skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you imagine we will box up our terrestrial waste heat and launch it into the sun?

The Earth sheds its own heat into outer space via black body radiation, and we can help this process by shedding heat in specific infrared bands that pass right through the atmosphere. We already have radiative cooling paints that do this, and they can achieve sub-ambient air temps in full sunlight:

* https://www.sri.com/fcd_technology/self-cooling-paint-a-pass...

* https://cera.cool/

* https://hackaday.com/2023/07/03/cooling-paint-you-can-actual...
Working on restoring punctuation marks in raw YouTube transcripts.
Bert model trained as a token classifier works but it doesn’t scale well with more languages. See https://www.appblit.com/scribe for the current solution

Now looking into fine tuning a small LLM like Gemma 2b-it to this task.

Any advice on other LLMs that would work appreciated.

Also bonus if this LLM can run in a browser
Then there is Badiou, who perfected deconstructionism in his works like

https://www.amazon.com/Being-Event-Alain-Badiou/dp/082645831...

It's easy to see Derrida as a bullshitter who doesn't understand the texts that he abuses but hard to make the criticism stick because Derrida himself is unclear and hard to read.

Badiou clearly does understand the math that he's abusing and you can't find anything really wrong with it except for the idea that anyone would care about Marxism when we know so much more about the science of civilization now. Many people come to the conclusion that Badiou is a bullshitter, but if he is a bullshitter he's much more rigorous in terms of working within the systems he works with and also much more clear in his exposition in that you really can follow what he says.
the mission is one of the least foggy neighborhoods
The intended audience is the author himself.

Edit: You’re reading his notes/summary of the topic. Basically what he’s understood so far. “Expository webpages -
For my own future reference. Intended audience is myself.”, see https://vanhunteradams.com/#Expository-webpages
Meetup cost too much. We have some great sponsors (github, dnsimple, mojotech) but not a ton of cash.

We decided we'd rather provide pizza for more meetups than pay for meetup.
aside: I hate that I follow both the creator of Svelte and Solid on Twitter, only use the (supposedly chronological) "Following" tab, check Twitter every day, and don't see these conversations.
Most likely OpenAI would have done it first, that is assuming that LLMs are the answer.
But LLMs can never be the answer since they rely on ambiguously worded free-form text written by humans. Try writing software to price a derivative that way.
The only way that a computer will write accurate reliable software is if it’s given clear and precise instructions. No current tool will do that.

The answer will come from outside the usual suspects.
(IANALinguist).

I think it's obvious that there might not be one unifying definition that spans all human languages. "Word" is an English word refering to a specific of the English language. A class in JS is not the same as class in C++, big deal? ;)

As for English, I'm happy defining it through written language and spacing. "Can't", "unmarried", and "walkie-talkie" all one word each.

We might as well think of "word" in foreign enough languages as separate concepts. Doesn't seem meaningful to try to fit fundamentally different structures into the same conceptual molds. Which I guess ties back to your original point regarding if it's a useful excercise taxonimizing English as creole.
It is truly great, and cheap too (30 USD/year or something). Not affiliated either, just a happy user.

Yeah, it could be a bit better. As a non-American, the biases are also very off from how left/center/right looks in my own country, but at least it tries to cover different angles which I tried to do manually before.

They can also be a bit slow at linking different stories together, sometimes it takes multiple days for same headlines to be merged into one story.
I’ve dabbled with building something like this for myself, I’m guessing it’s not totally unintentional, it’s the first step. After getting it to interpret what it sees on your computer, give it the ability to use mouse/keyboard, maybe in a sandbox vm, and trying to do some basic tasks, working up from there.

No way I’d use something like this that wasn’t local-only, though.
True, but your weapons still need to be light to be able to carry the 20 wheels of cheese you'll be eating mid-fight to heal up because you can't be bothered to learn alchemy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41697929

Only punishment and court judgement requires that level of evidence.

Corruption often never gets exposed at all and at best is only revealed through weaker anecdotal evidence or even rumors.

A blurry picture is often better than no picture at all. Form your own opinion about my link above. If it’s actually true, then that post I made is likely the only thing you’ll ever read about it.
Hello HN!

Six years ago I release a prototype integration of SuiteSparse as a Postgres extension, and it received quite a bit of attention here on HN. Since then I have gotten deeply involved in the GraphBLAS community, sitting on the C API Committee and working with many different implementors and language binding authors, and that experience has changed both the API and my depth of understanding. I picked pggraphblas back up again and have done a complete rewrite applying the lessons learned and most modern techniques to the code and to support the most up to date features of SuiteSparse like JIT compilation, automatic parallelization and GPU support.

Like the JSON/JSONB types did for unstructured data, OneSparse makes
dense and sparse matrices and vectors fully native Postgres
types. OneSparse supports optimized, parallel matrix multiplication
and other operations like reduction, selection, assignment,
extraction, elementwise union, and intersection. These methods can be
used for both traditional numeric algebraic computing, or sparse graph
analytics over adjacency and incidence matrices.

I often tell people that GraphBLAS is "Technology from the Future" as as the future of computing becomes more computation dense but information sparse, powerful language abstractions like Linear Algebra become even more useful in the hands of scientists, researchers, and programmers who want to express their ideas in high level ways but still be able to target many different architectures like CPUs and GPUs with little or no code changes.

We're an open source company and OneSparse is truely open source Postgres extension. We have a fun and exciting list of TODO features at the bottom of our README, so please reach out to us if you feel like contributing to this completely new paradigm for understanding your data and utilizing Linear Algebra!
My peak running days ended almost forty years ago--something about a real job, family responsibilities etc.

My recollection is that during races I would reach a point about two-thirds of the way along, wonder what had got into me to sign up, and tell myself I wouldn't do it again. And then of course I would be back for another race.

However, when I was in condition a run of fifteen or twenty miles could be very enjoyable. These days, a run of five miles can be.
> I don't deny that employers have this expectation, but it's often another case where if they actually enacted it, it would result in fines.

Right - it's left "between the lines". In the US - salaried employees don't have any protections here AFAIK, so even if it became formalized, they wouldn't get fines.
It’s also what makes companies realize there are 49 other states, and nearly a couple hundred companies. California has a rare zeitgeist of tech and universities, but nothing that can’t be reproduced elsewhere with enough dollars and promises
There's nothing uniquely American about that. Chattel slavery in Africa goes back uninterrupted to ancient Egyptian times.

Heck, if you just want to look at the Atlantic slave trade, the United States was _second to last_ among nations in terms of trade volume.
I hope you're a nicer person in-person, too.
I bet awala could also be useful for interplanetary communication
I guess there might be some culture nuance here.

I can't speak to all of the LLMs, but as an American who listens to a LOT of podcasts, I can tell you why these ones sound the way they do: the audience. People who listen to (non-fiction) podcast want to be informed. They are people who are curious about the world around them and are generally interested in self-improvement at some level. Can you imagine a personal finance or health podcast delivered in a pessimistic or even fatalist tone? No, they are all _optimistic_ (even energetic) in tone, because that's the WHOLE reason people are listening to them at all.

I don't think the folks at Google are as patriotic as you think they are.
Perhaps I'm missing it but where do you actually buy and/or generate a CMC? I can't find any information on it.

Personally VCM is far too expensive for me at this time which is the only reason I haven't gotten one. But I certainly realize that putting a cost barrier to entry makes it less accessible to bad actors.
What is the reasoning behind the fork?
If you option click on the speaker icon in the menu bar, you can select which input to use. Takes a second and works instead of needing an aggregate device set up.
If you could've just stopped at your first paragraph.
This makes be suspicious of possible dysfunction at SpaceX. Lots of these in a small amount of time
Someone flagged your comment, and wrongfully by my measure.

From the article itself:

> The DirecTV and Dish merger is subject to regulatory approval. DirecTV previously attempted to merge with Dish in 2002, but the deal was blocked by the US Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission over competition concerns.
If you link it to your Spotify, Shazam will add anything it recognizes in a special playlist.
Sure but have you watched anime? Id say american cartoons are still very niche, the same way comic books are mostly about super heros compared to mangas or french BDs
That's just passing the problem onto how you define \b. Since Japanese uses no spaces, it would match entire phrases or sentences as "words", treating only punctuation as word boundaries.
>Sadly, every culture has had a slave or slave-like underclass. Even the US has one - anyone with 50K in student loan debt, working a minimum wage job, with the debt growing faster than the payments, can tell you it feels awfully close to slavery. Some would probably even prefer being beaten once in a while, than to have no hope of ever getting free of the debt after a decade of trying.

This is not slavery nor is it slave-like. You diminish the evils of owning people when you jump on your anti-pay-back-the-money-you-borrowed hobby horse and claim it's slave-like.

Stop reading here.

$50,000 is an outlier for student borrowers. The mean debt for a graduate in 2023 is around $30,000. For someone a decade ago it was 20% less according to a brief search. A person a decade into their career who has $50,000 in debt and is working a minimum wage job needs to take a hard look at their choices. The majority of borrowers have less than $20,000 in loans to pay back.
These revenge forks never live long.

This one didn‘t even manage to delete Godot from the readme and insert its own name.
That first paragraph is pure CorpSpeak.

It's OK to speak in simple terms!
I miss BonziBuddy :/
You don’t even need it to be as complex as that, I just have an aggregate device which only has the MacBook microphone input enabled and no outputs, then you set this as your _input_ device in Sound preferences, but leave the output device as is.

It’s easy to create the aggregate input device, go to the Audio MIDI Setup app, in the audio window click the plus in the bottom right and choose “new aggregate device”, then tick MacBook Microphone on the right. Then to System Preferences > Sound > Input and assign this new “virtual” device as your input device. (You can rename it if you want)

Now your Mac will automatically switch audio output source as usual, but the input remains locked to the microphone so you don’t get this annoying problem.
Rare exceptions
So like accelerators before YC? No thanks.
Same reason the governor appointed public utility commission has allowed PG&E to raise rates 4 times in a single year without legitimate oversight. Yea unfortunately all roads point to his donors with this smooth talker, cost of living be damned.
I imaging that for WFH a laptop, a mini one in particular, is a CRAPPY thing, especially one bound to public WiFis and in general used via Wifi.

For me, a 100% remote worker being reliable means having a good setup, composed of a desktop and maybe a spare one, all wired, in a LAN I control. I'm tired of those with laptops who are regularly not available or get tired quickly due to their crappy setups, with regular connections issues and safety issue as well.

I also do not consider mobile connection as main connection reliable, a good backup to have yes, StarLink itself is a good to have backups, but not the main connection.

To work properly we need good offices, a room, the home office, not arranged mobile-centric solutions.
This was really made in 2016. I hacked it together back then, and forgot about it. Now I needed to check what did I do yesterday, and I remembered that I once made this tool. It needed just a quick update of the authorization header.

Since this is missing on github, i thought it could be useful for other people. :-)
That’s a good idea, I will consider it. Should check it how it works with AirPlay and continuity though. AirPods are not simple Bluetooth devices, strange things happen when connecting/disconnecting.
I was deeply involved in voice recognition and OCR back in the day, and nobody working on these things called them "AI".

I don't doubt that there were marketing people wanting to attach an AI label to them, but that's just marketing BS.
The Vulkan APi calls out to the same hardware. The benefit of using it via Vulkan is that you (in theory) don’t need to have multiple APIs for different GPU vendors.
Anyone making the argument that computers/LLMs can only create mediocre content, and can’t (or it will take a long time to) create content that humans will find exceptional, needs to go back and read the commentary re: chess bots and go bots over the past ten or twenty years.

We went from “computers can’t beat humans” to “okay, computers can beat humans, but they play like computers” to “computers are coming up with ideas humans never thought of that we can learn from” in about twenty years for chess, and less than five years for go.

That’s not a guarantee that writing, music, art, and video will follow a similar trajectory. But I don’t know of a valid reason to say they won’t.

Does anyone here have an argument to distinguish the creative endeavor of, say, writing from that of playing go?
I like the idea of a UI menu for controlling the camera - I will add it to the to-do list.

Left click and drag to rotate pitch/yaw around the earth. Hold shift to make it move slower. Middle mouse click and drag to rotate the camera's pitch and yaw. Control + right click and drag to pan up/down/left/right.

Common complaint is that the UI is overwhelming. I am open to suggestions. I am thinking about building a separate subdomain that disables many of the advanced features by default to make it feel less daunting.

There are a lot of users with very different needs, so I haven't come up with a good way to onboard new users without making this look like every other globe with dots. There is documentation https://docs.keeptrack.space/
That sucks. But it's why I keep trying to remind my kinds that even though they are smart, they will fail at things. Failing is a part of learning. Possibly even the most important part. "If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough."
https://archive.is/FrqHW
Rekindle it! Intrinsic curiosity…
It's probably tied to how I use bookmarks but I strive for quality over quantity. Some are just temporary until I get the chance to write down the important information or watch the video - others are more constant, but when I go through and purge bookmarks I want them gone. They will just clutter my bookmarks, waste time and make it difficult to find things. In your example about bookmarking the question I would instead transcribe the knowledge to Obsidian and link to the source.

Not saying there's a right or wrong. Just down to how people treat bookmarks.
It appears that availability in some parts of the world may be difficult for many of those phones: many seem to be sold only to Chinese, Japanese, or Asian markets, and others seems specifically unavailable in the US.

It's also worth noting that, from a camera rather than phone perspective, "1-inch type" sensors, which have no dimension approaching 1", are very small, half the image area of micro 4/3, and less than a seventh of 35mm; they are around 16mm by 13mm.
The Normans were the great "levelers" of society. Yes, they may have raised up the slave, but they also deprived many others of their historical rights, say, of "sake and soke."

Sake was the right to hold low court on your own land.

Soke was the right to pay your taxes and infeudate yourself to the lord of your choice. There was an entire class of Anglo-Saxons known as "sokesmen." They practically disappeared overnight, historically-speaking.

Normans placed severe restrictions on your infeudation. None of this "I'll withhold my allegiance simply because my local baron is a tyrant" thing. Nope. Doesn't matter. Good, bad or evil, you owe your fealty to the local ruler.

So, while the Normans may have been a relief for the very, very bottom, they were very, very bad for the equivalent of the "middle class" of commoners.
Test Sizes
Even those countries, it is still a for profit verture. Companies are paid for products, Doctors and healthcare professionals are paid to go to work.

These other countries didn't nationalize their industries. They simply use spending controls. The government says we "will pay $X and you can take it or leave it". The US is rather rare in that we say "We will take it no matter the cost".

Companies are more or less greedy in different countries. They are the same companies!
I wonder if it's a twist or corruption of the whole "bonk" horny jail nonsense when someone posts something thirsty?
> These practical problems make the project less feasible:

I agree! But...

> 1. Making end applications implement your protocol (eg Facebook) makes it way harder to scale, simply because the enshittified big tech apps are unlikely to care. Now the apps will have to maintain a separate service and not get paid to do it.

My bet is that, once we gain sufficient ground, Facebook and other mainstream social networks will be interested in building an alternative clients powered by Awala, just like Twitter built "Twitter Lite" back in the day. It's likely to be a PR stunt.

OTOH, third parties could build such applications, as long as the social networks give them access to their APIs (without extortionate fees!).

Until we gain sufficient ground, we'll carry on with in-house Awala-compatible apps like Letro.[1]

> 2. Having deliberate physical couriers travel across borders are a massive risk

Agreed. But there are options to avoid travelling across borders per my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41695801

> a hop to hop mesh network where connectivity can be easily established across all users (every user is a courier when they connect to unlimited mobile data or wifi) will make the network a lot more available

I don't think that's a practical solution. Bluetooth-based meshnets are rather cumbersome to use, and WiFi-based ones are not even feasible (on Android, for example, you'd have to root your phone). Also, the regions we're targeting have low-spec devices, where most won't have enough capacity to replicate so much data from their family/neighbours.

[1] https://letro.app/en/
thank you for the extra context! i had assumed they were using the 1-bit serial version and that for whatever reason they just needed a lot more gates than anyone had expected from fpga simulations. i didn't realize serv had a nybble-serial option, and that's a very significant difference. so it's closer to 1000× the energy consumption of off-the-shelf microcontrollers than 5000×
Something soul crushingly dull and unimportant - but the money is good!
I'm not going to compare this to a cup of coffee, as that analogy has been beaten to death. What I will say is that $20/yr is far higher than many apps, that are much more complicated, do a a lot more, and are self sustaining businesses.

Why would anyone want to pay 2x for this compared to what a really good podcast app costs? Or 7x what a good gif manager costs?
Well, that would be an awkward DM to write. "Hello, you invited me to the website, but I don't actually know who you are."

Modern problems...
>> Creating models that don't tag their output as such would be banned.

> This is just silly. Anyone would be able to disable this tagging in an open model.

And we'd end up with people who thinks that any text that isn't tagged as "#MadeByLLM" as made by a human, which obviously wouldn't be great.
Clock time contra lived time
Can you elaborate on what you have on mind? Depending on what you are looking for, I can add it to the to-do list.
His cover of Brandi Carlile's Turpentine is fantastic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDruf7aDk4E
I can give you one data point. There is no way in hell my company would let us use cursor. Generative AI is viewed with a lot of skepticism, and we spent a long time testing out copilot before approving it for all developers to use. We use copilot because microsoft is so trusted and we use many microsoft products
I'm currently working on an I Am Sober alternative, being a habit/impulse tracker called Rewire. It's written in Golang + HTML + Bulma CSS. It sends out notifications check-ins via ntfy at the time you set when making the habit. It keeps track of streaks, and I hope to gamify it in some way. I've been working on it for a few weeks, and I hope to have it done soon. It'll be free and open source, but I'm not in the position to open source it yet.
Yes, I have used a similar Hammerspoon script for nearly 10 years.
This is so amazing!
Just a few fixes in the UX and it would be even better than satvis.
I have been desperately looking for something like this. Browser APIs for this seem to have gotten a lot better and I don't get why I have to install something on my OS for this that crashes all the time. Excited to use it!
To be clear, Dan the Automator added an additional drum track, an additional bass track, and a melodica track as well as numerous other sound effects. They didn't just loop the Casio demo track.
DiceDB: In-memory, real-time, and reactive database with Redis and SQL support
Syncplicity is a name I haven't heard in a while. It was the best (free for home) from all those names in the list 10 years ago. It seems they have abandoned the home user space nowadays.
I'm not going to compare this to a cup of coffee, as that analogy has been beaten to death. What I will say is that $20/yr is far higher than many apps, that are much more complicated, do a a lot more, and are self sustaining businesses.

Why would anyone want to pay 2x for this compared to what a really good podcast app costs? Or 7x what a good gif manager costs?

This app doesn't even do anything that native macOS tools can do for you with 2 minutes of work (aggregate audio devices, or a bit of scripting), and literally saves you from one extra keypress and 2 clicks.