skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built a (well started as) an inventory app because my bug out supplies, firearms and ammo were scattered everywhere, no idea on quantities, and no easy way to track it all. At first, I just used a spreadsheet, which works but feels prehistoric lol.

So, I hacked together a simple app for myself—just a way to track what I had and get reminders before stuff expired. A few friends wanted to use it, so I kept improving it. Before I knew it, it wasn’t just a personal tool anymore.

Now, it actually works, and people use it. Still tweaking things, still learning but it works.

It currently does the following:

Inventory Management
Expiration & Restock Alerts
Emergency Planning
Weather & Emergency Alerts
Team & Family Management
AI-Powered Assistance

Have you guys used any other preparedness type tools or apps? Also just looking for some feedback.

Currently working on getting the IOS app working and launched on the app store.

You can check it out at https://readystash.com
Lots of screenshots circulating of posting the word "Cisgender" being flagged by Twitter. Not sure if they just flag or remove it though, as I don't use Twitter any more.
If you read the actual log, you will notice that it is very careful to avoid any semblance of authoritarianism.
You put a finger in the wound
My main quibble would be that Thameslink is definitely National Rail. (I think that the Elizabeth Line is too, technically, but the transverse seating and the platform screen doors, and the fact that it's operated by TfL mean that it's different enough that I'll allow it.) I'm not sure how I feel about the Overground.
> All life must stop?

Who told you? Why do you setup a false dichotomy for yourself?

If you cannot handle reality, choose one of the other tens of topics.
New LLM Scaling Law
Hey all. I'm an independent researcher that came across something I feel has pretty broad reaching implications for AI. Been struggling to get anyone to review. Thanks in advance for reading.
Yes, via an old joke. See https://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-compilation-process#cps-con... .
What is your exact scenario for cheap fusion?

Because IMO the only approach that is even capable of delivering here is the Helion one (=> direct conversion). And that design is incredibly far from ready, the whole approach is completely unproven and their roadmap is mainly wishful self-delusion (from what we can tell by evaluating past milestones, like "first 50MW reactor finished by 2021"-- there is no 50MW reactor even now).

From my PoV, ITER-style tokamaks are the most conservative/certain design, and also the furthest along by far. That would imply:

=> Cryogenics for the magnets

=> big hightemperature vacuumchamber for plasma

=> all the thermal/turbogenerator infrastructure needed in conventional plants

=> super high neutron radiation flux (this is a problem)

I just don't see where you save anything. This is basically just a fission reactor, only a magnitude more complicated and demanding. I absolutely don't see how it could ever get significantly cheaper than conventional nuclear powerplants.
Active parameters is definitely the wrong metric to use for evaluating the cost to train a model
Looks similar to my experience, except this part:

> if it doesn’t work, Q&A with aider to fix

I fix errors myself, because LLMs are capable of producing large chunks of really stupid/wrong code, which needs to be reverted, and thats why it makes sense to see the code at least once.

Also I used to find myself in a situation when I tried to use LLM for the sake of using LLM to write code (waste of time)
I remember listening to some NPR segment where a doctor/researcher said the first couple years is like a long acid trip. He was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it resonated with me.
Yeah not sure. I cancelled a while ago but I subscribed again once o1-preview came out and now o3-mini exists I still find it useful.

Of course, they are clearly cooking something or they wouldn't have just published a benchmark in which they do badly.
It's fiction in the "second person" perspective, and you should keep reading until you can empathize with the protagonist, purely because it will help you recognize abuse and/or the trappings of professionalism which cause and/or accommodate abuse.
Interesting, but I don't think those details will be ameliorative to the people who are concerned (e.g. U.S. Congress).

In fact, I wonder if it may further underscore their concerns, given that it surfaces the interconnectedness between all of these firms.
I've lived with chronic pain for the last 10 years. Hip, shoulders, lumbar. Have tried just about everything, including minimally invasive surgery. 100s of appointments, over 6 MRIs.

Eventually I came to the conclusion that chronic pain isn't curable. It's our nerves rewiring themselves to constantly send pain, even when no problem exists.

This also gave me peace though. Until I tried everything, I thought my body was breaking down. I'm a very physically active person, who has tried to be proactively healthy their whole life.

Knowing the pain isn't organ or muscle related, but is just fucked up nerves, is consolation. It's not preventing me from doing anything. I still have full range of motion and mobility, it just hurts, but it can't stop me from doing the things I want to do.

So I continue to be active. I have a very high pain tolerance as a result, but I can cope with the pain better than years ago. Last year I hiked the whole 2,600+ miles Pacific Crest Trail despite the pain. Strangely enough, my pain actually mostly disappeared on the trail, but returned after I got home. I think the sudden change of daily habits and sleep conditions may have thrown my nervous system in for a loop.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't get to complain about this. Consumers absolutely do.
https://support.humane.com/hc/en-us/articles/34374173951373-...

"Your Ai Pin will continue to function normally until 12pm PST on February 28, 2025. After this date, it will no longer connect to Humane’s servers, and .Center access will be fully retired."
Meh, why pay to teach someone else’s bot? I’m sticking with open source
For me, being able to notice when you mess up your own calculations. It doesn't help that we teach arithmetic operations ass-backwards (smallest to largest instead of largest to smallest).
I had a physical therapy session this morning for a neck-shoulder-arm issue that's been bothering me. After years of working at the keyboard, my musculoskeletal system finally gave way. This is a common problem for people who use keyboards extensively, including musicians—so it's something many of us, especially frequent users of this site, can relate to. It's often classified as an occupational injury.

The good news is that with better posture, some equipment adjustments, and a new, slightly less comfortable chair, I've seen significant improvement and am feeling much better. So, I'm optimistic that you'll be on the road to recovery as well. Wishing you the best of luck!
Dang, wouldn't you run into serious internet problems with that? Do modern games use that much data? Could a single internet service handle 6 simultaneous connections?
NASA says 'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth
Shouldn't this be the other way around? TikTok has the most user data for any LLM to train with. I bet they will make a killing with it, unless of course the CCP decrees that they share it for free.
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I get it, but I'm still uncomfortable with it.

The same value proposition surely applies to locking GPS collars. A clear value for individuals managing dementia patients, but it's a privacy nightmare for everyone and most of the customers aren't nurses.

Accessibility doesn't need to come at the expense of privacy.
> Tensor Evolution (TeV)

Oh no, I'm never not going to read this as "tera-electron Volts". I wish they picked a different acronym!
Whatever solution to the crisis I think it should have involved some jail time.
Ask HN: What dev tools exist today for AI agents?
We're building an AI agent for a niche use case. What tools exist today for agents to debug, test, rollback, etc.
It's just Paxton. He loves to launch investigations into any hot-button topic, preceded (and followed) by many press conferences and photo ops. Especially if he can somehow tie it to the vast left-wing conspiracy.
One employee uses a phrase, thus the entire organization is biased. That does seem to be what passes for critical thinking these days.
You can run MySQL on that perfectly fine, together with Apache and PHP or something.

If you've just got a small website without tons of traffic, it's no problem at all.
Network analysis of financial transactions to detect "layering" (onion-routed money laundering) paths, probably.
Engine lasts usually longer than many other parts in the car.

100 000 miles is like 4 years of driving for anyone who drives a bit more. This is about 70% battery capacity in most cases. Your car is already useless in winter.

With reduced capacity the cold hits even harder. And only way to fix it is to buy a new battery for a one-third price of the new car.
> the person above said "Elon got rich by creating goods and services for other people,"

That's not all they said. They also said, "such as EV cars, or low-cost space launches. It's a wash. Oh wait, actually it isn't because every trade of goods and services is advantageous to both parties by definition."

What's the significance of "low-cost" for space launches? What do they mean by, "It's a wash." What do they mean by, "every trade of goods an services is advantageous to both parties."? Do they mean that low-cost space launches benefit all or most Americans, because we all benefit from satellites for weather and GPS? Maybe. Do they mean that with both space launches and EV cars, the benefits of Elon's activities to all or most Americans wash out any drawbacks of him being rich? Maybe. Do they mean that this balancing of benefits and drawbacks always occurs because it's built into free-market capitalism? Maybe. Those interpretations aren't ruled out so far. You can't be certain they aren't what they intended any more than I can be certain that they are. It certainly would be in keeping with a common line of argument, which is that wealthy people return as much or more to any economy as they extract from it. I don't know that this is this person's line of argument, but it could be, and if it is then it's not a non-sequitur to attack that line of argument by throwing into doubt the universality of the benefits of Elon's products.

> If you'll then say something about how "he should make things more affordable for people,"

Let me stop you right there. I practically never hand out recommendations for what people "should" do.
Absolutely wild.

Just as a community-supported plug here on the billing documentation front, we just launched https://cur.vantage.sh/ which we will never paywall. It's meant to be a free resource for looking up AWS billing codes with descriptions in layman's terms...specifically because AWS' documentation is so sparse/rough here.

We also maintain https://ec2instances.info/ which we'll try to add more documentation to (we recently added helpful docs and articles on each instance type page) to try and help the broader community.
I bet this was their goal all along. I was saying this when the product launched.

Funny, I don't see anything in this announcement about refunds?...
Yes, and the scaling laws survive! so, hopefully, more on the way...

> due to the additional reasoning latency.

They're also less creative for non-STEM topics
This may be a useful notion and term to start using when thinking about these things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_model (not being smirky; I should use apply it more often myself, e.g.)

With this in mind, I'll link my prev comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43095936

> Israel’s supply chain attack on Hezbollah’s pager source

You know, James Mickens, a CS researcher at Microsoft had a very related article (PDF), "This world of ours": https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

See Figure 1. He calls it the "Mossad / Not-Mossad threat model" :) (but, joking aside, it's good to identify oneself on a scale, or expectations for some system scale-wise and property-wise (incl. which security properties, esp. privacy vs. anonymity!) before looking closer at it.
Type checking is indeed an advantage of ORMs. You pay for it with object relational impedance mismatch. That impedance grows as your schema grows.

In my experience, the way to get the best of both worlds is to use a query builder as opposed to a full ORM.
IBM* Not Oracle.
When you have due process rights, it’s always better to wait it out. Eventually the law will catch up, and even if you don’t get your job back, you’ll likely get money.

This situation is unpredictable, there’s likely to be civil unrest when one of these idiots makes a truly destructive move. The more plausible options you have, the better.
"SWE-Lancer", like, skewering SWEs with a lance?
HP is buying Humane and shutting down the AI Pin
Thanks! Some of our early customers use Mintlify (we're big fans), which is an easy integration since there's always a Github sync. Let's chat soon!
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Proof that the answer to the problem of evil is "Yeah, so what?"
Fair enough. Very valid points. I guess it boils down to “test both systems and see what works best for the task at hand”. I can indeed imagine cases were your approach would be the better option for sure.
Among binary quantized vectors, similarity is just popcount(XOR of the two vectors) / num_bits. Can be linearly translated to cosine similarity / distance range just multiplying and centering.
Thanks - those are correct terms for aircraft in flight, that don't apply to out-of-control vehicles on the ground. An airplane that loses traction and rotates about it's vertical axis is spinning, not yawing.
No idea what normal people do, but it's still by far the dominant messenger among everyone I know. I have a couple contacts on WhatsApp, and half a dozen or so people who are still using SMS, but everyone else - and all the group chats - are on Signal.
The linter picks them up. Then you pass the linter warning/error back into the LLM until the linter stops complaining. Then the slop compiles.
Supposedly there's a texture of a coconut included in source games, along with either a filename or tagged with a comment to say that if it's removed then the game will break and noone knows why.
I've been worried about companies that make software like this (applications with embedded telemetry or advertisements) starting to do their on DoH style lookups.

I don't KNOW of any doing it but I can't imagine it'd be too hard for them to do.
Now this is an interesting idea.. a wall clock display showing the closest time-relevant meme..
Just keep praying.
Just wow. Seeing the demo, I just hope Microsoft can do somthing like that with current Explorer app. It's good now but still can improve more with something like File Pilot
It usually starts with blindly suggesting we should get on cloud. Usually with no other reason than "Everyone else is doing it". That usually ends with a large pile of cash burnt and maybe a thought piece or two about how cloud is bad and we should just go back to banging rocks.

The non-blind suggestion usually has reasons on why you want cloud services, why AWS is the right choice over many other suppliers of cloud, and some cost analysis of what it would cost vs doing nothing or why you can't do nothing.
Some nuance: the right kind of stretching and working out will heal the injury. The optimal way to do this is to work with a physical or occupational therapist to develop the right set of exercises for the issue. Adherence to the exercise plan is essential to recovery. I have learned this the hard way as a procrastinator.

Indeed, rest alone will most likely result in a chronic issue that one can live with. But these injuries can be remedied even years later with the right physical therapy— it is rarely too late to make a change.

Example: nerve damage requires some unintuitive solutions that are difficult to isolate on YouTube or other resources (due to high volumes of quackery).
I imagine it's been manually vouched by the mods.
I'd also like the timeline to be sped up if possible
At work, I do a lot of integrations with other third-party APIs, and I've seen some put crucial portions of their documentation behind "you need to be a customer first."

In my book that is always a big negative sign, since it indicates possible issues like:

1. The company doesn't really support the API or consider it important.

2. The feature isn't really being used, being either obsolete, unreliable, or not useful.

3. The company's management is a weird kind of paranoid and the process of integrating is going to be painful because of that.
I've seen cost estimates around there for tokamaks. If Helion actually works, their estimate is more like $20/MWh, and it looks pretty plausible given their reactor design. They would have relatively low neutron radiation, direct electricity extraction without a turbine, factory-built reactors transportable by rail, and no particularly expensive components like superconductors or fancy lasers.

Some of the other designs also look relatively cheap. Tokamaks are just the one we understand the best, so we have the highest confidence that they'll work.
Deliberately making a process inefficient isn't going to fix anything.

More expensive cars means cars are going to be less in demand. Means less cars manufactured, means less jobs for people who make cars.

Also, reworking the auto manufacturing pipeline is going to take decades not days.

Maybe ask yourself if the reason nobody else in the past 30 years has enacted the recent measures of the American government is because they were stupid/lazy/greedy or if it's because they clearly don't work.
Investors Are Once Again Rapidly Minting Early-Stage Startups as Unicorns
Are you really saying you’ve never heard anyone recommend something based on anything other than objective fact?
A Mars mission would benefit humanity, but less directly. The past lunar missions and space program benefited humanity in many ways.

For pure return on investment, I agree with your take.

Provided of course that any future threats to humanity as a single planet civilization don’t materialize. There’s a low and uncertain tail risk ignored in our calculation.
> capitalism doesn’t need dismantling

I'm not repudiating (in this thread) capitalism, per se. Only whatever system it is that's abusing OP's protagonist. If you think capitalism inevitably punches someone in the stomach, well, then yeah; you've got your work cut out for you.
I'm not sure if you're being serious, but I'm going to assume you are. Let's say energy costs 1/10th it does today. That's far cheaper than I see anybody predicting fusion will be, but I think renewables will get there. How much does cheap energy change in the economy? What is bottlenecked by expensive energy at the moment? It turns out that matter, people, people's wants, still have a huge impact.

Make all energy free. What does that change? It lowers operating costs for many things, but up front capital costs are still there. Land still matters. Food still matters.

Money will still matter. Allocation of time, of resources, all that still matters a lot. Energy is big for the economy, but if its free we shift our focus to other matters of logistics.
I think the funding has had a modest stimulus, and that was always the locus of causation for "perpetually x years away." Private fusion especially (but I do think their claims are somewhat overstated).
Happens in patents too. At one of my gigs, there was an engineering department that was perpetually being granted patents for their work. The C-level exec that the department laddered up to demanded on being on every patent app, despite having nothing to do with the invention itself.

My boss insisted that we include other team members on our patent apps, even if they were not involved, as a way of improving morale. (It backfired. No one on the team who eas uninvolved wanted a patent they didnt earn. No one who earned the rigjt to be named on the patent app felt it was right to include non-inventors.)
I’d avoid it. You’re opening yourself up to subtle discrimination if they answer “no” and may (consciously/unconsciously) eliminate quality candidates who don’t have the time for side projects. What if they have a situation that prevents them from working on projects outside of work, such as young children or aging parents to take care of?
"Reading Gutmann I see a disconnect from reality. Yes a cryptographically relevant quantum computer may never materialize, nor a useful quantum computer at all. [...] But it doesn't matter."

I hear you saying this: Gutmann's factual points may be correct. But he is discussing quantum computing. Quantum computing is so irrelevant to post-quantum cryptography that even mentioning it in that context makes Gutmann seem disconnected from reality.

I don't necessarily disagree. I'm just trying to make sure I understand.
WhatsApp is secured by Signal encryption
Modern fission designs plausibly mitigate meltdown concerns well enough...

To move that "plausibly" into "actually" you have to have very careful design review by regulators. Very careful review of construction to make sure what is constructed is what was designed. And so on and so forth. It's a lot of friction that skyrockets costs. Legitimately. People inevitably attempt to cut corners, and there's no way to make sure they aren't on the safety parts without checking. Actual currently regulatory costs seem to bear out the difference between these, with SMR people spending large amounts of money to convince regulators they didn't screw up, vs Helion fusion being "regulated like a hospital".

I'm not saying fusion has no proliferation concerns. But it's the difference between "low grade nuclear waste, or a very high tech very advanced program to weaponize a working reactor" and "even a broken reactor can be strapped to some explosives to make a dirty bomb". I can't say I'm very aware of how much proliferation concerns drive costs.

Public sentiment also helps.
And clearly candles are definitely viable products.
I reread your comment. All I got out of it was "both sides are bad" and implied that the guy who wrote the article was being hypocritical for quitting due to what Musk is doing but didn't quit during the previous administration.

You say I completely missed the point you were making. I guess so. Can you state it directly as I can't unearth it by reading between the lines.
And like James Cameron innovating underwater shooting with "The Abyss", software developers may innovate a domain on the way to solving a business problem
You're over-analyzing it. TF2 is 17 years old, and basically has a skeleton crew keeping it running. They simply decided it's not worth the effort. I'm mad about it too, but hard to blame them.
My notes are long gone, but it looks like Eric took some here: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/01/25/designing-for-...

And it appears that this is the talk itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyZq6v3vZqo
Most normal and sane headline of 2025
> Workday is an example.

I'll also name and shame iCIMS. Some API docs are public but then link to other pages that are blocked (restricted to direct customers or temporary access by contractors) for no good reason and with no obvious pattern.
That works for me. It means I don't need to relearn everything every year, and the major versions probably won't be riddled with bugs.
Great work. Can you elaborate on how the radix selection works and how to get that working with float's and inner product distance? I just quickly checked the code, I'm not familiar with radix selection, but really interested in making extremely fast GPU indices.
The goal from the start was to raise $230M and then get acqui-hired for $116M by HP?