skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is throwing away perfectly good computers (or phones) instead of just paying to her them repaired?
>That explanation helps but doesn't explain why new chat apps get greenlit more often than new local shopping sites, social networks or balloonshots.

Who said those other (local shopping sites, social networks or balloonshots) aren't green lit just as often, and discarded just as fast when they get bored, from Google? E.g. social networks: Remember Orkut? Wave? Plus?
Hello everyone, I'm Alex, creator of Howl.

Howl lets you share longer and richer content on Twitter.

I built Howl because:

1. some thoughts can't fit or be summarized in 280 characters.

2. "We have threads for that". Sometimes it's difficult to split your thoughts into meaningful chunks of information users can interact with.

3. "We have blogs for that". Howl is about the middle ground between Tweets, threads and 10000-words blog posts. Moreover, Howl features a seamless integration with Twitter. You'll feel like you are on Twitter. How? No sign up, custom login or complex on boarding. To howl, you go to https://www.joinhowl.co/howl, you authorize Howl to tweet on your behalf (just one time if you don't clear your browser's history), write your content, push a button. Your Howl, will just be a fancy twitter card pointing to your content on the platform. Users can choose to like it or reply from there. I recommend to open the link directly from the Twitter app if you're on mobile (if you want, you can follow @joinhowlco and you'll find the link in bio.)

4. "We have Twitlonger for that". Terrible UI and UX, not a fan.

Let me know what you think!
Convert a Google doc to a doc site with as little effort as possible
My understanding is that relatively little success has been achieved in that direction. I'd love to be corrected if there's something I haven't learned of, but as far as I know no theorem of any significance has been independently originated and proven by a computer. Rather, computers are increasingly used to assist human mathematicians. Machine learning has recently been used to help with identifying and proving interesting theorems [1] but still very much as a tool for human mathematicians rather than an independent artificial mathematical "mind".

Personally I think the ability to truly "do mathematics" may be a marker of AGI. If/when we have machines independently mapping out new and interesting areas of mathematics the way human mathematicians do I suspect we will have cracked meaning/understanding. FWIW I've felt that way for over thirty years and have never considered the Turing test a convincing marker of intelligence, so I don't consider myself to be moving goalposts when I find the (absolutely incredible) feats of the current generation of ML algorithms unconvincing as evidence that we're nearing AGI.

[1] https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/40529
Unfortunately, I'd forgotten a lot from my school years. There are of course moments, some more vivid than others, but I can't really remember my classmates, teachers, school activities and such anymore. I don't really reminisce a lot, maybe I could dig up the memories if I had someone else from that period to talk to.
> Is that really much worse than a SUV driving into a building?

Yes
My arguments are that if that were the case, we'd already be doing it. I work in the optical industry. To suggest that opthalmologists just haven't figured this out yet is just pants on head retarded, sorry.
-- habit from irc/forum days - was in a quake clan with members that punctuated this way - also found it helpful to find my place quickly on irc in irssi - also i think its easy to read - do you find it annoying? --
I recall simply being unable to wake up for first period at 8am most days, in late high school. Waking was painful and nothing felt better than sleep. However at night, despite efforts at good sleep hygiene and consultation from a counselor, i couldn’t get to sleep before 11 or later. My grades and mood suffered greatly, as did the relationship with my poor mother. She battled with me day after day, first thing in the morning, to go to school.
The first few years of college I did not schedule any classes before 10am and had effectively perfect attendance. Mood problems faded as soon as high school ended.

Even today, in my 30s, a day or two with poor sleep will make a noticeable mood dip regardless of circumstances.

But as an older adult, I naturally wake up at 6:00 every morning. It was the same for much of my childhood except a few years of high school. So perhaps this was a developmental thing.
It's only failing if you define that as "not dominating the planet's chat", which has a bunch of externalities. Several of their chat products were decent and companies were able to run all their internal meeting rooms off them.

What IS a failure is the thrash within that whole set of products. Adoption of new users via network effect is the activation energy and every flipflop halves their potential new market.

If they had simply stayed on, say, hangouts and kept improving it, they would keep all those users they lost.
I saw Lorien a while ago, when I was looking to build a Godot program with an infinite canvas - some of the ways that the menus are things are setup are really, really clever.

If anyone is familiar with it, do you know where to look for good examples of such things for Godot? Maybe the author will bless this thread with presence and give us some tips or explain the thought processes when it comes to designing them in Godot.

Shoot your shot, right? Anyway, it's awesome to see it posted here!
And Google Chat is pretty decent IMO if you're committed to Google Workspace. How you use it is probably a bit cultural. Where I work--or at least the teams I interact with--it seems to have developed into use Chat if you want a somewhat near-time response rather than email. At least the people I know rarely text these days and essentially never call on voice. Group chats vary by context.
Excellent. I appreciate the information. I’m just getting into the JVM dev ecosystem so I have a lot to learn
So you want to build a generator (10k Bowls of Oatmeal)
Like any general explanation, I think some simplification is helpful :)

I may have been assuming that it was clear in the article, but to help show the effect, the diagrams show only the sound emanating from the plane at one instant in time. In reality, the aircraft is continuously moving, and there's a continuously changing "where is the sound coming from" vector. The main idea is that this "where is the sound coming from vector", if you will, may be behind the plane's light vector (which we can just say is the plane's position) if you're some distance away, leading to this oddity.

> the sound may be able to reach you much much earlier than the plane

I completely agree! I didn't mean to say that a plane's sound is always behind it — it very much depends on the position of the observer. If a plane is flying in any other direction than perfectly perpendicular, the math and the effect will be different.

For "If the plane was moving very slowly, it wouldn’t outpace its sound by much.", I meant in the sense that we, as observers, are perceiving the sound. More that the plane's position vector wouldn't outpace the "where is the sound coming from vector" by as much (a smaller X in the diagram, if you will), leading to "where is the plane" being closer to "where is the plane's noise". Going faster than the speed of sound leads to all sorts of very interesting questions, but I don't believe it would affect this in the simple case we're looking at.
So do you throw away perfectly good laptops - creating e waste - instead of just selling them and using the money to buy a new one?
Thank you for the kind words. You made my day.
Yes, we do value freedom more. It doesn't matter much effort it took to develop if the resulting software is user hostile and freedom denying. We want to be empowered and liberated by software. We don't want to be peasants in your digital fiefdom.
I guess these [0] are not good enough for you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31717450
I see it as yet another case where we're cutting against the grain of humanity for ascetic reasons. Bonus people in power love imposing stuff like that on other people.
Well yeah, if the plane is faster than its sound (and flying towards you), the plane will reach you earlier than the sound does. The plane does not get attenuated by flying farther, and your seeing threshold is helped by the sun or the lights the aircraft turns on at night.
> the word autopilot is used and understood by people autside of aviation to full autotonumous driving.

...is a completely different statement from...

> because of what that term means everywhere outside of aviation industry. Aviation industry is one small niche.

The former implies that the common "understanding" by people who know little of consequence about the field is actually a misconception, whereas the latter insinuates that there do exist separate, valid, non-aviation usages of that word (of which you haven't provided any) which would justify such expectations about Tesla's product.

> They don't need to exist.

Except autopilots actually exist and they partially automate the boring parts of operation of means of transportation such as airplanes and ships. To argue with a fictional notion of a fully autonomous system against an actually existing device is like saying that you don't care what words mean and that you can reuse established terms to describe whatever you want, even if they already mean something very different from what you want them to mean. This is just like for example the East-German reinvention of the word "Aktivist". You're basically peddling Newspeak by saying that autopilot doesn't mean what it actually means.
Or UUIDs derived from other identifiers:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122#section-4.3
Probably as good a time as any to share the actuarial analysis of V2 rocket strikes in wartime London - https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1740-9...

We also had increased stress at the time, which is known as a trigger for heart attacks.
Bring a member of a any political party requires you to hew to certain ideological perspectives and ways of discussing issues. I'm not suggesting that the current or former Republican Party had the right answers, but you need more than one perspective to make meaningful change - and if the permitted band of expression is too narrow, you'll never get the better answers.
This is one of the primary reasons I've bought into the eVTOL revolution. I'm also skeptical about these filling city skies, due to safety, noise pollution, etc. But the market for emergency and special purpose vehicles alone is enormous.

The US market size for existing _air_ ambulances is itself $4.5 billion dollars annually. The market size for standard ambulances is nearly 10x that.

When you expand this to the rest of the world, you can easily see a 100+ billion market for these sorts of vehicles, whether in ambulance services, firefighting, agricultural, or any number of other activities.

It's still possible we develop near-to-city eVTOL airport systems for short distance travel. But even absent that, I still think there's a big market opportunity.
What time does he have dinner and go to bed?
The last of those was 10 years ago. They seem to have learned from their experience there. It's only chat apps that seem a stubborn blind spot.
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Lightweight golang solution to execute security scan of all Docker images used in your GitLab account.
I mean lets ignore the content of the claim - I think most companies have rules that say basically "you don't get to randomly go to a media organization and talk about your job". Again, ignoring any actual content that would be grounds for fairly immediate dismissal.

Looking at the content, I guess you could argue that maybe Google should be putting them on leave to see whether they've started an extended mental health crisis so medical leave could be warranted.

Not sure how you would make such a decision.
But you then said a driver downgrade fixed it. Remind me again of the software fix for the iPhone 4 “holding it wrong” debacle.
Yes, it is. My philosophical stance has been changing and evolving constantly over these 40+ years that I have been alive. Unlike my race or my sexuality, it's not part of who I am, it's part of who I choose to be.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that anyone who feels like they have no control over their religion -- the same way they have no control over which color of skin they were born with -- should seek help because they're being abused by someone.
Quant Theorists Are Paid to Delude Themselves
Invest in education.
Best guess? Because the helicopter restrictions have nothing to do with 9/11.
The web audio api code is mostly in this directory: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp/tree/master/packages/...
I don't want iMessage to be a _de facto_ standard. I want my work stuff to be mostly on my work channels. Very little work stuff gets onto my cell phone number which includes iMessage.
A different airframe design would take a long time to field, and with inboard tankage arguably less safe.
AI: Something that isn't obviously false.

You: I can't conclusively state you aren't sentient. Let's investigate further.
As a developer I’d much rather build something new than work on someone else’s code. There’s got to be much more than just a management problem here.
Diverse yes, messy no. Brain structure is extremely specific and tailored to function. Actually "messy" neural structure is tied to serious disorders like schizophrenia.

If your point is, that something approximating back propagation probably happens somewhere in the brain, then I would agree with you. But I think the broader point of the article is that there is no reason to believe that the function of ANNs has much to do with that of in vivo neural networks at all.

And there's no reason to believe the current approach to ANNs will result in anything like human intelligence, which I think is often an assumption made by observers of the field: that ANNs essentially just have to be scaled up to achieve human-like intelligence.
They did do Inbox which tried to cannabalize Gmail but it ended with it merging some features back in to Gmail instead.
> mono-millionaires

Ah right, moving it from 0.1%-ers to 1%-ers is really going to make a big difference.
A ticket supposedly represents some worthwhile task that's worth specifying. If it takes just 30 seconds to create it can't possibly concern a task that's worth the cost of involving ceremony/process.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2311082-leaded-petrol-m...
Memory is weird.

Interestingly language shapes memory. There was a study I read years ago (digging up that citation would be next to impossible) that revolved around psychologists asking adults to recall memories from their childhood. And what was curious about the study is that all of the participants reverted to using simpler, more child like vocabulary to describe the memories, because the memories formed at the time were formed along with the level of language they had.

I have observed this in myself when discussing certain computing concepts, talking about projects I undertook 20 and 30+ years ago, and describing in language those concepts that today we would simply say "oh, that's this data structure" or a particular technique or algorithm or concept.

You observe the same thing in certain cultures that do not have the words to describe certain concepts, e.g. complex familial relationships in English. And you observe certain things in gendered and non-gendered Romance languages.

I grew up before there were camcorders and video recording in every phone or even instamatic polaroid cameras in every hand at every point in life, and I have "core memories", very distinct events in my life, where I describe them as "riding a bicycle" moment. One day you cannot ride a bicycle, and then something clicks inside you, and then you can. Learning to swim, learning to read, learning to ride a bicycle, learning to wire up a circuit, learning to stand up in my crib, learning to take my first steps, learning to get out of the pushchair. I have a recurring nightmare, that has lessened over the years, as I've gotten older, but still holds the same terror, that forms part of my earliest memories, I would say I have had that nightmare before I could even speak coherently. It's like a movie that plays in my head, the exact same way, the exact same sounds, the exact same feelings of dread.

I also log a lot of my life, so I don't recall "yesterday" but I can tell you a lot of what was going on in my life on any particular day, from deaths of pets and family members, to changes to my workshop, to code I wrote, to algorithms I was pondering, to new stuff I learnt.
I've been in some nonprofits and in a university. They had good and bad points like anything else. They were different from working in industry. Also was in a corporate research lab for a while. That was also different than being in a place that actually worked on products. I got something out of it on each occasion, but it depends on what you're looking for at any given point in your life.
A neat guide for good technical writing goes as follows:

1. Tell the 'WHAT' (i.e what you have built/observed/intend to do/etc.)

2. Explain the 'SO WHAT' without which the WHAT is almost meaningless (i.e. that it reduces operating costs by X/.../etc.)

I often find myself focusing too much on the WHAT, neglecting the SO WHAT. However, the succinct phrasing helps me to also keep the SO WHAT in mind.

(I first stumbled upon this way of phrasing things in the neat little book 'Trees, Maps and Theorems' by Doumont)
What did you do for two hours fifteen minutes?
It is possible, it’s just expensive.

The U.S. navy is interested in a fuel synthesizer that works on co2, seawater and uranium and they can pay more than you per gallon because you don’t have to refuel an aircraft carrier in a war zone.
With UIKit you can query the device, it’s subpixel structure, and the alignment of your abstract window on the device and work it out from there.

Mostly, it’s possible there is an abstracted display at a non-native resolution over something like an HDMI. But if you are running your display at a non-native resolution then you just don’t care about details and you deserve what you get.
1. Helicopters are technically VTOL, but what you'd really want is something that can transition between vertical takeoff and horizontal flight using conventional wings, which is much more efficient and stable when travelling from A to B.

2. VTOL requires engines which provide very high thrust and very short response time during vertical ascent. This is incredibly hard to do using combustion engines - which includes hydrogen - but trivial using electric engines, which is why every cheap drone can easily fly using only vertically mounted propellers.
Why is this in the nypost, getting clicks out of someone's mental health problems, shame on you!
American sweet shops on Oxford Street under investigation over alleged tax scam
If there is a blog post, screenshot or other homepage it's better to submit that to Hackernews.

The link immediately asks for access to my Twitter account. "Made by . Read undefined’s privacy policy and terms." doesn't strike confidence to hand over that access.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html "Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails."
> Bring a member of a any political party requires you to hew to certain ideological perspective

No, it mostly doesn't, except in fairly strong party systems (which the US doesn't have), and even then it usually only applies to being a member of the party-in-government, not the party-in-the-electorate.
I agree with your thought. "Challenges" like this rarely exists in a vacuum -- I bet there's something coming where this is relevant, and this is a chance for them to crowdsource design options.

BTW -- not implying there's malice here -- there is something genuinely fun about a design challenge like this, but I bet there's an ulterior motive too :)
I'm not so sure about his metrics on what makes a country declining and another rising. He gathers data like education level and debt and creates an overall score for each country.

He's been pushing this narrative for a while, and his Bridgewater fund has a heavy China tilt, but I'm also watching Polymatter videos which makes me a China bear.
You can fine tune GPT-3
If you even bring their names up when talking to one of my crop circle crazy relatives, you'll get the heaviest scoff in response.

Then they'll go on for an hour or so about how THEY'RE a scam, and the REAL crop circles have nothing to do with them. Or some other horse shit.

Anything that doesn't confirm or at least for comfortably within their fantasy vision for what they believe is violently rejected.

You know, like most conspiracy nuts.
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> I finally got rich just by saving and investing well. I saved pretty much everything I made. It was worth it, because now I get to live the life of The Dude.

Care to share some details?
I took a shot at the math behind this at https://www.codepasta.com/databases/2020/09/10/shorter-uniqu...

Using the equation listed in the article I couldn't generate a collision so far. Yet, I still check (in code) for id collision, and pick new id, just to be 100% sure.
Sure it does. But perhaps you underestimate the serious variety in coffee (and that folks still drink decaf). I've purchased a coffee advent calendar the last 3 years from a specialty coffee roaster here in Norway. 24 different coffees to try.

And let me tell you, they aren't all bitter. If I did a blind taste test, I'd swear some of these were teas. Some are more of the taste I'd expect from black coffee either here or the US, sure. But wow, is there variety.
Ask HN: Why does WWDC get 10x more views than Google I/O?
WWDC 2022 currently has 8.3M views and Google I/0 has 960K views. Both are developer conferences. Why does Apple get so much more engagement? Is it a failure on Google's leadership to put on a good show?
A scam or a true reflection of UK's economy?
Or Google Buzz!
I feel that this a community feeler to test enthusiasm for technical ingredients of their possible AR future offering.
But is there any evidence that the totality of what the human brain does can be modeled as a mathematical function?
> And in Cherry Creek, a Denver-area suburb, high schoolers slept about 45 minutes longer on average, and those improvements endured even two years after the change.
Are you sleeping at work? Regardless, the point stands unless you work nearly 60 hours a week.

(24*7-8*7)/2=56

If you're working 60 hour weeks I'm pretty sure you're not getting 8 hours of sleep every night, either.
We are living in a world were co-pilots sometimes pay to be allow?d to fly in order to get flight hours in towards type ratings and promotions. Initial pilot trainig through airlines, and paid by those with almost guaranteed employment afterwards, is a thing of the past. Most pilots pay for their own training now. Ehich leaves salaries, which are indeed negligable.

Even if you accoubt for training costs, those are negiligable whem compared to fuel, maintenance,...
It even worked cross-platform with Messages (iMessages?) on Max OSX.
I really miss inbox
RIP Oxide computer company. Cantrill's productivity is about to go to zero for a while.
> Except when you're born you've been around for a few months already

With the same level of stimulation that you get from a sensory deprivation tank (by design.) Without memories and associations to get lost in, lying in a sensory deprivation tank would probably be a completely timeless thing, no different than being dead. There's very little you're going to learn in the womb that will help you to interpret what's happening outside, other than you may get some experience with the sounds of your mother's language. [edit: Feelings of acceleration? A sense of one's own mass?]