skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly an interesting concept -- use simultaneous measurements to find the size of the moon.

Yet I can't help but wonder from a history of science point of view, how much the above exercise is "presuming the conclusion". Organizing an international star party to see where the moon is at the same time requires knowing what the concept of same time on very different places on earth. But historically, the concept of same time was heavily dependent on astronomical measurements -- both astronomical knowledge and advanced instruments. Now if you start using modern techs like GPS to figure out what the concept of same time is, you're already relying on satellites and can probably use that tech to make a direct measurement of the size of the moon.
Major FLW groupie here. I've been to the Wisconsin Taliesyn, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax building in Racine, his own home in Oak Park and many of the other homes there he built. I love it.

That said: my brother went with me to Taliesyn. The main thing he noticed was the shoddiness of the workmanship, e.g. glass corners that didn't meet squarely.
Still, it's inspiring.

During the Depression, all you needed to move to Taliesyn and study with the master was $500. No skill requirement. Johnson Wax had years and years of water leaking in from the roof, although they finally fixed it and they work in it still.

Steel-reinforced concrete is a time-limited construction technique. Water eventually gets in and rusts the steel.
Yes.... But you know what I REALLY miss that I didn't expect to? Touchbar on the Macbook Pro. I hated that stupid touch bar, but on the new macbook pro it's gone, and I miss it so much. I'm dyslexic and having the words pop up predictively made me so efficient, I find myself going back to my old macbook pro when doing long from writing as I'm considerably faster on it as I don't have to stop and think about every single word. If someone wrote an app that mimics the touchbar predictive text, I'd buy it.
On the Android side, Samsung Xcover Pro, Fairphone 4, and Google Pixel 6 all promise 5 years of security updates. Apple has a track record of supporting their phones with 5 to 7 years of security updates after launch.

Sure, some past phones maybe could have been supported longer, but things ARE getting better. Don't just focus on the negative, embrace the positive things happening in mobile hardware, too.
Looks like this is the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zLsUhOCqyU

This came up while googling that: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/13/22932397/coinbases-qr-cod...
Do you have proof? My Note 20 Ultra (released in 2020) received 3 updates in the past 35 days -- and this is for a region that's trailing Europe and the US in terms of updates.

https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-N9860/TGY/doc.html
Too bad the ArcaOS guys are not going to share. I read recently that they are adding UEFI support by booting first into a BIOS emulation layer and then starting the still BIOS dependent OS/2 kernel from there.

That would work for DOS as well I imagine.
No, not really. Maybe I hold a grudge longer than others though.

On the very rare occasion I click a link that takes me to SourceForge, I just leave.

I wonder why anyone still uses SourceForge. How is it better than GitHub or GitLab? This is a serious question, so if you do, can you explain why?
Bitlocker Issues
My Father-in-law set up a new Win 11 computer several months ago. He had to make a Microsoft account to complete the setup. He never uses that Microsoft account. He has misplaced the password. Bitlocker has activated and he now cannot access the Bitlocker key located in his Microsoft account. He has tried several times to reset the password but they do not allow the reset. He has attempted the reset several times. Is there any way to speak to a person at Microsoft to assist with gaining access to the Microsoft account.
I think this relates to Raise to Wake? You can turn this feature off so the screen will only turn on if you tap on it.

It is in Settings > Display Brightness.

Edit: Personally I think this should have been the default option.
Yup. Not sure why I couldn't have a sensor on the back.

The apple-pay workflow is far clunkier even without a mask, with lots of "double clicking" to authorise in addition to lining up the face.
GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner Observability and Monitoring
Aristarchus's method [1] is actually something you can do yourself, and indeed was the historical way the size of the moon was discovered. I personally found that far more satisfying as you're relying on far less complexity to prove the point.

[1] https://www.eg.bucknell.edu/physics/astronomy/astr101/specia....
oh wow, that's pretty cool and impressive! thanks for sharing.

> ytsearch does not support continuation searches.... Continuation searches occur when a user scrolls to the bottom of a search results page.

true, I never bothered adding "continuation searches" feature to ytsearch
because I very rarely scroll down to the second page of results. usually if what
I'm looking for is not in the first 4-5 results, I just "refine" the search
query.

ytsearch is a quick-and-dirty script that avoids me to open the browser for
simple YouTube searches (I stole the idea from the initial version of ytfzf).

> It only retrieves the first 15 results.

that's not true, I always get more than 20-25 results on average and it's
usually enough for my use:

$ ytsearch foo | sort | uniq | wc -l
37

> 1.sh only uses TLS1.3 so no server certificate is sent in plaintext over the wire. Nor does it send SNI, i.e., plaintext hostnames on the wire.

> 1.sh could be adapted to use curl but how does one disable SNI with curl.

that's pretty cool if you care about this kind of stuff!

> Not to mention curl has a TLS fingerprint that sites may use to try to block requests or treat them with prejudice.

yes I see how this could become a problem.

> ytsearch requires sed, column, awk, jq, fzf, and curl.

> 1.sh requires sed, netcat, stunnel and flex.

what are you implying here? do you think those 6 dependencies are "too much"
for ytsearch compared to those of 1.sh?

anyway, it seems that the 2 tools offer a slightly different user experience out-of-the-box:

- 1.sh dumps json and can be used to continue searches without leaking too much data.

- ytsearch allows to quickly select a few urls and it's meant to be used interactively.

> To convert our line-oriented JSON to TSV, we can use line-oriented UNIX utilities. In general, this will be faster than jq and more robust for large files.

faster yes, but how it will be "more robust for large files" than jq?
I always thought jq is the right tool for the job when dealing with json.
someone think of the swap files!
Elitistic moralizing? The only ones moralizing here are those that think dorms are inhumane.

Anyway, in most countries we do build social housing, it's not a question of not building at all, it's a question of being able to build more if you spend less on each unit, and that is obviously the case. As you probably know, bathrooms and kitchens are by far the most expensive rooms, so you can definitely save a lot of money if you share them.
I don't disagree but GrapheneOS for instance only supports handsets for as long as Google does. I think some of the other distributions also follow this rule.

I'd say this is why we need e-waste legislation.
For me, the biggest pain point with Touch ID was that it didn't work well in the rain, which is precisely the moment when the touch screen for manual password doesn't work all that great either.

I'm hoping masks are more of a transient thing, long-term, than the rain.
I upvoted, because it is an extremely interesting theory, which could potentially explain vision problems. But unfortunately it is simply does not fit real world data: a lot of kids around 6yo start loosing ability to focus on stuff right in front of them (like a book) despite both reading quite a bit, and spending significant time outside.
That's simply because the value of HN to YC is not in what can be sold to the audience but the value that the audience provides to YC in the form of a breeding ground for new YC backed start-ups and a hiring pool.

The fact that this gives one of the nicest fora on the internet is a happy coincidence, and the fact that it stays nice is mostly due to dang doing a large amount of very hard and often thankless work behind the scenes.
Uhm, can you pack all those options in a simple "--E" or somesuch...
An Alfred workflow that queries this index would be fantastic. Alternatively feed it into spotlight
So it is a Twitter clone pretty much based on the screenshot, I'll give it around 1 to 2 years to implode due to bad guidelines, becoming an echo chamber of conspiracy theories and losing most of its users. It will be bleeding money from the start and will try to survive with ads (which not even Twitter is able to) and donations from the hardcore supporters.
Don’t worry, it’s nothing like Spelling Bee at all except that they’re both word games. Spelling Bee is more similar to Boggle than this. I think the other commenter misunderstood your game.
It's pretty hard to understand what I'm meant to do for a CLI app instead here. Are they removing all versions of the "copy and paste this code" auth flow?

Do I need to spin up a localhost web server on a port instead? How am I supposed to do that sensibly on a remote server that I'm SSHing into?

Also that announcement seemed to indicate that localhost: redirects were going to be disabled too, wouldn't that make the local web server option not work either?

I swear, obtaining an OAuth token to interact with my Google account is the new hardest problem in computer science. Oh for a GitHub-style personal access token!
Sure, just that Google didn't propose it
Feynman's understood him:

http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/wo...
I’ve conducted probably approaching a 100 interviews in my career. I don’t know if it’s a low or a high number, being that I am not a recruiter.

My interview approach is simple - I talk to people about the things they’ve done and ask questions based on that. I discuss higher level concepts and don’t worry about syntax. I take about one hour, sometimes a little longer. I have never hired or recommended a hire of a dud.

80% of the people in this industry write CRUD apps, web apps at that, or simple API backends for said apps. Some of course create new languages and kernels, and I don’t know what an interview process needs to be for that skillset, but for 80% what I do is perfectly adequate.
According to the project structure page[0], Apple, Inc. is the project lead and appoints the core team.

0: https://www.swift.org/community/#community-structure
Square's library is loaded with gems. Xenogears and Vagrant Story are my favorites from the PSX.

I've never played the Secret of Mana type games, or Mario RPG, or any of a host of other ones.

I think the PSX was an interesting high point for 3D creativity vs graphics. The PS2 started pushing polygon counts such that the creative/artist teams started to blow out and budgets shot up, but then the PS3 and "modern AAA" budgets took over. Large budgets, low risk, more priority on splash graphics than depth.
To be fair, the term they are using is "Euclidean structure," which, strictly speaking, is more algebraic than (purely) geometric. The notion of the "angle" (and from there that of parallelism) logically follows from it.
Not to be the curmudgeonly anti-HN/YC person :) but there are totally ads on HN:

- Promoted posts from YC companies hiring

- "Launch HN" posts

- "Applications are open for YC Summer 2022" banner at the bottom of the site

- The whole site is sort-of an ad for a big VC firm

Either way, I suspect having the pulse on tech and mindshare of the tech community is worth more to YC (in $ terms) than money from banner ads.
I wish the M1's had it too, I skipped everything by holding onto a maxed out mid-2015 mbp. I'm glad Apple got rid of the butterfly keyboard, added ports back, but I was never against the touch bar, I wanted to play with it. I think I would have had an issue missing a separate function key bar though.
I have advanced protection on my Google account that unfortunately doesn't let me install apps outside Play Store...

I think I can still load NewPipe through usb debugging but not able to have auto updates
What about classifying who is speaking and just muting audio when Lex is speaking? First, extract a lot of samples (e.g 2-5 seconds of Audio) from a lot of his podcasts and label them as 1/0 or Lex/Other person speaking.

Take those samples and convert them to a frequency spectrum. For each sample, average (or use max, min, whatever) the values over the time sample. Take bins of values (e.g. 100hz, 120 hz, 140hz), and filter out all values outside of the human speaking range.

What you then have is a training set that is a set of features that are the amplitude of each frequency, and a target of 1 (Lex is speaking) or 0 (Somebody else is speaking).

Use your ML or Deep Learning Algo of choice to see if you can get useful results out of it.
Hacker News does have ads however. They have job postings for YCombinator-backed startups. For me result "16." is an ad. I don't personally mind them -- they're job postings which are a win-win for everyone.
Wow, I needed this article.

Wife and I have been together for almost 10 years. The last 2-3 have been the hardest. The last 1, the hardest of the last 3.

Why?

I’ve asked myself that many times.

Love fades, that’s definitely part of it. Hormones drop, and that “natural” urge to be with your partner wanes. At the same time, careers are shifting into overdrive. Promotions and responsibilities pile up. Work becomes the MAIN focus in life (if you don’t have kids).

At some point the stress of life can change people, slowly but over years someone can end up bitter, jaded, and difficult to be with. I think that’s part of what we are dealing with. After a decade of hard work, we haven’t done enough to ensure we are happy living with each other.

In other words, we’ve taken each other for granted for too long.
Crops have to be harvested in a fairly narrow window. You can't just let the crop sit there for a month while you wait for other people to finish using their tractors.
There comes a point where following that advice just clears the way for daftness. Never apologize for calling a spade a spade. When whether something is taken as the truth or not comes down to the number of heads repeating it, it behooves one to be vocal and not leace the narrative to someone else.
I’ve seen a bunch of drone-detection computer vision projects. Usually they’re detecting drones from other drones though (Eg for autonomous racing[1] or drone-defense).

A challenge with doing it from the ground is that the drones will be quite small relative to the size of the image. But with sufficient compute and several cameras, a tiling-based approach[2] should work.

If you want to do unique-identification you’ll also need object tracking[3].

This is exactly the type of project Roboflow (our startup) is built to empower! Happy to chat/help further (Eg we might be able to help source a good dataset to start from). And if it’s for non-commercial use it should be completely free.

[1] https://blog.roboflow.com/drone-computer-vision-autopilot/

[2] https://blog.roboflow.com/detect-small-objects/

[3] https://blog.roboflow.com/zero-shot-object-tracking/
I think this only applies to some things, not others. If you're in the 95th percentile of high-school students, then you're probably getting into a good university. For university, the 95th percentile is enough to get into medicine, law, or a good business school. The 95th percentile for overall intelligence is 125. The 95th percentile for household income is $250 000.

For things like video games, which have a broad net of casual players and a few who are very competitive, it isn't that good. All you need to do to get in the 95th percentile is to be competitive; but for applications where everyone is acting somewhat competitively, or for non-zero sum competitions like school or income, the 95th percentile can be very good.
He’s had tremendous success and impact through the work that his outlook on the world enabled. I can’t see how there’d be any incentive to update one’s self view in those circumstances.
There comes a point where following that advice just clears the way for daftness. Never apologize for calling a spade a spade. When whether something is taken as the truth or not comes down to the number of heads repeating it, it behooves one to be vocal and not leave the narrative to someone else.
It's not just "abstracting the server". Kubernetes abstracts more than just "a server", it works on a level higher. It does this for storage, networking, compute, services, workloads, scaling, ... and all this is done through a standardised API. This APIforces you to standardise application deployments, making centrally managed logging, monitoring, tracing, ... a breeze. Once you have it working for one application, it'll work for all of them.

And do you need to run this on Amazon, Gcloud, Azure,one of the smaller cloud providers like DigitalOcean or locally on Kind/k3s? It'll require very little work to get them working on any of these - if any. Cloud specific services and persistent storage will be the main issues, but that's something you can't really get around.

Now is it perfect? Absolutely not, as with any tech, there will always be problems and bottlenecks. But it allows development to scale, not just the workloads, and the skills required are transferable, which makes it a much easier sell.
> I mean, if you don't believe that the people who actually reside, work and live their lives permanently in an area are more deserving

An area like the beach is an interesting. Do the limited set of people who happened to move there first get to exclude everyone else from a limited desirable natural resource?

Or what about a city that incentivizes job creation but doesn't allow more housing to be built?
> What these languages need is lots of ways to define sensible modularity boundarie

One of the most important modularity boundaries is dependencies on libraries written by others. So a good, easy to use dependency manager and a straight forward mechanism for creating and sharing libraries is crucial.

Java does really well in this regard.
Wouldn't it by nice to have a language where the project owners said "you know what, I think we're done, just bug fixes now".
Stirling engines... don't get me started. I spent the better part of two years trying to design one that would run on solar power (flat mirror concentrator) to generate power cheaper than solar panels. Conclusion: too marginal to make up for the (then) expected decrease in costs of panels, which came true. Fun to play with though, extremely elegant principle of operation.
I'm mainly taking issue with the original claim of "No Android phone maker can even make this guarantee for more than 2 years."

I don't really care what Apple does because I'm not in the market for iOS phones.

With regards to non-flagship models, Samsung is providing 3 years of updates for the A52, which still beats the grandparent comment's claim.
> Lel, how?

Your adversary disputes the ownership of example.com claiming they're the real John Doe, but the victim of a crazy stalker-hacker who hacked their e-mail and forced them to change address and phone number.

The registrar looks at the details they have on record. The adversary can't prove any of the details - but neither can you.
I Like the cut of your jib, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I love The Culture Novels by Iain M Banks.

The first in the series is Consider Phlebas but I enjoy all of them.

They are cheesy in spots but the quality of the universe that Banks builds over 9 books makes up for it.

Sort of like a novel version of Star Trek. I wish I could read them again for the first time.
I use an iPhone SE (mk 1) that's basically a 6S, mostly works fine (have had to replace the battery). Things like web browsing, general apps are fine, nothing feels slow. Most things are responsive etc. Have no need to update as it does everything I want it to do with no issues.

I have had an oddity in the last year or so (so iOS 14 and onwards?) is that music playback software seems to get background killed (OOM?) fairly often if it isn't playing. Main issue for me is my general pattern with driving would be to cue up music / podcasts beforehand, pause it and when I select bluetooth for sound in car it would start playback. Now I seem to have to be careful not to actually do anything with my phone (like check websites or whatever) after preparing audio, otherwise there's a strong chance you'll just get nothing.

So not perfect, but this may be a weird edge case I'm running up against. Doubt the phone is going to get iOS 16 though, so will have to think about what to do.

I think those first few years of iPhone where phone power was really leaping up between models, and iOS was jumping in complexity alongside it did give Apple bit of a bad reputation. We got software updates (good) but they just didn't perform at all well on older phones (bad). It seems to have settled down a bit nowadays where iOS isn't outgrowing the old hardware as much. But of course then we had the infamous "people think we're intentionally slowing down old phones, lets ship a feature that protects the battery by intentionally slowing down old phones and not tell anyone" thing.
For the "more advanced options for true documentation stuff like charts, tables (formatted!), diagrams and more." you might like Obisidian.

But that steers you back towards markdown. How deeply do you not like markdown?
pkill vim
I've always worked in small companies and been responsible for getting the work done, as a solo developer in a lot of cases here was nobody to blame if things went wrong. In a larger company now but it's still a smaller place, have the same attitude to work even now.

Maybe it's this environment has made me a more serious person than some of the other developers I know. Don't use memes in conversations with collegues and certainly have no interest in toys and games in the office.

Would love to not be responsible and not treat work as a fun place but don't see how that's possible if you care about your job and the work that you produce.
Once kids enter the picture, they they are the priority. Not giving up the "authentic life" to give your children the "best life" is pure selfishness. Once you have kids, your life is no longer your own...it's theirs. It's been proven myriad ways that kids are better off with both parents for many developmental reasons. I'm not against divorce, but it should be an insurmountable rift that leads there.
There is one simple reason: it's harder to block ads in the app version.
We can give anonymous feedback about others where I work. We can submit it at any time about anything, positive or negative. I have never touched it despite knowing that HR doesn't get my name. It's not hard to figure out who's submitted a piece of feedback from their writing style and the specific situation you're writing about. Like if I were to give feedback related to working on a project with one other person, any sort of specifics about the project would make it very obvious that it was me writing the feedback.
It's not really even that old of a phone. It was released 21 months ago.
"It’s amazing the percentage of people in computer science that don’t want to be in the office for a normal life," - yes, but not amazing

"I don’t think we needed all these goddamn meetings and airplane flights." - yep

"simpler, cheaper, and more efficient," - yeah

"if your job in life is to get on the telephone and talk to other engineers around the world to solve problems, why do you have to do it from an office" - right

"it could be a good thing that people are going to commute less" - not could be, will be
Streetcars and public transport in general should never be run on a for profit basis.