skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> creeping ubiquity of knowledge.

I'd rather call it "information". Knowledge is one level above that, knowledge is information integrated in a coherent whole. Nowadays it's very easy to find information about anything, but most people still know very little about most things. Confusing information with knowledge and knowing nothing at the same time is why misinformation spreads so easily.
The tub is very realistically user reusable, at least once.

Both the tub and the bag have less carbon footprint than a cotton bag, glass container, or metal tin. Likely less than transporting liquid detergent (though more than powder in cardboard)
They also have these, believe it or not, for swimmers

https://eu.formswim.com/products/smart-swim-goggles
They probably meant electronic calculators. When I asked my prof about using a sliderule, they said that was fine.

(Granted, that was in physics where the graders usually use the final answer as a check and rarely deduct many marks if all of the work leading up to an incorrect numerical answer is correct.)
They're $1.60/dozen at my local Walmart.
Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.6%
> Considering that Taiwan is already independent

From your perspective, maybe. But not from China's perspective.

> these kinds of threats seem counterproductive to China's goals of "peaceful reunification"

Imposing economic sanctions until the country has to oblige to China's request I'm sure is seen as "peaceful" from China's perspective. I think the only thing that is far away is outright war, but everything else would be considered "peaceful".
You can find out which packages require postinstall scripts and then run them manually:

$ grep postinstall node_modules/*/package.json
node_modules/esbuild/package.json: "postinstall": "node install.js"
$ cd node_modules/esbuild
$ npm run postinstall
What do you keep talking about on this thread regarding gravity detection? Please link to a device that does that. Google only brings up gravity wave detectors.

How is inertial navigation supposed to work for an unmapped seamount? Sure that works for known seamounts but how’s that going to help around things that move due to tectonic plates or undersea volcanos? Or in unmapped or mis-mapped regions?
You're talking about a fixed amount of iron. It can be in algae or it can be in krill.

But it can only be in one thing at a time. More algae can't lead to more krill if the existence of the larger krill population precludes the existence of the larger algae population.

Suppose I told you that by draining the iron from a bunch of humans we could promote the growth of iron-bearing plants that would feed a bunch of new humans. How much surplus iron could we drain from a living human? How many new humans could sustain themselves on that amount of iron?
Rear view mirrors are already available. You can just clip one to your helmet or handlebars.
Could part of text be a release of the inherent copyright stemming from creation?
Mine seems to have just bit the dust. It boots to grub but then whenever some OS or bootable media tries going up the whole system resets. Memtest runs just fine though. Would love to have some system utility that boots and indexes the HW and tells me what is wrong, or some way to step through the Linux init process. Would be a fun way to learn about the underlying bring up process and also diagnose the issue.

Probably not worth the effort considering how little monetary value my x230 has.
It does feel inconsistent that some consider it acceptable to kill a person, but still care about their mental well-being beforehand.
But this is 80 too:

"China to hold supporters of Taiwan independence criminally responsible for life."
Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems (Karp '72) [pdf]
This is useful advice for those of us who constantly live in the future. It is bad for e.g. an addict.
I suspect there are not that many people who thinks "today you'll die" is a surprise that can be enjoyed. Definitely seems like a post hoc justification of a practice established for the convenience of the authorities.
Absolutely. To be honest I was a bit shocked they used an ExifTool binary that had anything but JPEG/TIFF support compiled in.
Heart rate and power (in watts) are used as a measure of how hard you’re going. During intervals you’re almost always trying to target a specific heart rate zone and stay there. During long climbs, elite riders know how many watts they’re capable of making and for how long. Watts then become a way to pace yourself and avoid going too hard. Same with heart rate
Apparently pretty far, I've found various sources for why funding was cut from "The west was going binary so that was the order of the day" to "The space race". What was interesting was the hardware description I could find wasn't vacuum tubes but rather ICs and allegedly some sort of logic based on "Ferrite cores and diode ladders" which was apparently a major thing as it was vastly cheaper than transistors (super expensive at the time) or vacuum tubes (expensive and unreliable). How much of this is true or just what's on the russian computing museum's website I don't know. But the concepts aren't dead:

https://hackaday.com/2014/10/07/hackaday-10th-anniversary-no...
One thing I really like about the current web is that I can still inspect and dissect almost everything with just the developer tools. I couldn't do that with WASM blobs, which of course the ad industry would absolutely love since then they can just obfuscate their binary blobs and hide anything in there, legal or not, malware or not, and it's no longer feasible to rip it out.
Is [a technology enhancing cognition] making us stupid?

In some sense - yes. Every cognitive prosthetics or enhancer means that we do not need to develop a particular set of skills. At the same time - it allows us to move further!

Thanks to writing, we don't need to remember everything. Thanks to the Internet, we can retrieve this information in seconds (not days or months, depending on if a book was in a nearby library).

Integrals are the art of the past. Sure, it is still worth doing some, but rather than memorizing hundreds of tricks, let's focus on something different than reinventing the wheel.
Use this. https://www.rtl-sdr.com
Dear god - anyone here have to setup licensing servers for high-end 3D software from the past, like Softimage or Alias|Wavefront - those were a bitch, and if you lost connection to the licensing server, you couldnt run the program.
Via sold Centaur Technologies (the third x86 license holder) to Intel for $125m
interesting - thanks for the reply.
>You have to check it's compatible with your OS

You still have to today. A lot of stuff is Mac/Windows/Linux exclusive. Sure, I can run Windows stuff on Linux and vice versa if I'm tech savvy, but Mac stuff requires buying Apple hardware, so that's a massive barrier right there.

>figure out where and how you can buy it

Or you could just download it. The internet existed pre 200x as well.

> then manually enter a product key (fun!)

Honestly, it was fun. Much more fun than the phone-home, always-on telemetry and invasive DRM that act like rootkits & spyware we have today. Good luck playing older games you bought and paid for who's DRM require authentication from the publisher's servers that went offline years ago. Yeah, fun!

Back then, you paid for the product, you got your license and CD key, you owned it forever. No subscription rent seeking model BS.

Maybe I'm just old and cranky.
I have fortunately not yet had to work with a senior web developer who would struggle with such a basic question about how the web works.

Now if I hired a firmware engineer, sure they might not know about GET vs POST.
Like everyone and their brother has a web spider. And some of them are VERY badly designed. We block them when they use too many resources, although we'd rather just let them be.

Can't speak for the op but we have APIs and move the ones scraping and reselling our content to APIs. The majority are just a worthless suck on resources though.
Looking at String documentation takes a few seconds. If the developer can't look at the documentation in the interview, the developer is not the problem.
I agree with all this, but didn't notice much talk about the business needs that lead to intrusive products and how to avoid and if necessary regulate those.

If we just ask people very nicely to not make lots money by ruining society, things will not go well.
We do offer an API - the scrapers are trying to circumvent using that, presumably.
That’s the real story here
First, that WSJ editorial is pay-walled, so I’m not going to respond to anything from the WSJ editorial. Rather, I’ll respond to the Penn Wharton analysis [1]

First, I don’t take exception to the Penn Wharton decision to assume permanency of a bill (though it’s odd to me when the press then refers to it as a scoring of the reconciliation proposal, when it explicitly notes that it isn’t a scoring of the proposed legislation). However, it does seem odd to me to rely on such a scoring to describe the inflation of that assumed spending as “inevitable”.

Is it fair to say it’s the goal of the Democrats pushing this legislation to make these programs permanent? Yes, that’s the goal. Does that guarantee that will be the case? As someone who wants many of these programs to become permanent, no, it’s absolutely not inevitable that these programs will become permanent.

Second, the argument was not that spending will increase, but that debt to GDP to increase. For that to be the case, you need to show that the debt will increase (and faster than GDP).

To do that, you need to consider the revenue side as well. The JCT score considers the actual proposal (not the assumed future proposal) and finds revenue that mostly offsets the spending [2]. This means the “spending proposal” would have limited impact on the deficit, and therefore the debt.

The Penn Wharton scoring does absolutely nothing to convince me of the inevitability of the debt to GDP increasing. First, it’s based on at least two pieces of hypothetical legislation. Second, it assumes no revenue changes are made when those programs are made permanent.

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55693d60e4b06d83cf793...

[2] https://www.jct.gov/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=3fbf5966-deea...
I bought a modified X230 on eBay several years ago, then upgraded the RAM to the maximum it would support and installed a 1TB SSD. It’s been going strong for years only needing battery replacement and is my “car laptop” I use for running diagnostics, tuning, and in car data logging in my race cars. It’s taken a SERIOUS beating and still performs.

I wish I could buy another more modern variant, but the original seller is no longer on eBay. Anyone have a link to reliable sellers of retromodded X series?
Is anyone else missing actual descriptions of the hardware and public API-Specifications?

I'm expecting something like this as AR-Sunglass for some time - from Garmin. I looking forward that AR will improve a lot of areas and make entire new things possible. Contrary to VR, which I'm about rather skeptically if it will leave a special niche use cases.

Returning back to the APIs. If we see here the industry applying again the idea of a locked-down system we will miss many use-cases and at the end one or two very big companies will eventually dominate. I'm expecting AR-Glass to behave like Bluetooh or Wireless-Display-Port - than we will see massive gains.
>a very expensive proprietary program, is doing people a large disservice.

You can use it for free if you use a Raspberry Pi (non commercially)
If justice was about money it would be cheaper to just shoot anyone accused of being a pick pocket, heck the cop should just shoot the accuser twice to make sure his costly time isn't wasted again. Not to forget bill the families for the bullets.
I agree with the annoyance of so many modern tools and all the crap to use them, and appreciate ExcaliDraw for not doing it, but what is this talk of productivity programs being some sort of nirvana before 200x?
Reminds me of similar solutions for swimming: https://www.vuzix.com/products/smart-swim and https://www.formswim.com/
I read that and it’s hilarious. “Hey Sally, can some other company use our license?” “Sure Bob, tell them no sweat.” <time passes> Corp press release: to protect our biz model and IP . . .
> We don't do whiteboard/algorithm interviews. We'll talk about things you've previously worked on and then do a work trial for a week – you'll be paid as a contractor for this.

This is nice.
Dnd the ruleset can't make much money IMO. But world's,like the forgotten realms or the rival Pathfinder's inner sea make plenty of money.

These story settings make more than enough to expand upon rules (psyonics, epic games, etc) in a kinda-sorta story related reason.
No need, the maintainers of Clojure.core knows about it, propagates the idea and most people in the community follows it as well.
I love the form-factor of my X230 (which is my most-used personal computer), and I do wish I could have the X220 keyboard and a 1080p display. But there is nothing that could convince me to undertake a project like this.

(My offspring has an X240, and it's terrible. And I hear that newer ThinkPads even have soldered-in RAM and glued-in batteries. I don't know what I'll do when my X230 wears out. Maybe bite the bullet and buy a Framework.)
Google Glass required quite considerable optical system with prisms and etc:

https://www.varifocals.net/google-glass/

Only image I can find on the website that seems to demonstrate anything is maybe this one

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0555/1810/1695/files/Nose_...

So does it project image on the glass? Maybe projects image directly on retina? How does it work? What is the resolution etc? Why not answer these more technical questions in some article further on the website?
‘Here’s the whole product with no tutorial or marketing crap, off you go, have fun’

‘Thanks! Oh wow, this is great!’

‘Glad you like it.’

‘I love how you don’t try to upsell me on things or push any kind of premium paid features, just give me the whole product without limitations’

‘Yeah, that’s our philosophy, let you fall in love with the product’

‘Cool, thanks. Okay, I’m gonna save my work now.’

‘$20, please’

‘I’m sorry what?’

‘$20 to save.’

‘Er… could you have mentioned this earlier? I just spent ages using your awesome product and you just let me in and I didn’t have to sign up or anything, and you never mentioned a premium upsell, so I just assumed…’

‘Yeah, I thought I might be able to trick you like that. We call it “bait and switch”. Isn’t it so much better than all that marketing BS?’
I often wonder why we don't use North China, and South China. I guess it boils down to influence.
Violent video games make me want to do math. Some of the most enjoyable projects seem to stem from theorycrafting questions.

I think Monster Hunter World was the first time I worked out a dynamic programming algorithm in anger.
That's awfully inaccurate. Some part of human culture has increased quality of life. If you think the opposite, I will provide a list of places and lifestyles that are free of said cultural bits for you to go and experience.

With that said, no, progress is not a given, and we have one million and one ways to shoot ourselves in the feet. Both climate change and getting depressed and suicidal about climate change count, though the later is worse, because it affects our collective self-esteem and our capacity to work for a better future.
The Helix
I could be completely wrong, time passing is a very subjective experience after all, and humans are very keen on creating theories based on impressions.

I would add I started experiencing time slowing down once I did a one year stay at a Vipassana center. I also meditate 2 hours a day now. My first 10 years of meditation, I didn't felt it.

So maybe, it's dose dependent.

Or maybe it's all in my head :)
Microsoft seems to hold something over 100,000 worldwide (their main company and through their licensing company). Is there any logic in limiting the number of patents a company can hold? at what point do you simply have too many? is there such a thing as a monopoly from a purely intellectual property perspective?. Just thinking out loud.
I know you're not arguing this, but for the sake of expanding into the following point:

There have been plenty of games and other creative projects that became successful ignoring or even despite the economic system.

In fact I would argue that many of the most artistic games that had the most positive impact on me personally were made because they simply had to be made.

I'm not a fan of table top games (haven't tried them seriously enough) but I could give you a long list of computer games that are just oozing of passion, artistry, profound insights and deep respect for both their craft and their players. A good portion were successful financially, but certainly not all of them.
Artificially intelligent advertising technology is poisoning our societies
Sadly, only a 2-button pointing device. :-)
There's no reason we can't blame both.
A stupid throwaway said (I paraphrase) "why should it matter, I will never visit China", but imagine the near future where China is as powerful as the US (maybe during the 2nd Trump administration, I wish I can say I'm being sarcastic). Currently if you end up in the US sanctions list, no bank will ever talk to you, imagine if China starts having the same effect.

Already corporations are bending to China's demands (Apple, NBA, Gap, and more: https://signal.supchina.com/all-the-international-brands-tha... ).
A couple of months ago, I bought a used Thinkpad X200t in excellent condition. I knew about the popularity of the older Thinkpads and libreboot, and I was interested in a tablet pc because I wanted to use it to read and make notes, so when I came across that X200t (in excellent condition and good price) it was an easy decision to buy it.

Its specs are low (256GB SSD, Core 2 duo, 4GB RAM, 1280x1024 screen), but I find it very usable for browsing, reading and annotating pdfs. It runs Debian stable with KDE Plasma (the pen works well with krita, okular, xournal). The battery is old but is still holding a charge for several hours. I thought the screen would be annoyingly small, but I noticed that it is actually just fine for most web pages. I like the old 1280x1024 a lot more than the nowadays popular 1366x768. I really like it, it's also small and easy to travel with.

What you can do with it, is however limited by the Core 2 Duo chip, and the amount of ram. It's not gonna run a heavy IDE, and as a developer that's a bit of a pity, but was also completely expected.

I just checked how much people ask for old Thinkpads X200 and X200t and they really ask a lot for them, especially for ones that are already librebooted. That's amazing if you realize that those came out in 2008.
>>That Intel CPU doesn't come anywhere near 250W during gaming or normal operations anyway. It's not like it's consuming 250W every single time you do something.

It does though, that's the whole reason why I'm complaining. While I'm doing a video transcode on my 5900X putting all cores on full load it won't go above 140W. Do the same on the i9 and it will do it marginally faster sitting at 250W.

The point isn't complaining about 250W usage in general. Of course there are other chips, including other CPUs that use that much or more and it's not the end of the world. The problem here is that you're paying a HUGE price for a very minor advantage over the competition or even their own chips. If you clearly can buy a chip that performs very slightly worse for over 100W reduction in power, why would you buy the space heater one.

Yes overclockers have been doing this literally forever, I'm aware, but this is intel making this decision on stock CPU - I just don't find this acceptable at all.

>> I don't understand this sudden concern about Intel shipping CPUs with high peak TDP.

To summarize the above - because clearly the high peak TDP is much higher than that of competing CPUs for a very minor increase in performance. That's just not ok.
Launch HN: Terra (YC W21) – API to easily connect wearables to apps
Hi HN, we are Kyriakos and Raouf, founders of Terra (https://tryterra.co). We make it easy for health and fitness apps to safely and easily access data from wearable devices.

If you have a health app, there are so many wearables and sensors to connect to. Worse, every company has different tech (web-sockets, HTTP etc) and different data formats, even for the same kinds of data. Creating so many integrations with APIs, SDKs etc is resource draining, then you have to normalise data, and of course constantly do updates. And the documentation in this space is really bad.

I got hooked on wearables 10 years ago while serving in the Special Forces, when I needed to perform at my best, under the worst conditions. I wanted to use the old Polar HRM (heart rate monitor) to improve my performance. The data I was getting was so insightful, I started buying every wearable that came out over the coming years: Garmin, Polar, Suunto, Apple - you name it. I then became a fitness geek, and started learning more about nutrition, physiology etc. While discussing one day with my soon-to-be cofounder, who was also a gold medalist swimmer, we were asking ourselves - why can we not connect our data with an app like Spotify? Couldn’t song recommendations be better if they used your heart rate? Or Netflix movie recommendations, and so on? That's how it started.

We built an API, and a widget. Once you start speaking to our API, you can enable your users to connect Garmin, Fitbit, Oura, Peloton, Zwift, Withings, Training Peaks, Suunto, Apple, Polar and Wahoo to you. Then, you receive normalised data in your callback url whenever it is available. If you prefer, you can install our widget in your front end (https://docs.tryterra.co/widget), and it enables users to connect their wearables, without you building any additional layers.

Regarding the backend: We establish a PUSH connection with you, and whenever the data is generated, we send it to the callback url. It can be sleep data, activity data, body composition, and others (you can check the docs https://docs.tryterra.co). On your end, all you see is websockets. On our end, we deal with the providers' standards.

Our customers built apps that improve your sleep, VR apps that offer gym experiences, even apps that generate music based on your heart rate. There are health dashboards that show your health data from different providers, apps that pay you to train, apps that use wearable data to improve training recovery, and apps that help corporations provide offerings for employees to work out.

We charge based on API usage, and we never store any of the health information that passes through. We’re both HIPAA and GDPR compliant. If you want to try it out, you can sign up here https://tryterra.co, receive keys, and access both the widget and the API.

Thanks a lot for reading this! Would love to hear your ideas on what you’d like to see from the API, and some interesting app ideas that can be built by using Terra !
Well I was on the fence before. Now I must upgrade. haha.
Whoever has been teaching everyone that the only way to make money is to "solve a problem" really needs to stop with this nonsense already.
“polish is illegal, allowing you to stay in idea-space”

I’ve been noticing this design trend in other sites too and I really like it
Can you make the window narrower?
For me it would solve the problem of not being able to read my phone on handlebars without reading glasses.
The question is appropriate. Does it use a proprietary closed-source protocol? Wouldn't be a bluetooth-Profile for Displays much better? How about a embedded-Display-Port?
We've seen how well open protocals scale looking at true-wireless-headphones and how bad it is closed stuff, like AirPlay and Chromecast.
I reckon it's got more to do with land area and population.
You can use a Lambda Layer and avoid repeating the same code:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/invocation-laye...