skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be a contrarian here. Client side rendering is just getting started. With faster storage for cheap and fast internet there will be less and less reason to put things in a server. Add in things like wanting end-to-end encryption, privacy issues and most things will be in the browser, imho.
FiftyOne Open Source Computer Vision Labeling Tips and Tricks
> Taking agricultural workplace participation from 10% to a hypothetical 1% isn't going to drop working hours from 40H to 10H.

Yes-- the point is that your argument that it requires eating the cheapest synthetic food seems faulty; if 10% of our work hours are going to agriculture and related industries (including, as a sibling points out, restaurants and stores and manufacturing of junk food), then it's not a huge driver of our work week.

Similarly, it's not as huge a portion of our labor going to maintain and construct housing as you imply.
I highly recommend contacting people like this that are willing to help.
Most of the top supercomputers are used to model nuclear weapons, weather and climate, and various sciencey things.

I don't know if the top ones are still used for oil and gas exploration (crunching data to provide higher resolution and higher accuracy oil field maps), but they have been in the past.
https://code.kx.com/q/basics/enumerations/

i miss k
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I used the pyautogui library on Linux. Then just a simple loop with an incrementing angle, with some overshoot in the end in order for the webpage to recognize that the circle was complete. First time using the library, worked pretty well, except I had to figure out that I had to use pyautogui.PAUSE = 0 to make it not pause between mouse movements.
One thing that irks me is how keeping up with tech is almost mandatory. I see sms two factor being deprecated a lot now and am curious how people without smart phones work around that - just as one example of many
That challenge was surprisingly hard. Even with the couple of landmarks (I think a few small bushes). It’s weird how high the difference was between what looked like a perfect circle and what was actually expected. It was almost like an optical illusion.
Not just using it daily, but I have scripts I've written literally a decade ago, and which haven't been modified at all, which still work just as well as the day I wrote them. Whereas there's a whole plethora of Python projects I've had to abandon in that time because they were never ported to Python 3.
There's a well written Low-Tech Magazine article about a similar concept and the advancement of citrus production in the Soviet Union.

- https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-culti...
Building a Social Network for Sport. A YouTube Like Platform for Sports Lovers
Hi, I need help building this Project. Someone with good advice ob how to scale this Baby. I have discovered something that can go Viral very fast.
CO2 fatigue is a thing.

At a company I used to work for we started wonder why one meeting room got especially rowdy if we had our 2 hour team meeting there.

Had the building management install a CO2 sensor, it got up to 1500ppm. We were practically drunk in there. Turned out it wasn't meant as a meeting room at all and it had zero ventilation ducts - they were all in the room next door, they had just slapped a wall to split it into two.
Fantastic article. And I appreciate you sharing it with me.

The idea of introducing a new attribute to a HTML tag, whether it be "_" or "_foo" or "_do" doesn't quite sit properly with me.

Especially if it's not part of the HTML5 standards.
There's nothing wrong with that statement though. It's literally true. GNOME, Ubuntu and XFCE all have different APIs that conflict with each other. The situation is a bit better now that Ubuntu dropped Unity but that was a decision they had to make by themselves, GNOME couldn't do anything about it. What else do you expect them to do? Any time Ubuntu or XFCE decides to keep some API that breaks GNOME, or worse, decides to implement some new API, GNOME has to drop their own plans and maintain it forever? That doesn't make any sense no matter which way you look at it. You're shooting at some random GNOME dev for playing the role of messenger instead of addressing the root cause.

I also see nothing wrong with the second thread. GNOME is under no obligation to implement features they don't want to implement. You're posting that to push a narrative while ignoring the other hundreds (thousands?) of bugs that get fixed without any fanfare and without the HN crowd throwing a multi-year long tantrum. It's quite frankly embarrassing to see these brought up continually as an attempt to criticize GNOME. You can do better than this for the Linux community.
> It feels expensive only when people want to cluster around the same, limited number of areas.

Yes, it is cheaper to live where fewer people want to live.

But, usually, there are reasons fewer people want to live there.
That is exactly what I would also like to do. The HN comments are usually as interesting as the the link in the post. For example people point out other resources or the author of the linked post comments with more details.

I still have no clear solution to this, I currently use org mode but 1) it does not work well on mobile and 2) even on the desktop I should find the time to automate it more (with automatic archiving, better templates captures, etc). While 2) can be solved, 1) is still a problem.
You can get an artifically high score by finishing the last 90 degrees or so with a straight line segment, FYI. I can usually break 90% with something that doesn't resemble a circle very much at all.
Tell HN: Oculus will delete purchases if you don’t switch to a meta account
Just received an email from Meta, part of it states:

“Starting January 1, 2024, we will start deleting old Oculus accounts to ensure that we are not keeping Oculus account data longer than necessary. If you do not create a Meta account by this date, your Oculus data (including associated apps, content and games you have downloaded or purchased) will be deleted.”
Happy birthday for tomorrow!
that's all fair, but how do you account for the dramatic increase in individual productivity vs the steady level of hours?

>Productivity in the United States averaged 63.33 points from 1950 until 2022, reaching an all time high of 115.97 points in the fourth quarter of 2021 and a record low of 26.24 points in the first quarter of 1950.

it seems wrong to ignore this. productivity 5x'd since 1950, but hours roughly 1x'd. you're not speaking to why this doesn't result in higher wages for people or a shorter work day. which is implicit support of whatever the benefiting factor is.
Nice project! I love having this show on in the background and will help out when I can.

I can't think about computer chronicles without thinking about this segment about "computer music", I hope someone else enjoys it.[1]

[1]https://youtu.be/1LEn94TF1tg?t=1095
I'm surprised WIPO didn't perform some dispute resolution by taking bud.com away from him and giving it to Budweiser.
And being driven over by semi trucks full of heavy cargo 24/7.
My middle school maths teacher (awesome guy, also had a mustache - mid 90s) taught us how to draw (large) circles on blackboards easily:

Start from the bottom and go counter-clockwise full circle having your arm fully extended. After the first couple of tries, when you build up confidence through the results, the circles get very good. The trick is not moving slowly, but doing it in one go.

The 3'/two ark circles he would do the same way, but using the elbow as the central/pivot point instead of the shoulder.
I investigated a bit about this and found Square promising because it allows creating a link to allow customers engage in a subscription, which is super helpful to not code such a flow when validating a product.

I don't know whether Paddle supports this but a customer is super happy with them, it was also super simple to integrate from the developer side.

Thanks for the list.
It's the sum of vacation days and holidays. I don't know how it works in the Netherlands, but in many places the day off for a national holiday is not charged against the vacation days granted by an employer.
Lot of colleges now a days have strong startup programmes. This can help you get in touch with venture capitalists and like minded folk. Theres also value in the network of friends and acquaintances you meet at college.
Nobody wants to pay to eminent domain it.

Similarly, the courts have found that taxes intended explicitly to extort and take property are illegal.

If the city wants Walterbright's house, they can't just impose a 1000% property tax on you to avoid buying your house.
Yeah these HFTs aren't big companies, they buy and sell stocks quickly. After the 87 crash big banks could buy billions of dollars of stocks and bonds because banks are huge and could do this to both protect the market, their customers and make money.
Yeah, I can't imagine a municipality letting their concrete roads cure for a couple years before letting cars on them.
Depends on the details of your transcode:

- what's the source/destination quality?

- what's the container format? Quicksync doesn't support them all; even the newest gen is missing av1 and VP9 IIRC. But then, the same can be said for discrete GPUs.

- what filters are you applying. Many (most?) filters are CPU bound, which will kill you really quick.

But for supported formats without filtering, 12g Intel quicksync is regularly benchmarked at 4-6 streams.

One should always measure internet advice against one's actual use case. Personally I would argue that if you have a library of 8K video and more than 4 4K devices, you don't qualify as a "regular" home user. But of that's the case, hardware up my friend!
Aren’t Ponzi schemes based on people being gullible? To protect gullible people from falling victim, we ask them to foresee in advance that they’ll fall into a Ponzi scheme…
It's the place to be if you want to bikeshed about being organised for the rest of your life :)

It's an Emacs mode that can do anything organisation related. It can be a wiki, a calendar, a todo list, a list of reminders, a spreadsheet, etc...

The closest non-emacs options I've found are Obsidian and Notion.
If you can drill holes you can use stone splitting wedges.

A lot of these high dollar modern miracles of chemical engineering are purely for use in situations where it's cheaper to just buy the $100/tube stuff than it is to try and get the approval to do something sensible. Basically you're paying to get around process tech debt.
Because 4 hour work days aren't tenable. Here's a novel concept
Why do we have 7 day weeks?

Why don't we have a 6 day week with a 2 day weekend? That way we get the benefit of 4 working days, we can standardized the calendar to not have this 31, 28 day nonsense (30 days only), and more importantly working day lengths stay the same. We just get to the weekend faster.

I propose the day to be deleted be Saturday because Saturn's mythology is a righteous c*nt.

Here's a calendar of what a 6 day week would look like https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/calendars/images/9/93/Cale...
Amateur archaeologist helps crack Ice Age cave art code
Talk about a low-effort post!

Dang has stated that AI-generated text is expressly banned from HN comments, so please don’t.
Like the Pantheon[1]? It's still got the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome and it's in active use as a church not to mention major tourist attraction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome
I normally dislike ORMs, but Elixir's Ecto has changed my mind on it. It's a DSL that is very close/similar to SQL, enough so that it feels to me like writing SQL. IMHO it's the best of both worlds because it's close to SQL but it returns rich Elixir Structs and provides exceptions/error handling in an idiomatic way for the language.
Switch to using TOTP based second factor and just use your computer to generate the TOTP secrets. Plenty of apps do it, no need for a phone of any sort.
This link dives quite deep into what is an ALU, for those interested.

ALU elements: Know the SINEs [short interspersed elements]

Alu elements are primate-specific repeats and comprise 11% of the human genome. They have wide-ranging influences on gene expression. Their contribution to genome evolution, gene regulation and disease is reviewed.

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-...
And if people won't, there would be droves of people taking the carts and keeping the quarters.
Ironicall, a Matrix story is the story right above this on HN
>you either have to add GTK as a dependency to get the "correct looking" titlebars or spend useful development time writing shitty, non-native looking window decorations just for GNOME users

That's a false dilemma. You don't have to do either of those. The alternate solution is mentioned in that issue: use libdecor. I'll also note, if you refuse to use any of the system's UI and you insist on implement everything yourself directly on libwayland then that's an entirely self-inflicted problem that you created. Libwayland is fairly low-level, it isn't a game development API. Besides window decorations, you'll have lots of other deficiencies and things you have to spend development time on. That's what you volunteered for, GNOME can't help you with that.
As someone who loves winter, this is sad but I guess it's just going to be a new reality...
I live, in many ways, by the standards of 90 years ago— apartment in a 1907 tenement house (a new law tenement, much better than the old law kind!), no laundry machine, clothing often bought used & which I often repair myself, most transportation on foot or on train/bike for longer distances. I have nicer electronics, of course, but that doesn't consume a big percentage of my income.

But there's no easy way to opt for a four-hour workday, which I would prefer— instead, I save most of my income.
Fair enough. I was mostly reacting to the 2nd sentence. I guess I'm not sure what your primary thesis was. I agree that you can distinguish between civility and nicespeak, but mostly because I see nicespeak as a form of civility. I don't see civility as requiring sincerity. When we ask someone to keep things civil, we aren't asking them to be more sincere. However, I can understand having different connotations for the word and I wouldn't really want to quibble about it.
"Cost of living" must have meant something different back then. To me, it doesn't survive very well as a concept in the interwar period.
Thanks for making me feel better about my also-weak returns and basically just trying to save money and not lose/waste large amounts either.
The IRS did deliberately target conservatives though. That's not something you forget when you hear the stories and then the scandal hits the news. Plus, even if the IRS isn't targeting you for your politics, dealing with them can easily become a Kafkaesque nightmare even over trivial amounts of money. My father in law experienced that a few years back.

People hate the IRS because they are a huge bureaucracy and because they did deliberately target people like them.
This accusation is thrown about a lot. I suspect we're on the cusp of a refinement into actual:

"did you use ChatGPT to write this"

distinct from

"this is so bad it must have been ChatGPT"

distinct from

"this is so good you must have used ChatGPT"

BTW I didn't use ChatGPT to write this.
The subject is complicated. For example see this paper[0].
The setting of concrete goes on for a long time and the Romans were probably not aware of how long their concrete(s) was/were going to last. There is a type of 'survivorship bias' going on here. But still, I guess, they knew something important. Adding reinforcement to concrete may well be a source of shortevity - or what ever the complement to longevity is.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00225...
That's pretty much the thesis of the video that browningstreet posted a link to posited as well. I'm not sure that explains though the casual 30 to 40 somethings who did it pretty regularly until they pretty much dropped it though. I'm not even sure why I did other than the fact that fewer people I knew were looking to do it as a recreational activity so it became less and less an activity I even thought about.

I probably go with fashion/fad at the end of the day.
This feels like a circular - but also not fully correct - claim to me. Leadership issues and organization issues can feed on each other in a vicious cycle, but they can also exist separately.

The CEO may not know how to effectively organize an [engineering,marketing,sales,whatever] team. That doesn't mean any company with a team that's adrift due to poor organization suffers from leadership dysfunction at the CEO level. Yes, it's the CEO's responsibility to fix that, but in many cases they don't have the direct ability to fix outside of hiring and delegating to the right people.

Organizational problems are also fractal: a data org of 100 people may not be working in the best way with an infrastructure org of 50 people. But within the data org things might also be bogged down because a team of 5 people is not working well with another team of 10 people. And within that, two people on that team of 10 may be in totally the wrong role for their skillets and preferences.

(And conversely, sometimes you have well-organized, smooth-running teams let down by capricious management.)

And most ironically, if your company is doing a reorg every 6 to 12 months... your organizational issues probably aren't getting fixed any time soon. Organizational issues that affect execution and delivery are too complex to be fixed by moving some lines around on a singular hierarchical org chart.
Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do
It's not the servers as much as joining them together in a very fast network and with fast storage.

A HPC cluster might also have men with guns outside which means they don't need quite the same threat model as a cloud provider (say)
Again, cool, also unresponsive to the what I wrote.
The sodastreams have a better cap for sure. They suggest 2 rounds of carbonation IIRC, and I do 3 to achieve the same levels. Shaking is a must because increased surface area exposed to CO2 increases absorption into the liquid, although I only shake for 5 seconds on each round. This is done with sodastream too IIRC. I also use the 750mL bottles instead of 2L bottles.

Also higher pressures are better obviously. Another tip is to use cold water because that apparently absorbs CO2 better.

You can also carbonate wine. My girlfriend was very excited to be able to buy cheaper white and rose wines and just carbonate them instead of buying more expensive bottles of sparkling wine.
Huh! Thanks for posting this. I haven't seen 5" builds with props like this before.

The opposite is definitely true for toothpick or smaller builds. Bi-blade is much quieter for something like a ~60g, 3" quad.
If you don't mind me asking, what did you use for the cross backups? I'm looking to set up some home servers at my house and parents house to get us all off Google but want our data to be geographically replicated (terrified of a house fire destroying all our phots
Lab-Grown Retinal Cells Open Door to Treat Blindness&Degenerative Eye Diseases
The commenting on personal appearance took place in a peer-reviewed article in which he was sole author. Read the link.
I bought the MZOO brand off of amazon and like it over the other brands I've tried. Taking a 20 minute nap in the late afternoon helps my late day productivity that it makes up for the 20 minute nap. My original intuition was that with my eyelids closed how much darker can it be to have an eye mask. The answer is: a lot. Put on this mask and close your eyes for a minute or two, then remove the mask while keeping your eyes closed. It is like someone is shining a flashlight on your face.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KC5DWCC

These are inexpensive but they work well and I find the strap to be comfortable. The main differentiator vs some other brands is there is a big cup around the eyes. While sleeping (or trying to sleep) your eyes still dart around, and it is very distracting to have your eyelashes sweeping against a flat eye mask.

Another brand that is inexpensive and is even darker is from "Albatross Health New England". It completely removes even the small amount of light that leaks in, but it has to be worn tighter to get that seal. The main thing I don't like about it is when adjusted for my particular head size, the adjustment buckle is sitting right behind one of my ears and if I am on that side it is uncomfortable. But for $10 it is worth a try:

https://www.amazon.com/Adjustable-Blocking-Breathable-Comfor...
This reply has been bugging me.

No, though i’ll admit it can be easy to get sucked into, bit that’s true for any platform, there are plenty of strategies to avoid this, mvc with uikit and swiftui further improves.

Just setting up test targets can mitigate this kind of thinking
I just got 97.9: I wish it would allow saving a specific run to load with a link.
Just to be sure, do you mean Waterloo University? If so, this is in Ontario, Canada, not the US. You could always go to Waterloo or another reputable school for a master's degree, if you'd like to specialize in something you find yourself liking while in post-secondary.
Biology and more specifically lifespan being fixed through human history seems like a significant confounding factor here.

A 50 year trip isn’t such a big deal if people are living 100,000 years and have near perfect memory.
For a short time I worked as a machine operator in a production company, automotive industry. The CEO used to yell during meetings on the production floor that "the production must be high quality, fast, and cheap; there is no 'choose two' nonsense".

Yes, the CEO was going down to yell on the blue collar workers making pennies.
Universities are institutions made of people. If SF becomes to expensive for those people to work and study in, they'll face the same problem of housing costs. And universities rise and fall over time: a great CS department one decade might slip down the ratings the next.

There are many places on Earth with nice weather and scenery (depending on taste). There are many cities with great night life for younger people, or good schools for families. None of these things are unique selling points intrinsically required for a tech hub. And if remote work becomes the norm (and yes I know all the arguments for and against) you can live in your dream town with the right mixture of scenery/weather/nightclubs/schools without paying the premium.

The one thing SF has is inertia : tech happens there because it happens there. But Detroit used to have inertia, too.
> They are easy to fix when the right-minded people are in charge and impossible to fix when they're not.

Sorry, no. I don't know your story but it feels unlikely you have real experience with this. Even with right-minded people there can be many, many reasons and dynamics that an organizational problem is difficult to solve.

Good intentions - even from the most senior leadership - can be slow to manifest in real change based on market forces, client forces, cultural dynamics, norms (especially the unspoken ways things "just get done") and capability (e.g., making the wrong decision on a change management strategy which sets the whole change effort back years). There are a near infinite number of contextual considerations, and they are not all rendered null because the executive committee wants to do the right thing. Unexpected second-order effects may be likely given what is being changed, bringing great risk on its own.