skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However obvious a decision the ease and ROI make balcony solar for individuals...might anyone here be familiar with European electrical grids, to comment on the upstream problems which at-scale balcony solar might cause?

(I'm thinking operational problems here, not financial. Though the latter might prove more difficult to handle.)
> the introduction of technology (starting with the wheel?) led us inexorably down the wrong path, and only in this century are we beginning to see its civilization-ending effects.

It is interesting to think about what technology harbored the destruction of the civilization said technology ushered in.

For context, the wheel is estimated to have been invented around 3,500BC, while we've had structures and systems that resemble and arguably are foundational to today's civilization: the cities that even older than wheels, like Argos, Athens, Plovdiv, Jericho, Thebes, Larisa, etc.
Setup your own transactional email service with CF Workers/Mailchannels
> Undoubtedly I’ll find something else to be upset about

Vendor SDKs. You’ll be upset about that I guarantee :)
HeyGen TypeScript SDK
You only need a small number of people taking GLP-1 drugs to see the overall obesity rate go down.

As far as drugs go, GLP-1 drugs are extremely popular for how young they are. As the article mentions, 1 in 8 people have been prescribed them at some point. Regardless of what you’ve heard personally, that’s a huge number of people! Definitely enough to start showing up as a couple points reduction in obesity rate.
Fish shell announces 4.0 release
Why does this matter?

They can develop it while lying in bed and daydreaming for all the difference it makes.
I switched to Dvorak 20 years ago and I love it. It only took me about 2 weeks to learn and to pass my qwerty typing speed. I could actually touch type on either keyboard for the first year or two after I switched. I recommend not using stickers or dvorak keyboards at all, it helps you learn faster and your family won't get pissy because they can't use your computer anymore.

Also, it is not difficult to use other peoples computers. You can switch keyboards pretty easy these days on windows and mac. In fact, my very first computer (Apple IIc) had a mechanical switch to flip between qwerty and dvorak.
In order to judge the merits of the argument it is helpful to understand why certain points are made so journalists will usually provide some citation which justifies their claims. It doesn’t help the argument to provide bad references, let alone to not bother with a reference.
Show HN: I put aider in a ReAct loop and it works well
Hello HN,

I've recently been trying out and using the latest and greatest software development agents, including Windsurf and Cursor.

Before using those, I had been using aider for everyday practical SWE tasks, but aider is not very agentic --it's best at one-off, scoped programming tasks.

I did a quick test by putting aider in a ReAct loop using create_react_agent from langchain. To my surprise, it ended up working very well --it's able to solve programming tasks that Windsurf has failed at.

The agent has access to many tools such as ripgrep, fuzzy find, filesystem navigation, etc. One tool, in particular, is an expert tool where it can use a dedicated reasoning model, such as OpenAI's o1, to reason about logic, bugs, or complex planning tasks. It's been really interesting to see when and how it decides to use these tools.

The project does support plugging in any model you want to use, but so far I've found it to work best with the latest claude as the agent, and o1-preview (or o1 if you have access to it) for the expert reasoning model.

This is something I put together out of practical need, so if you have ideas, feedback, or especially PRs, those are welcome.

The project is licensed as Apache 2.0 (same as aider) and is intended to be a public good --our open tool so we aren't all dependent on proprietary tools and services to get our work done. The dream is that it will eventually work well on fully open/local models.

Cheers
Tldraw and Gemini 2.0
The Science of Snowflakes [video]
if y'all is too "ethnic" for John McWhorter (I find this characterization disappointing compared to some of his other work) certainly "folks" is even more cultural appropriation
Florence y'all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%2C_Kentucky#Arts_and_...
what do you mean by "write code"
This is so true. I noticed only last year how many young kids go to my gym. They aren't skimping on it either. They do all the core exercises, they don't skip leg day, they help each other push more on the bench, etc. I think it'll build a certain form of discipline and character: there are certain things in life which don't have shortcuts. A gym is a great equalizer in many aspects, because you need little to no money for a good gym with good equipment. The most important equipment is a bunch of free weights, and rich or poor, results will need more or less the same amount of work. It's a place which welcomes everyone, and where hard and consistent work is rewarded.
Doesn’t really matter. People won’t care about long term consequences if they’re experiencing hardships right now. It’s easy to say this when we have jobs, but if I didn’t have one, I would never want my government to prioritize others.
It's renewable.

> Once awarded, if you are still a maintainer of a popular open source project when your initial 12 months subscription expires then you will be able to renew your subscription for free.

source: https://github.com/pricing#i-work-on-open-source-projects-ca...
Not only did the magnetic fuses not work, the impact fuses would collapse and fail if the torpedo made a direct hit. And the torpedoes would consistently run deeper than they were set to. US torpedoes in the early stages of the war were nearly completely ineffective.
The Leverage Points in Engineering Ecosystems
US Homeland Security chief attacks EU effort to police artificial intelligence
Amazon was previously reimbursing other costs?
> phpBB

Whoa there Nelly!

If we're going to resurrect things, can we do it whilst leaving PHP in the past?
I've been advocating the use of a LISP in the feedback committee of a local CS school I'm in... Some start the course with quite strong JS/Java/C#/Python skills, and some have zero exposure to programming.

A LISP would in most cases:

* level the playing field for all pupils

* focus on learning the concepts over learning the language (I argue LISPs are almost syntax-free)

* while not delving into type systems just yet!
https://archive.ph/t6xIO
> If you design a language that doesn't allow pointers to be shared across threads at all, then you wouldn't need a borrow checker.

Is that actually true? I'm pretty sure you need the borrow checker even for single threaded Rust to prevent use after frees.
It seems that very little of that has anything to do with health.

It also seems like the declines are all from the recent COVID induced surges. Have we declined in any of those metrics from 2019 levels?

The only one really healthy related is obesity, likely from the combination of GLP-1 and COVID killing obese people.

Every decade there is a weight loss miracle cure and everytime we see an outbreak of the side effects a few years later.

So it's hard pressed to call a medication induced decline in obesity "healthy".

Anecdotally the few people I know that have experienced significant weight loss from Ozempic look anything but healthy.
Version 1.1.7 of Rspack has been compromised
Oh, I know singular they is used/exists. I'm only pointing out that there is more precise language available most of the time, should it be needed - either she/he or adding details elsewhere in the conversation.
> The problem with "people" is it sounds vaguely rude or hostile.

That seems like a projection. Most people I know would be fine with it.
i've never seen coding standards properly enforced on any large project, nobody has time to read through and scrutinize 30 files of code every time somebody creates a new feature when everybody has their own work to be doing too. at my last job we had mandatory code reviews and some days half of the entire day was just doing that. it didn't long before reading turned into skimming and skimming just turned into clicking approve.
“Your margin is my opportunity” - Bezos
If there had been a few thousand times less coal on the world but all of it readily accessible the Industrial Revolution had been over before we had time to move on from steam engines. We probably would have used all of it for heating in antiquity.
Why I'm excited about text-box-trim as a designer
What happens when the Internet disappears?
A number of countries use this when giving your pin for a credit card or similar (I've noticed it in both Greece and India).

I can't help but feel like it's less secure than the default layout - I'm quite good at hiding my PIN and typing quickly, but when the positions of the numbers are randomised, I feel like I practically end up saying my PIN out loud as I try and remember it.
Seems obvious that if said social life is mostly with people who mostly just do drugs then no change will happen.
Title is misleading; this only applies to items that are lost/damaged prior to being sold.

“For items that are lost or damaged after a customer order in Amazon’s store, we’ll continue to reimburse you for the sales price on the original order minus applicable fees”
Radix sorting is great, as this article points out. But I followed the links and didn't see any mention of the most obvious optimization that makes it even better on modern systems.

If you do MSB for the first pass, then the subsequent passes within each bucket are completely independent :) So... Choose a large radix and do one MSB pass, then parallelize the LSB processing of each bucket. This is fantastic on a GPU. You might think that you would want many thousands of kernels running simultaneously, but in actuality each SM (and the Apple equivalent) has a thread-local cache, so you really only want a couple hundred simultaneous kernels at the most. I've written CUDA and Metal versions and they are fast. And you don't even have to be very good at GPU programming to get there. It's very basic. AoCP has the pseudocode.
You're right, I had it backwards! Thanks for the correction.

Now I'm wondering, could that actually be all that's needed to rescue checked exceptions? Is there any language that has that combination of features?
EU constantly does things the US hasn't - such as consumer protection laws. But HN response to that is always "oh no EU is bullying US companies".
I too am looking. I started drawing on a napkin how it would work. Basically injection mold the letter and stem only in one color, then put that in a different mold and injection mold the rest of the key around that. Seem like it should work, but I haven't done enough injection molding to know how feasible it might be (letters don't seem to bad, but 5/% probably needs a 4 part mold or something and I can't imagine keeping all the parts together). Worse, there is a lot of tiny machining operations needed and so for a one off my cost per key gets to be $15 each (mostly on tiny bits needed that will thus break often).

3d resin printers might be a good option, my background leans to injection molding so I didn't think of it until now. Here you would print two pieces and then snap them together.

Both of the above have the letter molded through the key and so whatever chemicals are in my fingers won't destroy the lettering after a year of use. Though plastic selection is also important otherwise my fingernails will destroy the key anyway in a short time. Not everyone has fingers/skin chemistry like mine and so some won't understand why I care while others are all in with me.
In Spanish it would be "Ustedes".
"Allowing this solid 1/5th of the workforce to confront their employer without fear of deportation would go a long way increasing compensation for the industry as a whole."

It is strange to read this all typed out in earnest like that. Housing costs triple over night for the win? We'll all be homeless but those of us in construction will get a boost (or decreased competition from low cost imported labor).
I had one of the largest retailers to reach out to my company with an interesting problem. Given a weight and ingredients of packaged food they wanted to predict the content of each ingredient so that they could calculate the suppliers COGS so that they could use it as negotiating leverage against the suppliers...
I finished the sequel of that book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_House_(novel)) this year, can also highly recommend it. The TV show looks cheap...but it actually aged really well and it has Pierce Brosnan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_House_(miniseries)). Can recommend it as well!
As a non-Texan, I can usually tell the difference, since "all y'all" is generally followed by "muthafuckers".
> pristine forest

You have probably never in your whole life been to a forest that's more than a few hundred years old. Even the Amazon was largely managed by humans with fire prior to about the 15th-16th century.

> technology must be regressed

This is a morally deranged axiom. The life-giving benefits of so many technologies can't be overstated.
This whole new fantasy that billionaires know best for consumers is quite concerning.

The idea that these institutions, like FTC, are bad for consumers, and this new blind faith that things must be deregulated because the market will solve it for the better is going to be interesting.

By the way, when things turn bad, it's we who will pay the price again for this deregulation, not billionaires. It's like people are choosing fantasy and magical thinking over History... 2008 wasn't that long ago.
Apple Hit with Criminal Complaints in France and Belgium over "Blood Minerals"
Is there some Simpsons paradox/composition effect thing going on here, or something with PPP vs. real wages? For full-time employees, real wages are up[0][1], especially for the bottom quartile[2]. Overall median income appears to be down from 2019[3][4].

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881900Q
[2] https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2023/
[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
an aggressively progressive set of new yorkers practically bullied me into using it a decade ago over concerns of sexism so at least when talking about people in those places in tech I can't say I share your experience. lots of coastal progressives say y'all nowadays. it's "inclusive"

I also hear people say "folks" when that is also borrowed from Southern US English

I say y'all because it has one less syllable than the other options while retaining clarity
Taxing the wealthy is not about raising revenue. It's about preventing oligarchy.
If you can write a program to check results you've already solved the issue.
California squirrels are eating another rodent, new study finds
"Money is the measure of usefulness?"

Good lord. There's so much wrong with this statement that I doubt I can meaningfully respond to it. I'll try, though.

If we have to reduce measures of usefulness to a single metric, then why not percentage of users who respond favorably?

I daresay that people find air quite useful, and for the most part, air is free.
One of my biggest concerns of doing something like this is being too far away from specialist healthcare in my old age. I see my 70 year old mother struggling to find specialist doctors without going to the big city (which is 2 hours away). She is not even _that_ far away from the big city.

Meaning around one time per month she has to devote a whole day for a doctor trip. I am afraid when she grows older and can't do that by herself anymore. Most of her doctors are still local though, but specialists are hard to find.

When my dad had cancer he had to take similar trips for his treatment. Except it was weekly with occasional multiple times per week. It was brutal for him and my mother.
about time...this guy is all PR and marketing no substance
Some people actually refused to move out and had to be evicted.

People form emotional attachment to their home, even if the living conditions are bad.
(Re)-Introducing La Cryptographie Militaire
Show HN: Polls in Slack Powered by GenAI
Hi,
Founder of Geekbot here. Today we are lunching Geekbot Polls, a product that helps you create polls in Slack.
We are using GenAI to make the process as easy as possible, so you can give the command:
/geekpoll "Your question here"
and the app will automatically generate possible answers.
We've started the product as we weren't very satisfied with similar products. Feel free to use and share any feedback you might have.
8kg is too big for a falcon, probably
I want to output to my monitor and charge the thing at the same time
I feel like like that recently. Just examining an app that was largely written in isolation and ... I just discovered a new auth endpoint / service that nobody knew we had, and it does not behave logically. It has all sorts of limits that impedes testing / troubleshooting.

Pain ...

For the record I am going to eventually direct this app to the "normal" auth service and fix it all up, but man why is it this way???
I had never heard that theory before!

FWIW, everyone in the beginning of WWII had magnetic detonator / torpedo problems, so it couldn't be just that. They were difficult to depth-keep just right to pass under a ship but within detection, for one thing. The sub captain had to correctly identify the ship, look up the draft, and call down to manually set the depth keeping. (Good luck in the swells of north atlantic). Often it just didn't use that depth anyway, due again to issues with design/testing.

The contact detonators had their own issues, for one they couldn't explode at an oblique angle, instead needed near-right-angle impact - but even then had a high dud ratio.

So, in theory the magnetic ones were preferable, even though standard doctrine was to fire for right-angle impact regardless (it makes evasion much more difficult, for one thing).
"will" used to mean "to want", like its cognates in Dutch or German still do. However, it's not really unusual, it's quite common for desiderative forms of verbs to evolve into expressing a future tense, something similar happened independently in a few Indo-European language families, like Greek, Albanian, Celtic etc...
I've visited it earlier this year and it seems pretty unchanged ("cheap watches", "need tailor",...). I've stayed in one of the budget hostels there a few years ago, its was interesting but I'd probably not do it again. Waiting 15 minutes for one of the cramped elevators every time you go home gets old quickly.
There is a lot of published research work in ML that had huge impact without explicitly touching linear algebra.

Given that is the case, to answer your question: yes, linear algebra is the foundation of ML. No, a lot of impactful day-to-day ML engineering can be done without touching linear algebra.

This is how assembly is the basis of compilation and programming. But you probably are going to get a whole lot of work done without ever using it.

It's generally a nice flex when applicants can code assembly, and usually a yellow-flag when the company suggests they require knowledge of assembly.

To me, my eyebrows raise when an industry person mentions linear algebra. I'm just saying the odds are really low that you actually use it.
FWIW, judges in England (or maybe UK) have flip-flopped on this question as recently as in 2003. (See "R v G") That said maybe the problem is that the UK doesn't have different degrees of murder. But still.

Real life can be complicated and moral/legal questions can be hard to determine.
Journal linked in the article: Journal of Ethology, https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-024-00832-6
That tracks only when it’s not taking 6+ months to find a stable job. It’s not really a growth market right now, and anyone who is on the hiring end/looking for a job can attest.
I was curious if instead of a dedicated lossless codec you could just encode with Opus plus the (compressed) bit difference from the original data. Google sent me to this informative HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14598929

TL;DR: probably not.
> In September, the U.S. government announced that the adult-obesity rate had declined in its most recent count, which ended in August 2023.

The word "announced" is a link to this [1]. I'm failing to see in that where the rate has declined. According to the "key findings" section of that document,

> From 2013–2014 through August 2021–August 2023, the age-adjusted prevalence of obesity did not change significantly, while severe obesity prevalence increased from 7.7% to 9.7%.

Later it adds,

> Changes in the prevalence of obesity and severe obesity between the two most recent survey cycles, 2017–March 2020 and August 2021–August 2023, were not significant.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db508.htm
I don't know who you know, but most people I know would not be fine with it in every context. "You people" is widely considered pejorative, and any speaker who cares about communication should be aware of that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/w0zx8e/why...
https://archive.is/cGLMS
Apple challenges EU's proposal to expose AirDrop and others to third parties
My amplifier and speakers date from the 70s.
Dance with the devil...
Yeah I think we are mostly on the same page for sure, I would nearly go so far as to say that self-replicating with variation is 'essential' for intelligence.. and I do utterly love evolution as an idea - but maybe it's just what happened-to-produce the main examples of intelligence we've observed so far in recent history on Earth? (personally I don't think it's just humans that are intelligent either though! so many animals and probably other things are extremely smart too! Just very hard to measure!)

And yeah I was only using the idea of a crystal as an analogy, all replicators (all life?) is a bit like a kind of smooshy-space-and-time-crystal in a way though right? Especially the multicellular kind!!

It's the regeneration/continuation of information of who-knows what type? All types! Obviously there's genes and Levin's vmem and other epigenetic stuff on the biological-side, but now there's also youtube, video-games, recipes, traditions? all memetic-replicators, or meta-memetic ones that control which other memes you allow in your life? I like to remember that all of them are subject to the rules-of-evolution too - there's a success for the memes themselves if they are getting us to carrying them forward!! Can be wildly different types of memories accross epic amounts of time too? Bloody amazing to think about I reckon! Evolution FTW!
I hadn't considered y'all the English equivalent of vosotros, but this makes perfect sense.
Solving renewable energy's sticky storage problem
Previously Amazon would pay you as if it were sold normally. So you would still get your profit. Now they want reimburse just the cost to make it, leaving the seller with 0 profit on damaged items.

They used to have a fairly high loss/damage rate. Lately it seems rare, for what it's worth
This Is what OpenWrt is fore.
Im still dirty about the NBN. Every now and then i go back home to visit and are rudely reminded that the network speeds suck. What do you mean i have to in wait for things to download? What do you mean I'm the the biggest city in the country and are on a copper line getting 5 Mbps....
Very very sad about cohost closing btw. It was really the only "post twitter acquisition" social network that spoke to me. It felt very late 2000' in the best ways.
There’s an interesting podcast episode of Lex Fridman with Charan Ranganath (memory researcher) in case people are looking for more on the topic