skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I setup a power monitor that resets a 5 min timer every time the power usage goes over X. It would still be nice to have an idea of how much time is left - I've considered setting up a pi-camera to OCR the display.
>i sat there with him to support him through the work as he did it but i guess people are so eager to demonize children they can't finish reading a tweet

Sounds like the teacher correctly identified that the essay submitted wasn't written by the student; they were only wrong about who actually wrote it.
> I don't have to fiddle with making sure the boot drive is at the end of the IDE cable rather than the middle.

But now we are having USB-c.
Because they quality is so bad and the prices are so cheap.

Having lived in these areas for most of my life I can tell you it's often only specific low quality chains (Church's, Grannys, Jack in the Box etc...) or these "chicken wing/chinese food" shops that basically just fry up the worst meat and slather it in sugar sauce.

I recall in high school, peers of mine would simply eat a bag of Doritos for lunch - as even the classes like Home-economics were largely just holding cells for teenagers until graduation.
Moderd concrete buildings have a higher that useful life. And for the few exceptions we can always consolidate.
+1. It is important to put it in context.

Meta can be shitty to its employees... but tech in general (including Meta) can also still be better than other jobs.

On the other hand, the value of stability (aka "every two weeks") appears to be decreasing as it becomes apparent a lot of tech management has no strategic clothes, and the end result of that is going to be 1/3 of the company being laid off.

Or as the quip goes, 'Anyone can make money in a bull market.'
Probably also inattention from the webmaster (because we are the infrequent case).

No details in the page, but since this submission is a "Show HN", delta234 must be the bridge...
My Arq backup lifetime license is 7 years to the date tomorrow, still getting all updates.
The Silver Snipers
Microsoft bet on Github to get the requisite training corpus needed for OpenAI to even achieve relevancy.

If there had been negotiation for permission to train on others code like there should have been, things would have gone differently.
It is not easy/lazy to joke about something that has cost dozens of billions and has resulted in an empty Second Life where avatars have no legs.
Mexico already hooked to US manufacture since NAFTA which is even older than Chinese membership in WTO. Still havent show satisfactory results.
Show HN: Matic: A reimagined robot vacuum that actually works
Hello HN friends, We’re Matician, and here’s why we built Matic.

We wanted to live in an always clean home but were tired of always cleaning.

We’d spend hours cleaning, but with kids and pets, the floors never stayed clean for long. We tried all the various robovacs, but they actually made things worse. They chewed up wires, got lost searching for the dock, and one even tore up an expensive rug after getting stuck on it for an hour!

And we weren’t the only ones — friends and family had similar frustrations. So we decided to build something new from the ground up. Something that would just… work.

As it turns out, robovacs are chock-full of sensors. Some actually boast about this in their marketing, leading customers to believe that sensors mean sophistication. But we live in homes built by humans and for humans, and humans don’t have Lidar or radar. Instead, we have an incredibly powerful perception system: two eyes and a brain. So, we decided to build a robot that sees like a human, so it can clean like a human.

We gave the robot eyes (RGB cameras) and built its brain (state-of-the-art algorithms). We developed a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system from scratch, enabling the robot to build a photo-realistic 3D map of a home, move around with precision, and always be able to locate itself. Visual input also meant we could develop semantic understanding, so the robot actually understands what should be cleaned and what should not be cleaned.

And we doubled down on privacy along the way. From day one, we committed to processing all data on the device, so that no video or audio ever leaves our home. This was hard to do, but it was simply non-negotiable. We shouldn’t have to sacrifice privacy for convenience.

And we didn’t stop with the software. We also built purposeful hardware to take full advantage of the powerful perception system, working together to optimize cleaning. This meant reinventing the vacuum and mopping system from the bottom up and tightly integrating hardware and software for super-effective cleaning.

It took some time to get here (5 years, 6 months to be precise), but we’re proud of what we’ve built in Matic. We are super excited for you to use Matic yourself and genuinely hope it makes chasing that “always clean” feeling a little more effortless.

We look forward to your feedback and questions.
The funny part of this is how it's completely unintuitive on both Windows and Mac in different ways. The print screen button requires pasting from the clipboard into an image editor in Windows. On Mac, you have the Command-Shift-[number] combos.

That said, the Mac combos are nicer, as you can just directly select the whole screen, window, or rectangular area to screenshot with the correct shortcut.

If only there was a good compromise that was cross-platform...
Can I rant for a bit, as a Midwesterner? Perhaps in line with this article: my perspective having grown up and remained in perhaps one of the most emblematic midwestern states, Minnesota:

1. We rest on our laurels a lot and look down on the Southern States for having been, "racist," which really is a red herring for our own racism. "Look at what happened down south in the 1960s, thank goodness Minnesota was not like that." "We're never going to give back the 28th Virginia battle flag from the Civil War, Minnesota will be free forever!"

Yet, the Twin Cities has perhaps the largest education gap in the entire United States between black and white Americans. There are any number of explanations for why this happened, perhaps including redlining, or failed well-intentioned policies, etc., but it's a fact. I'm not defending actual racism in southern states in any way, but clearly we have something wrong here.

2. We're extremely patriotic, perhaps even more so than Texas, there are Minnesota iconography everywhere, extreme pride for all things Minnesotan, lake country, living through the cold, Sven and Ole jokes, etc. Yet there were literally almost approaching Nazi-level genocidal parts of our history which are reflected in our flags, our naming conventions, where Native Americans live, and a huge majority of people refuse to acknowledge this because it's not nice to be controversial and talk out of turn or, "be distracting from real issues." You can go to Berlin and see huge museums acknowledging the holocaust, the horrors of the past are widely acknowledged, whereas here in Minnesota I was never taught about what we did in our history, it was highly glossed over in primary school, I had to learn about the shenanigans a lot of the early Minnesotan leaders whose names adorn our streets and counties pulled through Wikipedia.

3. Overall, the disgraced Radio Personality, Garrison Keillor hit the nail on the head when he said, "All the Women are Strong, All the Men are Good Looking, and All the Children are Above Average."

As much of a creep Keillor was, that really sums up a large part the mentality very well. There's no need to improve because we're already so great, and if we aren't that great in that specific way yet, we will surely get there, so don't push on it too hard. We basically think of ourselves as a, "Scandinavian-level-democracy country," for some reason, yet, please pay no attention to any number of typical American problems that we have just like any other state.

This is not to say Minnesota doesn't do well, and that I don't like Minnesota, we do rank well in relation to other states on a lot of metrics---it's more the mentality that I'm ranting about which I think prevents us from doing even better, which I think the author is getting at in a more broader geographic sense.
That makes sense. And a business whose only moat is, "we have the most people" will always be a fleeting one.
But remember Zuckerberg will always be rich and is not able to be fired.

So he can sure act like he has nothing to lose.
`$?` works and is more reliable. Git notoriously gives non-zero exit codes for success conditions
Most likely there is a clause that allows them to change the "Lifetime" subscription to anything they want.
I suppose it depends on what you're writing. When I read "wide range of platforms" I involuntarily said "who cares" out loud. For those of us (fortunately or unfortunately) working in distributed systems, there is one target environment and maybe a different local environment depending on your setup.

Likewise for "worse" ecosystem. It really depends on your context.

Edit: A closing thought: One thing I find enjoyable about working with Go is that it is tuned for my particular context. I also enjoy writing Java (and more specifically Kotlin) when that context changes (e.g. a desktop application).
What’s interesting is that many theologians believe swearing to God in public this way actually breaks the third commandment. Interesting quirks of Protestant culture in America.
This is straight up awesome and must watch video just for the lolz.

But there is a thread to pull on here in terms of tangible user interfaces and the replacement of keyboards as a traditional input system. Meta's CTRL-Labs (ex Myo Armband) are working on EMG where just signaling to your muscles can trigger keyboard strokes and the bandwidth is faster than fingers or so they say. There are several other R&D efforts in that direction from BCIs to free space gesture detection through different flavors of computer vision and sensor fusion. Mr Everything Is Hacked is doing it here just for the sheer joy of the journey but there are serious reasons to play around with qwerty alternatives.
Happy Scale, a weight tracking app I really enjoy, had the opposite example: I bought a full license for some bucks some years ago, and later they decided to switch to a subscription based model to ensure funding.

Instead of going the "hey, here is a new version of the app, you need to subscribe now", they explicitly included a thank-you note directed at everyone that bought the "Premium In-App Purchase" at the beginning, stating that nothing will change for existing Premium Users, that invested in the app right from the start.

I definitely share the tone of the article, and cannot understand the reasoning behind such a decision. The fact that I read "MandyCam" instead of "ManyCam" at first, and was wondering what that kind of article is doing here, is just the anecdotal cherry on top.
You can’t kick ideas around without legs.
Why don't companies instead of doing this simply say "if you have more than X employees you can only pick the enterprise tier"? Is it illegal or something?

I mean you could of course lie when signing up but if a company is risk averse enough to use SSO it's probably risk averse enough to not breach contracts.
Roman Meal
I don't mean to beat down on this article, but the bar set here seems pretty low. Many of the aspects detailed in the article, to me, fall under the responsibility of engineers well below principal level. Suggesting to use, and using, best practices should be expected from people at senior level. Leading initiatives that span multiple teams is a common expectation for staff level engineers. For me, the distinguishing factor between pre staff and staff and above is strategy. Ensuring the technical decisions are made strategically (in alignment with or acknowledgement of longer term business goals), where before the focus is largely tactical (how you execute). That said, I think the shift described is an essential shift for many engineers going up the ladder, although for some the titles don't match the point where this becomes relevant.
Twitter doesn't have directors and officers anymore, it has Musk ... so unlikely.

Tesla no longer has D&O insurance since they're uninsurable after their D&O insurance settled a shareholder derivative lawsuit (I think it was over the solar city bailout but maybe it was over 420 secured).
Might want to enable strict checksumming on. I think that’s still a thing. Or are you depending on release artifacts that change?
Not sure if anybody ever bought a WinRAR license, but maybe they do?! :-)
"unknown unknowns"

This is an interesting point and a crux for many small businesses. I suppose curation is being monetized many ways, including subscription clothing boxes. In theory, I think this represents the problem that "influencers" should have fixed.
How many days are you going to run this, because already this type of website arise and stop with in months...
Malwarebytes Premium; I've been carrying the same license since Windows 7.
Former executives of Outcome Health convicted in $1B corporate fraud scheme
> There's little reason that a fairly normal fabrication shop couldn't be making tractors, and making them competitively with mainline manufacturers

Economies of scale.

We don't live in a fantasy land where things work a certain way just because it would be nice if they did.
https://archive.is/2Yg5e
Seeing OpenCV in this post-ML world, gave me some nostalgia /teary eyed emoji
I think in Zuck’s mind the analogy is Bill Gates pivoting Microsoft to GUIs in 1983. Which seemed pretty crazy at the time when PCs ran at 4 megahertz and could barely fill a 320*200 screen with four ugly colors. But Gates had seen Xerox Star and Smalltalk and Lisa prototypes.

VR’s “Mac moment” may be happening this year with Apple’s hardware unveiling. I suppose Zuck hopes to ship his mass-market “Windows 3.0” soon after. I’m very curious to find out what consumers think of the Apple product.
For one character, but they don't mind (if not actively encourage) people paying for multiple characters. Although I'm not sure if they decided to crack down on multiboxers or not.
In many companies you have to already be performing at the next level to get promoted. Maybe that wasn't the case in her company.
An NFT wouldn’t do anything. It’s a new release of software and the lifetime license stopped working on it.
> What’s interesting is that many theologians believe swearing to God in public this way actually breaks the third commandment.

I'm curious how that may break "Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you." ?
I think different technologies are going to appeal to different audiences and users. I've been pretty blown away by generative AI, both stuff like Stable Diffusion and now, these ultra-powerful LLMs (although I didn't much about it before that) - it's obvious that pairing w/ ChatGPT makes me a better programmer, and it functions as a pretty good research assistant as to boot, however, talking/showing it around to a lot of friends, many of them are dismissive or pretty meh around then and so far, and profess to not have any use for it.

But then again, that may be why there's huge adoption of crypto in countries like Nigeria (32%!) or Vietnam (21%) [1] (obviously, crypto is a lot more useful in your life if you have a weaker central currency or less financial access; their deeper dive into Sub-Saharan Africa adoption of crypto in particular is fascinating [2]).

Likewise, I'm a believer in the eventual adoption of XR, but a big part of my excitement is really my desire for infinite screen space. Still, I can see the argument that everything will be spatial in the future and personally, I see these trends tying together a lot more than not. Maybe they're on different hype curves, but decentralized financial transactions on credibly neutral, near real time networks (w/ smart contracts) seem like a natural fit for agentic AI. And in the VR arena, I'm seeing some incredibly compelling stuff happening with NeRFs and other generative media that is going to make virtual/augmented immersion a lot more compelling (one of the big bottlenecks for VR right now is generating compelling evergreen content and experiences).

[1] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-global-crypto-adop...

[2] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/sub-saharan-africa-cryp...
Musk an Buffet look more a less same as in real life
Most people didn't. Some small group of people spent tremendous amount of energy. I think both of you agree on that point.
The lifetime license is the same price as 3 years. Lifetime licenses are a lie anyway, nothing lasts forever. But if they cancel my „lifetime license“ before 3 or 5 years elapsed, I will be very, very angry.
https://uk.bookshop.org !
Many fashion brands come and go, only few stick. Some go through deep valleys of pain in between.

Fashion brands use marketing, in the sports market to sponsoring. For Nike the relationship to Michael Jordan for instance certainly was a major driver. For Adidas Kanye West became a major pain.

Social Media platforms try the same. They try to get famous people on their platform. Instagram seems to do quite well in that space (I don't have an account there) while Twitter on the one side and TikTok, YouTube and Twitch on the other try to get people on their platforms.

But then it's different: In sports sponsorship you can focus on one side of the person, their atheltic skills. On social media they eventually shout out their views on things, which might upset people and damage reputation. Of both, the person and the platform.
How did they managed to get 7GHz CPU? Was this nothing more than a marketing way to sell good old 3.5GHz crystals?
FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations
The unified memory ought to be great for running LLaMA on the GPU on these Macbooks (since it can't run on the Neural Engine currently)

The point of llama.cpp is most people don't have a GPU with enough RAM, Apple unified memory ought to solve that

Some people have it working apparently:

https://github.com/remixer-dec/llama-mps
You should check out cloudflare access. It let's you put single cloudflare login in front of all the other self hosted apps.
I’m guessing that would fall under false advertising
We routinely pay for many vanity stuff that are far more expensive than lasting buildings, and we do so because we have no idea.
Exactly this - it's a real startup move, done by a company that probably shouldn't be doing startup pivots at this stage. I think he got the thrust right - Facebook will continue losing share if they continue the 90s MS buy all your competitors strategy which it is obvious at this stage wasn't working for them, and Meta was an attempt to get ahead again rather than just try to scoop up from behind. This approach will necessarily be built on some kind of intuition rather than data, but should have been a well funded skunkworks project instead of gambling many peoples livelihood on something that will take a while to pay off.

I'm probably one of the few that thinks the pivot overall isn't a bad idea, but it was just done in such an irresponsible way and they're paying the price now. We've seen this many times (notably Uber, WeWork, Google, and arguably Apple until Jobs returned from his exile with a new skillset), but the best person to start a company is often not the best to run it when it's established. But Mark has been so good at keeping equity and control that Facebook will fail unless he learns how to adapt. It usually takes a real low point for people to get out of established mindsets. Just putting this out there so I can point to this in 10 years: If I were to predict the future, I'd say Facebook stock plummets and everyone writes it off, and Mark wises up, bringing it back much stronger. I don't particularly like him, but I think he's got it in him.
Snowflake leads Cybersyn funding round
That's smart. You could probably cram that into a official-looking nondescript plastic box with a backup battery that slots over the wire. Now you'd just need to keep the transmission power low
Wanna Bet? Using Betting Markets to Follow What the Hell Is Going on in AI
Cryptography I by Dan Boneh (Stanford University)

Programming Languages by Dan Grossman (University of Washington)

Both are on Coursera.
It's worth remembering that unlike with cryptocurrency, our ("reasonable people" as you put it) apathy for the "metaverse" stems from the fact that most of us experienced it a long time ago, long before that term even came into common(?) use: Multiplayer games, and especially MMORPGs.

Be it Ragnarok Online, Runescape, Ultima Online, League of Legends, Call of Duty, Minecraft, or whatever, anyone who has played multiplayer games of any kind know exactly what the "metaverse" was trying to sell to us and the common masses. We also know that multiplayer games, unlike practically every romanticized depiction, generally sucks to play with strangers. You absolutely need a tightly knit group of good friends to play with to be able to truly enjoy them.

So when we said the "metaverse" would never take off, it's because we have literally been there and done that.
Try to forgive yourself. You can't take it back. The time you spend in regret is more time you are losing to the game. Maybe you can turn your experiences into something that can help yourself or others.
edx.org,

ocw.mit.edu
Image-Line's FL Studio has been going strong for decades
Check out the LLaMA memory requirements on Apple Silicon GPU here: https://github.com/remixer-dec/llama-mps
Well, true.

All kinds of governments can form with all kinds of demographics. That's for sure.

I guess looking at stats, today Mass. does better than Minn. in almost every category as well. (College sports excepted.) I guess Mass. is the closest we have in the US to authoritarianism meets capitalism, and, yes, I suppose it worked out really well for Mass. as a historical practice. But I also wonder where you have the largest number of happy stories? Mass. or Minn.? That's not as easy to check as the stats.

By the way:

Can it really be a democracy if the system all but precludes grassroots change?

Yes it can. Democracy means everyone gets a vote. We can't say it's not democracy when people don't vote the way we want them to. That's the first step down an even darker path.. If the way people are voting precludes grassroots change, then the people have spoken.
> Stop parroting the propaganda which we are all perfectly familiar with and educate yourself

You're at least the second person to say "do your research" rather than offer up some evidence. In my experience, that's the mark of a conspiracy theorist.

But I could easily be wrong. Have you got any papers on puberty blockers that support your position?

> Yeah, it’s shockingly immoral to not give children drugs that have existed for something like 0.01% of human existence.

Appeal to nature fallacy?
They are usually called "Lifetime for now, but there is no law that forbids us from changing the terms later down the line" license, but it's shortened to just Lifetime license for convenience.

Don't trust any lifetime agreement. And conversely, anyone that sells lifetime licenses to me sounds really naive and that they have no idea what they're doing. It's not a sign of a mature business.
The only way to do so is if you find a buyer IRL, but you're probably looking at taking a big hit on your profit. People can buy an item called PLEX for real money, which they can use in-game for a month of subscription OR they can sell it for the in-game currency, so you're already competing with those that are willing to spend real money on in-game currency.

But it's a frequent issue in other MMOs, where these companies will set up bot farms (or even pay people to play) to earn tons of the in-game currency, then sell it online. Officially it's not allowed by most games, but it's only illegal if you get caught.