skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The build vs buy decision does come up, but like you mentioned, the product direction of Shaped is to be primitives for search and recommendation, allowing users that want to build use Shaped to empower them to build quicker (e.g. integrated behind their psudo-recommendation engine). In truth we have multiple abstractions to Shaped allowing more technical teams to integrate like this, or less technical ones to have more of an end-to-end integration experience.

The other related market trend we think about here: recommendation is going through a similar journey to what search did 10 years ago. Search at some point was more build leaning, but over time the technology became democratized and then companies like Elastic and Algolia had offerings that pushed search to lean towards buy. We're seeing recommendations going through the same revolution now that the technologies and system design (e.g. 4 stage recommenders) are more solidified. It's the data that makes these systems unique between companies not the infrastructure or algorithms.
I see your organ trade study and raise you a billion dollar VC to turn kidneys into penis enlargement powder, buying at a rate that prices out the majority of dialysis patients.
Hang out with one or more.

The diversity is so complete there's bound to be somebody you have something in common with.

Don't hold their misfortune in the real estate business against them.
> I've had to hit the "kill switch" on my:
>
> TV/iPad/iPhone/PC, ancient clothes washing machine, modern dishwasher, router/modem, TV etc.

And this is why these technologies, while improving productivity and saving time in many cases, are sources of continual stress in our lives. I'm sitting enjoying a pleasant evening at home and suddenly I have to get up and reboot the router. As I'm waiting for it to restart and settle down my mind is seething with visions of smashing it with a hammer and getting it out of my life forever, like the printer scene in Office Space. Now my blood pressure is up and the evening is distrupted.

"The worst thing for its acceptance by people that a robot can do in the workplace is to make their jobs or lives harder"
This is awesome!

Obviously we’d need a real ion exchange membrane and put 40 of them in series, but it looks pretty scalable even in its present form. This looks very practical to me, once a few more years of tinkering is done.

I’d love to have more information about electrode fluid cost, life and reconditioning/reprocessing, as well as power densities for membrane area.

I’d love to be able to add capacity just by adding tanks and electrode fluid! For microgrids like ours, this is a longstanding goal.
Comparing different "SQL over HTTP" APIs
No. No, I really shouldn't.

Yes, I might gain a better understanding of how things work. I can do that lots of ways; others may be a better use of my limited time. (For that matter, doing other things that don't give me a better understanding of how things work may be a better, more valuable use of my limited time.)

Yes, I could get a language that fits what I need better... in theory. In practice, it would be buggy, inconsistent, and incompletely implemented. It would not actually fit what I need better than existing languages.
A/B testing misses the point of statistical design of experiments, which is that your variables can interact. One factor at a time experiments are pretty much guaranteed to stick you in a local maximum
Glad to see people experiencing similar problems! We previously spend way too much time building and maintaining document processing pipeline that doesn't really scale.
Looks interesting to me, but I had some questions. Could you elaborate on the process of expert review and validation? How do you ensure the quality and accuracy of the datasets created?
No partner and no childern. Though if I get a partner then we will have dual income and no childern which to me seems like it would be even better.

Maybe no stress is being too generous. I never really feel stressed though at work, but maybe I am just also a low stress person.
> Please enlight us about how the BSD license do it much better in this area.

It doesn't, but it's a starkly free license which lets you do almost anything you want, short of plagiarism.

> should restrict even more

Nope; I'm explaining that it's ineffective against the key harms that may be perpetrated by SaaS. No license is; licensing is the wrong tool.
And the stable unfulfilling jobs all went to China.
It's not its own kernel, but emacs can run on Linux as PID 1, at which point it rather seems like it should count as an OS. Given its affiliation, emacs/Linux probably still counts as GNU/Linux, but still...
How is using a language that is buggy, inconsistent, and incomplete any better than use a better language to write an app that is buggy, inconsistent, and incomplete?

Checkmate.
Welders don't go to grad school so I'm not sure what we're talking about here.
We can only await the revival of keyboard tuners, and the interviewees of the future puzzling over how many of them are required for a city the size of Chicago.
That's a lovely saying, although the main issue currently seems to be that, in the West, we are currently not good at making more humans. See various demographic crises.
strip --strip-all k9salpha argocd
Lennon was wearing the best shape for high prescriptions.

Small, and round. Both will make the highest prescriptions very thin since the flaring out of the lens doesn't happen. Most of the mainstream optometrists don't specialize in frames like these.

Lenses are also available in 1.7+ high index in plastic lenses or even higher if you don't mind glass. Glass lenses while brittle at high index, can be additionally hardened as well.

It's helpful to find a frame manufacturer that can hide higher prescriptions in the thickness of the frame.

Companies like OGI, Anne Et Valentin have suitable frames for high prescriptions, which include adjustable nosepads to get the lenses right, and also a hybrid frame where the lenses might be wrapped in a combination of metal and plastic.
> I can link to a handful of recent high-impact audio ML github repos if you like

Yes please :D
Feels similar to the dbus serialisation format.
How does it compare to Algolia?
> They didn't. They're quite clear in their articles.

Not everything that bloggers say ProPublica said is what ProPublica said, or true.
I also had a great success with LASIK, but it wasn't invented before his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASIK#History
I agree and contrary to what the other commenters are saying, I can walk all day on a 16-17 min/mile pace but if I bump that up to a 10-12 min/mile jog, I am completely tired by the 3-5 mile point. It’s not a full sprint, it’s a pretty slow jog and somehow that completely taps me out.
Have you seen a human operating a bobcat with attachments? It pretty much is an exoskeleton.
I don't see this happening. Love of life is stronger than other incentives, we've been evolving for this target for millions of years.

If the current system doesn't produce new generations of humans then people will eventually convert to other systems that do. And when that happens no one will care whether these other systems empower women or not, not even women themselves. Empowerment is inconsequential compared to life.
We use a combination of fine-tune LLMs models that're specialized at extraction, data validation and parsing and large foundational models for more general reasoning tasks.

Model routing architecture has been quite interesting to explore.
It’s amazing to me that these well known attack vectors are still possible today.

Reading about directory traversal in 2023-2024 is like a blast from the past.
That’s fine as an anecdata of n=1. But it doesn’t seem that apps are unpopular on Android, where as the GP seemed to suggest that Safari was the reason for app popularity. That just doesn’t seem to be true, given on Android we don’t see a large inversion.
Almost any channel adaptive digital encoding (ie. where the sender gets feedback from the receiver about how much data is successfully arriving) will end up sending more useful data than any analogue scheme in any conditions.

Super weak voice channel where you can barely make out any words? That same channel, with the same transmit power, will get a decent telephone quality digital voice down, as long as you use modern low bitrate audio encoding. And it would send pages of text per second if you can handle typing not speaking.
Launching on Product Hunt in 2 Days, what should I do in this final stretch?
They're not remotely comparable problem sets.

Tesla's generalized driving algorithm vs Waymo's cherry-picked routes and ideal weather.

Tesla is winning. And the gap is getting wider.
For you two: The IBM PC was the first PC and had a 8088 CPU. OS/2 and Xenix were for the 286 and up.

If you make virtual memory a necessary attribute to qualify as OS, there were no OS for the original IBM PC as the 8088 had no support for virtual memory. That's why my (tricky) question.
> Their actual mathematical conclusions are what matters...

OK, what in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.3798 concludes cartel-like things that arise naturally can't be regulated?
> If AI churns out 25 scientific models per day, the proper venue isnt publishing them on arxiv or Nature magazine. It’s testing their predictions and putting them up the same way HuggingFace does.

Unless the testing will be done by AI, I doubt human scientist will bother with testing tons of incomprehensible models, unless the accuracy of these models will be exceptionally high
Huh, if it's good enough, movies/TV shows dubbed with AI-clone of the original voice would be great (if we can ignore the ethics of using the actor's voice and the loss of work for the dubbing companies and actors).

For example here's how weird Friends is in German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoNSZV--z0 . Or Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO5qTzvyQ1s

Can AI detect the emotional tone of sentences yet, and recreate it in the target language?
If you can measure the speed of light extremely precisely, you can measure a lot of constants extremely precisely.
Not if it changes every sentence.
The paragraph:

> The encoding/decoding is done with printf/scanf like functions with a format
string and a variable number of arguments. However, no actual string formatting
is done, the payload is a binary representation of arguments.

Seems to encapsulate the complexity of having a string formatting interface to a binary protocol reasonably clearly, but is not crafted to withstand speed reading or skipping over sentences.
350M Tokens Don't Lie: Love and Hate in Hacker News
No AI expert here, but my first thought was that it could be an attack vector to screw lots of AI projects.
And I think Kotlin would just be

val results = foo.filter { "banned" in it}

Though I'm not sure I'm a fan of it eagerly finishing with a List. If you chained several operations you could accidentally be wasting a load of allocations (with the solution being to start with foo.asSequence() instead)
Since when is a soldering iron a hacking tool? When I saw that picture on the internet I legitimately thought it was a joke (similar to those magazines telling the parents to look out for "hacking software")
Nah, we've just outsourced production to countries with cheaper labour costs.

It's a great deal: somebody else somewhere else deals with changing the diapers, and yet there will be a tax base to keep the country running when I'm retirement age.
Strange submission to post this comment on. It's not like translating and dubbing videos is the highest form of labor.
Remove that stupid popup. You give me a popup and I'm gonna bail. You had my attention for about 1.5 seconds, then blasted me with a popup... no, I'm not going to give you my email after 1.5 seconds... no, bye, I close the tab.
Well that explains the LLMs getting their answers wrong ;)
Is this a joke I'm not getting? Any examples of such software?
LASIK wasn't a thing until starting around the late 80's/early 90's.
It's Too Early to Give Up on Homelessness in America
Normal people need ad blockers about the same way they need clean water. I wish advertising was a viable revenue model for publishers, but it has been abused by large actors for so many years that large US government entities like the FBI recommend an ad blocker[1], and even the FTC lightly suggests it [2].

[1] https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221

[2] https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-websites-and-apps-coll...
That'd be a nice use for Starship.
I think that's a very forgiving perspective.

Product teams are often wrong, and A/B tests can lead to inferior long term solutions.

As always, it's best to criticize the idea, not the people.
It's crazy that some parts of the universe will actually for all purposes vanish

Thanks for taking time to break it all down
GPT 4-O Mini vs. Claude 3 Haiku vs. Gemini 1.5 Flash: Pricing Considerations
> Capital is not defined by non fungibility.

Correct. It's defined as wealth in the course of exchange, coming from labor. Whose labor created land? Nobody's.

> Land is not "monopolistic" by nature

Completely false. By definition, if you own a plot of land, you have a complete monopoly on that location. Nobody else can compete with the price you put on that slice of the Earth. LAND is defined by its non fungibility. A plot of land in the middle of San Francisco is not the same as a plot of land in the middle of Arizona.

> You’ve described land as having inelastic demand but that’s not correct, it’s actually inelastic supply.

You can clearly see how land has an inelastic supply, yet you continue to think of it as capital which can be produced. The demand to exist in a piece of land has everything to do with the rents of the land. If you can make $30,000 more a year in valuable land than worthless land, using the same labor/capital expenditures, the land rents become $30,000 a year. Land values have nothing to do with the cost of production, but with that value of location.
Nice! How's accuracy of produced data?
It's always difficult finding any objectivity when it comes to Musk. People get _so_ ideologically charged when it comes to him, be it pithy hero worship (his replies on X) or obsessive hate-stalking (/r/EnoughMuskSpam) - it seems rare for otherwise smart people to share their honest technical thoughts when it comes to any Musk endeavors.

As described, the author has some reasonable pedantic takes on the loop, but they're drowned out by what's otherwise pretty dull character critiques. I just... don't care how you feel about Elon as an individual. It's not interesting reading. It reminds me a bit of 2000s forum culture when it was difficult for people to explain their critiques on Windows without reaching for the satanic Bill Gates image.

"Teslas are bad cars and I realized this when Elon bought Twitter" has become a pretty table-stakes position amongst my more progressive peers. Am I incorrect in thinking this is a silly way to judge the quality of engineering?
https://archive.ph/0VOka
Yes, I agree the official Scrabble word lists are arbitrary and sometimes downright inexplicable. But assuming you're not trying to win official competitions, you can play with any dictionary you like.
Thank you!

Would love to chat, we've had several customers come over from Algolia and they've seen significant uplift. I can share more if you want to message me at tullie@shaped.ai.

Our pricing is competitive with Algolia's to give you an idea there. We really wanted to get pricing calculator done get before this post but ran out of time. Keep an eye out over the next month for it to come up!
In order to really make a determination though you need to know what the internal resistance characteristics looks like.

18kWh becomes near useless if it can only source enough current to power your TV at any given time. Or to put that another way: 18kWh doesn't do you much good if you can only draw 200W from it at a time.

Given that flow batteries are known for their virtually zero self-discharge, and this project is aiming for a cheap/easy membrane, it seems very likely that internal impedance will kill most use cases here.

Mind you I don't think flow batteries themselves are useless to pursue. It's just that I believe a viable flow battery is almost certainly going to be something that requires complex chemistries and advanced manufacturing. In the same way you can build an open source EV from scratch, but you really wouldn't want to ever take that thing on the street.
Another boring note taking app
Juicing is gaining a lot of legitimacy lately. Not that it’s any better for you at this point but there are a lot of bodybuilders publicly talking about it. Its being normalized pretty rapidly which is a definitely not a good thing.
I had no idea about the Yoko Ono album cover of "Season of Glass" featuring John's bloodied glasses... and I was 8 in 1980!
Invoice OCR with type-safe LLM calls
Don't wiggle out of it; you very clearly implied ProPublica made a false statement about this. You were incorrect.
Fair points, another difficulty up here in Canada and probably in the States as well is that there are shortages of people who can build houses. But that's no excuse for giving up on the problem.

I will also add though that even though it's physically hard to add housing to a place like Manhattan or politically hard to do so in the Bay area, there are tons of mid-sized cities all over the continent with lots of room to grow. With remote work and an army of millennials reaching house-buying-baby-having age all at the same time, there's no reason these cities can't be desirable and cheap places to live.
WHO to scrap weak PFAS drinking water guidelines after alleged corruption
The city of Houston seems to be doing exceptionally well[1] at combatting homelessness, and it turns out the answer all along was to let people build housing pretty much wherever and however they want.

https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/houston-progress-homelessn....
Not to mention that the Python packaging tutorial was missing a few bits, at least as of earlier this year: https://daveon.design/introducing-fontimize-subset-fonts-to-...
Curious. Would an SIDM model match any of the existing candidates (like axions, primordial black holes, white holes... etc.) that haven't already been ruled out?

IIRC most, if not all WIMP models have been ruled out (or are at least extremely unlikely).
I remember when I was making music. It was really fun and engaging. Then I learned about microcontroller projects for making my own synthesizer. It was fun and it took me two years to build my synth. At the end of it I had not made music for long enough to have lost the knack, and I was sick of even learning how to use the synth because I was worried I would have to debug it. So I just didn't make music ever again. Why consume yourself with some sub project that goes nowhere?
I've had two projects that end up being "oops, I made an interpreter".

It starts innocently enough, you just have a JSON that has some basic functionality. Then you decide it would be cool to nest functionality because there's no reason not to, so you build a recursive parser. Then you think it'd be neat to be able to add some arguments to the recursive stuff, because then you can more easily parameterize the JSON. Then you realize it might be nice to assign names to these things as you call them, you implement that, and now you're treating JSON as an AST and you're stuck with maintaining an interpreter, and life is pain.
This shows the difference between being "bright" and being "logical". Or being "wise" vs "intelligent".

Being very good at an arbitary specific game isn't the same as being smart. Prrendit that the universe is the same as your game is not wise.
> all the AI hype aside, are mind-blowingly effective at practical tasks like this.

Thank you. Most of the hate toward LLMs seem to focus on their not being even a little oracular, with little value placed on how much of an incredible tool they are for natural language manipulation in general as in this fine story. Our new pal is not very godlike but still very nice to have around.
RubyGateway: Embed Ruby in Swift
I would definitely be interested in this as well
That is a straw man. The purpose was to show just how deep the rabbithole goes.

Successfully banning emergent phenomena is generally much harder than someone colluding.

Now asking to prove they “can’t” be regulated is a loaded question. You CAN engage in all kinds of foolish and futile things (witness the war on drugs, for instance, or Prohibition in USA). You can show people you’re “doing something” but in reality nothing much ever changes, after an initial improvement.

Because you can’t win that war against human nature.

Here, tell me how you can make sure banks lend to the people who need the money first, before the people who have better credit.

Tell me how we through regulations can stop investors colluding and investing in the same startups and piling on to the same stocks.

Did you even read my own article? I spoke about GameStop and AMC, and many examples besides that.
Im pretty sure the government employees working on Apollo were mostly already there before the program or stayed there afterwards, so their tenure was probably much longer than 3.6 years. And a lot of work on Apollo was done by contractors (for example building basically all flight hardware as far as I know).
To produce scientific work, one needs to follow the scientific method. This involves stating a hypothesis, designing an experiment that would test this hypothesis, conducting the experiment with controls, and analyzing the data w.r.t to the hypothesis being tested.

Access to past works is only useful in informing what is a good hypothesis worth testing. And data is only useful when generated by an experiment that is testing for causality (see [1]).

[1] https://pyimagesearch.com/2023/11/27/a-brief-introduction-to...
Self made rich people are also notoriously overworked and under constant stress.

It’s like, an artificial, unnecessary, self-induced constant stress.

But I don’t think the human body can really tell the difference.
Browsing Instagram to Find Former Australian Prime Minister Passport ID
This is why I mentioned 'reliable'. People love to whine about how extreme they perceive Musk to be, but SpaceX has continued to be as reliable as ever and hasn't shown any of the urges conspiracy theorists love to imagine they will have.
Definitely. Nobody likes a greedy landlord. Let's flood the market with housing and destroy them.
Even Pascal is closer to C than C++ is, yet historically people use this term implying they are very close.
Before that it was radial keratotomy which my Mom had. Maybe it is apocryphal but she told me they discovered it when a Russian someone got exploded glass in their eye and it improved their vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_keratotomy
In theory, AVIF supports palette-based blocks, so it can express perfectly sharp edges and even transcode a GIF with perfect accuracy. In practice these modes are not used.

A blurry alpha channel is just having soft edges. A naive encoder will cause some of the previously transparent background bleed into visible pixels, usually causing darkened halos around the edges. This is a common problem in video game assets, and the fixes are the same: either bleed color around the edges (make transparent pixels have the right RGB values), or use premultiplied alpha color space. AVIF (also in theory) supports marking images as having premultiplied alpha.
I really hope that Julia catches on. It feels like it solves a lot of pain points Python programmers have, while still being Data Science focused. It just needs to continue to grow its ecosystem
Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices