skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon may think you haven't bought a new chair in a while so maybe yours is getting old and worn out. Even if you've recently repaired a leg it's not unreasonable that if you needed a replacement leg for an old chair, you might want (or will soon need) to replace the other legs, or the legs for other chairs you might have. Maybe they just want you thinking about chairs and wondering how soon until you'll need to replace a chair/leg. Maybe they just want you thinking about replacement parts, and the legs are just one example of a replacement part to put the thought in your mind.

I couldn't tell you the number of times that I've bought an adapter that turned out to be trash, or was somehow not what I needed, and had to buy another. Sometimes I even buy 2-3 at a time from different brands/sellers because they're cheap enough, handy to have extras of anyway, and I expect at least one to be garbage that doesn't work at all.

Still, the point is that it doesn't need to make sense, least of all to you. Amazon will use the data it collects how it wants in whatever way amazon thinks will be most beneficial to amazon.
The US Navy sold 2 obsolete carriers

In the world of 2023, ALL carriers are obsolete. The way as all battleships were obsolete in 1941.

Aircraft carriers = slow, expensive targets.
https://fixtheops.dev a platform to train on docker/kubernetes/devops/sre topics. Kind of like hackthebox or rootme :)

Still need to add a bunch of challenges, find a way of monetise it, and remove the waiting list (need some more guard lines first). I really enjoyed working on it with NextJS, nodeJS with fastify, and vclusters to create sandboxed playgrounds.

I started coding it early 2023, but took a break from it in the last 3,4 months because... well summer.
The best possible version of this that I can imagine would allow for two boards to mate in all possible directions, you might want to go with a 'slave' expansion board that ties on to the first module in E/S/W but not N, another alternative would be to physically connect them to each other resulting in immediate connections between all boards. Lots of possibilities here. Something like i^c might help connecting the boards on a very cheap bus to allow for the configuration and read-out of slave boards, higher speed interaction would require a free set of 'edges' that can be connected between adjacent boards.
> But it seems like they’re respected if you install large flashing lights that the pedestrian can activate.

What's the point of that? At that point just turn it into a proper traffic light that's always green (or off) and when activated turns red for cars and green for pedestrians.
Thanks for discussing! I overall agree.

First lemme be explicit that I didn't imagine anyone sane who has not been to a gym ever - or even in a long time - to plop in ~100% of their weight for anything. Warm up and going there in increments was presumed by me as the standard procedure.

> - Bench press .50x of weight - Squat .75x of weight - Deadlift 1.00x of weight

Yeah, I wasn't sure about the percentages, just the general relation between them. My fault here most likely! I don't remember how many lives ago I heard about this "test". Your numbers sound reasonable too.

But it was clearly after I done my work (out, over 3 years) of getting from "nothing" to "something".

> What is this supposed to be an approach for? Overall fitness level?

I'd say more of the power (strength) level. There is a lot more to fitness.
How about Apple Airpods then? I've found 43.24 mAh and 49.7 mAh depending on the version.
Maybe this has improved, but a few months ago, OpenAI p99 latency was much worse than a self hosted solution, which would be a problem in certain cases.
Man you have terrified me about my current situation. I'm currently on a team that is managing an extremely mature internal Angular project. The small team of two devs are just doing tickets like what you describe yet the management has no problem with this and does not hound us over why we haven't committed anything in days or a week+.

This is due to their lack of technical knowledge and they have accepted this reality because the outcomes that they want do end up happening so they dont rock the boat(or know how to since they can't discern technical stuff).

I know its a great spot to be in short term but Ive been scared because long term I will be in a big hole when the next role comes along and its more like what you describe and I haven't grown to match the role. I've considered leaving once the market improves but I don't think I can fathom giving up what I have either. Alternatively I have considered staying until I eventually get downsized but that could be years. I don't know.... :/
That would be awful. No more neuro covers? No more Hitler singing?
you mean a 3
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Bracket: Two-way syncs built for devs
https://crates.io/crates/cargo-quickinstall is something that I hacked up in a week because `cargo install sqlx-cli` was taking so long in our CI whenever we got a cache miss. I ended up donating it to the cargo-bins team, and they're doing a great job of maintaining it.

I tried to extend the idea to cargo build (see http://alsuren.github.io/2022/07/30/why-cargo-quickbuild.htm...) but I never got it to work with proc macro packages so I gave up. If anyone wants to have a go at getting it working, I'm happy to mentor.
I didn't quite understand what it is, but hope it goes well!
3D model customizer for 3d printing, rendered in the browser: https://www.3dcustomizer.net
If I want to found a VC-funded startup for which a successful exit is much more fair to the employees, how do I do that?

Will the investors insist that it all come out of the founders' percentage of the pie, or can I argue that the better-incentived employees mean a bigger and more likely pie, so VC terms shoudl be less grabby?

Will VCs react negatively to "being soft on" employees, even if it all comes out of founders' slice?

Do early employees get ISOs, other options, RSUs, or something else?
I'll add that I'm at out of work Software Engineer with a BS in Comp Sci and I've been researching to see if a Masters in ML/AI is worth it.

I haven't seen anything indicating it's essential, and I still see that with a MS in AI/ML you're still most likely going to be doing Software Dev... I'm sure it's different for a PhD, but as the other commenter said, it's going to take a lot longer.
Dang, that “overworld” example has me inspired. Thanks for sharing this!
But that's exactly what they have: millions of high quality, rated chat interactions that no one else has.

I don't know how they could _not_ incorporate customer usage to improve their models.
Just released today: https://github.com/47ng/next-cache-explorer

It's a plugin for Next.js 13.4+ (app router) to visualise (and later act upon) the fetch cache.

I built in for my personal website and it already helped me find and fix over-fetching issues, so I shipped it into an NPM package.

Feedback welcome!
Because Nginx is a very widespread high performance web server that initially seemed not to be impacted but now it turns out that it is.
> You'd save any tablets you have, and might wait until you need it to scrape it clean.

The 3.5” floppies of yore.
Ok I understand this but why prevent clean water and food and medicine from crossing the border? Why disallow them from trade while simultaneously not letting them into Israel?
I don't have a hardware background but would like to work in one eventually (probably not though no degree so do it on my own time).

These are my hardware/robotic/vision/navigation related projects. They are pretty noobish but fun to work on.

Unfortunately lately I haven't had as much time as I'd like to work on this stuff.

If anyone is interested in looking as far as providing architecture/code review type thoughts, I'd be open to them.

[1] autofocus camera with speech intent intended later for tracking
[2] visual depth probe slam from crude panorama/"color segmentation"
[3] single point slam insect-style quad

[1] https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/ml-hat-cam
[2] https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/pi-zero-2-robot-navigation...
[3] https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/twerk-lidar-robot/tree/dev
But does it get recycled?
We had similar in Australia for soft plastics, but classic startup style, lots of plastics were collected, none were recycled. The recycling part, well that was the hard problem that was being ignored right up until the company offering the recycling program collapsed.
Cabs are an idea. Uber is a company. I can't think of any company that I'd predict to last 100 years. Even Google and Apple probably won't last 100 years. I honestly wouldn't even bet on cars being a dominant form of transportation in 100 years.
How do I realistically compete with those who are younger, more nimble, with impressive educational & professional backgrounds? The startup world seems to be far more of a status game nowadays than when I fell in love with it 15 years ago. What does someone with 0 social capital to open doors do, especially at this age?
My guess is that’s mostly API users not chatgpt plus users.

I’m also very curious how much of that money is VC money coming from startups trying to build their customer base, vs how much actually sustainable.
This is really cool! How did you solve the sandboxing?
True, but otherwise it would seem like a free ad for a future troll.
If the user has changed phones (even keeping the same number) or has for instance begun using 5G (which wasn't available 5 years ago...tmo started rolling it out at the tail end of 2019), they're using a materially different product than they were originally contracted for, and have likely agreed to new terms. Not saying that isn't scammy or scummy, but just like you've changed the product you're using, they can change the product they're selling.
https://github.com/endpointservices/mps3

An open source offline-first browser DB that uses any S3 API as the cloud storage. Backblaze, minio, S3, R2 in the test harness. Randomised causal consistency testing behind toxiproxy. 30kb but still hardening the offline-first stuff and only GET and SET KV operation implmented so far (but multiplayer), next step will be conditional SET as a step toward transaction support. All over vanilla S3!

Designed to make adding multiplayer persistence to websites operationally simple and with lightweight page loads and instant access to previously read data.
I’m sure they will regret not capturing the ~1% of the desktop market using Linux
A reskin within games is usually defined as using the same binary with different assets, even a shared source code lineage(Doom source used in Heretic/Hexen or especially Quake to Halflife) would stretch that definition.

In this case I doubt there is any shared code at all other than conceptual ideas.

If you are willing to go around proclaiming that Rust is just a reskin of Java then sure, I'll give that you're willing to equate wildly different things. (I didn't use C# and Java because those are probably closer in lineage due to J++ than this game and Doom)
This is a thread I've been desperately needing. I've been working on a command line tool project for MacOS that I've been hesitant to post. I've been waiting until the project is 1.0 before posting on HN. Here it is currently!

https://github.com/demyinn00/BootMe

BootMe is a workflow manager app. There are 6 buttons that can be configured. 4 of the 6 buttons can be configured to open tabs and links, launch apps, and start a spotify playlist. This app is almost ready, but I'm looking for feedback. Specifically, bugs and potential enhancements.

Please do not roast my UI, I'm sure there are improvements that can be made. Offer suggestions and constructive criticism. For the record, I'm a new grad -- go easy.

Thanks!
I installed yale smart locks which work with Nest.

After going through a bunch of pain getting it to initially work, I would go away from anything smart device at all, except for maybe an electric code lock that isn't networked.

It's convenient to not have to always have my keys on me, and I got used to the tech after my previous apartment installed a similar device, but it randomly fails. Or randomly makes me log in to google again (and I have basically only minimal google usage now, no email by them). Or randomly fails when I'm 300 feet away from the house and trying to unlock.

But, at one point I was considering installing a compatible device for the thermostat. It has lost the appeal to me, and the nearly intractable software interface to deal with problems was a big part of it. Getting a second lock up and running took a bunch of arcane knowledge.
What is the point of a backup if I can't restore the backup to any place my choosing? The point is that if my device get lost, stolen, dies or is damaged irreparably I can always just use another device, restore my backup and done.

So even if there is some sort of hardware tie in that only ever works with real hardware an attacker just needs hardware. Or virtual hardware I guess ;)

Totally out of context parallel: Pokémon Go. A game that gets you out into the world to find and capture Pokémons and talk to other people. Or spoof your GPS coordinates with a simple SDR setup. No anti-cheating software on the phone will ever know.
The rights would apply throughout a person’s lifetime and, for their estate, 70 years after their death.

The bill includes an exception for using digital duplicates for parodies, satire, and criticism
It's a law of nature: every dating app eventually becomes a hookup app no matter how much the developers fight it. And hookup apps inevitably face accusations of human trafficking and illegal sex work. That might be why they rejected it.
Reverse engineering SBF file format
I'm just telling how it is. Most people go to SF for a job or a dream. Nobody can work hard forever and dreams either come true or burst. When they're done working hard they usually move somewhere easier. It's a cycle with people coming and going. And I don't have to post negative about SF... everyone knows it's a beautiful and gringy city at the same time depending if you're looking up or down the hill.
Hah I never have a thing to show off.... yay unemployment?

I made a little thing to count and track how many people are surfing on surfline's webcams to learn a bit about ml/ai, computer vision and deploying these things. I think its neat, and the data is fun in a nerdy way. Not sure what to do with it now. Its been cool, I had to get my own dataset together for it to work.

Check it out at and click around dp52hy5y2zsyt.cloudfront.net

I haven't committed enough to it to buy a domain.
It evidently isn't working well enough - why are snap and flatpak a thing at all if source packages are good enough? Why do users want programs to get picked up as part of a distro's repositories?
"Never ask permission to refactor" has caused so much trouble in my career, specially because folks think they - somehow - have an enlightened path to good code. They don't - it's just easier than reading and trying to understand (which they don't)
There's always a degree of subjectivity and personal taste, but I do consider this to be the peak of OS UIs.

I have an "ironic" machine at home that is an old retina iMac, with Linux installed and themed with Chicago95. My attempt at a machine with a nice hardware, nice OS and nice UI :)
This was solved in the 90s. The actual lightswitch can be mounted in a wireless remote that sockets into the switch plate by the door. You just take the switch with you to the bedside table. In the morning when you leave the room you socket it back into the switch plate.
There are two main aspects of misperceiving difficulty/opportunity.

The first relates to feedback clarity.

For someone at 98% in a class or life, the few next things are easy to see and focus on, and are typically small delta's from the global maximum.

But at 60%, there are many things to fix and many directions to local maxima.

Someone who can make headway from 60% is far more skilled than someone who makes improvements from 98%. Their adaptive function is much more complex and comprehensive. (I would also argue they create more social value to go from 60-75%, but that depends on output utilization.)

It's roughly same with the range of early-late stage companies, with 40%-95% clarity.

The second aspect is, well, dependent co-arising: you're adapted to the difficulties you've had, so you can tolerate or solve them better than most -- leading you to prefer those situations over new ones, even though the new ones are objectively better. In a sense, you're maximizing your activation rather than benefit. It's a bit of a trap since any detachment requires de-activation, which is (a) opposite of what you previously valued and not exciting, and (b) typically confronts one with the exported costs of one's prior focus.

A benefit of recognizing misperception is to counter it where it reduces value.

CBF is essentially the saturation state for incentive vs difficulty, where no additional incentive or ease will induce further activation. This is actually the goal state of bureaucratic organizations working via validated processes or people minimizing cost/maximizing slack at work. So: not always bad, but certainly not exciting.

The answer is to step out of the equation. Have other engaging activities (or businesses) such that time/resources wasted in one is quickly pruned to shift time/resources to others. Do this enough and you can't be trapped, because you're familiar with the hype/deflate cycle of coming and going. You might also be less daunted when struggling at 60%, and less full of yourself when sailing at 98%. Because these switches entail incommensurable decisions, they exercise what might called be your moral core, you identify a bit less with your roles, you can approach new tasks and new people with openness, and you might spend more time just being.
Much harder to switch cloud providers than to switch LLM models. How much time would it take most companies to move their product from AWS to GCP, for example? What if you use a cloud specific tool like DynamoDB?

Margin is a function of stickiness/cost of switching (among other things).

I suspect eventually we will enter a world where migrating cloud providers is mostly a click of a button, but we're a long ways off from that. Requires vendor agnostic and portable apis/containers/WASM runtimes everywhere.

Swapping an LLM, at least in the current state, is about as close to updating a pointer as you can get.
Well then that's clearly not EEE. There can be more predatory market strategies than just EEE.
We don't do matchmaking, so we aren't a "dating app". We assume you already have someone to go on a date with.
Would easily pay $100 for GPT-4, perhaps $250, maybe at a pinch even $500, but there's no way they can scale at that pricing.
Chamath Palihapitiya: US Border Security
Maybe it's just me, but in the video, the founder doesn't seem all that excited about the acquisition. It's almost like he's having second thoughts, but it's too late to back out.
Yeah, it is special how almost every element is somehow looks slightly off-center.

It's also pretty much ripped off of NEXTSTEP.
Ask HN: Israel vs. Gaza News
where do you get your unbiased news?
"If there was a blockade - how so many weapons got in?"

Tunnels.

"Decapitating babies."

This was fabricated.
yes, this is very much stage-specific

by the time of these $100M+ rounds for $1B unicorns to hire a lot of people, the 90% discount is long gone
This sounds like a great way to get fired on the spot.
A look at open source AI models
Going this deep down I'll only add that "assumptions", i.e. "none will try 100% of their weight on anything if they have no idea what they are doing" are poor, and that it never ceases to amaze me that a squishy human body can lift 250+ kg and make stainless steel rods (that weigh 25 kg) _bow_.

Apologies for not putting in more details in my original post -> now I _bow_.
>IME, zero sum management is an emergent symptom of a poorly performing business (maybe if we make everybody work 150% harder we’ll hit our targets this quarter), insecure executives (who don’t understand the work they manage), or poor hiring/firing practices (the only way to let somebody go is by overloading them and rewarding it with a poor performance review, or you’re hiring people who aren’t capable or don’t care).

This breaks down when you have one player in the arena acting like a snake that tries to devour everyone else(eg. Elon Musk). He has the gift of attracting an endless horde of people to burn through and then tosses them aside once they are no longer useful to him(so many examples in his recent bio). The result is that they move faster than the competition and the others eventually get eaten alive. Normally word would get out that its not safe to work for such a character but SpaceX and Tesla are among the most desired employers that engineering graduates seek to work for. Tesla received 3.6 million job applications in 2022.
Probably the parent simply doesn't have a solid grasp of physics, hence is unable to think of that limitation.

A surprisingly large fraction of seemingly intelligent, educated, and otherwise decent folks have no clue beyond a superficial understanding. Even though superficial appearances may suggest that they would be smart enough to figure out what they do and do not know.
Perhaps this is a silly question but why would you want to mock a UUID?!
Ask HN: "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube" aggresively
6 days ago, I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793375 and thought I was doing OK with uBlock Origin.

Today I've got this message in a rather...aggressive way!

I have noticed a weird behavior for more than a week or so, but I didn't suspect they would be working on making such mechanism behave so aggressively to force me turn off my ad blocker, repeatedly.

So...are they doing me a favor to stop using YouTube that much?

Because quite frankly, all I watch is cats and goofy dogs lol!
> Maybe a "space scale" measuring inertial mass instead could work?

Yeah. The obvious thing would be a centrifuge where the sample is placed in a "ball on a wire" contraption, the assembly is spun up to a known RPM, and the tension in the wire is measured directly.
go viral with schools/teachers/students
There is a difference between an application being innately vulnerable and a user configuration exposing a vulnerability.

Interestingly enough, HAProxy seems to have the same mitigation:

> Until HAProxy dips below the configured stream limit again, new stream creation remains pending—regular timeouts eventually apply and the stream is cut if the situation does not resolve itself. This can occur during an attack.

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-is-not-affected-by-the-...

That is, if I read it correctly, default configuration is safe and you can use configuration of stream limits to ensure you are not vulnerable, but they are saying HAProxy is not vulnerable...at least in the title. Later on they soften the language:

> HAProxy remains resistant to HTTP/2 Rapid Reset
Well I'd have to change my Terraform provider and the managed Kubernetes resource... Other than that, it'd be the same. So half an hour of coding + half an hour of reconfiguring CI secrets?
RankPic - www.rankpic.info (available on Android and iOS, website is.. meh)

App that lets you crowdsource people's opinions on your photos. Unlike other websites out there, it doesn't rate you 1-10 but instead ranks your photos against each other so you don't have to feel bad about yourself :). Very useful for dating apps and other social media, esp. if you don't have easy access to friends' opinions.

I've had lots of friends and users tell me it's super useful, but I'm in a slump on building it right now.
>No idea, I only got told

perfect! :) The story makes no sense, but as always with conspiracy theories there is a small grain of truth in there. Asianometry: Toshiba’s Big Technology Export Scandal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaRyqAVIkwI