skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I trained the raccoons that visit my house at night. I started them out getting a peanuts from a water bottle. Then I tied the bottle to a rope. Then kept raising the bottle higher. At that point, I built an automated feeder system using a linear actuator activated by pulling the rope with the bottle attached. It had LEDs that were green / red to show when the feeder would / wouldn't dispense peanuts. It was all driven by an ESP32, it even had a web page on our LAN reporting how many correct / incorrect pulls were done. Over the coarse of a few nights they figured it out. Raccoons are so cool.
I have read that quite often here and there and while the management at Borland certainly was a pain, I don’t think that for Anders Hejlsberg this was the main reason to leave.

I believe (and I have no prove) that during development of Delphi V1.0 Anders realized that his „baby", the source code of the compiler core written in 16-bit assembly became worthless. The new 32-bit compiler for Delphi V2.0 was written in C by Peter Sollich.

Anders new role at Borland was just to be an architect / manager / teamleader / whatever… He could have contributed to the new 32-bit compiler in a way he does today to TypeScript, but for whatever reason he didn’t wanted to. That, along with the Borland management and the nice $$$ signing bonus offered at Microsoft made him leave. Again, that's just my take.

Peter Sollich left Borland I think in 1998 in order to join Microsoft, to this day he is in the C#/.net team.
https://youtu.be/LPcjSdob9AA

And I still wonder who has written Turbo Pascal for Mac in 1985/86…
Nintendo’s Copyright Strikes Push Away Its Biggest Fans
I’ve a problem with setting scenes with a timer that it often asks who I am. Which is odd because it will identify me just fine normally.

It usually goes like this:

Me: Hey Siri, “bedroom on” in 15 minutes.

Siri: who is speaking?

Me: $Name

Siri: I don’t recognise your voice… setup personal requests bla bla.

Me: Hey Siri, who am I?

Siri: You’re $Name!

Me: Hey Siri “Bedroom on” in 15 minutes.

Siri: Who’s Speaking?

Me: @%#+#!!!

Siri then goes into a loop asking who I am and then ends with “Hi!”

Five minutes later,

Me: Hey Siri, “Bedroom on” in 10 minutes.

Siri: okay $Name I’ve set bedroom on for 12:08.

So it’s not the voice recognition, it’s whatever’s going on after that step.
Yes, this is for charts on experimental data. Plotly seemed good for that.
But is the SBR the width of two horses asses ?
Intellectual property laws include trademarks. Trademarks reduce fraud and help prevent selling poison to babies.

Q1: Where do trademarks fit into your definition of a free market?

The topic is buying tractors that can be fixed without using the vendor's service agents.

Q2: How does coercion apply in the situation of buying a tractor from John Deere? (I.e. what part of buying a John Deere tractor is not a free market negotiation in your definition).

Copyright is a property right. All property rights are abstract definitions that don't exist outside our minds (e.g. I have one dollar in a bank account).

Q3: Where does copyright fit into your definition of a free market?

PS: I strongly disagree that there is any consensus about how a "free market" is defined. Maybe provide a link to a place that you agree with the definition, preferably defined in high detail.
iOS has some seriously nifty security mechanisms that takes advantage of features baked into the Apple Processors. Stuff like pointer authentication and page protection layer(something akin to HVCI, without the hypervisor). Jailbreaks are getting harder and harder.

Both Windows and iOS(I can’t speak to macOS) are becoming incredibly security mature operating systems via these security mechanisms that get stacked on top of one another. Saying on is better than the other in terms of security is hard to quantify.

Windows still does have some issues with user mode logical exploitation through DLL hijacking, or issues with credential relaying, although relaying targets are generally known and mitigated by enterprises.

iOS still has issues with remote attack surface, however it has gotten better with iOS 16 and Blastdoor +Lockdown
Automakers admit? It's not theirs to admit to. Touchscreens are the only way to go. Buttons on phones went out years ago. I still have to look for buttons on my ICE car, and worse yet the buttons are hidden under the steering, have different tactile feel. And that's just this one manufacturer!
Scandinavia here. Banks, pharma, industry, commercial buildings still use NFC for building access control. 25% of those use things modern enough to be easily cloned by the F0 (e.g.: not FireDES).

My underground parking sends a wireless signal to open the door after I've typed in my keycode.
How many years and counting and MS still can't make search work? So much comments about how search is screwed up. For me I can't stand it sometimes doesn't find that I know there is. Or sometimes I don't really know that something is or is not there because I can't trust the search. And sometimes it just wont search. Or does it really slowly
See also this story about the Golden Gate: https://www.sfgate.com/local-donotuse/article/golden-gate-br...

Love this quote: Friday marked the 32nd anniversary of the walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, an event The Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub once referred to as "the largest clusterf— in Bay Area history where no one actually died."
Is there anything special about the camera focusing tech required to capture that image of Deimos? It looks extremely well focused.
Yep, but I don't think that just acid is good enough.

Choridric acid + Zinc was traditionally used in tin (but lead isn't so much different) soldering/brazing, particularly of copper and brass because the Zinc had some role in the chemical reaction, AFAIK.
Why Gen X isn’t ready to leave the workforce
Recapturing a Magic Feeling with the New Ping G430 Driver
Probably just like vertical farming, it uses vastly more energy than traditional farming.

Maybe Elon would be interested in this tech for food production on Mars where it might make more sense. If it requires a lot of equipment maintenance, it might not even be good on Mars since spare parts are hard to manufacture there.
> But Nuclear additionally has the fuel-production as another major source

Where do the rare earth, metal, &co for solar and wind harvesters come from ? These things are getting rarer by the day and harder to mine = more pollutants. It's very very far from clean

https://www.goudsmit.co.uk/fears-over-the-supply-of-neodymiu...

https://www.eurometaux.eu/media/20ad5yza/2022-policymaker-su...
> $46M USD, to save cyclists 5.5km/20 minutes; that seems like a pretty good return.

That obviously depends on a lot of parameters, not least how many cyclists are impacted and how often.
Sometimes I know that a precise word for what I want to say exists, and I'll know it when I see it, but I can't quite remember it in the moment. In those cases I search thesaurus for synonyms to related words; or maybe ask ChatGPT these days.
Watch Hyundai's Wild Crab-Walking Ioniq 5 Perform a Perfect Park Job
If it means how "wine appears to the eye", could that also mean how appealing, or repulsive it is?

I don't know or remember what is the context in the original, but for example, a sea that is so calm that it is inviting to travel, or deceptively calm, but if you travel long enough, maybe you will be lost, passing out, going mad or getting destroyed?
A colleague of mine applied to the university of Bergen. At the interview, they gave him a promotional gift: an umbrella.
Only Alkaline batteries.
the "solution" is most likely that a shared wifi will be good enough for 90% of the people, and the 10% of us that want to do something different will still get to run our own access-points.

the problem i see is the placement of access points so that they can be maintained without entering peoples homes but still reach every room.
At present, you need a CPU with AVX. For memory I’d say 16GB or so.
Pumped hydro studies find 10x as many sites as required to fully decarbonize using solar + wind worldwide. There isnt that much of a shortage of up.

This is also before accounting for all the other ways power could be stored batteries, demand shaping and storing syngas.
Great contribution, thanks !
Elon Musk’s statements could be ‘deepfakes’, Tesla defence lawyers tell court
Don't think that's the case here. In Australia they give it to everyone in high school. The vaccine is most effective when taken as an early teenager. So it makes way more sense to do it to everyone early than wait to see who is gay and sexually active when it's less effective.
> Postgres such a reliable and known quantity that IMO it should be the default choice for just about anything.

This is being repeated so often. And yet — the above is true, IF (and that's a big if for some of us) you are OK with having your database on a single machine.

If you want a distributed database with strict serializability, where some nodes can go down and you still get correct answers, Postgres is not it.
Open-Source Multilingual Chatbot Model Based on Llama
I wonder if there's open data or an open API for the schedule or location information. That way, you could include information on which train is which.
Nice job! I would be really happy if I ever finished my own hobby projects this well.
A lot of words spent on the ocean. None on wine and the practicalities of epic verse.

The thing to understand here is that the ancient people who would have heard these words from a poet did not drink wine as we understand it.

Wine was a concentrated product added to water for consumption. This did a few things, but the important ones are condense calories, make the water safe to drink, and the concentrated wine product was easier to store and ship. Wine dark means this stuff.

We think of epic poetry as some kind of high literature. They were more like Marvel movies of the day. Wine dark is not a fanciful metaphor, but rather something the audience understood and fit into the meter.

Homeric verse had to fit into dactylic hexameter. Easy phrases are sprinkled throughout Epic poetry that make the scantion work out. Wine-dark sea is one of them. Swift-footed Achilles and Rosy-fingered dawn are some other notable examples.

These phrases are used when it makes no sense. The Iliad talks about Swift footed Achilles sitting down, so arguments that meter isn’t determining turns of phrase is simply wrong. It’s just an epithet that fit into the scantion.

These are really long poems that were recited, from memory to audiences. Memory was their primary storage. So there are a lot of “go-to” easy phrases that are really just vamping, but since it’s thousands of years old we want it to mean more.
The way you find stuff on the fediverse is searching for hashtags. I have wildly differing interests and it's perfectly fine for me. I have load of topics and a feed that updates at a reasonable rate. following people who share your interests exposes you to other conversations with with other people.
Humans are not mere LLMs. But it's nice to think we are. May be we can program other humans with carefully constructed prompts alone. May be hypnosis is just a prompt injection attack.
You can easily add fuck into your dictionary: Settings>General>Keyboard >Text Replacement.
Relying on stack overflow data is biased towards badly documented technologies, which Microsoft Products usually are.
Some years ago, I was annoyed by 1password not having any support for Linux and local vaults, and their vault spec was open, so I build a JavaFX app that allows me to read/view my passwords and OTP tokens.

https://github.com/ingon/opvaultfx
WebContainers Now Run on Safari, iOS, and iPadOS
Who’s that?
Ask HN: How to help someone suffering from worry and depression get better?
How to be there for my loved one/friend who is depressed and anxious in general about different aspects of life and can't explain why they are worried or anxious and also about what.

Is it possible to help them without being pushy or detrimental to their current state?
My concern is that Windows is already a massive dumpster fire of random bits and bobs. They haven't completed the migrations from the very earliest versions of Windows, they just increase the complexity at all points. The same is true of most of their major desktop apps including Visual Studio, which runs something like 30 processes just to have the main window running including a hotchpotch of EdgeView and Node js bits.

All this becomes is the xkcd trope of "this next migration will really fix our problems".

Unless they can genuinely replace more than 1 sub system in one go, they just increase complexity.
I realised I have quite a few random scripts I use for myself or to improve my usual workflow. Recently decided to start blogging again and figured some of them might make interesting reading for others. Lately:

Made my monitor an "ambient tv" by reverse engineering the bluelooth lights and sending them pixel colours: https://www.reaminated.com/reverse-engineer-led-to-convert-m...

I also wanted to use ChatGPT over my own files and documents. Whilst my personal system is a bit more complex, created an end-to-end tutorial of my learnings to get started with using your own docs: https://www.reaminated.com/run-chatgpt-style-questions-over-...
And a happier society as it's far more fun to cycle than to drive in traffic
Discontinued under "Microsoft" brand - allegedly they still want to sell hardware like this but under Surface label

I hope they won't ditch ergonomic series - I really like their 'Sculpt Comfort Desktop '[0] keyboard and can recommend it - for me it hits sweet spot between being slightly more ergonomic than regular keyboard and at the same time not being weird to the point where I would need to relearn how to type. It has small flaw (in my perception)- function keys are activated by moving physical switch instead of holding down some equivalent of Fn key.

Apart from that it's great, 2xAAA batteries last forever - and palm rest can be disassembled and repaired if soft material which covers it wears out!!! Yep! I know, it sounds insane but it's true - there are small screws under it's rubber feet, I already replaced it once and my keyboard is almost like new <3

[0]https://www.microsoft.com/en/accessories/products/keyboards/...
If a low power FM transmitter on commercial frequencies can interfere with your emergency services, you may have bigger problems. IIRC they have their own specific frequencies.
... or a cable TV
It is the official reason told by himself in this interview,

"Anders Hejlsberg: A craftsman of computer language"

https://behindthetech.libsynpro.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-c...

Now if you want to tell he makes that up, I dunno.
I made a Mac app that turns my webcam light on and off with the camera. It’s buggy, but I use it every day and I love it
Rust alone will not save you. Most of the gnarly exploits of late have been logic bugs.
So there are places in Europe where it rains more than in UK?
Seeing all these sterile rooms, inox pipings, reactors, tanks make me feel weird. I'm vegetarian but I'd eat a local farm animal over this if I had to chose.

edit: to clarify, food for me is equal to traditions, know-hows, local, &c. not three dudes in hazmat suits populating a 60000 gallon tank of chicken soup. If you want cheap as fuck meat and have the choice between modern animal farming and that then by all means go for that. It just doesn't sit right with me.

It's so disconnected to everything I associate with good food, there already are alternatives, as nutritious, getting cheaper by the day, made from real thing we can grow with minimal post processing.
There is crazy entitlement of cars to the detriment of everything else. It's like privilidge/something-ism.

In Uk there is a particular crossing where cars were frqeuently hitting pedestris on the pavement, and traffic authority decided againt putting up bollards becauae cars might get damaged.

So its more important to keep a car undamaged than to keep people/children safe.

We've had people cut up bollards with an angle grinder. Bollards in the shape of a large planter was soaked in petrol and burned to the ground

Nobody cares, noone is charged and this does not even make the news.
That's actually reasonable. If you're eating out of tins every night you might sell your upside for a pittance.

However, there's still the question of why this particular thing should have that protection. You could well stretch this and say engineers with massive student loans are equally up against the wall, and should get paid a piece if the code they write turns out to be very profitable later on. They don't all get equity in the company.
What app is not cross-platform? Even games are all using Unity now.
Somewhat. There are a bunch of 'failure' modes that you want to avoid (either actual failure or service level issues), and some bridges are going to be closer to one mode than another.

It's a little like memory pressure vs cpu vs disk vs network. There are some services that aren't going to ever hit one of them because the others are limiting first. Memcached is never going saturate disk.

If you've got a bridge that's 'stiff' or 'heavy' (like truss/beam/whatever) resonances are unlikely to be an issue. If you've got anything light and flexible or with cables, you need to be thinking _hard_ about resonance, in all the modes, torsional being one that's bitten designers bad in the past.
Trouble could also stem from having an attention sucking device in front of them at all times.

Suggesting ADHD to parents any time kids struggle is such a comical cliche. Of course it could be that, but when you hear hooves outside the door think horses not zebras.

It’s like if there was a tv playing in every classroom. Imagine how distracting that is.

I remember reading Ender’s Game and how the kids used tablets and thinking how great that would be. Instead schools wrote zero software and just plopped shitty vanilla windows that shows Kim kardashian news when you open a new tab and expected kids to stitch together their own education plans.

As a parent it’s been hard experiencing schools get through this learning period and maybe one day it will be good.

But I had two different schools with two different kids suggest adhd as the reason my kids struggle with an average of 21 different apps used in 6 classes each throughout the year. Of course physicians said no. But it’s funny how all of a sudden schools are detecting growth in adhd at the same time they’re issuing laptops.
I think the hands would still necessarily be large.
No I don't know what about this could be classified as open source.

I'm also sick of all the llama derivatives.

It gives honestly good results for all my test queries (better than any other "open" llm) so I posted it.

And no - I'm not affiliated with the project
Interesting, if weird, idea. Many things to take issue with, but I will take just one: ``The most recent expansion of this religion is from "mental" to "behavioral" health; i.e. not only your internal thoughts, but also your outward actions, are under scrutiny and subject to control.``

Behavioral health is arguably a shift _away_ from policing the internal state of the person to instead focus on specific behaviors that interfere with a patient's life. It is bizarre to suggest this places behavior under "scrutiny and control." You may have noticed that, in fact, all of our behaviors are already under personal, legal, and social scrutiny and control. The point of behavioral health is to help people cope with _that_ reality without engaging unnecessarily with psychological narratives which, as you and others have pointed out in this thread, may not be evidence based.

Also, "In the past two centuries, the new priesthood has succeeded in establishing a secular church". This may be true in some sense, but psychoanalysis and its descendant practices have nothing like the cultural and political dominance of Catholicism in its heyday. I guess its possible to think of psychoanalysis as a church if you allow "church" to mean just any collection of ideas around which people organize and in which people believe without a level of scrutiny they apply to other kinds of ideas, but that covers quite a lot of ground.

"psychoanalysis was explicitly designed to usurp and work at crossed-purposes to the religiously-branded type." I'm genuinely interested in whether Freud ever wrote anything that suggested that he was trying to usurp Catholic confession.
>Halfway through, a sundial shows the time.

I'd love to know how that works in a tunnel!
Major UK banks including Lloyds, Halifax, TSB hit by outages
One absurd but conventionally normal thing is that cities have to build wider streets just because car drivers will inevitably transform them into parking lots, on both sides, halving their width. Old streets often seem narrow, but they aren't really narrow when they aren't full of parked cars.
-This would be an escape tunnel for the Bybanen, a light railway more comparable to the S-Bahn than a tram as such.
Linux was ready for the desktop in 1998 for me. The funny thing is it only started when the only thing I wanted was a computer whose mp3 playing do not stutter while I was browsing and preparing a document for my degree.

win98 + Winamp + office + netscape/ie couldn't on a pentium 100 I don't remember so little ram I had while linux with blackbox wm + xmms + staroffice + netscape could.
I know Windows has many security features disabled by default. Where do I start to learn about them and maybe get some nice baseline recommendations for my home/office laptop?
Gordon Rayner
Could it be related to screen size and finger mechanics?
> it's jarring

Why?

> The emergent behavior of appearing to do so is only driven by how much data you throw at them.

That's evident from the start and why their deficiencies should NOT be shocking. They would only be so if you consider LLMs to be actually intelligent..
It's good the rest of the world has no tonnels longer than checks notes 2 miles?
Being in programming I know a lot of people with similar backgrounds who are very successful now.

Being from the poor, rural south I know far more who only did your first part and now are not doing well at all, or are dead.

I’m not happy with the odds when risking my own kid.
I made an AR-based app for myself that tracks my head in 3D space and then pipes the position and angle data to my PC which uses an open source app called OpenTrack to emulate the "TrackIR" protocol to then 3D-control the camera in sim games (like flight sims) with slight movements of my head.

I then posted a little video of it to /r/flightsim (https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/id7vmy/head_trac...) and it turned out to be something others wanted, too, so then I polished it and released it as a full app (SmoothTrack). It's been the most successful side project I've ever done.
Microsoft is also a member of the Linux Foundation and has their own kernel. As someone who grew up in the 90s, it was quite a surreal thing to live to see.
At what levels of power was this?

I suspect the OPs transmitter is hard to detect even at close (< 100 meters > 30 meters) range. Anything more powerful and you would definitely attract attention.
>If you built a rope-bridge, I'm sure people would beware of cramming it.

You're not American or British, ehe? ;)
So instead of marching they need to be walking.
This is just a stray thought, but I wonder if men and women use these filled pauses differently in conversation, and, if there is a difference, could this in part contribute to the alleged phenomenon of men interrupting women in conversation more often than women interrupting men.
API costs, I guess. Brave's image results were served from Bing previously.