skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It disappeared without any visible explanations. Apparently, it was a a friendly fork of the Breath project (https://github.com/cb-linux/breath) by Apacelus (https://github.com/Apacelus/Apacelus). But Apacelus stopped working on it on May 26th (https://github.com/Apacelus/Apacelus/commit/c84ee94310144ec9...).

There's another project on Github with the same name: eupnea-linux-backup https://github.com/eupnea-linux-backup
It's a frog in a steadily boiling water problem. People not caring about their privacy enables certain actors to increasingly encroach it and then suddenly you find that these actors know everything there is to know about you including what you buy, eat, use, discard etc. This is not just a hypothetical scenario. For instance, look at any digitally capable dictatorial regime. No one now has the power to speak up in these regimes because everything they say is tracked and can be traced back to them and they themselves gave the regime this power happily in the past.
He seems to be describing mild autism.

Any way about it I know the type and they make great start up partners. Their energy and need to prove they are right is the ultimate fuel if directed correctly
I absolutely love articles where I don't agree with John Gruber.
I agree that smaller companies are a lot less likely to spend the effort to emulate a FAANG hiring process. For one, job candidates are less willing to undergo the punishment if they're not going to get to put Google on their resume.

I think HN is over-represented by people who work at a FAANG or would like to. They're probably not applying to many jobs at mid-tier companies.
Theoretically yes, but since they weren't directly responsible for customer interactions, they couldn't do much more than coordinate with product PMs. Which wouldn't work if two product PMs for two different products had fundamentally different views of what is more important for the business.
The official documentation is great too: https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html
PG has some real bangers, unfortunately this is not one of them. Feels like he's just sucking himself (and a couple YC peeps) off the whole time without providing a whole lot of insight.
> “The entitlement of these fuckers is just off the charts.”

Gruber loves to attack everyone but Apple, but I could say the exact same thing about Apple and Google. These are the companies taking away our computing freedoms.
I really wonder if the market will soon be (or already is) flooded with similar cabinets but in bad condition. Barcades put a lot of stress on the machines -- high playtime, by adults with more strength than children, who are drinking, on machines that are often decades beyond their designed service life. And they don't have high enough maintenance budgets to keep them in good condition, or often in working condition at all.

Or perhaps they just get thrown out when the barcade replaces the machines or goes out of business.
Maybe the octopus is a more tractable model for robotic control. I understand that octopus neurons are not as concentrated in a central brain, but spread throughout its limbs that are autonomous compared to humans.
It's certainly an interesting mindset: "I'd rather live in a neighborhood where the HOA is run by psychopathic busybodies, even if it means I have to become a pod person!"
This looks pretty neat, might check it out.
Why do we need an AI agent for this?
> Time travel forward is comparitively simple

So simple, in fact, that all of us are already doing it.
Show HN: Selecta – Tune Your Own Spotify Recommendation Algorithm
I posted here a while back with this app I'd been working on. In short:

It allows you to talk to Spotify's recommendations API to specify musical features you'd like recommendations similar to.

It's loads of fun to mess around with, and I've given it an overhaul to include many more dimensions ito. musical features, as well as the ability to log in with Spotify, and save things you find to a playlist. You don't need a subscription to Spotify to use the app either.

Thanks to @Mockapapella for the tagline when I posted the first version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35907215
I am off facebook. I think they are not the bulk of the problem anyways.

You can see something similar with your Google ads profile, but only if you have personalized ads on. (I am sure they still have the profile on you, you just can't view it)
And annoyingly there is sometimes no way to delete this data completely.
Help simplify Revenue Ops workflow
Hi, I’m new to the revenue ops world, and I've been noticed its common to have a convoluted mix of scripting techniques using N8N, Dbt, etc for handling enrichment providers like Apollo and Clearbit. Does anyone have any tips on streamlining these workflows before I can route them to our reps (using Salesforce)?
Interconnecting to the US grid just got a lot more efficient
Cophone is a complete smartphone - but virtual. You can install any app in the App Store as well as place and receive calls and text messages, just like you are today with your physical smartphone. MySudo and SilentPhone offer a limited set of their own apps that you can use. Cophone does not have this limitation, you can install and use whatever app is available in the store.
I'm glad Apple does this, and I'll keep paying them multiple thousands of dollars per year to keep random companies from accessing my clipboard data without my consent.

No, I don't give a shit about your "seamless experience".
https://www.ferc.gov/news-events/news/staff-presentation-imp...
Did you add a skill or a certification?
Can you give a source for that? I thought they are doing fine.
The tacos you saw are a riff on kebab. They are tacos in name only. ( TINO if you like )
This article aims to focus on the prerequisites, the timing, and steps to ensure a successful transition for project managers.
Really? You don’t see how a recruiter would miss things if there’s 100+ spam/totally unqualified resumes for every legitimate one?
Well that’s the latest. Among CRT, DEI, and all the other acronyms of course.
> You're simply never expected to run into this problem if you run in upper middle class circles

So is the picky eater problem a shibboleth of an SES class higher or lower than upper-middle?

I can see lower classes being picky because of limited exposure to novel foods, but higher classes because of unrealistic culinary expectations.
Protein found to protect females against obesity
>Give the OnePlus phones a try.

Don't. Older OnePlus devices (1-3) were great, but the newer ones are pure trash, basically e-waste phones due to how poor the SW support is: good up to date HW, but buggy SW and poor SW update cycles with late updates which often add more bugs and remove features and don't address older bugs leading to never ending frustrations (just read their forums).

They even did bait-and-switch where they promised X update was coming in the future for your phone, and later axing that update completely while quietly removing all mentions of their promile from their webpage and forums. Stay away from them, there are more pleasurable ways to burn your money away.
> their developers have posted very publicly about being miserable there.

Just curious, do you have a reference?

I've complained on the forums for years about the bugs and Affinity never responds. As I've been using it for years, I figured out how to work around many bugs, but it is a field of landmines for sure.

It is indeed disappointing as it offers the best workflow for the kind of work I do.
The wikipedia page on military nuclear accidents has a good few more entries than this list, including what I assume is the classified "Spring 1968, Atlantic" entry, which wikipedia says was the loss of the USS Scorpion in May '68 off the Azores, with two nuclear torpedos aboard that were never recovered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...
> refactoring into a fetish (honestly there are people at my dayjob who have been "refactoring" the entire 3 years i've been here) and now hes blogged multiple times about platform teams

Side point here…

I absolutely love refactoring sometimes. Like taking a messy chunk of code with deeply nested conditionals a d simplifying it, which makes it more readable and extendable. You also have very clear requirements as well (whatever the original code did). There are few things in software development that bring me more joy than that.

But its often not necessary. And furthermore, refactoring is often not of that type. Sometimes people rewrite things because they don’t understand how they work (and writing is easier than reading). Or because they completely misjudge the value of the refactor.
I realize this essay is kind of a squishy, non-specific ideology rather than some more technical breakdown of traits with evidence of long-term success. It's getting some hate for that.

But that's probably fine. I enjoyed it as an encouraging letter to those who struggle, either with their difficulty fitting in because they are all-consumed by esoteric interests, or with their difficulty being patient in day-to-day things.

It's worth keeping the essay around for a rogue nephew/niece who's being bullied for loving Pokemon, or playing too many games, or whatever. I find it to be a kindness to help someone re-frame their impatience as a latent strength that just needs to be recognized for what it is.
Yeah, I agree. That "walk-in" was probably Yann having lunch with another intellectually famous friend. Someone recognized them and took the chance to interview them.
OpenBSD rather notably and explicitly lacks any notion of "LTS" (all releases are unsupported after a year) and is perfectly happy to break things without much of a grace period (prime example being the switch to a 64-bit time_t for all platforms).

That said, the upgrade process (like most things) is thoroughly documented every release, and a given release will continue to chug along for years, so I can see where you're coming from there.
Is an elasticsearch sink on the roadmap?
Sure, but this time in 2022, you probably wouldn't have let it do that much (or even had this thought).

Progress!
You really shouldn't be asking that here. HN is basically anti ads. Tracking / Targeted or not. As has been the case since somewhere around 2016.
What's still often slow in Tor is making initial connections to hidden (onion) services. Last year during a DDoS attack on Tor this was unreasonably slow and took minutes or more, at which point sites just appeared broken. Once connected, though, it would still work pretty well. So if your experience is using Tor to access onion services you might have an inflated idea of its slowness for normal purposes.

Visits to normal websites were only somewhat affected and were still pretty reliable.
> It's possible to support and encourage free access to scientific knowledge while not supporting IP infringement.

Is not supporting IP infringement a necessary precondition to supporting and encouraging free access to scientific knowledge?
One of the operative activities there, hunting, seems quite stressful. Not sure that a return to said tradition would feel like a step forward for a lot of folks.
Embraer makes some very interesting mid-sized commercial planes. This piece is light on details and the price range seems crazy optimistic - can you believe you would only pay 2x or 3x what an Uber charges to fly over a city? Nevertheless, seems like a promising concept.
Well... yeah. S3 has checksums and all sorts of fixity checks right throughout. At no stage do they ever rely on a single mechanism. If there's one thing they're insanely paranoid about, it's data correctness and durability.

It has been several years, so I really don't remember much about the tcp checksum / corrupting NIC thing. Typically tcp checksum failures are handled entirely by the NIC, you wouldn't even notice it. My vague recollection was it coming up between two services not in the customer synchronous path (so e.g. not involved in getting data to or from the customer), and it caused something on the OS side.

I do remember that there was a contingent of engineers that were convinced it was a cosmic ray bit flip, which seems this whole thing certain types of engineers end up doing when presented with improbable seeming circumstances. It wasn't until it had happened a second or third time (weeks later) that they realised the origin machine was the same each time, and were able to dig in deeper to the point of reproduction.
The regulatory environment in the US makes it much harder to sell vehicles in the US than in Europe.

But, if Chinese manufacturers are willing to put in the effort, they can satisfy the regulations.

I have almost zero faith in the willingness of domestic automakers to make the kind of vehicles people need. Perhaps an existential crisis will force them to.
Netlify, funnily enough, does nearly all my heavy-lifting for me. It's wild how much of the final stages of deployment are just handled so smoothly (even if the pricing is kinda ridiculous now.)

Github Actions for test running — replacing Travis after they removed their free-tier for OSS.
> BUT when managed properly the parallel-processing can be a significant advantage compared to neurotypical minds
google demo'd this to an NYT podcast in the final 20 minutes here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/podcasts/elons-x-machina-...

There's a cool part where they ask the robot to pick up a lion from a group of toy figures it hasn't seen before. After it does it correctly the NYT reporter asks it to pick up the extinct animal and the robot picks up the dinosaur toy.
Unfriendly, simple, and cynical take cloaked in adding 79 quotes where Gruber critiqued Facebook.
My limited experience with the Apple store seem a reason to stay AWAY from Apple.

They wouldn't look at the phone. They made me stand in line to make an appointment to come back, all the while their team of "experts" stood around chatting. It came across to me as horribly elitist, and one of the worst retail experiences I can recall.
I think it's easier to get away with not having someone who specializes in front end and so a lot of companies just don't prioritize it. I think a lot of them also don't realize how much they're missing either, but I'm maybe a little biased because I specialize in front end, haha. I do think that this is a contributing factor to why so many websites and web apps work and run so poorly.
> A veteran (from Latin vetus 'old') is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in a particular occupation or field.[1] A military veteran is a person who is no longer in a military.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran
ATT has been doing shit like this for years. Making old plans that were a good deal obsolete. Their streaming service was a whole bunch of nonsense that just kept going up in price. I’m sure all mobile carriers have shitty practices but I dropped ATT for T-Mobile, time will tell if they turn out the same way. I do appreciate just paying a flat rate every month.
"But my rep is pretty good" says a majority of people as incumbents win.
I'm in touch with the author, and he is responsive to concerns.

Jard is a tool that is simply done/complete/ready.

JavaScript as a developer culture seems to have convinced a lot of folks that if a package isn't updated at least a few times a year, it's "dead".
Imagine if this website had a way to sort comments by new so threads with more than 100 comments weren't basically unusable.
I needed to hear this. A dose of reality is good medicine.
> Recently getting rich became one of them: 7 of the 8 richest people in America are now fierce nerds.

And we’ve seen this is a huge problem. How many of those 7 have Jeffery Epstein connections? How many are manipulating our media and government?

Sadly the nerds turned out to be just as villainous as the old guard, only now they’ve got scale beyond imagination due to technology.
I think their cheesecake is mediocre at best as well. But then, I have no nostalgic or warm feelings about The Cheesecake Factory. It's just a chain restaurant, with everything that comes with that. I don't avoid the place. It's mediocre, not bad, but I'll always look to see if there's a better option around.
What about us poor slobs whose vision is less than perfect where the 80-character line is too small even when it takes up the entire width of the display? The way zooming is implemented in the mobile browsers, we must horizontally scroll back and forth for every line we read.
Yes, you can use it for 2fa. AppStore in this context is the e /OS/ App Lounge: https://doc.e.foundation/app-lounge#where-do-the-application...

From the link:
"Where do the applications in the App Lounge come from?
App Lounge can be used to install Native as well as Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) from a single interface. Apps are managed differently depending on their source. Applications from the Google Play Store are fetched using the Google Play API. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and Open Source Apps from F-Droid are fetched using the CleanAPK API (more info on the CleanAPK is covered below). App lounge allows you to filter apps by Open Source, PWAs, or just show all apps."
TL;DR:

> Walters attached 43 of the balloons to his lawn chair, filled them with helium, put on a parachute, and strapped himself into the chair in the backyard of a home at 1633 West 7th Street in San Pedro. He took his pellet gun, a CB radio, sandwiches, beer, and a camera. When the cord that tied his lawn chair to his Jeep broke prematurely, before a planned delay to notify authorities, Walters's lawn chair rose rapidly to a height of about 16,000 feet (4,900 m) and was spotted from two commercial airliners.

> After 45 minutes in the sky, Walters shot several balloons, taking care not to unbalance the load. He then accidentally dropped his pellet gun overboard. He descended slowly, until the balloons' dangling cables got caught in a power line at 423 E 44th Way in Long Beach. The power line broke, causing a 20-minute electricity blackout. He landed unharmed on the ground.
If he was that big of a jackass, maybe his murder wasn't an assassination at all. Maybe someone was just fed up with his shit.
"Using a mouse model of high fat diet-induced obesity, a team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has found that, compared to males, female mice are protected against obesity and inflammation because they secrete more of an immune protein called RELMalpha"

people get fat from sugars and excess carbs not a diet loaded with fat
I would like to have a reason-nymus downvoting where I can not get acknowledged about who did tat but at least to be acknowledged about why was I being downvoted/flagged.
I always wonder about the long term effects of inefficient wireless charging on the device’s long-term battery life.

It’s literally baking the device and not just the battery but everything metal (or just ferromagnetic).

80% is better than 50%, I’ll give that.
He’s clearly suffering from some kind of mental oddity. Just let him do his thing. There’s still some insight to be found.
The more likely reason is that it was a test machine, as shown by the paperwork in the cabinet and the low play count. It was put on location for a few weeks to gather earnings data and then probably pulled back to the factory. A lot of those test/proto machines were then scrapped or sold at a very low price to someone on the design/production team if they had the means to take it home.

Back in this era it was very rare for an arcade cabinet to be sold directly to the home. Aside from being very expensive, you had to buy from a distributor much like a car dealer. Most local distributors hated dealing with home owners (too many questions, couldn't fix it themselves, delivery was a bitch, etc).

Given this was found in a Chicago suburb I'm going to take a wild guess and say it was a Bally/Midway employee that kept it in their garage or basement for a few decades and then decided it just took up too much room. Or it was handed off to a friend or neighbor over the years but either way it really hasn't left the city and never saw hard use in an arcade. Galloping Ghost has taken great advantage of this situation and obtained many pieces that are more rare then Discs of Tron.

The reason I know this is because I have a few engineering sample games in my basement as well.
That's kind of my point, I wonder if LLMs (especially something new like GPT4) could surpass those 'old school' automation methods for this given their 'understanding of context'.
Please bring on the app sideloading EU. I am tired of this app store bullshit.
Show HN: I wrote a new enterprise metasearch engine – https://github.com/swirlai
Jesus Christ: Where are you interviewing? This sounds more like Stephen King's The Long Walk, than a job interview! Do they hold a gun to your head while you regurtitate the optimal solution?
Swirl is a metasearch engine; it adapts queries for each source, sends them out, asynchronously gathers the results, then uses AI (large language models) to re-rank everything.

Swirl includes connectors to elastic, solr, opensearch, PostgreSQL, configurations for cloud services like Miro, Google BigQuery, Atlassian, Microsoft 365 etc. Apache 2.0 license.

Looking for usage, feedback and contributions. Try it via Docker here: https://github.com/swirlai/swirl-search#try-swirl-now
> One area where AI agents can help, is in going to the supermarket!

No need for AI there - there already are apps that you can use to scan the barcodes of products to filter for Nestle [1].

> But underneath the colorful ink, it's all the same crap

Not exactly. There are definitely differences between brand-name products and whitelabel ones... in food, for example, substituting actual sugar for cheaper HFCS, or industrial farming produce and meat as ingredients instead of certified-organic ones free from pesticides, or different ratios between "valuable" ingredients (meat) vs filler (grain), or legit aroma/flavour instead of synthetic. In non-food, product quality (plastic parts vs metal), repairability or stuff like warranty / support / security update availability.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buycott.an...
Lawrence Sonntag regularly streams a 90s nostalgia program like this on twitch. He calls it Mediatek, and will use it as filler for his gaming streams when he is afk.

twitch.tv/sirlarr
Fierce nerds don't see the need to properly configure certificates.
I actually tried that a while back, giving 3.5-turbo a multishot prompt that consisted of distance readings for ahead, left, right and back in an array, as extracted from lidar data, then giving it movement instructions. It performed rather terribly.

You've very much correct that their spatial awareness is terrible. Something as simple as drive forward, then back, turn left, etc. works just fine and they can generally translate it to a specified message format reasonably reliably, but give them something more complex to execute, like drive a robot in a square pattern (an example answer would be go forward, turn right, go forward, turn right, etc.) they start to generate nonsense.

I also tested it with the 30B WizardLM at the time which performed almost as well in terms of message format but had even worse awareness.

Part of the problem is that the training data contains next to no examples that would teach it how 3D space works. I considered making a dataset of driving a robot around with human movement commands and then logging the aggregated sensor data and commands for fine tuning so the prompt format would be pre-learned, but I'm not entirely sure how much it would help.
> I've wondered about that. Sometimes I see jobs that sounds super interesting, but I only match maybe 50% of the unique bits of experience they want.

Really depends on what the company needs. We're willing to talk to a pretty wide range of people about some of our roles, while for others we need someone specific. Honestly I think 50% is not that bad. We get a lot of 0% resumes.