skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How will the robots be powered perpetually?
The unspoken assumption in this article (and many of the replies in this thread) is that all statistical or machine learning problems are online problems, where data must be ingested, processed and analyzed continuously and indefinitely. For something like a SaaS app that's a no brainer because you have all of that data anyway, but the overwhelming amount of business analysis / optimization / modeling / prediction still revolves around one-off analyses and specific experiments with specific goals, for which all of this data engineering is overkill.

I've worked in teams that didn't get anything done because the data was a mess or there wasn't any, but I've also had the experience of spending so much time on the engineering side of things that we stopped asking what kind of things would actually be useful to know or learn or test. Computer scientists and engineers in general often have this attitude of "okay, let's take things one step at a time, first we focus on the data and get that 100% right" with a good amount of smugness about these data scientists and their messy, unorganized code, but consider that maybe they know something you don't.
Now account for recycling that battery after the few thousands charge cycles have been exhausted.

EVs are not a panacea. Instead, we should look more into collective transport, better urban planning, more bike lanes, etc. Cars are a cultural issue, and more cars won't solve the problem, whether electric or not.
You should always be either at the edge of your traction circle or at the full limit of one of your controls. Anything less is wasting time.
I know that one of the hosts of SrslyWrong used to be part of the Canadian pirate party. I love the content they put out, I do not know how involved they still are.
At Mojeek which also has it's own crawler/index, like Blekko, we see around 80% bot searches. That % has also grown as we grow.

Would syndication search services, like DDG or Startpage, see a higher level of bot traffic than a crawler search engine? We don't know and it could depend on several factors. Bot traffic handling is certainly an ongoing and important challenge.
UART can be enabled on M1 Mini on "the leftmost port (closest to the power input)". It first needs to be enabled by sending special USB-PD message.

More information: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/HW%3AUSB-PD
It's the same or even more in Romania (depending on the parts of the country), I do not know why everyone is surprised about it. There are a lot of benefits there that SWE (and IT in general get) - less taxes if you have a CS degree or you can open a company or be self employed and pay next to nothing in taxes. Since there is an increase demand and not enough supply salaries keep rising.
In the end you might get a better deal regarding COL if you quit your western European salaried job and move to eastern Europe.
It is interesting as many times an angle on this subject comes up in the last 5-10 years, no one has been able to dig up a copy of the original versions and boot them and take screenshots.

I assume Vygr has at least a working copy of a Taos derivative or Taos itself (maybe not the working source code) but doesn't share screenshots of it working because it could put ChrysalLisp in a greyer area potentially to Cloanto.

From what I've been able to find on the internet, it seems like Taos in its Amiga Anywhere incarnation can be resuscitated/cobbled together from contemporaneous Gnu tools for amiga (I found some that were downloadable), some specific things that were bespoke to the grid computing concept (it was inconclusive to me what these were), and the demos that Chrysalisp has replicated (I wasn't able to find these that could be distinguished from regular opengl demos for amiga).
Indeed, energy intake is a big part of the equation and indeed a single run/exercise will not burn off a gigantic amount of calories. What repeated exercise does do is to raise your metabolism and increase muscle mass which will increase energy consumption at rest and combat all kinds of other symptoms.
Looks really cool, I use Disk Inventory X but it's old and it shows, it's very slow and often crashes. I will have to try out your app.
They only mentioned OpenGL support on MacOS as a reason. I would be curious to know if the client would compile with an ARM target as well ?
Another thing: (that also pisses me off when I see it) is watching people constantly touch their masks (unsafe), taking them on and off every few minutes when they're about to pass someone, occasionally putting them on quickly by _holding their hand on the front of the mask pushing it against their mouth_
The name "blogstreak" made me expect an app/site that gamifies "blogging": if you blog every day, you'll have a streak.

I've been running a blog for, almos 20 years now, first 9 years on Drupal, then as static first with all comments migrated to disqus then dropped disqus.

For me, not having comments, like buttons, newsletter subscription etc, is not a technical limitation, but a choice. They add too little to warrant the effort (moderation, attention, spam etc). So i'm probably not your user.

Having bootstrapped a WordPress hosting corp, I can only advise you to seek that demography too. I'm certain many WP-blogs would gladly switch to static site (WP maintainance and performance is terrible) if their interaction features remain intact.

Maybe consider "wordpress migration" as a feature. For example.
We use OBS Studio in conjunction with the teachers preferred videotelephony software (currently Skype) for the piano lessons of our daughter.

I have defined four scenes in OBS which she can switch with A, S, Z and X, followed by a space bar press.

A is the webcam of the notebook, which sits right above the keyboard of our digital piano. This shows just the semi-portrait of the person playing.

Z shows the view from a second webcam mounted above the keyboard to display the keys and the fingers.

X is the view of just the virtual keyboard from a Synthesia window, where the pressed keys are highlighted.

S is all three previously mentioned scenes combined in one nicely arranged view.

Audio from the digital piano is also a source for scenes in OBS.

OBS provides a virtual camera that can be used like a normal camera in most, but not all conferencing software. For example, the preinstalled Skype in Windows 10 doesn't recognize the virtual cam, but Skype Desktop from skype.com does.

It's not perfect, but - I think - a decent setup, quickly built with only a laptop, one extra webcam and free software.
YouTube-DL Fallout: Google Rejects RIAA MP3 Ripper Takedown Notices
Apple has less to fear from antitrust than Google in general, and particularly from taking hostile actions towards Facebook.

On the other hand, Facebook is not really a competitor to Apple, while Google very much is, so Apple has an incentive not to carry out an action that would strengthen Google.
There's a lot to unpack here and like any complex system, there's a lot of history behind why things are a certain way. All of the following are likewise extreme simplifications of a messy reality.

1. Historically the reservation system evolved as a way to control and corral indigenous peoples. It continues to continues to exist today largely because natives want it to exist and there aren't any better solutions. It gives them the ability to form their own governments, own their own land, and have their own quasi-sovereignty. They're (nominally, not always practically) free to leave reservations whenever they like and many do.

2. The US had a couple centuries where the official policy on native peoples was "integration". These years are widely regarded as constituting something called a "cultural genocide". Suggesting it as a policy comes across... badly.

3. Pretty much everyone involved recognizes that logic has very little to do with the whole affair. It's a complicated mess with a lot of sensitive areas, and more competing interests than you can possibly imagine.
Only considering that:

- some recipes can be very finicky regarding ratios,

- e.g. different flour types can vary quite drastically in density

- you can e.g. easily reduce the volume of a flour batch by at least 15% by pouring differently (or simply bumping the container a few times)

going by volume alone still works for most recipes and is quite frankly as easy as it gets.

Going by weight alone also is not entirely scientific though (e.g. moisture of raw ingredients is usually not exact/controlled). And flour can behave differently, based on batch or type, even if you get the weight perfectly right.

So most bakers have their recipes "dialed in", i.e. they have a feel for the right texture, how the dough behaves, how to adjust resting times, etc.
I believe that is also not true. Case Shiller is up barely ~x3 since 1990 including the recent large bump [1]; SP500 appears to be ~x12 since 1990.
Inflation-adjusted, according to Wikipedia, Case Shiller National index is up ~25% since 2000.

Also, extreme risks is not what most people aim for in investing when most of their net worth is involved; the utility of money is not linear.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA
I am building a data visualization as a service product. People can upload their data (csv, json) via the user interface and choose the columns that would represent their x and y fields and then they would have a visualization of their choice. They can choose between different chart types e.g line, pie or bar charts. Also, the service has support for APIs that developers can use to remotely generate data visualizations. I'm at the point where I move hosting providers and set up the new domain name. Once I'm good to go, I would come back here and show it to the guys.
Apple’s approach to secrecy after Hyundai walks back Apple Car statement
The vitriol, if any, comes from eventually having to use products created by programmers without a shred of curiosity, expect everything handed to them, and do the bare minimum to create a semblance of working products. How many times have you used a website/app and it works so bad that you want to hit the programmer who wrote it? Frankly, “why do I need to figure out what PATH means” is shockingly non-curious even among those.
Too big to care
More types of IO as well?
So Magsafe and HDMI making a return?
Ah, I thought the whole bringing back of the Scissor mechanism had brought the glory back.

Reminds me of a blog post (via HN of course) that discussed how Apple is hurting itself by being obsessed with making devices smaller (Ugh, can't find the link).

A friend was grilling his boss who was fan boying over a particular iPhone release. Where the device was 10% thinner. In the real world it was a 1mm difference.
I know it's from Kuo, but these leaks don't pass the smell test for me. It makes no sense for them to add the touchbar to the base model 13" MBPs only to remove them from the higher end versions. It makes even less sense to add more ports which aren't USB-C, as the bits about MagSafe and no dongles imply. Further, I don't understand what is meant by "iPhone 12 like" non-curvy design - I have a 2018 MBP 15", and the sides of this thing are pretty flat and not curved.

I mean, these features sound like a dream come true, but I'm having a hard time believing them.
Can't wait to read some Apple fan justifying this change the same way they justified the "less is more" change of removing everything but USB-C.
I keep everything in a combination of OneNote and Google Sheets, which I link back to Salesforce with the Salesforce connector for Google Sheets. It is... not perfect, but spreadsheets were the only way I could find to quickly get the information down that I wanted to.
The comparisons in the book are to Britain, France and the United States.

It's an excellent book if you're into economics. It gives you a much better understanding of Germany's hand, and how it affected its politics.
I quite like RISC-V, but have yet to buy any actual hardware to play with. I don't think the worthwhile dev hardware exists yet, but I don't think it's far away!
i don’t want a higher res camera for zoom calls... nobody should have to suffer by seeing me in HD :)
HDMI is simply too thick. I can't see this happening.
I hear they found a team in the basement. It's a G5 running Copland. CyberDog is replacing Safari and the new AppleWorks 7 transparently imports documents from iWork.
He talks about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5s9fYfvzmY

(In addition to the docs, as outlined by terramex)
I’ve just tried it on my native T470 backup machine quick and same result. No action for chkdsk.

This was a single test so the veracity of the outcome is somewhat debatable.
Working on a virtual mathematics tutor called Amy. Compared to traditional math teaching tools, we identify missing knowledge students have and try to "fix" them.

We try to be used as API/SDK to improve already existing math platforms. However, we do have a UI that can be used by teachers/students as well.

https://amy.app
Working on Pedál
https://miidbaby.com/
A professional tool to make music together over the internett. Between Mac/Win and any DAW.
I agree. It feels like 'What I want to hear'.
I have small fibre neuropathy in my arms and legs. I don't do the whole "spoons thing", but I do have to make spoon-style choices.

A choice I might make is: will I go out for a short walk with the rest of the family? By doing so, I'll hurt even more, and will need to sleep when I get back - so extra pain for me, and the kids miss out on playing with me later for an hour or two.
https://battlebot.io

Working on Slack bot that can keep track of office games. It can calculate elo rating and keep leader board for multiple seasons and games. Not the best time for me to launch this as everyone is working from home, but I had this idea for a while now and wanted to make it happen.
> The best contrast I can point to is that the US Embassy in Ottawa is an absolute fortress, with two rows of bollards, concrete barricades and a giant fence along Sussex Drive.

Not sure what your point is. US embassies have been attacked, so it's sound policy to reinforce them before the next incident.
textfiles.com. I was born too late to get into BBS's but I was just the right age to read Jolly Roger's Cookbook (http://textfiles.com/anarchy/JOLLYROGER/).
This is an excellent find!

My memory is hazy but I probably found out about HN via Slashdot or via Michael Arrington's HN post [0] from Mar. 10, 2008; so I have been reading HN since before Dec. 13, 2008 and still come back because of some really good conversations that can be had here, compared to elsewhere on the Internet.

0: https://techcrunch.com/2008/03/10/little-known-hacker-news-i...
I personally would try out MS Teams or if you want to go deeper with more flexibility, use WebRTC
yes yes and yes. What took them so long? I am curious what resolution would the 14" have (closer to 15 or 13?)

2016 still going "strong" after the keyboard replacement in 2019 but I am not going to expect it to last pass 2021...
AI chatbot pulled from Facebook after hate speech towards minorities
> Everything you need to program is just there. It just works, there's no extra installation, you start a program and start coding. And just about any PC has

You can get there today with some closed loop envirinments. But like wit QBasic and other Basics, there is very little commercially useful programming you can do there, unless it is an in-house application. See e.g. FileMaker Pro. Production grade web application programming is an order of magnitude more complicate than it was in 80s. Networking, client/server, graphical UI, responsive UI, dependencies with third party packages, multi user and multi tenancy come in my mind for example.
I'm somewhat delighted that your first mention of Agner got auto-corrected to "Anger Fog" :-)

I like to think that Agner would appreciate that!
I can't do that, as an effective and large-scale method of recycling lithium batteries (and more specifically, one that can extract the lithium, as well as other elements) does not yet exist, so we have no idea how much energy it would take to do so.

It is true that the small-scale methods currently being investigated cannot compete with the existing supply of raw material.

You are right though, EVs are not the solution.
> Many people find the command line daunting

Then they need to get over that if they want to learn to code or use scratch.
Who is this guy Kuo anyhow. He always make predictions one year before they almost always become real. Where does he work?
Ask HN: Our client is abusive, What can we do?
We recently onboarded a US client for our company. This client was doing development in another company for the last 5 or so years and approached us for further development of that product. That product was developed with no documentation and we asked time for understanding the system and picking up the small user stories along the way. He was nice till starting the project. We are barely into the 3rd month of development and now he is abusing our employees in languages that could not be posted in any platform. These abuses are for the errors already existing in that platform and we are not responsible ; that we can prove anywhere. How can we deal with this situation. Our company is very new and just completed 1 year now. We are in no way dependent on this client for our survival and what will be the best way to escape from such a mess?
The Games That Weren’t
Couple Plant 2M Trees in 20 Years to Restore Destroyed Forest (2020)
where can I apply or mail you my resume?
And do you accept remote anywhere?
Agree, but in the true disaster scenario where you're in bunkers, there's nothing but the near-term. There is no down the road, you do what you need to do so that you're alive tomorrow morning.
The author is right when he says "coding is still too damn hard for beginners." That's because he's been led to believe he needs to install Node to join the "code club." Contemporary professional web development (as practiced by members of "the code club") is madness. We owe it to beginners to show there are easy, practical, sensible ways to get started. He needs to look at tutorials that show how to write code with just a text editor and browser. I've written some about going Stackless [0]; we need more.

[0] https://tutorials.yax.com/
> These days you can probably do some Wasm magic to create an entire Linux OS in a browser tab, and install stuff in a virtual disk in the local storage.

That just sounds mindblowingly inefficient and pointless. There's no point making these great speed and efficiency leaps in CPUs if people just do inane stuff like this.

The browser is fine as it is. If you want to use it as an IDE, use something like codespaces or any of the online REPLs, don't try to make the browser an IDE?!
A toy project to implement Liquid Democracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy). Seemed like an interesting idea, more on the large scale than the small, but I wanted something to work on!

As much an excuse to explore voting as it is to play with various frameworks...
If they do this I won't be able to resist buying one. I want to resist though and be one of those people who uses a laptop with libreboot and OpenBSD.

... We are Apple. Lower your principles and surrender your dollars. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Because they plant a tree or something. (Just greenwashing)
The editor is pretty spiffy. It would be nice to have a rotation method that snaps to common angles, like in most drawing tools when you hold something like shift. Now you have to be quite precise with the mouse.

I will have to bookmark this for future gift giving ideas. :)
https://cleave.app

Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level.

Started because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources.
Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...
I am digging the design on your first project, thought the exampe self-review is a little too dense for me -- I'd like to see some more padding around things -- or maybe the black and white colour scheme is making things appear that way?

I actually like the idea itself, but personally I wouldn't pay for it. I can only see this as an enterprise/teams offering.
The flaw here is when one musician makes a timing mistake, the others may play off it as they naturally would while jamming, but then the mistake is compounded. Similar to a copy of a copy, the flaws are amplified.
Yes, but sort of decentralized. I can play with any combination of recordings that were recorded over each other. There’s some neat graph theory stuff in there.
Stocks that should be on your watchlist
Yes, it’s a well established practice. There’s even funds for that.
Windows CLI apps aren't "fake GUI". There's a flag in the executable header that tells the loader (and from there the rest of the OS) whether to ensure a console is allocated for it and wire up stdin/out/err if they're not already wired up, but that's it.

An executable won't have its own window unless it calls CreateWindowEx one way or another, and any such window won't be very functional until the app starts pumping messages, which is work it needs to actively do, with GetMessage and DispatchMessage. Obviously a CLI-only app won't do these things, but it doesn't need to go out of its way to not do them; it doesn't need to fake anything, or hide or otherwise resort to subterfuge to conceal GUI elements.

There's a stronger argument to be made in some COM scenarios; e.g. single threaded apartment threading model creates a hidden window so it can use the message pump as a communication and serialization mechanism. But even here it's mostly just repurposing existing Windows stuff in ways which work well with existing GUI apps.
I have to say, I'm really enjoying the spoon metaphor. Very catchy. Hope you're having a nice day.
As Liquid Democracy is agnostic to how you resolve the votes on a given issue (first-past-the-post, ranked choice, etc.), I figure I can implement and play around with some of the more exotic methods there too...
Yeah far right authoritarians are fascists by definition.
A non-profit and opensource meditation app called Medito.
https://meditofoundation.org

It's built in Flutter which I am loving. We recognised that there were a lot of Meditation apps that had very expensive monthly fees, profiting from people's suffering and a practice that has been around for thousands of years. We've been around only for about a year and we've had around 400,000 downloads and are quite often to top search result for 'meditation' on the Play Store. Very exciting!
This is very interesting, but likely violating the current political detox policy.
Third party temporary reading for medical datas.
For instance any kind of temporary access for something you need to keep private most of the time might be achieve through smart contracts.
>ad spendings are included in the prices of consumer products

No ads and no price haggling are big reasons why Tesla is so popular.
He's an analyst at a financial services company, I think TF International Securities currently.
This is the most insane article and comments I've seen in a while.

It's programming. It's difficult, and there's a lot you need to know to be effective. Trying to just hide things like the command line is just pointless. You need to know it. Go learn it.
That's really weird - I've just put on a pot of dried chick peas to boil, so I'm literally making aquafaba right now. Things that make you go "hmmm"...