skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a question of being smart, it's about education. People in rural areas tend to have less education and are more likely to have inadequate sexual education (abstinence only sex ed programs for example) than people in urban environments.
I read it.

A pi 4 has a very specific performance to power profile. An "i5" has no specificity.

An underclocked i5 could either be a whisper or an inferno compared to this ARM chip.

It also mentioned useful agents like GPT 3.5 as a sort of distant afterthought, which is both paid and highly non-local.
Not true. But I won’t discuss that.

Here’s something else — the most critical part of a booking — the booking itself. Go talk to third party aggregator chat bot when you realise you don’t even have a booking that you booked.

4-5 days later if you’re lucky you’ll receive an apology email if you’re lucky, which mentions that they do not want you have that experience and they’ve send it for feedback to the relevant team.

I rarely book hotels via third party aggregators now. Either direct or I use my employee’s travel assistance parter portal where I have same protections as my work travel just that I’ll have to pay from my pockets.
What I'm saying is how about we leave it up to the discretion of the developer to know whether the code their working on is valuable enough to be worthy of security concerns. I personally feel that a lot of code written by mere mortals is not, and that's not simply anecdata; it is informed by nearly 30 years of experience working on software professionally.

This is an especially ridiculous argument to be having in a world where vast numbers of programmers use Copilot day in day out on their corporate codebases, with managerial approval I might add, because productivity.

The fetishization of security for ordinary code is ridiculous imo.
Expected is not realised
A lack of comprehensive sex ed and abstinence only "education" is more common in rural areas and is associated with higher rates of teen/unplanned pregnancies. It's also likely that when unplanned pregnancies occur people in urban areas are more likely to seek abortions.
Now if they can make the Search work inside directories like it was until Windows XP. They somehow broke it in Vista and never fixed it until now.
So if you buy a municipal bond for $1 on 2010 and it’s only yielded $.50 by 2020 have you in fact lost 50% of your money? Of course not.

No one interested in investing looks at money so simplistically.
"Interesting" is subjective. So is "useful".

I assert that a useful program is more interesting than a useless one.

If it's useful (and interesting) as a program, and uninteresting as a proof, then there is a difference between proofs and programs, not at the level of the Curry-Howard Correspondence, but at the level of human life. As a program it can make your life easier; as a proof it's not going to change anyone's life in any way whatsoever.
From an outsider’s perspective, it seems like MS (meaning the “new” MS under Nadella) is more aligned under VS Code than their traditional Visual Studio product.

I don’t doubt that Visual Studio will continue to be developed, but it would surprise me to see MS direct Rust resources specifically to it when they’ve already dedicated a lot of work towards Rust in VS Code.

(This is coming from someone who feels mild resentment at how much better the Rust editing experience is in VS Code than his preferred editors.)
> I am totally in favor of changing it, but I don't think my reasons are the same as yours, sadly.

Good, then we are in agreement. I don't know what you think my reasons are but the result is the same in the end.

> anyone who stops and thinks on what they can realistically accomplish

I'd rather not take my chances with a known communist in power. In 2009-2010 he faced heavy resistance when he tried to push socialistic stuff. Now he basically owns the supreme court and the same media that resisted him back then is backing everything he does. Only chance this country has is to somehow get rid of him and put the vice president in charge. They needed him to get Bolsonaro out but now he's overstayed his welcome.
You're kind of making my point for me. A video game is by definition a simulation. If we start gate keeping what counts as "true 3d" the definition you have in mind will always be debatable. Personally I put the line at it being possible for things to be in front or behind other things (rendering appropriately, and relevant to the game mechanics). So this excludes games that were 2d game play with hard coded 3d assets, but does include "2.5d" games.

Basically I'm putting the line at actually needing to keep track of the Z coordinate for the game to work correctly. Isometric should count (provided one object sometimes obscures another otherwise in view). I don't know what else 3d could mean.
The part that everyone wonders, but can't bring themselves to say aloud for risk of sounding silly, is this:

Could the mode of thought of the ancients have been so alien to us, that (at least some aspects of) their minds are no longer comprehensible?

This isn't, after all, the only example of it. Jayne himself posited that a few millennia ago, everyone was some sort of schizoid puppets, lacking the capacity to have a will of their own.

This might not even be the sum of it. If they could be so alien, and thought in ways now incomprehensible to us, why then might it not be so that we too suffer similarly irrational ideation? Are there things important to us beyond reason, that seem to make all the sense in the world now?

Crazy talk. Stupidity. Incoherent ramblings. But that's why everyone wonders such silently, hoping the other guy will take the bait and suggest it...
We’re not “going past two”, but it’s not money holding us back. I’m the sole earner in my household, which consists of myself, my wife, and our two daughters. My income puts us right at 4x the mean household income for the county where we live.

My wife is already primarily a homemaker, and even with the two kids I have to move things around for work to pitch in when there are scheduling conflicts. The problem isn’t money - it’s time and energy. For us to have more children, we’d almost have to hire domestic help.
This is how Mastodon verified links work.
This is mostly what I encounter. An aim for simplicity with presumably the goal of clarity via abstraction that ends up with layers of layers of design pattern'ing that makes it damn near impossible to find where _something_ actually happens that isn't invoking another 3 line method.

Debugging is often a nightmare too, as you're trying to determine which abstract class is calling implementation of a given method, on top of a callstack 43 frames deep to accomplish nothing but code bloat.
They won’t stop working on it but they may pause work on it.
I used to work for Mycroft, so I'm hoping to eventually create an image that's compatible with Home Assistant pipelines.

For now, though, you may want to check out OVOS: https://openvoiceos.com/
Author here! It will be open sourced soon, but I’m embarrassed about my messy code :)

Email me at hello@taylor.town if you’re interested in joining the team
This is it. One of the "apps" I built was a slackbot for my classmates (in business school) that allows users to upload docs via slack (course notes, cases, etc.) that get embedded and you can then QA over in slack. I also added lots of hard-to-find or disparate information from our school like course reviews, registration information, calendars, etc. so we could all access it from one place.

The problem is once there are 10, 20, 30 different-but-similar documents in the vectorstore (like business school case studies), then asking the bot "what are the key takeaways from the airbnb case" grabs a bunch of useless embedded documents to provide as context. Yes, I can tell users how to ask better questions but it's a bad user experience and nobody stick with it or tries to understand why their queries don't work.

I could use hypothetical document embeddings but the problem is a lot of the cases or course notes are proprietary or not publicly available, so I would guess that the hypothetical answers the LLM would come up with won't provide much better context.

This was built with langchain + pinecone.

edit: I think smarter people than I are working on a lot of better ways to do this, but I think one potential solution is to apply metadata to each document when embedding it (e.g., ask the LLM to apply any number of X preset metadata tags) and then, when retrieving context from the vectorstore, filtering the results by those tags.
Your ADHD will be your biggest challenge. Unless you find a way to keep focused, how will you invest enough grit and determination for long enough to make any business work?

Perhaps find a non-developer cofounder, who has complementary skills to yours, and who is a bit more obsessive about making just one business work. Find an idea that interests you both enough to stick at it.

I co-founded with someone in part because I admired his tenacity, and that helped keep me focused. We also co-founded with two others that had other complementary skills to us (four founders with a successful result is uncommon). We had worked together so we had some ideas of each others morals, strengths, and weaknesses. We just did a boring miniscule B2B sector, but we had worked on parts of it together before at our job, so risk was relatively low.
I would have gone with Quissh, (pronounced "quiche")
It's based on abstinence only sex ed being more common in rural areas and also linked to higher rates of unplanned/teen pregnancies.
Cars are absolutely packed with software, and that’s never going to change. The question will only be if that software is getting regular updates or just safety critical recall type updates.

Auto makers have gotten away with basically walking away from their software once they “ship” a given model year, and then leaving their owners to deal with whatever issues are present. And the issues are certainly plentiful, and I don’t just mean in the infotainment system.

Cars are also now required in the US and EU to have a myriad of advanced safety systems which require complex software which often performs poorly. Emergency braking, lane departure warning, emergency lane keeping, drowsiness/attention monitoring, intelligent speed assist, etc. All this software will be constantly evolving as technology improves to better avoid false positives and false negatives, but most brands will only provide the best software for their newest model years and leave the existing fleet with whatever they were able to achieve at the time it shipped.

Then there are features like intelligent speed assist which alerts drivers when they are speeding, which requires up-to-date maps and speed limit recognition in order to maintain accuracy.

This is all before we get into further developments of more advanced driver assistance and drive automation that will eventually be achieved.

The reality is that driving kills hundreds of thousands of people and causes trillions of dollars in economic damages every year due to human error or human callousness, and software is the only way out of this bloodbath.

So despite a niche desire by some drivers to own “legacy hardware” the market through strict regulation will continue to incorporate highly advanced and complex software features into automobiles, and ultimately human driving will be a relic, along with the massive toll of lost human life that went along with it.

In the meantime, given that complex software stacks are a regulatory requirement for every new car today, it’s a massive advantage to have that software maintained and upgraded across the whole fleet instead of only releasing upgrades with each successive model year and leaving the existing fleet with sub-standard safety systems.
This isn't really news, see this from June 17 2022:

> "According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest Drilling Productivity Report, oil output in the Permian Basin will surpass 5.3 million barrels per day in July. The agency forecasts that crude volumes from the western part of Texas and the south-eastern part of New Mexico will go up from a record 5,232 thousand barrels per day (Mbbl/d) in June to 5,316 Mbbl/d next month. The projected production figure for July would be a new high for America’s biggest oil field and reflects the steady addition of rigs. As proof of improvement in activity, the rig count in the Permian Basin has risen to 344 from an all-time low of 116 in August 2020.... As crude prices hover around the $120-barrel level, production is expected to increase in six of the seven unconventional plays, with the largest gain of 84,000 barrels per day seen in the Permian Basin."

https://money.yahoo.com/surging-oil-prices-push-permian-1157...

Now, what factor above all other led to the steep increase in global oil prices? The Ukraine war, and the resulting sanctions on Russian oil exports. Why did the Ukraine war break out, and why was a diplomatic solution not pursued? Maybe this is all just part of a plan: war creates scarcity, scarity increases prices, and higher prices means more profits.

Oil exporting interests don't want to see an end to the war, I imagine - nor an escalation to nuclear conflict, which would be bad for business. A perpetual relatively slow burn is their ideal long-term goal.

The countries suffering the most economic drain as a result are the oil importers, Germany etc. - but, on the silver lining side, this situation is encouraging a more rapid adoption of renewable energy technology on a global scale.
You always choose the lesser of two weevils.
Example: if you chose to develop your app in Electron it's never ever going to be close to as fast and stable as it could be?
This page is delivered with the media type of text/html, not application/xhtml+xml. So it's not even using XHTML.
The lack of any counter-forces against the anti-social/genuine-pieces-of-shit is getting awfully problematic.

I really want to believe in society, in believing in one another, in treating each other ok. When people consistently act like asshats & there's zero counterforce we can apply, it creates real & terrible tension. It destabizes.

My like weird next world view is we just start logging online people who are total asshats & let their bad acts accrue and accrue until it's just blisteringly obvious to all what a dillweed someone is, for many reasons, for consistently being a turd to many people, ongoingly, and to let society easily just recognize that.
I built a thing that splices HackerNews into an RSS Reader so you can see it all in the same place.

What's neat is it ingests the points from HackerNews, so you can splice the feeds together in a way that preserves the ranking of both feeds.

website: www.spronket.com
tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4ZqLro0-o

lmk if you have any questions or feature requests
> I say the are credible based on my own understanding of how OS usage changed, being there myself at the time.

This is a classic example of a confirmation bias. How would you know the statistics from that time? Based on anecdotal observations from 20 years ago?
2010-2020 period is on average 8 years ago. Was there really an expectation of >6% capital recovery?
According to https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... :

> "a gravitational field of about 0.15 g is necessary to provide effective orientation information"

That's slightly less than lunar gravity (0.165 g). But, it's about the minimum amount needed to be able to use gravity to detect orientation, and is not necessarily enough to detect it reliably. That's thought to be one reason astronauts fell so often on the moon, although there were certainly other factors as well.

The paper also observes:

> Benson [30] showed that 0.22 g was not adequate to provide a vertical reference during experiments in the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) on board Spacelab and Clément et al. [31] showed that in microgravity, 0.5 g provided by a centrifuge was enough to produce a perceived tilt of 90°. These values suggest that indeed it is likely to be the case that even after adaptation to a microgravity environment, forces in excess of 0.15–0.3 g are required to provide a behaviourally useful gravitational reference.

To answer your question, since vision is an important part of our orientation mechanism (also analyzed in the linked paper), it's likely that astronauts on the moon would have more difficulty with their eyes closed. Not necessarily that they'd have no sense of up at all, but that it wouldn't necessarily be accurate, so if they tried to walk with their eyes closed, they'd be much more likely to fall.
I personally believe that VR headsets will become increasingly popular in the future due to their many different use cases. However, looking from an outsider's perspective, it doesn't seem like Meta has used their $30 billion investment efficiently. While their research demos are impressive, it's hard to justify such a massive investment for what we've seen so far.

Furthermore, Meta may have reason to worry about Apple's upcoming VR headset, which is rumored to have significantly better specs and enable users to perform tasks that the current Quest headset can't. For example, the rumored 4k screens could potentially serve as a viable replacement for monitors, the M1 silicon could deliver much better graphics, etc. Additionally, Apple's ecosystem is likely to attract a larger number of developers to create more applications.

Because the rumored price of Apple's headset is so high ($3000), Meta may still have some time to cement themselves as the VR company. I can't help but wonder if the situation will end up playing out similarly to the release of smartwatches for Android vs the Apple Watch. Android smartwatches hit the market first, but Apple ultimately took over the industry after releasing their product.
Yes. Dammit. Saturn V (thank you)
> Terrible analogy.

I agree, it's a terrible analogy if I was attempting to make the argument you thought I was trying to make, per your explanation for why it's a terrible analogy.

My point is that it's invalid to say that Waymo operators don't have "control" of the vehicle because it can refuse to perform some tasks. Because my car can refuse to perform some tasks too.

The deeper point is that the difference between "in control" and "not in control" isn't binary. It's all points along a continuum. If a Waymo operator controls a vehicle remotely, it's not the same level of control as a human holding the steering wheel. But it's still control in the larger sense. If the operator wants the car to stop, it will stop. Period. If they want the car to perform some action that isn't stupid or dangerous (such as colliding with a pedestrian) it will perform that action.

> If anything, calling FSD "autonomous" is highly misleading

I agree. Which is why I didn't. In most situations FSD beta can handle the "full" task of driving. By "full", they mean it's not intended to be limited to a strict subset of task, e.g. only on highways. It can "fully self drive" the car competently at least ~99.9% of the time, as evidenced by the fact that it can routinely drive most roads reliably. Drives shown on YouTube are mostly owners intentionally looking for roads which flummox it, as that's how they show improvements as software updates are released.

The challenges which preclude FSD from being a system capable of autonomy — the 0.1% of remaining error — isn't errors in spatial awareness or control surface failure. It's stuff like path planning and road sign interpretation, neither of which involve sensors that Tesla vehicles lack.
Again that's the opposite of my experience. If I've booked on Booking.com my booking is right there, on their website and in my inbox. If I book directly with the hotel, do I have a booking? Uh, maybe. Roll of the dice when I show up.
I use hotwire maybe a few times a year and it has happened twice to me that the hotel they claimed was booked did not have the reservation. Most 3rd party booking sites don't have real time access to inventory, so if you book close to the same time that someone books direct, you can easily end up overbooked.

I think in the first case, they gave me a refund and I rebooked another through hotwire last minute. In the other case, the area was very booked up and I had to pay double to get a comparable room. So I had to send hotwire the invoice and they refunded the rate plus enough to cover the more expensive option. Both times was a huge inconvenience but that is sort of the price you pay for cheap 3rd party bookings.
The great de-twittering continues. This online space has no plans to ever make itself better & more connected. Unaffordable for most. Strictly worse from here on out.
Meanwhile I’m worried about running 5v across 300’ of 16 gauge stranded…
Oh wow. That’s a no from me dawg.
IIRC recently there's an AI trained in multiple disciplines that is making useful theories from cross-disciplinary correlations. Or maybe I dreamt it.

Anyway, the thinking is that humans take so long to learn that we can't master two or more disciplines, and there's useful stuff in the gaps between disciplines that's actually quite easy to discover for even a simple AI model if it can be taught enough.

It's not quite the same as extrapolating General Relativity, but it could be a case where AI advances the body of knowledge.
Textual: A framework for terminal user interfaces
> Why couldn't this have been done through market competition?

It hasn't been, so something's gone wrong.

This is often the result of regulatory capture. For example, the DMCA makes it illegal for third parties to break the tractor company's DRM. Independent repair shops don't want to get arrested or sued, so there aren't as many willing to go into business repairing tractors.

You can't solve a problem with competition when you don't have a competitive market.

If you have the political power to repeal Section 1201 of the DMCA or any of the other laws preventing market competition, please do so. But it was passed in 1998 and the problems it would lead to were already understood in 1998 and it's still on the books.

State legislatures can't repeal the DMCA and many other competition-destroying regulations because they're federal. They can pass right to repair legislation. If you don't like right to repair legislation, direct your efforts to repealing the federal regulations that generate the demand for it.
One obvious way is to pay attention to comments based on quality, not quantity ... but good luck getting widespread adoption of that metric.

(on a less cynical front, I am fond of "The STASM Formula", cf https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa... )
Got a Time Machine?
Vorbis and later Opus contained a lot of contributions from Mozilla.
The only "law" the executive broke was making the judge angry. Even the other judges acknowledged he was wrongly detained and released him. Says so in the article.
Thanks. I updated the post!
If your SaaS is self-service, consider running some experiments in Google AdWords. You're going to want to target keywords searching for your solution or describing the problem. These are users with intent, so you should be able to convert a small % of them if your solution solves their problem.

If your product requires a meeting and demo to convince someone to sign up and give you $19, consider how you can convey the messaging from the meeting and demo in your website marketing (e.g demo video, trial version etc), so you can try more scalable approaches like AdWords.
Microsoft spends a lot of money on software security, particularly on a large body of software written by them in unsafe programming languages; spending less money is good business.

Microsoft makes a great deal of money selling software to companies and governments that are increasingly convinced that memory safe software is in their best interests; maintaining those business ties is also worth a great deal of money.
It does depend on the influencer, but the vast majority of twitch and TikTok influencers are pretty home bound.