skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why on earth is your soldering iron anywhere close to your mouth?!
If you're using a relational database for your web app, then you're doing something very similar to ECS, but more powerful.
Four: two to the front patio, one to the back, one to the garage. It's kind of a dumb layout.

Maybe I'd feel differently if it were barefoot temp year-round, but that's pretty much just a summer thing here. Plus it's kind of irresponsible to heat you house to barefoot-friendly temps so now you've gotta have slippers for everyone...
Even if true, that isn’t necessarily a reason not to use Ruby. RoR is famous for getting your MVP out there in front of users fast. Which is what matters for a startup.

Needing to migrate off it as you count the fuckyou money? I’ll take that problems thanks!
Maybe instead of putting Europe in the middle we could do something sensible like put the split left-right edges down the middle of the widest ocean.
More generally: All models are wrong, but some are useful.

-- George E. P. Box, in "Science and Statistics" (1976) <https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Ian.Jermyn/philosophy/writi...> (PDF)

See: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong>

Box apparently expanded on the notion in Box, G. E. P. (1979), "Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building", in Launer, R. L.; Wilkinson, G. N. (eds.), Robustness in Statistics, Academic Press, pp. 201–236, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-438150-6.50018-2, ISBN 9781483263366.

Full text online at <https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/224156357/skogen_etal_2021_meps....> (PDF)
Your skin automatically adjusts and “turns off” the vitamin D you get from sun when you have enough.

> You cannot get too much vitamin D from sunshine because your skin limits the amount of vitamin D it makes.

>https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-Consumer

I was once at a dinner sitting at the table with the head of the USA office of supplements and asked him how much Vitamin D one should take and he said “Get sunshine.”
I'm really interested to see how high level the support is for "spatial computing" is in the APIs they are offering.

This whole thread is full of people wildly speculating about applications which, without amazing platform level support are each going to be a small miracle in state of the art computer vision applications.

Can they offer full 3d image detection / segmentation to give you a full spatial model of the user's environment? If not, a lot of people are going to be sorely disappointed by the amount of computer vision expertise required to get even basic apps they are envisioning to work. On the other hand if Apple does offer this type of platform support, it will be quite revolutionary.

Meta has offered a range of spatial computing APIs for a while but they have been slow to take off. The Quest 3 should really push this along though. It will be fascinating to watch the two platforms compete on this front.
You may want to look at Basecamp’s Shape Up.

Form tiny independent teams capable of designing and shipping features. Assign them features and have them design and ship within 6 weeks. If they can’t fit in that time, drop the feature.

The tiny teams (2-3 people) have near full decision power on all details.

The stakeholders bid on features every cycle.

No micromanagement, no running tasks through a shredder and reassembling them. Trusted teams building the product.

https://basecamp.com/shapeup
I wonder how much location bias affects this. I also grew up with basically only seeing equal-area projections and globes -- that's just what my school district used. It was weird seeing all the online memes about Mercator when I grew up never seeing it, heh.
Absolutely is is. But the tool itself is a medium for that communication. What is Figma for, if not communicating design decisions?
> How can you miss a quarter of the school days and keep up?

In middle school I missed quite a bit of school, even more in high school (sometimes missed entire weeks at a time) . It's not really that difficult, most of the time was spent on fluff. I passed with nothing lower than a B if my memory serves me, got accepted to every school I applied to so I was definitely performing well enough.
Show HN: Play Super Smash Bros. In ChatGPT
I'm a fan of nuclear, but I don't think you need nuclear in sunny Africa, especially sunny Sahara. Just fill as many hundreds of square kilometers as you want with solar panels, and you get more than enough electricity for all your needs. The bottleneck will not be electricity, but capital costs and governance.

I think Saudi Arabia stands a better chance, if only the king figures out planting trees in the desert is a better investment than building ghost cities.
The type in Go does not carry ownership information. It is not a useful distinction to say that slices are "owned" in Go.
Thank you. Its a great point and totally agree that a good management plays a big role in making life little easy. We did raise it to our management. But one of the limitations from their end is as well too many different tools and scattered information which do not give them full insights. For examples, its very hard to know which runbooks are stale and needs updates unless your frequently review them. Curious to know how such problems were solved?
I don't know if there's a specific name for them, but there's a cottage industry of fanless "network appliances" based on low-power Intel processors, loosely similar to Intel NUC, but with different form factors depending on how many Ethernet interfaces they have. Some of the better-known integrators on AliExpress include Topton, Kingnovy, and Qotom, and you'll find a ton of examples if you search AliExpress for "pfSense". There's also an American vendor, Protectli, that offers several variations of this hardware with a warranty, support, and Coreboot firmware (at a premium over AliExpress prices, of course).
Also setting up mechanisms to verify results and share results. Even a basic mechanism of “check in your code” would have served the purpose of identifying fake work. A code review mechanism can help stop irresponsible work.
Time perhaps to post this classic from XKCD: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/09/xkcd-curve-fitting-in-r/

To anyone who has worked in research, the various strategies it shows would be tragically familiar.
You know what's more costly? Dying.

> mostly ineffective

The United States government is mostly ineffective. Again, America's inability to do most functions of government correctly is not an indictment of those functions.

Also, it should be said, the US's prolonged mishandling of the Coronavirus pandemic had lasting economic impacts because people willingly chose to stay home to avoid getting sick, not just because occupancy limits were lowered for many businesses (what you mistakenly call a "lockdown"). Had the US enforced coronavirus restrictions better and if Americans didn't selfishly refuse to follow the rules, the economy would have taken far less damage than we chose to inflict upon ourselves.
NB: Canada is 40 millions, not thousands. Likewise Europe (variously defined) is 700 million.
The distribution of human temperature levels is already known, you could just give the average temp as every guess and get maybe 1.5 F average error.

My point is, you can’t really get 0.44F avg error unless it’s predictive. The “std dev” of abs(reality - model) is too high
Never thought of denormalization as caching. Makes sense. Thanks for the perspective
> but it is much harder, as you have to calculate the intervals between notes in real time

Not at all. You just hear the interval.
Remembering to use free() is a lot easier than remembering the inner workings of each and every destructor of each and every object you use.

Will destroying this window free the memory for this font instance? Will destroying this DOCX processing object close the file? Who knows?

But when the rule is just to clean up after yourself, it's a lot easier to remember.
> Ukraine tried to ban the Russian language.

This is literally not true and even if it was it doesn’t matter it’s their country they can ban Russian if they want.

> Ukraine is not sweet and innocent like the lame-stream press would have you believe.

I’m confused about this justifies the rape, torture and summary executions of civilians as well as the countless other war crimes.

> Most Ukrainians wanted peace within Ukraine. It was some others who didn't and they got their wish.

Russia is the one who decided not to have peace when they decided to break the Budapest memorandum multiple times.

Russia can leave and peace will be had, or Russia can stay and Russians will continue to die in droves.
Public schools are sort of a monopoly. Unless you are well off and can afford private school, you are stuck with them as your only option.

Home school for most people is not an option if you have to work to support your family.
This may be too retro. If anyone wants a box of 40 2HD Sony floppies in new condition, and a floppy drive cleaning kit, write me at "nagle@animats.com".
I agree an arena is a simple idea, though what I really mean is an arena-based memory allocator (the better phrase is arena-based memory strategies, plural.)

The speaker who's giving the workshop wrote a popular article "Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator" [0] detailing what we mean. Search for "Composition With More Complex Allocators" and see whether that clarifies my stance better.

Thanks for the feedback and references, those are always useful.

[0] https://www.rfleury.com/p/untangling-lifetimes-the-arena-all...
I've been curious about sqlx for a while. About the non-incredible performance: Do you mean the performance of the verification in development, or the performance of sqlx execution in a live setting?
No problems. Just checked out your bio. Interesting stuff especially the OSS in top of cheap clouds stuff.
Canadian here - every household I've been in is take shoes off at the door. I think it's culturally built in most places that experience a lot of snow. If for half the year your taking off your boots you get in the habbit of taking off your shoes too.
This really doesn’t add anything to the discussion. HN guidelines prefer “thoughtful and substantive” comments.
Ruby is awesome AF.

Rails has been going through a midlife crisis.

I know there's other frameworks but Rails is awesome other than how they bowed down to different JS frameworks for asset pipelines in 5 and 6. This is spose to be better in 7, but I still get weird edges cases and and work tough them in code, and my therapist.

Sometimes I long for PHP, I left right as it was getting proper, Composer, Yii (I know most Laravel fans, but w/e), being able to just hot editing 1 line of code without full deploys.

Yeah, Many people will tell you how surprised they are that I advocated Ruby and Rails, and im fine with that.
Science and Statistics (1976) [pdf]
Origin of the aphorism "All models are wrong, but some are useful", though as expressed in this paper only the first clause is explicitly stated.

See: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong>

Box apparently expanded on the notion in Box, G. E. P. (1979), "Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building", in Launer, R. L.; Wilkinson, G. N. (eds.), Robustness in Statistics, Academic Press, pp. 201–236, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-438150-6.50018-2, ISBN 9781483263366.

Full text online at <https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/224156357/skogen_etal_2021_meps....> (PDF)
https://sam.gov/opp/2e0365ce1e3c4c179b50fb15573d68e4/view
This would leave the main problems of lower visibility and the higher mass creating a higher more dangerous impact for other cars and pedestrians.
This is great, but why do I get the sense that Golang's development is so slow? Ex:

Java: We added structured concurrency and virtual threads!

Golang: We added a min function!

Most of the standard lib still doesn't properly support generics, and at this pace, it will be another 5 years at least before it does.
I find it appalling that an editor of Science is basically writing an opinion article advocating character assassination and trying to pass it off as “science”.
does this not cause grip issues?
I remember a thing a while back where Texas cut family planning funding. Around the same time maternal deaths skyrockets.

Tons of research, sponsored by pro-choice medical groups

Turns out the rise in maternal deaths preceded cuts in funding.

Speaking to my relatives in Texas, a bunch of ERs shut down around the same time - which could explain the deaths.

Abortion is a hit button issue - family planning is to a lesser degree.

But plain old ERs closing - that’s not political. Just a statistic.
Yes according to NASA
EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel
Would you accept billionaires as their parents and/or through relationships/marriage with billionaire kids?

I don't think it's that hard. I know quite a few people at maybe bacon number of 2 that falls in this case.
Skimming through the study, it seems like most of the control temps were within a 0.6° C range. I wonder what the average absolute error would be of a thermometer that always returned 37°C
Apple should definitely include stuff like this in their iPhone hardware. (an actual thermometer). They have the premium and margin to do so and it would make the iPhone even more sticky as a platform.

Thermometer and other biometrics would be great. In theory you could measure a pulse by touching the phone and it detects the vibrations, runs that through some ML. Maybe possible already?
Idk if it’s really going to be any worse than low grade us chicken that is currently out there
The fact you can cancel online is a good thing though. Some places have you send an email which is terrible. Honestly a unified API endpoint for all this would be a godsend.
> If Canada WANTED to become a vassal state of China what do you think the Americans would do?

Not much, probably sanction them, cut off ties and generally cease trade.

But I don’t think they’d invade, nor do I think if they did invade they would commit the horrible crimes (genocide, rape and torture of children, etc) that the Russians seem to love to do.
That doesn't work for that purpose because nothing mandates that AI-generated works be watermarked, and latent diffusion models are easily run on a desktop GPU now.
Or maybe the typical delivery cost is close to $10? USPS Retail Ground® is $9.
ERs have their own risks, particularly catching something new. We tried our best to keep our 26 weekers out of it as much as possible, as even a cold was pretty disastrous in the first couple of years.
Answering the immediate question: KPIs. The company is prepping for an IPO 2H2023,[1] trying to juice engagement, advertising, and revenue stats, and is well down the enshittification track: <https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys> (Doctorow's describing a different site, but the dynamic is identical in cause and consequence.)

VC manage a portfolio of assets. The net risk of an (increasingly unlikely) large liquidity event, vs. a wash, still sees its upside in the big-pop IPO.

Which is to say: it really is rational for investors to pursue a course with a high probability of killing the goose, as the alternative is still little or no return.

I'm starting to reach the view that VC have decided that Reddit must either see a large liquidity event or die trying. Given the present investment environment, it's time to close off taps.

TL;DR: Incentives grossly misaligned with core membership. (A conclusion I'd reached years ago.)

________________________________

Notes:

1. "Reddit aims for IPO in second half of 2023 - The Information" https://neuters.de/technology/reddit-aims-ipo-second-half-20...
That’s pretty bad. In order to reset password with the same company they’ve asked me to verify the last four digits of a credit card, never reset the pw and this was years ago.
On android podcast addict is fantastic.

On iOS pocket casts is fantastic.
I’ve been involved in discussions over what numbers to give to the Board of Trustees. CFOs go to prison over this.

It’s funny how greedy, for-profit companies are strict about honest accounting, while non-profit universities are fine with dodgy research.
To be honest I kinda hate the reply to “X is like Y” comment when someone says “X is not like Y because of difference Z”. It's just… so pedantic. The whole reason we say “X is like Y” instead of “X is the same as Y” is because X is not the same as Y. I’m just really tired of seeing this response on HN over and over. I was pretty damn explicit when I said “more or less” and you’re here to argue about whether it is legal for me to say “more or less” in this context. I mean, geez, what a drag.

If you talk about how Go slices are tricky for beginners, but you cite C++ as some kind of gold standard against which Go should be compared, then I think you’ve lost the plot—C++’s type system is a complete and utter trash fire for people who are new to programming. Rust, as well, is very difficult for people to get into. Even the Python semantics for lists get people tripped up all the time.

a = [[]] * 5
b = [[] for _ in range(5)]

I bring this up because there is no language that gets things right for beginners and still provides the tools which professional programmers expect to have. And if you want to pick an example of a language that is particularly bad for beginners, C++ is it. C++ is shit for beginners. Complete shit. I bring up the Python example because it’s something I’m always explaining to people who are learning Python—Python is ok, but slicing in Python creates new arrays containing a copy of the slice's contents.

The nuances of how references and values work is something that you have to work through, and then you have to come to terms with the conventions for the particular language you are using. IMO, Go’s slices are fine… you really just have to be careful about aliasing a slice you don’t own, but then again, that’s true for languages like C++, Python, Java, and C# as well. Rust is the only one that’s really different here.
At least on mobile, it seems to be quite straightforward. Albeit still requiring multiple clicks and confirmations, the buttons are clearly named and visible
ChatGPT does offer 2FA

I use it.
I don't enjoy the otel APIs, but they are implicitly scoped; contexts are a natural place to store them.
Oh yeah if you're interested in Nimbus[0][1], please check it out, or sign up for the mailing list (please excuse the ugly landing page, haven't had time to go back and update it).

That's what I was supposed to be working on while I was working on this :)

Will be back to focusing on Nimbus and trying to get more services integrated -- it's been a very slow slog because I've been boiling the world and trying to figure out how to do distributed storage with minimal data loss probability (the original timeline was last year for the first batch of services, believe it or not).

Right now if you make an account you can launch Redis services, and there should be more in the near future.

[0]: https://nimbusws.com

[1]: https://nimbusws.com/app
Maybe not 10x but even just noting stuff means that picking up an older task that you had to shelve before could go from a 15 minute thing to a 30 second thing depending on what context you put down/how accessible it is.

Ultimately a lot of this stuff is commingled with comfort with tools and general ability to juggle things though, so hard to isolate the effects
> opentelemetry is basically a house of antipatterns

"Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair!"

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tr... -> https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-re... ... and then a reasonable person trying to load that mess into their head may ask 'err, what's the difference between go.opentelemetry.io/collector and github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib?'

$ curl -fsS go.opentelemetry.io/collector | grep go-import
<meta name="go-import" content="go.opentelemetry.io/collector git https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector">

Oh, I see. Thanks.
As a mod, I'm well aware, and it's why I'd moved my own activities and focus elsewhere years ago.

Reddit has remained a useful space to launch the occasional new forum (e.g., /r/Plexodus) on a transitory basis, and still occasionally proves useful for technical issues, but that's really the limit of my present interaction.
> after suggesting to simply loop and delete each key one at a time for so long

Those were always bad alternatives to a real design problem, they just didn't have a good alternative to offer at the time.
The only distortion is your idea that there's something that is not only an approximation.
It's a problem for those people, and the solution is to grow up.

Why should adults care?
And then how many more steps? (I don't want to cancel right now so I didn't go all the way through the flow, but saw at least two "are you sure" prompts in a row...)
IMO, a full blown cooking app is just a distraction. It could be the "travel app" of this platform and safer for any sane developer to ignore.

A developer doesn't need to make a killer app, just supplementary apps that people will use in this environment. And yes, some people will just make money making sure their 2D iOS app works in this environment, and a subset of that will convert it appropriately to work as a volume with depth.

In this environment, Apple handles the difficult spatial stuff and many developers will just build planes or volumes within that, and get solid mileage from that.

As anyone who's arrived early at an ecosystem knows, you first get used to the basic stuff, try a few free gimmicks, and then you're looking for apps to try and buy. Anyone in that marketplace at that point has far easier opportunities. Leave expensive-to-develop apps like VR courtside experiences to NBA and whoever else - those will sell the device. Smallfry developers will be fine otherwise.
Even China's extremely draconian zero-COVID policy lockdowns, with martial law and doors welded shut ultimately achieved very little. When I say we all got COVID anyway, I mean pretty much everyone in the entire world did.
Specificity does not get upvotes
As someone who graduated valedictorian but skipped more days than allowable to graduate (my parents had to fight with the district to let me graduate), there is no correlation between days attended and skill/aptitude.
Take the Comcast CPE, put wifi router in small faraday cage or open it up and unplug the antennas?

Most of Silicon Valley is in the clutches of Comcast as well, unfortunately. It's 1.2gbps down / 35mbit up or ATT 768K DSL (and we'd have to pay to get phone lines) where I'm at. Of course, if you check the FCC Broadband Map, there are 7 providers here, with ATT showing 5gbps FTTH, which I've confirmed with their reps multiple times is not possible (there's no fiber on the poles in our backyard and they won't install any anytime soon).

Apartments I've lived in around SV as well are also under the Comcast exclusive contract, with restrictions on any antennas or dishes, so the only other choice would be tethering an LTE or 5G device.

We sold out the critical infrastructure of our country to investors and this is the result.
Some places make you cancel with a snail mail letter or in-person. Lots of gyms do this.

My experience cancelling prime was about 6 clicks and it was instant. Could have been 1, sure. But surprises me that the FTC is taking issue. Maybe being big is what catches their eye, while Planet Fitness flies under the radar.
I expect both will result in the same code; the only difference is that the clear built-in can handle maps with NaN keys.
I don’t find Prime hard to cancel but I do agree that certain patterns are crafty. Like when I go to buy a single Kindle book and it defaults to their subscription service (Kindle Unlimited). With 1-click purchase, it’s too easy to buy and not know.
VRChat with payment integration, then. No reason to choose Apple.
I’m indoors most of the time (previous skin cancer so I’m really careful about sun exposure these days) and I’ve been on 5000 IU daily for years and my levels show up basically perfect on the blood test every year