skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AutoFlight completes world’s longest eVTOL flight with latest generation
I got bit by this yesterday on one of my ThinkPads. I've been using Explorer Patcher just to be able to get back to a less tall taskbar. It's simply bonkers that in Windows 11 they removed the "small icons" option in the taskbar. I like my thin taskbar, thank you.

What happened was similar to what's described in the article: after starting up, the taskbar would appear and disappear in an infinite loop.

The immediate fix was to do a hard reset by holding down the power button. (I don't remember if I just had to do this once or multiple times.) On startup, Windows offered some recovery options, and in the advanced section was an option to uninstall the last quality update. Did that and it's up and running again.

One odd thing was that my other ThinkPad didn't have this problem. Perhaps I'd updated Explorer Patcher on that one before installing the Windows update?
> people who have no dollars get no vote and deserve nothing?

On how messaging works on thousand-dollar phones? Yes.
The huge HUGE disadvantage to both is you need something with an internet connection, or at least a database, to find where you're going.

Whereas anyone who can understand the language and is in the area can find "the red house behind the hospital".
I don't think you'd find the claims of train madness hilarious after being on BART.

In general, I find the "someone made a similar claim in the past and they were wrong then so you're wrong now" argument not persuasive.
> removing the right most character of the code gives you a larger region encompassing the longer code

When I tried that, Google just told me it didn't recognize the code. Is it a recognized method or just a useful attribute for human interpretation?
I spent the last 6 months of my prison sentence in a halfway house. Not one dude there went to work at Amazon. Guys would rather go back to prison over not having a job than work at an Amazon warehouse. I personally worked in a recycling plant (sorting through trash/waste on a 70mph conveyor belt pulling out minimum quota of 60 pieces of cardboard a minute in 100+ degree temps wearing special gloves so that used needles didn't stick me and getting splattered with who knows what) over Amazon.

Amazon fix your sh!t. Prison jobs ran by prison guards see their slave workers more as people than you!
Nobody is going to be having real-time Zoom calls between Earth and Mars so I'm not sure how in sync it needs to be.

It does make sense to at least keep the second the same since that is a critical base SI unit that affects lots of other things.

One interesting problem will be that high precision atomic clocks will run at a slightly different rate on the surface of Mars due to the lower gravitational potential, but this is easily solvable as it is on GPS satellites.
Several groups have 'solved' this issue by making more human readable coordinate systems. IIRC, What3Words kicked things off, but there were licensing and regional issues that slowed adoption. I personally like Google's free and open source Plus Codes. You can vary the precision by adding more digits to the location:

"The precision of a plus code is indicated by the number of digits after the "+" sign.

Two digits after the plus sign is an area roughly 13.7 by 13.7 meters;
Three digits after the plus sign is an area roughly 2.7 by 3.5 meters;
Four digits after the plus sign is an area roughly 0.5 by 0.8 meters."

https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/learn/
Any napkin math for how much CO2/year can be attributed to obesity?

increased respiration, increased farming, etc.

edit: “ The researchers estimated that obesity contributes to an extra 700 megatons of carbon dioxide emissions per year worldwide, or about 1.6% of all human-caused emissions” - WebMD

“Fat shaming” could be renamed to “global warming shaming” at this point, and it is only getting worse, especially methane.
Carmel, California does not have street addresses either. It's a small place
https://ci.carmel.ca.us/post/addresses
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGEXPND ;

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M318501Q027NBEA ;

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA ;

Recession is just going to make the gov income lower, spending higher. There's no getting out of it now.
Legend has it that when he was director of music at Eton College, a postcard was delivered to Ralph Alwood from China simply addressed: "Ralph, Eton"
Well, someone's gonna have to do the slog-worthy work, otherwise no one gets civilization. You can whine about it as much as you want (who knows whining better than a journalist!?).
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In the "Pre-product-market fit" section:

> You can’t rely on UTM parameters to tell you where a user actually first heard about you. Example: user reads an article about PostHog on Hacker News -> searches 'posthog' -> clicks on a Google Ad. Our analytics will tell us "wow, Google Ads are awesome!" But that’s not the whole picture.

Before product-market fit, you should absolutely not pay for Google Ads for your products own name. i.e. if your product is named "Posthog", do not pay for ads for searches for [posthog].

You should only buy ads for your own name (if ever!) when competitors are buying Google Ads for your name, and you want to pay to outcompete them. Pre PMF, that can't possibly be happening to you yet.
> Something like 80% of Australian languages are from Indian-derived language families

This is wrong. No known relationships exist between any Australian Aboriginal language and any language from India. For much of far northern Australia, no known relationships exist between even neighbouring languages! (The non Pama-Nyungan languages, to be specific.)
The only person complaining here is you, oh the irony.
We went to Costa Rica for a week, was planning on getting engaged there. Had heard all the stories of how beautiful it was, etc. Rented a car and drove up the mountain all the tourists go to. In most cases Costa Rica was as expensive if not moreso than the Bay Area.

This really spoke to me:

> Costa Rica’s streets are in awful shape, traffic is terrible, and the addresses mean no one knows exactly where they’re going — so Ticos always have an excuse to be late.

I've been to many, many countries, driven in about half of them; the main road from the capital to the main tourist mountain is in awful shape. Driving at night is super sketchy not because of crime but simply because the roads are (barely) carved into the side of hills, frequently a single lane, and no paint markings of any kind, especially on the side of the road. This makes driving at night on black, wet asphalt a real chore to even stay on the road.

The reason I mention price is that for what they charge tourists, the tourism infrastructure (pretty much the road link between the airport and the mountain) is abysmal. We ended up getting engaged elsewhere. Costa Rica is a beautiful country with wonderful people but it's not for me.
Show HN: Sort Any Awesome List by GitHub Stars
As a CS undergrad, I self-taught many topics not covered by the school. Typically awesome list is where I started with.

I spent my second half in college researching computer vision and machine learning. CVPR accepts over 2000 papers every year, not to mention arXiv. The awesome lists curated by the community usually serve as checklists when I was doing literature surveys. But since the number of the list items was overwhelming, I had to prioritize which papers to read first. Many of them had been uploaded to arXiv in the last few months, so I had no clue how many citations they would get.

When learning web development, I also had difficulty finding the best package for the tasks like data validation and client-side routing. To make a decision, I had to browse through GitHub repositories or read the documentation. I wish I could have my awesome lists sorted, desirably by popularity.

This led to the creation of my project: a web app that rearranges any awesome list with hints from GitHub stars. It may not work well when the list items do not contain links to GitHub repositories or pages, but it truly shines when most of them do. I hope this could help anyone else.

P.S. I'm aware of a similar project (https://github.com/kvnxiao/sort-awesome-lists), a CLI application with more features. For example, it checks if any GitHub repository link exists on the linked website.
In my town, lots of people provide directions via "the Old High School" -- which I later learned is the current middle school. Funny how this stuff develops.
And Japan did similar levels of atrocities to Korea, China, and others in the region.

We can acknowledge that things were historically pretty horrible and strive to be better in the future.
Show HN: ChatGPT-web, an open-source web UI for the OpenAI ChatGPT API
I wonder what "old you"'s opinion will be about all this.
First, show it to the shipping providers who require all the discrete address fields.
I've seen at least half a dozen cases in the US for people arrested for child abuse material where all of them came up to be because of Google scanning their messages (not just emails). There was even a case where it was a photo sent to the child's Dr because the child had a rash, and Google's algorithms identified it and that was enough for the police to get a warrant for ALL of the user's Google account.
Yes friend, it's propaganda to deny rural areas have more political power than anywhere else. Their propaganda is well funded and has had great impact.

I am ok with breaking California into 50 states, many of them would vote red.
I've come to share this sentiment as well. I used to be a generous tipper -- leaving 20% on a takeout order and the like, but as I've come to find some of the biggest resistance to getting rid of tipping is from the tipped workers themselves. And while I do get it, they can make significantly more than non-tipped minimum wage, I'm pretty tired of being expected to directly pay their wages. My sympathy for their situation does not extend to being punished for having it.
I'm in a similar area and I'm always a bit surprised how well those types of descriptions work - I'm looking at it and going "this is a parse error, there's no way" and then I start driving and I'm like "yeah, the only way to describe this is 'left at the cows'."
They also provide a little detail about the models used:

> The base LLM models are based on either BART or DeBERTa (which are open source and hosted on Hugging Face), with heavy retraining based on our own data from search results
We've gone away from system design interview questions on my team. We ask people to diagram something technical they understand well and the team digs in and asks questions to understand depth and breadth of the candidates understanding. For us it works much better. It's a chance to see how well candidates do in following instructions. It gives you a chance to explore depth and breadth of their knowledge on something technical that they claim to understand. Our philosophy is how well you understand something you claim to know well is indicative of the depth and breadth of your technical knowledge in general. There are plenty of opportunities in this to ask about design and get to know how people think when it comes to design. I think it helps to eliminate false negatives and false positives.
Did you take any medication, that may cause blood cloth as a side effect? It may happen again...
The photon energy is proportional to its wavelength, but its not relevant.

Look up Plank's Law. Its an equation for black body radiation (like, effectively, the Sun). That'll tell you how much heat the Sun radiates at any given wavelength.

That's not the same spectrum as falls on your house, the atmosphere has absorbed or scattered some of it. But the distribution that falls on your house is well known.

A dielectric mirror is fairly narrow band, compared to this distribution. A dielectric mirror might work well for a factor of two bandwidth, but solar radiation is significant for about a factor of ten.

Also dielectric mirrors are: 1. Hard to design 2. Expensive relative to paint 3. Rather fragile compared to paint.

Point 3 is important. You can't just pressure wash your siding to clean it without stripping the dielectric mirror. But if you don't clean your siding the mirrors can't reflect the sunlight!

As to heat, heat is technically thermal energy transferred from system A to system B by a temperature difference. It has units Joules. In practice it also refers to the thermal energy a system has.

Thermal energy is the kinetic energy a material's atoms and molecules have because they're vibrating about.

Finally, these are hard questions because they start to hit upon the fundamental definitions in physics and everyday misuse of definitions by physicists themselves. Furthermore laymen have used the word "heart" far before physicists stole the term to refer to something similar but technicals in their field. They did the same thing with the words mass and weight when we needed to distinguish between the force and the mass in the 17th century (its perfectly Ok to say "weight" to refer to mass in most situations including most engineering, chemistry and physics applications)
But I found this one neat (even with that awful, as in non-existent, letter spacing):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaboration_likelihood_model#/...

There was a time, when infographics used to be artistic…
Fellow BJJ player here – there have been numerous references to the increased risk of vascular injuries and stroke resulting from the high number of chokes that we routinely practice. One study, for instance, found that even brief interruptions in blood flow to the brain during a choke can result in cognitive deficits and other negative health outcomes (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678212/).

I'm very glad to hear you recovered quickly, and encouraged by the potential for new treatments to help save more lives.
Developers lives, not necessarily users. It was also a huge waste of time and money for all parties as it achieves nothing - Facebook are the market leader with WhatsApp both globally an in Europe - iMessage barely registers in the top 5.
Here comes the self-promotional AI grifting, when one can use the same thing for free.

Low effort and absolutely zero value add. Lets get back to solving hard problems rather than generative BS like this.
Are you addressing the my statement relative to the GP? They are making the elitist assertion that the gifted kids should be separated from the chaff. Having been in gifted programs, I have not found the removal of "underperformers" to be anything other than classism.
Even just switching from phone at night to tablet or e-reader was a massive improvement. Something about the phone makes it much more compelling and harder to put down. Never had a bedroom tv and definitely won’t. I’d prefer that my wife also kept her phone out, but she’s an adult and I’m not going to ban it.
Hoa much do you spend to train a simple model?
I spend 100x more time on forums than social and I'm sure I'm not alone
Asking for tips on take-out orders is total BS and everyone's doing it now. Sorry I'm not rewarding you for a product I haven't even tried yet.
Naw. Minimum wage is not a living wage for the vast majority of the population. Hasn't even pretended to pace inflation.
> Where do you draw the line between "retaliation" and "refusing a bad deal"?

If operating in a country that protects unions is a bad deal, they should move their operations somewhere else. What's that? They still want the money the consumers in those countries bring in? Well then, the deal doesn't seem so bad after all then.

Edit: To elaborate, companies seem to want it both ways. They want a large consumer base with a lot of disposable income that will buy their stuff, but they also want to treat their own employees like shit and pay them the minimum they can get away with. This can't work forever. If you push to shrink/eliminate the middle class, eventually there will be no one left to buy your overpriced "beverages" and you'll go out of business.

Unfortunately modern business practice is to limit your thinking to the next quarter.
The sad but interesting story of Pearl Paint. https://www.artistsnetwork.com/magazine/pearl-paint/
That just proves how effective and unique it is. And it’s “natural”!

As a bonus it will leave you thirsty, which will encourage you to open another bottle...
They've been printing since 2008.

The trouble was giving money to the plebs to be price gouged.
"Retirement" amounts to giving up control of your Capital to a bunch of companies, who may perpetuate God knows what in terms of social ills as a business model. In short; companies have found a way to screw workers out of even their wages by convincing us that "we have to invest in them to make our living for later".

When you realize that the entire system is basically set up so that as an employer, you're siphoning off funds from your employees for witholding that by default are conservatively invested (read: in whoever has managed to become the too big to fail company from convincing institutional investors to foot the bill)... Ot really starts to make a bit more sense why sweeping change has a hard time happening except in tech circles.
8000 people could cost over $1B /yr. That's a totally different scale from paying an A-list celebrity $10M to do some commercials.
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> the police can’t really “raid” your computer (yet)

> yet

Key word.

The technical means for that sort of thing have also been demonstrated. The only thing holding us back from a highly effective digitally-enabled police state is political policy. Software piracy is presently easy on some platforms, but much more difficult on others. With the right political impetus, those controls could be extended to the presently free platforms. "Just buy an Android" doesn't work when the law requires Google to implement the same sort of controls as iOS. "Just buy a PC" stops working when the government permits or even compels Microsoft, Dell, etc to implement locked bootloaders like a Sony Playstation and only permit applications to run if they've been signed by an organization accountable to the law.
I know you're being facetious, but honestly this is basically what I've been told by people not being facetious in person when I complain about it. How is this any different than the Mob shaking people down? "It'd be a real shame if we 'inconvenienced' you."
I had some fun asking chatGPT some historical questions where it quickly veered into saying things I knew were false.

I then asked for citations: it gave me what sounded like nice academic journal articles and books, but these were made entirely made up.

Pointing this out just made it give different references, also totally fake.
Wrestling toddlers and family story time are both essential activities!
working as intended!
Yeah, important to mention that. Still, I don't want my phone to even be capable of doing that, nor do I see the reason behind it when iCloud could just do the scanning itself. That's one big step closer to the described full-private scanning (and just a flag flip away).
> everyone is exorbitantly indebted to everyone

Nobody goes there any more, it’s too crowded?

> At some point, someone has to put some reality back into the simulacrum because simulacrum does not feed your family

Aren’t poverty, famine, and food scarcity at record lows?
Not that I disagree per se, but if your job is to dress up CONTENT provided by others as a website or web app, there can also be the reverse problem:

An UI made of disintegrated, inconsistent and half-assed tries at writing CSS/JS.
Not a rare problem in my experience.

Also happens to me when trying to write a "tiny web app for fun" where the CONTENT is interactive and created by myself.
I'm always hesitant about speaking for an entire country, but I'm pretty sure tipping in a restaurant in France would be considered borderline insulting.
In Greece, the iconic whitewashed island house has a public health angle to it.
"In 1938, a national order mandated the painting of island homes in blue and white. At the time, Greece was suffering an outbreak of cholera during the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas. In an effort to curb the disease, he ordered citizens to whitewash their homes.
This might sound strange today, but the whitewash used to paint the houses contained limestone. Limestone is a powerful disinfectant, and not many others were in common use at the time.
Greek citizens thus whitewashed their homes to help sanitize them and reduce the spread of cholera."
and older