skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely agree with this! This is an underhanded way for companies to avoid paying out unused PTO on termination or the employee leaving
Ditto, it's been a huge success where I work. Keeping my fingers crossed that they find a way to stay in business :)
MEMS switching/logic. The premise was that you could have a mechanical switch that was actuated electrostatically, and just stayed where you put it due to magic, consuming no power, until you altered the state electrostatically again. You could implement logic that functioned with effectively no static power consumption, but capable of passing gigahertz signals.

To get an idea why it didn't pan out, here's a PDF[1] from Analog Devices for the ADGM1144 SP4T MEMS based switch ($50 in quantity, $72.88 for one from Digikey).

[1] https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data...

[2] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/analog-devices-in...
I never knew there was a “sleigh” in “dogsled,” I’ve only ever heard “sled,” like “slid” or “skid.”
Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island
Properties are a UI for YAML frontmatter, with nice autocomplete and search syntax. Allows you to add structured metadata to your notes, e.g. dates, numbers, text, checkboxes, as well as links to other notes. It's compatible with other tools that use frontmatter, such as SSGs (Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, Astro, etc).

https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Properties
SF Street Name %
Another good one of the Berries of Distinctive Flavour is The Elderberry .. the flowers from which one can make a delightful syrup that not only makes for a superb soda, or cocktail base, but can be turned into a fruit-flavoured Liquor, which is .. if you like such things .. probably one of the nicest little schnapps you'll slurp.

(Gotta cook 'em right though, well except the flowers, you just harvest those before the ants do and make a delicious summer soda for the kids ..)
I can look at pictures of Machu Picchu on Google Maps but the experience of being there is so much better (from what I hear). That's why we want to send people. Presumably those people want to survive and come back too.
> We need to hold companies accountable for fixing flaws in autonomous vehicles.

Don't we even just start getting a chance at doing that with autonomous vehicles? When a car crash happens and driver is found at fault, we can say "let's fix driver training to prevent this from happening again!" but humans are diverse, many don't pay attention in driver's ed, and they retain learnings at different rates, so this isn't going to work very well. With a self driving car, at least, since the software is replicated in many vehicles (while humans aren't), we have an actual chance improving on the situation over time.
I think unreal 5% only takes effect after your first 1 million in revenue
Nope, no need for few-shot prompting in most cases once you've fine-tuned on your dataset, so you can save those tokens and get cheaper/faster responses!
Apple Launches iPhone 15 Pro
The true expert realizes what question is being asked, and grabs a calendar.

Two people, equally knowledgeable and given the same problem, will not necessarily come up with the same solution. Leap years are not a mathematical fact; they are an engineering solution to a mathematical challenge. An expert looking at orbits is unlikely to decide that we must specifically add an extra day to February; you only know that we use this solution by deriving it from calendars.
Uh, unpaid interns are free to leave and get something useful on their resume. What a ridiculous article. While I think unpaid internships can offer valuable experience, they self-select for someone who can afford to not get paid, which creates further inequity of opportunity.
Ask HN: Getting excited about new Apple iPhones is so 2010s. What went wrong?
I used to get so excited every time Apple would announce a new device. But in the past 6-7 years, Apple looks like milking its successful products (mainly iPhone) w/o a clear vision.
I had to stop using my own domain and fastmail because I lost not one, but two very important job offers due to my emails not getting received. Not spammed, just outright not received. I also frequently (30% of the time) don't get "verify your email address" emails from websites these days when using my own domain+fastmail.

I'm back to gmail and resent having to do so. But it's the only option to not constantly be worried about important emails not making it.
No, but they do spread via memetic infection of cultural norms that direct us as individuals to adopt unhealthy lifestyles.
" doesn’t damp and further load the system it’s being taken from."

Don't all of these Harvesting systems load a system? For example one of the transmitters somewhere. Yes it is microwatts and no transmitter will notice a single unit. However if we start to talk large quantity of sensors, who is really paying the price? Otherwise we are admitting that Free Energy is a real thing.

You and others may find the recently released Nexperia NBM5100 and NBM7100 of interest. While aimed at batteries it functionally translates high impedance power sources to lower impedance to charge up caps for IoT usage.

https://www.nexperia.com/products/analog-logic-ics/power-ics...

https://www.nexperia.com/products/analog-logic-ics/power-ics...
Or just don’t have massive amounts of unused capital sitting around to spend, or are poor.

I guess they can just freeze then?
If anyone is interested in joining Google's real competition ;-) please email me josh@sirch.org

We have a small team (ex-Twitter/Snap/Facebookers mostly), and MVP, and a tiny bit of early revenue.

Thanks!
Apple Launches Apple Watch 9
they didnt even mention him or his death, poor guy
That's probably the case for the majority of planets, also even with multicellular life there is no guarantee that intelligent life would evolve. Earth went 4.5 billion years with 700 million with multicellular life and imagine if early hominids got wiped out, would another intelligent species follow our trajectory?

Also I would like to point out that the vast majority of planets we detect happen to be around red dwarf planets since we need 3 transits for a positive detection which would require years for larger stars. Additionally to do atmospheric spectroscopy the solar system needs to be within a perpendicular line-of-sight of our solar system.

So keep in mind the planets/solar systems we are studying do not represent the typical solar systems around exo K/G type stars.
I feel like that's mostly anecdotal. Nobody remembers the "mid knowledge people that did nothing interesting"
Seems they came up with a way to scale up build toolchains with BuildXL[0]

Doesn't seem fully baked yet though

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL
there is probably difference if the paper claims that it resurrected some old concept and implemented it with better results compared to "this paper introduces X" as in case of this post.
It's definitely expensive, and sponsor aquisition is always a success factor as in every racing league.
I don't understand how to use heat pump in traditional boiler systems.

The smallest boiler is 25kw/hr while residential heat pumps are tiny as compared. Maybe 2-3-5kw/hr output.

The way it was put to me, there is no way the heat pump will output so much heated water to heat the house.

I could be missing something here.

In terms of BTUs, residential radiator boilers are like 40k BTU, I don't think heat pumps can output so much
Apple announces iPhone 15 Pro with titanium case and USB-C
I hope the EU presses Apple to adopt other standards as well. (e.g., file format. It's ridiculous that you can't just drag and drop a picture from your photos library as a Gmail attachment because the format would be HEIC).
The big question for me is does the USB-C port on the iPhone 15 support DP-Alt Mode like the iPad does. It said it supported video on the event video so I'm really hoping it does. I don't really want to buy the Pro but if it's the only way I can get DP-Alt then I'll have to.
Will be viewed? Already are viewed.
Synthea Generic Module Builder for Synthetic Healthcare Records
Nuclear is just not competitive anymore if compared to renewables and storage. I'm not saying that this was the primary reason for Germany for shutting down their plants, but keep in mind that they didn't start construction of new reactors after Chernobyl.
I created a few twitter accounts this year for various reasons and all of them had the same number requirement after around 24 hours!
Why does it blow up _before_ the quake?
Maybe it's the traction control then

https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/evs-got-banned-from-rac...
My last comment there is a hint that might happen, as this shifts the calculus enough that for big casual players hiring devs to work on godot makes more sense. However, those players will also get preferential treatment anyway.

But everyone will be waiting for Godot to have the first widespread hit before jumping in like that.
> Now there is a huge emphasis on engagement, dynamics, and a bunch of vague "feelsomeness" as sports cars slowly become like horses.

I think this is mostly just the experience of people who only started caring about performance cars when EVs started being competitive. Porsche people (and many others) have been ranting about the engagement and driving dynamics for 50 years now. There are decades of arguments on forums about handling, 50/50 weight ratios, understeer and oversteer, shifter feel, track times, etc. in addition to arguing about straight line acceleration.

EV people feel like those things are just excuses because previously they only digested mainstream auto news which puts a massive emphasis on straight line acceleration.
Well they can't write in cursive either, so that's pretty close to dead now too.

To be fair, it is kind of a pita to use those tiny text entry apps on phones and that's how most folks converse remotely nowadays. So it really does makes sense to find ways to make it easier.

I'm old, so it does take me some time to decipher some of those, but I do in most cases.
Thanks for useful info!
Prolog.

(Seriously though, there are many things that could be considered successors, like Mercury or maybe even Datalog, but to a first approximation I'd say that Prolog is still timely.)
Ideally, you'd have a bit of both. A large open space is needed for a lot of sports and hobbies. In cities I see a lot more parks that are nothing more than a bit of run down looking playground equipment and a couple benches than large open fields.

The parks with more amenities tend to have things like fenced off areas, nets and marked courts for ball sports, bright overhead lights, buildings, and actual parking lots. Busy outdoor entertainment centers are nice, but open green space is important too.
Lesson in how to take an L and move on
Support for RetroAchievements is builtin to RetroArch [1]. You should just need to enter your credentials.

1. https://www.retroarch.com/?page=achievements
It's been around for a while. It's more of a lack of docs than lack of support. RA has docs directly:
https://www.retroarch.com/?page=achievements
I recall looking into cough syrups etc, to find out which OTC medication was most effective. None of them did anything at all, according to studies, including ones that have been on the market for decades.
Electric: 0-60mph in ~0.9s

Top Fuel: 0-60mph in ~0.4s

Wow.
Lightning's potentially not fully dead yet — they made no mention of removing Lightning from peripherals (keyboards/mice/touchpads).
This seems like a fantastic way to study both maternal postpartum depression as the cuddler and health of babies needing intensive care. Would create a wonderful win-win scenario.

Edit: link appears broken, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cuddling-babies-in-intensi...
I can only say this: finally, a type-C port.
The tricky part of CI is figuring out what work doesn't need to be done. That is how you save time.
Maybe the quake caused the arching powerlines in the distance before the quake reached the location of the camera?
Not Safe For... Luncheon?

If that is your initialism then... bravo.
I did some work in this area about a decade ago. The issues I ran into involved converting the energy into something that can be stored. If semiconductors are used for detection/rectification, the band-gap voltage must be overcome before any energy is recovered. Specialized devices with very low band-gap voltages are available, but losses are still significant.
So long and sooner into the landfill for a thermal camera, higher end environmental noise monitoring microphone, decent wrap around game controller pad, etc, and repurchasing all of the above. This must be some of that "reducing ewaste" and "saving us money" thing I've heard so much about on HN. Yay.

Edit: as I replied below, some accessories are form fitting, so no, can't use an adapter. Gamepad example I have (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FFPKRYW/). And even for those that can work with an adapter, for anything but cables the result is longer/flimsier/more awkward/another point of failure, and what are adapters if not more ewaste? And is everyone supposed to by adapters for even lightning cables? I'm fairly certain lightning cables are all going to get tossed too, or at least a very high percentage as people switch. I'm resigned to it and I can afford it, just feels like this time was itself a waste and not based on data and carefully thought through tradeoffs but populism.
I think the biggest moral of the story - don't build a product without considering the switching/adoption cost. Higher the switching/adoption cost, lower the product/market fit.

I have heard this story again and again from so many startups who have built products which provide incremental benefits (1.3x cheaper or 1.5x faster) and not getting enough traction.
Not at all, but the article talks about it as a money saving thing as well and doesn't even mention the fact that gas has been cheaper:

> he said it also stresses the need for more supports for low-income people to install heat pumps to save money and limit emissions.
Why do you want them to drop it? Why is it not enough that you can completely ignore it and write your games in C#?
Was really hoping they'd add back the headphone jack with this change, but no such luck this time around :(
Well you talked about having ice cream and going to parks, so I'd say yes pretty much everywhere in the US has that. Other places are also much more walkable than Brooklyn, tons of smaller cities have started focusing on revitalizing their downtowns and providing walkable communities.
Yeah, I like it. I used this as a tutor in more finicky exercises when it becomes really important to keep 2-3 very similar, but different things apart. It takes a bit of dexterity, but you can switch fluently between 3 different whiteboard markers held in one hand while writing, haha.

I am kind of wondering if a semantic highlighting makes sense as well. You often end up with some implicit assignment of lowercase latin, uppercase latin, lowercase greek letters and such for certain meanings. Kinematic - xyzt for position in time, T_i(I_i) for the quaternion or transformation representing a certain joint of a robot.
Individually? I use Reddit less than ever. For context, I was an avid Apollo user.

I still check it occasionally, but much less than I used to. Several of the smaller subreddits that I used to frequent have effectively died and moved to other places (Discord, mostly), and so I lament the loss of those.

Large-scale, though? Probably no result at all.
It takes time for the earthquake to propagate, much slower than the speed of light.
Hah, thanks for that mental image.

As I said the positivive sentiments I heard came from developers, and TFA is about CI (rather than boards etc. that JIRA handles, so is there maybe anything remotely positive in how AzDO implements CI, git integration, testing, etc? Or is it just rotten to the core?

Hard to imagine someone would hate it more than Bitbucket Pipelines or, god forbid, Bamboo. Buuut I’m more than open-minded if need be.
Can you think of a complicated app that utilizes Django to its fullest extent? I'm trying to get a better view of what Django is capable of and I find it's helpful to see both the simplest example possible and the most complicated example possible. "Design for the extremes" as Don Norman would say.
It could be in response to the p-wave, which arrives before the higher-amplitude shear wave.
I think it matters how accurate something should be before we consider it "good". For many applications, a 99% success rate is unusably bad. A self driving car that recognizes 99% of red lights or stop signs is probably a criminal liability.

A red ball detector that operates at 60hz with a 99.9% accuracy will make an error on average once every 11.5 seconds. I think the issue is not so much the interactions of objects and the world but rather we're just wildly off-base regarding the base performance needed.
Thank you European regulators.
CountGPT: Count words for ChatGPT input, help reduce them
I don't have the time to garden my entire yard, but even if I did, it would come no where near providing half of my sustenance. It takes several acres of farm to feed one person.

If I did nothing with it, it would naturally be grass, albeit extremely tall grass interspersed with thistles, burrs, and hemlock, which are far more negative than grass.

I don't spray it, remove anything from it, fertilize it, or use any ICE equipment to cut it, so that seems like a bit of a strawman.

And a lawn is extremely utilitarian. If you eliminate them, you eliminate a host of positive externalities: they're very aesthetically pleasing and good for mental health, they provide space to do activities, especially for kids, which promotes a healthy lifestyle, they're good for socializing, they're required for dogs, etc.

At least in America, we have no shortage of space. I don't know what people's problem is with people having a little recreational area.
> Google's ENTIRE JOB is to surface the CORRECT content for a query

Google's job is to serve ads profitably. It's something like 90% of their profit (80% of revenue). To some extent they even have an incentive to show poorer results first because it makes you stay on the page longer and look at more sites (more ad impressions).
Sounds like DB2.
As a professional Python programmer, I regularly search for the official documentation on things like the details of MagicMock or other things, for both Django and Python. I'm generally looking up things that are more than "what does str.endswith do", and more like "what's the name of the field of the mock that shows what it was called with", or other things that I know exist but don't use day-to-day.
I wouldn’t recommend using flask for new projects in 2023. The ecosystem is just a mess compared to Django or FastAPI on either end of the spectrum of full featured to lightweight.

Flask seems to rely on its extension ecosystem for core functionality, but the extensions frequently don’t play well together, are poorly documented, overly complex, and often infrequently updated (or become vaporware). From years of personal experience maintaining legacy flask apps as well as building new ones with the latest and most well maintained libraries, I believe it’s fair to say there really are no best practices when it comes to flask. At best you’ll have an app that is functional, but more complex, limited, and difficult to maintain vs a comparable app built with any other framework.
This does look pretty bad for hyper-casual and casual Unity devs. The total earning per install could easily drop into the negative and even with the $200k revenue buffer, it'd be easy to end up with almost nothing. I imagine these folks will just shut their game down around the $200k mark if they see their LTV hovering at or below $0.20.
A CI system like TeamCity will give you that sort of thing for free though, without needing an Earthfile. It just dedupes builds at the same commit, and keeps checkout directories between builds on the agents, so if the build tool has a cache then it's automatically reused. Works great.

Given that it's hard to understand what exactly this is for? Build systems normally try to avoid redundant work for local purposes anyway. Is it some hack for companies that insist on resetting build environments to zero on every single build, and then decide they want caching back? If so, why not just ... let the builds take place in directories containing previous builds, and fix the problems? That's what we do at my company and it works great (using gradle), there are only rarely problems with unclean builds and it's easy to rerun with a clean checkout if that's suspected to be an issue (the bugs are mostly in our own code which does a layer of caching above the build system anyway).
Political power. Once you're able to label anything you dislike as "triggering", "non-inclusive", "toxic", "unsafe", etc. then you can squash any opposition by emotionally overreacting. Cry bullying in a nutshell.

This has been insanely effective. Everyone was walking on eggshells around these passive aggressive cry bullies up until just recently. People are starting to see through the BS and the power dynamic is shifting.
Maybe it's actually a genius brand choice. Most people wouldn't remember http error codes even if they've seen 404 pages before. Only scrambles the nerds.
See, thats the difference between you and me - you worship inflexible ideals even when they might destroy and corrupt the very thing they are supposed to protect, whilst I'm capable of seeing when something isn't working as intended and amendments are needed.
Apple iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max announced with titanium bodies and Action Button
I was sure you made a typo and meant 10000 feet, instead of 1000. But after checking, yeah, it makes sense to make the track shorter to avoid the cars reaching even more insane speeds.
This might backfire.

Large scale landlords and would be tenants are both pretty familiar with the market. The only people not familiar with the market are mom and pop landlords who tend to not update rent with changing market conditions.
This increased transparency might cause them to raise rents because it'd be easier to do comps, and they wouldn't previously undercharging a tenant to make it harder to find a new tenant at a higher price.
How about something like "<green check> (Built in)", "<green check>(Native Ecosystem)", "<yellow check> (Third party), "<red cross>" as a fix which avoids loads of text?
You can also tell it not to tell you it's limitations because it's an AI model.
What is "TFA", please?
Amazing what one can build out of Aluminum Foil...
They got dragged kicking and screaming to this solution by European regulators. Glad it’s finally done, but good Lord that was too long coming.
Occam and Lisp are both developed from the Lambda calculus and quite close relatives. The main difference is that Lisp is strong-dynamically typed (like Python), and Occam is statically typed (like, say, Java).
I must admit I'm a bigger fan of the wireit[0] approach, the only pause I have is its a Google project, my temptation is to fork it. The code isn't terribly complex

My biggest complaint with NX is: lack of a sane API for plugins, and it has more overhead than I'd care for. For the amount of complexity that NX has, I'd rather use Rush[1] which gives you everything NX does. My only complaint with Rush is that its development is really slow going, they really need to focus up on Rush plugins (they're good, but still experimental, and I'd love to see them clean up how `autoinstalls` work to be more intutive)

I'm on the fence about turbo from Vercel

[0]: https://github.com/google/wireit

[1]: https://rushjs.io/
What if you're just an indie who makes some random app game that gets popular suddenly? Maybe you made the next Flappy Bird but didn't monetize it quite well enough?

>a company that’d need to be on Pro licences anyway

They also got rid of the income threshold for Personal licenses.
They sure are out of ideas.