skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could possibly register a trademark, but few restaurants seem to.

I can't imagine this creating much of a barrier - Google would stop if told to by the restaurant but then they might not list the restaurant, and what restaurant would see that as worth it?
Microsoft does this really well.

Channel sales are important. When other people get rich off you, you get rich too.
I recently commented about synthetic jet fuel in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704829:

> A problem with biofuel is scaling it up, see: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7498153. According to that article the U.S. would need to devote "an area bigger than Texas and California and Pennsylvania combined" to crops specifically for its own jet biofuel needs. That's just for flying, not for food or fuel for ground transportation or anything else.

Also that article says that from 2009-2013 a $100 million effort was made to figure out how to get sufficient synthetic fuel from algae but they eventually gave up and went back to the drawing board.
Nope.

Look at the tiny wings, and at what speed it still depended on vertical thrust. It's going to have horrible glide ratio, which means unpowered landings might be, well, not a thing, which leaves you only with emergency full-plane parachute as an option.

Pretty much all jet engine planes can do unpowered landings in glide, though admittedly some have pretty high speeds involved - but then they operate by default only on airports that have facilities for such speeds.
Agree: https://newatlas.com/aircraft/hypoint-gtl-lightweight-liquid...
> The energy density of gasoline does not matter at all.

Well if we're talking about commercial aviation, we're talking about jet fuel not gasoline. Regardless, it obviously matters a lot. A fully loaded 747 freighter has somewhere around 200 tons of jet fuel and a max payload of about 130 tons. They already need more fuel than cargo, and that's with the excellent energy density of jet fuel. Furthermore, traditional planes get lighter the longer they fly as they burn off their substantial fuel loads. The last 20% of the fuel goes a lot further than the first 20%. Batteries don't get this advantage at all. (Dropping batteries from the plane with parachutes is a terrible idea, but I've lost count of the number of times I've seen it proposed..)

> We are not anywhere near the theoretical limits of battery energy density.

This doesn't jive with what I've read. It's my understanding that we're already near the limits of what electrochemistry can give us, and future advancements are likely to come from improved electrode designs, with maybe 2-3x better performance possible if we're lucky.
A great question. I don’t know why or how people can be so cruel.

And yet: kids go hungry. It happens, and so we should not allow it. If individual states choose to allow kids to go hungry, then those states should not be allowed to make that choice.

That’s why federal intervention is warranted. States don’t seem to be doing the right thing.
>Keep in mind that with an 8% inflation rate, a 5.85% interest rate on a 30-year fixed is a -2.15% real interest rate.

You are leaving out (as so many do): Taxes, Insurance and Maintenance. For example, where I live, those add up to a minimum of 3%. On top of all that, you need to factor in your personal stability - what's the risk that your career or partnership could intervene in your plans and force you to sell < 7-10 years out? If that happens, you are eating closing costs and potentially being forced to sell at a bottom out moment in house prices due to interest rate instability.
I don’t know, but maybe the metadata prices are inaccurate so that the query “burgers under $8” surfaces that menu. There are just all kinds of reasons to game the system to get your results in the page. Trusting meta data over user visible information just opens a portal to these kind of things where you tell the search engine one thing for SEO and show the user something else. You could police this of course, but it’s much easier to just extract the info from the page since there is more incentive to be accurate for readers.
What’s also ridiculous is that IRS still doesn’t allow employees to deduct WFH expenses after the pandemic making it mainstream.
“"We were unable to fit a headphone jack within the chassis, based off the aggressive design and portability goals we chartered for XPS 13," is at least more honest than Apple saying “have courage” and “you’re using it wrong”.

That said I probably only use my xps13’s headphone jack a couple of times a year. If it broke today I would need a usb-c- based alternative but frankly I would probably put it off for months.

edit: the things are like $20 on Amazon.
Any idea what the minimum height for the parachute to be effective as a life saving device?
I was actually just thinking that VTOL aircraft could solve the housing crisis considering we’re using 1000s of acres of prime real estate in every city for airports. Anyone want to flesh out that idea and write it up?

(I’d be curious if anyone could correct my thinking instead of downvoting)
This is why I don’t, nor will ever use a Mac. Backwards compatibility matters.
$ man ed # :)
So the Linux Desktop with Wayland seems to be moving back to compiz eye candy/wobbly windows instead of providing a user experience that works out of the box without fiddling.

Surely 2023 will be the year of the Linux Desktop! /s
System Preferences Reimagined on macOS
Just wanted to chime in that you're absolutely right. That comment was unnecessarily filled with hate and obsessive elitism. It's really weird that someone would take time out of their weekend to write that.
Hydrogen has an excellent energy-to-weight ratio, but in terms of energy-to-volume it's even worse than lithium-ion batteries as a gas. This is why proposals for hydrogen airliners usually need a complicated cryogenic setup to store it as liquid hydrogen instead.
I think the clever thing about this is that it breeds a culture of responsibility at Mercedes - if you are programming the self driving, you will be more considerate of how it works because your company (and perhaps ultimately you) bear that responsibility. The consumer gets confidence in the product, and Mercedes holds itself accountable because it doesn’t want to ship a product that will endanger people.
Willingness to fork, which requires human choices/intervention. Seems to me the extinction of forking is (was) a design goal of BTC. I know of no example of that with alts. In fact, there seems to be zero appetite for this goal with alts.
about seeing parents aging, smartphones with camera and video communication make this a lot easier. ever since i gave my mother a smartphone, our contact changed from an occasional email every few months to daily messages and regular sharing of photos.
You need more levels for that. Resellers in the model described by the GP make their money by selling the product, not by recruiting more resellers.
Sure. It's the same basic "per diem" idea that's been in use in business for aeons to give employees reasonable compensation for expenses without bogging down accounting with thousands of receipts for $2.99.
It seems we have very different views of the world so let's just agree to disagree here.
> Also for some reason on a 2 lane road (in each direction) it would constantly try to be in the "passing" lane.

The problem with collecting real-world training data is that there are going to be a lot of assholes in your data.
if the logo is attached with adhesive, you can slip the floss under the plastic logo and floss it off without damaging the TV (which you may if you just try to pry it off)
If a [civilian] jet aircraft loses an engine, it's still a strong favorite to end that flight upright, intact, and on a runway. There are a couple dozen jet engine failures per year; the overwhelming majority end up in a safe conclusion.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jet-engine-failures-rare-usuall...
Exactly. Why wouldn't you want to increase your sales reach? I think there's a subconscious bias on HN and similar spaces against anything that indicts the "if you build it they will come" dream.
> After 2 years of therapy I'm convinced that psychologist are the sarcedotal class of our time. Like astrology in Imperial China [...]

I know a few people who benefited from therapy; some very much.

If you think your therapist is the equivalent of an astrologist, you should try another one; it's not unusual.
As a person who administers servers I absolutely HATE that vscode does this.

I don't know much about the specifics of remote deployment, but I feel like having vscode do this is just the wrong approach. I would say it probably needs to be some other CI/CD pipeline or something outside of the editor.

The problems I have is that every user gets like 1.5G of node junk stuffed in their home directory to support this. VScode spawns processes as the user that can't be controlled that can just kill servers (This is one bug I found, but there are issues with this that go much farther back than 2 years ago, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/26...)

There doesn't seem to be any way to control this on the server side, so if I have users with the ability to write to their home directory, I cannot stop them from pushing this and potentially killing an instance.
You're suggesting that a company should be limited to selling one service and one service only? How would you enforce that? And why do you think that would be good for the world (other than yourself)?
Their products are proprietary. Honestly open sourcing their stuff just nets free labor.
> What I find truly bizarre is how many software engineers, who are aware of how much they earn and how long it really takes to make software, are so resistant to paying anything for tools that make their job easier and faster. It blows my mind.

I agree. I'm always surprised at what technical people aren't willing to pay for.

I think I used to be like this though. I used to really enjoy playing with my tools and learning about everything. Now that I'm older, I just want to get the job done, then go outside and play at the park or something.
> It's the fruits of the society around us.

That's a given. Still, Society needs a way to incentivize people. Some way of encouraging people to be entrepreneurial, curious, industrious and active, to reach beyond what is immediately possible, work on their strengths and on supporting each other to grow in their own.
Yeah whether the employee is right or not I really don't see the logic in a senior engineer suing their employer for $50/mo in costs.

In the absolute best case, this will become a class action lawsuit. All ~4000 employees will get a couple thousand dollars as reimbursement. Lawyers will make a few million. Amazon will find the money from under some couch cushion. And then they will allocate a portion of everyone's salary to "WFH expenses" to be in the clear legally. Meanwhile the plaintiff's name will be all over the news and their future job prospects will take a huge hit.
Do you know if you can use Intel's on-CPU video decoders concurrently with an nVidia GPU? At least last time I tried that on Windows it wasn't possible to use QuickSync while also having a discrete GPU plugged into the machine, or at least no easy way to enable it.
Do you happen to know platforms / languages that are primarily built to work on scale both for users and developers? I sense Go has projected itself to be the one, do you have any other suggestions?
Maybe it does, I'd still disagree that's its main point however.

Obviously claiming extremes is always wrong. But I'd still wager that most people who are indeed senior devs -- myself included -- are long past the "let's try this new thing because reasons!" thing.
De facto parental alienation, aka custody and access games, has been going on since courts began allowing ex-spouses to up stakes and move the children out of reach of the other parent - as happened to me as a child over half a century ago.

Utterly ignored, especially by the courts, is the child's emotional and developmental need to grow up with both parents.

Equal time with both parents allows children to grow up and learn that parents are imperfect people who are doing their best in the circumstances they have been put in.

My late mother still carries unremitting blame for enabling an alcoholic PTSD afflicted stepfather from hell to blight my life - all while claiming she was doing the right thing.

There's nothing wrong with the family court system that a tac nuke couldn't fix.
The reasoning is that these are development tools and thus shouldn't be shipped by default.

I don't agree, but it is as it is, at least it does exist in some form.

Here .NET is better, you can just press F12 (Show Assembly) during debug session, and it will show it just like for C and C++ sessions.

Compiler explorer and sharplab make use of it.

Node allows to show some Assembly stuff, but if you want all the possible debugging options for Assembly code, you will need a debug build of nodejs.
I'm using it every day, that's what happens to it. Many sites provide their own feeds and those which don't can often be fed to something like rss-proxy [1] which will create a feed (or several feeds) based on an XPath query [2]. This can be self-hosted so you don't have to inform external entities about your feeding behaviour.

[1] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

[2] e.g. here's how to get Göteborgs Posten (a Swedish newspaper which ditched its feed some time ago) in an RSS feed reader (Atom is also supported through ...&o=Atom) - note that this is an example.org domain so the link does not work as is - https://rssproxy.example.org/api/feed?url=https://gp.se&pCon...
If it is just for your own videos, you don't need a video search solution - you need a transcription process or service. Then you would have timestamped words/phrases, which you could put into a database and just query/search that DB.
Did that flat-rate payment come out of the pool of money for annual raises? (Probably no way to know.)

I'm guessing the desire is for it to come out of the company's profits, so investors pay.

Is there a free lunch to be had?
Home automation is mainly broken. I and many more people have gone thru the same problems outlined in the article. It needs a strong backing by one supplier that can unite the "standards." I'm not a fan of Apple but they would change home automation for the better if they focused on it. And they would make a pretty good buck for their trouble.
Fzshell: Easily Customizable Shell Completion
Yes we know that "Thomas the Tank Engine" is bourgeois. That's kinda what a lot of people like about it.
You download the repo, learn the stack, look over the codebase, set up the environment (someone might have to help you on this at first with a screen share call if there's no documentation), work on some small tickets, ask questions, and get feedback. Easy. I've always gotten up to speed and productive within a week or two this way, without there being any real onboarding documentation or plan in place to boot. Never had a serious job in an office but I feel like it would have only slowed me down.
The articles not strictly right that there's no way for users (ie the public) to contact Google in this regard; Google Maps Local Guides certainly can contact them and anyone can become one of those.

However, putting that aside: Venues/business owners can contact Google and i suspect would get a slightly better response rate (not saying it'll be perfect or even super easy for an owner to get through but they can as there are often links indicating "Are you the owner of this business?")
My employer purchased whatever was needed from desks, office chairs, monitors, keyboards, mice to headsets.

We also completely ran out of "old" stuff, in the junk room, where people didn't want a new screen/keyboard but one exactly (exactly) like the one they had in the office.

We didn't try anything for heating and electricity though. How much do you actually use, if your use is normal office type stuff?
Those policies were created as a way to abide by laws and regulations, so I'm not sure what's your point here is.
So this guy is just angry that Tesseract isn't perfect? I hardly see the point of this post.
If you ever are trying to find the RSS feed URL for a website, I built a free little tool (https://www.rsslookup.com/) that lets you paste in a website’s URL and it will go out and find a list of available feeds. Some RSS clients have this feature built in, but for websites that don’t have their feed configured correctly this site will check extra paths (ex. /feed) to see if any feeds are available.
Somehow instead I got "tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies" stuck in my head.
reminds me when Bethesda tried to introduce paid mods on Steam. I was greatly excited about that for the reasons you state.

But the gaming community being physically or mentally at an age of 14 prevented that with quite an outreach.

Would've thought someone with enough braincells to learn programming would look at this differently, but there you have it.
It's extremely difficult to bill things like fractional electricity and internet usage.

I'm really surprised that a company like Amazon can't figure this out.

I work for a stupendously technologically backward company, and even it covers WFH internet costs up to $80/month.

This just seems like laziness of the management, and not any actual problem.
I feel sentiments like these are straight paranoia. Nothing is forever. And I actually don't think I have experienced a paid piece of software suddenly changing or disappearing or causing headache. Yet, this happens all the time with free, open source software. The person developing it stops, it gets forked, now there's two versions with one the popular one but not developed and a forked one being developed but not popular, and the whole thing is difficult to contribute to because it's a big ball of mud.

I will absolutely pay for software. What's more likely to cause issues? A company getting paid to develop useful software or some free, open source software where the developers have their own little fiefdom? Issues get closed all the time or ignored and then when you push the issue you just get told "that's not the way I do it" or "we're all volunteers and not paid, contributions welcome". Well yea, I would contribute if it wasn't impenetrable and I had confidence the contribution would actually be accepted. I have successfully contributed to larger projects where these things are taken more seriously, but they are the outlier.
> Take the Jetbrains IDEs. I don't mean to offend any VSC fans out there but the Jetbrains IDEs are simply better and more mature in every single way. For individual use, most of them are <$100/year.

After a particularly bad tooling week (js supply chain problems, plugin problems and more than the usual amount of DB changes) Our dev team made the unanimous call to move require all developers to use Jetbrains IDEs instead of the mix of VSCode, Emacs and whatever else... Our codebase is Python, Go and Javascript, and data is stored in Postgres, so we use Goland, PyCharm, WebStorm and Datagrip regularly. We also started using the awesome Micro editor when we need something that can be installed on a remote because it's key bindings are identical to JetBrains...

A few thoughts:

1. We all picked up 2-3 hours per week of time we were spending pounding plugins on Emacs and VSCode into shape. There was a lot more fiddling going on than we thought.

2. The debugger in JetBrains IDEs is top notch. Debuggers are underrated, and bad debuggers make using print and over-logging seem like the best option.

3. When we want to do something new, (containers, notebooks, etc...) it is almost always supported, and there are not 100 incomplete plugins to sort out (both Emacs and VSCode have this issue).

4. We're doing things the same way, which sometimes really pays off. For example, instead of a mix of PostMan, python scripts, restclient, and bashified curl for making api requests, we just use the client in the IDE... which means we can share them.

5. Datagrip and the database tools in the IDEs are incredibly useful.

Ok, so the payoff: By the end of the second week, we were over the learning curve, and the payoff came in the third week: a total of 16 hours of developer time not spent on twiddling with Emacs, vim, Sublime and VSCode. That time savings paid for the subscription for the year.
Jetbrains does quite a bit of telemetry as well, particularly on starter versions. This has made me hesitate, until I get an outbound firewall set up.
> The idea that you should allocate as few short-lived objects as possible has stuck with me.

I don’t know about Android, but since generational garbage collectors have become the default, the rule is that short-lived objects are dirt cheap, because they’ll be collected all at once in O(1) with the young generation. And since allocating them is usually just a pointer increment, they can be as cheap as stack objects.
This seems like a fundamentally different question to me. Belief in a god explicitly depends on the unseen. You can't really even evaluate the personhood or lack thereof, there's nothing tangible to test.

If a god showed in in-person to whoever asked, easy peasy, then it'd be a different story.
> True, but most people don't like to pay. So it's hard to sell people on the idea.

So provide only a title+snippet feed so folks can now when you articles appear on the site, and hopefully go to the 'full' page which has ads. Anything that can drive traffic can be helpful.
That is false. I get notifications for my partner's airtags.
> It's extremely difficult to bill things like fractional electricity and internet usage.

What I fear is the company wants to collect data on said usage as a solution to reimburse you accurately. Which means you send your employer usage data. Another world I don't want to live in.

> I do have some sympathy for the people who like to go to an office and interact with people face to face.

I think we're arriving at a compromise with hybrid work. Also, regarding gas commute costs, my employer still gives me a public transit card making bus and train usage free. I'm willing to make the trade for more home utility costs to avoid commute costs, even if I'm lucky enough to be able to use public transportation.
I clicked on this and ended up reading it through in an unsuccessful effort to persuade myself that it was parody of TED-talk-y self-help word salad. I don't want to disparage anyone's work (especially in a second language), but stuff like this irks me. The whole post seems untethered from reality or even linguistic sense – some sentences don't mean anything at all if you parse them, while others make baldly unsupportable claims; the transition words are dutifully in place but nothing he says follows from what came before. Rene Girard's mimetic desire, concept maps, and behavioral econ jargon are all trotted out in no particular order to persuade "us" (who presumably did not know) that there is more to life than Netflix.

Yet I keep seeing this particular flavor of self-improvement being shared and discussed in places with decent standards of discourse like it was something valid. Is there something I'm just not getting?
Check out their other video posted around the same time as this one, especially the part about changing the wheel design to allow for rolling landings. Seems like regulators had the same concern.

https://youtu.be/qZ73PftBfFg