skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have had less anxiety thanks to the Apple Watch monitoring things. It’s especially good that it will alert me because it means I never have to check. Prior to the watch I would use Kardia to check myself far too often. Not debilitatingly obsessively but not far off from that either
How long do you think it takes Microsoft to take down this repo?
The celery-Flask tutorial saved my bacon recently. It sometimes surprises me that the Ruby community rallied so hard around Rails and was able to integrate all these things like job queues (ActiveJob, Sidekiq, DelayedJob etc) right into the main web framework. "batteries included" indeed.
Whereas Flask still has more of a pick-and-choose approach.
You don't have to convince me, I was around in 1990's and loved the early days of the internet. You have to convince ambitious people to make sites that won't rank well in Google.
“Many” not all. Certainly there are people on Wallstreet that know what they are doing.
What was the vegetation like before humans arrived? We should go back to that.
...or you just take the wave function as the real-reality, and in this reality a "chaotic system" is one with even macroscopic position probabilities "smeared out" too uniformly have any one be "classically-real".

If classic reality is the illusion, and our intuition is fundamentally limited and incapable of grasping the actual reality, then even many-worlds is a bit of clutch... we imagine an infinity of "parallel" classical universes simply because it's the best we can do: one wave function universe where all the variants are "real" at the same time only that being real is a complex-numbered-probability so some are more real than other with different orientations and magnituded too.

...we could just give up hoping that our ape-brains can fully "grasp" reality, and just focus on getting the math to work: if some math systems make chaos and qm both work, then move on with that regardless of our primitive intuitions and preconceptions/superstitions of that the workld ought to be!
Grassy lawns and lush gardens in dry areas require so much water any water any possible benefit of carbon sequestration is counterbalanced by the irrigation infrastructure required.
When people say they want boring tech what they usually mean is something along the lines of "stable", "predictable" and perhaps without change for the sake of change.

The java website to me is more boring in the sense of soulless and corporate.
Agree visualizations are more powerful. But it would be nice to see a discussion about the data itself.
Always bet on religion.

Some of the most profitable early apps on the apps stores were Bible apps. People love their religions and will happily spend money on following them.
Once everything in the home is connected, governments can pass laws that essentially force appliance manufactures to limit use of appliances. In the name of climate change or w/e.

Everyone is limited to 1 dishwasher session during drought season. Fridges run a few degrees warmer during heat waves to conserve energy.

Or it gets factored into your personal and family ESG score which can be used to discriminate.

Are you doing your part, comrade?
If you seriously believe that 4chan is in any way responsible here, you didn't think too hard about the causes. People with no place elsewhere might land there, perhaps it is even a pressure valve for people to rant to. But it is certainly not the source of these deeds. 4chan has a more international community than most comparable English speaking social media sites and yet these problems seem to concentrate in certain places.
I would like to attest to the wonderful power of REWRITING MONTHS OF CODE IN DAYS!!!

You’ve all been there. You spend months working with a new stack or framework or environment, and the deadline looms. The DEAD LINE. And you know something isn’t quite right.

And it comes to you. By virtue of emergent coder phenomenon, you KNOW you can rewrite your months and months of code, and do it RIGHT, and if you don’t it will be mediocre, and if you fail (it still has to pass testing) it will be your disaster.

DO IT!

It can be done!

You can succeed!

There is a programmer deity out there which blesses drastic, self determined rewrites.

It can all be done in a few days. And it can only be done in a mad dash of determination.
Right, when I say common culture I mean culture common to a specific subreddit. I don't think reddit as a whole has a common culture. It's like a train station and not like a village, everyone is always passing through.
Censoring China’s open-source coders might backfire
I'm saying it's a broad term - forget Russian news. Go ask take a Fox watcher and a CNN watcher to point out what they interpret as "Fake News" and you'll get 100s of differences.
What about smartphones, not just yours, but also those around you with Hey Siri or Hey Google turned on? I don’t see a huge difference.
Generally either one sector of FTL or a song or two in rocksmith.
I tried dwarf fortress but had trouble keeping in a reasonable time bound
This is just my opinion, but I think we have compartmentalized development too much. Atomized it a level where the individual parts only care about themselves and are now too simple that the parts lose sight of the whole.

I hate the “well my piece works” attitude that I have seen grow over the last 5-10 years. Likely due to bastardized scrum/agile with tiny little bite sized dev stories and tasks that in my mind have turned developers into cogs in a assembly line. 30+ years ago, almost all devs were brilliant, creators, engineers and problem solvers. In my estimation 25% are brilliant today with the remaining seemingly unable to write a single line of code unless the requirements are spelled out in hyper levels of detail, with design standards, engineering guides, and all manners of cheat sheets to contain them in a box where their screwups are contained.

rant over
> But something more complicated where you really would like good voice control--like driving--not so much.

I’ve tried Alexa, Google, and Siri multiple times over the years while driving and it’s just embarrassing how over hyped all of them are and yet simple questions which a human could potentially easily answer in seconds doing a search (if not driving of course), but none of them even get close.

- How far away is that storm?

- How many miles to the state line?

- What timezone is Omaha in?

- Where’s the closest gas station that has diesel?

- What’s the top rated BBQ place in town?
Interesting story on how it could go.

Unauthorized Bread, Cory Doctorow

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
In what world is nuclear "in high regard"? The primary problem with nuclear power is that people are scared of it. To the extent that there are even efforts to rebrand it to some other name (eg. "elemental power"). This isn't evidence of a thing that is highly regarded...
Do cashew farms and strawberries next
Why Do Founders Love René Girard?
Strangely similar to Guy Kawasaki's https://alltop.com/

https://guykawasaki.com/alltop-version/
I don't think so in any meaningful way. Also, removing and wasting the water to keep a lawn green heats the river that water was pulled from.

Plus, mowing a lawn is usually done with some of the dirtiest engines out there.

Removing lawns is always a net good.
Love the auxiliary screen/numpad/controls on the right hand side - very cool. I imagine the screen being used for an Uplink-style 'seconds until hack detected' counter ;)
Exactly. We pre-rinse the dishes, get the water running hot before starting the machine, and choose the heavy cycle. Even so, the dishwasher barely cleans our dishes. And it's a Bosch, well reviewed by Consumer Reports when we got it!

People in this thread are talking about the SpeedQueen washing machine. Is there something similar for dishwashers? I would pay good money for a dishwasher that actually cleaned my dishes. I don't even care if it's loud!
In addition, I wonder what effect this sort of “manual desertification” has on the soil when done en masse.
> the only reason the product is so nice is because the grubby handed business types could raise the money by promising MRR to the investors.

Bingo!

It's just the next layer of business types because they dominate this fucking system... Yes, it is the system: shameful.
When worn correctly, modern smart watch optical heart rate sensors are actually reasonably accurate for most people. Read the DC Rainmaker reviews where he compares them against highly accurate chest straps. The optical sensors will often lag a bit or get off track for a brief period but overall not too bad.

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/product-reviews/garmin
React is a boring technologie for me by now and it was a great choice for my latest project. Many very mature libraries and excellent support all around.
Seems like the email should be the confirmation, and without the confirmation the trial stops. Opting in with a yes alone, when my four year olds can now ask Alexa for stuff, seems like a terrible design choice by itself.
Linux (KDE Wayland/GNOME Wayland, Gnome was a bit better for touch use in general but the glitches were the same, IIRC) on a tablet with a Wacom digitizer.
Does this mean China developers have the worlds open source code to freely make their products better within China and also compete with other companies worldwide with open source code but the Chinese government ends up restricting code the feel shouldn't be open source to the world? If it that's the case, it doesn't seem to fair.
I am recommending it. He is clearly a smart person. If it was the ravings of a lunatic I would not. He is not a random murderer, he was psychologically tortured by the government as part of MKUltra before he killed anyone.
I'm not sure the cost of living is the right comparison here. I would rather use a professional salary as a basis.

Somebody who can develop a self-hosting programming language that is useful for anything can probably earn at least $5000 regardless of where they live. I wouldn't expect them to live on 1/10th of that even if this is technically possible.
The Department of Energy actually banned the SpeedQueen TC5 washer model a few years back because it didn't have a sufficient eco mode (read this as: it automated more of the washing work for you than the government would allow)

The workaround is that modern SpeedQueen washers have a "normal/eco" default mode which doesn't do a good job at all. This mode exists to satisfy the DoE policy. The washer is intended to never be run on this mode, and all the other modes do a fantastic washing job.

I have the newer TC5 with the bogus "normal/eco" cycle. It's a great washer as long as the government mandated useless mode isn't selected.

Here's a nyt/wirecutter article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/speed-queen-revie...
Hah great read. Reminds me of this copypasta:

https://imgur.com/r/4chan/dgGvgKF
> It shows that in 2020, there were 8 managers at the Wikimedia Foundation that earned more than $300K each in salaries and benefits. Three of the 5 most highly paid contractors were PR companies.

Is that unusual?
> I guess we have chorded keyboards, but not sure how fasts those are for entering text, or if anybody has tried to combine them with a screen into a single hand-held device.

T9 was blisteringly fast with 12 buttons, a tiny screen, and a rather stupid prediction engine. I'd say we have tried it before, and it worked exceptionally well within the constraints it had. The leaps and bounds made in predictive text since then should make it somewhat viable for other applications.
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but if you buy a product because you like it and admire the design and engineering on it, isn't this type of hacking actually a disservice to the company who made it? I mean, I'm not saying this should never be explored (hacking is fun), but in a way you're cutting the resources from the company and potentially helping to bring it down. After all, a business is not made only on top of "cost + small profit percentage". Maybe their business model requires such prices and is impossible without them (especially if it's a small company).
Otherwise known as "That app I can use on Linux to fill PDF forms with, but isn't a PDF editor".

Very useful.

I would really like it if it had better snapping to lines/boundaries on the underlying PDF.
> having to learn to code

At HN?!

> when your hands are full

One would never be empty handed while cooking?!
Atheism/secular materialism is usually pretty strong, it often permeates every perception to a basic level. Have you found something that has ever challenged it before? I've never seen a difference between a shattering of secularism and a challenge of it. It seems to be contingent on the latter not having happened. As soon as there is a crack in the foundation of secularism, the whole thing tumbles. That's why almost all secularists say they've never had a spiritual experience, or a challenge to it.
I think yes, when combined with carbon capture and storage. The technology has worked for some time (both the capture and storage parts), some of the new direct air methods are hitting $100/MWh when paired with generation, bringing prices of gas + capture around the price of solar + storage. However, siting it is tricky since you need the right geology, and there have been some very expensive failures to deploy. Maybe it will have a niche role until we solve storage + transmission + demand management (as someone else pointed out).
>I’m aware of the Chicago/Fama school of thought, its history, and the difference between strong-form and weak-form efficiency, thanks.

Then you must agree that your comment linking ARKK and HOLDL to efficient markets was misplaced.
I'm generally a fan of this, but following this too closely will eventually kill your company. Every currently boring technology was once a new hotness and eventually companies that are willing to try new things, or startups based entirely on new things will eat your lunch because they're more efficient, faster, etc.

Put another way, this is a very fragile strategy. It consistently protects you from small, limited downsides, while opening you up to the occasional collapse. An organization which is constantly experimenting with new things will pay a consistent cost for all the failed experiments, but they are opening up themselves to huge upsides if one of them works.
> Inward immigration has gone UP since Brexit

While this holds some truth in general it's wrong:

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/eu...

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

Net immigration from the EU dropped while total net immigration increased slightly in 2019 before cratering in 2020.
Orca is a delightful piece of software. A livecoding music creating environment, that’s both simple and very complex. Well worth checking out if you’re interested in any kind of algorithmic music making!

One thing I was a little surprised by was that such ideologically minded developers would shy away from a GPL style license for their work. It seems like for a lot of people “viral” open source licenses have fallen out of favour - but I’m not sure why.
If there’s an option to disable this “feature”, then it’s probably not advertising.

Good thing Apple Maps doesn’t subtly repeat biz names to me until I remember them. If this ever happens, I’ll move back to paper maps.

I don’t care if I have to pull over, it beats this mental manipulation and my mind being an advertisers plaything.
The Story of Heroku
Yes, of course. I updated my comment, thanks.
Probably what sibling comment said, and the economic boom after WW2.

This op-ed[1][2] says:

> For a few years, I’ve startled people by pointing out that over half of all of the emissions from the burning of fossil fuels that have ever been produced in the history of humanity have been produced in the past 30 years — since Al Gore published his first book on warming; since the U.N. established its climate-change body, the I.P.C.C.; since the premiere of “Friends.”

Which is fucking shocking. Later on he says "At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the global promise was to avoid “dangerous” warming.", if I were the editor I'd point out that's 30 years ago and that he should add something like "the cutoff-year after which we've emitted in 30 years the same amount of fossil fuel emissions of the last several millennia until that point".

Obviously this is "citation needed" territory, but I'm relying on the reputation of NYT to have hired a researcher that backs up what he's written with hard data.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/opinion/india-heat-wave-p...
[2] https://archive.ph/GTtXP
Article: "you can [...] add detergents manually [...] however they strongly suggest against this", so I can't see how anybody is forced to buy the cartridges. Also, they did obviously not put any work in making their "DRM" secure. At the most, they're hoping that people would buy the expensive new cartridges, because it's more convenient than manually adding the detergent. It's a grey zone at best.
https://speedqueen.com/where-to-buy/
I do. I bought a house a few years ago, and needed to buy a whole bunch of stuff (lawnmower, generator, washer, dryer, freezer, bed, etc). Really helped pare down what was out there. Largely use it for bigger items, though.

I just didn't have it in me to "research" all that stuff online. On one side, you have scummy review sites or sites with uneducated reviewers, and on the other, very opinionated aficionados who want you to spend $$$$$ on every little thing, or else it's just an inferior experience (of mowing the lawn or something).

I'm sure CR isn't perfect, but sometimes I just need a recommendation that's not complete garbage and then to move on with life.
I understood the presentation to be on the distinction between equality and isomorphism and when an isomorphism "is an equality". From the slide on homotopy type theory I get the impression that he finds it unsatisfactory to simply consider all isomorphisms as equalities.

But I might have misunderstood your objection?
Deaths on the roads have been declining because of the years of focus on safety improvements. Those numbers show that these efforts are working.

We should certainly keep an eye on the features and have productive dialogue about it. But denying safety concerns seems to be a fairly egregious twisting of the facts.
Rather than choosing a boring tech, I believe engineers should choose tech with which they can operate with highest operational confidence.
Sure, they're unregulated with little or no oversight and could be spunking it all tropical islands, but that's the theory :)
There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train but I did it anyway (2019)
Revit installs are the worst. Iused to freelance for an engineer and once I moved on from that it was amazing how much cruft from Autodesk was left on my machine.
I'm guessing most of it was based on anti piracy measures. I often wonder how much overlap there is between anti piracy, ani cheat, and "productivity" measuring tech.
Unusually high levels of noise sensitivity (low tolerance) may be an indication of an underlying genetic condition like hEDS.
The sentry guns in Aliens used monochrome amber LCD screens.
Reminds me of Fallout terminals, as well. And that's a good idea. If I ever have a Home Assistant, it's gonna have Fallout-terminal interface.
I'm definitely in the middle ground somewhere. I do think they're mostly disappointing. That said, they understand properly phrased commands well enough and are somewhat useful, if hardly essential, for a variety of simple tasks.

>Especially in rooms where you don't already have a sound system, it's really a no-brainer.

I'm going to want some sort of speaker in my bedroom--used to have a CD player--and a smart speaker is as useful a candidate as anything, and it can function as an alarm clock as well.
The post war era saw a huge jump in resource usage, and the discovery of the Haber process resulted in huge agricultural returns, enabling a massive population spike.
Societies and culture go in wrong directions frequently. The older you grow, the more experience and knowledge you have to recognize bad trends, anticonsumer practices, and outright abusive behaviors. While some of getting old for many is turning into a creature of habit fighting off any and all change, for many it's rejecting what is identified as bad/harmful change or change that exists for no apparent reason.

Not all old people are luddites or simply too inept to deal with change, sometimes they make conscious decisions to reject a given change yet are forced by the rest of society on occasion to deal with it. New technologies need to clarify the tradeoffs that exist and what the real value add is beyond marketing propoganda.

Many are obsessed with social media and smart devices all over their home (regardless of age). Meanwhile, people who frequent this site are largely technologists who are very tech savvy, sometimes the people creating these very systems, and many of them actively reject such technology and systems because they know exactly how harmful things can be. It's not because they're old, it's because they're informed.

More and more business practices are losing their alignment with society and pulling more value than they create and people simply don't want to deal with it. I applaud markets actually functioning healthily and rejecting abusive practices. This DRM may exist for a lot of good reasons, refillability simply may be impractical after skimming over the writeup for some. Meanwhile you have systems like DRM on KCups coffee makers that are completely ludicrous.
It's a pretty big edge case. In my family we also got an Alexa for my aging grandmother who was already shaky on computer literacy and developed serious motor/vision problems preventing her from using a computer. She learned just enough about Siri and Alexa to make phone calls, play music, and change the channel. There are definitely more old/disabled people out there for whom voice-activated assistants are not just a fun luxury gadget but are essential to performing everyday tasks like calling family members. We had to monitor her account to make sure she wasn't signing up for things without her understanding.
> get the water running hot before starting the machine

Interesting if this is a US difference - but here (in the UK) at least dishwashers (usually? I suppose I don't want to claim to speak for 100%) only have a cold water inlet; they do their own heating.
If you’re curious, the discussion in 2020 got 466 points and 263 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23350881
I Write Letters to CEOs (2018)
Had a look through the website, and while the headline sounds pretty upsetting I think it's important to note that the thing works just fine with regular detergent tablets. This DRM'd monstrosity seems to be an "upgrade" so you don't have to manually put detergent in every time.
You could make the same argument for a huge amount of human creative and technical endeavors. Many of the things humans do in general are amazing, and even magical when you step back and really consider the amount of cumulative knowledge and technique that go into them. The simplest story is backed by a lifetime of personal experience, generations of family experience, pools of cultural context, and thousands of years of language development.

Often, as a programmer, the things that I do strike me as profound and mystical. I make incantations that affect the physical world around me. It quite is real world wizardry.
The “World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer” Is a Hoax with Staged Photos [pdf]
That post went directly to the product page, but having 'Hacking' and 'DRM' in the title probably didn't hurt the previous submission of the repo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013880

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I'm shameless, so I applied with my LLC ( https://www.adama-platform.com/ ). At this point, it's less about the grant and more validation and marketing.

I love the idea, and this could have helped a younger version of myself when I was poor.