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The 15-inch MacBook Air is a superb big-screen laptop that’s still super portablehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ce20eb8e64da39a40456fa352b691&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2Fcnn-underscored%2Freviews%2Fmacbook-air-15-inch&c=9936444168498725315&mkt=en-usThe 13-inch MacBook Air is the best laptop you can buy, so it’s no surprise to see Apple simply make it bigger for 2023. The 15-inch MacBook Air features a significantly larger display for juggling ...Jun 26, 2023 10:37 AM
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Sustainable, nutritious, affordable: How an entrepreneur is empowering local food producers to feed the worldhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi2wFBVV95cUxNVnVZenZjUGVSYndoV2NpSGFIakhRenNuSlEzTHozRG80bjUxY2s5dTdKS1FiTFBPQ3lKQVFGRXUyaEVBOFhWTHhFSFpSclNQS0liMERra2IyV25NWDFIZ0trQUJuUHpvVlN6REpSZzE2QjVydnRqT0NKZU0tTldoX1BpZzRTTEZjVkxJeV9GZlk5TTJIQ0p4WmEtMnZUZDZtbUlxSFVFZUxRZjVacmkwN3VvYXlwdUU3aFVVODZ0a3E2T1FTSmFrbFZ4TTRMeTE1OVZPeXg5RE1zVHM?oc=5Sustainable, nutritious, affordable: How an entrepreneur is empowering local food producers to feed the world The World Economic ForumJun 26, 2023 7:00 AM
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Tell HN: I learnt some new things while working on my projecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36454949Recently I worked on a simulation analysis which taught me several things:- To get the most out of Python, you really need efficient libraries like Numpy. I started off my project in pure Python and some Pandas. But soon I realized it was painfully slow and looked for better solutions.- Polars looked like a good Pandas alternative, but some googling revealed that it could be slower than Numpy. Although it's easy to work with dataframes (e.g., you can select a column by calling its name), I converted all my code to use Numpy and suddenly saw huge speed boost. But that wasn't the end of it. I was now in a rabbit hole...- Vectorization helped a lot with speed as well. I learnt that using the right tool (in this case, Numpy) guides you to do better and vectorize operations, whereas Pandas didn't enforce that technique on me. Despite the initial hurdle, I realized that vectorization made my code much more readable and easier to follow.- I then parallelized my code to utilize all 10 cores ofJun 24, 2023 2:41 AM
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Show HN: Joi – speech-tech exploration led to AI girlfriend on Telegram (NSFW)https://joiaigirlfriend.comSince few month I've been exploring all kind of AIs. When it came to text-to-speech technologies, the reality of some of them (ElevenLabs here for instance) made me reconsider the way we could interact with AI. I started working on a Telegram bot, using both speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies in order recreate a 'real' voice conversation with AI. In the meantime, I was exploring LLM models on HuggingFace, and APIs like their Inference API or even Replicate API to use these custom models, which I wanted to implement in a project as well, part of my exploration.This is where Joi's idea came - an AI girlfriend 'with benefits' (understand 'intimate talks' or 'uncensored AI' here) as a Telegram bot.For the ref: Joi is a character from BladeRunner 2049, an AI designed to be the ultimate companion, felt like a good fit.That's a side project, built over the weekend, but realised it could actually be of use for some, to fight loneliness and so. Or just explore `unprecedented` way toJun 23, 2023 2:20 PM
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Unveiling Issues with “The Art of the Fugue” Paper Regarding Jupiter-OThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36429054Continuing from my previous post titled "What's wrong with 'The Art of the Fugue' Paper about OT (adOPTed)?" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36208787, I now present the second instalment in this series, where I address the inaccuracies present in “The Art of the Fugue” paper (or the Fugue paper in short below) regarding OT, with a specific focus on JUPITER-OT.Let's begin by examining the original text from the paper (A.1.3., page 19) that attempts to illustrate the "interleaving" problem in JUPITER-OT: “The Jupiter paper does not explicitly specify the transformation function for concurrent insertions, it only describes it verbally as: ‘We arbitrarily chose to put server text first if both [i.e. server and client] try to insert at the same spot.’ We show that even this informal definition implies that the algorithm exhibits forward interleaving. Starting with an empty document, assume that client A generates ins(1, a) followed by ins(2, b), and concurrently client B generates iJun 22, 2023 7:32 AM
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Is Kilimanjaro On Your Bucket List? Here's How You Can Conquer Africa's Tallest Peakhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMib0FVX3lxTE1iQk1sUEdYM1RIazN2cURzdExlYms2cHhJQmE4d2tEQkFfV2NLc2ktT2xkXzUtYWI2Rmg2MTdSZURDWWk4eHZ1WE94QmUxNW5fT2FIWlRWN1FQc0NUaEVwYzJtdWw4NFp0cS11TUFMdw?oc=5Is Kilimanjaro On Your Bucket List? Here's How You Can Conquer Africa's Tallest Peak travelnoire.comJun 22, 2023 7:00 AM
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Study reports first realization of a Laughlin state in ultracold atomshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cf66916ff4b7b9812a84114dbf009&url=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2023-06-laughlin-state-ultracold-atoms.html&c=777172175911313687&mkt=en-usThe discovery of the quantum Hall effects in the 1980s revealed the existence of novel states of matter called "Laughlin states," in honor of the American Nobel prize winner who successfully ...Jun 21, 2023 8:12 AM
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Here Are A Few Facts About The Five Tallest Mountains In Africahttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMicEFVX3lxTFBSZmFUSGt3cXZTUGZ1eHJXYTJoX2dxcFY1VzRILURhcDFBTmdYeWNrX1d3OXZPZEVvLU56OVdlZktPVGpFbDFibnRLQmlzT2VBdjJtNkRXZ2F2Q05NemRmX3VkNlJaVXM5SlV5ckhUTEE?oc=5Here Are A Few Facts About The Five Tallest Mountains In Africa travelnoire.comJun 21, 2023 7:00 AM
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What is the missionary sex position?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd26c884d4b66a77026e52745df0b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesun.ie%2Ffabulous%2F3142547%2Fwhat-is-missionary-sex-position%2F&c=857080231977412374&mkt=en-usWhat is the missionary sex position? Originating from the late 1960s or early 1970s, some experts believe the name is from allegedly being favoured by Christian missionaries working among indigenous ...Jun 20, 2023 10:20 PM
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Show HN: Variety Quiz - Simple quiz to understand the balance of your lifestylehttps://www.varietyquiz.com/Hi HN,My name is Clay and I live in Austin. I built this simple quiz 'app' called Variety Quiz as part of a larger project I'm working on around lifestyle variety and its relationship with how we feel about ourselves as people.This feels a bit strange to post (it's clunky) but I think it's time I start putting things out there. You'll see that there is a callout to Self Sport which is the larger app/project I've been working on tied to this. It’s a much more professional effort and will launch later this summer.So why Variety Quiz?Variety Quiz is a novel tool to check in with your lifestyle and satisfaction levels in general (across key life needs). This helps to understand how you're structuring your attention today and consider changes that may be worth making.I think a lot of people spend years never really thinking about their lifestyle and the 'balance' (not a great word, but a common word for this) they've created. We all have things that make us up and form our identity — BeliefJun 20, 2023 3:20 PM
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Indonesia’s Satria-1 deploys solar panels ahead of geostationary triphttps://spacenews.com/indonesias-satria-1-deploys-solar-panels-ahead-of-geostationary-trip/Indonesia’s Satria-1 broadband satellite deployed its solar panels after launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 to geosynchronous transfer orbit over the weekend, manufacturer Thales Alenia Space said June 19.Jun 19, 2023 9:16 PM
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What is 'spotting' and what does it look like?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8bbe5c19154a4394ac3875d28df6bb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.medicalnewstoday.com%2Farticles%2Fwhat-does-spotting-look-like&c=7190141727236537472&mkt=en-usSpotting is light bleeding that can occur between periods. It usually appears as a small amount of blood when wiping or on underwear. Possible causes include birth control, pregnancy, menopause, and ...Jun 18, 2023 8:00 PM
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Program Blocker: Free application blocker to block software from running on Windowshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cafc16dcc4d39b6581ba824542d07&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thewindowsclub.com%2Fprogram-blocker-free-download&c=1733826143871874532&mkt=en-usProgram Blocker is a portable TWC freeware that lets you block any desktop application. You can block it with a password or simply make it non-functional on your ...Jun 18, 2023 6:47 AM
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When a school bus shortage made his son late to school, one dad stepped uphttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ce8389b024fc6848eb8f7cedd3298&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fschool-bus-shortage-made-son-214310104.html&c=7073450129324091320&mkt=en-usRick Daynes' 10-year-old son Eli is sometimes late to school, but it's no one's fault: There's a bus shortage at the Poway Unified School District in San Diego, California, a reverberation of the ...Jun 16, 2023 2:43 PM
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Launch HN: Credal.ai (YC W23) – Data Safety for Enterprise AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326525Hi Hacker News! We’re Ravin and Jack, the founders of Credal.ai (https://www.credal.ai/). We provide a Chat UI and APIs that enforce PII redaction, audit logging, and data access controls for companies that want to use LLMs with their corporate data from Google Docs, Slack, or Confluence. There’s a demo video here: https://www.loom.com/share/2b5409fd64464dc9b5b6277f2be4e90f?....One big thing enterprises and businesses are worried about with LLMs is “what’s happening to my data”? The way we see it, there are three big security and privacy barriers companies need to solve:1. Controlling what data goes to whom: the basic stuff is just putting controls in place around customer and employee PII, but it can get trickier when you also want to be putting controls in place around business secrets, so companies can ensure the Coca Cola recipe doesn’t accidentally leave the company.2. Visibility: Enterprise IT wants to know exactly what data was shared by whom, when, at what time, and what the moJun 14, 2023 2:26 PM
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Ask HN: Application Focussed AI Learninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36322424I’m a senior leader with a technical background as an engineer and development manager. I build with React/Rails in my spare time but my current job is not at all technical.My role is changing at my request to look at ways we as a business could apply AI. It’ll be exploratory, with 2 devs working under me to build prototypes and experiments.I’m a big believer that a technical manager or leader should understand the technology, with bonus points for being able to build with it.It’s worth saying that we don’t expect to be creating our own models, rather building on top of others’ using APIs, fine tuning, prompts, vector databases and similar.There’s lots of good developer focussed learning. I’ll run through the basics there.However I’d like to learn how businesses are applying AI and am seeking out how best to discover this.I see MIT Sloan and other institutions have short courses that appear to offer what I’m looking for [1]. I have read that these executive education programs are outsoJun 14, 2023 7:02 AM
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Deallusrwydd artiffisial: Yr iaith Gymraeg 'ar ei hôl hi'http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd8dcc78a4592b7d34b4e66439970&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fcymrufyw%2F65854755&c=3665522525447983543&mkt=en-usYn ôl uwch ddarlithydd cyfrifiadureg, mae angen buddsoddiad sylweddol a pholisi llywodraethol er mwyn datblygu technoleg deallusrwydd artiffisial drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg. Yn ôl Dr Neil Mac Parthalain o ...Jun 11, 2023 11:19 PM
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Why are many of the biggest web frameworks in dynamically typed langs?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36216957Django, Rails, Lavarel, Phoenix … Is static typing less useful in Web development? Do these dynamic languages enable better dev experience (than frameworks in statically typed langs like Spring, ASP.net)?I have no experience in building big web apps and I would like to learn one of those big frameworks that come with a lot out of the box. Kind of curious to try Phoenix because Elixir seems fun and tooling around it seems good. On the other hand, I can’t really imagine not having types, so I’m thinking maybe I should try Spring boot with Kotlin instead (type system seems really nice).Anyone has some thoughts on this? Not looking for general static/dynamic typing discussion, just want to know what makes a good web framework.Jun 6, 2023 6:18 PM
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How does Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Air compare to the 13-inch models?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ce20eb8e64da39a40456fa352b691&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F23749887%2Fapple-macbook-air-13-vs-15-inch-specs-features-price-comparison&c=14875643128030624854&mkt=en-usThe introduction of the new 15-inch Air means there are now three versions to choose from. Here’s how they stack up. The introduction of the new 15-inch Air means there are now three versions to ...Jun 6, 2023 7:29 AM
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Potential Metallic Orb Designhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36183550Yesterday's article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36170105) on flying metallic orbs caught my eye, so I decided to ask ChatGPT how this could be designed. It came up with a design that seems plausible to me (a non-expert), essentially using gyroscopes to induce controllable spin, and uses the Magnus effect to allow the orb to bend through the air like a soccer ball. Wanted to get Hacker New's take on whether this design is possible.Structure and Composition: The orb's structure is a sphere composed of strong, lightweight materials akin to those used in modern aircraft or spacecraft. These materials are capable of withstanding the pressures and forces experienced during flight while also minimizing the orb's overall weight.Buoyancy: The orb is filled with a lighter-than-air gas such as helium or hydrogen, which provides the necessary lift. This is a similar concept to what's used in airships or weather balloons. The buoyancy offsets the weight of the orb and its internal componeJun 4, 2023 6:34 AM
