skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Academia, especially humanities, has gotten amazingly intolerant of any divergent viewpoints over the past decades. Harvard is among the worst in this case. Try to get a marginally right wing personality to speak at Harvard. Students, encouraged by administrators, have increasingly turned on any thoughts that are even nanometers outside of the groupthink line. Professors are better, but they have less power.
Pretty much every streaming service with a "no ads" tier does this. I agree it's infuriating.
my first laptop was a toshiba, they used to be one of the best laptop makers at some point
I will cancel Youtube TV after the superbowl
QBinDiff: A Modular Diffing Toolkit
I've had to do all of these things many times, but keeping server times on UTC doesn't really help with most of them:

Customers, partners, stakeholders all think in terms of local time zones, as do I; some amount of conversion is inevitable.

Ultimately, local time is a presentation layer concept, so why shouldn't I configure that presentation layer so that I have to do one less conversion in the most common case (of figuring out when something happened relative to my wristwatch or that of most of my customers)?
YouTube TV is still cable, just delivered differently.

For that reason, it was DOA in my eyes. My problem with cable was never necessarily the price (though that was a big factor), but the linear, scheduled nature of the whole thing. I don't know why some companies keep clinging to this dated distribution model well more than a decade after Netflix showed everyone how to do it better.
There wasn't really any need for clarification. I and the other poster were just pointing out that you can't copyright a dress. It's as simple as that.

Other types of IP protection are certainly not the same, not are their effects via enforcement.
Funnily enough, the 1801 microprocessor [1] wasn't stolen from DEC. Or rather, the instruction set was the only thing stolen. The 1801 was a new Soviet design originally with its own instruction set. It was later adapted to the PDP-11, probably because of the popularity of the PDP-11 and its software in the USSR. DEC never manufactured anything like the 1801, targeted more as a microcontroller than as a microprocessor. (Soviet military and aviation industries were the original intended use.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1801_series_CPU
I can't believe no one has pointed out the one huge fatal flaw in metric time yet.

The resting heart rate of a healthy adult is approximately 60 BPM. So 1 second is 1 heart beat, which makes it extraordinarily intuitive since it's literally pulsing through your body.

Making a metric second take longer by 40% is the opposite of what you want since average resting heartbeat of the population is higher than 60 BPM.

PS: Anyone downvoting is someone who feels offended having significantly higher BPM due to lifestyle. For normal people, the intuitive measure of a second is very useful.
At least it recognized the command instead of replying "No, it is in fact October 12, 2023. Please check your settings in your Google Home app. Would you like me to send a link to your phone?"

I swear it behaves more like Clippy every day.
> Charter schools do this by various selection effects, and artificial barriers, like ending at noon on a Wednesday.

You clearly have not had the pleasure of experiencing typical public schools in Washington state.

The schedules seemed designed to maximize hostility toward working parents. Inconsistent start and end times through the week, weird half days every week or every other week, and numerous random non-holiday off days throughout the year.
Maybe the problem is need of fixing is "too many meetings".
FTA: Apple could afford to make everything open-source.

FTA: Mathematica could become a “killer app” for Apple devices.

I don’t see how to combine those two. Even if they could, killing the Windows and Linux desktop products could make a competitor stand up that would start competing on price and platform support, but eventually, also could compete on features.
imagine the person making this scroll 2,000 years ago wondering 'I wonder if some kid 2000 years in the future is going to win a boat load of money by reading this'
Do the physicist thing and just define all your constants to be one.

"How long is a day? 1 day."

"I slept for .37 days."

This nicely unifies things with the tao manifesto[1] people since 1 day = 1 turn = 1 tau = 2 * pi radians and reinforces the periodic nature of these things.

[1]: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
You seem to be working at the wrong company.
Does it though? I think because Panoramas flatten the image we skew it much more.

A photosphere was accurate no matter which part of the image you look at (bar any merging artifacts).
Sorry but I do not think that's important. It's just a stuffy disclaimer, like the agreements people have to agree to when registering for a new website. Many other emulation related projects also do not prominently display this kind of content.
Show HN: tailgate – Build generative-AI features without a backend
Hey HN!

A couple of weeks ago I realized that many static websites could benefit from generative-AI features, but site owners don't want the hassle of setting up a backend or attempting to build a custom application.

I went ahead and built tailgate, a dead-simple way to add generative-AI features to a website without worrying about backend infra. Simply import the library, add decorators to some elements, and instantiate it. Content will hydrate on page-load.

I think there are a lot of site owners who can use tailgate to help inform, engage, and retain site visitors in new ways. I'd love to hear about your use-case!

(Caveat: for now, the backend is self-hosted, but I'm happy to set up a managed version given enough interest.)
> I think an important difference, for me, is that at a certain point the chest of drawers is finished.

> Software - or at least, the kind of software I have worked on in my career - is never finished. It is a neverending ship of theseus.

Totally agree. I've done several rants on HN about the software industry's inability to declare their products "done" and moving on. Every product that we complain about becoming "enshittified" should have been declared "done" and developers pencils-down years ago.
What comes after .docx? .docxx? .docy? .docxi?
Nowadays we have multiple genres of combat and mechanics focused video games. (FromSoft games, to CRPGs like Baldur’s Gate, to tactics games like Xcom).

In the 70’s, that space was much less populated, so pencil and paper RPGs might have been the best small tactical games people could get their hands on (not everybody wanted to sell their houses for Warhammer miniatures).
What are you doing with your Pi where you’re running both HAOS and Steam? Definitely seems like an edge case. Put Debian on the thing stick it on a bookshelf and forget it exists

edit: Actually put HAOS on, no reason to run Debian
Llark: An LLM which understands music
Absolutely 100% incorrect. If the parents aren't willing or able to raise their children, someone has to. "Throw them away" is not a moral, ethical, or utilitarian answer.
You can configure GitLab to reject the push if you comitted secrets, based on regex marching with common formats for tokens.
Paul Krugman: The war on inflation is over
This is closer to traditional SWE than AI research.

Take some courses and get some certifications. And also make some serious projects where you demonstrate your capabilities with cutting edge tools.

This is more focused on tools and use of said tools.

Take some trained models, and demonstrate how well you can use them.

Some ideas:

1. Take a cats vs. dogs model, deploy it online. Design an API around it. Document the API well. Create a mechanism to show confidence score, and store low confidence score examples in a database that you can later manually label and retrain the model with.

2. Take a smallish LLM, design a VS code extension that documents your functions based on docstring.

Just demonstrate your basic knowledge in ML, and really good software engineering skills, learn the vocabulary well, and then start applying for jobs. It's much better if you have a CS/EE degree.
I think some salespeople see it as a high touch process and they don't want to wind up like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)

Of course them feeling that way doesn't mean that is right for the business.

People have been applying automation of all forms to CRM systems for a long time. I worked years ago for a company that developed solutions for locating stores and designing sales territories and we were so serious about a product for Salesforce users that they sent me to Dreamforce.

We built it out for one customer that is in the motor oil recycling business and had a database of prospects that was basically everybody involved in auto repair in the U.S. I don't know how they populated it, but our geospatial analyst built something that could assign new prospects to sales territories and I wrote the code that hooked this up to the Salesforce API.

I'm not calling this out as anything special, quite the opposite, all kinds of people are doing things like this all the time with traditional CRM systems.
I'm in the same boat, and on-the-ground isn't even good enough. I'll have to mount a big antenna on top of my roof, which is a tall order. Not worth it to me so far.
I never said it was impossible. I meant that based on the fact DNA destabilizes over time even without an external destructive force, that is, it has a half-life, it's supremely unlikely useful genomes will ever be derived from 50+ million year old fossils.
Not saying I agree with this.

Meanwhile, this is roughly the market's bet on inflation: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TBT:NYSEARCA?window=5Y
Launching OrbDoc – Journey to Build Healthcare Workflow Assistant (YC Applicant)
Hey HN! Abdus and Sudu here, co-founders of OrbDoc. We are building Clicker - a handheld device that aggregates real-time patient data and health records to streamline clinical workflows.

Nurses spend over 30% of their shift manually gathering vitals, records, and notes. Clicker makes that data instantly accessible so nurses can focus on patients, not clicks.

We recently launched our alpha and are currently going through the YC application process. It's been an exciting and challenging journey so far.

We'd love to engage with the HN community to exchange perspectives, learn from your experiences, and ultimately strengthen our mission to improve healthcare workflows.

Ask us anything about:

- The problem we are solving and our solution
- Building hardware and integrating with clinical environments
- Lessons learned from past startups and domains
- Healthcare/medtech entrepreneurship
- Our journey and backstory
While I believe that HA is very cool and many vendors provide valuable solutions, we must consider what happens when we die.

This is just one anecdote, but I believe the problem is more pervasive.

I was called to an elderly lady's home to "un-haunt" the building. See, her husband had recently passed away; he done "all of the cool things" to make the home smart. Unfortunately too smart. The wife could not operate the devices in her own home.

She had the tenacity to handle living in a dark house. All the time; she just gave up on the lights -- she couldn't figure it out and lived like this for an entire year.

She finally called for help when lights started randomly turning on and off. She believed it was the spirit of her late husband, but after some diagnostics, we found some cross-channel noise from a home further down the block. Whenever this neighbor would come home, he would turn on his lights via his home automation. About 75% of the time, it would turn on our lady's lights too. In her bedroom. And the neighbor worked 3rd shift.

I spend the next two days removing all home automation devices and, as she put it, putting in "turn the light on and off again" switches.

When choosing technology -- any technology, it's important to consider the life of that device and the people impacted far in the future.
I don't use kubernates. We have JVM servers running on AWS. We load secrets from Secrets Manager. Configs are mostly HOCON files stored in S3. The knowledge of where to find them is configured via env vars.

We use a custom setup in which the config values are loaded from multiple sources actually, so we could put everything into secrets manager, or load them all from env vars or HOCON files.

If we had to set every config value in ECS / lambda using env vars, it would be a major pain in the ass, and error prone.
Full frame cameras are below $1000. The sensor is probably quarter of that. But your camera module for Raspberry Pi will cost more than $1000. You save some by getting rid of the camera display and buttons. But you still have to design the camera control board, the lens mount or lens, and the housing. You are doing it on small scale, while the camera makers on doing it at large scale and with lots of expertise.

This is why everyone who wants better sensor buys a camera and attaches it to Raspberry Pi.

I am surprised that there isn't a 1" camera module, that is natural place for better sensor but still fits on board and could use C-mount lenses.
The last vet surgery I paid for was in Indonesia and it was like 100x. There isn't some law of physics that makes it cost that.
"The Food Standards Agency today announced its decision to recommend to Ministers the phasing out of six colours in food and drink in the EU. These six colours - sunset yellow (E110), quinoline yellow (E104), carmoisine (E122), allura red (E129), tartrazine (E102) and ponceau 4R (E124) - had been shown to increase hyperactive behaviour of children in a study published by a University of Southampton research team in September 2007."

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2008/04/food-standards-ag...
I googled "how to install home assistant", and the links you point to above don't appear to be anywhere on the first page of results.

The second link is this one:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/guide-how-to-install-h...

But the linked page is pretty complex.
To affix your spool, or to access the string at all you need to go through the airtight robot and you need to know the exact distance that you need to run the wire since you can't access it unless the robot is fully extended. Kinda only makes sense if you have exact measurements and are willing to destroy the robot after it fully extends. Still probably a great way to run wire through long pipes.
PSA: QPointer Has a Terrible Name
Yeah you've got to follow your passions. I reckon you could be well positioned to take advantage of an emerging market though. I'm pretty new to it all myself but I've been doing lots of reading on it the past year, and it seems the recent DnD popularity explosion mainly happened through Stranger Things bringing into the popular public conscious again and then Twitch/YouTube players like Critical Role. The latter seem to be drifting slowly away from DnD towards their own RPG systems and ecosystems. If you have a well developed product you may even be able to contact the teams behind these systems who may be interested in acquiring your product to become the base of their own DnD Beyond like system.

I'd join as many RPG reddits, forums and discord channels as you can find and then just periodically scout to see if you can spot any emerging trend and ride the wave. I personally reckon it's only a matter of time until there's some show on par with Critical Role's popularity but for detective RPGs, superheroes, sci-fi, Cthulu or whatever.
These are both good reasons.

I've fortunately never experienced (1), but for (2), it helps to print the offset to UTC everywhere timestamps are printed, even for UTC. (I basically never trust an "unzoned" timestamp.)
This is amazing. Soon we'll be at the bionic arms featured in iRobot.
This might be oudated, I've heard there is a new vaccine that's easier. But historically, the rabies vaccine has involved multiple very painful injections, and cost thousands of dollars.
This is probably because a lot of smart home enthusiasts are less enthused about actually turning the lights on and off. They have fun tinkering and building wireless systems.
Given the current brutal job market, I'd say that casual job hopping probably isn't the best strategy for right now.
I consult with a very large variety of businesses and literally my only interaction with loom in the wild is when a few LMS I'm in started randomly started replacing youtube embeds with loom embeds.

Everyone hates it though because the loom embed player is hot garbage and actively distracts from the experience. I've heard much the same from most of my colleagues also going through the LMS courses.

$1B seems a crazy price, but I guess overpriced garbage is right up Atlassians street.
Your point is spot on, except here:

> There will be few-to-no kids of poor single moms

Plenty of poor single moms with well behaved kids. The eternal problem is the lack of discipline at home. Successful kids grow up with structure, not being told yes all the time, are held accountable, and have a soft place to land when they make mistakes.

That is certainly harder to do with a single parent home, but it happens all the time in multi-parent homes as well.
This is linking it to covid, as the students that passed the ACT this year had the pandemic in their first year.

There is also a moratorium on admissions at the moment and the ACT is not mandatory for the first time - which might skew results.

Edit0: This seems to not be the case for all states

Edit1: Some schools have a moratorium - I misread.
While I like Nebula on premise, it seems creators on it are getting 'lazier' and some of the people on the site are downright questionable ("TL;DR News" and "Therapist Reacts" being the biggest offenders for me)

Like, why am I paying Nebula for this garbage? https://i.imgur.com/itiLYbK.png
It depends on the target market. If I were making furniture aimed at the wealthy, you better believe that every piece of wood in it will be high quality -- and the price I charge would reflect that. If I were making furniture for normal people, price is a greater concern and appropriate tradeoffs must be made.

Apple, during the Jobs days anyway, produced luxury goods for a luxury price. Given the market they were addressing, Job's comments make complete sense.
If you use the drive integration, you share it with Slack. Slack then creates a thumbnail that is visible in that channel. Imagine pasting a sensitive HR document in the big company chat with everyone in it. No one in the group may have permission via Google, but they can see the thumbnail (and search its contents!) if they have access to the slack room.

Edit: I should note, this is my fuzzy recollection of how it worked 4 years ago when I reported it to Slack. YMMV
One counterexample:

my grad school linguistics professor, an internationally recognized scholar across several languages, credited the DoD Language school at Monterrey CA as having been just amazing, and who went back to teach for decades in a top five ranked US university, not only linguists but engineering kids like me.

He was the same age as my dad so had the avuncular thing going, was personable, but most of all inspiring to decades of students to look outside their curricula.

Sometimes what sounds like up a creek turns out to be an unpredictable kick ass river, I guess.
You don't let them hold the classroom and the rest of the kids that want to learn hostage. Not every problem has a 100% solution.
Even if that is the case, it's better to have charter schools than none. Then at least the disruptive and/or violent kids that are unmotivated cannot disrupt the learning of kids that are motivated.

That being said, the existence of competition will raise the performance of all schools.
That's nice, but reality doesn't live on the real number line.
That sounds like an old school X10 system problem, I remember issues like that.
Tesla whistleblowers submitted complaint in 2021, but SEC never interviewed them
Like I said, I completely believe you. But it's also not universal. I've driven from Portland to Central CA multiple times, and had nearly none of the issues you describe.
I was using Chrome 117, looks like there was a new 118 update, it now is butter smooth!

Looks like 117 was just broken
no it doesn't lol it literally causes them? i'm no waterfall advocate but at least with waterfall there's a clear beginning, middle and end to a software project with intuitive places for work, rest and celebration

meanwhile doing maintenance on an existing system in an agile environment, esp with kanban, is very often literally what the poster is describing, an endless slog through tickets that aren't particularly noteworthy and thus don't really merit much consideration or celebration when done etc
So, you think it's worth dismissing an article that clearly calls out its measures, because they didn't "take it seriously enough" to renormalize their data against categories they likely don't have access to?

They're fully transparent about the measures of achievement they're looking at:

>> Their schools had the highest outcomes in the country for Black and Hispanic students, whose eighth-grade reading scores outpaced national averages for white students.

>> Eighth graders whose parents only graduated from high school — suggesting lower family incomes, on average — performed as well in reading as students nationally whose parents were college graduates.

>> the military’s schools have made gains on the national test since 2013. And even as the country’s lowest-performing students — in the bottom 25th percentile — have slipped further behind, the Defense Department’s lowest-performing students have improved in fourth-grade math and eighth-grade reading.

>> Despite their high performance, Black and Hispanic students, on average, still trail their white peers at Defense Department schools, though the gap is smaller than in many states. The Pentagon has also faced scrutiny for its handling of student misconduct at its schools, including reports of sexual assault.
which services have eliminated their ad-free options?
If we're assuming unforgeable moral-method pins I don't think we should expect intuitions generated in this sort of thought experiment to be a good guide to what we should actually think or do.
Are we heading for World War Three?
Not sure why you're downvoted here - in the video they show at least one non-hand attachment, a computer terminal which lets her control a virtual hand for training purposes. Two wires run from her implants to the terminal.
This is not slightly more options. Log is a lot of extra data for post processing.

Most people won't notice the difference that is true but this is true even for real cinema. Most people don't notice or care about things such as shooting on real film, aspect ratio etc.

The why is that people who create care about these things. Color grading and post shot creative manipulation, these things benefit from extra data. If I can't recover shadows or pushing white balance results in banding, those things are going to still be visible on a phone by myself and the small amount of people who do care.