skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC clock for clock even the latest Intel CPUs are only 30-40% faster than Ivy Bridge at best and hover around 20% faster on average. So I don't find it that surprising GCE (or AWS) keeps SB and IB machines around. I imagine VMs on the lower power tiers are far more popular than high power tiers so those older machines still end up with full utilization.
Are you saying that SAT scores in math are about equal but scores for other sections heavily diverge?

Having never written them I genuinely have no frame of reference but would be interested to find data to back this up since it's quite the lofty assertion.

I would more likely have guessed that aptitude in these areas was not as strong for some other reason.
I'd use this to store files on an encrypted Digital Ocean droplet, better than fiddling around with Nextcloud. I treat cloud storage as a USB stick; file management is 100% manual, no sync.
It's about 11K: https://www.in2013dollars.com/1860-dollars-in-2017?amount=1
"I know our process diagram for ISO9001 says we do all that fancy stuff, but actually when we release we tell Bob down the corrider who has an Excel macro that pulls all the code from Git, builds and deploys it. It comes out a bit different every time!"
The video is an illustrated and narrated version of the article. The article is shown in the video.
How does that matter if you already invested 1000+ USD?

Go to Plugin Alliance [0] and select any plugin and when you scroll down you'll see that they are Windows and Mac only. Same for Plugin Boutique [1].

[0] https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/amek_eq_250.html

[1] https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/4-Synth...
All you have to do is look at their chart. It is pretty much a shotgun pattern with a line drawn through it.

https://assets.cureus.com/uploads/figure/file/677883/lightbo...
2g mobile still running in my country
My delight at lower latency pretty quickly evaporates in the face of a spinning hourglass. I'd rather have consistent availability at the expense of latency.
"Handful of western European nations"
Country on the east of Germany aren't west Europe.
You may have to euthanize that animal if no one wants to adopt it.

Sorry, but there are worse things in the world than putting down animals.

And don’t even try to come at me if you eat meat! Every one of us who eats factory farmed meat (y.t. included) is participating in far worse atrocities than a shelter humanely euthanizing a relative handful of dogs.
Or really just anything “chatty” with the main thread. Doesn’t have to be strings, or DOM, just heavy cross-VM/cross-thread interaction.
Fleeing Elon Musk’s X, the quest to re-create ‘Black Twitter’
Yay for even higher inequality!
and it's fixed. ;)
Making new notes in light of others already captured
yes, very much so
"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone."
That would explain why the demo login appears to have been disabled. The button is still there, but it tells me the auto-filled demo PW is incorrect.
There's a huge majority of people here who seem to have immense privilege and think that anyone can just get a tech job paying 6 figures.

The selfishness on display is frightening.
> what's stopping you then from hiring junior devs full-time at all?

There is nothing stopping devs from getting recruited directly, in-fact we want that to happen! Its a major success story for us when devs get hired, ideally back to our customers :)
>old CPUs that consume ~100W

Sandy Bridge consumes that much at full load, but that can also be said of current gen processors (which incidentally usually go even higher).

At idle or low load, Sandy Bridge is plenty economical just sipping power. These aren't Pentium 4s which guzzle power like it's draining Texas of its all its oil even at idle.

My Sandy Bridge i7 2700K is sipping 10W at idle/low load right now, and that's actually lower than my Alder Lake i7 12700K that's sipping 15W at idle/low load. At high loads they go up to 95W and 150W respectively, which still comes out in favor of Sandy Bridge.
The law mentioned four sentences prior to that sentence (Prop. 47).
WASM and Web Workers - unless carefully used - won't magically make your UI snappy.

There are three reasons (for the vast majority of apps) that a UI feels sluggish:

1. The network! Requesting data from a server is slow, by far the slowest aspect of any app. As a start, prefetch and cache, use a CDN, try edge platforms that move data and compute closer to the user. However, if you can explore Local First (http://localfirstweb.dev), for a web app it is the way we should be looking to build in future.

2. They are doing work on the UI thread that takes longer than 16ms. This is where Web Workers are perfect, the DX around them isn't perfect, as another comment suggested Comlink helps, but there is a lot of opportunity here to build abstractions that help devs.

3. Excessive animations that delay user interaction - there is so much bad UX where animations have been added that only make things slower. Good animations have a purpose, showing where something came from or is going, and never get in the way.

Finally, we are well into diminishing returns with front end frameworks optimising the way they do templating and update the DOM. The key thing there now is DX, that is how you pick a framework, benchmarks are almost always useless.
4ms is 1.4 meters (4'6") of sound in air. That's less than half the length of a concert grand, so at most it would double the latency as experienced by the pianist's ears.
Climate change propaganda is going extra hard in the last 6 months I've noticed.
Hi everyone, Joshua from Hugging Face (and the creator of Transformers.js) here.

Starting with embeddings, we hope to simplify and improve the developer experience when working with embeddings. Supabase already has great support for storage and retrieval of embeddings (thanks to pgvector) [0], so it feels like this collaboration was long overdue!

Open-source embedding models are both smaller and more performant [1] than closed-source alternatives, so it's quite surprising that 98% of Supabase applications currently use OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002 [2]. Probably because it is just easier to access? Well... that changes today! You can also iterate extremely quickly: experiment with and choose the model that works best for you (no vendor lock-in)! In fact, since the article was written, a new leader has just appeared on top of the MTEB leaderboard [3].

I look forward to answering any questions you have!

[0] https://supabase.com/vector
[1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard
[2] https://supabase.com/blog/hugging-face-supabase
[3] https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-large-en
We would probably benefit from going back to that model.
Very cool! I've been wanting to build either a Cape Falcon canoe or F1 kayak for a few years (and might get the chance -- read, "have the space to" -- soon). If you see this & can elaborate, how did the Cape Falcon build process compare to the stitch and glue CLC and to the non-Cape Falcon skin-on-frame?

Also, do you find yourself using one or the other of the boats more or less?

Either way/no matter what, fun to see this answer on HN! Thanks!
It's a bit creepy to refer to people as "things"
I wonder how homeless shelter housing intersects with FHA 'emotional support animal' requirements. Presumably, someone homeless with a dog, would use the dog as an emotional support animal, but not have any of the required documentation.
https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/fair-housing-act-and...
> majority, who are in countries not quite rich.

It looks like the majority are in Saudi, UAE and Kuwait though.
I don't get some of the negative comments.
We run an open source project with a very long backlog and I came across Gitstart as I was looking for ways to accelerate development. We started working with them recently and overall I'm very happy with the service. At first the quality of PRs wasn't great, but it is still better than the average open source contribution, and it's improving everyday as they gain knowledge of our codebase and expectations.
As a remote team that is just starting a new project, it would have been hard for us to onboard and train a junior developer today. Using Gitstart fills a gap for tasks that we can easily delegate, typically something that's already done in a similar way in the code base. That way our team can focus on more challenging problems.

(Note: I was not asked to post this)
Siemens Energy warns of €4.5B loss from ailing wind turbine division
Just tried it on mobile and that is nice and easy, especially if you want to add a business. Not sure how you add a bench that way as I couldn't see the option, but I might be looking in the wrong place.

You're right though, installing another app store is a non starter.
But Trump does this, and he's from Queens. I don't actually think there are regional differences in the five boroughs.
I bet there's a really well understood data store that contains minimal data and meets various anonymity proofs.

And then a tag-manager implementation with MixPanel, Intercom, Amplitude, Heap, FullStory, and Segment, all receiving every interaction with a full JSON object describing the current state of the application and user.
Building a hardware business is hard, but it teaches you a lot about product management, supply chains, and empathy.

A few years ago, I launched Bedtime Bulb [0], a light bulb meant to be used before sleep. Since then, my team has reached 10s of thousands of customers, and the reception has been overwhelmingly positive.

It hasn't all been rosy, however. We learned a lot from customers about where the product fell short and what features were missing. We had to pull the product from some markets due to performance issues. We learned the hard way about customs issues, damage in shipping, and much more.

Unfortunately, hardware has long and expensive iteration cycles. But my biggest advice would be to stick with it and continue to learn if you have some feedback from the market that this could be successful. My biggest role models both went through long periods of failure: James Dyson's 5,000+ prototypes and Tony Fadell's years of building ahead-of-their-time products.

And stick with it we did. We are going to release a new version of the bulb in coming months that fix all the issues of the previous product, as well as introduce some new features we think will move the lighting space forward. And we are combining our vision and additional feature requests to release even more advanced products.

[0] https://bedtimebulb.com
This Pocket SSD is a 2TB storage device the size of two bottlecaps
> So success of companies is entirely random? That seems statistically unlikely…

You're claiming that it's worth paying CEOs 100M+, and my point is that whatever level of competence/skills/judgement/character you desire for performance should be achievable at an order of magnitude lower salary offering. My point is that this astronomical compensations represents a really outrageously strong market claim about someone's performance, but the only evidence you're offering is that some companies do better than others. That is exactly what we'd expect in a market with many companies trying different things - aka, survivorship bias.

This is super common in tech, where people assume that successful entrepreneurs (for example) are visionaries, when in fact they had to be BOTH visionaries and ALSO incredibly lucky, and any structural advantages they had to acquire capital also help a lot.

> I mean are you really saying that there are no decisions that CEOs regularly take due to which a company might lose/gains up to millions to billions of dollars? Why wouldn’t you pay a CEO whose actions can bring the company billions a 100m or so? Seems like a good deal..

This is disconnected - that does indeed happen, and it's been interesting to watch e.g. Elon Musk set fire to several billion dollars along with his reputation over the past few years. My argument though isn't about whether or not CEOs are important, but whether or not their compensation is actually tied to their real value, or whether it reflects their membership in an oligarch class and their skill/luck in navigating that socioeconomic environment. This is a question about opportunity cost. Note - I would also be willing to believe that the perception of having a genius CEO who is "appropriately" compensated on a cosmological pay scale is valuable as a social signal in and of itself, and I would also object that this is irrational. In an economic system that capped CEO pay, that social signal could still exist unmodified at much lower absolute levels of compensation.

> e.g. if you put a random highly competent, educated and very hardworking person in charge of Apple back in 1997 is it more or less likely that he would have done better than Jobs?

Weird example, since Jobs took a salary of $1 during that time.

> I mean, yeah I agree with you in part. In most cases it’s hard to distinguish real impact (even after a few years) from survivorship bias which is why this whole process is so inefficient.

Couple that problem with ANY reasonable prior on the distribution of abilities in human populations and the distribution of salaries, and you end up with exactly what I'm proposing - CEO salaries are easier to explain by looking at human societies than any possible collection of individual attributes that such a CEO could possess.
They are really stretching when saying that there is a significant positive correlation. If you look at their chart it looks like someone shot it with a scattergun and then drew a line through it.

https://assets.cureus.com/uploads/figure/file/677883/lightbo...
Hum... Wait, the police made the software compare some (probably low resolution) video against the picture of (probably literally) everybody and came-up with a name? And then simply believed on that name run after the person and arrested her?

That's ridiculous.
I prefer to just not visit websites that are full of obnoxious ads. I find it's a good screening technique for garbage content that isn't worth reading in the first place.

Unsurprisingly, there's a significant correlation between useless sensationalized clickbait articles and websites fully of intrusive trashy ads.
Ignoring the fact that you're generalizing about the vast homeless population and implying that they all are homeless by choice and being a public nuisance by choice...

It's worth considering the context that if no business will allow an unhoused person to use the toilet (okay, totally fair - private property!) and we refuse to maintain a sufficient number of public toilets, where are they supposed to defecate?

During COVID this got really extreme. You could be going on a road trip (like when I moved cross-state) and be a paying customer at a gas station or restaurant or grocery store and they all tell you "sorry, no public restroom". What are you supposed to do? Obviously, defecating in public is uncivilized, but we're not giving people many options.

For example, a city as large as San Francisco has a grand total of 25 public toilets: https://www.sfpublicworks.org/services/public-toilets
The Freedom of Information Act and How to Use It
There's a lot of books here. I recommend this: https://archive.org/details/mit_press_book_9780262367851, it's using procedural generation to try creating houses similar to what Palladio created. The process of creating and tweaking the generation constraints is interesting and fun to follow. Like, it's hard to understand what all of the constraints are until you see it violated, and realize what went wrong.
Show HN: Strada (Strava and Discord)
Many people in this age group might be low skilled laborers, students etc. Especially since the majority of Egyptian expats are in gulf countries.
Connects Strava in Discord and reposts athlete and club activities into Discord channels, including time, distance, pace, map and weather. Open-source at https://github.com/dblock/discord-strava.
I've not had a good experience with Ubuntu or Pop OS. They've always felt sluggish on any hardware I've put them on.

Debian may take a touch more wrenching to get running but it has been good for me, although I haven't tried 12 yet. Fedora was good but Red Hat shenanigans seems to have messed with it.

I may try Mint next time. I've heard good things about it.

I said all of that to say, isn't Linux great?

If you have a quibble with it, you can kick it to the curb and try something else in an hour and everything just works. There's so many options to choose from, and you don't have weirdo corporations tracking your every application launch or building a psychological profile off of you from how you tab through a spreadsheet or cloud mapping your speaking patterns based off of how you type.
You're missing the point: requiring the government to provide permanent housing that has storage units and allows pets (and alcohol, and drugs, and...) before it can take action on homelessness is not an effective approach. Temporary housing is useful, even though it might mean having to give up a dog. The fact that most of those remaining on the streets don't want it has no bearing on whether the government should be able to enforce public safety and sanitation laws.
> 4K TV’s use Rec 2020

Is defined by some standard to be able to be declared "4K", or is it just what seems to be happening because all/most of the panel makers just threw it in?
Definitely a cool idea. I could see some places we might be able to use it, especially on our open source projects.
Here is the archive of EWD memos. The last one is numbered 1318, that's one thousand three hundred and eighteen:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/

Many are hand-written in ink, in his distinctive handwriting. They have no cross-outs or corrections. Some are quite long, with pages of mathematical notation. They must have taken a lot of time to prepare. Here is a sample chosen at random, which turned out to be a very nice example:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd09xx/EWD901.PDF
This is solid advice.

Having dealt with what the author experienced, I'd like to add some advice:

- All online conversations are optional. You don't have to finish an exchange you don't enjoy. Leave idiots on read.

- You can't win everyone over. Some people are deliberately contrarian. Many argue in bad faith. Don't try to turn a provocation into a discussion.

- You don't owe your audience anything. They don't pay you.
> It has also launched in various countries including Indonesia, France Japan, Germany, Spain and the UK. Data watchdogs in some countries have already said they are examining Worldcoin.

I don't know about Indonesia but that's not going to fly in the other countries of this list either.

Especially not in very privacy-oriented EU members.
I’m about halfway through TDoE and it’s pretty reactionary and disorganized. They do provide many interesting pieces of information but so far have not woven them into a compelling narrative. In fact they often fleetingly admit that their examples could be counter to their hypothesis or that it’s simply impossible to know.

I do eventually also want to read Debt, but unsure I need to spend any time on Bullshit Jobs, as my assumption is that it’ll be myopically focused on the idea that some wizard behind the curtain has made the world economy the way it is, instead of it being an emergent phenomenon; an interconnected web of Chesterton fences that the author, in his usual condescending way, will be all too happy to burn, while providing no meaningful alternative.

I mean I’ve had some jobs that felt like BS but I don’t need to spend my precious free time being preached to about it. It comes off as pandering, just more high brow than the tract material you find for cults and religions that seem to zero in on their target population’s biggest qualms with society and offer the promise of a better way.
It's possible I've let myself develop too negative a knee jerk reaction to the idea of telemetry. Sometimes I've lost a feature I use in a product that I'd turned off the telemetry for, and the developers cited low usage of that feature. Did I shoot myself in the foot?
it’s not finished but I’m working on an astrolabe https://mastodon.social/@jes5199/110454794966272609
does my kid count?
Even the hotspots functionality is useful - if I'm in a new city, I can see the highlighted areas where the best restaurants and bars are.
This is extremely aggressive and personal, I suggest editing out the edit.
Did we read the same article?

> But then repeated news cycles about “toxic Bernie Bros” seemed to drain the movement’s momentum. Mainstream media outlets reported that Sanders’s base was made up of white male cyberbullies. Negative tweets had been amplified, and the words and behaviors of a few Sanders supporters all of a sudden were being portrayed as representative of an entire movement.

What I read is a description of how media portrayed Bernie Sander's supporters. Nowhere here does it say that white men are bad. In fact, it's calling out negative stereotyping used by mainstream media. Why do you think the author hates you?
I don't understand the point you're trying to make.

Fundamentally, the denominator that we ought to be using is "number of people diverted from being unsheltered", not "number of people in temporary shelters".

If a city spends $100M on homelessness and prevents 9,900 people from being unsheltered by housing them and only keeps 100 people in shelters, that looks like $1M per person on the bad metric.

But that situation is obviously better than spending $100M on sheltering 1,000 people (leaving 9,000 on the streets) instead of providing housing support, albeit that the cost looks only like $100K per person that way.
Ask HN: WebApps with the Best UX and Clear Microcopy?
Hey folks,

On the hunt for some digital inspiration here. What are your favorite webapps that just nail the whole user experience thing?

I'm talking about the ones that make you go "Whoa, that's smooth!" when you use 'em and never make you think twice about what is the next action in the app?
The SmartKnob View provides a programmable Nest-like experience ESP32
This project builds a global identity database even if the crypto part disappears. Their tokenomics are a mess and their CEO openly admitted to market manipulation recently. Good on Kenya for shutting this down, I hope many more follow.
The thing is separately most telemetry seems reasonnable.

But if you let them all activated you end up with a computer that connect to hundredth of remote hosts constantly.
At the moon landings they left behind a mirror anyone can use to shine a laser against that was used to calculate the speed of light between the earth and the moon. I’m not sure why so many people are so insistent the moon landings are fake when you can prove they aren’t with a telescope and a fucking laser
This was definitely written by chatGPT.
Instead of being blown off and told "I don't know what you want us to do" after being triaged, some helpful direction on next steps I can take would have been nice. Something like "Yes, we can do an MRI but that'll be expensive. We can make an appointment for you for physical therapy. Also here's some minimal tips we have to make recovery a bit better." It's a sprain, I imagine that's pretty common, but most people don't know what to do. To be shuffled out as soon as possible seems pretty irresponsible to me.
I just got a new USB-C monitor that delivers 65W watt. I think something like this would be a wonderful desktop for me and I might just get one for a desktop.
A Google Cloud region in France was also unavailable for months (or still is?) due to flooding/electricity. But no one is talking about it.