skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yep you're right the display is not touch by design. Else it would be too sensitive to various ways people use their desk.

we want users to build their own "daily dashboards" using desk widgets

stuff you normally keep open, or glance at (chat msgs, calendar events, weather, email)
but don't actively stare at (medium, code)
Dark matter is all hand waves.
I think it's because happiness is not about solving problems, but it is about getting what you want.
Talk to some truck drivers.
This is a constant bug/feature of human thought. When we try to see beyond the limits of our technology we find it irresistible promote explanations that can't be proved yet. Often these placeholder theories turn out to be complete nonsense (epicycles). Often they are incredibly convincing (Dark Matter), and sometimes they even turn out to be mostly correct - so this process is generally a good thing.

Where we run into trouble is by assigning too much credence (or too little skepticism) for that which has not been proven yet. This can be counter-productive as it may stifle research into other areas (in this case gravity). When we take the "best current theory" and deride skeptics of it to the point that it discourages other areas of investigation, that's a bug, not a feature.

Our current understanding of gravity is woefully inadequate, as shown by our inability to reproducibly measure the gravitational constant as well as we should be able to with current technology. The flyby anomaly is another example where DM does not help. I hope that the current popularity of DM does not stifle research into gravity.
Some of these things are not like the others....
I clicked hoping to know how I could better drop acid while I'm using SQLite. But I only dropped some tables.
All u need is Form, la la la
Combined with sentiment + product recognition... could be very interesting.
Not a physicist, but it feels more like the orbit of Mercury. Newtonian physics didn't quite predict it correctly, but it was still the best theory available until relativity came along. That seems to be the thrust of the GP comment: "you got a better idea?"
On android I have firefox-focus as my default browser (and disable any in-app browsing) for that same purpose.
A few years ago I was super curious how we stack up numbers-wise compared to doctors and attorneys (quantities artificially limited in the USA because of licenses). I did the research to calculate based on the number of CS graduates being produced by universities, combining it with average number of years worked before retiring. Unfortunately I don't have the references handy at this point.
I have been following this project for years. I think they lost their original name to a copyright claim (the claim seemed a stretch, but whatever). /e/ was supposed to be the temp name, and they have forever been discussing how it needs to change.... Not sure why it has never happened.
/e/ sells smartphones preloaded with /e/ OS through its sister company Murena:

https://murena.com/products/smartphones/

It would make sense for /e/ to rebrand to Murena OS, if they're willing to change their name.
Did that happen just once, or does it happen all the time?

If it happened just once, it's probably just some warehouse/inventory updation delay or something.

In my country (not USA) Amazon is very punctual, and sometimes I even get things a day early.
That's the definition of a malware.
By its design it cannot be perfect. You are getting lucky that someone else with SponsorBlock watched the video before you and recorded the timestamp in the database.
If these platforms do things that are abusive and invasive, the solution is not to complain about it, the solution is to stop donating content to them for free and delete your account so they aren't attractive to more users.

Continuing to enrich them, even by your reachability via their DM messengers, makes them more attractive to your friends and family.

Delete your Facebook and Instagram accounts. Stop giving them positive feedback (via continued usage and content donations) after they make clear choices to abuse you.
I can vouch that organic maps is really quite nice, straight forward and familiar.

OSMAnd is more fun, in my opinion, because of all the features but if you're looking for familiar, organic maps is the way to go.
That's cumulative over 2.5 million years. They estimated about 20,000 adults alive at once[1].

[1] https://www.livescience.com/number-of-tyrannosaurus-rex-on-e...
>One might be concerned that this could threaten Clojure’s status as an open source licensed language, but that’s not really something to be worried about. Nubank know very well about the importance of Clojure being open source. The main benefit of the acquisition, conversely, is to fund Clojure and Datomic’s development
Tell HN: YouTube prioritises health-related searches 'From health sources'
I only recently noticed this. It may be country-specific. Try searching for a medical condition or health issue. The YouTube search results are labelled 'From health sources'.

I'm not sure what to think of this change. Is it right to remove or deprioritise popular videos from search results if those videos come from unqualified "Doctors". I presume this also applies to anyone discussing a health topic who is not a health professional.

On the other hand, I understand why YouTube has taken this approach. There is a lot of misleading health advice too - it's impossible to police it all. YouTube's approach is to populate search results from health professionals or "credible health sources".

It's a difficult problem to tackle. What do think of this change to YouTube search? Do you think health videos should be unfiltered in search results - no matter the content, or who it comes from?

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Some links from YouTube:

Authoritative health information: https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/product-features/health-information/

Introducing new ways to help you find answers to your health questions:
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/introducing-new-ways-help-you-find-answers-your-health-questions/
This is kind of an interesting illustration of how little people know about how the internet works, and how news is ultimately entertainment.

Full respect to the man in the article for the hard work and initiative he took in starting a small independent ISP, but this story is the story of thousands of small ISPs in the US and many more around the world.

In a basic sense, this story is not "newsworthy" since there is nothing new about it. It's more of a human interest piece, like if the reporter wrote a story about the lady who started a coffee shop after being overcharged for a Frappuccino.

I'm guessing this ISP has gotten more attention here and on Ars Technica than others because the founder is fluent in the software engineering world, as well as having started an ISP. Ironically there is a pretty big gulf between the world of techies who know how to write the code on the internet and the people who actually build the internet who are more blue collar.
The goal of that would not be to get functional code and a decent price, of course. The goal would be to ensure leadership has an accurate view of what that process is today.

Now, that may or many not achieve what the GP thinks it will. But, if you believe the leadership of your org is out-of-touch, it is a natural thing to suggest.
numerical.recipes
This is exactly the mindset of failure. The team standup has 10x more priority than some dumb basketball league
If there are customers, they sell the product. Most of the stuff we buy everyday isn't as good as in the ads or it does us any good at all (maybe it damages us.)
Survivor bias. If nothing existed [1], we wouldn't be here to ask the question.

It's like asking what is P(A|A).

The question "Why do I not exist" has never and will never be (seriously) asked.

[1] To be clear, if only nothing existed, and there existed nothing other than nothingness. [2]

[2] I sense epistemologists warming their guns here, asking if the "existence" of "nothing" counts as the existence of "something". I.e. is "nothing" something?
Is this different from my android experience where I open a link from an app and it opens my default browser, Firefox, but kind-of within the app, but allows me to instantly switch over to the Firefox app instead using a drop-down menu option?
Yes, but SSO is a very upfront integration that blocks all access to app. Most other integrations only break a piece of the app or are in the background. And lots of companies charge extra for those integrations too.
How is it different from MLFlow? the recent MLFlow pipeline, does it has any similarities?
> charges me a few bucks more per month, for 150mbps

And, in my experience, they will slowly ratchet up the cost until you call in and complain or change your plan, so a negotiated 80 dollars slowly can become 160+
If you click through that sentence to the linked article [1], you'll discover that it's a pretty misleading one. The 2.5 billion estimate is the total estimated number of adult Tyrannosaurs that lived during a 2.5 million year period (68-65.5 million years ago).

The estimated maximum population of living adult Tyrannosaurs at any one time, on the other hand, is ~20,000, with a 95% confidence interval from 1,300 to 328,000, according to that article.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/number-of-tyrannosaurus-rex-on-e...
> brands as a legitimate thing were a relatively recent invention in human commerce

The origins of Stella Artois can be traced to 1366 when the Den Hoorn brewery was established in Leuven, Belgium

I am sure even cavemen traded sharpened rocks and said 'this one is made by steve, he is really good, so I want more meat for it'
this is my #1 complaint as well. These OSs must be easy to install and reliable. Having parts of the OS crash, dealing with the terminal, using ADB over USB... all of that makes zero sense to the average person or someone pressed for time.

I now want my phone to work and that is why i use iOS. Having to replace the OS on your phone is already a step too far for most. The install instructions here require using the terminal and typing commands - not going to happen for most people.

IMHO, the easiest path to adoption is to have a hardware manufacturer put this OS on their phones. No installation required.
If you want to be really lean I wrote a program with identical performance as the linked one in a single line of shell code.

./tevr_asr_tool

Lines of code began and persists as an absolutely awful way to measure anything.
Thats not how react native or flutter work at all. They use native views, not a browser. You are likely thinking of cordova (phonegap) et al.
Sorry, link: https://youtu.be/JfP7955XipY
I meant "of course Facebook doesn't [use Safari View Controller]". WebView ≠ Safari View Controller.

Safari View Controller keeps the users cookies from Safari and prevents this behavior. For most apps, keeping users logged in without leaving the app is preferred, so they give up the ability to inspect the contents of the page.
Thanks @swyx, very valid points.
Organic Maps is nice, thanks for the pointer.

Maps.me looks very similar - are they related somehow?
I remember when the Twitter app asked if I wanted to sync the mobile contacts every time I opened the app. Thankfully Android has become better when it comes to this even if there are still flaws.
The Onion is a well known source of purposely incorrect information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion
Remember that for those benchmarks, C, C++, and Rust compile the binaries and then run the benchmark, while Julia compiles as part of the benchmark. The memory usage is dramatically decreased if you do a workflow similar to the other languages using something like PackageCompiler.jl to build a binary that is benchmarked. If you treat the other languages as "JIT" and include those factors in the benchmarking process, it's a lot closer.
Not a Facebook or a google fan or an apologist.

But isn't this a business decision? "Punishment" implies a fault, but the employees are not at fault here.

What would "taking personal responsibility" look like for management?
I sometimes wondered if Meta would purchase them in an attempt to make it the defacto metaverse dev tool.
https://twitter.com/jessefelder/status/1557405859986038785?s...

'Grocery prices were up 1.3% in July from the prior month and rose 13.1% in July from a year ago, the fastest annual pace since 1979.'
... There was that time that top management thought reverse imperialism was a good idea so they dumped a perfectly good Google Wallet in the U.S. for something that was big in India... No thought of cultural sensitivity. A few years later they reversed the decision, with no consequence for the people who made it.

If you are doing that for your products though you are never going to get long-term traction no matter how good or bad your engineers or marketing people are.
It is infuriating that I can't browse certain Reddit pages because they want me to "use the app so they know I'm over 18". I first ran into this in my current attempt to play through Dark Souls 3. It seems like the community there has a lot of good discussions about beating certain bosses, but for some reason, Reddit has decided that the content in that sub-reddit needs age verification and they wall it behind the app.
Levitator 1: copter flys from the tips
Made me think about possible gravitational environment for space travel. Use solar wind to drive rotation of enormous blades, with living quarters at tips. Everything held tight with guy wires, propulsion on axis, potentially have rotational control thrusters on the blades.
Workflow Engine for Human Beings
I'm maintaining an open source library called SpiffWorkflow these days, and just pushed out an article outlining our roadmap. Want to point out a series of related open source projects that are in the works.
It's coming from Youtube, here's his SocialBlade stats:

https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/@projectfarm

And I expect that he's near the top of those numbers, because his viewers are probably buying expensive tools based on his recommendations rather than an equivalent number of views watching a cartoon for kids or cute animals or something else difficult to market.

At close to a million views on many of his videos, and something like $0.01 per ad view, he's likely making on the order of $10k per video. Buying and destructively testing some shop vacs, hose clamps, or whatever is just part of that budget.
I liked the table comparing many disciplines' default instance of nothing:

Physics: No energy: the vacuum

Geometry: No dimensionality: a point

Set theory: No elements: the empty set

Arithmetic: No magnitude: zero

Information theory: No information: zero bits

Then they ask: "There is an unlimited number of possible theoretical systems. Does this mean there are also unlimited conceptions of nothing?"
Well I’m not aware of them happening “much less” just that there are less categories of bugs. We will of course rarely have software written with and without GC so it’s not an answer we will find.

Memory leaks happen very frequently in managed languages e.g., http://ithare.com/java-vs-c-trading-ub-for-semantic-memory-l...
Are you kidding?
Insect cells used in bioreactors would be an order of magnitude safer than possible insect food ( medical grade is much much higher standard than food grade), and people still avoid it as much as possible .
That should tell you "food grade" insects have enormous risk associated with them.
Stable Diffusion – DALL-E's Open Source alternative code shared on GitHub
Companies are welcome to do that, and see just how fast their staff quit.
https://archive.ph/FNZTj
What may also have had an impact was that clones were generally XT-clones (using the newer, smaller ISA card layout, and no cassette port), not PC-clones. And indeed, they were specifically advertised as 'XT-clone', 'XT-class' and such.
So the 5150 is really the oddball here.
Back in the old days I understood the usage as follows: 'PC' was a catch-all term for all IBM PC-compatible machines that ran DOS. 'XT' was the term used for machines with an 8088 (or sometimes V20) CPU (and of course there was the 'Turbo XT' subclass for CPUs running at more than 4.77 MHz). 'AT' was the term for 286 machines.
After that era, people just identified PCs by the CPU used, so you had '386es', '486es', 'Pentiums' etc.
It’s tough getting lectured by people who aren’t following the same level of discipline standards that you are. Infrastructure code usually looks more brittle than production code, because they aren’t specialists in high quality general purpose code. Not as bad as QA code, but not great.

I think the instinct is that if you’re going to take the moral high ground, you’d better walk up the hill and join us first. And the simplest way to do that seems to be the obvious one, which is to combine them under the same org chart and governance.
> The benefit is ontological cohesion across the whole web

This has no benefit for the person who has to pay to do the work. Why would I pay someone to mark up all my data, just for the greater good? When humans are looking/using my products, none of this is visible. It's not built into any tools, it doesn't get me more SEO, and it doesn't get me any more sales.
IMHO, this is the real value of /e/! I had a non-technical friend ask me how they could get an Android phone that would not spy on them. I could have suggested GrapheneOS (what I use) or LOS+microg, but instead I sent her /e/ because it hits that perfect balance of privacy and usability for a normal person!
Because everything else exist
Regarding the loneliness problem, that isn't as intractible as I used to think it was for us Venusians. In my case it was largely an issue of getting my emotional algorithms right, which requires effort that isn't quite intellectual effort - but intellectual capacity certainly helps understand what the new version should look like.

If you're interested in solving this problem for yourself I would recommend the book 'models' by Mark Manson, reading it made a world of difference for me.
Catapults and other torsion where during the Roman empire, though the thickness of walls also related to how tall they needed to be to be effective. Anything under 30 feet is easy to get over using simple ladders.

The Trebuchet is plenty old enough, but we don't have evidence of use by Rome.
GPT may have had some manual curation to avoid making it too horny and racist, but on a technical level for such models you can just throw anything at it. The more the better, shove it all in.
What's the price of this?

The easiest way to stop someone having any interest in your product is to try and conceal how much it's going to cost them.

Even if you don't have a final estimate, what are we talking. 3k ?

>These can now be in your desk, playing a role similar to a paper calendar or newspaper, but now in a seamlessly digital format.

I have an iPad pro on my desk, it serves all these purposes. It's a smaller screen alongside my monitor for me to play music and stuff, maybe glance over and read the news.

I don't mean to come off as too harsh, but it's not clear what problems you're trying to solve.

Now if you did something like created a mat that I could put on an existing desk, or so.

I'd be open to buying it, as long as it's $1,000 or less.
I think there is a lot of fussing about technical solutions to what is ultimately a cultural problem.

Suppose we had the perfect technology to define ontologies over real data.

This doesn't address the fact that Anglo-American culture is hostile to alternative ontologies. The idea of "one Truth" is baked into the national consciousness, from classical Western religion+philosophy to the liberal-democratic Constitution to Wikipedia and the current Fact-Checking™ Brought To You By Lockheed-Martin™ news-media regime.

With this worldview, there is no reason to invest in designing or implementing Semantic Web technologies. It's like building a a monument to a god that you don't believe exists. Waste of time.

To be clear, I spend a lot of time thinking about the technical side too and implementing enterprise solutions. I just think it's naive to frame it as primarily a technical problem when it comes to wider public deployment.
Yes, and then Time Happened, and every other part of iOS was updated; including, by the way, THE GREEN BUBBLES, to make them less readable, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills and no one else remembers that they used to be a different shade of green, with black text, which has significantly more contrast [1].

Regardless, they could improve it at any time, yet its been like this for... a decade now? Cognizant Inaction Is Intention. It doesn't matter why it is how it is; they can make it whateverthehell they want, they run the code, they run the org, they got the keys to production, so: fix it!

The original color may not have been malicious, but it WAS DELIBERATE. Every design decision at Apple is deliberate; to assert otherwise is to be revisionist. Cognizant Inaction Is Intention. Its color was deliberately chosen originally; its color was deliberately changed; their inaction in fixing the accessibility issues that change created is Deliberate, because Cognizant Inaction is Intention.

[1] https://d2bs8hqp6qvsw6.cloudfront.net/article/images/750x750...
No, I don't think that's the case. There's enough bureaucracy in those organizations that the best folk get frustrated and move on.
Yup same. I jump out as soon as it attempts to load and I have the ability.
Don’t forget Google’s period symbol for the username part (minus the -+ local part) of your email address.

John.Doe@gmail.com will accept the following variant username:

j.ohn.doe

Jo.hnd.oe

joh.n.doe

j.o.h.n.d.o.e

(And so on …)

Now I configure my email to reverse the local part and username but using a single period.

Facebook.egberts@my-mta-server.tld

reddit.egberts@my-mta-server.tld

instagram.egberts@ …

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/comparison-of-local-part-in...
Which is why china, vietnam, and korea never recovered. That good old colonialist narrative has its place, but given enough time and counter examples, it just lacks the explenation power it once had. Which is a dangerous gap the left left open, for the racist idiots to settle in.

Regarding the region.

The societal rot had already set in way before that. The whole ottoman empire was on a down trend, ever since the trade went around them. Which is a good indicator how low value was whatever they themselves had to produce and to offer.

To life in the shadow and ruins of the glorious past, it burns all men for what are they but lowcast creatures, fallen from up high..
Depends on how old the apartment buildings are. If the apartment buildings themselves are already wired with fiber (or really good, recent coax) it might be a lot cheaper running a single bundle of wires to services the building. (Keep in mind that ideally you still have one fiber wire per apartment to sell the highest speeds to each apartment, so you aren't necessarily saving on number of cables for 100 apartments versus 100 detached single-family homes.)

Of course, the older the buildings are the more expensive it gets. Running a new line into a single family home is usually a single new hole from the local utility trench or utility pole, which often have existing rights of way and known contact points to do utility work. Running new lines in an apartment complex often requires opening walls and ceilings between, among, and inside units, which then consequentially means doing new drywall and repainting (and maybe high costs to color match historic paints). If the apartments are condos there's even more complex rights of way issues in needing to get the consent of individual unit owners for some of the work.