skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing with Excel spreadsheets is that they're more than good enough for 95% of the scenarios they're used for. Everyone knows how to use Excel, and the backward compatibility of Excel sheets go back 30 years.
There are two kinds of advertising. One is a grocery store putting signs in the windows that say "Fresh cantaloupes, 99 cents". This was back when food was seasonal. People knew what cantaloupes were, but may have kind of forgotten about them, because it's been nearly a year since they could get them. So the store advertises that they have cantaloupes. This advertising just says "we have this thing".

Now think of Coke and Pepsi ads from during the "cola wars" era, or beer ads from a wider era. It's all about cool people and beautiful women, and you're supposed to think that maybe you could be cool like that and have a girl like that if you drank that. It has nothing to do with the properties of what's being sold; it's all about image.

The first kind of advertising is what you see when things are scarce; the second you see when things are abundant.

I don't have a problem with the first kind of advertising.
Show HN: Ask My Book
Hey HN! I’ve spent the past couple weekends building Ask My Book. You can use Ask My Book to ask a question and get an answer in my voice.

It's an experiment in using AI to make my book’s content more accessible. Instead of reading 52,000 words, you can ask a question and get a sub 100-word answer.

I'd prefer people read my book! But not everyone has the time... Give it a shot, and let me know what you think.

APIs used: GPT-3 (+ embeddings), and Resemble for the voice.
Thanks for sharing that, it's much more common to see opinions from people based on what they think others feel.

That word pairing evoked a bad history and was based on that particular definition of the word "master." Do you feel differently about other uses of the word on its own based on different meanings? I'm thinking of Git using "master," some switching to using "main," but also usage based on knowledge or skill mastery, like "Master's degree" or Frontend Masters. https://frontendmasters.com/
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/36-Fenderson-St-Painted-P...

When people ask me where I grew up, I tell them "Big Flats, between Horseheads and Painted Post." Then they usually ask if that's in Australia.
BTC chose the "digital gold" use case over "digital cash", a phrase present in the title of the Bitcoin whitepaper.

Because of this, we'll all be stuck with POS Ethereum. Be sure to thank your favorite Maximalist for that.
What are you complaining about?
Your last isn’t accurate (Bitcoin is a commodity bc of…)

Source - follow Gensler’s speeches and MIT classes, Hester Peirce’s speeches, and the SEC GitHub.

Basically, Bitcoin is likely not a sec because of how it works as a system, ethereum likely is not a sec but it gets opaque, clones of ethereum/EVM have similar treatments. From there, the ICO coins and similar tokens since then likely are secs, bunch of them are hazy as we veer into L1 and L2 and ….

The SEC has advocated for a “regulation beach” or whatever they call it to get companies to build a token within this beach, work with the SEC, and figure out the security vs commodity question. I don’t know if this has gotten traction though. There’s a SEC speech and GitHub repo somewhere for it.
I agree that it is an obvious extension for AI to use this data at scale to help users. It also is obviously a huge temptation to abuse it for other purposes.

Wasting a few minutes in the morning to find my glasses is a small price to pay to not be watched and analyzed all the time. Let's not build our own panopticons.
I don't think it was pulled out of thin area- he found a number that he wanted to be a numerator (total cost of providing meals), and a number that he wanted to be a denominator, and did the basic division. It's very likely the values he used were simply not appropriate, or existed without some context.
> "Simp" is an ugly word that makes you look stupid, misogynistic or homophobic depending on your audience.

Isn't that the direction you want "the conversation" to go? Because that's where your daddy is driving. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

> If you're not ready to watch a company collapse around you, then tech is a bad career choice.

I've been working in this industry for 25 years, child, and I haven't spent a day unemployed.
Wyze Wi-Fi 6 Mesh Router
They already tried it with iAds, what makes you think they're not going to do it again?
When billing hourly, I only bill when I'm actively working. Actively working can include continuing to think about the project while stepping away to use the bathroom, or "hammock driven development" that doesn't look like work to a casual observer but absolutely is.

It does not include stopping for lunch, spending 15 minutes on HN, or anything similar that definitely isn't work. Those kinds of breaks on the clock seem reasonable to me for daily or weekly billing, but not hourly.
nit: type actually originates from the Greek word τύπος https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/τύπος (Google definition‘s origin based on oxford dict also confirms that).
Here's one example: https://www.australiancarealliance.org.au/canadian_quadriple...
Thank you for the list! I made a website, magictools.online, that is all about various AI Tools. Right now I have 7 services http://magictools.online/images/avatar%20maker on my list for creating avatars and 62 for working with images. And I'm adding new ones every day.
Exactly. It is one thing to say "because Musk wants you out", another to refer to some policy in ambiguous wording. Lying about such serious matter as why you fire someone is is my book very bad. This is the first time I consider leaving Twitter. Not sure I want to have anything to do with it any longer.
That's very true but the politicians keep pretending that this fact doesn't exist.
As a coach at Mochary Method (which I know is coming from a biased perspective, so please take it with a grain of salt), I think the important thing to emphasize here is having the conversation with your senior engineer first.

In some situations, the senior engineer may love training and can allocate some of his/her time to up-leveling junior engineers. In other situations, the senior engineer may like to do 1:1s, but hates building the system/curriculum to train others. Find the win-win that meets both of your needs.

As a general rule of thumb, it's best to keep every member of the team in their zone of genius (i.e. high competency AND enjoyment) as much as possible. Have the conversation so you can optimize for that.
> I have heard that in alaska SPOT's only geostationary sat is really low on the southern horizon and anything that breaks LOS will interfere with the device.

Any geostationary sat would be low on the southern horizon in Alaska. That's just how geostationary orbits work, they are over the equator. Though pretty high above (35.000km/22.000mi). So it's still visible there but yeah you need a clear view of the southern horizon.

But Globalstar which runs the service for SPOT only has low earth orbit sats which are definitely not geostationary. They're only at a few hundred kilometers.

However it could very well be that their orbits are aligned so that they are always pretty low to the south from Alaska, yes.
Misgendering is not against the law in the US and is not considered hate speech by many people.

Don’t flame me I’m just pointing it out.
I really don't get this, having things be gender neutral was never the goal, it was to be gender inclusive. Boys, girls, and enbys are allowed to like different things and it's not evil to take off the blinders and use your gendered knowledge to help you figure out what to make. It only becomes an issue if you say boys can't like princes and princesses, playing house and girls can't like rockets and nerf guns.
This is the type of software I would really prefer not to have on a server. The only part of this I would want not on my device locally would be an encrypted backup.
'Kid gloves' are fine gloves made from the skin of a baby goat. Not from … whatever you thought.
Przewodów village in Poland hit by two Russian missiles, two dead
Could be your app still has legs, slotted into wherever a widget like this might make sense in the Apple ecosystem. IIRC, Amazon has a program allowing plugins for Alexa that your solution might be good for.

I searched around for a screenshot and found one with an images and a description of our tipping app, Tiptotaler.

It apparently got an A- rating from ilounge at the time, which is heartening still today. :) [1]

App functionality description:

> You can separately input food, drinks, and tax into three fields at the top of the screen, then note the number of drinkers and non-drinkers, set the tip amount, and then get totals for individual diners.

[1] https://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/iphone-g...
Active tactile sensing of small insect force by a soft microfinger
Faster horses would still leave our streets full of horse manure. "Grazing their own food" doesn't work in a dense urban environment. You're cherry-picking the upsides of the old way, but there were some pretty significant downsides.
In that case you "own" a paper bitcoin, which is much the same as not owning one at all. In this case, the "bitcoin" you own doesn't even exist (outside of the exchanges database) so you cannot use this to speculate on actual bitcoin in actual wallets.

Just look at FTX - some 1.8B in BTC liabilities but zero BTC assets
For exercise, I walk with audiobooks. They're great for this.

Figured out 30 years ago that I can't think independent thoughts with one of those going, though.

For thinking, I walk with nothing. If I want to remember something, I'll do something out of the ordinary as a reminder (e.g., transfer my keys or phone to a different pocket, or pick up a pebble and carry it) and write it down at the end of the walk. Notebooks seem to chase ideas away.
FlightTracker: Consistency Across Read-Optimized Online Stores at Facebook
I know about many small businesses (e.g. producing food) that find it prohibitive to export to the EU now. Tories say ‘export to developing countries’ but that is not as lucrative a market as the EU. The world is definitely not flat, countries almost always trade more with the neighbors rather than other countries unless that neighbor is North Korea.
"but there's nothing ambiguous about "look it up on the wiki"

That is ambiguous. I would assume you were running a personal wiki project, and you meant that, or you meant the wiki at your place of work. This isn't like "flexing on the Gram" -- most people don't run a personal Instagram, so if you're flexing on the gram, as the rap lyrics say, then I can guess what you mean. But most of us use wikis at work, so we all deal with a large number of wikis, so simply saying "wiki" is ambiguous.
I've used it once, but I can't remember why.
Whatever company was using it, sent me a postcard with a barcode or something on it. It gave instructions for me to walk into any Canada Post and hand over my ID and the post card. The staff verified my ID and then scanned the barcode. I was then verified. It was quite a while ago, likely before most of the 'online ID verification' companies existed. I'm not sure how they compare in terms of cost, accuracy and compliance.
Unblock: A CI/CD conference (Dec 5-6, virtual)
> I guess something I don't know about employment law, everyone says in a right to work state, you can fire someone for any reason

”At-will employment” (every state except Montana) not ”right-to-work” (which California emphatically is not.) The latter is a restriction on unions.

> but can you lie about the reason?

Lying publicly about the reason might be defamation, but this wasn’t public, and lying doesn’t itself establish that the reason was illegal, which is necessary for wrongful termination in an at-will state.
The HuggingFace datasets python package is free and can handle images inside Apache Arrow just fine. Combined with a few Exos, NVMes, and dm-cache, storing TBs of data becomes very affordable and I have direct 10G access and can mmap on the network share.

In my opinion, this space will be won based on price per throughput.

But you're charging $1k monthly for 1TB? And my hobbyist speech recognition projects (30TB) vastly exceed your enterprise plan? That discrepancy makes it challenging to believe that your team has as much experience with actual AI projects, as the reference to self-driving cars would suggest.

Anything that easily fits onto a consumer NAS is probably not an enterprise data lake. A one-time €1700 purchase (equivalent to 2 months of your service) will buy me a TS-464-4G with 32TB RAID1 and 5 years of warranty.
Interesting observation: You prevented a "uh oh" from turning into an "we're dying" state. It sounds like your friends are pretty hardened for the backcountry, and they needed to get out, but it wasn't life-threatening (at the time). Something we should consider while designing these systems. I think the pricepoint of InReach services certainly prevent casual usage (sending memes, browsing instagram) but allows sufficient communication at a reasonable price to coordinate safely.

Also, with 5ft of snow coming down, I have my doubts an iPhone would be able to reach out and touch a satellite. It'll be interesting to see some tests.
You'd have to be naïve to assume the standard of living in Western countries today is comparable to how it was in the 1950s.
> Question: Is weed bad for you?

> Answer: To explain, the term "weed" is used to describe a plant that is not wanted. It is used to describe plants that are considered to be a nuisance. The term "weed" is also used to describe plants that are considered to be harmful to humans.

What the fuck is the point of this tool?
Of course--that's my point. Those externalities aren't priced in, which is a large part of the purchasing power change for consumer goods over the last couple decades. We can start with the cost of salvage and recycling being priced into COGS, amortized across expected lifetime (and refined as data comes in--make something good that lasts longer, get a refund against your up-front deposit as a manufacturer).

Sorry, I should've been more explicit in my first post. My bad.
Depends on the query. The top result for “Star Trek wiki” is Memory Alpha, which is the Star Trek wiki. “Crusader Kings wiki” returns the official CK3 wiki, followed by the CK2 wiki, followed by a Wikipedia link.

If you Google things that don’t have their own wiki, though, you do tend to get Wikipedia.
> Garmin inReach is a robust and rugged satellite communicator

I own one and when I brought it on a remote expedition I found it to be a buggy POS: duplicated messages, stuck connection requiring resets, garbled messages.

That being said, the current iPhone 14 satellite function wouldn’t have worked at all for my purpose in those circumstances.
> It falls in the same territory (or nearby, at least) as someone who doesn't know better saying "Java" to refer to JS (JavaScript).

I don't mean to offend you, but this is a poor analogy. Java and JavaScript are hardly related, the former a programming language developed by Sun employees and first implemented by Sun, and while the latter did involve collaboration with Sun by Netscape and used Java-like syntax, the JS name is more marketing than having any relation to Java. But more importantly, neither is a type of the other.

"Wikipedia" is a portmanteau of wiki and encyclopedia, and Wikipedia is, in fact, both of these things and the most well known, the largest and by far the most used implementation of wiki[1] ever.

> can you avoid using the word "wiki" as casual shorthand to refer to Wikipedia?

It's really ok that nearly everyone does this, and what you're asking is like asking New York Times employees to stop calling nytimes.com "the website." I would not be surprised if 99.9% of all wiki implementation ever is actually Wikipedia, iow, there are lots of wikis, but most of them, by volume, are Wikipedia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Nope. I tried it and hated the MacOS GUI. I like my window-manager config, and various other deep customizations. Also, MacOS updates kept breaking things.
Yes, but they have very different characteristics. You can't just plug a hydrogen car into the grid and charge it anywhere, so the overnight charges that EV owners are accustomed to go away. The hydrogen fuel cells tend to be large and heavy, so they don't save weight and also lose luggage capacity relative to an EV of similar size.

And without great advances in hydrogen production, they tend to cost more to operate than gasoline powered vehicles.

The one perk is faster fillups for road trips or lacking infrastructure. Most EV owners wouldn't switch just for that.
I would 100% prefer to lose my keys rather than letting Amazon or Google in.

FYI: I have zero Alexa/Siri enabled device, zero automated home device, a degoogled phone, etc etc. So we might have different perspectives on the matter.
That’s generally how I use HN, so I suppose that’s fine.
My entire point is that you fail to notice and appreciate things that have an effect on your life.

No, I'm not going to take your word for it. You're oblivious.
I just started a small hobby project and selected supabase for my db provider. Anyone with experience in both Supa and PlanetScale care to comment about the differences?

To me, it looks like supabase is designed to take full advantage of postgres features. plpgsql triggers + RLS + clientside auth + streaming changes to subscribers (including via web hooks) are my favorite features. (They also have js edge functions, but I use lambda instead b/c I prefer python)

Supabase feels like the scrappy company with amazing focus, akin to an early MailChimp (circa 2007). PlanetBase feels more like early Snowflake - massive scale, focus on performance, can match anything feature-by-feature. One is a master of their craft, the other is a gorilla at scale.

Curious what others think. I haven't used PlanetBase extensively so don't have much to go on except their marketing.
> MKBHD is an awesome reviewer of many things.

I want to disagree with you there, but if I do basically all other YT reviewers get thrown into the mix too.

Let me preface this with: I haven't watched his reviews, or most reviewers in a year or two.

So many of them just read the spec sheets to a camera, then add something like "It's amazing to me, personally I've loved (insert some aspect of the device the marketing department is focusing on this year)."

Now, to be specific with him, to me it seems like he just doesn't care anymore. So many flubs that should have just been reshot, or him reading a spec sheet wrong.

But I think this is a symptom of nobody (ok, the general public) really wanting in depth testing reviews. They want eye candy that reassures their pre-made decision.
No, Coinbase has stated that a _bankruptcy court may decide to do that_ and Coinbase has no control over that
Not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software) I suppose ^^.
You might even say "his ambitions exceeded his grasp"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/ftx-sam-bankma...
COOs do all the stuff that people think CEOs do.
Wow, this is super cool. How do you get obviously talented people to spend so much time collaborating on things like this?
As does the Neanderthal parallax by Robert J. Sawyer [0]. It describes an advanced civilization of Neanderthals who have taken completely different societal choices. IIRC, each neanderthal has a recording device that constantly films and uploads a 3D feed of their surroundings. In case of murder, the court can access this recording to determine find the killer.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264946.Hominids
I am not the parent comment here, and I do not know specifically what they meant.
However, I will say, it would not be the first time a charitable donation ended up going to lining pockets instead of doing the good it was intentioned for.

The BLM scandal and all the mansions is just one of the most recent examples that come to mind.

All of these huge companies and thousands of individual donors giving money to what they believed to be a just cause - only to end up buying mansions and sports cars for the organization leaders.

Another older example was the Red Cross shinanigans in Haiti.

These sort of things erode trust in opaque charitable organizations.
The S&P 500 looks to be up about 96% between 2015 and 2022 (today), using the time range mentioned in the article.

It also paid about a 2% yearly dividend over that time frame.
There is no bill for rescues in Montana per https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/missoula-gallatin-co-searc.... It's much faster, safer to have professionals with helicopters to pick them up rather than getting snow cats up there.
entrapment is a very narrow defense. see this handy comic for an explanation of entrapment: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633

basically, it's only entrapment if the informants put some kind of unreasonable pressure on you to make you break the law, something that would tempt any reasonable person.
It’s hard to overstate how much better this workflow is UX-wise than the git(hub) default. I’m super excited to see it open sourced.
AP is now reporting a "senior US intelligence official" confirmed it =/
If you're going to trade with smart contracts, the correct advice should be 'don't trade at all', because you're going to have your lunch eaten by software bugs.
Question: Magnets, how do they work?

Answer: Magnets are a type of material that can attract or repel other materials. The force of attraction or repulsion is called a magnetic force. The force is caused by the movement of electrons in the material. The movement of electrons is called electricity. The force is called magnetism. The force is called a magnetic field.
Buildkite raises $21M Series B
They are just competing with every other online clinic, that said I don’t trust Amazon with this kind of data
Funny thing is that Wikipedia used to run on fully sponsored servers at least in the European region, provided by educational organizations.

But they left because they wanted to be independent and they had plenty of sponsorship money anyway. And they still do. They get much more from business and government than they'll ever get from us.

Like the other poster above I also donate to archive.org instead which really does need it.
Just having a front door cam paid off immensely this year when I was able to prove that I had left the house with an item (that I later misplaced, and was able to recover with that knowledge.)
My guess is that you are referring to the "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory

Which, despite the awesome rhyming phrase, doesn't really represent reality much. But even if it did, feral stage development wouldn't be reason to believe that this applies to humans.

The better reason to believe there's a chance this applies to humans, to some degree, is that humans and fish share similar brain signaling and micro biome products; which may be true or may not be! It's a big hint of a direction to look, which is great.

But even if this doesn't apply to humans, it's valuable research because it defines what's possible in biology.
Some just play for fun and not in ranked.
The Owl House is one of the best modern western animated series available right now. Of course Disney cancelled it because "it didn't fit to the Disney brand". If you're into animated series, that is one not to miss. Yeah, I am too very surprised it was on Disney+...
Literally just got back from a road trip in southern Greece where I had reception almost half of the time spent driving. Didn't see a single car for over 2 hours of driving. Car had a clutch issue, but things worked out. Can actually see how this becomes useful.
Not that far, but I would need to buy an apple tree from someone and wheat seeds