skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shameless self plug.. but my favorite artist is myself. My photography journey is documented here - https://vaidhys.world

Most of the photographs are around Seattle and focused on wildlife and landscapes.
Computability and Complexity from a Programming Perspective – Neil D. Jones [pdf]
Cool!

You watched CMU's intro to Database sytems, right? It's really good and thorough. It will save you of some common pitfalls and can help you navigate the trade-offs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otE2WvX3XdQ&list=PLSE8ODhjZX...
How do I not know about Dave Arnold's mom's stuffing?!
What would you put as a good moral compass?
Heh, this is the first time I've seen someone cite the weather as a reason for moving to Ireland.
Whenever people are suggesting adding a QR somewhere (ad, in-app, etc) I always advocate for showing the short URL too. But about half the time they insist that "everyone knows how to scan a QR code". They clearly haven't tried to ask a few people to scan a QR code to see how easily most people do it.
Utility scale solar inverters can as well! Renewables and batteries have graduated from grid following to driving grid health. Exciting times.

https://www.nrel.gov/grid/grid-forming-inverter-controls.htm...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-inverter
Check Touch Designer.
It's a horrible product, but it also sounds like a fun thing to reverse engineer and possibly use in some maker project (without the app, of course).
I’m the author of this post and a co-founder of Mercury. Let me know if you have any questions!
How do you poach an egg sous vide? I know how to soft-boil them, of course.
The issue with the QR codes at restaurants, for me, is that they force you to pull out your phone in a setting where you'd want people to put it away. Even been to dinner with people who are on their phone most of the time? Don't give people an excuse to pull out their phone, many are addicted and won't be able to put it away again and enjoy their meal and their company.

The parking I agree with, that solves a problem and genuinely makes our lives easier, but it should never be the only option for paying for parking.
Being old enough to straddle the manual and the automated world (48 this year), but absolutely loving technology (so I feel I haven't entered my "get off my lawn" era yet), I find myself looking for ways to augment, not replace. Of course, that's as much working in technology for 20+ years (and knowing how it's not magic and how things can fail) as much as it's good sense lol.
Here's are a few you might enjoy! Living artists only to give them a little boost

Photography:

- Hideaki Hamada https://hideakihamada.com/works/?tab=grid

- Henri Prestes https://www.instagram.com/henrifilm/

- Liam Wong https://www.instagram.com/liamwong/

- lllonilll https://www.instagram.com/lllonilll/

- Trung Bao https://www.instagram.com/trungbaotr/

- Clémentine Ecobichon https://www.instagram.com/clementine_art_gallery/

Digital / generative art:

- Slap Comp https://www.instagram.com/slapcomp/

- Oprisco https://www.instagram.com/oprisco/

- michael murdock https://www.instagram.com/mjmurdoc/

Bonus, artists & illustrators:

- seongryul https://www.instagram.com/sseongryul/

- huihuabiji https://www.instagram.com/yaozh.i/

- Kris Ancog https://www.instagram.com/krisancog/

- August Sandström https://www.instagram.com/august.artwork/

- daisukerichard https://www.instagram.com/daisukerichard/

- Viktoria Prischedko https://www.instagram.com/viktoriaprischedko/

- Thomas Wells Schaller https://www.instagram.com/thomaswschaller/

- Little Thunder https://www.instagram.com/littlethunder/
We had a nearly week long power outage due to a windstorm. Tesla has a power gateway, only usable by Cybertruck for now. that detects grid failures and automatically fails over the entire house to vehicle power. My Cybertruck (123 kWh) kept my house powered (15 kWh/day - natural gas took care of hot water, heating, and cooking) for almost all of that, with a one-time top-up at a friend's house.
That seems like a fairly simple machine could be conscious, which is not usually how the word is used. Typically consciousness means that there is some ill-defined entity that has a subjective experience, what the philosophers call qualia.
That was what I had heard too, but apparently it's gotten a bit complicated in recent decades [1][2].

Still, I get the impression that drugs are not a part of public life in China the way they are in America.

[1] http://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zggs/202406/t20240620_114...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16669899
I was wondering if the gold card will come without the tax obligations of a green card. It could be quite successful if so. I looked at getting an EB-5 but was put off by being liable for tax even if I didn't move to the US and also being expected to move to the US as part of the deal.
That's not really relevant. Turing complete languages are used to build Doom and Pong, but one is more impressive than the other.
You do not have to police everything, copy what Mozilla is doing: pass the top X extensions through manual audits (including looking at code diffs on every update) and mark them as trusted. Maybe also add a giant warning "this extension may steal your stuff" when installing everything else.
Twitter thread:

https://x.com/MKVRiscy/status/1893590632901595491
email on profile ;-)
Re TMSU, a scan through the bug list turns up this:

https://github.com/oniony/TMSU/issues/264
Thanks! One of the benefits of dogfooding our product everyday is that we invest a lot in working out the everyday kinks in addition to the marquee features.
Well, yes, but you have to convince people to do business with you first instead of people like Axon and Nuance who can afford to lose money and charge $.10 an hour. I’m just saying I’m located in a very challenging investment environment.
Email is always there as a backup, but no one in the company uses it anymore, to the point where we have to remind people to check it incase an external vendor reaches out.

Slack has provided so much additional functionality that trying to cram day to day working back into email just doesn't work anymore.
Thanks! We’ve definitely put a lot of thought into making emdash feel smooth, intuitive, and frictionless. We are constantly looking at all the seams where pieces connect and making sure they fit tightly.

We probably over-invested in some details, but we believe those small touches add up, kind of like getting that nice “thunk” when closing a well-built car door. Glad you noticed the polish—it’s something we really care about!
But you don't have to do the proving. You can let someone who is, like, REALLY good at formal verification do it and then benefit from the libraries they produce

Verification is useful when you're dealing with low level or very declarative stuff. You don't really have to "verify" a CRUD repository implementation for a random SPA. But the primitives it relies on, it would be good if those were verified.
Rust-Script
I feel this lack of magnanimity is a mistake. Only the true believers will rejoice at it. Others will have their position hardened.
The analogy doesn't make sense. You can't get food, shelter, medicine, transportation, education or anything with a mosquito.
It could be useful to run a prompt/test once, get the xPaths, and rerun it deterministically.
When it breaks, you know something is wrong, and the LLM could be used as a fallback to fix the script.
I'm surprised this took as long as it did, but I'm also in the process of de-Alexafying my home and frankly this is pushing me further away. I quit using the grocery list functionality when they a) started putting ads in it b) made it so I could only use the phone app. I'm tired of it taking away features I found useful. I'm tired of it advertising features to me that I don't want to use, let alone hear about, and cannot make it stop.

I've reverted to regular dumb paper lists, dumb clocks, dumb timers and I'm happier for it. I'm not giving this a chance to be another ad vector (especially if I'm paying for the privilege one way or another). I find that they claim this can store arbitrary facts about me it learns through conversation chilling and not at all a feature I want to entertain. There is no privacy policy you can offer me that will convince me otherwise.
Batteries are great if you can use them all of the time - eg V2G, grid load shifting, or if your utility won't buy generated solar power. Otherwise the capital cost is too high to have significant storage batteries sitting around idle waiting for an emergency.

> You can get a nice plug and play setup that will power some essential things for a while for a few thousand dollar/euro

A petrol generator that will do this can be had for like $400.
Given how Apple Intelligence has gone so far, I'm not going to hold my breath.
https://archive.is/eRc3M
Amen. We've migrated teams from Workplace who really appreciated our hierarchical discussion model
> Some examples of structures that could be biologically manufactured and assembled, but that may be infeasible to produce traditionally, include tethers for a space elevator, grid-nets for orbital debris remediation, kilometer-scale interferometers for radio science, new self-assembled wings of a commercial space station for hosting additional payloads, or on-demand production of patch materials to adhere and repair micrometeorite damage.
A structured program analyzing data as a graph, and optimizing access, is interacting with phenomenon, updating its working knowledge of the phenomenon, and can produce results that are very non-intuitive.

Likewise, any symbolic mathematical system that accumulates theorems that speed up future work as it solves current tasks, seems like a high intelligence type of activity.

Deep learning is “just” structured arithmetic.

I think different kinds of intelligence can look quite different, and they will all be “structured” or “tropic” at their implementation levels.

—

Stepping away from the means, I see at least four “intelligence” dimensions:

1. Span: The span of novel situations for which it can create successful responses.

2. Efficiency: The efficiency of problem solving.

I.e. When vast lookup tables, exhaustive combination searches, and indiscriminate logging of past experience can be matched instead by more efficient Boolean logic, arithmetic, pattern recognition and logging, we consider the latter more intelligent.

3. Abstraction: The degree to which solving previous different novel situations improves the success or efficiency in solving new problems. I.e. generalizable, composable learning.

4. Social education: Ability to communicate and absorb learned information from other entities.

Plants, and I expect all surviving life forms, are very high in intelligence types 1 and 2.

Adaptive nervous systems and especially brains excel at 3.

Many animals, but most profoundly humans (whose languages for communicating are themselves actively adapted for compounding effects), excel at 4.

Today’s humans are effectively more intelligent than 10,000 year ago humans, not because of 1-3, but because of 4. Learning as a child to read/write, do arithmetic, understand zero and negative numbers, and countless other information processing activities and patterns, from others, profoundly impacts our intellectual abilities.

Deep learning, as with the human species, non-trivially spans, and continues to improve, on all 4 types of intelligence.
>1. Needs power. 2. Needs an app. 3. Has less water capacity.

It's like someone looked at The Homer [1] and thought "that's solid engineering sensibility."

[1] https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer
It's a nice idea but there's no evidence for it. Not only is there no evidence, but nobody has any idea what such evidence would even look like. We can't even conceptualize an experiment that would support or refute this theory.
For which work tasks do you find this workflow useful, given that you can't feed confidential information into the non-Gemini models?
so, given no one knows how to use fusion to produce energy, why do you think now is the time to plan how to put this non-existent technology on to boats?
This is very cool. The summarization feature stands out as my favorite.
Additionally, varying interpretations would say you shouldn't use the lights, elevators, etc, so modern living in any manner may be incompatible with orthodoxy.
Congratulations on a great exploratory project!

It takes me back to my school years. I never got as far as you (not by any long stretch actually), but I did enjoy creating the storage layer of a database from scratch. To actually have to deal with, instead of just think of, all the edge cases, is quite the transformative experience.

As a humble suggestion, since it seems your goal is to understand how relational databases work and not necessarily to write a new database that will compete with others, maybe don't make it an SQL one? We've got enough of those, and not enough of the others. Would be nice to have a new relational DB using Tutorial D as its language for example.

Keep hacking!
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> If parking somewhere requires an app

I mean... it is pretty handy to just add more time from your phone instead of running out to the meter to feed more quarters in.
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Great resource to explore new fine art photography projects and artists is LENSCRATCH https://lenscratch.com/photographers/

But have you explored all of the old ones yet? Magnum has excellent courses, each is a rabbit hole of references and inspiration: https://www.magnumphotos.com/learn/ (personally working through the Alec Soth one atm)

Regarding photobooks, the best way by far is to visit your local brick and mortar book store for a photography section, or find local community place / coffee shop that has these available. Just pick whatever catches your eye! I know some libraries also provide access to photobooks, should be a good resource if you have one nearby.
I worked at the lab. “Modernist” was chosen from what I remember because he didn’t like “molecular gastronomy”, which is what everyone was calling texture manipulations and laboratory techniques applied to food at the time, and to differentiate it from “classical” cooking - the Escoffier through Marco Pierre White era basically.

We cooked a lot of dishes from the book for special events, but it was often the same lot of dishes over and over. Writing the recipes was an absolute pain in the ass (I was a cook, I was not used to documenting things in a lab manual), and I absolutely believe lots of hidden variables got lost - again, while there were lab-trained chefs there - Chris I believe had a background in biology or something - us grunts were line cooks beforehand.
Very cool solution!
Hopefully it won't be considered "woke" to manufacture things organically as opposed to using steel and concrete and plastic.
Here's my list (probably not all of them)

https://github.com/FireScroll/FireScroll/

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/DurableStreams (brand new)

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/ObjectKV

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/WriteAhead

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/icedb (most popular)

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/Percolators (kind of a DB on top of a DB, technically just transactions tho)

there are others that might not fit exactly what you're looking for
IIRC, Alexa lost money because:

1. People didn't actually use it to buy stuff because they want to comparison shop.

2. The devices were sold at a huge loss.

What I think has changed is that Amazon now has a lot more "products" to buy and devices that make the shopping easier. If you can ask Alexa to "order X things from the Whole Foods nearby, but prefer brands I've shopped in the past" and then you're able to confirm the order on a screen, then have it delivered to your house within a few hours, that's a much more compelling offering.
I have to confess that I have a platform addiction ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But I finally stuck with MotiveWave, so much so that I actually paid for a full license even though there are a bunch of great free platforms. Main thing, works on Linux and macOS, where as many other platforms are exclusive Windows.

Also, the SDK is quite nice too!

As for commodities, I've found some success in agricultural commodities but I also dabble in currencies and indexes. Agricultural though have some interesting characteristics given than they have an actual physical thing behind them as opposed to how stocks move... which varies depending on which side of the bed the CEO of the company woke up!
Maybe, but even then it would be major news and deserve being shown on the front page for longer. Submitting the PDF was a bad idea.
I use LLMs pretty liberally and I can say with 100% certainty I am not going to leave an open microphone in my home hooked up to an LLM connected to a place I do not control that is actively trying to "learn" about me.
> I'm currently on Slack and not happy about it

Yeah I heard that Slack is taking a breather this morning...
You can just blot the meat with a paper towel really quickly. You don't want surface moisture of course, because evaporative cooling means anything with water in it basically only cooks at 100C, so basically you'll have to cook it longer to get the same sear and thus overcook more of the meat below the surface.

But you want the meat to be as moist as possible, it helps keep the seared portion shallower. Searing dries out the crust, so you want that all to happen as fast as possible, meaning you want it as hot as you can get without "torch taste". (Contrary to popular belief, torch taste comes not from torch fuel but compounds formed at too high heat, that just only happens with a torch.)

So full steam plus hit with a low power torch (Iwatani) is my daily driver and if I'm cooking for a lot of people I use the Searzall but that's like once a year. But it's fun for the whole family to finish the prime rib roast that way.
If you are a rich business person it may be handy for doing business in NYC or SV.
Almost all of the work has already been done by other people for other text editors. Porting a theme requires copying files from another project and writing a tiny bit of glue around it. The author of a niche terminal emulator I'm using on small systems was able to add around a hundred themes this way in a short amount of time. Sadly, he wasn't able to raise $7.6k×100 for all that thankless work.
Doom compiled to just 177 TB (terabytes) of TypeScript types. Amazing on many levels.
You can run your fridge and freezer, you can run your (gas) furnace, and your lights. That’s most people’s core requirements, and a typical car battery can do this for 5 days. I’ve also heard of people watching tv on it.
An Empirical Study of Date and Time Bugs in Open-Source Python Software [pdf]
I use browser-use.
I use use-browser.
I use mac-use.
I use use.
yeah, this part is where I am confused - the dispute itself is about bad business to business behavior, but the class status of this lawsuit drills down to harm caused to end users. I'm trying to figure out what expectations end users are entitled to since it's obviously not the case that WP users can hold Automattic directly liable when they are hacked.

I _think_ the argument is that WPE gave them the (at the time reasonable) expectation that risk mitigation was handled by them, and Automattic made that expectation impossible to meet retroactively hence tortious interference, but is there language that passes the liability up the chain from the end users? To me it seems like WPE has a case but the end users as a class might face headwinds.

And for everybody angrily downvoting me I agree with you that Matt is an asshole but that doesn't mean I don't want to understand the nuance of a class claim in a case like this.
>If parking somewhere requires an app

That battle has been largely lost in my city.

Last year I had to attend a work related course. I'm running a little late, and I get to the place with just a few minutes to spare. Usually I can just tap my debit card and enter my license plate at the terminal, an operation that takes 15 seconds. But this parking garage was app-only. So I spend 15 minutes instead on this bullshit. The first app I tried wasn't supported on the old 1G iPhone SE I had at the time, because I guess parking technology is just too advanced for that neolithic device. Next app works, but of course I have to go through the whole rigmarole of making an account, confirming my email, adding my payment card and then confirming THAT, and so on and so forth. How is this any easier than the old method? My mom would never have figured this shit out. Not that she'd be able to park there anyway probably, because she's inherited my iPhone SE now.
> You still have to cope with failures from cosmic rays

Much like you have to cope with hash or GUID collisions... that is, you don't, because it statistically never happens. Unless you're speedrunning super mario or something.

Besides if you have a program that's formally verified, you just need to do what NASA did for its Apollo missions and make all the logic redundant and gate it behind a consensus algorithm.

You can argue that all 4 computers might get hit by a cosmic ray in just the right place and at just the right time... But it will never ever happen in the history of ever.

So my point is that the real world is messy. But the systems we design as engineers are not necessarily as messy. And the interface between the real world and our systems can be managed, and the proof of it is that we wouldn't be chatting across an entire ocean by modulating light itself if that weren't the case.
I suppose you're right about that not being enough. Ultimately there needs to be an increased level of social consciousness for real names to even inspire critique or ridicule. When the reader doesn't think they have any "skin in the game" either, someone's earnest endorsement of ignorance has no felt impact.
How We Scaled Meteor to Handle 30k Concurrent Users at Propiedata
Framework 16 has already been tested by the Community: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/framework-laptop-16-amd-ryzen-7...

I was asking about the desktop.
This is how Zerg starts
If I heard him correctly he stated that it takes A LOT to just render a single frame. It's not playable. It can run DOOM, but you can't actually play it.
That's on the higher end of household usage. On the lower end, during a cold windstorm in the PNW I was able to get it down to 600W (15 kWh/day) because I have mostly natural gas appliances. My Cybertruck kept us going for nearly a week with just one top-up (because I don't like to go above 80% or below 20%). We deferred using the dryer and dishwasher, and relied on the fireplace for warmth instead of the HVAC.

On a hot day yeah I'd be running the A/C but ideally you'd have solar to offset much of that.
You wouldn't really brown it that way. It's basically a very large, very accurate wi-fi toaster oven. You could maybe open the door to let the steam out, put the top heating element on full, and broil it, but you'd probably end up overdone in the process. I just recommend a torch, a cast iron pan, or your oven's broiler for finishing most thiungs.
I can still use light switches to turn off my lights. I can also turn them all on or off at once, change the brightness, color, and temperature. Smart light are great, I'm sorry they confuse you.
Of course, business incentive is to have people complete as much stuff as they can per time unit. I don't think I ever had a luck to work in an environment where anyone in the team wouldn't be working on multiple things at the same time. Truth to be told these weren't the traditional scrum or any other bs driven environment. More like high performance teams where pretty much anyone was quite exquisite.