skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though it is not an official service, in Germany there is Abgeordnetenwach [0](Translate: representative watch), where citizen can ask parlamentarians directly. Some parlamentarians are great at answering questions, while some never reply and some only let their offices copy & paste standard replies. I wish politicians would be forced to make an effort to reply to their sovereign. Certain reasonable anti-spam and DoD measures granted.

[0] https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/
Protip for Linux users:

1. Configure your system so that hibernate works.
2. Set `HandleLidSwitch=suspend-then-hibernate` in `/etc/systemd/logind.conf`
3. Optionally change `HibernateDelaySec=120min` in `/etc/systemd/sleep.conf` to something that suits you better.

You can now close the lid of your laptop and leave it for _months_ without the battery draining to 0, and still resume your work from where you left it.
Rheumatology is one of the most exciting fields of medicine at the moment, it therefore attracts some of the brightest. I can assure you that they are up with the latest research, but it’s nice of you to so casually dismiss the work of their careers
Running Community Detection with Memgraph and Python NetworkX
Yes, those people made it exhaustingly explicit, first to their families, then as justification for friends and acquaintances, that they are disappointed in how their lives are by literally pointing out to imagined lives they saw on Facebook. Then we got to see them chasing that fantasy, failing, and feeling even more disappointed because now their support structures were left behind. Last I saw of some of those people they were really drifting through life carrying depression and disappointment for what they lost, and for what they couldn't find.

I'm sure social media can create, maintain, or accentuate a lot of different types of "pathologies" because it was designed to do so.
In Detail about Access Control Request Headers
I appreciate the condoms in local vending machines (is this true of Selecta in the UK as well?) which help not only with preserving the low adolescent pregnancy rate but undoubtedly have other public health benefits.

[edit: added preserving]
Google has problems already.
I spent about a decade doing app performance consulting. The basic three buckets I saw were:

1) Stupid human mistakes. IE: improper configuration, checked in the wrong file, no testing, etc.

2) Resource constraints, normally because someone was being cheap and thought they could get away with less memory / cpu / network / database / etc than was needed.

3) Architecture. Often the real root cause was that either a system had outgrown its original design, or there really wasn't much of a design in the first place. These were the worst, because they were not easy [fast | cheap] to solve.

To the article's point - I don't think I ever saw a single instance of "wrong algorithm" IE: a case where "Big O" was at fault. Did see interesting memory situations, but even those were relatively uncommon compared to "Why are you doing this in js rather than in your db?" or some variation on those other themes.
Indeed, the software most likely to kill or injure you in a car is running on someone’s smartphone. It’s probably not even close.
Obviously, I'm talking about waking temperature, if I wake up at 37C I have a fever since my normal is 36.5-36.6
Infrasound could, but the speakers might not be big enough, unless you use the amplitude trick.
Yes, thank you! This end of the year period is good to reflect on the coming year and make some changes (if necessary).
Absolutely. There is one meetup that meets every other week on Sunday, but it'd be good to have something else going.
Ah, that makes sense. The article makes much more sense as a hustle exercise than an actual business idea
YT now shows 6 ads, for 10 minutes video, they share 50:50 with creator, who gets about 10$(+/-100% depending on viewers demographic) for 1000 views - it is nowhere close to cover the cost of Uber drive.
I watch this YouTube channel "Watch Wes Work" which is a dude that runs his own auto repair service in the frozen wasteland that is Illinois. After seeing him work on older rusty vehicles, I have the desire to see one of them get driven into a large pool of Evapo-Rust and left for a week or two.
No, but it does mean that someone (e.g. the authors company) might just put money into the idea.

They don’t even need to BS very hard if they are a partner in the firm, and sponsor a “vetted” team that they think can pivot from something stupid to something profitable.
And you can probably do away with a 1$ ESP8266 for your GPIO needs.
If a bug in a purportedly decentralized system can bring the entire system down/to a halt, this very fact refutes the claim and shows that the system has a – drumrolls – central point of failure.
This is an early plot for a blade runner scenario.
My wife is Polish and we tried playing the Polish Scrabble. Allowing for English or Polish words. Took me a few games of getting trounced to realise the letter set is completely different in the Polish version.
Use AI to make tweets for the Chess WC
Benedict Evans is fond of saying that ads is one of the biggest revenue makers for tech but is completely misunderstood by anyone who doesn’t work on it.

An Uber ride typically costs tens of dollars. There is no ad model where you can justify paying that sort of money for random people at scale. All of the examples in the article are forms of specific niches with high ROI (e.g. targeting a user known to buy IAPs to install Candy Crush, email addresses of corporate employees to sell them expensive SaaS products, etc). These are all outliers.

The average Uber ride is about $25 according to https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-uber-lyft-prices-then...

Facebook’s ARPU in Q3 of 2022 was $50 according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...

So it takes a Facebook user 6 weeks of viewing ads to generate the sad revenue equivalent to one Uber ride. Cool mock ups but this is an idea that makes less business sense than having SBF run a crypto exchange with no oversight.
Dead internet conspiracy theory is becoming more real every day.
Other paid constraint solvers are Gurobi and IBM’s Cplex. I only have experience with the later - scheduling giant chemistry and biology experiences into a robotic factory - there are a ton of foot guns in this space.
I was responding to the claim WinCE was mainly used for homebrew. That’s not true. It wasn’t used much, but what it was used for was mainly commercial releases.
Andrew Chen / A16z team / Crypto - All hyperbole. Take with pinch of salt.
You should add a link or contact info here, bet there are HNers looking for gigs...
There is a virtually unlimited supply of old corporate PCs, the mini ones being most interesting. https://computers.woot.com/plus/microsoft-authorized-refurbi...
A Ponzi scheme implies that there is someone who manages your investment though.

A pyramid scheme only implies that the number of investors must keep growing.
All the more reason to be skeptical. These VC/Crypto boys live in a bubble. https://a16z.com is hard crypto!
The week to week grind in academia, disagreements included, is typically petty shit to people outside of a very niche subfield.
> Where does this weird assumption that political propositions can be "proved" objectively by "science" come from?

Regular science can not do it. They have "THE science", though.
Never in my life have I been in a situation where there wasn’t an ad and thought “Gee I wish someone would show me an ad right now”

Uber doesn’t need to be dirt cheap, it just needs to be cheaper than taxis and/or a better experience. That’s what drew people to it in the first place, taxis sucked.

> Instead, my proposal would be to put the ad units on your smartphone, in the dead time while waiting for your car and when you’re on your ride.

This is even dumber than I thought. Why am I going to look at an ad on my phone? Why am I not going to close the app and look at something else?

How could it possibly be worth anything to show an ad to somebody who is so broke they will watch ads instead of paying $10 for an Uber ride?
Last time I encountered that, I just ignored it and it kept me on the same route.
Hmm yeah, I can see how visual differentiation of the functions from symbols and macros could help readability.

The base grammar minus macros and functions is mostly like any other BNF, and so would have its strengths and weaknesses when it comes to describing a language vs a format.

The main inspiration for this was because I couldn't describe CTE and CBE (whose grammars are listed above). I also tried it out describing IPV4 (also listed above).

I'll probably try describing something like protobufs or PNG or something like that to see how well it fares, but for now I'm interested in peoples immediate reaction to it in case there are glaring problems.
I wish I'll be capable of that when I'm retired.

I wonder if people that age manage to get passing grades in competitive master programs, when evaluated with the same criterias as any other students.
There is a great account of the conquest of Mexico in "Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España" by one Bernal Díaz del Castillo, who was a member of Cortés' troop of conquistadores:

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

I think this is probably recounted by other sources but he talks also about the "noche triste", the night that the conquistadores had to run for their lives from Tenochtitlan, pursued by a mob driven to rage after the murder of the emperor Moctezuma:

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

Although on that night the conquistadores were probably at a disadvantage, for being weighed down with all the gold they tried to take with them as they ran. Encumberance is a bitch.

In general, it seems true that the Spanish survived by the skin of their teeth, driven by their lust for richess and mainly thanks to the support of the local vassal states like the Tlaxcalans. Military superiority is not just who has the best weapons and even in the Old World battles are not always won by the most technologically advanced society. For example, see the Battle of Isandlwana:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana
At those temperatures that pump works at COP of 1. Basically it just switches on the resistive heating element it has for this case.

What is being talked about here is having one that actually works as a heat pump at those temperatures instead of a resistive element.

Though if you live in a place where such cold days only happen a few days per year tops this is just fine.
A Plasma-based orthogonal file manager; motivated by recent discussions about CLI Unix tools, I wanted to showcase a fantastic GUI project containing a fully-featured CLI as an illustration of the power of combining the two.

Check out the feature list : https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/krusader/krusader/features.h...

The documentation is very well-written and accessible : https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/krusader/krusader/index.html
Grin is that rare blockchain focussed on simplicity and fairness [1].

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/grincoin/comments/ug70ft/are_there_a...
This is terrible. It lacks any sort of understanding of both business and user. It also lacks imagination. In China, there's a screen on the back to the seats showing ads to passengers when they enter. I'm sure it doesn't bring in huge amounts of revenue but at least it gets more user attention, which is what ads are supposed to capture.
As far as I have understood, the previous commenter used to talk about FLOSS only (which is rather wise then not if you do value RMS' philosophy) and you have turned the discussion into absurd (kind of driving without license which has nothing to do with wiseness).
Don't leave us hanging! What happened next!?
Love scrabble and tried upwords but the constraints aren’t right and it’s not as fun
It seems like ballot measures are the only way a real R2R bill will pass. The incentives will never allow it to pass through the usual legislative route.
> It's quite possible those waves you call nontrivial were just as large but that the health of the population meant the severity of symptoms (which is what actually makes a wave trivial or not, along with availability of health services) was lower and continued to be lower.

That's why you should not look at individual data points in isolation.

Based on the numbers that were reported, the COVID waves that hit Japan became worse over time. That already suggests that the waves that hit in 2020 and 2021 were not particularly big.

If you compare internationally, you can find similar patterns in countries that mostly managed to avoid COVID in 2020 and 2021 before succumbing to Omicron. In contrast, countries that were hit bad early in the pandemic had a lot of infections but fewer deaths from Omicron, largely due to existing immunity.
Reflections on 2022 Predictions
Hehe. Codenames all the way down :)
F*cking Thingworx from PTC. Utterly useless, old, bloated garbage. My co-founder brought it in to our startup. I had to replace it when he left, although much to my surprise I had already built 90% of the replacement building software around it to fix the various shortcomings it had.

I will never get than $10k licensing fee back. Awful company, awful product.
I don't think so. I don't believe any Blockchain has as much instability as Solana and security breaches as the Solana ecosystem. Then look at how many projects FTX and Alameda owned or were invested in and all the hacks involving their projects and the questionable auditing companies like OtterSec.
> looking at you SF public library

The worst thing being that, of course, the libraries in rich neighborhoods have no homeless people and are generally nicer.
Could test the ip timezone with the js timezone. That would be a simple way.
Not really. I am yet to hear someone use it in an everyday sentence. It is also a romanisation.
Made a similar one, but for generating Stable Diffusion-illustrated narrated slideshows.

Haven’t made a web interface for it as it’s somewhat expensive to run, but here is example output: https://www.youtube.com/@artificialinsanity/videos

I also have a “producer” script which comes up with the ideas for the video topics for the other script to make.
Ask HN: Best resources to learn about software observability
I want to learn about software monitoring and observability but not able to find many good resources to learn about it. I want to learn it's concepts, what to do, what not to do, how to setup from an existing software, etc.

Looking for some good recommendations.
Flash intros eventually went away, presumably because websites without them were more successful. So your argument appears to imply that humans will still be more successful on social media than AIs?
I have an old iPad taped to the wall to run home assistant as well. I run a vnc client on the iPad which connects to a Firefox docker container on my nas rendering the full HA front end (jlesage/firefox). Works decently well, including touch. I set resolution to native iPad so output is real clear.
> ChatGPT isn't even close to being able to consistently act like a single human being with interests, plenty of long term memory, and a life outside a chat room.

Is it really not close, or just not done yet? They're already using human feedback loops to get it as good as it is generally, is it a huge step to then allow personalised feedback loops so that the local instance remembers its own "personality"? (I'm not an expert so maybe that is a huge, unrelated leap in a way that I can't see?)
A good ol' Jaques of London Staunton set; perfection.

I guess it's just conditioning but the Staunton design just looks right to me from every angle.

Less is definitely more.

The Staunton design gets out of the way. You can see exactly what every piece is and you can concentrate on the game as an abstract pattern of possible moves.

When I see some of the flashy novelty designs you can just tell the person that bought it wasn't a player.
The Architecture of Mastodon
I'm from Spain and there is no B&N here, but I have been surprised by the success of the bookstore sector in general.

In the 2010s, just when ebooks became popular, a lot of bookstores opened in my city and others I know, both of the large chain and small independent variety. My thought was "are they crazy or what? Physical books are obviously a declining business, most people will just read ebooks. Most of these stores are doomed to close, as bookstores will become something very niche". Boy, was I wrong... the reality, while I don't have sales figures and just speak as a layman, is that they didn't close, but rather the opposite: even more of then opened during the rest of the decade and they generally seem rather lively. Have ebooks not caught on after all, or are people reading much more so that there is market for both? I don't know.

By the way, on a more personal note, ebooks made me almost stop reading for a long time. I was an avid reader until ebook readers appeared. Then I started to read in ebook form, because physical books take a lot of space, and they already occupied a lot of room at home (and the space is not just for me, I lived with my wife, and now also my son!). With this, I dropped from reading a lot to like 4 or 5 books a year, then 2, then 1 or even 0. I made myself believe that this was due to lack of time (work, not being single anymore, etc.) which was only a half truth. The other half of the truth, as shallow as it is, is that ebooks don't get me hooked as physical books do, even if the content is the same. I'm not proud of it, it's silly because the real value of a book should be in what it says, not in the physical materials, but it's how I work. I tried to change it for some years but I failed. So I came to accept it. Now I buy physical books again and even though I don't read as much as when I was younger (work+parenting takes a huge amount of time), reading is again one of the main things I do with the free time I do have, and I at least read 1-2 books a month.
Also, consider just printing out the legal two letter words and leaving them there for anyone to check ... Saves on the "win by memory" and allows more tactical play by all.

I've been playing like that with my parents (in their 80s) and it makes for a much more fun game!
Still use ed commands but mostly in vi command line mode.

For me the most useful feature is the ability it has to remember the contents of regular expression matches inside \( ... \) and when you combine this with the g global edit command you can do complex manipulations in a similar way on every line in a file with a single ed line.

So

g/\(regex1\)whatever\(regex2\)/s//\2something\1/

switches whatever text matches regex1 and whatever matches regex2 and changes the intermediate text also.
It's a lot to type but quite easy once you have done it a few times to write a single edit that transforms your file exactly the way you want in one go or nearly so.

However dealing with columnar data it's probably better to use something like awk.
Jugaad – Frugal Engineering
I assure you that their status page is no indication of reliability. Ask the more serious node operators and they can tell you how frequently you actually encounter issues with the network.
Ah!! Then you have my apologies for my misinterpretation too :)
One of the primary concerns of MDM is security. Since corporate mobile devices can access critical business data, they can threaten enterprise databases. Administrating devices through MDM provides the means to distribute software packages, set permissions, and optimize device functionality. But, ideally, MDM has to provide a way to oversee mobile devices as easily as desktop computers.
With the biggest market share and open-source nature, let’s look at how we can approach building mobile device management for Android devices.
> the scams are completely devoid of any sophistication

Some scams, sure, but those really baffle me. If you are kind of smart and you know that you are scamming people and these people know who you are, while you are in a country that prosecutes scammers, I would think that at the very least, you'd want some plausible deniability in the form of "We tried our best, but our goals were too ambitious and unfortunately the market decided against us".

I suspect that many other scams tried to construct this form of plausible deniability.

The Bitconnect scam for example was pretty straight-forward, but these guys at least were smart enough to be anonymous when they forwent plausible deniability.
"Scrabble isn't a word game. It's an area-control game with 150,000 rules to define legal placement for your resources."

I've heard it expressed like this a couple of times now, but the earliest citation I can find with a quick Google is...here [0] on HN in 2018.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18685447
I grew up in NZ and was popular there with broad range of listeners. Oxygene was one of the first vinyls I bought.
Thanks for clarifying, it seems I did misunderstand. Too late to edit unfortunately.
Papyrus: The world's 2nd most hated font [video]
> company that wants to make money (for example through GPT-3 API calls).

Right.

> Historically, OpenAI has also been concerned that their SOTA models could be threatening to the world if released.

That was clearly marketing spin. Just like the word “Open” in their name.
The Raspberry Pi feels a bit like reading some crypto(currency) papers these days. A lot of great theoretical benefits to be excited about, but ultimately it simply doesn't make sense to use when so many of the promises (price, availability, power, not having out of touch corporate marketing) fall short.
We should do a thread of our favourite libraries:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Birmingham
* https://www.oodihelsinki.fi/en/
* https://wellcomecollection.org/pages/Wuw19yIAAK1Z3Smm
* https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/

others?
The term "silent generation" was already in wide use when the oldest members of the silent generation were 23 (and the youngest were 6). It wasn't coined because the system working so well for them.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190641
To start deeply investigating the AI app development process, it’s important to first understand how these projects differ from regular app development projects. When it comes to AI, every problem requires a unique solution, even if the company developed similar projects earlier. On the one hand, there are a variety of pre-trained models and verified approaches for building AI. Also, AI is always unique as it is based on different data and business cases. Because of this, AI engineers often start the journey by diving deep into the business case and available data, exploring existing approaches and models.
I think the guy you are replying to does not realize that all these are not data in some MySQL database to "use" to solve this quickly.
Coins Stolen from Wallet
Ah yes, real words like ae, al, de, ka, oe, xu, za
These are valuable suggestions indeed. As per my spouse, she sees the value of letting me away to fully switch off (hike, surf, other sportish activity) one week or 10 days every 6-8 months. I am much fresher after these breaks.
The current quality of human-generated online content is not uniformly high.

I rely heavily on search engines and recommendation systems, but these are gamed by SEO spam, and flame-war political content.

I want the quality of the content I see to be as high as possible, irrespective of whether it has an AI or human author, and if an LLM can write an excellent Stack Overflow answer/movie review, I'd be interested to read it.