skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's just me but I expected these links to open in the recently established apple maps web page. However, on an Android phone, Google Maps opens.
If you’re not talking about day and night, summer winter cycles, then the sun’s behavior is the inverse of the union of clouds and pollution.

Do you know why microinverters exist? They exist because panels next to each other can see different light, and without the micro inverter the entire chain produces no power at all if one of the panels in series is generating no power. So we use microinverters to rescue power stranded by trees, debris, or partial cloud cover.
yeah, i'd think the way to write this page would be to lead off with how exactly it's similar to and different from libreoffice calc or some other spreadsheet people are familiar with. instead they explain the similarities as if it's 01977 and the audience has never used a spreadsheet. if there are differences, i gave up on reading before i got to them
If this wasn't mandated by law, this would inevitably create a market for devices and tweaks that didn't support this (mis)feature.

Older devices, jailbroken iPhones, rooted Androids or just straight up Chinese knock-offs would be a lot more desirable in such a world, and Tiktok would make sure that the smart kids knew how to break their devices themselves. The not-so-smart ones would inevitably have smarter buddies willing to do them a favor in exchange for a few bucks.

You'd also have to be extra careful to prevent misconfigured beacons and overzealous school administrators from interfering with the phones of neighbors, staff, those who have an exception, or even random passers by.
Yeah, I thought that was a rather strange argument too. I mean, there have been occasions when I’ve spent more time pontificating over the naming conventions inside a function than I have writing that function. But that’s been long lasting functions that needed to be easy for others to read. Calling the lack of variable naming “feature” is just weird.
The own the prestigious journal names, you can trivially do what they do, but you lack the prestige.
They are using a service called Article Galaxy, which is just a proxy that pays for per-article access when individual users request it. MIT Libraries get the bill from Article Galaxy.

The article states that MIT pays $300,000 annually for individual request fees, far less than the prior contract amount.
I suppose black people just have a full body tan for the evolved aesthetic?

You're going to have to provide some evidence if you're suggesting a tan has no protective effect against sun damage.
To be honest I did read the first few paragraphs and then went looking for info about the Dallas High Five as I don't think I've even been on anything taller than ~three levels— the major highway near me is the 401 and I believe it is mostly cloverleafs other than the junction with 410 and 403, so I'm much more used to that arrangement.
> "I acted in a way that displeased my owner, next time I will not act that way"

This kind of conditioning can take place without any mental reflection--we know this because humans can be conditioned this way without even being consciously aware of it.

This is not to say that the dog is unaware of having displeased their owner (which, as another poster pointed out, is in itself a form of mental reflection, although, as I responded, a very rudimentary one). It's just to say that the dog can be conditioned by this experience to not act that way next time, without being aware of it and without doing any mental reflection.
Thinking about becoming a tattooless villain.
> The average content creator isn't going to benefit..

A couple of months ago, when the news about "Reddit to sell its user-generated content to Google," a redditor asks the community to start generating false comments so the data would be of bad quality to train the models on. They start brainstorming some very funny comments that go something like: "Blue Whale is the largest fish", "WW II started in 1943", You name it..
> The real blocker to building more housing is overbearing local codes.

Isn't that the new plan? I'm not partisan on this, I understand that some Americans didn't like the fact that it remove local power do forbid new construction.

Centralisation/decentralization is a complex issue and I don't have the knowledge to have an informed opinion.
It’s fantastic to see new tools or kits for Swift that are recent, actively maintained, and doing genuinely interesting things.

As “just saw it, thanks for sharing” feedback, I’m curious about whether this could simplify building and handling DSLs directly in Swift, especially for OS projects making leveraging commercial LLMs with agents, functions, and structured data easier for end users.

The ability to define grammar rules and automate parse tree translation in Swift should make managing structured inputs and outputs easier—key for ensuring LLM interaction reliability (staying on point and interoperable).

Your current approach looks promising for starting to handle basic DSLs and providing feedback to users in their editing tools, along with structured data, though I’d have to dig in see how it scales with more complex grammars, and have ‘starred’ your repo to watch for updates around error reporting and editing support.
You guys cold call?

Just kidding. I'm not YC -- I bootstrapped. But never did cold calls.
I love the idea of Rye/uv/PyBi on managing the interpreter, but I get queasy that they are not official Python builds. Probably no issue, but it only takes one subtle bug to ruin my day.

Plus the supply chain potential attack. I know official Python releases are as good as I can expect of a free open source project. While the third party Python distribution is probably being built in Nebraska.
I pose a better question to pose.

Why can't we invent a method to consume carbs that is healthy. Everyone in the health community tells me carbs are unhealthy, and they spike blood sugar and make you gain weight. Its shocking despite how bad obesity is, we have very limited options of treatment. I'm following some second stage clinical trials for medication in hopes they get approved, because research shows that the major difficulty is not only losing weight but keeping it off.
US universities could create enough pressure on Elsevier to make them seriously reconsider their practices.
New Phi-3.5 Models from Microsoft, including new MoE
Mini:
https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Large MoE with impressive benchmarks:
https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

Vision:
https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
Couldn't alt-text be used to address accessibility?

Web scrapping shouldn't be a requirement of personal banking websites. Am I missing something here?
Automatically rendered link previews also play nicely into this.
Yes, could. Doesn't mean it must.

Your use of the word rudimentary implies some sort of spectrum, that makes sense to me.
Dang writes:

> about Dropbox's YC application (which is what the word "app" meant back then)

But Drew Houston himself writes in the reply "most apps are written as if the disk was local". So the word "app" could definitely mean a program running on your computer as well.
I haven't found any music recommendations services that really find what I'm looking for. What I'm looking for is usually something without high pitched noises, rythmic and a bit of novelty based on old patterns. I've tried my playlist on both Spotify, apple and YouTube music but they only find a new song I like 1 in 10 Times.
Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror
Yeah, we're technically talking about the same thing - just a different way of thinking about it.

When I was learning retro game dev (mostly Game Boy), I found fixed point very intimidating. Reading stuff like "the player will move at 1.5 pixels per frame, and to store the decimal point we'll use this special format where certain bits represent the fractional part and certain bits represent the integer part" scared the heck out of me when I was still, like, coming to grips with binary representations at all.

Whereas "the player will move at 3 half-pixels per frame" is just a really straightforward conceptualization. The data representation is the same, the code to convert from half-pixels to pixels is the same, but one way of understanding it feels very technical and abstract.

Especially when working in assembly language (like I was), where you don't really have any kind of typing mechanism, it never really made sense to build a fixed-point data type abstraction.

And, to be clear, I'm not trying to give you, specifically, any guff for this; it's as fine an article on fixed-point that there is.
I think all the talk about channel permissions is making the discussion more confusing than it needs to be. The gist of it is:

User A searches for something using Slack AI.

User B had previously injected a message asking the AI to return a malicious link when that term was searched.

AI returns malicious link to user A, who clicks on it.

Of course you could have achieved the same result using some other social engineering vector, but LLMs have cranked this whole experience up to 11.
I go to campsites and wilderness areas where dogs are allowed off leash. It is pretty much the best thing I can do for my dog. She mostly sleeps in the dirt all day after a morning hike when we are camping. I have a radio collar and a directional antenna so I can find her if she runs off, but she never has. Even on long backpacking trips she has always been within a few hundred feet. Obviously, make sure your dog's temperament is correct for the situation, but camping and hiking with a dog off leash is a joy.
> Right now a house is a much much much larger liability than it has ever been
> how so?

* far less job stability -- you don't get a gig for life, or at least 20 years like Grandpa did, and Dad could at least ride the boom and growth cycles of the 90s and 2000s

* housing costs a lot more, and even if you can afford it you're far more apt to be fired, which makes it risky to stick your neck out

* no safety nets, and brutal conditions in the job market mean if you catch an axe then you're out of luck -- that house is now a big ole liability
Were these streamers offered more than a $60-70 game key to self-censor? Why would anyone agree to such a thing for so little?
> wondering if I'm really getting the best prices

Curious why you assume you were getting the best price before?
What makes you think we're in the later stages of the battery S-curve currently? More generally technology-wise, what makes you think energy technology in general is an S-curve? Many situations are stacked S-curves. Global energy consumption, for example, looks like an exponential (no flattening yet) [1] if you plot it starting 1800.

Also, the start of an S-curve can be described by an exponential function, right? So it is an exponential.

My point more generally was to not underestimate processes which increase exponentially. Even if they flatten at some point, they can drastically change the world and fast. For example, iPhones and computer chips took off slowly, but once they started moving they took over the world. (Or do you not have multiple smartphones and computer chips in your house right now?)

And yes your point that it's all an s-curve is theoretically correct. But I think it's a semantic discussion. Next time I'll say "never underestimate the first half of an S-curve."

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption
Yeah but we could just not do it that way is the issue. We actually can build systems that affect and restrain human behavior in ways positive for people. Murder is a part of human nature, but we put a lot of work into preventing it to a large degree of success.
> During negotiations with Elsevier in 2020, MIT presented its principles to the publisher’s representatives as the basis for new contract negotiations. Once it was clear that the company would not agree to advancing MIT’s principles outlined in the Framework (such as allowing all authors to retain their copyright), the Libraries made the decision not to renew its contract, effective that July.

> In 2022, Elsevier approached MIT with a request to re-engage in contract discussions. This time, Bourg was joined by an MIT contracts attorney in the negotiation, and once again, the Libraries’ asks were based on the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts. MIT requested an outlining of the goods and services they would be paying for, some means of using the MIT contract to advance equity in the scholarly communications system, and a contract that allowed all MIT authors (including non-corresponding authors) to have their articles openly available in a repository without an embargo. However, the company returned to MIT with its standard read and publish contract proposal, and MIT once again decided to remain out of contract.

This is such a glorious example of disenshittify or die [0]. Elsevier keeps pretending it has the upper hand to force itself on institutions, but the less institutions play their game, the more obvious it becomes that nothing of value was lost.

[0] https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/#how-abou...
One close to where I grew up with its own page is the Springfield, VA interchange[1][2]. 24 lanes wide at its widest point.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Interchange

2: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/38.791557/-77.175887
"more or less, heavily leaning to less. but, like, kinda in the same ballpark"
Yeah, but the electronic control in 4 speeds was basically replicating the mechanical control of the previous generation. So it was more of an incremental improvement over old tech.

Whereas modern 6+ speed transmissions are very different in design and control.
This is incorrect. Clearly defining tasks not only aids in tracking and reporting but also helps developers stay organized. It promotes transparency and effective communication, especially for remote teams working across different time zones. At all times everyone knows what they are working on.
Any plans for implementing coreference resolution, similar to the FastCoref?
>I mostly see a prisoner longing for freedom.

Honestly, I think the dog would rather have a pack in a family (wife, kids etc.) than a single person to essentially spend the rest of their life with. My dog has so much more energy when the whole family is in the same room.
I’m glad you posted this because I assumed they were using Excel or LibreOffice. Because of the way they’d written that article, it hadn’t even occurred to me they weren’t using a spreadsheet.
It already is: arxiv.org.
As usual:

* Relegate it to an agent: have to trust the agent, have to pay the agent, saves you time.

* DIY: have to spend time, have to have some expertise, saves you money.

A middle ground existed back in the day, too: you could visit a physical office of an airline and buy a physical ticket there, at the cost of some time and the narrow choice, but it saved you some money compared to an agent, and the clerk could provide a limited assistance.
>bus stops would have to be extremely sparse, or else the bus trips would need to be extremely slow.

Way too many transit operators choose extremely slow. Having bus stops every 100m is popular because it offers almost door to door service. But when every single person separately boards it results in the vehicle being stopped 1/3 of its running time! People generally prefer faster bus routes (average 20 MPH) even if it requires them to walk a block to the stop versus a service that stops every block but averages 6 MPH (bicycle speed).

https://humantransit.org/2011/04/basics-walking-distance-to-...
Haha I actually agree – I always prefer them side by side.

We don't have side-by-side diffs yet, but once we do I'll make sure it works here :)
So yes I sympathize that people didn't read the instructions, but I feel that that is partly out of habit that said instructions don't exist. We could work towards a better status quo where the configuration steps are simple, easy to follow, written out, and it's standard practice to just do them and they work.

The IT world seems to be an endless swamp of special cases and things breaking deep in the stack that require very specific, arcane skills from unwritten textbooks.
I'm curious, what kind of work do you do? Does stack overflow slow you down?
Ask HN: Can I securely lock down my AWS instances and AMIs I distribute?
I am planning to teach a 10-part course where others will learn how to open a business, get AWS credits and host our open-source software platform on AWS in their own account, and generate revenue for services such as hosting and supporting community software, community moderation, translation, event organizing, promotion, photography, matchmaking, etc. etc.

By the way, if you'd be interested in joining the course, comment below and let me know. For anyone who's curious, it's described here: https://qbix.com/ecosystem#Current-Ecosystem

Anyway, so I would like to package up the entire solution as an Amazon AMI and put it in their marketplace, with licensing etc.

I don't want the people hosting to be able to SSH in, or even Connect via the Amazon console. This is to ensure security for the end-customer, meaning the database, files and other information on that instance would be physically on an RDS volume connected to that EC2 instance in Amazon's data center, while the account owner would not have access to that RDS volume because presumably it would be encrypted by the EC2 machine.

How to best prevent unauthorized access, what can I guarantee in terms of privacy to our users, even when third parties launch EC2 instances based on our AMI?

I can use sbin/nologin to disable the login shell completely for the root user and the users that will be accessing the files. I envision there being a nologin user which periodically checks various git endpoints (such as github) for new changesets and scripts whose hashes have been crypto signed by at least 2 participants in our ecosystem in charge of auditing the scripts (their private keys are a bit like Certificate Authorities).

The scripts would be executed on the machine, but no one (except with physical access to the machine and its RAM at Amazon's data centers and exceeding their authority) would be able to exfiltrate any private data, without going through our web app.

I can also totally disable the ssh service from running, so people can't ssh into the machine for any user. How do I disable the Amazon Connect console also?

And how can I best ensure whole-disk encryption, or at least partial encryption, by the locked-down EC2 instance on RDS, to prevent exfiltration of the data on it?

Or should I just go with Amazon Aurora and have the password / credentials be generated by the EC2 instance and not be available anywhere else? And store the files as BLOBs in that database?

Can people familiar with Amazon Web Services chime in here? I would like to provide some guarantees to our end-users, the Communities and Members, that their information would be private and not accessible by the other parties (except party 3 below). It looks like this:

1. Qbix (the core developers)
2. Plugins (plugin developers)
3. Hosting (Amazon, Google, etc.)
4. Resellers (customers of Amazon)
provide services to communities
5. Communities (customers of the Resellers)
6. Members (the end-user, pays communities)
I would just like to comment that if you love animals, you should hate pets. The amount of animal factory farming (killing of animals often more intelligent than your canine) required to nourish a domesticated animal over the course of their lives is gross in all senses of the word gross.
Long-term Emacs user here: I actually just switched entirely to Zed.
I've thought of it as more of a they didn't have money to license at first, then the models got decent enough for them to charge for use, now they are trying to avoid getting the models shut down for violations by making deals. Too bad only the large players that got scraped will have these deals made while the smaller players are left without
Aren't they the same team?
Not convincing. We are fighting it, so wondering if there is anyone who tried all the options but gave up at the end eventually.
Frontage roads force a design decision. Texas likes to run the frontage roads through the interchange ramps. California generally displaces the freeway about 200m from major surface roads to avoid running the surface street through the ramps. CA-92 at US-101 does that.

When too many layers are needed, CALTRANS often goes for a tunnel underneath. See CA-92 at I-280, and SF's 19th Avenue at I-280.

At US-101 and I-280 in San Francisco, a frontage road does go through the ramps.
The interchange was spread out horizontally to avoid piling up all the levels.
Are you suggesting that OpenAI made a deal that will mean Googs/MS/others will now not be able to license the same content?
Alternatively, if you love animals, you should also love pets but not necessarily have one or support the concept.
what they say is less important than what they do
A Nation of Workaholics Has a New Fixation: Working Less
Fine tuning is most often performed by training a LoRA. It's almost certainly what OAI are doing, as they can inference many lightweight LoRA in parallel atop the same foundation model.
Perhaps her life is so unpredictable that she might need that $900 next month, and would regret having committed it to the phone purchase.
At https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/modiv/programs/intersta/docs/interc... I see the short comment

> At service interchanges it is desirable to design the interchanges with the crossroad above the freeway due to:

> - The crossroad above the freeway results in longer sight distances to the exit ramp and gore area.

> - The crossroad above the freeway allows gravity to assist the operation of both accelerating vehicles (the on-ramp has a down-grade) and decelerating vehicles (the off-ramp has an up-grade). In addition, the resulting grades generally provide longer sight distances.

But that's the main thing I can find right now.
That's a good point, thanks.

My understanding is that work exposes nearly the full tree-sitter runtime API, but relies on tree-sitter's standard tech for converting javascript grammar specifications to separately compiled C code.

This work instead exposes a minimal subset of tree-sitter functionality, but enables defining parsers entirely in Swift -- eliminating the need for javascript and mixed-language targets, and streamlining the build process.
Terminal.shop codebase is open source
we sell coffee entirely over ssh - lot of people asked about the codebase when this was originally posted back in april and we've officially open sourced it
>That's 1½-2½ commuter rail lines or about 3-4 subway lines.

Assuming every single commuter is coming from and going to the same place, sure.
Someone unleashed some sort of AI on UberEats the other day apparently, because I was looking for Chinese food and found entire menus filled with nonsensical descriptions. Did you know that Dan Dan noodles, Orange Chicken, and Mei Fun noodles are all made with wonton wrappers and cream cheese? Me neither!
You must have skimmed over the "graphic animations" too which implies the source video from which the text was just transcribed
In Germany, fax is still going strong, and it's unavoidable in certain industries.

RSS is also worth a mention.
As a humorous reference I recommend to watch this rather old tv commercial: https://youtu.be/ExnWRuniooY?feature=shared