skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find My isn’t just Find My Stuff. It’s also Find My Friends and Find My Family Member.

The use case isn’t AirPods lost in the tundra it’s your husband or wife lost in the tundra.
0.4% of the entire country is a massive amount of land.

That’s 10 million acres of wires, maintenance, habitat and all kinds of mischievous creatures, not least of which are humans. And it only works when the weather is good. And not all countries have the grid or engineering and maintenance capacity of the United States.

It’s not a realistic solution.

By all means, lets put solar panels everywhere we already have buildings and roofs and power hookups and make a dent. Maybe at some point it’ll be possible to use solar alone, and we can keep up the maintenance.

Going all in on solar right now would be suicide. It’d be worse than the effects of anthropogenic warming. People are going to freeze to death this winter in Germany because they bought into the promise of renewables before it delivered and didn’t diversify their energy supply.

You should only phase something out when you can meet demands without it. Nuclear is a way to do that. Natural gas is a way to do that. Renewables are a way to do that. But you have to actually exceed demand and have a solid diversified base before you panic switch because of climate change. Otherwise you kill and impoverish more people than climate change.
This is a bit of a myth. The heat wave and water levels was a problem, but most of it was maintenance issues unrelated to that. It was more a problem of mismanagement, and the fact that Macron went into office promising to shut down the fleet, making operators start to cut down on maintenance. He has now reversed course after realising that depending on Russian gas is bad. All wind/solar in Europe works by balancing it against natural gas or hydro, but the amount of hydro is fixed so expanding the wind/solar fleet increases the demand for gas. Hence why the renewable poster child Germany is in so deep shit right now.
The profit motive is part of the problem. It routinely creates perverse incentives.

It has gotten to the point that, rather than seeking to build a great product or provide a great service and make a good profit for doing so, far, far too many companies are seeking to make as much profit as conceivably possible, and making the product or providing the service is simply a necessary evil toward that end. That is part of what has led to the catastrophic financialization of so much of our economy.

Money is not the end. Money is a tool. The end goal should always have been better products and services, a better society, and happier people.
I believe metals can or do - thicker gauge can’t be rolled up but assume it’s oriented vertically for shipping
A million concurrent, with a database-backed website? Is that a useful threshold? How many monthly actives is a million concurrent? And, at that scale, is your database your gating factor, or is app architecture?
It's definitely not a US thing.
I don't use R, but I think that the Vega declarative visualization language is also nice: https://vega.github.io

Could someone familiar with more than one of these compare Wilkinson's work with Wickham's and with Vega/Vega Lite?
I support moving all the smoking buildings outside the environment also. Then many of them can use the fusion reactor directly, with the aid of mirrors and lenses.
It's precisely because work-related damage is only semi-necessary that it is so traumatic. Everywhere you look, there are people who have essentially avoided surrendering decades of their lives by being lucky and/or successful in business. Even 30 decisive seconds during a job interview can lead to enormous differences in salary for a job lasting multiple years. A few minutes spent on a crypto forum in 2009 can mean 100x more than a decade of hard work and education.

By contrast, illness and soreness are humming background noises that you can get used to.
I found https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ useful for thinking about this, and developing an awareness of where my attention goes.

I use https://bulletjournal.com/ in a paper notebook.

I use https://orgmode.org/ on my personal and work computers.
I was frustrated with the lack of resources, so I'm publishing a book on it: "Building Browser Extensions". Available later this year. https://www.buildingbrowserextensions.com/

And check out the companion extension: https://www.buildingbrowserextensions.com/b2x
I don’t know if that’s fair. I’ve learned a lot from dissenting arguments despite what any of the posted replies might say - I just don’t respond saying so, so you’d never know. I think there’s value in dissenting if you believe the more popular opinion is wrong, even if doing so invites criticism. It’s not that hackernews doesn’t “tolerate” it, they do, it’s just that you’re necessarily going to get people bitching at you when you say something polarizing.
It’s still available via its onion address. I think the more websites that are pushed onto the dark net is just going to increase its prevalence and use. I silencing bad behavior rather than confronting it, it’s just going to proliferate.
Peloton is the term for the biggest group in a cycling race, usually there the favorites are. the term isn't used outside of races.
> “This team is finding that the density confinement is actually a bit lower than traditional operating modes, which is not necessarily a bad thing, because it’s compensated for by higher temperatures in the core,” he says. “It’s definitely exciting, but there’s a big uncertainty about how well our understanding of the physics scales to larger devices. So something like ITER is going to be much bigger than KSTAR”.

This made me wonder when ITER was going to actually be up and running. From wikipedia:

> "The reactor was expected to take 10 years to build and ITER had planned to test its first plasma in 2020 and achieve full fusion by 2023, however the schedule is now to test first plasma in 2025 and full fusion in 2035."

So, it sounds like it'll start doing something within a few years, but it'll probably be a long time before it produces significant scientific results.

By the time ITER is running, maybe some other group will beat them to it (like the MIT ARC or SPARC reactors, which use more recent, better superconductors and don't need to be anywhere near as big).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
>I wouldn't expect the first generation to still be operational

From Wikipedia:

>In 2007, Globalstar launched eight additional first-generation spare satellites into space to help compensate for the premature failure of their in-orbit satellites. Between 2010 and 2013, Globalstar launched 24 second-generation satellites in an effort to restore their system to full service.

So you're totally right.
I'm just happy that a decade later Apple is finally catching up to the industry standard home screen and lock screen notifications/widget experience that they resisted so hard for some reason.
> These bluetooth earphones have just one feature that is outstanding: They work as expected, most of the time.

Better hope you don't listen to Apple Music in Lossless, though, because the newly announced Airpods... don't support it.
Turbines and piston engines also rely on the mechanical power of gas expanding.
Would Adaptive Cruise Control count as an existing system to do this?

It’s not that close granted but it does improve safety by watching the car in front on a long drive.
I'm surprised this feature is provided by Globalstar. That network is, as the name says, global so why limit the feature to the US and Canada?
> What’s your favorite charity?

Not GP but the EFF is the charity most likely to help successfully push for changes here :) I am sending them 50 bucks in your name. Care to double it?
Contradicting purposes, behaviours, limitations, and materials.

Like...

Why can't we use the same chair we sit in to type at a desk when we drive in a car?
Check out Retro68, I still write classic mac apps using this toolchain.
I think humans are far more adaptable than the doomers will have you believe. Even if that adaptation takes some time at a societal level.

We've seen this with several technologies in the past, especially communication technologies. (Do you remember the doomer-ism around phone calls and telephones?)
I'm also interested in this. I've been using SpiderOak for years, but am currently trying to migrate away (to rsync.net, coincidentally). It's not that I've ever had any issues with SpiderOak, but nor do they seem to be a very engaged company (e.g. I've never heard of a SpiderOak person posting here on HN, but @rsync is never far away and is always friendly). It does sound like their efforts are in other directions.
Is this post intentionally formatted like an email from grandma? Or that time cube site?
As far as I can tell it's enabled. The only other option I see is an option to turn on an overlay button but I definitely do not want ANY app drawing a button on my screen 100% of the time.
Those platforms are worse but I don’t believe HN is any better in quality, just quantity. It’s a web forum linking to online content, it holds the same pitfalls for addictive behavior.
Any disadvantages to switching from Chrome or Firefox?
Love it. I’ve heard Joe Girard did some questionable things to get in the door (calling during the day to get the spouse, then calling later an insinuating that spouse had requested a call) but he also did a lot of things that was digging the well for long term growth (the Christmas and birthday cards, for example).

Love it, thanks for the comment
This plan is only available to AT$T postpaid customers. Prepaid customers are SOL.

I use Google Fi when I roam abroad now for the most part, especially in South America where getting and activating local SIM cards is often especially difficult.
The ”action” mode works by cropping in to negate the camera shake, so you’re left with a smaller image than with a physical gimbal. Also it’s post processing that’s probably already available in you editing apps, so it’s more about the convenience (and quality?) of having it done on the OS than something new.
> A single cell tower with 5G/4G is not far off doing that, per sector.

Assuming you mean LTE when you say 4G, the per sector bandwidth is customarily an order of magnitude less than 20gbps. Even in the case of 5G, with sub-6Ghz anyway, you rarely will see above 15gbps. There’s only so many bits per second you can squeeze per megahertz and below 6Ghz the allocations there just isn’t enough available frequency. That’s why cell towers have gotten much closer together.
But it IS a big deal!

There’s been a lot of research into emergency UX. Basically, it needs to be dead simple or people die. In an emergency, people are usually panicked, injured or in shock. The tool needs to do its thing simply and effortlessly to cut through the panic and confusion of a real emergency. I have an avalanche transponder that is one big button because when you friend just got buried under 20 tons of snow and rocks, you have the leftover brain for one button.

From the demo, I think Apple is very aware of this which is why they give you a series of canned prompts. They’ve probably already used up a significant cognitive load by having you point the phone for signal that having you type as well was considered dangerous.
Except that's not exactly what they are doing, is it?
Following on your example, it'd be like selling the advice of someone who has seen a lot of these pictures passing by windows, with a very good memory and understanding of pictures.

Github Copilot is not spitting out code verbatim, it's learning what code is, what shape it usually has, and trying to retrofit your own code onto the shape it thinks code should have.

It's not like it's doing a query like `SELECT * FROM COPIED_CODE WHERE CODE STARTS_WITH "def my_func("`.
The reason OSB wins so much is that the average house is built to last just about as long as OSB does in normal conditions (even with water damage).

Shit is wack yo. Perfectly usable houses are remodeled all the time.

I hate OSB so much. And it no longer is that much cheaper than plywood, which still can die in water but at least doesn't die immediately.
I think you'd just make the sockets and plugs keyed. A 120v only plug can only plug in a 120v outlet. A dual voltage plug can plug into either socket. Bonus points for providing some simple signal that indicates the voltage for dumb appliances like hair dryers.

The other option would just be to require all appliances to be dual voltage. This would add several dollars to many devices but they cost would go down over time.

It's academic anyway, a switchover isn't happening any time soon. The only way I can see it happening is if we switch to a system similar to EV charging where all connections are negotiated. Nothing is hot until required and anything operating over current can be immediately identified and disabled. Appliances could even limit their consumption to a lower setting if insufficient capacity was available on their circuit. Such a change could occur due to future regulation and hopefully at a time where the cost of the technology has gone down significantly.
I'm aware. That trust model is inherently broken, and it's not followed anyway. In practice, any CA you trust can sign a revocation for any certificate (the serial numbers are all grouped together) - And that's the way it should be. You should not wait for the issuing CA to get it's act together, you should burn a certificate as soon as anyone distrusts it, and if you have a rogue CA that starts burning Google.com and other important sites, it's better that they burn them (and take you offline) than that they issue false certs (and leak all your data); It's also far more obvious.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/04/19/revchecking.html

Revocation checking is useful for your security team to blacklist site. That's the only useful use.
The point of passkeys isn't convenience (that's what things like TouchID/FaceID are for); the point is to make phishing, brute-forcing, and credential stuffing all irrelevant. Having a "backup" password removes every one of those benefits.
I had an older Fenix and the distance accuracy was pretty bad. But no one seems to have an issue with the current ones.
WebAuthn and Passkeys
I had originally written this after WWDC 2022, and the incredibly low amount of news coverage shocked me enough into researching first-hand the future of passwordless sign-in that Apple/Google/Microsoft want us all to be in.

Nothing has changed in iOS 16 or macOS 13 since WWDC 2022 to suggest that users will have the ability to export their private keys. Passkeys are still a lock-in feature.

Passkeys was not mentioned during the iPhone 14 Event.

I don't have an Android device with Android 11+ to be able to test this, so if any users are able to test out [WebAuthn](https://webauthn.me/) and check if the created passkey via Google's password/passkey manager allows for exporting, it would really be appreciated.

Perhaps this changes with user backlash once enough websites support WebAuthn, but I doubt it.
Why can’t you use natural gas in Europe?
The boomer generation got good pensions, affordable housing and growing investments so they could afford to live by themselves. Another thing is in many countries people are having less kids so that puts more of a burden on the few kids to support their elders. Future generations wont be so lucky because elderly will have less retirement income and no kids to fall back on.
I wouldn't work for someone who felt me up either, but by just walking out I'm not doing much to prevent that behavior from being normalized.

Worse, it's the Market for Lemons. The jobs nobody takes get seen by more people because they stay on the market, and so they are over-represented amongst observers. Then the horrible people at your company start saying things like, "everybody is doing it". Everybody does a lot of things that nobody should be doing.
How do I sign up? Their website gives the impression it's not available until next year.
A better answer is three phase power. That reduces the size of inductors and capacitors needed in the DC converters while still letting you use a transformer to drop from the highest acceptable line voltage (to minimize copper use/minimize losses) to whatever the device really wants.

Bonus: Three phase transmits more power per "mass of copper" than single phase.

Extra bonus: You will never have the stupid starting capacitor fail on any of your larger domestic motors!
I'll happily accept this tradeoff.
Airpods have a low battery announcement that will pop your eardrums and it cannot be turned off.
1400km, compared to 550km for Starlink.
Are they releasing a new iPad pro soon? Buyers guide says It's been 495 days.
Sometimes getting a local SIM as a foreigner is at best a hassle (Ecuador) and at worst basically impossible to do legally (Peru). In other countries, however (such as many EU countries) it can be quite easy.
> This is a huge usability issue for people with weak eyesight

What is it about weak eye sight that prevents someone from turning their plugs over when they find it doesn't fit the first time? Are people with weak eyesight also all THAT short of time as well?

Far easier with polarized NEMA plugs than, say, USB-A.

> I never understood why US uses a wider pin on two prong plugs

Because single-pole switches are cheaper, and ensuring the outer contact on an Edison light bulb screw fixture is neutral and NOT energized is an important safety feature.
‘Woman who can smell Parkinson’s’ helps scientists develop test
Wouldn’t it be worth it to just change the battery ?
> you might want to take a moment to ponder the fact

> Well if one never stops to think about its potential merits

Listing some of those merits may be more productive than insisting people aren't thinking about it hard enough
MVNOs are already offering international cross carrier roaming built into their plans for eSIM users https://www.usmobile.com/international-roaming-phone-plans

I'm a dual physical SIM user today but I'm not worried about going eSIM, especially if that was the state of things prior to the iPhone going eSIM only.
Another reason not to panic is that the Dutch have a massive gas field and choose to use it only 10% (2.7B m3/year out of 25B m3/year, about 60% of their consumption). Surely, if the situation was dire they would max out their wells first, (they say it would produce small earthquakes and 15000 houses would be in danger but that's a small price to pay)
I think we've been holding back so many bike records by requiring an upright posture. Recumbent bikes, especially ones with aero shells, would smash a great many bicycle records if they were allowed to compete. It's not even against the spirit of the competition. We allow all sorts of crazy composite carbon fiber frames with specialized drivetrains, but don't allow people to change their seating position.
I wonder how much bandwidth it would need to be able to load directions? It’s worst when I’m done hiking and can’t reception to load directions to Red Robin. I have to drive aimlessly until I get some cell service.
First of all, this links to an advertisement website for a "new approach" that OP is pitching, so have your eyes wide open.

With respect to the criticisms of the lean startup methodology, I would say that common sense should prevail and there's no reason to cut and run. I don't have a dog in the hunt, but I've always used the lean startup approach with my mentees as just a tool, that's it. And I would suspect that most people use the approach in that way.

Identifying a problem to solve and devising a solution to that problem that satisfies the customer base is still fundamental to business. You are never going to start with an "intelligent strategy" and then jam that down customers' throats without spending a LOT of money. So what's wrong with starting small and then iterating, especially when there isn't a VC throwing money at you? Nothing is wrong with that. I did it. My friends all did it. And it works, despite OP's reservations.
It was probably Peter Sagan

https://youtu.be/zR3QoZWMkok
No, because no harm is done once I delete the files after looking over the notes, and I am able to perform my job far better than otherwise. It's just that from an outside perspective it is unlikely to sound innocuous despite being so.

It's a bit like those 'wait I can explain' situations in sitcoms.
I've only been running it live for a couple months, so it's too soon to tell! Generally it wouldn't be expected to show any signals for the first 6 months or so. Additionally it's expected to weaken over time and need to be reset; 3 years seems about the optimal horizon.

The testing data I'm using goes back to Y2K. Overfitting is definitely a concern. I've proven that a delta that worked one year doesn't work the next, or what worked for one five-year span doesn't work on the next five. But what's interesting is that the local delta mean can be broadly broken into distinct eras by looking at sliding time windows. e.g. From 1998-2008, the best overall fit scales down well to each year. 2008-2012, 2012-2020, 2020-now... the last one is the great unknown, of course, and too early to call if I've gotten close to it. Any test that covers the covid disruption or the 2008 crisis has a nexus that skews future results to the high side, so I feel those can't be trusted. If I can beat the market by 20% in the first year, I'll be happy.

I'll keep an eye on your progress. Best of luck!
Pleasantly surprised that Peter Jurasik is still alive, given the circumstances.
I get that this is sarcasm, but one of my idle day dreams is a safe, simple, mostly analog system that does exactly this between a set of moving train cars and the last car on the rear (as a transitional state, the rear car eventually catches up and mechanically couples). I call it the reverse slip carriage. If it can be done, it would keep all the advantages of trains while also totally revolutionising possible service patterns. You could (for example) have a train where every carriage slips-off to make its own subset of limited stops and then slip-joins the next train to pass by. Passengers pick where to wait on the platform based on their destination, and there's always an express carriage to where you want to go. Another neat service trick this system could do is to have an 8 car subway which runs every 5 min that splits itself into 4 different 2-car light rail services every 5 min (rather than 4 subway branches with an 8 car train every 20 min (looking at Rockaway beach A train)). The ability to split and rejoin trains on the fly without stopping or spending time on coupling procedures is simple yet it would be profoundly game changing.

My current vision for the system basically amounts to electrically coupling the motors of the carriages such that any attempt to accelerate / decelerate one carriage transfers energy via induced voltage which accelerates / decelerates the other carriages by exactly the right amount. It's like an electrical version of how all the cable cars are holding on to the same rope. No computer, no glitches, entirely dumb components.
You can work out the estimates but it's often the finish stuff that drives the cost per square way up.

Build a post-frame "barn" and get a massive space with no interior walls and get it for quite cheap.

In a 2000 sq foot house, a $2k tub costs a dollar a square. That's a significant part of the total price!