skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quote you:

> doing everything they can to hinder others by using overly complicated hardware and firmware designs and breaking things

That's malevolence. And it's completely certifiably and demonstrably false.
> Delivery is hugely popular in eg China and South-East Asia, where the few dollars of unsubsidized delivery fees paid by the middle class can actually sum up to a living wage for the poor doing the jobs.

I don't think you're using "living wage" in the same sense as it's typically used in the US. IIRC, those delivery people in China work very long hours to live extremely precariously. They're also often treated extremely unfairly (e.g. having to eat the cost of a failed delivery that was in no way their fault).
From my experience, it will never be so efficient that someone smarter than me doesn't publicly shame me for winning the "useless use of cat" award on a forum where I ask for help.

28 years later and I'm still sore I asked for help as a 15 year old that one time. Very effective way to teach a new user.
There's definitely nothing telling about public education in a city with 20% black and 50% hispanic population being completely unrepresented on a team of dozens of kids. I'm sure that the "identifying talent" that's happening here is completely equitable and inclusive. I'm sure all the brown kids sitting in overcrowded classes are having a great time watching the white and asian kids go off to their special treatment with dedicated tutoring. This is exactly how our system of class based privilege perpetuates itself.
Does anyone know how American Airlines would actually use these? (The use case?)
You can also weigh it down and sink it to the bottom of oceans that don't have wood eating organisms. The Baltic and the Black Sea are the ones I know.

But of course, the solution you mention is the simplest: Treat the wood with one of the several known ways to make it not break down, and leave it in big piles somewhere.
> Nobody is going to give a development team a blank cheque to produce something they can't describe against no timeline.

You seem to be describing an issue of trust and risk assessment.

For instance most companies won’t micro-manage projects that probably last for a few days, as they trust their team and/or feel comfortable pulling the plug after a few days if it didn’t pan out: the risk is low enough.

Same way buying a new mouse probably requires less oversight than contracting thousand dollars of GCP for 3 years.

In that respect, how long a project can be before needing a fleshed out plan, internal milestones with verifiable deliverables and a set timeline comes down to how much the team is trusted.
Hi! This is interesting and I plan to use it for work. Today.

In answer to my above inquiry:

It looks to me like this section causes consecutive 'v's to be interpreted as text; it might be nice to carve out v's or give alternative glyphs for down arrows or something:

if (char.match(/[A-Za-z0-9]/)) {
const [, right, , left] = neighbors;
str = str || (left.match(/[A-Za-z0-9]/) || right.match(/[A-Za-z0-9]/));
}

Also, if you have two arrows coming together diagonally, like:

\ /
v

The arrowhead points to the left rather than straight down. I think straight down would be preferred and not particularly difficult to code.

I would be happy to take further conversation/contributions to whatever forum you prefer - what is the best approach?
At this point I now realize why Star Trek had a whole mid-twentieth century war to shake up society - without anything to destabilize things the wealth will continue to concentrate in those with the greatest ability to take advantage of technological changes. The information age has shuffled the people who rise to the top a bit, but that's really it.
This is an extremely bad faith response to a statement that Jesper did not have to make. It is clear that the firmware may have caused unintended behavior and it's clear that the team is looking to remedy it. I have no idea how the construction of your entire comment is at all part of one in this discussion rather than an ideological rant at an industry as a whole but, whatever it is, it's a rotten piece to an otherwise civil conversation.
That sounds like it makes SIM-swapping even easier.
> The promise is always a nonsensical "You can have anything you want from anywhere you want, faster than is reasonably possible".

Importantly, this kind of infrastructure quickly leads to bottlenecks because of hot zone times. Amazon with their 'overnight' delivery has got it right, having drivers do delivery in extreme early hours when they have to confront rather little traffic. Well, I guess it's good for everyone except the drivers who are forced to lead an unhealthy nocturnal lifestyle :(.
Thanks! Reversing.
A few notes regarding the latest firmware:

The sound profiles have not been changed at all.
The playback time is exactly the same as before, i.e. 5 hours on max volume in Power mode. (confirming the SPL is the same)
The settings for the woofers have not been changed at all.
The contribution of tweeter sound pressure level is only a minor fraction of the total SPL for the speaker and since the woofers’ SPL has not been changed, the total SPL should stay the same as well.

As a result of the above, we have not seen any SPL change in our measurements post-upgrade, and are not sure as to why some users are experiencing this.

Previously, i mentioned the notion of it being a data corruption issue. We have integrity verification, so this is extremely unlikely, but as it is an easy check, we recommend trying this out. If you try to re-upgrade, and it skips the “transferring” step and goes directly to “Ready to patch”, it means that the previous upgrade had been successful with no corrupted data and that you have had the correct firmware on your speaker. (In this case it will be a very fast process) If however, it started to transfer files, it is worth to wait until the transfer step is completed to make sure you have the right firmware.

In the meantime, we will continue to investigate internally in SOUNDBOKS, and try to figure out why some users are experiencing this, when we are not experiencing it ourselves, and it has not occurred in any of our testing.

Again, thanks for your engagement!
People are free to do what they want in the privacy of their homes on their own time, but I for one do not enjoy asphyxiation.
The strangest video format I've worked with was a 1/4" open reel black & white format. I don't even know the time frame of when it was used, but the engineering staff had to dig up an old machine and restore it just to be able to playback the footage we received. It was the one and only job while work for that company that I ever saw it. Then again, there was a Fisher Price like toy camera that recorded similar b&w footage to an audio cassette.[0]

My favorite tape based trivia is that all but one tape format has the supply hub on the left side and the take up reel on the right. Only the 3/4 Umatic format has the supply reel on the right.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCXJ5twf5tM
I was amazed the first time I discovered that translators somehow keep the rhymes when they translate. Not an easy job.
I’ve reached the point where if I hear of a product that has a “mandatory” firmware update, I completely write off the manufacturer for good. Even worse if said device silently updates to said firmware revision.

It is completely unacceptable for a device like a speaker to have a ‘mandatory’ update to continue operating, and I choose to not support it by withholding my dollars from the manufacturer.
When I tried GnuCash, I was bitten by the fact that, although it supports OFX, many OFX servers don't support it. I found in some cases the server expected the client to support QFX, Quick's extension of OFX. In other cases, these servers seemed explicitly only to support Quicken as a client, e.g. by expecting requests to their servers would be proxied through Quicken and arise form Intuit IP addresses.
No, because of the huge gaping security hole it represents. It’s basically a voluntary keylogger. They’ve got some crap in their EULA that absolves them of all guilt if them getting hacked fucks your over. So why on earth would ANYONE take such a massive risk in this day and age.
I've tried this method. It involves me sitting somewhere else until 6am not being able to sleep instead of my bed.
> There is zero possibility that anyone at Apple is spending any time [..] for the purpose of hindering efforts like Asahi Linux.

Ah, that argument. Apple is, like Microsoft, actively trying to get people to run Linux and applications _under_ their OS -- Microsoft is shipping an entire Linux emulator for graphical applications and Apple is going to ship an x86 Linux emulator in a future release too.

And then, both companies have a lot of incentive that you continue to run their operating system as your main OS -- they can show you ads that way, they can continue to sell your their subscriptions and services, their partners', etc.

Combine the two, and I no longer believe the argument that "they couldn't care less about people who run Linux".
Previously, i mentioned the notion of it being a data corruption issue. We have integrity verification, so this is extremely unlikely, but as it is an easy check, we recommend trying this out. If you try to re-upgrade, and it skips the “transferring” step and goes directly to “Ready to patch”, it means that the previous upgrade had been successful with no corrupted data and that you have had the correct firmware on your speaker. (In this case it will be a very fast process) If however, it started to transfer files, it is worth to wait until the transfer step is completed to make sure you have the right firmware.

In the meantime, we will continue to investigate internally in SOUNDBOKS, and try to figure out why some users are experiencing this, when we are not experiencing it ourselves, and it has not occurred in any of our testing.

Again, thanks for your engagement!
Heh one of the most noticeable cases of this is when you buy something and unwrap it and find it covered in obvious "shelf marketing" stickers - your TV doesn't need a giant energy star sticker across the corner (and you have to remove it) nor does it need the specs on a little card attached to the base; but they do want those when it is the demo unit on the shelf, and they know that retail won't bother sticking them on, so they put them on every single product.
> Making a pizza with your kids can also be quite a nice experience,

Maybe the people who order pizza[1] have better experiences with their kid due to the time saved by ordering pizza.

If you're making pizza with the kid (or muffins, or anything really), it's not a 15m prep, it's at least 30m, usually more. You cannot rush things with kids.

[1] I make things with my kid, but I'm not snobbish about people who buy things to save time, and then spend their time with their kids differently.
Build a full featured blog website from Notion
How long until it gets used to share dick pics?
Yeah, on the list on the article the only "modern major payment service" I actually recognised was PayPal and Alipay. I noticed that Rubles are mentioned multiple times in the article, perhaps the author is Russian. Is Stripe even available in Russia?

However saying that I thought PayPal had suspended operations in Russia.
this is not the whole story -- a Swiss do-gooder in the San Francisco Bay Area had a "Carbon Footprint" project running for quite a while (still?) .. he was nerdy and sincere. His close staff certainly were sincere. If there was someone taking Oil money, they didn't show it.
Neuroticism
It generates ASCII, or svg, or png or a variety of things. Who cares what format it stores it in. The things you generate with it are totally portable.

You may as well complain that we shouldn't write code in interpreted languages like Ruby and Perl and node because they're _also_ not portable to anyone who doesn't have the interpreter installed. But heck, compiled languages like Go and C are also not portable unless you've got the compiler installed. Only their artifacts are. We may as well abandon this whole programming thing.

Or, maybe... maybe things can still be incredibly useful even if it's only their artifacts that are portable.
I like the concept of chatbots for mental health, but I often just can't get around how the only reason it sounds good is because it would hypothetically be more affordable than speaking with a human therapist.

Feels like a short-term fix for a long-term problem.

Not to like, discredit what a chatbot could do. My calm app pings me at 3 pm each afternoon just to check in, and even though it feels pretty meaningless, it's usually a good reminder to check my mental.
> If you only ever look at the front page of Reddit, you're going to be fed memes and outrage. If you go and subscribe to a few small, focused subreddits, you're going to see things that are relevant to you.

So it is still impossible to decide today that I want to see good reviews of some technology category, whereas I am usually interested in something completely different.

Google, and I assume Youtube as well, tries really hard to connect all my different accounts and identities on different devices, browsers. That closes the escape hatch that I could have one browser identity focused on topic A and another on topic B. All in all we have to be honest here. Youtube only interest is to serve us content that will make us watch more content. They have absolutely no incentive to show me content, that is relevant to me.
It's not that it makes anything anonymous, the usage was made for already anonymous spaces.
I'll take a lager from a homebrewer that can't do a decent diacetyl rest is before drinking some macroswill though!
Nah - that's just not true. We've pushed this update to tens of thousands of units over the past week - and we have not seen this issue reported before gHuntleys post, and then subsequently in the comments to his post in our community.

Previously, i mentioned the notion of it being a data corruption issue. We have integrity verification, so this is extremely unlikely, but as it is an easy check, we recommend trying this out. If you try to re-upgrade, and it skips the “transferring” step and goes directly to “Ready to patch”, it means that the previous upgrade had been successful with no corrupted data and that you have had the correct firmware on your speaker. (In this case it will be a very fast process) If however, it started to transfer files, it is worth to wait until the transfer step is completed to make sure you have the right firmware.
In the meantime, we will continue to investigate internally in SOUNDBOKS, and try to figure out why some users are experiencing this, when we are not experiencing it ourselves, and it has not occurred in any of our testing.

Again, thanks for your engagement.
Interesting. GNU to me has always seemed socialist if anything. It requires sharing derived code for free.

MIT by contrast lets you do whatever you want, and that seems more like the libertarian approach to me.
Checkout the research published by nngroup, that's very software focused.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/
Is differential privacy the right fit for your problem?
Seems to work fine in Mexico City
Show HN: I created a toothbrush that docks and charges without wires
Hey HN!

I’ve been a DTC founder in the oral care space for several years and was looking to bring new innovation to the electric toothbrush aisle.

My biggest pain point with electric toothbrushes came from my own experiences using competing brands. The brushes took up a lot of bathroom counter space when charging, had an unsightly wire running from the wall and the dock often filled with water/gunk. Not to mention I’d often knock over my brush when reaching for other bathroom tools.

I wanted to create a product that was always within reach, but out of the way. Something that lived in the bathroom and improved the aesthetic - not detracted from it.

The “aha” moment came when I got a new Dyson wall charging vacuum in my home. The product was incredible - it was easy to grab and go, accessible and made vacuuming a fun task, not a chore. The thought of lugging out a heavy vacuum from the closet and plugging a wire in was something of the past. Dyson brought incredible innovation to this small routine.

I applied this same thought process to Mode. I wanted to create a brush that lived on the wall like the Dyson vacuum and was easy to grab and go. Something that had no wires, was not intrusive and made the routine of brushing a better experience.

I embarked on a 2+ year journey with an amazing design and engineering team. Together, we created a compact charging dock that plugs directly into the bathroom wall and magnetically docks and charges the toothbrush.

The biggest challenge we faced was getting all of the components in such a compact wireless dock (magnets, charging coil, LED nightlight, etc) in addition to getting the charging to work without overheating.

The product is patent-pending and I’m incredibly excited for the future of brushing. Happy to answer any questions and would love feedback.
This is surprising to me, I’d say YouTube videos are harder to produce (and arguably consume) than blog posts. Does anyone know why are we seeing this trend? Is it because of monetization / easier to reach audience / something else?
Personal Finance links I've assembled:

Free/open:

- Gnucash -- solid app: https://www.gnucash.org/

- Beancount -- Text based: https://beancount.github.io/docs/index.html

- Fava -- Web interface for Beancount: https://beancount.github.io/fava/

- Plain Text Accounting -- there are several apps with a similar approach: https://plaintextaccounting.org/

Others/Paid:

- You Need a Budget -- Popular a couple years back: https://www.youneedabudget.com/

- Moneydance -- https://moneydance.com/

- Lunch Money -- https://lunchmoney.app/
Apparently, they even had subscribers that paid half a penny a day for a timepiece.

https://www.nature.com/articles/022226a0
just want to say that I've been using this for years now and it's _so_ good. I love that i can also create nice looking SVGs from it. But i've used the ASCII export on multiple occasions to provide context for complex systems / concepts in code.
Same here, I also get frequent crashes on FF. In the past it used to crash when selecting text with the mouse, but since the latest update that seems to have been fixed. Now it tends to crash when drag&dropping things instead.
Update: we now have a customer in our US Facebook Community saying that reupdated fixed his issue.

''My upgrade failed initially and impeded speaker output. Allowing the upgrade to run again resolved the issue without any further frustration or impact to performance.''
Not right away and I don't have the time to search for it. Youtube is notoriously secretive about their contracts. There was a big outrage among the creators about the changes in 2017 or so.

The revenue split may have stayed the same but the revenue total has gone down, despite the huge increase in the number of ads.

E.g. Mathias Wandel has discussed the financial side of running YouTube if you want to dig deeper.
> By the way - I don't trust Microsoft's Pluton!

I have to admit that I have hope for Pluton: it seems like it's going to increase the security of computing, which would obviously be beneficial to all of us. What they're talking about isn't exactly a new concept (I believe Apple call their the Secure Enclave) but it's one of those "Why didn't we have this already things?" where PC's just feel a bit behind.
I have to ask, are you involved in this website?

I see this post of yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28367560 and makes me wonder if the website is related to that. If so, then you should disclose the relationship.

Read and think the concept through from A-Z. Do you find "the issue"? I personally did read through everything and spent a couple of days thinking about it. And I must say, I can't find "the issue" (that would make it logically impossible).

Again, this line tries to shift the burden to me to "see the light" without actually saying anything of substance that might be more readily contested. If you want to champion this what is so hard about being forthright and direct about the thermodynamics question?
> The rift dates to WW1, not the 1930s (…)

What I wrote is that the rift dates back to the late 19th century and had become rather an abyss by the early 1930s (considering things like the Iron Front).
On the other hand research like this needs to be funded somehow and you don’t know if you’ll hit a breakthrough unless you dig into it. Am I wrong?
I am sorry that I caused you enough discomfort to point it out. I will try to do better next time. In the meantime I am still learning English -- not my native language.
This heatwave is nothing like that of 1976: https://mobile.twitter.com/scribblerlex/status/1548592171133...
It's not true. There were official import channels. Not many consumer goods were imported but some were. Secondly, there were shops where travelers (sailors, pilots, etc) could sell the goods they bought abroad. Thirdly, soviet people worked abroad, e.g. building plants, factories, power stations. These people were paid in special kinds of checks and they could buy foreign goods in a network of special shops (Berezka). I know this because friends of my mom worked on building some powerplant in Egypt (I don't remember exactly, but it was Middle East I think) and bought many things with those checks.
Two Years and over 700 Websites Later
The world is different now. It's 2022 and the value of technology is far more clear to the average person.
That's not quite true, Philips VCR (N1500/N1700) has the hubs stacked one on top of each other. I'm sure there was one other like that but I can't remember the name.
Sometimes psychology gives me neuroticism.
> The media didn't purposely pump out false information to go to war in Iraq.

Of course not, no one in the media would ever dream of doing such a thing. Did you know that the US only lost war in Afghanistan because Putin paid a head bounty to the Taliban for every US soldier killed?

> Anonymous conspiracy mongers are incapable of suffering reputational damage and can lie with impunity.

I can well remember how former luminaries like Tom "Give War A Chance" Friedman, Bill "The war in Iraq was right and necessary, and we won it" Kristol and David "Axis-of-evil" Frum or Stephen "The Connection" Hayes lost their lucrative careers over advocating catastrophic policies that cost the US tax payer trillions of dollars and resulted in the loss of hundred of thousands of lives. They are now all relegated to such fringe outlets as the New York Times or NBC, which admittedly is nothing compared to what happened to Clapper for perjuring himself in front of congress -- he now partly has to make a living as CNN's national security analyst.
Taking the Magic Out of Magic Mushrooms