skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to something I wrote about recently: https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence

My goals were different, but my approach was very similar. However I did not replace screens with analogue equivalents.
"the windows were coated in this nasty yellow residue and smelled vaguely like cigarettes"

I painted a room in my parent's home after decades of smoking that occurred long before and after I was born. First step was to wash the thick layer of nicotine and tar off of the walls using Trisodium Phosphate or other strong cleaner. A stain blocking primer, typically used for smoke damage from fires, was then applied, and then you can paint. Even then, you could still detect the faint odor of cigarettes. Nasty stuff.
> How did they possibly win over investors?

Matt Rogers cofounded Nest. People will throw money at that without asking any questions. Winners often win twice.

Plus the hardware grinder/dehydrator could be used in either your own garden or picked up weekly/monthly and sold locally.

Plus it's Green and it actually makes sense to try and capture that waste. Something individuals can do to make a difference.

I agree $33/mo and a mail-back service is never going to get their $100M back.
Yup, once a year like clockwork. Call the ISP, play a game of brinksmanship to avoid being taken to the cleaners.

Meanwhile my conflict-averse friend is paying $94/mo for less bandwidth than I get for $25. It's psychological discrimination, is what it is.
All this spatial stuff is mind blowing: CODEX, CyTOF, ...
I'm guessing they've got something like Go's `DisallowUnknownFields()` turned on and the Pleroma extension block is causing an error.

FWIW GotoSocial seems to work (although Ivory is showing that timeline under the wrong user for some reason - all the GtS timeline posts are shown as the user I logged into the Akkoma instance with.)

In summary, if you're not using a Mastodon instance, probably give it a month or two.

EDIT: Having said that, it's showing every timeline item on the GtS instance as the same one - I suspect they might be using integers for IDs (which is what Mastodon - but no-one else - does) and coincidentally this timeline has IDs that all start with `01`. Which would also explain the Akkoma problem since all those IDs are currently starting with `AR` and thus unparseable as integers.
Love the comments here. I try to get ideas for what is becoming possible (not what's a good or bad idea) by visualizing how drivers of timing work. I wrote a bit about it here: https://startupsunplugged.com/why-now/timing-drivers-visuali...
I believe it does. At least, the better version of this site, lichess, runs the analyzer in the browser.
I do about an appliance repair a year across my house and both of our parents' houses. I've literally never found parts or information availability to be a barrier to doing these repairs.
Books are documents. A generalized document bot might be useful for bot creation, for many use cases that are conversationally focused on data that is "frozen", like a book.

Conversely, an analytics bot that ingests and can converse about analytical information related to a business is also useful for data in motion. This is more based on time series data and running analytical queries based on conversational language.
You know it doesn't have to be one or the other, right? They can care about both?
Need more than that to disrupt a 100 year old home appliance industry.
And his favourite pick-up line?

> Would you like to see the back of my van?
I use a zigbee smart outlet to monitor the power usage (I have a gas dryer so easier to do than something on 220) and use that to notify when the washer/dryer are done.

I do something like if power usage goes above x, then wait till it goes below that for at least 3 minutes and notify me then (exact timing may depend on the washer/dryer)
Ray breaks the $1/TB barrier as the world’s most cost-efficient sorting system
This is true, for a while. Those hard core geeks occasionally incubate technologies to the point that they become easy and useful enough that they break out into the mainstream. See: World Wide Web, eMail, etc.
I’m part of a venture-backed business today but recently told a friend that my next move would be to a non-VC tech business for the right opportunity.
I'm going to give this a shot. I have been using "Minimal Theme for Twitter" extension for a couple of years and love it. I'm less distracted by hiding what's trending, etc.
What if it's a fix for an actively-exploited zero day?
I've poked around a while ago at some Calendly alternatives (specifically was looking for something that was cheaper than Calendly with most of the basic features).

I tried using https://cal.com for a bit but ended up just switching over to https://zcal.co and it has been great so far. All these other scheduling tools end up trying to do too much and always seem to end up a bit clunky and charge absurd amounts for it
Makes me feel like they're going to go the uber route by undercutting the competition to starve them out, and then hike prices once they're the only name in the game
Jerry (YC S17) is hiring a senior product designer (remote)
> Check out Ice Cubes, another fantastic (and free!) app that supports Mac, iOS, and iPadOS today.

FYI, Ice Cubes is an iOS app. It does run on macOS by virtue of macOS supporting iOS apps, but its App Store listing notes that it's "Not verified for macOS".
It sounds like basically every Android update I've had.
For a second, I thought this was about Homi K. Bhabha, notorious among other things for this gem of a sentence:

"If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to 'normalise' formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality."
I think what OP is saying is that onboarding all of humanity onto the lightning network would exceed the capacity of the Bitcoin network.

Yes, once everyone is onboarded onto lightning the 1,000,000 tps bandwidth would apply. But to benefit from that, at least one payment channel per person would have to be written to the Bitcoin blockchain—a process that would take at minimum 30 years if all of humanity is to be on-boarded—and would more likely take several centuries, considering that those payment channels would also be competing with other bitcoin traffic.

Also consider that the security model of the lightning network requires that fraud penalties need to be written to the blockchain within a certain time window if a fraud is to be reversed. A clogged Bitcoin network where transactions are waiting too long to be added to the blockchain—or where blockchain fees are too high to justify adding a fraud-penalty transaction to the blockchain—would result in the entire security model breaking down.
Show HN: Parallel conversion of HEIC files to JPEG in browser
Return it, otherwise how will they know it's defective?
I believe that not controlling the exchange will affect them materially. Not because of the exchange's profits, but because of the data that it provides that lets Google optimize their campaigns (giving it an unfair advantage, as the competition has no access to this data).
What is coming though?
Excuse me sir, but are you implying that in 1993 at WrestleMania 9 when Giant Gonzalez knocked out the Undertaker using a chloroform soaked rag that it was all fake? If so then mister, I think you are full of crap. /s
Are they big endian or little endian? If they are little endian, is it cheaper to perform 8 1-byte compares, 4 2-byte compares, or 2 4-byte compares?
I noticed this too. The site lags on my Samsung Note 10 using Firefox.
That would stand out among SC justices as abnormal, they're usually only biased when it can be consistent, which covers most cases but doesn't go so far as applying different law to different companies.
That's not VC. That's just a regular business. Please start it.
Yes relays could talk also serve as a client and subscribe to other relays. Nothing stopping them from doing this
Hotels and some things are a huge mess.

But generally your random consumer buying a random widget has some idea about what taxes are involved and roughly what to expect when they buy specific consumer goods / the machine tells them what to pay.

It's complex if you want to do the math and get the exact number each time, but for most transactions it's a fairly small amount / not something you need to think about / need to know the exact number.

If I go pickup a burrito I'm not worrying about if it is $10 or $10.25.

If I wanted to worry about that it is possible to figure that out without knowing all the taxes myself.
As an individual or professional I am not excited by new filesystems if there is any risk of data loss at all.
The Trillion-Dollar Coin Might Be the Least Bad Option
I'm saying that maybe writing runes on stones was uncommon compared to write them on wood and that maybe runes were more common in central Europe than what we see, because those runes endured less than the ones on stones in Scandinavia.
Is Clean My Mac X really malware?
> PRISM was... A web front-end that would produce warrants, that would be served to the various internet companies, who would respond to them by providing the information requested. [1]
> But half the people in the tech community seem to think that it was some magical all-seeing-eye-of-Sauron that had backdoors and zero-day-exploits embedded in every webservice we use

Those two are literally the same. The former is worse even, since there is no escaping from it - one way or the other they will get your data over some service you used or had to use at a point in history. The latter can be avoided in many ways.
I love this. How does it work copyright-wise?
Ah, that's my comment.

I think I got it right, with the way I formulated it.
hey there. shoot me an email at peer@cal.com for the refund, also happy to give a student discount

remember you can always get a free account with firstname-lastname or similar
Was this post written by ChatGPT? Were many other comments in this thread written by people with undisclosed interest in this project (e.g. employees, founder friends)?

Maybe I'm thinking too much about it, but I got triggered by "This new release is a game-changer for anyone working with Markdown on the web", the style of writing is very similar to ChatGPT... Also, I work with markdown on the web and never had any problems with it, not sure what's the problem solved by Astro.
I'm more worried about the 50% that DO connect their devices.. Don't do that.
Are there ways to make the output quote any relevant sentences from book? I just want to verify whether there is hallucination.
Jeez, are people really this spineless? I'm assuming you also get roped into paying for some random dude's mixtape outside a grocery store?
Solaredge. I didn't even know their monitoring system could push firmware-- every prior update done had been via a SD card. It was taken care of but geesh, and left me without batteries for about a year due to parts shortages.

I wouldn't use their product again for anything involving energy storage. Solar only it seems to be fine.
Most places in the US, the local tax is the same statewide. Not in Ohio, where it can vary by township, sometimes across invisible boundaries. I once attended a large flea-market where such a boundary cut through the fairgrounds. Taxes were different on one side of the line than the other.

It's so bad that Ohio actually has a mobile app that uses your phone's GPS to figure out which jurisdiction you're in and show the applicable tax rate.

If I say mean things about Ohio from time to time, this is part of why.
Without doubt. But unfortunately, it takes only one side to make a filthy useless war. The other side doesn't get to simply give up, because the only thing worse than a filthy useless war is a filthy useless set of post-conquest atrocities. Especially when it sets the stage for the next filthy useless war.

This is absolutely an abomination, but there is only one person with the power to make it even the tiniest bit better.
Ask HN: Is the tech layoff trend new or has this always happened?
It makes sense that there have usually been higher amounts of hires during financial 'good times' but have tech layoffs always been happening during financial 'bad times'?

I remember the dotcom bust, the housing bust, and the pandemic era, and I'm curious if it is the degree of layoffs that is changing or the degree of publication and 'connectedness', or even 'newsworthiness' of tech layoffs that is changing.

Interested in your opinions
MSFT Q2/2023 Earnings Release
For launch of a startup in which usernames are public, charging more for a premium username is interesting additional revenue.

(And I'd guess it doesn't much affect the subscriber boost you get from the people who rush to grab their preferred username or landgrab a primo username on a new service.)

Though I wonder whether a recurring charge for a premium username means that they'll ever reuse a username, renting it to someone else if the initial person stops paying. That could be a security problem (impersonation, a bit like with domain name registrations). And if the initial person knows that's a security problem, keeping them paying for that reason might be a racket. (Maybe this is not a big deal for a calendar service, but it could be for others.)
I’ve got a Cloudron instance on a 1G buyvm (3.50). The Cloudron free tier is kinda perfect for it because the 2 app free tier maximum pretty much exhausts the 1G of memory (running rocket.chat and The Lounge).

I have it setup as my.srv1.domain.com (with apps at appX.srv1.domain.com). This way if I need more apps I just spin up another 1G Ubuntu instance somewhere and install cloudron as srv2 etc, for another 2 apps that fit squarely into the 1G and also Cloudron free tier. Cloudron in their forum has also stated that this does not violate their terms (they said completely within terms).
Usually I find "most watched" ends up just being the most showy part of a clip, but I'm usually wanting the most informational stuff which isn't the same. E.g. I'm a rock climber and watch videos on technique and safety, but most watched is climbing a route with some pop song in the background. Useless.
dropbox did something useful. It made it easy to share files across platforms and the web. This is a feature that should be part of your calendar software to allow people to create calendar entries in your calendar and see availability.
Precedent would be Blinkist, which AFAIK just uses an army of editors. Though, they probably _have_ contracts with the publishers
Imagine risking a federal offense for a fuckin' vape.
I deduct 2x the added charges from the usual and customary tip and leave a note on the receipt. The goal is to incentivize the servers to agitate against the restaurant.

I particularly detest sneaky 'charges' that are not embedded in the prices.
I've done my best to explain what specific criteria we apply in cases like this (major ongoing topic, no significant new information). You can certainly disagree about whether I've applied the criteria correctly—e.g. if you feel that this letter does contain significant new information—but the criteria themselves ought to be clear, and are not arbitrary.
You are probably aiming for a high chance of a successful business? They don't want that. They want a low chance of a unicorn.

If anyone wants a wake up call of what normal investors (not VC) value typical companies at, watch the UK series Dragons Den, where they offer people 50,000 pounds for 33% of the company, and suchlike.
I let Tesla FSD take over completely for driving my kids to school in the morning, which is approximately 90% of my driving.

I might feel like intervening, 1 out of 10 times at this point. I might not be the typical driver, but I definitely feel like its ready for early adopters now.

However, even though I'm a big fan, I don't see how these can easily transition to "mass consumption", because as we get into the uncanny valley where the auto drive is good enough to take over, the masses are going to completely check out of their responsibility to be a good backup driver.

So I feel like we are going to be stuck in the current space for a long time, maybe 10 years. Until you Auto Drive is so good, you can ride one without getting a drivers license.
That landing page is really amazing
Are the Rick astley month sheets static / non-interactive / purely decorative? E.g. I cannot scroll to next or previous month; cannot see a specific day's details?

Or is some backend just down?
Exactly. My solution is also to just not eat out. Like the article says though, it's unfair to the businesses that choose not to do this. Maybe the solution is to just not pay extras if places don't disclose all costs up front.
One feature I wish filesystems had is transaction support, ie:

begin transaction
create file X if it doesn't exist, otherwise abort transaction
write some stuff to file X
open file Y
overwrite some data in file Y
if <insert condition here> commit transaction
end transaction

Nested transactions would be required as you'd have no idea whether you're already in a transaction.

Something like this can be coded (painfully) with renames, but it's unreliable, hard to test, and hard/impossible to coordinate with higher-level modules.
There’s no theoretical limit to LN transaction numbers because there’s no shared global state. You could have many very high throughput channels processing payments in parallel.
The fact is that you don't enjoy these things. These things generate only frustration, its more the time you want to throw these things out of the window than the one you enjoy them. A console that you have to mod just to upgrade/replace its internal hard drive? What the hell? Just because Microsoft can sell you a normal SATA disk for double the price?
I was at Home Depot the other day buying a new washer/dryer. Every 'smart' fridge had a Certificate Error on them. It was pathetic.
That stood out to me too. This could be very valuable information, in the employer's opinion, to make their choice.

The author's counterpoint might be that there are a lot of similar behavioral/subordination/personal-history questions that they could have asked, but didn't, because, as TFA discusses, a lot of stuff you did when you were barely starting to be an adult doesn't matter after a few years.
Just offer it to anyone, with home or without, but who is willing to spend every night there and agrees that this will be verified. These are likely not places where people choose to live.

Compare it to prison with free healthcare, food and many more additional costs plus costs to society associated with whatever made somebody go to prison in the first place.

I mean, if you think about country income (or lack thereof) and spending, even ignoring military, corruption, church etc. There are still way bigger things to worry about regarding your tax dollars. There is tons of freeloading, exploitation and injustice, but if somebody is willing to accept living in slums to just have some roof over his head, he probably needs it, for whatever reason.

And even giving absolutely zero empathy, assuming no mental problems, childhood traumas etc., counting these specific irrelevant cents, it still may simply be the most economic solution from the society perspective.
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Yes. Hiding errors leads to a lot of issues down the way.

This is part of the process. If an issue requires deeper work, it moves a proper task in a sprint.

We try to fix the easiest issues first so the deeper problems bubble up.

How the person in the support role knows that an issue is deeper? It comes from experience. Thus everyone does 1~2 week of support.
> That's the feedback loop I'm calling "groupthink."

While I think I get your point, I'd call that failure mode "believing it's own BS", and (perhaps I'm just being cynical here) I think humans collectively also have this failure mode.

That said, there's an old saying: "To err is human, to really foul up requires a computer" — it is quite possible for a machine, with merely the same category of flaws we have and no others, to be really bad for the world just because it's really fast and doesn't sleep.
> Xi Jinping, the Venezuelan government and the Ayatollah of Iran

Wow so much more horrible than being in good company with George Bush, Tony Blair, Dick Cheney and the other assorted Anglosaxons. Because only Anglosaxon enemies are horrible people. Even if 75% of the world think precisely the opposite.

Its 23 years into 21st century. Its time for 'white man's burden' mentality to die out in all its incarnations.
I don't think you axe the execs for opex cut, you axe the execs for failing to perform. It seems they get significantly more favorable terms in these sort of layoffs than rank+file employees.
This is a whole class of problem, it seems to me. A semi-automated approach can seem fine when there's an executive function over the top of it, exercised by someone who has not just the knowledge, but current and honed knowledge. But over time, what's keeping that knowledge current and honed?

The airline industry has talked about this, of course, and adoption of robotic surgery has opened up a whole new training problem, because its escape hatches when it goes wrong or can't complete a procedure is often "complete the surgery manually". Which is fine on Day 1 of robotic surgery, but what about day 2 when surgeons typically don't have hundreds of similar procedures under their belts? And where the only time they're called on to exercise the skill is in difficult edge cases?

We have basically turned driving a standard transmission into a weird old person quirk or niche enthusiant skill in the United States. If an automatic transmission required a similar manual fallback or check, how well would that work? Well, it would work fine if basically everyone already had a lot of practice driving a manual--but now? It wouldn't work well at all. Of course, automatic transmission don't fail like that, and are a lot better at switching gears than AI assistants are at generating code. I worry about the semi-automated approach to self-driving, where the driver may not actually have currency with their driving skill, and where--in the instance that it's necessary--a driver has to react to more complicated situations (they don't have practice with the simple ones, and they have to react not to a hazard but to their car's failure to react to a hazard).
The global effects of a nuclear war would be truly horrible. It's not just about the force of impact or blast radius or even how much land gets directly scorched.

It's akin to a major chain volcanic eruption... A huge amount of particulate blocks the sun for decades and everything withers. There will be no post apocalyptic society. This is a major extinction event, an ecosystem wipe.
I have also had wifi disconnection issues. However, since minimal use is the goal for me anyway I haven't prioritized chasing the issue down.
We bought our samsung in 2016 and in... 2018 it started showing us ads, and then later they installed the "tv plus", uh, "feature". Which you can't uninstall so every time your toddler bumps the channel button on the remote, it will kick you out of whatever netflix/youtube/disney+ thing you're watching to go to some ad-supported BS. Over the years the UI has gone from good to almost unusably slow and laggy. Next time we move, we're trashing the 2016 samsung and getting something else, and never ever hooking it up to wifi.

When I bought a samsung tv for my home office, I explicitly never enabled the wifi, and plugged in an external FAANG device with a remote and control the TV via that. If the device gets buggy I can go buy a new one for $60.