skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The game called for picking six numbers from 1 and 54. For a pro gambler, some sets of numbers—such as 1,2,3,4,5,6—aren’t worth picking because so many other players choose them, which would split the pot. Marantelli’s operation bought 99.3% of the possibilities."

Wouldn't this be 54x53x52x51x50x49 = 18,595,558,800 therefore 99.3% is 18,465,389,888.4 or basically over 18 billion dollars in tickets (at $1 per ticket)?
Nitpick: not sure it's the first therapy chatbot trial. Couldn't it be that it is the first one to give positive results? Not sure that anyone would publish to say "we tried a therapy chatbot and it didn't help".
The energy is transferred to the planet from its orbit when it stretches, and then dissipated as heat from friction
Genuine Intelligence? Is it also AI? [video]
The Art of Poison-Pilling Music Files
One of the (many) differences between junior developers and LLM assistance is that humans can learn from their mistakes, whereas with LLMs it's up to you as the prompter to learn from their mistakes.

If an LLM screws something up you can often adjust their prompt to avoid that particular problem in the future.
> However, I no longer accept published reports at face value, unless I check who the authors are, and who funds them.

No, you use this as a cop out to deny results. In this case you have done this check and you have decided you do not want to believe the outcome so you wave around a vague charge of bias in a lame attempt to discredit it.

Please show me one single scientific report or conclusion you’ve accepted that passed this same “bias test”. Neither the authors nor their funding source may have a particular interest in the outcome. Any such example will do.
There really isn't need to share misinformation on HN.

The PM has slight larger responsibility the a regular MP.

I'm not a big fan of JTs policies over the years but they were done via parliamentary support.
I had a lot of fun building rockets in a similar way as a kid. We also tried PVC but discovered that it fails in a dangerous way, after which we used only copper. I had fun programming a PIC16 in assembler to read from the accelerometer and fire the home made igniters of black powder, nitrocellulose laquer, and nichrome wire.
Good thing they didn't happen to, oh, completely shut down a prior administration policy designed specifically to fund the construction of the factories needed to make those semiconductors onshore. Oh wait...
Covers a lightweight window manager on Linux, a terminal emulator and editor. I wonder how this person manages modern web browsing on underpowered systems though.
This is the key point. It’s uncertainty which spooks the markets and investor confidence.
Characteristics of Organic Rankine Cycle with Geothermal Water
So you have plus > x > parents?
Wonder if you could have the reviewer characterize any mistakes and feed those back into the coding prompt: “be sure to… be sure not to…”
Writers and Readers as Co-Creators
Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands
Everything is temporary. Very enlightened of Mr Lutnick to remind us as he wipes away the Mandala of American trade policy one more time.
Towards Multi-Modal AI Assisted Workspaces
Isn't that what nextdoor is? I have no firsthand experience but hear it talked about.
Seems to be 10 to 20 million
I'm sure you know this, but for those who might not, US sci-fi was just as varied as anywhere else... except in the domain of John W. Campbell, for decades the editor of the biggest-circulation sci-fi magazine in the country, where he very much explicitly selected for that kind of story. Lots of famous authors active in the era have tales of how they edited their work to meet Campbells demands -- I recall one where the author switched the 'human' and 'alien' species because Campbell wouldn't print a story where humanity 'lost.'

Truly a fascinating character, and an author in his own right, responsible for the story that John Carpenter would adapt for his film The Thing. I don't share his taste in science fiction, but he had a massive impact on the genre.
I can do all those things now, and I don't need a hyperscale copyright theft and climate-destroying linear algebra calculator to do it.
TFR in the US is 1.66. In China, it is 1.18.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRMFGCON
One thing to be mindful of is that this limits your ability to help your partner as you age. State intervention can play both ways.
s/AI/tech
Wow, the FBI has some great tips to protect yourself from scams including:

> Take a breath, slow down and think.
Why do you believe an LLM would be good at this task?
https://archive.md/TGwA2
I live in Seattle now, am married, and have an infant. I find Seattle not friendly towards families at all. The going rate for a daycare here is 3.5k per month for an infant. My wife and I are both ~7%ers? individually and we can barely afford our home (a tall skinny townhouse with no yard) and the cost of 1 baby. Having a family is hard here... Also, I don't find Seattle safe for infants and toddlers, or anybody really..

What big tech wants are people who are willing to give up everything for the dream of making money, and that's what they got.

Edit: Our life is pretty good in any case. I would never let my kid go outside and play unsupervised in Seattle even tho I myself did this as a kid in my home town (the safety I was mentioning).
There is definitely value to be had in using systems that force you to write high-performing code. In the web space we all too often we sit down at high powered macs to write code that will be run by low-end Android devices, and fail to appreciate the consequences.
It is a natural human tendency to shift blame to external boogeymen, but to speak frankly, I think there's something deeper going on with the loneliness epidemic than nudey videos on the internet. A seemingly large chunk of both sexes have major personality issues that prevent them from getting along with each other.
https://archive.md/Xi2Ay
The UK is not Canada though. You have the House of Lords, we have a Senate. We are a (con)federation, and that adds a whole new political overlay that the UK doesn’t have.

The executive power of our PM relative to the body politik is much higher. We don’t have a tradition of backbench rebellion, and the PMO often wields more power than the cabinet.
I'm in Switzerland, and both Neon (Hypothekarbank Lenzburg) and Zak (Banque CLER) work perfectly fine.

Google Wallet does not work, therefore I cannot use my phone to pay wirelessly with my Neon card, which is a shame.

The only apps I had trouble with were Twint (had to install it with F-Droid, as Play kept telling me it was not compatible with my device), and... the McDonald's app (which forces me to move my fat ass to one of their kiosks to order my food instead of doing it from the table).
The Sybil attack reigns supreme!
> EVs supply near maximum torque instantly when you press the accelerator pedal.

You do realize you can drive without just slamming the accelerator pedal straight to the floor every time you start going right?
Ok I agree with this but I would add that they are only winning because Republicans side with them.
Very cool!

The training objective is clever.

The 50+ filters at Ecodash.ai for 90,000 plants came from a custom RAG model on top of 800,000 raw web pages. Because LLM’s are expensive, chunking and semantic search for figuring out what to feed into the LLM for inference is a key part of the pipeline nobody talks about. I think what I did was: run all text through the cheapest OpenAI embeddings API… then, I recall that nearest neighbor vector search wasn’t enough to catch all relevant information, for a given query to be answered by an LLM. So, I remember generating a large number of diverse queries, which mean the same thing (e.g. “plant prefers full sun”, “plant thrives in direct sunlight”, “… requires at least 6 hours of light per day”, …) and then doing nearest neighbor vector search on all queries, and using the statistics to choose what to semantically feed into RAG.
Interesting. Looks like it the line isn't able to take the energy (I'm guessing voltage is already too high) they dump the energy into a resistive heater.

Makes sense, it's just going to be heat anyways. I wonder how often that happens vs the energy getting dumped into the line.
if your hose is short or your flow is weak, please stand close to not wet your feet - some toilet in rural texas
The Date example is possibly an even better example of why dependencies that get hard problems right are so important. If Python's datetime library is bad, Date is truly terrible. Every time I have used it I have regretted it long term (including when using it in combination with date-fns in the hope that that makes it usable). And in the end, trying to keep things simple with Date has caused more technical debt than using a sensible dependency.

Some problems simply require using the right tools. They aren't necessarily hard, but they will be if you try to hammer a nail in with a screwdriver. The Date API, and to a certain extent Python's datetime module, are screwdrivers for a nail-shaped problem.

The rest of your example seem to have more to do with bad dependency practices than using dependencies in the first place. If you are going to include a dependency, think about it, consider whether it's worth it, document that decision, and then consistently use that dependency. Just because you've seen projects use dependencies poorly doesn't mean dependents are bad by themselves.
I'm a big fan of PKD and also Blade Runner. You've got a point about the film being so very different, but I think it's subsequent success (it wasn't that successful at the time) justifies the approach to the subject matter.

However I do wish that Mercerism (the religion in the book) was included in the film. Maybe someone should attempt to film a more literal adaptation.

Edit: thinking about the difference between the novel and the film makes me think of The Shining and I'm very much in the Kubrick camp - the film being a work of art by itself and so doesn't have to follow the source material.

However, I also really like A Scanner Darkly which is arguably the closest PKD adaptation.
"I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality; where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well."
That’s unfortunate. And it’s a uniquely American mindset. Long-term relationships in Europe for example do not require marriage in the same way that Americans do. People get married in the states because of the law, people get married in other countries because they just want to get married for emotional or spiritual reasons.
A pony is a very realistic desire. Horse property is cheap and horses themselves aren't too expensive provided you have time. Don't let your dreams be dreams.
Are there any decent alternatives? At what point does transparent securities fraud generally lead to capital flight?
The point is minimizing curvature, not maximizing length. Curved path makes the accelerated particles lose energy through radiation.
This is not about investment, it's about extortion. Bend the knee, or be destroyed. No US business sector can exist without foreign imports. It's a perfect lever to extract fealty from the corporate sector. They sell tariffs as all sort of things to different groups, sometimes out right lies (it's a tax on foreigners). But in the end it's only about control and power.
Fundamental misunderstanding of physics. Slowing 2,500lbs from 60-0MPH in 4 seconds (for example) puts just as much wear on a tire if it's with friction brakes or with regenerative braking or engine braking.
Not sure my search engine skills are any better but here are a few links:

From 2 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/126nd51/comment...
-> Sounds like Curve (without Google Pay) wasn't officially supported in Europe and didn't work for most people.

However, this seems to have changed a couple days ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/curve/comments/17txz6u/comment/mkwl...

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/443-gpay-alternatives-for-g...

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/475-wallet-google-pay/105

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/curve-pay-available-as-a...

This is in line with an interview with the CEO of Curve from last month, https://paymentsconsulting.com/qa-with-shachar-bialick-at-cu...

> We are launching Curve Pay in beta for Android soon and plan to release it on iOS thereafter. This will allow customers to use Curve as their default wallet, just like Apple Pay or Google Pay.

…and with various German news sites reporting that Curve Pay is now available in Germany (and likely other parts of the EEA).
there is no part of the reddit algo that ever promotes pro-trump stuff, ever
Part of the energy is transformed into heat as the planet mass is deformed. In the same way an unbalanced wheel tire heats up faster. This is the internal friction part.

Part of it is transfered to the mass being orbited. In the same way a wobbling wheel makes the road vibrate a little bit. This is the gravitational part.

It's not a perfect metaphor, but it should be enough to visualize what happens.
>EPA’s guidance used to state that one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water.

That doesn't answer my question. How did you get the "$1 billion USD" figure? It's unclear how you go from "one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water" to "Estimates for initial cleaning and restoring would be $1 billion USD".

Moreover, if that's "up to" amount, then surely it only applies to the worst case, like if you dumped the oil directly into a river/ocean? The picture in the article shows there's no source of water nearby. That's not to say that it can't affect groundwater or whatever, but blindly applying "one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water" makes no sense.
Pew Research: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/28/a-record-...
Why?

Because it is good for the country? Or because it is good for Trump's ego?

Is a dumber, more isolated America the path to "greatness" in the 21st century? Personally, I don't think so.

"Never interrupt an enemy while he is making a mistake"
--- Sun Tzu
A better way of phrasing that would be: "It's entirely possible to create a rotting hot mess while following all the best practices. It's also possible to create a very good program while ignoring some of the best practices".
Kotlin JSON Stream Serializer
Look at how it’s done in Python, with Pydantic for example. The runtime information allows you to write plain typed functions (for example in FastAPI), and you can be 100% confident these are the types your function will actually receive at runtime, without having to write the types in a separate DSL. This is not possible in standard TS.
With out-of-touch guys like this managing the country, how would it be possible to evade disaster, let alone winning?
Europe is trying to leave Starlink behind
What is modern web browsing good for besides engagement and advertising?
For what it’s worth, I’ll soon be looking for new PhD students to join our lab in Belgium (Europe). It’s a great, dynamic environment, and we work on exciting problems in 3D and computer vision. Feel free to reach out if you think it could be a good fit!
That's a strawman. What I was doing was pointing out the appeal to the aesthetics of work and associated buzzwords ("capital"), noting the absence of any actual economy policy that will deliver tangible benefits to existing people. It's the same old populist shtick that we've seen in countless fascist and communist regimes where certain modes of work are fetishized and life is regimented around that prescription by a central authority, in the pursuit of a subjective notion of pure work. The giveaway is the attempted justification of an economic policy in service of a nebulous "cultural" impact.
Discussed on HN back then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39417231 (147 comments)
It's profoundly depressing that this is all so badly thought out.

Like, how is anyone supposed to plan for anything with this kind of governance?
part of the echo chamber is also instant shadow bans on many of the major subs, and especially political ones, unless you consistently comment (shadow banned) comments and eventually get whitelisted by a mod or bot who's determined you to be the "right" sort of commenter. and again an instant shadow ban again the second you trigger any "bad" keywords
Author here. To summarize the long discussion in the issue:

1. I _love_ pure Python packages. Not everybody should be forced to use Rust. I want installing pure-Python to be as easy as possible

2. Having separate names on PyPi (with or without extras) creates confusion for libraries depending on whenever: should they depend on whenever-py or whenever-rust? If one “overwrites” the other, this adds confusion.

3. Most users expect to “pip install whenever” and start using the “fast” version

For me, points (3) and (2) weigh heavy enough to make (1) slightly more cumbersome.

But: Maybe I’ve missed something. Have a read in the above issue or add your 2 cents.

edit: formatting
Frasier never finds love?
That and likely insider trading https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1911097542126784521?s=46&t=V...
Really amazing and impressive work!
Interesting! I worked previously for a company that did automatic generation of short video clips from long videos. I fine-tuned a t5 model by taking many Wikipedia articles and removing the new line characters and training it to insert them.

The idea was that paragraphs are naturally how we segment distinct thoughts in text, and would translate well to segmenting long video clips. It actually worked pretty well! It was able to predict the paragraph breaks in many texts that it wasn’t trained on at all.

The problems at the time were around context length and dialog style formatting.

I wanted to try and approach the problem in a less brute force way by maybe using sentence embedding and calculating the probability of a sentence being a “paragraph ending” sentence - which would likely result in a much smaller model.

Anyway this is really cool! I’m excited to dive in further to what you’ve done!
This in no way contradicts the fact that we're spending one trillion dollars per year to service the debt.
Ask HN: Does acceptance of Wikipedia as reliable source foreshadow same for AI?
When Wikipedia started it was denounced as an unacceptable reference source compared to standards like Encyclopedia Britannica. Now its information is regularly cited here, generally without dispute. The output/product of AI/LLM is denounced here as hallucination-prone and unacceptable for reference. Will that too pass just as Wikipedia's early days engendered fierce debate as to its suitability?
It was planned, but they honestly did not know it would destroy so much so quickly that they'd be associated with negative consequences.
It’s actually the opposite. A lot of benefits programs are punitive to marriage wrt household income. I know many older couples who stay unmarried because one of them would lose their healthcare or cash transfer benefit, for example.

For making healthcare decisions, durable power attorney and a medical proxy should be sufficient for unmarried couples. Not an attorney, talk to one if this is a need you have to validate your authority posture. The best time to have a plan is before you need it.
> You might as well say US people fucking love washing machines or knives and forks.

Yeah, you’re getting it.

Nobody will say they love washing machines but they clearly do. We see it in their actions. Same as with cars. Everything they do tells us that they love cars. They drive comically short distances. They spend money they barely have to buy them.
They actually haven't shut it down yet, because they're a bunch of less than competent people selected for loyalty.
> EPA’s guidance used to state that one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water.

This is a worst case scenario. It basically assumes all of the oil goes directly into a water supply - so at that point you're just calculating the dilution of benzene.
its the same memory usage. its hidden by the OS.

its less efficient because you can only ever pass messages to the webview. you cant compile modules and integrate like you can with Electron.

webviews are a naieve solution only useful for basics and even then is outdone by any other cross platform UI.
the story below is true, about 15 years ago.. I think they hired undergrads, not staff graduate students. The undergrads did data entry mostly.. they did not pay the undergrads very much but in Oregon, most were content to get any money at all?
Show HN: Opsmate - LLM Powered SRE Assistant
Vast Active Living Intelligence System (VALIS) might not be PKD's best title, but it's arguably his best book.
An EPIC scene from "The Congress" (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMMI8HWhqEc

The Congress (2013) Scan Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPAl5GwvdY8

HN thread about "Bruce Willis Sells Deepfake Likeness Rights So His 'Twin' Can Star in Movies" and The Congress discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33044479

>According to director Ari Folman, some elements of the film were inspired by the science fiction novel The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem in that similarly to Lem's Ijon Tichy, the actress is split between delusional and real mental states. Later, at the official website of the film, in an interview, Folman says that the idea to put Lem's work to film came to him during his film school. He describes how he reconsidered Lem's allegory of communist dictatorship into a more current setting, namely, the dictatorship in the entertainment business, and expresses his belief that he preserved the spirit of the book despite going far away from it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36209861

>People who haven't used psychedelics don't tend to get or appreciate The Congress as much as those who have.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34953477

>I just watched The Congress -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) -- and WOW, it was excellent.
Six decades of plankton decline sparks call to protect the marine food web
> Terminal text editors are also lighter due to the fact that the terminal is providing all of the windowing fuss for them and that terminals are light applications in and of themselves due to not having to do much that is extremely novel or intensive on a CPU

I think this is a common fallacy. Fundamentally adding an tty layer in the middle does not make lighter solution, so in almost all cases terminal application+terminal emulator is inherently heavier than equivalent application talking directly to display server.