skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi everyone!

I've just created a method to combine some of my passions: AI, Programming, and Entrepreneurship!

The product, at this point, is just prototype, but I've had some good results recommending relevant ads to digital billboards.

As a whole, the product is similar to the ad prediction tools that Google, Microsoft, and others use, but with one difference: my product (Finned), works for digital billboards.

It uses the web requests/history of nearby devices, generates a short list of relevant words describing the HTTP request page, and then sends these to an algorithm which calculates the relevance score.

The end result of all of this is that ad files can be uploaded by the billboard owner (using the built-in GUI class), and then with the press of a button start increasing clicks and leads which in turn benefit them.

Hopefully some of you find this as interesting (and excited) as me: The v1 of the product is available at https://finned.tech, as well as a bit more info.
To 99.99% of people on the internet, your comment would be "random stuff on the Internet".

I'm sorry, but who are you and why should I trust your reasons to trust other people?
The thing is that you frequently end making connections with alumni of those institutions in your first few corporate jobs, since they all recruit out of the same pool of elite universities. So even if you didn't go to Stanford or MIT, if you work at Google (well, in the 00s - it doesn't focus nearly so much on elite universities now) you will know people who went to those schools, and if you need to make a connection with another alumnus of them you can reach out to your friends and say "Hey, can you connect me to your classmate?"
A little off-topic, but it's really cool to see that you're still floating around here. One of my first "hacker" moments was Jailbreaking a used first-gen iPod I bought off Craigslist in 5th grade. I remember seeing your name on a number of things, and people always mentioned you on forums/IRC when I had questions. Never got around to saying hello, but I suppose it's better late than never to say 'thank you' for expanding my young mind and really shoving me head-first into the world of futzing with locked-down electronics!
Yep. It works great.
Well, they destroyed the tradition by foresting the area.
To be fair, that legacy control panel doesn't list any apps that use the AppX/MSIX packaging model introduced with Windows 8. I'm still not on Windows 11, so I don't know if Teams is listed in the newer list of apps available in modern Settings, but it's worth looking there.
I have to salute him. A lot of purely money based (even when they don't appear to be) incentive structures will just ride on autopilot (generalize his remarks about NGOs) and not even accomplish their stated charity tasks.
If only I weren't the only person at my workplace who uses Emacs ...
I played once and it asked me to locate the same street 3 times in one 5 question round.
This is like nothing but red flags. Why would anyone accept this? I would be screaming from the rooftops.
You might be right about WSL 1 being dead, which is just annoying since it's useful for me.

Ironically with your comment about Hyper-V: I moved to using Linux in a Hyper-V VM for now for this workflow. It's in that category of category of "ugh, not worth the time to figure out" for now, which probably means I won't bother for quite a while. Honestly, when things slow down again, I'll probably just flatten this machine and install Linux. MS is kinda killing whatever inertia I had for dealing with their quirks.
In the 10+ years we've owned our heat pump, we've only ever used it 2 or 3 times for cooling. Here in NZ, heat pumps are really common and are seen as the most efficient form of heating in a house. Gas central heating and log fires are still pretty common, but most people seem to switching to heat pumps.
STEM jobs are the main viable path for economic stability and freedom.

You are correct -- this is an awful notion. Plumbers, HVAC technicians, electricians, bricklayers, joiners, framers, builders, are the people who build and maintain the real world, and we need to raise the status of these (and others, forgive me for not listing them all) professions, which take just as long if not longer in which to get qualified, and recognize the dedication to professional standards and the entrepreneurial attitude required to be successful in their respective trade and to bring up the next generation of tradespeople via apprenticeships. * In fact, when you add it all up it meets or exceeds the work put into an undergraduate degree, and yet we don't value it the same.

If you're going to college, you could do worse than to begin getting qualified in a trade on the side -- at worst, you'll learn some widely-transferable practical skills.

* One might also note how much of the above is missing or done badly in the software industry.
Ironically, printers are now easier to get working on Linux than they are on Windows. The whole no-driver setup in the unix world murders the "must install this driver and possibly restart" shenanigans on Windows.

I was quite surprised when I switched my main dev machine to Linux and the printer not only appeared by itself, but worked out of the box.
Unfortunately, normalizing organised prostitution creates what amounts to a safe haven for human trafficking - this is a key part of the debate. It really seems to be the case that a voluntary mass market in "organized prostitution" is in fact unsustainable because any such attempt will be abused by human traffickers. Niche escorting services may survive, but only because their focus on perceived quality makes them less vulnerable to being taken over in this manner - and it's not clear so far how a separate, more permissive regime for these more resilent services could be created as a matter of law.
Mitnick's "Art of Deception" springs to mind. Sort of a combination cautionary tale, autobiography of what can go wrong, and workbook for techniques. And an indicator that the California DMV is still vulnerable, decades later.
European style colleges exist in the US: They're community colleges.

The problem in the US is that "community college" is seen as a lower grade qualification that people "settled" for, instead of an educational focused institutional with bare bones and no immoral mandatory tie-ins (e.g. first year mandatory high price accommodations/gyms/meal plans, etc).

I understand community colleges have a lot of problems too (e.g. low educator pay and conditions). I'm just pointing out that everyone thinks that a European University is 1:1 with the city-colleges of the US, when in reality they're often nothing that fancy and pretty bare-bones.
If there really were a contrived scenario where exactly two people are allowed to contribute, the full 6k does need to be provided, and one person has no means to exceed 5999 then the split is still fair in some sense (and is the only "fair" allocation in the sense described by Shapley -- efficient, symmetric, and linear).

What you're seeing in this hyperbolic "counter-example" is that the assumptions of that model don't hold; the person providing 1 rather than 5999 is probably very replaceable and would be willing to settle for much less profit due to market forces, the person providing 5999 probably has the means to at least temporarily acquire another 1, the deal probably wouldn't fall through in the first place if it were for slightly less than 6k, and so on.
In the UK domestic heat pumps are typically only capable of heating water, in order to be a drop-in replacement for gas boilers for central heating. These heat pumps are not reversible, and there's no cooling option at all, since houses don't have air ducts for AC, and retrofit is usually infeasible.
>I always read mine thoroughly, whether they're 3 pages or 30. I don't have exact stats, but from where I sit maybe 80% of them are quality submissions.

Even if both candidates and the Canonical did this diligently, it is still ridiculous in my eyes, it's religion.
not really related to this post, but all the "related tweets" (aka "More Tweets") are from trumpers. not a great look
I’ve been saying that this will be Russian story for Chernobyl.

Mariupol is going to be another one. They’re destroying it so they can show on their propaganda tv “look Russians, this is what we found in Ukraine, this is why we had to liberate it”.
Isn't Apple's SwiftUI just a unified layer on top of AppKit/UIKit/WatchKit depending on the platform though?
Even if prevalence per case is the same as flu; covid would still at least double the overall societal prevalence due to it being in addition to flu.

Regarding awareness, I meant more societal awareness such that we might direct funding towards it as we have done with cancers.
People who learned by preparing punch cards and getting the results back another day probably get their programs correct on the first try more often though. At least for me, there's a lot of cycling on stupid errors, and it bites me when I work in a language that's slow to compile or in an environment that's slow to run (or both, like Arduino with its C++ and flash before run, or some corporate development stacks)
Oh yes. Very much so. Hey, it’s better than FAT-32!
I think that was an inadvertent juxtaposition of the words "just" and "allow": the GP probably didn't mean that links to articles should be forbidden, and only subjects for discussion ("titles") should be allowed to be posted.

At least I read their comment as "I often wish HN would allow, besides links, just titles to get posted and HN folks just have a discussion around that".

Would you still wholeheartedly disagree with that, too?
The lack of context in the original deal is such that it might make sense to call Alice an "a@#hole" for not agreeing to 50/50, but I don't thinks that's the case in any real-world example of this.

Why was Alice being offered 4 and Bob 2? Perhaps Alice had done twice as much work as Bob to get the original pizza. Perhaps she had invested twice as many resources. In that case, why would the "fair" deal be one in which Bob is suddenly getting the same compensation as Alice?

The solution outlined in the article makes more sense.
You can always retake the SAT. That or prove your worth by achieving a high GPA at a community college.

It sounds like maybe money would have been the limiting factor in your case but I don’t know.
Just checked VS subscription page and didn't find it, maybe it's kinda hidden? I'm chatting with a sales representative regarding this.
I agree with all of your points yet come to the opposite conclusion. Choosing the web means everything I make goes through Google’s hands in one way or another, which irks me. Plus it evolves so quickly that you can’t just make a good product and let it be.

I’m learning rust as time allows.
Sounds cool! I've decided to try it, is there a way to share to Pidgeon from the Photos app on iOS?
I feel like the comments to this article exemplify the worst of HN - the assumption things other than computer science probably have simple solutions no one has thought of yet.

For example, one commentator suggests possibly every patient, doctor, and researcher has missed that merely taking cough drops would completely clear up long covid.

Even if it's true in some rare cases, I think we would be better off presuming that any active subject of research can't be solved by an outsider thinking about it for five minutes.
Microsoft don't help themselves by making desktop app production very confusing. A huge range of possible GUI frameworks, every one looks like a trap/dead end like Silverlight.

Microsofts successful cross platform apps like VSCode and Teams ignore all of them so following suit seems pretty sensible to me.
I uninstalled the app and use the web version because it’s difficult to scroll endlessly on the web. Something happens in 2 minutes and the page crashes.
In the 1930s, you weren't expected to have 5 years of experience for an entry level job, and they had actual on-the-job training, which no company wants to invest in anymore.
That's true, but then you start running into weird compatibility issues, where a specific game won't work because an Xbox Live component is not installed or DirectX SDK is not at the right version (and you can't install the right version because it only works on the consumer OS).
"collapse" is trending in general, from unipolar world order (financial, cultural), to climate change, it's in a lot of people's mind. Maybe explains the use of the word here.
I don't want to pull back the curtain too much or tramp on everyone's hopes, but Linux can't compete with Microsoft because of UEFI. The PCs being sold today only allow Microsoft's software to run. In order to distribute a Linux distro, you have to ask Microsoft to give you a shim where they've signed your private key, so that you can share your own signed kernel builds with others. Therefore you can't publish a Linux desktop for consumers without being in league with the adversary.
>”Dave in Crown Heights is afraid if we get rid of street parking in Greenwich Village they're going to come for his parking space next and he can't afford paid parking. Why does Dave need a car at all living in Brooklyn? Good question...”

Sounds like Dave is right to be worried. In the span of one sentence you went from mocking the notion that some people are defending millionaires’ parking because of a slippery slope that would lead to them losing their own parking, to begging the question on why this non-millionaire even needs a car.

Edit: It feels like something along the lines of: “Don’t be crazy, we are not coming after your parking stall. We are coming after your car.”
Automatic system level tests.
Rat poison will be the source in many cases
> In fully vaccinated and/or boosted people, omicron symptoms tend to be mild.

Mild in comparison to other strains of Covid, yes. Tends not to require hospitalisation and has a lower risk of death. It doesn't say 'mild compared to a cold' though. I think it its too early for a study too be able to suggest that Omicron changed the possibility of developing long Covid either.

In regards to identifying yourself as one of the people I was targeting in my comment about 'some guy', I will put that down to a guilty concience.
I fully understand the need to express support or condemnation for any popular worldwide topic, but why did they have to make it persistent? The bottom bar is so annoying on this site.
The author is pointing out that the context menu style applied through Microsoft's own software GUI framework is inconsistent with the style applied by the rest of the OS. What 'old feature' are you referring to?
There’s a sidebar enhancements extension which allows you to right click a tab to reveal in sidebar.
And a lot of opportunities for corruption of any kind.

Well at least I they got it finished.

Some projects esp. in Africa get fully financed but never even start.
You can also check the CVE and see if it's critical (or if it even affects your application) and wait if it's not. Security literacy makes your life easier.
> the main function of college in America seems to be extending adolescence and deferring dealing with the real world.

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that it is the other "main function" but ohhh boy does this need to be discussed more. I know a few people that seemingly couldn't break out of college. College gives a clear path forward for years, each time you're admitted into a program. Give that up and what do you have? For the people I know, the answer to that question is a minimum wage job outside of their field of study.
Somebody has to build and maintain the machines.
It seems there are two slots for SSDs. I'd be curious to know which storage configurations populate both slots versus just one. If Apple offers SSD upgrades like they do for the Mac Pro, it would be nice to order a studio with one slot free.
>In Germany no way would have i have been allowed to go to college.

Why do you think that? Genuinely curious.
Getting rid of tiktock-est YouTube shorts or whatever they call it. Hated having that on my YouTube homepage and the official app doesn't let you remove it. YouTube Vanced does. I also pay for YouTube premium.
They’re just really bad at publicising their beta builds.
Proton is great, anticheat work fine with it. It's up to the producers of AAA games to enable it now.
> but I just moved to Newpipe after Youtube Vanced went down

How is it down ? I use it right now and it should work for at least a year if not way more. They can't block it without blocking breaking their own API which would break the regular Youtube app for those who don't update. If you have the APK, I see no reason to change to another app.
I don't think that's true anymore. Gnome with two tweaks (put the min/max buttons back on the window header and move the main menu to the bottom of the screen so it works like the old win 10 task bar) and it's streets ahead of Windows 11. It's a great blessing in disguise when Microsoft decide your old laptop won't support Windows 11.
What are the non-native parts?
Because virtue signaling. I'm not saying this to de-legitimize the "russia is bad" message, but the fact is, in instances like this (eg. a personal blog) such actions are far more about benefiting the person performing the action (ie. setting up the ukraine message) than it is actually about getting russia to stop.
I'd argue that once a movement has been installed it's very difficult to rule it out unless someone on the board can PROVE that it hurts revenue. This kind of decision (UI designers overriding anyone else) probably comes from a middle manager who has top support, the exact reason why it is impossible to un-stuck such decisions. Think Apple, you have to get X out before you can unstuck his/her decisions. That's politics.
As I mentioned in the blog post - both Notepad and Task Manager aren't that inconsistent with the rest of the OS. Notepad is just a giant text box. Task Manager is a compact, tabbed view (tabs didn't go anywhere in the latest version of Windows) that now became Fluent-ified and in the process now looks very wasteful of vertical space.

Above all, I think the problem is in priorities - Notepad and Task Manager _should_ be consistent with the OS. But when so much focus is assigned to those instead of the core pieces of the OS, it's fair to start raising some questions.
Rather than saying "the SAT is discriminatory," maybe ask which questions on the SAT's are discriminatory, and why? And how could you fix them? This will be more revealing of what the problem might be.

I believe a lot of problems that the SAT's used to have were fixed over the years? It's somewhat of a moving target.

And if you can't make any standardized test that's fair, why is that?
This article seems to have been written by an N900 fan who had the incessant need to mix in the N900 with reporting on an entirely unrelated PowerVR open-source driver for much newer GPUs.

It's nice that Imagination is discovering open-source to stop more of their hardware going to the landfill but seeing how they are walking dead since Apple dropped them (and took their best engineers) it's very much too little too late.
Right click the game in library -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Force the Use of a Specific Steam Play Compatability Tool

Now install the game.
How does the show portray modern nuclear energy in a bad light?
Thank you for the note. Because the worldwide topic touches directly on me and my family, I've decided that this was the right approach for my own blog.
> But in terms of open source, Linux, webdev, the broader world of development & making things happen, Microsoft has completely reversed course, embracing

Embracing is the first step in dominating. Don’t fall for it.
When I read the title, I imagined this would be about social and romantic situations. In personal contexts, of course you have the right to say no with no further explanation.

In professional contexts... you're being paid to be to serve the business. If someone who's part of that business asks you something, you don't get to just say no unless you're the CEO. You can say no and explain that you're not the right person, or you can direct them elsewhere or any number of other things, but when you agree to take money to do a job, you obligate yourself to do things like answer questions reasonably.
A domain block list would solve most of the search quality and spam problems, I don't understand why Google removed it.
In Australia I can't even get a bloody antibody test to show I've had covid, because doctors are afraid it will be used to "justify" not getting vaccinated or not getting any further boosters. How is this helping us learn about the long-term effects of the virus? I've had a "scratch" in my throat for 2 years now, and with no diagnosis there's never going to be any treatment for me should something be offered.

This entire schmozzle is a cluster of historic proportions from our "leaders" at the top all the way down to your local GP. And it's clear that society won't be able to be dealt with it in an adult, non-political, evidence-based, and non-hysterical manner for years to come.
I personally stopped my subscription after their decision to remove the dislike counter. Ultimately does not change anything for them, but I just couldn't justify it.
This argument always sounds superficial to me.

1) You can have corruption in files of any type. Text is no more robust to random bit flips. Pick a file format and there are often tools that can isolate the corruption to a small portion to recover everything else.

2) The solution to lock-in is not "let's make everything text", but "let's have open file formats". Many types of data, especially for project-management-like tools, aren't particularly well suited as plain text (or a markdown format). So many extra unnecessary parsing/regex steps have to be jumped through for the program to use it, and the sanitizing functions now have to be moved from code to the user's brain to not break things.

By all means, support open file formats and exporting functionality. But shoehorning -everything- into text sounds like some crazy mix of bikeshedding and worldbuilding. Why waste your time? Especially knowing MD will fall out of favor eventually, and a new format du jour will rise. What will you do then?
So the article is mostly wishful thinking by a dog-loving journalist? Who would have thought.
This is demonstrably false - there may be a few edge cases where companies are making degrees optional, but overall the trend is in the opposite direction. (The companies bypassing the degree requirement all have their own very rigorous selection requirements; the number of non-college graduates who can meet the requirements is very small.)

Companies are using college diplomas as the new high school - even some help desk jobs prefer college students or recent graduates now. It seems like almost all companies require a college degree for even slightly senior positions - a high school graduate will be very limited in career progression. Degrees are now a necessary but not sufficient condition for most people.

As far as price, most U.S. states have an excellent public university system - you would have to be insane to pay private school prices for anything but a top 5 university.
But you have to make sure NOT to fall into the WSL trap. If you use WSL you are essentially using Windows.
I've seen them flying from Minneapolis to Bismarck, ND. I could also see them from the ground in North Dakota, albeit a bit weak.
Modern heat pumps can be under 55dB. I've had PCs louder than this.
RIP windows.
The Macification of Windows has been in progress for years -- and it makes no sense! When Microsoft designed the UI for Windows 95 they did extensive user studies and everything from how the start menu worked and the task bar was carefully figured out.

They've spend the last few decades undoing all that work piece by piece until nobody actually knows how to use it anymore.