skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
constant doom and gloom rhetoric

That's a take you share with many, without a doubt.

I view it more like performance optimization. Clear correlation between CO2 levels and cognition. Clear correlation between "air quality" in general and health. I try to optimize for those things when possible. When I deviate from that I'd at least like it to be an informed decision.

Do you think there's a happy middle ground between "doom and gloom" and "utter ignorance?" I do. Many of us find knowledge more comforting than ignorance.

I still use my gas stove. I'm just more conscientious about it now. Candles... yeah I don't use them enough for it to be a factor. Hell, I even burn incense sometimes and that's literally designed to flood the air with particulates. (Japanese incense burns a bit more cleanly, FWIW)

I just like to be informed, I suppose.

I'm gonna keep using scented candles

Me too.

and if they want to be the death of me, well

A candle has roughly the effect of one resting person in terms of heat and CO2. That's... small.

Nobody is claiming that's bad or that you shouldn't use them, and certainly not Carmack in the linked tweet.

If you've willfully misinterpreted his tweet as "doom and gloom" or "candles are gonna kill us, don't use 'em" than that is a very conscious choice you have made, and one unrelated to reality.
I happen to know this because it was a recent crossword puzzle answer, but it's Antony (no "h").
I disagree. Information is presented to humans visually. If your models can process visual information, it is the most robust of possible solutions.
> It's simply easier to dumb down your existing smartphone, especially if you have an Android phone.

That claim is a bit nuanced, IMO. Before I finally chose to move to iPhones, I tried my best to remove distractions from my Android phone, and I failed. iOS is less customisable, but comes with a configuration/ecosystem baseline that's far easier to tolerate, and insofar as it is flexible, the changes are far less painful than bringing an Android to that level.

Again, that's just my experience. YMMV.
- Start small & provide feedback -

Figure out if you can get the small commitment from the beginning. Focus on delivering a smaller MVP with the ability to change developers on the way (if it gets stuck). Get iterations with user feedback as early as possible to ensure you’re moving in the right direction. Move in short sprints. Pay for milestones.
I don't know about you, but seems to me like we paid a lot of attention to humans as a vector for poor health over the last 3 years...
> How did they manage to get the engineering talent when seemingly FB, MS, Netflix, Amazon, Google are all fighting for that talent?

By hiring people in china? Not everyone wants to move to the US.
- Draft the specification -

Spend time scoping the development, UI or QA tasks or ask for just scope beforehand. Having clear requirements will help you manage the costs.
> How can we (and everybody else) agree on the identity of something?

we do, I rephrase it, billions of people do it all the time everyday on WhatsApp.

It's called TOFU

The first T means Trust.

Another example: Protonmail, it uses PGP, it works.

The important thing for privacy is the encryption part, not the identity part.

Even more so when we all know that full fledged HTTPS site put TENS OF MEGABYTES of garbage on their web pages to track people.

Identity: I want it confirmed if I'm talking to my bank, but why the bank cannot buy a 10 year certificate it's a mystery to me, I sure hope they'll still be in business in 10 years time from now, at least they should be able to not think about this minutia so often.
It's an attempted mind fuck to disguise the true power dynamic. If they say "we're making cuts, you're done. Leave your laptop on your desk and clear off", it's clear what the power dynamic is.

Instead they present themselves as your friend. Even if you don't believe it, social norms dictate that in general you act like you do. Like Zizek says, "fuck you, you're a boss, act like it!". Then you're unsure of what's happening. Do they really feel bad? Maybe they're trying their best, maybe they really care about me personally.

It's same with all this corporate-speech that's been emerging recently. They're not your family, they're not your friends, and if it comes to it they will fist you so hard you'll be tasting their perfectly-manicured nails.

I think it's very important to always have this in mind and not to tie up your identity with your work. You are a line item on a spreadsheet somewhere to them, nothing more. If you start believing otherwise you are setting yourself up for mental health problems when your use runs out and they kick you to the kerb.
Without looking close at your suggestion, you might want to look at passage [0] by the creator of age. It's a fork of pass [1] using age as the backend.

[0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage
[1] https://passwordstore.org
- Really, get to know the developers -

Ensure that the developers assigned to your project are the ones actually doing the work. Be sure, the dev is fairly paid.
I just switched password managers from LastPass, and Bitwarden's lack of multiple accounts on their browser plugin was a dealbreaker for me. Such a basic feature, especially if they want to get widespread adoption. Otherwise, anyone whose work uses Bitwarden basically can't also use it for their personal stuff without jumping through hoops.
I think you do. If you drove 10 miles and recharged, you wouldn't consider that a "cycle". You could do that 100k times (probably more), but no one would say the battery cycle life is 100k.
I would imagine that it isn't changing font for the l specifically but just has a sans font that includes a tail on the l. This text box that I'm using, for instance, is Dejavu Sans Mono which does exactly that.
All designed in the US, using manufacturing methods pioneered (for the most part) outside of China?

I mean it was only a short while ago that they were able to manufacture metal balls with enough precision to make ballpoint pens.

Besides the fact that they are known for making jumps and leaps in progress by stealing trade secrets. Just calling it how it is, I don't think they deserve credit for working in this way at all, if it weren't the case then I'd be applauding them.
> The worst thing is that the calculator pretends to be running after like 2s but is unresponsive.

I can't stand this and it happens in a lot of places. It seems like pure metric chasing. We made it load faster boss. Well, no you can't use it but it yet but you should have been more specific!

If I open word doc over the slow VPN Word forces itself to the foreground only to show me a file loading dialog.
It should be noted again that detecting this form of malware would be considerably easier on a system like an open Desktop PC and there would be many ways to Rome.
I like these data description languages but most of them just have support for sequential structures and don't support offsets within the file. These are very common in file formats created for use with C or a similar language, which is most of them. It's not hard to add but it destroys the elegance of the formalism.
> Which is why when the newest generation largely voted against the republican party, they chose to soften their image... Wait no, that's exactly what they didn't do

Actually, they did - if you go back and look at the 2008 and 2012 election cycles, the Republicans ran incredibly moderate candidates (honestly, Bush was pretty moderate himself). It wasn't until that approach kept failing they finally went back to their roots (kind of, sort of, because Trump wasn't really all that right wing, but he did oppose illegal immigration).
Ah, yes. It's actually both - the subject at the top is Arial, but the body is Helvetica.
The maintainers' time is valuable, yes, which is why it's good to have a system where they can get to something in their own time that doesn't rely on contributors spamming on a mailing list.
>The Tesla Model S 85 kWh battery has 0.57 MW/kg [2]

Note that your source is from 2015. The Model S battery of today has a higher capacity (100 kWh) and has undergone constant lightweighting improvements.
- Ask for a consultation before you commit to anything -

Meeting the team can help you check the fit before starting the project. If you’re looking for a dev agency, chat with developers beforehand. Soft skills are as critical as ability to code. Avoid working with agencies that underpay their developers.
There is no intelligence or reasoning involved in stochastic gradient descent
That's a theory that only models certain market conditions. In practice there is an information asymmetry (contrary to the presuppositions of the Nash Equilibrium) and often the employer side has a small number of companies so coordination is easier. Check out this settlement from the 2000s in Silicon Valley[1]. This involves highly desired, well educated employees so imagine how it is in other fields.

In my own experience I've had several prospective employers at conferences say that they were interested in poaching me but mentioned that they were wary to start a poaching war. They knew the CEO of my company and were conscious of the fact that he would likely make an effort to respond in kind. The Nash Equilibrium is an interesting concept but reality is complex and messy.

[1] https://equitablegrowth.org/aftermath-wage-collusion-silicon...
You can tell that ChatGPT has been neutered in being rendered so safe. It basically will refuse to disagree with you, even if you get crazy and wrong.

That makes it vulnerable to disruption.
Stats for Mastodon
Who are the “gatekeepers” stopping you from running a webserver with whatever “content” you want?
Thanks. I am planning to sell the kit.
https://hackaday.io/project/181344-stack-chan-javascript-dri...
Not soon, but not far off. I hope you will look forward to it.

And third-party kits are already available. Please refer to the comments above.
- Check out the background before shortlisting -

Start with research: find testimonials or real products the agency helped build. Check the “Showcase” section on the website. Open Trustpilot & G2. The more previous experience you can see, the better.
As the saying goes, I support the rhetorical goals of this creator — but I would be hesitant to tout as an anti-capitalist project something that actively forbids personalization.
Hitting the <Win> key works better than the app launchers I have tried.
Hocuspocus: The plug’n’play collaborative editing back end
Is non-ionizing radiation hazardous?
My point is that the oxygen consumed over the duration of hotboxing a car is so trivial compared to spending hours sleeping in a car that if the former has any effect the latter should too.
Why do you assume that a brush cutter is not familiar with IT or technological topics? People's backstory can be more complicated than most people expect.
I see quite a few posts on HN that are nostalgic about the early web. But I would say that there's an interesting take here about the shift to a preference for newer content. No doubt SEO has a lot tondo with it.
I’m in the same boat. Using Passkeys gives the user less control. The last thing I need is another layer of complexity when dealing with credentials. This seems like a solution created for people too lazy to generate and track secure secrets (using a password manager).

It also seems like a way companies like Google would lock people into their browser.
It seems like it should be possible to build a drop-in replacement system for DNA that adds a more robust error detection/correction capability. Each gene gets a checksum at the end and the transcription/translation processes are amended to validate these prior to progressing to building proteins.

Obviously it would be more complex than just that but it would be interesting to see how it affects biology. Evolution would now be done primarily though gene mixing vs random mutation, it also seems that things like ionizing radiation could be much more directly harmful, but cancer and autoimmune diseases would seem to be substantially diminished.

No idea how it would affect aging. Seems like it would slow it down but I’m sure it’s more complicated than that.
Ask HN: Who Games on Mac OS?
I bought a 2019 16' MacBook Pro i7 with a Radeon 5300 graphics card to run Windows and game. I've been impressed so far - running the Witcher 3 next-gen update without a hitch. Yeah, sure, it's loud as hell, but I've ordered a fan from Svalt which will hopefully keep that down and improve performance even more.

Does anyone recommend any games in particular? Any games that don't work well? Looking to try Elden Ring soon.

I also have an M1 Pro that my work gave me with 32GB of RAM, and I've run Parallels on it and am able to run old games at 120fps (playing Vampire the Masquerade from 08, for example) but the first Witcher game from 08 is terribly buggy and glitchy.

Leave you favorite games and Steam IDs if you want.
I wouldn't expect it would make a difference either, but the memo made this claim
> Yes, you're always able to buy a bad health insurance plan. But you're also able to buy a good health insurance plan,

If one exists, and as I stated in the original post, in many states, even the best plans available on the marketplace are quite terrible. And that's a problem that's actually gotten worse in recent years, not better, as plans have left the exchange (and providers have dropped marketplace plans from their networks).

> and your pre-existing condition won't impact the price of the good insurance plan.

Your "pre-existing condition" won't impact the price of the insurance plan relative to others who are purchasing that same plan, but you quite likely will be in a situation where the "good" (eg, gold) plans are the only ones which will provide the coverage that you need, and those are the most expensive ones. This satisfies the letter of the law, but in practice it still means that often people with chronic health condition either are are forced to pay more for coverage or are literally unable to get coverage for their conditions at all (because none of the marketplace plans will cover it).

The protections provided by the ACA are much more narrow than you're portraying them as, which is understandable because it's a common misconception about how the ACA operates, but it's unfortunately a very important distinction.
Buying Red Hat was just to acquire customers . Generally if you don’t really want the product the business / tech then you acquire patents , customers and people. For patents you can sue other competitors.
> It's particularly bad when the machine is starting

For me, this can be several minutes after boot. Windows takes forever to actually finish starting up on my work computer, presumably in part because many persistent background apps, even ones that run with elevated permissions, are GUI apps that don't start until the user session.
Chris mentions explicitly that he used a byte buffer plus length pair backed by an arena allocator for the strings in the application.
- Go to the agency when you clearly know what needs to be built -

User stories, jobs to be done, roadmap or design: whatever specification you have. Otherwise, much of the code will be thrown away. Same rules work for marketing agencies. If you don’t know your users and positioning, none of the agencies will do marketing for you.
> 1991 "Microsoft is abusing its monopoly"

Not really a prediction, more of a fact

> 1994 "What the Internet needs now is more competition among greedy entrepreneurs"

Competition is definitely good.

> 1996 "Everything on the Internet should be strongly encrypted all the time"

That pretty much came to pass. HTTPS, encryption and signatures are everywhere.

> 1997 "E-postage is a good thing"

What does that mean exactly?

> 1998 "The skunk is, like Microsoft, an exquisite survival machine"

That's not even a prediction

> 1999 "Linux will fizzle against Windows"

Kinda did in the desktop space, it did great by moving into all sorts of mobile devices and the cloud.
The unique part is that you get encoding and decoding for free when just describing the spec. It is essentially just succinct head-clause matching though.
I live in Berkeley. PG&E’s peak EV-A rate for generation plus distribution was $.92 this summer. It doubled in a year or two.

My off peak rate for charging the car went from net $.15/kWh to $.36 during the summer.

It’s news to me that load shifting (if you’ve got batteries and solar) isn’t allowed by the CPUC, that does take the wind out of my sails a bit. But the peak rates are so high that just zeroing out my peak consumption is still probably worth it.

Does the system come with a “disconnect from the grid during emergencies” shunt?

I’ve heard conflicting reports about the availability and legality of those systems.
Software quality trends to watch in 2023
Good luck to everyone at Amazon.
See also https://winaero.com/ for general Windows UI tweaking.
Donald Trump prepares for his return to Facebook and Twitter
My impression of the gas stove hubbub was:

> First they made specious claims about gas stoves, and I made a big stink about it because it got me activity on social media.
Don't see layoffs as an indicator of industry health. These are corrections, not melt downs. Go apply and do interviews, there are plenty of companies looking for talent.
I remember how all the rich kids with indoor bathtub had always asthma or hay fever or some other sniff. We made fun this phenomenon. We washed ourselves only once per week in communal sauna. This may be the main cause why I have not had flu for 50 years -- or Covid, or Covid-vaccination(s).
Ah, I see, so any kind of improvement to society is bad? is that what your asserting?

should we remove all public health interventions, like sewers, drinking water standard, seat belts, any kind of transportation licensing?

sorry, that's a logical fallacy, and is not helping anyone.

But, improvements to society can be disruptive. The move from coal gas to natural gas was a marked improvement in safety, but was mildly inconvenient for a few years.

Ensuring that every dwelling had a toilet and bathroom attached to the house was expensive to implement, but now its taken as standard.
Ideas should be judged on their merits, but based on previous behavior I wouldn't necessarily trust Johann Hari's writing out of hand - ie other things in the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari
Talked with a founder building something in this space that was inspired by Matt's post in October. lynq.ai (no affiliation, I just know Paul).

I think when you look at this problem originally, you say - that's a bad idea. Why would you take structured data, output it to non-structured format and then have ML parse that. Lots of wasted CPU cycles all around.

However, when you think about the complex dynamics of standards around documents, tens of years of digital formats, hundreds of standards, lack of adherence to those standards, proprietary formats, hundreds of years of print and legal documents, the argument is akin to self-driving cars.

The state we have today around data & dashboards is a hugely emergent & dynamic system, just like our road transport infrastructure. We are closer to a machine being able to navigate the same way a human can, than we are to one simple (or one set of) standard that work more the way a machine would want to consume.

Screenshots as a universal API simply meets the world where it is vs assuming the world is going to change towards something simpler and more elegant.

I think part of the problem with how this comes across at first glance is how it's framed. "Screenshots" as an API evokes some dirty feelings for most of us in tech because the format is so unstructured.

I think if you think about the idea of building something once that both a human and a machine consume from the same target (the UI), this makes a lot more sense in many ways even if it feels like there's an expensive level of indirection in there.

Excited to see what'll happen here over time.
Is the failure mode likely to reoccur?

For most residential home scenarios I guess that's unlikely; wouldn't it be more convenient long term to fix the broken glazed window and enjoy its benefits for the next 10-20 years [1]?

[1]: "IG units typically last from 10 to 25 years, with windows facing the equator often lasting less than 12 years. IGUs typically carry a warranty for 10 to 20 years depending upon the manufacturer.", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated_glazing#Longevity
Sudoedit can edit arbitrary files
> Apple needs hardware partners to more deeply invest in HomeKit

I think Apple themselves need to invest in it more. It's so basic as to be almost unusable.

I have a supercomputer in the form of Apple TV just idling there, and the best HomeKit can barely do is perhaps turn lights on at a certain time, and then complain that it couldn't reach Apple TV.
What law are you claiming OpenAI has broken?
Dyslexia associations have recommended Comic Sans as a font that allows for easier reading comprehension. Experts say that opposition to Comic Sans is ableist: https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/the-reason-comic-sans-is-a-pu...

I, for one, think all State Dept cables should henceforth be transmitted in Comic Sans, so as to provide maximum accessibility.