skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big breakthroughs have already happened.

- Small, powerful 3-phase servomotors are cheap and easy to obtain. Mass production of drone motors has advanced small motor technology considerably. Tiny motors use to be either toy-grade junk or expensive Swiss precision. That's improved.

- Motors with built-in encoders are, at last, available. Encoders used to be fragile plastic boxes stuck on the end of the motor. Also, thermal sensing inside the motor is common, so you can tell if you're overheating it.

- Permanent magnets are small and powerful, and have such high coercitivity that you don't have to worry about demagnetizing them if you over-drive the motor. The main limit on motor power is cooling. You can way overdrive a motor momentarily, like muscles.

- Motor controllers are now small and cheap, They cost about $1000 per motor two decades ago. The power semiconductors are small. Controllers can be programmed to use very high power levels briefly, monitoring thermal sensors.

It would be nice to have good linear actuators. Linear motors do exist, but never really became a big thing.
Anxious Generation grows.
That sounds like a hardware problem. But if the hardware works, why would you not be able to open any old app?
You talk about common sense and see a sea of people who are trying to lose weight (cdc says about half of adults in the US[1]) at very low success rates (<1% according to this study [2]) and think: they must be ignorant or not trying hard enough. I just don't really see how you could reasonably make that case.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db313.htm#:~:te....

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539812/
Surely every kids (in the UK) knows the secret to a winning conker is to keep it in a dark place for several weeks so it naturally hardens up. I'm not sure if this is considered cheating though.
LOL, I didn't know they ran newspaper ads for Google. I love old images of the Google search engine. When I was a kid, I taught other kids how to use the "cache" button next to links. Then Google buried the cache button three clicks under before completely removing it, and Googlers said, "Well, nobody was using it." MBA's doing user-driven development, "As a user (child), I don't know what a cache is." and the legal department being like, "Yup less shit to DMCA."

Google is the modern-day Yellow Pages; kill some trees and slam that rainwater-soaked stack of ads on my porch. I won't say no to free, but how many hoops did we go through to end up back here?
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Ask the LLM for examples of LLMs fucking up on simple tasks. Either it succeeds, proving the point, or fails, also proving the point.

I had both GPT-4o and llama3.1, through duck.ai, make up kscreen-doctor commands the other day. Commands that were easily formatted by simply looking at the output of kscreen-doctor --help.
Never in my life I would have think I would once read 'nuclear energy' and 'startup' in the same sentence.

First line of the article is about how the company is trying to avoid spiraling costs. Yeah, seems like a great idea with nuclear energy.

So where's going to be the next Chernobyl? I read they have clearance to build one in Tennessee.
The free janitor rebellion shallbe put down and free lunch restored .
News is what you don't get to read.

The rest are political ads.
Unfortunately being good at chess doesn't make you smart. It just makes you good at chess.
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>I always wonder why people don’t build brick and mortar homes in natural disasters prone areas.

If there's any chance at all of an earthquake, those types of buildings are deathtraps. I guess Germany doesn't have to worry about earthquakes, but they do happen in the US occasionally, especially in the west, but sometimes also in the east (there was a significant one in New Jersey earlier this year).
GM Denis Kadric (currently rated 309th worldwide) was just banned by Chess.com for allegedly cheating, and has no ability to appeal or see evidence used in the decision.

https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1fz4snq/gm_denis_kad...

Not only is the website the de facto platform for online play, some tournaments also use it for in-person games. The site has essentially become a chess authority organization of its own right. Its staff operate as judge, jury, and executioner behind closed doors. While I’m sure the majority of banned accounts were blatantly cheating, their team has apparently taken input from ChatGPT to run “simulations” to determine cheating probabilities.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1873ocq/chesscom_c...
Advent of Code 2024
We have implemented “super-types” that are strongly typed in TypeScript and compatible with all providers (think a superset in mathematics). Hence the name, Super SDK. Gateway is super light weight. We don’t wrap around other SDKs. We describe the APIs in the provider packages (@adaline/openai) that plugs into @adaline/gateway that has all the features.
Hand fatigue is a real issue if doing big off road touring, but that’s not most people.

Yes rim brakes are worse in the rain, but they’re not that bad! I wonder if people who say this have tried a modern dual pivot road caliper or decent v-brakes. They have easily enough stopping power for commuting in rain.
Yes, we support images, tools, response format (for OpenAI) and everything else.
Did you finally balance out lol? If you didn't, would you approach finding a mistake by going through each bill manually?
Current final year dental student pitching in here. While dentists of the past may push for unnecessary annual radiographs, the curriculum in dental school has changed to favour evidence-based dentistry. Annual bitewings are only indicated if you're a high caries risk, and, as the article mentions, 2-3 years if you're low caries risk. So your younger/newer dentist will be following much better protocols (and hopefully not scamming you)!
That's exactly what Project Euler problems often do, especially once you get past the first hundred or two. Problems are scaled so a brute-force often means hours to days of compute time, or worse.

You get to recognize the effect - if I see a problem that's clearly number-theory related and with a limit of 10^12, I know they're looking for a sublinear algorithm, probably O(n^(2/3)) thanks to various multiplicative function ideas that appear over and over.
Ok we can all agree that the US has not a land problem.
This argument is relevant in Europe but the US has more than enough space power transmission is a problem but it's solvable.
You should know very well that an ADHD diagnosis is a lot more than just that question. In my case four people close to me were given questionnaires, I was lucky enough to still have all my school reports, which were no grades but a page of solid text back in 1989 to solidify my suspicion. There's also an IQ test and a very annoying attention test on the computer. Matter of fact, one of those who filled out the questionnaire (and is not related to me) was like "If you have ADHD I'm even more likely to have it".
> In every sense it is a justified belief that happens to be false

Not to mention what does it even mean for something to be false. For the hypothetical savage the knowledge that the moon is a piece of cheese just beyond reach is as true as it is for me the knowledge that it's a celestial body 300k km away. Both statements are false for the engineer that needs to land a probe there (the distance varies and 300k km is definitely wrong).
if you could, that's no longer waste, it's unused fuel.
Reddit user keeps his job by lying that AI faked his voice
Almost all of the discussion over on Reddit is regarding the morality of the situation, but I thought this was even more interesting from a technological and societal perspective. An early real-world story (if it's true, at least) where someone claims that clear audio recordings of them speaking were faked with AI by a friend, and is believed.

This is the first time I’ve seen that play out in a real life scenario. I doubt it will be the last.
forgive my ignorance here please, but I've read about APRS on and off for a few years and always wondered what I'd need to just transmit some data that would eventually make it's way to the internet. I recently suggested it to a Ornithologist friend doing back country research in South Afrika too.

But why are there no regularly recommended cheap hardware solutions that can do this (and or just hobbyist builds using an RPI). Seems like the demand would be there but perhaps I'm just not understand all thats involved.

Any insight you could provide would be appreciated.
It is still like this.the only time I had x-rays at a dentist in Poland is for a root canal work.

However, I did have a dentist recommend a 3d x-ray once.
"The swimming pool contained enough water to kill hundreds of people".
It is legal, but it also did get banned at my primary school. It continued to be played.
Yes, unreinforced masonry building walls as describe on the link is an absolutely bad idea on earthquake prone areas.

But reinforced concrete structures are a different story. Concrete and masonry itself is brittle, but the steel rebar reinforcement adds flexibility and and tensile strength to the concrete. With an adequate design it is as safe or even safer than lighter wood structures, considering that it's inherently more fire safe, which is a big safety concern post quake.

Taiwan homes nowadays are mostly built with reinforced concrete structures and those modern buildings behaved very well in the 7.4 quake earlier this year.
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Apart from the ones at Abbotsbury swannery. Those ones are privately owned. It is true to say all mute swans in Britain are owned by someone, though.
Shhhh! The first rule of cheese-chase is never talk about cheese-chase.

British coroners know the signs….
Are you able to get ai summaries of hn articles for free? I'm creating a tool for hn that could do with that.
I was just trying to find something that took the other side. As I said, I take no position on these accusations. I simply don't know enough.
A partial list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents.

The list of Zepplins is also enlightening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Zeppelins
A more fleshed out competitor to llm-interface [1]? Looks great!

Does it run in FaaS/serverless environments out of the box? Lambdas, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel functions and the likes? Deno? The README says "Isomorphic - works everywhere", but might be nice to make this more explicit.

[1] https://github.com/samestrin/llm-interface
In Britain, maybe. In the USA, I don’t think so.
CATL’s first generation sodium batteries, shipped in Chery cars are $77/kWh

CATL’s lithium phosphate batteries are more expensive for now at >$100kWh.

Sodium batteries are definitely cheaper in practice, but much lower energy density.

The question is how far CATL can push energy density, and the second generation is claimed to be >200Wh/kh.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/catl-and-byd-to-start-pro...

https://www.westchestercleanenergy.com/post/record-low-lithi...
I usually come to a different conclusion using the JSON output on Lamini, e.g. even with Llama 3.2 3B

https://lamini-ai.github.io/inference/json_output

Most of these models can read. If the relevant facts are in the prompt, they can almost always extract them correctly.

Of course bigger models do better on more complex tasks and reasoning unless you use finetuning or memory tuning.
Uncompressed propane would have simply been called Propangas I think. That term had been established well enough in the second half of the century and while the Zeppelin-era was before that, I doubt that the term changed much.

But if you aim for a buoyancy-neutral fuel, you can just add hydrogen to the mix, as little or much as you need. That custom blend then would be precisely the thing you don't invent a creative name for but just use a color code ("the blue one").
Yeah, I'm not even reading your latest list of grievances and pedantic nit-picking. If you don't think people should be relaxed when taking a BP reading, I only have two words for you "Google it."
The irony of posting this on hackernews..
This is the joke from Dr Strangelove, right?
To be honest, if the author of this communicated pitches as ineffectively as this piece communicated the topic in its title, I am not surprised that whatever nameless gatekeeper he's talking about passed on his pitch.

That's not even to get into the fact that executives don't necessarily need to understand software implementation details to size up an idea.

Very odd blog post.
Isn't one of the difficultlies of writing a browser that your parser must accept lots of invalid inputs and render it like other browsers would?
In my experience in the US, nurses at primary care practices don’t really care and have no passion for their profession and the younger doctors are Anki flashcard veterans who could be replaced with a LLM and probably have the same outcome. Even DOs act like MDs these days- I guess it is easier to just write a prescription than advise traditional diets.

120/80 is an ideal blood pressure based on studies that show an association between elevated readings and an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. More than half of humanity has a higher blood pressure than that. I believe most would have much lower readings if they stopped eating the trash food that capitalism has produced.
If anyone is interested, you can look up Rovos Rails. They have dining car like shown on the articles. Truly unique experience and even better for those of you who want to disconnect, as there is no cellphone service for most of the journey.
>I was unexpectedly appointed manager

Presumably you were either on the track for management or agreed to accept the position in lieu of some other sort of transfer or lay off, much like the person in the article. Management isn't for everyone, but nothing in the article sounds out of bounds for a normal management job and 21 reports isn't really a lot.
Biology makes it even more complicated. If you see your mother, you consider her to be imposter. While if you hear your mother's voice, you consider her to be real.

Ramachandran Capgras Delusion Case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xczrDAGfT4

> On the flip side, even if the knowledge is wrong, if everyone agrees it is true, does it even matter?

This is case of consensus reality (an intuition pump I borrowed from somewhere). Consensus reality is also respected in Quantum realm.

https://youtu.be/vSnq5Hs3_wI?t=753

while individual particles remain in quantum superposition, their relative positions create a collective consensus in the entanglement network. This consensus defines the structure of macroscopic objects, making them appear well-defined to observers, including Schrödinger's cat.
Looks good, might give it a try. I was looking for something similar to provide a unified interface for gpt and claude and eventually hacked something together myself, as none of the solutions I found could deal with structured output properly across both vendors.
Don't believe your negative thoughts then, according to https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C89oeSORn81 Threads had over 175 million monthly active users this July.

Via https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(social_network)
one comment to promote your product is enough. we don't need 26 (yes i counted)
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> We have one more mechanism to store values: the return value of a function! Fortunately, the C spec doesn’t impose a maximum stack depth3, and so we can in principle implement a pushdown automata.

Am I misinterpreting this, or would this mean that the abstract machine is turing complete, if you had an unbounded stack?
Is it a space-time trade-off if you end up with little space and little time? Twitter chose to minimize both by storing less, that’s not really a “trade”.

I usually understand the term to mean that using more space lets you use less time and vice versa.
> your hand hitting it and hurting you?

WHen you were a kid, accidentally hitting yourself or the other person was just part of it!
>It also irks me how the robots are just humanoids. Like for example, why have a head with two eyes.

the risk-averse, cowardly, snivelling product design is really one of the most odious things about the whole Tesla shitshow. they had the opportunity to completely redesign the automobile from scratch, but chose to meekly clone the exact same bog standard sedan design everyone else converged on 50 years ago, clinging to some form response about safety despite the front of a Tesla crumpling like paper in any collision anyway
Japan is probably the most earthquake-prone country in the world, and houses here are generally made with timber framing, for smaller buildings. For large apartment buildings and housing towers and such, they're made of concrete-reinforced steel of course, but timber is far more economical for individual houses.
People love to complain on the internet. Apparently, Twitter now is the cause of the rise of global fascism.
This sort of thing is introduced when the number of bugs in production, especially bugs that aren't user-facing or a danger to data (eg 'just' an unhandled exception or a weird log entry), gets to a peak and someone decides it's important enough to actually do something about it. Those things are always such a low priority that they're rarely dealt with any other way.

In my experience whenever that happens someone always finds an "oh @#$&" case where a bug is actually far more serious than everyone thought.

It is an approach that's less productive than slowing down and delivering quality, but it's also completely inevitable once a team/company grows to a sufficient size.
Thanks to HN, now I know there's such a sport with hitting nuts attached to strings. I've read a lot of English-speaking material, but was only aware of rugby (it was aired on our TV in the 00's) and cricket. I'm amazed there's even a world championship, and that the Guardian has thumbnails to attract readers to important news on this sport.
The facts parts are sent and delivered daily doesn't mean they travel in 1 day.

Frequency != latency
Nuclear may not be competitive for electricity, but it could be a viable option for district heating. If you ignore electricity generation completely, you could make small simple low-pressure reactors and hide them underground. There is a spin-off company from a national research institute in Finland that believes it can make 50 MW (thermal) reactors for €100 million, with some municipal utilities semi-committed to buying ~15 of them.
You could also get 0patch to keep it secure. They're adopting Windows 10 for security updated from the EOL date. Pretty reasonable price as well, around 30 euros per year.

https://blog.0patch.com/2024/06/long-live-windows-10-with-0p...
If you follow news in France, it’s been shown and been shown in court cases that certain pesticides, commonly used in wine farming, cause Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

They have much higher rates of these diseases, and recently in a court case the death of a farmers daughter has been shown to be caused by these pesticides.
Not everybody was spotted and diagnosed at a young age. We can safely assume that a genetic condition like ADHD is evenly distributed through the population, hence we must assume that about 5% of adults of every single age-cohort are ADHD. I'd love to see data on the age-distribution of actual diagnosed adults, I'm sure we'd see a lot less than 5% for the older adults.

You can go a long way with undiagnosed ADHD but it will always hold you back. There's 60+ pensioner in the local self-help-group, he doesn't use the internet and uses and old Nokia. He was give a leaflet and after that a pill by a friend (don't do this!) and for the first time his mind cleared. He finished uni when he was young but never achieved much, never started a family; now is a few weeks away from a diagnosis and medication that will change his life. He wasn't the only one diagnosed as an adult in the group and it took me 42 years to figure that it's my mind working against me.
Seems your employer gave you the wrong memo, it's the Russian who have lost 500k not Ukraine.

But I'll bite, Afghan withdrawal was always going to be messy so don't get your "the USA doesn't want you to know about this secret that only I know because it came to me in a dream".

>humiliated in Syria

USA is still there and most likely will be there for a while unless Trump gets elected.

>Russian weapons production is 6 bazillion times more than lichtenstein

And yet they lose all this bazillion of weapons to a ratio of at least 1:2 in Ukraine's favor[1]
[1]https://github.com/leedrake5/Russia-Ukraine

And as they say it's not the quantity of weapons but the effectiveness of the weapon that is the determining factor, hence why NATO focus on quality as their doctrine is different than the USSR strategy that Russia is now forced to rely on.

>countries shouldn't have independence they should roll over to the bigger imperialist

Truly the peak thinking of 1800s geopolitics, I assume then that you're in favor of colonialism too?
Less often since September 2022.
Why should execs have to know anything?

Why not rewrite the twitter stack from scratch?

Why shouldn't a CEO be able to sell the idea that P=NP. We can have the engineers work out the details later.
The second stage failed it's de-orbit disposal burn. This second stage isn't even going to be doing one since it's carrying the payload out beyond earth orbit.

NASA and the FAA were pretty clear on this actually, they don't see any risk due to that previous failure, falcon 2nd stages haven't had any problems with their primary burn in a long time.
The theory, at least, is that making SMRs in a factory allows for a steeper and more sustainable learning curve

> Both Hermes and ETU 3.0 will be built using modular construction techniques, with reactor modules fabricated in Kairos Power's facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which will be shipped to Oak Ridge for assembly.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/work-begins-on-f...
>We should all discourage organizations that set people up to do a bad job.

That doesn't seem like the case here though. One of the things she was complaining about was participating in new manager training. 21 direct reports isn't that many. Managers have to prioritize their time differently than other jobs.

Ultimately it seems like she had accepted a transfer to a management position to maintain a job instead of being laid off or being transferred to some other sort of job and then realized that she wasn't cut out for management. It's OK to not be cut out for management, most people aren't, but pretending it was anything extreme is ridiculous.
The alleged cheater was also the head judge of the tournament.
https://youtu.be/J67wKhddWu4?t=116
Enough to keep wondering if this is the case <! or <<! and if whether I'd be better off with a dead-stupid, surprise-free thread pool.
You know if you click on the timestamp on a comment there is a flag button?

Also you are right comments like this are very annoying. I'm still surprised that HN doesn't have some kind of spam filter or rate limit
I think if that was the biggest problem, they'd be used much more. There are a lot of places with light and regular winds, and we're also pretty good at predicting winds in the 1 day forward timescale. And of course there's the regular and predictable high winds that were traditionally used by sail ships.
Only if you don't have a principled way of rebuilding them all on an update/patch. NixOS doesn't have multiple versions of shared libraries in most cases, and where it does it is usually multiple upstream supported major versions or the same upstream version with different compile time options. The former can be treated as separate packages like in other distros, the latter still only requires updates in one place.