skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Machine-learning predictions for Draft Kings (NBA) :)

It scraped basically every single player's performance in every single NBA game ever. I tried XGBoost and Keras, and the Keras model outperformed the XGBoost model. Was about to incorporate real-time injury data, so if a player was injured or out that game it would not select them.

In the end it didn't perform too well. I think the limitation was my lack of domain knowledge, and not really knowing what features to select that would predict a players performance. Also data. I hear MLB is more consistent than NBA because there's just more data.
Is what you're getting at the fact that the distance between the earth and the other object changes from two effects (the first being the ball falling towards the Earth and the second being the Earth falling towards the ball)? That's right, of course. But that distance's second derivative is not the acceleration a in F=ma. Indeed, in both Galilean and Einsteinian relativity acceleration is detectable locally without a needed reference to another object.
Ironically Mozilla began to sponsor Rust as part of their Servo project. Before they laid everyone off and made Servo a volunteer-run project.

I do feel they should have persevered. Although, yeah, writing a new rendering engine from scratch is a big job.
> “We’ve spent the last 50 years trying to arrest our way out of this and it’s clearly not working. The conditions on the streets are getting worse, the drugs are becoming more dangerous and the health of the community is much, much worse with increased policing.”

So it clearly hasn't worked, but now it's getting worse. Maybe thinking police was meant to solve the problem is the wrong perspective. Regardless of initial motives for using police this way, maybe police was just preventing the problem from getting bigger. Now that those "barriers" are down, there is effectively no downside for trying out that lifestyle. I'm just saying there is a hidden factor at the root of the issue, which the state has not been able to find yet. At this point I'm wondering what if this problem is a societal problem that can only be fixed by the people and not the state.
Why not just have it drain into an ordinary condensate pump which is built for this purpose? Those roll around ACs usually have a spigot to attach a hose you can run into a drain.
I never bought one of these devices, because I refuse to speak in foreign languages to them.

When I am on the confort of my house, I want to use my native languages as much as I can.
> but you would not know who was the expert that you learned from

Just ask who came up with this stuff. Learning material doesn't go over the long history of the science involved either.
I think FreshBuzzer is a similar idea: https://freshbuzzer.com/
Bluesky and AT protocol fix almost all of those issues.
Almost one year ago, I’ve built a personal diary app with gamificatiin features: streaks and email reminders.

My current streak is 347 days! It really made ME journaling daily. A number of folks who have also registered maxed at 61 only :(

https://5yearsback.com
Beautiful branchless binary search
Upward Farms throws in towel ten years after founding vertical-farming business
Kirby's Adventure for the NES, one of my favorite games, ignores your controller inputs sometimes. I dove into the ROM, figured out the problem and fixed it: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7595/

I'm currently hacking the SNES mouse into Sim City.
Nice! I built the same thing for a gate at our vacation house at a lake. The home-owners have to register their mobile number so that if you call a certain number the gate opens based on number recognition. Every time new people were at the gate (deliveries, guests, renters) they would need to call the owner, who had to hang up and call the gate’s number.

I use twilio to make outbound calls to that number using my registered phonenumber. I put a Django app in front for home owners so they can add authorized phone numbers with a expiration date.

Whenever someone is a the gate they call a twilio number, my django app checks the validity, opens the gate by calling the gate’s number with my number as ID, plays back some welcome message “hello chris, welcome to…” and sends the owner a push notification that person X is en route.

Todo: add a feature to redirect an unknown number directly to the owner and open the gate after manual verification.
Limited market is likely a factor, yes.
I don’t drive a car, have kids, or travel much. Those things matter more than the power state of my GPU by orders of magnitude.

A single commute to an office by car likely uses more energy than a lifetime of PC gaming.
What is the plan for 2024 and what are the goals for the core team right now. I would potentially be interested in joining.
I heard they were banned a few weeks ago.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/flipper-zer...
You'd make a great parent of future lawyers.

I take issue with mainstream news because it's already beaten to death elsewhere, distracting from more important news like the passing of a truly incredible human being like Harry Belafonte. Or the 2 newspapers Ralph Nader is running. Or perhaps the potentially innocent person Oklahoma is determined to execute. The corruption scandal around Clarence Thomas doesn't get enough play. There's a good deal more deserving provincial American news than an opportunist who exploited people for ratings and money.
The asthetics are hard, too. If it can't be completely hidden and has to sit out in the open, it needs to look decent (aka "spouse acceptance factor").

Amazon and Google have both done pretty good here, and I hope there's a good option to replace them in the future. Maybe it's possible to transplant an esp32 into one of those devices? Maybe sometime will start selling something.
A PDP11/40 emulator for the Teensy 4.1 development board.

https://github.com/gounselor/Teensy11
Tattoo HIStories: The Skin Collector (2020)
That already exists as a browser extension afaik. Not sure about gluten part though
Recycled denim: a breakthrough?
make me wonder if somebody has trained a LLM from SciHub data. would be interesting if someone were to marry a symbolic engine like mathematica with such an LLM/AI.
I made a visual programming / node editor environment similar to TouchDesigner, vvvv, Unreal Blueprints, etc, on top of Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyDpnzfSg_o

It was originally created to drive a particular large LED installation I work on, but I've generalized it to the point of being able to drive other installations as well. It passes texture data between nodes running compute shaders to chain together patterns/effects, which is a fun and powerful paradigm for creating visuals. Not as powerful or featureful as "real" solutions like TouchDesigner, (which, if I'd known about when starting out, I probably would have just used), but I do know all its ins and outs and can change it exactly how I want, which is nice.
I made an app to control my pedalboard via WebMIDI

https://github.com/rajangdavis/macrocosm_js

Was inspired by some existing editors so I made my own and extended it to create macros for sending sysex/PC messages to multiple devices.
It's almot 1000 a year. There's probably <10k homeless and 2-3k addicts on the street. Total addict population is significantly larger, but it still seems like a significant fraction of the total. I'm not sure I buy the article's claim that most of this is happening on the street since the growth of SROs (and closing of the overdose center) seem to provide privacy that allows more overdoses, but the boom in fentanyl (now tranq) seems to keep coming.

I'm not sure there are simple solutions to this that don't have side effects. Mostly, the goal seems to be to move it out of sight, and to be fair many of the people came to SF on bus tickets provided by other localities with the same goal. At the same time there's a level of permission in some areas that doesn't seem to change (kind of like the smash and grabs in all the tourist areas) what ever they say about law and order.

It's not like police have been motivated to do much about it for at least the last 30 years.
Same.

Used Firefox from long ago, but switched about 3 years ago when I just was getting way too many problems with firefox not running SaaS stuff. Couldn't run Salesforce on Firefox. Maybe there was some way that someone knows of here, but I didn't and was not going to spend 200 hours trying to find out. So after extensive decision-making process of looking at everything, I chose Brave.
Are you looking into making fine tuning easy for the speech to text model ? I feel like that's the only thing missing before it's perfect.

My entity names can contain the English or other text that just won't be picked up by the speech to text, so if there was a way to record a couple of pronunciations for an entity name, and home assistant would fine-tune whisper on them in the background it would be wonderful !
The death of Harry Belafonte was well covered on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701618.

I don't know about Ralph Nader's newspapers, but if there's something intellectually interesting about them that you want to post, you're certainly welcome to.
Whoa, that DVD changer is almost as big as a server rack. I'd love to have that in my garage.
I didn't find this in the article and I think this would be a nice context to have:

what was battery life before?
It’s a bit above the National average according to:

https://drugabusestatistics.org/drug-overdose-deaths/

Assuming 900000 people in San Francisco, the national average would say about 190/yr. One every 10hrs would mean 876/yr, or 4.6x the national average.
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Built a compilation of local happy hours, lunch specials, and other cheap eats at https://fullprice.no (as in, "do you want to pay full price? No."). The idea isn't all that original but I thought my layout and presentation was rather unique, for example the 24-hour slider as opposed to a clock interface.

I thought it would be easier post-launch to get restaurants to participate and add their own information (nearly-free marketing), but that was a faulty assumption. The admin interface is also pretty cool, very simple to specify blocks of time when the specials are active.

Unfortunately it hasn't been updated in 4 or 5 years. When Covid first started, I launched a sister site just to list restaurants that were open, I took that down about 6 months ago.
Diamond Shines in High-Power Devices
Watching Sabine on YT for a time now I get the feeling that science can debunk quackery on the long run, sometimes in decades. Old guards who are gatekeepers of some of these misdirections have to die out. ~30-40 years to drop a major trend. Sooner or later the scientific method and the fallible humans operating it wins.
You're right, this looks like almost exactly the product I would have made if I decided to turn it into a product. I think they started around the same time I did. I wonder how much money they're making on it? Could be a nice little lifestyle business if they get enough users. I bet their Airbnb-focused features would be the real moneymaker, I didn't consider that as a potential market.
>>this was a period when Apple’s QuickTime was regarded as a killer app

>Quick Time was a mainstream mess to be avoided it like the plague

There was NOTHING like QuickTime before QuickTime. It enabled 1991 Adobe Premiere build by ex Quicktime engineer on Mac platform, 1991 Avid ported from Apollo $workstations$ to Mac thanks to QT. Microsoft and Intel got so scared of it they paid off third party Apple contractor to steal code. Microsoft shipped stolen code as part of Video for Windows update. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_...

"the [QuickTime] patent dispute was resolved with cross-licence and significant payment to Apple." The payment was $150 million."

"Intel gave this code to Microsoft as part of a joint development program called Display Control Interface."

"Canyon admitted that it had copied to Intel code developed for and assigned to Apple. In September 1994, Apple's software was distributed by Microsoft in its developer kits, and in Microsoft's Video for Windows version 1.1d."
> each additional year of mediocre classroom education is worth ~5 IQ points.

"we found consistent evidence for beneficial effects of education on cognitive abilities of approximately 1 to 5 IQ points for an additional year of education"

1-5 is not 5. Besides, it is contradicted by the Lothian Birth-Cohort Studies (and many others).

You should not misrepresent your sources. On the other hand, it is good you have started citing real research instead of Mother Jones. Ritchie is a real, serious researcher, whether he is right in this case or not.
It's a Firefox extension for just me. [0] I've posted it here before, and one user said they'd start using it. I hope someone else finds it useful again. The problem: I wanted to be able to mute League of Legends streams in between games with a hotkey, and without changing visibility of any windows in the process of doing so. This is a much harder problem than you'd think, even with the existence of Autohotkey, and NirCmd, and ControlSend, because Firefox is really annoying. [1] It ended up requiring me to write an entire Firefox extension as well as use an AHK that uses ControlSend.

Anyway, yeah, that FF extension. It represents the culmination of about 5 years of me trying to solve this problem with progressively more complex and incrementally better solutions until I finally arrived at a ridiculously over-engineered version that actually works as it should.

[0] https://github.com/RheingoldRiver/MuteTabsMatchingPattern

[1] https://river.me/blog/global-hotkey-mute-firefox-stream/
> Do MIME types in HTTP headers affect how browsers render content?

They absolutely do matter. To make an extreme point, if that page was served as text/plain, then the browser would show the literal XHTML source code on screen. Auto-sniffing the type based on the content is a big no-no where we learned lessons about vulnerabilities like ~20 years ago.

The text/html and application/xhtml+xml modes have many subtly different behaviors. XHTML supports things like <![CDATA[ ... ]]> and requires namespaces like <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">, <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">. XHTML requires well-formed elements, so no <b><i></b></i>. XHTML treats <div/> as identical to <div></div>, whereas HTML5 interprets it as just <div> with no closing.

Here is my guide on XHTML, and the page itself and entire website is served as application/xhtml+xml: https://www.nayuki.io/page/practical-guide-to-xhtml
Or maybe they just think its fun.
The Mechanical Integrator - a machine that does calculus
Not that I disagree, but I'm curious, what benefit to the public is provided by this information being known? It seems to me like this information being public does not really lend to (or take away from) a free society.

> Why would it not be [public knowledge]?

I can think of multiple ways in which this information could be useful in the hands of enemies of the United States. An example: this publicizes weaknesses in the US military's supply chain.

Is there a reason this particular piece of information (a Louisiana factory blew up and is causing supply chain issues for the US Military) should be public -- or was this more of a general commentary on more transparency?
lisps legacy
About a week
Sorry, my wording was unclear. The USB RTL-SDR was for receiving, and I did the capture and analysis on my desktop. The Raspberry Pi was for transmitting using the GPIO pins.
> Very funny if you ask a simply question like "Where am I" and your voice-assistant is fucking with you about pseudophilosophically.

well sure, not funny for the person actually going through it, but as the premise of a skit seems to hold some promise.
You're right, it's the latter. Yeah, you can still use the keypad after the call is started. But it's a little clunky. The instructions you have to give people are like "first dial 542, then wait until you hear the prompt, then enter code 867". Which as it turns out is a little too complex for a lot of people. Another reason why it wouldn't have been great as a paid product.

You could also have a fallback that forwards the call to your cell phone after a failed attempt at entering the code. But most of the reason I built this was so it would stop calling me at random times, so I didn't really want that.
It’s mentioned in the first paragraph:

“We are proud to announce that starting the firmware version 0.82, your Flipper Zero's battery life will last up to 1 month! It took us 2 years to resolve all firmware issues that prevented Flipper Zero from switching to power-saving mode, resulting in the same power consumption baseline in both idle and active states. As a result, Flipper Zero's battery life was approximately 1 week instead of the intended 1 month.”
[OP] very good point and Wordpress has a ton of adoption. I used to run my own until it got hacked multiple times over a years and I got tired of fixing or restoring it.

Once tumblr has ActivityPub integration it'll have the largest node in the network. Is it still Mastodon? Isn't that just tumblr and the AP integration is an alternative RSS/Atom? Then Mastodon becomes Google Reader with comments and stars?
There's a bunch of secret stuff in it, in the sense of moderator-only.

I don't think there's anything sinister, but it wouldn't be very nice to release in the current form.
As another comment said, try Clangd, it's IMHO superior to intellisense on VSCode and supports anything that can emit `compile_commands.json`files.
Nice setup! I was about to start ordering parts to create some hacky IR sensor for mine, that it before I read about HDMI-CEC.
Well, they could offer pay x times the booking price, instead of only refunding the money.
I have been working on a note taking app with a fully open API since 2008 on and off. I intended to open it to the public around 2010 but SimpleNote popped up and drank my milkshake. I even switched over myself.

Since then however they've closed their formerly open API. This inspired me to pick it back up.

I've got a mobile friendly webapp, an official SDK, a basic cli for scripting. Basically everything I wanted.

The UI of the webapp is pretty spartan as I prefer, so I'm scared it doesn't have mass appeal. It's super fast however.

I have hundreds of notes in it, use it for all my note keeping. I am it's only user. My friends have access, but they don't use regularly.

I want to open up to the public eventually, but these days I'd really want to get e2e encryption working before doing so and just have not found the time.
Everything I do is emacs. But I'm not sure which sense you're asking about.

(HN isn't emacs, though. pg uses vi.)
> Shell Shockers doesn’t make a ton of money—Kapalka pegged its quarterly profits in the “low seven figures”—but it is profitable.

Several million dollars in annual profit? That's a pretty decent haul, considering the size of the team!
Google reportedly eliminated some office snacks in an effort to cut costs
Soundtrack to that dog movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85A2rWA5O3o
Cool. I did the same thing for my office building except I had Twilio post to our work slack with buttons that we could click to let them in or not. It was a really fun little afternoon project one day.
Is this serious? Paper straws were partly about moral panic about ocean plastic getting in to animals, and don't seem directly related to climate change.
Ah ok this wasn’t what I thought then. I haven’t taken a look at Hidet yet so I won’t be much help here :( I thought you were talking about 2.0.0
I founded 2 photo startups (2004 and 2012). My second startup was focused on data portability and was open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trovebox

After failing to integrate the software into Western Digital's MyCloud NAS line of productions, I left and decided to try something different. I created a photo management tool that could feed into other photo programs. It's open source and available on github.

https://getelodie.com

https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

I started off using it with Google Photos. Explained here, https://medium.com/swlh/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-go...

I've since switched to using it with Synology Photos.

8 years and counting.
What fascinates me most about these LLMs and other machine-learning technology is how it is driven by the availability of GPUs. Essentially, everything has to be carefully encoded into - differentiable - linear algebra operations for practical reasons.

On the other hand, there are modeling languages (Modelica being a prime example) in search of a principled target calculus. So for me the obvious question is: Should one strive to develop a modeling language that compiles to GPU- and learning-compatible operations? Would that help to improve the models as well as understand them?
Do you have to say Johan Sebastian Bach. Siri will work with that
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Perhaps worth mentioning that since 2004 there are RDFa and FOAF, serving a similar purpose (among other things). While XHTML is merged into HTML 5 (XHTML5).
Excellent thought. Not sure if it applies to everything, but I’ll give it a shot to whatever I do in my life.
Not at all, but shipping a JIT compiler in the box would make it usable for plenty of workloads, even if C would still be faster.
I'm pretty sure RedPajama said they were going to overtrain in regards to chinchilla, so unless this is someone else or they ran out of time, this should be close to the original lama. Actually, I think this is someone else?
I actually stuck the velcro to a cheapy Otterbox rubber sleeve knockoff rather than the phone, which has some weird sticky-thing-repelling coating that the Velcro wouldn't stick to.
> Tethered?

Don’t take it literally.
Being tethered can mean physically with a cable, but it can also mean you’re virtually confined (think a virtual box that you cannot leave). So for instance, can you take your play outside? My understanding is no, because direct sunlight can destroy the lenses so Meta advises against it: https://www.meta.com/help/quest/articles/headsets-and-access...

Exercise is good, fun, more expansive, a fuller experience outside than inside.
C'mon ... the reality is that teachers need the kids to concentrate and given a choice between doing work and playing games, the games are likely to win. Teachers are being put in an impossible situation.
I actually misspoke earlier, so my apologies; you need a retail license if you want to transfer that license to other mobos. Those OEM licenses will still let you upgrade for free to Windows 10 and, hardware permitting, Windows 11 if you keep the mobo.

I'm actually amazed Microsoft has de facto left that free upgrade program in place after they officially concluded it and even extended it to Windows 11. What other merchant lets you trade up products literally over a decade old for free no questions asked? Not many, I can tell you that.
A very quick reply. Yes, I've read Julian Jaynes also, and have thought like you are thinking now. However I'm not sure how one would translate noos -- head? thoughts? feelings? Consider also that French, for example, has no word for "mind" and yet translators clearly don't shy from the word. Now this is different of course, if the point is that the Homeric Greeks didn't have the same idea of consciousness, but I think that idea can come through without ridding oneself of words like "mind." Maybe you'd prefer a word like "perception," but that introduces another burst of unhelpful associations, not least of which is its scientific and precise-sounding tone? Finally, when I read Homer, it seems clear that many characters do have, shall we say, internal deliberations, and that Homer is clear about this. So I tend to feel that Jaynes' interpretations might be best seen as tentative and unfinished.