skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s much better with renewables yes! In the freeze of the Oslo winter it’s a bit hard to capture enough sunlight to heat all the housing we have here. There’s not much wind either.

We have a lot of hydroelectric power, but that’s very dependent on how much it rained in the autumn. We are also starting to build out wind power, but it’s slow going.

We do import a lot of electricity from further south in Europe where there is more wind and solar.

I would love to have solar on my roof. The legislation is super complicated though since I live in an apartment and we would basically have to create our own communal energy company. We would also have to pay taxes on the electricity we produce and use ourselves. It’s somewhat simpler for people that own a house, but I’m not quite rich enough to own a house in Oslo.
Sorry but I am far more skeptical of domestic government agencies making vague claims of interference than I am of ideas being exchanged out in the open. We saw how wrong agencies were on prior accusations of Russian interference and on issues like the lab leak theory. This new effort looks like a way to block access to RT. But then why stop there. What about NPR or BBC or Al Jazeera? These are all state funded news media with influence on our elections. It’s arbitrary suppression of speech and press, nothing more.

Not to mention, interference in speech that helps one candidate - as the article indicates - is direct interference in our political process.

> Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Wednesday announced actions by the Justice Department, including the indictment of two Russian employees of RT, the state-owned broadcaster, who used a company in Tennessee to spread content, and the takedown of a Russian malign influence campaign known as Doppelganger.

> “The American people are entitled to know when a foreign power engages in political activities or seeks to influence public discourse,” Mr. Garland said.

Are they entitled to know that? Why does it matter when a foreign power is involved? Domestic powers interfere in public discourse to a much greater extent - for example tech companies through their vast moderation and censorship schemes, and compliance with the Biden administration’s unconstitutional demands for censorship of speech. Their corruption of elections - for example on controversial topics like BLM or Hunter Biden or COVID - is far worse.

> The actions include sanctions, indictments and seizing of web domains that U.S. officials say the Kremlin uses to spread propaganda and disinformation about Ukraine, which Russia invaded more than two years ago.

There is just as much propaganda and disinformation from the EU and America on this issue. How many of these countries or their news media acknowledge the illegal and unconstitutional coup in Ukraine in 2014, which ousted a pro Russia democratically elected president through force? If you even mention this on places like Reddit you’ll get banned. But the only way to properly evaluate a complex issue like this is to be able to hear all sides. Which is why RT and other sources should be available and not attacked in this way.
Thanks for your question!

Vector databases are typically used for storing embeddings and are great for tasks like similarity search. However, they are generally read-only and don't natively support the concept of time or state transitions. Let's take an example of tracking state of a tasks from your todo list in a vector database:

You might store the task's states like:

Task 1 in backlog
Task 1 in progress
Task 1 in canceled

But there's no concept of "latest state" or memory of how the task evolved over time. You'd have to store multiple versions and manually track changes.

With a memory-enabled system like Mem0, you could track: Task 1 (current state: in progress) with a memory of previous states (backlog, canceled, etc). This gives your AI app more stateful understanding of the world, allowing it to update and reflect the current context automatically.

Traditional databases, on the other hand, are designed for structured, relational data with fixed schemas, like customer information in a table. These are great for handling transactional data but aren't optimal for cases where the data is unstructured.

As mentioned in the post, we use a hybrid datastore approach that handles these cases effectively and that's where the graph aspect comes into picture.
Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive
tmux+vim is the most underrated productivity tool I can think of. There's a learning curve for sure, but I'm immensely glad I invested the time to get in. It's paid off many times over for me.
I liked blink shell and panic prompt. In particular blink shell seemed very Linux-familiar. I switched back to a laptop a bit ago, though (iPad+ssh was a pandemic era fix that ended up surprisingly nice, but I can’t bring my desktop to do ssh over lan, if I want to go to a cafe or something).

I do miss the aspect ratio though.
> There are a few caveats to coding on an iPad.

Well, thanks for being specific...
Identity 101: Authentication and Authorization
Those are pure drawing tools.

*Tools like draw.io, Lucidchart, and Excalidraw excel at creating raw diagrams through drag-and-drop interfaces. However, they often become cumbersome when updates are needed, and their outputs are rarely stored in source control, making versioning and collaboration more difficult. While these tools give you full control over the layout and appearance of the diagrams, they require manual effort each time you make changes.

*Mermaid.js, websequencediagrams, and PlantUML, on the other hand, allow you to generate diagrams from a text description. FizzBee builds on this concept by generating these text descriptions directly from your algorithm specification, then leveraging mermaid.js to render sequence diagrams and Graphviz for other diagram types.

*Where FizzBee truly shines is in its ability to automatically generate diagrams for every significant scenario your system might encounter, not just a single use case. For example, with a two-phase commit protocol:

- The 'happy path' where all participants and the coordinator agree to commit, and everything proceeds smoothly.

- A case where the first participant prepares, but the second one aborts.

- Scenarios where both participants prepare but some messages get dropped.

- A situation where both participants prepare, but the coordinator crashes and restarts—how does the system recover?

These are just a few examples. The ability to generate these scenarios automatically means FizzBee pays for itself very quickly compared to manually drawing sequence diagrams for each possible case.

This is in addition to verifying for correctness or clearer communication benefits.
What’s wrong with a laptop, imho the more ergonomic solution…
If you include a keyboard, you're not going to do much better than a macbook air. A 13" iPad pro with keyboard is actually .3 lbs heavier at 3 lbs than a 13" MBA at 2.7 lbs.

The other issue with an ipad and coding is weight distribution. Tablets are too top heavy to work well in a clamshell setup if that's how you're going to use it.
What do you mean by root and tail nodes?
it's interesting the 4c+ has a Yamaha variant of the chip, probably for the best.

Recent other Mockingboard replicas use AY-3-8193 which turn out to sound awful, especially when trying to play ZX-style chiptune/demoscene music
Tesla and SpaceX both took time before they started generating positive cashflow.
20 years for a hardware startup to get really going isn't unusual. One of the other reasons VC likes SAAS. Hardware startups are cash intensive and slow boils, typically.
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SpaceX Pulls Employees from Brazil, Discourages Travel There
I hope this doesn't bankrupt the Internet Archive (either the legal fees or the case - I don't recall what they're asking for). It would be bad if the Wayback Machine, the biggest internet archivist around, went under, and also all the books, software, et cetera that the Archive hosts. I wonder if there's any way to archive all of the Wayback Machine (82.3 petabytes), or, better yet, all of the Internet Archive (which is, by my count, around 120 petabytes?) Who would have the capability/interest in doing so, ideally without charge?
As remote working keeps rolling, Oyster raises $59M Series D at $1.2B valuation
Setting up a github Codespace allows you to use VSCode inside a browser, and in my limited testing, it worked OK. Wouldn't want to use it full time, though.
Mem0 currently handles outdated or irrelevant memories by:

1. Automatically deprioritizing older memories when new, contradictory information is added.
2. Adjusting memory relevance based on changing contexts.

We're working on improving this system to give developers more control. Future plans include:

1. Time-based decay of unused memories
2. Customizable relevance scoring
3. Manual removal options for obsolete information

These improvements aim to create a more flexible "forgetting" mechanism, allowing AI applications to maintain up-to-date and relevant knowledge bases over time.

We're open to user feedback on how to best implement these features in practical applications.
Social norms don't need to 100% dictate one's behavior, but I agree that they are real and are important.
Once could be a fluke, twice sends an entirely different message.
This is really interesting to me. It could imply that an ugly theorem is less valuable. What if a theorem is ugly but useful vs a beautiful but esoteric one?
Yeah but cows rarely roam free there :)
Oh that's nice! I like to use handwriting fonts for coding, I might try this one.
Amazon bans its drivers from moving their own lips too much at work
They just hate being manipulated.
Every RHEL server we ever provisioned (dev, testing, prod, vm, physical, etc) had it enabled, everyone who blindly disables it is lazy.
There is also an increasing demand for our renewable electricity in the industry and especially with the data centres that are being built because of our cheap electricity.
whenever i'll teach newcomers computing, i will now adopt the approach laid out here. it's easy to forget how painful learning computing is, how much you need to know about the internet to make a single http request and read out it's response. user @simonw talked about this recently on twitter [0][1]

absolute beautiful point about needing a different kind of literacy in the modern age at the end of the video.

i wish, with all my heart, that this and similar projects develop a loving community which will enable other communities to learn computing in an accessible, cheap and memorable way.

[0] https://x.com/simonw/status/1829195655006531661 (original twitter link)

[1] https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01j6z4cj87f5ky3c6ese0thscw (backup because twitter is not the future of computing)
It isn't required for success, either. If Elon Musk was never born, it is likely we'd still have SpaceX and Tesla equivalents, but with a better human being at the helm. A parallel universe also exists where Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle were not founded by raging assholes. The fact that these companies are all run by jerks is a terrible coincidence, but it does not necessarily need to be so.
I would not consider Stripe to be a small business, an enterprise not considering going public (but still providing liquidity to those seeking it) [1]. Do you want to be beholden to public shareholders and potential activist investors if your money printer works without need for them? Perhaps it is more optimal to remain in control vs cashing out and have your control potentially diminished. It is okay to leave money on the table (by not going public in an attempt to maximize gains on shares held through potential public market exuberance) depending on what you are optimizing for.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2024/02/29/payments-stripe-never-go-pu...
I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist
I kinda wonder how much of this is chicken vs egg. Was corporate profit growth only what it was because of long term low interest rates? Or did low interest rates encourage passive investments and low innovation?

Also, the elephant in the room is retirement. Aging populations represent a huge slowdown across the economy - and every year brings the highest percentage of non-working adults humanity has ever seen. For all the ink spilled over innovation and growth and etc this is going to be the real market wrecker.
I'm personally a fan of FP. It offers clear benefits: simplified parallelization, improved testability, and reduced side effects. These advantages often lead to more maintainable and robust code.

However, FP's benefits can be overstated, especially for complex real-world systems. These systems frequently have non-unidirectional dependencies that create challenges in FP. For example, when component A depends on B, but B also depends on a previous state of A, their interrelationship must be hoisted to the edges of the program. This approach reduces races and nondeterministic behavior, but it can make local code harder to understand. As a result, FP's emphasis on granular transformations can increase cognitive load, particularly when dealing with these intricate dependencies.

Effective codebases often blend functional and imperative styles. Imperative code can model circular dependencies and stateful interactions more intuitively. Thus, selectively applying FP techniques within an imperative framework may be more practical than wholesale FP adoption, especially for systems with complex interdependencies.
And those might be the common in SV tech companies, but not as much in the other 99% of the world (and even less so at the time that capsule coffee became popular).

They do seem to be popular in places like coworking spaces and other shared facilities. But then they seem to buy the absolute cheapest bottom barrel beans, probably rarely clean the machines and so on, meaning it still just ends up worse than capsule coffee, or similar at best.
Desktops are irrelevant? Other than a few things does any actual work happen on mobile devices?

I think it would be correct to say that present-day desktops are mature and stable and aren't rapidly changing because they fill a mature niche. Mobile does seem to have decimated the casual computing and much of the non-work-related computing niche, at least for non-technical people.

I wonder if there's an argument to be made that desktops should become more technical and power user oriented since that is now their niche.
They probably do change, but extremely slowly. It would feel strange if there were something fixed in the universe.
This seems like the ultimate strategy, not actually ever planning on releasing a well tested supersonic plane and airline but rather selling the dreams for somebody else to take on a highly risky and niche space.

If nobody else is doing it already that just means very smart people have crunched numbers at those giant corporations and decided against it.

10 years ago I would've been excited but when I see outlandish valuations and startups without relevant experience in the very field they are going after, I assume bad faith
I’m dubious about super intelligence. Maybe I’ve seen one too many sci-fi dystopian films but I guess yes, iif it can be done and be safe sure it’d be worth trillions.
Interesting linguistic aside: "the exception that proves the rule" makes use of this more old fashioned use of prove, to test. So it's the exceptional case that tests the rule.

With that in mind, "prove" is perfectly fine to use in the context of science.
If you want to develop on an iPad, we're building WebForge IDE: a web IDE for iOS.

Rich text editor, run PHP and NodeJS on device, manage Git repos, and view your projects in a built-in browser that includes dev tools.

Check it out! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webforge-ide/id6450872424

EDIT: Web Development IDE, not web-based IDE. Thanks for pointing that out! :)
Its this https://magic.dev/blog/100m-token-context-windows

was discussed here a bit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41393252
AA at least has what you are describing.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/aa-genprof.8
No, proof by contradiction is a logical construction, has nothing to do with the real world. Proof by counter-example could or could not be observation, depending on whether your example comes from observation or from pure logic.
Entrepreneurship changed the way I think
Running it as a PWA is a fun idea, but...

"Terminals are not available in the web editor. Continue in an environment that can run code, like a codespace or VS Code Desktop."

Which makes me want to integrate it with a Linux in the Browser...?

https://geekflare.com/run-linux-from-a-web-browser/
As usual from Microsoft, the answer to the Visual Studio issue is, "Fuck you." Not a surprise, but I'm grateful for the Dolphin devs working through all this.
Were Rich People Fat in the Past?
I interpreted the comment as incredulous that superintelligence is as close as a "couple years" away.
I just feel SELinux would add too much burden to sysadmins. I use CentOS + SELinux in one of my VPS and it's already painful. I've been sysadmin in university labs for some years. I did what I think is reasonable, setup a firewall, limit root access, never trust lab servers to the extent that I forward my SSH agent on it... But I don't want users come to me every time they want to run a custom / proprietary program and I spend time writing and debugging MAC rules.

And I don't agree with the article that containers do not add security. Container runtime implements namespace isolation, seccomp filters, etc. and that reduce the attack surface, comparing to running the software directly on the host OS. More importantly in this discussion, it is convenient for sysadmins.

There is no perfect security anyway. And I don't sacrifice convenience for national security level security :)
> It could cure every disease humanity has ever known, which should give it at least a $2 trillion valuation.

The lowest hanging fruit aren't even that pie in the sky. The LLM doesn't need to be capable of original thought and research to be worth hundreds of billions, they just need to be smart enough to apply logic to analyze existing human text. It's not only a lot more achievable than a super AI that can control a bunch of lab equipment and run experiments, but also fits the current paradigm of training the LLMs on large text datasets.

The US Code and Code of Federal Regulations are on the order of 100 million tokens each. Court precedent contains at least 1000x as many tokens [1], when the former are already far beyond the ability of any one human to comprehend in a lifetime. Now multiply that by every jurisdiction in the world.

An industry of semi-intelligent agents that can be trusted to do legal research and can be scaled with compute power would be worth hundreds of billions globally just based on legal and regulatory applications alone. Allowing any random employee to ask the bot "Can I legally do X?" is worth a lot of money.

[1] based on the size of the datasets I've downloaded from the Caselaw project.
What happens to the computer and tech industry if Intel fails?

The x86 licence still has value to some others in the space, but it seems like Intel could potentially be sold off for parts if it can't sell correct.
>No amount of training would cause a fly brain to be able to do what an octopus or bird brain can, or to model their behavioral generating process.

Go back a few evolutionary steps and sure you can. Most ANN architectures basically have relatively little to no biases baked in and the Transformer might be the most blank slate we've built yet.

>No amount of training will cause a transformer to magically sprout feedback paths or internal memory, or an ability to alter it's own weights, etc.

A transformer can perform any computation it likes in a forward pass and you can arbitrarily increase inference compute time with the token length. Feedback paths? Sure. Compute inefficient? Perhaps. Some extra programming around the Model to facilitate this ? Maybe but the architecture certainly isn't stopping you.

Even if it couldn't, limited =/ trivial. The Human Brain is not Turing complete.

Internal Memory ?
Did you miss the memo ? Recurrency is overrated. Attention is all you need.

That said, there are already state keeping language model architectures around.

Altering weights ?
Can a transformer continuously train ? Sure. It's not really compute efficient but architecture certainly doesn't prohibit it.

>Architecture matters

Compute Efficiency? Sure. What it is capable of learning? Not so much
Ok, I see what you mean now.

I took your word "invalidate" to mean "be proven false" whereas I meant "valid" as in "logically coherent, even if not true."
Against the "price gouging" theory of inflation
So basically you're not doing all the coding on the iPad.
He’s saying ignore the potentially worthless options and invest that extra 50% salary you earn at elsewhere in Intel stock instead of working there.
NYC is going to war with citizens who make money from its idling complaint law
He was on the record that their first product will be a safe superintelligence and it won’t do anything else until then, which sounds like they won’t have paid customers until they can figure out how to build a superintelligent model. That’s certainly a lofty goal and a very long term play.
It doesn't matter how badly they want to sell the chips if they don't have the money to build the fabs in the first place. That's where Intel is at right now. Building fabs is incredibly expensive and they need the money upfront.
Relevant: https://stopdisablingselinux.com/
I found my leaf razor spring has started to become semi-slack, and failing to return as well to the original position. I suspect I will need to replace it soon (should be a waranty issue). Had it ~ 1 year.
I found the shave is also not that close, and the larger head flat region means it is more difficult to get to spaces like under directly the nose.
I like the design, but it is far from perfect