skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone smart in EE explain why the author wants to avoid using a microcontroller? Cost per unit isn't an issue for this type of project, it makes things easier, allows to employ more advanced logic like sensing the monitor type to decide what monitor ID to send to the computer, you can have LED's and so on. It already requires 5V power for the chip, what would be the downside apart from added complexity?
Right, so basically "hallucinate" fits better for visual generative ML and "confabulate" for text. Seems like a sensible distinction to me.
Put a quarter in your ass, because you Poe'd yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
You realize how bad 6 hour battery life is right compared to the MacBook Air?

And my work Microsoft Surface laptop fan never shuts off.
This is really cool - you'd think by now this is something that should come with your OS, just like music and video players do :)
The login page (or, i guess, signup) is where you are going to drop 90% of your funnel if you get it wrong.

Simple it good though, agree with that.
LeeRoy's Ramblings
For low-enough-power applications and sufficiently long-lasting batteries, charging is just another step in production.
> top comment on ycombinator dot news doesn't have the slightest clue about modern IT contracting

not surprised at all
“My bank is awful.”

American English views organizations as a singular entity, not so much a group of individuals.
https://www.answeroverflow.com/ roughly does this and can be self-hosted
Decentralisation would be better achieved with CRDTs, because that already sounds like CRFD.
Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that the book was "so banal that it had to be sold to adults; kids would have seen through it."

You might have fared better with Russell Hoban's The Mouse and His Child .. it's a cracking search for the secret of being self-winding.

http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/mouse.html

Failing that, Kleinzeit

http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/kleinz.html
Try to get a copy of the Pythagorean Sourcebook! It’s great reading original sources. So satisfying and often more interesting than modern scholarship about them.
I’ve wondered, for the Average Joe, if that was the case (is it?)

Anecdotally, I’m used to getting recruiters for Bay Area firms reaching out for, say, a 50k jump in compensation. On paper that’s a great deal more but rents always seemed exorbitant for a simple 1 bedroom such that I never bothered contemplating these pitches. It seemed like my quality of life would remain or lessen (cheap, small city) to (expensive, large city) with most of my increased income being sucked up by landlords, increased taxation, and (presumed) higher cost of goods.

So, for the typical guy working at an off-brand company, not making 300k+ at FAANG was SF ever really worth the move?
> In contemporary language, gaslighting is a colloquialism describing the subjective experience of having one's reality repeatedly questioned

I understand it's even more contemporary to start using the word for anything where you could otherwise respond "don't be a dick", but I'm not sure what alternative word we could still use to mean gaslighting if gaslighting gets hijacked for a general negative meaning
Real term cuts & ageing populace
I have the feeling that this is gonna be way bigger than the log4j mess.
> Updating the shared libcurl library should be enough to fix this issue on all operating systems.

> Then again there will also be countless docker (and similar) images that feature their own copies, so there will still be quite a large number of rebuilds necessary I bet.

Quite a large number, yeah.
Surely the one trained on Erowid data is hallucinating?
It's very much industry-niche specific. For example, the company I referenced above's best honors came from the American Geophysical Union, but that's (mostly) academics voting for something that truly did change the field. But in parallel I know the American Chemical Society's equivalent can be bought.

For sure I no longer pay any attention to broad general tech awards. It's like those "X under X" lists. About half are rich kids with connections and good photo ops and/or committing fraud.
I had a contractor do house repairs before we put it on the market. We didn't ask him to, but he took his orbital sander and sanded the stair railings that lead to the front door. He said "people really notice this."

The very first prospect we had put his hand on the railing, looked up at the house, and said "this place seems to be well taken care of." And made a decent offer the next day.

So I'm in favor of detailing the sign up page with care.
Someone was able to output 1080p(ish) with an RP2040, so yeah, it'd be doable.

https://hackaday.com/2023/03/31/could-1080p-video-output-fro...
Some thoughts:

1. Too much focus on user measurements can optimize products for the least engaged "marginal users": https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...

2. Too much focus on measurements has also created the "engagement" trap on social media, where content is algorithmically optimized for click bait and rage bait.

3. As the post suggests, below a certain size, you don't have the data to measure. Depending on your market, you need to be well beyond product-market fit for even basic AB testing to be useful.

4. But yes, many a promising product has been killed by falling into a "consulting trap", where the dev team churns out incoherent features to win a few anchor clients.

My conclusion is that product design is hard. You can't just blindly follow metrics. You can't blindly throw poorly-integrated features at the wall.

This is one reason why good founders and product designers are incredibly valuable. They can be out there, listening to the customers, and trying to assemble everything they learn into a pattern. There may be data involved, but there's usually a lot of intuition, too. And engineering and support will also have valuable input.
Sad to see this just a month and a half from this post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-eve...

Is the CVE system unreasonably alarmistic or is C unpredictable with flaws?
The only reason a factory owner would admit to overloading the production line before selling his company is incompetence.

This post is a public service for potential investors.
Plus a quick shower once or twice a week
I have never heard “confabulate” in [American] English to mean anything other than “bullshitting.”
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. And then you can run the whole thing hotter (increasing efficiency substantially).

There is no need for blades to withstand the combustion temperature, because film cooling can keep blades far cooler in high speed laminar gas flow. The challenge is that the operating gas must be dust-free or a spec of dust on the blade surface disrupts the film and causes failure.

Obviously the amount of energy wasted to pumping the film cooling gasses goes up the higher the combustion temperature is, so I assume there is still some upper limit on combustion temperature.
Are we sure?

Think that may be why "time" is such an intransigent thing to work with.
Given Samsung's use of bottom of the barrel Mediatek SOCs and slow RAM? I doubt it.
The thing is: We don't know what we should optimize first. Sure, We should make our core offering very good so that customer buys it. If We feel our offering is compelling enough, what's next?

Does optimizing landing page counts? or reworking that pesky login page?

Or, maybe main offering is not compelling enough?
You want to go down a wild, wild rabbit hole? Check out the Trementina Base Swap.
I guess the more interesting conjecture would be stating something about the size of the integers compared to the irrational number
A key problem is the many different readings of the word intelligent. I wouldn't call what we currently have as "capable of reasoning" for instance, though that might not be the intent and that is instead a property of "general intelligence". Of course that has linguistic issues to as it makes general intelligence (artificial or otherwise) a subset of intelligence - i.e. more specific despite adding "general" to the name.
Product-Market Fit in Civic Tech
As a recovering solutionist working in the public sector, here is my software engineer's perspective on positioning researchers to enable the organization to understand people’s needs so that we can provide the right solutions.
Gain of function research. Genetics-targeting bio-warfare.
CSS relative color syntax examples [video]
iOS (and iPadOS, MacOS) has different types of patches.

Besides major versions, there are the normal point updates, and Rapid Security Responses [0].

Major versions will never auto update, and point updates will slowly roll out, and may take up to 4 weeks [1], and Rapid Security Responses are rolled out instantly. The last Rapid Security Response patch was iOS 16.5.1(a) on July 12th[2]

[0]:https://support.apple.com/en-us/102657

[1]:https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/30/apple-explains-why-ios-...

[2]:https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213823
AoC is still very much a thing.
It largely is. Many use AI and machine learning interchangeably these days. I’ve even seen a random forest model called “AI”…
My Galaxy S10's bluetooth modem just said no 3 months in. My pixels have only failed me by losing support from Google prematurely.
This is all anecdata.
Isn’t that what all solar energy devices do?
IIRC (its been decades I think) that book was pretty critical of the unions working at the plant. Good luck getting that made in today's environment.
Edit: I was wrong the example is fine.

I find it actually useful, sometimes I may want to try something temporarily for intermediate result now and then and having it installed doesn’t yield benefits.

Good example: I generate asyncapi docs and doing an npx is fine. Alternative approach like pulling a docker image and the executing something with all volume sharing, ports what not is a but cumbersome because am too lazy to press too many keys.
Qt 5.15.11 open source released
There is a reasonable case to be made that the Nazis' escaped WW2 and were imported into the USA, and they created their Fifth Reich within the military-industrial complex where - under the guise of the oppressive National Security regime that this complex wraps itself in - they have been perfectly able to continue to propagate their hateful ideology.

And this is why the USA has demolished one sovereign state after the other - deemed inferior by America's bigoted ruling classes, whose malign influence over the 'intelligence community' follows the Nazi playbook to a tee .. those cultures deemed racially/politically inferior are brought nothing but calamity and ruin.
Looks like MacOS/arm64 is missing from the readme/compatability table (or is x64 supposed to mean all 64bit macOS?) - and GitHub issues are turned off. Issues handled somewhere else?

Come to think of it, I guess Windows/arm64 is missing too?
I've personally worked on a project where we used a 3-4-5 right triangle to lay it out on the ground. Straight lines alone do not get you right angles.
The complaint is about documents exported from Google Docs.
Yep. It takes so little time/money to tidy these pages and people notice when you haven't and it counts against you.
HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
> Securing is also pretty simple since the government could just publish the public key they’ll use for signing these alerts and OS vendors could refresh that key on a regular basis.

That would mean hundreds of keys to manage and regularly update, with various entities at various levels of government needing their own keys, etc. It's not impossible, but it certainly wouldn't be pretty simple for OS vendors.
The monitor signal is analog which means you'ld need a three-channel ADC to get it captured. might be able to do it with 4 or 6 bits per channel on a single rp2040, but you're probably getting into small FPGA (ice40?) territory there.

Maybe an pi5 could handle all three channels in 8-bit, depending on how the RP1 actually works. I'm hoping that it can handle a 40msps 10-bit ADC - a Domesday Duplicator hat would be wonderful.

The other option would be to find a vga->hdmi convertor that likes the signal coming out from this board, then you could plug that into anything modern.

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When I first saw this I thought it was about an actual 9" classic mac, which I guess would be useful but IMO those are really designed around the CRT too much to make a replacement 'fit' well.
So I haven't done complex analysis yet which I think you need to get the whole thing but I can get you some of the way there with basic trig.

If you take a unit circle and construct a radius to some point (x,y), if you drop a perpendicular line down to the x-axis, it's easy to see that the length of that perpendicular line is y and the distance you've gone across the x axis is x. So you have a right angled triangle where the hypotenuse is 1 (it's a unit circle) and the other two sides are x and y. Now consider the angle at the origin and call that theta.[1] You can do basic trig to show that the coordinates of your (x,y) point are (cos theta, sin theta), because sin is opposite (y) over hypoteneuse (1) and cos is adjacent (x) over hypotenuse. Ok cool. So x = cos theta and y = sin theta. If you measure in radians, then the angle of a full revolution is 2 * pi radians and the angle of a half revolution (180 degrees in other words) is pi. Now consider the point when you have gone around the unit circle 180o, Its coordinates are x=-1 and y=0. Remember this point - we'll come back to it in a minute.

Now imagine instead of your unit circle being just any old circle it's in the complex plane. This means that the x axis is the real part of some complex number and the y axis is the imaginary part. We now know that the coordinates of points on this circle are (cos theta, sin theta), but if you have a complex number z= a+bi, these correspond to a and b. So z = cos theta + i sin theta. Here's the bit where my current mathematical ability runs out of gas and you're just going to have to trust Euler, who showed that cos theta + i sin theta = e^(i theta).

Now remember our point from before where theta = 180 degrees? What was the angle in radians? It was pi. So e^(i pi) = -1 (because the real part of the number is the x coordinate, -1 and the imaginary part, the y coordinate is zero).

[1] Here's a diagram I made which will get you up to here https://www.geogebra.org/calculator/btz38m3c. My note about the trig of unit circle I made while studing is here https://publish.obsidian.md/uncarved/3+Resources/Public/Unit...
I don't lack the cynicism. I just temper it with the knowledge that it is possible, however unlikely, that they aren't being completely disingenuous arseholes 100% of the time.

Accepting a more generous explanation could be true doesn't mean I'm going to believe it actually is without further evidence!
Indian state defied the national government to defend refugees’ biometric data
Show HN: A digital whiteboard for basketball coaches
Today I’m launching Elite Hoops, https://www.elitehoopsapp.com. It’s a digital whiteboard for coaches to teach and share their playbook with players and coaching staff on iOS, iPadOS and macOS.

A bit of backstory. My son had trouble learning a zone press in basketball. He knew conceptually what he was supposed to do, but he didn't always know where to be. And so, that night, we drew out his responsibilities on a sheet of paper.

But then, he wanted to know where his teammates should be. So, I bought a whiteboard - and we did it again. This was better, but even still - he wanted to review it again each night. So I kept drawing, and drawing...and drawing.

What he needed was a video he could watch, anytime - anywhere. And, that's how I accidentally ended up making a digital whiteboard. Built for basketball coaches at all levels, it helps them teach and share their playbook for iOS, iPadOS and macOS.

Beta testing had a great response, so I feel like this is truly the first app I’ve launched with some modicum of market validation. It’s not a ton, but I did manage to get 650 coaches to sign up for the mailing list, and have over 1,000 Instagram followers for it.

Here’s hoping I grow it and coaches love it! Happy to answer any questions or thoughts, basketball seems like a field ripe for some good software and technology.

- Jordan
I still have mine. And it still powers on. Beautiful device. I wonder if there's a good way to use it as a kind of feature/detox phone.
I feel that a sort of universal sandboxing is more likely
> The phone on the other hand is connected to every facet of your life and has a software stack that absolutely contains security flaws waiting to be found and exploited.

This is an entirely different subject. The software can be upgraded/updated during the life of the mobile phone. And when it comes to chip makers mistakes, which led to vulns like Spectres, they are likely to affect several generations of chips anyway.
That wiki was a fun read! It's fun to speculate about the elves and the tunnels.
Well since even the average Android phone’s selling price is $285 the last time I checked, maybe it says more about your lack of insight than anything else?
I kinda hate doing things this way...

Could it be better not to just come out with somewhat alarmist take that hey we are going to release high risk vulnerability in week... And fixes to that...

But instead just release new version and CVE at same time? Now is everyone trying to get ready to exploit this on 11th, or already getting most out of it if they know? And does this information really make anyone to hover their finger on button to push new versions and so on on 11th?
Ha ha ha, so silly.

Just fetch the source code using git.
Thanks. That was useful. We should replace all the Twitter links with those instead.
Show HN: Duotone color scheme for Vim and Neovim
Everyone should watch Apple's 1984 comercial, and then watch Steve Jobs say, "You're holding it wrong."

It seems to me, Apple's philosophy for the last decade or so has been, "Our way or the highway."
The formula wasn't why people cared at the time; it had been empirically known for centuries. What caused such a stir was he was the first person to prove that for "most" right triangles there are no rational numbers P, Q such that PA = QC for leg A and hypotenuse C. That was what was earth-shaking.
Why is this added to exported documents tho? It should only add the redirect in the browser.
If I could plug them into a keyboard, mouse, and monitor setup and be running a full fledged OS they'd be exponentially more interesting than current. Their usefulness is hindered in their current form. Yes I know about Dex.
The 6P was a very nice device.
For the most part it's not common to be able to make a server call curl with an arbitrary server which is usually required to exploit this sort of thing. There will be some vulnerable apps, but the vast majority of servers with this vulnerability present won't be exploitable in any practical sense.
You do realize that the volume of a Pizza with radius z and height a is:

Pi ⋅ z ⋅ z ⋅ a
It is possible and practical. For example the <chrono> in the C++ standard library.
America Has as Many as 2B Parking Spaces, and They're Ruining Our Cities
Just be sure to use ftp or git as protocol... SSH is fine too.
How are you defining intelligence as distinct from sentience? At first blush such a distinction has no utility.
Your individual data isn't valuable. Your data bundled with the data of thousands-to-millions of other people? That's valuable.
TypeScript 5.3 adds support for import attributes
In this networked world, it really is a terrible language, there is no excuse for it

The only authority this program should have is network access, some compute time and permission to create and write to one or more files. Nothing more.

Though this is where almost all of our currently popular programming languages and operating systems are failing. They are fundamentally broken. Just on account of security, monolithic kernels are a terrible idea. And sandboxing hasn't even been an afterthought in most languages and virtual machines. Even on the hardware level, secure compartmentalization and access mechanisms are a joke.
> my culture

You should both tell us what it is so that others may give a different opinion
Death in the Microcosmos [video]
The mainstream is and was _enamored_ with Ancient Greece.

Our Western culture made Ancient Greek into the vocabulary root of our sciences.

We have a lineage of philosophy from Ancient Greece to the 19th century.

Only in the 19th century with archeology (again a neo-word made from Ancient Greek roots – it suggests to the mainstream that the Ancient Greek had a concept of archaeology, which they obviously didn’t have) we saw the truth: History goes thousands of years deeper, the origin of everything is thousands of years older.

Only 30 years ago the capital city of Hattuša was discovered; and only in the 20th century we gained an understanding of the multiple levels of the historic city of Troy.

Only recently we understand that "it didn’t start with Ancient Greece", but the mainstream still follows the tradition of medieval grammar schools and doesn’t look beyond Ancient Greece.
That was incredibly readable, I suppose the test is my summation:

Attosecond pulses are useful to observe changes in atoms as they happen.

Of course, that's like when people ask what brought me to Alaska and I tell them a car. Ha ha ha. But exceptional write-up. Feel like I could at least ask questions to learn more.
I wouldn't have submitted this if I'd known it was previously posted.

More often than not, HN doesn't alert me and by the time someone notes the dupe in the comments I can no longer delete my submission.

Dang: perhaps extend delete function to 2 hours? I think it's 1 hour but I don't know if that's the case.
Amazon basics landing gear.
I'm very curious how you model human knowledge such that it's dependent on free will.
You can get right angles with a straightedge and compass, both of which you can make on a construction site with string and pegs in the ground. It's just an instance of bisecting the angle. Which is more convenient in practice is situational.
Who the hell cares that one's phone is going out of support? This anal obsession with OS updates for some people is honestly appalling. If the phone doesn't get updated every micro second the sky is falling and the phone becomes a dangerous place. What are you doing on your phone that you need to be on top of OS security so badly? Browsing on the dark web? Going to sketchy sites? Have no password savers or 2nd factor auth? I had a Samsung galaxy S7 until less than a year ago. Had ZERO issues. Now calculate how many years I was out of support. I have now a Pixel 4a5G. I will only trade it for another for the same reason I did with the S7 - when it becomes too slow. Or it explodes, or turns to dust.
The top sentence on that search reads "There is no scientific evidence that it rains more often on weekends than on weekdays like Mondays. Weather is determined by a variety of complex atmospheric conditions that have nothing to do with the day of the week. However, the perception that it rains more often on weekends can be attributed to human bias"

I also just listed several decent studies meta studies summarizing a lot of the academic literature, and they seem quite in agreement that the situation is not as simple as you claim. In fact, the top several hits from your search are the studies I posted above.
People can be illiterate, dyslexic, inebriated, dumb or with poor command of the language. Good luck with free-text interface.

You'll pretty much would have had human operators over every interaction. That very much hinders the Uber-like growth of the service.
Ok.. but how does that relate to this topic?
You should be able to read the thread here https://nitter.net/wesg52/status/1709551516577902782

The colors in the first tweet just represent different territories(continents)