skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting how the led datasheets have all the useful information (spectrum, CRI, angular spread). But once manufacturers put them on a bulb, they will refuse to tell even what leds they used.

At this point I believe companies are willfully refusing to inform their customers.
FYI, YC is now back to primarily in person (although there is a remote option, it's strongly encouraged to be in SF).
Substantiating as an early employee of a YC company. There is much honor among thieves, so to speak.

EDIT - but to the OP's point, yeah, it's what you make of it. I would suspect that word could get out about founders who are rude or combative to important people as not being worthy of any veil of protection.
Commercial awareness is also competence
FWIW, it seems the new API was launched a few hours ago: https://twittercommunity.com/t/announcing-new-access-tiers-f...
How Will LLMs Change the Shape of Our Product Teams?
And if you want enclosed rated bulbs there’s not many choices. The GE ones I picked up flicker like crazy.
> discount was only 16.5B

And that's not the sole source of the FDIC's possible losses. (Again, deposits being withdrawn doesn't cause losses per se. The liability and assets sold are struck simultaneously.)
It's like that in the USA, where I used to live. I live in Germany now, and I am a salaried employee. The law here doesn't generally allow any non-remunerated work beyond 10%-15%, and your daily work hour average over a 6 month period cannot exceed 8 hours. Anything above that, and they have to pay my hourly rate times a multiplier depending on how far over or if they are weekend/nighttime hours. I believe they're also required to pay for "on-call" hours, whether you are actually called in or not, at a lesser rate. All of this is statutory, not specific to my contract. Not surprisingly, I'm no longer on the pager duty rotation.
I think you may be thinking of feature pauses, which are when all sites run best, but they still very much have 24/7 SRE coverage.
I'm in the process of testing out the following on Middle Schoolers:

microStudio includes all you need to write code, create sprites and maps for your 2D game. All from your web browser. Your project is stored in the cloud, accessible from anywhere.

Write your game code in microScript, a simple language inspired by Lua. The documentation is always there to help. Create cool demos in just a few lines of code.

microScript shines by its simplicity and interactivity. But you can also code in JavaScript, Python or Lua if you prefer.

https://microstudio.dev

Also recently found https://www.solarus-games.org:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq7rda5G6Lc

Starts out with some default RPGMaker style tools (i.e. tile map editor, sprite manager, enemy manager, etc.) but subtly introduces Lua to enable mods to the default game making tools so you can make your own Zelda like games.

Wish me luck!
Never saw this, thanks! I immediately thought it was something for working with NVIDIA's CUDA but the note at the bottom of their page clears that up: 'Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles".'
This has been my experience as well.

And now w/ the new twitter API pricing, I will have to shut down my open source ChatGPTBot which has over 100k followers.

Sad.
I love VR, but I'm no way interested in the limited playstation vr.

The best VR experiences these days are PC mods.
Harry Potter Hogwarts Legacy's VR mod was better than being in person at the Wizarding World at Orlando.
China's futuristic library: More fiction than books
Is TikTok creating more one hit wonders?
I don't understand any of this at all. I got the cheap 2700K LED bulbs from a big box store (~$3 for a pack/bulb, I don't remember) and they are wonderful, they're just as good as they were when I got them, and the spectrum feels the same as an incandescent bulb. I literally put no thought into the purchasing process and it couldn't be more ideal.
Scratch was instrumental in my path to software, I loved using the old desktop version as a kid. Thrilled to see it continues to inspire a new generation of children.
Like others said, the market is really, really tough right now. Like, REALLY tough. You and I are roughly the same age, and we've never faced this kind of market before. It has always been relatively easy to land a job. That's not the case right now.

I don't know your whole story, but based on what you wrote here, I think you _are_ on the right track. You're just in a shitty situation because of the market.

In other words, it's not you, it's the market.

Keep applying, keep working, keep looking. Eventually, you'll find something.

Best of luck.
Why movies today look so dark today, in theaters and at home
The argument appears to be "wanting to change your gender posits that gender is part of objective reality and not a social construct, which is sexist", which is analogous to "trying to create racial equality implies the races are unequal now which is racist".

If you ignore realities of present society and pretend that things like gender roles and racial discrimination don't exist today, you can make it look like people are fighting to create those things instead of to reduce them.
Amazon just opened Sidewalk network for anyone to build connected gadgets on
Author here. You'd be surprised how many founders / operators I've spoken to over the past two years who work so hard to avoid discussing cancellations. At the core of it, they're hurt and scared by it. So yeah, it is dramatic. It's a very human phenomenon.
Is Stack Overflow plagiarism?
FDIC thresholds are de facto meaningless and expose litigation risks for selective non-coverage.

Is there any downside to FDIC expanding policy to state "All deposits are covered, regardless of amount"? This is effectively already happening AND would contribute value-add safety and security to US banks. It would also create a level playing field for them, regardless of size, to have an opportunity to service customers they may not be backstopped to handle without outside investment or additional customers. Perhaps the only downsides would be stress tests and audits would need to ensure proper investments and diversification of products to avoid the risks of becoming a dangerously-narrow boutique bank.
Thats actually a pretty good idea, we'll consider it! One thing is since our hybrid datasets are based off instructor-large embeddings, we'll later offer the ability to set the embedding "instruction", which can be tweaked for data from different domains. It might play nicely with an app template for a specific task/industry
Scrum Police AprilFools
I'm a zoomer, I used a Nokia C2-01 for the better part of 2019 to 2023 (I also gave the Pinephone a shot, but found it too finicky and fragile). The main reason I switched to a One Plus is because 3G is being shut down soon in my country.

I had alot of fun figuring out how to transcode movies & netflix shows for it, as well as writing J2ME apps. If there was a modern J2ME feature phone with 4G I'd probably use that. Who needs more than 100Mhz on a mobile device, honestly?
It’s a good rant. But apropos to the article, what should a society do if an adversarial actor deliberately uses a tool to erode that trust?
I can't help it if he's very obvious.
Only a Quarter of Unemployed US Workers Filed for Benefits in 2022
we definitely took some inspiration from linear :)
Apart from the open questions of the quality of such once-removed-from-human-generated training data...

I can't speak to the legality of the situation, but the morality of using, without their consent, data generated by someone's AI engine...

... that was, itself, trained on other people's data without their consent...

... should be, at the very least, equivalently evil to the original AI's training.
There's basically no such thing as a boot partition. The machine of life has been turned on since the beginning. At this point, with all of the changes since the beginning, it's not obvious that there's a "boot partition" left that could reactivate life should it shut off. All cellular progeny is made with already functional and switched on proteins and RNA.

The best you get to shutting off (without permanent cell death) would be the computer equivalent of hibernation. All the proteins and RNA are still there just waiting for the signal to activate again.
They should give PSVR desktop compatibility! Sony can have their cake and eat it.

Also,this is kinda a fundamental issue with VR. Customers don't want siloed in VR, but companies only want siloed in VR. And both sides are vehement because of the above reason ^ and hardware costs.
That sounds totally irrelevant to the discussion of whether Tesla AI has caused more deaths than other AI. Even if human-driven cars crashed 100% of the time, and Tesla AI crashed into a tree one time, this would not refute my original claim, which was that Tesla AI has directly killed more people than any other AI.

If you want to use a statistical definition of how many people Tesla AI has killed by comparing it to a baseline of non-AI cars, then you also need to do this for every other non-Tesla AI that you might assert has killed people. For example, for the medical misdiagnoses referenced in the sibling discussion, you would need to ask whether ChatGPT has misdiagnosed more cancers than doctors.
That would be Am-D-G. This one is probably more like A major with a flat seven since G major has two tones in common with the ii.
Not so much "funny" as necessary.

The alternative is that if I can mess up their HTTPS connections to your site with HSTS, users just click the "exception" button and it undoes all the benefits of HSTS.
I don't know whether this sentiment is just a byproduct of CS education, but for some reason people equate a programming language with the compute that goes on under the hood. Like if you write in Python, you are locked into the specific non optimized way of computing that Python does.

Its all machine code under the hood. Everything else on top is essentially description of more and more complex patterns of that code. So its a no brainer that a language that lets you describe those complex but repeating patterns in the most direct way is the most popular. When you use python, you are effectively using a framework on top of C to describe what you need, and then if you want to do something specialized for performance, you go back to the core fundamentals and write it in C.
I use https://www.1000bulbs.com/ because they have godzillion bulbs in stock and it's possible to filter by CRI and color temperature. I just get highest CRI in required color temp, and it's good. More expensive, but well worth it.
The public API used to help tweets persist beyond normal (on platform) visibility thresholds. Before it was ruined, people could embed tweets in their own sites, and tweets were more persistent on platforms like tweet deck.

Musk has no real idea of the impacts of technical decisions on the platform, but he realized the tweet visibility threshold was too short bac when even his own tweets weren't seeing engagement.

Since then he's created a scheme to grant slightly better longevity to the visibility of tweets by "verified" accounts, but it's really smoke and mirrors... Tweets anyone makes (Except for Elon and his selected Twitter "buddies") only are visible for seconds and to small audiences of people... It kills interaction, growth, and engagement for everyone else, but gives the illusion that the site is still vibrant (because it makes everyone tweet more often).

Deception of this kind will just make everyone burn out and not come back... It defeats the very purpose of Twitter, as visibility of ideas is the only payment most people get on the platforms to begin with, the main problem is that most people on the platform don't know they're mostly invisible, and dropping their tweets into a waste bin.
Congrats on the launch, really interesting stuff as someone working on a AI backend rn.

Your twitter icon links to a bad link with a your domain and a hash before the twitter link
Regarding the payroll taxes, that sounds more or less similar to what you have in Germany, but instead of the employer giving your address to the tax office, you register yourself to the local administration and provide your personal tax ID to the employer, and you’re taxed at the source. Effectively the result is the same, the government knows your address for administrative reasons.
Is disabling GraphQL introspection the right move?
Hey HN! I wrote this article will help you make an informed decision.

Feel free to debate and give your point of view ;)
I also quickly went through the basic tasks in 17 levels of Hedy in about 20 mins. (I just know a little programming.) Hedy is text-based and introduces ideas such as: print, entering variables, if, else, repeat, ... I really liked the gradual approach, which keeps you going forward onto the next level.

There are additional tasks at each level (see tabs at top) which I didn't try. It seems that these tasks are best done from left to right in order to get the basic idea of what is required.
Well, one of the main sales point of the LED bulbs was compatibility with existing E14/E27/etc sockets: no need to change the wiring, or the fixtures, just buy a new, better light bulb and screw it right in! It will also serve longer and be better for the environment, what's not to like? We'll even ban the sales of 100W and higher incandescent light bulbs to help you make the right choice!

That's also the pitch of the smart bulbs: a sane way would be to make a smart light switch but what if you can't do that (e.g., you rent the apartment)? So we'll shove the controller chip into a disposable light bulb, that's still perfectly fine for the environment.

By the way, I don't know how things turned out in your part of the world but over here, after the ban went into the force the manufacturers of incandescent lightbulb started selling 95W light bulbs 8D
> It needs a filesystem for the same reason they were invented for computers: to provide an impedance match between the upper layer semantics (a stream of pairs describing a protein) and the lower layer storage (blocks). Using block structured storage is more flexible in terms of being able to insert in the middle of a file, etc etc.

As a non-CS person I find this explanation opaque.
No reason you couldn't have a manual transmission on an EV, it could even help with energy efficiency but it might not be worth the weight. Biggest challenge would be the extreme torque.
I try pretty hard these days to seek the most charitable interpretation for human behavior. It's a useful counter-balance to all of the outrage click-bait, bad news survivorship bias, and other emergent forces in play in the modern world that make people look horrible. It makes me less anxious and pessimistic.

In general, yes, I agree with you that false advertising and lying are wrong. I'm also a pretty rational, skeptical person who is "anti-woo".

At the same time... in the past couple of years I've become much more open-minded about the positive psychological value of just choosing to believe some shit in the absence of evidence. It's good to know that you've chosen that belief for non-evidentiary reasons. Maybe put it in a different mental bucket.

But I no longer believe that the "things I believe but can't justify" bucket should be empty. The world is huge and scary and uncertain and awful things can happen without any notice or any ability to control it. I could get a traumatic brain injury. My wife could realize she no longer loves me. My kid could get hit by a car.

I have no evidence to justify a belief that those things won't happen. But I need some level of faith that things are gonna be OK (even if they might not) so that I can function.

If someone is selling kelp and claiming it cures cancer, that's a deep evil because it prevents someone from seeking an actual effective cure to a real material problem.

But if someone has some disposable money and wants to spend it buying the subjective illusory experience of better sound and the identity of a person who is really into audio, I won't judge a company who wants to satisfy that demand.

We all just need some fucking comfort sometimes, you know? And if a $400 HDMI cable gives it to someone, I sure as hell won't judge them for it.
> How does BASIC being easy to use or not have anything to do with newer languages being easier to use?

Because "easy" is a somewhat relative term. The category will shift over time.
I think it's really interesting to look at what innate aspects of our humanity that made total sense 10, 20, 30k years ago (e.g being hurt by rejection) can negatively impact our modern lives, and how we can try to push past them.
> You're right in principle any set of frequencies can be the vowels but every language is going to discretize down to a fixed number. So instead of having or needing language specific absolute "vowel frequencies", you can just look for k distinct levels in the individual speakers voice.

But if a native English speaker speaks Japanese with five appropriately-spaced English vowels, it will be directionally correct and comprehensible, but native Japanese speakers would notice that those aren't the normal vowels used by native speakers in Japanese.

So I guess I'm wondering about how much leeway there is in what sounds like a correct vowel to a native speaker, how much range there is in a given person's production, how much range there is in production among members of a community who interact with each other constantly, and how small a difference between vowels someone can detect as a listener.
Thanks for suggesting this.

I've opened a new discussion on GitHub about this feature:
https://github.com/julien040/gut/discussions/38
We've gone from incandescent bulbs that were shit because a cartel[1] said so, to LED bulbs that are shit because we demand that they be cheaper than they can reasonably be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
I built an SR-71 model rocket. It was Estes, not Revell, and looked like this [0]. It was very difficult to build compared to other models, because it had three cylinders with webbing for the fuselage and engines. I remember being disappointed that the two outer cylinders were not designed to take individual model rocket engines. There was only one in the center. I guess it would have been too hard to ignite them synchronously.

When I launched it (vertically of course), the plane seemed to hover forever on the launchpad before finally overcoming gravity and taking off. It did not achieve Mach 3.5 or anything significant for a rocket of its size. When it reached the ejection stage, it popped off the front cabin "nosecone", looking very ungainly as it fluttered to the ground on a parachute.

I still have that model somewhere downstairs.

[0] https://www.rocketreviews.com/estes-industries-sr-71-blackbi...
They're pricier but you can get LED bulbs that have better color rendering

For example https://www.soraa.com/products/50-Soraa-VIVID-A19-(120v).php...
Scratch supports message-passing and concurrency, which makes writing parallel programs fairly straight-forward. This is usually considered a more advanced series of programming concepts, and yet, I've seen children use them for their own games. The language is more powerful than you think!
how do you expect it to boot? At least linux keeps windows as an option, try installing windows after linux and you will be left without a way to boot it
this comment is posted on literally every discussion about money and work on HN. there's always That Guy who points out "won't you think of the people who aren't as x, y, z. don't you know you're privileged! how dare you talk about this!"... this vapid, reflexive concern trolling is tiring and repetitive. so someone will feel bad by reading about your very privileged existence and the fact that you have a job and you're in the market for a house close to your work? is that really the bar we're expected to adhere to? is this actually offensive? insensitive? rude?

we don't need to be reminded there are poor people out there. no shit, really? we see it every day. some of us started out that way, some of us are the children of millionaires. so what? i'm not going to self-police what i talk about on the internet just because poor people exist in this world. i don't feel envy or animosity towards the rich or the poor. some poor people get rich, some rich people lose their damn marbles and go to the poor house, dragging entire families down with them - let me guess, you feel no sympathy towards that type of poor person, right? they deserved it, right? either way, life goes on.

it's like stating that water is wet or the sky is blue and then chastising people about not mentioning the water and sky when they talk about their new smart phone or laptop. absolutely no value add. it's a non-sequitur.

who does this actually help, by pointing this out? nobody is going to accidentally buy a million dollar house with their well compensated corporate job if they're not by definition winning/privileged. we're not selling subprime mortgages here.
Can you list some sources on that I would like to actually read what he thinks. In reference to musk
Tailscalar here, for what it's worth, I run my plex server on Tailscale (i5 10600) and I haven't noticed any observable lag due to the TUN/TAP driver. Even with 4k bluray rips at several tens of megabits per second of video quality. I also regularly get near the limit of gigabit ethernet when transferring big files like machine learning models (the 1280 byte MTU plus WireGuard overhead adds up over time and can make the application observed rate be less than what the NIC is actually doing).

Kernel WireGuard for Tailscale is hard because of DERP (HTTPS/TCP fallback relay, all connections start over DERP so that they can Just Work if hole punching fails), but I'm sure it could happen with the right combination of eBPF and Rust in the kernel. It'd be a bit easier if there was a high level abstraction for using the kernel TLS stack to do outgoing TLS connections.
> And yet, people are using those.

And yet, none of those languages were pitched with a clear value proposition for games when they launched.
I think that the point is that they don't pay any much more than people on the top left.

There are people contributing in a real way to the livelihood of everyone else at the company. Some of them are in the bottom right. But, as pointed out here, some of them are in the top left. Without them, the company does not progress as well. Not because of their technical contributions, but on their "soft skill" contributions.

Also, there are people not contributing in a real way to the livelihood of everyone else at the company. Some of them are in the top left. But some of them are in the bottom right. Without them, the company progresses better. Not because they produce bad technical contributions, but because their lack of "soft skill" has a real bad impact.

I think that when you say "they are much more rare" is maybe because you are taking a subgroup of the bottom right: the ones that are beneficial to the company. The thing is: in order to identify a "technically super competent" person, you need 1) a technically super competent person, 2) that this person is not using his technical competence in a way that make look them incompetent because they are producing beautiful code misaligned with what the company wants to do or that breaks the efforts of colleagues.
If the condition number 2 is not satisfied, this person is still part of the bottom right, but you don't notice they are part of the bottom right, because people would not call this person "competent" (because "competent" != "technically competent").
its almost like... and i know this is crazy... they are just money vampires?!
put them in series
You have to wonder why there isn't a huge online excel community.
Interesting, but could also be related to the OLED modern television, that handles way better the dark and contrast.
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