skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d be remiss not to mention that we (Pimoroni) sit right at the hacker end of the E-ink scale with stuff like Badger2040W [1] and Inky Frame [2], both of which pair (small and less small) E-Ink panels with the RP2040 microcontroller so you can BYO software.

The biggest roadblock to these being super compelling is update rate. The black/white screen on Badger can be driven pretty hard, but overdriving it (a friend built a continuous E-ink zoetrope [3]) has consequences.

Inky Frame’s 7 colour display is awesome for dithered artwork (missing cyan and magenta notwithstanding) but very, very slow to refresh- ~30s after the panels were updated to incorporate an unskippable “clean” phase.

Faster, cheaper and bigger all seem mutually exclusive right now, but I share the authors passion for the format.

1. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/badger-2040-w?variant=405...

2. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-frame-7-3?variant=40...

3. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-digital-zoetr...
AI is much smarter than people when it comes to noticing patterns so it is inevitable that forest management will be taken over by AI and drones.
Geo traffic distribution, multi regions/AZs with functionality to weight and drain traffic should be used in most SaaS services where a simple failure somewhere could cost users time and lose company money/goodwill. It's not terribly hard nor expensive.
> Why would I choose Slack for my employees when Teams integrates so nicely with everything else in the "stack".

Does it really though? In my experience teams has a buggy integration with other things in the stack.

And Teams itself ia massively buggy and a resource hog for the whole time I've used it.
Once you are at the peak you often have cell signal :)
The lack of user management was what killed it for me. I was ready to sell it for management when our Zapier bill was growing to equivalent salary of a FTE support person, but it wouldn't work if there was at least no basic separation for accounts.
Of course, it is a logically obvious application of the technology.
85% owned out of the gate, decreasing to 20% over 20 years.

Just because you can't imagine a way it could be good doesn't mean they're evil.
I rarely pay attention to job postings. I don't think it's any more annoying than any other YC company.
The RM2 can't update the screen without Xochitl, though. That's why Parabola-RM hasn't been ported to it, AIUI.
I don't think I have ever heard someone favorably compare teams chat with slack before. Even when I worked at a company that used teams for video calls and MS for email and calendar and documents and what not, everyone used slack for chat.

I don't think anyone was sad that slack didn't integrate with the other MS services "stack".
The idea for the song came about when Starr was on a boat belonging to comedian Peter Sellers in Sardinia in 1968. He ordered fish and chips for lunch, but instead of fish he got squid (it was the first time he'd eaten squid, and he said, "It was OK. A bit rubbery. Tasted like chicken.") The boat's captain then told Starr about how octopuses travel along the sea bed picking up stones and shiny objects with which to build gardens. Starr's songwriting was further inspired by his desire to escape mounting hostility among the Beatles; he would later admit that he had "just wanted to be under the sea, too".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus%27s_Garden
I did think about what you're saying when I was looking up the statute, but having looked at these ID scan services, they seem to have put a large amount of time into trying to verify the legitimacy of the ID from the scans and I'm not sure you could easily pass it with an identify crafted from whole cloth?

To your second point, yes, you would have to be committing a felony, which you wouldn't necessarily be. I got someone off a burglary charge that way once, since a burglary is defined as entering a premise for the purpose of committing a felony or a theft and the defendant only entered the premises for the purpose of slapping his girlfriend, which was a misdemeanor o_O

You do have to be careful though, violating the terms of service of a web site is at least a misdemeanor in a number of states (including Illinois), and is a felony for repeated violations.
"just let AI do it bro"
Anybody have experience with this in comparison to parabola?
Huh, TIL:

https://www.mercedes-benz.co.uk/passengercars/mercedes-benz-...

The PRE-SAFE® system makes use of the time prior to an impending accident on your behalf. A host of measures are able to reduce the loads generated as a result. The innovative PRE-SAFE® Sound system generates a sound from the speakers and is thus able to trigger a protective reflex in our bodies: our hearing briefly disengages to protect itself from loud crash sounds.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SfZ0pEL2Sk

(I wonder what evidence they have of this actually doing what they claim.)
XMMP was extensible to support all this in the early 2000s. Slack reinvented simple services in the most obtuse way. I have to use Slack and I sideline quarterback all the ways things could have been better every day.
Depending on the size of the company, that value is absolutely insignificant.
I'm sorry but if some political games bring someone to terror attacks that's on them. Creating outrage is despicable but it is nothing compared to actual physical harm.

If you can't handle your fairytale book being burned you don't belong in modern society.
Uber and delivery are both mapping applications.

Pickup from McDonald’s is not, at most there will be two or four in a zip code.
> France produces 70% of its electricity from nuclear and gets the majority of its fuel from Africa

Over 82% of French uranium production is outside of Africa, in countries like Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, and Russia.

Gell Mann amnesia pretty much says that if you can't get basic facts right, then you should probably question the rest of your "analysis" too.

> African countries loans cost 4% more than America and 8% more than Europe

But also, this is too good. Basic financial literacy tells you that the risk of a loan is included in its interest rate to pay for the chance of default. How much of the African sahel is currently under active coups and civil wars in the past couple years?
Didn't read the article. Has an opinion anyway.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37252095, which has the original story (one of them) that this article is reporting on. I've ported this title as well, because it's less baity.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Am I missing something about us-east-1 reliability ?

https://www.google.com/search?q=us-east-1+reliability
https://www.google.com/search?q=us-east-1+outage
I don't think you showed any part of the statement being untrue.

Kinda seems like you're just arguing that being very slow to hire has big advantages.
There’s definitely a middle ground. Cameras have huge advantages in some areas. A ton of traffic enforcement, a job which is extremely dangerous for police now, can be done with cameras. Cameras do not fail to recollect, they do not get tired, they don’t give a pass to “desirables” and crack down on others, and they don’t get scared and kill people. The vast majority of traffic stops are a “this could’ve been a letter” situation.

If people are speeding, send out a ticket. If their tail light is out, send them a notice in the mail or a ticket depending on the situation. If people are driving drunk, cameras can see that as well, and enforcement can be dispatched. If a vehicle is stolen, a network of cameras can find it faster than people can.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37252095.
And here in europe we can’t even deal with the Chinese because muh German car market. Let alone local and murican corporations who have a lot of leverage.
Yeah. Tchaikovsky's works do an amazing job of exploring and imagining the potential evolution of different kinds of intelligence based on non-human biology... entertaining and compelling stuff, highly recommended.
This comment was originally in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37265510 (the NYT version of this story) but we merged that thread hither.
Ooh. Purchased. Let’s see how this goes…
Sweden has about half the population of London. I am probably within walking distance of more people than live in Sweden.
Paris Subway construction is much cheaper than anywhere in North America and yet they have a very high population density.
Can someone ELI5 the difference between using AWS availability zone affinity and then simply dropping the downed AZ at the top most routing point?

Wouldn't that be the same thing, with the obvious caveat you are t using the routing technology Slack is using (We don't - We use vanilla AWS offerings)
“190 becquerels per liter”

Oh gee oh wow!

1 millicurie (mCi) = 37 megabecquerels (MBq)

1 PET/CT scan is between 4-20 mCi.

So I guess if you drink, snort, bathe and just enematize yourselves with 48,684 liters of this poisonous horrible water it will be the same as getting a single PET CT.

The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific.

These people have to breathe canned air Space Balls style but they have time to cry and complain about 190 becquerels that are going to be diluted to homeopathic concentration rapidly.

Why don’t they find time to worry about radon gas? We all are probably breathing in enough of that shit to actually give us lung cancer but it doesn’t bother most.
The best way is to download the source from github, run `make`, and copy the the file to $HOME/bin . There hasn't been a release for about a year now and the files on the distro repos are even older (I think).

Also YouTube has been doing some changes lately on the the player and a lot of the tools fail to download audio or video.

For example, in the last couple of weeks there have been some issues with a redirect to a 'consent page' : https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/32499
Can you please make your substantive points without swipes? Your account is a perennial thorn in the moderator's side because you constantly break the site guidelines and at the same time are otherwise a good contributor. I really don't want to ban you and I don't know what else to do other than keep trying to persuade you to use HN in the intended spirit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35746140).
Pretty contrived.
Slaps forehead

I was about to reply and say how I have a qmk board and have been deliberating about getting a ploopy for a while but I’m too accustomed to my 13 button mouse…

And then I reread your comment

> second layer

For whatever reason, something so fundamental to qmk such as layers didn’t even occur to me as a possibility for a mouse. So thank you for indirectly getting me around that weird mental block haha!
The cheapest e-ink is a $5 2" Waveshare EPD plus an ESP32.
Neurorights: Brain Privacy Is Going to Be Important
But have you considered that America Bad?
False. Numbers are now in the 15% of the whole population.[1]

I know its a negative stereotype meme at this point and westerners love bringing this old number up whenever India does something good but please do better next time.

[1]https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/rural-water-and-sanitati...
I think it's automatic highbeams mostly. They either make the driver lazy or unaware of who they're blinding. Sorta like how it's a bit jarring to go back to a car with completely manual lighting after driving one that automatically flips on low beams when it gets dark.
It does usually prompt someone in meatspace to shoot off the email, not that it's a good thing to rely on that.
Hornets and Butterflies: How to reduce (teacher) workload (2015)
We covered this literally this week in my intro to astronomy class, my prof said he paid a guy to walk the distance and measure it out.
> Shallow knowledge generated very quickly can still be useful.

A great, concise summary of the idea I was grasping at. Thank you.
While you might be able to find a good company that offers a lot of vacation (relatively compared to other US firms), culture is ultimately the biggest roadblock for people actually taking the time they need. I've worked at many places that have "unlimited time off" but in reality people worked more on average because it can be difficult to negotiate that time off with your manager.
I don’t have specific numbers to hand, so assume any percentages below are inflated placeholders.

Let’s say 10% of our customers explicitly ask for Zapier integration because they are already Zapier customers. A further 20% have the expressed need for some third-party automation that we don’t directly support, but is supported through Zapier. And a further 30% could benefit from it but have no idea this kind of thing even exists. 0% ask for n8n. 0% have even heard of n8n.

Well we need to build the Zapier integration to keep that 10% happy. Now that we have that integration, we can turn to the 20% that need something like this and tell them to sign up for Zapier, and then they will be happy too. Then we can publish how-to articles and give a nice surprise to the other 30%, who will also go and sign up to Zapier.

There’s friction here. Some customers will fit in Zapier’s free tier and others will have to pay extra. The process for hooking Zapier up to our product is clunky. And every time the customer wants to change some aspect of their automation, they have to leave their product dashboard and go to an external service.

The goal was to self-host n8n so that customers could keep doing everything within our product. Most of the 10% existing Zapier customers would carry on using Zapier; some would switch. We wouldn’t need to send customers over to Zapier to keep the 20% of users asking for something like this happy, and the how-to articles would help the other 30% without sending them to Zapier as well. Some of our customers would save money by not having to pay Zapier, for others it would make no difference. Our customers would be able to manage their integrations without going off to some third-party site.

You can see how this is a desirable thing for us to do. You can also see that the value to us is way, way, way below $50k/yr. We aren’t going to gain or lose any customers over this. The main difference for us is marginal UX improvements.

n8n received $0 from us. If n8n were open source, they would still receive $0 from us. The difference is that we wouldn’t be sending 50% of our customers to become new Zapier customers. n8n would have gained one small integration – us. There’s no point in us building an n8n integration when we have Zapier though, because nobody is asking for it and Zapier does everything we need and has more integrations. It’s also possible that we / our customers would add to the other n8n integrations if we needed them or contribute functionality or bugfixes, but again, that’s veering a little to close to the “payment in exposure” argument I dislike.

As I said before, if n8n want to play things this way that’s their prerogative. But somebody here was telling people that it’s open source when it’s not. It being open-source or not is a big deal for cases like ours; it’s not “purism”.
Good, I've been looking for this clip again!
UK citizen here.

I earn poor money relative to a comparative US citizen, but I wouldn't swap places if given the chance.

I walk my kids to school, and local schools are pretty good.

I cycle them a couple miles down the canal to the local sports centre for cheap swimming and recreation. I have many free high quality playgrounds nearby within walking and cycling distance, and streams and woods to play in. As a result my family can get away with a single medium sized car and use it infrequently.

I don't think there are many places in the - especially affluent areas - where this would be the case in the US, but I may be wrong.

I paid little for university and get free healthcare, which has been excellent quality whenever I've needed it (including for the birth of my two kids).

My employer gives me 30 days leave a year, with the option to buy more (and I do). There's no implicit pressure not to. I was able to take 6 months of after the birth of each of my kids on shared parental leave, which my employer had a legal duty to allow me if asked.

There are many beautiful historical places to visit for little money. The coast in any direction is within a day's drive and a varied holidays can be had without flying.

My country has in the pipeline 100GW of wind power, meaning that in a couple of decades energy is likely to be abundant and cheap if on a smart plan.

We do lots wrong as a country, and I haven't listed the negatives, but Britain is far from a failed state.
> The grid intensity in your location is [...] g/kWh. That's higher than average, so this site has been modified to use less power on your device.

They could cut their resource usage further, beyond that of the power-saving version of their site, by getting rid of the power-saving detection behavior. Just do the sensible version all the time.

Their actual HTML is pretty clean.
Why Today’s Chatbots Are Weird, Argumentative, and Wrong
About youtube-dl, I think the version in pip is about a year old. For now the best way is to get the code and build it (which is just to run `make`)
It's funny how opposed the 'Go' and 'Rust' eco systems are, the 'Go' people optimized for compile speed from day 1 but have trouble making things safe, the 'Rust' people optimized for safety from day 1 but have trouble making things fast.

Maybe they could learn a trick or two from each other?
Or do a bit more thinking about why they're uncomfortable.
The US, by and large, wants to spend less military on Europe. Most NATO countries are not ponying up the required 2% GDP, so it's costing the US. Meanwhile, when the US pulls some troops from Germany, there is uproar there, because we moved them to Poland, who actually spends on defense and has enormously favorable opinion of US involvement. You know, because their lives depend on it, from you know who...
Sounds to me like you're getting micromanaged.
> HS2, a train route, has so far been more expensive per mile than the Large Hadron Collider.

I reckon a couple economists could get a bestselling book out of this.
why should stainless steel require pfas?
The UI elements have a comparable size to the rest of the apps. I wasn't able to pick any glitches.
The reason we moved our kids from Montessori to public school is to throw our lot in with the majority of society. It’s made me active in the PTA and school library because up close it’s hard to ignore the challenges staff deal with, and with skin in the game, I don’t have the time to wait for someone else to do it.

Hopefully the work we put into the shared system raises the tide for all families, so my children grow up within a healthier community. (It already feels great working with other parents on it.) I recognize that it may not be academically ideal for my own kids, but studies (no time to cite) have noted that socioeconomic status is a top indicator of academic success. They’ll be fine.
Locking the price in is only a guaranteed benefit if you 100% will end up buying it and the price does go up.
I see this view a lot from people who have opted to refrain from gathering facts for themselves. Speaking from actual observation there is plenty of countering and debate happening on that platform. And we can see a healthy cohort of anti-Trump Republicans have emerged there for example. Not that this makes them right on any issues, but it’s a start.
It sounds similar to those towns built by oil drilling and mining companies back in the day. I wonder how much zoning laws have evolved ever since.
I wouldn’t say that AMD is “doing better” than Nvidia in the gaming market but as another commenter said, their success is probably mostly due to an excellent price/performance ratio compared to NVidia.

Intel is also somewhat making ground with their Arc GPUs.

The key to doing well in the gaming market are good prices, and good gaming performance with DirectX and Vulkan.
The point is that it is easy to accidentally do something taboo for a random person…
The WHO spokesperson was not a PRC national.
pony tail.
It's an effective first stage... and with enough wizardry you can optimize it a fair bit too.

Personally I crop, resize, time-slice, and dump to gif with no other arguments... and then just use gifsicle. Gifsicle is absolutely amazing, both significantly better results and significantly easier.
Meh. As long as you’ve got a good, typed interface for passing messages between them and for having a common understanding of (and versioning system for) key data structures, that’s fine for this sort of thing where it’s largely processing steams of small messages and events.

… but it’s probably JSON and some JSON-Schema-based “now you have two problems” junk instead of what I described. In which case, yeah, ew, gross. Unless they’ve made some unusually good choices.
No, humans are living organisms. Talking is just one thing we do, and we do it for reasons other than to generate the next token.
We selected Qt as a cross-platform solution. The C++/Rust interface is the clunkiest and ugliest part of the application, and rather complex because some state is shared between several windows in the GUI and several threads in the backend, and any component might modify that state at any time, and updates have to be transmitted to the other components without introducing inconsistencies. However, using cxx [1] helped a little.

The project began in 2020, and I'm not sure what I'd choose as a GUI framework today – definitely not Qt Widgets, though.

[1] https://cxx.rs/
This happened a lot to my Pi 3 back when I used the internal SD slot. I set it to boot off USB and used an old 8gb USB2 flash drive as the boot drive and never had the problem again.
Truly magnificent.
Yeah, I talked with a business that used a similar architecture for the same reasons. It can be really effective in multi-tenant apps where each customers data is fully independent and private. They also used multiple Amazon organizational accounts as a security partition. It made a few things more difficult but they felt the peace of mind was worth it.
Biology is the most advanced technology.
The problem with making it too easy to fall back is trivial misconfigurations end up using the fall back instead of being corrected.
I feel like I should be able to file a class action lawsuit against Tesla if the cars are programmed to speed.
That's still a lot for a country sending rockets to the moon.
They got themselves into a mess here:

> This turns out to have a lot of complexity lurking within. Slack does not share a common codebase or even runtime; services in the user-facing request path are written in Hack, Go, Java, and C++. This would necessitate a separate implementation in each language.

This sounds crazy. I've seen several products where there is a core stack (e.g. Java) and then surrounding tools, analytics etc in Python, R and others. But why would you create such a mess for your primary user request path?

Sure, they're not "just a chat app" they have video, file sharing etc included and a lot of integrations. But still this sounds like a company that had too much money and too little sense while growing rapidly.
It's an electron bound state nevercollider.
Very cool - I always thought salamanders were reptiles, but I guess they're actually amphibians!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37274783.