skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This design is only patented in US and AU, and will expire on 2023-06-23. After it's expired, we can produce brand new plastic cases based on this design, assuming the fundraising collected enough money."

I guess it's only a year away, but I'm curious why one wouldn't just design a case too at this point. Would fix this issue:
"...240x320 IPS LCD, and it's a bit larger than the original one. So, some pixels are hidden by the plastic borders, yielding a visible space of ~220x280 pixels." (Edit: 20% of the screen is hidden even though it fits in the case!)

As well as the issue with the charge port not being quite right.
Fossil hasn’t worked in my team. I don’t want my history to consist of hundreds of ‘fix tests’ commits with a few features strewn between.
I've written down every dream I've had for the past 10 years. Hard to say whether it's improved my creativity, but it's fun to search and see trends. Like you said, dream recall improves if you immediately record dreams upon waking.

I wrote a very crappy web app for this back in 2012: http://keepdream.me/. It emails me every morning to ask what I dreamed and records my reply. There must be better alternatives now.
This is really annoying. Possibly Apple Arcade blocks from this situation?
Yeah, this feels like a data breach waiting to happen. Every security questionnaire I’ve ever filled out wants to know prod, staging, and dev are entirely separate.
Yeah, I guess anything that tamps down the electrical firings in the brain is going to tap down all the electrical file and the brain and that’ll cause depression. Both bipolar and seizures are linked to a lot of the ion channel genetics. Like calcium potassium and sodium. I know I have a bunch of genetic changes and all of those.

Be well.
well I suppose you could say it's the idea that everyone's feelings matter, but some people's feelings matter more, because their feelings mattered less in the past
I don't get particularly vivid dreams but I sometimes get dreams of really interesting stories. The dream itself is like a movie, I'm not the main character but I'm just kind of watching it unfold.

What's really interesting is that these "dream movies" always have a half-decent plot. IMO a lot of movie plots are really bad and stick to typical tropes and lessons. My dreams don't stick to these tropes and have actual twists, lessons, etc. Like if they were a real movie I might actually watch it.

For example one of them followed a rebellion against an oligarchy, but it never stuck to any main character. First we're introduced to someone, then eventually new people are introduced, and then eventually the original character dies but we just continue the story focusing on the new people, then even more people are added and they die and so on. So it's a bit more realistic and nobody gets plot armor.

Idk how creative I am, I usually identify as someone whose more left-brain.
Per petabyte, we are talking $80,000 per month.
At the university I got into AI, NN, evolutionary algorithms. I wanted to develop the skill using these so as a laboratory work I choose building a Robocode bot. The idea was to learn how to evolve it rather hardcoding. This video was quite an inspiration: https://youtu.be/Hp6bhARBGc4

I used a Java GA lib called Watchmaker and trained my bot against built-in bots AND against a world no.1 bot of previous years.

At that time I could barely code cleanly and I was mostly fighting the frameworks so there was a point where evolution in 3 dimensions (acceleration, bodyTurn, turretTurn) were implemented, but maybe one of the most important one, shooting was not.

I run out of time, next day I had to give a presentation so I just gave it a go. Surprisingly the bot evolved to a point (in minutes) where it beat the ex world champ bot. First its performance went above 50% which was a shock, but later it got to 60%+ sometimes even 80%. But how? How to beat without a single shot?

Turns out evolution and random can find you things which are so anti intuitive you could basically never come up with. ( I had a sense of that, that’s why I choose that domain ;D )

What I have seen is that my bot evolved a really simple but weird technique to dodge the champs bullets: it found some kind of frequency and on that frequency it has just… acceleration up and down (negative velocity) and HIT THE WALL AGAIN AND AGAIN. Wat?

The champ bot’s prediction was just too good but not prepared for such a stupid enemy like my bot and it was basically impossible to predict that my bot will slow down for V to 0 in 0 sec so champ was almsot constantly shooting ahead or behind my bot, shooting the wall instead my bot. If the wall wasn’t there, it would hit almost 100%.

Shooting requires energy and after a given time both bots lose energy at the same rate. My bot could win just by “backing out” and not being hit too often, wasting the enemies energy.

Since that experience I could not care less about NN (except neuroevolution), evolutionary algorithms ftw! :D

(I hope no one will create the AI killing us all thanks to my comment. :D )
And I shall, but it turns out my reality isn't the only reality.
I replied to the OC that for Walmart.com orders you have the option to return in store or ship it back for free.

If they don't want to go to the store then don't have to...they can mail it back, just like Amazon.

https://www.walmart.com/cp/returns/1231920
I've had heightened dream recall before. It was due to poor sleep quality (presumably too much REM) and was pretty much living hell.

Nevertheless, taking advantage of the increased visibility into one's dreams for the sake of analysis is at least fun.
Have fun not knowing when or where your food is when you order it.
I've played this game when I was 10, ans it was tons of fun and a good way of putting programming to practice. I definitely recommend it for any beginners, unless the skill level exploded somehow.
Good explainer w/o bias towards either side. Explains why Ukrainians want the MLRS systems so much.
I have never heard of a college course about Microsoft Office at a university in the US. And I went to college in early to mid 2000s.
Don't know about it being a nickname for Cosmoline in general, that predates WW2 by quite a bit. I could see it being a special kind of Cosmoline?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25754311 - Jan 12, 2021 (20 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25461760 - Dec 17, 2020 (62 comments)

Two past threads with discussion.
You can 100% call Australian payphones. Last week I stood next one in the Sydney CBD and called it, it rung - I didn't pick up.

Here's a list with physical addresses and phone numbers. Enjoy.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/B15mu7h/Payphones/master/P...
you cannot step into the same river twice.
"When it became LibreOffice it became somehow more buggy and ugly."

Matter of taste - I quite like the current interface. I've just fired up Writer and it actually reminds me of Word 2 with a much higher resolution and a lot of polish. There's just enough functionality exposed via buttons and no more. There are menus with loads of functions and they are sensibly laid out.

LO is being developed at a remarkable pace. The codebase they forked from Apache that came from SO was pretty wank and had some fairly odd things going on. It's a massive job and I really like their direction.

The end result has just worked for me for at least five years now with no friction.
though one can use any old Android that does Wifi to do SIP, it has its charms to use less capable hardware for this with less software complexity.

I don't know that many projects of this category: the "ZeroPhone" was based on a rpi-zero and active 2017-2019, the "WiPhone", a ESP32/Arduino based device, is still ongoing.
> Nasty politics, homelessness, crime, public defacation, a general "fuck the poor" culture (on both sides of the political isle), gun violence

Not to be an apologist for any of this, but I find it hard to believe any of these were more important deterrents to the emigration of your peers than our capricious, byzantine, and dehumanizing immigration system.

People seem to have the bizarre attitude that San Francisco and its suburbs (which make up the great majority of the population of the SFBA) are some post-apocalyptic hellscape, which is mostly a narrative promulgated by the right-wing media, and with the exception of cost of living and homelessness/housing issues (which are hardly unique among major metros, including Melbourne) it's pretty far from the objective truth. Try visiting sometime.
Yeah the initial intro to git takes about 10 minutes. Git add ., git commit, git push. Done. You learn new features as they become required. There is no need to read the entire manual and understand how git bisect works when you are working on your personal blog.
Don't forget the US embassy bombings in 1998. al-Qaeda was more active in the US than people remember.
Google is similar!

Google helpfully emailed me to let me know that my storage is 70% full.

...as it was when they emailed me two months ago, and four months ago, and six months ago...

Essentially, they get to pass off an email advertising Google Drive/Google One/who cares as an emergency transactional email, pretending that I'm close to running out of space. Can't block it or I'd be blocking everything from Google. I can try to filter it but they keep changing the wording. Evil and intentional.
Believe me, and I knew/know, none of them. If they sold, they lied. How can you sell a bunch of people a lot of imaginary pie-in-the-sky BS without lying? It's rule number one to get financing and to get people to jump in with out looking and risk their time and effort. For many of these companies the "Dream" came true but founders had no way of knowing that when they made their pitch.

I recently read about Jobs. People that worked with him LOVED him but they also knew he was full of it sometimes.

It's a talent. I wish I had it.
I used to feel that way, then I got an electric car with a 250 mile range last year. I really have not felt the desire to ever have a gasoline car since. Hybrids have so many more parts needed, that I feel like they will simply have more problems long term. In an EV, there's not much that will ever need to get replaced due to "wear" other than tires and brakes.

As for charging, this last weekend was the first time I've ever had a problem finding a charger on 300 mile days. Most people I know don't even go on as many long drives as I do, as I enjoy driving for driving sake.

I have zero plans on gasoline ever again.
This is fairly shocking for 2016 as well. It wasn't really that long ago.
I'm surprised someone with his skills doesn't have better/cheaper solution for medium amperage power distribution.
Notifications? Yes. That leaves USPS and email.
No, that is in the Apple Cash card settings, similar to where it is for Apple Card. Wallet/Apple Cash/three dots/Notifications.
I would argue that the office suite is less relevant than the data.

Any suite only exists for it's output. If you use a generic format then you can convert to specialised ones as required. If you save in a proprietary format, be prepared for vendor lockin.

Say HTML5 for docs, some form of CSV/YAML for spreadsheets etc you get the idea.

Keep your data, then your suite decisions flow from that.
> (price, really)

Wealth isn’t denominated in currency - price is an exchange rate to another system of faith.

Value is the length people will go to acquire an asset. Utility is only one dimension. And true utility is arguably far less important than perceived utility. Being convinced something like gold has intrinsic utility that justifies its current exchange rate is sufficient to carry the current price regardless of whether that belief is based in reality.
Ask HN: Technically focused books on start ups
I’ve been reading a lot of books on tech start ups. I just finished hatching Twitter.

I’m very interested in scaling/architecture problems they had as they grew. It seems like these books primary audience is not technical, so these type of details are mentioned but at a very high level.

I know I can read blogs about scaling issues, and purely technical books on scalability. I’m wondering if there are any books that dive deeper into these type of problems while still talking about the journey of the business?
> Most human cases of monkeypox are acquired from an infected animal

My money is on this no longer being true, though to the best of our knowledge, it was 6 months ago.
The bar is a lot lower; sure, you might want to be able to use git, but if you're only using it enough to interoperate you don't need to know how to do fancy stuff and can get by with a subset of common commands (if you only clone, pull, commit, and push, then you can just about s/hg/git/g) and ugly fixes (why learn to rebase when you can make a fresh clone and hand-pick changes?) without feeling bad about it.
It's not writing per se, but from a presentation of complex, technical material standpoint - I find 3blue1brown unparalleled

https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown
I've used git for a decade and I still haven't learned half of it. It's got to be one of the most byzantine pieces of software I have ever encountered.
Somewhat related, I once had a job offer at an early startup and wanted to adjust the equity/salary ratio a bit. I asked "How much more equity could I get per $1k drop in salary?" The founder liked that framing but when he went to go get legal to approve they shut it down saying that putting a direct dollar amount on equity would throw a huge wrench into 409a valuations.

So while things have value, anchoring that value to a dollar amount is a different story.
> If your coins are already custodied at an exchange you can sell immediately.

And you'd (rightly) get called a sucker for storing your coins at an exchange, negating really all of the benefits of using Bitcoin.
> Also read: "a business that thinks its entitled to dozens to thousands of people's attention"

true, the vast majority of businesses probably don't deserve the attention they're trying to get via ads.

> I think my biggest gripe is how dramatically we undervalue people's attention. Not just the businesses but as a culture as well. Studies are finally coming out shining a light on the incredible long-term harm the attention economy has on people's mental health

Well we've got a market now, and one of the things they're pretty good at doing is establishing pricing, so we can measure it a bit more now.

The attention economy is pretty broad -- I do wonder how much of that is mixed up with the various platforms' attempts to get you addicted so they can also serve you ads. The old internet with banner ads on pages/blogs you went to didn't seem quite so bad for mental health in particular.

For example I don't think people suffer mental health issues from recipe sites with lots of ads and autoplay videos, despite how annoying and wasteful it is.
A potential recession is brewing in the news and likely to take some of the wind out of employees feeling of agency and security. Maybe employers use that to pull people back into the office or maybe it turns out to be the perfect opportunity to ditch their rentals.
If Word had styles prior to the ribbon, I didn’t know about it.

I imagine very few people knew they existed.
Anecdotally, I've found dream recall linked to novel experiences in real life. When I expose myself to new environments or interactions I tend to recall dreams more.

Have others noticed this?
> sounds like a blockchain

Both bitcoin and git use merkle trees to prevent (unwanted) history rewrites :)
As someone who frequently gets great book recommendations from HN, I will try to return the favor and mention https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10258783-drift-into-fail...
Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again
If they ever fix the performance issues and get a little polish, the patch-based DVCSs (pijul et al.) will be a great improvement in usability. If I were guessing, I bet on that as the next step (given the understanding that predicting the future like that is a fool's game).
> To patients? It should be free.

Someone has to pay. Who pays?

> To society? The initial research cost plus the bare manufacturing cost.

And we're back to a society which is poorer in terms of both health and wealth.
Just buy Google Play card at store with cash.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns... is an absolute gem. Each article balances between theory and examples and ties it to Azure without getting in the way of the underlying concept.
The review ribbon has been very convenient. I use it constantly as an author.

Flipping between landscape and portrait and changing margins isn’t buried in an obscure dialog box. (I do this often to make signs.)
> Notably, the bill doesn't pertain to medical devices, home appliances...

It's unfortunate that it doesn't apply to appliances. Chucking a phone after a few years isn't good, but a whole washing machine or dishwasher is probably worse.
Standing on the brink of nuclear war.
Mass shootings daily.
Structural inequality.
Wildly unfair legal and tax systems…
The willful ignorance, misinformation, and inaction around climate change is the least of it.

Imagine life is a board game and you’re explaining the rules, the exceptions for the rich and powerful, the risks to watch out for.
For god’s sake. We tax people who make minimum wage while billionaires and their corporations somehow pay no tax. Tell me with a straight face that’s fair. And the tax we do collect we spend on bullshit that doesn’t help anyone, certainly not the people who need it. Our government agencies don’t even work. I’ve got a friend who applied for asylum years ago. A judgment could be made in an hour and she’s in limbo for close to a decade. I waited in line at the DMV for 3 hours the other day. And yet we can afford the f35 boondoggle. Is the F35 making the world better? Definitively not. Can we even talk about that calmly? Nope.

This world we’ve created is wildly unfair and unsafe. If I were forced to tally up all the good and bad. Really, honestly. I’m not convinced the scales of justice would tilt in our favor.
Has either software changed since then?
Ideas are free; it's execution that matters.

The politics in academia and research are horrid. It's mainly narcissism that drives people to publish rather than hide their stash. Every such group I've seen have the publishers taking everyone's work and putting their name on it. Smart people go find other smart people, and the smartest make a name for themselves by distilling the collective wisdom.

But the incentives are wrong. They'd rather be known for the idea than do the work to deliver it (and love to blame the bean counters for their own lack of diligence).

Apple today is right to sequester information -- not because it divulges secrets but because it's better culturally to say it's not real until it's a product people can use. They've tamped down the glory-mongering of their pre-Jobs 90's with its bloated Copland and Newton egos. To me that discipline drove Apple to deliver the innovations they have in the 2000's - not Jony's esthetics or Cook's efficiency.
Everyone who owns a charger, most likely in a garage, attached to a single-family home is != everyone.

It’s a good point, that theoretically you’ll have fewer users at electric charging stations because individuals can self-charge. But when most homes don’t have an electric charger, and many will never have an electric charger, that might not be as big a difference as you think.

My last apartment was a very nice condo and there were two electric chargers in the basement. Not sure if I could rely on that for every day commuting needs.
Of course this all depends on if the Guildford Uses Task test https://www.creativehuddle.co.uk/post/the-alternative-uses-t... is actually an accurate measure for creativity.

Did they also score well on the Torrance tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance_Tests_of_Creative_Thi... , based on Guildford but...

I read an article once where Robert Frost took a creativity test and scored extremely low (based on seeing images in Rorschach inkblots) and remarked afterwards that creativity was not about seeing the images but in training oneself to ignore the non-essential images (paraphrasing, have never been able to find this via google - supposedly this happened while Frost was Poet Laureate.)

Also the following points seem relevant:

1. ability to remember dreams is at least partially based on being woken up during them or shortly afterwards, this is why you can generally only remember the last dream you had.

2. A good nights sleep is often described as being central to high intelligence.

3. What is the relation between high creativity and high intelligence? Which brings me back to the question of how accurate the tests are, given that there generally agreed on foundational problems with all IQ testing methods (that I'm familiar with)

finally then, if it is true, the thing to help creativity would be to remember your dreams: https://www.wikihow.com/Remember-Dreams
I am currently taking a similar drug for Myelofibrosis on a clinical trial holed up after a stem cell transplant here at MD Anderson Cancer Center. It's called Itacitinib, and is supposed to prevent GVHD. It's by the same company that makes Jakafi (brand name). These are expensive drugs for sure, and my DR is running the clinical trial. Just wanted to chime in from the inside. ;p
Sorry to hear about your dad but I'm happy he's doing better.
Pretty sure that's around the threshold dose, so you're right.
4 chargers per install. I'd assume multiple installs per location in some cases but not others.
Colleges offer entire degree programs in using Microsoft Office software. You can get an Associate's degree just in that alone.

I've never been to a college that didn't require one Office course for all graduates.
Personally, I learned hg and then git, and I would 100% do that again if I were doing it over; my experience was that hg was much easier to learn, but that once I'd learned it git was pretty easy to pick up.
Only if they have a garage or somewhere to park overnight with charging
I just uninstall such apps until I need them. But I rarely use Uber/Lyft/etc, so it's no hassle to reinstall once or twice a year.
Yeah, that is cool. I've seen it a few times and thought... maybe. But honestly so far I've gotten all the nostalgia I need out of running SIMH. But thank you.
Drivers are in the kernel?
> one with a typically white male name

The study you're mentioning has been done many times. The studies do tend to find that females do slightly better, but trivially so compared to the difference between typically white and black names.

e.g. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w9873/w9873...

The thing that this study found was that not only do blacks receive many fewer callbacks at baseline... they found that blacks' prospects improved less than whites' do when additional qualifications are added. That is, if you're black, you start as a disadvantage and you benefit less from efforts to improve your employability.
It's not "fuck them", it's just don't confuse a business relationship with a social relationship. Companies don't pay high salaries because they want to be nice, they do it because the market requires it. The second the market stops requiring it, they'll stop doing it. They'll treat employees only as well as the market and the law requires, employees should do the same or they'll be taken advantage of.
It’s entirely possible that SSRI effects aren’t from serotonin at all.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/how-antidepressant...

That’s why ketamine works better than they do, and why they take weeks to take effect unlike Adderall that’s near instant for ADHD.