skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me that's the proper evolution. As knowledge of a problem matures, it makes sense to mash the best-practices together into a single monolith that's designed to work together with minimal bubble-gum. The Cambrian explosion of small tools makes sense early-on but the cognitive load of that approach is much higher, and some of us have crap to do.
And way more intermittent than solar. Seems like a really dumb idea.
If you can identify a person, in any way, they are no longer private.

This is not necessarily applicable. There's cryptography from 20 years ago (e.g. the work of Stefan Brands) that can show that someone has a World ID without revealing which ID it is. If no "username" is ever revealed then it can't be linked to anything.
In classification problems there’s a useful term for something similar already — False Positives…

false positive (FP), Type I error
A test result which wrongly indicates that a particular condition or attribute is present

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_matrix

Edit — Though I’m not sure how well that fits for a LLM (it’s more a series of false positives at each step of prediction in the sequence).
I often point people here to get some good background when doing concurrency in Python.

https://realpython.com/python-concurrency/
The needed capital to re-start. They have lost the critical mass.
For many small towns, these stores were started many decades ago.

I guess technically, if a store can't be re-started today is kind of like also saying, if the small town can't re-start itself, then that points to question, why would a small town need to exist at all today.

Think the end of this line of reasoning is that small towns have no reason to exist, so let them go?
Going to echo Shagie. Even early 2010's full stack was WAMP, MAMP, LAMP stacks + HTML/CSS/JQuery. Or .net/webforms, java, etc.
> The browser has matured enough that you can build a complex app without any of the above tools

The irony of this sentence is there was a time before these tools existed when we also did complex web development (for at least a good 15-20 years) in the browsers as they existed.
I worked on this team for 3 years along the OGs behind BMQ, specifically on a closed-source middleware with very similar architecture. I am very happy that they finally open sourced one of their main projects!

They have very strict standards which are necessary given that C++ really is a minefield. We did a great job avoiding UB by following those coding standards. There is some verbosity that can be avoided but hey these are details.

Personally, I have moved to Rust since then and I am not looking back.
Yes? People don't realize that systemd is a project, and systemd the init system isn't journald or systemd-boot or systemd-resolved. Those are other compatible utilities by the same project. They aren't required to use systemd itself.
I had heard of the flight, but I didn’t know that he later killed himself at the age of just 44. Maybe I’m reading too much into the sparse details on Wikipedia, but I wonder if he was mentally ill or neuroatypical in a society that ultimately let him down.
It would probably be better if you had a roof for solar panels that also collected rainwater for storage.
I've been diagnosed myself, but ADHD varies greatly from person to person. So I definitely don't assume my experience is the same as yours. However...

I've been at it on and off for 17 months and have
had the worst experience with technical assessments,
despite being a 10 year career veteran with plenty of
Web development experience.

In addition to my other reply: is ADHD truly the issue for you w.r.t. technical assessments? Are you sure it's not anxiety or unfamiliarity with the source material?

My experience with ADHD is that it causes me to struggle during the long grind of holding a job. 40 hours of focus per week, doing things that might not be very exciting? Yeah. ADHD struggle. But maintaining my focus for 30-60 minutes for some tech assessment? This is not a problem. That's adrenaline time, baby.

If you are ever able to maintain 30-60 minutes of focus for anything at all (movies, gaming, reading, sex, sports, hobbies, whatever) but not for a job interview then I would take a very hard look in the mirror and see if there's something else affecting your performance.

Again, just a prompt for thought. I do not make the mistake of assuming anybody else's experiences and struggles are the same as my own.
Incredible. You believe that all different groups have exactly the same human capital, but that we should still have a system of racial spoils. These types of comments make me concerned about democracy.

What does "racial and gender makeup of the country" even mean? Should use the idiotic government definition of "AAPI" that bundles Samoans with Japanese? Or that considers Afghanis white but Pakistanis Asian? It's idiotic.

Hispanic immigration to the U.S. has been relatively low human capital (mostly poorer, blue collar workers). The average NAEP and SAT scores of black Americans are over a standard deviation below Asians. You're willing to significantly hurt the productivity and efficiency of government because having racial representation gives you warm and fuzzies? If people like you were in charge of government, we would be South Africa in less than a year.
> There's competition. There's variety.

That does not follow. Small stores carry the same shit as big chain stores. Because of their smaller scale and more limited purchasing power those items are more expensive than a chain and they can only afford to carry high throughput items. The only way small stores can deal with long tail items is if they're super specialty and neat a large enough metro area to have enough sales to survive.

I'm not saying small stores are bad but there's a decided small store tax. Without economies of scale they have a very hard time competing against chains. They have an even harder time competing against online sales.
Watch ”Clark” on Netflix for a fun take on events. But basically imagine a charming sociopath bankrobber back in innocent 70’s in Sweden.

With the twist that the bank robbing that gave name to the phrase was made by someone psychotic and the friendly bank robber got called in by the prime minister to negotiate.
I'd rather spend time saved on bicycle, but I wasn't talking about myself but people that already spend 1-2h in commute and have kids so spending extra time on walking around shopping is probably the thing they want to do the least, hence they go to markets rather than local stores.
Incredible is really the perfect word to describe this: Both the "extraordinary" definition and the "impossible to believe" definition.

It's too bad the two top-level comments doubting this story have been downvoted into oblivion and dunked on for being cynical. We might not like that line of conversation, but I think it's a legitimate POV that adds to the discussion. This find just seems so...incredible. In what actual universe do you see these kinds of things just left out on the curb?? The only things I see on the curbs in my neighborhood are old junky furniture and kids' toys.

I subscribe to estate sale newsletters to find treasures like this, and have never seen something like this even for sale, let alone free by the side of the road. What an amazing read!
>"Walmart didn’t just compete with the small town. Maybe it didn’t exactly compete with it at all, per se. Rather, it replicated it. And, in stripping the frills and ornamentation of the indoor mall, it managed to replicate it quickly, cheaply and at scale."

The author's focus seems to be more on Walmart's walkability indicating a desire of the public for walkable areas, but I wonder how much of the difference between Walmart and Malls is due to decreased costs versus the monolithic bargaining power of Walmart. As the author points out, malls were originally modeled by Victor Gruen off of shopping areas like Ferstel Passage in Vienna, with the intent to have the mall be a part of an overall urban space with parks and apartments nearby, but the urbanism never came. Malls became versions of these "shopping arcades" replicated quickly, cheaply and at scale.

Instead of being one step down the ladder of cost, and closer to a small town layout, the greater distinction between a mall and Walmart seems to be customers and suppliers only having one potential avenue to go through with Walmart.
Show HN: Cross platform desktop push notification reminders CLI app using cron
Venmo doesn’t use ACH when moving from Venmo to Venmo. And is the same with FedNow. If you send money from BankA account to bankB account, that’s an ACH transaction and it’s recorded as such. Same with Fed now.
Yup. It's absolutely crazy to me to see the amount of people who are apparently doing hiring telling others here in the comments (and elsewhere on HN, etc) that they should "grind leetcode" while also NOT admitting that this is absolutely stupid. Like I'll give you a pass as an interviewer / hiring manager if your hands are unfortunately tied and you can't change your companies hiring processes.

But if you're an interviewer or hiring manager who is telling people to "grind leetcode" because you legitimately believe this is a good way to find good talent ... you need your head examined. All you're doing is filtering for people who've grinded leetcode long enough to memorize solutions. This has ZERO correlation to software development ability.
Am I missing something or does this generate on the order of 3 nano watts? (They show charging a 4.7uF capacitor in 25s to 2v)
Voting with their feet? As a non-OS developer, I have a very limited distribution selection if I want to use a popular choice receiving more support , bug fixes, etc. Sure, I could run a less popular distribution that foregoes systemd, but what happens when I encounter an issue with wifi, sound, etc. Can I get CUDA or Steam to work on a periphery OS?

Systemd is chosen for me because there is so much more to an OS.
Any substantial comment or profound insight? Otherwise you’re ranting in the wind. We’ve seen these things regularly enough. If you think a good argument needs to be made, then make it. Just dropping 2 links without any form of context just makes you look like a shill or a crank; most people are simply going to ignore them. Particularly if one of them is a tweet, or whatever they are called today.
I don't find this helpful.

Captchas have solved a real problem. They did work.
That is mostly because Brazilian traffic and public transport is atrocious given the city size.

Rio de Janiero is a bit larger than Moscow, Paris and Guangzhou yet each have at least 5x the metro infrastructure.
It's worse than that: Sam Altman is selling a solution to a problem he created.
Associated advertising by source IP address. Happens all the time, I see ads pop up on my wife's computer that are definitely meant for me, and based on searches she would never think of.
This is the Eye of Sauron.

I'm very much into the crypto world and I'm so tired of all of these dumb scams. Even worse that it is backed by yet another scammer named 'Sam'.

I really wish we could focus on things that actually provided value to people. What a waste of time/money/effort. I hope this one dies a quick death. So far, it looks like it will, which is great.
The truth does not fear investigation.
There is considerable regional and subcultural variation, but, even when pronounced strongly its not /g/.
The ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy
> “At a time when huge corporations like Walmart and McDonald’s are making billions in profits and giving their CEOs tens of millions of dollars a year, they’re relying on corporate welfare from the federal government by paying their workers starvation wages. That is morally obscene. U.S. taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America. It is time for the owners of Walmart, McDonald’s and other large corporations to get off of welfare and pay their workers a living wage,” said Sanders. “No one in this country should live in poverty. No one should go hungry. No one should be unable to get the medical care they need. It is long past time to increase the federal minimum wage from a starvation wage of $7.25 an hour to $15, and guarantee health care to all Americans as a human right.”

> Bernie Sanders

> "Taxpayers Subsidize Poverty Wages at Walmart, McDonald’s, Other Large Corporations, GAO Finds" - November 18, 2020

> https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/taxpayers-subs...

GAO = Governmental Accounting Office.

This 'enshittification' isn't some random internet goober decrying it. Enshittification and self-enrichment has been beaten to death on political trails, news, ted talks, social media, etc.

You can believe whatever pie-in-the-sky bullshit you want. The dangers are real. You're covering up the rotten and stinking corpse of reality with scented semi-transparent tissue paper, with all that implied scenario would accomplish.
You can pay $20 to Google to own a number. When we disconnected our landline, I replaced it with a Google Voice number connected to our wireless phone setup. It gets very little use now but is nice for automated calls from the school telling us a kid was late, schools are closed because of snow, etc.
Nah I don't think it's a conspiracy. I think they genuinely believe race is the most important thing ever and that focusing every facet of public discourse on race is good.
Can you give sources to this? I find nothing written in the wiki [1] article of Luna 3

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_3
The comment you're replying to is a satirical take on the comment above it.

The person you're replying to almost definitely agrees with you.
the csam problem is a fediverse problem. not just a mastondon problem, let me just say i am one of the most vocal critics of mastodon after running an instance for 5 years and running. but its unfair to call it a mastodon problem, mastodon is just a fediverse client. the csam can come from any fediverse peer.

but it is indeed a problem, and mastodon mirrors all remote content that is in your federation network and now you have csam splattered across the connections of mastos w only blacklists if entire instances to recourse.

its a bad approach but they've buried head in the sand years ago. things like pleroma do not do this by default
I moved away from both macOS/windows, but I noticed this as well, an increasing amount of people using macOS, you notice it a lot in various projects documentation, usually it's full of screenshots of a macOS desktop
Bluetooth is specifically used to track location in many places. If you've ever been to a Disney property for example, there are beacons throughout the park for exactly that purpose. As you'd expect, the Disney apps request the fine localization permission and there's fine print somewhere on their website about how you should disable Bluetooth if you don't want to be tracked.
Intel Accelerates AI Development with Reference Kits
I'm literally still using the last antenna I had for my last CRT tv, and my reception is great.
I can't decide if it would be easier to convince people of the benefit of extra steps/slow internet/privacy protections, or to reflexively engage their skepticism/critical thinking muscles upon hearing Save-The-Children-and-Stop-The-Terrorists rhetoric.

As it stands, it seems most people (of a certain race and class, anyway) feel more threatened by vague stories of child abductors in white vans at WalMart[1,2] or terrorists (c. 2000's generally) than being randomly victimized by our j̶u̶s̶t̶i̶c̶e̶ legal system.

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, as they say. Abstract thought and generalization are hard, I guess.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/tech/facebook-white-vans/inde...

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-van-facebook-hoax/
I'd just take the walks. I've never had an employer in the software engineering industry who batted an eye at such things.
Then their math is off by nearly 4 orders of magnitude somewhere (see other comments in the the thread).

"Technology improvements" can't get around the fundamental limit in the amount of energy available to harvest.

Edit: Oh, that's horribly misleading. They seem to be reporting the theoretical maximum output of this harvesting technology - e.g., how much energy could be recovered if they started blasting the panel with a firehose. The amount available in rain is on the order of .2-.4 W/m^2. At that rate you'd never recover the amount of energy as was used to produce the panel.
I disagree. It very much is an understanding of how photosynthesis works, it isn't a complete understanding sure, but an understanding nonetheless.

Unless you're going to argue that we don't know how an MRI works because we don't fully understand the physics behind superconductivity.
It's great that they added 1 syscall after so many years to address one corner case, but at this rate humanity will be extinct by the time they get halfway through.

You'd think they could provide a workaround for the whole thing in the interim by just providing a special open function (procfs_open?) that just opens the proc directory without caring if/where it's mounted?
Desantis was doing the same thing in Florida, preventing proffesors from testifying in a voting rights case against the state. https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-florida-ron-desantis-vot...
The existing finance system is largely reputation based, with a light side of contract enforcement and a heavy dose of middlemen. It mostly works, but one of the biggest advantage of crypto stuff is removing the need for reputation and trust.
These need a conductor to touch the raindrop which ends up in a capacitor for the charge stealing to work. Any conductor you put on top of a solar panel will block the sunlight so it will decrease efficiency. The rain collectors equally need as much surface area as possible for the conductors with their underlying capacitor area close to them. It's more likely to be effieicent to have separate panels as a result. Also rain panels can face away from the sun and suffer no ineffiencies from that.

So the optimal strategy is solar facing the sun and rain on roof that is not.
This new piece of information can impact all previous information in unknown ways.

To give a dramatic and superficial example, let's say you just found out you have been living inside the Truman Show. This impacts, if not everything, then a whole lot of what you know about your world. Instantly and completely. This cannot be "tacked on". This has to be integrated somehow.

Current AI doesn't work like that. Instead of building a tower of knowledge it sort of creates abstract cognitive landscapes filled with predetermined averaged out paths that, when followed, give good answers. Useful for a lot of tasks, but it doesn't strike me as the type of structure that can be manipulated with any kind of precision. Maybe that will change and/or I am wrong. Certainly the last one is very probable.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Cophones run e/OS/, which is an Android based OS.
I'd still think at some point they'd get an electric one...
That just means that you need to be creative with shuttling data around. Web tracking identifiers can ride in on deep links for example, which are then persisted to user defaults. After these identifiers have accumulated from a few different sources you then have a reasonably high-confidence fingerprint of the user.

To help this along the app can do things like kick the user out to their main browser to do some routine thing, where cookies can be accessed. The user doesn’t need to deep link back to the app in that case, the app can pull down whatever tracking info was harvested during the page visit and persist it.
To be fair, if we are going to anthropomorphize it, bullshit and lies implies some sort of negative intent that I’m not sure the models have.

Bullshit is probably the closest, as people will bullshit for all sorts of reasons, but hallucinations is at least intent-neutral, which I think is the point.
> Money WAS cheap and easy for a while, and with everyone trying to use that money to grow, you could throw cash around easy to hire/poach/etc. and had to compete heavily for talent. Now you can't, money is much more expensive and tougher to get and you have to be more deliberate.

Why it changed? What happened?
Bullshitting and lies is what the humans selling the AI-powered services are doing. Hallucination, delusion and confabulation are what the AIs are doing (and some of the humans, too).
Why does that make it a scam? "Scam" implies some kind of fraud or lie, I don't believe worldcoin has ever claimed biometrics were required for later usage.

The value of the biometric is in ensuring a ~ more fair ~ airdrop. With bitcoin the people who discovered it first and who were able to run miners received an outsized reward, and consequently the distribution of bitcoin is extremely unequal. The usage of biometrics doesn't _completely_ solve this problem, there is still a pool of insiders who have an outsized amount of wld, but a very large number of people will be able to walk up to an orb to claim some wld and they will all receive roughly equal amounts. The initial distribution of wld will be much more fair than the initial distribution of any other token or currency I know of. That is the value of the biometric.
I find 'passionately-focused' works for me - channel your energy into visible productivity, team uplift, prof dev, etc... When your energy becomes a distration to others, or aimed in a direction not supporting the workplace goals, it does show a lack of personal discipline and detracts from your coworkers' opinion.
This mysticism about food only being good or authentic in one place doesn't match up with modern internationalism and global supply chains.

There are cooks/chefs from one culture/place in the world living in other spots.
I'll add that even for developers or power users, very few are in that category for more than a couple of areas. There are some things I know about but that leaves 99 percent of my box where I'm relying on others.
> Why Monetal is free?

> This is indie project made by a single developer. App is available for free, doesn't contain any ads or in-app purchases. Registration also is not required, and that is why all your data completely anonymous and could be transfered to server only for app analytics (like most popular screens, which functions are frequently used, which can be removed etc).

That didn't quite answer the question of "why".

So... does that single developer make money, or is just doing this as a hobby for fun, or what?
That's also questionable, but it's not the same thing.
In psychology, we've got a term which is almost 100% matching: confabulation. The only part which isn't correct is association with brain damage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation

In psychology, confabulation is a memory error defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world. It is generally associated with certain types of brain damage (especially aneurysm in the anterior communicating artery) or a specific subset of dementias.
It's a sound that English often renders as “ch” from other languages.
Sadly if you look at the video ot LK-99 on a magnet

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1684218600456876032

and compare it to videos of superconducting flux pinning and diamagnetic material, it looks more like diamagnetic

https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684632286388465664
Nothing less than the guillotine will satisfy me. We need to drain the swamp and start over, with that being the clear an present consequence for such behavior.
Ithaca being a college town definitely brings more money into the town. That definitely adds to the vibrancy. But I think my statement still stands independent of that fact :)
What’s your favourite memory from 1997?
I'm with you. Love the topic. The pictures look excellent. Clearly this is a talented artist. I think a more accurate title might have been "I Painted Pictures of Pictures of Aspects of the Blue Flash." There really wasn't much recreated here.