skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is odd to me. This is not a long distance. Is there zero transport infrastructure where you live?

There is, in fact I lived a 5 minute walk from a bus stop and worked near a subway stop. My commute was:

1) 5 minute walking
2) 15 minutes bus to end of subway line
3) 25 minutes subway to transfer
4) 10 minutes subway to stop near the office
5) 5 minutes walk

Driving with no traffic would be close to 20 minutes, but 45-75+ minutes during rush hour. Taking transit ends up being reasonably time competitive, but far more enjoyable.
> (a) In general.—The Secretary shall identify and refer to the President any covered holding that the Secretary determines, in consultation with the relevant executive department and agency heads, poses an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of United States persons.

This means the Secretary of Commerce makes a determination about any entity that "poses an undue or unacceptable risk".

Where "covered holding" can be any non-US entity, or any entity "directed or controlled" by a non-US entity, so essentially, every entity but especially foreign entities.

> (1) IN GENERAL.—A person who willfully commits, willfully attempts to commit, or willfully conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.

So you might think subsection (a) refers to something really terrible, but actually:

> (a) Unlawful acts.—

> (1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for a person to violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any regulation, order, direction, mitigation measure, prohibition, or other authorization or directive issued under this Act, including any of the unlawful acts described in paragraph (2).

Where "paragraph (2)" goes on to describe every possible technical channel (mobile, LAN, satellite, cable, back-haul networks, etc).

This gives the Secretary of Commerce the ability to say that reading Russian or Chinese news, for example, is unlawful, because it is a risk to national security. If you use a VPN to access that news, you are guilty of this crime.

It seems pretty clear to me.
You can't buy a bulb that is rated to last a lifetime, but you can buy ones rated to last for 10+ years if used 8 hours a day (i.e. 35,000 life hours).

I retrofitted entire house - 200+ bulbs and fixture retrofits more that 5 years ago. I had one or failures since. I bought highest CRI bulbs, i.e. most expensive, and they work well. (Also, do not use bulbs for downlights - get entire "led can light fixture retrofit")

I used 1000bulbs.com because I can filter/read specs there, but you can get specs for any high-tier vendor and buy elsewhere.
The comments in AI threads developed a weird formula. It is something like, "AI only filters content" with the response "and humans don't?" Or something like, "AI doesn't develop empathy" with the response of "and some humans don't develop it either." What a bunch of patronizing, disingenuous, semi-trolling BS.
I've taken to just replacing fixtures instead of trying to make bulbs work with existing, though I'm --> <-- this close to just throwing them all away and going back to kerosene lanterns and some incandescents.
I believe BigClive did a video on those, and while they did indeed use more LEDs for improved efficiency, they also had a more complex and thus failure-prone driver than the original Dubai ones.

In other words, more efficient, but not longer lifespan.
Is Deel the Next WeWork/Bolt?
Aka a bs startup lying. They claim to have over 200 million ARR for a global payroll solution. This isn’t particularly new or revolutionary. Do y’all think the numbers are fake or is Deel the real deal?

Going from 5 million ARR to 200 million ARR in like 2-3 years for a payroll company, doesn’t sound realistic to me especially for an smb target market
Ask HN: Slack macOS app battery impact
Hey HN! I have a work-issued 2021 14in Macbook Pro and if Slack is open, my battery life is ~half (3-4 hours) of what it is if it's closed. Slack (version 4.31.155) consistently has 2x the "energy impact" of Chrome (loaded up with tabs) in the macOS Activity Monitor.

Hardware acceleration is enabled in Slack settings, and I'm logged into several workspaces as part of our Slack Enterprise Grid setup ( it's moderately annoying that I can't sign out of individual ones I don't care about). But the impact of just having Slack open seems immense. Am I missing something here? Has anyone else seen this behavior over the last few months? Help me save my battery-life!
Infosec is a community unto itself. What was the competition 5 years ago?
What you are describing is the probability heuristic. That is mathematically correct. But what wasn't correct is that from this fact you can deduce that "the cycle length is unlimited (but always finite)". The whole point of the conjecture is to prove that only the trivial cycle exists. If you can deduce that the cycle length is finite but large, you've already disproven the conjecture.

Sorry for being terse in my original comment. I should have elaborated.
The line is broken (double-pasted): https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659191/amazon-sidewalk-...
You're making nonsensical interpretations that completely contradict the text and then accusing people of clickbait.

If you don't think laypersons should be able to discuss this topic, then don't. If you think it's okay to do so as far as we're aware of our limitations, then apply that standard to yourself as much as your interlocutor.

Someone having an interest in a transaction includes being a party to it. If you define a data transmission as a transaction, then when I make an HTTP request to TikTok, at least me and TikTok have an interest in the transaction.
The breathing-taking lack of foresight started when he accepted terms that any competent lawyer would run away screaming from.

Everything since has been one train wreck after another. I have no breath left to take. :)
Before you comment something like this, ask yourself "How would I make this easier to try?" The only reasonable answer is providing the OP's own API key, which is undesirable.
LEDs tend to be mounted on heat sinks, so de-soldering sort of sucks.
> 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.

Reasonable, I am similar in those regards.

I just wanted to highlight that the border between reasonable technical features and audiophile snakeoil is at times not totally clear to draw.

There are e.g. quite expensive audio cables in pro audio as well, but there you pay for reliability and not for esoteric materials.
Like I said many times and keep being downvoted, their Apple Store KPI does not align with the original Apple Store experience.
> As time has gone on I felt like we had lost some of the magic of easily sharing your machines and your creations with other people.

> I want my things to be able to talk to each other no matter where I am.

What isn't easy about forwarding packets destined for port 80/443 of your public IP to the local service in question and being a part of the public Internet like things were from the start?

Using Tailscale is the opposite of self-hosting, you're bringing someone else's third party service in, and adding more complexity and another point of failure.
I would add startups to the list in addition to the more explicitly negative groups that you mention. There's a tremendous amount of both reputational risk and technical/organizational inertia to overcome in Amazon overhauling Alexa to use LLMs for responses, but much less for a new startup because they have far less to lose. Same for Apple with Siri, or Google with Google Assistant. I expect that we'll see exciting changes in these products before too long, but they're inherently going to be more conservative about existing products than new competitors will be.
Agree completely. I bought a bunch of LED bulbs maybe a decade ago to replace my incandescent ones. Lighting quality was immediately better, and I have never had to replace a single one. They have made multiple moves with me. Previously I was replacing bulbs maybe annually, or every 2 years.

I genuinely have no idea what people in this thread are talking about.
I mean, if you use Twitter for political news, then yes. I hadn’t even considered that, but my approach would also wreck your ability to follow political news via Twitter.
Of course. It's the market and negative selection. The companies that accidentally made long-lasting LED bulbs all went bankrupt.

Governments (or other non-profit organizations) should create light bulbs, for the people, and not for the stockholders.
I can't find a flaw in this argument. That is a bit scary actually.
"cost optimization and general apathy towards the customer." that's just this stage of capitalism unfortunately. Take an airplane trip and you will experience similar effects.
> What's wrong with being directly told you've caused a problem?

There's nothing "wrong" with being impolite, it's just impolite to be impolite.

> Why is it impolite?

It feels impolite to me therefore it is impolite. Trying to parse out my feelings the best I can come up with is that the phrasing highlights the subordinate nature of the person being directed relative to the person directing by focusing on the person and the mistake prior to the task.

https://pragmatics.indiana.edu/politeness/impoliteness.html

> Contextual and co-textual factors

> • The extent to which the behavior is positively or negatively valued in the relevant culture;

Making a mistake is negatively valued in most cultures, especially when it needs to be corrected.

> • The extent to which face or sociality rights are exposed;

Highlighting subordination and superordination exposes sociality rights.

> • The degree of intentionality ascribed to the actor(s);

The personal "you" can be, though may not be, seen to impute a degree of intentionality.

Additionally:

> (2) [rude behavior] does not utilise politeness strategies whetre they would be expected, in such a way that the utterance can only almost plausibly be interpreted as intentionally and negatively confrontational. (Lakoff, 1989: 103)

> (5) Impoliteness comes about when: (1) the speaker communicates face-attack intentionally, or (2) the hearer perceives and/or constructs behavior as intentionally face-attacking, or a combination of (1) and (2). (Culpeper, 2005a: 38)

> impoliteness <versus rudeness> occurs when the expression used is not conventionalised relative to the context of occurrence; it threatens the addressee’s face… but no face-threatening intention is attributed to the speaker by the hearer. (Terkourafi, 2008: 70)
What a ridiculous thing to say. Do you think the Libyan intelligence service gets to bomb dance clubs and then cry sovereignty when someone bombs some military targets in Libya? I don't know if you are ignorant of the situation or if you truly believe a country cannot retaliate against an attack against their citizens and allies. (This story and the bombing campaigned being photographed by the SR71 was a direct response to the West Berlin discotheque bombing in 1986).

>The entire world is truly their own backyard!

Yes..? If you are a state actor like Libya and you attack other nations civilians to cause terror then they have the right to attack you back. The US bombing Gaddafi's compounds and some other military targets in Libya was 100% justified. To act like a country can't retaliate in such a situation is honestly childish.
Churn greater than about 10% is a death sentence for a SaaS business. And it's a metric every investor will ask about and every potential employee ought to.
He sells his books anytime he gives a talk. I got an autographed copy ~5 years ago when he was a speaker at the museum of flight in Seattle during the seafair airshow.
they work in single cells...
My experience (past HN thread): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32122972
In the state of WI, when they wanted to single out Milwaukee, but try to not name names, they would write laws, counties with a population >500k must…..

Worked great for years, until Madison really started booming…
Isn't it pretty much the only coding community for children?
Headlines like this are always catchy but also not so. Largest community.. for children.. of 10-11 years.. :D the group just gets narrower and narrower as you read
Low-voltage doesn't necessarily mean 12V. I think it's anything below about 50, although lighting systems currently marketed as "low voltage" are usually 12 or 24 volts.

The constant current thing is true, but that's not a terribly difficult problem.
It depends on who you are and who you are trying to reach. If you are a for-profit business or institutional "person" then you only really need to reach people who are the type that give you money or who you provide services too. That means blocking people due to HTTPS CA or cert issues is okay. If you're a human person or government then you want the information or service to be available to as many people as possible and that means HTTP+HTTPS even if it means allowing older versions of HTTPS.
Not to mention, it also throws off numbers when people try to talk about how great of an ecosystem is based off the number of packages. Sure, NPM may have a gazillion packages, but maybe only a few hundred thousand of them are actually useful? You see this same thing with cargo and crates.io. There are a lot of trash packages that are just generated either to squat on a name or maybe spammers or people going through the guide on learning how to publish packages to crates.io.
They also sell 100w equivalents (1600 lumens) in an A12 form factor, FWIW.
How is that different than rejection?
Tailscale is so good I want to start a paid plan just to give them money.
> Then children will have their parents again.

In most developed countries, parents already spend more time with their kids than at any point in the past fifty years:

https://ourworldindata.org/parents-time-with-kids

(What they've sacrificed, at least in the US, seems to largely be non-work social connections and group participation.)
I can have similar thoughts at times. People in one field have their own lens to see the world and might miss some structures / patterns that exist in other domains. I felt it was a bit pompous to read a few medical books about the cardiovascular system, a lot of ceremony to describe an organic pump. You'd have to read mathematically inclined papers to start reading about equations and principles rather than latin nomenclature. Which I think is what the grandparent was wishing for.

ps: I absolutely do not put computing above other fields though. I just wish for some pragmatic polymathism sometimes.
Is ChatGPT the next big bootstrapper opportunity?
Twitter has lists.
I say all the time that google has been catching up for many years, but this is a new low.
Show HN: I made a website that lets you deploy APIs using ChatGPT without coding
I used GPT-4 to write Node.js functions and then deploy it to a live endpoint that you could use in other apps. Also lets you create test suites with natural language. Email me if you want to try it out.
No less that half my led can lights are unusable - either they "burned out" (whatever that means for an led light, but they did), or they flicker too much or buzz too loudly. I gave up on replacing them and am just living with the ones that work. I don't know where to buy good ones - the led market 99% scammers. The crap at the big box hardware stores is not worth it. I've probably spent more money in one year on defective leds lights than I spent on incandescent bulbs in 40 years.
Is there a way to get the Bookface knowledge base without participating in YC?
That seems like a long bake time for such a firm dough (well it sounds firm). Is the loaf very dark?
I had literally the exact opposite experience when swapping mine out. Both the incandescent and halogen replacements resulted in a _way_ better quality of lighting. And these were just like "first ones off the shelf" from the Home Depot or something- I'm not exactly sure it was maybe 10 years ago. But I vividly remember thinking how much better the lighting quality was, and I had far more options in terms of color temp, which was great.
What a horrible argument from this guy, whoever he is. And ending with a whataboutism just for the sake of it. I hope nobody regards him as some authority, because he is quite unintelligent and seemingly unable to form proper arguments.
You are not going to innovate while you are being shot at. There is a productive amount of stress and there is a destructive amount of stress. I argued against the latter.
Developers dont like agile for two reasons.

One is a valid criticism of the implementation of agile. 80% of all companies "doing agile" don't want to give up their traditional command and control so they never meet what the agile manifesto intends. Which is to reduce the overhead of projects and let the people doing the work make the decisions.

The second reason developers dont like agile is because some developers have this lone wolf attitude to development. They don't want to have to communicate and compromise with others on their work. They want to be given a project and left alone until its done. This type of development is not great for the business because there is no transparency into if the work being done is work the company needs done. And no feedback for developers if what they have created is correct until its completed.

Communicate and trust are what make great teams work. Bad implementations of agile are a lack of trust. Developers hiding away creates a lack of communication.

Agile should be a north star of what a team aims to achieve and not a religion to be followed without question.
I lived in North Carolina for a summer. From 7am - 9pm everyday you can hear leaf blowers. It’s absolutely ridiculous how loud those machines are.

I later bought an electric blower and lawn mower. They are super quiet. No exhaust. It helps to have a small yard.
> $100: For hobbyists or students learning code

That pricing has real "I mean what could a banana cost, $10?" energy. What student or hobbyist is going to pay $100/month for fucking twitter access?
As an amateur EE, I have analysed some of LEDs when I wanted to light up my kitchen counters. I wanted flicker-free LEDs with high CRI and temperature matching the rest of my apartment.

I ordered samples of a lot of LEDs and found that almost all of them are using their parts, especially capacitors, well above the specs.

Driving caps at well above their specs, at high temperature, basically ensures speedy failure. Not only that, but undersized smoothing capacitor causes visible 100Hz flicker.

What's even more interesting is at the price point putting better caps was almost inconsequential to the price of the product. I have ordered capacitors that should have been there in the first place and replaced the original ones with the new ones. Not only LEDs are flicker free now, I suspect they will be serving me for much longer.
Not all mowers are loud and mowing can be quite therapeutic.

Perhaps try a reel mower or an electric mower?

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Outdoors-Outdoor-Power-Equipment...
AI: How to Get It Right
I really want to like linux but every dang distro i've tried is 3 feet from gold. It's like the final steps are never taken.

Great artists steal.
Michigan pays a maximum of $362 a week. Earlier in the pandemic, they waived the job application reporting requirements, _and_ I got the enhanced unemployment, which made it much more worthwhile - enough to cover at least my mortgage, especially combined with the now-also-expired child tax credit. But waiving the reporting requirement has now expired and it's $362 a week, and has been since 2002. You have to fill out antiquated forms which include things like the phone number and address of the hiring manager you interviewed with - information that often isn't even available, when so much of the application process for most positions is now via online forms. Slip up slightly, and you'll lose weeks of pay. Given that this jumping through hoops takes a lot of time that I could otherwise use for my job search, last time I opted to not even bother - better to get to a new job faster than work to earn a small fraction of my usual pay, which won't even cover mortgage alone. This shouldn't be a huge mystery.
My quest to re-create Street Fighter’s long-lost pneumatic controls
They will bill any costs to the owner of the account. That's an immediate exploit
Depending on how warm your summers are, LED bulbs will reduce the amount of air conditioning you need.
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I get pushed a lot of nazi content now, so I’m using it less instead of trying to manage what their algo changes decided to promote now
Try using GPT-4 to code something on a regular basis.
Try teaching an average human to code better than it does.

Or perhaps check out and follow Ethan Mollick’s twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/emollick. He’s a Wharton professor who has been using GPT-4 to do many kinds of challenging tasks.

There is likely no fundamental difference between below average humans and smarter ones. The differences are mostly just results of differing thought patterns at different layers of abstraction, habits of thoughts, and size of working memory.

There are good reasons to believe AGI is only a couple key ideas away from current AI, so current expertise is relevant.

I won’t discuss further since it won’t matter until you try the above for some time.
What happens when the university reclassifies them as workers and asks for tuition? I did all this in ancient times, and TA’s were just students whose prof lacked the money to support them. There’s way better instructors than 2nd year grad students. And non-students can devote (far) more time to the students paying the money.
But so long as I can convince the neighborhood kids that whitewashing a picket fence will spark creativity...
Devil's advocate: Incandescent lifetime is inversely related to efficiency, thus Phoebus cartel prevented spread of long-life but inefficient bulbs.
95% of consumers are squeezed financially and can’t afford the nice bulbs.
> Curious to know which phones use the ARM GPU, not sure if this is a complete list but I found this[0] on an ARM website. Looks like Pixel 6 and 7 are affected since they use the Tensor chip which are ARM64 based.

Probably just sloppy writing. In this write up, the bug doesn't seem to be specific to a particular GPU model. It's basically a buffer overflow in Chrome's OpenGL ES code: https://googleprojectzero.github.io/0days-in-the-wild//0day-...
This is one of the things that freaked me out the most in William Gibson's The Peripheral, the AI called the Aunties. They go back through all historical records for people (things like social media and ones only the police and government have access to) and make judgements and predictions about them. It turns the fight for privacy and against unchecked police power into a much more difficult battle across time since the AI can process so much more data than a human.
Isn’t GPT a trademark owned by OpenAI? Is it legal to use it?
Really helpful - thanks for the details!
As opposed to a hot-air popcorn popper or a skillet on the stovetop?
This is freaking amazing. Does this mean I never ever have to deal with something like ngrok again?
> When you're one of a thousand companies every year, why would it?

Exactly, therefore making very questionable the whole "YC network" concept