skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first step is to be profitable, ie that revenue is higher than costs, and the second is that the rate of profit exceeds the investment cost over its lifetime.

A project is not commercial viable if it lacks either. Currently I have not heard of a single energy batter project that is profitable. The cost of buying energy together with employees and maintenance is significant above that of the revenue that they can get out. The hope is that if there is enough overcapacity in the future from wind and solar then the price will be low enough, and the electricity price during lows is high enough, that they could then make a profit. Nuclear in turn has seen mostly a drop in revenue while cost has only increased.

Choosing between two nonviable commercial options is a bad choice. I do however want an energy grid that is emissions free so one way or an other the economics need to change. Increasing the electricity price by kicking out fossil fuels is a good bet to help both technologies to be more commercial viable. Convincing wind and solar investors to over saturate the market and crash the price during peaks would be an alternative. Time will tell.

As a earlier article suggested, we need to actually do all of it if we want to reach the climate change goals. Pump more money into researching cheaper and more effective production of wind and solar plants that can saturate the market, research more effective battery solutions, kill fossil fueled power plants by aggressively tax them to death, and expand more nuclear plants.
Toddlers who use touchscreens show attention differences
You won't learn it from that page as each variant has its own rules (board size, capture rules, etc.).

Here's a specific version and the rules for it [0]. I believe this is the version I learned many years ago. I have a recollection of a Mancala-type game from my childhood, but nothing strong enough to identify the specific version, probably this one though. Then a friend in college was very into it and we'd play this one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalah
You can find it in network devices, such as the Ericsson AXD and AXE series
I have nothing against you, but this is always super funny when you get some random people suggesting how to improve the conversation rate of an app, which probably have several people working full time on the issue.

Yes there are always ways to improve, but some people working there are expert on this specific topic, if the topic is important for the company they probably already do what is the best
Unleashing the Potential of Tethered Drones
In some cases, increasing the fee once the transaction has been broadcast is not possible (original transaction doesn't use replace-by-fee OR child-pay-for-parent is not possible)
Reddit doesn’t care about being less intrusive. If they did, they could stop the aggressive app-nag today. A PWA doesn’t instantly make them want to be subtle.
Another similar angle: music theory. And with music theory, music history often comes as a side effect.

Those are a good start:

https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/index.html
> ... to pay the Debts and provide for the common defence and general Welfare of the United States

Right after "common defence" comes "general warfare" but for some reason that's something most Americans (or at least their politicians) seem to prefer to ignore.
I approach it the way I would approach a reinforcement learning problem.

1st exploration -> then exploitation.

Start by randomly listening to the most popular stuff from random genres, until something somewhat sticks.

Then reduce your search range to the type of music you liked, go to the "enthusiasts forum" for that genre (usually a subreddit) and find the 'true gems'.

Then do periodic MCMC random walk, where I go from my current genre to the most likely adjacent genres to branch out.

For the music I listen to, the chronological journey goes as follows: (with each genre capturing a couple of decades)

Jazz, Blues -> Rock -> psychedelic rock, metal -> prog rock , Frank Zappa, death metal-> prog metal -> experimental prog
Lol why do you donate to a company that made $120 million in ads last year?
Apple at $2T Leaves No Room for Error
I know this currently isn't your focus, but please consider adding the option to just purchase the resistance strap setup. There are a lot of VR Fitness boxing games where people are trying to add more resistance to their VR Boxing workouts in order to get a better workout. They are buying weighted vests, but this would be a great thing to make the existing workout experience in VR even better.
I was a bit confused given the recent launch of YC-funded Stacker (https://stacker.app/) - given the sibling comment, it sounds like another Stacker will be unveiled soon!
I don't mean this as a joke but it will probably sound like one: Maybe Trump wants to punish TikTok and their users by having the second most unlikeable man in America run it.
I am missing a reference here. Can you expand?
> This data doesn't seem that sensitive or difficult to obtain via other methods depending on the exact situation.

A government should not be in the business of betraying its citizens to private parties, even if those parties have other means to accomplish their goals. Should I expect them to start selling school records and police interactions next?
Source..

https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/987/unleashing-the...
> He said something like their policy is 'don't take anything to China that you are not ok with loosing, India is one level below it, safeguard everything'.

I can't imagine someone hiring a person they have such disdain for. That's a pretty sad attitude on the manager's part.
I second this. Please add a license!
For a BOM, 2 cokes is not exactly cheap once you scale it to tens and hundred of thousands. Imagine a SaaS where you are charged for every single database row, that is the reality of hardware unit economics.
I'd actually like to move to a more rural area with a lower cost of living. Prices and taxes constantly increase here. It seems like there's also an ever increasing number of invasive laws or policies.
The next one will probably be Tesla
Hi. Hit me up and I'll set you up so you could have an environment that already has pretty much all the libraries installed, where you can track experiments, deploy and invoke models, schedule long running notebooks, collaborate in near real-time on notebooks, have multiple check-points, and automatically parametrize notebooks so you run experiments filling up a form.

It's a play version of our internal tool to which we invited around thirty students of one of our colleagues for their ML projects.

This way you can concentrate on the actual courses instead of the nightmare of setting things up and the usual ML specific problems. This should speed up your progress, because people lose an ungodly amount of time on these issues. Well, maybe not on course projects, but in real projects they do. I'll also add you to the Slack workspace in case you encounter issues.
Let people switch projects
Hi - Mousemacs author here.

There is a way to pick and choose :)

The context menu in Mousemacs is a couple of dozen lines of Elisp and would be simple to rewrite. You can simply create your own context menus.
I guess Oracle in the Tech market.

But if it was a game company it would be EA as the worst offender.
> For instance, there's a restriction at my workplace (not a software company, a regular old industry fortune 500) which prevents git installs from pushing to any non corporate GitHub repo from our work machines.

Someone has to say it.

I’ll admit to accidentally pushing some of my employer’s code to GitHub.

The code was a fork of one of my GitHub repositories and I pushed to the wrong remote. I deleted the resulting commits afterwards and no PII was leaked but it’s a valid concern for employers.
> It's probably by design, because as soon as you put a reason that becomes a target and people start to get ideas about why it doesn't apply to them.

There's more to it than that. There are two separate groups of reasons:

1. The reasons a policy was put in place. ("Why did we do this?")

2. The reasons a policy succeeds. ("Why is this a good idea?")

You can know the reasons in group 1. But nobody cares about those. What matters are the group 2 reasons, and they were probably never known in the first place.
I don’t see how. Can you explain how a company makes revenue purely by retaining users? I think they still need a monetization scheme separately. [edited for clarity]
For those wondering what "Squatty Potty" is, the company that makes it has a video that explains it well, featuring a pooping unicorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q
Ah, but you discount the fact that sometimes people and companies do stupid things
I am also not surprised, given what we could do on the Amstrad PC 1512 that we had on the school computer club.

The ESP32 is much better than most 16bit home computers, it just misses a companion blitter and sound chip.
People of PL: Derek Dreyer
> if the topic is important for the company they probably already do what is the best

Having worked at many companies, I find that statement very bizarrely naive. I don't understand how anyone with any real world experience could possibly actually believe what you said.
Got a link to the "webpack 5 and micro-fe" stuff? Thanks!
Some email clients are vulnerable to attacks via 'mailto' links
> Great suggestions. I would add that Calculus on Manifolds might be sufficient for differential geometry.

Maybe. I'm just going by how all of these were taught during my undergrad. IIRC it doesn't cover metric spaces at all, but in fairness an introductory GR course will cover that; CoM will set up the mathematical context for you.
ByteDance is said to be pulling close to 17B/year, and they have 3 main apps - Toutiao (Chinese news app), Douyin (Chinese TikTok), and of course TikTok.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikevorhaus/2020/05/27/bytedanc...
Revenge culture permeates every pixel of society. Generally, the bigger or more entrenched the entity (corp, agency), the more hardened is the revenge process.

Even questioning whether revenge should be shaping our decisions is likely to be met with a measure of it.
This is a problem I've been passively thinking about and would LOVE to tackle full time.

Any VCs out there have piles of cash they want throw my way?
An API has been on their to-do list for quite a long time, not sure how the progress is on that. It would be absolutely great, bringing opportunities to make automated curators and whatnot.
Living in California is really like living in a developing country with all the government corruption. On top of this nonsense California has among the highest DMV fees in the country
VAX-11/780 maybe a closer comparison, from the same era:

5 MHz cycle time (1 MIPS)
2 MB - 64 MB RAM
8 KB cache
Price $120 K

I much rather use VMS or Ultrix than any IBM OS :-)

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/780/EK-11780-UG-001_780hwUG...

http://www.vaxhaven.com/images/0/00/EK-11780-PG-001.pdf
Would your coworker be as efficient if you could, at any time, interrupt them? I agree that there are trade offs with remote work vs colocated worm. The ability to interrupt and distract more easily I don’t consider a strength of colocation.
Forced to subscribe to YouTube Music to stream to Chromecast
Google Music is going away and I was asked to move my music and playlists over to YT Music. Fair enough. I mostly stream my own collection and am one of the 13 people left on the planet who still buys music as it's better margins for the artist.

Turns out you can't stream anything to chromecast audio devices without a YT Music subscription (desktop/Chrome doesn't have this limitation).

So I normally shrug at the Google abandonment threads as software is mutable and everything goes away eventually. But this is an artificial limitation that forces us to lease access to the hardware we've already paid for.

Not thrilled in a large way. Next phone will probably be an iPhone, next speakers will probably be Sonos, and the Pixelbook is likely to be my last Google hardware chromebook.

(Solution: move music to a QNAP NAS and stream it from there.)

What are you using for streaming your owned music these days?
Weakening the dollar makes our exports look more attractive and encourages more spending at home.
Any chance for releasing the straps on their own without the quell platform? I would be interested in using them with VR.
>If not, what is?

Follow your current taste, and go backwards from there. What are the influences of the musicians and groups you like? What are the influences of their influences? This is how most people I know, including myself discovered music.
I always remap Caps-Lock to be an extra Control key; this has really helped me avoid repetitive stress injuries over the years.
I am almost tempted to add this.
I am referring to abiogenesis - life arising from non-life matter. Cacti have not appeared out of simple chemicals, they have evolved from other plant-based lifeforms (in fact, there is no "first cactus").

My point is that, despite the huge abundance of life on Earth today, it is all based on a very old abiogenesis event, with all indications that it was more or less a singular event.

All life on earth seems to be part of the same philogenetic tree, so it seems that life appeared once and then kept evolving from that initial life-form. Of course, there is a good chance that there was some variety of initial organisms that either merged together in symbiotic relationships, such as mitochondria with the rest of the cell, or got out-competed by the one type of organism that we are all descended from. This still indicates that life arose in a single place and only over a relatively short amount of time.
Narwhal is criminally underrated. It's so fast and fluid, and you always have access to subreddits by swiping from the right. Apollo is good, but Narwhal deserves more love IMO.
There's a Steam review for the game Big Pharma that illustrates this paradox to a lesser extent:

> Came within 5% of the top-most goal for a level, and failed for lack of time. Went back several saves and looked at everything. Was my choice of drug wrong? Were my production lines a square or two inefficient, preventing me from utilizing another delivery portal? Was I spending too much on Bolivian Tree Frog Saliva? Did I not get the researchers working on new machines fast enough?

> And then it hit me: my best-selling drug, for erectile dysfunction, beautifully crafted to avoid side effects and have an A cure rating... was devastating the market... for itself. I simply couldn't pull enough profit out of the economy if I cured people.

> Tried again. Made sure to give the sufferers a side-effect free drug which worked... some of the time... enough to get their hopes up... but not enough to stop buying next month's installment.

> 10/10 would abandon business ethics again.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/patio11/recommended/344850/
Makes me not want it and think they don’t know how to do any marketing.
Startup Office Firm Taking on Zoom in Virtual World
would you be interested in a smaller model file size or in a model that runs faster ?

For model file size I have a few ideas of things that could be tried easily.

For a faster model, this model is based on resnet50 architecture. The original authors also published a lighter mobileNet architecture. I havent converted it to tensorflow but I could try to take a look
I do have experience in robotics. There exists robust solutions to depth estimation and position estimation that are deployed in the real world, in difficult applications where they have been generalized to work with any object you can draw a box around. There is a difference between a problem that is solved in theory and a problem that is solved enough so that you can buy polished products that implement a solution and work essentially without failure. I don't think you can compare optical phase detection in the context of position estimation and depth detection to clippy in the context of AI. Phase detection is quite literally a closed form optical solution to the problem of "how far is this object away from me" as long as the object is within a few thousand times the physical aperture of the lens. It's mature enough that you can use it to drive a motor in response to movements or "that bird", "that teapot", "the closest object in that clump of pixels", "the farthest objects in that clump of pixels", as well as calculate the velocity of the aforementioned object in three dimensions. For all intents and purposes, if you have a problem of the order "what is the distance of that object" as well as "how is that distance changing over time", then you can solve it, and indeed it has been solved to very high reliability, using phase detection. That's what it means for a problem to be solved.

In other words, I wouldn't call an implementation where you can click anywhere on an image and receive a distance, all of the time, with almost any lens imaginable in any environment where there are enough photons hitting the sensor "performed in a limited context".

The technology simply hasn't been used in mainstream robotics, mainly because it's patented and difficult to implement from scratch, but these are all implementation problems not fundamental problems.
As shown by Arduino and Raspberry PI success, not everyone wants to scale up to tens and hundreds of thousands.
Yeah, vaguely reminiscent of... something something “burning platform”... :-?
Thanks! We decided against VR at launch because test users found VR fitness too sweaty and uncomfortable. However, we are working on building VR experiences for when the headsets get lighter and more breathable. There’s also no reason you can’t buy the system and wear the Gauntlet while playing VR today!
Are you spamming your company? There's no article at the end of this.
Facebook 'danger to public health' warns report
Hey! Lorenzo from Quell here :)
We're working super hard to make sure that Quell trains effectively different muscles group. We've been talking to professional athletes to find creative ways to do so, and are developing hardware and software features to make sure that Quell supports a varied workout that trains both upper and lower body.
We don't know specific device specs yet, but we're really focussed on keeping the game light, so that users can run it on their mobile phones with no issue - this will also reduce the impact on battery life! :)
Regarding the camera, it's something that we're considering for the future, but we're super proud to say that our accuracy is already particularly good, and not having to set up a camera is one less hassle for user experience!
There's very little chance of you hitting yourself in the face: the elastic mechanism is made in such way that the resistance only kicks in midway through the punch! This increases safety and improves how satisfying the punches are, as many of our users told us!

Hope that answers your questions :)
I took that as a big warning message, and started to reduce my US exposure as much as I can. I was already going self hosted so it’s easier for me. The only new requirement is avoiding American companies as much as possible.
I have all hosts share the same .zshrc and config with yadm, so all terminals look the same and share keyboard shortcuts. My oh-my-zsh with powerlevel10k is configured in a similar way: when I'm connected by ssh to a host it shows hostname@domain or hostname@ip on RIGHT side of a screen. It's not much, but it's easily visible, sometimes even annoying, but at least I never deleted wrong docker images from dev :)
Your comment made me chuckle as I pictured Larry Ellison with his MAGA hat turned backwards, a "Music Band" shirt, and a skateboard slung over his shoulder saying "How do you do, fellow kids?" on a TikTok video.
Unfortunately, I have a S/390 and bitsavers only has a few things. However, those things relate to a different system which uses the same chassis, so I'll take a look. Thanks.
If you're going to frame it as a left vs right problem then you will probably get the nasty discussions because the whole left vs right, or, rich vs poor, etc. etc. framing cause division and conflict which is what the puppet masters want.

This is simply a matter of stating the obvious truth that most people are afraid to state. Even Graham in his article fails to call the problem by its actual name: theft, robbery, extortion. This prevents whole generations of learning/realizing the root problem and seeing clearly what is being done to them.

This is not a left vs right issue, it is a human issue. Everyone is now being exploited like slaves because of what Steve Jobs called "the system". Taxation is part of that system. We should be able to talk about it without fear of discussions becoming nasty or else we will remain slaves for a far longer time than necessary.
I am giving this a try - it has been great so far!

I like to think of myself as an adult with agency and yet I log into HN on reflex probably over 100 times a day...
Hey! :)
Love this idea, and we will definitely consider it.
Thank you for your input!
Defending a trademark is a waste of time.

Using them as a deterrent is a nice to have, in your key markets.

But if someone challenged that by using a similar name or casually turning your trademark into a verb, it becomes a war of attrition that you win by never playing.
Correct. The VP is also the person who wrote the "Ugly" memo that was leaked: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-c...

Hardly a surprise.
Trust me. Some Product Manager is leading these design decisions and product experience, probably against the advice of Devs or UX folks.
> If a company wants to work with you badly enough

This is usually the problem for many founders early on, if you already have a great product market fit then everything will bend to your demands and even turn down customers if they are not flexible enough. Most products do not have that very strong PMF early on.
That is even higher than US military budget. I really don't know which one is a bigger waste of money and effort
It is pretty offensive that they say "reddit works better on the app" when the only reason for that is that they broke everything on mobile (on purpose?) in a series of badly-implemented redesigns.

I'm never going to install it, and I have all but stopped reading it because these prompts are so obnoxious. That's probably +$ for Reddit though.

I don't understand why companies constantly do stuff that serves only _themselves_, and then expect users to engage with it because it exists. Users are able to identify when something is valuable to them. If you make it valuable they will use it. Consider the difference on an ecommerce site between a comment section vs a few company-picked "testimonials" above the fold. _Everyone_ knows the testimonials are garbage. Maybe your conversion goes up a tick the first time you put them on the site, but when a repeat viewer sees the same ones again they're going to roll their eyes and register you as untrustworthy. Whereas a (reasonably-managed, honest) comment section provides loads of information that's actually valuable to the consumer.
Vine was cool - the reason it died had more to do with Twitter pretty much being in a death spiral before Trump became president. However, the biggest innovation TikTok brought was their own flavor of the algorithmic feed that made finding content a lot easier.
I use plex to stream music to my chromecast's without issue. I buy my music on Amazon in mp3 format. I dont buy music to support the artist primarily. I just dont trust streaming services to keep my music on there for 20+ years. My library will be around longer.