skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most solar installations without batteries do not function without grid power present. Sure, some could, but most do not.
Yes, it's MITM attacks all the way down. Everyone knows it's a scam, but anyone who upsets the applecart is severely punished.
I don't know how I feel about this, but the people that are upset about this seem to be upset for musicians. Which, I don't know how I feel. It feels like the outsourcing of the music industry.
The valuable time we save in not watching bad movies gives us more time to argue on hacker news, so a good optimization.
If you have a sign up form it doesn't matter if they list the husband's name or the wife's name because either one is valid to sign up.

If you have a cancel form it does matter, because it has to match the one used to sign up or they don't know who you are, even if the customer doesn't remember which one they used. Or any number of other issues with matching the request to a subscription.

Humans can sort this out, but then you can't cancel on the website. Computers can also sort this out, but then you need sophisticated programming instead of a basic form. It's not symmetrical.
> "But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.

> "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"

-- A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
I hope it’s not too personal, ignore if it is: How many children are you aiming for?
I find it interesting because in my lifetime the UK went from magstripe (falling back to a carbon copy of the card with signature) to chip and pin, to contactless, and now smartphone. A lot of upgrading while the US just skipped it.
Did WWDC end up filling in any additional blanks from your article?

Thanks!
DJs playing records and DJs buying records are two different things. When you're looking for records, it's quick listens and gut decisions to keep or dump. The labor of love is only applied to stuff that makes the keep pile.
When did PGE prices ever go down?
While I don't agree on nearly anything you stated, I enjoyed your prose: I suppose you left out words here and there as a metaphorical proof of your claim that you can't miss a single toss, didn't you?
Was it aella? I don't know of any other sex survey statisticians so I'm assuming you mean aella. She has a pretty funny thread here but no mention of venvs: (non-musk-link https://xcancel.com/Aella_Girl/status/1522633160483385345)

Every google for help I do is useless. Each page is full of terms I don't understand at *all*. They're like "Oh solving that error is simple, just take the library and shove it into the jenga package loader so you can execute the lab function with a pasta variation".

She probably would have been better off being pointed towards jupyter, but that's neither here nor there
No, all of the voice parts are either inbuilt or direct addons.
The veo camera does that. Quality isn’t that great but because they buffer and capture a wide angle view of field, they can make it seem like a ball is being tracked by a moving camera.
> For a lot of people though, the desire for children is there, strong, and comes from somewhere else, almost like it comes from somewhere deeper like a soul or something.

Isn’t that just another part of the evolutionary drive to get you to have children? Besides the sex drive? Just like you have a natural will to live and an objection to be killed/kill yourself?
How Can Open-Source Superintelligent AI Sustain Ethical Standards?
As the era of superintelligent AI unfolds, open-source models are driving innovation with their strengths in transparency and collaboration. However, challenges in sustaining ethical standards and coexisting with human society have become increasingly evident.

Today, hearing about the release of Falcon 3, an open-source LLM that runs efficiently even on laptops, raises an important question as discussions about the era of superintelligent AI continue: How can models like Falcon 3 maintain transparency and accessibility while addressing critical ethical challenges?

Falcon 3 shows promise with its lightweight design, multilingual support, and strong performance benchmarks. Its ability to operate on a single GPU highlights its potential to democratize AI technology. However, significant issues remain, such as mitigating bias, ensuring accountability, and strengthening security.

Moreover, to ensure that superintelligent AI coexists with human society while maintaining effective ethical standards, concrete conditions must be established and implemented starting today. If these conditions are not enforced now, superintelligent AI may lose societal trust and develop into an uncontrollable force. The absence of initial ethical standards could result in substantial and irreversible negative consequences in the future.

As a community, how can we establish global standards for ethical AI? What measures can be taken to encourage innovation in open-source ecosystems while preventing misuse?

If you have experience working with models like Falcon 3 or tackling similar challenges, please share your thoughts. Let’s explore solutions to these pressing issues together!
Fully on-prem can be done if you've got the LLM compute power in place.
End of Year Pay Report 2024
“music commissioned to fit a certain playlist/mood with improved margins”

Ah. So that's where all those appallingly bad covers of Xmas music heard in stores are coming from.
Strauss–Howe Generational Theory
That’s a YC job post not HN.
I don't think it much different from the official games, which also don't have full access to the console.
I don't have issue if the parameters the pricing operates is transparent and reviewed by government. e.g. What what you pay as tax depends on 100s of different factors.
I'm surprised this is well defined behavior.
I have low confidence in the whole industry. High prices, holes in my roof, and many reports of systems being installed poorly with warranties not being honored.
Yet, it took Gukesh pure luck to win the final game. So it is Ding’s loss than Gukesh’s win. Who is the weakest, your logic?
Nothing in the "article" seems to support the title. A lot of it is just about Python packaging in general, or about problems when mixing conda- and pip-installed packages.

In my experience conda is enormously superior to the standard Python packaging tools.
God forbid you should require conda-forge and more than three packages lest the dependency resolver take longer than the heat death of the planet to complete.
They perform different roles, so they're not directly comparable.

Jina V3 is an embedding model, so it's a base model, further fine-tuned specifically for embedding-ish tasks (retrieval, similarity...). This is what we call "downstream" models/applications.

ModernBERT is a base model & architecture. It's not supposed to be out of the box, but fine-tuned for other use-cases, serving as their backbone. In theory (and, given early signal, most likely in practice too), it'll make for really good downstream embeddings once people build on top of it!
> As the era of superintelligent AI unfolds

"Objection, this assumes a fact not in evidence."
The funny thing is that, if anything, we are the dumb ones in this scenario.

They figured it out through reasoning and trial and error and raw experience, while for us it's apparently impossible to learn anything we don't already know the answer for.
Yeah, this rules, why are we supposed to be angry? It is like WFH for music makers.

Although, I’m pretty sure there’s a ton of really complex and difficult jazz out there (IIRC it is one of the most advanced genres, whatever they means; I don’t do music). But that isn’t what we’re looking for on the chill whatever ambient music channels.
pip + venv or just using Poetry usually is 100% headache-free for me. Conda, however, is usually a great way to ensure I have an awful time.
It's used for bankroll management (basically deciding what stakes to play) rather than for sizing bets within a particular game.
> And on back order everywhere.

I just clicked through to my large country and the first vendor and was able to buy 2 for delivery tomorrow. So it says. So maybe not on back order everywhere.
The "not-behind-the-paywall-and-NDA" GDK version is severely more limited than the invite-only GDKX.

IIRC the homebrew you can run is mostly UWP stuff? But if you want to launch a _game_, built for an Xbox, it requires to be in the program.
> A local business with a simple email form isn't going to sign you up without calling you to get more information and make sure you're a real person.

What do you mean?

You go to the website, it has a form where you fill in your name and address and what service you want. They don't need any further information to send you an invoice. As soon as you pay it, landscapers come to your house and mow your lawn, and then each month you get another invoice until you cancel. That's a subscription; you signed up on the website using the form.
This seems like vastly unnecessary legislation to me. There are far more important issues to worry over, but some politician failed to get a reservation and decided "there aught to be a law".
GNNs have been a bit of a disappointment to me. I've tried to apply them a couple times to my research but it has never worked out.

For a long time GNNs were pitched as a generalization of CNNs. But CNNs are more powerful because the "adjacency weights" (so to speak) are more meaningful: they learn relative positional relationships. GNNs usually resort to pooling, like described here. And you can output an image with a CNN. Good luck getting a GNN to output a graph. Topology still has to be decided up front, sometimes even during training. And the nail in the coffin is performance. It is incredible how slow GNNs are compared to CNNs.

These days I feel like attention has kinda eclipsed GNNs for a lot of those reasons. You can make GNNs that use attention instead of pooling, but there isn't much point. The graph is usually only traversed in order to create the mask matrix (ie attend between nth neighbors) and otherwise you are using a regular old transformer. Often you don't even need the graph adjacencies because some kind of distance metric is already available.

I'm sure GNNs are extremely useful to someone somewhere but my experience has been a hammer looking for a nail.
https://archive.ph/yUDhY
Fun article. One note:

> I have a Saleae 8 channel 100Mhz, which turned out not to be fast enough
> I found a not too expensive 200Mhz Kingst LA2016 Logic Analyzer on Amazon

The author is confusing MHz with MS/s (mega samples per second). Salaea has a logic analyzer that works on 100MHz signals (with 500 MS/s), but I suspect the author had the unit with 100 MS/s that only works up to 25MHz signals.

The cheap Kingst unit has 200 MS/s but only works with signals up to 40MHz.
Also F#
The other DSPs are much more creative and allow room for more interesting music. My experience has been that Amazon is my personal favorite from a curation standpoint. I discovered Yonatan Ayal via amazon meditation programming and his solo stuff is arguably the most interesting ambient record of the year.
"Pythagorean Temperament"

'Pythagorean Temperament' involves the Pythagorean Comma (aka Comma of Pythagoras). Whilst mentioned, it's not spelled out as such here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma
I think this is a sleeper ad for the new AirTag, and that it will have a ten year battery life.
Check out Chillhop ( https://chillhop.com/radio/). Great little lofi studio out of Rotterdam. Good to the artists, from what I can tell.

Psalm Trees, an artist with them, just put out an interesting little 'double'-ish album here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmL9LvTYjMQ

He produced a whole jazz album just so he could sample from it for a lofi album. Absolutely mental workload.

There's a lot of crap in lofi, but also some real 'bangers' too : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3yBo2szD8 (yes, really, 10 hours of great work, IMHO)
I mean we had appallingly bad Xmas songs in the 90’s as well. They just had a more limited selection.
Nearest rounding does seem like a mistake here. Rounding down is quite safe: rather than lose it all, you end up with at least 2^26 pennies.
Welp, perhaps demand better from your elected officials.

I live in a town. A few years ago, I had my car broken into with my bag and laptop stolen. Cops took fingerprints and forensics, found a match in a database, visited the suspect, arrested him (as he couldn't explain why his fingerprints was in my car), searched, found, and reclaimed my property.
How can this be the case if for something far more direct-to-the-gut like cooking, the process of heating your food to about 75°C for at least a few seconds is enough to kill every known pathogen (except maybe prions, not sure about them).

Given that, why would you need 121°C, let alone 232°C to sterilize things like compost?

I know that high temperatures don't destroy all known microbe-created toxins, but then, that's not the definition of sterilization, which is about simply destroying the pathogens themselves.
it'd be as weird as mizu if it were just named cha/ocha
Swung
Kickstarter shows that a lot of people feel different.
Neptune is at 30 AU, which is about 4 light hours. Double that to get the diameter.
PyGIMLi – Geophysical Inversion and Modelling Library
That's the game, more sensitive receivers receive more noise too. The game is sending something that will not look like the noise. The longer the sequence, the more likely to decode something but the slower the symbol rate (bandwidth)

Imagine your array popped out SHORT-SHORT-SHORT-LONG-LONG-LONG-SHORT-SHORT-SHORT

You just heard a morse code for SOS! The shorts where detected over 100Mhz (FM) +30db for 1 second each and the longs were 3 seconds each on a carrier that sites at +10db. That's amplitude modulation and that looks like intelligence but unless you knew morse code - it wouldn't make any sense.

The further away you get from the source, the more those decibel spikes weaken and will eventually be no different than the noise floor. Your super computer with a billion ears, only hears ~static~.

Try this, imagine instead if there was no free space loss in the electromagnetic field - we'd wouldn't be hearing humming but SCREAMS from all the noise sources from EVERYWHERE as if we were right next to them, forever. It would impossible to decern anything from anywhere. Communication is defined by its distance because signals have differing origins. Sensitivity, or lack there in, is a feature not a failure.

Who's to say a quasar isn't just a lovely time clock for signals encoded in the noise and we haven't figured out what the breakpoint from noise is yet?
Is there any solid argument for the value of x86 in desktop computing? My watch, phone, laptop, and Mac Pro are all running ARM/RISC and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.

I have a Ryzen workspace that I pull out to play Doom Eternal every now and then, but is there any significant value proposition besides compatibility?

Performance is often stated as an advantage of x86, but performance per what? Per Watt? Hour? Dollar? Chip size?
disarming means that we can move past the "I'm pissed at you, why can't you fix your stuff" useless conversation

I'm not so sure this part is "useless." It's not the most pleasant part (particularly to the perpetrator), but it is deserved. It would be like catching a thief, having the possessions returned, and the thief arguing that punishing him would be useless because everything was returned. Getting yelled at might be the punishment. Having to buy a replacement coffee (in my earlier example) could also be it. It would be weird to assume the perpetrator has the largest say in the matter.

disarm means the "emotional" center of the brain can safely disengage and the logical center can take over. When someone is angry, most likely, their emotions have taken over and, once that happens, you're going to spend a lot of time dealing with emotions and not moving toward a mutual solution.

There of course can be benefit to toning down the emotion, but this part is grayer than described imo. It isn't exactly the perpetrator's place to choose when and whether the victim should chill out (assuming they stay within some limits). I find there to be a latent privilege (for the perpetrator) in the framing of a lot of this. The perpetrator has shifted from taking blame (in the sense of consequences, not apologies) to moving on. Some of moving on can be meant well for sure, but the shift is there. The reason they "have to spend time dealing with this" is because they caused it. Those are the consequences of the mistake. Again, getting yelled at might be the solution. To encourage wrapping up the emotional part is to encourage moving past the parts that are uncomfortable for the perpetrator—which also might explain the perpetrator's inclination to "find a mutual solution" sooner than the victim.

This is an aside, but I find this shift in a lot of places. Someone double parks on a busy street, a person gives them a honk (doesn't lay on the horn, doesn't curse them out, doesn't flip them off), and the doubleparker gets pissed (lays on the horn, curses at them, flips them off). This seems a rather common scene today. One honk is a fairly low form of accountability for the inconvenient/selfish behavior, but culturally we often treat the honk as the bigger faux pas. We expect the driver to "chill out" and "move on" and don't expect the doubleparker to accept the tiny consequence let alone own the mistake.

I think this may ultimately involve some amount of personal philosophy. I would stand by the notion that disarming shouldn't be a particular goal of owning mistakes. It focuses too much on the victim. Owning mistakes is a kind of hygiene for the mistake maker (which they/we often skip) yet the victim is getting a lot of scrutiny. Totally agree that saying "sorry" is only the first step of being sorry—that phrase has been used by friends/myself before, though I didn't know it was a wider one. Thanks for the thoughts, definitely no concern on my end about intent.
Started working on a no-gil gRPC Python implementation but super low priority.

Has anyone started deploying nogil at scale in prod?
The concern here is that innocent buyers are mislead and end up with counterfeit products. Your proposal is for the innocent buyers to be mislead and end up with counterfeit products and then get sued for it?
It is crushingly disappointing to me how many of the comments here are about funerals. When the point of the article has nothing to do with funerals.

The thesis is this paragraph and I think it's quite striking and important

> "Always go to the funeral" means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don't feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don't really have to and I definitely don't want to. I'm talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the world to the other guy. You know, the painfully under-attended birthday party. The hospital visit during happy hour. The Shiva call for one of my ex's uncles. In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.
I regularly ask the question "how do know I'm doing good" in exactly those words. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to identify their management style from the answer to that question.
My dad used to flippantly say he had three piles of papers on his desk: "urgent", "very urgent" and "no longer urgent".

As time passed the papers would get moved from one pile to the next.
FreePBX is being destroyed by the current owners, and it's disheartening
I was the original author of FreePBX, and it's gone through a few changes of hands over the past decade or so. Unfortunately, the current owners appear determined to destroy it.

It's a bit sad to see it being relegated to the sidelines like this. Luckily for everyone, I was one of the early proponents of the AGPL, and most of the code is already protected under a firm Open source licence.

I just hope that someone forks it and takes it over - maybe there's someone here who wants to?
Wow what a loop close. I’ve also been wondering randomly about this movie with no idea what it was called. I remember this film and it left an impression on me. I’ll even bring it up to people from time to time. Didn’t occur to me for some reason to have a GPT try and guess it.

What’s funny is that there are others out there that are thinking the same thing regarding that film.
Cheers!
In my experience, NWP data is big. Like, really big! Data over HTTP calls seems to limit the use case a bit; have you considered making it possible to mount storage directly (fsspec), and use fx the zarr format? In this way, querying with xarray would be much more flexible
If you can't export them to local storage or an HSM of your choosing, can't inspect them, and can't lend them to others, then they're proprietary BS. The problem is the notion of a passkey provider with a "trust us to keep your private key intact and confidential on our servers" cloud-required mindset.
If you are a Spotify user please make an active effort to seek and listen to artists _albums_. Playlist are a worse experience (unless you make them) and only play into Spotify's pocket.

A few key points with albums:

- You are listening to the artists vision/journey. The songs are not played in isolation but as part of a collective arrangement.

- Artists get payed more per play than individual songs.

- Albums don't degrade like playlists which can be changed by users or spotify to inject some newer commercial push.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838109 ("The Worst (thoughtcrime.org)", 209 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31402797 ("The Worst (moxie.org)", 65 comments)
So you’re speaking on behalf of all police departments
If you genuinely didn't become at all bitter from multiple family members getting cancer, you should probably see about getting a psychiatric evaluation.
What are the justifiable reasons to specifically kill journalists with machine guns?
One can say a video version of the article - similar process of making a Damascus sword

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53_cuLhObr8
after setting up the system, if I say "turn the ceiling lights to 20%", who else would be changing the lights?

But also, post-fix wake word would also be natural if it was recording all the time. "turn on the lights, Google", for instance
I've found this is only a short-term solution. It's much more effective IME to force the priority call onto the person making the demand.

I've done this as a team lead/scrum master. You want to add something to the sprint? No probs - you just have to choose something the same size to take out. You want to take a person off the team? Sure, you just have to negotiate with our clients about which work gets taken out of the sprint.

It's amazing how many things are suddenly less urgent when someone is forced to make an actual trade-off rather than push the pressure down onto the delivery team.
Depends on the situation. While working, I think lots of us listen to music where the main merit is being non-distracting. In this case, effort is not so important.

If I’m actually listening to the music, I’ll want it to be good.
An app idea sharing platform
The Many Layers of Packaging (2017)