skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The function of a thing can be solely "wow, this thing is impressive", and that's fine.

Even if medieval churches had no purpose other than to construct an impressive structure, that isn't something we ought to deem unworthy. Greatness is a fine goal in its own right.

After all, art museums and concert halls overwhelmingly display the things that people find impressive. The things that people don't find impressive don't stand the test of time.

Utilitarian function is certainly a great virtue, but it is not the only virtue.
Interesting. I feel like it's something I've only seen very occasionally - I don't remember when I last noticed one. Maybe you just have a much higher density of traffic lights where you live, which would make it more common to see failures; and/or maybe they're a different type or differently maintained.
Everyday we're getting closer to a toolkit that allows a novice to go from an idea to a working product with little more than natural language in-between. It's still a ways off, but the trajectory is clear.

I have a working theory -- which I'm sure I didn't discover first -- that the broader the gap between the traits required for the process of creating a thing, and the traits which would make someone want to use the thing, the worse the design/product outcomes. It applies readily to a field like architecture, where a meticulous, granular attention to geometry and streamlined efficiency aids in the realization of a building plan but rarely coheres with the emotive, intuitive experience of a place by the people who use it. And I think it even better applies to the development of consumer software. To be a good dev you need, among other things, a high degree of patience, while the average user is defined by little else than their near nonexistent attention span. The best practitioners, like Nikita Bier, have fully internalized this -- "consider every tap by a user to be a miracle"[0]. But it's an easier lesson to rote memorize than to put into practice. Other incongruences between the process of creating and using abound: organization vs complexity, optionality vs usability, minimalism vs ornamentation, etc. They all create friction for the best version of an idea coming to fruition.

To borrow from the analogy of architecture again, we may be entering the era of vernacular software design -- the meta-discipline of development as such begins to fade away, and what counts is one's ability to find, articulate, and solve a problem, or to create a novel experience. Like their real-world architectural equivalents, the resulting designs will probably be maligned by the field for esoteric reasons, or regarded as unrefined and inferior. But also like real-world vernacular architecture, they'll probably be widely enjoyed by the people who actually use them. I'm excited for that future, and this service -- if it works as well as is showcased here -- is a big part of getting there.

[0] https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/1608310890243444738
I saw images with 1-2m shift but i didn't expect that much of an 3 m shift.
I mostly agree with this. But the real problem is a meta-problem. Which is that society will never allow this unless everybody becomes some kind of moral nihilist ubermensch overnight. Any kind of (recognizable) deontology would have to be left behind completely. And the socially enforced "ick" reflex (which is MASSIVELY strong in most of the population) is something that can really be overcome only by people who are far right-tail in terms of intelligence or creativity or imagination. Read your comment to the average person on the street and see how they reflexively react. People on this site routinely overestimate the quality of the average human (in literally every possible way) because they only work and interact with above average people. I just don't see how we get from here to there, at least not without some massive alteration of humans, which would only really possible with true BCI or some kind of extreme eugenics effort. But in a world where either of those were possible, head transplanation would be a breeze.
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The high speed is necessary so the plane doesn’t fall out of the sky. A bullet is going to have a different friction coefficient than a plane so is not as affected by the altitude.
Ask HN: How are you using Streamdeck (and similar) for productivity when WFH?
I run remote workshops and am looking to lift my game. I've recently updated my lighting/camera setup and now looking at how others may be using Elgato Streamdeck's and other similar tools for productivity gains when working remotely.

Would love to hear your experience and how you're using it in a work context. Most seem more oriented towards streaming (Twitch) and less about use for work. Or if you've seen any good articles/videos that'd be welcome too!
Making a high altitude balloon highly visible (eg, put lights inside it) and sitting back and waiting is actually a terrific tactic for finding out maximum operational ceiling of interceptors when the number is non-public.
https://www.google.com/search?q=What+are+UAPs%3F&ei=6L_mY7_5...
> good technology like Monero remains marginalized instead of replacing the USD as it should.

Imagine you achieve your Crypto-dream, known mass murderers like the head of Wagner or Kadyrov will move money with impunity.

Current system is problematic, but I don't fancy the idea of money being conpletely untouchable by the system of justice
Supposedly it’s not just a software check, but the devices actually need a battery since the peak power usage can briefly exceed the chargers capabilities.
None of the incentives changed. We really just need someone egalitarian to make the craigslist of blogs and never be tempted to stab the goose who's laying the golden eggs for quick monetization. The blogging space is too long-term for that short sighted nonsense
I tend to agree. It makes me think that the roles of PM, UX and Eng will start to converge slowly as AI gets better in each field. People will still need to be product thinkers and storytellers though
A Data Lake with Spark and Iceberg to Over-Complicate Shopping for a House
As much as I hate Musk and want this story to be true, it smells awfully fishy to me. It's all based on a story told by a single unverifiable source to Platformer, not exactly the pinnacle of journalistic integrity. It could easily be a yarn spun by somebody who read Musk's tweets and invented a emperor's new clothes story around it. Or even somebody who does work at Twitter and exaggerated the situation.
Fwiw, I sometimes use TikTok and none of my content is dancing, it's mostly food, pop science and people doing epoxy art. I know there's TikTok dances but they never appear in my feed.
A friend of mine has lived in Seattle for about 8 years without a car so I have a pretty good idea what it's like. We both live in one of the 15 minute areas from this article.

Public transportation is decent compared to most of the US (but worse than NYC obviously.) There are also lots of other ways to get around like Uber, scooters, bikes, and Gig cars (rental car you pick up and drop in public parking spots.)

The biggest problem is getting to the mountains if that's your thing. That's the main reason I have a car.
It really is.

Go read patio11's AML article again. He gives examples. And says he has personally experienced it.

More importantly he explains why it happens. And expresses a wish for more scrutiny on how AML works in practice, because the common result has some bad effects.

Here is his explanation. Having regulators crack down on you is bad for business. Which they will do if money laundering is found. And money launderers actively want to bounce money between different organizations in different legal jurisdictions. Therefore if someone wants to send money to a different country, particularly if they look like they might be hard to find if regulators decide to ask hard questions, they get arbitrarily increased scrutiny. The result of which is indistinguishable from xenophobia. (Which may also be involved.)
Anyone both tried duckdb and clickhouse-local?
I mean, is a blockade that stops delivery of food & medicine violence if they never fire a shot?
For the last 15 years or so, coworkers ask when I'm going to make a new allegiance system but "less broken". So many good social behaviors came from its structure that it really deserves another attempt.

And yeah, Ash Gromnies were the bane of so so so many players.
You can install custom OSs on the Mac line though. A Mac mini would make a great server.
Didn't they use a heat seeking missile on the balloon in Carolina?
Sure, but that was still a violation of sovreign airspace. It would be like having a foreign drone targeting George W.Bush. Both are war criminals, but I'm not sure it suddenly makes violating foreign countries ok.
This might not have been clear in the blogpost, thanks for asking. There are two storage locations on the PCB: the external flash chip, and the internal flash on the microcontroller. I recall that someone else tried to read out the external flash chip, but nothing interesting was found, only the image data on the screen. In this blog post, I read out the code that handles the RF communication and talks to the screen.
> why even use an (obvious, provocative) balloon in the first place, when China has perfectly good satellites.

The balloon floated about 100x closer to the surface than a satellite in low-Earth orbit and travelled much slower, making it potentially easier to collect signals/images.
You can compose raw regexes too. There's a bit more things to keep track of than with composing clean s-expressions, but you can do it, and if you try, you'll hit the same problem as with composing Rx.

> build larger more complex rx expressions from smaller simpler ones in much the same way as you manage the complexity of a large program by building it up from subroutines.

Yes, and with it comes a problem: factoring out legos and composing the solution out of them reduces complexity, but it sacrifices locality. There's no free lunch: some things get easier because you get to ignore irrelevant detail, other things get harder, because the relevant details are all over the place. Humans have a limited working memory, so too much composition, or factoring along the wrong dimension to the problem you're solving, destroys readability - the solution no longer fits in your head, and you keep chasing pointers, constantly evicting one piece of the puzzle from your head to fit another one.

In this context, terseness and locality become desirable qualities. They make you expend more cognitive effort up front, but save you the working memory overhead of extra abstractions that come with composable pieces, and eliminate the cost of pointer chasing, as the whole thing is literally in front of your eyes all the time.

This is, to my understanding, the actual reason math-heavy fields (including mathematics itself) stick to dense equations built of single-character names chosen from several alphabets - it ultimately saves time. A single line in a math paper may fully express a complex thought which, were you to rewrite it in "clean code" style, would take 10 pages and involve several extra layers of abstractions.

I'm not advocating we should rewrite everything in APL (though I'm also not convinced it wouldn't be better on the net) - abstraction and composition are the fundamental tools that let us deal with complexity. But they have a cost, and sometimes that cost is too high. Regular expressions are, in my experience, usually a case of that.
You can try to do the best you can with the hand you got dealt but still wish you weren't at the table.
I can't not shake my head reading comments like this.

Seriously, the concept of weighing the cost of an action vs the cost of inaction was not... exactly invented by Eve Online players. The entire point of warfare is to make waging war more expensive to your opponent than to yourself, whether in terms of men, materiel, dollars, or popular support. And the concept of a Pyrrhic victory is likely as old as war itself – even our very term for it derives from a battle fought 2300 years ago!
Looks really neat!

All the images on the site show mobile apps, does this also do website app design?

Also, I'd love to see how it handles design consistency between pages. Can this be used to come up with a design and component system, that is used on multiple pages (eg. come up with the components, then each page is a layout of those saved components)?
You understand that getting the LLM to actually pretend to run the command doesn't actually delete any data, right?
Just to soften a few of your confident declarations.

> normal Americans

Please revise this phrase. America consists of many different climates and it's very unclear what you mean or why you chose the word "normal."

> More expensive to run power wise

You're comparing new gas HVAC vs new heat pump. However, don't forget about all the folks that are purchasing a heat pump to replace an existing gas unit! For example, my gas unit (Goodman unit used in California) is old and not even energy star compliant! A new heat pump will be more efficient.

> With a heat pump, you -need- an alternative source of heat

By 'you' are you referring to me (or, say, the ~7% of the US population that lives in my small area of the country)? If so, that's not true! It doesn't get too cold here. And I reckon there are quite a few areas in this country where it doesn't get cold enough for a heat pump to eat shit.

When you refer to prices and returns on investment, are you using a unit + professional installation cost (like $18k+ or something)? Or the unit itself (~$4.5k) plus perhaps a DIY installation costs (~$1.5-2k)? There is a big range there in costs, and the ROI is dependent on that.
That is a pretty common logical fallacy. It is actually a well-eatablished fact that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", i.e., maybe the reason why there is no evidence is that nobody looked for it, or, as is the case here, because something is too new to find any evidence in either direction
Then the explosive charges are still there, and Danemark and Germany can recover them.
Like I said, since the auth system is based on magic links sent to your email adress, how would you go about retrieving your user without storing your email ?
Historically known as UFOs
In other news - a Richard Branson type balloon enthusiast has just gone missing in Alaska...
Most of the time there is no need for "it" to be an application, when it can be a page with some buttons.
Thank you. That's why I read the comments first. Considering tiktok is banned in india, it would have been surprising if they had anything but a skeletan crew to wind down their operation in india.
This would be a good service for the Wikimedia Foundation to provide, IMO.
I think the evidence of any even perceived "crisis" is still lacking (besides these fun articles).
> Look at how HN handles it when you upvote/unvote a comment.

How?
We spend more per capita just in public money than some peer states do to provide universal healthcare, while ours isn't universal.

It makes more sense when you consider how many programs we have—a pretty high percentage of our population is covered by public spending, and—crucially—the ones who are are in some cases among the most expensive to care for.

1) Medicare (old or disabled)

2) Medicaid (poor)

3) Tricare or whatever they call it now, since I think the name changed (active and IIRC retired-with-full-benefits military and their spouses and kids, at least for the active-duty ones, can't recall if that part carries over in retirement)

4) VA (military veterans, including those with short terms of service)

5) Federal employees

6) State employees

7) County employees

8) City employees

9) Cops and firefighters and such, if not covered under any of the above.

10) School district employees (there are lots of these)

Not all of these are cases in which all the spending is covered by public money, but some of them are, and in other cases a great deal of it is. Also I've probably missed some programs.

[EDIT] Oh and that's not counting public money that goes to private companies but ends up paying for healthcare for those companies' employees and families, who are employed expressly to work on those publicly-funded projects—I can see arguments either way for counting that, depends on what you're trying to understand.
Few things to note:

- Google qps is closer to 100k then 320k [1]

- Not every query has to run on LLM. Probably only 10% would benefit from it

- This means 10,000 queries per second, each needing 5 A100s to run, so 50,000 A100s are sufficient. Cost for that is $500MM, quadruple that to $2B with CPU/RAM/storage/network. That is peanuts for Google.

- Let's say AI unlocks new, never seen before queries ('do more people live in madrid or tel aviv') and those are 10x in volume. So capex is now $20B, still peanuts.

- Latency, not cost, is a bigger issue. This should be addressed soon by H100 and newer chips.

- The main issue for the consumer remains the business model. Who will pay for LLMs (user or the advertiser) and will Google and Microsoft stuff ads into LLM responses?

[1] https://www.internetlivestats.com/one-second/#google-band
I dunno, AFAICT the previous 3 or 4 balloons over the US weren't noticed by the general public
Which I absolutely don't get. I just had a mini split unit installed at our house here in North East, paid £1500 total with installation, and damn that thing throws a lot of heat - I literally stopped using our gas boiler, it's more efficient(and cheaper!!!!) to use this unit for heating than to burn gas. It uses like 800W of power when running but produces ~4kW of heat.

I imagine the "proper" heat pump costs a lot because it has to integrate into your central heating - heat and pump water etc. But I also imagine for a lot of people in this country 2-3 mini splits like this one would be absolutely sufficient, wouldn't cost a fortune, and would save them money(plus they can be used for cooling when needed).
They made HUGE mistakes not listening to feedback from their userbase. It's still a cool piece of tech, but they wouldn't budge on a lot of things that were dealbreakers to a lot of people. That's their right to do so of course. In a very competitive area of frontend, people chose to spend their effort and time elsewhere.
Android already has a solution to this. Unlocking the bootloader requires disabling activation lock.

Even back on the nexus line, if the phone was stuck in activation lock, you’d have to unlock with the google account and then with the phone unlocked you’d use adb to unlock the bootloader.
> Two different nulls are unnecessary

false and null have different semantic meanings, do you mean “null“ and “undefined”?
The funny thing is my personal experience was the opposite. I have a lot of experience in embedded software. The recruiters I interacted with at Google knew about my specialization and targeted positions that were embedded-related (like, at waymo or their other projects). However, the actual phone screen interview was with a web programmer that had very little C++ background and seemed pretty uncomfortable with me using that to solve their quiz. I ended up being weirded out by that and not moving forward. I figured I'd have to go back and practice a lot of stuff I hadn't touched in a while to actually impress their interview panel.

Meta was different. I interviewed with someone from the reality labs team and it was super specific. Our discussion and the software quizzing they did was right up my alley. Like, they specifically had a reason to want to hire me, and given what they described, I had a reason to be very interested in the project they were hiring for. It was a big shock, because the last time I spoke to someone hiring for FB they seemed to have no idea what they were doing lol. I still didn't move forward! But I was really tempted to.

I had a similar experience when I talked to someone at Apple. Unfortunately that time they wanted someone even more specialized than I was (they wanted someone to work on things to manage multiple JTAG devices - that was already innately familiar with doing that sorta thing at a hardware level). Still, 10/10, I'd apply to Apple again. I'd also apply to Meta again... although I think they basically killed the entire reality labs thing. I was so impressed by Meta. Still am.
The Switch is already said to be unhackable with purely software-side methods by the big names in the scene. I guess we'll find out with time if that's really true, but the current homebrew scene for it really only exists thanks to that hardware error in the first revision of the console which afaik isn't even Nintendo's fault. I think the 3DS scene may have been a real wake up call for them.
IMO, the balloons are an excuse to raise tensions with China.
ArcGIS is painfully slow. To apply symbology, you need to go to toolbox, select apply symbology, select the layers, select the symbology file, then make sure to select maintain ranges which for an absolute no sense reason is not the default, then click on apply.

ArcGIS then proceeds to apply symbology one layer at a time, taking between 30 to 75 seconds per layer to apply it.

In QGIS, right click in layer, copy symbology, select other layers right click, paste symbology. Done in 3 seconds.

And like that I could be hours and hours talking about similar experiences.

ArcGIS might be much more powerful, but honestly it isn't worth spending 45 minutes to what in QGIS can be done in 5 minutes.
Somehow I find that less annoying with substack, because their positioning is clearly "look, this is a newsletter, not a blog." The dark UI patterns around dismissing the pop up are annoying though.
Thanks. Where I've worked we only had Dev > QA > UAT > Prod - so not heard of CAT before.
Lie about when your graduate course credits expire? I guess this is why serious programs don’t have a coursework requirement…
in my experience, small local mom'n'pop business are fine hiring an unincorporated freelancer for cash - big box brands want to work with other businesses, not with individuals.

doing little bits of work for local businesses is essentially the same as mowing lawns over the summer for cash - yes you can make bank doing it if you're smart and diligent, but no it's not really in the same league as working with a professional landscaping outfit.
Oh yeah, it's so important to not expose the vessel!

Grasping for straws, uh?
There's only so much you can spend on a bag of helium; anything is cheap compared to satellites or stealth long range recon aircraft.
Nice, you spent 479 characters to say literally nothing. I'm +80 characters positive now in this thread where I also have said literally nothing.
It sounds similar in goals to the Regan-era PSYOP described by Peter Schweizer

> "It really got to them," recalls Dr. William Schneider, [former] undersecretary of state for military assistance and technology, who saw classified "after-action reports" that indicated U.S. flight activity. "They didn't know what it all meant. A squadron would fly straight at Soviet airspace, and other radars would light up and units would go on alert. Then at the last minute the squadron would peel off and return home."[1]

Peter Schweizer, Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Apple's abandoned documentation more than Objective-C
Yes, absolutely correct. I'd say the Showtime Lakers are the poster child for fast pace in the 80s.

This is why I included the number of teams. PPG has fluctuated across eras, but total points has gone up over time.[0]

Talent dilution in the expansion from 23 to 30 teams undoubtedly had an effect on pace in the late 90s/2000s.

There's probably a good formula for determining the value of a point across eras, but I'm not going to waste too many brain cells on it.

[0]https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_stats_total...