skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
view point in article mostly from an user perspective, but if same stuff would be reviewed from companies perspectives most of that negatives has positive effects for marketing/sales needs which probably a reason why is so widespread.

It's like: our visitor can't just see our half page table with tech spec to know everything, he should go trough 20 images on 2 long pages and during that we will show him all our 'important' messages that he won't be interested otherwise.
Correctly pricing a scarce resource incentivizes more efficient use of that resource.

If the property tax on your $4m SFH in Palo Alto is too high, you'll be very motivated to turn it into a 4-plex. You'll go to city council meetings, and vote against single-family zoning, and fight NIMBY lawsuits.

(Or you'll have to sell to someone who will do all of the above or pay the higher tax that you can't afford)
Hurricane Otis: The mystery of why storms suddenly intensify
No company wants to hire in expensive areas, but that's just where engineering talent is concentrated.
1. Users retain control over their API key (hence fixed model pricing structure).

2. Upon initial installation of the application, it transmits specific information about the app, including its version, build number, and platform. It's important to note that the app does not collect any other data, and all communication between the app and OpenAI occurs exclusively with your local machine.
Will Oxide build a GPU rack as well? Asking for a friend.
At the leading edge, the configuration you just described is probably more like $800k
Hamburgers and Hieroglyphs! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

I get why they are used on mobile. If you only have room for content, it makes sense to tuck actions away into a hamburger menu except for a small number that you assign to tiny little hieroglyphs. Fine. However, if you have space, this is a terrible way to use it. At best it adds steps, at worst it invites experimentation and disaster to figure out what the heiroglyphs do (which wouldn't be so bad if undo worked but we've apparently decided undo is fine to break too). Like the Apple HIGs used to say, on Desktop you should want to get the most common actions out of menus and onto labeled buttons so that users can answer "what can I do?" without playing hide and seek. Undo should be baked in from the very start (it's hard to retrofit) to reduce the consequences of experimentation.

Unfortunately mobile design has taken over so completely that even on apps which will be used almost entirely on desktop, even on apps with an internal advocate for Desktop design, UI designers go for the hamburgers and heiroglyphs and broken undo because it's standard these days. Sigh.

Oh, and modals are back with a vengeance, but I need to stop here or my blood pressure is going to get unhealthy.
Are there things that someone can see with their eyes that can’t be picked up with an array of state of the art cameras / specialty sensors / microscopes, that would justify the overhead of everything required to get a human there? I’m genuinely curious.
I've been seeing this more in content, and also apps that are "browsers" really - some view control that have a mobile & PC/MacOS equivalent - like they are intentionally formatting everything for portrait type display on mobile

My devices are a literal ton of iOS ones, and then 4k and a 2560 × 1440 display which I use most frequently lately.

Tons of whitespace, oversized text everywhere and incorrect use of Z-index are some of the hallmarks of this mobile-first design.
Wow, they’ve raised a total of $78 million, and they’re only Series A!

I remember a time when a Series A was rarely above $10m. Feels like at that capital level they should be further into the alphabet.
> I don’t know that many people who would prefer this to a Zoom call.

puts hand up

VRChat, even in its nascent, unrefined, laggy phase, is still much more engaging than any video call I've been on. Sharing the same space with someone improves the experience of communication immeasurably. It's hard to explain, but they no longer feel like a face on a screen, and that enables a much stronger bond.

> Plus this is not full body scanning, it requires you (again) to lose all perception of the real world (zoom doesn’t) and even the scanning that was used for this call requires a full body scanning room which you know, no one is going to have. Both Lex and Zuck went through a significant scanning process to get this level of fidelity.

Yes, this is true at present. However, they're actively working on reducing the requirements for the scan; this is them demonstrating what's possible at the high-end. This is a similar strategy to what Apple's doing with the Vision Pro: they're setting the benchmark before trying to shrink the cost.

Speaking of, you can already see a potential future towards low-cost scanning in Apple's Personas. They're obviously much lower in quality, but they're quick and easy to scan. The future is trending towards that kind of experience, not getting imaged by a dedicated rig.

> Plus again there is no reason whatsoever to do this in a VR environment vs an AR environment using the Apple Vision Pro (which is a real product that has potential, since it’s not VR).

Both are good! You're not wrong about the potential of AR teleconferencing. VR teleconferencing lets you set the scene and share an environment with the users, though, which has its own benefits. (Especially when it comes to spatial arrangement; it's much easier / less mind-bendy to have a single shared environment than to have everyone have their own view of the proceedings. Curious to see how Apple will deal with this, though.)
Billions have been invested in making a better Google than Google by other entities but most people just want Google.

Even if Apple did make a search engine, that’s no guarantee iPhone users would want to use it, and if Google and nobody else paid Apple a penny to be the default, there’s better than even odds Google would still be the default.
> how many of those problems are the result of an apathetic, nihilistic American population and not the foundational systems America is built on?

"Apathetic" is not really a word I'd use to describe most Americans I know, especially the working class. "Informed but powerless" is more like it. Nihilism is the likely result of this sort of learned helplessness from a lifetime growing up in an unresponsive democracy. From the get-go, our foundational systems emphasized wealth over democracy. It was a system designed to empower a certain type and class of people, to liberate them from the English Crown's influence, but not really a democracy for all. Through our history, we've consistently encouraged wealth creation and resource exploitation/monopolization over democratic participation, and where democratic advances were made, they happened against strong headwinds and strong oppression from the wealthy. Slave owners, robber barons, industrialists, tech owners... this has never been a society friendly to the common person.
Such that Constantinople was more or less the center of "Western Civ" for, like, a thousand years.
Ask HN: How safe is GitHub for private repositories?
I used Github in the past (was a paid customer). However, due to some drama (such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118) I decided to abandon ship.

I began self hosting my private code on my own server using bare git repositories. I still have a Github account for making contributions to other projects that use the platform, but I don't host anything on it.

I'm reviewing my decisions and considering shutting down my personal server and moving back to Github. The primary motivation is simplicity-- one less thing to manage and think about followed by discoverability/collaboration. People don't really go to your personal site, download your code, submit patches, etc. Nearly everyone uses Github (this is a problem in my opinion).

However, I still have a number of concerns regarding Github:

1. It's a dominate force and even if you don't host your code there it seems you still need an account for contributing to other projects. If you host code elsewhere you _still_ need to manage/secure a Github account.

2. Github has had more drama since I left (co-pilot, renaming master, Microsoft acquisition, etc).

3. As a person that has received cease and desist letters from Microsoft due to my products, what kind of risk is there hosting said code on their platform?

4. By contributing to Github's monopoly, are we making the problem worse?
Covid shots may slightly increase risk of stroke in older adults
This is about OpenAPI (Swagger), not OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Correct me if I'm wrong here: Microsoft is trying to get the default browser on the most popular desktop operating system, which they constantly try to foist upon users with every dark pattern in the book, a special exemption from DMA rules so that they can continue harassing and tricking users into using it?

And they believe that it deserves this exemption because despite their best efforts users still refuse to use their browser when not forced to (web analytics report low Edge marketshare).
Murdoch is still alive?
> diverse immigrants given that even today they start 60% of your successful startups

nothing says diverse like tech company founders who are primarily: male, 25-35 years old, majority live in 2 or 3 cities, have the same educational backgrounds.

if you're trying to highlight the virtues of diversity and 'genuine broadening of views', i probably wouldn't use VC backed tech company founders as an example
> "It's basically storing the information in the antenna."

Since I'm pretty sure they can't use a laser to write transistors into paper, this probably means they just write different resonant circuits straight into the antenna structure. Their "concentric circles" are just different inductances and capacitances.

So I guess the reader externally excites the resonant circuit, and reads back the different frequencies at which it oscillates resonantly.

If this is the case, the reader would be significantly more expensive than current RFID tech - since current tech is using digital logic, and this is basically analog RFID. You basically need a vector network analyzer to read it out. Those are cheap-ish (below $100) if you stay at low frequency, but if you want to go above a GHz, things turn expensive quickly.

Also, while I can imagine how you could encode information into one tag and read it back out, I can't imagine how you would read back an entire basket full of tags at once (like you can with conventional RFID tags, which makes checkout at supermarkets ect. really convinient).
They ship out the same tools that are used by Apple to do repairs, which enables non-specialists to perform repairs like screen and shell replacements with the same quality and consistency as original factory assembly, including water resistance. That’s difficult to achieve without special tooling.
Sure! That's likely an accurate representation. I also just gave this talk that goes a bit deeper, if that's helpful/interesting: https://youtu.be/Jjda39dlu7I
My thermostat occasionally reboots in some kind of recovery mode where it asks me to use the iOS app to configure it. So the use case would be reconfiguring it so I can call for heat in a blizzard.

(I know which wire needs 24v to cut the thermostat out of the equation and talk directly to the furnace, but I'm sure there are cases where such a workaround isn't available.)

There are some replacement parts lying around, so I anticipate that certain areas (the cities) will have power restored in weeks. It's figuring out how to fabricate new parts that will take years. Plus, some have solar panels. So power will likely be available for certain users well before long distance connectivity is restored.

My solar panel inverter is also configured with an app that I would have a hard time coming by without internet (it's supposed to be a dealer only thing but I got them to set me up).

It's an increasingly relevant part of the stack for things that are more important than cat videos.
> It will also give astronauts the go ahead they need from NASA to travel to Mars.

Wait, what? Everything else was worked out, but NASA just went "hold on, we can't go to Mars just yet until we figure out what to do if an astronaut gets kidney stones on the way"?

Did the writer just throw this in to make the procedure seem more hip and exciting?
In the 90s we had a microwave where the only control surface was a knob like an egg timer. Turn the knob, oven goes whirrrr, knob winds down, goes ding, oven turns off.
If 1-4 is implemented, gas would become a lot more expensive. Companies will switch to EV fleets, gas demand would drop, oil companies would not lobby politicians for drilling permits as new drilling would have bad ROI. Voters will to a lesser extent do what companies are doing and purchase lower carbon impact products. The hypothetical voter you speak of would only benefit if they purchase lower carbon impact products and pocket the savings from the check. However the act of purchasing the lower carbon impact product today has far more impact than a vote for a politician carbon intensive policy in the future. The incentives are aligned in that even this weird hypothetical voter will drive the adoption of lower carbon impact products long term.
Is Russia Now a Criminocracy?
Essentially this same sentiment, applies to any number of things:

- Why would anyone buy the Framework laptop, they don't have nearly the support/pedigree that Dell, HP, etc. has?

- Why would anyone use iPhones in the enterprise/IT world, they don't have nearly the support/pedigree that Blackberry, Microsoft, etc. has?

- Why would anyone use Google Fiber, they don't have nearly the network or support that AT&T, Spectrum, etc. has?

- Why would anyone ever use Linux (in enterprise, let's say), compared to the support and adoption that Microsoft/Windows offers?

- ...

I'm purposely picking different examples with varying degrees of success or adoption. I am not claiming that Oxide will be an instant category-dominating success. I don't think Oxide expects to replace HP/Cisco/Dell/etc. overnight, and I don't think a business has to launch with that ambition from the start, to prove that it's worth launching.

But this take is so repetitive as to be bordering on cliche -- I don't know if you're self-aware enough to realize, you are literally just a living embodiment of the "Innovator's Dilemma" right now...
I suspect for electric ranges they've historically used relays instead of solid state triacs or the like?

[https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/279752/why-a...]

If so, relays have significant switching times and limited cycle counts due to arcing - especially under load. Enough that sub-second switching times will wear them out pretty quickly, and also be annoyingly loud.

At the power levels we're talking about for a resistive stove, solid state is expensive. At the voltages we're talking about, it's also not trivial to do in a reliable way using solid state techniques (240V RMS =~ 340V peak).
I have no idea how you got that from the comment.
Pitching or fielding? I do think it is interesting that it is localized(in my case) to a certain stroke. So my strategy just becomes serve and volley to avoid hitting the forehand. Other sports may not have the same flexibility haha
I tend to set non-TZ-aware/non-NTP clocks to UTC.
"If you aren't going to assimilate why be an immigrant? Why not stay where you're from since that's the only culture you want?"

Because where they're from, by and large, was trying to kill them.

EDIT: OP reworded his comment as I was replying.
I hate all the big clouds and never use them. Yet it was hard to me to get their selling point, I had to read like for 2 minutes
> Legit 5% GDP growth should mean a booming economy with people feeling good, yet people are struggling to cover their basic needs and pessimism seems high.

Is it so hard to believe that people's negativity is often not about hard numbers and facts?
> By contrast, PulpaTronics' alternative RFID design requires no other material than paper. The company simply uses a laser to mark a circuit onto its surface, with the laser settings tuned so as not to cut or burn the paper but to change its chemical composition to make it conductive.

Can RFID tags be lased into food and clothing, too?

"Laser-Induced Graphene by Multiple Lasing: Toward Electronics on Cloth, Paper, and Food" (2018)
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.7b08539
even if it doesnt increase revenue, it can be a good investment.

The purpose of the government isnt grow, it is to serve the people
No it’s a nice way of heading off what I guarantee was going to be the response. There is literally nothing you can say to sway the “inflation numbers aren’t real crowd” in the same way you can’t argue with a conspiracy theorist. I don’t care about partisanship. I think the economy would be in roughly the same state it’s in regardless of which party won most recently.

Core inflation doesn’t include housing and fuel. But fuel is down 10% from its peak last year and the median home price in July 2023 was 2% below the median price in July 2022.

Inflation is going down, wages are going up.

You can’t argue that “the numbers coming out” are showing the opposite because they aren’t.
Columbus was a pretty rotten human being, if his ghost is looking up at us from Hell I don't care what he thinks.
Will you be selling services as well, such as taking care of installation, boot up, testing, validation, etc., for a fee?
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Finding the words "child", "terror", "drug" and "money launder" in any argument is evidence of bad faith. It's almost certain they're trying to manipulate people into giving up freedom for false security by appealing to the eternal bogeymen of society. Playing on people's fear to expand their own power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

Just summarily dismiss any argument containing those words. Don't even engage, just expose this charade for everyone to see.
Ask HN: How conscious could trees conceivably be?
I often see discussions here about the growing body of research regarding plant communication. Just witnessing a tree, or walking in a forest can give a sense of wonder at these life forms. So if we were to let our imaginations run free for a moment, what is the potential of their experience?
The middle ground you're ignoring (between #yolo startup culture and Boeing's defense contractor culture) has been done pretty well with SpaceX's Falcon 9.
I guess it's because MAMEis not emulating the software of these devices, it's emulating the whole hardware and then puts the ROMs on top of it. It's like running a synthesizer virtual machine. I understand most commercial vintage synth plugins either use samples of the real stuff --boo! or they emulate the wave functions and effects used on those devices from the manufacturer documentation, but not the exact hardware.
Thanks for stopping by! All Things Open is one of my favorite conferences, glad we were able to be there.

And yeah it's totally chill: this product is not for everyone. No slight taken!
Even more of a reason to assimilate?
I think they were presenting that as a conditional, not as a sure-fire bet.

With that, though: the access to the technology is getting cheaper and cheaper, thanks to no small amount by Meta's subsidies [0].

If it does take a pivotal role in our technological future (which I believe it will, but I'm not expecting you to), I would imagine it'd end up being like the smartphone: many vendors will sprout up and drive costs down, especially for low-income markets.

[0]: https://www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtual-reality/meta-q...
Salary is that high in the US because we have no social net or price caps here. Your on your own for everything. Healthcare, retirement, overpriced homes, out of control rent, etc
Nice, but why this website trues to download a file automatically to my phone?
It seemed like a natural next step because a lot of sound chips in classic arcade games, like the Yamaha 2151 FM synthesis chip, were also used in some of Yamaha's keyboards including the DX100.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM2151
Hm, Wikipedia says it’s resolved.

For me, archive.ph always shows an insolvable captcha (the page reloads after submitting the captcha in a never ending loop).
Haha indeed I do! :o)
lol the news made every analyst bump the value of the expected interest-rate cell in their spreadsheets.

gdp-numbers are basically just mirroring inflation. It is not growth if it decimates companies market caps.
Just fyi, this is a very recent change of behaviour. As recently as ~10 years ago no one would ever stop for you in front of a pedestrian crossing in Poland. The law required you to stop but only if a pedestrian was already on the crossing - someone waiting on the side? That's their problem.

The law was changed to say that if someone is waiting in front of the crossing you have to stop(with fines for not doing so) and the behaviour has changed to what it is now - you are right, most Polish drivers will stop for you if you even look like you want to cross - but it wasn't like this not long ago.

It also caused a massive uproar across drivers, as if the sky was going to fall down if they have to stop for pedestrians - and yet, it's all fine.

So you know, maybe in US it also isn't a lost cause, maybe it could change for the better.
> Bourgeois boheme

This accurately describes how I feel about college-aged American liberals on social media
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As a user, when I set my browser to be full screen, I expect the content to take up the full screen. I bought a nice big 27" monitor, and I want to use it. How dare some UX designer 2,000 miles away from me simply decide that I should only be able to see content on a 5" wide strip down the middle!

The browser should be the User's Agent, not the Web Developer's Agent. If I want to do something with my browser layout that a designer finds appalling, that should not be his concern.

If the web developer and designer really think that text should appear in tiny 5" columns no matter how wide my browser is, fine, then flow your design to display multiple side-by-side columns like a newspaper. Don't just fill my screen with whitespace.
Russia is, and will always be an enemy. They will never drop their imperialist ideals until possibly beaten in Ukraine. If they have a chance they'll take the Baltic countries and maybe Poland. A little knowledge of history suffices to recognise that.
This is a one time cost, AWS is a rent only model
Human eyes are not good. We have a massive central void in our vision that we literally fill in with our imagination. We can't sense light polarity, we can't sense beyond infrared or ultraviolet, and our resolution is poor. I suspect you could put together and deliver to Mars a highly redundant system with all of those capabilities for less than the addition fuel cost to launch a 100kg human, supplies, and life-support systems out of Earth's gravity well.
Part availability will likely mirror that of internal repair processes, and I’m almost certain that Apple isn’t performing board level repairs because that doesn’t scale particularly well. It’s way faster for a technician to swap out the whole board and move on to the next device.
Computers are really powerful these days, though, it's why physical modeling VSTi are actually usable now. Especially if you do the signal processing on the GPU instead of the CPU (which is thankfully starting to happen as well).
But at the same time has the largest non-COVID deficit ever. `22 and `23 defectors are trending higher, not lower.[0]

0 - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-budget-deficit-jumps-23-...
Yeah that's the boat I'm in. I started using Python for production projects after the switch. It sucks for those who came before, but it's just fine for those who came after, and I'm not sure it hurt the platform as much as this article suggests.

Plus, they clearly learned their lesson after that switch, which is still talked about in 2023.
Impact with a rogue planet?

Grey goo?
Germans are extremely pessimistic and risk-averse for one.