skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why call it pseudoscience? It's just science done poorly by someone doing science. We don't call a bad haircut a pseudo-haircut.
If you have to use Reader View that is a clear sign that the website is broken.
You can do this to some degree with a septic tank aerator pump.
Okay, and? Hand written papers haven't been a thing in nearly 2 decades unless it was some form of punishment. Also, teachers don't want to have to context switch between reading each paper, adjusting to each student's handwriting
Hopefully the standard regex will be constexpr soon.
That's unfortunate. Is it like they monitoring your laptop for software installed? I had this issue way back. I just said "Ah, Sublime Text is free. Sure, buy me a license if you want but if it's free, there are no legal issues, right?"
Do we need a easier way to buy/sell/rent properties?
Buying/selling/renting properties have become a bit of a run around recently in the UK. First off a lot of estate agents on the high street are dissappearing due to the rising costs. Then there is the fees of of selling a property. And then it’s the actual leg work to get the sale closed. All of this could take up to 3 months or so.

Things could be simpler for renters too. Finding a place, paying a deposit and paying your rent and getting help when you need it.

So I’ve been thinking about starting the Airbnb for Properties. That used ML to help you discover properties, explore the local area which is what matters like schools etc and then deal with the sales process in app. Without you having to keep chasing people or phoning to get updates.

Renting can be made simpler in the same way with the deposit paid in app and rent managed there too. And any issues you or the landlord has.

Overtime insurance protection etc can be added.

What do you think?
The most over confident in theirselves and science people I know are PhD. With egos and arrogance greater than the solar system.
People that go early to the industry and see the “real world” tend to have a more tamed expectative of what they could achieve and science can offer.
Let me rephrase this with a different tool to point out how poor the argument is:

>If they don't think the advantages that using YouTube gives them is worth $0.20 per 1000 views, they should probably work out how much it'd cost to switch to a different platform altogether

>If they don't think the advantages that using Adobe Photoshop gives them is worth $0.20 per image, they should probably work out how much it'd cost to edit their photos without photoshop.

>If they don't think the advantages that using Google gives them is worth $0.20 per 1000 clicks, they should probably work out how much it'd cost to hire more developers to do the extra work they'd have to do to promote their website without Google.

The point is it's a stupid payment model that is predatory. People were already paying for Unity subscriptions over $200k...why should they pay for Unity AND pay an extra 20 cent tax per install on top of that? The issue isn't that people aren't paying for Unity. It's that subscriptions seemingly aren't enough to satisfy them, so they decided to price gouge.
That, by the way, is a reference to another great channel - Technology Connections: https://youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections
I couldn't possibly link to the copious evidence online, anecdotal on this forum, high stakes data breaches, that personal data is being harvested by default en masse. It is true about the link, it was meant as nod to some at least scientific endeavour to investigate sharing.
Generally speaking I'd suggest installing Firefox on older devices.

It's usually at least slightly more usable as long as you don't have too many tabs open.

I'd also recommend Firefox in general but that's neither here or there.
duck season!
Was anyone else hoping it would detect the ball by simply completing a circuit (since the rails are metal and so is the ball)? Then it could give a magnetic tug after an appropriate time. Maybe this would be flaky because of the poor contact between rails and a rolling ball, but an inductive proximity sensor feels like overkill.
> then immersing the apparatus in water

I'm having trouble picturing what's going on here. I'm not sure what the apparatus is. The best I can figure, it's two containers of water with the reference gold in one and the crown in the other. However, this wouldn't be any different than just weighing the two pieces of gold (which are already known to be the same mass). I tried searching for "hydrostatic balance," but nothing relevant to this came up. Since you seem to understand this, would you mind explaining (or pointing to an explanation of) Archimedes's probable solution?
C#, JavaScript, Uniface
One step closer to AI robots that can subsist by eating. :)
It was not intended to be sarcasm. It was indeed a criticism of the average HN perspective which I find far removed from the perspective of a given user.
Thanks, didn't know about that. Maybe then the parametrization in OpenSCAD is subjectively more conveniently implemented, I don't know. Why it's not too well known?
Well you can install Linux on a Chromebook too.

And for a Chromebook to be supported by Google means that exactly the same device runs in some Lab and every ChromeOS update gets regression tested against it before going live. That's a big difference to "just install Linux".
I love love love gridstatus! Both the website and the open source library. Thank you for your work!
Last I checked in West Texas, the cost of land was < 2% of the total cost of installing a solar field. This was for land at $1200/acre.
Misaligned!
Buried lede: AppLovin tried to buy Unity last year: https://www.wsj.com/articles/applovin-proposes-combination-w... LevelPlay is Unity's rebrand of IronSource's mobile game monetization platform. IronSource bought/merged with Unity about the same time, a move criticized by some: https://www.thegamer.com/unity-criticised-for-merging-with-k...
Wait a second, can attention be returned?

Like, I can take attention with billboards and pop-up ads and flashy lights and loud noises, but is there some way I could do something that would do the opposite?

I suppose I could destroy other people's advertising, but that's more reducing the theft. I suppose some organizational tools might count? What's the opposite of taking attention?
Not necessarily, but they could have an interest in spotlighting death threats written by individuals not in the industry (gamers) to showcase how everyone rallying against one of their actions is bad: which is precisely what happened to the OP of this chain.
Unity’s pricing is a symptom, not the cause of tougher times ahead
I switched to a Acer Spin after my Pixelbook EOL'd, and have been happy with it. Aluminum chassis, enough ports, nice keyboard, touchscreen 2-in-1, etc. I don't really use the touch features but it doesn't hurt.

ChromeOS has come a long way and the builtin Linux VM makes it surprisingly easy to e.g. do full-stack development with VScode devcontainers.

It feels like a proper OS. I hit the search key and type "code" and it launches my full dev stack. No more mucking about with crouton or dual-booting or other hacks.
I think Youtube is a counter example. There is absolutely amazing content and it hasn't turned into a feed, although it does have that stuff (personally, I find TikTok more enjoyable for that type of content/experience).
Cool, the computer I use every day is older than that, and has the latest OpenBSD on it... and it cost me less than any Chromebook on the market (and I can upgrade/repair it myself). /shrug
I remember reading that ARM makes more money from embedded than they do from mobile, but I can’t find this source any more. Does anyone know anything about this? Was this true in the (recent) past but no longer true?
Not to mention, like... trig functions. I know std::cos et al. need to set errno. Maybe cppfront will get rid of it.
That's a disingenuous conflation of absolute incidents with micromorts per use.
An experienced conservationist would know exactly what to do, and scope the work accordingly. It would go on show for a short period to capitalise on the current interest and attract foot traffic to the gallery, before being treated.
Let the ducks be. Canada geese, on the other hand, are are a free for all.
For those who don't know, it's a reference to Technology Connections[0], another incredible YouTube channel. Alec, the host, is very fond of that bit[1].

[0] https://youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZs-YcmxyUw
The forward party is about electoral reform, not just civility. Civility is their message, but their policy platforms are about reforming elections to try to disincentivize radical politics inside the parties
Oh yes, that would be amazing! Good luck!
I created picosnitch which may be of interest if you also want to see the executable behind each request, this way you wouldn't need to disable NextCloud, Dropbox, Slack, etc (the UI doesn't have negative filtering, yet, but everything is just an entry in a sqlite db).

It also gets the hash of each executable, which can be useful if you're running any containers with different versions of the same executable which would otherwise appear to have the same path.
Well, there's a trend now towards proprietary ASICs - and the market isn't going to be doing custom ASIC runs of M1s are they? The cost would be astronomical. The manufacturing and assembly techniques for a lot of modern electronics are simply beyond the capacity of most manufacturers.
ProtoBurp++ Doyensec's Burp extension to fuzz custom Protobuf messages
Announcing the release of ProtoBurp++ (our fork of ProtoBurp)! ProtoBurp++ is a Burpsuite extension that enables security researchers to encode/decode and fuzz custom Protobuf messages. It allows for fuzzing inputs using Burp's Repeater, Intruder tools and Active Scanner, as well as proxying traffic from other tools (e.g., sqlmap). Check it out today!
Ask HN: Funkey S – open hardware / firmware portable device, project ideas?
In the last months I did some research to replace my good old iPod Nano 7 with a small hackable low power device (non android). It was an interesting journey and on the way I found very interesting things, e.g. the Funkey S[1] - a ridiculously small device made for portable gaming.

What may look pretty boring at first gets more interesting as soon as you check out the docs[2] - it is:

Open Hardware[3] - all parts are listed and decisions explained
Open Firmware[4] - buildroot based hackable linux firmware
Well documented[2] - lots of detailed information about the process

I thought with some modifications (touchscreen, audio jack) it might be possible to create a small, affordable and hackable replacement of my iPod nano (see my github issue[5]).

So I would like to Ask HN:

- What would you think of a retro portable audio player mod?

- What other interesting projects could you think of for this?

.

.

[1]: https://www.funkey-project.com/

[2]: https://doc.funkey-project.com/developer_guide/hardware_reference/

[3]: https://github.com/FunKey-Project/FunKey-S-Hardware

[4]: https://github.com/FunKey-Project/FunKey-OS

[5]: https://github.com/FunKey-Project/FunKey-S-Hardware/issues/5
Matters to who?

To me? In that case, it sometimes does, sometimes doesn't, depending on how lazy I've been in constraining to the algorithm what I might want.

To itself? Then who can say if it isn't doing that already?
While getting updates is great news, this presumably means that they either don't intend to leverage any new hardware capabilities until a decade after they come out (either in Chrome the browser, or ChromeOS).

For example, this blog post commits to not requiring on-device machine learning acceleration until at least 2034. Otherwise, users will be stuck on a "secure" but obsolete web browser and/or old version of ChromeOS.

I'm not convinced they thought through the implications of this policy.
> Yeah the flamewars between Mcdonalds and Wendy's accounts are epic

Is this a thing people are still finding novel these days? It was cute when Wendy's started posting tweets that appealed to millennials a decade ago, but these days I'm not gonna use an app where I'm just looking at a feed of cringey ads where social media managers try to look hip and with it by posting a big chungus meme.

Any time I open Threads, all I see are posts from brands (ads), engagement farming, and people posting about how Twitter is dead despite the fact that it's still where all the fun stuff is happening.
"Oh and one more thing... introducing the iClusterBomb."
Bill Gates will drink the results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_Processor
Also dogs! New York banned dogs on the subway unless they fit in a bag or other container, so New Yorkers have been dressing their dogs in Ikea bags with four holes cut in the bottom.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10yzyq6/nycs_answer_t...
It says right there they can do what is needed to execute inspection laws. They just can't charge you to import. California had serious problems with Mediterranean fruit flies destroying crops from the 50s onward, which is why they started doing this.
Also, sorry, I think I missed out a detail that this regime only works for me if I avoid all sugary and processed food.

If I do something like eat a big chocolate bar, I’m also immediately hungry again and craving chocolate and treats and processed food.

As part of my new diet I only have whole foods like rice, beans, meat and veg. This food fills me up and interacts with my body in a fundamentally different way than processed sugary food. I don’t even miss it, until I eat some. It’s wild.
It is very nice to be able to compute this in our browsers without limits or registration. The results are not always perfect but already allows having good time testing remixes or doing karaoke with friends! Thanks for sharing your work.
GODOT developers are trying to do it via https://w4games.com/. But not sure if it's ready
> they could have an interest in bringing death threats written by individuals not in the game development industry

Sure? It’s still a death threat.

Sending employees home has a real cost. The existence of death threats, moreover, is unlikely to change developers’ hearts and minds. The nuttier ones will write it off as a conspiracy theory. Most will see it as irrelevant to their interests.

People who make death threats don’t need to underwrite their insanity. Their incoherence doesn’t make them less dangerous.
Excellent point. I work at a biotech startup where one major focus is "how do we fix the disease labels?". I call it the pyrite problem (your gold standard data contains fools gold), but it is known more prosaically as the mislabeling problem.
It's in the introductory paragraph as well:

> But... can you take ducks home from the park?
Yeah, but not necessarily just with parens - there are languages with macros that have a different syntax but with lisp it's the most elegant.
That’s a bit of a strawman, no one is arguing that you lose weight from “extra treats” it’s more about the insulin response from the nutritional content from your food. And very likely overweight pets are eating garbage food that causes insulin resistance.
If you give in to terrorists, the terrorists win. We have to have some amount of bravery in the face of implausible risks.
Well yeah but that's where data modelling comes in.
That's true for a lot of business that still can be a good business model, lots in medicine, for example: lifetime vaccinations, and cures for diseases like HepC.
Blueprints are extremely useful in prototyping at the very least, not just in the initial stages of development but for adding new systems. There is nothing wrong with them and the idea that LLM’s are going to replace blueprints is ridiculous. Sure, you will be able to have them write a block of collision code, but gamedev is one of the most complicated fields in terms of having an understanding of what your state is and what references what.

LLM’s can spit out code without understanding the problem, but understanding the problem is 99% of gamedev
I think the changes to Reddit suggest that we (the ones complaining about Reddit) are but a small minority. I really thought Reddit would revert their API changes after seeing the community response, but then... nothing happened. This was the event that made me realize how far I am disconnected from its average user.

OP makes it seem like Reddit's users lose something when Reddit panders to a Marl. But I've observed that the majority of them don't care (enough). Some even like changes we view as invasive. I talked to someone once who told me "Aren't personalized ads so great? I was looking for new shoes, then I see an ad for the perfect shoes. A few clicks and now I have great shoes!" These people exist, and I suspect that they have to exist for ads to generate any revenue.

I do think that it's wrong to paint those who (still) use Reddit/etc. as brainless scroll-zombies, though. They just care about different things.
Why storage rather than using when available, eg running fridges/freezers/Aircon slightly cooler, water heaters hotter, charging cars, running the washing machine / dryer.

Industrially smelting aluminium, making hydrogen, heating water, desalination.

Not that I'm saying storage shouldn't be part of the mix.
> after, say 3 years

Why the wait? Delay is bullshit. Release all the things on launch.
Do driverless cars have a first responder problem?
Keep hoping, but I think you already know the truth ;)
The writing style of this article makes me think about the periods when a lot of impulses are happening erratically on in my mind, and I can't seem to get the thoughts to align. My guess is that she wrote this with a similar state of mind, more so since her husband is severely ill. I wonder if other HN'ers recognize it in a similar way.
Yet another reason why development should only take place on FOSS game engines. If a company has hostile/incompetent C-level management, community forks it and maintain it as free use.
You have to do a ridiculous amount of exercise compared to you know, just not eating another snickers bar.
Lots of old school desktop applications are built in a way where they query a server for every single query result/item detail page/etc. Practically every industrial application for boring things like warehouse inventory is like that. That's not "local-first".

Let's take Excel as an example: Excel as a desktop app is either local-only (editing a local file), or remote-only (editing a file on a shared network drive). Excel as it has existed as a desktop app for a long time is not local-first.

An email client using IMAP, fetching mail ahead of time and having a queue of outgoing mails, is local-first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZs-YcmxyUw
> We have to have some amount of bravery in the face of implausible risks

It’s a video game engine. They help make video games. They’re sending employees home, to continue working from home, and cancelling a town hall. These are stupid stakes to gamble against lives while a death threat is being investigated.
Chromebooks are made out of plastic, children are not very careful, and people don't value free things they're given.
No, their strategy is to focus on reform from the bottom up: getting local officials elected at the city, county, and state levels in order to pass electoral reform (states control election in the US) to make our national politics less inflammatory. Parties matter less at these levels. Their main goal right now is to get ranked choice voting passed in as many states as possible (focusing their energy on ballot initiatives). They are also not a "party" (they are registered as a PAC). This way, republicans or democrats can receive a foward party nomination without having to leave their own parties and run independent. They just have to be aligned with forward party goals. They have maybe 1 or 2 US representatives that they're tracking, but Andrew Yang is not running for president in 2024 because it would just be a waste of money to them. The vast majority of their advocacy is at the state and city level
Twilio has their SuperSIM (https://www.twilio.com/docs/iot/supersim) for these use cases but the pricing might be too high for what you're looking for. There's also Hologram (https://www.hologram.io/). I'd try looking for IoT data providers (rather than cellular ones).

I've also personally worked with these guys before and they are legit: https://www.zipitwireless.com/
The Great Disconnect: Loneliness and Isolation in the Age of AI
Wow this is crazy. Unity C level executives are off their meds.
Submit your proposals for Interop 2024
I'm not sure of anything but our potential. It's only been roughly 150 years since the first internal combustion engine. Today a 50lbs machine mows my lawn by itself by communicating invisibly with hunks of metal in outer space traveling at 17,000mph around earth to determine its position on the face of the planet within roughly a few centimeters. This machine cost me roughly a week of labor.

I think the much more interesting question is what sorts of extinction events do you think we will be incapable of preventing in 1,000 years?
"The gaming community" consists of an insanely large number of people. Some percentage of people on Earth are willing/crazy enough to use death threats to get their way. The gaming community is large enough that that percentage manifests itself in the form of death threats being used. The question isn't so much "what's up with the gaming community" as it is "what's up with this small percentage of humanity."
Generally, the things that are valuable to society, but can't be delivered by corporations who are only interested in maximizing their own wealth and power are good candidates for something that would be better run by government.

Maybe a dating site actually would make for a good social service... Assuming that what we'd gain in terms of the stability and happiness of the population is worth more than what it would cost to run the service it might not be a bad idea. Especially in areas where dating is uniquely difficult like Iceland where apps exist to make sure you're not dating someone closely related.
Related concept: Enshittification (I've seen this mentioned on HN)

A company starts out focused on building a great product.

Then, they reach product-market fit.

Then, they raise money.

Now, the best way for them to grow is to go upmarket. Sell to enterprises.

Unfortunately, then the resources of the company are directed to features that enterprises buyers care about, because that's the best way for the company to make more money.

The actual product stagnates.

(This does leave an opportunity for bootstrapped founders to come in and swim in the "wake" of B2B startups that built a great product, then let their product stagnate while they went upmarket. Eventually some of those bootstrappers might choose to get bigger and move upmarket themselves, and then the opportunity opens up again for new bootstrappers. Or the bootstrapper can remain niche, focused on winning users who choose the best product and who don't require enterprise features, which is a smaller market but still can be quite profitable and would be a much smaller and simpler to run business.)

Examples: Airtable (it's a great product, I still love it, but it hasn't really improved for me as an end user since about 2016), Notion, Docusign (maybe it wasn't ever a great product, I'm not sure, but it sure hasn't improved for me as a user).

Instead of going from "good to great" it unfortunately seems like many startups go from "great to good"
Absolutely advance. No question. At least in this context.
Give yourself -1 ducks. Here, have +1 ovens.
I didnt find out what standard they use, but personally I'd say intermediate sounds about right. I also have an engineering degree and while I know more than the average bear in many scientific disciplines I couldn't say that any of it is advanced.

I'm thinking of times where I went to the library to dig deeper on a topic and discovered a huge and complex topic just laying in wait.