skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I think the "divorced dad" thing is one use case, I don't see it as the primary one. Granted we're a ways from this reality, but, especially if Apple releases standalone cameras or builds recording for these moments into iphones/ipads, it seems to me that the use case for this feature is not to replace human connection, but to have a facsimile of it when circumstances prevent you from being able to do something in the real world.

I can very much see a future where that technology is a useful tool in helping people through grief and loss, or for experiencing parts of the world that you otherwise can't (prohibitively expensive; you have disabilities that prevent accessing it).

Examples:

- Replaying interactions with a beloved pet who has died. Reliving taking your dog to the dog park or playing with your cat.

- Replaying interactions with parents/grandparents/friends who have died, or have been altered by a debilitating illness such as ALS or Alzheimer's

- Reliving memories of taking a trip somewhere that you couldn't easily go to again (different country, national park, etc)

- Spatial experiences of beautiful parts of the earth that you've never been to

In the current world, we rely on our own imperfect memories and the inadequate still photos and 2D videos. This type of thing could end up a gamechanger in 5-10 years.
For the last few years I've been generally down in my day-to-day work life. In great gratitude to my wife who bought The 6 Types of Working Genius (https://amzn.to/3NjKw8M) I've now been able to zero-in as to the why. To get the complete picture, read my summary and writeup here: https://medium.com/@avrukin/you-should-read-patrick-lencioni...
Is there a significant difference between going outside and staying indoors in a home without any filtration?
Just this week I saw a new ad on my iPad homescreen.

At some point an iOS update added a “Smart Stack” widget to my homescreen with some common app widgets (contacts, maps photos) (I assume it was automatically added, I don’t recall ever creating it, it seems to be a new iOS 14 feature.)

In iOS 15, iOS got something called “Widget Suggestions”, so apps you haven’t added to smart stack will automatically appear. (And this got automatically turned on for the smart stack on my home screen.)

Result: I got the App Store automatically suggested in my widget stack and displaying an ad for some Disney thing. (Which I assume I wouldn’t be able to access without either paying, or watching more ads.)
I'm actually surprised it's that low.

We humans are irrational, and we tend to associate attractiveness with competency, trustworthiness, and goodness in general.

Which is utterly and completely divorced from reality.
A Hackintosh tends to not work well if you don’t have the right hardware
sure, but it’s hard to ignore that wildfires in many places dropped when everyone was staying hone during the pandemic, it’s very much a multifaceted issue (and usually it’s underbrush catching fire and burning, not trees)
Noises of crotchety old fart grumbling in the distance
That would be the label of a button yes. I think in practice, what's missing is describing the label of a button (or another element with that role) with an aria-label attribute.

Buttons that miss a label are often an icon without text and label (e.g. a delete button with a trash icon).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...
> Russia is fighting for its existence against vastly superior enemy.

No, the wars it has started since 2008 with, e.g., Georgia, Moldova, and and Ukraine are (1) not for the survival of Russia, and (2) not, in any case, against an enemy that was, in any material sense, vastly superior at the time Russia started each respective war.

They might be for the survival of Putin’s regime, but that’s... not the same thing as Russia.

> Russia wanted to avoid this war,

Not bad enough not to start it without anything vaguely like an actual or imminent attack that it was responding to or defending against.
The way things work like this (based on court filings publicly available). Imagine some madam is involved in sex trafficking in the states. She comes under the radar of police and other investigative agencies. These agencies gather all circumstantial evidence, but still this evidence doesn't pass muster to convict this madam. However, she goes around and deposits at various ATMs of different banks (say, Chase, PNC, USBank). She thinks that she is smart by depositing $6K (split across three banks) every week. Over the time, AML algos at these banks look at the sliding window of her cash deposits: $10K every five weeks at every bank, and her profession doesn't match up to the story. All three banks file SARs with Fincen. Now the prosecutors dig through FinCen database, and convict her on the structuring charges, instead of sex trafficking. That's what Beria's law is: "Show me the man, I will find you the crime".
> Think for yourselves look at facts Are there pictures of an explosion? Seems like there should be with all the satellites and drones in the area.

Yes there is there’s even a video of it.

> Ukraine offensive had started and had been stopped.

The offensive hasn’t even started those tracts of land Russia is losing to Ukraine are from _probing attacks_.
> "Nerds are usually ugly"

maybe nerds from 80s movies
Start getting acquainted with purpleair checks too before going out. We used to review and hunt out the green air locations for the day and take a trip out to the ocean or wherever we could find respite to get some outdoor time. You go stir crazy stuck in a house for days on end.

https://map.purpleair.com/1/m/i/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0#4.46/36...
> because it's not wrong.

I didn't downvote you, but I think you're incorrect.
And not only conversations. Employes have been caught sharing revealing videos.
> Native Americans conducted controlled burns for thousands of years until they started getting shot by forestry rangers a hundred years ago.

I've been thinking about this lately. My wife and I were reading about a study of an old growth oak - hickory forest in the eastern US which without human intervention is slowly transitioning to maple - beach forests. Presumably this is because it is no longer experiencing the burns it would have historically.

This transition is generally considered problematic since oak hickory forests supposedly support more biodiversity (and conveniently more profitable timber harvests).

But this all raises the question for me - how did this all work before any human intervention?

What's the natural rate of forest fires? We have species (such as giant sequoia) that seem to require fires, so they must have happened, but they must have been quite rare. Would there have been a truely horrible fire caused by lightning every 1000 years? Or perhaps would the megafauna that went extinct around the time native Americans arrived have played a similar role in clearing out underbrush while foraging?

Does anyone know of studies on this?
LightSail instances are burstable t2/t3 instances under the hood.

Which...those types of instances have their use. But the fact that AWS kind of hides the whole CPU credit thing in LightSail is a bit misleading.
They all use bacteria.
Exactly what I do, but with a 5", 20x25" MERV 16 filter. I run two of these on box fans when it's smokey in the summer, and it works very well. Box fans do get loud though.
Huh... Am in Boston, the air looks and feels... normal.
In which case, wouldn't Apple be offering an advantage in comparison to the android eco system, and therefore deserve the right to charge money for it?
You probably discovered this by now, but if you can find the Cargo.toml then the features are listed there. Or if you use 'cargo add' the features will be listed.

Took me a bit too at first.
yes, you'll find out first hand if you buy a PM2.5 meter and measure locally in your environment. We have a battery powered one we'd take on trips with us and in the car. Buy a Bosch HEPA cabin filter for your car too, it makes a measurable difference.
The color spectrum I’m talking about is just temperature, not really RGB.

I like the warm parts of the spectrum more than incandescents, which is really my whole point.
I’ve never seen a furnace fan that pulls in outside air, unless it was some DIY garbage that wasn’t to code, or a huge money waster from 100 years ago.
New Cheat Sheet for Conan 2.0 is finally here
I have a vps as the wireguard "hub" with my phone, DNS and internal services being the spokes. I don't route traffic through home, but I do use home DNS as adblocker on the go. DNS also does the split horizon to route the phone to internal services over wg.

I would strongly recommend switching from iptables to nftables -- drastically reduces wtfs/minute metric during the configuration.

If you'd like -- I can send you the relevant parts of the firewall settings with some comments. My email is in the profile.
I couldn't afford this without having my own shop space. The parts are cheap, but after setting up something the size of a mini fridge that's covered in bungee cords in my little apartment, the marriage counseling would be costly.
The black outs last for 1-2 days. And all it does is make the sub private (afaik, you will still be able to post and comment on the sub as long as you joined it). This is not going to achieve a single thing.

Also, they can unprivate the subs on their own website if they want to, and pretty sure they have data backups if they delete it. Only the government could do anything about this, but I'm not sure any laws were broken here, they just started charging money for commercial use of their valuable pool of data.
> The fee was in place before the App Store even existed.

This is false. The Developer ID program began in 2012. Before then, Mac software didn't need to be signed with an Apple certificate.
How about not talking past each other and declaring victory? The majority of software, prior to the internet, were necessarily optional. There were corporate lock-ins. These are not the software most people purchased/owned.

2000-2005, the biggest automatic updates that consumers had to deal with were Windows (Office, OS, etc) updates and games. Valve's Steam, which had come into prevalence (notably Counterstrike:Source), World of Warcraft, etc.

By 2008 (Google Chrome), automatic updates were common. I would say the ship had sailed by 2005. Yes, this is 1 full generation ago.
> Statistically, a cell phone will do more harm to a child than a gun (comparing injury and death as a rate of gun ownership vs depression rates for kids with smartphones).

To even suggest a child owning a gun is safer than a smart phone is in incredibly poor taste and a smack in the face of any parent who has lost a child to this crisis.
A thing that is also not novel. People have done search for optimisations for at least the past decade.
Chainguard Unveils Speranza: A Novel Software Signing System
I believe we started suffering a long streak back in 2017 where it was back to back years of suffering. Last year we got off easy because we got hit by some lucky rains that put an end to things. Still gotta get through this summer and see how things go.
On the topic of air quality, can anyone recommend a "fine dust meter" (or really just "regular dust meter")? I would prefer totally non-wireless (USB preferred, handheld okay).

For CO2, the ZGm053U has been a great device. But now I would like to measure all the dust I see in a dark room with a bright flashlight.
It'll depend more on what path popular LLMs take. It may turn out most answers are answered fully and the person won't or shouldn't need any additional information ... but I expect that will be for simple things they might have already found pre LLM if they'd taken the time to read though a few good links and worked out they basically outline the same solution.

For non specific and more general questions, given the popular crawler search engines are already IMHO since I'm already witnessing very weak search engine responses to censor for unknown reasons, there could be stranger questions eventually arrive in help forums. [I wanted a quick reference rather than dig though a couple of boxes of my own books, a time line of human evolution, a tree with rough period dates - I was still banging at the keyboard 10 or 15 minutes later in frustration - this stuff is out on the web, well it used to be.]

Technical problems solved in help forums is usually more specific due to same underlying problems and shotgun solutions, no doubt a LLM would parrot information derived from various forums. However often problems are not that clear and thus it'll be a different boat, and it'll depend on if the problem is straight forward and dead simple and the bulk of solutions are the same, if the problem has been answered incorrectly a few hundred times ... or wrong BS has been purposely flooded onto the net for LLMs to find. Ultimately people will probably arrive asking for help when things are muddied by the things the LLM told them to try. I used to contribute quite a lot back in 2002/3 at computing.net ... so many people arrived there needing help with 98 ... to myself it was clear they'd used a help book, but used an old msdos system floppy to run the sys command ... the cookie cutter experts would scream every time I suggested the correct method to get their system closer to at least of all booting ... most (near all) listened instead to the experts and ended up reinstalling from scratch ... the forum was going down the path of a points system and I left -- felt a bit for those who I used to help out since I used to also service the hard to find drivers requests at the time.
Why was I downvoted please? I provided facts to my counterpoint.
I had a look at the comments on this post. I don't see any saying anything at all about gender, pronouns, trans-ness, etc. (Other than in this little discussion right here about what is allegedly wrong with HN.) I have showdead on, incidentally; I'm not seeing any dead comments on those topics either.

Maybe for whatever reason this particular post is better than others? I put <<asahi site:news.ycombinator.com>> into DuckDuckGo. (Not because there's anything magic about DuckDuckGo search results, but to get a sample of Asahi-related HN posts without cherrypicking.) The first hit is to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35394297; no trans-related things there that I can see either. (It does have some discussion of why the Asahi Linux site was turning away people coming from HN, and the reason given there was nothing to do with "Lina", nor with transphobia, but was that marcan feels that HN discussions of Asahi are full of mistakes.)

Second hit is to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35928000. Again, nothing trans-related.

(To look for trans-related things I (1) skim-read the comments by eye and then (2) searched for "trans", "gender", "pronoun" and "man", the last because people being obnoxious about trans issues often can't resist going out of their way to call someone a "man" or a "woman" if they think they might be upset by being called that. I specifically kept an eye out for dead comments. It's very possible that I missed things, but it seems to me that a minimum threshold for saying that there's "constant transphobia on display" is that someone explicitly and somewhat carefully looking for it should be able to find at least one example.)

Next few links aren't obviously strongly-Asahi-related articles. Next one that is is to a comment about "Lina" somewhere in the middle of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35233479, so I took a look at the comments there. There was indeed a "Lina" subthread, some of which was pretty rude but none of it in a visibly-trans-related way.

My general impression of the HN comments on Asahi-related threads, from this, is that they are on the whole very positive, that some people think marcan is weird for Lina-related reasons (which may or may not actually make sense; I have no knowledge of that business), and that if anyone is being obnoxious at or about trans people in those threads then either they're doing it in ways I'm failing to see or else it's being cleaned up effectively enough that it's gone by the time I look.

It seems your experience is very different. Where should I be looking for some examples?
I feel like the proper comparison is if you could pass the test being able to Google anything you wanted.
Working in this field and living in Northern Thailand which has similar high levels of air pollution from wildfires every year, I have spend many years making my house safe from air pollution.

Box fans with HEPA filters are a good immediate and emergency solution but have their drawbacks, mainly:

1) The fan and filter fights against particles coming in from outside, through small cracks under the doors, windows etc. So the higher the outdoor air pollution, the more the fan needs to fight against it. At extremely high pollution levels they will get into problems maintaining healthy air indoors.

2) Sealing the gaps and making your house/room more air tight, increases CO2 levels significantly which leads to drowsyness and decreased mental performance. So you always work with a trade-off.

3) Often you need to run the fans on highest level to be effective which creates quite a high level of noise.

4) Ideally you want something demand controlled that switches automatically on/off or regulates its speed based on the pollution levels.

5) The HEPA filters filter primarily PM2.5 but the wildfires also produce hazardous gases like NOx, VOCs which you would need carbon filters to remove.

With my company AirGradient (we offer open source air quality monitors [1]), we monitor thousands of indoor spaces and the only technology that we found consistently working -no matter of the level of air pollution- are positive pressure systems.

A positive pressure fresh air system takes air from outside, filters it through HEPA/Carbon filters and pumps it into the room. Thereby pressurizing the room and thus preventing dirty air from entering the room.

With this system you just need to achieve a slightly higher pressure then outdoors and then you can consistently achieve zero PM levels inside -even when hazardous outdoors. As a result the system, often runs at low fan speeds and does not create much noise.

Additionally, due to the fact that it uses fresh air, the CO2 levels remain low and you can often add carbon filters to the system.

I made a comparison test of this type of system [2] and a detailed description how it works [3].

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/kits/

[2] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/blog/air-purifi...

[3] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/blog/positive-p...
To be fair, it seems Cargo team has been understaffed for a long time. So developement has been kinda stalling. They are trying to fix it.
> > scripts of dead languages that we choose to support

> ... but it's not Unicode's fault!

Right, it's not.

> [the rest]

You say that as if current support for Unicode will not improve, as if somehow it has never improved (but then, even what we have now wouldn't exist). That's clearly not the case.
Some struggles apparent making the blog work in the git history.

I can read along here, https://github.com/nottrobin/robinwinslow.uk/blob/main/_arti...

There's another attempt to repush things up here, seems the same, https://github.com/nottrobin/robinwinslow.uk/blob/main/_arti...
Probably because of the efforts Microsoft has put into being developer friendly...
Seriously. Plus the Levoit gives you adjustable fan speed to balance noise vs effectiveness, set a timer, it tells you when to replace your filter, it looks nice and professional rather than garage hardware, etc.

If it were a quarter the price then I appreciate a DIY thing, but this is already in the same ballpark price-wise as the best-selling air purifier on Amazon. I don't get it.
If you're American, who are generally seen as incredibly parochial (especially by the British), then that may be the case. If you're British, then the colonies really could be any of 75% of the world.

As a Brit, I think it's a tad unfair on the yanks to see them as that parochial. As a test, ask any Brit moaning about the NHS and railing against the US private system (these complaints often come together from people who would never consider themselves parochial) whether the health services of Germany, France or the Netherlands are private. They won't have the first clue.

Just shows you, all that consumption of worldly and international news by worldly and international types remains strangely parochial, and that's just one example.
> why use multiple 1" thick filters to build a box, when you could just use 1x 4" filter.

Probably uncertainty over how effective fans are when immediately obstructed, and maybe concerns about particles possibly getting deflected backwards if a filter messes with a smooth, laminar flow.

This is, if we think of two kinds of airflow:

1. [laminar flow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar_flow ), which is like a smoothly flowing river;

2. [turbulent flow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence ), which is like erratic flow inside a mixer;

then it seems like a box-fan might effect a laminar-flow further away from the blades (under normal circumstances), but could it be more turbulent near the blades?

The boxed-in design seems to try to dodge assumptions about how air flows near the blades, reducing uncertainty about how turbulent-flows might screw with it.
I'm suggesting the UFOs could be the first widely public evidence of upper dimensions beyond our three dimensional space.

I'm thrilled about UFOs happily breaking several laws of physics in front of us, and we should be thinking about what are we missing, what's out of sight, beyond our current understanding of physics that the UFOs obviously manage and exploit.

The upper dimensions is just a - pretty obvious - hypothesis.

"How would these dimensions interact with the dimensions we know?"

I don't know, but whoever has built the UFOs, certainly knows.

Some ideas: because you should not be able to impact the ocean surface at mach 4 without obvious physical consequences, and not submerging almost with minimal to absent "splash", maybe those UFOs are just leaking some photons into our three dimensional space,

hence "submerging" could not be precisely what they are doing, maybe they are just re-locating the "output" of the vessel out of sight of the humans.

Also those "metallic orbes" look amazingly similar to some kind of "black hole" or singularity, maybe those things are not vessels at all, but just a hole opened to our three dimensional space, to watch us, study us. That would make sense about the "orbes" doing nothing but keep running from us, appearing aparently everywhere with some interesting stuff to look at.
It's not a "trick" -- it's a consequence of dynamic pricing and how efficient supply chains are now.

You're effectively running volume arbitrage to even out inefficiencies in seller's upstream suppliers.

Or, to put it another way, the seller's profits (margin*volume) can often be the same on smaller package (even for cheaper per weight unit) as larger package (for more expensive per weight unit).
This is false.

It may not have been called Developer ID back then, but you absolutely were required to pay $99 per year for as long as I can remember - well before 2012.

The perks included receiving a free copy of OSX - which was funny considering you still needed a Mac to work on.
Given the .zip domain kerfuffle maybe we should just accept this and change all archive software to save .postcode files in the PKPOSTCODE format.
I still find it crazy that we are capturing solar energy on plants, growing them, and then burning them to get energy to move our cars…

It seems so much more intuitive to just capture solar to electricity and use an electric car…
one of the sensors in SF right now

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On June 7th, 2023, 4:12:06 PM PDT
10 Minute Average US EPA PM2.5 AQI is now 320
Sensor: Bill Nye the AQI
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