skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can accept this if you have a walk to work. Ice in the spring and fall, ok in the summer. Winter, though, can be harsh in some spots. If a car or bus or train is involved, particularly if it’s the principal component, then no. Such activities aren’t exercise. Stress-inducing, maybe, but not exercise.

If we care about the environment, jobs that can be done “locally” should be done locally. Having to burn energy commuting isn’t a positive contribution.
Who says it failed in the Philippines? I have a lot of anecdotes from talking with locals around Bohol and family in Mindanao that it has been very successful.
Is it getting hugged to death? I can imagine Github has bandwidth limits for pages.
I own a vintage hifi setup (NAD3020 + AudioReference HR50) that costed me a few hundred bucks. I own a espresso machine that is a clone of the Lelit PL41 with PID and my grinder is a Barazza Encore with M2 burr.

My comment came from a place of love. I’m happy to see people going the extra mile. Myself, I just want to be chill at home and aim for a balanced providing me joy without headaches.

But I’m weird. Example: I love playing vinyls not because it sounds better but because it lacks dynamics and I find that… relaxing!
Also I was using TÜRKTRUST and it should be possible to opt out of whatever the security nerds thought was best for me too.
> Google only has a fraction of the training data.

Uh, what? The same Google that has been crawling, indexing, and letting people search the entire Internet for the last 25 years? They have owned DeepMind for nearly twice as long as OpenAI has been in existence!

If anything this is proof that no one at Google can get anything done anymore, and lack of training data ain't the problem.
Can you elaborate? I feel like any information about this country is carefully curated and you don't normally hear anything of this sort.
I'm not advocating for Google at all, they have written the book on how to ruin a good thing with greed. OpenAI will use the same playbook, and possibly more rapidly than Google did.

If anything, I'm advocating for a perspective on technology that goes beyond dunking on incumbents because the newer, sleeker thing has arrived. Look at the economics of this industry and the motives of the market entrants; the new thing is only a donut or two or away from turning into the same bloated mess as those it sought to replace.
I've messed around with using a dumb phone + a tablet because I didn't want to totally lose access to things like whatsapp.

I liked the fact that I could be unplugged most of the time but still had access to all the apps I needed but occasionally ran into random pain points where a smart-phone was expected. Such as: QR code menus, having to use a phone to check out a propane tank. Weird stuff like that. Google maps was also horrendous on it.
This is a big part of it. I tend to pay a reasonable amount for my LEDs and I've yet to be disappointed. I very rarely replace bulbs despite having dozens of fixtures, and the quality of the light is good because I made a point of buying the right colour temp and getting dimmable ones where it makes sense.

Unfortunately the market is swamped with cheap low quality ones that produce pretty crap quality light and burn out quickly. I learnt pretty quickly that it was a false economy to skimp on them.
We have no business restricting OpenAI for bias when society still treats the MSM as authoritative.
I have a theory that the declining respect students have for teachers in our modern age can mostly be attributed to the extinction of chalkboards in modern classrooms and the increasing reliance on wimpy whiteboards or even projectors.

The difference when entering a classroom with a chalkboard versus a whiteboard is profound. A black chalkboard is vast and commanding. The human eye is drawn to the empty black space by years of evolution, whereas bright whites make one squint and look away from the glare. The black space makes one feel like something amazing (or terrifying) is about to happen.

The loss of respect for a teacher compounds when they rely on technological equipment that frequently fails and exposes them as a tech-illiterate fool, leaving a class staring at a blank blue projection while their idiot teacher grovels and prays to the tech Gods to just make things work.

But when a teacher, no, a professor, lifts a piece of chalk and slams its point to the board it makes an audible sound, loud enough to be detected but quiet enough that conversations will cease to hear what comes next.

And as the teacher writes on the board and manifests symbols onto what was once an empty space, all students will see the teacher as a creator of universes that can be wiped away from existence as easily as they were spawned. And you better write down what these symbols and drawings mean while you can, because a teacher that uses a chalkboard is a teacher that doesn’t give a fuck about giving you a copy of slides or notes for you to review.

The chalkboard is a timeless instrument. It worked 1000 years ago and it will work 1000 years from now. There’s no markers to dry out, no technology to be obsoleted. There is simply the brutal violence of stone upon stone, imparting wisdom for those who seek education. And those who wield the chalk are not “teachers”, but rather Masters of Knowledge, whose profound wisdom is reflected everyday in their choice of presentation.
I had an epiphany this year that I don't need to conform to the lightbulb socket interface any longer, now that things like straight-wired LED modules [1] are available. They waste a lot less space on unnecessary hardware, and can therefore fill more space with useful light producing material. I've been slowly converting my big round ceiling fixtures and the light and dimming performance is nothing short of miraculous.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09H3VFG8B/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
How to persist incremental user state with client-server state machines
I believe it's the upper limit to the SR-71's engine style based on air intake.

If you watched Top Gun: Maverick since it came out they (spoiler) had him flying a prototype plane called the Darkstar to hit Mach 10 in order to maintain a military contract. During the flight, he switches engines to SCRAM Jet once he reaches Mach 3.5 because in order for those types of engines to have enough air intake to function, you already have to be traveling at that speed.

This was such an innovation that China redirected a satellite to find the plane because they thought it was real.

If you've never read Skunk Works by Ben Rich, I highly recommend it. Lots of SR-71 stories along with U-2, F-117 too.
Bloomberg announcement about supporting open source projects

https://www.bloomberg.com/company/stories/bloomberg-ospo-lau...
It's possible for someone to suck AND the media to be biased against them.

Just reading Trump and Musk's tweets will tell you plenty with zero bias. And indeed, this is how you can tell that Trump is legitimately a fool and Musk is simultaneously whimsical and stubborn.

This does not mean there isn't also an extra bit of anti-Musk/Trump stuff piled on top (in Musk's case the stuff about him inheriting an Emerald mine and lying about his child dying in his arms and in Trump's case the stuff about him being a big anti-LGBT guy).
Placed under operating conditions very close to their specified limits.

Like if you were to drive your car in 2nd gear on the freeway, at 6000rpm.
The engine would wear out much quicker than if you drove in 5th gear, at 1500rpm.
Ask HN: What's your experience working with CAD etc. software on a 14“ display?
I have a Thinkpad E14 gen2 (amd 3 4300U) with 14" a display (IPS). I acquired it mostly to learn programming, but recently I've tried Blender on it and its fonts may have seemed too small. After a month I may have an option to buy a bit more expensive ThinkPad E15 gen3 (with Intel i5) with a bit less SSD storage, but with a 15" inch display. Though I'd need to sell the E14 Thinkpad first, and it may be sort of a hustle.

I have a large external HDMI monitor though (LG), but am not sure about its flicker rate and resolution.Thinkpad's diplay has almost no flicker.

Do you have acceptable experience working with CAD and similar software on 14" Thinkpad displays?
Few Students Take Comp Sci. This District Offers a Blueprint for Changing That
That's the point of flatpaks - you don't.

You build one flatpak and it will work for all distributions.
Check out https://www.waveformlighting.com/ for some very high quality LEDs and education about how they work.
Do the baskets really make that much of a difference compared to stock ones?
I'm not a copyright maximalist, and I kind of agree that training should be fair use. Maybe I'm right about that, maybe I'm wrong. BUT importantly, that has to go hand in hand with an acknowledgement that AI material is not copyrightable and that training on other model output is fine.

What companies like OpenAI want is a system where everything they build is protected, and nothing that anyone else builds is protected. It's wildly hypocritical, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

That some AI proponents are now freaking out about how model output can be legally used shows that on some level those people weren't really honestly engaging with artists who were freaking out about their work being appropriated to copy them. It's all just "learning from the art" until it affects somebody's competitive moat, and then suddenly people do understand how LLM weights could be seen as a derivative work of their inputs.
Then he should be a $POSITION at $BIGCORP. I don't think this is the correct way to determine how much money a project needs.
Much of the progress in mathematics over the past 500 years can be attributed to the development of a good, concise notation.
Like they need to break the encryption to snoop in...

come on...
In most cases, they are run too hot with barely adequate heat dissipation.
What do you have to hide? This makes us very suspicious. /s
What has a "German copyright cease and desist" to do with privacy, or the lack of privacy? And who is "them"? A few sources and details instead of just ranting would be useful.
AFAICT this is not an RFC, it's just a blog post.
When I removed an old commited and then removed node_modules folder, I had to do a git filter-branch and a force push; it's doable for your own projects if you don't object to changing the history a bit.
Wow, what kind of awful bulbs are you buying? I have literally a house full of LED bulbs, some of which are on dimmers, and have experienced literally none of these problems. Just for starters, I haven't had a single LED bulb fail in the 8-odd years I've been using them in my home.

But maybe there's an argument that you have to pay a significant premium to get a bulb that doesn't have the issues you've run into and, once you factor that premium into account, LED bulbs aren't worth it. But some of the broad claims here, and in the article, about the allegedly poor performance of LED bulbs just don't cohere at all with my experience with them. I made a point of buying high quality bulbs that are dimmable, don't flicker, and have the color temperature and CRI that I want and...well...that's exactly what I got.
Show HN: Project 2501 – an open-source AI assistant, written in C++
Hi all,
This is something I've had fun working on for a few days.

Project 2501 is an open-source AI assistant, written in C++.

You can speak to it and it will speak back to you.

It uses the Microsoft Speech API for wake-word detection and speaking, whisper.cpp, and the OpenAI chat API.

Check it out at https://github.com/Ono-Sendai/project-2501
In the early 00s, I regularly used to drive between the south-east and south-west of England, and one of the cut-throughs to avoid the worst motorway is a town named Bracknell.

For years there was a prominent building on that route for a company whose name I cannot remember, but the tagline on their sign was "The XML Company". If that was happening in Bracknell, I can only imagine how crazy the valley was...

Worrying thing is 20+ years later, I'd take XML over YAML without hesitation...
Well... that's kind of the deal with public broadcast fees in Germany. I also think the way it's collected is pretty weird, but that doesn't make the Rundfunkbeitrag a bad thing in general.

You seem to be rambling about a lot of different things here, conflating some of them entirely unrelated to privacy laws: If you get caught torrenting a torrent poisoned by a private law firm, that hasn't got anything to do with German legislation. Schufa, on the other hand, claims to operate under existing DSGVO/GDPR law (even though that may be invalidated eventually); and other than the Rundfunkbeitrag, I'm not aware of any data sharing between the Meldebehörde and "public media", whoever that is.
This is just a letter that someone sent the FTC, it is not the FTC actually doing anything.
Honestly it is different. There is a point of diminishing returns. But the fact is you can make great coffee with simple pourovers or aeropress and that is well respected in the coffee community.

Espresso is a lot easier to understand too, it's an entirely physical process, and everyone has had bitter, bad tasting espresso, so it's easier to know what "good" tastes like, vs some arbitrary chart or subjective POV in the audiophile world talking about how your house needs rewired because it puts noise into your setup.
Exactly. PR wise it seems to be safer to be in camp zero, than standout by giving something.
I get it with regards to an actual, physical site. That makes sense to have some kind of protection.

But with things like this kind of singing, what does it really achieve? Do the singers get money to teach it to the next generation or something?

When I still lived in Padova, a friend wanted me to translate an application for... I think it was "open source software" to be declared some kind of UNESCo thing, and while I am normally pretty generous with my time, I was just like "open source needs people to work on it, not some kind of UNESCO designation".
https://www.rundfunkbeitrag.de/datenschutz/datenschutz_beim_...

There are laws that govern this. It's not some shady business.
Show HN: Notifier – Keep track of your favorite dependencies
Hi HN,

We are Anil and Yilmaz from the team behind Notifier.

Notifier is a macOS menu bar app that keeps track of your favorite packages and notifies you whenever a new version is available.

You can currently track packages from npm, pub.dev, packagist, OpenUPM and the Unity asset store. We plan to add more package repositories very soon.

Notifier can also watch your dependency manifest files to make it simple to keep track of the packages you use in your projects.

We have many new features planned such as tracking software and SDK versions.

We want to offer HN an early look at Notifier in hopes that you can help us test the application before we launch it fully.

We're grateful for any feedback you might have for us.

Website: https://notifier.dev/
You can still buy the "IR" red light bulbs. Search under chicken heating. Also there are "non-bulb" things now that fit into a light bulb socket but are just resistive heaters. Also search under chicken coop supplies.
I'm still waiting for the FCC or ITU to define a band for electrodeless plasma lamps.

For the uninitiated, these are microwave-driven light sources that are about half as efficient as the best LEDs, but still way more efficient than incandescent. The light output spectrum is continuous and single-peaked, and in the case of sulfur lamps, so close to solar that they are routinely used as a "synthetic sunlight" for testing solar panels.

The MW band used in existing appliances is generally the 2.45 GHz Bluetooth and microwave oven band, because it's unregulated, but the high output power and the need for a transparent housing means that they can interfere with other consumer electronics. There is virtually no risk of two bulbs interfering with each other, so even a relatively narrow dedicated band should work fine. As I understand it, the light output is continuous — no flicker — and anyway the beam power of a circularly polarized microwave should be continuous.

Usually, microwaves are created using magnetrons — vacuum tubes — which have a high minimum power output (think floodlight). Microwave diodes do exist, although they haven't yet been applied to electrodeless lamps, because consumers won't be interested in using a light bulb that kills Bluetooth.

But it is physically possible for us to enjoy an efficient light source that looks nice. There are just a few kinks to work out.
LED Christmas lights are great because I can leave them on guilt free
> The same light quality is vastly more expensive to achieve with LEDs, even if you account for high electricity prices.

In a screw base, maybe. But compare:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/luminus-devices-i...

$25 for an excellent 700mA driver, 86% efficient.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/bridgelux/BXRH-30...

$3.45 for a very nice, ~2000lm 97 CRI LED, about 99 lm/W. (Efficiency goes up quite a bit if you settle for 90 CRI.)

So that gives about 2000lm at about 25W, for <$30.

Wikipedia gives about 16 lm/W for incandescent, so 125W. At 10 hour per day, the LED options pays for itself quickly even at national average prices. In CA, it’s very fast.

To be fair, for high-end LEDs like this, the balance of the system is more expensive, because you need a heat sink. Incandescent lamps run very hot and don’t need heat sinks.

I think this is potentially promising, but I don’t think you can buy it:

https://tlo.mit.edu/technologies/high-efficiency-incandescen...
Prof. Russell hasn't provided any actual evidence to support his dumb proposal. So it can be dismissed out of hand.
This org seem to be behind it, https://github.com/cfug
I should have specified that I'm not really talking about all the amazing historic places that Italy has. That makes perfect sense. It's the random things like this singing that have me scratching my head.
I've noticed that my LEDs seem to have a bimodal lifespan. In parts of the house where we have many of the same kind, we went through a period early on where a few lasted much less time than I expected and had to be replaced, but now I've not had to replace any for several years.

There seems to be an element of luck with the cheaper ones. The ones in a batch that work well just keep going, while a small number fail relatively quickly. Once you've gone through a few replacements you are left with just good ones that just keep going.
I can't imagine what it would have been like if I had spent the week out commuting between the hours of 7am to 7pm

FWIW, I commuted through most of my son's childhood. I still made it home for those things you list. But, it did take optimizing house location/commute, etc. I certainly wasn't gone 7am-7pm. Even with 60 min of driving and 60 min for lunch, that's an 10 hour day.
Well, it is nowhere near as bad as Mexico, but the Netherlands see their fair share of trafficking, money launderng and assorted organized crime. By virtue of having Europes biggest container port and liberal drug laws.
Rails, I know it
> TV license is basically just another tax, right?

Technically it's not, which is why there is private company collecting it.

> As far as I understand private data in Germany is _very_ private, or it would be a violation of the "Datenschutz" (data protection) laws.

Yes and no. The company is infamous for doing sketchy things, buying addresses here and there, including getting them from public sources, and this is not even illegal to some degree.
Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects
I haven't seen a 'normal' bulb in over 10 years. I only have LED lights and they are great. They used to be a bit shit yes, but over the past 5 years they have surpassed my expectations. I can't even find any that don't have a nice color profile and are spec'ed to some temperature etc.

imo, modern led lights are much, much, much better then the incandessent bulbs & these power-saving lamps we used to have. Both in durabillity & color etc
> Non-dimmable LEDs are right up there with running toilets and rodents in the pantheon of things to make homeowners lose their minds.

Really? I've never understood the affection for dimming lights. Essentially always I want lights on or off.
> cooling the LEDs enough

Maybe I am missing something from this conversation, but all of my LED bulbs produce far _less_ heat than incandescent bulbs. The lamp in my bedroom no longer keeps me warm!
What if you don't want to become an expert, which is something that wouldn't scale for every piece of tech and equipment? (Maybe you enjoy tweaking with lights, but what about chairs, tabletop materials, woods, wall paints, and yes -- electronic gadgets?).

With LEDs, what's the "I don't want to deal with this, I just want something that will work as intended and not introduce weird artifacts"?
> what's the harm in ingesting that?

It means that large tech companies benefit the most from every incremental piece of content created by humans, in perpetuity.
I'll add to that- in addition to wave breaking from shoaling (i.e., transition to shallow depths), coral reefs and oyster beds increase bottom friction.

Surface waves are only the displacements on the surface that we see. The water column is also perturbed below the surface, and depending upon on the wavelength and amplitude, the perturbation can go down pretty far.

If you track the water particles as the waves pass by, you would see the particles traveling up and down and back and forth in orbital motions. In shallow water (relative to the wavelength), the sea bottom prevents downward motion, so the orbital motion is flattened into a back and forth motion near the bottom, and near the surface the waves increase height and break at the top.

If you have things like coral reefs or oysters (or an undersea wall), the back and forth motion is impeded, and energy from the wave is dissipated (which reduces the surface displacement).

Here's an article on experiments quantifying the energy dissipation: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/9/9/1007
Hmm. I'm pretty picky about CRI but for me the last few years' LED lights are really great. Much better than any fluorescent source. Much brighter than any incandescent. Very reliable. Dimmable too.
>Stream it for a “profit” of $0.06 per stream?

You're missing a zero there, it's more like $0.006 per stream

https://edm.com/industry/how-much-each-streaming-platform-pa...
God forbid someone isn’t at your beck and call every second the day. What is the point of that story? You admit the person you used as evidence was a bad example.
> UK is the same with CCTVs on every street.

There really isn't though, maybe in a built up area, in the middle of a city. But even then it's selective IME, and they are not all part of the same network.

It's the same problem you allude to, everything discussed online is quantised into 0 or 1, by humans.

The only way to make sense of anything is to remind yourself the truth in what you are reading is invariably more grey and nuanced, writers' unconsciously colour everything to fit their narrative.
I think you could be bold and reach out to these companies (directly or via notices in the README, website, docs, install logs, etc) that you maintain these libraries and need money for it. Have developers champion for it, etc.

I think one of your issues is that your libraries are mainly used indirectly, e.g. a dependency on more prominent libraries / applications.