skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 15 and I don't even want a phone, this thing is a goddamn headache, portable little advertisement device hurdling me with ads even when I run GrapheneOS and it depresses me mine (pixel 5a) is the last that will ever be made with a headphone jack, which I literally rely on, earbuds don't need a battery. I use it because it's what I can get and I didn't make my financial decision on it.
Not sure, I think hash functions could be deeply connected with the Inner Workings. Maybe time is a merkle tree...just kidding, but who knows?

It's all a big mystery. He could roll blockchain. But who knows? I just think there'd be a more elegant concept :) haha
If you don’t have a robust vision for the product then monitoring users wont help you. I’ll just leave this here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
The person doing the export isn't necessarily the bad actor.
I love this series, I learned a lot from it and think about it often. It changed my mind on this subject completely.
Does the sound quality improve if either the phone or speaker are inside the microwave? We must test all possible scenarios.
Microwaves are well known to interfere with 2.4 GHz communications. That’s one of Bluetooth’s channels.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.4_GHz_radio_use
For many years, I built most projects on top of a relational DB.

Then NoSQL happened.

After NoSQL became less popular, I started defaulting to JSON files, if I thought I could make it work.

One thing that helps a file-based DB is to make sure you put something useful in the filename (and/or path). Such as a search tag and/or category or owner.

I suspect that the majority of programs are like the ones I write in that they don't have a ton of demands on them, relatively speaking. Not in terms of load or scope or anything else.

In most of these "small" applications, I think you can literally use almost _any_ database or file structure you want and end up with basically equivalent results.
Almost all electronics are less efficient when 'hot'.

Solar systems are not an exception.
I assume you mean because it conflates modern day scholasticism, science, empiricism, and making shit up under one broad heading of "knowledge creation"?
Do you have any information about how much material going to landfills? What if 1 car is 1000 phones?
I think you're right but I don't think the majority of the population in first world countries will be getting richer... so are the people who did get richer going to pay?

I also worry that hardening the infrastructure in first world countries is going to be very expensive. Especially if the developing countries are so badly affected that they can't provide the normal supplies of food, minerals, ores, etc.
companies can be held liable for what people using their networks do, so they need a way to prove it's not their fault and provide the credentials of the malevolent actor.

it's like call and message logs kept by phone companies.

nobody likes to keep them but it's better than the breaking the law and risking for someone abusing your infrastructure.

it would also be great if my colleagues did not use the company network to check the soccer stats every morning for 4 hours straight, so the company had to put up some kind of domain blocking that prevents me from looking up some algorithm i cannot recall from the top of my mind on gamedev.net because it's considered "gaming"
I am really glad to hear that!
Are you really suggesting some satellite drop whatever its doing, break its orbit to meet up with this thing and attempt to push it, all while risking irreparable damage? These things are made for a lonely existence in space, so they don't have bumpers or cameras or little fridge magnets for docking with other spacecraft.
There are a couple of fun arguments here:

- The blue print analogy is used a lot to argue why software engineering isn't real engineering. The reasoning goes like this: you create a blueprint of something like a bridge and you don't start building the bridge until the blue print is done. Then the bridge building process is reasonably predictable and structured because you already solved all the problems. If only software engineering was that predictable. Of course with software, the process of creating the blue print is literally creating the software. The build step tends to be fully automated (compilation). Blue prints for your blue prints used to be a thing when we had waterfall. Creating a blue print for a bridge or a nuclear plant is similarly less predictable. Because that's where you have to do all your problem solving. That's why so many of these hard engineering projects go way over budget.

- SpaceX is using rapid iterations with rocket design. This is real engineering but they are also doing things that come directly from the agile world like not trying to design the entire rocket waterfall style, failing, and then spending another five years fixing the design. Instead they iterate rapidly, go through lots of prototypes and iteratively refine the rocket.

So, it's not that black and white. The process of creating good blueprints on a predictable schedule is not a solved problem. Also not in hard engineering projects. Using agile methodology and testing your blueprints in either simulated or real form helps.
Cray sounds mildly autistic.
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The largest telescope that will ever be built* [video]
Thanks for the link.

I read it, and I think it describes bad ways of using file system,
but there are also good ways.

Just like there are bad ways of using SQL databases,
and there are also NoSQL, and bad ways of using NoSQL databases.
> Gas turbines typically are limited to ~1300C to limit NOx production. However, if you have another heat source that doesn't involve combustion, that limit is taken away.

As far as I know, combustion isn’t required for NOx formation. If you want to run hotter without producing NOx, you need to eliminate either nitrogen or oxygen. IIRC there are a couple of proposed designs for doing this: combustion in nitrogen-depleted air and chemical looping combustion.
TikTok's success is primarily about the creator tools, not the viewing experience. Making video editing mobile-friendly and accessible to more people is what enabled the proliferation of short-form content.
Seems that a near-perfect psd import/export would be the killer feature that enables it to compete with Photoshop. That would be huge.
>I'm a global warming believer, but I'm starting to question whether the planet warming won't actually be posivite for a lot of first world economies.

It's not about whether it will be good or bad to live in a warmer climate. Maybe it would be better. But the rate of change is the danger. If we were slowly warming over the course of millenia, it'd be a different story. But 2C of warming over less than 100 years is something the planet has never seen before, and that we are ill equipped to deal with.
I encounter similar annoyances with things like "link previews" (impossible for an internal site, or one which requires authentication), and as a result have come to slightly "obfuscate" all links I send through such software. Sometimes I just don't send any links at all --- something like "HN item 37776492" suffices.
I mean, then they bring out the 2-month deals. I used to live in a luxury 25+ story apartment tower in Seattle area in 2010, with a big pool, full size gym and everything. It was... less than full, so I paid like $1.1k for a large 1br with views, after you account for first 2 months free (not accounting for free parking, normally that was extra too). IIRC they extended the deal too until 2012 when the building started to fill up and they didn't need it anymore.

I think the only reasons they need to resort to such gimmicks instead of just dropping rent are the above accounting considerations and limits on rent hikes (not extending the deal increases the rent without increasing the rent)... the end result is still low rent thanks to market forces.
The mistake was giving the general public pocket computers with always on connections and acting like they wouldn't be stupid with them or turn them into status symbols
Yep I have basically the same setup
>More solar power, less money spent on heating, less dependent on foreign resources etc etc etc.

If you care more about the price of energy than the price of bread, sure.
What about the portion of the US populace that wants to maintain/increase fossil fuel usage because they think it's the best option they have? Is that not a valid viewpoint?
Average warmer, with much higher SD.
Contradictory indeed -- definitely let my eyes take on more than my stomach could process.

Curious to learn more about your calendars. I don't quite understand what you mean by 'see the darkest night hours' or 'all my data is to hand.'

It sounds like you're interested in new ways to visualize calendars, compared to the traditional grids. You might enjoy checking out Lightpad or Circular calendars. They represent time in a more real form, but I've struggled to use them day-to-day.

https://www.producthunt.com/products/lightpad
https://www.theroundmethod.com/pages/circular-calendar
> lot of businesses that are great for a small shop and will make a lot of money, but they have no potential to grow larger

You’re describing businesses without economies of scale. They can compete simply by being local.
Well-Being for Founders
If you wanna talk to somebody of connect, lmk :)

As founders of startups and innovators, our journey is one filled with a series of hurdles. From the conceptualization of an idea to its execution, the path is rarely linear and often fraught with challenges. Just as scaling a mountain requires not just physical strength but also mental stamina, transitioning from a startup's inception (0) to its first significant milestone (1) demands a similar blend of physical and psychological resilience.

In the modern business landscape, where startups are proliferating at an unprecedented rate, it's easy to get caught up in the fervor of innovation and overlook the importance of mental well-being. Just as an athlete needs a disciplined regimen that includes regular gym sessions, a balanced diet, and adequate rest, entrepreneurs too need a holistic approach to maintain their well-being.

Starting a company from scratch is akin to setting out on a voyage into uncharted waters. The uncertainty and unpredictability can be overwhelming. There are days filled with hope and progress, and there are those laden with setbacks and disappointments. Such highs and lows can take a toll on one's mental health. Stress, anxiety, and burnout are all too common in the startup world. Yet, as crucial as it is to focus on product development, market research, and customer acquisition, it's equally vital to prioritize mental wellness.

Why is this so essential? Because the mind, much like any tool or machinery, needs regular maintenance to function optimally. A well-tuned mind enhances creativity, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities — all critical skills for an entrepreneur. Furthermore, mental well-being promotes positive interpersonal relationships, crucial for team building, networking, and negotiations.

As innovators, we should see mental health not as an ancillary concern but as a core component of our entrepreneurial toolkit. Just as we invest time and resources into market analysis, product refinement, and business growth strategies, we must also invest in mindfulness practices, regular mental check-ins, and, when necessary, seek professional counseling or therapy.

Incorporating mental wellness routines can be as simple as setting aside time for meditation, maintaining a work-life balance, taking regular breaks, or engaging in hobbies and activities outside the business realm. The key is consistency and recognizing that mental health is not a luxury but a necessity.

In conclusion, as we strive to take our startups from 0 to 1, let's not forget the mental fortitude required in this journey. For, in the end, a company's success is not just about profits and market shares; it's also about the well-being and growth of its founder and team. As innovators, let's champion the cause of mental health, not just in our personal lives but also in our startup culture. By doing so, we not only build successful companies but also foster communities that thrive on empathy, understanding, and resilience.
Used car sales outstrip new car sales 3:1.[1] I didn't bother looking up the same number for cellphones but it's nowhere near that ratio. That should be your second clue that cars and phones are very different.

Obviously the first clue is cars are not phones.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183713/value-of-us-passe...
well engineering is not project management , while engineers do a lot of project management, PM is not engineering

Waterfall and Agile is not Software engineering, I think software engineering is algorithm design, API design and anything design, coding and tooling in general

software project management is .. software business, not software engineering
Well I can't say any of this for sure but I want to say upfront, I think llm's can in theory do a lot (not sure if most) of the computations a human can do, but it's important to realize, imo, it's not actually stepping through the steps in the way humans are. When we give complicated step by step prompts and so on, it only means it's creating new constraints for what the probability of the next token is (from what exists in the data/model). If the data/model doesn't contain the data needed to produce the desired result, or the data that it was trained does not have examples that can generalize (but not be specific to) the desired result then it can't produce it.

That's the difference between humans and llm's imo. We can generalize any "computation" we have to any other "desired output" we want, by thinking about it, while llm's aren't at least not now, so general that they use low level representations of all the 'objects' we can prompt about. Like humans can reason about the objects and things in our mind almost infinitely and recursively while also retaining all the physical realities and facts of those objects, while an llm is limited in this regard. Doesn't mean it can't in theory, there is some weird generalization going on as far as I can tell, but it feels like it's going to need a lot more data or something to do it.
I should add by the way that I do like what you’re doing with widgets, and I think it’s a direction other CMS platforms—particularly, Ghost—should move towards.
The good news is that we can start helping right away, there is no need to wait for these long debates about the role of the first world towards the second and the third. That will take way too long. We can each pick 2 or three persons from the third world and send them money to aquire the means of surviving the coming crisis. How much have you thought donating monthly/yearly? I can put you in touch with people ready to act.
They would be fascinated. I have one at home and a 12 yr old. This is the kind of stuff they’re always interested in.
I've looked into the samples and recall what the problem was: geopandas was in an experimental branch, and you had to lock yourself into dask -- plus, the geopandas code had to be rewritten completely for dask. So i wrote my own processor that applies the same function in map&reduce fashion, and keeps code compatible with jupyter notebooks -- you decorate functions to be parallelizeable, but still import them and call normally.
https://github.com/culebron/erde
Isaac Asimov talkshow interview from 1980 [video]
Real engineers drive trains and we don't do that. So we're not real engineers. :-)
A friend of mine introduced me to affiliate marketing and SEO in 2012. After learning the ropes I challenged him on who could make the first dollar with a brand new site. I made a site about Bluetooth speakers, made my first affiliate sale a month later and won the challenge :-D

My affiliate career wasn't very long lasting though. Right now I am trying to make my internet dollars with SaaS instead.
Depends on both the microwave and the bluetooth device in question. My favorite pair of headphones are rather inexpensive and my microwave is a couple decades old and very high-wattage, and I get interference if I stand within a couple feet of it. I haven't had any other microwave or any other bluetooth device experience noticeable interference.
I honestly didn’t know that, thanks for telling me.

However shrimps do need to be cooked alive, right?
George Washington was also a surveyor before his later career(s). It was a well-trodden path to wealth and status for people of middling backgrounds and aptitudes for math and law in the pre-revolutionary U.S.
Whatever it means to be dead on HN some "dead" guy made a genuinely good comment I shall echo

Is there a hack to turn on the chip for yourself?
The current alternatives suck. Renewables are unreliable and produce massive waste themselves. What we need is nuclear, but I only ever hear the same people complaining about fossil fuels, complaining about nuclear. It's extremely safe. Like it's not even close.

If we can maintain the status quo with better technology, it will be adopted. It's just not there yet. Hence, we stick to what we have.

The liberal position on these societal problems is "take things away until the problem is fixed" which I find incredibly ironic, while the other's is "free market drives innovation when it's overwhelmingly necessary."
New Patches Speed-Up Linux's Accounted Kernel Memory Allocations by ~30%
Microwaves typically run 2.500GHz, most bluetooth and wifi is from 2.400 to 2.480GHz to keep some space between them (so if you want to minimise WiFi/Microwave issues on 2.4Ghz, use a low WiFi channel).

Bluetooth is adaptive and will hop frequencies to find quiet space in the range above, however microwaves are an intermittent source so when they go on the leakage will kill any bluetooth that's on a nearby frequency.

An easy way to see this is with a BBC microbit; you can measure the signal strength on channels 1 to 100 (2.4 to 2.5GHz in 1MHz steps) and so plot the local RF sources (WiFi, Bluetooth, Microwave, etc.).
This is Sean, one of the co-founders of Roam. It was at M87 when we started our work. Our plan is to get it to current at some point, we just haven't had time yet and this met our immediate term needs. Some version updates were easy, some have API changes that require real work.

I would be happy to take pull requests, I'll turn on Github issues now.
I wonder if I could put this on an old peppy chromebook.
1660MB max sounds great.

What am I missing out on?

I currently have xubuntu 22.04 installed on it an constantly struggling to free up space for upgrades.

Or what could I remove from it to free up space?
> How does the performance of F3D compare to say rendering the same object in Unreal Engine’s static mesh viewer?

Hard to say since I never used UE static mesh viewer, but if you test it I would apreciate a feedback!

> Could I use F3D as the rendering engine for a game?

Not really. F3D rely on VTK for rendering, which is definitely not a game rendering engine.

That being said, you can easily render 2D sprite for your games by scripting F3D.
> other penalties, such us restricted future launches?

This. There are other compliance conditions, and failure to comply means no more launch licenses.
Yes I’m sure 60% of Americans care about “social pressure” enough to buy a different phone. Trust me, my 80 year old mother doesn’t care about what TikTok influencers think.

Low end Android phones just plain suck when it comes to performance and battery life. Not to mention they rarely get operating system updates.

If you did force me to buy an Android phone, it would be the Pixel.
In case my comment sounded a bit harsh, no offense intended && taken at my side - I mean, it's an industry of its own and a rapidly exploding one, so there are enough reasons couple lesser known industry standard software exists.
You can convince people, but you can’t do it with a simple online post. Proselytism covers a wide range of tactics that convince people to change deeply held beliefs independent of how accurate what you’re trying to convince them is. Science has a major advantage here because you can provide actual evidence, but you don’t need to limit yourself to using evidence alone.

At the extreme end deprogramming the is often referred to in terms of ‘cult deprogramming’ but it’s more widely applicable and more effective than it has any right to be. Clearly unacceptable in this context, but worth understanding from a psychological perspective.
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Thanks for the reminder about meaningful pathnames :)
And you put those two statements together and you're back to the 5B number. I don't really care if your system of choosing leaders is democratic elections if at the same time you're burning books.
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I learned it in geometry in like 10th grade. No wood involved.
> Phone pushed into sink without realizing while doing dishes and walking away for an hour long phone call

How did they talk on their phone for an hour without realizing their phone was underwater?
Unfortunately in my area, it's consensus that this year sucked with how consistently cold and stormy it was. Summer felt like nothing, and fall wasted no time swooping in.
I just turned on issues, would be happy to take PRs. Our plan is to eventually get this current, but we will probably only be able to work on it from time to time and going from M87 to M94 got us what we needed.
For simple apps and app components, it's very convenient and manageable.

It becomes a problem when you: (1) scale up (2) have to deal with multiple relationships between objects. The "Database design" by Adrienne Watt posted in another comment covers the scale concerns well, but another scale problem she doesn't mention is hitting inode limit, at least if you're on a single machine. You can of course use a distributed filesystem as database, but at that point, you might want to use a database proper.
Seems ok now, at least when browsing HN from Australia.
+1 I have the yucateca on (all the things) every morning.
Here's a quote from one of those links:

"Of course, it reinforces the idea that human creativity and so forth come from the brain's hardware. There is nothing else than the brain's hardware, which is neural nets. But one thing that has completely surprised me is that these LLMs and other systems like them are all feed-forward. It's like the firing of the neurons is going only in one direction. And I would never have thought that deep thinking could come out of a network that only goes in one direction, out of firing neurons in only one direction. And that doesn't make sense to me, but that just shows that I'm naive.

It also makes me feel that maybe the human mind is not so mysterious and complex and impenetrably complex as I imagined it was when I was writing Gödel, Escher, Bach and writing I Am a Strange Loop. I felt at those times, quite a number of years ago, that as I say, we were very far away from reaching anything computational that could possibly rival us. It was getting more fluid, but I didn't think it was going to happen, you know, within a very short time."

The guy literally flipped bro. He literally just admitted what he wrote in his books are wrong. The books may not be wrong but he believes it now. Degrading hundreds of pages of his own writing and his own core beliefs is a display of incredible rationality, scientific thinking and lack of bias.
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If their text editor wasn't a UX disaster, I'd have moved to Krita. It's so bad and it drags down the whole program. The devs acknowledge it's not great, but have not done anything to make it good enough.