skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Best Buy in those days. EVERYTHING was translucent.

But there were some problems. The accessory companies didn't match that Mac Bondi Blue very well. And they didn't match Blueberry, Lime, or Tangerine well either. So you'd have some weird color blue on your mouse, or gamepad, or external hard drive that didn't match up with your iMac.

I seem to remember some of the "official" accessories being able to use the right colors, but back then it was such a free for all.
Nope, not interested.
initially yes but then the local power supplier will come and install a bidirectional meter
The Commodore serial bus ran at 3200bps, the 1541 disk drive maxed out around 400bps stock.
Yes, exactly, I thought this was clear. Thank you!
Most likely because they are not currently in the Google Play store. (A search brings up a message "Looking to TikTok? Downlaods for this app are paused due to current US legal requirements."
What if the articles have no date on them at all?
> In reply to yours, boys doing stupid things are called out for being stupid. They aren't praised for doing things that could blow their hands off or burn the house down. The only ones impressed are their peers.

I mean, this is not true and I have seen that both online and in reality. It is literally in peoples comments. Even in the comment I responded to you dont see them go "this was stupid" and moving to cut the occasion out. If whatever op did was not approved, he simply would not had access to materials. You can prevent a kid from doing dangerous things with "electricity, chemistry, firecrackers and rockets" easily - you just refuse to buy firecrackers if they refuse to deal with them responsibly. And parents frequently do - including boys parents.

The fathers comment was affirming, the irresponsible act is not a proof you would be dumb, it is proof you are right kind of a boy.
RAG Is a Band-Aid. Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite Is All You Need
Google's Gemini 2.0 solved the RAG problem for Conversational AI. Put your Knowledge Base (KB) in Gemini’s system prompt and have your agent make a tool call to Gemini.

Accuracy: You get the right answer EVERY TIME.

Latency: Response time is about 900 ms.

Cost: 300 queries per day on a 50-page KB costs $26 per month ($7 with prompt caching), on par with RAG-as-a-service providers.

RAG is one of the last mile problems for real-time conversational AI. It’s very difficult to get production-worthy recall from a RAG pipeline. Model-Assisted Generation (MAG) with Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite just works. Period.

The blogpost has a link to an open source demo, which we built using the open source Pipecat Voice AI platform.

We don't have any skin in the game here. We're not making money off this.

Open source, not a money-making project, talks about one of the newly released toys in tech...it seemed like a good post for Hacker News.

Tom
https://x.com/tom_shapland/status/1889041960293560540
Musk deadnames his own child, I think it's fine to not be considerate to him.
Not only as a safety feature but as an inherent part of their design: they are designed to produce AC that's in sync with the grid. Same frequency and peaks/valleys as the same time. In a blackout there is no grid to follow, so the inverter shuts off.
That's FAR-out, man: a kernel infoleak in Mac OS XNU (2023)
This is a category that I would be hesitant to trust polling? Or, more likely, the hormones is actively counter to what you are seeing in these polls? (Please note the question marks, these are legit things I'm unsure on.)

That is, there is a sizeable number of people that think they don't want kids, until they have one. Does this mean that these folks are liars? I'm not aiming in that direction. I'd expect this is more an area where you can change your mind.
setting aside the understanding of hypocrisy as entirely negative, deadnaming is bad because it can allow for unwanted tracking/attention, and because it might be offensive/hurtful for the person you are calling a name that they do not use.

neither of those issues apply for companies. unless you've relentlessly refrained from calling McDonald's "mickey D's" (or any other company, any name other than their company name) specifically because you "might offend them" (they have a "preferred" name, that's why they put it everywhere), then you're not applying the rule universally. and if you worry that using "twitter" in place of "x" would somehow allow for stalking of the company that the real name would prevent, I would love to see any rational justification for that concern.

rules - of morality or otherwise - are reasonable to follow only when they have some net benefit. even by the low standards of an edgelord trying to apply rules where they would be ironic, this fails the test of even applying the rules correctly.
> Elon's offer to purchase the OpenAI nonprofit for $97.4billion isn't going to happen, but it may seriously complicate OpenAI's efforts to claim the nonprofit is fairly valued at $40billion. If you won't sell it for $97.4billion, that means you think it's worth more than that.

https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1889064215710941594
I live in Berlin, I have some friends that bought some panels just because they could. I'm considering myself even though I don't get a lot of sunlight on my balcony. I only pay about 60 euro per month. But these kits only cost a few hundred euros. So why not? If it saves me 10 euro per month or so, it would earn itself back in 3-4 years under ideal circumstances. It's not a huge saving obviously.

> My concern is what happens when there’s a power outage? I’d then be feeding power into a system that’s “denergized”.

This is Germany, they would have studied that topic thoroughly. In short, the certified inverter that you must use for this would indeed shut down in case of a power loss. This is usually called "anti-islanding protection" and not an optional feature for this.
I haven't read the papers in detail, but can someone explain how genetics can be used to trace spread of languages? For context, you don't need population movements for a language to spread (it is similar to religion). See this article for a logical explanation: https://medium.com/incerto/a-few-things-we-dont-quite-get-ab...
Hmm, yes, maybe I'll start reading books about financial markets. It's something I'm interested in (opposite to meaningful for most others, I know :D). Thanks!
At additional cost, one could install a fully manual physical transfer switch which disconnects the PV panels entirely from the gridtie inverter and your apartment's breaker panel, and connects it instead to a charge controller and battery system. Such as one of the nominal 50Ah or 100Ah "48V" Chinese LiFePo4 batteries which come in 2U to 4U rackmount size.

It would be an either/or configuration if done as cheaply as possible such as for a balcony storage system, not capable of both usages simultaneously.

You would then need to have a separate distribution of power from the battery system to your loads. Such as something like a 1000W true sine wave inverter to power essentials like laptop, phone chargers, basic lighting etc during a full power outage.
Screening for Down syndrome is an example of modern eugenics.
OpenAI is the 6th most popular website in the world and if someone's going to kill Google, it's them. If they IPO'd today, they'd easily be worth hundreds of billions if not more.
I still think it's crazy a first world country is using cheques regularly.
It will be interesting to see in what fields it's worth the effort to curate you're data to a high enough standard that you get all the benefits of the ai agent.

I'm currently working as a scientist. I wonder if researchers will be willing to annotate their papers, data, reasoning, and arguments well enough that ai agents can make good use if it all.

If you write your papers in an AI friendly way, maybe that means more citations? Does this mean switching to new publishing formats? Pdfs are certainly limiting
That must be the reason why Palantir and other AI companies are using the concept of "ontology".

We can't let a LLM loose on a database and expect it to figure out everything.
I don't know that this sets a floor, really. There's already a valuation, set by its own preferred investors. I'd think $97b is almost definitely below that. And do the nonprofit board members have the same fiduciary as a typical for-profit board?
To call that ending a bit rushed might be a little generous.
> Maybe he only offers a trade when you initially picked the good door.

That would be a rather convenient signal to the player.
Did you not read the entire article on how scads of intelligent people got this wrong? And the explanation of why they got it wrong? It’s like following a map that carefully routes you around a sinkhole, and then stepping right into the sinkhole.
On the flip side, few things end up like planned.

Customers don't even know how their systems work, and only discover the edge cases they had handled in the old system when they discover it suddenly not working in the new system, and so on.

When I ask customers "does X ever happen" and they say "no, never", I now assume that means "possibly, but seldom". If I need to make sure, I drill them hard on it.

I've been in meetings where a line manager doesn't know that one of the workers they manage performs a critical business operation daily, without which the whole thing would grind to a halt. That's one level up. No wonder those who decide, many levels above that, have no idea and get it wrong.
It’s amazing how much boilerplate stuff you don’t have to worry about when you use Phoenix LiveView. I think I’m in love with it.
To the HN folks, maybe we need a "Who wants an academic opportunity?" type thread? Seems like there's a need for Masters / PhD / Post-Doc openings to find Masters / PhD / Post-Doc candidates. "Who wants to be hired?" doesn't seem to register quite the same way.

Something like: Location, Grad funding or financing available, degree type desired, field and project of study, background or education desired.
Naive question: how can clicking on the motorbike or traffic light image help to train an ML algorithm if they already know what image has a motorbike in it, or otherwise the captcha would not make sense.
Maybe they put 3 image which are already with a score of >0.90 and one which is just 0.40?
Notably a steep discount from their recent raise at a 157B. The board would never approve.
what? he's making terrible moves. violating the consitution, mainly. illegally hacking and slashing the federal government without any idea what he's doing, what he's cutting, providing any clear or sensible or accurate reason why, supporting and echoing nazis and white nationalists. i mean he's now the #2 villain to the half of the country with a moral compass. i miss when it was fun to talk about how cool a tesla was and how cool spacex is and now its just miserable to be associated with this guy.
Building more would likely help somewhat. If supply and demand are matched up, supply has to compete.
Not the part where they plug the panels into a wall outlet. In the US getting the permits for grid tie is a huge expense and hassle so it would make no sense to do it for just a couple of panels. You need permission not only from the local government, but the power company, and possibly an HOA.

If you did this you would buy some Bluetti or similar power bank to charge off of the panels and use that power to run lights or maybe a mini-split heat pump so you can launder your energy savings through not having to run your home's grid-tie heat pump as much.
Suggested a similar thing to the energy minister in the UK ~2009, but officials nixed it:

https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-G83-lite.html
I wonder how we will train Customer Support to tackle issues faced by LLMs. LLMs can already do basic Customer Support. But stuff like understanding bugs and deciding if they should escalate things to engineers feels like a hard thing for an LLM.
It's poorly worded, which is causing a lot of confusion.
And for the curious as I can't go back and edit the comment it was the Altai, Vi3315, and Vi3319 that have the CYP21A2 rs6467 (C;T) variant
"Vast majority of apartments" seems to be referring to the building/complex owner, not individual renters. In other words, you pay the energy bill but you don't have a say in which efficiency upgrades are implemented.
Before I read this 32-minute long article, who is Edward Zitron and why should I care about his opinion or analysis?
Forcing people into office (instead of letting them work from home) is the worst kind of frupidity.
It was pretty cumbersome in Germany, too. Balcony solar is now considered the same as a satellite dish, which doesn't require special permission.
> It's actually pretty cool to have everything concentrated, makes it solvable in a single shot.

This kind of language has no place in civil society.
That's a bad analysis. There's clearly non-market forces at play for why Sam Altman doesn't want to give control to a group associated with Elon.
I mean it’s easy to pick on Agile but the reason it was introduced was because Waterfall approach clelarly didn’t work.

Unlike other kind of engineering software is much more iterative and flexible, so designing a process around this makes more sense.
Energy waste here is simply economic inefficiency.

Drive the cost of production low enough and uninsulated structures aren’t wasteful, but we aren’t there yet.
Considering Musk's power and the shrinking moat of OpenAI you would think he would be create something better with government support - or as some new department.
ChatGPT is an extremely successful consumer product. Looking at Search traffic alone indicates they clearly have large brand value. Usage doesn't just depend on just benchmarks for most consumers.
The violent acts against trans people are up. They are the most hated group currently.

And it has zero to do with puberty blockers as a leader. They have issue with any kind of trans affirming care. It is simple. You demonize the thing that trans are using and then people fear it. It is basically impossible to believe it is driven by care for those kids. If they cared for trans kids, they would care about them when they are not on puberty blockers too.

But they dont, as far as they are concerned trans kids can all kill themselves and should be punished. It is just when they get trans affirming care that it becomes a problem for right.
https://archive.ph/YcoV2
Such a child
Trump couldn't manage a border wall in his first term, when he still had the possibility of a second term AND the benefit of surprise on his side. He has two years to get whatever he wants to do on the books, after which he's going to be the lamest of lame duck presidents. Doubly so if the mid-terms go the way you'd reasonably expect.

So no, he isn't going to create some firewall, he isn't going to build a border wall, he isn't going to invade Gaza, he isn't going to do MOST of the things he says. I really thought that people would have figured out by now that Trump's whole MO is to scare/thrill people with irrational claims and plans, while he gets down to the business of enriching himself and basking in the power/attention.

He's a Republican so he'll pass a fat tax cut, and probably very little else.
There's a link to a pdf manual for what appears to be a fairly common one here: https://github.com/tbnobody/OpenDTU/discussions/855

The inverter is designed to stop feeding power if the grid drops off.
In principle, there is an incentive - renters should be picking apartment buildings which are more energy efficient. So buildings should be competing on this metric. But, in practice, renters have no reasonable way of knowing which buildings are more efficient. And buildings will not volunteer this information.

You could mandate buildings get an energy efficiency assessment. But I imagine that will go the way of carbon credits contracts and such - mostly lies.
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This would be a disaster.

Elon Musk is continually pushing for singular control of everything (not least of which is the US federal government). It makes me immensely uncomfortable.
31,316,000 ish at last count
I agree that a breakup would be better! I'm just hoping that Judge Brinkema doesn't get soft on Google. I'm thinking it's going to happen though.
They're saying that a full breakup likely won't happen, and that Google will probably just have to sell off Chrome. Or at least they were, last time I checked. I know it was or is being considered in the search case.
That's what the previous comment is saying - the tenant is responsible for the electricity cost, but has no ability to make capital improvements/investments to increase efficiency. Meanwhile, the apartment owner has no incentive to make those same investments, because they aren't on the hook for the monthly energy costs. It's a mismatched set of incentives that results in cheaper, low efficiency apartment buildings and higher energy usage across the country.
re: financial market books, this one is new and highly regarded

"The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level" by John H. Cochrane

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691242248/th...
When I see Maschinensturm against AI this always comes to my mind "Manifesto against Labour" https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/krisis-group-manifes... on the other hand it is probably easier to tear down AI advancements than the oligarchy that controls its use.
I've heard folks argue about these claims for a long time, and I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt as I've heard most of these as accurate. So, I wanted to see what some AI assistance could come up with. You may or may not like the results, depending on whether you think AI could never assist on something like, and if you agree it could, whether the results are meaningful to overcome the backfire effect.[0]

Results are here [1], and I'll post below: https://chatgpt.com/share/67aa734b-6b0c-8001-8237-f4458c6dee...

1. The guy had secret meetings with Russian spies

Partially True - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/politics/trump-russia-... - Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, was approached by Russian spies in 2013 who attempted to recruit him. While Page met with Russian officials, it's not confirmed that these were clandestine meetings with spies during his tenure with the Trump campaign.

2. When Trump gave away nuclear secrets

True - https://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-allegedly-classifi... - In a 49-page indictment unsealed in 2023, prosecutors allege that Trump had in his possession documents concerning the "nuclear programs" of the United States.

3. There were obvious spies from our adversaries working in top government positions

Misinformation - No credible sources available - There is no verified evidence to support the claim that individuals identified as spies from adversarial nations held top positions within the U.S. government during Trump's administration.

4. Russian sources "disappeared" after Trump outed them

True - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/17/russian-sour... - After Trump declassified evidence provided by a former British spy regarding his alleged links to Russia, certain Russian sources reportedly vanished.

[0] https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe_clean

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/67aa734b-6b0c-8001-8237-f4458c6dee...
Ed Zitron has written many newsletters chronicling the business economics of OpenAI/other AI companies and their incentives.

They're the most comprehensive writeups in that aspect, although not as technically-oriented as most content on HN.
I've an EcoFlow plug & play inverter, and it automatically shuts off if the grid comes down. That's a requirement for all these devices.
The small inverters used in these balcony setups aren't setup to provide power without a grid reference.
My understanding is that they sold a large chunk of the business to Microsoft in exchange for nearly unlimited Azure credits
> Let me say this more clearly: what is happening right now, in America, in real time, is a coup.

> This is an information war and this is what a coup now looks like.

This guy is a moron. I can't read past here because you can't take anything seriously past this opening bullshit. A democratically elected president cutting spending is now a Coup? No idiot. Nancy Pelosi going to the Pentagon and trying to revoke Trump authority while he was still president in 2020 was an actual attempt at a coupe (and a poor one).

In case anyone forgot, USAID has been used by the CIA for clandestine operations in nations since its inception by John F Kennedy:

https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/flashback-usaid:7

Please get off the Internet and spend some time with your friends and family. Don't talk about politics. You'll find none of this matters except to the people who think the sky is falling.

I'm not saying Orange Man is good. He will surely send Americans to die for Israel much sooner that I would have expected. But at least praise the limited good he's doing, but dismantling the funding of terrorism and propaganda via USAID.
Discussion on source (169 points, 1 hour ago, 80 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
This. Most users don't care about what model has the best benchmarks on twitter.
Tech layoffs reveal the unintended consequences of mass job cuts
I don't mean literal shooting, obviously. How would you say it in a woke and politically correct way that wouldn't offend anybody? I couldn't find a better phrase, wasn't even a pun. Apologies.
What an unkind and irrational put-down! Please don't do this to other people.

You need good ideas AND 'luck' amongst many other things to have an idea 'work'.
> how do you handle a logic error in your code? does that even make sense philosophically?

In some contexts sure, there's not really much you can do, but in many others it's perfectly clear. In a request-oriented system like a web server, you stop the failed request-handling logic and send back an error code. Exceptions can make this quite natural to implement. Much better than letting the error go undetected, invoking undefined behaviour, and risking mishandling of future requests, or perhaps even a serious security vulnerability.

> Yet you could also enable bounds checking for debugging on operator [] or use address sanitizer.

I'd flip that around. Why bother with additional platform-specific cleverness when the standard library already gives you what you're after?
https://archive.ph/Q7x36
I help hundreds of people per month get a bilateral salpingectomy (a "bisalp") or vasectomy as a virtual patient advocate for the childfree, so it's entirely possible we're operating mostly from our own lived experiences. Intent via survey is certainly up for confidence level discussion vs "revealed preference" of actual fertility rates year after year. Agree we won't know for sure until we keep looking back over time.
This would have been true 2 years ago.

Now with DeepSeek-R1, any company can host very similar service, so the technological edge has been lost.

Google itself offers similar experience with Google Flash 2.0 Thinking.

We haven't seen revolution with o3 (most of us, programmers, here are still with claude-sonnet-3.5 than the supposedly groundbreaking gpt-o3).
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