skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, I'm watching videos of a guy making jet engines in his garage. The consequence of being mislead is about zero. I'm not concerned about the 50% I miss. There are no wild conclusions being jumped to. If anybody jumps to any sort of wild conclusions on the basis of a 50% intelligible video, that's squarely on them.
You do not even have to use commercial units. Go to Costco.com or HomeDepot.com or Lowes.com or BestBuy.com and you can filter for fridges without unnecessary frills and see many options.

There are at least 7 different simple top freezers at Costco, and at least 3 French door freezers without even water dispensers.

Not sure what else people want, other than to complain.
nebalee reminded me what I half-remembered (I no longer live there) which was that the subscriber has liability for the use of the connection.
Agree. It gives that "nifty!" impression, but I don't think it would be so useful in practise. Especially, I don't think the vegetables would keep well in that box. When I replaced my older (90s) fridge, vegetables kept much better in the new one, which had ciculation of air that the older fridge missed, and thus better humidity control. I suspect that tight box would not be good for durability of freshness.
That is true, but this doesn't pose a theoretical limit to a 30 fps monitor.

I suspect that the current technology works by "setting" in place whole regions of the screen at once, and that this kind of process is inherently slow. Maybe in a (not so distant) future it'll be possible to have individual pixels changing, in a similar way as an mp4 doesn't update all the image when not necessary.

Or not. So many technologies just embank somewhere and find their niche.
I was just looking for a tool like this over the weekend.

How is Decipad different from other cloud data visualization/analysis/science tools such as https://observablehq.com/?
When I did the math on replacing a 10-15 year old fridge, I was able to amortize the cost of the new fridge in 2.5 years, from the energy savings.
I’m old enough to remember smoking on board flights (and trains), and I’m extremely happy that those days are behind us.
My degree is in philosophy, from one of the top handful of schools in that field. Learning by reading is more or less essential in philosophy, however I'm going to recommend against any of the books with a high level overview, or really any tertiary sources. Frankly, they are all either quite bad, or grinding the author's political axe (political in the sense of academic politics).

If you learn by reading, read primary sources: Protagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel (the Science of Logic in particular), in that order, are basically what you need to get caught up to modernity in philosophy. After that, you should have a strong enough background to truly engage with whatever sub topic you want.

For contemporary English speaking philosophy, the path after the above would be Frege, Russel, Wittgenstein (Tractatus then philosophical investigation), Quine, Davidson, Sellars, McDowell .

If you want to get into extremely contemporary stuff, find professors webpages at top institutions and read the PDFs of their papers they post there, they nearly all make them freely available, but they absolutely are not written for lay audiences: read the background stuff above first.

Secondary sources are also great, when done right: read the primary sources first. Eg "The 25 years of philosophy" is a great trip, but make sure you read Kant and Hegel first! (Fichte and Schelling are optional.)

Some translation are really bad... The Cambridge series is mostly modern improved translations, but do some research on each particular book first. Except Kant, just use the Kemp Smith translation.
"SpiderOak removes its warrant canary" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696276
Raivo OTP has been acquired by Mobime
Here goes another great OTP app :( I'm glad I've switched to 1password, it's not open source but at least it has better integration (no need to rely on another device to get my tokens)
I have a remarkable 1. The refresh rate certainly keeps up with writing. It's just a bit slow if you want to hit next page a bunch of times in a row.
That's not how I remember it. Windows 9x was slow and
constantly crashing.

It was like... both.

If you had a did your own clean Windows installs, had an extra $100 of RAM, defragged the HDD regularly, and disabled crapware and unnecessary services etc. the UI felt real sharp and instant.

However this was not the typical experience. Typical experience for most people was that you clicked the Start menu and then listened to the HDD grind away.
If you want to fly without the security theatre today then a first-class ticket won't cut it. You'd need to get a private jet, which is of higher relative cost than a plane ticket was in the 60s.
Apple greenlights Twitter app’s rebrand to X
I would like to have multiple options for that reason, but right now we have Stripe integrated with Taxjar (Stripe owns Taxjar) which handles all our sales tax calculations and filings. If we add paypal separately, that would throw a huge wrench into that whole system, unfortunately.
The paper is vague unfortunately. Here are some of the questions Andrew McCalip has (and he is fairly far along the path of actually making LK99):

Precursors:

•What level of purity is required for the precursor materials?

•Are there any necessary preparatory steps for the precursors just before use?

•What are the required particle sizes for the precursor materials?

Thermal steps:

•What is the environment (air or vacuum) for the Lanarkite reaction?

•What are the temperature ramp-up and ramp-down rates for all three reactions?

•Are there any thermal annealing steps involved?

•How sensitive is LK99 to the duration of the final 925°C step?

Results:

•Could you elaborate on the observed differences between the bulk material and the thin film?

•Does the bulk material share the same composition as the thin film?

•How repeatable is the prescribed recipe, is SC behavior stochastic across samples?

•Could you provide details on the equipment used, setup photos, and procedures employed to measure the critical current in response to an applied magnetic field, as seen in figure 8 of paper 3?

Thin film deposition:

•What type of glass substrate was used in the vapor deposition process for the thin film?

•Could the exact set-point temperatures of the tungsten boat be provided, instead of ranges? (e.g., 550 ℃ to 900 ℃, 900℃ to 2000 ℃)

•In patent figure 22, from which region was the resistivity value taken? The light gray or the dark gray area?

https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1685891722675687424
There is nothing trivial about it. The only reason Voyagers are traveling so fast is we were very lucky at the time and got gravity boost from pretty much everything we could get gravity boost from.

But yeah, it is not comparable as the challenges for spacecraft and planes are completely different.
> I use Airbnb a lot

And yet somehow you failed to notice this ...

> otherwise they’re just a middle man collecting a tax.

Booking fee, cleaning fee, fee, fee, fee, fee.
NO... something going 20mph + that easily doesn't belong on a pedestrian bike path either. I've seen way too many zooming by me and my infant in a stroller at speeds that are too dangerous to be on paths. If it has a motor it belongs on the road. Just like a motorcycle you accept the risk of being hit by a bigger vehicle that also uses the road.
On a serious note, how heavy does an object have to be for gravitational lensing or bending to be noticeable with a naked eye?

s/visible/noticeable

s/noticeable/noticeable with a naked eye

s/lensing/gravitational lensing
Certainly not the first to mention this, but see also: microwaves. I worked at a restaurant that had a microwave with precisely one input: a timer dial. To start the microwave, you turned the dial to the desired time. To stop the microwave, you open the door (ok, that's two inputs). To add time, you turned the dial further. It didn't beep a million times either.
Personally, I don't so much want to be a manager as I want to get away from the BS of being an individual contributor.

I'm tired of having my warnings about things like tech debt and code quality ignored; only to be expected to fix everything and maintain deadlines when everything falls apart.

I'm tired of being compared to engineers who get things done quicker because they cut corners and build up tech debt.

I'm tired of caring about my craft when managers just want people who churn out slop.
If you were 100% confident you wouldn’t hedge at all. If you’re 80% confident you’d hedge less than if you were only 60% confident.

This all translates into an price signal if the market is functioning and liquid.
Yeah the only two features that this fridge has that my fridge doesn't have are the pull out shelves and the removable bin for vegetables.

I've got no idea why you'd really want the removable bin for vegetables. Carry all my veggies over to the sink first and then pick out the ones I want? And look at how small that thing is.

Pull out shelves seem nice I guess, but they'd only be useful on lower shelves. My fridge seems to be about a foot taller than the one in the video. This person wouldn't be tall enough to see all the stuff on the top shelf if it were pulled out.
Second Life's spiritual successor, High Fidelity (now dead as a commercial project, but which lives in our open source fork overte.org) does something like that.

The server picks a client to do the physics for part of the world. It's pretty clever and means a very light server can go a long way, but the downside is that physics gets unreliable.

One of our plans is to have an option for a SL-like model where the server is again in charge, for scenarios that require security, reliability, or physics to keep running in the absence of clients.
"If you’re a Cloudflare customer:You don’t have to do anything! Cloudflare will automatically ask for and utilize Private Access Tokens"

https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-...
Security Keys in the Land of Passkeys
Yup, competition breeds innovation but captialism will do everything it can to not have to compete. Patents, secrets, pirce fixing, and walled gardens, anything but trying to compete on actual product
> There's likely a market for office workers since there's a significant reduction of stress on the eyes.

There may be, but some studies have shown there's little difference.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22762257/

Methods: Participants read for several hours on either e-Ink or LCD, and different measures of reading behaviour and visual strain were regularly recorded. These dependent measures included subjective (visual) fatigue, a letter search task, reading speed, oculomotor behaviour and the pupillary light reflex.

Results: Results suggested that reading on the two display types is very similar in terms of both subjective and objective measures.
It works completely fine in my experience.
What system do you recommend instead?
> > This reminds me of the same types of complaints around air travel now versus the 50s/60s

The huge difference compared to banck then is TSA, for cultural reasons I don't think many people would complain about not being able to smoke on board or the fact that planes are a tad slower.

Air travel completely changed because for some reason ill intentioned people decided to bring their ill intentions to fruition on a plane instead of a train.

As a matter of fact the same group targeted trains in Madrid and London as well as malls, but the assumption is that since trains and malls cannot be defended fatalism is not only authorized, but it's the only game in town. Stark comparison to the process you have to undertake to catch a plane, where you have to provide an x-ray of your bowels before being allowed to board.

In the 50s and 60s where you could board first and then purchase the ticket on board....can you imagine something like this today?
The original memo outlining the vision of the web was not describing "the original intent or usage of the web" but rather was "the very beginnings of the ongoing process of enshitification of the web writ large"?

This seems like a very extreme degree of revisionism.

Like, you could say, "the original vision was bad, because it included the seeds of enshitification". That seems plausible to me, from the perspective of people that just want static hypertext.

But it was clearly seeded in the original vision, not something that developed later.
The number is wrong to begin with, Voyager 2 is about 20 billion kilometers from Earth [1] if I did not do the conversion incorrectly as NASA shows it in miles only.

[1] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
Or not wanting to pay more to your workers because of greed? I mean Louis Vuitton bag costs to produce probably 5-10% of the price that customer pays.
I'm not necessarily saying I believe it's real, I'm still on the fence, but if anything, the in-fighting for credit from the researchers almost makes it more credible for me. Why would they be so desperate for credit if they knew their findings would be disproven in a week or two? It seems obvious they're vying for a Nobel Prize. So at the very least, I believe the researchers believe what they published is true.
You either have a problem or you don’t; since you complained, you do have a problem, and it absolutely is on you to fix.

The “basic human interaction” you are failing to understand here is that you’re refusing to accept your role in fixing your own issues. Nobody is obligated to help you, and it’s frankly insulting to presume someone else ought to do anything about your problem for you.

The open source community doesn’t owe you shit. Your entitled attitude is toxic.
Agree. Mine lasted 6 years. Replaced with a Whirlpool. Lowe's sales rep told us at the time that the Samsung's were great. I went back 6 years later and told him that we bought a Samsung from him 6 years ago when he told us 6 years later not to buy a Samsung. Needless to say, he was apologetic.

Now, my Bosch dishwasher has been solid. No issues.
praise be
I Paid Off $194k in Student Loans in Six Years. It Wasn’t Easy
A few years ago, I set myself the goal of paying off all my student loans before I'm 30. I turn 30 in two months. And as of this month, I paid them off. All $194k of them...

Obviously, this was a significant milestone for me. So, I took this opportunity to reflect on my journey so far. How I even came to owe that much money, how I overcame this obstacle, and what it all means to me.
> The Android security team then decided that they considered the issue a “Won’t Fix” because it was “device-specific”. However, Android Security referred the issue to ARM. [...] While ARM had released the fixed driver version in October 2022, the vulnerability was not fixed by Android until April 2023

What's going on there? If bug is in Android's source repo, where it has to be fixed and released by the Android team, it seems like a valid bug in Android. Marking it "Won't Fix" seems inappropriate since they did eventually fix it.
But it really does sell the grand tragedy that it is. Thoughtful and comprehensive analysis does not sell well.
Sarcasm? Just in case it wasn't...

The antibiotics aren't going to break out of the lab, knock down people on the street, and inject itself into their arms. If the antibiotics work against today's bacteria, and are safe for today's humans, then what's the problem?
I'm wondering the same thing about a lot of these GPT powered products. I really would like to see more products leverage the technology, but they need to truly differentiate themselves from just throwing in a halfway clever prompt into the chat tool.

Where I could see this differentiation occur is where you add some data permanence and data organization around what has been chatted about. For example, could the tutor create a quiz for you that is not in chat, format or you can actually click on little bubbles to choose from a multiple-choice question and have a grade you at the end with some nice formatting and visual detail? Maybe it gives you a chart of how you're progressing over time...that sort of thing.

Maybe it has a separate area where it is keeping homework assignments for you or just making a course outline that you can follow along and monitor your progress day by day.

I could see myself using this if it had a composition feature where I could do some free form writing and it could make edits in place as another example. All of this could be GPT powered.

At the end of the day, the fact that you can chat with it shouldn't be the breakthrough feature because nowadays, this is a "just expected"
Depending on average response time you will see different indicator text and colors, for example for average ping between 0.5 and 1s you will see “bad” quality marked with red color. All states are:

- excellent: less than 25ms

- good: 25-100ms

- average: 100-500ms

- bad: 500-1000ms

- really bad: over 1000ms

You will be also notified about how many requests failed, so you know that you have stability issues
This doesn't address anything I said.
Are you asking that question unironically? Why a lunch spent with your colleagues at CCF might be worth considering over the refrigerated leftovers waiting in the break room?
Fixed! Thanks. Sans coffee typing
People engineering solutions for the win.
> getting the Win XP look?

I used to follow the XPDE project avidly back in the day but it seems to have just withered on the vine and never went anywhere.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200502011912/http://xpde.holob...
> Do you really want your super important and critical stuff to be handled by code that can be examined and modified on the fly with no damns given with the server completely unaware?

Is this supposed to be an obvious "no"? To me it's a pretty resounding yes.

Personally, I'd like servers to do a good job of returning well-structured data quickly, and to be able to manipulate that however I want on the client side.
I am old enough to remember "The Storm in a Glass". Back then, there was a discussion about excessive heat, because the scientific community doubted the possibility of nuclear fusion reactions at such low temperatures and energy costs. My own hypotheses were: a) the reaction is caused by cosmic radiation (muons), and the deuterium filled lattice only amplifies natural high-energy cosmic radiation; b) the reaction occurs through contamination of samples with radioactive materials, and the matrix only amplifies natural decay reactions; c) cracks in the material create resonance with alternating electric current, and as a result, a natural particle accelerator is formed.

In the video, researches use lattice to boosts fusor performance by few orders of magnitude. Why you think that they cannot boost it further?
Cool. Would love to hear more about the successes and problems, or even get a guest blog post on https://www.pypy.org/blog/
Building in Public: Pricing is our scariest decision by Terrateam
0:28 of the promo video, "EVOLUTION OF HULK PREGNANT" is in the Youtube search results...
Remember when looking at old technology that still works Survivorship Bias is a thing to be aware of. Yes, that elderly family member with the 1950’s fridge makes us jealous. But how many of their friends who bought that same fridge had to upgrade because theirs crapped out?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Wi-Fi and Internet access in general killed off an enormous revenue source for hotels: pay-per-view porn. They were very motivated to find new ways to get that revenue back.
Quality of power supply to your house will almost certainly be one of the bigger factors in how long things last. Combined with standard stochastic behavior, I'd expect anecdotes of both kinds.
Most likely the HDMI cable has significant signal leakage (poor or missing shielding), and the signal has some component (or harmonic) in the same spectrum as your dongle.
A lot of those features also seem quite debatable.

- The big pile of fruits and veggies is a good way to pressure-bruise them, and also to trap ethylene, and you can usually get the crisper drawers out so not sure I see the difference.

- Special compartments for butter and cheese are a completely unnecessary lack of flexibility.

- Metal roll-out trays / drawers exist in high-end fridges, there are also drawer fridges and freezers for some use cases (mostly compact kitchens / appartments where you don't have the space for swing doors).

- The ice cube thing seems like a complete mis-feature, there are 4 ice cube trays integrated which seems fine, why would you move those to a bucket of ice cubes losing 1/3rd the freezer space and congealing the cubes together? If you regularly need industrial quantities of ice cubes, getting a quarter-size (100L) chest freezer seems like a better idea. Or an upright if you have a lot of frozen stuff which you need regular access to (or you don't have a cellar to put a half or full-size chest in).
>If a user makes a request from Europe, and the apps run in US East, that adds an extra 100-150ms of latency just by round-tripping across the Atlantic.

These numbers seem high. This site shows transatlantic RTT of around 75ms: https://wondernetwork.com/pings

If a CDN or edge computing platform reduces that to 20ms then the difference is 55ms. And it matters only for read requests that cannot be cached locally.

Whether or not its worth it depends largely on the number of requests. Perhaps reducing that number should be prioritised.
So you needed to replace 7 fridges in 16 years? You’re either a crazy statistical outlier or doing something very very wrong.

Something seriously wrong with your houses electrical supply is the obvious explanation but it’s far from the only possibility.
F# Extends Its String Interpolation Syntax to Reduce Escaping
> I am so tired of people who interpret Apple's actions purely as anti-consumer fuckery.

But it is because they don't care about it working after a third party repair. They're trying to profit twice: once from sale, once from hardware repair support which is very expensive (lol, 600 EUR to replace a MBP 2014 screen ..) inflates the price and warrants the higher price of a new device.

> Don't get me started on how superior the lightning connector is for daily use - predominantly charging

Depends on the device. You can charge a smartphone wirelessly, too, and you might want to use wired for transferring data. Yes, I know, it is a cloud world but that isn't my choice. And if you want to transfer data via lightning... prepare for the fun experience of 480 mbit/sec called USB2.

> People even have the nerve to complain about Apple "taxing" cable manufacturers and their burdensome certification, ignoring the whole "random USB-C cables will fry your laptop and phone" problem and the fact that the USB alliance charges a license fee on every single product that bears the USB logo.

Indeed, I do, because Apple wants to earn large margins on everything. I also recommend against using random cables, see e.g. O.MG cable.
I made the two hundredth uptime monitoring service two years ago, there's always room for your unique perspective on solving a problem.
The rural/urban :: Republican/Democrat split combined with our less than representative democracy means the farm lobby is pretty damn powerful. It'll be real hard to lower subsidies, more likely would be to subsidize different activities. Paying farmers to not farm is pretty common now, but God forbid someone be on welfare without looking for a job.
7 fridges over 16 years is crazy, do you live in a hot climate?
> Reading on an e-ink screen is so much more comfortable than on any emissive monitor.

E-ink vendors tout this, but the jury's still out. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22762257/
Yeah, paging can be a little slow. I use mine for reading through PDFs and it's fine for the most part. I think it might partially be poorly optimized software, not necessarily the screen, but who knows.
You need something for cold temperatures like two component epoxy based glues, not cyanoacrylates