skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you so much for the constructive feedback!

> This presentation seems bizarre...

My thought process was setting the context of how the problem would be solved by pen/paper and implementing a recursive solution if you didn't know binomial theorem beforehand. It is trivial to implement coeff using math.comb so skipped that part.

> Applying computational brute force...

That's the fun part at least for me, modeling problems not meant to be solved programmatically and solving them anyways.

> Finally: the JEE is specific to India...

Yeah true that, should have given a better context

Actually, I am just starting with writing blogs, so trying various avenues. Thanks again for the feedback. Will work on improvements.
Knowledge and truth are "centralized" concepts. I prefer "models" which don't have such issues, all models are imperfect and provisional, and there are many models for the same process. Knowledge and truth have a way to lead to endless debates, while models are better understood in their limitations and nobody claims they can reach perfection. In programming we call them abstractions and we know they are always leaky.

I think there are plenty of philosophical problems that emerge from our desire to describe things in centralized ways. Consciousness, understanding and intelligence are three of them. I prefer "search" because it is decentralized, and cover personal/inter-personal and social domains. Search defines a search space unlike consciousness which is silent about the environment and other people when we talk about it. Search does what consciousness, understanding and intelligence are for. All mental faculties: attention, memory, imagination, planning - are forms of search. Learning is search for representation. Science is search, markets are search, even DNA evolution and protein folding are search. It is universal and more scientific. Search removes a lot of the mystery and doesn't make the mistake to centralize itself in a single human.
Elon's a master at saying things that people read as something more than he actually said. I knew without seeing it that there's 0 chance that he (or anyone) actually said they're autonomous. But also that he didn't say they're not.
It depends what your definition of 'unsolved' is.

Sticking it at the bottom of a 5000ft mine shaft in a geologically stable region, with pictograms, is a solution.

If we lose the ability to decipher pictograms on the containers, we're probably back to being apes and have also lost the ability to mechanically dig 5000ft straight down, or 1000ft straight forward through rock, so we'd never encounter it ever again.
Yes. It says nothing can be proven in science and therefore reality as we know it. Things can only be falsified. But proof is the domain of mathematics… not of reality.

Read the example of the black swan in the wiki link.
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Perplexity is rolling out o1-mini integration into its web Pro search focus
This is something that you can bootstrap into a proof-of-concept in a day and learn the tools you like and don't like along the way.

Basically you'll use any LLM and a vector DB of your choice (I like ChromaDB to date). Write a tool that will walk your source documents and chunk them. Submit the chunks to your LLM with a prompt that asks the LLM to come up with search retrieval questions for the chunk. Store the document and the questions in ChromaDB, cross-referencing the question to the document source (you can add the filename/path as metadata to the question) and the relevant chunk (by it's ID).

Run this tool whenever your docs change - you can automate this. Being intelligent about detecting new/changed content and how you chunk/generate questions can save you time and money and be a place to optimize.

To use it, you need to accept user input, run the input as a text query against your vector DB and submit both the results (with filenames and relevant chunks) and the user's query to a LLM with a prompt designed to elicit a certain kind of response based on input and the relevant chunks. Show the response to the user. Loop if you want.

You can build most of this with as few tools as `litellm`, `langchain` and `huggingface` libraries. You'll be surprised how far you can get with such a dumb setup.

Yes, this is basic RAG. That's how you do it without getting overwhelmed with all the tooling/libraries out there.
Every widget has a price floor since there's parts/materials and labour costs. This is even true for solar.

One simply has to be careful about what something "costs" when you look at the first unit versus the nth unit.
For some reason I would feel disappointed if sleep was a solved issue. I feel as though perhaps I need that daily break from being conscious for my own mental health.
It’s the opposite of your claim. It’s opt out, not opt in.

> Your iPhone and iPad apps will be made available to users on Apple Vision Pro, unless you edit your apps’ availability in the App Store Connect

https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-yo...

And it makes sense for some devs to not provide their app on the platform if they use unsupported APIs or if their experience is otherwise degraded for some unknowable reason. Though the side effect is Netflix and YouTube can just withhold their apps that presumably otherwise work.
One of my favorite science fiction novels deals with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain
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I don't think you have the right to tell your coworkers to leave you alone. Part of working means collaboration and if you're unwilling to do that, you don't belong on a team. You're not doing brain surgery that will permanently alter the life of some helpless patient. you're not meticulously stacking the last card on top of a 10 ft house of cards exhibit where tens of hours of work will be completely lost if your concentration strays to show your face to another human being and utter a few words.
Thank you! Yeah, I totally understand and not taking it against them. It's impossible to always get the right impression and fit for the candidate (even if it was based on a few interviews and trial, like here). So I figured I'd make the best of the situation and share the project with others! Hoping to make some new connections this way, and maybe find an even better opportunity!
The main change would probably be, in order for Antarctica to become green, all the ice would have to come off it. How would that happen, and where would it go? It would have to melt, and run into the ocean as water.

What that will mean for the liveable regions of Earth is that as the sea level rises, less of the coastal areas -- where AFAIK most people live -- will be inhabitable.
Florida is fast becoming a place where only the wealthy can afford a high quality of life. Actually, I think they crossed that line years ago, but nobody with the ability of speak to a large audience has any incentive to say it out loud.

Anyone that does their due diligence ahead of time will find out for themselves.
But does he have a right for his personal opinion in a free country?
This could be a great teaching tool, BUT at about $375 per Mothbox, it's going to be a hard sell for most schools.
Marble runs are wildly different from marbles we played when I was a kid.

One is an engineering (lite) exercise, the other is a game of vague dexterity to take someone else's marble collection.
There's "Reader" by Eleven Labs. Now with iphone mirroring, you can use it without much trouble from your laptop too
> Restricting ourselves to Aristotelian logic back in the day has been extremely limiting, so much so that a lot of modern philosophers cannot even comprehends how it is to look outside that logic.

That's arguably good. If you restrict yourself to something that you know is a valid method of ascertaining truth, then you have much higher confidence in the conclusion. The fact that we still struggle even with getting this restricted method shows that restrictions are necessary and good!

Then you bootstrap your way to a more comprehensive method of discourse from that solid foundation. Like Hilbert's program, which ultimately revealed some incredibly important truths about logic and mathematics.
As an applicant, I say nay. I wouldn't trust an AI to do the job correctly, and it would make me question the company's judgement enough that I would no longer want to work there.

Also, from the employer's side, wouldn't doing this eliminate one of the major things you learn from testing applicants? You learn a bit about how their minds work, which can give you an idea of how well they'd fit into the team.
Omnio: First AI model that can natively reason over audio
This: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41847507
It's been failing a lot of people for a while then. At this point you can't assume competence.
I'm very excited about a new project we're launching soon: MindPeace, an AI mental health companion.

It provides mental support whenever you need it and is always available.

We've been building the platform, training the model, and testing it on various topics, and it looks promising!

We have teamed up with psychologists to help us train the AI model and create additional learning resources.

The AI learns about you and adapts to your needs. It assigns questionnaires that you can complete to gain more insights. In addition, exercises and learning programs will be unlocked based on your conversations.

We're looking forward to launching it in a few weeks, getting it into people's hands, and starting to collect feedback.

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What Happens When Forza Wants to Put Your Car in an Iconic Racing Game
How is overbuilding going to help when the source of the power itself is intermittent? The sun regularly sets and the wind has this unfortunate habit of not blowing. Or, oddly enough, blowing too much.

If we hope to go 100% renewable, storage is a key piece of that puzzle.
> (and still PAY FOR CERTS!)

People seem to be under the misapprehension that Let's Encrypt / ZeroSSL certificates are "free". They are not — it's that the consumer is not the one paying the bill.

It costs tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year just to get the audits required to operate a public CA, much less pay for the infrastructure and staffing required. That bill has to get paid somehow. Yes, pricing on certs in the past has been questionable, but operating a public CA is -not- free, so CAs have sold certificates to pay for that service operation. That has introduced some issues of its own in terms of profit motives, although I would observe that for the majority of public CAs their public TLS certificates are frequently a loss-leader service and not a massive source of income. Put short (too late!), there's nothing wrong with the practice of paying for certificates in and of itself.

What makes me very concerned about the current model funneling everyone to "free" CAs is that those bills are being paid at the moment through donations to ISRG and other organizations. I like that ISRG is making efforts to broaden their donation base to reduce reliance on single sources! However, I'd much prefer to be paying them a monthly subscription fee for their certificate service and not have my ability to leverage it be dependent on the largesse of large corporations that frequently abruptly decide services like this should either cost money or pay up in user data. (Note that I explicitly do not think the user-data thing is happening right now, only that I'm concerned it becomes a problem in the future.)
There is a special place in hell for PMs who can't wait for daily standup to get your status update.

There is an even more special place in hell for PMs who schedule an additional regular status update meeting.
Ask HN: How to find (remote) startup jobs that use Supabase?
Hi HN,

I’m a big fan of Supabase and am looking for startups that use it in their tech stack. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a job search platform (e.g., LinkedIn, Indeed, etc.) that lets me filter specifically by technology — aside from using the free-form text search.

I really appreciate startups that choose Supabase, as it often signals that the founders are pragmatic and make thoughtful technology decisions. Does anyone know of better ways to discover or connect with such companies?

Thanks in advance!
I don't think it's fair to consider Wal-Mart's parking free from a societal perspective. Presumably they pay for it and absorb the cost into your grocery bill.
The build cost of this (about $35) is very cheap for a ham radio with the features that it has, so "approximately the price of <X>" is what i'm taking issue with here
LFTR had a ton of hype years ago and then nothing. Is there some hidden problem with it, or did the massive growth of renewables eclipse interest in these kinds of things?
Maybe it's still a customs/border facility. It can just be inland now, away from the very expensive waterfront/costal property
How do you do that?

I hacked this kv together with the browser's cache API: https://github.com/evbogue/bogbookv4/blob/master/lib/cachekv... which I secretly feel is not the best idea in the world but it works.
Hopefully it doesn't go like the X files episode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepless_(The_X-Files)

I'm all for getting rid of sleep, but given how society is structured I worry that the extra time will just end up being used for longer commutes and more zoom calls. Hardly advancement.
Because you already take many modern shortcuts and conveniences to avoid hard work, why not take this one?
Just put "literally" before it.
I thought that at first, but the article literally says "getting their big PR out".
>Life expectancy is a weighted average

Sure, if all the weights are 1. Where i come from, we just call that an average.

>People who die early drag the average down much more than people who live close to the mean life expectancy.

This is true of all averages where all weights are the same.
> may be in the thousands if we take the hourly rate of a tech worker. Flawed comparison, I know, but you get the point.

I get what you're trying to say, but if "tech worker hourly rate" is your metric and "putz around with ham radio" is your goal, honestly, the answer is go buy an off-the-shelf radio for 1-3 TechWorkerHourlyBuckaroos [1]

If the goal however is "tinker with electronics", the relevant metrics are precisely "counting up the mistakes" and "tallying up the opportunity cost wasted at the workbench".

"Why buy this for x when I can build it for x^n" is the motto of any sufficiently-respectful building-shit hobby in the era of global drop-shipping.

[1]: +/- the "ham spectrum requires a test and a license before you can touch it" legaleese
I'm disappointed. I was actually expecting lovely ascii art pictures of mermaids.
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Nit: amplification shaders are not the same as mesh shaders (though in many cases they can be seen as abstractions over one)

Your description is of a mesh shaders, but an amplification shader is able to basically reuse vertex data from a vertex shader pass without use of a mesh shader.
If someone said “my son has stopped wetting the bed”, would you reply “did you expect them to wet the bed forever”? What if someone said “my leg no longer hurts”, would you reply “did you expect it to hurt forever”? How about “my bag of candy is almost empty”, would you reply “did you expect it to be full forever”?

The information that something stopped or slowed down is still useful without having to think it was going to go on eternally. It allows you to adjust your plans for the future.
I'm of this camp. I believe we rationalize our decisions rather than decide rationally [1]. The two are so intertwined in our minds that we confuse even ourselves. Outside of specific rationality frameworks, we can't help but do it. The smarter someone is, the more likely they'll be able to better rationalize and more clearly articulate their rationalizations, so intelligence isn't even an escape hatch.

1. The vast vast majority of the time
Wow! I had a copy Cool Edit from a CompuServe CD, IIRC. That got me into audio editing and making my own ringtones and whatnot.
Well said. "Youth is wasted on the young"
I remember being so upset as a kid that my pinewood derby car never looked as good as anyone else's and that it never won. I didn't realize as a youth that the parents had built the other kids' cars, whereas I built mine entirely on my own.

Now that I have children, they, too, are feeling the grim disatisfaction of a stacked competition by losing to the other kids' parents in the pinewood derby.

I genuinely credit that experience with my attitude toward life (don't take anything too seriously, because everything we do is temporary, competition (I will work on my own when possible, to do my best, and if I win it is a reflection on my own skills and abilities), and helped me understand that no matter how good I am at something there is always someone who takes that thing far too seriously and will cheat to win.
Ah thanks, will fix
Wouldn't that newton's-second-law your own conker just as hard though? As the aggressor you get to choose the points of contact, which must be where the accuracy comes in. If you can strike your opponent downwards you're more likely to knock them off the string and lead to Stamps.
No more morse code on the exam. Hamstudy.org is a great study aid.
Yes, it now says “Article is closed for comments.”, but it did not say this originally. (Score is now at -90)
Let's talk about the article and then dark matter, I guess:

> We’ve always been taught that the fundamental constants of nature — like the speed of light or the charge of an electron — are unchanging. But what if they aren’t fixed after all?

I mean, sure, what if? Honestly, if you can vary things like gravity, I don't think you need any additional components to explain the dark matter observations.

> The CCC+TL model needs to provide testable predictions that can be confirmed or refuted through observations and experiments

This step is important!

Ok, so dark matter generally: this YouTuber [1](physicist/physics PhD) notes that there are many theories that explain the dark matter observations. But to her, "dark matter" is the data that we need to explain.

Essentially: we have a bunch of weird observations where it looks like there's way more matter than we see. But the actual explanation for what it is, there are tons of those. So throw one more in the pile (this one says "oh there's no extra matter, the universal constants are different over there and light maybe moves slower as it travels farther")

[1] https://youtu.be/qS34oV-jv_A?si=z2KcSSIhezXppNAc
I have a hard time imagining this will ever become a reality; the need for sleep is fairly deeply hard-coded in how our brains operate, and I believe it's also needed for some more basic cellular functions.

It's not binary I guess (sleep "once a week" is less than "sleep once a day"), but even some incremental improvements seem very far off.

One also has to wonder if it's actually desirable to have less sleep and be "on" with fewer or no breaks.
Pack. WAV doesn't need to store header and raw PCM data (which it usually does though), it's just a container.
FCKGW-...

the only time I've ever memorized a software license serial key
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Unwalled here: https://archive.ph/1fYkJ

>… white, native-born women … are significantly more exposed, and will be negatively affected”

a reversal of a few decades worth of progress?

>… and capital will gain more than labor

Counter to your predictions for employers vs jobseekers?
A nice & long story about an "illegal" (long-term, deep cover spy)...but there's nothing particularly special about that bit of the story.

At the most basic level, from a journalist's PoV - an Intel agency is just another news organization, that is paying you to provide them with information. Or maybe you're patriotic or loyal, and working at a discounted rate? Or even free.

And if they want the stories you write for other agencies to be slanted their way? Not much different from you getting the wine-and-dine-and-gifts treatment from some corporate publicist.

And if you like the "spy" stuff, or they're blackmailing you, then it's real easy to venture further down the slippery slope...
>Tell someone in the 1600s about the concept of cellphones and they would say it’s impossible to ever instantaneously communicate with someone around the world.

Plenty of empires (e.g. the Byzantines) had chains of fire signal towers (IIRC some had mirror signal towers). That's not instant, but it shrinks weeks of delay down to an hour, albeit with just half a bit of information. And the concept of going up a sufficiently tall mountain and being able to see a signal on the other side of the world is comprehensible to basically anyone (it's not physically possible, but they didn't necessarily know that).
Agreed -- I'm with you 100% on the opsec hygiene regiment.

But FWIW, I think "Firstname Lastname Postal_Address" has never been easily kept private (indeed, the winning strategy is subterfuge), and that adding "Callsign" does not change that equation.

Of course it does mean that you shouldn't use your callsign as a pseudonym online. And I am not a person who is comfortable with the idea of a ham vanity plate! :) But with proper hygiene, your callsign is just an arbitrary alphanumeric string that is attached in exactly one place, to another instance of your name/address in the wild.

One thing getting a license would do, is give you an idea of how to maximize your tx/rx options. Understanding RF propagation in varied terrain could be valuable in an emergency situation.

If you already know this stuff, then the license exams are very easy.