skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally, the fact that a very small set of standard behaviours has been re-used time and time again for big software projects means they’re extremely well-tested, and well-documented.
I love the idea, and I instantly downloaded the app. After a peppy welcome message from the robot, it doesn't actually play any songs. Just crashes constantly :(

I can send you any debug info if you like. But no pressure, it's free as far as I can see and I don't want you to worry just because it doesn't work for me.

Great idea anyhow!
SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/

I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more.

In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
Can you elaborate? What exactly is wrong with dicts?
I've been building www.steelroad.org to make entrepreneurship more accessible to all. There are so many great businesses that can be built with a little bit of sweat equity and process building.
So far it's cost me $12 for the domain, and $50 to integrate it with substack.
Haven't made a penny yet but subscriber list is growing.
Thanks for the link. Yep, it seems a few companies have developed technologies and then left the space, or never made it to market. Spirosmart seemed promising - https://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/publications/spirosmart... - (and Senosis was subsequently acquired by Google) but I've never seen a real-world clinical application.
> So there was #pragma simd, which sort of worked, unless you called an external function; that problem never got solved. They never understood why someone would want to write a large system that ran completely using all of the vector lanes and couldn’t imagine it was an important use case. (The attentive reader may realize that this execution model precisely describes GPUs.)

Fuck, that must have been an infuriating experience dealing with the hardware team.
oh I tore into the owner of a company with those clauses and ripped him a new one for about 10 minutes....disgusting practice. I refused his offer and told him he should be thankful he has anyone desperate enough to work for him. He apologized to save face...but didn't seem to care.
The saying I've seen is "never learn AWS/cloud on your own credit card".
Yep. I guess they now prefer smearing about such normal citizens because they are much less visible than NK dignitaries since they can easily be spotted in TV broadcasts. To discover that such 'disappeared' ordinary people are actually living their lives, some TV must go there, find them and interview them. And when they do, it doesn't do much impact outside the targeted countries anyways because the Western press has already moved on. The targeted country's TVs' reports never make it into the Western press in the first place anyway.

...

But, after 20 years of following geopolitics and social matters out of interest, my current opinion is that this kind of thing works because certain demographics in the West ! like ! it. Smears, reviling of others, the talk of danger, tyranny, war, immigrants, hatred etc. Leaving aside the social study cases like Brexit debacle, the presence of Murdoch press can only be explained with that. This social trait seems to be the #1 manipulation tool that the establishment uses in such countries.
Another example is the police. Most people agree the existence of a police force to enforce laws is a good thing (society would function very differently otherwise). But if there was a policeman for each other person on the planet following them 24x7 and enforcing every possible law on them, not so much anymore.

Quantity is a quality all of its own.
Not sure this is what GP is talking about but to implement the actor model in https://letlang.dev I use tokio.
Boeing pleads not guilty to fraud in criminal case over deadly 737 Max crashes
I see that as a good feature. Some of these review videos are just a guy going over the product's own marketing spiel and you don't notice until halfway through the video.

If the summary spits out a bunch of useless info, you can find a better one.
Why can't we build it then and have it work splendidly for some. There's a lot of people out there, it doesn't need to work for everybody. It would make your commute better too if half the drivers started taking a train instead.
Regional flight counts are proliferating…

If we could train more of those the airlines might be able to run their continental flights more successfully.
I would probably volunteer more in my state's museum and attempt to break into academic paleontology. I've already donated some of my specimens and have the knowledge / skills to contribute to research. I expect the risk of automation in archaeology / paleontology is low.
I don't think 1. is correct. There is a large body of research looking into different dimensions of brain function, and how different conditions impair those functions.

For example, look at the N-back test for working memory. This is popular in the nootropics community, and is widely used in clinical pharmacology research. There are plenty of other tests. Scientists do experiments like "measure how impaired you are on alcohol vs. antihistamines" to compare impairment profiles from different modes of drug action.

You can measure impairment from sleep deprivation, alcohol, etc., so of course you can measure improvement in attention, reaction speed, working memory, spatial reasoning, and so on.

The difficulty with quantifying effects is not that we need to learn about brain function to know how to measure them, it's that nootropics have quite small effect sizes, if any.

I think it's entirely about 2 -- large studies are expensive, and unless your effect size is enormous you need a large study to detect it.
Zuck’s properties truly are a trash fire. Instagram should be sued to hell for this complete lack of oversight. Sadly, that’s never a thing.
Zillion: https://github.com/totalhack/zillion

A python data warehousing / modeling / analytics library that can unify multiple datasources and writes SQL for you. It's alpha level at the moment and I just slowly chip away when time allows, though I'm using it in production in another project (which does make money).
Fallout 3 was a great remake but I wouldn’t count it as a sequel for sure, but I remember when it came out and it was a real trip seeing the old isometric sprites come alive in 3D around you with essentially the same colors/textures. As a fan of Fallout growing up it was a real trip, but still a totally different game.
Let's come back to my original argument that anhedonia, which is a core feature of depression but is not the same as depression, is caused by biological processes. Do you have evidence to say that it is not?
Glad you're still working on this, Alex! Keep it going
>as the risk of loss is zero

A friend had to put their carry on away from their seat, and someone else took it (by accident), but by the time my acquaintence’s turn came to get their bag, the other person was so far ahead of them, my friend was unable to catch up to them before they left the airport.

They got it back, but now I keep an eye on my carry on, especially when deboarding. And also have a unique, hard to miss tag on it.
Yes. From their repo README:

https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate

Supported formats:

- EPUB (.epub, .epub3)

- Kindle (.azw, .azw3) and Mobipocket (.mobi)

- FictionBook (.fb2, .fb2.zip)

- Comic book archive (.cbr, .cbz, .cbt, .cb7)

- Plain text (.txt)
Building SoCs with FPGAs, probably would have used chip planner or whatever the vivado equivalent is for amd/xilinx.
LiteX makes SoC design really accessible at a hobby level compared to those tools.
CodeApprove: https://codeapprove.com

Basically CodeApprove is a code review UI for power users to layer on top of GitHub. I find that it really resonates with people who have worked at Google/Facebook/etc before and find Github's code review tools really lacking. You get conversation resolution tracking, auto-assignment of reviewers between 'turns', a personalized inbox, and a dense/fast UI with keyboard shortcuts for almost everything.

(Note: I do have some users, but I just got out of alpha mode haven't yet charged any of them. I will get my first $ at the end of this month)
that's pretty cool.
Have you considered CLI version ?
An Extremely Intelligent Lava Lamp: Refik Anadol’s A.I. Art Extravaganza at MoMA
Metacomplaint: that site inexplicably suppresses scrolling by pressing the space bar. After reading a couple of screenfulls I gave up.

Why do they publish something and then put up a barrier to reading it?
That only works for people who have another Apple device. A lot of people just own one Apple device – their phone. So you would have to send out an email for this to work, in the general case.
Comment from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34504545

> So then to watermark, instead of selecting the next token randomly, the idea will be to select it pseudorandomly, using a cryptographic pseudorandom function, whose key is known only to OpenAI. That won’t make any detectable difference to the end user, assuming the end user can’t distinguish the pseudorandom numbers from truly random ones. But now you can choose a pseudorandom function that secretly biases a certain score—a sum over a certain function g evaluated at each n-gram (sequence of n consecutive tokens), for some small n—which score you can also compute if you know the key for this pseudorandom function.

I remain skeptical that this method is resistant against lossy transformations such as changing punctuation, grammar, synonym replacements, 2-way translations and a bunch of other existing tools that are capable of rewording written text.
Sure, I like driving to places, too, but having more trains would not hinder your journey by car.
Find My relies on BLE and other devices in that mesh network to transmit location (and “make sound” requests) in case the device is offline/soft-off, maybe Activation Lock has a similar implementation? Find My just hangs onto a cryptographic proof to disable Activation Lock and other devices around it deliver it in case there’s no internet connectivity.
I helped design and have manufactured a smartwatch style health tracker as part of a research project:

https://amulet-project.org/

It cost somewhere around $200-$250 per watch in a quantity of 150 five years ago to have them made and we did final assembly (putting the PCB into the 3D printed case) ourselves, as well as testing. The MCU was an MSP430, there were a variety of sensors, microSD card, USB charging, an e-ink display, a Bluetooth LE radio that talked to a smartphone and external wireless sensors, and touch sensitive buttons/slider. This is the company that built them for us, I'd recommend them:

https://www.emeraldems.com/dataed/

They can help with design also, though I've only used them for manufacturing.

The software is available here:

https://github.com/AmuletGroup/amulet-project

Note that because the radio chip is often revamped the one we used is now obsolete, which also obsoletes the radio firmware. Some of the other parts have also become obsolete (chips go obsolete fast!)

That said I'd recommend hacking an existing smartwatch instead, they are really cheap and it is easy:

https://hackaday.com/2021/07/08/reverse-engineering-a-very-c...

https://hackaday.io/project/144350-hacking-wearables-for-men...

https://hackaday.com/2018/05/04/hacked-fitness-trackers-aim-...

https://hackaday.com/2018/05/29/hacking-a-fitness-tracker/

Designing your own system and board and making it reliable requires a lot of special knowledge. For example, did you remember to add anti-static protection diodes to all external electrical I/O? Does your battery management keep the battery from discharging to too low a point? If you have more than one MCU how to you synchronize them? How do you keep accurate wall clock time/date? How do you get data on/off the device? Where should you put test points on the PCB? What connectors are reliable? Does your Li-Poly battery need a protection circuit? Do you need it to be waterproof?

So designing something close to a product is not easy. It took us years and several very different prototypes and the end product was still a prototype (no waterproofing for example and not impact resistant). If you're just doing this for fun and are ok with something less polished or are interested in building a prototype, then by all means try designing your own, it is not too hard to get a working PCB and design a 3D printed case for it. You can find several examples of people making their own smartwatches on HackADay.com which might helpful.
Hmm how does that work?
I know it's supposed to be a metaphor, but here's my take on the actual American warriors.

1. Ernest King -> great strategist. Would have probably been great operator too.

2. Chester Nimitz -> the greatest strategist of them all (George Washington included). Midway was obviously his moment of glory, but his second most brilliant action of the war was the sacking of Admiral Ghormley, which lead more or less to the decisive victory of Guadalcanal, from which point the war was won on autopilot.

3. Bill (Bull) Halsey -> great operator (greater than Patton). Questionable strategist.

4. Raymond Spruance -> great strategist and also great operator.

On the army side, I'm not that familiar, but I'd venture and call George Marshall as a really great strategist and obviously Eisenhower also a great strategist. Patton was a great operator, and questionable strategist, similar to Bull Halsey.
They sell the overhead bin space too. It's just smaller and less useful. Definitely been on planes where some of the empty bins had packages in them.
:D this is great
I’ve made roughly -$400 so far from my jazz sticker business, https://www.jazzstickers.com. Not trying to make money, only to roughly break even and make more of my ideas happen.
I suspect the explosion of ADHD, is an explosion of people complaining about how the DEA has decided that while mass over prescription of Oxy is fine, ADHD meds should be heavily restricted because that isn't profitable.

Seriously: every person I have learned has ADHD recently, I have learned because the DEA screwing with the availability of their prescribed medication.
No default arguments, named parameters, variadic functions and generics, no C-style arrow operator, the whole default trait thing (why can’t you shorten it to just `..`?). And a bunch of awful reasoning to defend these decisions. Named function arguments are bad but `Iterator<Item=T>` is fine? Default arguments are bad but default trait implementations are fine? Something something implicit behaviour but type inference is ok? It’s to the point where idiomatic rust means writing a three different structs and enums to call a function.
It doesn't matter whether you are Intel or Exxon, any public company has to exit businesses which are not profitable enough. And when it comes to losing money, failing fast is typically better than failing slow.
Rubys biggest downfall was the stupid "fancy" syntax stuff in the language, like not requiring parenthesis or return statements, insert operators, BEGIN/END blocks, e.t.c. All of those make the code base harder to read.

Also I remember the dependency management system was a pain in the ass to deal with, especially with modules with native libraries.

Python had some issues with 2, but when 3 came around and fixed all that, it became the language of choice specifically because of its consistency.
What are some examples of VR headsets with better inside-out tracking or hand tracking than the Quest 2?

On the software side, is there a comparable standalone game library to the Quest Store and App Lab?
> If the country you are referring to is India, it has been backsliding democratically for a while under Modi

Its not. Its another country far in the West. Moreover, the US press has alternatively depicted the social/cultural segment that I belonged to as 'antidemocratic elites' and 'democratic opposition' over and over. One day, you belong to the 'antidemocratic elite' according to NYT, Wapo etc. 6 months later when the US policy changes, you suddenly find out that you are now 'the democratic opposition'.

But that's not something that dumbfounds me - its how the Western public just believes what they are told and even the educated people you personally know change their opinion with the changes in the mainstream press, while still insisting that they are 'informed and objective'...
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/googleai/musiccaps
Yeah, I've seen it, sure. Thank you. When it went into public release, it made me nervous and in a hurry to finish mine.

The author uses ChatGPT and that limits it a bit. Because it took me 80% of my time and effort to code the preprocessing of the transcript before sending it to GPT. (I mean if you just put transcript to GPT and ask to summarize it sucks)

But his product is free, that's cool. Because he uses ChatGPT on the client. And I have to pay for GPT.
For a comparison of what can go wrong, there was an accident in Brazil in 1987 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

The source in Brazil was much bigger in size (like 6x6x6 bigger in size) and I guess the Brazilian one is also bigger in radioactivity, but after trying for a while to use Google and WolframAlpha to convert terabecquerels to x-rays (at least to get a rough estimation), I officially give up.

(The Brazilian one has a radioactive powder. Perhaps this one is solid that is easier to contain, but the article has very little info.)
> Isn't Jakarta sinking in the sea at a phenomenal rate?

Now that you mention it, could be that that was the real reason.

> This is true for a lot of places; New York City is also dependent on the rest of the United States for food, Berlin on the rest of Germany, London on the rest of the UK, Auckland on the rest of NZ, etc.

Yes, but if food dependency wasn't a issue, then there would be no reason for Java to be so much more populous than anywhere else in the region. They could have settled in more strategic locations. I guess moving the food around still matters.
I need this thanks
>Like using dicts for everything

Sorry what? This is absolutely not true.
There should be a tiny (a couple minutes at most) amount of friction for the transfer of $1000s of dollars worth of property.

Activation lock doesn't prevent resale, it prevents theft.
> All signs point to this strengthening the value of curation and authenticated sources.

Prediction: this is going to end up like CocaCola taking public water (wiki and LLM) and bottling it ("selected sourced") at a couple bucks a pop! "But there will be premium brands!"
Train boarding is a lot faster than airplane boarding.

Train stations are often conveniently located in crowded downtowns. Airports are located some distance away.

Security is a lot more of a problem on planes because hijacking planes is a problem. Hijacking trains is pointless.
The station that is 5 min near me is like a 30 minute subway ride (plus 0-20 minute wait) to Union Station in DC. Then I'd have to switch to Acela (with some wait time probably 30 minutes for a safety buffer).

And my house is too expensive because I'm only 5 minute from the subway. The vast majority of people have to live further.

If I was going to downtown Philly, might be worth it. But if I wasn't, then driving would absolutely be a lot fast. Since I'd have to navigate the last miles there adding more time.

The ability to just leave whenever I want without having to connect a bunch of train rides is pretty valuable even if it took longer.

EDIT: and to make it clear, I'm not a suburanite who is allergic to public transport. Until a year ago, I lived in the city and didn't have a personal car. And even now, I'd take Acela to NYC rather than fly or drive. It just doesn't make sense for other stops on the way like Philly, Wilmington, Baltimore. And Boston would take too long on Acela, and I'd fly instead.
... and why I will never, never ship my dog on a plane. He rides in the cabin with me, or he stays home. If that means private aviation, so be it.
It's still an anticompetitive clause. The patients don't belong to the practice.
This amounts to not owning the device in my book.
https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever - AI-generated (aside from the artwork) parody of '90s sitcoms, running forever (24/7/365).

We worked on this w/ a very small team for the past four years, in-between our day jobs. When started, OpenAI didn't have an API, and Stable Diffusion definitely wasn't a thing, so we had to come up with novel methods to thread cohesive content together. Most of the "creative" details e.g., laugh track, dialogue, frequency of dialogue, camera shots, and so on, are all tunable on a per scene basis.

We're in sort of a holding pattern right now -- no clear path to monetization for the project, and it hasn't garnered enough attention for us to probably get funding based on the technology backbone.
Hope you enjoy it! Labor of love. :)

(posted this in the similar thread yesterday but I’ll take any exposure I can get…!)
This should be a regular feature on HN, somewhat akin to "Who's hiring?" and "Who wants to be hired?". Maybe not on a monthly basis, but it would be cool to see periodically on some cadence.

There's a lot I could say on this topic, but TBH, I don't want to go into most of it in detail Right Now for various reasons. The main reason being simply that the side project stuff I might want to call attention to is largely not in the state where I'd want people looking at it right this minute. And the reasons for that, in turn, are manifold...

The good news is, progress is being made, and I should have some projects ready to put "out there" kinda soon'ish. Yay for being vague, I know. But I've learned to be leery of making hard promises on stuff like this. So much shit happens that you can't control. See above about "manifold reasons".

Anyway, we're not making any money yet... in fact, we've been losing money since day one, but thankfully the amount lost is relatively small since our expenses are small. Nothing that I can't just pay out of my $DAYJOB salary.

All of that notwithstanding, if you want a somewhat outdated view of what I've been working on for a while, see:

http://fogbeam.github.io/

https://www.fogbeam.com/

If things go well, this year will see lots of improvements to the underlying projects, videos, blog entries, and tutorials explaining how to use everything, and entirely new stuff not shown at the above links - as well as finally having everything available in SaaS form.

Sadly my backlog of "ideas to implement" remains far larger than my bandwidth for implementing stuff, so FSM only knows if/when some of the stuff I want to do will ever see the light of day.

NOTE: the "demo" links you may find if you click through the above links are offline at the moment. I'm in the middle of a big infrastructure migration / automation effort; moving a lot of stuff from Linode and "other" to OVH, consolidating DNS at Route 53, automating deployments with Ansible, etc. And one thing that hasn't been done yet is to bring up the new demo server(s).
At least with some companies, they use the phone number to let you reset the password.
The logistics of FedEx overnight service are similar, and even more complicated in some respects: A package enters the system from any of bajillions of locations around the country/world (many more than there are airports), including FedEx stores, residential homes, major businesses, and random convenience store parters. The package makes at least half a dozen stops with incredibly tight connection times, traveling by land and air. Sometime deliveries are canceled or re-directed while en route.

Yet FedEx seems to have a way lower rate of missing packages.
Wow that’s amazing. Thanks