skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I have been very happy with Home Assistant so far. The one thing we're missing is voice control, and until now it seemed like there just wasn't a clean solution for HA voice control. You were stuck doing some hobbyist shenanigans and hand-writing boatloads of YAML, or you were hooking up a HomeKit/Alexa which defeats the purpose of HA. This is a game-changer.

They recommend an N100 in the blog post, but I might buy one anyway to see if my HA box's Celeron J3455 will do the job.
What could one inject that would bind to the microplastics similar in concept to using EDTA to remove heavy metals? What would bind to microplastics?
It just means that multiple genes contribute to the outcome, so it's not a binary flip of THC or CBD depending on a single gene - if it were like that, then two parents who had the CBD gene would almost certainly produce CBD kids. Polygene means that it's a more complex interaction, and you can't assume that two CBD parents will result in a CBD child.
The article is deliberately written to try to evoke an outrage, but I also don't see what is actually damning about it. The comparison with store brands is the first thing that came to my mind.
I think that if you're constantly being thrusted radially out, you don't actually gain delta-v or increase your orbit - you just shift it. Your apoapsis increases, but your periapsis decreases.

(It's been awhile since I've played KSP, I could be wrong.)
Plenty of bad side effects: Harming your brains development, ability to concentrate, harm the ability to find joy in non-screen activities, mental health and so on.
Tea bags release microplastics, entering human intestinal cells
> Is it actually expensive? Could you imagine life without it?

I don't think this kind of rhetoric helps in any way those who are in "fuel poverty" (which seems to be a UK specific term, as I've never heard that in any other context) and have to choose between food or heating.

Energy is not some magic supernatural thing we're running out of. Given the right equipment it can be created out of thin air (wind and/or solar). The reason UK's energy prices are so high is decades of corruption disguised as mismanagement/incompetence, not that the absolute price of electricity is somehow high.
I totally agree with you, people thinking of moving there should be aware of the politics of the area.

But compared to a lot of the rest of Alabama and other stereotypes of the South, it's really a decent place. Definitely not the anti-science, anti-intellectual backwater many might assume. There's a lot of bright people there with interest in aerospace and engineering at all levels. And it's also a college town.
Popularity doesn't necessarily imply a need.
I'm not wild about the title either. In English, "fly into the sun" implies permanence and they exploited that for title bait.

Better, "closest approach" or even "dip into" would say that Parker will keep doing its job afterwards, maybe even lower the next time!
There must be a good balance between the grow-up-quick-or-die-horribly of the pre-technology world and the my-cats-are-my-kids life of the post-danger world
Yeah, I'm not sure I understand your argument here. I work in the area. I can understand revenue uncertainty, but the solution is to sign a PPA. When Texas transitioned to a nodal market many existing generators got grandfathered into zonal pricing via free options, which is doable (e.g. any project built in the next 5 years will get this free option).

Give me an example of a "missing money" problem. I don't think these problems exist when you have capacity markets or ancillary service markets with enough incentives to exist (e.g. payments for standing offline, ready to turn on).

The big issue with UK power markets is that there is no incentive to build a huge power line down the country right now that delivers power from Scotland (where there are huge wind resources) to the rest of the country. Texas did this (very very successfully) with the CREZ.

The UK has many many competent engineers and making the energy grid more efficient is an attractive opportunity for many.
I’d argue that targeted advertising and unprecedentedly-centralized corporate control of what text, images, and video we see online is just as potentially harmful as (recreational) drug use, if not worse. And online-shopping/adventure-travel/other addictions facilitated by targeted ads and targeted content algorithms can definitely leave people unable to achieve goals in life.

Creating a new addiction to replace the last generation’s isn’t really something to be proud of. As developers, we should be aiming to create ways to communicate that aren’t addictive and facilitate genuine connection with others that includes their highs, the lows, and financial/socioeconomic transparency.
The jank Programming Language
I suspect they are claiming more ownership than they really have. Most of those records were made prior to 1976, back when copyright only applied if you made a copyright application. Seeburg didn't file copyright applications on them and they bear no copyright markings.
They just stamped "Property of Seeburg Music Library" on the disks themselves,
which were loaned out to customers but not always collected back.

Seeburg and its successors all went out of business decades ago, via court-ordered liquidation. The current "Seeburg 1000" site uses the name, but came along much later and does not seem to be a successor company. So these are now probably public-domain.

Their music was blah, but competently executed. Better than many modern low-end cover bands.
The lenses are too close together for serious 3D. Like say you want to stereoscopically shoot a cityscape from a highrise building. A couple of inches of separation won't do anything; you need the cameras a few feet apart.

What's the point of integrating two cameras into one unit, when you can just capture with two cameras. It's a software problem.
Variable billing can save you a lot of money, especially if you have your own generation capacity - PV panels, wind/water turbine etc - by making it possible to schedule maximum use during low-price (usually during the night, sometimes in the middle of the day) while minimising use during the morning and afternoon peaks. Play this right and you'll end up with negative electricity bills (in regions where small-scale producers can sell to the market, Sweden being an example of such). Contracts often stipulate that small-scale producers can not produce more kWh than they consume. By scheduling consumption so that it either falls during times of excess own production - which makes it possible to avoid paying energy taxes and transport charges or when the market rates are the lowest you end up with as low a bill as possible. At the same time you can decide to export power to the network when you happen to have excess capacity at high-price moments thereby maximising income from electricity sales. Play this right and you'll end up with net-negative electricity bills even while producing no more kWh than you consume.
VLC > media > open network stream > paste video link > convert > enjoy
Why does their partnership come first? Whats stopping you from finding somebody better to make a priority? Isn’t that the point of being poly is to have the ability to shop around?
In of their release videos for the o1 -preview model they _admitted_ that it's hardcoded in.
> hey're 2032 (I believe? or 2025) "quarter batteries" which isn't something a lot of people just keep around.

This might be slightly tangent but I used to think that. Except now I have a kid. Do you have any idea how many crazy weird battery sizes some of these new toys take? I think I now have like 4 or 5 different sized button batteries in my inventory.

"Back in my day" everything was either AA, C or D. These days, that isn't the case anymore. Only "big things" take "big batteries" like AA->D or they have a few built-in 18650's and a generic charger onboard.
As a platform that basically started as a way to watch Youtube without tracking and ads, I think Grayjay should be sceptical of any third party code signing validation requirements. The copyright lobby has gone after software and its distributors before, even if it doesn't inherently pirate any content without user configuration.

I don't know why this app would need Apple's signature in the first place, seeing as it's not distributed through the app store. Is this like how you need to pay for a certificate to make the "are you sure you want to run this" prompt look less scary?
Stata at MIT has sort of grown on me from an abstract architectural perspective. But it cost a lot and I've never really heard good things about it from people who actually use the building though I've never been in it myself aside from the ground floor. It was also sort of justified as a landmark northeast entrance to campus but was soon pretty much literally overshadowed by a lot of newer construction in the area.
Sailors have figured this out centuries ago to travel against the wind (called tacking). Some of the same principles apply, like orienting the sail so that photons push against the sail reducing the angular momentum.
It thinks hard about it
I strongly disagree with this. Social media companies are incredibly valuable specifically because they are effective at getting people to spend their money on things they otherwise wouldn't have.

Depression, suicide, and other serious mental health disorders are strongly linked with social media use. Is that better than more kids drinking and smoking pot? I don't know, it's complicated. It's certainly not clearly better and might be significantly worse.

Hand waving away these costs is putting on some seriously rose colored glasses.
There is an incredible amount of unique music & artists on Soundcloud. Or at least there was some years ago. I got quite into it, to where it was taking up too much of my time and I stopped using it altogether. They kept making it more difficult to download music too so that was another thing that drove me away.
The ability to directly program for asynchronous phenomena is definitely worth it[0]. Something like scheduler activations, which imbues this into the threading interface, is just better than either construct without the other. The main downside is complexity; I think we will continuously improve on this but it will always be more complex than the inevitably-less-nimble synchronous version. Still, we got io_uring for a reason.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42221316
Grayjay dev here, shorts will come, but on a tab you can turn off.
There are a couple of legitimate reasons, namely the expense/KYC process of an Apple Developer Program membership and/or the complexity of integrating signing + notarization into existing build pipelines (but XCode does makes it pretty straightforward to cut an ad-hoc release that is signed and notarized).

In my opinion at least, the most likely reason is that Apple is refusing to notarize the software. If this is the case, people really should not be running it.
Does freetube has macos arm app yet? I found emulated one unbearably slow.
Normal people care about music theory as much as they care whether you use jemalloc vs tcmalloc. "Easy listening" is a much more useful everyday definition for them than whatever musicians may want it to be.
> Just remember that for the better part of this challenge he was averaging US$ 0.14/hour, and it took more than 9 months.

But consider the rate of return! He turned $1 into $10,000 in 9 months. Could he then turn that $10k into $100M in another 9 months?

Or if he'd started with $100 instead of $1, could he have turned that into $1M in 9 months? That would still be incredibly impressive.

Certainly the game changes as the bets and buy-ins get higher, but even if he couldn't swing the same rate of return with a higher starting point and larger bets (though still only betting that same certain low percent of his bankroll), presumably he could do things like turning $5k into $1M. Even $100k into $1M would be fantastic.
Man who claims he invented Bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1T suit
its "have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", not "deserves" which is entirely different. Go to your boss and tell them you deserve a pay raise.
It feels like there's a whole class of information that easily shorthanded, but really hard to explain to novices.

I think a lot about carpentry. From the outside, it's pretty easy: Just make the wood into the right shape and stick it together. But as one progresses, the intricacies become more apparent. Variations in the wood, the direction of the grain, the seasonal variations in thickness, joinery techniques that are durable but also time efficient.

The way this information connects is highly multisensory and multimodal. I now know which species of wood to use for which applications. This knowledge was hard won through many, many mistakes and trials that took place at my home, the hardware store, the lumberyard, on YouTube, from my neighbor Steve, and in books written by experts.
The part where the article limits itself to general techniques eludes me.
It actually beats the human average by a wide margin:

- 64.2% for humans vs. 82.8%+ for o3.

...

Private Eval:

- 85%: threshold for winning the prize [1]

Semi-Private Eval:

- 87.5%: o3 (unlimited compute) [2]

- 75.7%: o3 (limited compute) [2]

Public Eval:

- 91.5%: o3 (unlimited compute) [2]

- 82.8%: o3 (limited compute) [2]

- 64.2%: human average (Mechanical Turk) [1] [3]

Public Training:

- 76.2%: human average (Mechanical Turk) [1] [3]

...

References:

[1] https://arcprize.org/guide

[2] https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01374
I'm not so sure - a standard definition is "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."

I guess you can call civilian casualties fighting terrorists and restricting food that but it detracts from the use of the term for real round them up and kill them all type genocides.

And then you'd wonder if things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden count as genocide. And then if you use it like that it kind of loses its meaning if all war is genocide.

I note the title of this HN story is basically a lie. That wasn't the title of the linked article, or it's content. The article says what they have seen could be consistent with genocide, not "declares the war in Gaza as genocide." It specifically says they are not declaring it a genocide as they feel they don't have the legal expertise.
> when they might lose their jobs and comfort levels?

Everyone has always worried about this for every major technology throughout history

IMO AGI will dramatically increase comfort levels, lower your chance of dying, death, disease, etc.
> But Rust (or Zig, or C++ for that matter) don't use the C ABI, either, except for specifically annotated functions.

Not only that, but Rust, C, Zig also require some setup before their `main()` can start as well.

That is why people say they have a "minimal runtime", rather than "no runtime". There is still a bit of setup there, without which the languages cannot function, or can only function in a limited mode.

Otherwise agreed on all your other points.
Could it be a problem with a specific Python package being installed rather than uv itself?
That would certainly stand a higher chance of conveying the right message than overengineered solutions like monumental spikes or attempts to impart taboos against certain colours of cats or tablets that combine an English dictionary and a nuclear physics lecture

But still, I think the natural response to a picture of a person grabbing an ancient container and dying is the stuff inside must have been valuable for them to have attached all these threats to it. At least that's the conclusion drawn by Egyptologists translating inscriptions like "the great lords of the west will reproach him [who breaks the seal] very very very very very very very very much". (I'm not joking about the number of instances of the word translated as "very"...)
Discord is pretty good for emergent tech community
Imagine a prosthetic 'hand' that has 5 regular fingers, rather than 4 fingers and a thumb. It would be able to play a piano just fine, but be unable to grasp anything small, like a zipper.
EntraCP for SharePoint Server
AGI for me is something I can give a new project to and be able to use it better than me. And not because it has a huge context window, because it will update its weights after consuming that project. Until we have that I don't believe we have truly reached AGI.

Edit: it also tests the new knowledge, it has concepts such as trusting a source, verifying it etc. If I can just gaslight it into unlearning python then it's still too dumb.
The article also mentioned their home was a new build and they moved in a few years before this happened.

But sure, keep telling me their new mansion on quicksand needs a bailout and they're far more needful than hungry malnourished kids.

> now they're a teacher or something who owns a multi-million dollar home while living on 80k a year or something.

TBH, if their home is now worth millions, they should retire and move someplace cheaper. The market is telling them that land is worth way more than a lifetime of their earnings. They should capitalize on that. They're still far weather people that he vast majority of Americans, and probably the top 0.001% of people on Earth. That they failed to cash their lotto ticket in time before their mansion on the quicksand fell apart leaves me zero sympathy.

I wish I could fail at cashing in my $3.6M lotto ticket I bought for relative pennies. At least I would have been given the chance, no?
Google will start tracking all your devices (WTF?)
Well, with billions in funding you could task a hundred or so very well paid researchers to do their best at reverse engineering the general thought process which went into ARC-AGI, and then generate fresh training data and labeled CoTs until the numbers go up.
Weird that it disables the use of right click, paste and seemingly your password manager when trying to login to services via the app.
Grayjay dev here, the idea is to have a plugin system for recommendation engines in the future. You can choose whichever recommendation engine you like and it will tell you what data will be sent to the recommendation engine in order to be able to make recommendations for you. There will likely also be recommendation plugins that run fully offline for people who care a lot about privacy.
I don't get it, are the figures here typos?

> Given that GNSS satellites typically travel in medium Earth orbit, approximately 20,000 km or 12.4 miles above the surface, GNSS systems are well suited for detecting fluctuations in ionospheric density.
>
> Further, because ground stations can detect GNSS satellites from such a significant distance (up to 1,200 km),...

Should that be 2000 km and 1240 mi?
Ask HN: Getting around the hour-long design interview
I'm a senior/low-end-of-staff engineer. I've worked on the Rust compiler, been coding for 20 years, etc. etc. If you ask me to solve a problem I can solve it.

But I'm going to do so by having lunch or something and come back in 4 hours or tomorrow and then have a whole plan for it. On top of that I failed to specialize because I'm one of those who got into programming because it's interesting. When they say "how do I solve X" I also have to guess which X the interviewer wants this time, and which X I'm going to be able to go deep enough on without having 24 hours to just learn it.

To be clear I'm not asking for a job. I get one recruiter call a day without actively looking. The first level of the funnel isn't a problem.

I'm just thinking that I can't be the only one who hits this wall. SO my question is twofold. Is there a way to filter employers out who are like this? Is there a good way to end run around the problem?

The best idea I've come up with is to start maintaining a GH repo of these and how I'd have solved them, but obviously this is ethically questionable and likely to backfire, even if I don't put company names on it and stick to generalized problems.
typo: Reputational not repetitional ofc
Fifth element is a great movie. I was just thinking about watching that again.
I wonder if I should feel bad since I'm currently at 2830 kWh in 2024 for a single household with all heating costs not coming out of my electric bill.
https://pegi.info/gambling

> The game contains elements that encourage or teach gambling. These simulations of gambling refer to games of chance that are normally carried out in casinos or gambling halls

Okay, by this standard then games like Bejeweled and Candy Crush should also be rated 18+. If you actually walk into a casino, you will find a sea of machines knocking off mobile games before you ever bump into a poker table (if they even offer one!)
The discs had -in the movie- the memories of another person, and you would experience that memory and sensations as if you were living it. So, e.g. someone would record themselves doing something risky and you would get the adrenaline rush from watching it.

So... Maybe in some way one could argue that social media gives some sort of connection were you get some feelings from what others are doing/showing. I mean, technologically it's quite a leap, but in a conceptual way... it's still a bit of a leap but maybe not that big.
early in my psych career, i was actively encouraged to do things that would be considered p-hacking or abusing degrees of freedom. it was seen as a way to not let any data go to waste and potentially 'show off' your cleverness/mathematical chops in the methods section (anybody can just run an ANOVA like they teach in the text book, but look what I can do).
Grayjay dev here, noted. Thank you.
> I believe this sort of core knowledge is learnable through movement and interaction data in a simulated world and it will not present a very difficult barrier to cross.

Maybe! I suppose time will tell. That said, spatial intelligence (connection/movement included) is the whole game in this evaluation set. I think it's revealing that they can't handle these particular examples, and problematic for claims of AGI.
[2012] it took me a second when they said "Mayor Thomas M. Menino" rather than "former Mayor Thomas M. Menino"
Ah interesting. I don't know enough about those to know what hardware is required. But the bulk of the cases the article talks about are phishing.

Not saying they're not smart. The comment implied they have advanced tech or hardware that may have been embargoed, but the vector of attack is one which can be done without those.
In the same place. By all means, use Tink. Tink and libsodium are the two best-known user-proof misuse-resistant crypto libraries, which are the kinds of libraries most people should be using, and the only kind unless you have very particular reasons not to and a decent-sized verification budget.
I believe around 19,500km is the correct number from some past work.
Was it the Southampton hand assessment procedure?
Thumb not opposable?
Blame the homeless for this win. Seeing the outcome so blatantly all around us is pushing a net positive. Next big shift will be from the legalization of more recreational drugs.
People don’t always seem to be happy that humans created money to facilitate this process
Running inference on a model certainly is a algorithm.
Oh well. I'll ask again next time you post about it. :)
And it gives more context to law enforcement when they can see faces, body language and hear words rather than hearsay.
Physics advances like geography: there's a New World in the Americas, but Libson is still there. Newtonian mechanics remains as the consequence of relativity and quantum mechanics where we "live," and the existence of other things under different conditions doesn't change that. Kuhnian revolutions involve the old models being discarded.