skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lost interest in riding, but I remember the last 6 years very fondly. I went everywhere with that motorcycle.

Be careful out there. Wear your gear and ear plugs. Tinnitus is forever.
Perverse incentives case study
These are not the same data store solutions. Document stores like DynamoDB have a specific operational Write Model purpose whereas an RDBMS is better suited to analytics and reporting.
Fan fiction just denotes the unofficial nature of the stuff. For example Star Wars is a tent-pole franchise for the world’s largest media company, but quality-wise recent entries range from poor fan fiction (most of it) to good fan fiction (Filoni).

I don’t know if officially sanctioned self-insert stories would kill the entertainment industry, but they’ll certainly change how things work. Video games are already giving movies a pretty good run for their money, and that’s with an arbitrary skill threshold to keep people out…
Sigma – A shareable detection format for security professionals
"Organizations of all sizes and across all industries are increasingly looking to accelerate digital transformation and power AI-driven innovation."

How did Google become like this?
The most valuable use case is not emergencies, search and rescue.

It's tracking vehicles (big and small) in third world countries with the aim of support, crime detection, asset recovery and law enforcement.
I am not familiar with how that was implemented, but I can imagine many ways a forced transition could go poorly.
DynamoDB is such a good name though; "Cloud Spanner" doesn't tell me anything about what this does...
How many simultaneous users can this tech support? I.e. how does it scale? (Per satellite?)

I’m also a little bit grossed out by all these competing satellite networks filling up LEO, and having to more or less continuously launch new satellites to replace the existing failing ones.
Not a fan of little free libraries, personally. They are a dumping ground for unwanted books, and they’re placed in neighborhoods that traditionally have the most access to books, not the least.

Libraries are not just stacks of books. Information access is an ongoing challenge that requires experts to help others navigate. Libraries have librarians for this. In that sense, LFLs aren’t libraries at all, they’re just book boxes with an unclear mission and no documented success criteria.
What is the formula for determining underpaid and overpaid?
Obviously we shouldn't pretend sat phones from Garmin and others haven't existed for decades, but Starlink direct to cell is very different. First, as others have mentioned, traditional sat phones requires dedicated hardware with a chonky antenna; this works with normal cellphones, which means order of magnitude higher adoption. Maybe more fundamentally, the satellites that existing sat phones use are in much higher orbits so there is irreducible latency (due to speed of light) and bandwidth costs that LEO Starlink sats will likely crush in the next few years.
When I was younger, I worked at a company that made a burglar alarm (among other things). The UL test for alarm systems which have a fire alarm function was the hardest thing to test. It had to simulate "lighting hits nearby and the fire alarm still has to work" test. The 10KV spike on the power line was setting fire to the alarm units.
It's almost certainly not the case that Gmail uses Cloud Spanner rather than Internal Spanner. I don't think Cloud Spanner (or most of Google's cloud products) have the featureset required to support loads like Gmail (both in terms of technical capability, and security/privacy features).

When I worked at Google I tried to get more services to migrate to the cloud but the internal environment that was built up over 25 years is much better at supporting billion+ users with private data.
Definitely not an advertisement. For me with my dog there is no $25/mo plan. The lowest it goes is $60.95/mo, with a $1000 deductible.

Trupanion covers 90% after the deductible. A $3k bill would still require me to pay $1300 ($1700 savings), which I could have just saved myself by stocking some money away. $1700/$61=28 months. I've had my dog for more than 28 months and haven't had any $3k bills.

Of course, if my dog has a $20k bill, it makes more sense, but the chances of that are pretty low given how I know my dog. It becomes an emotional decision, which is my point and what they are counting on.
I was considering using that analogy(!), but realized that our near AI future might be something that's closer to a combination of the Hitchhiker's Guide AND Marvin (50,000x smarter than a human).
Isn’t Lakeland a shop?
Your emacs config may.

Their emacs configs didn't.

Hopefully most distros' default emacs installs do the right thing these days but it's not something I've checked because these days pretty much everybody already has a setup that works for YAML because of how prevalent it is.

(I like YAML for just-about-human-editable data structures but then people try to text template it rather than actually treating it as data and then I want to cry)
A regenerative organic farming system and a chemical intensive farming process have many differences. Regenerative is not just "chemical intensive farming but with organic chemicals".
Is the Goal of Life to Become Fully Yourself?
Author Kevin Kelley argues that the goal of life is to become fully yourself. That is, you are living a life that is authentic and completely unique to you. You do what inspires you without caring about what other people think. And you have your own unique definition of success that no one else can meet better than you.

Would you agree with this statement?

Or is this statement necessary but not sufficient for a meaningful life?
They have only given phones a free two year contract. I don’t recall anywhere the price afterwards ?
Making shit up out of thin air isn't as difficult as you suggest. For centuries English kings thought they were the descendants of King Arthur because of what a cleric wrote in the early 12th century. The Swedish 16th century king Erik XIV proclaimed himself the 14:th (hence the suffix XIV) king of Sweden due to the largely fictitious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_de_omnibus_Gothorum_S... Over 2000 years earlier it must of course have been even easier making facts out of fiction.
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great point. the "social cost" to referring someone who does badly is often forgotten
I'm not familiar with the project either, but ensure it is a feature they intend to accept into their project before you commit the energy into developing it. I have had a weekend that was devoted to naught because it wasn't aligned with the vision or roadmap.
Some people annoy everybody by posting a link to HN to get on some wait list for a product that might never get released.

This is how I annoy people.

A search for "Yoshinon" on the search box at the bottom of the page will find a lot more, search on Google and you might find a picture of a girl in a strange raincoat (looking close it doesn't look like it would keep out the rain if it was a normal raincoat but that raincoat is magic and stops antitank missiles so I'm sure she stays dry somehow) who has a hand puppet. My YOShInOn is named after that hand puppet.

There will be a blog post someday. I made a big change to the ingestion system for that which I have been stressing a long time that might free up my headspace for that... Or maybe give me more opportunities to hack on it.

My YOShInOn's main model predicts if I will be interested in article. It has secondary models that predict if an article will get >10 votes on HN and another that predicts the comments/votes ratio.
I am absolutely not an expert here, but you probably want dependent types to have more interesting examples.

Hopefully my made up syntax is understandable

fermat x y z: Int -> Int -> Int -> c: (x^z+y^z=c^z and Int)

This might only ever have an implementation if we hard code it to z=2.
If you are left a billion, do you instantly become evil? If you work to disperse it to good causes, are you not a philanthropist?
Show HN: Retro TV Vibes – An AI-Powered, Pixel Art Weather App for SLC
Hello HN,

I've combined my passions for software engineering, graphic design, and pixel art to bring to life a weather app with a unique retro twist: wthr.today. Sometimes you just need to make something.

Live Demos:

https://slc.wthr.today/ - Salt Lake City, UT (my hometown)

https://msu.wthr.today/ - East Lansing, MI (my current town)

visit /test - to see all the raw data.

What I learned with this project:
- ImageResponse from next/server lets you create images from html on-the-fly.
- Jimp can be used to convert images to pixel art using 'posterize' and 'scan'.
- Vercel serverless functions can use the '/tmp' folder to temporarily store files.
- How to calculate risk of frost using cloudCover, temperature, dewPoint, and windSpeed data.
- Using azimuth and altitude to represent the location of an object in the sky on a 2d plane (still testing this one).

Technical Highlights:

Platform: Hosted on Vercel. New locations can be added through the locations configuration table. By simply creating a new sub-domain and assigning the ID of the new location as an ENV variable, I can launch new regional WTHR apps!

Front-end Stack: I utilized NextJS, Tailwind CSS, and Framer Motion.

Data & Updates: The app uses the tomorrow.io API for weather data. Additionally, I've integrated ChatGPT-3.5-turbo to generate a daily, hourly, and minutely weather summary. Updates are pushed every hour through a cronjob, which pings a private endpoint, which updates the database table. I use real-time database synchronization to relay updates to the client.

Music: The music for slc.wthr.today is from another project of mine, https://kuaafm.org. msu.wthr.today streams music from WKAR (no affiliation).

Todo: remove console logs, cleanup, larger desktop support, better pixel art, unit/e2e tests, improve og:image.

I want to find the time to do some write-ups on the techniques I used for this project. This was originally intended to only run on a raspberry pi connected to display in my kitchen, but then things got out of hand and here we are. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the design, usability, and potential features to add. Please ask me any questions you have, I'm happy to answer them! You can also reach me at jesse@jessestewart.com.
I've never worked at a midsize or larger company that didn't have several highly politicized individuals posting to slack seemingly all day.
Probably more like 99%
I would like them to offer some kind of "hackable" feed what i could design my own algorithm. I do not know if you can make it with current technology. But effectively i would like to train my own algorithm or even different algorithms.

I do not trust those companies not to game the algorithm for maximum engagement. The more i have control over the feed the more agency i have to not over indulge.

Maybe you could even add built in feed size limits into the algorithm.
"club space" in America is a nightmare, yes. You forgot to mention the neighbors not liking you and making trouble. But hacker spaces in particular do exist, usually on a small budget, and they make it work. Not impossible.

For that matter, the hacker space Noisebridge in San Francisco houses a large collection of data books and other often dated technical books. If you need to find the paper, they are a reasonable place to go and look.
Is it really the 30th anniversary coming up? :mind-blown:

I'm trying to finish draft 1 of my C Guide (which has turned into a monster--never attempt to write a _comprehensive_ language guide), and it's comments like these that really keep me going. Your kind words literally bring tears to my eyes.

I'm just genuinely so glad that it has been so helpful, and I never would have guessed it would have been useful for so long. And I'm smugly happy to contribute to the information-sharing ad-free small-web Internet in my own little way.

And thank you to everyone who has read it and to everyone who has sent in corrections and bug reports. I still do update it!
I’d be interested in some comparisons between this and rewind. Currently, rewind is pretty epic and even gearing up to offer transcriptions of all conversations everywhere via phone/pendent combo. The roadmap of Layer1 could be cool to compare.
Consider that revenue figure doubled as of today. Starlink has grown at minimum 100% YOY
a discussion on the use of leetcode style interviews as a discrimination tool in tech hiring
Pet insurance is basically the opposite. Most people get it when their pet is young and the premiums for young pets are reasonable and low. Then, as the pet ages, the premiums go up and up.

And once you have any vet record of anything other than a routine wellness check, you're basically locked into your policy because if you try and switch providers, you'll run into pre-existing condition limitations, which are quite difficult to understand or predict. This is also difficult because not only will your insurance go up simply for your pet getting older, the pet insurance companies are constantly going through rate changes, as they adjust risk profiles for breeds or adjust to vet care inflation. Depending on what state you live in, these rate adjustments could be completely uncapped.

Even if you don't switch, many insurance providers won't write new policies for pets over certain age thresholds.
Embedded Linux Education Kit
I think you are describing expanded metal. This was definitely twisted wires. I had a heck of a time cutting in the boxes for the ethernet. It was built in 1905, and some flipper at some point decided to leave the lath and plaster and just add lath and drywall overtop. Presumably the same person put a metal roof over the old composite shingles and vinyl siding over the wood. They also chose to not add insulation. Always get an inspection before you buy!
I had a great k3s experience with a silly, over engineered weekend project to automate my fog machine with motion sensors.

I connected motion sensors to battery & wifi enabled RPis, built a remote circuit to control the fog machine, and ran a k3s cluster with NATS to bring it all together. 10/10 would do again.

https://blog.apartment304.com/fog-machine-madness/
Yep! My point was to take one of the biggest private jets, and show it's still vastly less than 1000x. Private jets are bad, but they're not that bad.
I love omniglot. I'd love to see the the diff, to see what's new since then.
Spanner has a SQL interface, fyi.
There’s a difference between sub out and LFE. Sub out usually can’t accurately do frequencies that low. I believe LFE is Dolby tech too.
Why third world countries?

Terrestrial cell coverage is a function of population density much more than anything. In fact, I'd expect rural areas in the US and Candada to benefit from this just as much, if not more.
For vector art have you looked at Inkscape?
> a project that begged for a better, licensed font

Eh. There are plenty of good fonts with permissive licensees. Also, good typography is much more about sizing and spacing than about picking a better font.
Implicitly, maybe. However, being disconnected is usually just a perk of getting away.

The problem with getting disconnected is that we don’t want to do it, we are afraid of missing out and we usually invent other activities to rationalize it.

In a sense it’s a bit like enjoying the radio in traffic, taking the long ride home after work. This is not something that you would rationally do unless you have to, but there are some benefits that people are still seeking from it.
I'm not a backcountry skier or much of a hiker but if I was, I'd much rather have a rugged device that can survive much better than an expensive piece of glass. I've damaged phones in the past by them getting bent in my pocket during rigorous activities. If my crumpled body is laying at the bottom of a cliff, I doubt my phone fared much better. A solid body device with a simple interface could be the difference in me being found in a couple hours or a couple weeks.

Direct to phone satcom is neat and I can see plenty of applications for it but I know that I wouldn't stake my life on it simply due to it being a consumer-grade phone.
Indeed, it seems like their whole plan to address profitability issues is just "get bigger", but all that's done is create a bloated, immobile monster that's completely lost touch with thee customer base that got them to where they are.

At ~7000 employees, Unity has roughly double the employees that Epic has - where is all the labor going? To me it's pretty clear that Unity is more interested in being a commercial product/platform whereas Epic is leaning into the engine/technology side and developing their own games. Theoretically both angles can be valid, but I think Unity has completely misunderstood why most of their customers chose then in the first place.
> A camera that detects and alters images where people close their eyes or fail to smile, that will not be recognized. A camera that corrects a scene to make it look as if it were in daylight rather than interior office lights, that too will not be recognized by the vast majority of viewers.

Those are two very different things and neither is new. Of the two, the later is closer to taking a sepia or black and white photo. It's simple grading that's been done for decades. Log video is mostly an extension of Raw photography which has been available to consumers for decades. The former is the more concerning technology and it's been available for at least 5 years on consumer grade devices.
Or be an outside recruiter and pocket a larger chunk per referral
Yeah, I'm in Kingston so felt that one plenty. It was a weird one: less rumble, more a sudden jolt that shook the floor. Really weird.
I remember when a friend of mine had to let go of his dog.

Paraphrasing, he said something like "I've been there since almost birth, commanded and controlled every aspect of his life, but who am I to choose this."

It's a dreadful responsibility, but it is just that -- a responsibility. When the pet goes to their forever home, this is part of forever.

I have personal issues with it being "scheduled", that just tears me up. That at 12pm there will be this life, and 12:01, there won't.

But at the same time, it's on us as caretakers to not let the slow decline turn into a spike of severe suffering. Sudden, crushing pain. Struggles breathing, etc. Crisis may well dictate when the time has arrived, some escalation (like not eating). Sometimes its just "We have an opening on Tuesday".

This is not what we necessarily signed up for, but it's the job.

As the others say, be there, hold them, hold them and let them go. You are their everything. This process is part and parcel to loving them.

Fond farewell as they cross the rainbow bridge.

Sorry about your cat.
What about Milorganite? Its the sludge from treated waste water that is heated to kill pathogens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorganite
Seconding this as well. Similar setup (though I opted for longhorn) and journey. I'm very grateful for learning k8s but man, it was definitely rough for a long while until I really understood all the pieces and cemented my understanding. I can very much appreciate that's a tall order for many people and not wanting to embark on that journey unless there's a good reason.
Oh, that's really neat! I was confused by all the microcontroller-esque things being shown, I couldn't tell what was the actual product or not, couldn't find an actual description of its functionality. Needs a README imho.
Good example of the "peak of inflated expectations" from the hype cycle for emerging tech. Whereas crypto and Web 3.0 haven't broadly taken off (and would bet never will), AI is more likely going through a short and shallow "trough of disillusionment" before long steady gains.
Hm. Filemanager inspired by Plan B?
i would delete it off the face of the earth
> Apple/Google don't hold any RF spectrum rights worldwide...

yet. Apple (and android baseband suppliers, “Google” may be the wrong name to mention here), have the ability to take relatively worthless spectrum and make it widely useful in a way nobody else can.

I wonder how spectrum allocation works for C-Band satellite broadcasters that just blast continents with their signals. Grandfathered?
> showed male veterinarians are twice as likely... than the general population to die by suicide

This may come as a bit cynical, but gender on its own has bigger correlation for suicide, than being veterinarian! 80% of suicide victims are males. That gives 3x higher rate over general population.

It would be nice, if all people who cry here over veterinarians, could give some sympathy to men as well!
Faster JavaScript on WebAssembly: Portable Baseline Interpreter and Future Plans
Twas the joke
Are the EU state governments not elected? Last I checked they were.

Lots of bureaucratic and political positions are appointed by other elected representatives. We can't elect everybody, that would be too much. So is that really a problem here?

I am not that up to speed on the intricacies of EU governance at this level so I really don't know if this is a real problem or not.
Good question. During that time we didn't know exactly what was wrong. I brought her in for the boil, we ran lots of tests, and the only thing we could determine was that she was anemic. If she ate more she was anemic less as long as the wound continued to aspirate. I cleaned it up every night, kept a patch on it, and fed her whatever would make her eat her dog food. That ended up being lots of hot dogs, burgers, and pumpkin puree but it varied by the day. Sometimes she really liked this gut flora powder. If I didn't add this stuff, she plainly just wouldn't eat. By the team she wouldn't eat food with the additives for three days is when I brought her in. At the time I didn't know it, but the cancer she had was sending her into a sort of liver failure.

When she passed away her abdomen relaxed and the vet was able to feel her liver. It was covered in tens of tumors. Without a way to clean her blood her body was expelling the blood. On the day I put her down had I not given her a blood transfusion her tiredness would have shifted towards being weak and achey, probably pretty painful, and she would've been susceptible to severe infection, stroke, or a seizure. After the blood transfusion she would've immediately needed surgery to attempt to remove the largest tumors and chemotherapy to attempt to rid her of the cancer.

The odds of surviving the surgery and chemotherapy were relatively low. I didn't listen to much the vet said as I just kind of zoned out while she explained the options that day. What I do remember is the vet noting that both of those options would result in a lot of pain that she wasn't going to understand and that the odds of survival were very low while the cost was going to be high. In my mind, humans have the privilege of letting a pet leave this world with marginal suffering - a privilege we don't even really extend to ourselves. In the end, I made the choice that I'd want for myself.
Put yourself in the shoes of who they're targeting with that.

Probably dealing with thousands of requests per seconds, but wants to say they're building something that can scale to billions of requests per second to justify their choices, so there they go.