skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before the "negative Nancies" came the malevolent Mallorys. They built and popularized centralizing technologies of the shapes that investment capital could understand and exploit, foregoing all those exciting visions of distributed empowerment. Those newly created levers of centralized power then attracted the politickers focused on shaping society in their various images from the top-down.

(Also don't make the mistake of thinking that these groups continually fighting over how the centralized power is used means that any one of them is aligned with individual freedom)
Append a ? to a Kagi search and you get the best of both worlds: it'll add LLM results (Claude at the moment) to a box at the top of your search. I think it's some sort of RAG model that they built on top of their search engine.

You can try the LLM half of it here without an account:

https://kagi.com/fastgpt

edit: I tried the perplexity link in the article. For my test query, the text it generated was similar, but it didn't cite any websites to back up its claims. That's useless! I thought having the LLM link to sources was already table stakes.
Yes sure, I agree. It’s extremely expensive. I can only speak for my region (Berlin Brandenburg) but there’s solar going up everywhere around. Perhaps not fast enough, but movement is happening.
Calendar Genie Chrome Extension: Screenshots to Google Calendar Events
Wanted to share a chrome extension I’ve built called Calendar Genie that creates Google Calendar events from screenshots.

With just a shortcut (⌘⇧U), it captures your screen, uses AI to pull key details like date, time, and location, and creates the event for you instantly—no typing, no hassle.

It’s simple, fast, and respects your privacy: no data is stored on the app.

I’d love for you to try it out and share your thoughts!
Lately I've been wondering if the efficient market hypothesis was actually more true a century ago than it is now.

Not because anything fundamental has changed about economics, but because baselines have shifted to the point that what we expect an efficient market to look like may be very different from what what people expected it to look like in the early 20th century. So, basically, people's definition of "efficient" has subtly changed.

A century or so ago market economies hadn't caught on to the same extent. In the 1950s you had Khrushchev coming to visit Iowa to learn about US agricultural productivity. He visited family farms, talked to people about how they did things, and then went back home to tell the USSR's farmers that they needed to plant corn everywhere, including in places where the climate is not even remotely suitable for growing corn. All this time talking to family farmers about how they make their own decisions about the best use of their own land, and he somehow still failed to pick up on the idea that maybe the secret ingredient in the sauce was that the USA generally let farmers run their own farms.

Sure, the USA's capitalist economy still had charlatans, including agricultural charlatans, and wasteful fads for bad ideas, rent-seeking behavior, pork barrel politics, etc. But maybe it was still easy to see that situation as efficient at the time, because one's reference for comparison included being able to see the greater amount of damage that a planned economy allowed a charlatan like Lysenko to do from his position of power within the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Can this detect if you’re left your garage door open for a while and notify me?
See also "Harbingers of Failure":

https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopu...
With general mathematical questions, I've often found WolframAlpha surprisingly helpful.
You are me.
They are huge no doubt, but until very recently their ISP services were not available outside of QC.

Of course realistically it's just a marginally expanded oligopoly, but 4 players is better than 3 as competition is concerned.
Sorry, wasn't trying to move any goalposts: you're replying to my first comment in the thread. I've never experienced the situation you describe, and literally didn't know that this was a practice. I've seen formal meetings run by Robert's Rules, which have a secretary keeping "minutes", which are a subtly different thing and are generally not useful for anything other than official purposes.

I've also seen meetings where some enterprising project manager says they will "make notes available". Sometimes they even do this, but even when they do, the notes are useless for everyone who isn't them -- they've just distributed their personal notes in the hopes that somehow they would be useful to others in the meeting, which of course they aren't.

Have a nice day.
David Mayer of Rothschild family? Rothschild conspiracy theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories#An...
> I've landed on a mixture of MQTT and Zigbee communicating devices

Almost everything I use is ZigBee, but at first, I used the built-in Zigbee support for it, not realizing what I was missing out on.

After a move, I setup everything again, but this time via ZigBee2MQTT instead and the compatibility is miles ahead of the built-in integration.

Just a word of advice to others who are using the built-in integration atm, not realizing the big difference between the two :)
Many of the LLM powered engines seem to be requiring a login these days. Just set up a burner gmail account to sign up for them (see, Google's still good for something ;-)
And strong leaders are good as long as they think what needs to be done, matches what you want.

The reason Scholz came to power, was not because he is strong, but because he wasn't. Germany is as divided as the rest of europe. Some think the war in Ukraine is the most important.
Some think climate crisis is. Some think cheap energy is the most important, some think the immigrants, ... so how does it all go together? Well, it doesn't. And since we are a democracy we need to find some compromise. Not a dictator.

But yeah, some indeed want to have a dictator and a strong Wehrmacht back. And their numbers are rising.
I'll be the one to plug Valetudo in this thread I guess. Primitively, it replaces the cloud functionality on-device for robot vacuums (see supported models) and replaces it with local services that run offline and can connect to Home Assistant easily.

I will never buy another robot vacuum without Valetudo support as long as that project lives. It's great.

https://valetudo.cloud/
Prototype device produces critical fertilizer ingredient from thin air
Fyi the mobile image swipe mechanic on the linked page is inverted. Swiping left takes you to the image on the left, instead of the image on the right and vice versa.
I think a bigger problem with these DIY home design apps is that you have no idea which ones are worth using or not until you've already bought them and then run into a road block they couldn't fix.
AI Will Evolve into an Organizational Strategy for All
The only part of their presentation that was interesting is having Siri be able to control apps and reach into apps for information, and developers having an API to register actions and information with the LLM. I'm not super optimistic about the execution at this point though given how rushed it's all been.
Standards Development Organisations in an era of strategic competition
> I have little hope that we’ll get much beyond a disparate collection of mostly half-baked features.

Really? AI has driven most of the interesting features they've released in the last decade. Notably, organization of the photos app and indexing of people, pets, places, etc. (Nb I have not yet updated to ios 18 and I understand the photos app is somewhat controversial.)
What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018)
"I only believe in flat earthers from the US of A. Wouldn't want to be manipulated by any foreign governments".

There are so many useful idiots, they were never going to manipulate you directly, there's too many people.

I can't even tell how much of this comment section is astroturfed / bot driven anymore.
Can we make a strategic vs tectical distinction when it comes to reforms?
Making energy expensive is kind of the point, isn't it? The cost of destroying the planet was not billed in so far, so we need to correct that.
You don't seem to speak to a lot of people. The debt break is in high regard in Germany, for very good reasons. Just look at the latest absurd policy suggested by Habeck: a 1000€ voucher for electricity for everyone who buys an electric car. THAT'S the kind of policies which are prevented by a debt break.

The problem is not that the government cannot spend enough. We have higher tax revenues than ever. The problem is that most of the taxes are spent on consumption instead of investments. More money for the government through debts won't necessarily increase investments, but it will 100% increase consumption ever more.

Also, you should look into why the French government collapsed: because their high-debt policies haven't been sustainable.
Exactly, I'll personally buy it for $2Million for anyone that can get it and assign me the full code/weight and rights.
No but the variance is very high
>You should read up on what Luddism and Luddists were actually about.

They were primarily opposed to automation because it devalued the work they did and the skills they held. That is the core essence of Luddism. They thought if they destroyed the machines, automation could be stopped. There were some post-facto justifications like product quality, but if that was true they'd have no problem out-competing the machines.

Yes, it is Luddism that drives a lot of the AI sentiment seen on HN, and it is not only utterly futile and basically people convincing themselves and each other while the world moves on. There is no "name calling", and that particular blend of pearl clutching is absurd.
Converge (YC S23) is hiring founding engineer #2
I added ratgdo to my HomeAssistant and have HomeAssisteant send notifications if the garage door is open (with a button that closes it)
There is an open source Delta that is a very good library. This is not the same as Databricks' implementation and there are at times compatability issues. For example, by default if you write a delta table using Databricks' dbr runtimes, that table is not readable by the open source Delta because due to the "deletion vectors" optimization that is only accessible within Databricks.

That aside, I was more pointing out that Delta, particularly via a commercial offering, is a data format biased towards Spark in terms of performance, since it is being developed primarily by Databricks as a part of the spark ecosystem. If you are plan to use Delta regardless of your compute engine, it makes perfect sense as a benchmark. However, for certain circumstances, the performance wins could be (in my case was) worth it to switch data formats.
Perhaps an iSmartGate Pro works?

https://ismartgate.com/ismartgate-pro/
The US completely gave up on the idea of actually stopping school shootings, so parents now only feel comfortable if they can contact their children 24/7.
Ich glaube nicht, dass das irgendjemand als Erfolg bezeichnet, sie haben nur zu viel Angst oder sind zu faul, um eine bedeutsame Veränderung herbeizuführen. Erbärmlich.
I am not suggesting HN is a target for the US government, but that prominent people are targets of consensus forming efforts.
Gülçin YıldıRım Jelínek: Maintaining Postgres for Modern Workloads
> Talking purely abstractly, it's hard to settle the debate,

Hm, the mistake in the abstract is pretty obvious and is acknowledge in the theoretical discussions of all the "perfect efficiencies" theories - real life is never perfect!
So sure, at the superficial/cocktail party level, you'll always have a lot of folks ignoring the obvious and repeating this silly mistakes. But then it's just as easy to do the same when looking at the specifics. I mean, the original example came from defending a specific obvious error?

It's also not hard to find flaws in the specifics: like with the air conditioner friend "missing expertise", you don't need to have any expertise to look for such a directly measurable (even wihout instruments) stuff such as noise level! I mean, your friend could've gone and listened to different units working if this information is not covered anywhere online.

Even though the fundamental issue of the challenge to find relevant reliable information is indeed very hard, there are so many force working against a poor guy at any level of actual expertise of said guy (so the post is right on the money here)!
Swift means it'll require LLVM.

QT is bloated and resource intensive. Most of us don't want gigabytes of data being spent on special effects.
Not in the winter though!

In the hot and humid summer you're definitely trying to reduce indoor humidity.

But in the winter when it's bone-dry? A hot shower barely makes a difference.

I keep two humidifiers running all winter long just to bring indoor humidity up to 35% or 40% where it's healthy.

Otherwise it often goes down to 15% or even 10% on cold winter days, which is terribly unhealthy.
The actual American belief is generally "[Most] Rich people bad government worse".

The Pinkertons were breaking strikes launched by Americans, after all. May Day is a commemoration of an event that took place in Chicago. The reaction to the cold-blooded murder of an insurance executive on a public street is pretty characteristically American, in my view. We just don't like power.
Again with the Gish Gallop.

Given your remark about good faith efforts, I'm forced to conclude that was actually projection, and you're not interested in having a good faith discussion.

I read your first three sources (skimmed the last of those, really), and in all three, the "chilling effect" you claim still remains a hypothetical. There's lots of "could" and "can" in those pieces, but no "did". I still see plenty of large-scale demonstrations in New York City, and in fact I hear of more of them, not fewer, at time goes on. Some of that is availability of said information/coverage/my information bubble, but it's certainly not evidence of a "chilling effect", despite the vast increase in city-wide surveillance that New York City has seen over the same time period.

The evidence you present here is worth less than my own lived experience in this case, simply because it tells what could happen without contextualizing that within what has actually happened.

Take the second example from your second source, about the DEA planning to use ALPRs at gun shows[1]. If you ignore the sensationalism, the story is actually boring: the DEA and ATF considered whether or not they could use readers at gun shows to help track illegal gun sales. They didn't end up doing it, likely because it would have been illegal to do so.

This is the system working. This is not evidence of a them using this technology to enact an authoritarian surveillance state. This is a state that has broad access to this kind of technology, and then often doesn't use it because it's legally obligated that they not, unless they can provide the proper justification.

It's also an example that is (again!!) unrelated to the claim you are making.

The rest is just more of the same Gish Gallop, and I'm tired of engaging with you on this. Even if your intent about having a good faith discussion is sincere, in practice you are still not engaging in a good-faith way. What I asked for was simple: evidence of a concrete statement you presented as fact. What you've given me is a laundry list of closely related things, but nothing that actually matches the context of the statement you made.

This is not a good-faith discussion in practice, because you refuse to keep the discussion narrowly focused and instead just gesture wildly at a bunch of things that are related (but many of whom are still arguing hypotheticals!), and that you feel should stand in for the evidence in asking for. But it doesn't, and given your repeated deflections, I'm forced to conclude that you don't have said concrete evidence.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/news/free-future/dea-planned-monitor-gu...
Article fails to mention how almost all of big tech backed Harris (and spent over a billion) and Trump only gets the Thiel and his acolytes. They play both sides and will continue to.
The implication is that Rust's conservatism regarding what is blessed to go into the standard library sets up a similar dynamic.
Why would they ever add that? Mass market means every penny added to the BOM counts. I mean I wouldn’t be surprised if some manufacturer added that but I imagine 99% of people who buy “low cost” TV’s walk right through the WiFi onboard screen and connect to the internet. The number of people who go out of their way to keep the TV off the network has to be incredibly low.
I've had great success with quantized Phi-4 12B and Ollama so far. It's as fast as Llama 3.1 8B but the results have been (subjectively) higher quality. I copy/pasted some past requests into Phi-4 and found the answers were generally better.
For me two things jump out:

Giant paragraphs (hard for the eyes to keep focus).

Sparse amount of headers (contributes to the flow and easier to scan, to see if it's something I'm interested in).
What would be an example of cheating since it says "no cheating".
I ran it through Perplexity Pro which gave a very different and detailed answer with this closing note: "It's worth noting that not all places named "Hamilton" are necessarily named after Alexander Hamilton. For example, Hamilton, Ontario in Canada is named after George Hamilton, a Canadian merchant. Similarly, Hamilton in Scotland and New Zealand are named after different individuals."
Sometimes the $130 thing is not better.

Take barbecue gloves. Yes, you can buy all sorts of varieties. Pitt Boss, Crate and Barrel, and others sell gloves in the $30 range. These gloves have enough heat resistance that you can pull a steel handled pan right out of the oven.

Know what works even better and is more durable for half the cost? Welding gloves. You can buy gloves rated to over 1K Fahrenheit for less than $20. Now you've cut your cost but also have the added ability if you wish to rearrange burning coals BY HAND.

I think that one of the things we do in this consumerist society is to buy things that look good instead of things that are functional. You aren't going to find much tupperware in a professional kitchen. What you WILL find are Cambro containers, heating dishes, and a variety of generic food storage containers. They are cooking their food in heavy walled pots and stainless steel pans with metal implements. Most people could throw out about 80% of their cooking pots and pans and never miss any of them. At least baking vessels are far more task-dependent.

Is a Le Creuset dutch oven pretty? Sure. Is it functionally better than a generic cast iron dutch oven? No. And of the two, the cast iron dutch oven is the one where you can buy once and have your great-great grandkids fight about who gets to keep it, because the Le Creuset will almost certainly have developed defects in the ceramic by then. On the flip side, a $300 refurbished Vitamix will beat the pants off of any off-the-shelf blender and last longer, too. But then, that's a professional product.
I second Zigbee2mqtt. Koen's work is legedenary, I also been fascinated by Zigbee and been using ever since. No need to 3rd part oem vendor lock-in. 99% of the devices I purchased currently nearly 52 on my zigbee network, were paird hassle free.
That's what we did. Our house was built in 1916, but the weather sealing we've done combined with six people breathing in it led to quite high CO2 levels. We have a traditional ducted air conditioning system in the attic (heat is hot water radiant), and added the ERV there. It made a massive difference.
The team would have been getting ready to ship REALbasic 2007r2; I would have been working on its incremental compilation toolchain.

Why do you ask?
Swift requires LLVM and has shit performance. I'm generally a fan of only C/C++ and Pascal/Modula stuff. All these new found languages like Rust and swift are pure trash.
No expertise here, but wouldn't another strategy be to attack the sensors? Ideally subtly, but.

And another strategy be to overwhelm the sensors? Have a million dummy subs that give off sensor readings suggesting they are real, when in fact they are cheaper drones? Kind of the way prey overwhelm predators by all hatching at the same time.
Video and image generation with Veo 2 and Imagen 3
The current generation is v2 mini, which is ~740 kg. It's no smaller than Europe's IRIS2 concept (which are unknown, but can't be heavier than 820 kg—see my sibling comment).

(And just in case anyone's lost track: SpaceX has already launched over ten times more v2's than the entire (proposed) IRIS2. This is not a case of EU opting to do "fewer, but larger" satellites; they're simply just not competing in the same league).
What are they going to say within the context of their coalition government? SPD has no majority without Greens and FDP, and what can those three parties agree on other than "we love immigration?" The only thing that ties the coalition together is opposition to AfD and that's not a recipe for a functional government.
they could pull the plug on their access to cloud service

It's happened to me twice.

The first time was about seven years ago, when Fiet Electric sent out a software update that deliberately bricked all of its home hubs, and consequentially turned all of the connected smart light bulbs into dumb light bulbs. Speculation on IoT forums at the time was that Fiet failed to properly license some piece of code that was critical to its system; but that was all speculation. I seem to recall that Fiet put out an e-mail long after the fact letting people know they could no longer use their "smart" devices.

The second time was earlier this year, when Sylvania ended its cloud service, and turned its smart bulbs into merely clever bulbs. They'll still work with the stand-alone Sylvania app, but new bulbs can no longer be added to Apple HomeKit setups. So you need to use two apps (Home and Sylvania) to control the devices in your home. That is, until the Sylvania app is no longer available in the App Store, or compatible with modern devices.

Avoiding Fiet Electric products was easy. But I thought I'd be safe with a big name like Sylvania.

The "L" in IoT stands for "Longevity."
This is happening due to Microsoft buying Skype so they could create/market Microsoft Teams. In their continuing push of Teams, Microsoft has eliminated the Skype Credit process entirely. I am canceling my Skype account and going with my cellphone provider's WIFI Calling feature. What we all knew and loved about Skype has passed away.......
In college (2002-2008), my computer was often 'whatever the hell I could get my hands on'. My laptop died, so I wound up borrowing my parent's 500mhz pentium with 64 mb of ram as my 'college machine'. Shockingly, it could actually run firefox at the time.

Anyway, this meant that I didn't have a computer when I visited them. The only one left in the house was a 486 with 24 mb of ram. What's an enterprising coder to do? Did I really want to leave my cs homework until I returned? No! So I put slackware on it, and let me tell you dillo ran wonderfully, at least well enough to pull up javadocs. I'd edit my src files locally, ssh into my uni's unix lab, transfer the src files there and compile. This workflow was surprisingly productive, or maybe it was just the sheer force of will young devs have. I honestly think having to 'figure things out' with bad hardware is a great learning experience.

I am now sitting beside my workstation with 64 GB of ram and 24 gb of vram and a beefy 16 core cpu. It alone has more L3 cache on the cpu than I had ram in either machine back in the day!
Veo 2: Our video generation model
The XKCD about unifying standards under a new standard is how I feel every single time I learn anew piece of math notation.

"This is ridiculous! We need a better, more intuitive notation that's also easier to do math at."