skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now, yes and no. I live in a mid sized town in the Midwest. People who are renting, and not tied down by things like having kids in school, are fairly likely to move if a job change alters their commute. However, it's complicated by the fact that they are also influenced by the amenities that different neighborhoods offer. For instance do you prefer lots of hip restaurants, or lots of green space?

Once people are more dug in, they will often just eat the longer commute. However, there is a sizable "transient" population that is as likely to move to another town when they change jobs. This is true of people like academics, doctors, and so forth.

There are certain occupations that are fairly centralized, due to being the seat of government and home to a large university. My spouse just changed jobs at the U, and we already live close to there.
If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?
Ok, so this appears to be over the fact that Pixelfed copied the names of the Instagram filters 1:1. They are not generic names like "blur" or "enhance" -- they are very specific names that Instagram has associated with their filters for years, like "Clarendon" and "Ludwig".

I'm sort of reading this thread and the Mastodon thread in disbelief at the defenders. Just change the names of the darn filters! (and not "iClarendon" and "iLudwig" for heaven's sake -- that is so childish.)

There are fights worth fighting out there -- abusive patent trolls, etc. -- this is not one of them. If this escalates they will lose 100% and waste tons of time and money, both of which could be better spent on actually building Pixelfed.

Sorry -- not the world's biggest Meta/FB/IG fan here but I am 100% with them on this one and if I were in charge I'd make the exact same threats. /rant over.
Apparently Southwest is one of the biggest offenders in the airline industry when it comes to not investing in their IT infrastructure. You can only get away with that sort of debt for so long.
Absolutely love this. Great job Tom.
Also, many commercial crops require to be pollinated by domestic bees that are forced to breed, shipped around and then worked to death. It's principally impossible to have a nutritionally complete vegan diet without forced pollination, but fodder crops do not exploit bees. As a result, human food crops kill five times as many bees as all livestock slaughter combined and directly support honey production (taking excess honey is necessary for colony health). Vegans should also call around and make sure that their seasonally changing food exporters don't rely on insects, terriers, sheep, ducks or organic fertilizers.
Do scientists even want these rocks?

Would scientists even benefit from disincentivizing the thousands of people hunting them down vs having to occasionally pay for the good ones that have scientific value?
What about the power consumption? ESP32 is not the best in term of energy efficiency, I guess that a series of crypto operations like the ones requested by a WG tunnel would have an impact on power and this can be a problem for a battery-powered ESP32.
I realise we are both sharing anecdotes, but I was at GitLab from about 250 employees to 1500 or so. It was all remote from the beginning, and it definitely wasn’t all senior, fully ramped employees with pre-established work social networks in Silicon Valley (or any other single place for that matter). There was mentorship, as well as social events and travel.

I’m sure your experience is factual, but maybe it’s not a universal truth or something generally applicable about remote work.

One thing for sure I would feel down about is if I moved somewhere I didn’t like to advance my career, and then everyone there started working remotely making the whole move pointless.
I still get "Argument list too long" on a machine with 64GB of memory.

This is not acceptable in this day and age.
Does it matter if the person on the other side of the glory hole is a dude? Maybe? Maybe you didn't think that was a possibility? Maybe it being widely known that you are yelling at clouds makes it less satisfying of a scratch?
I think the Snowden revelations were a good illustration of how we often have much less privacy than we think, and the risks of relying on what privacy we might believe we have.
I doubt the effect of his politics is huge. Most people are totally unplugged from politics, and a lot of his buyers were Republicans anyway. Even the progressive people who hate him may still buy the cars because people don't often act on their beliefs.

I suspect the following have had bigger effects on their sales:

- Tesla being at the bottom of quality rankings (and lots of evidence of major quality issues)

- increasing numbers of fantastic EVs sold by other companies at all price points

- bad PR related to "FSD" and "Autopilot"

- higher interest rates preventing financially irresponsible people from buying cars for status
I think there are different issues between cameras and pulse ox. I would guess that the SNR on a pulse ox is decreased by the additional attenuation of the LED illumination being sent in and scattered back out. It may be possible to compensate for this with increased LED brightness, but it would depend on the total degree of signal attenuation whether this is feasible given the power budget.

For an imaging sensor, the sensors are designed to be sensitive at different wavelengths and in different dynamic ranges, with some historical set points determined by major manufacturers being located in Japan. While darker tones do imply less collected light, this seems like a very solvable problem with in-camera image processing.

Another interesting question is around non-invasive neural sensors. Many EEG electrodes work relatively poorly in thick or curly hair, and there's been several efforts to develop EEG electrodes appropriate for natural hair [0]

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33019375/
Or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNIoKmMq6cs - Anthropologist Debunks the Paleo Diet
The cowardice is in surrendering your moral agency

"So if there was anything I was considering doing where if it became public I would be hurt, I wouldn't do it."

There is a great book Bonhoeffer[1] by Eric Mataxas which deals with this and a lot of other issues

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35493109-bonhoeffer
Meat is cheap where I live and about 10% of the population doesn’t eat it. It’s actually 13% according to surveys, but let’s say 10% to be safe.

I could also hunt or spearfish like I used to. Meat is easy to get. There’s no need for it though.

Meat is amazing if you’re starving because it contains a lot of stuff a hungry person needs. Kale is not going to do the same things for you. However, it’s unlikely anyone on here is starving. Meat has rapidly diminishing returns as you stop starving and have a more stable diet of plants. Eventually eating meat becomes harmful, but eating plants does not.
I think I have a different definition of misled than people defending the blog author here.

The way people defending the blog author use the term is as if the author is deliberately deceiving people for their gain. i.e. cynicism. That is not even remotely the case for anyone who read the book.

I also do not agree that it is misleading to provide general guidelines/recommendations and potential consequences. Not a single guideline was surprising or different than common sense. One has to read between the lines of their experiences and the facts presented. (i.e. if you ever worked at a startup or are a parent you'd have experience of lack of sleep and health issues)
Hard to put a finger on why but there's something about gulf Arab countries and a common attitude of entitlement and arrogance that's special to them, but not so in Oman and Iraq. As if money buys superiority.
> How hard are you going to fight for something you aren’t 100% sure is even going to work?

Tangent: maybe I'm just tired of this industry, but I have trouble imagining myself "fighting" to convince a CxO to do anything that benefits the company but not me.

My attitude is like, here's my advice and reasoning. Listen to me or don't. I'm not going to participate in some budgetary cage match just because the CxO likes drama.

I wonder if this shows my age :)
It might seem like I'm criticizing things, but I don't think it's a failure per se. A work can be engaging regardless of whether or not the character is accurately portrayed as intelligent or observant or whatever.

Bones is fine television. Sherlock Holmes is a fine read. I have the collected works in two volumes.

But I do notice a tendency among people to use fiction as evidence of reality. So it's good to remind myself that characters are reflections of the author, not of reality.
The big problem with that is that zoning laws in america compartmentalize everything and you don't have many places with intertwined shops/markets with residential areas.
Sounds like a security nightmare, highly recommend pairing them with a dedicated security minded person to ensure correct configurations of access control (networklayer/hosts, row level, resource denial of service etc)

at the very least have a read of https://postgrest.org/en/stable/admin.html
People either love it or hate it.

Personally, having flown with them for business for 5 or so years, I generally preferred it to assigned seating.
I'm not saying Vietnam is bad by any means for those of us who enjoy it here. I myself been there like 5 times for extended periods of time and I love country and people. But I work remotely, live by the sea looking at sunrises and sunsets. And don't have kids.

At the same time I have vietnamese friends who struggle to provide their children with education because private school with good English cost them $1000+ / month. And since they mostly have more than one child it's can be hard even if you own some family business and work two jobs.

Also I have foreigner friends who took a job offer for $60,000 and went to work to HCM or Hanoi and hate it here because air pollution and terrible and situation with transport and public infrastructure.
Well Tesla’s next big product is allegedly a giant pickup truck.
The timers are wonky depending on the device and browser
There can't be a wide choice of popular anything. The whole idea of the "popular" is something that nearly everyone flocks to. There can't be a variety of top spots.

Things like social networks are governed by the same power laws as, say, soda brands: there can't be a large variety of brands as popular as Coca-Cola. There is, of course, a wide variety of smaller brands, from pretty large to tiny, to cater for all tastes. Same for social networks. We are not talking on Facebook or Twitter right now.
People snarkily say LMGTF or RTFM to an otherwise reasonable question.

It’s been established in research that humans use different terminology to refer to things. This is known as the “vocabulary problem”[1]. Beginners in particular don’t use search like experts. They need help knowing what to Google. Documentation is written by experts, and writing towards beginners is a different and more challenging skill. Finally there’s way more beginners than experts. Often it’s the experts that need a dose of humility learning how hard it actually is to teach someone.

Don’t be a jerk, offer to help, learn to improve your teaching abilities to new people.

1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/32206.32212
China Reinvented an Ancient Kingdom to Advance Its Claims in the Himalayas
This was the book that kick-started me along to becoming a software engineer. Fantastic book and I can't recommend it enough.
I used to live in Shadyside on Gettysburgh Street in Pittsburg when I worked at CMU in the early 90's. (Yay CMU Common Lisp!)

It really tweaked my OCD that Pittsburgh is spelled with an h, but Gettysburg isn't.

Half the time when writing my address I'd get them both wrong. I just did now, but googled and corrected it, but I didn't have google back then, so I just had to wing it.

There was a cute little bohemian cafe near a park in Shadyside with back yard garden seating.

Apparently whoever owned the cafe had inherited or otherwise come into a copious supply of used bowling balls.

So they used them to make tables, chairs, fences, and weird artwork and decorations, whole and cut apart, some with extra holes drilled, some metal rods through them.

Lots and lots of bowling balls, artistically arranged. The darnedest thing.

I'll never forget it, but I can't tell if I totally confabulated it or not.

(Like how I can vividly recall that episode of the Muppet Show guest staring Bob Dylan and the Band, where they played Too Much of Nothin' with all the hippie and monster muppets: as far as I can tell it never happened, but I still will never forget it.)

Has anybody else ever seen such a thing, around '92-93 or so?

Was there an old bowling ball factory nearby?
I found the hub-and-spoke explanation misleading. Even if you don't have a star arrangement you could still have a network of point-to-point flights that just constantly bounce back and forth between the same two cities. This is like a max flow network then and you can lose a flight or two and still be fine.

What I think is happening with SW is their planes are like pilots in Elite Dangerous, flying around the country to random destinations as the opportunity arises. This is not what point-to-point means to me, this is more like... sky Uber?
The grass really isn't greener on the other side. Programming is among the highest paid professions and has pretty decent work-life balance. Almost anything you choose will pay far less and have less flexibility.

Just find fulfilling hobbies or something.
We keep a hall of fame list of all bingo bonuses with their scores. It’s a meta game to play once you’ve reached the point where games regularly come down to the wire in the mid to high 200s and hunting for those two letter words becomes a boring chore.
Here's your link without the creepy tracking shit linking you to everyone who clicks on it:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmGb10DpWFE/
Probably this: https://mpv.io/
I think this is vastly overblown. Your average Joe barely knows who Elon Musk is.

Unlike most of us here, most people aren't up to date on whatever X individual tweeted or said.

Edit: Downvoted for giving my opinion, stay classy HN.
I used these old machines. You'd be surprised how slow these machines are even for the most basic things! Like typing, opening folders, etc. :)
We were about to be a two Tesla house this year and now there is 0% chance we’ll be that after the latest shenanigans. Although my car is well made, I’m a little embarrassed to drive it around now.
About a third or to a third? Regardless, at my place of work ("hybrid"), I would be shocked if badge swipes were 10% of pre-pandemic levels.
Nah, gotta create more piggy banks for the billionaire class.
Oh, thank you for linking to a text.npr.org page. For those who don't know, https://text.npr.org is a text-only version of the site. Very lite.

In regards to the article - this is good news to hear. But I wonder, as weather events get more frequent and more extreme, how much can we keep this up? And as good as this news is, this makes it seems like we got lucky because someone just happened to think to themselves: "Mary Warwick, the wildlife director at the Houston Humane Society, said she was out doing holiday shopping when the freezing winds reminded her that she hadn't heard how the bats were doing in the unusually cold temperatures for the region." - Can we hope to be so lucky next time? Seems like a game of whack-a-mole, where there moles are just getting faster and faster...
Blind sight has been recommended enough times so I'll add a note about the sequel.

Watts wrote a loosely related sequel called Echopraxia that was not nearly as good as Blindsight but expands on some of the concepts. It was much more of a slog to read through and a bit confusing to follow the story and I had to force myself to finish it. If you are thinking of picking that up after reading Blindsight.

Both books have a good section after the story where Watts explains the research and citations of how he came up with the story. If you read that part it may break your brain in a questioning existence kind of way.
Liquidity Vectors in Marketplaces
Interestingly, in some mock ups the ad completely covers the map—the main reason why a user would look at the screen at all whily waiting for Uber. This extremely degrades experience of using the service. This idea is the same way "creative" as to say that an ad that covers the front window of a car in full for a driver not to see the road would help driver make more money while he drives.
Not many people can personally care for 1600 homeless people in their attic.
> A company called MobileReference, who did not own the copyrights to the books 1984 and Animal Farm, uploaded both books to the Kindle store and started selling them. When the rights owner heard about this, they contacted Amazon and asked that the e-books be removed. And Amazon decided to erase them not just from the store, but from all the Kindles where they'd been downloaded. Amazon operators used the Kindle wireless network, called WhisperNet, to quietly delete the books from people's devices and refund them the money they'd paid.

I’m adding this detail because it’s not as sinister as you alluded.

You are correct with regard to renting, not buying. This is why I only buy paper books (with cash), and grab the corresponding digital version from the high seas.
Yeah, I mean you can even do a keto vegan weight gainer diet if you go fairly processed. It isnt hard at all if you allow carbs. Coconut oil, brown rice protein and pea protein for the keto. Use actual brown rice and legumes for the carb version. But to the point of the GP, I can't tolerate legumes (even fermented) and I don't think very many people at all tolerate brown rice protein, that is why they lowered it so much in soylent.

Some people have different dietary needs. I haven't found a way to get sufficient protein without animal products that doesn't leave me with digestive issues. Even just using broccoli and greens, along with oatmeal ended up being unpleasant. And this is just for normal fda levels of protein, not adding muscle mass after an injury or illness levels of protein.
Reels are different from Stories, but yes, both features were copied from TikTok and Snapchat.
Truly challenging work approached with a deep passion is best done in direct collaboration with others. There’s no replacement for the energy that you find from a desperately hard working team that’s working together in person. I’d estimate that 90% of people aren’t interested in working that hard so remote works just fine.

SV has been pumping out money for the last decade so they’ve had to offer cushier environments to attract talent, but now that the free money is drying up I hope that more companies will return to what made SV great in the first place: obsessive work.

We’re already seeing the more committed business owners enforcing in-person work, but there’s been strong push back from employees. Only the companies that are truly creating value will be able to entice enough talent to work there, and many companies will falter in the process, but I think it’s good for us all. It’s like a forest fire that creates space for new growth.
I don't see the advantage of Zigbee for local control. Implementing local control over wifi is just as easy and can even work without a hub. I'm designing a custom automation system for the ventilation in my house and I failed to discover any reason to use Zigbee.
As a long time software developer, I completely agree on this.

I don't necessarily believe that "the office" and long commutes are the right way to employee workers, but I strongly believe that in person relationships tend to work a lot better for knowledge transfer and leveling up skills of junior employees. A solution, the feasibility of which I'm still actively researching, is a network of decentralized much smaller offices managed by a senior employee to meet other people in the area in person, at least once a week or more if deemed necessary by the group.

The other thing I completely agree on is that it's not employee vs boss.

Many of my colleagues have agreed to a cut of their paycheck to work remotely, which is a net win for every boss out there, they love to pay less for the same output, while also transferring all the expenses and the disadvantages of building a place suited to work at home to the employer. Kinda like a gig economy worker that has to buy a car, pay for the insurance and the maintenance to become a "self employed" Uber driver.
Most of those EULAs are saying what should be common sense. The law should just give me those rights, but because copyright hasn't caught up to the digital age and software we need something that allows me to copy into computer memory.

Anything that isn't 'common sense' needs to be a contract that a lawyer reviews for me
I don’t have statistics. It’s in the name though, “silicon” valley. The South Bay is home to the semiconductor industry and its ecosystem.

My own company has about 15k employees in San Jose, and we’re all back to the office full time. Many of us can’t do our jobs from home, it’s hardware work.
GP surgery sends cancer text instead of festive message
Are you on one of the coasts?

In the Midwest I know a ton of business travelers (>1 trip/month) who default to Southwest. The weekly travelers tend to prefer the legacy carriers if they're available (so I'm sure there's something to your point even here) but IME Southwest rules the monthly/short notice flyers around me.
I can't remember where I read this and I can't find a cite right away, but I bet someone can confirm-or-correct me: the 6-letter reservation code for your flight? That used to be an explicit pointer of memory in oldold Sabre.
Inflammation is part of the immune response. It is beneficial when wounded and that's when the local body should become inflamed.

Chronic inflammation is not beneficial.

You are conflating the two
(Re)invent collective rights management or whatever. This can't go on like this. The United States allowed a company deliberately flout the law to roll back the protections organized labor achieved in a century plus and destroy the livelihood of cab medallion holders as a side hustle, are we going to repeat that? The recording and movie industry has been steadfast on cracking down on what they perceived as theft but the art community was caught unawares by this. As a society we need to stop this until a solution is found. Extend copyright in such a way that this is not legal until a solution is found to compensate the artists. This is extremely urgent.
And I get at least 50% of my calories from olive oil, and maybe a further 20% from cheese. Given that people from the US make up a little over 4% of the global population they’re not the measuring stick.
1. It's called Crystal Caves.

2. My 1st PC game I remember playing, used to go to father's work to play it there.
My wife and I used to play regularly and printed out a list of two and three letter words that we could refer to under our rules. It helped us learn those words.
Nostr Is the Decentralized Protocol That Might Replace Twitter