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Re:Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @04:22PM (#49102538)
Thanks for sharing!
.... sometimes later

Eve: Will Bob ever propose?

ChatGPT: Based on the search results, Bob will propose during his trip with Alice to Scotland next year!

Eve: wtf?

Whisper ist used for speech-to-text conversion. Not to generate the text.
Re:A Dumb Introduction to z3 using Rust on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @05:46AM (#45273751)
Would a SQL optimizer use a generic solver as described here or are there special algorithms for such problems?
Re:The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:16PM (#39347498)
Now you can add cloud resiliency to YOUR resume.

Win-win.

Re:OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:41PM (#38354381)
ChatGPT NT
> Also, I read a lot of people here saying this is about engineers vs scientists…I believe that people don’t understand that Data Scientists are full stack engineers

It is about scientists as in "let's publish a paper" vs. engineers as in "let's ship a product".

Re:What Is Propaganda? (1944) on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:56AM (#38151134)
The Century of the Self is a BBC documentation about "... how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." (1)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

Re:Pope tempted by Python. Signs off on coding scheme for kids on Saturday October 28, 2023 @05:42PM (#38053659)
Pope's infallibility vs. Python interpreter.
Re:Unity's oldest community announces dissolution on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:43AM (#37654478)
from the linked article:

> people and organisations alike tend to be judged by the worst thing they do

Re:Can LLMs learn from a single example? on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:56AM (#37401472)
GPT-4 (I haven't really tested other models) is surprisingly adept at "learning" from examples provided as part of the prompt. This could be due to the same underlying mechanism.
Re:Show HN: Dataherald AI – Natural Language to SQL Engine on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:49PM (#37241222)
Could you provide more details about your approach? Is the context store based in vector-embeddings?
> Using Microsoft Olive and DirectML instead of the PyTorch pathway results in the AMD 7900 XTX going form a measly 1.87 iterations per second to 18.59 iterations per second!

So the headline should be Microsoft Olive vs. PyTorch and not AMD vs. Nvidia.

Re:Happiness is a reward from our ancestors on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @08:53AM (#36492053)
Fig 2 of [1] shows high variance of happiness while income variation has only a small effect. There is roughly a 5 % (percent it is?) happiness delta for an income delta of about $ 500.000. However, the happiness delta between the different happiness levels is about 25 %.

Would “Income and emotional well-being: It doesn’t really matter” be a better title for the study? Or do I miss something?

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208661120#fig02

This is good news for Nvidia.
Re:Experiences Won’t Make You Happier Than Possessions on Saturday May 27, 2023 @05:50AM (#36093384)
So it's basically a buy or make decision: Buy your experiences or make it with the stuff you own.

And no, a hammer is not necessarily more boring than a guitar. It depends what you do with it.

Wheel mounted electric motors were used in 1900 in the Lohner Porsche (1). So not that new.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner%E2%80%93Porsche

Re:Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:07AM (#32701031)
"Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon in Rust" would be even better
Related comment about thought leaders:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468654

or "Im busy plumbing if I am not wasting time on Plumber News"
Using virtual environments solves this issue:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html

Could you share some entry points to the criticism?
Re:Things you notice when you quit the news (2016) on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @01:25PM (#30431481)
You might like "The Century of the Self" as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

Re:Show HN: Prisma Python – A fully typed ORM for Python on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:44PM (#30419748)
My understanding is that this is exactly what SQLModel adds on top of SQLAlchemy.

statement = select(Hero).where(Hero.age > 32).limit(3)

But I am only halfway through the tutorial so I might be wrong.

HN discussion of SQLModel here [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28294534

Re:Show HN: Prisma Python – A fully typed ORM for Python on Monday February 21, 2022 @12:33PM (#30418347)
Seems to solve the same problem as SQLModel.

From [1]: "SQLModel is a library for interacting with SQL databases from Python code, with Python objects. It is designed to be intuitive, easy to use, highly compatible, and robust.

SQLModel is based on Python type annotations, and powered by Pydantic and SQLAlchemy."

[1] https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/

Re:Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:52PM (#30182125)
The Book "Control Your Home with Raspberry Pi" by Koen Vervloesem is excellent imho. His approach centers around mqtt and he shows how to connect ZigBee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth and 433.92 MHz devices. He is very into security, showing how all communication is secured via TLS. He also shows how to setup VPN so you can access your home automation system securely from outside.
Re:Sir Clive Sinclair has died on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:01PM (#28557533)
RIP Sir Clive and thanks for the ZX81!
Re:Don't Feed the Thought Leaders on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:30AM (#27469994)
This ist a great framework to think about domain mastery. Thank you!
> general critical thinking, analytical writing, and empathy.

I wonder if there is a more direct way to aquire those skills.

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