skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Ibrahima Ndiaye, a senior principal engineer at GEVAR who led the project, says the breakthrough was figuring out how to give a conventional transformer the capability to change its impedance (that is, its resistance to electricity flow) without changing any other feature in the transformer, including its voltage ratio.

"Impedance and voltage ratio are both critical features of a transformer that ordinarily must be tailored to each use case. If you can tweak both factors independently, then you can modify the transformer for various uses. But altering the impedance without also changing the transformer’s voltage ratio initially seemed impossible, Ndiaye says.

"The solution turned out to be surprisingly straightforward. The engineer added the same amount of windings to both sides of the transformer’s core, but in opposite directions, cancelling out the voltage increase and thereby allowing him to tweak one factor without automatically changing the other. “There is no [other] transformer in the world that has a capability of that today,” Ndiaye says."
Please make sure you protect your design in the UK and EU by registering it. It doesn't cost a huge amount, and the design is striking and different enough that it would be a shame if it was copied.

(Unless you're comfortable with that of course!)
In the early 90s (maybe '92 or '93) my elementary school had a program where we'd go to the computer room and email kids in another school. There was nothing else to do on those computers that involved the internet (no web browsers), these were (relatively) state of the art 386s running DOS.

Anyway I remember we used to write our weekly emails on paper first and then type them into the computer- your quote reminded me of that!
30%? As far as I know, about 10% of male population has red-green deficiency, in females it's much rarer, and and all the other forms of colorblindness are very rare regardless of sex.
I added something similar into my feed reader. Even summarizes comments. The problem is paywalls, sites that heavily use Javascript, and other bot protection measures (such as OpenAI's blog which I found a little bit ironic). But I guess you might be able to get around bot protections and JS if it's a browser extension.
So thats why we were made to extract fossil fuels and "dispose" plastic and research bacteria. Hope Life 2.0 writes footnotes about biped cities making plastic mines like we write about Jurassic shellfish providing soil suitable for US cotton.
The number of layers is irrelevant. It’s transformative. The author had to work hard just to get it to make non exact videos of similar videos.

Where it’s going to get interesting is in terms of service where companies start using AI to copy SaaS products by having an AI login and copy competitors features. This breaks not just copyright law but is a breach of contract.
Congratulations on your product!
I don't know if i missed it, but i feel like you are hiding two very important parts of the machine: the power supply (you call it power brick) and the water container. For any machine i put permanently in my kitchen, I would prefer having a box that contains everything needed.
Just so I understand: Could this library be used for iterating large collections without blocking the main thread? Basically as a replacement for a worker with synchronous iteration?
A more generous reading of the comment might have read it as "widespread abuse"
It's like asking which white NPC from The Sims is the hottest.
We don’t research what happens when a child falls out of a plane and nobody feels like we’re falling behind for it.
As for Japanese, the by far more important difference is, in my opinion, that the verb comes last. Imagine an automatic Star Trek Universal Translator feature: Can't happen. You can't translate the sentence as it's being spoken, you have to wait until the last word before you can get past the subject if you're translating to English.

What this means in practice is something you'll have to watch for to notice: It's far more common for Japanese people not to reply until the other party has finished the sentence. Because, depending on context, the verb is important. Important parts happens at the end of the sentence, while in my own language important things are at the beginning of the sentence and the remainder is just fluff, so it's extremely common to hear people communicate in overlapping patterns - you start replying mid-sentence (and the other party automatically stops because the point has already been made so it's fine). This is something which absolutely infuriates my Japanese wife, even though she speaks my language nearly perfectly. She can't get out of the habit of expecting people to wait until the very end, even though as far as the other party is concerned everything is already clear.

But this does instill a good habit - there's way less interruptions. Because when you learn your pattern of replying mid-sentence, sometimes you do miss the real point. And more.
Or maybe the author has read too much into it! Maybe it's just a drift of the instinct animals have for their offspring, an association error of the animal's brain. Not unlike the mistake they make when they eat (and sadly die) from plastic litters.
Maybe after a little skooma.
sadly you can only install grapheneos on pixels due to the strong security requirement grapheneos requires on devices for them to support it (like relocking the bootloader with a third party os installed)
seems like xperia is supported by divestos though which is still a good alternative
https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
https://divestos.org/pages/devices
Would love to know more how you go about it.
I find myself really missing Winamp and the ability to personalize the app using skins. This gave the user the ability to distinct the Ui using libraries of thousands of skins
I don't think there's anything new here. It's the same unanswered question of can you train AI on copyrighted material.

The fact that it's video instead of photos or text doesn't seem like it should make any difference.

We need to wait for the legal system to decide.
There are no consumer drone companies in the U.S. worth talking about right now.
Have you learnt many languages? I wish I had the energy to wanna do it.

In school 35 words a day would be really pushing it for me. It had a really hard time learning English words. I had to study like an hour for 20 words to pass the test. But I learned grammar really fast.
Yes. And some Quakers were offended by all this unnecessary politeness and continued to use "thou" for a couple of centuries. So English and French used plural "you" for politeness, and so did German at one point, but modern German uses "they" as a polite "you", and so does Italian, I think. So there was an international trend to avoid singular "you" when being polite. But recently in Sweden (1960s/1970s) they've gone back to universal use of singular "you", which seems like a good thing to me, though it's presumably too late for English, despite the holdouts in Yorkshire.
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Prime numbers and elliptic curves are much more connected than one might expect. Each elliptic curve generates a function similar to zeta function, and there is a version of a Riemann hypothesis for elliptic curves https://m.youtube.com/@PeakMathLandscape
As others in this thread have pointed out, pressure (economic, from family members, doctors, etc) is also a big concern. Probably more so than whether they're of sound mind.
I appreciate the effort you've put in. But I'd like to see a non marketing video of it in operation.
That URL goes to the essay itself. Here's an earlier submission with comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42355160
Seeing Roger Waters performing the entirety of The Wall in 2013 was nothing short of life-changing for me
Social iatrogenesis:

The medicalization of life in which medical professionals, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device companies have a vested interest in sponsoring sickness by creating unrealistic health demands that require more treatments or treating non-diseases that are part of the normal human experience, such as age-related declines.

In this way, aspects of medical practice and medical industries can produce social harm in which society members ultimately become less healthy or excessively dependent on institutional care.
As a kid I loved watching Beyond 2000 which basically featured all kinds of new inventions, prototypes and ideas.

In a lot of ways it was the same as reading physorg or other sites that are filled with new groundbreaking research, most of which we will never hear from again.
Looks awesome. It's way too expensive for me, but i love the design.
I do wonder about the cleaning process, in particular how many times and how much effort i have to do to clean it and make sure it keeps making perfect espressos.
Would it be like a Savannah cat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_cat)?
I have an inner voice when I think about dialogue. When I construct a discussion in my mind. And only then.

I don't use an inner voice when I think about other things, how to do things, or figure out problems. Way too slow, and after all you can't use an inner voice to figure out how to get through a tricky four-car driving situation. You have to figure out what do do by entirely non-verbal means.
Or having the luck & social safety net that keeps you from failing so hard that you cannot recover.

Aka family/spouse with enough wealth to catch you when you fall.
You will have to qualify this statement heavily.

We do not have any examples of a grandmaster who learned rules past age 20.

One of the 19th century greats presumably learned at 17, it was Blackburne - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Henry_Blackburne - he was GM strength.

There are a few late bloomer GMs today but what is common with them is that they were already decent just below expert players before 20.

You need 3 things to become a masters and up level player.

1. Grit - conscious mastery everyone agrees on that

2. Some natural talent - certainly to become super GM

3. Start early enough - 6,7 is norm, 10 probably okay, 15 is already almost late.

There is something special going on in the brains of young teenagers learning certain skills - violin, chess, some others. As Fischer said - he "just became good" in one year from around 13 to 14. Of course he was already pretty good at 13 but the magic happens around that time.

Basically, you train hard, maybe you take a little bit of time off and then you gain this amazing "unconscious mastery". This happens around ages 11-16 or so, depending how early you start.

Every good chess player has this "unconscious mastery" - that is they can play pretty well (2200+) even if drunk, dead tired, 1-min blitz, playing simul, etc etc - in other words without "thinking".

For some reason adult starters are unable to develop this unconscious mastery.

Apparently there are certain limits to neuroplasticity in adults. Of course I'd love to be proven wrong.

Disclaimer: I am an aging Fide Master who needed 1 point in 2 games(ie 2 draws) to become IM some years ago. I went out swinging but failed.

I also know many people who took up chess late in life and did not break 1800.

Also I know many people who are full time trainers and live chess full time, but they themselves can not go above 2200.

If pure grit was sufficient at later stages in life, we'd see a lot more progress, but we do not.
That's a good point, particularly given that .. is handled for you at the OS API level so you might be inclined to expect ~ is too on POSIX.
My experience tells me that speed of defect resolution has only one primary factor and a bunch of far less important secondary factors. Secondary factors include quality of documentation, clarity of flow control, directness of access, developer correctness, and other factors.

The one thing that rules above all else is frequency of human iteration. If a person can test potential solutions 10 times a minute as opposed to waiting on a 10 minute code build then all the secondary factors become almost completely irrelevant. The higher speed of iteration allows the developer to learn and assess various different risk and performance factors that would be too expensive and timely to learn otherwise. That the developer can not only resolve the defect substantially faster but they can do so with less risks while simultaneously issuing performance improvements to the product. Code correctness becomes an irrelevant concern because through 100x greater iterations the given developer will learn from correctness violations and what that means for the given product.
> SwiftKey is amazing because I can tap in the general vicinity of keys and it always writes the right thing

Not my experience at all. Been using it for 10 years, whenever I manage to write a 10 word sentence without needing to correct anything I feel like i just won the lottery.
There is a trend towards less colors overall. Something is changing

https://lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape-using-computer...
LLMs Won't Save Us
That's the point, though. What's there that would stop it from changing later?
I don’t understand why the innate immune response wouldn’t default to attacking an organism made of chiral molecules, since it attacks anything it doesn’t recognise.

And while the adaptive immune response might not immediately recognise a novel organism, is there something that would prevent it ever adapting?
Right, but is it Nespresso compatible? Not clear from the website
Even if this were true (and not hollowed out by various exceptions in Anthropic’s T&C), I would not call it “extremely strict”. How about zero retention?
I think these days on POSIX you can just assume UTF-8. On Windows the situation is... not great and entirely depends on what terminal/shell combination you're using.
ECC is pretty closely related to the study of prime numbers. It might not be built directly on the difficulty of factoring, but the theory of how to construct curves, how to use them, what's expected to be secure etc goes pretty deep.
Dismissing purpose, and living in aimless complacency, is also boorish.

I don't want to come off as anti-pig here, pigs are OK. Number theory is OK too, it's probably the branch of mathematics I dislike least. But it's laudable to sometimes ask "what is it all for?", without wanting to attack or threaten anybody's occupation. No easy answer is available, but it's worth asking.
Failure has to be a recoverable state for this to be true. And whether it is depends both on the circumstances of your failure and on your support network.

E.g. breaking you leg on a popular ski slope is recoverable, breaking your leg in a solo exbidition on the North Pole is not, simply because in one place you have a support network and in the other you haven't.

Similarily having your project fail as the kid of rich parents is recoverable, having your project fail as the kid of poor ones might not be. Like the exhibition on the north pole this comes down to many things. A rich kid might have gotten their house as a gift/inheritance from their parent, if they lose it to cover their debt that is bad, but they didn't work their whole life to buy it. If a poor person fails there might not be such property to cover debts.
Magnus was just being honest man. You seem to succumb to a common thinking fallacy that people who express criticism or negative opinions about something or someone must be jealous, conceited or just negative people in general. Meanwhile he was just expressing what is obvious to any strong player: Ding's level of play was subpar coming to the match, a league below elite at least. His play during the match was way below his peak level as well. Ding made 3 amateur player level blunders (hanging a bishop, missing basic tactics and missing transposition to a basic lost pawn endgame) in this match. Carlsen himself made 0 of those during 5 matches. Among his opponents Anand made 0 blunders of this caliber, Karjakin made 0, Caruana made 0 and Nepo made 2 (or 3 if you count the last game in which he was already playing for nothing as the match was decided)

Gukesh underperformed massively in comparison to his recent level (at the Candidates and the Olympiad). I am guessing due to nerves. That made the match closer than it should be. At the end of the day much better player won but it was way closer than it would normally be.
It's a good presentation, but it's not sufficient as a sales pitch. A non-staged video of both the grinder and the machine in use would be required to place an order, at least for me. As others have mentioned it's not clear where the water pipes go exactly and how the machine is powered.

Also, for $700 independent reviews are also a must.

For the pump kit - this too looks interesting, but requires (way) more details. At the very least a list of supported machines and, again, a video or two of an actual retrofit. Dimensions, voltage (!), etc.
I don't expect that rule to survive. Last time trump took office he went on a petty vendetta through all government departments to try to undo every little thing obama did.
Interesting, wasn't aware of this. Should we freeze our sperm as soon as we hit puberty to improve health of the overall population?
I'm only half joking, would the cost be offset by the drastic cost reduction due to less need of health care for those complex genetic conditions?
Thanks so much for the suggestion! I'll definitely check out the "Who is Hiring" threads—it seems like a great place to start.
Yes, I do have a GitHub account: github.com/sandibi13
I’d love any feedback or suggestions you might have on my projects.
Do you think cost of living today is lower than it was 10, 20, 30 years ago? Do you think the average person today works more or less than before?

Because I’m really curious what you mean when you say we’re more free than ever. Free time especially is what eludes most people of my peer group; endless tv shows to stream is meaningless without free time for example.
Okay, let's say we built the future to your satisfaction, and then what? We would probably play games. How much future do you need to build before it's okay to enjoy your time alive immersed in trivialities?
I hope this was a joke.
You don't need to propagate it, you just need to show the gradient of the current position alongside with the classical evaluation, to give more context to the viewers.
The economics don't matter, everything that is regularly updated or offers a service needs an Impressum. The exception for "purely personal or familial" use clearly doesn't apply here because a service is being provided actively.
I feel like I’ve seen a dozen photos of it now and still have no idea what it looks like. Could you maybe take a couple steps back and snap a shot or two?
It’s all good, I didn’t take your comment as an indication of how it actually functions in Canada. Just reacting to the implications of your examples
This was my first thought! Let's see what James Hoffman thinks of the coffee it makes, he seems very fair and honest in reviews. I went with a Jura bean to cup based on his review and it's turned out very good.
Well, the beauty is always in the eyes of the beholder. Maybe you can experience something new about your language as well once you learn to think in author's way.

For me, it's all extremely fascinating and inspire a lot of of questions!
Three mistakes from Dart/Flutter's weak PRNG
it says "lfi is a lazy functional sync, async, and concurrent iteration library for JavaScript and TypeScript" when you click on the link though

has it been added since?
I'm looking forward for his review.

Congrats on the launch btw OP
Ask HN: Startup Scouts- Insight Required
With the growing number of startups out there, mostly halfway to the solution, how do you validate which startup is the right one to collaborate or acquire? What do you look for? And more importantly, what is your source of information on these startups?
> We need to wait for the legal system to decide.

I think it has.
Right. It's not a word game, it's an area-control game with 150,000 rules for legal placement of your resources.

Codenames is a word game. Scrabble is about arbitrary sequences of glyphs.
Tens of kb worked charm for me in the 90s. For iOt is more than enough. I’m more concerned whether the mesh works when devices move around yet still keep within vicinity of each other.
I would be spoiled for options if I lived in the United States, I really doubt I would be able to find this in the UAE or India.
Edit: I can't even find it on eBay.
And the music? Film music for everything popular seems to have come from the same music box.

But popular music itself is to a high degree very same. That's not to say that there is no original music anymore. There is a big amount. It's just people tastes that decide what becomes popular, and everybody wants to hear the same.

And yet, fashion and taste change. It's just a matter of time.
That validation already happens. I worked as a scientist for a decade before I went to industry, getting grants was a constant struggle - agencies and politicians don't just give out money randomly. One can argue that these processes aren't perfect and that some money gets wasted, and that it makes for weird incentives - but that's a whole other debate.
Electric cables at very easy to make in metal, in fact I'd wager 90%+ at least are made of copper in the whole world.
> the primes aren’t random. They’re completely determined

I wonder how true this statement is but it probably also relies on the understanding of the word 'random'. In the colloquial sense, it is certainly true in the sense that (truly) 'random' means 'occurring without (discernible) rules'.

However, in a stricter definition 'random' means (if I'm not mistaken, hobby-thinker here) just "a given set of numbers S is called random with respect to a set of binary tests T when all individual procedures in T yield a positive outcome". That is, you can only ever a finite set S and test against a finite set T, meaning the algorithm that generated your random-looking set S can, potentially, always be amended to creep closer to overcome the failed tests (and the reverse is also true: one can, potentially, always move the goalposts and add another test to T to make a set fail that used to pass).

Ultimately, then, randomness—where it is not occurring eo ipso as in radioactive decay—is always a relative (S WRT T), social (people must agree), and finite (can't test against unseen members of S and, per precondition, can't give a rule to cover infinity as in 'divisible by eleven') procedure (that may or may not practically terminate). In other words, once we settle on a given set of tests T to determine what is random, one can (potentially) always come up with an algorithm that passes the tests, thus looks random though it is determined.
If a sufficiently large part of a population behaves altruistically, it does makes sense for adoption to happen.

In the example with the elephant seals, if a mother becomes separated from her calf during a storm, having a predisposition in the population to adopting someone else's calf is beneficial to the mother, as her offspring might be adopted as well
That is genuinely jaw-dropping.
At this price, this EV is effectively a mobile battery with a free car thrown in
Add campaign finance.
You're not making a great case for Windows.