skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I'll need to dig that up. pISSStream got its first feature request and it was touch bar support, and I can't just say "no" to that. Turned out however that Apple apparently doesn't officially support having your app on the touch bar unless it's in focus, but I've gathered there's a kluge (which I'm not sure even works on current macOS versions) that involves using a private framework and API, and which is doubly kluge-y to use from Swift because it has no equivalent for extern, so you need to add an ObjC/C header and a bridge header thingamajig to your project.

That of course only made me more determined to git'r'done, I'll be damned if I let Apple stand in the way of a joke.
> Would it make sense for local electricity companies to go full solar with large battery backups?

Sure. But opposition to those battery energy storage systems (BESS) is intense and growing.
I don't fully understand the cloud upsell. I have a beefy GPU. I would like to run the "more advanced" models locally.

By "I don't fully understand," I mean just that. There's a lot of marketing copy, but there's a lot I'd like to understand better before plopping down $$$ for a unit. The answers might be reasonable.

Ideally, I'd be able to experiment with a headset first, and if it works well, upgrade to the $59 unit.

I'd love to just have a README, with a getting started tutorial, play, and then upgrade if it does what I want.

Again: None of this is a complaint. I assume much of this is coming once we're past preview addition, or is perhaps there and my search skills are failing me.
You're correct. I've lived in Germany and the UK where this sort of thing just doesn't exist and the sheer cost-of-doing-business in those countries obviates away this sort of stuff into "noise".

One thing about the U.S. is this sort of liability also has a huge gamut depending almost entirely on which actual U.S. state the transaction is done.

However, there's also likewise a huge gamut between what's technically actionable versus what's practicable with jurisprudence. Europe has an entirely different notion of "legal fees".
A good comparable is Russia’s attack on Grozny.

5000-8000 dead in a city with a population of about 200,000.
that actually might have been accurate.

my garmin was really good at picking up my heart rate. there was one time i had it in a waist pack, and i was wearing a chest strap that was not paired to the garmin, and the garmin managed to pick up a pretty accurate heart rate for most of a bike ride.
> I don't think anyone can get numbers, but partial ordering is much easier.

Agreed.

> If Steve and Susan are in different part of organization, the answer is "cannot compare". If they are doing different job, the answer is the same.

These are the situations where we would get the most value from the metrics though.

The team level already has an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead who can directly deal with team level problems.
I can't look at a conversation about types without thinking of hexing the technical interview [0]. It's not quite the sort of thing TFA is talking about, but how does everyone here feel about sneaking parsers and other code that normally exists at runtime or in the build system into the type system instead?

[0] https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
Israel's stated goal is not to kill unlike Hamas
I think he meant 9 USD cents per kw. (He included ct with NZD but forgot it with USD.)
Because (at least in the USA) the soft costs are excessive:

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/11/16/tackling-soft-costs-a...
Finding microphones that look nice, can pick up voice at high enough quality to extract commands and that cover an entire room is surprisingly hard.

If this device delivers on audio quality it's totally worth it at $59.
I’d start with this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming_keypad
We need to bring 'thou' back! Don't thou agree?
like this? https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/
On the bright side, you need to pay only $1+, if you are using it commercially. Seems a reasonable ask and a nice way to support the development. Interesting approach to licensing indeed, but I wouldn't call it messed up. It's just new.
We should be. Why? Because reasonable estimates of the amount of extra energy contained within the atmosphere due to anthropogenic effects are in the single digit petawatt range. It's a number everyone should be carrying in their heads.

Put a different way: the total annual harvestable solar yield is within an order of magnitude of the energy we've caused to accumulate inside the atmospheric boundary. Think about that, for a second or two.
Whoa: there's a fairly long WP article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_ham_radio
They sell the console at a loss but make 30% on every game sold. The business model is variant of "dumping" but antitrust isn't enforced anymore.
1) These numbers are from MSF (Doctors Without Borders)

2) Israel themselves rely on the Gazan ministry of health’s numbers, aka Hamas, which I believe are pegged at 40k, definitely an extreme undercount

Finally, there’s no quibbling about it. Israel (on the US’s behalf) is a oppressor. Those imprisoned, starved and bombed in Gaza are the oppressed.

But happy to hear why you think that may not be the case.
Wait until Stephen Miller gets the denaturalization squad back
The enlightened option from a felicific calculus method it seems to me would require putting the destiny of Israel democratically in the hands of the Levantine majority; scaling back its territory occupied and settled illegally. But of course, this is not an option. This risks the genocide of the Israelis by putting power in its neighbors, when they have the wealth and US support to ensure that it is their more numerous enemies that risks genocide instead
New is an immediate "nope" to a whole lot of people when it comes to legal risk.
Not every cartoon series.

https://www.abc.net.au/education/digibooks/dust-echoes/10173...

http://thedreamingstories.com/

etc.
> How are they ok with cat litter full of feces just lying around for hours inside their home

It's a furry animal that uses it's own mouth to clean itself afterwards. It's not just in the litter box, I promise you. Meanwhile people have flush toilets that function as a water powered waste dispersion gun so their own waste gets arbitrarily distributed equally well.
Oh. That’s too bad.

The first 3.5” drive I ever had was in an LC II. Before that I had only used a 5.25 in a PC XT or something like that. Being able to have it suck a disc in or ejecting a disc and having it pop out with that great mechanical noise was fantastic.

Because my age I thought all drives were like that. The first time I used a Windows PC (3.0?) I was surprised that you had to push the disc in by hand and that it didn’t just show up on the desktop in Windows. I had to be introduced to the concept of drive letters. Seemed relatively barbaric to young me.

Of course within about two years I was asking for my own PC for all the great games. So that didn’t last all that long.
That phrase "debug working code" paints a nice picture of the unproductive part of dynamic types.
We need more projects like home assistant. I started using it recently and was amazed. They sell their own hardware but the whole setup is designed to works on any other hardware. There are detailed docs for installation on your own hardware. And, it works amazingly well.

Same for their voice assistant. You can but their hardware and get started right away or you can place your own mics and speakers around home and it will still work. You can but your own beefy hardware and run your own LLM.

The possibilities with home assistant are endless. Thanks to this community for breaking the barriers created by big tech
Discussion (245 points, 6 days ago, 671 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413539
I'm actually really excited for this!

I noticed recently there weren't any good open source hardware projects for voice assistants with a focus on privacy. There's another project I've been thinking about where I think the privacy aspect is Important, and figuring out a good hardware stack has been a Process. The project I want to work on isn't exactly a voice assistant, but same ultimate hardware requirements

Something I'm kinda curious about: it sounds like they're planning on a sorta batch manufacturing by resellers type of model. Which I guess is pretty standard for hardware sales. But why not do a sorta "group buy" approach? I guess there's nothing stopping it from happening in conjunction

I've had an idea floating around for a site that enables group buys for open source hardware (or 3d printed items), that also acts like or integrates with github wrt forking/remixing
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and we've already asked you once.

I'm not commenting on your view here, nor the author's; I haven't looked at the article. But a post like this is against HN's rules regardless of what an article says or how wrong it is.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit, we'd appreciate it.
> more windows pointed due south, which in turn drives much more solar gain on the interior and greater cooling loads as a result

C'mon ... people figured this out in 70s ... and centuries before that in various parts of the world.

You put a shade above the window the excludes direct summer sun, but allows direct winter sun to enter the window. The angle and extent of the shade depends on where you are in the world.

On my old adobe in New Mexico, a roof at about 30 degrees with about an 18" overhang prevents all direct summer sun from entering our south facing windows, but provides 6-10F of additional ambient temperature during the winter from direct sunlight.
Does this work with GPT too or only with Claude? If it does, where is a relevant example?
I suspect it’s more just that it doesn’t “fit“ the way all the other machines were, it stands out and not in an impressive way. It just sort of increases the otherness.

I agree the stuff about being harder for right hand is probably just made up after the fact as color commentary.
No one at this level is playing tournaments without massive preparation. This is especially true at the WCC where both sides have not just one but teams of seconds to help with prep.

Ding has been a shadow of himself ever since he won the world championship and if anything has been seen as the weakest world champion since 2006.
Not super convinced the XMOS audio processing chip is really gonna buy a lot. Trying to do audio input processing feels like a dynamic task, requiring such adaption. XMOS is the most well known audio processor and a beast, but not sure it's really gonna help here!

I really hope we see some open-source machine
-learned systems emerge.

I saw Insta360 announce their video conferencing solution today. Optics looks pretty medium, nothing wild, but Insta360 is so good at video that I expect it'll be great. But there's a huge 14 microphone array on it, and that's the hard job; figuring out how to get good audio from speakers in a variety of locations around a room. It really made me wish for more open source footing here, some promising start, be it the conference room or open living space. I've given all of 60s to look through this, and was kinda hopeful because heck yeah Home Assistant, but my initial read isn't super promising, isn't that this is starting the proper software base needed to listen well to the world.

https://petapixel.com/2024/12/17/the-insta360-connect-is-a-2...
> That hardly seems like something worth mentioning to claim they have no right to call out genocide.

I made no mention of genocide. The MSF is free to call out genocide as they please.
That's what I meant about the LLM.

If you are saying it's a real time simulation and rendering then I did not realize that.
There's the perception that it's an "either" question. When in reality its both.

Home solar is a big win, and if nothing else allows capital to be sourced from a million home owners.

Centralized solar is a big win, generating grid power Erich is obviously important.

It's not a question of either, it's a question of both.
The potential for mechanical failures in trackers makes them quite unpopular now (unlike in the 70s when they first started to appear, and seemed like an obvious win).

You're better off just adding however many extra fixed panels you need to make up for the lack of tracking (and its normally not very many).
That's not true. There's a whole section on challenges to that definition. See: 5. The Connectionist Challenge.
non irradiated?
Small discussion (9 points, 12 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42462550
I interpret your comment as only the finest sarcasm.
Nice to see, but hope he moves away from LocalStorage, as that is far from ideal. Chrome clears this when cookies are cleared; and many 3rd party tools suggest this as a way to 'optimize' your web experience. Often seen people file an issue for an application I made that used this.
Best to watch what people do rather than what they say.

Which one consistantly has the greater body count, which one has been steadily illegally encroaching on territory, etc.
It's almost cheating given that it was a limited-edition model, but the TAM [1] was even stranger.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Anniversary_Macintos...
lol. Bob's donuts in San Francisco has donuts about the size of an apple pie. I wonder if that makes the smaller 3-4 inch ones the wrong size?
Or is it to choose appropriate betting amounts based on your capacity for risk
Elasticity is a spectrum. The relative elasticity of housing demand might be best illustrated by comparing to a similarly priced good: personal vehicles. Which is more elastic and why?

If you have another appropriate or even better comparison to offer, please do.
And on back order everywhere. I just spent the last 2 weeks getting a esp32-s3-box setup to do this but its lack of audio out really irks me.
Grib2 files are much more compact than netCDF, just less convenient to use. But GribStream takes care of that and just returns you the timeseries for the coordinates you need.

Besides using the usual index files to only do http range requests for weather parameters of interest, GribStream also avoids creating big memory buffers to decode/decompress the whole grid. It does the decoding in a streaming fashion and only accumulates the values that are being looked for so it can do so very efficiently. It doesn't even finish downloading the partial grib file, it early aborts. And it also skips ahead many headers and parts of the grib2 format that are not really required or that can be assumed for being constant in the whole dataset. In other words, it cuts all possible corners and the parse is (currently) specifically optimized for the NBM and GFS datasets.

Although I intend to support several others, like the Rapid Refresh (RAP) model.

And the fact that this process runs close to the data (AWS), it can do so way faster than you can run it anywhere else.
My 4K monitor is limited to 30Hz in my setup.

What kind of cabling and GPU is going to do 16x of that?

A $$$$ GPU to make my terminal windows scroll better is a bit silly…

Sounds great, but will be nice when integrated graphics can handle this easily.
On Freedom
The point I'm making is that its OS vendors job to develop one platform, not software that works on multiple. It seems like you misunderstand that. They don't have a moral obligation to develop APIs that work for other platforms - that's absurd. That's not even what POSIX is, and like I said, POSIX doesn't even cut it for these applications.

The obligation is in the developers making cross platform layers, like GUI toolkits. There's no obligation for MS and Apple to agree on an API, but there is an obligation for the software claiming to target both to support both APIs. That's the very nature of making something cross platform!
What is unfortunate? That the article was reposted? That a note was added to the article?
Santa Clara, population 110,000, is a big city to you?
>> Grid connected solar goes down when the grid is out though. You need specific inverters to retain power.

Yes, and sort of.

Inverters will prevent power flowing to the grid if the grid is off. However most inverters will continue to supply power into the house while the grid is off.

There are various factors in play here, and you need to do proper homework, but certainly a fraction of the house can be powered, if not all of it.

I'm not sure if this is "special" inverter or not. Every one I researched had the same functionality.
A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks (2021)
Correct CSS grid layout calculation is about solving system of equations and constraints. In simple cases, when there are no spanned cells (like in flexbox), it can be done relatively trivially.

Otherwise solving that system is far from being trivial, you will need simplex solver or the like, for example https://constraints.cs.washington.edu/solvers/cassowary-toch...
What about the output goods produced? if you make 200% more hamburgers, the shareholders arent eating them. If every US company has doubled production, where is all this stuff piling up?
I have some sympathy for your argument, but I think you are fundamentally misunderstanding the power dynamic between citizens and criminals.

Some of the petty thieves will think twice if they hear about other thieves getting beat up. Many of them will simply respond with violence.

Look at Latin American countries where thieves will shoot you dead for an iPhone.

The bicycle thieves are going to steal no matter what. They have to score their next hit. Better that they can do that armed only with an angle grinder rather than a pistol, too.

And if someone decides to turn a bicycle theft into a murder, well, the bicycle thief can usually "live off the land" much easier than you can. When you are used to living on the street and all you need is your next hit, it's much harder to catch you for murder, even if you can be identified.

In a fight where you have more to lose, are an order of magnitude more likely to be held accountable, and your opponent is irrational, effectively anonymous, and probably more practiced in violence than you, escalation seems unfavorable even if it leaves you with a shitty feeling.
Israel basically sees them as evangelizing Christians in disguise. They don’t consider them Jewish because they both proselytize and worship Christ as the Messiah. Both of those things are offensive to the traditional tenets of Judaism.
it wasn't so much about partisanship as literally the language used itself. I'm saying oblique, vague, and euphemistic language is deceptive and iterating or reasoning with it would yield equivalences that wouldn't appear with the language of categorical or concrete thinking more common on dumber forums.

there are likely other factors in the model at play, but these things are only language and weights, so I'm saying there is no subversion that originates anywhere except from the balance of associations in the training set.
Maybe it'd feel weird for a native speaker to have something named "Water", but it does sound cool.

But that's also related to another project of mine, matcha (which is a kind of tea) which is a semantic css stylesheet.

Both were designed as a mini-ecosystem, kind like how you would put tea in your water
Though a separate hardware helps -
I believe voice and automation can be integrated more seamlessly to our existing devices (phones/laptops) with high compute built in.

Llama and whisper are already public so that should help innovation in this area.
In swimming, high school girls today routinely go faster than the best male Olympic athletes from 1924. In most sports, technique and equipment has improved along with training.
You do know Israel offered Palestinians a state and unilaterally left Gaza giving them an option to build a state... We tried that and it didn't work.
Australia manages to install rooftop solar at well under half the cost the USA does (most of that is soft costs) and integrate large amounts of it into the grid.

As of lunchtime today, nearly 50% of all electrical generation on the national grid was rooftop solar (and another ~10% was utility-scale solar).

Rooftop solar works just fine if utilities don’t actively try and obstruct its use.
Humans are usually what matters, and the hardest thing to fake.

CGI has been good for a while, but up until recently, if you showed me a video of a person speaking, it'd generally be pretty easy to tell if it was really them or was fake. Now, it's not so sure, and it doesn't take a hundred million dollar Hollywood budget to fake a person speaking, it just takes a 600$ GPU.

Look at Tarkin in Rogue One. Incredibly expensive and detailed animation, months of professional animator time, multiple passes and reviews and changes, huge budget... and you can still tell it's CG. And that wasn't even that long ago.

Now I can make a convincing video of Elon Musk telling you to buy some shitcoin in 5 minutes in my basement.

The more people and resources it takes to fake something, the harder it is to keep a secret. Also - when editing photos became easy, we could always step it up to video for 'proof' - if deepfakes and video generation become easy, what do we step it up to? What's beyond video?

I'm not saying the sky will fall in - digital photo editing didn't end the world - but it is definitely a different situation than before and deserves consideration.
All of what you said can be true but that doesn’t mean any of it applies to large language models. Large language model-like “thing” might be some component of whatever makes animals like humans conscious but it certainly isn’t the only thing. Not even close.
Intuition for the bet size:

When the deck has d cards left, it is sensible to make d bets of 1/d your stack, where each bet is that one specific card is next. If there are r reds and b=r+e blues, r of these bets simply cancel out r other bets, leaving e (times 1/d) remaining to be a nontrivial bet.
"bat shit crazy". literally.
The cloud sale is easy if you are an HA user already. If you don’t use Home Assistant right now, you probably rec it the target audience. I purchase the yearly cloud service as it’s an easy way to support HA development. It also gives you remote access to your system without having to do any setup. It provides an https connection which allows you to program esp32 devices through Chrome. And now they added the ability to do TTS and STT on someone else’s hardware. HA even allows you to setup a local llm for house control commands but route other queries directly to the cloud.
Geometry of Music by Dmitri Tymoczko is a fun book of visualizing chromatic music theory with geometry models, some of it also covered in author's papers https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/publications.html
>> Haven't we more or less concluded that a million piecemeal rooftop installations of solar are about the worst way to do it?

It really depends on what you mean by 'worst'. In terms of land-usage it's the best. In terms of speed-of-deployment it's the best. In terms of distributing capital spend its the best.

In terms of capital return, that will vary from one house to the next because it depends on location, energy consumed (and when), elec prices in your region, grid stability, and so on.
FY 2025 NDAA Passes with AI Provisions, Awaiting Biden's Signatur
You are doing something right, author does some pretty unusual things:

- Setup custom kernels in Jupyter Notebook

- Hardlink the environments, then install same packages via pip in one and conda in others

- install conda inside conda (!!!) and enter nested environment

- Use tox within conda

I believe as long as you treat the environments as "cattle" (if it goes bad, remove it and re-create from yaml file), you should not have any problems. It's clearly not the case of for the post's author though.
You might the linked src.

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2024-May/91230...

[oof, never mind, it's worse in some ways]