skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would regularly see my co-workers online at 2 - 3 am when our core hours were 10 am - 5 pm. My company recently changed core hrs to 12 pm - 2 pm, and unsurprisingly, I see the same co-workers up at 5 am.

Not calling you out, and I mean this kindly… but this is kind of a smelt-it/dealt-it observation right? If you’re observing them awake at hours that aren’t healthy for them, you have to be awake at the same time to observe it?

More productive I hope: if people are shifting their sleep this way as core hours are clamped, it’s probably a sign that the core hours aren’t consistent with working hours, and people are moving demanding work around to fit their schedules as best they can. That’s not a problem the individual workers can address, it’s a process and culture problem.
SDN is almost purely a marketing buzzword. What features do you actually need?
Show HN: Etteilla Foundation my side project
Hi,

After over two years of intense efforts, I am thrilled to share that the Etteilla Foundation and its website https://etteilla.org are finally live. The Etteilla Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich cultural heritage of playing cards.

Over the last two years, as side project, I created the foundation and spend my weekend and vacations writing the Foundation online bespoke infrastructure such that it will be able to house thousands of decks in a reliable and long lasting manner -- I am hoping hundred of years!

Creating the Foundation was not an easy decision as I am a private person (as many of you know this) and I did my best to stay anonymous as I built my card collection. However in the end I believe that creating the Foundation is the right thing to do as there were no good alternatives to preserve playing cards collection in perpetuity while ensuring free public unrestricted access.

This side-project is very fulfilling experience as I really feel I am doing something genuinely useful to the world which is my life long goal. The community has been very enthusiastic since the original prototype so that is very motivated and to be honest after being head-down in research for the last two decades it feel very nice to work on a well defined problem with stable data where tech is a secondary concern.

The website is still in its infancy with only a few of our most precious decks on display and a lot of information is missing. That said I feel it is ready enough to represent where the Foundation is heading and get feedback.

Technically, as I am sure a lot of you will ask, the site is written in Python / Flask, leverage a MySQL database and run on containers. We keep the frontend, API, and admin app separated but I would not call it micro-service infrastructure. We also use Cloudflare edge workers to

While the project might appears easy at first glance there are some challenges -- a) we have to serve hundred of images per pages b) Scanning / processing the collection (and hopefully future deck donations) requires dealing with hundred of decks.

We address image serving by using Cloudflare edge workers to generate images in the right size and multiple formats quickly and efficiently. It's a very bursty workload and containers are too slow to spin up for good webpage latency.

We address the deck processing by combining TensorFlow (I couldn't resist!) to recognize the cards suits / values and do OCR for the text. The images you see of the decks are programmatically generated using Blender with custom scenes and python for automations.

I am happy to write more about those things if there is interest

If the project interest you, there is a lot of cool things to do and I would love to have help -- I posted a list of potential volunteering opportunities here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=3619526064&f_C=92608528&geoId=92000000&originToLandingJobPostings=3619526064

I hope you found this side project interesting and I am happy to answer any question you might have :)
Twitter to pay verified creators for ads in replies
I linked to one article.

You are free to find your own.

I was part of Stack Overflow in the beginning and experienced it first hand back then
> The US and the HMMWV did great at the combat part of Iraq and Afghanistan. The real switch was from conventional military operations to the long peace

The combat part was ok I guess, but what OP is pointing out was what we went to conflict with. Lots of money was spent upgrading Humvees with armor and turret mounts that didn't exist. The equipment fielded by US troops actually looked very different from a comparison of 2001 and 2005. Body armor went through development iterations, camouflage patterns, infantry equipment like magazine carriers and weapons optics, and so on.

Had the US tried to drive into the Afghan and Iraqi desert the way we did against fighters armed with heavier weapons and fighting skills then the US losses would have been a lot higher.

The Iraqi military had more formidable equipment but was so ill-trained and the moral so low that it was very much a paper tiger.

I think people underestimate hiw much the US military has transformed over the two two-decade long conflicts. There have been striking changes both organizationally, culturally, and technologically.
Making infrared lenses out of plastic polymers
A low-cost way to make plastic polymer lenses which enable infra-red photography
Exactly what Satoshi intended. /s
What am I missing here? How can China deliver large numbers of soldiers or missiles in a conventional war to north america? Is the loss here inability to defend taiwan?

My $0.02 is that the US will lose no matter what because China will not play by any rules of war but the US will and also, Chinese intelligence can influence US politicians, public and companies much more effectively than vice versa. I would be surprised if China doesn't win the war before it even starts.

Does anyone remember how long Russian planes kept buzzing US planes before the Ukraine war? China is doing the same thing to Taiwan and US now. It's basic bully psychology. The only good response is to shoot down their planes when they do that and to agressively respond to their agressions. Like when they did a drill of a taiwan siege, why was there no response by US and allies with a drill about invading China for example.

I don't think the US will het involved but China will invade Taiwan. Really, it is Xi invading similar to putin. This is important because a dictator means bully psychology is very relevant.

In an actual war, the US should target Three gorges dam, major bridges and use bio/chem attacks against their food supply. But I guarantee nothing of that nature will happen but they won't hesitate to nuke US cities if they have to. That's war. This isn't iraq, China can fight back, playing by rules of war means a very long war with 10s of millions of civilians dead on both sides not to mention famine war all over the world for the rest of the century.
You're quite correct, in a movie theater or on a large TV the pixels in 1080p content are very easy to see. 4K is precisely for these cases.
You said the AIs conducts warfare amongst themselves, you never mentioned it was human troops it was moving around. I interpreted it as AI robotic troops or AI cyberwarfare.

And yes, even with human troops, if fewer people are killed, then what's the issue? Don't mistake the sense of control for the amount of suffering caused. If you're a utilitarian, only one matters, regardless of how much control we want to exert on the outcome. This all assumes the AI is actually correct, if it's not then the scenario would break down.
> The biggest European provider, Deutsche Telekom OVHcloud, holds 1-2% of the market.

Wait what? It's OVHcloud, not "Deutsche Telekom OVHcloud". There is no mention of any relationship between the two companies beside a common project named "Gaia-X" which is still in a very very early stage of planning.

This doesn't inspire confidence in the journalist.
The EU is not even remotely self sufficient.
Yes but Discourse uses Electron, I thought. Maybe I'm wrong and it's some other gamified bloatware instead, but it works out about the same way. No I don't want badges for posting. That's a Facebook thing, or similar.

Edit: I see, I confused Electron with EmberJS, another bloaty JS framework. Discourse uses Ember, not Electron. Sorry about that, my bad.
In fact, the ethical ones that are clearly written are the users with blockers, NOT the websites with ads

https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#render

> 2.12 People should be able to render web content as they want

> People must be able to change web pages according to their needs. For example, people should be able to install style sheets, assistive browser extensions, and blockers of unwanted content or scripts or auto-played videos. We will build features and write specifications that respect peoples' agency, and will create user agents to represent those preferences on the web user's behalf.
I've done this, and it's very liberating. Basically, all things I own, including consumables, fit inside a small Org file. It's less than 100 items. I went this route because I wanted to emphasize some good habits, and de-emphasize things that I considered less valuable.

The process I went through was basically thinking about my core habits, mapping said habits to some objects, and then thinking about extra objects to support those habits. After that, I slowly started purchasing what I needed. Timing was great, because I sync'd that with moving countries. I spent some effort thinking about quality of individual purchases, and I ended up with a very minimal home, which is also great for maintenance.
We started there, briefly tried nix-serve-ng [1], and then landed on Harmonia [2], which has worked well.

[1]: Ran into https://github.com/aristanetworks/nix-serve-ng/issues/19 with it

[2]: https://github.com/nix-community/harmonia
All I want is a self-hostable open-source GPT4.

The community will come up with things that will make the content of this blog post look like hello world todo apps.

Can't a wealthy bazillionaire like Elon Musk just drop a few billions and buy the rights to GPT4?
This is still based on Ross Young earlier tweet of 4000PPI and 1.41" which we now know it may be wrong. It should be closer to 3400 PPI.

It may be the highest resolution micro-OLED on the market, but micro-OLED [1] could do quite a bit higher than that. Well above 4000 PPI.

And I know some people are pissed with the pricing. But I would not be surprised if this micro OLED cost $300 per piece. Or $600 in total. And I believe even the $300 is a very conservative number it could be much higher.

[1] God I hate this term as if they intentionally name is to distract it from microLED. It used to be called Si OLED or Silicon OLED.
Great point! I bought the forever license way back when, but if I were a subscriber, I'd tell him to keep it.
Under the pile of money from Seven Nation Army royalties.
Remember that prices in Europe include sales tax, so the price you see is the price you pay. In the US you need to add sales tax on top, and in some places all sorts of random extra charges like ‘employee healthcare mandate’.
If anyone was wondering - despite the truly uncanny similarity of 'Paul'/'Saul', AFAICT, there is no relationship between him and _Breaking Bad_.
Ask HN: Any examples of product redesigns that worked?
This is in context of reddit redesign and how everyone (everyone here at least) hates it. Personally I hate how Microsoft has been ruining windows itself and lots of other actually goose software with unnecessary redesigns (Macification basically) which ends up removing features. I have never used Digg but heard about it's redesign too. So many websites which use to be fast and accessible have been turned into a redesigned modern mess. c2.wiki and imdb and lots of blogs that turned into a single page, slow loading mess.

I don't believe it's just aesthetic usability effect, there has to be some examples and metrics which prove this redesign to be actually useful for products. What are they? What websites are currently in need of a similar redesign such that if they fail in next few years we can all agree that its design caused it?
The goal is to slow down China’s geopolitical ambitions until their rapidly aging population makes material military action intractable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_China
Meta isn't afraid of Apple Vision Pro but they should be
OMG! (-:
I was totally expecting to see the teapot on the page.

The photo does have Martin Newell in it who created the famous model.
It sounds like they were going via an agent of some sort, not calling her personal phone or showing up at her door.
>The fact that Spez seems so stuck on that seems to indicate the success of Apollo is really weighing on him.

He could've just listened to users. Instead, Reddit became what it became. Users derided the various changes and redesigns, even its own app. Yet the entire time, and I've said it elsewhere on HN, Reddit's attitude towards users has essentially been, "Nope, we know what's best, you are wrong. The beatings will continue until morale improves."

It's his own fault.
> I even keep a record of all my worldly possessions in a visual catalogue spreadsheet on Airtable. 192 items at my last count.

> I don't count hoodies, t-shirts, socks or usb cables but I really don't own many. I count a pair of shoes in a box as 1 item.

Huh? Either you're counting things or you're not. Saying you own 192 items except for the 800 (?) you're not counting doesn't make a lot of sense. Why are shoes an item but socks aren't?

192 makes no sense to me. I've probably got 192 items in my kitchen alone, just from wanting to be able to cook and serve a meal for 4 people because it's nice to eat with friends. A fork is a worldly possession, after all.
> if the initial thought experiment was posed as 'observable universe' would it make a difference to you?

It would address my "can't operate on it from the outside" objection, yes. But it still wouldn't make the thought experiment meaningful, for the reasons I gave in response to wyager elsewhere in the thread.
This is great. Never heard it before, thank you for sharing.
ChatGPT can give plausible problematic scenarios where you (admittedly) cannot. Reflect on that.
Farming technologies tackle climate-change threats
I thought about moving to an Asian country as a white person. I asked myself: What does it mean to be Korean? What does it mean to be Taiwanese? What does it mean to be Malaysian?

In most Asian countries ethnicity not a wildly different concept than nationality. So to be Korean means you share a history with other Koreans.

America, at least the liberal side of America, has tried to push the definition of being American towards a set of ideals and values. Someone is not American because they had ancestors who killed british and grew up in a church, but because they believe in human rights and freedom, and that those are things worth sacrificing for.

Without a values based idea of nationality, it means that other nationalities come to exploit your opportunities and you as a country are letting them in to exploit them.

If you've never contemplated the question "What does it mean to be an american?" this is one of the most interesting political/structure of society reads I've read to date: https://www.amacad.org/publication/what-does-it-mean-be-amer...

This "are we an ethnic society", "are we a grouping of ethnic societies", or "are we a values based society" idea makes the state of modern American politics make a lot more sense.
I'm a newcomer to Linux so I don't know the history, but whats so bad about systemd? I've used it on a basic level and it seems to get the job done? What do the alternatives offer?
Those are exactly the wrong people to be moderators. The best ones end up doing it.

The worst are paid to do it.

Those are the extents of the moderator space. One conclusion I came to is to never promote anyone who asks to be a moderator. Always approach solid candidates.
Depends on how they do it. It seemed they are going through an intermediary, not showing up at her door.
Apple didn’t exactly do a speedy rollout of bike directions in their Maps app. I find it hard to blame Google here. Seems more like a symptom of our society to me.
> what is needed is a DNS-like solution for identities

did:dns perhaps: https://danubetech.github.io/did-method-dns/
What is your stack? Targeting remote or a certain location?
Why are prices useful at all?

Insurance rates are an imperfect measurement that has the advantage of being less subject to arbitrary narratives of some individual or interest group.

They're also a way of quantifying the severity of the accident in a way that it's hard to deduce from a data set such as the government collects.

Experts may be able to figure out what the data means, but how can we know if the experts are correct without something independent?
I feel like this is a task for friends and family, not some random motivated by money?
you keep using that word
You're suggesting a false dichotomy here: that one can understand their code or use ChatGPT but not both.

Outside of Leetcode-style stuff it's never going to produce reams of correct code in non-trivial projects with so little supervision that this is a major problem.
I’m fine with Reddit being shut down. Been a user over 10 years with 200 k-ish karma. Tried using the official app for years, switched to Apollo, and haven’t looked back. I’ll probably Shreddit my account and find other uses of my time.
Frank and honest? There's so much bullshitting in this convo I can smell it 50 years later.

Anyway, my comment was not to say that this is document is stupid but rather "could someone please point out the interesting bits".
We should be asking “why not both?” but unfortunately NY construction costs are inflated so ridiculously we can’t even afford one let alone get politicians with a strong enough backbone to support these common sense projects that would alleviate strain on NYC housing stock.
You mean Amazon Prime? With this release, it's already addressed: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/14512#issueco...

However, until the stable release is out for all supported browsers, you'll need dev (pre-release) build (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases) to test it.

What we need are users' reports and feedbacks. For example, I don't know if the domain is `amazon.com` or `primevideo.com`.
What the partisan crazy bot from RUS is going on here?
The F-91W is the only watch I’ve owned in the past 20 years but I mostly go without since the strap breaks after a year or two.
Even so, I wouldn't dismiss using economic incentives as a means of solving many kinds of problems - for example, proof-of-work started-off as an anti-spam initiative (which I feel still has potential), and outside of CS/SE I feel that cap-and-trade is viable approach to help reduce our aggregate carbon output, and so on.

That the blockchain "brand" has been (irrevocably?) damanaged by fools and charlatans doesn't invalidate the potential of using economic-incentives to solve problems: both technical and societal.
It seems the author interviewed Meg White many years ago and either had a bit of chemistry with her or was simply more willing to quote a woman than average for the era:

When the story came out, the most common feedback I received from readers was that it was the first White Stripes story they’d seen that had featured more than one quote from Meg.

On the one hand, I appreciate the general sentiment (in HN comments) of oh, we should just respect her right to privacy and, on the other hand, I'm glad I read the piece anyway. I especially enjoyed the part where someone says, roughly, "On the one hand, she needs to talk. On the other hand, it's so much cooler and badass that she doesn't."
You're right that the UI is crap, but there's also another dynamic when you work in a team: some people may not be aware of complexity, and can create overengineered monsters just because they want to try the fancy stuff.

That might suck, they leave their job, and you're stuck maintaining the monster.
I don't think "LLM" applies here, except as a buzzword. While a LLM is the first type of AI to communicate in natural language to this degree of fluency, there must be other possibilities.
Locus of control (real or perceived) has important psychological effects both in the moment and over the course of time. Given the amount of control wielded in war I don't know that it matters for the bulk of humans involved whether its another human or an AI giving the orders. But this sort of thing is what led to the Eloi/Morlock idea in The Time Machine.

Edit to add: I'm not drawing a parallel between the Eloi and autonomous vehicles. Autonomous vehicles are a tool that the human passenger is ultimately in control of. This is about AI giving the orders to humans.
I think that's probably arguable. Most of these kinds of definitions are much more length focused and the length does most of the same things as having a larger cartridge.
Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder or partner?
I have skills, money, and time. Just no good ideas. Anyone looking for someone to help build their next idea? Preferably in the US.
Wow, I love the error haikus.
That and many other criticisms have been made of the analogy: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wB7hdo4LDdhZ7kwJw/we-don-t-t... (not linked in OP even though it really ought to be).
related useful post about insurance and keeping track of your possessions https://www.reddit.com/r/Tennessee/comments/fdju8r/cookevill...
The enshittification goes on, and on, and on…
revenge bedtime procrastination

Well, of course I know him. He's me. Wake up late, start work late, end work late, do chores late, go to bed late, then waste hours in bed browsing the internet because I feel that I’ve had no time for myself during the day, so ruining next day by having low quality „me time” browsing the internet feels like somehow reclaiming that missing time.

But when you ruin your sleeping pattern its very hard to fix it. I skip the nigt of sleep so I am very sleepy next night. I fall asleep and wake up in the morning, but when I go to bed next day I just cant fall asleep, starting whole issue from scratch.
Was your VM NixOS, or something else with Nix on top? The latter is a fairly painless way to test-drive the idea without going all-in.
Something I am curious about. Does this list would include tools and all the thousands of parts and pieces one accumulates over the year when hobbying around?
People said this type of thing about Visual Basic, and code-generating wizards, and using libraries instead of coding up your own binary trees, and so on.

At some level somebody with engineering knowledge is going to have to understand the problem domain, the code, the data, the use cases, ancillary data stores, etc.
Get a battery for that tenth, or get two. It’s called a safety margin. In engineering it’s not difficult to design for.
It may be an exercise of their expertise if that change in culture was partly caused by recent medical research findings into trans, such as the propensity for depression due to alienation, or the efficacy of "gender-affirming care" at reducing depression. I'm not an expert in the history of the field, or the literature, but I wouldn't dismiss the proposition out of hand.
This article, and people posting in this thread are saying that they own 100 or 200 things.

I can't believe this at all.

My utility room, which basically just has stuff like cleaning products and rags/cloths etc, has more than 200 items in it. It's all useful, we're talking things like bleach, deodorant, shampoo, handwash, etc.

My house probably has 50 or more pieces of art on the walls and then another 50 pieces of furniture. My computery odds and ends bin easily has more than 200 items in it.

Either you guys are all just-moved-out kids, single and living in a single room, or we're defining "thing" differently. Which is it?
No, a desktop background doesn't come within 100 miles of being physically on your patio when it's nice out (or when it's terrible out; either way, it's not the same experience).