skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In places where Geothermal is cheaper than this you will in fact see a lot of Geothermal wells. Geothermal works great in geologically active regions. This option works best in geologically inactive regions. The two options complement each other in my opinion.
Happy to have agreement that this goes beyond "traditional linear algebra".

But, pedagogical treatment is a separate question from what is linear algebra.

Should these all be the same wikipedia page?

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterior_algebra

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilinear_algebra

- https://www.georgehart.com/research/multanal.html (okay, not mainstream enough to have a relevant page, but it is extremely relevant in any engineering practice of linear algebra)
If it feels bad it may contain trace amounts of truth. If it feels bad all of the time for everyone, but puts food on all tables,regardless of beliefsystem,its actually science
Why not apply to YC with the concept of letting AI launch an AI startup? AI should know best what's needed for success...;'p
it amazes me how everybody accepted evals in database queries and think its a good thing with no downsides.
Do you reference that quote to imply that Caltech has somehow become diminished?

What is the intent of your comment?
The overall gender imbalance in American higher education is now just as bad as when Title IX was first implemented, only in the opposite direction.

What's interesting is this is deliberately excluded from many metrics of gender inequality, eg the UN defines inequality as "fewer women in college than men" so even 100% women and 0% men would be graded as "more equal" than 51% men and 49% women. Pretty Orwellian.
Not really, it is using Mast3r to determine camera poses.
The historical distinction between coder and programmer
Calling for beta users – an app that protects your focus
Hey HN! I'm Danny, and I’ve been an entrepreneur for a few months. As my product is not live yet so I would make a regular post instead

Living in a world where billions of dollars are spent on stealing your attention, I am well aware of my reduced focus muscle and ability to get distracted easily during work. That's why I picked this problem to solve and tried it as a startup idea. After working with current beta users, I've put together this version (https://productiv.digital/) and want to ask for valuable feedback by posting for more beta users.

So shortly, to train your focus muscle, my approach is to (1) eliminate the source of distraction and (2) let your brain know what's coming next (or else it will actively crave distraction). Ultimately, I want to make “something” that could go along with users - like their own companion that progressively trains users’ brains to lower dopamine baseline and achieve more by quality time. Having said that, so far this app will:
- App blocker: block unwanted apps/sites, create personalized messages for yourself at the block wall, increasingly delaying time to unblock
- Plan your daily day effectively fast (Sunsama-like): you cannot focus if you don’t have a purpose to do so. Just write down what's in your mind (Like Todoist or TickTick),
- Smart scheduling: schedule your day via one-click, it will also suggest a new schedule if unplanned event slots in (new meeting for example)
- Check-in reminder to check messages and emails: So focus mode is great, but the problem is that it amplifies FOMO in our minds. The app will remind you regularly to check during your focus flow
- (in progress) capture your day accurately, weekly analytics to learn how you spent your day

I'm looking for a new batch of beta users where you can give us feedback while using for free and receive a lifetime deal in return. If this is within your interest, click “try for free” button in the website and leave your contact. Looking forward to all the ideas/feedback to cover my blindspot as well. Appreciate every comment to make it happen. Thanks guys!
Ah, you’re one of those people who don’t understand that people actually do want to receive marketing emails.
You've already made the sacrifice then.
> without being exceptionally wealthy, or even ramen profitable

Correction: without SEEMING exceptionally wealthy or even ramen profitable. By, say, kneecapping your own profit. So that you don't pay as much taxes. Which is the entire problem we're trying to solve.

In practice, these people ARE wealthy. Just perhaps not on paper (depending the paper you look at). Of course when you observe their life, they are obviously filthy rich.

So we have an accounting problem. The papers don't accurately reflect the reality.
> A user's "home page"

We'd (sadly) call that Facebook nowadays.-
Homeland Security Admits Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump (2022)
I think it depends on the project. There is nothing about going to MIT that makes me think you know anything about k8s, openai's API, or running a startup. I would prefer to see what actual work experience the team has(founded company x, veteran PM at FAANG, etc). If they have no experience I wanna see existing customers. If they have none of that I would focus on the product, as this is like a teenager listing their chores as work experience.
> Because of significant government intervention.

Interest rates have been negative for nearly 2 decades. What significant government intervention has there been to keep inflation low?

Personally I don't know why they didn't just raise the minimum wage.
She sells really nice prints of her icons in case you are interested in that: https://kareprints.com
Caltech didn't even admit women until 1970.
Interesting recent blog suggesting that salt consumption and blood pressure are uncorrelated [0].

0. https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2024/08/23/crazy-but-like...
No we're not, since we are smart enough to realize what sort of person you would need to be and what it would cost you in one's actual life (TM) to even have a chance to get there. And most folks here are not high functioning sociopaths to start with.

Upper middle class its where highest quality of life happens, if one is smart enough to understand how happiness and life fulfillment works, to not die full of hard regrets. You can have meaningful true friendships. Enough to afford whatever is you need or desire to do, not enough to become self-entitled spoiled lazy disconnected from reality piece of shit parent and partner type of folks. No you don't need private jet or mega yacht or 5 mil hypercar for that, that's poor man's idea of what sort of quality wealth brings you in life.
Author here, we have adopted this approach as a fast path to box64: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/pull/1763, thank you very much!
This is not new. In the UK, premium grocery cooperative Waitrose had a bar made with sugar from the pulp:

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/no1-whole-fruit-choco...
The prompt is kv-cached, it's precomputed.
I see, interesting. Hadn't come upon this use-case before but makes sense.

I've made a GitHub issue for this feature: https://github.com/pretzelai/pretzelai/issues/142

If you'd like to be updated when we have this feature in, please leave a comment on the issue. Alternatively, my email is in my bio - feel free to email me so that when we have this feature, we can send you an update!
One question being: are people leaving SO because they are using AI, or are they using AI because they are fed up with SO?

I would guess probably a mix of both?
I was curious if Guix was less militant about putting its store in "/" than its Nix friend and while surfing around the Guix wiki I found a link to an external wiki which discussed GuixSD (System Distribution) on WSL https://github.com/SystemCrafters/wiki-site/blob/64fc7f0aaec... mentioning a lot of /var/guix so I have high hopes

However, a thread from a few years ago seems to imply that I have the wrong mental model of GuixSD and it's not "homebrew but in Guile" rather it's "GNU software all the way down" and since glibc doesn't build on macOS (according to that thread), Nix allegedly sidesteps this by making some of its packages impure and linking to libSystem https://guix-devel.gnu.narkive.com/BnGNBXUh/guix-on-macos#po...

I was happy to see that folks in that thread got GuixSD working for docker images, so that can still be a win, but my current heartburn is not building docker images so I am not the target audience for that
> I do not know if there is a clean, ethical way to "run the social media"

Darn, I guess we will have to shut down social media since it cannot be run ethically. A tough loss for the world..
It's only doomed to fail because we have a strong Supreme Court. All the efforts by the Democrats to undermine this will only make things easier for fascists to take over the US.
Makes sense, that's kind of what I figured, but it's nice to get a confirmation. Good luck!
The USA has been doing that since the 1970's as land preservation.
Lack of a common language must be a factor in scaling - the amount of effort printing required information in different languages is already an overhead (e..g instructions on medications).

Also in the US, somebody in California can give telephone support to somebody in Rhode Island; not so easy to get somebody in Sweden to give telephone support to somebody in Italy though.
Why does it need augmenting?

If a bland list of facts is your report, this should be what is admitted in evidence. Reports don't need to be fancy.
Yeah something like GitHub pages is serverless.
Add to that, all the hype on file systems as well with BeOS FS or WinFS ( I had too look up the name of the abandoned Vista FS, I am almost sure it had another name), plenty of new FS were created during that era as well.

File management was a key activity at that time.
The challenge is trying to determine who’s legitimately trying to question the science vs who’s a crank.
> I think configuration management systems like mgmt (or Ansible and Puppet) are here to stay.

I think so too, however "mgmt config" builds a lot of radical new primitives that Ansible and Puppet don't have. It's been negative for my "PR" to classify it as "config management" because people assume I'm building a "Puppet clone", but I really see it as that space, it's just that those legacy tools never delivered on the idea that I thought they should have correctly.
they’re simply statistical systems predicting the likeliest next words in a sentence

They are far from "simply", as for that "miracle" to happen (we still don't understand why this approach works so well I think as we don't really understand the model data) they have a HUGE amount relationships processed in their data, and AFAIK for each token ALL the available relationships need to be processed, so the importance of a huge memory speed and bandwidth.

And I fail to see why our human brains couldn't be doing something very, very similar with our language capability.

So beware of what we are calling a "simple" phenomenon...
Some people's goal in life is to make money so that they can do nothing. Other people get pleasure from accomplishing things. I can't imagine doing something and not wanting to get better at it. What's the point? What's the point to life if you just earn money eat and drink? Seems shallow and useless.
The real is extremely mysterious though.

We are just a clump of matter floating through space with some crude detection devices equipped so we can tell when electromagnetic waves hit us.
If the brain is just forcing all this input into some kind of reality, with illusions like the flow of time to attempt to predict the constant change/entropy going on around it, then couldn't drugs expand that capacity?

In other words, if time is just perception of changing states in the universe, and there is no past/present/future, just states, then we aren't really experiencing a "present", but an illusion created by using patterns from past state changes. In that case if drugs expanded that pattern detection then you could start altering your "present" much more powerfully, e.g. vividly replaying past states, or perceiving state changes that you would normally filter out, like a conversation someone is having across the street.

Sorry also I can't really express this correctly and it also may be total nonsense!
The practical arguments in favor of nuclear seem to assume that new nuclear technology only needs to compete with old nuclear technology.

Let's set aside the safety argument. They're claiming $0.46 per kilowatt-hour for a technology they haven't developed yet. I believe that's about an order of magnitude more expensive than what wind can do right now. Heck, right now my local utility's website is reporting a retail spot price of seven cents per kilowatt-hour. Maybe paying six times as much is worthwhile for the reduced carbon footprint relative to fossil fuels, but if that's the argument then just say that rather than weakening your position by calling it "cheap" when it's easy to see that it isn't.
each successive generation shouldn't have to endure more and more hardship to achieve the same standard of living, especially if it's due to previous generations imposing regulatory barriers
Yes, make some progress if possible, however little, but stop if it's not working! (And let others know as appropriate, indeed.)
Note that this is for apartments - smoking inside an apartment can easily spread to other units. I live next to a neighbor who smokes, and as a former smoker I don't feel I can complain that much, but there is often a persistent smell of smoke in my home.
I am halfway through an online degree in ICT. We had a Instructional Design course that went over the differences. There is a textbook that has a chapter on it called Trends in Instructional Design but it is pricey. My position is adult learning works better online to reorganize cognitive schemas but children benefit from social learning theory. It is something like 1-5% complete MOOCs, they really need some kind of personal feedback. But generative AI may change this too. Look at Math Academy for example (Skycak has a book about it) (and they don't use gen AI for the tutoring either). https://www.justinmath.com/books/
> just give tax credits

On what? The EU doesn't levy any taxes and has no authority to.

The reason they're paying with grants is because that's what they've got.
They’re making it impossible to continue to use a product their customers already paid for. How is that not stealing?
That's my main argument against realtors too -- at first blush they look to have aligned incentives, but the vastly different scales and workloads tend to push realtors into trying to get you to sell for a lower than optimal price.
>Little differences can have hugely significant consequences. And sometimes the difference is just luck, but still the same huge consequences.

Those differences compound too with one success leading to further success.
I'm hiring for a company that is building a tech stack of VM's. My username at mastodon or twitter has the details, and it's about working with https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/
There was this post from Scott Alexander which I can't find. The gist of it is that some drugs like caffeine and LSD made the brain overvalue patterns and connections, so that epiphanies that honestly aren't.

I can't find it, and I remember that it was just the author's educated guess. Nonetheless it stuck with me.
Farm land conservation in the face of climate change is a good thing the USA has been doing it for generations. Depleting the land just because you can is a bad idea.
i feel like we've been in a "post-work/value" fugue state for at least 10 years. this another symptom of it. the ones who built the gig work companies and zero hour contracts are now themselves being chewed up and spat out. self cannibalizing.

only positive, if more affluent people lose their jobs we might finally get UBI.

i was lucky to catch the tail-end of the opportunity golden period (1995-2007) which enabled me to have a decent career.
Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle
> can work wherever there's a big enough positive temperature anomaly in the ground

And is that in as many places as you can dig a mile down? IS the temperature delta in those places on the same order of magnitude as when magma chambers are tapped? If not, gigawatt scale plants would take even more space, no?
(I'm a Chinese and a software engineer, so it's my obviously-biased 2 cents)

Based on my observation of fellow Chinese software engineers' average knowledge and skills about cyber security, as well as the absolute absent of security considerations of most "SOHO network devices" in China, I would rather apply Hanlon's razor and say that it's not the Chinese attackers, but it's Chinese botnet.

As you may already know, Chinese users and software engineers generally does not care about personal privacy and hence also cyber security, so the entire industry is rather undeveloped.
Building Bubbletea Programs
What accelerates brain ageing? This AI 'brain clock' points to answers
Honestly both read about the same to me, and I'm largely unfamiliar with Clojure. The main difference appears to be the 3 `str` callouts, which appear extraneous as the following version works just the same:

(defn color [word letter idx]
(cond
(= (nth word idx) letter) :green
(str/includes? word letter) :yellow
:else :gray))

Interesting that even with the `str` callouts removed, the function still appears to work on other datatypes such as:

(def s (seq ("test1"))

A lazy sequence, but one Clojure still allows to be indexed over in O(1) time. That's probably what the `str` conversion was trying to speed up.

Python, meanwhile, fails on lazy input as it isn't indexable.

word = (c for c in "test1")

I guess I'll be checking out Clojure this weekend.
Yeah I don't see this as that crazy. My entire apartment complex (albeit in Oregon, not California) is smoke-free and the smokers have to go out to the sidewalk to do it.
In my opinion, the biggest problem with fossil fuel extraction is that it is slowly destroying our biosphere.
I mean, sure, if you ignore the rest, you might be left with the idea that video games were all we got out of the past fifty years.

Not that it's a competition. The era between 1924 and 1974 being a big one for splashy technological advancements doesn't negate that there have been advancements or not trying very hard in the half century that followed.
It is unreasonable for the software vendor to impose the task of converting a large mass of files (one by one!) on the users, especially within such a limited time frame. Most users have hundreds, thousands, or more such files to go through. As things stand, a very large amount of music is certain to become lost. A freeware convertor would obviate this particular concern. Very easy to implement, too; just don't disable the export and print functionality anymore in the main application after the "evaluation period" expires.
Elbrus is/was RISC?-V?
Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing progress of personal projects?
People build cool stuff (not only with code) and it would be great to have some kind of "social media" platform where you can share posts with updates on the process, be discovered, discover others.

What obstacles you are facing? What solutions you found? That was always interesting for me.

I can't think of any such example. Do you?
Would this question ever have worked the other way?
Title sounds like it's a live startup made of ex-Apple employees, rather than the reality, which is it's an ex-startup that got acquired by Apple.

Suggest title of: "Eazel, ex-startup, acquired by Apple (2001)"
A simple statistical system based on a lot of data can arguably still be called a simple statistical system (because the system as such is not complex).
Clear case of "fix it in post": https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FixItInPost
OT, but I was at a playground with the kids over the weekend and they were playing in a section that was all sand. While we were playing it struck me that there were no cigarette butts anywhere in sight. As a kid there were cigarette butts everywhere--you'd always have to scoop around them when you were playing in the sand and they'd be littered around the edges of the grass, walkways, etc.

Really made me think of how different it is today and how out of place smoking around children is.
I feel an exchange tax that included loans would probably be a much better approach. Taxing seated/parked assets, especially on the very wealthy seems like a recipe for disaster. So you have to sell, or leverage the property to pay taxes. What would trying to sell billions in stock at once, or leverage hundreds of thousands of rental properties look like to the larger economy, and what would the effect be? Also, who is going to be able to even buy the stuff, if everyone with enough money/credit is scrambling to make huge tax layouts. Will you be able to deduct the interest on loans taken out to pay these taxes?

It's not like the money is just sitting, liquid in a vault like Scrooge McDuck.
Have humans fundamentally changed since 50 years ago?

Was there something fundamentally wrong with women 50 years ago that we "fixed"?
naive. free market shows what generates revenue.
In Pavel's interview with Tucker Carlson, he mentions how he (VK) met with Zuckerberg, and he told them new features they were planning. And Zuck nicked them all.

Zuck is on a major PR campaign drive, I would not trust a word he says.
25% is a completely arbitrary number and context dependent. I can guarantee you can find many communities that have majority views that you find abhorrent and would not want to be a part of your community discourse. The problem is that social media gives the illusion of a broad town square where all opinions are heard, but that is not what happened. Everyone on social media is filtered into silos based on what the algorithms predict they will find engaging. In such an environment, it is not hard at all for malicious actors to propagate incendiary lies and exaggerations that metastasize into political beliefs. A fringe belief can easily become mainstream if it is amplified unchallenged, which is exactly what happens every day on social media.
Everyone was crapping on Germany for closing down Nuclear.

But, could it be that Germany is just good at making a decision and actually putting resources towards achieving the goal of the decision, and moving beyond Coal and Nuclear?
Was curious what types of observations they'd do with this and found this site: https://www.universetoday.com/168209/the-big-fringe-telescop...

From there:
Dr. van Belle continues, “Observations of binary star systems let us determine the masses because of their orbital motion around each other, and BFT adds extra value by then directly measuring the radii of those stars. Resolved exoplanet transits is going to be the wicked cool one. We will be able to see the resolved disk of another world as it passes in front of its host star. This sort of thing will be good for further characterization of exoplanets, as well as searches for exomoons. There’s a bunch of other BFT science that isn’t part of the core ‘marquee’ cases – many hundreds of different types of stars that we’ll be able to make pictures of and see how those pictures change over time.”
I think you mean 'autological'.
> All told it's a slightly better investment than S&P 500 index funds, but resistant to downturns

This is incredibly bad for society. Investing in businesses that hire people and make goods and services should never be disadvantaged relative to hoarding a plot of land, and it is the folly of the anglosphere that we've allowed land hoarders to siphon so much money from people doing actually productive things.
> what is even meant by "western education" here?

IQ tests how good of a computer you are.