skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably they have some kind of experience with water and how it feels when things get wet. Tell them after it rains, the air smells wet.
UWP was actually alright, alongside .NET Native and C++/CX, however they fully borked the whole development experience how to adopt them.

Advise from a recovering UWP advocate, stay away from Windows Runtime (WinUI and WinAppSDK) as much as possible.
lol, that's funny. Looks like we're going to have to make it good for some of those things! In particular, AI uses a bunch of memory and specialized machines/GPUs if we're going to be training models or running our own, and our previous interpreter model (running on small-ish VMs with a few gigs of RAM) are clearly not suitable for that. We might end up using services for this though.
Good question.

I don’t have a poll but three observations.

1) People’s tastes vary. But millions of units have sold so people are open to it.

2) My non-techy 60+ year old aunt tried my Quest and kept raving about it and bought one.

3) It has potential to be more immersive. Having messed around with Quest, there are demos of things that are step functions of experience beyond what you get with a TV experience: the eye opener for me was front row seat in a small venue with your favorite band, up close and personal. When the video+3d resolution get better, it will get way more compelling.

Entertainment is all about feelings. An immersive experience provides even more ability for evoking them. People do seem to value more-immersive where possible if you look at the history of TV+movies… if the distractions can be eliminated.

But if the packaging tells you not to let people under 13 years to use it (because their eyesight is still developing?) (and I love the honesty), it’s fair to say the tech isn’t fully there and you aren’t going to capture the next generation of kids with spare time on their hands, among many other factors.

There is also not a lot of free compelling content on Quest unlike the internet; rather they are very geared towards selling you $20 apps in their store. I respect the need to monetize but there is also a fair bit of learning still needed on marketing and business model side for both the platform and apps to drive me to keep opening the wallet. I felt like I explored most of the free content and apps in under 10 hours. Value for money just wasn’t there for me.

I did feel like the tech was “good enough” that this tech would get there eventually. That is a key threshold to cross and imho has been crossed. But I am also reminded of my old (pre-iPhone-eta) WindowsCE mobile phone with stylus and web browser in my pocket. There was value there… but it was also greatly mitigated by being cumbersome in various ways.
Nah it was done kinda tastefully here and it’s helpful to know the comps
AI Food Startup NotCo Hires Activision’s Fernando Machado as CMO
Typo: Is each RX channel capable of 153 MSPS?
Both naturally from rocks and soil, and latent arsenic from decades of arsenic pesticide use. Arsenic pesticides have been banned for a while, but they’re still in the soil.

Rice, for whatever reason, can take up this element more readily than other crops. There has been some research on this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29749629/
Show HN: Baastronaut – open-source Airtable alternative built on PostgREST
Hi HN,

sharing a project that my friend and I are working on - Baastronaut (https://github.com/baastronaut/baastronaut) - an open-source Airtable alternative.

While looking for Airtable-like tools for my work, I realised that existing tools don't suit what I need. They are either too technical for non-technical users or do not have good developer APIs. For example, to filter for certain rows in Airtable, you need to use filterByFormula, which is clunky.

Our main design principle is "projects and spreadsheets should represent database relations but don't make it technical" (e.g., spreadsheets == tables, projects == schemas, links to other spreadsheets == foreign-key references). This is in contrast with other tools that use a wide table to store user's columns, type, and data. By sticking to the "represent database relations" principle, we are able to use PostgREST to generate flexible GraphQL-like REST APIs (plus, I play with PostgREST a lot, so i thought why not build something with it.)

For users that are managing the spreadsheets, we make it non-technical-friendly by hiding certain details, e.g. only basic data types, instead of all the data types in Postgres, are shown to users. Users manage spreadsheets and not databases in our app.

We spoke to a few people and we understand that it is common to build this (database + server to auto-generate APIs + simple crud interface) in-house to replace Airtable.

We are still very early and there are a lot of features we want to build, e.g. a good fuzzy search. It’s not for production use yet but we hope people can try it and/or give us their comments.

Please share with us your feedback on anything.

Thank you!
One of the strategies a politician could use to move towards the middle is creating a Sister Souljah moment [0]

A Sister Souljah moment is a politician's calculated public repudiation of an extremist person, statement, group or position that is perceived to have some association with the politician's own party.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Souljah_moment
I think part of the problem of doing it on a smartphone is that software-only breaks the illusion in a way that makes it necessary to go further to counter it. I think people find it harder to connect to something they see as "just software" without any embodiment to the point that we connect more easily to something "dumber" if it's embodied in some way or other or we can imagine it to be.

For that reason, I suspect that to do it with a smartphone, you'd do better with a chatbot talking to users via e.g. Whatsapp or another messenger than a custom app, because people associate messengers with real people rather than a "game".
Haha:
10 years later after I tried Linux od desktop nothing changed.
Distro A: X things works, Y things doesn't
Distro B: Y things works, X things doesn't
Distro C: Partialy X things works and partialy Y things works

I never had setup where everything was working :)
Moved to Apple and instead of working on a OS, I started using it.
What you don't see is Disney open sourcing the work of its closed division.
This is the worst case outlier where the charger happened to be free in a city center location and I had nowhere to be.

Our typical usage of the car:

Wife drives for work to another city 185km away in the morning and back in the evening. So 370km round trip.

During summer: she leaves with the car charged to 90% and arrives back with more than 10% left. Zero time waited charging anywhere.

During winter -20C: she leaves with the car charged to 100% and battery prewarmed. Arrives at the destination with about 45% battery left. On the way back she spends 10 minutes at a 150kW fast charger next to a service station that happens to serve her favorite Goulash. Arrives home with more than 10% battery left.
Some apps chose to distribute with snaps first, past and present. And without snaps they might've pushed a more unified or better experience with something better.

Canonical has money to do lots of good, too bad they waste it on terrible engineers and terrible projects.
I mean saying that using ChatGPT will make you one of the most elite coders in the world is a pretty high bar no?

I have been skeptical about all this, but decided to play with using ChatGPT for coding a task I had. It wasn't perfect, either in workflow or in final results but what was clear was that not adopting it will very quickly make you lag behind your peers.

I think the additive bonus is especially high for senior devs who are fast, in that those will be faster in grokking the generated code and better at guiding it to the right solution.

I guarantee you that in five years anybody who cares at all about their productivity will be using it constantly in their workflow, probably much sooner.
Wouldn't a "2x" engineer then be a 1x engineer, and a "1x" engineer <1x?
It's not just their bodily functions (which are very significant despite your feelings), it's the enormous amount of land we clearcut and leave basically empty so they can graze.

Also, it's not about the planet, it's about us. The planet obviously will be fine, but a lot of humans won't be.
> although Motherboard notes that the data in question is what is known as “netflow” data, which, in some cases, can allegedly be used to help track cybercriminal activity.

How does one purchase netflow data from an ISP? I could see requiring it in a criminal case, but just calling up an ISP and asking? Is that really a thing?
There was a fashion in the 70s that seemed to have permeated everything.

Avacado green or burnt orange kitchen tiles, furniture, thick brown window drapes, and so on. Side burns. It must have felt like everyone/everywhere looked the same.

Later it became ridiculed and despised.
Oh sorry this didn't came off as intended.
Top Technologists and Elon Musk Demand Immediate Pause of Advanced AI Systems
what about them?

There may end up being some kind of exception or discount for those

Or not

Twitter's under no compulsion to provide anyone with free usage

That they have for so long does not mean they must :)
I wrote the review. I did not mention that for two main reasons:

1. No mainstream current Linux distro runs on the machine yet.

2. The original plan was to review it as a Linux machine, but as someone who rarely uses Windows any more, I found the experience of running Windows on Arm to be interesting enough that there was enough to write a fairly long article on the experience of using it as a Windows machine for a Linux user.

So, the plan is that there will be a future article on what it's like to run FOSS OSes on this machine.

Incidentally, it runs WSL very well, and I have Arm Ubuntu under WSL on the machine. It's fine and very usable, and makes the problem of accidentally running x86 binaries on Windows simply go away.

However, saying that, quite a few normal Linux tools are not available in Arm versions. For instance, almost any proprietary Linux app won't have Arm versions available.
There would be a huge market for teleporters so why settle for EVs?
https://archive.is/wip/3Y5BL
Target fixation - you'll go where you look, for better or worse. Inexperienced riders will often stare right at the obstacle they're trying to avoid and ride right into it.
This definitely seems like a huge untapped space: ChatGPT for my stuff that answers questions correctly. Sure there are privacy concerns for some things but unless you are going to train your own LLM on premise (yeah right) this will always be an issue.

I broke it trying to upload a PDF but that is ok, I'll try it again at some point.
How is that inconsistent with “won’t take on more clients”. Also in the very articles we are discussing you can see the big four were asked by others and said no. If Kraken asked and made public they said no would that satisfy you?
> Things that are ‘natural’ typically have a much longer period of human and animal use.

Most of the hybrids you're consuming are nowhere to be found in nature. But since they are "natural" somehow they are absolved of most sins. And then boom and E. coli outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_o... or listeriosis outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_States_listeriosis...

> The real concern with GMOs is not about something like a genetic collapse but the fact that the technology is only really capable of enabling the use of more exotic pesticides and herbicides in food stocks.

That is not nearly the main concern. If anything, GMOs would allow us to forego most exotic pesticides and herbicides.

> I really don’t see the need to engage in a widespread experiment on pesticide use when targeted smaller scale studies would suffice.

What I "love" about discussions like this is that they immediately veer off territory that is only tenuously adjacent, at best.
A hardware exploit on one browser and a web based exploit are not even on the same level.

Instead of lumping all of Android, just name the brands with hardware issues. IMO its clickbait. I don't use both the phones listed and the web browser listed. But hey, they got me to click. I'm already getting desensitized.
So if netherlands legalizes marijuana then Greece can't outlaw it because EU law?

Seems pretty absurd!

States have the right to set standards on the market regardless of Brussels.
can you provide some source?
Harvard says it's 73 ± 4
For comparison Potato: 78 ± 4, White bread: 75 ± 2
https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glyce...
Last time I checked finger print reader and camera user authentication (hello equivalent) wasn't working. Has it changed ?
Gotta love Australia. No rivers make the cut.

Our longest & largest drainage basin river, the Murray, doesn't remotely come close to making this list.

It'd need to have about 3x its flow rate to come 150th.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356750

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356771

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356499

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356390

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35355803

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35354565

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35353458

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35353484

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35353394

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35354704

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35355541

(not about "the letter" but in the same spirit)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35356691
Indeed, the ongoing fashion shift from locally installed software to external services is quite problematic, as it shifts the control over the user's data from the user themself to… whatever tree/graph of third parties somewhere in the network where the data is accessed, processed… and further shared (willingly or not, knowingly or not, in conformance with the agreements and laws or not) which the user has no control over.

That being said, it seems like an almost inescapable consequence of the fact that the software itself is also data and as such subject to a similar problem: in times of ubiquitous high-speed internet access where you can't protect software (data) from being widely copied and shared over the network once anyone else gets hold of it, the only simple and reliable way for a software company to keep control over the distribution of their software (and thus its monetization) is to never share it in the first place but only provide access to it as a service.

So in the end, the shift from locally installed software to remote services kinda comes down to the fact that most users don't have the same level of awareness or care about their own data and keeping control over it as the software/internet service companies have for their data (e.g. software).
This is not real world. Here is one (https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=550e4ca1-4a68-4ef...) My family regularly travels from Denmark to Austria for skiing. This route is 10:36:00 of driving, and 2:26:00 of charging. And that's assuming the chargers are free. They're often not. In reality - and I have tested this with a rental - charging occupies 30%+ of total driving time. This is absurd on a road trip.

I think EVs are great - for short trips. They're clearly terrible for longer trips. We all hope they get better.
And now all of our text will start to look the same too as we use the same LLMs to generate it.
On the contrary, I think it is good for retention, so long as you gain enough mindshare soon enough. Tailwind has become something of the defacto CSS tool for modern front end development. I don't think Tachyons or Basscss (or other earlier atomic CSS libraries for that matter) ever caught on despite being the same idea, and neither were marketed as aggressively as Tailwind.
In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT
Yes. If you live in any form of democracy this is a real problem and you need to watch out for it. Make sure you watch out for it in yourself - there are a lot of things that make your life better at the expense of society has a whole. There are also a lot of unintended effects of things that should be good that can make them worse than the alternative that feels evil.

Democracy is still the best form of government I know of though. So if you don't live in one it is worth moving to one. Hopefully you can learn from the mistakes of those of us who have gone before and design protection for some more downside.
I'm the author. When I write articles I have to make a choice: make them readable by the public, or detailed enough to satisfy the experts. I try to strike a balance, but I can't have both.

Please take a look at the CMS Price Transparency Guide https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide and familiarize yourself with the schema. You can also take a look at the federal ruling: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-A/subchapter-...

The metadata you're talking about is specified in the files themselves. I've limited my search to fee-for-service (non-capitated, non-derived, non-bundled) institutional claims.

You can write to me if you have more questions. alec@dolthub.com
You have to quit Firefox and then manually update the Snap. I thought restarting Firefox would trigger auto-update, but no.
I'm pretty sure they are. If not copyrightable, then at least the database law should apply. One can easily make the case in front of a judge that the situation is similar to databases: the value of weights lies in the amount of work needed to gather the training data, thus weights should be considered a sort of crystallization of a database.
This is not much power, and all cars support scheduled/delayed overnight charging already. There are cars that support V2G and can be made to even supply power to the grid for that TV pickup peak if necessary. BEVs have batteries large enough that they're fine even if they're not plugged in for several days.

Slow AC charging is little more than a kettle + electric oven, and we built the grid for that instead of lamenting it's too much for the grid and people need to continue to use wood stoves. Driving 40 miles (US daily average) uses about 10-12kWh of electricity, and there's whole night to refill that.
I go to cool app website, I click download, I get a '.deb' file, I click .deb file, it opens some installer GUI (instead of Ark because I'm lucky today), I click install, I get error, I google error, I find cryptic commands that modify my system in weird ways just to get the app to install, I install app, I open app, it crashes, I open firefox, I get error "error: libX.so.1.2 not found", I can no longer google the error.

The system package manager is convenient when it works, because it's already there. But that's about it. Using it to install any random apps is a recipe for disaster, it leads to fragmentation since everyone on a different distro uses different commands/workarounds to fuck up their systems in different ways when trying to install poorly packaged software.

If everyone just used Debian, we wouldn't need Flatpak, but obviously that's not the case. Whenever you find a "linux app" that's packaged for distroA, but you're on distroB, there's a chance that it will work. That is 100% luck and coincidence, because most linux distros just so happen to ship the same family of system software/libs, sometimes even with the same versions.

Rather than leave it up to the undefined behavior lottery, a standardized non-system packaging format can guarantee that things will work across any distro. That's better for everyone involved: users, sysadmins, distro maintainers, and developers. Whether Flatpak is that format idk, but IMO it's the best overall out of the three main contenders (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage)
>There's a lot of frontend work where you just don't end up styling things.

the problems these things all try to solve are not so much how to style things, but how not to have the cascade bite you because your devs didn't understand that part.

So how to describe that a problem - is it a CSS data model problem?
It solves some of the problems, but not all, and it requires a lot of testing and trial and error and setup. Sometimes libraries are hard to statically link. Sometimes you have problems with different glibc versions.

I forgot to say: some distros that people still use are too old for us to build for, so we build fully static binaries for those. But you can't really statically link glibc, so we build them on Alpine statically linked with musl. That usually works okay. It's the best we can do for the old stuff.

We've invested a lot of time in this. For most developers I totally understand "fuck it."
The Leaf is somewhat famous for having poor battery management; it's one reason we avoided them. I don't think a used Leaf could handle a 50mi roundtrip commute, especially with a 10yo battery.

The Fiat does have a range penalty for cold weather (it occasionally gets below freezing in the part of California I live in) and running the heater (one way; usually it's warm enough by the trip home). My wife still gets home with > 10%.

Keep in mind this is a 10yo car with an 80mi range; newer cars have bigger batteries.
I learned to touch type spontaneously when I was 11. All the teachers were mystified because they seemed to think touch typing was hard to learn and hard to teach.

Maybe they find it hard to teach because they (1) don’t know how, (2) they’ve been busy miseducating people with the hidden curriculum. When my son was in school they were at the tail end of trying to teach handwriting and they sent home worksheets that were titled “Handwriting without tears” which is a confession that this is a sadistic exercise.

Like the practice of having kids “cry it out” in a crib, and the 110% support that bullies get all the way up from teachers to the school superintendent, it’s all part of a curriculum that teaches people that people in authority can abuse you all they want and there is nothing you can do about it, though people like Sam Bankman Fried get to go to private schools where people respect your autonomy and you don’t get crushed down…. They have to crush you down so that those people don’t get competition for running the world.
The AI Today glossary and podcast series has been helpful for a grounding on basic concepts: https://www.aidatatoday.com/aitoday/
I remember drooling over the price list of a local computer store back in the day. A dual-socket board for a Pentium Pro cost DM 2,000, and a Pentium Pro 200MHZ cost about as much, so just the board and two CPUs were DM 6,000 (roughly € 3,000, not adjusted for inflation).
https://puri.sm/posts/deep-dive-into-intel-me-disablement/
The weights downloaded super slow for me, so I made a torrent of them:

https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/36/files
I don't think there are cheaper alternatives.