skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some the comments here are disheartening. So much crass dismissal of anything not monetized. A lot of what we use on regular basis got started with simple ideas for things with limited usefulness at the time. I remember when there was much more creative energy in this industry. Obviously, tech is a major economic force now. But, that pretense of creativity and exploration is still being exploited. That's why we are funneling entire generations into coding classes, maker spaces, and youth empowering tech initiatives. They are being told, "learn to love coding. explore your dreams". Very quickly they get redirected into conformist production paths so they become tools. What a shame.

Long live creativity and self-determination.
I would recommend Github Enterprise
If I'd have been interviewing you we'd have talked about those two projects a lot. Especially the OS kernel :)

I currently have two hobby projects "in development". An bot trader (it broke even over 6 months with pretend money).

And a logic analyser using a Raspberry Pi Pico board and the excellent sigrok software - this project took a baby step to being non hobby when another dev found it and raised some issues.

Don't stop with the hobby projects
I can't understand what you are saying
> Stealing a part made in a shop isn't stealing IP. Stealing schematics and methods would be, but not finished products.

Actually, all of that is stealing physical, not intellectual property. Intellectual property is not the right to physical possession, so even to the extent that it can be said to be “stolen” (violation of IP rights are more like trespass than theft) taking physical objects in which it is in one form or another embodied into one’s possession isn’t it.
Bold statement. Why not just wait and see who manages to deliver.
There are plenty of people from both groups in their comment who participate in HN. It's not too surprising, he was not too kind.

It's the tyranny of the internet, the bigger a group of people the harder it is to keep everyone happy and in agreeance, and not tread on any toes. Disagreement isn't the end of the world though.
probably more difficult because of the irregular sizes of the pearls.
Pearls are going to be far less uniform than coins, a software solution is likely going to have better accuracy.
Then you are going to love this 256 bytes demo.. :-)

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https://youtu.be/Imquk_3oFf4
Sorry what? This was my first reaction when I saw it somewhere in memes. Why? And I tried to cook it... In the end, now the whole family loves this dish. I had to buy a waffle maker (it's good that <a href="https://kitchensearch.com/">https://kitchensearch.com/</a> has such spacious wardrobes). Why is it so strange but so delicious? All my life I have associated waffles only as a sweet dish.
It’s kinda of baffling that it takes so much extra effort to just render some lines in WebGL
Many moons ago I worked at a computer service shop that also repaired CRTs. Once, as a practical joke, someone asked me to hold a lead... Which was live with around 4kV. Wasn't pleasant experience.
> You live in the USA. All persons and companies are subject to whatever intelligence activities that we got a glimpse of which are happening

No, I don't, yet i use tech made by American companies, and my (meta)data was also probably lumped in there for use by american intelligence agencies, who have zero jurisdiction over me.
Same on an iPad.
Throwing subpar ideas out of the window is part of the process, so no worries about my feelings. I'll just outline the thoughts that went into my other post if you are interested in critizing them.

I had also briefly considered a relay at the closest Lagrange point but came to the same conclusion as you did. Namely that off-the-shelf Starlink satellites might not be able to communicate with it which just means: it's not the solution.

So let us consider a (few) separate relay satellite(s) [*] after quickly dismissing lunar ground stations: a lunar relay ground station might have the advantage of always being in sight of Earth but has the considerable disadvantage of having to live through lunar nights. This is highly impractical and would incur considerable complexity by requiring e.g. a RTG power source instead of using solar power as sats would do.

So on-shell non-Starlink satellite relays it is for now. If there is more than one relay, any orbit might be fine [**].

If it really had to be a single relay satellite for some reason, a polar lunar orbit might be a possible solution that does not suffer from regular communications blackouts. Another solution might be to relax the requirement of having a continuous connection between the single relay satellite and Earth and to accept to be offline for a fraction of the orbit (at an orbital height of ~500km above Moon('s equator) a satellite would disappear behind Moon for a bit over a quarter of its orbital period), so if approximately 73% availability is fine, this would also work. Higher inclinations improve this value.

One more thing because this also seemed unclear: at no point are Earth's Starlink satellites involved. All moving of data between Earth and Moon happens between the dedicated relay satellite(s) and a ground station on Earth, as this is the setup that NASA used for its laser optical communications test that I linked to from my other posting.

All in all, that means that (under the assumption that Starlink satellites can operate under the conditions around Moon (it lacks Earth's protective magnetic field!)), that a few dedicated and custom-made relay satellites would all that is needed to use (my opinion:) dirt-cheap run-of-the-mill Starlink satellites for a constellation around Moon.

Any thoughts on this?

[*] Maybe even a few of them as material is cheap but engineers are expensive. If you can build one thing, you can usually build a second/third/n-th of it for less per-unit costs than the previous (with diminishing savings between each).

[**] As stated in another post, I would rather expect the constellation to be in higher than in lower orbits so that fewer satellites would be needed to cover the same area on ground. This means that lunar mascons should not be of concern and even if they were, the satellites would still have ion thrusters to compensate for that.
not 59% and not 61% ?
Right. The "value" / perceived value won't be permanent (and may be very subjective and disputed from the start), but in terms of long-term data integrity and availability, blockchains can be useful. An NFT ownership transfer that occurred in 2020 on some blockchain may not be considered too valuable in a hypothetical 2040 world where almost no one is using that (or perhaps any) blockchain anymore, but you can likely at least retrieve that record and be pretty sure the data is accurate and wasn't tampered with.

So a (at-one-point reasonably popular) blockchain or protocol forking or falling out of use won't actually result in that data being lost to time. You'd probably need a major worldwide catastrophe for there to be a significant risk of that.
I suspect trying to garner sympathy from people for dealerships is going to be a hard sell
The old method used to be template matching, and it probably still works well enough for problems like this. There are almost certainly now better approaches possible using Machine Learning.

In my experience, the main challenges with problems like this are dealing with varying lighting, scales, orientation and perspective. These can quickly become of diminishing returns – especially if the solution is provided as an app that provides near-immediate feedback.
1. Instant collateralized loans, e.g. BlockFi, with arbitrary complexity, all enforced in software

2. Fractional ownership and dividends for digital and real world assets, e.g. NFTs, real estate title

3. Tax optimization strategies

4. Hedges against nation-state fiscal policies that e.g. inflation - which in turn allow consumers and businesses to derisk investments

5. 24x7x365 financial transactions

6. tiny financial transactions without crazy fees

7. giant financial transactions without unnecessary paperwork or delays

I can keep going, but each is a multi-billion-dollar a year business.
Yep. My personal projects are documented as if I had to hand them over. It's partly because I like writing documentation, and partly because I really enjoy those readmes and comments later.
I'd guess that's probable. Limit Hold-em is pretty mechanistic. If you play perfectly, it's pretty likely that other people at your table won't, so you'll probably turn a profit over time. The only loss is the house rake, which wasn't that much last time I played.
That's just part of the language to keep nitpicky people out of the community ;)
Mongo did just that (AGPL or custom license), but they moved to create SSPL; for some reason it didn't work out for them?

Redis and Elastic tried something Frankenstein by mixing Apache and custom license code in the same repo, which spooked them and the community for good measure, with Elastic, later, notoriously doubling-down on "open" with SSPL.

Of all the source-available licenses, I like BSL by MariaDB, better.
This scales better. Also, going by the pictures in the article, the pearls are of varying sizes, so making a machine to count them would be a tad more tricky.

When you're counting things of uniform size and density (like screws or coins, one type at a time), the usual trick is to weigh them all, then weigh a single one, then divide the two numbers.
I guess so, if its electron/positron shell is the same. But I dont mean just antihydrogen. I'm sure there are many nucleus configurations that have the +1 charge and thus look like hydrogen from the outside.
Always nice to see some art pop up on HN and Im sure the article is a beautifully constructed piece of prose. I also just personally have had some moments where Ive really been inspired by Bacon's work and Ive seen his work empower a lot of young art students. Maybe more than any other individual artist (not totally sure why).

BUT Im extremely happy to see someone calling out an article made by a magazine so obviously (historically) for a primarily white male audience by a primarily white male staff featuring a white male artist who has been written about and gushed over ad nauseam from a cultural / historical moment of unrivaled white male domination. As if Bacon, Van Gogh were the only two humans to ever make art. Stop turning dead people into part of your decrepit 20th century subjugation spectacle machine.

All humans are artists, including software engineers and HN trolls.

That said I didn't read the article and Im a white male artist.
It's a very different job, especially if you must work with other developers. That introduces a lot of overhead.
> Before they started using CountThings from Photos, counting pearls took almost 100 hours a year. After installing this app, the time needed for counting pearls has been reduced by 80%. It takes only 20 hours now.

Depending on what the salary is it barely breaks even, it's saving 2 working weeks a year. Depending how spread out the process is it might not even be time that can be put into something else, if it only save 5 minutes a day for instance, that's 5 minutes that's probably going towards lunch.

It's fairly disappointing for an off the shelf product that does exactly what you want, if you had to pay for any customization or RnD it's probably not worth it.
Some of those counting templates are very niche, which makes it intriguing to think of who is using them.

For instance, there is a 'Movie Tickets' counter, but it's not counting paper tickets. Instead, the example photo looks like a screenshot of a 'pick your seats' page from a theatre's booking process. So who is doing the counting here? It can't be the theatre, as they would already know the numbers. So is the customer using this with an automated process to find out how many tickets another company is selling?
Having a bit of a giggle at the idea of the "powers that be" using Francis Bacon, of all people, to "better colonize the cultural landscape".
Ford squarely put the emphasis on utility while Tesla focused on beauty.

To a certain extent the world still focuses on beauty first.

I mean, you can turn up on the construction site with a cyber truck or a F150 electric...

I’m talking about marketing - not the virtues of one or the other. Just marketing.
They will both sell like hotcakes. Its just a nobrainer for many applications. Ford doesn't have the battery supply to transition its fleet of 700k trucks. My bet would be that Tesla considerably outsells Ford in EV pickups for quite few years and maybe never catches up.
https://archive.is/2VLlO
> several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019 ... with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses."’

Do you realise that this is very easily true for any company or office at that time of the year?

Does the US government "have reason to believe that several teachers in a high school in Milan became sick in autumn 2015 with symptoms consistent with both Covid and seasonal flu"? Yes, it does! Good job, US government!
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It's a great read. Why not link to it?

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
Unwritten 5 rules are:

Request Scale: SSD clients should issue large data requests or multiple concurrent requests. A small request scale leads to low resource utilization and reduces immediate and sustainable performance

Locality rule: SSD clients should access with locality. Workloads without locality can incur a poor immediate performance because frequent cache misses lead to many translation-related reads and writes.Poor locality also impacts sustainable performance because data movement during garbage collection and wear-leveling requires translations and mapping updates

Aligned Sequentiality rule: clients of SSDs with hybrid FTLs should start writing at the aligned beginning of a block boundary and write sequentially. This rule does not affect immediate performance since the conversion happens later, but violating this rule degrades sustainable performance because of costly data movement during the delayed conversion.

Grouping By Death Time rule: The death time of a page is the time the page is discarded or overwritten by the host. If a block has data with different death times, then there is a time window between the first and last page invalidations within which both live and dead data reside in the block. There are two practical ways to achieve this:
1) data with similar death times are gathered in the write sequence
2) placing death groups to different logical segments isolates them physically

Uniform Lifetime rule: clients of SSDs should create data with similar lifetimes.
Lack of lifetime uniformity does not directly impact immediate performance,but impacts sustainable performance as it necessitates wear-leveling and leads to loss of capacity.
LawGeex and the AI Gap
If anyone wanna try out XMPP, Conversations is a good client for android, available on fdroid. Dino is a good Linux client. IMO dismail and trashserver seem to be good public servers, if you don't wanna host yourself [1][2].

[1] https://dismail.de/

[2] https://trashserver.net/en/

You're gonna hear some saying it's all oh so secure. But be aware of tradeoffs [3].

[3] https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/xmpp-aitm/
You missed an important part of the article:

...this app not only helps Eiko Pearl to cut 80% of the time needed for counting pearls, but it also helps them reduce 3 months of labor cost.

3 months, not 80 hours.
Well, okay, could this be a case of masking the truth with a half-truth? If China is lying, why even admit that this thing originated in Wuhan?

‘Not Wuhan lab, uh ... a fish market in Wuhan’.

I don’t get it. The truth is going to be strange as shit.
First, this looks amazing. I have a couple of very specific questions.

Would it be able to count diamonds? I'm just wondering because the refraction of diamonds is very high.

Would it be able to count items located inside clear zip lock bags?

Also can it do any kind of categorization of the items? For example, 10 of type X, 20 of type Y?
Well see, that’s the thing. They do intend to shoot you, but only if you don’t do what they want.

No idea what the context here is, but I’d assume military (adjacent? Do uniformed servicemen protect DoD sites and co?) security wouldn’t hesitate to point live weapons at you if you have to prevent someone from <x>. Unless you’re ready to immediately fire, you might not stop them from <x>.

That’s how I reason, anyway. No personal experience thankfully ;-)
It's ironic. Where do software companies get their highly technically competent developers? Most of them don't train people, nor do they give enough time for developing deep technical skills. They rely on people who picked up most of the necessary experience prior to joining, and then maybe transferring some of their knowledge to others. But where do those original knowledgeable people gain their skills, if not at their jobs? By doing useless side projects.
Please don't take HN threads into predictable, tedious flamewars; post shallow dismissals of other people's work; or post unsubstantive comments generally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have an internal scheduler which prevents spawning too many of them. In any case, it's only stack & context allocation (and freeing) which is not that CPU expensive at my rate (does not show in profiler too much). Also, multiple concurrent processes in worst cases use much virt memory, because of stack allocations, not much resident memory in fact.

> once compiler support has improved enough

I give it min 5 years. It's already few year since it was in clang. I don't believe it will be fixed soon in gdb/lldb. You need to introduce many non-generic things: at least new stack chaining debug information for proper call-stacks, which is (and will!) be threadpool-implementation specific, because otherwise it should be part of standard, part of compiler implementation which is even worse. With local vars it's slightly easier however.
The website design looks very lovely!
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar; use this site for predictable ideological battle; or cross into personal attack.

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I absolutely expect this to be harder than it looks. If it was easy Google lens would do it.

I had a similar shock when trying to do OCR from photos of receipts.
Electric truck to get rural-centric areas on electric vehicles? Sounds great.

Touchscreens at the helm? Bad plan. I'm very happy with physical buttons that with distinct tactile feedback for hands only use. Distractions in the cab should be eliminated, not increased.
I think Apple really considers this a store. If we compare to Walmart, I’d say 2 out of 3 are obviously the way it works.

When selling in Walmart, they won’t let you advertise that you can buy the same product cheaper elsewhere.

They also want their distribution deal with you a secret. You don’t go post your terms of engagement with Walmart on your corporate blog if you expect to keep selling stuff in Walmart.

The pricing is where things start to change and I think I agree with you that it’s a step too far.
That sounds more like a hardware cost cutting measure than an issue to do with Android itself.
I don't think he's really at the top of his industry, financially/size-wise speaking, he's just more prominent on the internet. There's huge repair companies, he's still "just" a small business owner
The really fun challenge, is counting how many distinct domains countthings is using for their promotion. You probably need to use Hyperloglog :)
I still hope something like this happens one day. There is definitely a need for privacy-enabled Android that is compatible with major brands. I'd gladly pay €50 more for it. This system would have to be mostly API-compatible with Android so that developers could easily recompile their apps for it. There is a huge smoking hole waiting to be filled. Librem 5 (when it's released...) is simply not enough and frankly speaking simply too expensive for a popular privacy solution.
it does not look like it's using boost::context. At least I never saw it in runtime. It's using its own asm routines for save/restore the context.
I think the distinction nowadays is what happens with the data after it has been collected. We are way past data being collected.
Dont use this as general rule. Its quite easy to find electronics that uses a master/slave approach. If master is down, slave won't connect, but you may still have the capacitor bank charged. Usually there should be a shunt resistor to discharge capacitors, but you'd be surprise how often is missing.
because apple app store would follow those same rules.
There's a 'raw diamonds' counting template listed on https://countthings.com/en/counting-templates

The categorization is an interesting question - those templates all seem to be of similar items.
I had the same experience when I moved back to the Bay Area. I made a serious effort to find meetups and connect with hacker spaces, etc. Most of them were veiled product pitches or fishing for developers to hire. Also, some of the meetups had people obviously looking for ideas to take. Really turned off by all of it and quit going out. When even TechShop went bankrupt I realized that the "scene" was long gone.

All the eccentrics and wizards seem to be gone. It's all just crass transactional factory workers. Last contract I was surrounded by people who talked about the entire line of Audi and BMW sedans, but had zero interest in any ideas.
https://archive.md/dP09I
Joke is on you because I can make my sites a living hell by following modern web dev practices.
Epstein associates recruited underage girls outside of high schools. These girls ended up in parties where men like Bill Gates were being flown into on private jets (dubbed "Lolita Express"), according to reports surfacing now. This should say a lot about Gates judgment, morals, motivations and the scale and frequency of his mistakes, which are NOT like the rest of us.
Regarding the FTL acronym:

"To hide the complexity of SSD internals, the controller usually contains a piece of software called an FTL (Flash Translation Layer); the FTL provides the host with a simple block interface and manages all the operations on the flash chips."

...

"A hybrid FTL uses page-level mappings for new data and converts them to block-level mappings when it runs out of mapping cache."
Except there's no bats in that area. At least not ones with SARS-CoV2.
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Same here, Firefox 88.0.1 on Linux x86-64. Thanks for mentioning this, so I could give it a second try.
Indeed, but being from Con Kolivas I wouldn't discount it.
Lifetime Ford guy here, currently 7.3 Excursion. I'm pretty disappointed in the Lightning. Sure more utility, plugs, fancy lights and classic looks..... but the range, oooof. Can't do it. Very excited for my CyberTruck tri-motor with 500+ mile range.
Isn't that the point of Tesla? Make a luxury electric car so people actually want to have one, then everyone switches to electric?
Maker is just an index fund of centralized USD-pegged tokens: USDC and Tether.

Selling an index fund with only two relevant components, which your customers could have bought directly, does not add value.
Please don't start flamewars on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27246064.
That was addressed in the very first sentence of their response...
“The mainstream comes to you, but you have to go to the underground.” - Frank Zappa
> The base version with 230 miles of range starts at $39,974, while the 300-mile version begins at $90,000.

This is a shocker to me. It costs an extra $50k for a further 70 mile range? More than double the base price to get 30% more mileage.

Is it using a totally different type of battery?