skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sucks. I used to ride the bus home after school, throw my backpack at my house, and run off to play with my buds until the sun started to go down. It was the most amazing part of my day, just being free to be a kid and DO WHATEVER. Sometimes we'd walk to the stream and pick up rocks to look for bugs and crawfish. Sometimes we'd play card games. Sometimes we'd go to the park and play "wall ball", which obviously included a painful peg to the back with a tennis ball if you failed whatever the goal of that game even was!

Anyways, point is, this fostered my interest in nature (looking for bugs), my sociability and strategy (card games), and my agility and teamwork (wall ball). This was stuff I worked hard at too, because they were my interests.
I thought it started during 2016
There's no ID check after passing Clear, so this would be a way to avoid no-fly lists and other restrictions on travel.
For a confused German where everyone pumps their own gas: Why was this a law in the first place? Are there similar laws in other states?

Edit: Thanks everyone, that's really interesting. My only experience with attendants is in South Africa where you don't need a law, because the gas station doesn't trust the customers, and the customers don't want to risk opening their doors and get mugged ;)
Thank you Dan.
Can I start a tech startup on an OPT visa while I work for another large tech company?
I did regarding the timelines, then they pivoted to including HN threads in the comparison when my original statement was about articles. I don't know what you're talking about regarding Google Video, I did not mention it.
It's dumb to pass this kind of judgement so quickly. Nobody should expect massive habit changes from one day to the next. All that a viral product needs is some foothold to grow from, and by that measure threads still has a fantastic foothold.
FAANG is nice, but it doesn't guarantee anything.
> 99.9% of people will just click the google login button and continue on as if nothing had happened

You have a very, very rosy perception of login walls. All the stats I’ve see would disagree.
Very interesting but very case-specific questions which are hard to answer in writing unfortunately.
There certainly is - the smaller vendors are trying to avoid raising prices as best they can whilst the big ones are trying to reduce cash handling costs.
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Yeah, same here. For my purposes, Mastodon is superior to what Twitter was at its peak.

I only look at Xitter for Ukraine news - that community hasn't migrated elsewhere. But that's mostly on third-party pages, I don't log in anymore, so the site itself is useless to me.
Why Is the Other Lane Always Faster? (2018)
Love you for this! I had exactly the same “solar freaking roadways” thought, although at least that idea qualified by basic theoretical analysis of available energy and area for harvesting and conversion efficiency. It was an obviously terrible idea for other reasons :-) yet it still got a prototype…

I wasn’t sure about the droplet analysis so took your same numbers (25mm/h, 10m/s) and just worked out aggregate mass: 25mm over 1m^2 = 0.025m^3 = 25kg

0.5mv^2 => 1250J/h… so looks like we agree.

And to add a simple economic analysis of why this is such a dead-end idea:

Mawsynram, in India, is apparently the rainiest city in the world with roughly 10,000mm of annual rainfall - 10x the global average.

A given rain energy harvesting panel, deployed there, would generate 500,000J/yr… or 0.138kWh. That’s significantly less than what a typical rooftop 1m2 solar panel would generate in an hour on a sunny day. 0.138kwh is worth around 1.3cents at 10c/kWh.

A big roof might get you $1-$2/year. You couldn’t pay to clean your roof for that. You couldn’t even pay someone to answer an email enquiry about the install costs for your system for that. This solution would have to be VASTLY cheaper than paint to stand a chance of being viable.

There is a reason our existing systems to collect power from rainfall rely on vast existing landscapes and aggregation mechanisms (rivers) to concentrate the rainfall for us.

It is - in my view - a dead idea.
It seems it is common problem; https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/11cx7kh/my_int...

Here are two recommendations from that thread;

> Do you have the ability to connect a computer to your network via Ethernet? Even if it’s temporary, that’s what I would do to troubleshoot.

> Let’s see if it’s an internet problem or a WiFi problem:

> Connect your computer to Ethernet straight into your router (or switch).

> Open command line on windows or terminal on a Mac. On windows type: ping 8.8.8.8 -t then press enter. On a Mac: ping 8.8.8.8 then press enter. You’ll get something that has a number followed by ms that creates a new line every second. That’s how many milliseconds it takes to get a packet of data to Google (8.8.8.8) and back.

> move the car

> If the number next to the ms changes dramatically when the car moves then we know that either the car is pushing a lot of data over your network or the car is causing a physical anomaly like moving a broken cable, which is unlikely.

> If the number doesn’t change then we know the car is doing something to interfere with just the wireless network which is also unlikely.

> If the number changes dramatically, forgetting the network in the car will help us troubleshoot. Once the car is disconnected from the network, run the ping command again. If you move the car and the ms on that ping test doesn’t change then we know the car is moving a lot of data when it’s coming/going.

> If it does change without the car being connected to the network then it may be a physical problem with the connection. Again, this isn’t likely but can happen. My internet used to stop working when it rained, for instance.

> I suspect the car is connecting to Wi-Fi when it wakes up to leave or gets within range while returning. I’m going to assume when you run the ping test you’ll see the ms (also know as latency) increase because the car is taking a chunk of bandwidth. It’s unlikely the car is able to interfere with the Wi-Fi radios in your home and it’s unlikely it’s causing a physical problem when moving in your driveway (like irritating a loose connection).

and...

> This can happen when your internet is a slow connection type (for example ADSL), and the Tesla knows your WIFI password.

> Once it detects your WIFI, it will connect and push lots of data to the internet. It will clog up your upload bandwidth, degrading the service quality for everyone. The same thing can happen with other WIFI devices too, for example an iPhone eager to sync fresh photos to the cloud.

> To confirm, change your WIFI password temporarily and see how the problem disappears.

> To solve it, either get a faster internet connection, one with upload bandwidth > WIFI bandwith. Or get a WIFI router that lets you throttle clients. Or check your existing router for a feature called "QoS" (Quality of Service). Theoretically QoS can solve it, but most implementations are lacking.
> That said, the comments sections on these articles do tend to devolve pretty quickly.

I might be getting desensitized, but (being pretty socially progressive, myself) the comment threads painful to me seem much less frequent today than a few years ago.

(Up until a couple years ago, when a comment thread seemed to bring out comment threads that were very concerning, sometimes I'd go read a little n-gate.com, as an antidote. I'd let that person rant about HN, much more over-the-top than I would. Unfortunately, during their last installment or two, before disappearing, the writer sounded more genuinely upset about something. I hope they're OK, and that they didn't absorb too much stress, while saving me from blowing a gasket.)
Thank you!

That's great input! This is all very fresh so I'm still building connections. I have to admit Voip providers were not on my list but it totally makes sense.
The producers of The Fellowship of the Ring were so anxious about the production, having sunk so much into it even before filming, that they offered Sean Connery the part of Gandalf. They offered him a percentage of the gross. Reportedly, he wasn't familiar with Tolkien and didn't care for the script (what the fuck is a hobbit?), and of course everything worked out fine for everyone concerned. Ian McKellen was great, and worked cheaper than Connery. Connery retired to a Carribean paradise with a good golf course.

I calculated it out once, and if he'd taken the deal they were offering, Connery would have - based on what the movie grossed - made a decent slice of a billion dollars.
VC money is tight right now, and Twitter was never profitable. If I were an investor, you'd have to have some kind of revenue story if you were selling me a Twitter killer.

Mastodon works for the people who are willing to "pay" (in social labor or hosting money) the startup costs. Threads very likely has the limitations it has because that's what Meta thinks will generate useful advertising data — their bread and butter.

For tech people, I think the most likely way to get a Twitter killer in the near-medium term would be to convince Microsoft to add that feature to Github. As usual, you're the product.
Yes, a concurrent part-time H-1B can be for as little as 5 hours per week. But there's the issue of getting it, since founder H-1Bs can be challenging.
Hi. This is the first time I'm trying an external app. I created an ChatGPT API key and configured it in Chie.

Once I tried asking ChatGPT it immediately replied "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details" which I can't believe is the case.

I then tried to press the copy button over this reply to paste it here but that raises an error: "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'content') at #copyTextAt (chieapp.exe\asar\dist\view\chat-view.js:1:11362).
You're off by 4 orders of magnitude. These "rain panels" generate <<1W/m2 even in heavy rain.
Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional
Annual submission? Forever props to Dang and the mods of course.

Some previous discussions:

A year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374040

3 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25048415

4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052
Show HN: Binaural Beats Web App
A while ago I had created this small web app to listen to Binaural Beats called Chill.Ninja. Immerse yourself in the harmonious world of binaural beats, carefully crafted to soothe your mind and elevate your mood.
Thank you for this very insightful answer! I've always been more interested in the structure of problems than in their specific detail, so your observations and recommendations seem right up my alley.

When it comes to mathematical foundations, do you believe that differential equations are the best approach to gain a grounded understanding of physics? Although I've been introduced to them, I lack a deeper, intuitive grasp. I'm curious if attaining such an understanding would markedly improve my comprehension of physical concepts.
Yes, I don't care about getting updates. If they're important to you, that's fair.

But the phones don't suddenly stop working without updates. They're still perfectly fine.
He Created the Katamari Games, but They’re Rolling on Without Him
Similar within the field of software engineering or software development or even more broadly than that so I see no issue with the examples above.
My conscience wouldn't let me do that. Don't get me wrong I'd be willing to accept a steep discount for the hassle of potentially grading and listing every card, the time it takes to sell, and the expectation that some won't move in a timely fashion, but I'm not gonna give someone $20 for $10,000 worth of merchandise just because they're ignorant.
As much as you might want it to be, your life right now is not a blank human plus qualifications. Who you are as a person is shaped by your life before this point. A person who has invested in those extra curricular skills will simply be more skilled now, from precise ways (the specific skills learnt) to more general ways (the required concentration and perseverance etc)
Do you see all the photos in the photos app (and hence iCloud Photos) in iCloud Drive? Near as I can tell, they're separate and this is by design.

This impacts pictures or videos taken on phones, iPad’s etc by default; as they go into iCloud Photos, not iCloud Drive.
This guy should win dad of the year award. Seriously. I gave my son a knife for his birthday when he was 7, but this is taking to a whole another dimension. I should also mention that growing up in eastern Europe back in the day, when I was 14, I was building a gun in my bedroom. It blew a hole in my palm when I was testing.
The rest of the world chose a different stupidity, locking in their messaging to Meta's platform.
Daniel is the man! I can’t express how grateful I am for his openness and honesty when you interact with him.

I’m working on a fun side project now that was inspired after emailing him.

When YC asks me to come out for a demo, I’d be most excited to finally meet him in person lol
The Daley fix is in!
Helicopter parenting is bad until it gets your kid into Cornell. Therapy can wait until that corporate job health plan kicks in.
Nobel Prize is your best bet :) Also, if you are an athlete then Olympic medals help. Other than that, it's all subjective.
Plenty of room for multiple collections.
> While we're at it, can we extract any energy from lightning?

Wikipedia has you covered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvesting_lightning_energy
Yes it is. That caption is indeed confusing - pushed a fix!
Doing:

bastion named server

Multizone

Hidden Master

Split-Horizon

IXFR/AXFR firewalling

DNSSEC and local network

resolv.conf hijacking

Remote admin security

All of above would and should be hard.
One of the weird things about America is that we all know Asian kids are better at math than other kids on average. Its pretty obvious to anyone that's been in a class with Asians or taught Asians. I've done both.

But nobody can actually say this. Instead we have to pretend like this isn't the case. Just look at math Olympiad teams. I coached one years ago. My entire team was Asian except for two alternates. One who was Russian, and the other Indian.

Yes, environment can change outcomes ... but maybe it can't change outcomes to a point where everyone is going to perform the same. Are we going to try to get everyone's 100M sprint into the same range too? People are different.

We should give every individual the same shot at opportunities but I don't think we are ever going to make Asian kids perform at the level of other kids in math or vice versa. Its not environment. Every one of us that has taught an engineering or math course knows this. Even if we don't talk about it.
He should be charged with battery.

In all seriousness, must be some sort of interference, but without further details it’s hard to tell, are you on wifi? The timing of it happening, is it as soon as tesla arrives, garage door opens, few seconds after they arrive? and so on.
My sense is that the off-the-shelf software is largely the same. I would raise this question on AILA.
Hey Peter, thank you so much for doing this! I'm currently a F-1 student in Michigan doing CS major undergrad. In Jan, I had a DUI case with BOC: 0.09, and I just started with the whole court thing. Since I don't have a result yet, will a bad record lead to an eviction of the country or will it lead to a hard time later if I ever want to apply for green card / H1B in the future?
Xitter has moved from offering 50% off ad purchases of $250k a couple months ago to threatening removal of "gold checks" from companies that don't spend $1k.

That is not the strategy of a healthy advertising-driven company. It isn't even a strategy, that's flop-sweat.
Whenever you got yourself a new TV, you had to set the channels once. Afterwards it would just remember what you already had.
possible lab leak.
One-time programs are very interesting. They depend on specialized hardware (not surprising), but we already have precedent for such hardware, like TPMs. As usual, this would have uses like DRM, but also lots of other uses that most users will be more interested in.
This is also because Google's Protobuf implementations aren't doing a very good job with avoiding unnecessary allocations. Gogoproto is better and it is possible to do even better, here is an example prototype I have put together for Go (even if you do not use the laziness part it is still much faster than Google's implementation): https://github.com/splunk/exp-lazyproto
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A lot of people just don't own a desktop, or laptop.
Not in the UK. Most cheap residential BB is v4 only.
If nobody sells food to prisons, then what will the prisoners eat? Do you propose that prisons be run as farms where prisoners are made to produce their own food? I've heard that prisons in South Korea work that way, but I've also heard that prisons in South Korea are brutal by even American standards, such that the US Military has an agreement with the South Korean government that any US servicemen put into Korean prisons will be fed more than a starvation diet. Apparently conditions in Korean prisons are such that an agreement like that is necessary.

Maybe, prisons buying food isn't the problem with American prisons.
Sex-specific differences in myocardial injury incidence after Covid mRNA Booster
I absolutely LOVE this comment. It's so true. And super well-said.

Life is certainly way more complicated than a few tests. And there's so many great things to do and achieve!

Thank you so much for writing this. A much-needed reminder.
Your "usually" is doing a lot there. You bought the second ever "a", so you've done it once?

I understand your preference though, I've used google's phones (Nexus then Pixel) for about a decade. They have the benefit of having one fewer cooks in the kitchen. Any other brand has to adjust to whatever dumb thing Google has done to copy iPhone in each new OS release, and then also add their own layer on top of that.
Yes but mathematical integration (to solve Bayesian equations) is difficult, the higher the dimension, the more difficult it is. That's why differentiation is preferred. The concepts behind PPL are firmly entrenched in probabilistic ML, the ideas were never lost.
My comment was about news articles and you opened it up to HN threads and academic papers and whatever else. You hand waved away the fact that your timelines were vastly different, and are now complaining about pedantry when in several cases basic facts eluded you which changed your arguments when edited. You continually paraphrase my comment in an incomplete manner in order to serve your view.

No need to continue your experience of tedium then, I'm not particularly interested in such loose arguing either.
To be clear, there is no need to replace the stock firmware unless you are taking a hard ideological stance. You can install F-Droid on most any Android phone, then install OSMAnd+ from F-Droid over WiFi, download some maps, and then turn off the networks to use it offline as a GPS-only device.

Replacing the firmware with something de-googled would make it more certain that don't login with a Google account during initial phone setup nor send any telemetry during that period before you go offline, or if you go back online eventually for map updates etc.

Also, if you're going to use it offline as just a "GPS tool", you might not care about other issues like getting firmware updates. It won't be subject to attack if you're offline and not browsing the internet...
New Jersey is the only other state that prohibits it, I think. Originally (early 20th century), it was a safety thing. But in Oregon, anyway, it became a cultural thing over time.

Right now, a number of my Oregonian friends are upset that they've legalized it. Mostly because it's a loss of a cultural touchpoint, but also because they don't want to have to get out of their car in cold Oregon rain to pump their own gas.
Hmm, the main weakness of Cap'n Proto is that you have to already know so much stuff in order to understand why it makes all the great decisions it does. The weakness you're talking about matters to me, sure, I don't use Cap'n'Proto because it lacks the same tooling as gRPC, but it is better than gRPC from an ideas point of view.

I am not going to write those language implementations, I have other stuff I need to do, and gRPC is good enough. But the people who love writing language implementations might not understand why Cap'n Proto is great, or at least not understand as well as they understand Golang and Rust, so they will rewrite X in Golang and Rust instead.

Anyway, the great ideas haven't changed in whatever it is, almost 10-15 years you've been working on this, they've been right all along. So it is really about communication.

A comment on HN that really stuck with me was like: "Man dude, this is great, but try to explain to my team that it's Not React. They won't care."

I'm just a guy, I don't know how to distill how good Cap'n Proto is. But "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks" is the prototype. What is the unreasonable effectiveness of Cap'n Proto? In games, which I'm familiar with, entity component systems, user generated content and their tooling have a lot in common with Cap'n Proto. "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of ECS" is deterministic multiplayer, but that is also really poorly communicated, and thus limits adoption. Maybe you are already facing the same obstacles with Cloudflare Workers. It's all very communications related and I hope you get more adoption.
Note-taking. I was good at understanding stuff, but the only example of note-taking I had has been religiously copying everything the teacher was writing, and school was always about memorizing. I distrusted that heavily because it feels so alien to me. Now I've learned about proper note-taking and learning new stuff is effortless.
At some point, the question needs to encompass all social media platforms. Arguably, Facebook's days of relevance are over, and we need to be looking where the eyeballs actually are.
Anyone know what the just-CSS version of this would be? Like Bootstrap for Dashboards?
It's common startup knowledge at this point that a splashy launch will always lead to subsequent declines in usage, because huge numbers of non-ideal users are attracted by the initial press event.

The viral growth you're talking about pretty much never occurs after a huge launch event like this, and is reserved for more methodical releases and/or lower initial starting user counts, e.g. Instagram testing Stories, Facebook growing from college to college.
Yeah, and studios will start making movies with original IP, and we'll get music that isn't top 40s rehashes.
Netflix tried something like that once… I used to have “watch something random” button.

I think it always played me Friends episodes for some reason.
This misses the point completely. Regular security issues happen often, in 2023 alone we've already had 809 CVEs in Android [0]. Saying we should overlook addressing those because sometimes a CPU level security issue comes along is absurd. Spectre and other similar families of attacks are comparatively rare enough that they have names not numbers, that should say enough.

[0] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224...