skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> explain why there's not a clear path to replace Alexa or Google home?

There is. I've used HA with their default assist pipeline (Cloud HA STT, Cloud HA LLM, Cloud HA TTS) and I've also plugged in different providers at each step (both remote and local for each part: STT/LLM/TTS) and it's super cool. Their default LLM isn't great but it works, plugging in OpenAI made it work way better. My local models weren't great in speed but I don't have hardware dedicated for this purpose (currently), seeing an entire local pipeline was amazing for the promise of it in the future. It's too slow (on my hardware) but we are so close to local models (SST/TTS could be improved as well but they are much easier to do already locally).

If this new HA hardware comes even close to performing as well as the Echo's in my house (low bar) I'll replace them all.
Maybe a more general term for this than "alignment faking" is "deceit."

Does it matter if there's no conscious intent behind the deceit? Not IMO. The risk remains, regardless of the sophistication behind the motive. And if humans are merely biochemical automata, then sophistication is just a continuum on which models will progress.

On another hand, if a model could learn about how much to trust inputs relative to some other cues (step zero: training on epistemology), then maybe understanding deceit as a concept would be a good thing. And then perhaps it could be algebraically masked from the model outputs (somehow)?
Lot of people are becoming more knowledgable and skillful. But purpose is the missing ingredient.

Without purpose or a motivator in life people end up getting trapped in mindless rituals. It keeps the reward circuitry in the brain from decaying.
It's because of the SAT solver for dependencies. Unlike Pip, it keeps track of every package you installed and goes out of its way to avoid installing incompatible packages.

Why go through all this trouble? Because originally it was meant to be a basic "scientific Python" distribution, and needed to be strict around what's installed for reproducibility reasons.

It's IMO overkill for most users, and I suspect most scientific users don't care either - most of the time I see grads and researchers just say "fuck it" and use Pip whenever Conda refuses to get done in a timely fashion.

And the ones who do care about reproducibility are using R anyway, since there's a perception those libraries are "more correct" (read: more faithful to the original publication) than Pythonland. And TBH I can't blame them when the poster child of it is Sklearn's RandomForestRegressor not even being correctly named - it's bagged trees under the default settings, and you don't get any indication of this unless you look at that specific kwarg in the docs.

Personally, I use Conda not for reproducibility, but so all of my projects have independent environments without having to mess with containers
I see people ITT saying "memorizing", do they all happen to mean "mesmerizing"?
You can use your phone to text or talk to HA's assistant. I've done that a number of times when Alexa fails. Having dedicated hardware is a huge step up for me. I've tried their ESP32 mini cube assistant thing before and it showed a lot of promise but the hardware (speaker and mic, processor was fine) was lacking. This seems to be a good mic and speaker wrapped around a similar core so I'm super excited for it.
I've met people like this and they seem to always have a disaster on their hands.

Probably because their companies spend so much time deciding which task should be prioritized and having meetings about it that nobody can get actual work done.
Discussion (41 points, 16 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312998
The way I understood it is that the wave amplitude of a tsunami isn't typically huge, say only a few feet[1], however it's wavelength is. Thus while normal waves can have a much larger amplitude, they're easily filtered by a low-pass filter.

edit: The atmosphere between the surface and the ionosphere forms a natural low-pass filter as well. I imagine typical ocean waves as seen by us are way too high-frequency to make it up to the ionosphere.

There are other, natural disturbances in the ionosphere, such as traveling planetary waves[2], but they have a significantly longer wavelength. As such the paper[3] mentions filtering them out using a high-pass filter.

In the paper they show some preliminary results trying to invert the parameters in order to estimate the height of the tsunami based on the measured ionosphere disturbance based on synthetic data, and the baseline amplitude is 10cm (4 inches), which the model comes quite close to.

[1]: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2014/04...

[2]: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...

[3]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10291-022-01365-6
Grief Makes Us Time Travelers
> Mars colonization doesn't make much sense, but building O'Neill Cylinders when humanity runs out of space or energy on Earth might.

Space on earth isn't going to run out anytime soon (as I said colonizing Siberia and Antarctica is much more approachable, and there's the oceans too!) especially since the world population is plateauing!

> but if you've exhausted all the matter in the solar system or humanity outlives useful solar output from the sun and fusion energy is still +20 years away

That “if” really feels like “I'll need a second hat if I grow a second head in the night”.

> The time it takes for interstellar travel doesn't make sense on human time scales, but people still plant trees knowing they will not live to sit under their shade.

That's a good analogy, because individuals do, but for-profits mostly plant trees with short lifetime and quick return on investment. And you're not going to fund space travel with individuals' money…
This is not a serious perspective.
Sure. Optimizing for happiness doesn't mean you end up happy.
The eaten one goes through your stomach acid and can be flushed out naturally through the system. The inhaled particles may get stuck in your lungs or worse: absorbed. Lungs are not a through channel. Things absorbed there go to the brain, blood stream, a lot faster. The stuff you spray on plants is usually meant to kill or repel bugs and critters. So won’t be friendly to lung or brain tissue. Possible cancerous too.
You're assuming independence, almost certainly incorrectly.
And the mic is not all that great either. I have a couple of them but they just weren't reliably picking up my voice and I couldn't hear the reply either (when it did hear me). I figured it would be easy to add a speaker to them but that sent me down a rabbit hole that I gave up on and put them in a drawer. I'll buy this for sure though because when the ESP32 box thing worked it worked really well and I loved being able to swap out parts of the assist pipeline.
I should have made it clear: I’m referring to people who are adamantly opposed to large solar installations, apparently because it’s a threat to agriculture? It’s very odd, but I see yard signs and bumper stickers everywhere in rural Indiana.
julia just store the analogue
of a requirements.txt (Project.toml) and the lock file (Manifest.toml). And has its own package issues including packages regularly breaking for every minor release (although i enjoy the language and will keep using it)
> The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
> Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

The above quote has been true for the whole internet, ab ovo. But people are starting to realize this only now.
Should that be part of a layout engine though? I’d expect to insert a tree of nodes with styling information that affect layout and receive a tree with calculated x, y, width and height for its elements.
This is not true.

Singers and violinists can and do adjust intonation so each chord sounds (justly) in tune. The exception is if they were trained with equal tempered instruments (which is common nowadays - see Duffin, “How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony”) or if they are playing with pre-quantized (fretted/keyed) instruments, in which case they would match the existing temperaments.

So the linked article, while it shows some beautiful shapes linked to 12s, has nothing to do with actually (justly) in tune music.

Source: master’s degree in the topic; am a professional singers specializing in music written before equal temperament was invented
Responded to a sibling comment: I’m referring to people who oppose industrial solar installations for some reason.
I don't why biological limitations restrict humanity's long-term future.

We are already ignoring them - right now it's freezing outside, and no human could not survive in such weather using biology alone. I am also living in a city which is way too dense to sustain natural human society.

There is always a risk of entire species dying out, for example via global war, or everyone suddenly deciding they don't want technology and then freezing to death in the winter; but there are no universal long-term limitations. At some moment there will be independent colonies at other worlds, and then humanity will be eternal.
Big nope - pesticides are there to repel or kill bugs. A lot of times the recommendation is to wash fruit before eating it to remove pesticides or lead from fuel burned by cars in the vicinity, etc.
And Macintosh Apple Comouter
You exit from the president of Instacart and then spend Saturdays at your son’s tae kwon do practice coercing subordinates to give up their life?
Ask HN: Who's building on Python NoGIL?
I am interested in knowing the things the community is building specifically taking into account the NoGIL aspect of python. Like is someone building frameworks around using Threads instead of Async?
Ezekiel 23:20
The higher the margins, the more wealthy people will want to build houses to rent them out.

At some number of vacant houses the algorithm changes
In my case definitely not.

If I had nothing of value or only antifragile things I'd just throw everything in an old backpack. The reason I own the pelican case is for when I'm flying with $15k of computers, camera gear, etc. If anything I'd see the pelican case as _increasing_ my risk of it being stolen (who puts some clothes and some deodourant and a toothbrush in a $500 hard case?), but massively decreasing my risk of physical damage which is way more likely.

The air tag isn't even really in there for "sophisticated thieves stole my stuff" purposes so much as "airline made me gate check it and now they've lost it" purposes. Though I imagine the air tag and some basic padlocks would definitely help my chances with most unsophisticated thieves.
It’s a great project overall, but I’ve been frustrated by how anti-engineer it has been trending.
I read tons of space opera when I was a teenager and I loved it, but the truth is that none of this makes sense: it's all about entertainment and that's it. It's not a practical description of what could be than Pirate of the Caribbeans is a description of the lives of 17th century's pirates.
What if an app allows landlords to easily coordinate on prices?
Sorry, capex for crypto -- let alone llm (datacenters must be on 100% of the time to pay nvidia) -- is way too high. It must see high utilization for amortization to be favorable.

You only see crypto in areas that have really cheap, 24/7 power. Big crypto mining operations are only built near remote hydroelectric power stations, or worse, natural gas or coal rich areas. Places where fossil fuels are made but that don't have easy/cheap access to refineries, rail lines, or pipelines.
Reminds me of this

https://blog.cloudflare.com/red-october-cloudflares-open-sou...
Onedrive will uninstall the normal way now, but there is so much delay responding to your click compared to the other apps on the list that you may not think anything is happening.

Don't abort the process and just wait. Before long it will finally uninstall.
Each of the small detectors need to decern what is noise and what is not. They wouldn't know static from a station and having more clueless detectors wouldn't give you more any information in that regard.

An AU cubic grid of detectors would inform you where a signal originates from by comparing free space loss over the area of the coverage. IF you could discern a station from static.
Show HN: ByePhotos – An iOS App to Help you cleanup phone storage
I developed an app to help clean up phone storage. Its main feature is to find similar photos in the photo album and provide a convenient interface for you to filter them. It also has a video compression feature that can significantly reduce the size of videos.

I know there are already many similar applications on the App Store, but there are always aspects of their design or interaction that I don't like, so I developed one myself. The process of thinking about app design and interaction made me feel that launching an app is quite interesting.

The app went live a few weeks ago, and for the first three days after the launch, I adopted a limited free strategy. On the first day, over 5,000 people claimed a lifetime license for free, and then I continuously received feedback from people who wanted to suggest improvements for the app. This process made me feel more connected with others.
> GDP per capita does not go down

It does in Canada, I think that’s what he meant
I think the idea is: assume sufficient technological advancement to be able to reach or even create countless other essentially exact replicas of earth? Barring that, plenty of ideas have been floated along the lines of extraterrestrial colonization and/or intergenerational spaceships.
Using aider to make a simple Python script to fetch that csv and graph it on matplotlib was an acceptable experience. The worst part is how Claude refused to use seaborn.

I used it to write a little bit of bash glue for a build system too. I’m no bash expert, but the script was only 20 lines, so I went through each and it was correct and I learned a bit of the % syntax.

Not really something I like spending $20 a month for, so nowadays if i feel like using ai I just use llama.
SCIAF, Christian Aid, Age International , Trocaire, Plan International, Bond and Cafod, and many other 'charities'[1] (MSF is obviously not a charity, you at least could have opened the link but you clearly do not know what you are talking about) declared what's have been going in Gaza as genocide. Amnesty International made in January a UN call consisted of 250 global charities, organizations and institutions to stop the genocide in Gaza, either you are not actually giving money to charity or you are having a very hard time fining one.

[1]: https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/public-statement-uk-char...
LogVillage 2.0
I just discovered that this was installed on my work computer. It seems to track web browsing history, logon/logoff times, printing history, storage device connection history, etc.
I feel like a major selling point of Nix is "solving the Python dependency-hell problem" (as well as that of pretty much every other stack)

I've seen so many issues with different Python venvs from different Python project directories stepping on each others' dependencies somehow (probably because there are some global ones) that the fact that I can now just stick a basic and barely-modified-per-project Python flake.nix file in each one and be always guaranteed to have the entirely of the same dependencies available when I run it 6 months later is a win.
As a longtime guitarist, this is exactly the type of visual pattern crutch that the fretboard encourages and which is (for me) both a crutch and a trap. Geometry can help explain music but if it takes the lead, that’s the definition of formulaic.
Structural typing is the key here.
It’s amusing that some of the other (English) word colors match what one would consider suitable or kinda close to those words.

crap #c0a000

watermelon #a00e00

plant #00a000

sonic #0000c0

jade #0ade00

bloodily #b00d00

grass #00a000

midnight #0d00000

Has anyone created a more comprehensive list of such (unexpected) color words for English and other languages?
Does it use Node-RED for the pipeline?
Nix solves it for me. Takes a bit more effort upfront, but the payoff is "Python dependency determinism," which is pretty much unachievable in any other way, so...
Do you have a publicly available copy of your flake?
According to Stats Canada, “Real GDP per capita has now declined in five of the past six quarters”, so fair to say it’s currently declining. This was news to me.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28-0001/2024004/artic...
Referring more to microgrids here; think city block/neighborhood level independent grids
> Each of the small detectors need to decern what is noise and what is not.

In my un-optimized imaginary system, the sensors are very sensitive and dumb, like me. All the difficult work is done by the central DSP-like brain that can identify even the tiniest of waves moving through the grid.

The utility comes from seeing the relative values in the grid... a pattern of tiny changes in some arc, moving through the grid.

Sure, killer triangulation (actually radial measurement?), but also possibly a decent 500 light-year AM tuner?
Ahh, ok the tool sucks it doesn’t seem to calculate based on your current cost per kWh or the local cost per kWh.

It’s ignoring inflation on those calculations, acting like your electric bill will be the same in 20 years. It’s also ignoring residual value in the system after 20 years they typically last 25-30, and you don’t pay taxes on savings.

There install estimates where also really high for my area, but I don’t know if that’s a general issue.
I see people ITT saying "all", do they both happen to mean "both"?
Flowing from Words to Pixels: A Framework for Cross-Modality Evolution
The above comparison was actually aerospace engineering, not software.
sunroof was a 2015 project. if they haven't adjusted their cost estimates since they launched it, it could be wildly overestimating things.
I think the security is actually pretty good on the other space bodies, provided the colony is self-sufficient and does not depend on supplies from Earth. Mars is better then Moon though.

The modern space rockets are slow and easily detectable, and I am sure that if one could get to the moon, and then wanted to build a system that shoots them down, they'd be able to. Especially given that moon-based interceptors will have much smaller gravity well to worry about.

Another argument is that very technically complex products, like space rockets, require a complex society. So if Earth falls into anarchy, there is a good chance the supply chains would be disturbed enough that no one could build multiple space rockets full of bombs even if they wanted to.
I find it insulting that you're moving goalposts and attributing things to me that I did not say and do not think.
It is true that every field (honestly every corner of most fields) has certain specific knowledge that is both incredibly necessary to get anything done, and completely arbitrary. These are usually historical reactions to problems solved in a very particular way usually without a lot of thought, simply because it was an expedient option at the time.

I feel like venv is one such solution. A workaround that doesn’t solve the problem at its root, so much as make the symptoms manageable. But there is (at least for me) a big difference between things like that and the cool ideas that underlie shell tooling like Unix pipes. Things like jq or fzf are awesome examples of new tooling that fit beautifully in the existing paradigm but make it more powerful and useful.
Define big.
Why Are YouTube Search Results So Terrible?
remember when all the VR headsets were shitty and all the enthusiasts would say that resolution isnt the metric to use to judge VR headsets

clowns
Phoenix Lights
This doesn't work with CSS, right? Only the color attribute of HTML.
In a rare moment of self-awareness I realise that I'm arguing on the internet.

The only point I can make is that I'm tending towards idiocy ;-)

Let us just agree with the facts: (a) I first learned to program in BASIC at 10 years old, (b) I am indeed psychologically damaged by the stigma promoted by Djikstra and (c) it's true that I struggled with pointers in C in first year university. So hey, he was probably right - both Djikstra and the OP. Honest enough for ya? ;-)

p.s. I lost two internet points trying to be Captain Defend-the-old-BASIC-programmers. Lessons learned.
My favourite outcome is that 'chocolate' is reduced to '#c0c0a0'
Check out your local AA chapter.
This is not a reason against legalization.
I believe the problem is the lack of proper dependency indexing at PyPI. The SAT solvers used by poetry or pdm or uv often have to download multiple versions of the same dependencies to find a solution.
The main difference between Gaza and other conflicts (such as Ukraine or Iraq) is that Hamas has and uses the willing (even if coerced) cooperation of the civilian population as part of its military strategy. Using humans as meat shields and using teenagers and young men in offensive combat roles is exactly what Hamas does. In comparison, in Iraq or Ukraine, the Iraqi and Ukrainian militaries made/make a clear distinction between military and civilian personnel (which their adversaries didn't respect). Even the Taliban makes sure to not use civilians as part of their military strategy (if we're going by the comparison with resistance fighter groups).

The Gaza situation is more akin to Vietnam, where also the civilian population was actively integrated with the military and helped them in more ways direct than indirect. The key difference here being that Vietnam was invaded by France and then the US, while Hamas were the ones who stirred up the hornet's nest in Israel.
Doh! I lived there and been within 1km of it without knowing it!
this is really good
The answer is not Yet Another Tool In The Chain. Python community itself needs to address this. Because if they don’t then you’ll have requirements.txt, setuptools, pyproject, pip, pipx, pipenv, pyenv, venv, nix.
Aw, I hoped for a second for global coverage.
https://archive.ph/mjYSM

I know from first hand (though not with opiates fortunately) that addiction sucks, and discovering its root cause can be tricky. But really? Everyone is at fault, but the actual individual who bought and used it? Then why not sure Apple too? iPhones after all can be used to install Snapchat...
Uhh, no cars are emitting lead anymore? AV gas, maybe, if the field is near an airport that is a potential risk.
The included codepen is unreadable on mobile until you remove -webkit-text-stroke from them CSS.

At the initial value of 0.5rem it gives a quite cool effect, as if the text has been badly redacted with a white highlighter. I initially thought that was intentional.
What does 3d printing provide other than a terrible house with unusable curved walls?

By which I mean the walls of a house are one of the easiest parts to build, you still would need exactly the same utilities, foundation, pipes, wiring, roof. And sure, square walls are boring, but they are boring because they work. and I would rather have stick built square walls than lumpy curved concrete walls.

This is just ridiculous graft. The correct way to build houses for the homeless is this. https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/1906-earthquak...
To add a bit more detail, he was federally indicted in September 1969 [0], and 18 U.S. Code § 3290 [1] rather broadly states that "No statute of limitations shall extend to any person fleeing from justice."

[0] https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-akron-beacon-journal-...

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3290
My bad, I should have mentioned that you should choose the option to save the complete web page. It becomes default on Firefox once you select it. Not sure about Chrome and others.

It looks like this on Firefox, Windows: https://imgur.com/zNlEGgK
Just seems scammy. This has nothing to do with tech.