skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, also for about five years now!

Upsides: Month long battery (doesn't use a standard USB cable, but it reaches full charge in about an hour), basic activity tracking, smart alarm clock (which I absolutely adore[0], haven't used phone's alarm for years), no subscription needed for any of its features.

Downsides: glass is not scratch-resistant (mine's full of scratches), getting data out of via API is not trivial, and the screen itself is annoyingly small (it can fit like 10 characters).

For the past two or three years I did look into other options a couple of times, but they all either don't have any additional actually useful features, or if they do their battery barely lasts days. I don't see myself switching to anything else for the foreseeable future, unless Withings goes out of business of course.

[0] Instead of telling it "wake me up at 9am", you can tell it "I need to wake up at 9am, but 8:30am is fine if you detect my sleep is weak". It wakes you up by vibrating. Quick press of the only button on the watch turns the alarm off, longer press snoozes it for 10 minutes.

EDIT: I also discovered by accident that it still "works" even with 0% battery. I forgot to bring that special USB cable with me on some trip and I still used it to track time/steps for days until I returned home.
Ah, yeah, those "audits". Done on only a small portion of FTX and by one auditor that the guy who cleaned up Enron doesn't know anything about (forgot which one of those two, but I think Armanino was called out in the Chapter 11 finding as being kind of suspicious; EDIT: the called out one was Prager Metis, see the other sister comment). So, these "audits" are basically worthless, and in a different category like, say, a properly conducted SOX audit.

Seriously, read the Chapter 11 filing from the new CEO. It explains a lot of those topics.

And yes, my answer to all those crypto related shenanigans is proper government oversight. If you act like a bank, you have to be regulated like a bank. If you act as a securities trader, same thing. As an investment bank / fund? Likewise. That you made up the securities and assets you trade in and manage by yourself and literally out of thin air (and some electricity and some GPUs) shouldn't change that.
Promoting usability and then showing examples of text inputs with only placeholder text and no label...

There are some fundamental negative usability practices which are popular and get repeated all the time, even by people who claim to be UX experts. The worst is when you (the developer) raise an issue to the team about some UX problems, and they have closed ears because they implicitly trust their "UX expert" (who has a title).
Author rwmj is a regular poster here
Yeah, you have really tried to find an out there reason, huh ?

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/paris-attacks-...
I don't care about software licenses. I'm a contractor. I pay for software that makes me better at my job AND I trust the vendor will support ME.

My time is valuable to me and my clients.
It can be used for a dark pattern, but the example seemed to be from a chat app, which I guess you just signed up to. Isn't it then more guidance through the expected flow? You just signed up to chat, let's make sure you can chat?
Most autoscaling functionality is implemented on top of the upstream cluster-autoscaler component, and GKE documentation claims to remove nodes when pods fit onto other nodes as well[1], so it does have the same "defragging" functionality. It might not be configured aggressive enough for their liking though (but even then, GKE has a more aggressive autoscaling profile that might do the trick).

My point is that while the original post is reporting problems with autoscaling in Kubernetes without enough details to go by, cluster-autoscaler is fairly good at its job of downsizing clusters if you take the time to a) optimize its configuration and b) make sure your workloads are configured in a way that allows downsizing clusters.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/clu...
Alexa backend treats user swearing the same way it treats a repeated command or other negative feedback.
Silica aerogels have a pressure-dependent thermal conductivity, and at atmospheric pressure it is approximately 0.03 W/mK – there are pictures of them on bunsen burners with ice-cream or flowers on top. Their "naked" density is on the order of 2 kg/m^3 -- comparable to that of air (~1 kg/m^3), as they are, unsurprisingly, mostly air. The melting point is around 1400 K (either not as high or comparable to the "2200 degrees" mentioned in the article – I'm unsure if that's ºC or ºF).

The down side, of course, is the cost: all the "real" providers I can find have a price of "contact us", and on Amazon a ~35x25 cm^2 panel goes for about €30, in comparison to somewhere between half and a tenth the price for bricks or other forms of insulation...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel#Silica_aerogel
Ask HN: What do I say to a kid asking how he can better learn English?
I’m visiting India. A couple of kids wanted to practice speaking English with me. They both asked me how they can better learn English, especially since their local community doesn’t speak much English. What can I tell them? They are both about 12 years old.
It is scams all the way down. At this point I'm convinced everything is a scam.
They say this:

> making their developers 18% faster

If they're claiming 18%, it was probably more like 5% to 10% and it's really hard to sell something that's 5% better (especially when the alternative is free/ do nothing).
I don't know if we need to assume corruption here. It's probably more likely they didn't fully understand what they were doing, had a few spreadsheets waved in front of them and didn't really look into any of it particularly closely.
But is relying on your own answers really better than relying on an external authority? Only if it's always the same authority. But always thinking you know better than everybody else doesn't really sound any healthier.
Good that he is following his conscience.
A fun code challenge! I started with https://github.com/Alexir/CMUdict/blob/master/cmudict-0.7b as a list of words with pronunciation. It has:

PIZZA P IY1 T S AH0

Looks like I can search for " T S " to find the "ts sound that's not at the end"

% grep " T S " cmudict-0.7b | wc -l
991

Some of the non-proper nouns include ACCOUNTANCY, ANTSY, and ARTSY. I'll assume this is too close to the end to count, so require two sounds after the " T S ":

% grep -E " T S [A-Z0-9]+ [A-Z0-9]+" cmudict-0.7b | wc -l
853

These include: bestseller, blitzkrieg, boatswain, bootstrap, chutzpah, craftsman, draftsmanship, footstep, hotspot, itself, jetstream, outscore, outsell, outside, postscript, shirtsleeve, shortstop, sportsmanship, statesmen, tsar, tsunami, whatsoever, yachtsman, and zeitgeist.

(It doesn't have "spritzer" in the list, and uses the spelling "matzoh" instead of "matzo". I didn't look for a more complete list of word pronunciations.)

Finally, two words with two occurrences of the "ts" sound, neither at the end:

% grep -E " T S .*T S " cmudict-0.7b
ITSY-BITSY IH2 T S IY0 B IH1 T S IY0
TSETSE T S IY1 T S IY0
Reunification will happen when the majority of them do want to, and that’s probably not that far away given the chart at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ireland#Northern_Irelan...
> The eagle goat footage from Frozen Planet was shot by Attenborough's own team. There was nothing faked about it.

Attenborough does not have his own production team. Most of the footage in Frozen Planet was produced by the BBC, but not all of it. Over 30 shoots were produced locally.

The Frozen Planet golden eagle footage is mixed and contrived, and it is easy to tell by the editing. The BBC shot all in ultra high definition, and some of the footage of golden eagles is in 8K and shot with a really decent professional camera. The drone footage is of a trained eagle, otherwise it would have taken down the drone. And the footage of the eagle taking down the kid and flying with the kid (for some reason we don't see it lifting the catch, probably because it is a stuffed prop) and dropping the kid is in 1080p shot with a shitty semi-professional camera with shitty lenses, upsampled to 8K and downsampled in post, as is evident by the grain. The eagle in the nest feeding the baby is not the same eagle, and it is not feeding the baby the kid.

A falconer named Jordi Isern[1] that shoots in the Andes shot the footage of his own pet golden eagle that he trained to hunt chamois (the goats in the footage).[2] That is Isern's footage that the BBC remotely directed and later edited to mix with their own footage. Wild golden eagles do not hunt chamois, and for good reason.[3] Chamois are incredibly resilient and tough creatures, while the bones of golden eagles are hollow. The diet of golden eagles is rabbits, hares, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, fish and carrion, all of which is plentiful, so there is no reason for the grave risk of taking such large and dangerous prey.

Trained eagles will hunt anything they're trained to hunt.[4] Isern is not the first to train a golden eagle to do this. There are other falconers in California (the first to do this as a proof of concept, shot on actual film before the advent of HD video, that I can not locate, lost in Google's shitty algorithm and the noise of the Internet perhaps forever, but it exists) and Spain[5] that have done the same thing. It's such a fantastic idea that the BBC and Attenborough couldn't resist, with Attenborough rationalizing that maybe kids were prey, but not adult chamois, thus Isern was directed to show the adolescent struck rather than an adult chamois being pulled off a mountain by its horns. Wild golden eagles don't fuck around wrestling with their prey. They always kill on impact.

Those falconers suck, and it sucks the BBC and Attenborough are involved. But it's definitely bullshit.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/eaglesfalconry/posts/3802235...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLpk46OAA0&t=8m56s

[3] https://tinyurl.com/2nn7crcu

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPXAK2lJmEQ (LOL! fake.)

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz7FFlFy8eM&t=4m52s
So why did he dig the hole?
The profile card take too much time to load (2 seconds?), so the default info is visible, and that's slightly annoying. I think it's better to show some grey rectangles like YouTube instead of fake default info.

Which tech stack are you using? Do you have a technical post about some problem you need to solve building this?
you don't need to do anything to "get federated". as you (and/or your users) follow folks on other servers, it just works. yes, there are disadvantages around discovery on small instances (you wont see "the firehose" of posts from people you don't follow on other servers) so... bootstrapping a network of people you follow can be difficult for sure.
I work in an open-plan office and headphones with brown-noise or the right-type of music is absolutely essential. The thing is, you can only do that for so long. At some point you get tired of the headphones.

I feel like I might "snap" one of these days and start telling people to STFU. The noise is dominated by a couple of people who, for whatever reason, can't seem to modulate their volume. Perhaps there's a name for that disorder as well?

In the meantime, my workplace has "focus rooms" which I use a few times a week. Since there's a box of tissues in there, I refer to them as crying rooms :-).
I used to think this, but working with DeFi on Ethereum for a while I've realized the killer feature is actually permissionless composability. Which is why enterprise block chains make little sense.

Having one neutral platform, controlled by no one, with standardized API's and immutable open programs that anyone can permissionlessly build on - is amazing.

We've never had this before, and it's incredible how fast the DeFi space is moving because of it. I work for a platform (Balancer) that has had over 20 different companies (Aave, Element, CopperLaunch, Gyro, Aura, Hidden Hand) build financial applications on top of our tech stack in the last 2 years.

Then there are different wallets (Metamask, Rainbow, Ledger), aggregators (1inch, Matcha, 0x), portfolio management tools (Zapper, Zerion, DeFi Saver).

All of these work with each other mostly out of the box and without any formal partnerships between anyone. This is a radical new way of building finance and it's the fastest paced industry I've ever been a part of.

It's similar to AWS where it got exponentially more valuable as each new service was added - but the entire world can contribute to it. Like AWS people didn't understand the value initially, but over time they realized how big of a deal it was as more and more components were added.
IMO a universal and easier to reason about solution is you have a threshold signing wallet created across a series of remotely attestable cloud enclaves like Google/Azure Confidential VMs, AWS Nitro Enclaves, and even TPM2.0 enabled baremetal.

Deploy an open source, deterministically buildable, stateless, and immutable, unikernel OS to all platforms that enforces strict signing policies on a multisig wallet address signed and owned by whoever requested that wallet to be created.

End users will not need to trust the custodian as they will have access the remote attestation interface to prove systems they pay for are running expected binaries and thus obey the rules. A user then asks those systems to generate a wallet with a policy that grants the custodian the ability to transact only specific maximum amounts per day, with an automatic dead-mans-switch that always signs/exports an updated escape-hatch transaction sweeping all funds that a user can publish at any time.

It is possible, per the above, to create custodians with no raw access to key material that are provably bound to the terms a user agreed to on deposit.

This accountable computing setup ends up looking a lot like off-chain smart contracts. It could be used to ensure any type of user owned cryptographic key material can only be used by a SaaS according to user defined policies.

I am working with several custodians on implementing this type of accountability right now.

Anyone that fails to have a good proof-of-funds solution is going to become irrelevant in the medium term and hopefully illegal in the long term.
Just looking for anecdotes really
https://berty.tech/
And has prompted some interesting responses
Should I stop using US made products because they funded the genocide in Iraq?
Like trying to reinvent accounting principles and solutions using a blockchain?
When you were a teenager and played CS skins were free. Now the game is aimed at the same age group but entices* kids to spend $2.50 for very low odds of winning at a slot machine and getting a skin worth thousands of dollars.

* Valve banned servers from "Allowing players to claim temporary ownership of CS:GO items that are not in their inventory (Weapon skins, knives, etc.)"
musl-libc. Small single files with standalone functions that have a manual page to explain the interface and the intent. All that's left is for you to understand the implementation. The code is widely considered to be some of the most readable C out there.
Ask HN: What is the best gadget you bought in 2022?
> You're not owning your Mastodon servers — at least not the ones that are actually large enough to matter

what does "large enough to matter" even mean here? plenty of folks run single-user instances with no issues.
Some of these differences and what the "game" deems as correct are just arbitrary and have no right/wrong.

And some of what they deem as right is arguably wrong, or at least is not right without additional context (such as which icons are hollow and which are solid). There is a valid reason for some icons being outlines while others on the same screen are solid.

This site is cute, and what they're trying to do is good; but I wouldn't pay them to build a UI.
I'm not convinced it is a net positive in the end. Especially for big companies, heating an office space with 500+ people is probably much more efficient than heating 500 individual houses for example

Not everyone commute with an ICE vehicle too
Thanks!

I'm often browsing on Indiehackers, I was mostly looking for the unexpected, creative, fun stories op people finding a business somewhere they didn't expect!
Even merely finite scroll can cause UI issues.

Today, with invisible scroll bars, it's not at all unreasonable for someone to be oblivious to the offscreen content; but even making them always-visible isn't enough, as my dad demonstrated by taking 3 years of home internet to realise Google search results were not just limited to the first three that just happened to be at the top of the page.

He'd retired a few years earlier, having been working as a software developer since approximately when that became a new idea in the UK private sector, back when punched cards wasn't a cute retro reconstruction.
>> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools.

> I know this first hand, building a developer tool startup and failing to reach any level of revenue.

Just because your startup failed doesn't mean an entire category is unsustainable.

I've been living from sales of a developer tool for the last 10 years, and there are plenty of other paid developer tools out there that show developers absolutely do pay for developer tools.

Now, maybe some of the startups have unrealistic expectations. A Python documentation reader probably wont turn into a billion dollar revenue company no matter how smart it is.

But I'm pretty sure there is a market for dev tools. Maybe the market is smaller, or harder to crack than you thought, but saying "there is no way" isn't going to help anyone.
Scheduling, bug tracking, and triage (2017)
>> Presumably there would be value for users in knowing that their deposits are covered. Therefore, users who perceive value in this way would be willing to pay a premium.

Like banks which have to ensure, where I live up to 100k €, customer deposits?
Do not start with your idea of your dream product. This is sometimes satisfying, but much harder to turn a profit with.

Instead find a niche where you can easily reach those with the problem. Solve it simply with as little friction as possible. Eliminate as many barriers as possible. After you have proven the niche you can expand with features based on user feedback or your own creativity, if required.

All of the implementation details are second to finding the right problem to solve in a niche which is easily accessible. 90% of the value is in identifying the right problem to solve.

Deviations from this strategy have always made things more difficult than they need to be.
NASA Live: Artemis 1 Flyby of the Moon
Levers and bargaining power: The customer POV
Making something public doesn't solve the problem. Deceiving the public is easy and the public is duped frequently. Making accounting public doesn't solve the problem at all.
Who knows better than the employees ofc
yeah, the so called "freedom loving democracies" which work until you toe their line. otherwise you are outcast, shunned and ridiculed. If the other party does the same, that is an act of war against democracy but when they do it, its "choice"....

cool....

another argument. yemen has been decimated singlehandledly by saudi for years and literally nobody bats and eyelid. "strategic allies" is what they are called so whatever the saudis do is fine. Now, when Russia does the same thing, its "an act of aggression against democracies and the world must wake up against russain aggression" only reason being russia isn't cozy with the US.

moral of the story, its "actually not about human rights" but a pissing contest where the humans are used as pawns
Cult is shorthand for “startup religion”.
You write as if you'd consider that a bug, but it's a feature: those lotteries exist to give citizens an outlet for their gambling desires that openly admits that participating is a bad idea. Gambling is a problem not because of the (usually tiny) cut of the house, it's a problem because it distracts addicts from seeking more productive solutions and because of the diminishing returns of money in terms of happiness. State run (or endorsed) lotteries are a damage mitigation strategy that has bad odds by design and they used to serve us pretty well, before sports betting somehow snuck in and took over (same thing happened in multiple European countries)
In China learning to drive with simulators is becoming more popular. I believe they have to complete some actual driving as well to complete their license.

The problem is that there are some that have gotten their license just to travel abroad and rent a car, and the rental car becomes their first real experience behind the wheel.
Price stability refers to the stability of the price level. It has nothing to do with changes in individual prices which are unrelated to changes in the price level.
Sounds useful for game boy / retro gaming enthusiasts
Is the goal to teach the process of programming or the process of programming in X? If it’s an intro course, I would think the former is required: how to understand the request, what kind(s) of answers to expect, how to design a program. Given a design, implement and debug a solution and review its output vs expectations. Constraints can be added such as programming tools and environments but these should be deferred until students understand the process.

Everything else builds on this process. The kinds of things one might create. How to handle complexity, application domains, understanding architecture and program performance, etc. - the theoretical and engineering aspects of creating computational solutions to problems.

However, if the goal is getting people hired, choosing the language and tools du jour should be used to create good technicians. The problem as everybody has noted is that the winds change (see Asimov’s “Profession”).
Well, you've chosen convenience over time and here you are.
I don’t know, if anything OSs were quite unstable (I can’t speak for the 80s, but slightly later). When was the last kernel crash you’ve seen? We definitely have less of those now than we had in the 2000s.
Indeed my comment was supporting yours and addressing mostly the grand parent. Sorry for mixing the messages into one…
Scheduling, at peak time trains can arrive once every three minutes (across a handful of platforms, but they need to leave via the same lines). So you can imagine someone faffing about with their bicycle for 5 minutes causing a national network delay would be somewhat of an embarrassing situation.

It's hard to explain how excellent the punctuality is, it essentially wastes none of your time. You don't sit at junctions, you don't have to wait for a platform to free up, you never miss your train because it left early.

Everyone is already lined up by their respective cars, ready to board the moment the train is available to board. So within 5-10 minutes, your train has arrived, people have disembarked, you have boarded, and your train has left. Remembering this is an intercity train network, so it'd be like being able to arrive at the airport with your ticket, board the plane, and take off, within 10 minutes.
The border radius thing is insane. Why does rounded corners mean correct?
I used this with a Thunderbolt drive array and a 2018 Mac mini for a while and it seemed to work pretty well. Occasionally, it wouldn't auto-mount the ZFS volume after a reboot, but I don't recall having any other issues.
It’s not just a new UI, it’s ~~crippled~~ faster to be more like VS Code and not cannibalize their existing IDEs.
> similar in some ways to the OSS security model

The OSS security model is honestly poor.

This very fundamental bug in Debian (one of the most popular Linux distros) sat unnoticed (and exploited?) for two years: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...

How many eyes are on Debian vs memecoin-smart-contract-22112?
In what sense are any of those elements of distraction or the claim about vagueness "stigmatizing mental health"?