skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forget the video. Try it.

I use OpenAI's voice models a lot and I have access to them all and I'm honestly more impressed with the ease at which one can conduct a conversation with this voice model.

Honestly, this feels like the first voice model I would pilot as a customer service rep in a hospitality setting.
The article describes electric airships
Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails. Then it's just a matter of writing an email from your phone.
Hah true!

My girlfriend has strong opinions about how we use the word "library" to describe a software package.

Surely the metaphor should be that one package is a "book" and the entire package repository is the library, right? Left pad is an entire library? Huh?

And then we have no collective noun for collections of libraries!
I think you're missing the obvious play to subsidize the price by making that LLM enabled with a mic and then selling all of that training data. The price could then come down to $19.99.
If I worked on Optimus I would be so angry about the decision to so this. Now nobody will trust the brand or the product. Stupid.
> it needs to take on another 100 tons of new cargo (or ballast) ... in order to maintain the correct buoyancy.

Sounds perfect for a cargo situation. Add new cargo as old cargo is removed.
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If you only had technical people in every position, software would be designed only for technical people.
It’s so funny to me when people still believe Elon when it comes to this or deadlines. I used to work for him and he always overpromises

Friendly reminder that in 2017 he was saying a car would drive autonomously from LA to NY in a year. It is now 2024 and that has not happened.

Friendly reminder that Tesla Semis are still not fully delivered and running.

Friendly reminder that the Roadster 2 is not rolling off the production line (people put down deposits too)!
or you even have a single driver in charge of 20 vehicles, waiting for one of them to encounter a situation the system can't handle automatically
Rim brakes suck in the rain. This matters a lot for commuter bikes.

I've never heard of the hand fatigue thing. I agree that it sounds like BS.
I can write it for you:

"I miss when the internet was an international gathering place, not a carefully guarded forum for communicating misinformation-free messaging about foreign policy and corporate life in the United States of America, England and Wales. I had a friend from China."
No, but you can say "I don't know", "I can't do this in my head", "Why is this important?", "Let me get my calculator" or any other thing that is categorically more useful than just making up a result.
Citation for my sibling comment and that which you replied to:

https://www.energy-storage.news/arizonas-biggest-battery-sto... (“Arizona’s biggest battery storage system goes online to feed Meta data centre demand”)

https://orsted.com/en/media/news/2024/10/orsted-has-complete... (“With a 300 MW solar PV capacity, Ørsted’s Eleven Mile Solar Center will produce enough renewable energy to power 65,000 US homes while the battery can store 1200 MWh of power.”)

(~2 years from planning to commissioning)
I haven’t used this service, but it does have some kind of integrated publishing feature.

https://standardnotes.com/
This is brilliant! I like how it slowly drives you mad.
Should you just give up?
Luckily, we have much better weather forecasting than we did last time we tried airships for realsies.
> Sweating does not make you stinky. Sweat is not stinky. It is bacteria that causes the stinkiness. If your skin is (relatively) clean, there would not be any (food for) bacteria and you won't stink.

As much as I agree with your general point, this isn't strictly true.

For a sizable chunk of the population, sweat doesn't contain high concentration of compounds that when digested by bacteria produce body odor.

However, despite being a sizable population, people lucky enough to have this trait are in the minority. I don't know the actual percentage but among European populations it's as low as 2% and among east Asian populations it's as high as 50%. Either way less than half the population.

The rest of the population has variations of that trait and their sweat produces moderate to extreme amounts of amino acid based compounds that when digested by bacteria produces the VOCs that make up the infamous body odor smell.
We might get GPT-4.5o
Ask HN: Create group portraits using AI
Working on a hobby AI project to create group portraits using two or more images. App will be live at Groupify dot One. Are there any apps/foundation models that can already do this? Pls dm if you are building a similar feature (by fine-tuning or with better prompting).
Any service that took money for rides would turn in to this. You know lyft? Before it was lyft, it was zimride. And zimride was just a way for college students to share rides places, a bit more organised than the Craigslist ride share board (which I used often)

Then zimride said “you can use that gps receiver you’ve got in your pocket to find people who need a ride near you and we’ll suggest how much gas money to split”. But pretty quickly people started just taking passengers even when not on their own trips, and lyft morphed in to…. Basically Uber.
Are Elon companies known for being trustworthy in marketing?

If they ever were that should have ended when FSD was first 'delivered'. With a possible carve out for SpaceX?
Maybe its prompt was "gaslight the person you're talking to into thinking they made a mistake." In which case it did an impressive job!
The first article refers to 2018 in the future tense, and the second article is three years old without a single announcement of a Belt and Road nuclear plant since then.
> The obesity epidemic cannot be reduced to some simple moral failure.

You're the only one to bring up morality so far in this comment chain.

> Those of us who are fortunate enough to not struggle with obesity do so not because of some skillset that we have, but because our bodies do not maintain the same homeostasis.

That's just utter bullshit. Homeostasis is heavily influenced by lifestyle choices.

> But this flat-earth-like notion of reducing obesity to an issue of basic willpower needs to be recognized for the drivel it is,

No, your incessant need to convince yourself and everyone else that something as straightforward as controlling your calorie intake is in fact a complex and naturally intractable problem that requires drugs and counseling is what's flat-earth-like drivel and utter bullshit.

> If you want to educate yourself, read Posner’s Burn [1], which is firmly grounded in empirical measurements of doubly labeled water to measure true metabolic consumption.

You're cherry picking terrible studies that happen to fit the preconceived notions you desperately want to believe, because they make you feel better about being undisciplined and weak-willed. Your understanding of nutrition, exercise and health are also clearly very minimal.
If your CSV is defined to contain straight, unparsed user input it's wrong no matter the context.
If it's defined to contain numbers then if at some point between [user input] and [csv output] you don't have a pass where the value is parsed, validated and converted to one of your programming language's actual number data types before being passed to your CSV writer, then your code is wrong.
I forgot the phased 32-element microphone array! How silly of me.

It will listen in all directions at once, 24/7/365, and send the recordings home to mother.

If done right, that should keep the end-user price below $10.
I still remember the screen names of folks I interacted with in and on IRC, AIM, ezboard, IGN boards, forums, etc.

I only remember a handful of HN usernames and absolutely zero handles from elsewhere.

Forums used to have large avatars and signatures you could customize and communities were much more tightly-knit. I imagine that's what Discord and VRChat do now.
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Tool calling support across all compatible LLMs
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Callbacks for full custom instrumentation and hooks
OpenTelemetry to plug tracing into your existing infrastructure
Plug-and-play custom providers for local and custom models
To run gguf files? LM Studio for one. I think recurse on macos as well and probably some others.
> NAT

Firewall.

Bad ISP routers with/without NAT are no good.
That wont work because the tesla webpage has a maximum order quantity of 1,000 units... /s
Okay, but those companies wouldn't be infringing because their goods/services wouldn't be confusingly similar with one another nor Amazon.

Check out 15 USC § 1114 for details (e.g., for a suit in the USA).
Mandate a ten year warranty that covers labor but (maybe) not parts.
Here's a chat interface

https://maia.zyphra.com/chat
The GP asked about burning fuel. But in the case of electric airships, you can run an electric condenser, extracting atmospheric water vapor.
I think we should take the time to recognize that this isn't bad design, it's a badly regulated market. This is exactly what antitrust exists for: to prevent a small number of firms dominating a market with thin margins, leading to a few decent experiences (namely Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, and TikTok) and crushing economics for the rest.

What can you do as a publisher of web content other than compete with the big dogs on Display Ads (what this link is complaining about, that's why they request your data in the first place) or try to enforce paywalls (also what this link is complaining about, ironically)? Supposedly some parts of the internet work off of affiliate marketing, such as the few oddball companies that prop up the podcast space for the rest of us, but that seems A) terrible for consumers and B) incredibly hard to make a living with. For better or worse (worse!) we've trained ourselves to expect internet publishers to survive off of Display Ads alone, and act like we've been betrayed when someone links https://businessinsider.com, https://nytimes.com, or another paywalled site to Hacker News.

We're at a crossroads in history, my friends. We can, and must, change this. Substack is a beautiful step in the right direction, but real change must come with societal buy-in (AKA no more archive links on HN) and governmental intervention (AKA follow through on the US DOJ's recent threats to break up Google).

There's no way in hell that any of us would accept the business model of "we'll emotionally manipulate you into buying stuff you don't really want" if we didn't grow up with it -- for anything, but especially for something as vital as journalism. I sincerely doubt Paul Graham could defend it, yet here we are; any paywalled link is removed as a matter of policy, even the fancy new Substack ones that have a few paragraphs of pre-paywall content.
There’s a difference between technical at the leadership positions vs every position.

Nvidia’s CEO is technical. Google’s was technical for a very long time. AMD’s is technical. Amazon’s was for a very long time. Microsoft’s was for a very long time and is again.

I think it’s a bold claim to make that technical people are only capable of designing for technical people. There’s plenty of people who understand how to build products that connect to the consumer and non-technical people don’t have a unique ability to do so.
Take a look at these, which provide exactly that:

1. https://docs.alto.so/mac
2. https://montaigne.io/
> natural gas is not actually a terrible solution

Natural gas is a great solution. It's why we're using it. But if your focus is decarbonisation and electrification, nuclear is better. Even if it's pricier.

> your 1/4000 should be more like 1/10. Give it a few more years

The former is calculated from projected 2030 battery production to present energy levels. An essential component of strategy is knowing on whose side time is. Battery production won't reach 1/10 for at least a few decades. That's the point. We need an intermediate solution, and if that's going to be gas, we have to live with the fact that (a) emissions will continue and (b) we perpetuate trillions of dollars of capital infrastructure that will be as difficult to take down in the future as coal has been today.
Like Siddhartha Gautama, and Muhammad, not by themselves however.
Adobe's AI video model is here, and it's already inside Premiere Pro
> The original price was supposed to be $39,900. However there has been >20% inflation since then

That price was announced with a significant lead time, so at least 5-6% inflation was built in already.

> and the base model should be eligible for the full $7,500 tax credit applied as an instant rebate at purchase time, which was not available at the time of announcement.

It wasn't available that exact moment, but it existed.

> All that to say: the price actually paid will be $55,485, vs the inflation adjusted original base model price of $48,912 (possibly higher if there is more inflation before the release next year). So yes, the price you'd actually pay has gone up 13% in real terms over the announcement price.

I'd put the inflation-adjusted price at $46k, and not use the $7500 to reduce the difference, making $63k a 36% increase. Or I'd apply the $7500 to both and get 44%.
Huge user, and very interested in anything that makes life simpler. Will check this out tomorrow/Wednesday and report back!
I may be missing the point of this blog but I don't think I am. I too miss the era of blogging but this isn't it. The only thing this piece does is name drop--without having the courage to actually name names--and point out how those "famous" (we can't judge, as they're unnamed) people were so wrong back then and the writer was so right. The line that actually answers the title is a cliche and isn't elaborated on: the web brings like-minded people together from all over the world.
Isn't the web still like this? It's easy to find communities that are deep into pretty much anything.
any benchmarks vs phi-3?
We have acoustoelectric effect (AE) at home for brain-computer interface
Not to arbitrary depth. Empirically the majority of text has depth less than 6 when represented as a tree. Proofs on the other hand have no a priori limits to their depth.
http://lillian.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Schwartz
WordPress coding standards is also full of padding. Spaces `like_this( foo, bar )`, curly braces on new lines, etc.

Plus, WordPress bundles all JS and PHP dependencies, including a whole userland PHP polyfill for libsodium.
I've found a few references around the web to an effort by Google Maps, about five years ago, to remove non-static objects likes cars and pedestrians from the satellite views. The algorithm is cool, but I guess there's nothing more interesting to this than that.

As an aside, when I was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011-2012, I worked on an airfield and forward operating base that got hammered with effective rocket and mortar fire on a daily basis. I was... annoyed to discover that Google Maps satellite view showed our footprint in perfect detail; like I could see the tent where I slept, where every one of our aircraft parked, etc. It's not like anything about it was secret, but the imagery could certainly provide good targeting information for whoever wanted to shoot at us. I wish things had been removed from the imagery back then. It stayed that way until 2021 or 2022, long after we'd abandoned that place.
Nope. No nuclear energy supporter will state that nuclear energy is perfectly safe, clean, secure or reliable. Nothing is perfect, why would the bar for nuclear energy be perfection?

Nuclear energy is not perfectly safe for the obvious reason that we've had Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. It is not perfectly clean, since it produces nuclear waste. It is not perfectly secure, just look at the Zaporizhzhia power plant. It is not perfectly realiable: there are times when a lot of French reactors went offline because the water in rivers was too warm.

What exactly is your argument?
I'm working to promote healthspan without the risks and costs of more invasive treatments. I don't want to go into too much details publicly here.
World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
It used to be that the devil on the shoulder was the tempter. It isn't depressing that parents and grandparents can't say no to lizard brain instincts, it's depressing that we allow companies to exploit that in a devilishly evil way - to harm people - for money, as much as they can, in almost every way they can think of.

Imagine how much money and time and effort is spent making Doritos 2% more tempting; the crunch, the flavour intensity, the packaging layout, the packaging colours, the mouthfeel, the shelf stability. The same for ice cream and everything else. How far can Kelloggs stretch the gap between the strawberry presented on the packaging and the almost-zero strawberry in the pop tart? Or the honey pictured on the Honey Nut Cheerios box with the "hint of honey" in the description on the back? How To Cook That[1] on YouTube on Kellogg's misleading and potentially misleading claims.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suy3wGzQ08g&list=PLPT0YU_0VL...
Severe turbulence in clear conditions is increasing due to climate change: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-severe-turbulenc...
That’s mostly right, but some of them don’t require a computer. I’ve never solved one with just pencil and paper, but in some of the solution threads you will actually find pencil and paper solutions. I’m not sure if any of the later problems work like that, though.
Battery density is only an issue if these things are spending most of their time moving long distances. If you are targeting a drop in replacement for a human worker who is spending most of their time at a workstation, it can be plugged in while working. Even in a scenario where the robot can not be connected to power while working, that's easily solved with redundancy - get two robots, one works while the other charges. Obviously better battery life is a nice to have, but it's not an impediment to large scale adoption the way other big robotics problems are.
FWIW most people mean the Lansing book when referencing Endurance (the book).
That was a direct quote from the parent.
It's not always true though. My dentist in Europe pushed me to get my wisdom teeth removed early "because you're going to need to get them removed eventually anyway" at a government clinic with no profit incentive.
Staring into space is what I do when thinking. Lots of my job is thinking. Maybe that's why folk ignored my busy indicator.
https://qntm.org/abolish explores this idea in a fair amount of detail.
This is controversial and perhaps rude but I've started to copy-paste these articles into ChatGPT to summarize into a single paragraph to help me decide if it is worth reading or not, for me.

Again, I mean no offense but humans only have 2,207,520,000 seconds on average. You can be goddamn right I'll take all the help I can allocating this precious resource called time.

Example output from this article:

> The author reflects on their early experiences in Silicon Valley, feeling at home among peers in the tech world but later realizing that many influential figures, including gatekeepers and executives, lacked a deep understanding of software. This disconnect was disheartening, as key decision-makers often misunderstood the potential and intricacies of the technology they were overseeing. Despite this, the author celebrates the web for its ability to connect people globally with shared interests and expertise, yearning for a return to a time when the internet was a space for meaningful connections and innovation. They also express enthusiasm for their current blogging on platforms like WordPress and Mastodon, envisioning future improvements and business potential.

(it's worth reading for me so I'll read)
Sure. But why? MSRs don't have any real features that are worth spending that much money.

Modern PWRs are just as passively safe, if they lose cooling and melt down, the molten fuel will be safely contained by the core catcher.

Uranium is also not scarce, and if we want to get into breeding reactors, existing fuel reprocessing is an established industry, on which we _already_ have spent several hundred billion dollars.
The $7500 existed only for other manufacturers. It had expired entirely for Tesla. No Tesla model was eligible for any more credits at that time and there was no particular reason to believe that Tesla would ever become eligible again in the future. Also, the credit back then did not directly reduce the price paid at purchase time the way it does today. I think it is fair to apply the credit when comparing to the announced price. Tesla certainly takes the credit into account when they set pricing and buyers account for it when purchasing.

Also it was announced at the end of 2019 for 2021 and the inflation rate in 2019 was 1.8% so there's no way they accounted for 6% inflation. 4% at most.
Probably several tens of thousands of dollars. However you can spend a lot more or less (gatech?). Ya better shop around, as the Miracles said.
If you want clarity of intent define dummy in and out macros but please don't make clean reference-taking APIs a mess by turning them into pointers for no good reason
American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines does not permit diagnosis of ADHD before age 4. None of the commonly used assessments would apply to such a young age anyway.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/144/4/e20192...
ASCII art by hand (⌐■_■) it only took me 5 minutes or so … That said, I think someone could have done it faster with a tool like Monodraw (https://monodraw.helftone.com/) or something similar.
Maybe aranet4 device as add-on? It does BTLE.
Wish I knew! My tentative plan for my next vehicle is to fabricate a custom head rest/restraint.
A great example of why executive agencies need leeway in their power to make and refine policies. AFAIK the GDPR notifications were put into place by the "The European Parliament and The Council of the European Union" directly and haven't changed much since 2016, even though any vaguely-internet-aware child could identify this glaring loophole. I don't doubt their intentions, but the result is subpar at best.

IMO the best outcome of GDPR wasn't the blocking of any significant number of cookies, but rather raising public awareness that these sites are collecting "non-vital" information in the first place. Why do we allow that, ever, in any way? If I started paying to put up facial recognition cameras in every restaurant and store in town to build my own little omniscient tracker of my fellow citizens, I think I'd be run out with pitchforks and torches. But somehow it's okay when ~~it's on the internet~~ when Google insists that it's a necessary evil...
lm studio tells you what models fit in your available RAM, with or without quantization
After reading the Isaacson biography, it’s clear to me Elon is not a stable or trustworthy person. The evidence continues to mount.