skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'issue' is that these are essentially 'commonsense' answers. By definition it's impossible to empirically study the unobservable.
Though of course whether these questions are at all interesting - after all the answer has no effect on anything or it would be observable - is another matter.
Any comparison of PlantNet to iNaturalist[0] (regarding quality of the product / size of the community)? I use iNat frequently for identifying native plants and animals around the yard and it's been extremely helpful and active (I typically get at least one verification on each item I post, oftentimes two or three).

[0] https://www.inaturalist.org/
The paper was accepted into SIGBOVIK, which always runs on April 1st.
"No normal citizen can run the internet/has access to the internet..."

So, the ones that do have access to the internet, could in fact, as the parent suggests, just go on youtube and get that info. Am I missing something?
Does it support syncing local folders? For example a game put saves in Documents folder and I would to sync it to my Dropbox folder, is such thing possible?
Printer ink pricier than champagne finds Which?
Probably better to imagine it as a strictly typed language and you're swapping in compatible components so it does compile. There's a vaguely understood second level here where it's not just first order changes mutating in and out, but second and third and fourth order change that enable an organism to evolve more easily in specific directions.

edit: although some genetic mutations do of course result in organisms that will certainly die, possibly before being born
i.e., it's like the common cold +/- a bit. Also keep in mind that many people are mostly asymptomatic entirely, even the unvaccinated.

Sure, try not to get sick. Understand that there is some risk of symptoms. But getting COVID once you've had the vaccine shouldn't really be a concern worthy of altering any behaviors to avoid for healthy people.
High-end 15" laptops already have 100Wh batteries, and 100Wh is the practical maximum. So abandoning LPDDR would lead to a reduction in battery life on the high end, which probably isn't going to fly.
I am paying about EUR 20 / month for my somewhat paranoid backup system that includes Apple, Dropbox, Synology and Backblaze (and excludes depreciation). Worthwhile all things considering, but if Möbius Sync could sync the iOS Photo Stream ("further down the roadmap") I'd pay EUR 100 or more for that. It would make the backups in my house a lot more manageable.
I hated Seveneves. The first part was grim and unremitting and almost everyone died. It left me feeling kind of depressed, and unwilling to put up with what seemed to be a self-indulgent second part. Plus the premise was so unlikely and the ending felt unsatisfactory. I should have known: Stephenson doesn't really do endings.
Sometimes having a light day job gives you more energy for your personal projects you care a lot more about at night :)
It's not "brushing off" to suggest that someone use their phone less. If picking up the phone is an automatic behaviour to fill moments of dullness, then that's a problem.

All the empathy in the world won't save anyone here. On one side of that screen is you, alone. On the other side are an army of designers, developers and behavioural experts whose job it is to keep you looking at the screen for as long as possible.
Edison was better than Tesla in every way
For brilliance move your body
> PM for security products

Please, please, _please_, add organisation scope to github action tokens (GITHUB_TOKEN in actions). It is painful that we have to create a PAT to access packages from within an organisation.

https://github.community/t/github-token-cannot-access-privat...
There's an option to automagically add devices from other, trusted devices.

I simply save the syncthing config and remove the database, so that the device stays the same, but doesn't retain any sync data
I don't see any need to apologise for what's clearly meant as a lighthearted joke. Just don't complain when someone comes up with a clever comeback :)
I've been using Syncthing for years now, between ~10 Linux servers, Linux desktops, Linux and Windows laptops and Android smartphones, over LAN, wired and wireless Internet.

I'm synchronizing less than 100 MiB of data, but it's changing all the time. I've not yet had a single issue with it. I've a few conflicts every week when the same file is changed in different locations at the same time, but Syncthing keeps all versions of a file until I resolve the conflicts; I can't see how it could handle that better.

Long story short: I highly recommend this tool.
It is nice to at least give your employer the option of having you stay two weeks. They may not choose to take you up on it, especially if there's not much to hand off. But it is usually good to at least offer that.
As a Perl programmer and painter I must point out that the programs show in this article are not smeared, and not on a wall. Nor on a Wall.

Some of them are not even paint:

https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/splatters/646f93a2d62ad819...
It depends, attacks via build pipelines can be devastating.
Eighth Grade, or Post-Pandemic Social Anxiety
Please don't summon the dragon by uttering the name of the "P" app. I dread the day the Cupertino gang recognizes what can be done with it and makes it go away.
Absolutely!

But I don't think that's what the "your business should not exist if you can't pay!" people actually mean.
The conclusion of this article mentions a book, "Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government" (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169446/de...) [2016]

> It skewered what Achen and Bartels called the “folk theory of democracy.” By that, they meant the idea that voters support candidates who reflect the overall interests and goals of the citizenry. Instead, Achen and Bartels traced how other factors, such as group identities or national economic performance in the last six months before an election, mattered far more.
If I were in charge of hiring (I'm not), I very well might hire you for that :)
Find someone to play chess with Melbourne
Not by default. I did that running two instances of the executable and pointing them to different "home" folders.

It works, but it's an hack...
The Ethics of a Deepfake Anthony Bourdain Voice
A simple question. Is there any reason not to put a Fed backed stablecoin on Ethereum and the other major blockchains? Even if you're crypto-skeptical, what is the downside?

In a world where Tether didn't have mass adoption, I can see why you might oppose it. But Tether and other stablecoins already exist and are widely used. DeFi already trivially interacts with fiat prices. We also know that Tether poses a serious, potentially systematic risk. The Fed could put it out of business overnight just by deploying a simple ERC20 token tracker.
As a non-American... this model is crazy in my mind.

How/why do you not promote the growth of denser, middle class inner city neighborhoods with a diverse profile? Is there a positive reason to not encourage it?

Is it entirely driven by the fact that local taxes decline on the outskirts? If local taxes were done at a uniform rate statewide, would it helps? Building standards which means construction of "depreciation homes" is not viable, and owners have to build for 100 years in greenfields?
What's the best place to live in 2050 for a black person?
Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel
This is the inaugural "Meet the Batch" post that we discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877280. There are 8 startups in this thread. I've attempted to squeeze a reference to each in the title above. The initial order is random.

Direct links to each startup:

Portão 3 (YC S21) - Corporate travel for Latin America - https://portao3.com.br/,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930563

Sitenna (YC S21) - A marketplace for wireless cell sites - https://sitenna.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930564

ContainIQ (YC S21) - Kubernetes observability based on eBPF - https://www.containiq.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930569

Appollo (YC S21) - A single API for launching to eCommerce platforms - https://www.tryappollo.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930570

Beau (YC S21) - Automate repetitive client-facing tasks - https://beau.to/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930568

Telm.ai (YC S21) - Real-time data quality monitoring - https://www.telm.ai/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930566

Filadd (YC S21) - Online courses for LatAm university - https://courses.filadd.com/, entrance exams https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930567

Shimmer (YC S21) - Online video support groups for mental health - https://shimmer.care, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930565

You are invited to share your questions, thoughts, feedback, and experiences in any of these spaces! Simply reply to the founder's post you want to discuss.
Hi HN, we're Bianca and Fernando, founders of Portão 3 (https://portao3.com.br/). We help companies in LATAM (Latin America) with their corporate travel, expenses and payments. We traveled a lot to visit clients in our previous companies, and realized that the corporate travel market had a lot to evolve technologically. Latin America didn’t have a startup helping companies and work travelers with a real all-in-one experience. Our software includes features like a timeline that recaps the entire trip and a BI for 100% control at the end. We make it easy to understand expenses and manage them. B2B companies in LATAM like CredPago and Junco are using Portão 3 and reducing costs significantly (as in 30%). We founded Portão 3 in 2020 and are currently growing at 40% MoM (month over month).
Hey HN! We’re Daniel and Brian from Sitenna (https://sitenna.com/). Sitenna is a marketplace connecting wireless carriers, tower providers and real estate owners. Think booking.com for telecom cell sites. Currently, it takes wireless telecom carriers up to 24 months to deploy a site because the process is based on screenshots, maps, emails, PDFs and spreadsheets. This is a particular issue with the advent of 5G which requires x6-10 (depending on which analyst you believe!) more cell sites in the network.

We use maps and workflow tools to reduce the time it takes to deploy a new site by up to 75%, saving tens of thousands of dollars. Wireless carrier radio planners can easily search, identify and acquire sites for deploying antennae whilst the tower providers and real estate owners can market and monetise their assets to the telecom market.

I (Daniel) have worked in telecoms my whole career and worked in more than 30 countries. The same issue exists in every market so there is a rather big opportunity ($40B is spend on wireless infrastructure globally per year!) if we can get some solid product market fit. We’d love to speak to any of you that are curious about what we’re doing or if you have any ideas/challenges for us.
Shimmer (https://shimmer.care) offers guided video support groups for people struggling with their mental health. Shimmer matches members with shared identities and experiences and places them in small groups that meet for weekly support sessions along with a qualified peer coach. During the rest of the week, members have access to our Community Platform (a mobile app and web app) to leverage resources like community events, mood tracking, and gratitude journaling.

79% of young adults with mental health issues do not have access to care; the most common alternative, teletherapy, is expensive ($150/session), has significant churn (40% drop off after first visit), and lacks diverse representation (average age of 51 and 80% white). We've developed a curriculum incorporating material from expert group therapists at UCSF. This has led to a number of great outcomes including: providing care at a fraction of the cost of therapy ($50/month or $12/session), an 80% 4-month retention rate, and a diverse set of highly experienced facilitators that members can relate better to. If you're interested in trying Shimmer, you can sign up for a consultation call or a wellness workshop (both for free) directly on our website. Shimmer is led by three founders with extensive experience across healthcare and engineering. Having seen firsthand the severe effect that mental health issues have had on loved ones, we left previous roles (graduate programs at Berkeley MBA/MPH, UCSF MD and Salesforce SWE) to dedicate ourselves to improving the accessibility and affordability of mental health care.
Telmai (https://www.telm.ai/) is a real-time data quality monitoring platform that can automatically detect and investigate data quality issues as data is getting ingested. Our tool uses a statistical and ML engine that helps data product owners understand data anomalies and intuitively define correct versus incorrect data. These definitions are then used to proactively monitor and alert on data quality problems.

We have decades of experience with enterprise data and find that this approach towards data quality addresses a huge gap in data platforms. Detecting and investigating data quality issues is extremely tedious, time-consuming and expensive. Using Telmai, companies like Dun & Bradstreet and Myers-Holum are able to find and resolve such issues across millions of records in minutes. Ask us anything!
Hi HN, we're the founders of Filadd (https://courses.filadd.com/). 80% of students in LatAm (Latin America) need private tutoring classes to prepare for university admission exams. The system is centralized and extremely high-stakes: exams only happen once a year and based on your score on the exam you can basically choose your university. If you don’t get the desired score, go home and come back the next year. So there is a huge market of private coaching for these admissions, and lots of academies that give face-to-face classes like a school. We offer online courses that include one-on-one tutoring to students who are preparing these exams. We have a revenue share business model with the teachers who work with the students—not a common model in the region. We also use Data Science to identify how well students are performing and we offer them the exact content they need to study.
Beau (https://beau.to/) is a no-code tool that helps businesses automate customer interactions and onboarding. Customers use our software to collect documents, manage payments, send messages and more. For example, tax advisors use Beau to collect documents and send reminders, and immigration consultants use us to automate repetitive client-facing processes. Currently, businesses use a mix of form builders, website builders and CRMs to build this kind of thing. We launched Beau to make it easy for non-technical people to use just one tool to automate their onboarding workflows. We are a small team of 3 founders with an art, design and engineering background. We needed something like Beau when we were onboarding clients to a design agency, and realized we had to build it ourselves.
We are building ContainIQ (https://www.containiq.com/)! We provide Kubernetes native monitoring instantly with pre-built dashboards and easy to create monitors. A one-line install that takes 5 minutes to set up and it just works. By using eBPF we’re able to correlate kernel-level metrics with Kubernetes objects. Our current users are using our product to track and get alerted on things like p95/p99 latencies, Kubernetes jobs failing, pod evictions, among other things.
Hi YC, We’re Darrell, Jibril, and Robrecht, the co-founders of Appollo (https://www.tryappollo.com/). Appollo is a single API to launch your app to all eCommerce platforms. Appollo enables you to create 1 app with our APIs and launch it to all the eCommerce platforms while also letting you maintain it as 1 app. Previously, you had to create and maintain an app separately for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Square, Wix, SquareSpace, Etsy, etc. Before Appollo, we were working on a live stream application for eCommerce stores, which was how we were confronted with this problem. Looking forward to your feedback!
This is so important. I bought a laptop with a numpad thinking it would be a huge win for spreadsheet jockying, ended up never using the laptop due to how much of a nightmare it is to type on due to the keyboard being offcenter. Numpads on laptops are just failure.
At a previous employer, we used Terraform to manage GitHub teams/repos/permissions.

It worked ... okay. Might be worth a try for you?
spreadsheets is where productivity goes to die.

The second you make a spreadsheet with a lot of data on it, it’s a commitment.
Not just APK, EPUB (ebook file format) as well, likely many others as well (IIRC JAR for Java ?).
I'm not even sure this question means. My previous post is the counter to the book's author's proposal. PIE had abstract vocabulary and several words for existence, including a pure copula "to be", and words such as "to live" and "to grow / become". Furthermore, the fact that we could even reconstruct these words in PIE indicates they were stabilized well before the various child languages began to develop.

If you're trying to make a different proposal, you need to articulate it instead of just being argumentative.
To be fair the idea is probably not that uncommon but it's hard to execute right.

I think I had someone in my class (about 10 years ago) attempting this as a project.
Agreed. I tend to use syntactic sugar like

use constant true => (1==1);
use constant false=> (1==0);

in many of my codes. It lets me use them as barewords, and makes the logic it appears in, saner. But this is a style/taste thing.
Pot plants are just potted plants in Australian parlance.
I am not sure if taking BMI histograms worldwide makes sense. Human populations differ and East Asians tend to suffer from complications of obesity from lower BMIs than the rest of the world [0]. Do it region-wise, if needed.

[0] https://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/bmi_asia_strategi...
That's interesting. What do you mean by commercialization of space? Like asteroid mining or... what?
Well, I am not an Apple devotee, and I think that what you say is generally right. But Apple releasing M1 laptops kind of changed the game...
“These older places (the homes being built today) will then be populated by lower class people with fewer resources and less status thereby reinforcing the perception that it’s best to move on if at all possible. These are fungible, forgettable, disposable places that rapidly age and are then left to quietly decay.“
Is that embedded video playable on anything? it isn't compatible with the latest version of Quick Time I have
Also, the total mass of the present-day asteroid belt is only about four percent of the Moon's mass. Ceres makes up about a third of that, so one could say that the belt did form a planet – it's just that its growth was heavily stunted by Jupiter's interference.
Maybe 3 weeks sounds more appropriate if your current company won't agree to 1 week.

If your vacation time is already accrued then they owe you that anyways so 3 weeks gives them the standard time plus your week off. As a manager it might be perfect to have you work 1 week, feel what its like to have you not there for a week, then a week to cleanup anything leftover.

Just curious - what is the desire to start the new job fast?
The original version [1] is Theano based, but the newest one is TF-Lite based [2], probably for supporting mobile.

Unfortunately they don't publish the code of TF version and only a TF-Lite model is available. Probably that doesn't matter for the exports though since the paper and original version are both there.

More interesting thing is that they've been making the dataset available [3] for $20 (even before BirdNet). This can be great source for training your own bird-net like.

- [1] https://github.com/kahst/BirdNET

- [2] https://github.com/kahst/BirdNET-Lite

- [3] https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/product/the-cornell-guide-to...
I tracked every minute of my time for the last 4 months
Seems to be a pattern on HN over the past couple years: if it doesn't fit a certain progressive narrative, then it gets flagged or downvoted. The irony to me is that's exactly what news should be - things that are new.
It's clearly not practical. I would assume that the "smart" overhead consumes a lot more electricity than you could save by turning them off for a couple of minutes a day. But it is really fun.
I strongly recommend Greg Bear. His first novel "Blood Music" is a unique take on an AI out of control, and he continues with a series independent of novels which all take place in a unified "future history". One of my favorite aspects of his future history is the combination of the bio-genetic, cosmetic surgery, and pop media artist industries to create transhumanist pop media artists, and spawning a transhumanist youth movement and a counter transhumanist political movement, with all the human chaos that would result wonderfully illustrated by his prose.
Looked like a good-natured but wry joke, not a slap.
Yeah, they're really 2 different books.

BUT, I enjoyed the 2nd half as well. The 1st book is already obsolete technologically in some ways (launch technology has progressed a lot in the last 5 years)[0], although very interesting. Which is one reason I like the 2nd part in that it extrapolates from the sociocultural/technological developments of the first book to see what the ultimate consequences could be.

The book is also a sharp commentary on the destructiveness of social media...

[0]side note: the speed of progress that SpaceX is achieving with Starship in Boca Chica is comparable to a pace you'd want in the first book... They're going so fast in Boca Chica, as if the Moon fell apart and they only have a couple years left before the Hard Rain to make humanity a multiplanetary species...
>But aside from the fact that I didn’t care for any of these homes and was never going to buy in these locations, I realized the truth of the Appleton model. Thirty years from now all the new homes she’s selling will slip into the “old” category and will gradually fester as taxes rise and the middle class migrates to new greenfield developments.

Capitalism consumes limited resources (land) for temporary gains (poorly built structures that nobody wants after just one generation). This is not a sustainable model to build a strong society.
PM for security products at GitHub here.

Totally agree. The good news is that I think GitHub is in a position to fix this - expect progress in the next 12 months.

One change that's needed here is data for each vulnerability on whether it's ever relevant in development. The advisory database that powers GitHub's security alerts (and npm audit, and NuGet audit) now has a dedicated curation team and is ready to curate more ecosystems and more information.

That data then needs to be hooked up with GitHub's security alerting logic. That shouldn't be too difficult - we already detect whether a dependency is used in development or production, and the team here is growing.

Finally, for this to work we'd need a new UI concept for vulnerabilities you aren't affected by. We're already working on functionality with a very similar requirement (one that tells you whether you're using the vulnerable function within a dependency).

I can't make promises, but I can say that GitHub has an increasing amount of energy. Expect progress :-)