skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched from macOS to Fedora/GNOME three years ago, and I'm perfectly happy with it. I've seen useful features added and improved in that time. One day I'm going to give KDE a serious try, but GNOME does almost everything I like the way I like it out of the box.

There's tons of desktop environments to choose from. I don't get why so many people seem personally offended by GNOME when all you have to do is choose something else.
Is putting people in jail for not paying property taxes a better solution? If not, then wouldn't a "no" ruling here effectively make it legal to not pay your taxes?
Summarize Web Articles Fast
This app does the following:
- Summarizes web articles (even form Apple News)
- chatGPT on Apple Watch and iPhone/iPad/Mac
A Person of Compute
Then you did something wrong. SQLite has phenomenal performance for many workloads: https://www.golang.dk/articles/benchmarking-sqlite-performan...
It is at least well known in France that tv channels ought to produce or broadcast a minimum percentage of french show.
Hatchbacks FTW! I would totally buy an electric or even a hybrid Fit.
Presentation slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pantuza/kubecon-europe-2023-ingestin...
Anything interesting or valuable on the internet will move to walled gardens which require some sort of human verification. Anything in front of a paywall/sign in link will be just advertising (arguably this has already happened but it will accelerate).
I put far too much time into my server but now that it's up and running it requires zero input. I tell it what I want to watch and it serves it to me on a gold platter.
Zero Trust Network for Microservices with Istio
With Microsoft making more money in cloud both via and on Linux I have no doubt they really do love Linux to the tune of billions of dollars per year associated with it. Just don't mistake one love for Linux as having the same interests as another.
PBS Eons on YT does a good job of diving into the many and extreme phases that Earth has seen. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LdMWlNYS4&list=PLi6K9w_Ubf...

Also, Darwin wrote a lot about the extreme variations that we see in the 'balanced' ecosystem. He tallied up the birds near him and found that ~4/5ths of all the birds would die every winter. He remarked that a 10% death rate illness in humans would be considered a huge event, but that every year, nearly all the birds near him just up and die. This was in a passage on how the 'balance' that we see is really just a lot of species furiously competing with each other and trying to eek out minuscule improvements in the deadly chaos.
I'd suggest that's the elephant in your room ...

Hope you have a good poop-scooper.
To me it’s when clicks have formed. And discussing choices/tech options becomes a debate group of A vs B. And whoever screams the loudest will win.

Some of my coworkers have opted to use the git-flow workflow :(
Schools are ditching homework, deadlines in favor of ‘equitable grading’
One is a solution that fixes the issue now, the other is us hoping for shareholders to eventually do the morally right thing (which is a silly thing to expect).
It's quite misleading, actually. GBoard uses Federated Learning [0] so that models are trained locally on the device and keywords are not sent to the central server. Both Google and iOS use Federated Learning, Federated Evaluation & Tuning, Differential Privacy, and other privacy-preserving AI techniques and/or on-device ML to avoid sending user data to the server. Both have done so publicly since 2017 and have published many papers and talks on the subject.

0: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05629
I am also interested in audio analysis such as this - audio file goes in and a text-based response with some kind of deconstructed report (key, chord progressions, BPM, harmonic qualities, etc).
I’m in the same camp. I got my son a Mini 3, which is a stellar quadcopter in its own right, but the DJI ecosystem is a spectacle to behold for some good and many bad reasons.

One issue could be that they don’t communicate compatibility between devices very well, so it’s very hard to know if buying one thing will lead to being very limited and locked in — even within the DJI ecosystem. People often find themselves needing to buy more equipment to accomplish seemingly trivial things. For example, the controller we got can’t install apps and it doesn’t work with a multitude of other quads DJI sells. Why not? Are they good reasons or bad? Where can I find clear explanations? I’m sure the controller is very resource constrained, but can’t I just opt into bad performance if I don’t mind? Is the controller incompatible with other quads due to radio protocols, or is this a choice intended to force eventual upgrades?

Without being able to tell with certainty, sometimes it begins to seem a little manufactured and nefarious.

Otherwise, the fact that their protocols are all proprietary and I can’t use the controller with custom quads is very frustrating. I have a Radio Master TX12 that I can’t use with any DJI products, and a DJI controller I can’t use with any custom quads already built or that I could ever build.

That’s all crazy. Sure, tight integration means better performance, but the extent to which it’s closed off is unreal.

Although the Mini 3 is a genuinely awesome device, I don’t think I’ll buy DJI again. I think I’d rather buy into open VTX hardware and use my own camera to record footage. It’s a huge compromise in convenience and upfront cost, but if you care a lot about the hobby it’s perhaps well worth it. The flexibility afforded is enormous.
Start with a used Mavic Mini. Seriously.

They're like $200, and will teach you what you want in a drone. That way, when you go to spend real money on one, you'll be able to make an informed decision.

If you can't spare the $200, I'd argue you probably shouldn't be diving deep into this hobby. You certainly shouldn't be spending $3k on this one.
Helium-3 for fusion.
It's not so painful and most pain comes from Linux insistence on /proc-based APIs as opposed to something similar to Solaris-descendants where it's a json spec (I think xml originally)
I think there is a special trick that happens many places in math. When you are given a visual, and then some integral or derivative is applied to it, you need to pause and make sure to truly include that in the mental model. Often I find math videos go far too fast through this section and I have to re-watch that specific spot and even pause and just ponder on how does the integral or derivative change what I was working with.
Yes, I support tactical racism to decrease the amount of systemic racism.

Not sure why, assuming you're also an engineering type, this would be a surprising statement. That's how change works.

Anything shy of that (e.g. egalitarianism) is simply freezing the status quo after it's already been massively tilted.
By this logic big tech companies could never make mistakes since they all have legions of data and analysts, which is just objectively not true. Collecting the right data, analyzing it well, and using that to make the right product and business decisions is non-trivial work. Some folks think that you can blindly throw big data at a problem to solve it, but that is usually not the case.
The full article: https://archive.ph/LqMuk
It's the same in Haskell, Erlang and Elixir.
Where's "the internet"'s source code ? Is it on GitHub ?

I agree that Mastodon being the first success is a bad take but the internet is not an open-source project. There are RFC's, protocols, but that's not what open-source is.
It largely depends on when you bought them. Like this article portrays, they're figuring out ways to make the "same" product cheaper and cheaper.
My point is that it's not the less obvious way! It's been the norm for ages now to refer to people by their place of birth - NOT their chosen nationality.

It's only been a very recent move in social history to question this and instead ask why aren't we placing more importance on their environmental upbringing.
I liked: Türkisch für Anfänger, Dark, Kleo, ans Stromberg. Unfortunately I’d say IMHO if you’re accustomed to US series you won’t find a lot of German ones that stand up to the production values and acting quality. Dark is a notable exception there I think.
How to be a good software tech interviewer?
> - Edit: Forgot trying to turn the Xbox One into an always-online TV set-top box

people call this a terrible idea, i thought it was a great fucking idea. At the time, and frankly still, streaming apps are mostly what we use tvs for these days, and the platforms to run them that are shipped INSIDE of the tvs we buy fucking suck, uniformly.

While the xbox was built as a gaming console initially all they really wanted to do was expand that notion. It could be an everything box for your '10 ft experience' It could play games, and be a dvr, and be a streaming interface, and and and. They could easily spin out another sku with lower specs to curtail some of the gaming power and make a more streaming focused box (like an apple tv but by microsoft) and sell that to the parents while selling the beefy gaming one to the kids.

I think the thing that sunk it was some Orwellian notion about the kinect. It's awesome tech, get a siri/alexa plus body tracking. The biggest downside being that MS's stance on privacy is 'peasants get no privacy'. At the time siri/alexa were still in their early stages and people were creeped out by them. Siri with eyes was extra repellent.

Well that and gamers throwing a fit because they didn't want their gaming console to be useful to their parents and other non gamers ...
What if Fungi were the key to our technological advancement? If we could make fungal computers we could become a bio-technical race like Species 8472 in Star Trek Voyager Season 3 Episode 26.
> If he had wanted to write a neutral point of view article about how he would like to see the self driving industry report safely stats that would be worthwhile but this just seems to be ragging on what one company is doing when everyone else doesn’t report this stuff at all and there isn’t an acceptable industry standard yet. Like do we have statistics from GM’s Cruise self driving unit, or Google Waymo?

Ugh, completely wrong. Have you heard of CA DMV disengagement/crash reports? Waymo and Cruise provide detailed reports of incidents to regulatory authorities. In fact, Waymo goes out of its way to publish detailed safety data about their operations: https://waymo.com/safety/
It does a similar sort of thing - asymmetric offset propellors shunt the frequency of what gets emitted way down. It still emits a similar amount of energy, but the direction of emission changes, and with the lower frequency, there's a lower perceived sound. Toroidal props actually have less sound coming off them, and at a lower frequency. I've got some ideas about how you'd potentially then have a greater spread of frequency by creating an offset toroidal, but I suspect the efficiency goes down, and I've got better things to do with my time than model sound profiles of weird, hard to manufacture (other than printing) prop geometries.

Related note - the offset bit is similar to how car tyres work by having patterns in the tyre which spread the frequency response generated by each, so they don't have a multiplicative effect.

(I can get really boring on applications of acoustic design but I'll cut off there)
Show HN: Lexi – NLP App for Web Scraping, Info Extraction, Document Clustering
Hi all,
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Lexi.

Lexi is a SaaS AI application that:

- Performs named entity recognition on thousands of documents at once.

- Documents can be uploaded by the user or scraped off the web.

- Clusters documents.

- Allows to edit and add new entities to create your own training dataset.

- It’s NOT based on OpenAI’s API.

This is an MVP at this point - the front end is not slick, it’s just functional; feature-wise, I have added the bare minimum to be usable.

If you are curious and would like to give it a go, you can start a free trial - it doesn’t require a credit card: https://lexi.celestria.co/freetrial/

Once you log in, go to the ‘Lexi Home’ menu and click on the ‘How it works’ link where you’ll find videos showing what you can do with the app.

Looking forward to your feedback and support.

Thank you!
I most recently watched Extraordinary Attorney Woo and recommended it to many friends. The show was whole hearted and felt like a breath of fresh air. It evolved characters in a positive way and overall was positive and made me smile after most episodes.

My girlfriend watches a few shows too, including Single's Inferno. Dating shows aren't my typical genre, but in the few episodes I saw the interactions were modeled to be overall more respectful and positive compared with the US produced shows.

A few other folks commented on similar trends. Fictional works don't need to represent every negative aspect of the real world, they are fiction after all.
>Reductionist victim blaming

Victim-blaming? What exactly are you the victim of here? Netflix not having shows you like.

>Pessimism is not healthy.

Your entire post was to complain that Netflix is failing.

>I am dissappointed that model has, apparently, failed and they are pivoting away into yet another low brow, low IQ, garbage distributor

Can't get much more elitist than this, can it?

There is tons of good content on Netflix. And Orange is the New Black wasn't very good, imho.
I assume the issue is not the energy density but the support density.

I have a 3DR Solo and it can carry up to 1 lb of extra weight for 20 minutes or so on a full charge, and run for 30ish minutes while only carrying its gimbal.

The battery in the 3DR Solo weighs about 1.3 lbs itself, and the frame is by no means lightweight. Assembled it weighs at least 70% more than the Mavic 2 Pro that I occasionally get to use at work.

To fly my drone, the 3dr solo draws an average of 14.2 volts at 15 amps (so close to 200 watts on average) but up to 800 watts at peak.

You would need an ICE and Generator combo that can put out an average 200 watts of constant power but that can peak at 800 for short periods that weighs less than 2.3 lbs including fuel that runs for more than 20 minutes to equal that 1 battery.

For instance, this is one of the most well known and light RC ICE machines:

http://www.mecoa.com/hp/vt/21.htm

It weighs 9.5 oz and runs for 45 minutes on 6 oz of diesel (probably not at maximum output, but still.)

So you're at roughly 1 lb (assuming 1/2 oz of screws and tubes to connect the motor to the fuel and both to the frame.

However, there is an issue here. This motor is rated at .35 hp. 1 hp is roughly 746 watts of power. That means max rev, full bore, this 1 ICE only has enough power before conversion losses to hover my 3dr solo in calm winds.

So, let's find a bigger motor.

https://hobbyking.com/en_us/ngh-gt17-17cc-gas-engine-with-rc...

This one is much better. 1.8 hp at max revs, so 1300+ watts. But, it weighs 1.87 lbs.

Add in fuel and you're at the max, so good to go, right?

Well, the next problem is that even though we have an engine, we don't have a generator to convert from fuel to electric.

You would also need some supercapacitors or batteries to store the charge, some system to integrate the control of the motor into the drone, more mounting materials.

And, you are already over the weight limit. That doesn't mean it can't be solved, for instance you could use a hexacopter or octocopter to increase how much carrying capacity you have.

Basically, you can do it, but there are better ways to do it. You would have to design an ICE RC Drone from scratch accounting for all of the intricacies and difficulties of using combustion engines in a drone and controlling them safely just to get what will probably be a slower, more expensive and more fragile drone that breaks down more often and needs frequent servicing intervals.
Unfortunately they put a dent on the availability of legal content too, in the past few years, by becoming producers and pushing media conglomerates off their platform. Which makes pirating an attractive proposition yet again.
I don't know man, I feel pretty great when eating fries :)
Show HN: Fiolet – Seamlessly integrate crypto payments
Hi HN. Fiolet lets startups to start accepting payments in cryptocurrency. We've talked to both sellers and buyers about their experiences with paying for something in cryptocurrencies. Some buyers lost money during the payment process, while others didn't have control over their funds because they would end up at the address of their "crypto bank." We also tried using these tools ourselves to understand why they were built this way and what we could improve. As a result, we created Fiolet and made several changes to approach these issues in a different way.

For merchants, we have enabled payments to go directly into your self-custody wallet. This allows you to avoid hidden fees and withdraw limits.

For buyers, we have made the payment process as convenient as possible. Simply connect your web3 wallet, select your payment method, and click Pay button. This process eliminates the human factor, making errors impossible.

Under the hood, we have our own tricky payment identification system that allows us to avoid using third-party smart contracts (which are constantly being hacked) and temporary wallets (resulting in 2-3x network fees).

It would be great if you could try integrating crypto payments, and look forward to hearing your feedback and suggestions!
Seen Librewolf?
> Legitimately, do you believe that people posting on internet forums is an effective means of getting someone to change their minds?

Some percentage of them? Yes. Unfortunately, there's no way to know when that happens, so it's very easy to assume it doesn't.

> My take is that by the time the poster goes through the effort to post, they have adopted [insert view here] into their personal belief system; they're not seeking answers.

If what you're saying is true, what's the logic behind censoring people? Nobody is able to convince anyone of anything anyway.
People developing their own frameworks make a lot of simplifying assumptions that turn out not to be true, and then it makes it very difficult to walk them back later. Often people get defensive and try to argue that this is a feature.

Leaving out your deep pocketed customers seems like a pretty dumb move to me.
Software bugs
I mean… it’s all crap in the end, right?

Aren’t we just supposed to have a healthy mix of fats, proteins, carbs and fibre in a sensible portion size related to how much energy you usually expend over a given period?
It's just tiresome. You know the cars are safe. You want to say they're unsafe. But you can't, because they're safe. So you're yelling about what amounts to marketing strategy.

Which, fine. Everyone does bad marketing, there's lots to yell about. Maybe consider yelling about the deceptive marketing practices of a product you do use? There are lots to choose from.
There were points in my career where I knew something was happening and was into certain technologies or communities: Linux, wifi, Drupal, Subversion, Apple Cocoa programming, Twitter, OpenStreetMap, the list goes on. A tiny core of people knew the potential, but 99%+ of the world didn’t know nor care what it was. There were just as many, or more, that died out, but my point is that measuring how many people have heard of a thing is not a great metric.
We grow the clothes we eat, and we eat the clothes we grow.

Mahalo.
overall, the economy is not "fair" by most measures.. older industries do not get new influx of dollars and talent.. people only want to pay so much for a commodity product.

... far from defending John Deere, instead realize that this is an example of a truly "political" problem.. the needs and wants of direct stakeholders are vastly one-sided, compared to the outputs over time for the rest of society.
I still see no reason why should a private company be allowed to risk the lives of those who never willingly participated in their study.

There are human trials for drugs as well, but those are only the latest phase, and with explicit permission.
Robust, reliable applications can be written in python.
The mistake was made 20 years ago, and now the German public seems to start to realize that it was a mistake. For some of us, this is like seeing a train crash in slow motion.

During the tsunami in 2011 (that led to a minor nuclear incident), my facepalm moment was when I realized that the death toll from the tsunami would be eclipsed 1000-fold by the anti-nuclear fallout. (And the nuclear part would be eclipsed 1,000,000-fold).
I remember opening up a new HP laptop with Windows installed, around 2016. Out of curiosity I installed Wireshark and inspected some of the outgoing packets from pre-installed software on the Windows system. Alongside the usual telemetry, I found some packets being sent to an IP registered by the US military, straight to a military base, no proxy or anything. Maybe there’s a perfectly non-nefarious explanation but that investigation sure felt like it confirmed my suspicions…
Losing 1M users is not good, but isn't the real question how many accounts they lost?

> The move was linked to a fall in users of more than a million, two thirds of whom were using someone else’s password, according to Kantar’s research, which is based on surveys of household streaming habits.

This makes it seem like they lost 333k customers. I don't know how many customers they have in Spain, but that sounds like a lot. But what does it mean to be "using someone else's password"? Does that include me, using my wife's password? I feel like more clarity is needed.
How come the UK is the one that blocks this? Aren't those US based companies?
If you believe that then I think you haven't spent much time out in nature. Some wild species populations boom and crash in chaotic ways even in areas that haven't been impacted much by humans. Nature is far from stable on any time scale longer than a year.
How do you reconcile this belief with big tech companies being some of the largest bureaucracies on Earth, yet they continually build incredible and unique products?
I'd submit the Mill, but it's not like it exists.
Just try stuff out, you have your whole life to figure out what works for you diet wise. You won't die if you cut out carbs or meat or only eat hard boiled eggs for a week or something.

It may feel like a huge sacrifice eating a hyper-restrictive diet for 2-3 weeks but you have thousands of weeks of life. Personally I feel pretty dialed in with a diet high in fatty meats (beef, salmon) fibrous carbs and cooked vegetables (raw vegetables mess my stomach up).

Currently I am playing around with my "default weight" and if it can be adjusted. There is a weight we all sit at if we eat a relatively healthy diet to satiety and I am wondering if it can be adjusted.
i.e. if someone sits at 170-180 for years and then goes through some intense shift that drops them to 150, will they bounce all the way back to their old "normal" range or is a new lower one established where they can consume the same number of calories to satiety but their weight remains in the lower range.
>Here's an idea - quality over quantity. Make fewer, but better shows and movies.

What an insight.

But how do you determine what's "high quality" and what isn't? You don't think Netflix is trying to measure that?
The default is 500 chars iirc, but yeah. Entirely configurable (and many modify it in practice), and most servers will pull in much larger ones than they allow to be published, so you can get a novel in your feed if you follow people who do that.
Characters in modern takes on historical media have always been heavily modified. Why is editing their gender or skin tone not okay?

Also, can't you just scroll past a carousel representing a genre you're not interested in? Are other carousels for things like musicals woke too?
"You know HN is a social site, right?"

You know we're talking about social networks, right?
That’s really interesting and helps explain all sorts of things in my life. Thanks for the link.