skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remembers me of some crazy idea I saw in HN comments recently, I think it was from some advices asked to ChatGPT, who proposed as a disruptive startup idea: "Tinder but for drones".

Luckily (or unfortunately?), they can't (yet) reproduce.
Sure, but if I grind leetcode to get a good job, then work 50 hours per week at it and by doing so make bank - describing my action as "people who grind leetcode can make bank" conceals more than it reveals.
The same is true of, say, concrete.

Not breaking down in landfill doesn't really matter as long as it doesn't leech pollutants into the water table or somesuch.
The multi billion dollar company has more information and resources, but also has the disadvantage that it has to make uniform offers to large groups of people.

The same offer might be hugely in favor of one customer and to the disadvantage of another. Who's favored overall depends on who accepts the deal (which both sides can try to influence)
Have started with English then learned Spanish (travelling through Latin America extensively), and now an Asian language, I have acquired all sorts of advantages and also new ways of thinking.

I really feel people on HN ARE sometimes missing the forest for the trees and I can't imagine how learning a new language could not be a good thing.
Citing TFA,

> If you’re less lucky, you’ll have to switch your audio effect to bypass mode, or perhaps fade out, or some similar fallback strategy. It’s probably not ideal, but in many cases still better than a glitch.
Yep, if I get interrupted before I've even had a chance to see what's on the site, I frequently just close the tab.

Lots of content out there. Very little I really have to read.
No, I don't want to read your thinner-than-hair-almost white-on-white text.
iPhone 15 Ultra camera upgrades could give photographers a serious dilemma
Blame France, with its four most valuable companies being in the frivolity business: https://companiesmarketcap.com/european-union/largest-compan...

Don’t blame the Dutch (ASML), Swiss (Novo Nordisk), Germans (SAP), etc.
I realise you want to do it using the prompt but wouldn't it be easier to `output.replace("As an AI language model, ", "As a totes sentient robot, ")`?
Our civilization is a joke, really. We can't seemingly get anything done if someone is making money off of it not being done, and anything actually getting done is in severe danger of being dismantled so someone can make money off of it not being done.
https://www.shakeshack.co.uk/
It is a cute watch, but Micro USB is inexcusable in 2023. Especially at that price point: £57 is $70 or €64.
LFS can have issues, e.g., if using HTTPS alongside SSH is going to be a problem. It's also not a part of the core git project, but neither of these things may matter to you. There's other caveats, but they go with the territory of the benefits gained from LFS.

For me, it works fine in Gitea, and I do audio and music for games. Are there more appropriate solutions like Perforce? Probably, but the current pipeline is git-based.
They didn’t throw a tantrum. They just forked and continued. A perfectly reasonable approach.

I think it’s important to describe things accurately. Disliking something isn’t a “tantrum.” I think amazons blog posts were pretty normal speech and tl:dr’d to “we don’t like it, so now we forked it and will maintain under Apache.”

And they did that, so it’s actually kind of nice as I can’t use ElasticSearch under its new license but can use open search.
CMD > run as admin > enter "sfc /scannow" without quotes then update should work again.

Next time anyone runs into a similar problem you might just want to zip the file before deleting it put a password if you AV still reports it. Or just get rid of your AV software it clearly su*ks if it reports legit system files.
ditto Laravel (PHP)
Ireland has 5 million people but 2 top 100 companies.
How many does the EU have in total?

I'm not sure if we can infer much from any of this, however.
Set the temperature to zero to make it more deterministic.
Imagine if Rome inspired by Hindi-Arabic positional number system. We could have I, V, X, C but positional (or like binary?) as 10s. For example II would be 11 and XII would be 111. Actually I guess that should be 100 100s and one 10 and one 1 so 10,011.
What's the actual impact on life, society and tech?
Europe has ASML, without which literally no modern chips could be made. It seems like quite a mistake to equal market cap with importance or innovation.
client-rendered SPAs can cache the delivery of JS/HTML/CSS and have only raw data requests be optionally-cacheable

server-rendered SPAs mix JS/HTML/CSS with data meaning that if the data served by a request is not cacheable, nothing is

when a page has data that is tied to a specific user it becomes very hard to have cache-hits, at least of the dirty-cheap CDN kind of caching type
The UK government told ISPs to put the filtering in place voluntarily, or else the government would make a law requiring it.

All of the major ISPs and mobile networks now do it on a voluntary basis.
The post-mortem we published about this outage explains the details of how this crashed the binary.

It gives some code examples and explanations that should clear this up: https://incident.io/blog/intermittent-downtime#mitigation-1-...

^ link should go to the relevant section
No, I’m not and I really don’t understand how you’d come to that conclusion. I really want to know why you’d lump in car ads along with ads for alcohol and cigarettes.
The previous generation deployed their simple Django and Rails apps onto overpriced Heroku.

Systems administration has died when it started being called DevOps and got enormously overengineered to the point the golden handcuffs are the only option for pure or beginner developers. When the pathologically lazy sysadmin in a black tshirt got replaced by the ever busy and corporate friendly DevOps types going to fancy conferences.

As someone that started as a Linux/UNIX sysadmin and is having an interview for a DevOps position in an hour, I wonder when and why did this shift appear? When did sysadmins find a new job title on their door? Must've been around 2012 or so.
As if anyone needed more evidence of R>G, it took Apple over thirty years to break 1 trillion, and took 9 months to break 2 trillion.
Show HN: Crawl the web with GPT with the latest update to Horseman
Horseman is an endlessly configurable crawler powered by JavaScript snippets. I've been building it in my spare time and the latest update is a big one!

With the latest update (v0.3) GPT capabilities have been added allowing you to crawl the web with GPT and combine page content with prompts (requires your own OpenAI API key).

Don't know JS? An AI helper has been added to assist with creating your own snippets.

https://gethorseman.app/
Really innovative to sell bags with LV plastered all over the place and those fancy champagnes.
Right on money. It's easier to delude yourself that you comprehended an European culture without knowing the language simply because everything is so superficially familiar and all nuances are comparatively fine.
Most of Windows 11 is indeed just a reskin, however the taskbar has been completely rewritten and isn't coupled to explorer.exe anymore, being it's own WinUI application.
Covered on the Wiki, 5-7 days normally, 2-3 days with WiFi: https://watchy.sqfmi.com/docs/battery-life
There is a very clear break of the distribution at around the $500bln level. This suggests that there might be a different generative process behind the valuations of the top 7 companies in the list. A log plot of a much wider range might be more informative as to what is going on.
PangoCairo on the Web
> Not for programs where the amount of items you must store is only known at run time.

Usually it's not necessary to load everything into memory. It's usually more efficient to process data similar to map-reduce, and just use stdio and stdout
I read the whole thing and I have no idea whats going on. The post starts reminiscing the work of the year. Common end of the year post. Then an email is presented in which the conf people just say they are looking for other options. The only reason given is that they were "offline" a lot. (btw, what does that mean? Isn't git history being online?) And then the author starts giving a "I hate woke culture" speech. This reads like a GPT output with ctx=potato. I am definitely missing something.
gaganyaan, see also the followup where the presented citations doesn't support the claim for evolutionary benefit.

See also my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679767 showing the 1975 hypothesis could not be validated in a 1979 paper, and how even at the time it was "difficult to seriously entertain the notion" Hess proposed.

See also the thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667066 where one of belltaco's citations actually demonstrates that total vertical eye aperture - not pupil size - is the biggest predictor of mental state. Pupil size wasn't even considered, but the remaining variance is too small for pupil size to be a significant predictor. Total aperture is even easier to see than pupil size.

In other words, there's a bunch of citations, but no convincing support presented for the evolutionary hypothesis.

Rather like the "just so" stories of evo psych.
I don't think that's really "new". That's combining two existing styles that the LLM has seen in its training data, and the creative idea to combine those styles has been supplied by the operating human.

It's phenomenally impressive, and may be a stepping stone to models that can come up with new ideas, but I don't think we're there yet.

LLMs seem to be able to capture the idea of Shakespeare and Bowie's styles, and intuit a combination of the two, but when I start asking it questions about what it thinks about the process I don't get the impression of any understanding. It can magic up text from prompts but it doesn't understand what it's doing.
Makes sense if you think about incentives. AWS has a lot of financial incentive to build on open source projects used internally (at a massive scale, I assume). Meanwhile, not a lot of incentive to maintain internal forks on a big project like PostgreSQL
Also worth remembering that Apple was once driven by a person who valued quality over anything else, and is now driven by a numbers guy who values growth and values shareholders much higher than previous guy, which probably influenced this as well
It gets there but it's always raining.
What's really interesting is that most of us feel we're our "best selves" when we reach a state of flow. We're in the zone. We're totally non-self-conscious.

The only description I've ever seen of consciousness that makes any sense is that it's a kind of condition monitoring system for our minds, a cross-check evolved to catch some of the cognitive mistakes that the main machinery of our minds tend to make from time to time. And because our whole brain is linked into this system, including itself, we get that infinite regress of omphaloskepsis that we call "consciousness."
> They said children could leave school with a college level foundation

And is that because of infotainment?
I once (early 2000's, comparison shopping) used a heuristic that any video with a volume # greater than 7 was probably porn.

Doesn't work as well today, but there were surprisingly few false positives at the time.
This is the kind of honesty that ruins things for everybody.
I have one of those. It takes a lot of work writing embedded C code to make it do what you want. In my case it was displaying a calendar and the moonphase. The default software is very bare bones. Battery life is 1.5 weeks for me when using ntp sync once a Day and a display update every minute without any further wireless communication.

I find the PineTime more attractive because it has an aditional heart rate sensor and a color display with similiar battery life.
AI and Music Notation: Embracing Imperfection in the Information Age
Exploring the parallels between AI, internet search, and the evolution of music notation from Basso Continuo to Classical notation.
I wonder what the advantage is in "nectar robbing". Is carrying the pollen a significant additional effort to an insect?
If Tesla offers V2L sometime down the line and you can retrofit it on one of these cars - you can just forever power your home and other cars from your existing car for free
I’m using GPT-4 basically everyday multiple times. I’m following closely LLM developments.

Yet I have trouble seeing what people find so dangerous. It’s amazingly cool stuff that will create massive productivity gains.

I guess I just lack needed imagination to believe this “most dangerous thing humans have ever done” perspective.

It looks to me the most dangerous thing is actually Gain Of Function research on pathogens. That seems like most dangerous thing. Close 2nd is nuclear weapons.

LLMs seems really nice and fuzzy and warm to me in comparison.
Preferably at the end of the article because if you’ve made it that far…

Unfortunately I’d never see it because I almost always clicked off the site if reader mode doesn’t work unless it’s something I’m really interested in. Can almost watch the battery drain with all the auto-play videos and animated ads they pack into websites these days.
Ha! Tesla wouldn't like what I have to say about FSD. It's an expensive scam that I strongly recommend you not buy. Other than that it's the best car I've ever owned.
As I mentioned in my comment, this tech exists for CCS today already. That's my experience with many public CCS DCFC.
True. I believe it shows the weakness in the political landscape of Europe, as many innovative EU-Companies grow first and foremost by supplying big companies in US/Asia.

"Hitting the ground running" with a own launch in Europe is almost impossible due to lack of structural support, investor-mindset and language/market differences. I believe a stronger unification would be needed, but unfortunately there's no sign of improvement, as like in US the political trend in EU is for countries to become MORE nationalist instead of embracing a European Union...
Reminds me of that quote about the overlap in intellect between the smartest bears and the dumbest campers being larger than you'd think.
Power goes out, so no protection from lasers and can't build new units.
We use RQ[0], it has Redis as a dependency. It’s pretty straightforward and we’re very happy with it. If you are using Django you may want to look at Django RQ[1] as well. RQ has built in scheduling capabilities these days, but historically it did not so we used (and still use) RQ Scheduler[2] which I think still has some advantages over the built in stuff.

[0] https://python-rq.org/
[1] https://github.com/rq/django-rq
[2] https://github.com/rq/rq-scheduler
working at a training & consultancy company (i was a trainer, and used to standing up in front of a lot of people):

sales: we need you to give a talk at yaddayadda conference.

me: aw, noah!

you had to create a load of foils (this was pre powerpoint) for whatever bullshit idea the conference organisers had. then go to the conference (i hate traveling) and then be accosted by friendly people who i had taught and could not at all remember (worst memory in the world for faces). and then find that the office staff had not separated the foils from their backing paper (it was glued on to the top edge) - ripping this off while doing a presentation makes you look like a complete prat. and then...

but you get my drift.

as for actually attending conferences, i have mercifully blanked most from my mind. i do remember one on MS COM (which is an OK tech, but it was OLE back then, which confused everybody) presented by MS programmers. after about half an hour of uninspired, maundering nonsense i turned to the guy i was there with and said:

"fuck this, i'm going to a pub"

and did.
> You click the channel's name, you click "videos", and you scroll down, that's it.

It's an infinite-scroll list, it loads in 9 or so videos at a time, than it takes a second to update your scrollbar before you can scroll down further. You can't instantly jump to the last page, load all videos at once or invert the sort order. Every time you accidentally click away from the page you have to start from scratch as it doesn't remember your position, you can't bookmark it either. Some channels have hundreds or even thousands of videos. It's impossible to access them in any timely manner with the normal YouTube interface.
You express beautifully the Worse is Better philosophy. Worse is a preferable option to better in terms of practicality and usability.

Innovation loses to taking small steps to improve the worse alternative. Community is built around tinkering and fixing errors, getting around design failures.
Can you add a custom field to your payments flow, readable from Stripe? Use JWT or some other cryptography signature to tag good transactions.
I personally find the opposite and love low contrast colour schemes. High contrast (e.g. pure black on white) is much harder to read for me. Apparently this is common in dyslexic people. I guess everyone is different.
I’m suggesting not to get too emotionally invested in something you don’t understand. It does not fill that you need to be an expert in everything.
SQLite, I register specific functions written in Go if I want to not load the stuff in memory.
I'd like this, but it doesn't work when using uBlock Origin. It does change case of video titles, though, so it's working: just not able to alter the thumbnails anymore. Would be great but I'm not disabling uBlock Origin for it…
I doubt curl is involved in the windows update process itself (seeing as Windows Update is a lot older than the inclusion of curl in Windows)
I have one of these, alongside a couple of PineTimes, some ESP32-vending machine clone 'smart watches', and even an Oscilloscope Watch, which uses the same CPU.

Alas Watchy looks great on screen and in pictures, but on the wrist it is very bulky and uncomfortable. I would not rate the case design very high.

I much prefer my PineTime Watch instead, its just a nicer form-factor. And it has an app store with tons of interesting stuff.

One thing I wish these open source watches would do: agree on an API/ABI that would allow us to run apps from PineTime on Bangle, and vice versa.

Someone should put Lua on all these machines and let us side-load bytecode, darn ..

EDIT: s/PrimeTime/PineTime/g
Why It's So Hard to Recycle Electric-Car Batteries
>Warning continues until 8:00AM EDT

That's the current time. Looks like its ending now.
I'm an android only user, and I think what GP is referring to is that apps can categorise their notifications. In your food example, an app might have categories for "delivery updates" versus "special offers", and you can go into the notification settings for any app and turn on or off categories.
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The article says code quality is better but development time and bug fixing time is worse. You chose to simplify that to 'better', I chose to see it as a tradeoff.

People are rushing to mypy for type checking, not speed improvements. I use cypthon and VS Code still does type checking for me; I don't care what program is doing it.

My argument is that truly static typing is too extreme in the other direction. Many times you don't care about type checking - quick scripts, data science, handling large JSON blobs - and informing the compiler is just boilerplate work. So I think we agree there that a static language with an 'any' type, like TypeScript, is the happy medium here.
caching costs money too though
What I'm hearing is that there are a lot of mostly functional CPAP devices on the used market now. Maybe I should look into getting one. And by getting one I mean sneaking one into my country illegally.
This assumes that Google is able to identify the highest talent. Given the poor performance of the company (relative to its size and funding) and your point that they chose one of the weakest leaders to lead them, are they truly effective at choosing talent?
I bought 2 this month.

The problem is once I buy the domain, I slowly start losing interest in it.
I am thinking of setting some kind of rule or checking that if I have MVP ready with some alpha users, then only I will go & buy.

If you have any king of checking or experience, Do share. Thanks
Well it’s that + they’ve never had a big exterior design overhaul for their vehicles. So they’ve been pretty much selling the same cars for 10 years now.

Eventually it gets old when everyone has the same looking car.
The publisher also could avoid tracking cookies.
Dental offices all over the country have scanners that use regular cameras + photogrammetry to create 3d models of your teeth. They've become pretty widespread with the rise of Invisalign, Smile Direct, and others. These scans can be pretty inexpensive, like a few hundred dollars or less.
The word "Falter" is not in fact etymologically related to "falten" (folding), according to Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmetterlinge#Herkunft_des_Na...
I'm pleasantly surprised the case itself manages to be ~ 15mm thick, which isn't exactly thin, but not bad. And it looks like there's opportunity to shave that down with different connectors, sinking the battery into the pcb, etc, as they iterate.
This reminds me about issues raised by Sabine Hossenfelder with regards to grand unified theories or with theories of everything or string theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu4mH3Hmw2o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdu9KvLxHFg
There's still significant drawbacks, mostly that the data only lives during the lifetime of the scope.
Or even simpler—change your career to programmer, and bring your thoughtful aesthetic sensibilities to the fore where needed and _permitted_ by your developer colleagues.
The Universe sucks: The mysterious Great Attractor that’s pulling us in
Pretty much. From the non-cynical perspective it shows that you took some time to increase your knowledge and skills in the area of [conference topic] which is ultimately of advantage to the company. Especially so if you can tie it into the objective and key-results of your team/division/company.
I am simply countering back what GP said about other companies cheapening out on features by stating that Apple is also a company. Yes, the point is that no company cares about you. Making customer happy is a side effect of them making money.
Really surprised someone has not filled the gap that Pebble left. Projects like this get close, but it still boggles my mind that over a decade ago we had a polished and commercial e-ink smartwatch with a 1-week battery life, 5 atm waterproof rating, integration with Android and iOS, a vibrant developer community, and a robust app store... and it all just, disappeared.
I use whatever Microsoft call their built in security this year, use ublock origin, and reinstall Windows about once a year. This seems to be the better alternative to having Norton/McCafe/<insert name of "security" program that uses more CPU than malware>.
And after that "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth" to make sure everything is fine and dandy.
People breaking the toothbrush are stupid, you should perforate it to keep the size and save weight! /s
Çifteli: This microtonal instrument changed the way I think about music
LLMs can also be used to identify spam, not by language, but by the actual intent and "is this email something I want to read".

Open question: is there any case where LLMs can be used for malicious purposes, but LLMs can't be used to defend against it?
And Java has nothing to do with the island called Java. Javascript is not Java either. Hm.

It's fine.
Most cars don't get functional software updates at all, save for a situation that would otherwise warrant a recall.
or if the lock is on some smaller part you might be able to still render the audio but e.g. not update the settings that changed yet, and try again next time.