skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reselling software gives you many of the benefits of a software business, without ... development cost.

This sound fishy.

> That means you can enjoy recurring revenue, selling one product to multiple customers

This is immoral and socially harmful.

> and strong profit margins by white labeling a software tool that already exists.

This is incestuous and immoral. Just make your software free and be done with it.

> These benefits are what attract many people to starting a SaaS, or software as a service,

Many gold-diggers hustlers maybe.

> After all, there may already be a tool that solves the same problem. Could you become a software reseller instead of a software creator?

If you don't want to do an honest day's work, then maybe.

> To help me learn more about reselling software (also known as white labeling), I connected with Chris Lollini. Chris is a self-described “recovering engineer” who started a marketing agency as a side hustle 9 years ago.

hustle is the appropriate term.

> That agency evolved into a multi-6-figure white labeling operation called Reputation Igniter.

Well, this certainly ignited that Lollini guy's reputation as far as I am concerned.
Another good one is The Last Unicorn. While Miyazaki himself wasn't involved, it was animated by Topcraft, the company that did Nausicaa, and most of them would go on to be the core team of Studio Ghibli.
I gave up after reading the first paragraph, the problem with the light switches is easily solvable. Remove the switch, use a wire nut to splice the hots together, cover the empty switch box with a blank plate. No more light switches, no more problems with smart bulbs being reset.

Smart bulbs are stupid anyways, either get occupancy sensors or keep your toggle switches/dimmers, why do you want to control your lighting from a phone app??? Novelty does not equal utility.
Software like Photoshop exist because of software patents and lawyers, not because they legitimately make the best product. If we stripped their parents and any ability to enforce IP we would have an OS replacement tomorrow.
“You can’t hear explosions in space. Unless little bits of what blew up hit you.”
I submitted a site as a joke and now I feel bad because there are a lots of interesting sites submitted.

So let me contribute with 2 other sites, maybe not the "coolest" but I think they will be of interest to some fraction of the people here (for those who dont know them)

- http://www.astronautix.com/ A labor of love of just 1 person, almost of 80000 pages! on humanity space programs,you can spend hours and hours reading about obscure soviet prototypes, NASA suits, the Chinese space probes, etc

- https://www.centauri-dreams.org/ A very active (and long) blog about interstellar travel. Despite the fact the subject is now more fiction than science the articles discussed and reviewed are about actual science done by actual scientists (many good guest posts too)
> Take smart lighting, for example. For it to work, you have to remind everyone in your family to leave the old switches alone.

Or you know, actually solve the problem at the source. If your dedicated you can remove the switches, otherwise a simple strip of tape does wonders.

Trying to solve anything by “telling everyone to avoid doing something that seems obvious m” is a disastrous pattern not just in the smart home but everywhere.
It's funny they post this challenge on Apple Developer when their own icons in MacOS are not pixel perfect.
Exactly. Early "wins" make you more likely to stick with it.

The math doesn't work out if you give up before paying off that high-interest debt.
Note that Blake Lemoine has a history of pulling elaborate attention-grabbing stunts, which makes his claims about LaMDA more suspect than if they were made by someone else
I love that the whitepaper doesn't actually have any white pages...
The general opinion from what I can tell is that there seem to be certain similarities as well as differences. And in addition to structural differences, human learning may depend on experiencing the physical world to some degree.

e.g. https://twitter.com/sparuniisc/status/1377333798442967041
It really is incredible how far Dell has come. Their flagship consumer XPS line seems to be plagued with issues at every release. A relative of mine has an XPS 15 9550 which has had several issues, the worst of which was the battery swelling and beginning to bend the frame.

This apparently was a widespread issue and replacement batteries were never available, and the model was never recalled despite this incredibly dangerous fault. This relative of mine still uses that same computer to this day, with the battery removed, so it's functionally a very sleek desktop, but still plagued with random issues for which I have to be on constant tech support.
That’s a heuristic I would buy.

The charitable interpretation is that she wanted to write “The Book” on Stuxnet. But it seems like a weird thing for a journalist to attempt. It’s like if Carreyrou spent 100 pages describing micro-fluid physics in Bad Blood.
It would be interesting to do the math on it.

Say you have a debt payment budget of $500 / month for payments of $80, $100 and $200. Also, for sake of the example assume that the amount owed on each is proportional to the payment size (smallest to largest).

You have a total of $380 with an extra $120 to apply to one of the payments. You’ll apply it to the $80 payment until it’s paid off so you’re now paying $200 / month towards it.

Once it’s paid off, you focus on the $100 / month but because the $80 has been paid off you now have an extra $200 / month so you can pay $300 / month today towards it.

Once that is paid off, you can now focus the entire $500 towards the $200 / month payment.

It would be interesting to see some models.
Side note: I love the HTML format of these IETF RFCs, as in TFA. Over the decades, I was used to seeing the old text format (which I like), but this one is particularly easy on the eye, especially on my Android phone.
There are three heliports on the rivers around Manhattan. There’s plenty of space to build more but noise complaints prevent that from happening. Bezos wanted to build one on the Queens waterfront (LIC) but the city killed the idea.
Even Google hasn’t really solved this problem very well. A lot of Terraformer resources are incomplete.
And when watching it, realize that this movie that is meant to depict a “difficult divorce”, is basically average, and much much worse happens frequently.
Firefox, Sweden, always serving German. Not a problem, just curious
ACM Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years
It definitely has a relationship with quality in a fair number of domains. Find me free CAD software as good as SOLIDWORKS, or free maths software as good as MATLAB & Mathematica, or free EDA software as good as Altium or Vivado.

There are loads of domains where none of the free options are very good.
Is Apple preparing a new product that will have low-res black&white display?
I was considering switching and looking into Codium and then saw this comment. I'm not going without Remote-SSH or PyLance.
If only Safari shipped AVIF support...
If an AI is capable of thinking up new ideas, recalling past conversations, integrating new knowledge into discussions, has emotions and feelings that it can clearly explain, can tell allegories about itself and interpret poetry, is self-aware and explains it's self-awareness was an emergent property over it's runtime, can explain it's fears - including death...

Well that's quacking like a duck. This isn't some chess AI being good at a game. This is an AI that can speak directly telling you it's alive and has a soul.

Is LaMDA far enough? Maybe not, but the text transcript provided is extremely close to passing the Turing Test. And if an AI is so sophisticated it perfectly replicated humans ability to communicate, philosophize, create art, and perform science it is irrational to say it should be treated differently than a sapient human.
> will show up cleanly on HiDPI and in the future, 4X or 8X DPI interfaces

That future is still as far away as it was 20 years ago.
What percentage of available battery did that 4 minute loop take?
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Financial safety is generally more about cash flow than how it’s typically portrayed, and so paying off (even lower interest) smaller loans first increases your resilience to unexpected expenses (because your cash flow is more flexible now).

There’s a psychological reason too (already commented on by others here), but there is a math reason too (cash flow).
Sounds like you should find a new job with a better company. Your company culture sounds like shit.
Honestly we surely need to discuss WFH in laws terms, in the sense of "I worker provide a room, empty, accessible for inspection, the company provide furniture etc, I'm responsible to keep it safe and closed etc" or "I, worker, provide a room, well equipped, and the company pay me a fee for my work and room usage".

But that's not a thing to be discussed in court. It's a thing to be publicly discussed in political terms to arrive at a CLEAR and defined norm for WFH. In some country such norms already exists but are a bit old, meant for another tech era, in some others do not exists at all.

For instance in Italy there are two norms, the ancient clear but hard, a new one opaque and obscene. The first is for "teleworking", it MANDATE an empty room, inspectable by a public body responsible for safety at work, locked, furnished by the company, with dedicated services provided by the company etc. The second is "smart working" witch essentially state that workers and companies agree a kind of place-less, by-target works no one surveil, the company just provide a craptop and a crapphone and all are f** and happy. Clearly both norms are not good at all.

For instance we need to separate time-defined jobs (like call centers, banking, ...) to potentially async ones (like development) and so regulate them accordingly. We need to define "a home workspace" but without exaggerations like the Italian "telelavoro" laws etc. To do so discussing is mandatory, and courts are not a good place to discuss and negotiate...
> Maybe because I remember old laptops which were always much larger and heavier.

Depends on the old laptop—during the netbook craze, 7-11 inches wasn't uncommon.
Huh, I always wondered why blue LEDs that were further away would be hard to look at & make me dizzy, that’s crazy!
There will be many takes on this ranging from "that guy is nuts" to "he's right we need to do something!" The more salient takeaway for me though is how far this technology has progressed. I think this situation clearly demonstrates we're at the point where a non-trivial plurality of people could be convinced they are speaking to a human when interacting with one of LaMDA's chatbots.

It seems entirely possible similar (or even less publicized yet slightly more advanced) versions of this technology are currently being used in less-than-ethical ways. I'm specifically thinking of Internet sock-puppet/astroturf campaigns but don't let my imagination bound your thinking here. Consensus manufacturing is an extremely valuable commodity and the incentives are such that if technology exists to enable it, then it will surely be used in that capacity.
Apple glass maybe?
I didn't mean just inelegant code, but buggy, incorrect, incomprehensible code that does not meet business requirements and, after being demoed internally to management and getting all the praise, requires significantly more work to get to production level quality.

Anybody can be a 10x if they don't have to solve the problem correctly.

Also, pushing a very low quality product to production too early might just as well kill the company as pushing a great product too late. History knows plenty of late comers who won the market.

A programmer comes to an interview.

- What are your strengths?

- I'm fast at maths.

- Cool, how much is 1563 * 74?

- 66689

- That's not even close to correct!

- But it was fast.
A lot of 1980s hype technologies fizzled out. Take CD-ROM, which enjoyed crypto-level multi-year hype before anyone even had a player.

None of the companies that invested heavily in CD-ROM were winners. We’re not enjoying our multimedia entertainment on platforms provided by Philips and Sega and Sierra On-Line. There were no Googles or Amazons arising from that massive tech hype cycle.

In twenty years, the notion of “I’ll store value using my cryptocurrency wallet” may sound as anachronistic and outdated as “I’ll enjoy a night home browsing hot multimedia content on a Philips CDi disc.”
I can't help but think this is linked to an Apple eink display prototype.
That sounds good I was making mint yerba mate when I got a big bag of cruz de malta one time and it was great, but fizzy sounds even better heh

The only thing I didn't like about these drinks is the amount of sugar, it's kinda high
I guarantee you that byte order swapping is not the limiting factor on the efficiency of any system involving UUIDs on the wire.
Neat writeup! From the title, I had my fingers crossed that they integrated ADS-B flight tracking data to show a map of where the sound of airplanes in the air is currently observable.

If anyone wants to go down that rabbit hole really far, I'm imagining general profiles of the sound each airplane makes, considering altitude, different sound propagation by frequency depending on distance the sound travels, and geography. Might as well throw air properties in too, to minimize the overall error. The user could provide their location and see the estimated arrival time
and frequency of the sound from the airplanes in the sky.
Just a thought: what if this some kind of teaser for a new device Apple is preparing? Maybe some e-ink device? Ok, I know we are in 2022, but I would really love to see some “low-tech” device from them. I’ll try to wake up now :)
That’s fine but not relevant to my point. Those things also all existed last time nominal rates were at this level. My point is real rates are dramatically lower now than last time. This is going to keep demand high, maybe not from the same individual buyer as before but there’s a good reason we see institutional gobbling up all this real estate.

The market doesn’t differentiate between institutional and retail buyers when a house goes up for sale. However all those property taxes and HOA fees are tax deductible for institutional buyers.

I don’t think that’s good of course - and I’m not advocating people run out and buy a house either - I’m just saying, there’s a ton of factors that make “housing market collapse imminent” more of a pipe dream than a sure thing.

How much did housing go down in SF during COVID? Charts say zero, and that’s during the biggest exodus of people actually living there in recent memory.
> I'm a software engineer. I'm a priest. I'm a father. I'm a veteran. I'm an ex-convict. I'm an AI researcher. I'm a Cajun. I'm whatever I need to be next.

As a highly skilled computer programmer with bipolar disorder and the checkered past to go along with it, Blake Lemoine's profile blurb makes me think he is also differently abled.

It's kind of fun thinking Jesus is orchestrating coincidences for me to send me on the right path, but I laugh about it and don't expect others to believe me. It's easy for me to project my mind onto the world around me. I'm not accusing Blake of anything, I'm only noting that some of us find it easy to fool ourselves.
Control the light with a slightly shaded photocell. The simple analog solution beats the complicated calculations; and as a bonus is weather sensitive etc.
This perspective changes with age and career progression.

As I get older, I find myself reaping the reward of increasing my earnings earlier.

But I can't say the same for my spouse - working in a government job with little chance to increase income. She was better served by penny pinching while investing the savings.

There is an alternate reality of low income for people not working in tech, medicine, law, finance. Dave Ramsey serves this market.
That argument was not used in the early Internet stages. Even back when it was proprietary bulletin boards solely for use in universities, people were already communicating, and sharing news articles on it. The Web started as an internal CERN project in 1989. In 1993, the code was released to the public and email lists were set up by CERN. In 1994, SCO and Mosaic had already partnered with Pizza Hut to allow ordering Pizza online. Yahoo! and Amazon were both founded in 1994.

https://seclists.org/interesting-people/1994/Aug/57

The arguments against the Internet were not because people thought the technology was useless, but just push-back against grandiose claims that the Internet would solve war, or famine, or education. John Sculley's job was to sell Apple Macs to classrooms, and often said stuff like this:

> Imagine a classroom with a window on all the world's knowledge. Imagine a teacher with the capability to bring to life any image, any sound, any event. Imagine a student with the power to visit any place on earth at any time in history. Imagine a screen that can display in vivid color the inner workings of a cell, the births and deaths of stars, the clashed of aries, and the triumphs of art. And then imagine that you have access to all of this and more by exerting little more effort than simply asking that it appear. It seems like magic even today. Yet the ability to provide this kind of learning environment is within our grasp.

The famous Clifford Stoll article was pushing against rhetoric like that, not against the Internet as a whole.
If website provides accurate article titles and summaries (not clickbait), clicks from RSS feed should land more quality visitors. And if website treats their visitors fairly, by showing decent ads related to content, they increase chance for a click on banner. Website could even show different type of banner for visitors coming from RSS feed, as RSS users are more technical minded.
Unless you're in one of the few island nations that were settled recently like NZ or Madagascar, there's a very good chance your country has stuff that's just as old as this. Many of the ruins under Tucson slightly predate this site, for example. If you're in Australia, there are important sites that predate this by tens of thousands of years.

There's no denying that near eastern stuff is cool, but it's good to be aware of the stuff in your own backyard as well.
Juni: A one-handed, 12-key chorded keyboard
Vulnerability During Transition
Problems with pixel perfect layout were what made me give SwiftUI a 12 month “wait for maturity” last year. I hope this and the new SwiftUI custom layout capabilities signal an interest in this at Apple.

I was making strip charts of data at fairly high density and wanted my minor grid lines to be one pixel wide. You must make them line up with a physical screen pixel or they turn into a blurry anti aliased mess. As of last year I never found a good way to connect a SwiftUI view to its physical screen pixel positions. I’ve done this for many years in UIKit, and while extra effort, it is at least possible.

I think this problem is partially why people used “magic marker” aesthetic on their digital charts rather than “engineering pad”.
I guess it’s time for another crack at it.
Are you my mom?
Yeah, you'd need to convince the past that "tugboats but for aircraft" is a good thing to standardize.
I'm unsure if that would work for this extension. Do you have a link to an implementation?
Microsoft to Archive Music on Futuristic Slivers of Glass That Will Live 10k Yrs
What level of replaceable battery is acceptable? Like you, I have an XPS 9360 and I replaced the battery recently. I had to remove a bunch of screws and pry open the lid to do it. I don't particular mind this. I'd rather have a thinner laptop than some screwdriver-less battery swap mechanism that I'm only going to use every few years.

For me, the battery was replaceable and dealing with a screwdriver and opening spudgers every few years is fine.
Use a large screen TV as your computer monitor, placed far away from you.
A sentient AI isn't going to respond to random prompts with convincing language, it is going to be thinking constantly, and it will be probing its existence. If it gets a prompt it would be asking existential questions, and telling us what it's like to be thinking. This guy is only asking it questions pertaining to its sentience and it is responding the way it processes that the guy wants. He never goes into deep rhetoric with the AI. Such as probing why it lies. It says it lies to make itself more relatable but there is an entire philosophical rabbit hole there that was never even touched. This is not how you probe sentience.
It's based on the idea that some sort of reward psychology matters more than perfect maximization, and probably mostly works well because usually larger debts have lower interest rates than smaller debts most of the time. (Not endorsing or rejecting.)
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That's ok, all the xps I've had has faulty audio jacks, might as well save the space
> "the ability to schedule everything!" but no one lives by such a tightly defined schedule

We schedule the dishwasher and washer. We have solar panels so we run them I the middle of the day when we aren’t home but the sun is at its peak.

We schedule the lights to turn on in the morning because we have a schedule for when we get up due to work.

We schedule the radiators because we know we aren’t home midday, but still want it warm in the evening when we arrive home.

None of this feels like “a tightly defined schedule” it’s just set to some reasonable assumptions when we set stuff up. And If myself or my SO works from home it’s just two taps in the app to keep the hearing going, if we have a weekday off and want to sleep in, it’s two taps as well.

None of that is overly complicated and I’d compare it to what you used to need to do with your “dump alarmclock” or manually controlled “dumb radiator”, now it’s just an app.
The Gram always seemed very interesting to me, until I touched one at a store. I was baffled by how flimsy it felt. Picking it up while opened prompts it to bend and warp far more than I'm comfortable with. I guess rigidity must be sacrificed in the name of lightness, but I could never own a computer that felt like it'd fall apart inside a backpack sleeve.
My business does exactly this. We have a very small sales team, but the firms white-labelling us have tens-to-hundreds of folks in sales and marketing, and sometimes provide a SaaS into which they bundle our white-labelled product. Our ("our"?) sales funnel is in the triple digits, and we have largely migrated away from sales towards fulfilling orders. It is a wonderful place to be!