skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does one “use” xenon gas to climb a mountain?
One big benefit of coaster bikes is that they’re entirely under the kid’s control. Your method works, but only with you attached. I’d rather empower kids to learn on their own.

Coaster bikes also teach kids to dab instinctively, which is a great skill.
FBI shares photos of pieces of drone that damaged super scooper aircraft
If that's so, just another grift to take public money.
The article is basically saying: if the feature vectors are crypticly encoded, then cosine similarity tells you little.

Cosin similarity of two encrypted images would be useless, unencrypt them, a bit more useful.

The 'strings are not the territory' in other words, the territory is the semantic constructs cryptically encoded into those strings. You want the similarity of constructs, not strings.
Thanks!
As an old (retired) programmer I was hoping a good intro to GPUs would turn up.
Now, I don't suppose you could add 'ink on paper' to the color options? Gray on light gray, with medium gray highlighting, is hard on old eyes. While I never want to see P7 phosphor green again.
And I suppose a zipfile of the whole thing, for local reading and archive, would be out of the question?
"Writing working commands first try for every single ffmpeg feature that exists" is the highest bar I've ever heard of, I love it. I'm gonna start listing it as a requirement on job postings. Like an ffmpeg speedrun.
This truly works.

And honestly we live in a competitive, entropic world. Why some people so sensitive? Maybe because it’s true?

So yes. Some people are better than others, not due to some intrinsic features but because they cultivate some self defining attributes that set them apart from the rest.

I know there are definitely trashy, destructive, and self-imposed low class people. I don’t associate with them. I am not bothered nor do I lose sleep thinking about them. There are others who have everything but decide to be losers and awful people. Again, not my problem and not my associations. Maybe we work together. But we aren’t friends beyond whatever means to an end.

They chose whatever they did today. I did what I chose today and I’ll be going to sleep happy af and refreshed for tomorrow.

Another day to crush and a life to enjoy.

And I yearn to be even better tomorrow.

No drugs. No junk food. Discipline. Experiences over screen addiction. Learning and growing. Cherishing life and its fine moments. Not every day is perfect, but at least each day is constructive.
And with the POSIX EREs, everything except the syntax for character classes will carry over to other common Regex dialects.
Yes. I have kids. I'm not in the US. My kids school sends homework using an app. I get it on my phone, take printouts etc. and my kids get the work done.
I don’t know if it’s 0 for me, but it’s definitely way less than 10 hours per week.

I have ETFs and a HYSA that I basically never look at. That’s passive.
Therapists can be super hit-and-miss. Like schoolteachers, they may seem like they should be domain experts, but they're often just normal people working a job. And it's extremely frustrating to think you're doing the right thing by going to get help (be it for yourself or others), only to be told that there's nothing to be done, not even a suggestion.

I wish you and your family luck!
There are many volumes on the subject, but I'm honestly tired of debating this with people who doubt ADHD is a thing. If you're legitimately curious, there are myriad sources out there about the differences in ADHD brains.

Suffice it to say that I'm sure. All of the adults I'm thinking of have had serious interference with their daily lives in ways that rise to the level of a disability. I'm the only one of the set that has been able to build a steady career, and that's due to a lot of luck and due to developing an anxiety disorder that, while not at all fun, at least allows me to keep track of things that I used to miss.

"Special" makes it sound like you think I think we're better. I don't. I just know that we don't work in the way that the world expects us to.
>In states where property taxes fund schools, ... b) live in a school zone with high real estate values

Here's some tangential anecdata.

I'm in Oregon, the county I live in pays for the local schools through property taxes. More than half of the tax goes to the schools if I recall.

Anyway, that's not the fun part. The fun part is one of the schools needs(wants?) a new roof. Sounds reasonable, here are the unreasonable parts: They want to raise funds with additional taxes, because they refuse to budget and earmark money for it. They also said they need(want?) several million dollars to do it. The taxes would also be used by the county to buy school-issued bonds from the school to fund the new roof, rather than directly using the tax dollars.

Unsurprisingly, the county measure to introduce that new tax failed during the election in November with a resounding laugh.

The entire way our schools are operated begs some very hard questions.
There is a sister thread on HN currently asking why people homeschool. Welcome to the conversation.
https://ipv4.games/ will show you who will win at your polls.
Majority of protein powders may contain amounts of lead and cadmium
Totally agree, excellent film. Though I think the author exaggerates a bit how obscure Mishima is outside of Japan. In particular Mishima has seen a recent renaissance among the online right.

Other good Schrader films (though in very different veins than Mishima) include Light Sleeper and his more recent The Card Counter.
> Are they doing well? For example Toyota sells 5x as many cars, but has 1/5th the market cap. Low sales but high market cap is normally a dangerous situation to be in unless you're sure you have some massive tech advantage that will keep you growing fast.

I think 15 billion profit on 97 billion revenue is doing pretty well.

Ford is 4b profit on 176b revenue. VW is 16bn on 322.

> Tesla sales leveled off a few years ago

2024 is the first year since 2011 with a decline (a 1.1% decline), each year prior saw a considerable increase.
> Just because you are educated doesn't mean you are a good (pedagogical) educator.

This applies equally to paid teachers, along with numerous downsides that don't apply to parents (i.e. being able to tailor education to a single individual, developing a relationship that lasts close to two decades, ability to slow down and speed up course material where necessary, and more). Paid teachers, contrary to semi-popular mythology, are not special and don't do anything that an average person couldn't do (they are not extra-"competent"). In the natural course of being a parent you learn how to interact, guide, and teach your children.

This argument also fails in many concrete situations. For example, where I grew up there is a decent homeschooling community made up of people with average levels of education, low to average income, and yet the kids perform very well academically and are well socialized. Saying that these parents are not competent because didn't get a badge (education-related degree) is absurd considering they do as well as the people who did get that badge.
"Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. It’ll just knock over all the pieces, shit on the board, and strut about like it’s won anyway."

This quote feels pretty much what's happening in DC these days. And if one side is being a pigeon, there's nothing the other side can do to force them to work together.

And the worst part is being a pigeon is effective in this day and age of social media. Until the voters actually value mature leadership, we're deadlocked into this shit covered chessboard.
Hey thanks! We think we're pretty different from Skyvern as Skyvern provides a full agent loop for users + is no code. We wanted to build something at a lower level (i.e., no high-level planner that chooses what tasks to do for you) and we wanted to be able to program our own logic alongside the intelligence part because using code is what's natural for us as developers.

I hadn't heard of UI Vision but just took a look at it -- it also looks like a no-code solution that's a Chrome extension, so I'd say the main differences are the same as the differences w/ Skyvern -- we're lower level and meant to be used by developers.

I'd add that we're also able to directly extract parts of websites that have no official API -- for example, an image of the GitHub contribution graph like I show in the video demo.
sounds like the promised land, thanks for the strong recommendation!
> WW1 kicked off due to a royal getting murdered in broad daylight which triggered a cascade of alliances. Nationality had nothing to do with it.

The murderer Gavrilo Princip was a Serbian nationalist, who committed the murder for nationalist reasons.
“Fun” fact: pure EE is no longer a major at MIT
I don't know how to adapt those settings to the corresponding module - there are often differences in naming and hierarchy conventions - and there are other NixOS-specific considerations with regards to its shared-nothing architecture.

While it is technically possible to adapt the information in the Arch wiki to NixOS, you need a strong understanding of the software, how it was packaged for NixOS, and NixOS itself to do it effectively. Once you do figure it out, it's pretty straightforward, but that can be hours as opposed to minutes with Arch.
Well that's an improvement. I hate when companies gamify their firings.
I suspect, they're huffing it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd5j8mG24H4
Here you go!

https://huggingface.co/dleemiller/ModernCE-base-sts

There’s also the large model, which performs a bit better.
Ah, so you just opt out of being around average people. OK.
Japan could of course do it in secret, like others have.
React Component and Hook Design Pattern
IIRC they have improved the hardware encoder over the generations of cards, but yes NVENC has worse quality than libx264. NVENC is really meant for running the compression in real-time with minimal performance impact to the system. Basically for recording/streaming games.
Show HN: Automatic Reindexing in Minima RAG
Added an ability for automatic reindexing files inside Minima RAG containers.
I don't think there's a single human on or outside of this planet that can meet that requirement, but Claude has been pretty good to me. It's certainly a much better starting point than pouring over docs and SO posts.
"mascs" and "femmes" are ones that I have seen used.

"men" and "women" should not have their meaning diluted. They already have the meaning of "male" and "female".
This is similar to the argument the failed experiment 4Chan showed the internet. Being fully anonymous, the best arguments don't rise to the top, bad actors lie and lie and when confronted with their lies, they just pretend to be someone else and lie some more. All completely anonymous online polls are effectively useless. It's nice to have some research in helping them be a little less useless.
Did you read the comment? I said yes, you've demonstrated that a person has expressed that sentiment. I said "no notable mainstreamer" has, and your example doesn't refute that. No one knows who this guy is!
Thank you for answering.

I don't doubt the research, it's more I doubt how many diagnoses were accurate.

I was diagnosed with ADD as well, so I'm not being entrely dismissive. In this age of self ID I think there can be reason to be.

> All of the adults I'm thinking of have had serious interference with their daily lives in ways that rise to the level of a disability. I'm the only one of the set that has been able to build a steady career, and that's due to a lot of luck and due to developing an anxiety disorder that, while not at all fun, at least allows me to keep track of things that I used to miss.

If I may ask on this point, how would you distinguish ADHD from possibly being on the spectrum?

> "Special" makes it sound like you think I think we're better. I don't.

Not my intention, I should have said unique or significantly different in the contexts you mentioned or something.
And gmail schedule delivery just won't work if you want to email yourself a month later.
This is a great thesis! Thanks for taking the time to write it up.
> There's a saying that if you gave a scientist the job of designing a system to completely derail an ADHD brain, they'd come back with the typical public school classroom.

Doctors aren't sure if I have ADHD or Major Depression or Bipolar II (I've been diagnosed and attempted to be treated for all three), but this fits into my experience.

I was consistently frustrating to my high school teachers, because I was clearly learning the material, but I wouldn't do my homework, and I'd get bored during class, and as a result I would get bad grades. I don't think the teachers took any joy in giving me a bad grade, but they were kind of forced into it because I didn't really fit into the bureaucratic mold that they needed me to fit in.

This eventually led to me almost flunking out, and eventually dropping out of my first attempt at university. I did eventually finish my bachelors, but it was at Western Governors University (WGU), which feels almost tailor-made for the ADHD-brained people.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but the American GPA system still kind of gives me anxiety when I think about it.
If I remember correctly, these are profiles in the same sense this term is used in Firefox - i.e. a global setting that can be switched, but applies to all active browser windows at the time. So you can't use it to (easily) browse different websites in different profiles side by side.

In Safari, "profiles" are a per-window thing, and there are facilities to open a website in a different profile etc, so effectively they work much more like Firefox containers (which are even more fine-grained tho: per-tab).
Light Sleeper is such a great movie. Has a tone and feeling that I have looked for in many other movies but haven’t found. Closest I’ve found is maybe Mann’s Thief?
> The pedalless bikes aren't as effective.

I taught my two kids to ride a pedal bike when they were three, after enjoying their balance bike for like six months before that. The switch from balance bike to pedaling was very simple, and because they had enjoyed their balance bike for so long, they were very skilled at staying upright.

I'm not saying your method was bad. I'm saying that there's more than one way to skin a cat.
What I Learned Working with a Food Tech Distribution Company
> Yes, you must copy and paste content

Manual work is almost never a good solution. Try this:

for PAGE in *.page
do
cat header.html "$PAGE" footer.html > “$PAGE.html”
done
> As someone with this condition, I think it may be helpful to note that while your comment may not be intended to be disparaging, it can be interpreted in such a way. A lot of neurodivergent folks or people experiencing mental health issues are commonly told their problems are imaginary, or aren’t a big deal. [0] It’s a pretty big sore spot.

Not my intention, but I was diagnosed as a kid when over-diagnosing did seem to be a trend, and I've become skeptical in these times of self IDing.

When I mentioned over-diagnosing it was more referring to the 90s, but I think a lot of adults who were diagnosed then may have been misdiagnosed and never checked.
Same experience embedding random alphanumeric strings or strings of digits with smaller embedding models—very important to filter those out.
Taiwan is mostly the descendants of refugees from the 1949 Communist takeover!
We finetuned Gemma for a more inclusive communication, Evals show great promise
It’d be worth comparing your opinion to data, so you aren’t stuck with an unverified opinion.
What about the dead wood managers?

I'd like to see 5% of engineering managers get cut every year, since they're either selecting for, or I suspect creating, disengaged employees.
Show HN: Finbud.ai – The AI-Powered Stock Research Platform
The key value propositions:

1. Dive deep into any company’s performance with AI-driven insights and 10+ years of historical market data.

2. Quickly slice and dice key metrics, unlock advanced analysis, and discover actionable investment opportunities.

3. Technical analysis on any companies or crypto

- For crypto, you'll need to append USD to the ticker (e.g. BTCUSD, PEPEUSD, etc)

The interesting prompts (that are not in the suggested prompts):

What's a good entry and exit point for NVDA for day trade

----

As an engineer, I’ve always been fascinated by the blend of art and science in investing. This inspired me to create FinBud.ai, a tool that leverages AI to make stock research simpler and more accessible.

I know FinBud.ai could be a lot better with access to higher-quality datasets, but those can get pretty pricey!

Still, I wanted to get it out there early so I can build and improve it alongside our users. Discord is open.
> We will probably allow Snapchat soon since it’s becoming the new “basic” connection — I’ve not used it, so does it have a feed and likes?

Just an FYI, from the couple of times I've tried using it and been shown it by friends, Snapchat is essentially just as much of a feed-based social media as Instagram or anything else these days. It's not just a "basic connection" with DM'ing. Instagram also has a DM's page, and I know people who use the DM feature heavily, but that's obviously not the extent of Instagram.

(Part of the problem with drawing that line is that even apps that started out as private messaging only, such as Telegram or LINE, often eventually add public channels and stories where it turns into more of a feed.)
This says that the implementation cannot cede time slicing to the OS, therefore it would seem to necessarily occupy kernel space. Am I mistaken?
> A free market fixes anything

https://bitworking.org/news/2008/01/the-free-market-fairy/
How dare you sir!
See also:

* https://img.ly/blog/ultimate-guide-to-ffmpeg/

* https://ffmpeg.lav.io/

* https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

* https://www.hadet.dev/ffmpeg-cheatsheet/
Blatantly untrue. Russia got all it wanted: Ukraine seeked NATO membership in 2008, Russia threw a temper tantrum, the US, France and Germany bailed out of the invitation, and Russia invaded Ukraine a few years later without having to risk with getting hit with NATO nukes in retaliation.
Looker is mostly a reporting tool. LookML let's you define some transformations that happen at query time. There is a little bit of materialization functionality with the PDTs, but that doesn't seem intended as a replacement for other "ELT" tools.
When such things work, it's not because people who do it feel ashamed, it's because the society ostracizes them so much that it becomes actually inconvenient to function in it.

Oh, and it is an interesting problem. In the abstract.
Show HN: Maestro – A Modular All-in-One Kitchen Appliance – Beta Available
Hey HN,

I’m Connor, and I’ve been working on Maestro, a modular kitchen appliance that combines a blender, food processor, stand mixer, and more into one device. This is my first hardware product, and I’m launching it in beta to get feedback from early users.

What is Maestro?
It’s a single, compact device with a modular design, allowing you to swap attachments for different tasks like mixing, chopping, blending, and more. The base unit houses a powerful motor and a planetary gearbox that adjusts speed and torque based on the task. It’s designed to reduce countertop clutter and eliminate the need for multiple single-purpose appliances.

Why I Built This:
I love cooking but found my kitchen overcrowded with appliances I used very little but still wanted to keep around for when i did need them. I wanted a solution that was versatile, compact, and futureproof. Over the past year, I prototyped a device that could handle multiple kitchen tasks efficiently. This project started as a personal solution and grew into something I wanted to share.

What’s Different?
Modularity: One base, multiple attachments, and future expandability.
Performance: A universal motor and a multi-speed gearbox provide the right torque for every job. We can hit 10,000+ rpm for blending, and go as low as 10 rpm for mixing, which is the widest range of any available appliance to date.

How to Try It
We’ve launched the beta program, where you can test the Maestro and share feedback to help refine the final version. For now, you can explore the details and join the beta here:
https://mykitchenlab.com/blog/maestro-beta-launch

Backstory and Journey
This is a fully bootstrapped project. I 3D-printed the prototypes, developed the mechanical design, and worked through iterations to balance power and versatility. This included many iterations of universal motor speed control, which is a very finnicky thing to get right. Hardware is tough, and I’ve learned a lot about design, manufacturing, and user feedback along the way.

I’ve also documented some of the process and shared technical details here:
Previous HN Posts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40964411
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40729528

I’d love to hear your thoughts! Whether it’s feedback on the design, technical questions, or suggestions for improvement, I’m all ears. Hardware is a journey, and I appreciate the input of the HN community to make Maestro even better.
Well none of the labs have good frontend or mobile engineers or even infra engineers

Anthropic is ahead in this because they keep their UIs simplistic so the failure modes are also simple (bad connection)

OpenAI is just pushing half baked stuff to prod and moving on (GPTs, Canvas).

Find it hilarious and sad that o1-pro just times out thinking on very long or image-intense chats. Need to reload page multiple times after it fails to reply and maybe answer will appear (or not? Or in 5 minutes?). Kinda shows they’re not testing enough and “not eating their own food” and feels like chatgpt 3.5 ui before the redesign
Just curious, how do you keep up to date on these models? Is there a community out there that discusses them?
Since everything would be speaking OCapN you could use the browser interface as a convenient command center. This idea is becoming quite appealing to me actually... would be cool to have a little dashboard showing the health of my servers and be able to restart a failed service if I needed to.
Private schools isn’t much better. Kids don’t learn much more, everything is just less chaotic because they can counsel out the ones who can’t behave.
Unfortunately that will require the client to make additional web requests to load the page, effectively doubling latency at a minimum.
Apple can't access the data on the devices. They've spent absolute fucktons of money building their infrastructure that way, and they give up hundreds of millions of dollars that Meta and Google gladly suck up by not monetizing their customers' data.

Apple provides me with the devices I want that do the things I want them to do. "restrictive model of computing" is a concept that doesn't really mean anything. I can do anything I want on my Mac. My iPhone is way more locked down, and it doesn't bother me a bit. My guess is that like most Apple haters, you don't use Apple devices and have taken up a cause against them based on things that don't have any effect on you.
Yeah, timeshift is pretty cool too. I think I prefer NixOS's style as it's directly integrated into the rebuild system, and the dedicated Nix store allows me to do the snapshots while also being persistent, but if you don't want to drink the NixOS Kool-aid, timeshift is definitely a valuable tool.
It's my own theory, which I haven't published. "Holographic Theory" (Susskind) is similar but still quite different. But others are having similar ideas, as seen in this video:

https://youtu.be/A8bBhkhZtd8?si=3CLPl_WAoQDnfYfc&t=1450
GStreamer feels like abandonware though, they also got big vulnerabilities recently, and their docs are very defunct.