation because HN isn't so ∳ friendly: <∂o|x> = <o|dx>

Squiggol and origami programming seems like it ought to lead there, but maybe I've been following Leibniz too much and instead ought to have used some Newtonian astrology?

(that said, the residuation operator in semigroups, and hence quantales, does seem to have a liminal ability to move between bras and kets, at least for certain well-defined substructures: those for which moving between all possible suffixes and all possible prefixes, double time-reversal, is a round trip)
It's worth highlighting that first result is exactly what you asked for, given all 4 of your criteria:

1. It's on adults.

2. It's longitudinal over multiple years.

3. It studies variations in brain volume.

4. It focuses on healthy individuals.

You can see the full results for that search text here: https://undermind.ai/query_app/display_one_search/e1a3805d35...
This is so bad it should be nsfw-blurred and you have to click 2 buttons to even see it.
it shows that the companies are not competing with each other for talent, one reason is that due to immigration & international learning centers Oxbridge provide a stream of (white collar) skilled workers needing a visa willing to work for lower ball offers
Yes, but again, TFA says that you will trust the cloud will be up long enough that you would indeed prefer consistency.

My goodness. So many commenters here today are completely ignoring TFA and giving lessons on CAP -- lessons that are correct, but which completely ignore that TFA is really arguing that clouds move the needle hard in one direction when considering the CAP trade-offs, to the point that "the CAP theorem is irrelevant for cloud systems" (which was this post's original title, though not TFA's).
Visual Studio Code Java extension backs JDK 23
It needs to have a better TTY, and unless there's a legal requirement I would prefer it just says it is my receptionist, not a 'virtual receptionist' or anything that would indicate it is an AI. At least make it an option please.
Those aren't the only failure modes - you can have two sets of servers partitioned from one another (in two different data centers), both of which are reachable by clients. Do you allow those partitions to remain available, or do you stop accepting client connections until the partition heals? The "right" choice depends entirely on the application.
> And if they do, then what? If it is "too high" do we delay research because we need to keep the world how it is for you?

First, it's keeping the world how it is for all of us, not just me.

Second, to answer you question, I think that is a decision for all of us to weigh in on, but before we can do that, we must be informed as best as we can.

Do sacrifices have to be made for the greater good? Absolutely. Do for-profit mega corporations get to make those decisions without consent from the public? No.
We helped create them, and we use them as a strategic base of operations inside of an ally country in the Middle East.

We built the architecture they use to exert influence over our lawmakers. There's significant sunken cost to disrupting that relationship, and Israel throws a huge fit whenever we fail to give them what they ask for.
Coincidentally, while trying to get my daughter to sleep last night, I watched her solve a lengthy sudoko on my phone, while my own brain couldn't help to wander to imagining all the possible solver algorithms that might be out there. Or how I'd ever do in a technical interview if anyone asked me design one on the spot.

I got at least as far as thinking through something like your list of algorithms here. But I could help but imaging that there must also be even-more efficient or interestingly exotic solutions out there.

Like something amusing as a rainbow-table type approach where you calculate all the possible soduko boards in advance, then (somehow?) convert any given puzzle into just an index lookup of a matching solution. So like (perhaps a lot of) brute force up front, but O(1) in execution?
There's a bunch of cheap kits on sites like AliExpress. I'd personally would love to just sit down and assemble a bunch of mini robots while learning eletronics and micro controllers
(2021)

American homes aren't built to last, either. They are just built to look more substantial.

For the most part. "McMansions" etc, especially: load bearing housewrap isn't as horrible a thought if you realize the building will not be occupied for more than 10 years.
> Though, while we differ in our perceptions of what has been attempted, and how sincerely those efforts were made - we agree on solutions. The solutions require serious efforts from a very empowered local community (which would imply state funding to support those efforts).

I live in Northern California in the middle of ground zero for this issue. Ten years ago I would have agreed fully with what you wrote. But since then I've been paying very close attention to how this has all unfolded at the state, regional and local levels. I also happen to have a lot of social contacts who work at the city and country levels in the agencies directly responsible for dealing with homelessness, ranging from social workers to funding agencies to law enforcement.

Based on what I've seen in my community, in the media and what my friends who are directly involved have told me privately (which is more frank and somewhat different than what their agencies say publicly), my opinion has changed. Most fundamentally, I now understand that "homelessness" shouldn't ever be thought of as a single issue because there are vastly different kinds with different causes, consequences, costs and possibility of remedies. Most of the serious societal problems related to homelessness come from the particular subset which are chronically unhoused and treatment resistant, primarily due to chronic substance abuse and mental illness. Sadly, for many of this type, there are no consistently effective solutions - and no amount of funding can reliably solve it at scale - because any lasting solution requires first solving the underlying chronic addiction and/or mental illness. Unfortunately, these are wickedly complex, deeply individual problems and lasting solutions require making difficult "no win, lesser of evils" choices more related to morality than politics. Respecting an individual's right of self-determination can quickly conflict with their right to choose self-destruction.

I now understand that there ARE no "good solutions" to this type of chronic homelessness. Even if you or I were anointed "king of the world" and given virtually unlimited funding, at best, things might be a little better but the fundamental underlying causes would still remain unsolved. All solutions which might make a substantial, long-term improvement on chronic addiction and mental illness at scale involve moral positions I could not personally enforce on other people, such as forced treatment, conditionally withholding treatment or actively enabling essentially "slow-motion suicide" (as a social worker friend of mine called it).
> strange believe that if not the communists Poland would be a global superpower

I think it's fair to consider Poland the birthplace of the modern computer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_(cryptography)

Maybe not a global superpower, but it is very easy to me to imagine a Poland not destroyed by Nazi then communist rule being an innovation center of the world.
> But generally I think there is incredibly little self-dealing,

You might want to ask why INP wasn’t a Core Web Vital in the beginning and FID was… might have something to do with AMP scoring well on FID
Well the point is, both LoRA and Dreambooth require fine tuning the model (i.e. training)
I did, and it doesn't provide insight that didn't exist 15 years ago.

Cloud is always available? I have a bridge to sell you.
Once a day ought to do…
Speaking of ‘yet’ - how does the rapid trajectory of increasingly efficient models like 4o mini fit with this take?
There is not, but there is plenty of historical evidence that scientific and technological progress has routinely addressed humanities crisis du jour.
magnus carlsen basically quit because computers ruined chess. As did kasparov.

Fischer was probably the last great player who was unassisted by tools.
Interesting perspective, but they are still b2b, just focusing on small businesses vs. big businesses.
I wish it would recognize colors for logos better. I tried "stripe logo" and got white, and "yc logo" and got yellow.
>fewer insults

I don't see where I used any insults in my earlier reply. saying biz 101, maybe?

as for the rest, I can't really understand what you are saying, so I'll drop out of the discussion now.
> that policy was reversed. Is that correct?

"53 people were arrested for public drug use. Eleven were cited for misdemeanors and 42 were booked into jail for temporary detention. The mayor's office said none of them accepted offers of treatment upon their release."

> CA has dumped some pretty serious money into the problem

It's terribly tracked [1]. Like, the transient homeless population is both sympathetic and solvable. They should be the priority. Unfortunately, it's been impossible to say that until recently because you'd get shot down for leaving the drug addicted and mentally ill homeless behind. So you wind up with processes and facilities that are all hardened for the 10% most extreme, expensive and damaging homeless. (Plus, of course, corruption.)

[1] https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/04/californ...
I'm curious if we'll see a world where computers could solve math problems so easily, that we'll be overwhelmed by all the results and stop caring. The role of humans might change to asking the computer interesting questions that we care about.
The Art of Bad Technical Documentation: By a Technical Author to a Manager
Also, part of the style seems to be to contort any actual schematic to fit in the box. I like to ask "if you wouldn't put it on its own page so you could draw it clearly, why did you draw a box around it?".
Clearly my point was the tories being against something is no reason not to do something. Tories not being for something and maybe reversing it in the future is no reason not to do something.

And im not gone have a debate about trans stuff on HN in a train thread. Specially because you brought up a report that didn't have anything to do with the point I made about the tories.
I just reread this and realized how much of a jerk I'm coming off as (too late to delete it). My point is just that if you're reading something because it was published then publication and endorsement must not be sufficiently decoupled.

In a world where they are decoupled, you'd only end up reading it because somebody you trust endorsed it (no reason for that to coincide with the publisher) or because you went searching for it despite its lack of endorsement--in which case you probably know what you're doing.
Applied Machine Learning for Tabular Data
Java's ecosystem is just as bad. Gradle is insanely flexible but people create abominations out of it, Maven is extremely rigid so people resort to even worse abominations to get basic shit done.
According to that link, The Martians were Hungarian :-P
I don't think that computers have an advantage because they can navigate search spaces efficiently. The search space for difficult theorems is gigantic. Proving them often relies on a combination of experience with rigorous mathematics and very good intuition [1] as well as many, many steps. One example is the classification of all finite simple groups [2], which took about 200 years and a lot of small steps. I guess maybe brute forcing for 200 years with the technology available today might work. But I'm sceptical and sort of hope that I won't be out of a job in 10 years. I'm certainly curious about the current development.

[1] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_finite_sim...
The learning part would be the hard part. It would learn it, but it would put emphasis on the last learned thing.
Man you really should have read the article to understand that the main competitor to the K-202 had ties to the Communist government and was able to get production shut down.

There was also some concern over the number of western parts inside of the K-202, so a modern equivalent would be closer to the U.S. banning of Huawei hardware in U.S. cell networks, where the hardware is cheaper and superior, but we ban it because we want to protect our own domestic hardware suppliers, and avoid letting too many Chinese-made parts into our country's critical digital infrastructure.
I think that's exagerating a bit. If you are familiar with both Lean and LaTeX then I think transcribing these problems to Lean only takes about twice as long as transcribing them to LaTeX.
You can use Browserflow (Chrome extension for browser automation) to extract saved lists from Google Maps: https://browserflow.app/shared/MWz0bTt7zBkyRMTs

Screen recording: https://www.loom.com/share/5ad91e0347294c7a9b4f0e0b3b2b8544?...

I made Browserflow so feel free to ask any questions / let me know if you run into any issues.
What does assigned seating have to do with their pricing model?
California Court Upholds Gig-Worker Proposition
Communism certainly didn't help.
> Whatever happened to that new voice interface they "announced" back in May?

Yeah, and it was suddenly made just the day before Google announced their models... and do you remember Sora? That was in February.
> This principle is broadly extensible to work and art

Nah, as a consumer it makes no difference to me if a meat packing factory or Amazon warehouse employs 5000 or 5 people. To art, this principle is totally real, but for work, it only applies to some/most of it.
Lets not gloss over this:

>The manufacturer of Odra, the Elwro company, was, however, better connected with the regime than Karpiński. Instead of improving its product to catch up with the competition Elwro began to subvert Karpiński’s position in any way they could, not shying away from slander.
get a
- roomba create 3 for 400
- arm built of dynamixel servos for 200
- camera for 100-500 (stereoscopic will set you back but its worth it)
- nvidia jetson nano orin nx (500)

for about 2k, you can make a robot that can clean your house and is probably smarter than a dog/cat
Ask HN: What Is the SQLite of Queues?
I love how simple and lightweight sqlite is.

I'm looking for an open source queue solution with similar qualities. All I really want are topics/messages/publishers/subscribers. That's it.

I do not want to run ZooKeeper.
Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?
Hi,
I'm looking for a simple way to convert PDFs into markdown with integrated images and tables. Tried Llamaindex, but no integrated images.
Tried Langchain, but some PDFs will have the footer being parsed before the top.
Tried to use Adobe PDF API, but have to pay $25K upfront!
I do know that IVR has poor UX, since I use it a good amount on my mobile phone.

but did you notice that I also said:

>or an advanced, literally voice-only version of it, where you don't even have to press any digit keys to respond to voice menus?

above?
> I would prefer it just says it is my receptionist, not a 'virtual receptionist' or anything that would indicate it is an AI.

Please no. It is so annoying to deal with an AI that doesn't even realize it is an AI.

I was chatting with a support rep (which turned out to be an AI) when my bike rental broke down. I was asking it to end my rental so I could get another one, and it just kept referring me to support pages, even making up support pages and being completely unhelpful. That was when I realized this was an AI, and I was able to ask for a human customer service representative.

If I knew it was an AI before the conversation started, I would have saved everyone a bunch of time.
new doesn't necessarily mean "an extremal point that's not the average of two existing points". The set of existing knowledge is not necessarily continuous; the midpoint between two known points may be unknown, and thus would be a "new" point that could be obtained by interpolation.