skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s not merely a matter of expense; when you consider the value of your friend’s time, plus the amortized cost of cookware, appliances, furniture, and housing—the home meal could be more expensive than the restaurant meal.

No it couldn't, this is complete bullshit. The amortization from a one time on something that you use every day for many years use is nothing.

This person sounds like he never actually cooks. That's all I'm saying.
Biggest complaint from rural people is that the "city folks" don't understand them and pass legislation that hurts them. So it's an honest question, why did all the rural house members vote against this bill. We say it will help them but then why aren't lobbying their representatives to vote for this bill.
Kind of agree kind of don't.

Stuff like 4k screens is a case of buying the slightly more expensive off the shelf components. Although I'm sure apple has its special sauce, it's just a case of engineering to a different cost. 8k headsets have been out for years.

What the research should be yielding is deep technological innovation in lense and rendering design, gesture recognition and ideally a developer tools ecosystem. This is what we are seeing in the demos but it has not translated into the current product.

To give an apple vs Samsung example, either company can choose to buy a larger battery from LG and have longer artery life, but only by replicating the billions Apple poured into developing a custom chip design can you match the iPhone performance at cost and size. Something Samsung recently accepted it has to do.

So I think that, if the product category works out the investment is fine.

The problem is that at the moment we have a Google situation. You know, inventing LLMs and then watching microsoft productize them. Over the next couple years, FB either uses its research to produce a product apple can't match, or bust on the whole thing.
Renting things is fine depending upon the circumstances. It depends if you can rent the thing you want, how inconvenient the rental transactions are, how frequently you'll use thing or for how long, how the economics pencil out, etc.

There are a ton of things I have to or prefer to own. And other things I prefer to rent when I need them and/or can't economically own.
I built a TypeScript-based DSL for Karabiner Elements that allows me to work with hyperkey sublayers, thus enabling me to have keyboard shortcuts for pretty much everything I do across my entire Mac: https://github.com/mxstbr/karabiner

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4b_uQX3Vu0
Yes actually, that’s what I’m using to learn along with YouTube. I tried other software, but flux kind of hits a sweet spot for me.
But aren’t humans lobotomized too?
I was referring to personal computer usage. Yes, usage specific chips can be a better option, but as far as general processing/usage is concerned, I'd take x86 over Apple Silicon any day of the week.
Oh, it's definitely possible. Software like dizquetv it must know when a new connection is made. But to add such a feature would require a lot of familiarization with their codebase and I don't currently have the time.

One day...
About one decently exploitable bug a year or so over the past few years.

Not all of them have been memory safety issues, but many have been.
90% efficiency for $2.50ish. Pretty cool, thanks for making me aware of these.
You might want to improve your probing technique, then. :)

GPIO's usually looks quite squarey if you don't introduce parasitic reactances into the circuit with your test setup.
Having the ability to shower friends and family with gifts - and doing so - is a fundamental requirement for social status in every human society. The king who invites all the nobles to a great feast, the Hollywood socialite who hosts the most splendid post-Oscar party, the Pacific Northwest tribal chieftan who has the largest potlatch celebration, are all acting out this tradition. The latter may be less familiar:

> "A potlatch involves giving away or destroying wealth or valuable items in order to demonstrate a leader's wealth and power. Potlatches are also focused on the reaffirmation of family, clan, and international connections, and the human connection with the supernatural world. Potlatch also serves as a strict resource management regime, where coastal peoples discuss, negotiate, and affirm rights to and uses of specific territories and resources. (wiki)"

Distribution of resources within societies has historically varied quite a bit, so in the more egalitarian societies, the situation is more reciprocal, with people giving as many gifts as they receieve on average. Highly unequal societies end up with 'noblesse oblige' behavior as gifts tend to flow from the wealthy to the poor, which has been used as a justification for the aristocrat/serf system of feudalism.

These patterns of behavior are a kind of societal glue, and when they break down it tends to lead to revolutions and overthrow of the social order, as in late 18th century France, early 20th century Russia, etc. This probably also accounts for some of the failures of authoritarian state communism, as all resources end up controlled by state authorities (e.g. it's probably hard to throw a private party for friends in North Korea).

In terms of day-to-day living in democratic capitalist societies, people instinctively understand this dynamic and much of the awkwardness this article discusses relates to the fact that people are always keeping account of who gives what to who, even if it's just unconscious behavior. It also explains why inter-class friendships can be much more difficult to maintain than any other type, i.e. inter-faith, inter-race, etc.
This is one of several standard reactions to people spending money. Jealousy, Envy, Disgust, Pity, Ambivalence. It's why people of the same social class tend to gravitate toward one another. While everyone is different regarding money, people of the same social class who have been in that position for a while seem to have similar reactions.
I'm in the print-on-demand business. The listings we generate always include a size chart. My observation is that almost nobody ever looks at them.

For whatever reason, people just assume "I'm a S" or "I'm a L" and borderline cases search reviews for "it runs small" or "it runs large". Women's sizes are sometimes numbered (because, of course, women only vary on a single dimension).
We could print pieces of folded paper containing wallets with a standard amount of satoshi and.... wooops, we just invented cash again
- HN a few times a day, just the first page

- I have a scraper that emails me new headlines regularly for subreddits and a handful of websites.
I haven't tried limiting clock speeds to keep the laptop cool, and it seems a bit crazy investment to buy a laptop to try that, but I do have an old MBP with Intel that I can test this with.
How come Rust appears at the top of most loved languages in the SO survey so many years in a row? And doesn't even make into the "most dreaded" list at all (when many simpler languages do make into that list)?

Also, there aren't any other mainstream languages with borrow checker at the moment. The problem with Rust is that it introduces many novel ideas, not just some old ideas wrapped in a different syntax (e.g. like Kotlin or Swift). They need time to get into developers heads. Similarly it took many years to accept some ideas from FP into mainstream languages, and people were even debating if Java needed lambdas.

And BTW: I didn't find Rust harder to learn than, e.g. Python or Scala... Scala was kinda fun, but FP required similar amount of mind-bending as lifetimes in Rust, and Python was just purely frustrating.
Would that be some form of API call generated from bare-metal and storing JSON in memory before the system boots? Is that even possible?
Wow, super informative. Thank you so much.
Except fridges don’t kill 40,000 people a year.

NHTSA says that improved safety technologies have saved over 600,000 lives between 1960 and 2012. Updates make the car safer for the driver, and safer for everyone they share the road with.

Updating the whole fleet’s safety software as the algorithms improve would save thousands of lives and that’s enough reason to make automakers keep updates flowing after the point of sale.

Of course it can and should be done without tracking or spying.
My wife is currently in India and I was using the Indian site to buy something for her. You’re absolutely right, Amazon is a mess any way but the Indian version was almost unusable.
In the UK we have 'Vehicle Excise Duty' which used to be known as 'Road Tax'. There is a commonly held misconception that this 'tax' goes directly to the provision and maintenance of the road network (it doesn't, it's just another tax), hence the entitlement of some car drivers when confronted with, what they perceive as, a cycling free-loader.
Provora is a proposed supergroup of eukaryotes made up of predatory microbes, "devouring voracious protists". It was reported that ten strains were isolated and cultured in 2022. They are predators of other microorganisms. Their discovery was very delayed, compared to other microorganisms in their environments, due to their rarity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provora

The Provora supergroup is genetically, morphologically and behaviourally distinct from other eukaryotes, and comprises two divergent clades of predators—Nebulidia and Nibbleridia—that are superficially similar to each other, but differ fundamentally in ultrastructure, behaviour and gene content. These predators are globally distributed in marine and freshwater environments, but are numerically rare and have consequently been overlooked by molecular-diversity surveys.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05511-5?error=coo...
Wow this is exactly how it is for us that it's uncanny. We try to say we got a deep discount because we used a "website." But we haven't got the courage to try separate lodgings yet, it would cause so much trouble heh.
Uhh, I'm building a virtual pet ant farm combined with journaling / breathing exercises. Ants get fed when I submit data. It pushes me to keep on top of my mental health each day in the same way getting a dog pushes someone to go for daily walks.

It's kind of weird, but it's fun to make and serves a decent purpose.
Palantir shows off an AI that can go to war
In what way did it not make sense? It's not a mechanistic explanation of motor control, but it is a description of specific scientific observations, like what part of the body you can evoke movement in by stimulating with an electrode in the brain. I'm not sure what "doesn't make sense" about that, aside from it not really explaining a specific theory of how movements are planned or controlled.
There's really no point to upgrading to win 11, especially if it's unsupported by your working PC.
Says the guy writing a threaded twitter article
Mentioned here before, but there is also a tram tunnel (well, light rail*) next to it (new line opened just recently.) I work near it but I haven't took a peek in yet ... I need 30-45 minutes to walk through it :)
Look at cliff erosion. Look at moons and asteroids being pulled apart just by differences in gravity between its different sides. I strongly doubt any asteroid of meaningful size is going to be strong enough to withstand meaningful rotational gravity.
I hated when Google killed iGoogle because I used it daily. So i took my data export and built one for myself. Even had the themes part mostly working. I used it for a few years but a lot of the RSS feeds stopped working as the web seemingly moved on from offering those. Not the most interesting tech but something I built just for me.
Welcome to Line, Japan’s everything app
Its difficult to quantify something like this; so obviously treat this data with proper skepticism. But: CVE Database, just looking at 2022.

- Windows 11: 498 reported CVEs in 2022. [1]
- MacOS: 379 CVEs [2]
- iOS: 242 [3]
- Android: 897 [4]

Linux isn't as well-comparable or categorized (especially given its just the kernel, and there are dozens of other "products" which make up an equivalent to what Microsoft would call "Windows 11"). Nonetheless: 306 [5]

You should check your preconceptions and susceptibility to Apple's marketing. No one is substantially far ahead or far behind (except maybe Android, but again, these are hard to compare apples-to-apples). Everyone still experiences roughly the same class and magnitude of vulnerabilities. But, everyone is also getting better at it.

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/102217/Microsoft-Windows-...

[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/70318/Apple-Macos.html?ve...

[3] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15556/Apple-Iphone-Os.htm...

[4] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/19997/Google-Android.html...

[5] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.htm...
To be honest– I think this is the safest way to do it for a public LLM. Although I'd also love to see and use the raw models.

In Belgium someone committed suicide after Google's (I believe) LLM agreed that that was the only way out of his own problems. Didn't build safety into it well enough. Microsoft's one behaved unhinged in the beginning as well.

This stuff can be very dangerous.
Oh, I think I have a good one. I had an HP-25 calculator as old as myself, and couldn't use it. The original battery pack contained two sealed NiCd cells, which obviously failed many years ago. Most people replaced their NiCd cells with new ones, then with NiMh cells, or even alkaline AA batteries. This was always problematic: newer batteries were slightly larger and never fit well. Also, the power consumption of a calculator with an LED display was significant, so frequent battery replacements were needed. And the original HP charger was risky and could easily destroy the calculator.

So I designed and built a wirelessly (Qi) charged battery pack for it.

https://partsbox.com/blog/wireless-charging-for-a-hp-25-calc...

After a year of use, it's totally over-engineered and has so much energy and so little idle power consumption, that I have to remind myself to charge sometimes, the thing lasts for months.

I'm the only user. There are many people who wanted to buy one, but the step from a hobby design to small-scale production is a big one and it simply doesn't make business sense. Especially with Li-Po batteries being difficult to ship and potentially a hazard. I guess maybe if I found a manufacturer that would be willing to take the design and manufacture it on demand, taking over all of the shipping/support issues…
They're swiss trains, I guess we have enough wealth to make sure that our trains are clean. The interior is also almost always clean, except early morning on weekends (drunk people).

From time to time I see a train with graffiti on it, but usually they remove such things very fast.
One trick that works with some is "oh I have lots of hotel points from work travel and they were going to expire" kind of games. It may even have a shred of truth to it.

For the frugal family members offended by he spending flex, they may be happy to see this instead.
How well does this work in SSG (static sites)? It would be cool to use this with Astro but not if it introduces client side content layout shift due to it not being SSG capable.
> already has the WDK for a while

I would interpret "for a while" as more than ~7 weeks.

Version 0.46 added initial WDK support: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/releases/tag/0.46.0
Building Aitoolboard.com
I started aitoolboard.com in November 2022. It was inspired by my little success with creating an Affiliate sites list which was launched on Product Hunt. Now 15k views and some dollars in Affiliate commission later, I'm happy to move aitoolboard.com to the next level. Competition from well established players like Futurepedia has been motivating. Honestly, I'm still trying to find a unique feature to set my AI Tools directory apart. But until then, I'll enjoy the ride. And of course do check my product out!
this is very wholesome, is there a way to port it for other language.
If your point is comparing over expensive toys, sure thing.

I wouldn't buy either of those.
“Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”
Andy Grove
Send Toast Notifications in Your Livewire Application with Toaster
I am content with not screwing up Earth beyond the point of no return. Seems hard enough.
I have a spare rpi lying around. I know what i want to do with it now...
It works for me, could be based on location. I'm in Australia.
I reckon it's not based on economic sense. Rather it's about aesthetics. It feels good to look at your vertical farm, it's a nice little hobby to maintain I'm sure, and a certain pride to eat your own produce. And so people try to rationalize this and work backwards into an explanation for why it's a logical thing to do, but really it's just about that warm fuzzy feeling of having your own vertical farm.
India, like Brazil is perpetually the "country of the future".
It might not be a popular opinion but all the comments about cultural differences, or needing to be careful with communication seem wrong to me.

Someone offering you a gift to pay shouldn’t come off as rude or a power play of wealth. It shouldn’t be a surprise to you that some people are more well off. If a kind gesture makes you feel awkward, guilty or lesser that’s insecurity on you, not them.

Maybe, just maybe, you are bad at receiving gifts.

Let’s be charitable and stop assuming people are doing something weird. Yes we can communicate better but we don’t need to walk on eggshells just to be kind to friends.

I absolutely love treating friends. I intentionally invite people to dinner, don’t tell them ahead of time that I’m paying so they order exactly what they would have normally. I excuse myself to the restroom and ask the waiter to use my card at the end.

The few times I’ve had people had an issue or feel bad, I was extremely clear with them that

1. I want to, it brings me joy to give my friends gifts
2. I do not expect anything in return, I just wanted to spend time and enjoy a dinner with them
3. I purposely budget to do this, it’s the same as me inviting them over for cooked dinner
4. If they are deeply hurt or bothered by it I have no problem with them paying the portion and won’t do it again if it wasn’t something that made them feel cared for or enjoyed

I’ve never had anyone ever come back to point (4)
EV Dirt Bike with a Simulated Gas Engine [video]
Fascinating project (Engine Simulator)
Anti-viruses report the bomb.zip test file as malicious
In Denmark we have no mandated minimum salary and no mandated unions. You are free to work for 1cent an hour, if you want.

However, we do have the structures to balance power asymmetries. Most people are a part of a union and we do have a de-facto minimum salary (at around 20 USD).

Would that be freedom enough for you?
Totally agree. That's really my thinking as well. Default to Postgres unless you have a reason not to choose it, and a need for distributed serializability is one of those cases where Postgres is an easy "nope, not suitable."

But I've also been burned by people reflexively reaching for $SHINY_NEW_TOY by default, when really there is no need. Architects and senior-level devs are the worst offenders. They throw a bunch of needlessly buzzword-compliant infra at a problem and then move on. They have the time and freedom to learn $SHINY_NEW_TOY well enough to MVP a product, but then the project is passed on to people who don't have that luxury.

I feel like there's a progression that often happens:

1. Early engineers: stick to Postgres or another RDBMS because it's all they know

2. Mid-stage engineers with "senior" in their title for the first time: reach for $SHINY_NEW_TOY

3. Late-stage engineers: stick to Postgres because it's something the whole team already knows and they recognize the true long-term cost of throwing multiple new bits of software infra into the mix
> They expect hybrid products, often made with animal cells and other ingredients such as plant-based protein, to have a quicker, less costly path to market.

This is what I've always expected. Synthetic meat slurry added to conventional fakemeat vegetarian products, basically taking Impossible Burger's "synthetic heme" concept to the next level.

> Upside said in 2021 that it found a way to produce some meat without using animal components. But its first chicken filets won’t be made with that process, the company said, noting that it intends to phase out the use of animal components.

Wait, what does this mean? Like, the process needs constant refreshing with new animal meat? So it's not really cruelty-free?

> “If alternative proteins are not successful, the Paris climate agreement goals are probably impossible” to meet, said Bruce Friedrich, president of the Good Food Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for alternative proteins. Beef and dairy cattle, along with other farm animals, are a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas.

This isn't super relevant to the conversation here since there are very many alternative proteins that don't require inventing synthetic meat.
Small shops and small hotels in eastern Europe. I simply stopped trying to contact via email after several inquiries without any response. While messengers for some reason are very popular. If I already talking to someone in person and I need to send files to them then in 100% of cases they will ask to send it via some messenger. Latest cases - car insurance asked for photos, notary asked for my passport, legal consultant asked for my docs - all via messenger. No, wait, there was one case when I was asked to write an email (not a reply to email send to me, but I had to write first) by a hospital. Guess what - they didn't reply and I had to print and give them paper copies of the stuff I emailed previously.

Email is great, I use it at work all the time, internally in the company. But in the outside world it's just not working, unfortunately.
Why would you keep one running. You don’t need to run an LLM except perhaps to rotate the playlists. First time it might help setup the code. Even making requests can be done by simply queries. Pennies at most for a few thousand tokens every now and then.
I made a personal website [1] that aggregates my notifications from GitHub and Gerrit in one stream. It updates in real-time without me needing to refresh the page.

It also hosts a small set of personal Go packages. For this, it implements a git server, module proxy protocol, issue tracker and change tracker. At some point, I want to differentiate the code review UI with nice-to-haves specific to Go, but haven’t gotten there yet.

I’m playing around with compiling the whole thing (written in Go, of course) to WebAssembly that runs client-side, along with server-side rendering for the initial page load. This is mostly to make iteration easier and faster for me.

It also lets people leave comments or reactions to blog posts and such by signing in via a URL rather than username+password.

[1] https://dmitri.shuralyov.com
Tuple Space (2014)