skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've few years ago hear, US gov't created app, which periodically checked for random light flashes on camera sensor of smartphone, and send info to cloud, to use them as large distributed network for detecting of illegal nukes.
(btw, Soviet and Russians really love to collect such weird facts).

Idea looks very realistic, except that it will drain battery, and could also be used as surveillance tool, so I have not seen real app.

To be strict, any digital camera sensor is excellent tool for such things, much better than ram, only need to close objective with something opaque for light, but transparent to particles (any thin plastic fit), and sure, run monitoring program and store logs in cloud.

And in real life, on ali could buy Geiger counter shield for arduino, and one my pal even expose such sensor to internet.

- Better to use two such sensors and simple logical circuit, so they will detect not all events, but only when two sensors simultaneous detect something, so you will see vector, from where cosmic particle appear.

- This method of many sensors with logic and logs, where used in researches, which detected hidden rooms in Great Pyramids of Giza (real cosmic rays so powerful, that could detected with simple equipment at depths up to hundred meters, so ordinary concrete is like cardboard for them).
And I even seen post from one guy, who installed such machinery at home (used 8 or 16 counters, I forgot details), and in few months from logs was clearly seen, where in his room is window :)
What is “good faith” in that case though ? Some people will really not know (think kids for instance, but not only)

The interesting part to me is that Google will show redirected queries from typos (“Did you mean “When did *Neil* Armstrong set foot on Mars” ?”) but not disclose the term it completely ignored.

I makes it look like it parsed and validated all the search terms before coming up with the prominently displayed date, which makes it worse.

On your point, it’s broken because it shouldn’t display “Never”, and instead skip the date widget and show that the page results are for the moon, like it does for typos and other kind of corrected search terms.

Or alternatively _always_ show which part of the query the results are based on. Failure to be transparent creates the problem.
My partner tends to "ruminate" on making phone calls - setting up appointments, customer service stuff, etc. I am on the phone all day for work, so it's no big deal for me to deal with the calls.

Sometimes, I ask my partner to make a call. Most times, she doesn't do it within the agreed upon time period. I either do it myself, she gets to it E V E N T U A L L Y, or it doesn't get done. I used to fight about this because it really isn't "fair" for her to not get this stuff done when she said she'd do it. However, I realized it just wasn't a big deal for me to make the phone calls and deal with this stuff. I'm the one getting pissed over my partner's inaction, not my partner.

Since I just stopped sweating it, making the calls when I felt it was important, and leaving my partner be when the calls are not important, I'm a lot less pissed off about calls. I'm sure my partner appreciates not being bugged over this.

I guess another solution to this could be getting divorced, but that really says to me that the husband wasn't really the problem here and the regret he feels shouldn't be lodged against his own actions.
It is inevitable that you'd run into issues eventually that are due to the parsing library itself. Whether that be performance or otherwise. Sure, you can fix those problem in the lib yourself, but maybe you just can't for one reason or another. It is also possible that the lib is really good and has no problems, but your problem ends up being slightly different which makes it a pain to implement with the library that you choose.

When you are making a general purpose language that gets shipped to the masses, a core component of that thing you are making is the parsing. I'd say it is in your best interest to have complete control over how that works and be able to understand that well. That would mean putting in the work to make the parser yourself.

I don't just feel this way about building programming languages. I believe this is true for any kind of production level software that you write. It is important to maintain control and deep understanding of technologies that are core to your product. Building something from ready made components, while tempting, often ends badly.
Negotiating with a team about a reasonable due date on a deliverable is a good idea.

If you skip the first 80% of the article, you'll find that this is a jargon-heavy way of suggesting that one does this, plus some cant around how it isn't really a 'deadline' since it wasn't imposed thoughtlessly from above.
You are invoking std::mem::forget which is explicitly for circumventing destructor execution and then complaining about leaks.

Okay.

The documentation page for std::mem::forget goes through all the alternatives you should try before resorting to std::mem::forget.

Now, perhaps std::mem::forget should be marked unsafe. However, you don't just "accidentally" run std::mem::forget.

BTW, one of the problems with GC languages is the fact that you never know when your destructor might get run (ie. object gets reclaimed) so your GC thinks life is just fine but ... oops ... you just ran out of file descriptors because they are all waiting to be reclaimed.
Agreed ... but I'll posit the existence of technical 'treehuggers' who knew it early on (and kept quiet after what happened to Oppenheimer.)

Further posit: they were aware that nukes were more about making Pu than heat. No insurance company back in the day would accept the risk either (thus the 1957 'Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act').

Anyway, I'll quote a 1951 expert:
"t is safe to say ... that atomic power is not the means by which man will for the first time emancipate himself economically.… At present, atomic power presents an exceptionally costly and inconvenient means of obtaining energy which can be extracted much more economically from conventional fuels.… This is expensive power, not cheap power as the public has been led to believe." — C. G. Suits, Director of Research, General Electric, who who was operating the Hanford reactors. [https://www.ieer.org/pubs/atomicmyths.html]
A little late to the party, but if you ever need to do basily anything with dates, check out dateutils (https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils).
Amazing collection of commands.
Because they could unintentionally leak that info to the wrong people? I dunno I’m not that trusting.
Sanctions have achieved nothing but isolate North Korea, ruin the lives of generations of innocent people and entrench an authoritarian ruling class. Sanctions are a crime against humanity.
Sure, all the time. Like when I automated sorting household and tax paperwork.
1MB/s is pretty fast all things considered - a gig every 17 minutes.
Time to Retire the Concept of Transient Ischemic Attack
Needing to spend $32 to see a report on the result for something that we're already paying a lot of taxes for doesn't make me too confident in humanity achieving the goals of the Paris agreement.
The drains I remember well. I spent a couple hours trying to get a friend's Wrangler extricated from a mudhole deep enough to where the floorboards were submerged in water that was just above freezing. Wasn't fun keeping a foot on the gas pedal to keep pressure on the now-underwater exhaust.

After we finally got him winched out of the hole, all the water immediately drained out.
It's more "don't try to force change on them". If you think you're going to 'make' your SO stop smoking, watch movies with you, or wash the dishes, you're approaching it the wrong way.

Communicate. Express what is happening and how it is affecting you, in a way that doesn't place the blame on them. (Also, they have to be mature enough not to hear it as blame. Both can be difficult, and just about impossible when your emotions are worked up.)

Then you talk about how to solve the problem. Not in a "your behavior is a problem, how do we change it" fashion, but in a "it's us against this problem" fashion.

In the article, he says "the existence of love, trust, respect, and safety in our marriage was dependent on these moments I was writing off as petty disagreements". Instead of recognizing and respecting her complaints as legitimate -- no matter how minor -- he dismissed them, and thus told her "Your needs aren't important to me".

As he also learned, petty disagreements become major problems when not dealt with. You either take care of them early, when they're still easily tractable, or you wait until they've festered and become a Major Problem. And then they're really difficult to fix.
One that I use pretty often is `sortedcitations.lua`, which sorts the citations in a LaTeX file according to their appearance in the text. There are lots of fancy tools and bibliography management, BiBTeX, etc, but in the vast majority of cases I just want a single file with the citations in the right order.

https://gist.github.com/scythe/7cea80364bacf1f1ce6a67786bcbc...
https://tildeverse.org/
it doesn't happen overnight, but this is a really bad precedent and it will definitely have an effect on both sales AND renewals. This market is theirs to lose and seems they are doing everything they can to do just that. Github is getting better, and it has mindshare amongst developers, not to mention it's part of a company that like it or not knows how to sell to large enterprises (Microsoft).
You’re missing the point. That’s one instance. Marriages are made up of thousands of these instances. Are you going to change your behaviors for all of those? Because I have, and it is tiring. Resentment builds on both sides.
When I volunteered at my local food bank turnaround was relatively quick. I remember sorting through paper-covered cans just three weeks after we collected the Canstructure donations to the food pantry centers. However, I don't know how soon they were handed out to people; probably pretty quickly (<1 week) because there wasn't much stock in the building.

It probably depends on location and population.
For clarity: I went through a period where some combination of self-indulgence and legitimate life crisis caused me to take my eye off the ball when it mattered.

I’m still trying to kickstart a second act years later, because I’m trailer trash and it’s hard work when you’re that.
Sure. A list and inventory manager (actually for my mom). Several programs for generating and managing parts of fictional languages. Tools for creating and managing characters and teams in multiplayer games. A bunch of versions of a couple of programming languages. A wysiwig emacs-like editor. Several artificial life programs. A simple paint program. Probably others I’m forgetting.
Inflation: Five things that are going up in price and why
The advantage does appear to be higher efficiency compared to themocouples, and the TVP should in theory require less cooling relative to the input due to the higher efficiency - However the disadvantage is that TVPs generally require a far higher operating temperature for effective power production, which may actually require more sophisticated cooling.

This particular one requires around 2000C, which appears to be above the critical temperature of most RTGs (though not all!):

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Critical-temperatures-to...

I wonder if those RTGs also have any disadvantages or are simply more substantial.

[edit]

Corrected cooling requirements as pointed out by the8472 in another comment.
When someone is getting hurt by their life partner, they need to speak clearly and explicitly about what is going on and what they want. Expecting your partner to read your mind will end in resentment. Can't reduce harm if you don't speak up.
Yeah I was definitely uncomfortable about giving brokerage logic credentials to anyone. Some brokerages can give you a read-only API key you can supply to an app, which is nice for systems like this. Maybe see if yours do that?

Wealthica is a Personal Capital competitor. Maybe take a look at them?
Quotes around words have basically stopped working on Google. Which makes all three of those searches even more difficult.
Maybe the media I read is skewed. It is mostly what I link to from HN.

I lived in Sf about a decade back. There were a steady stream of articles even way back then about how San Francisco was falling apart. Like yeah the Tenderloin is a ghetto and there are not enough public bathrooms. But the rest of the city is pretty safe. The biggest problem by far were the housing prices which is why I moved out. A decade later the Tenderloin is still a ghetto, still not enough bathrooms, and the housing prices are still too damn high. And there are still articles about how it is on the verge of collapse.
The key extraction is not any sort of actual practical attack. It is a pure demonstration of the principle. It is yet another example of the principle that leaks are leaks and that is is hard to know which ones are important. It strongly suggests that platforms should not transmit anything coupled to the internal operation of the platform. Why are audio systems (this one was Mumble) sending all this junk in the lower bits of the audio samples? Why not zero that out as part of the automatic gain control scheme? The receiver doesn't want to hear it anyway,
I live in a city in Canada and it gets really cold waiting for the busses during the winter.

For some reason my city doesnt have an app to track buses, so I made my own (with a lot of help). Wrote it in Python, it tracks the real time location of any bus number you enter.
Took a long time, but it works and now I can ping a bus and see how far away it is before leaving the house.

There's usually a handful of busses on a single route, so I sorted them by distance from my current location. It was easily the funnest project I've done
Infinitesimal math is completely coherent, it just doesn't have one theory that is "thee algebra" like the real numbers do.
Certainly. Wound need to think a bit for a complete list, but two fun ones come to mind:

Wrote an iOS app to help my kids learn to sing harmony (called it HarmonMe)

Wrote a translator from English to phonetic symbols to help teach an ESL class
He also won 3 times on demand, including against Levon Aronian.

> but escaped some very bad positions with draws, which against higher level competition he might not be so lucky.

Hikaru is well-known for being able to defend insanely well, and highly capable of escaping with draws against any level of player. This is such a strangely critically toned comment.
They most definitely work, insects need very little and will almost immediately move in, granted it is positioned correctly (outside wind, not in full sun).

People just have the wrong expectation. It's not some entertainment device where you permanently see a 100 insects flying in front of it. Most insects stuff it with food and/or their larvae.
How to use weekends to make progress on side-projects
Xkcd: Weird Unicode Math Symbols
A lesson in game design – Tempest
Tempest: Atari 1981

Simple mechanics, novel design, increasing complexity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(video_game)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTgA3ZOoSo

Because of the CRT screen and the vector graphics, the in-person experience was unique and difficult to replicate. Likewise, the very simple button and rotating knob interface combination was approachable but presented unique challenges in the gameplay.
So the "design limitation" in the chip can be overcome by updating apps to support Apple's TBDR tile memory system that was presumably created to maximize processor performance? Am I understanding the design limitation correctly?
>producing 1 offer

And then the resulting offer isn't even on par with your current comp.

It's almost as if the entire thing is designed maliciously on purpose.
anyone else find it so hard to find basic apparel and shoes? All my search results return me known brands with high ad spend. Recently started to go to reddit male fashion advice to look for crowdsourced recommendations but that's fairly time consuming.

Anyone else has other ways?
There was one which was no-bullshit and then a bunch of online people denounced it for removing all the story and context and stealing from PoC, etc.
Technical literacy has nothing to do with social, or economic literacy.

Bitcoin works exactly as technically scoped. Which part of "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" is technobabble? I think its a pretty good choice of words.

> rather that HN readers see crypto's empty promises to fix existing issues for what they are: bullshit designed to lure in ever more dumb money.

I would say rather that HN readers are blinded by their own technical abilities, so much so that they think they are right when it comes to social or economic ones.

Good news is the future years will determine which theory is right. Either its "bullshit designed to lure in ever more dumb money", or its an innovation that created something that provides real value to the economy.

I promise, one of us will be deterministically wrong.
It remains insane to me just how much clout dealers seem to have in state. I have never had a good experience with a dealer, and that's even when taking the appropriate steps to stop them changing the price or tacking on charges.

Every time this comes up there's some dealer association talking head claiming that dealers add a useful service, but they can never elucidate what that service is.
I first learned as an end-user, and before I even had a chance to notify customer support at work, I got to watch our bug count climb as an enterprise customer!
>I have a good job that I like, but if my wife told me her company was moving her to Japan for a while, I'd jump at the opportunity.

Do you have kids? What's your relationship with your family like? How good/irreplaceable are your friendships?

For a lot of people, dropping all of these things are inconceivable. I know my aunty was reduced to tears when her son (who is expecting a baby) moved from Woodend to Canberra. To her, it meant seeing her grandkids a couple of times a year rather than spending time with them every week.
Each person must be responsible for understanding, taming, and ultimately mastering communicating their needs and feelings to be a part of a constructive marriage. It's not a male/female thing - that's a distraction. It's a personal responsibility thing. Be responsible for your own happiness by advocating for yourself in a clear way.

Or you'll end up divorced over glasses by the sink.
Seems like a nice follow on from https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html which was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012865
Interesting data, It’s surprising that writers were more common than politicians.
It's cool that you're open to learning. Most people don't know that pretty much every bee species is solitary. Social bees are exceptional.
It looks like you are focused on Hacker News comments.
>BTW, a big reason for this is the search quality folks at Google left the building and got replaced with growth marketers.

Is this the transition they made to AI powered rankings a couple of years ago?
I mean to be truthful I don't find it that sketchy, but clearly somebody does
Never a dull moment! Some good laughs on several of those :). def avoid the snakes!
"occasionally gather raw audio data" could be used to remind you that you're muted when you're trying to talk. I've seen that in either GoToMeeting or Zoom
> The principle they operate on suggests no temperature gradient is required

A temperature gradient is absolutely required. Ignoring materials problems (such as melting) a photovoltaic cell ultimately does work off a temperature differential because it has to absorb photons. It cannot do that if its temperature is the same as the black body temperature of the lightsource illuminating it, otherwise they would be at an emission/absorption equilibrium.

This is also why PV cells could theoretically work in reverse mode at night, emitting IR into space. They'd just do that paltry power ratings because ΔT(earth, cosmic background) is much smaller than ΔT(photosphere, earth). And they'd have to be made of a material with a much smaller bandgap.
My initial reaction to that is just that he likely was too green and not groomed enough. We expect normal people to not know everything already and be willing to change their stance on something when new information comes to light (even if it's just new to them). When that happens to someone in power, we're upset because how could they not already have thought deeply about all the specific aspects anyone could bring up about that topic, as well as the 20,000 other things that might be asked of them randomly.

And the only thing that's worse for them than changing their mind is when they admit they haven't come to a decision on that yet, which is just admitting up front that they don't know as much as they should and are fallible.

It's not just that we don't expect politicians to by truthful, we disincentivize and sometimes outright punish any natural and truthful behavior that we would expect in a normal person, and force them into the mold we so like to criticize.
New Graphene Transistor can reduce 5% of global energy consumption
My guess is that the leak is not at all electromagnetic but just electric in the form of power supply noise. Doing audio using a power supply rail that is also attached to something digital is hard and it is easier and cheaper to not care that much.
Clockify polybar integration. Clockify is a time tracker tool. Polybar is a UI bar for window managers like i3 or bspwm. I also have a version that works on wayland and interacts with Waybar but I haven't gotten around to cleaning it up and publishing it.

I click on it when I start working and click when I stop working.

https://github.com/woutdp/polybar-clockify
>The idea that a well compensated, educated adult can't survive without an extensive support structure for a few years is questionable.

Financially, sure. In terms of mental health and feelings of isolation (especially for the wife, who won't have a high-flying career to distract her/build new contacts in), it's absolutely a problem.
Obfuscated obfuscation
I created "Kid Money Manager", a tool to help manage my son's virtual account. He wasn't old enough to open his own bank account when I started, but we needed some way to track his "earnings" (returning bottles for their deposits or gifts from grandparents) and spending. It has both a Web UI and access via SMS text messages. We mainly use the text messaging—entering transactions at the store, etc.— since I didn't want to write a dedicated phone app for such a simple interaction.

Created it from scratch, live coding it on my (https://JitterTed.Stream) Twitch channel (and some videos on my YouTube channel at https://JitterTed.TV). Written using TDD in Java + Spring Boot, deployed on Heroku and open-source at https://github.com/tedyoung/kid-bank.

I also recently wrote "Format Hero" (https://formathero.dev), because I could never remember which letters to use in Java's DateTimeFormatter. Was also a good demonstration of Hexagonal Architecture and, of course, I live coded it, TDDing all the way. Source is at https://github.com/jitterted/format-hero. Still some work to do on that one, but filled my immediate need.

[edit: added proper links for Stream/YouTube]
She's getting professional help. I have issues also, which I've been working on. But the things I would think were minor were maybe not "leaving a water glass next to the sink" minor, but maybe "forgetting to wash the dishes sometimes" minor (when the sink wasn't full... also the dishes were my chore)

It's not about whether those things are only an issue for her though, the fact that they are an issue for her still causes conflict, and was important to me, I just couldn't keep up with the things she needed in addition to the inability to resolve conflict quickly, and my work.