skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might have agreed 10 to 15 years ago when arduino was brand new and almost everything was custom.

These days... eh - pretty hard disagree with everything you've said.

Do some folks still need to know the ins & outs of the device? Sure. Will this work on every device? Nope.

Does that matter for the success of this project? Not a fucking bit.

Honestly - this looks a lot like Electron in my opinion: It gives companies a very cheap entry point into a whole realm of tooling that was previously out of bounds.

They can do it without having to hire new folks, they can prototype and run with it as far as they'd like, and then 3 years in, once the product is real and they know they have a market - they can turn around and pay someone to optimize the embedded devices for cost/power/performance/other.

The flow isn't catch-22 AT ALL. The flow is: I'm trying to do a thing that's only marginally related to the embedded device, and it's nifty that I can do that with low entry costs (both financial and knowledge).

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By the time you are under NDA for a new device... you are established enough to be making your own decisions around tooling (basically - you are part of phase 2: optimize).
Check this comment of mine plus some of the other resources in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=36195527
Interview with a household manager for rich people
Got my threads stuck on that as well. Increased concurrency now to the maximum of 6 so that those 60 seconds delays don't choke it completely, or at least less. Working reasonably so far, 5 threads waiting for the upload to complete, 1 still going. (Can't imagine that 1 thread continuously working will remain unbanned 24/7 anyway.)
The clowns at Reddit couldn't even specify a time.

This will be a spectacular shitshow to watch.
No - To read the tapes in we needed the tape software and the tape software was only on the tape and not in the world loads we had. To generate a whole system from tape required TI-internal software named GENASYS, which was not released to customers. We contacted TI about this and they responded that they were actively searching for GENASYS internally at the time as they wanted to use it as prior art in some patent action. I don't remember what became of it.
It's going to depend on the camera and processing, since the dynamic range of human vision extends well beyond the RGB color range.
I don't know that comparing ChatGPT (a particular instance of a branch of AI) to the entire category of VR (not a particular instance of a branch of VR) makes too much sense.

AI has been around since the 50s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intellig...

VR has been around since roughly a decade later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality#History
At the same time, we don’t get to talk down to or look down upon other countries who are doing less damage per-capita even as they (quite reasonably and entirely expectedly) seek to improve the living conditions of their people, even while making products (and the associated emissions) for our people to buy and outsource emissions counting to another country.

We’ve been burning coal for hundreds of years and around 150 to make electricity. To suggest that others should do much less than we did and continue to do is, IMO, unreasonable to the point of being absurd.
I'm strongly in favor of banning secondary currencies with varying conversion factors in games.If you want money, price your goods in €/$ etc.

Alternatively a 1:1 conversion rate to strengthen the connection between price and "value".

Another idea might be to require a "cart" -> check out workflow with mandatory price information (again in real currency). Anything that increases friction is good if you ask me.

I'm fine with starting with games and adding other type of apps as we go.
Helical Blade Turbineless Gas Jet Engine
On one hand, I agree—on the other, the US military has had [historically] a really hard time with farmers in flip-flops.
https://archive.is/F5j5l
I has made the company townhall meetings extra cringe, apart from this not much has changed.
OP invoked “medical experts”—what I’m trying to get at is what expertise is being invoked exactly. What’s the relevant scientific development (apparently in the last decade) that would change how experts define the term, that lay people might not have access to? To my knowledge, medical experts have been aware of the relevant biological and psychological factors for quite some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruence. What’s changed that causes the experts to use the terminology differently today than they did a decade ago?
> Moderation is an important job. It's needed. But I can't think of any other social site that has such a bad rep for moderation.

Pretty much every other social site of note doesn't have a rep for moderation, on account of not having moderation at all. A solid 20% or higher of the YouTube comments I see are straight-up phishing scams, Facebook and Twitter are complete cesspits where only content that's literally illegal to post ever gets removed, and the less said about imageboards the better.

Wikipedia is the only even remotely comparably large site I can think of that actually has anything resembling moderation, and you'll find the exact same crowd criticising them for enforcing their rules as well.
Super interesting stuff, I’ll give it a try.

Just curious, how did you come to the conclusion to split up the different agents? What’s the difference in each of their prompts?
Yes, but that was in Alberta. The smoke in New York is coming from fires in Ontario and Quebec, which were probably started by lightning strikes.
SpaceX can develop things by building them and then seeing if they fail catastrophically too often. Nuclear developers can't do that.
Under relatively normal wear, the only parts that should be replaced are the crystal, mainspring, and rotor. That's 3 wear parts, not exactly a "ship of theseus".

If something is broken, sure. It might need replacing. But that's rarer, I think, than people realize, and rarely is it more than one or two parts of the movement.

I recently repaired my great-grandfather's pocket watch and the only replacement necessary was the mainspring.
So Clarkson was right when he said that the fastest car in the world is a rental car?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYt9DO5WXr8
Even though it’s a private university, Mayo has a written freedom of expression policy (copy here: https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/mayo-clinic-freedom-e...) that grants professors similar rights as those protected by the First Amendment for public university professors. This is typical for private universities. If you’re trying to attract the best faculty, you’re at a disadvantage if your professors are going to be muzzled when compared to public university professors.

There’s a large body of law built up around the First Amendment rights of university professors and public employees more generally. The fact the government is an employer in some cases doesn’t override the fact that it’s still the government and largely prohibited from regulating speech except in narrow circumstances where the First Amendment doesn’t offer protections to anyone (libel, obscenity, and a few other historical exceptions) or where the speech would significantly impact the workplace or learning environment. The latter isn’t a specific test used by the courts, but that’s essentially the spirit of the case law surrounding when the government can regulate the otherwise-protected speech of its employees. For private universities, contracts or even contractual expectations created by policies regarding free speech and academic freedom (like Mayo’s policy) can place similar restrictions on the university being able to act against an employee.
Most consumer grade personal scales are not certified medical devices like the blood pressure meters and scales at your GP's office.
They’re convenient consumption devices. I’d never work on one but I can watch something on it. Personally I have a phone full that niche but I get that having a giant phone is nice to some people. But keeping kids calm during a plane ride is a great use case
Based on the color selected out of the night shots, I'm assuming the average is of just the plain sky, with the water and buildings cropped out.
A Puzzle for Arizona’s Boom Towns: How to Keep Growing with Less Water
All I ask is that you consider the os/browser preference settings for light/dark.
I wanted too; but my dream idea is still sitting on a post-it note stuck to my desk with a single line in the codebase containing the line of:

;# code starts here

written in perl.
First some facts and then some news.

The first rule of social networks is you can't touch them or they will die.

Proof:
Aol
MySpace
Twitter
Facebook (Zuckerberg won't touch it now)
Reddit

This is obvious except to billionaires.

Now for the news: the only content you see on social networks is designed to reinforce your supposedly persistent self and sell ads.

There is no other purpose for social media.

All social media content on the internet since the internet began will be deleted, lost and forgotten as there will be no profit motive to do otherwise.
My experience is that you are either in/will be in the vc space - or you are in a specialized/regulated industry (finance/health) or you are a consulting firm.

Even living outside of SV I don’t see a lot of in between firms.
That's the best article I've seen. Thanks.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266679242...

But... note in fig. 2 how the renewables just start at 'manufacture', not 'mining' -> 'transport' -> 'refining' -> 'transport' -> 'manufacture'

And how it also ends without '-> battery storage' and all the mining/transport/refining/manufacture that that entails.

Battery storage was not a thing before renewable energy sources, that must also be included in analysis like this. Prior to renewables some sort of pumped storage was being used in hydro projects, but nothing like the scale of battery storage we have now.

As I said in a previous comment, the supply chain (or whatever you want to call it) for renewables is far longer than is recognised.
This youtube video does a good job explaining the crazy logistics of the F1 calendar. Multiple cargo ships constantly in motion, overnight truck deliveries, all in very carefully orchestrated ballet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLVFa8YRfM
Lets add https://www.deseret.com/2001/2/28/19781208/toxic-utah-a-land... too the list too.

Thankfully, far less "let's test on people", but Dugway, Utah has quite a history of testing and mass animal slaughters from fallout clouds and such.
?????? How is ZFS better than mirroring??? For two drives??????
Interpretations of Risk and the Limits of Quarantine in NASA’s Apollo Program
It is an uncomfortable risk for many, to back a likely long term winner over a sure current cash cow. Even if their own estimates say they should go for it. See it all the time.

And to make it even more short sighted, the idea won't go away, it will just take a little longer and then pop up in competing colours.
Agree, would be awful if Reddit themselves just decide to lift and reuse this!
Clearly now is the time in the Bay Area to start converting empty offices into apartments and condos
I'm sort of amazed how many times this exact reply was added to my comment. Did you read any of them? Of course it's not required. It's just what happens.
Is there a writeup about how they work? Is there a message broker server that the browser stays connected to?
This is only used for the push notifications in the subscription version of Apollo. I haven't checked the code but it probably polls the Reddit API with the users OAuth token and sends a push to the Apollo app if new activity is found.
One can build storage with only common elements (see pumped thermal, pumped hydro).

The world makes about 2 BILLION tonnes of steel a year. Storage made from materials like that will not cause significantly increased mining.
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This is such a clickbait. Everybody reading that title imagines that they tested spreading of some contagious disease (and put it in the same category as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256831) - but what was tested was how the bacteria was moved by the air in the subway. They tried a common soil bacteria that they believed was harmless (and which wikipedia says "is thought to be a normal gut commensal in humans").

"""And while the people who conducted these experiments did so under the belief that the bacterial species they used were harmless, it has since been revealed that they can cause health problems."""

This is such a weasel language, everything can cause health problems (is water harmless? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication).

The bacteria used there was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_subtilis "This species is commonly found in the upper layers of the soil and B. subtilis is thought to be a normal gut commensal in humans."

We live surrounded by bacteria, an probably often by Bacillus subtilis - because it is a common bacteria found in soil.
I think there might be more to this story. This app is what people generally use to sideload apps on a locked Google TV device such as the Google Chromecast. One such commonly sideloaded app is SmartTube, an unofficial YouTube client with no ads and SponsorBlock included:

https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/

I'm not surprised Google is eager to take it down under any pretext, and not so eager to restore it.
The announcement is more recent than that:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/opening-north-american-charging-s...
Also https://fire.airnow.gov/
Jeff Kaye is doing great work digging through the archives about US Biological Weapons (BW) use during the Korean War (on the north and on China), and has made a few notable recent discoveries. I recommend reading his work.

https://twitter.com/jeff_kaye/status/1657318979378225153
eDNA metabarcoding of flowers to survey arthropods in food production systems
Why not buy this rock that keeps tigers and/or bears away?
Tiered Storage in Kafka (2 minute streaming)
It's not like this is done in bad faith, it's an unsolved problem.
From a purely technology point of view, Meta is well placed. There isn't an enormous gap between what their hardware does vs. Apple.

Display resolution, eye tracking and hand tracking are problems that can be solved today with a more expensive device. (The Quest Pro is a weird compromise because it's not that much of an upgrade from the base Quest. It has powerful eye tracking, yet the software doesn't use it. The whole device really feels like it's an internal hardware testing platform that got a public release because Meta wanted to show the world they're working on something beyond the consumer headset.)

Historically this kind of timing against Apple has boded well. Windows 2.0 looked ugly and for end-users was little more than a glorified MS-DOS file manager, yet ended up winning the market in five years. Same thing happened in smartphones. Android 1.0 was a hasty design reset to catch up to the iPhone, yet it became the world leader in smartphones.

If Meta wants to be the Windows and Android of this generation of computing, they need to think hard about the platform aspect. The Microsoft and Google platforms wouldn't have taken off if the companies hadn't actively worked to open them up to other vendors. Meta can't just be the "poor man's Apple" in their own proprietary garden, or they will end up like Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, BlackBerry 10 and others who tried that approach in the past.
I agree. Meta's Quest devices are little more than an Android-based cell phone strapped to your face. Zuck has bet his company on his Metaverse idea and it appears Apple will utterly stomp him if their device performs half as well as they claimed in their WWDC keynote. The only thing Zuck has going for him is price. Some people will settle for Meta's lesser quality at a fraction of the price.
I'm referring to this UFO video, which is most likely some kind of duck:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs
So, a tool is not a skill. I start from that when considering investments of time. When it comes to tools my time spent becoming more proficient must result in time saved squared. When it comes to skills the investment of time can result in a time deficit, because the important thing is the learning which opens new opportunities.

I learned SQL for the first time last year writing almost exclusively in stored procedures. The logic feels archaic compared with modern functional concepts but SQL joins taught me a new way of doing things.

The time invested in learning new skills becomes productive when you can use those new learnings to build new original things or make new original decisions. If you are incapable or unwilling to make/do original things learning things is probably wasting your time.
But the fee that the GEZ used to collect (the Rundfunkbeitrag) does still exist and that's what a lot of people call it even the entity that collects it has a different name now, which doesn't make a difference to its effect.

I believe there are taxes in Germany that are zweckgebunden (legally bound to be used for a particular purpose), but the Soli isn't one: there were political justifications for its introduction, but it goes into the general fund and the government doesn't have to use it for those purposes.
Ask HN: Does anyone here use human feedback to train AI?
I'm looking to run some research interviews with people who work at companies that use humans-in-the-loop to train/evaluate their AI models.

I don't know if anyone here might be happy to spend 30mins on a google meet with me in the coming week?

I'd massively appreciate it and I'd love to offer you a £30 Amazon voucher for your time as a thank you.

Many thanks!
Since nobody else has mentioned it: rats in NYC are frequently poisoned and are dangerous for predators to eat. The city has had a number of famous hawks and owls die over the years due to poisoned rats, most recently Pale Male[1].

I have a feral cat that lives under my stoop, and I like it. But I’m also not under a bucolic daydream about a closed ecosystem between this city’s cats and rats.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/nyregion/pale-male-hawk.h...
Something like IPA probably. Some languages are already basically phonetic so you don't need to change anything.
Protect your Mac app with environment constraints
I started playing around with it and came to the conclusion that it needs a bit more development before it’s ready for me.

My use case: I’ve been meaning to build a simple backend for a chatbot that’s active in a community I frequent. The functions I want to add to the chatbot are just for fun, and my time on this is 100% voluntary. All I need is a backend to handle two types of requests, one which inserts a record into a persistent data store, and one which retrieves the count of records associated to the requesting user + the date of the first and the most recent records.

There’s nothing there that I don’t know how to code and deploy. But even the time it would cost me to compare prices of the various services which offer backend hosting is more than my little use case is worth. Then I still have to figure out the deployment path for my code, and stamp out the code itself.

The 1000 requests per month + 50k db records you get for free from this service would have been more than enough for what I’m doing. But unfortunately the functionality that I need isn’t quite there yet.
Phew,I was starting to get worried. Thankfully asshole instead.
The most likely explanation is regulations, import restrictions and other such taxation to offer it for sale in those markets is likely the biggest factors. Another factor can include volatility of the currency because is it difficult to change prices on a daily basis but that's probably not a big factor.
A Brief History of Insults
Wow, I didn't know about that one, but just watched a video. I wonder if it was inspired by the Mac game from the late 80s.
The industry has atrophied, I don't think we can be WWII bombers anymore either or if we wanted to it would take some time to gain momentum.
I didn't suggest that you're in favor of it? Was not my intention so sorry if it came off that way!

I agree with the overall thrust though: this is not a winning line of argument. But I'm not sure what is, to be honest, given that this issue has become quasi-religious. Eventually we'll have enough dead kids (and enough dead old people) to start questioning this religious conviction, but yeah, logic or history won't get us there.
Worked from home ~5 of my ~10 years in development.

Obviously, the "pros" of WFH are massive. No commute. Comfortable office. Food in the fridge. Daytime exercise + showers. Etc. etc.

I found however that too much of a good thing, is bad. For me, the lack of in person communication started to atrophy my enjoyment of life. I wouldn't have been able to really tell you it for the first few years, but I was slowly moving toward being mildly depressed.

Returning to office restored my excitement for my work. I credit my colleagues and the process of working toward a big goal with other people. We really underestimate how important this is for mental health.

If you're in office and you now what I mean, show some love to a fellow co-worker. You gotta admit it's nice to see each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

> Tankie is a pejorative label for communists, particularly Stalinists, who support the authoritarian tendencies of Marxism–Leninism or, more generally, authoritarian states associated with Marxism–Leninism in history.

> ...

> The term is also used to describe people who endorse, defend, or deny the crimes committed by communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and Kim il-Sung. In modern times, the term is used across the political spectrum to describe those who have a bias in favor of authoritarian communist states, such as the People's Republic of China, the Syrian Arab Republic, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Additionally, tankies have a tendency to support non-socialist states if they are opposed to the United States and the Western world in general.

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Or a quick way - if you think of countries that have military parades with tanks rolling down city streets, those are supported by "tankies".
> I just want holodeck hardware and software with weeklong battery life. This is getting is closer.

I thought the battery last only about 2 hours
Maybe Reddit has decided the free labor costs too much, even if the price is cheap.
I do exactly this. Very happy with the solution though I did get grandfathered in to their paid subscription (so I don’t pay it)

Mechanical watches are a deep and expensive rabbit hole though.
To expand on this, it seems like the majority of people I know actually prefer consuming media on small screens, especially if I include people under 20 in that assessment.

On top of that so far VR only offers a bigger screen and can’t actually produce high fidelity images. My 4K TV has more pixels and produces a clearer picture with more detail and resolution. Only offering bigger doesn’t feel like a good selling point or revolutionary change.

I think unique games like Beatsaber (which I fucking love and play regularly) are an example of a completely new use case unlocked as a possibility because of VR but those are only compelling to a small percentage of people. VRs big problem is it hasn’t found a similar completely new experience that’s not just a new way to do existing things moderately better (often only in a some areas while being worse in others) and is actually compelling to a large audience. Until it does the potential audience is going to remain small.
The Reddit API usage is as efficient as it can be, server wise, although I’d like to be proven wrong by them.

As far as the app goes, an average of ~330 reqs/user/day is pretty good, considering they built the platform budgeting for 86,400.
You forgot the/s.
Apple’s AirDrop in the Crosshairs of China’s National-Security Crackdown