skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. In my experience, the scenarios where NIR picks up a difference due to heat are very limited. Years ago, I did a test and there was no visible difference with an electric stovetop until it was set to medium[1], which would be more than enough to severely burn your skin.

A physicist once emailed me to say that it's possible to pick up NIR emissions from a soldering iron, but only in a dark room.

Beyond the sensor limitations, MWIR and LWIR require special optics, because regular glass is opaque to them. The last time I looked into it, the glass was usually germanium-based.

One can do some neat stuff with actual thermal imaging. I was lucky enough to get a FLIR E4 when they could have the firmware replaced to turn them into an E8. 320x240 resolution is still pretty low, but having seen the difference between that and the stock 160x120, I'd not want to use a sensor with a resolution any lower than 320x240 or so.

[1] Scroll way down to the "Stovetop Bokeh (Stove on Medium-High)" section of https://www.beneaththewaves.net/Photography/Thermal_versus_N...
We can imagine that micro-USB got standardized in 2015, so in anticipation of that the first USB-C phone I bought that year came with micro-USB instead.

The law would then have been reassessed in 2020, at which point some EU bureaucrats would have had to weigh "reversible connector" etc. on one hand, and "take the career fall for forcing half a billion people to buy new chargers" on the other.

I'm pretty sure that in this scenario I'd still be using micro -USB in 2050.

I live in the EU, and I can't even drive two countries over without encountering incomparable electric sockets, and that's 19th century technology.

I think that says something about how willing the EU is to standardize, v.s. rocking the boat.
I've worked with a business partner for 20 years. I prototype rapidly; he perfects and makes a sparkling gem of a product. Everybody we know, knows this, hires us because of this.

We've hired others in the past for special skills - building data schemas, graphic designers, problem solvers, debugging and testing. Because there are many skill sets.

I understand the OP very well. We'd all do better by understanding this!
Can you crack this code in Shakespeare's First Folio?
Getting KDE Apps to Our Users
Holding aside the other points, them holding wealth of immense size is anti-inflationary because they’re holding their wealth and not spending it. If you released their wealth into the economy overall to be freely spent on Doritos by everyone, that would cause inflation. One reason raising interest rates decreases inflation is it causes more savings (to collect interest) and less leveraged spending (to decrease debt and interest payments). The wealthy tend to retain their wealth as savings regardless of interest rates simply because they can’t possibly spend it all that fast.
I thought someone here might have some ideas about this. Apparently there's a strange code someone wrote in this First Folio that no one can figure out.
Cannabis use disorder link to schizophrenia stronger in young males than females
Wow, while I’m not worried about my handle, that is so dumb.
Losing arbitrary code doesn't magically remove iOS's sandboxing.
And if "negative press about profits" can lead to a threat to their revenues in some way, then it would appear something other than "research no longer depending on prestige" can do so, right?

I would guess US federal (and other) government mandates for open access when receiving publishing are part of it -- and the increasing general "public" discussion of the market ("negative press about profits" if you like) has something to do with those government mandates, sure.

But yes, there is currently a bit of a battle going on, where the universities that largely pay for the journals are trying to change the way the market works -- while trying not to disrupt publishing and promotion too much -- while the major publishers try to find a way to counter-move that preserves or increases their huge profit margins anyway.

Absolutely. I think we basically agree. Except I don't see why you'd describe this changing situation as "so nothing will change as long as academic careers depend on prestige".

I gather you work for a major publisher, which perhaps makes you sympathetic to their position? (And yes, I already revealed I am a librarian, which makes me sympathetic to the position of those paying the subscription bills).
No disagreements there. Spelunking is a great word for it, but spelunking is a requirement for most "deep" unreal engine development. On the other hand, its incredibly empowering to switch your ide to build UnrealBuildTool, and put "My project Development Win64" as the arguments and be able to debug the build tool there and then to see what it's actually doing.
They can include that port near usbc port, or they can propose that port to be the new usb standard, but do you need more than 240W charging and 40gbps data transfer in a phone? Or to be more precise, how many phones are using full usbc capacity?
That comparison is very misleading, borderline wrong at times, written before any of those phones have been released and hence making tons of assumptions. Librem 5 is much more performant than PinePhone, running circles around the latter due to RAM bandwidth, L2 cache, GPU power, eMMC speed, thermal characteristics... It's actually closer to PinePhone Pro, which is faster but still immature.
Talking a year from now. Or 5.

How does anyone advance?

People will stop trying, USB-C is just the mandate.

Why spend money building alternatives?

It’s adding a barrier to tech that shouldn’t be there.
I like being right in the middle of this spectrum. I used to be really far into "rewrite", but now I've seen what can be done with proper discipline. We've been able to roll with the same monolith for about 5 years now. The biggest perceived benefit for me is the common ground it provides for the business & our customers. Everyone has been speaking the same language for a really long time now and the benefits of that have accumulated. I've been allowed to forget about code & processes that I helped develop because they became so stable that someone else assumed complete ownership. The last time I personally built our software from source (with intent to publish/deliver to a customer) was circa 2020.

If we were to rewrite this thing from zero with reckless abandon, all of that confidence & trust that built up over half a decade would be lost. We are in the process of investigating alternative architectures, but we are doing it in a way where we minimize how much we have to involve our customers and other team members. Things like "backwards compatible configuration" and "don't change the UI if it works" are headline in our greenfield.
These are best projects. You get to do the fun part and don't need to support the product. And you get paid.
Interesting concept. The constant modifiers in Emacs are really such a turn-off. I want to give Emacs another try, but I cannot understand why functionalities are accessed like this in the first place. In sublime text, with ctrl+shift+p I can access most of the functionalities I need. Still a weird key combination, but sure beat ctrl+x ctrl+f...

Edit: I am still not sure why it isn't just something more direct like ctrl+j, since it is used so much, maybe someone can enlighten me...
Yes, but they struggle with consumer software too (car software being consumer software, but also finance stuff is often terrible even when targeted as the mass market).
I annoyingly had to zoom in and out to read some of the texts on this site on mobile.

Not to mention the deplorable scroll-hijack.

I think we may need a whole series of rebellions.
My iPhone has a lightning port and wireless charging. That's two.

How long until wireless charging is the default? Particularly combined with the iPhone's magsafe that allows charging to occur while the device is at any orientation?
How many phones have you seen with multiple different ports for the exact same purpose: charging?
> Your example of "I can tell when my food is burnt" is a poor one. Can you tell a quality scientific paper?

Think of it in these terms: don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. The science isn’t the issue. The money is.

Academic publishing is much like the US healthcare system, bond rating companies and various other interests, industries and organizations in that through quirks of the path of history they find themselves in a position to extract rents either through regulation, historic convention, effective monopoly and/or misplaced incentives.

When the current state is shown to be obviously deficient, these rent seekers among other strategies will say it’s much too complicated and there are you simple solutions. If you dream that there might be you simply don’t understand the problem.
I work with graphic/UI designers and I have to be the one to advocate for using more than color to differentiate states, and to meet acceptable contrast ratios. And don't get me started on hiding things behind hard to discover hover states. The managers who are supposed to oversee the development of these products don't give a shit about accessibility. Sad state of affairs.
The bad press was because it was a proprietary-connector-against-a-newer-proprietary-connector.

Had Apple changed for USB-C at the time, or USB mini, it would have made the same positive press as when the Macbook Pro got back to normal (ie not “Here’s a single port for everything, go buy an Apple dongle if you want to plug a screen”).
Is writer pay up or down? Depends how you look at it
I still find it expensive for a thermal imager. I personally bought a Chinese Guide PC210 for €216 shipped, and that includes 21% VAT, for a whole unit and not just a sensor. For another €15 I got a ZnSe lens for macro use.

Not only is it cheaper, on paper it's also much better:

- 45 mK vs 50 mK thermal sensitivity
- ±2 °C or ±2% vs ±10°C or ±10% accuracy
- 256x192 vs 160x120 resolution
- 25 vs 8.7Hz framerate
- -20 to 550 °C vs -10 to 450 °C range

The kicker is that (being European) I can't even get a FLIR equivalent to some of these specs, as they would violate ITAR export restrictions.
That was the first thing I thought of too. I'm guessing the name itself is a parody, especially given the cheeky readme.
The big thing is that there needs to be a path for users who don't care about the geeky shit to have a compelling experience with very little cognitive load at any step of the process. Us humans will gravitate to sub-optimal options if it offers less resistance... There's a reason the top 12 highest grossing US chains are fast food. BlueSky seems to offer a simple centralized service to those folks AND offer federation for folks who want to be more hands-on! I'm down.

As a designer and a long-time software developer, I see a TON of Dunning-Kruger Mt. Stupid comments about interface design, usability and what's reasonable to expect of users. Developers are naturally more willing to spend time futzing with social media technology because a) they have the domain expertise to reason about it comfortably, b) they have a high tolerance for high-touch software and take pride in their willingness to wrangle complicated and difficult interfaces, c) they care about the technical underpinnings, and d) because of all that, the space is likely to be populated by people who share their perspectives and interests.

If you take those things away, what incentive to users have to use the platform? I reckon that a lot of folks in the dev crowd don't naturally excel with the whole theory of mind thing, but if FOSS is going to produce tools useful to non-technologists, they should trust others that do. IMO the FOSS crowd desperately needs to embrace this cultural shift.
Next Year’s Oscar Inclusion Rules Are Already Sparking Debate
https://archive.is/3iUYP
The physical world and the Internet are completely different environments, and analogies don't transfer. In the physical world attackers are resource constrained, create evidence that allows for attribution, post-facto enforcement is mostly successful, attacks are mostly destructive, and security can only ever be "good enough" bar.

Meanwhile in the electronic word, many attacks can be easily scaled/automated so they're always happening, attribution is very hard, there's little post-facto enforcement especially across borders, most attacks don't do much damage in and of themselves, and most security problems are logic bugs which are yes/no affairs.

It's not particularly interesting if a "white hat" physical attacker demonstrated they could get into a safe with a drill over the course of a week. And one probably can walk down a street testing businesses' doors after hours without too many repercussions if you're dressed nice and don't fit the cops' stereotype of "criminal".

Also there's a huge tendency in the digital security world for system owners to play up damages from minor break ins or even mostly innocuous actions (eg port scans), to distract from the humiliation of themselves having failed. And if we did want to make punishment more in line with real world analogs, then the penalty for most unauthorized accesses should be akin to misdemeanor trespassing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Giraffed...
The car industry reminds me of the construction industry. It's rife with decades-old institutions that are indifferent to quick changes in an ever software-dominated environment.

The thinking is, "if it ain't broken, then it ain't worth fixing." Unfortunately, recent advances by autonomous vehicle companies and EV makers have shifted the paradigm from a hardware-focus to a software one.
I think construction is also headed the same path as stick-built buildings are increasingly on the way out and more modular preassembled manufacturing is coming in.

It's good news for software companies and bad news for traditional construction and traditional auto.
> If you factor money supply increase, current minimum wage is like $3-4 per hour compared to pre-pandemic.

Yes, if you start with a dumb premise, you come to a meaningless conclusion.
Lol. Even though it’s not my first study I can play the guitar and certainly know what’s involved in playing all the major and minor modes. Your explanation grossly exaggerates the complexity.
The two initial waves of migrations from Twitter to Mastodon absolutely happened when "shit it the fan" in the Twitter world, just like now with Bluesky.

And if that's not a fair comparison, and neither is comparing them straight up by data right now, how could be fairly compare them then?
Switch to usb-c just like they did with ipads? And laptops?
Researchers can intentionally induce depressive symptoms in mice by injecting lipopolysaccharides. This is somewhat speculative but it's possible that some cases of depression in humans could be caused by gut disorders that allow large amounts of LPS to pass into the bloodstream.

https://peterattiamd.com/rhondapatrick2/
ST's command palette is a descendant of M-x in emacs.
Presumably. OpenAI was trying to convince the world that GPT1.0 was a danger to society. They tried the same scare/hype tactic again after that for literally every version they released.

I'm not convinced.
The amount of possible integrations and customization possible with Google isn't even the same playing field as what HA can do.

I've integrated monitoring my heatpump, solar palens, speakers, Ikea and Philips lights, Todoist, calendars, Garmin and much more. All controllable via Python scripting.
> I’ve noticed that bot will mention things from the game that aren’t specifically pointed out in the prompt - ChatGPT clearly has prior knowledge of the Elder Scrolls universe.

I'm working on integrating text generation into OpenMW and I've noticed the same thing. I tell GPT-3.5 that it's playing as "an NPC in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, a character named 'Fargoth'" and it'll start talking about "What brings you to Seyda Neen?" and his ring, despite the fact that I hadn't mentioned either of those things in the prompt.
If the Netflix show Unstable is a reliable source, a hyperdense "biomass" or recaptured carbon cement is the future. ;) it's quite enjoyable - very silly.
At this point in history, tracking on the web is no longer a trusted activity where people can assume that the person behind the tracking is doing it for benevolent purposes. It's the same thing with email and spam, especially when attachments are involved.

Writing your own analytics can give some additional benefits in that you are only collected what you need while taking into considerations your users needs. I expect however that in time browsers will block more and more by default, similar in how email clients and services has progressed in their arm race with spam.
MagSafe (the wireless charging variety) was invented for this very reason. Magnets hold the charger in place, and can be small enough (not just MagSafe, but all Qi coils) that its not an issue to charge and use at the same time.
That is kind of tangential to software architecture, user interface and product development, the activities that define what the software will do. Speaking “human language” (aka user-centered design) is the utmost focus at this level.

Reducing such issues to “normal people can’t understand programmers” would be best left as a trope from
the early 2000s.
This begs the question: who's more stupid, the business that negligently screwed their customers, or the customers who came back after?
> If you run guix pull today, you get a package graph of more than 22,000 nodes rooted in a 357-byte program

Well that's impressive!
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It can’t be that hard to add a ‘find your user name here’ link to every place where one would potentially use it.

Do you really want people braindead enough to not figure that out on your platform? I don’t, and certainly not if their incompetence inconveniences the existing users that make the platform what it is.
I had to, manually, disable over 50 cookies on that site, crazy.
When apple switched to lightning way back there was a huge outrage over “forced obsolescence” and “cash grab” making people buy new cables and other devices, as there was a huge number of docks and other devices in the wild

since the switch to lightning there is an even larger number of devices and docks all designed around lightning and very few of their customers wanted or asked for usb-c

It’s no surprise that for iPhones, with that large eco system they just didn’t change, while for iPads and macs they did because there just isn’t the same amount of accessories and usb a <> usb c is easy. You can’t use lightning dock devices with usd c at all. It’s far from as simple as “use a new cable” when the device is designed to fit over the base of the iPhone and plug in.

Otherwise they would have incentive to use usb c already as it’s been on iPads and many of their other devices for years and why keep around a separate set of product skus and parts just for iPhone?

So they simply waited to be forced to do it so now their customers will get mad at the eu and not them
The article is discussing mostly how RSU-based compensation isn’t quite as valuable as it once was, considering the 2 year decline in tech stocks and delayed IPOs.

While I don’t disagree that your longer term hunch may be right, declining stock prices aren’t really an assault on tech wages.
That’s true. I should give it a go again now that Rider is available. It’s been a huge QoL improvement in the rest of my Unreal/Unity development work.
Silicone Valley is one of my favorite series I've seen. I just finished rewatching the final series since all the AI conversation lately had me thinking about it.

I'll have to check out this Halt and Catch Fire everyone is talking about!
I can see the rationale for investing in a company that isn’t profitable but could be, and has just opted to grow instead. Amazon, right? But I don’t see where Spotify’s “profit” switch is.
The fact that women, as a general rule, are more air efficient at the same mass is generally well known in diving.

I'm highly air efficient for a man, but only moderately more air efficient than the average of the women I've dove with (as in I've only dove with a couple men as air efficient as I am, but 20-30% of the women I've dove with are MORE air efficient than I am, sample somewhere north of 200 total with a roughly 33% female population).

I can't speak to the rest of the paper's conclusions.
Prior to replacing my furnace I had a mercury thermostat that was easily over 50 years old. The new one is digital but isn't "smart". I don't expect 50 years, but 20-30 seems reasonable. Somehow software people have forgotten that physical things last a long time, and people want them to keep working and stay the same as long as possible. My thermostat doesn't need "upgrades", and anyone who thinks they are going to "upgrade" my home remotely via software can get fucked.
No. The pay is mostly ok, the project management is shit. Basically in the automotive industry, you get important in your company when what you produce is a big part of the BOM of the car. Software is $0 in the BOM, so you are treated like shit.

Source: I've worked for the automotive industry for ~20 years, on and off.
You can test your LSD. I think this is a key part missing in many horror stories. They didn't have clarity in what they were using.
In Vienna they have a peg that will use a mass spectrometer and also give you a estimate on the strength of your tab. Very amazing form of harm reduction.
> For the first time ever, common men can communicate with computers using human languages instead of programming languages.

Was the same phrase used when compilers appeared? Or SQL?
Against Free Trade
I successfully used it as my main and only phone for a few years about 15 years ago before eventually switching to Nokia N900. It worked well as a phone, I'd probably have used it for a bit longer if it supported EDGE and didn't have a QVGA GPU attached to a high DPI screen.
I was in UK when the Brexit referandum was held, it wasn't about EU granting residency rights or anything like it. After UK let EU, nothing was done that couldn't have been done when EU. That's also why UK's public opinion changed.

Anyway, you are entitled to believe in alternative facts. You are also entitled to believe that all EU does is regulating USB-C, that's fine. You are also free to believe that EU officials do things that no one cares or wants and keep getting elected.
Unfortunately it's hard to study this today.