skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
french press. digital calipers. digital tape measure. non-contact thermometer. usb oscilloscope. high precision kitchen scales. metric kitchen utensils. digital torque gauge extensions.

I guess i'm more into metrology than I realized. Metrology and coffee, I suppose.

But that kind of equipment really does open doors in both cooking and engineering. A good pair of calipers essentially enabled my whole CAD background.
For example, Open Firmware specification used a flavour of Forth for its bytecode.
I don't have much problems falling asleep but I feel I slept much better if I took a benzo so I occasionally (rarely, humble doses) do whenever I want to really recharge myself with what feels like a great night of good deep uninterrupted sleep. In contrast to zolpidem (I tried it wehen I actually used to have problems falling asleep): zolpidem helps to fall asleep but promotes vivid (and visually beautiful) vigourous dreams and harms resting so I feel satisfied but very tired in the morning (like if lived through the Avatar movie instead of sleeping). Such is my experience. What am I missing?

Melatonin supplementation seems a questionable idea except for adjusting your circadian "inner clock" - according to this article:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-...
Author highlighted some eerily similar parallels to my own development, save that mine was punctuated with more hardship and fuck-ups.

This reads like a plain need for a sabbatical, or vacation. Maybe even burnout. Fun or "being in love" with work is fickle and generally unsustainable in industry, or depends on factors that are sure to shift (e.g. novelty, colleagues, level of responsibility, etc).

It would be one thing if an opportunity for something better presented itself, but at face value it seems this wasn't replaced with anything. Unless you plan to lean-fire your way to the grave, another SWE gig is probably in your future, and it will not matter whether you fall back in love or not.
Supercritical CO2 Turbines
They aren't saying it's priced a little too high, they're saying it's a scam. Compared to those other insurances, it's very cheap. Over a 30 year mortgage you'll pay tens of thousands of dollars in home owners insurance. For title insurance you'll pay a few hundred dollars for the average house. For my house, which is close enough to the national average, it was about 2 months worth of home owners premiums.
That is such first world BS. The poor people in Gaza are being used as propaganda by the people who put them in the line of fire. And you're saying they should be free to keep doing that. It's important to protect the basic rights of people, but terrorists lose some of these rights. Literal freedom should be lost so losing freedom of speech while they aren't in custody... Not a problem IMO.

This isn't the "people we hate". It's people who abuse the system by spreading hate and misinformation.
Yes, I've been able to get them. You should be able to find an International English or US English Euro layout. --This is the standard keyboard used in The Netherlands, by the way.
Toyota raises factory worker wages after UAW strike settlements
Ah sure, it was OutdooROS i.e. a web visualizer for outdoor ROS robots. Later renamed to Vizanti.

The two examples I cited in my appeal were MAVROS and ROS Mobile, and yeah turns out the former is actually maintained by OSRF and the latter was in breach of guidelines.
Chat GPT University: Revolutionizing Education with AI 2023
In the age of rapid technological advancement, the field of education has not remained untouched. From traditional classroom settings to online learning platforms, the way we acquire knowledge has evolved significantly. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of this evolution, and one of its most promising applications is ChatGPT University.
When I was at Malwarebytes (I left in 2014) I helped with two acquisitions. In both cases we took care of all of the people in the new company and rolled them into Malwarebytes.

M&A can be done without being ethically and morally bankrupt. It's totally possible. Cisco just doesn't think that's a priority.
We don't really understand the mechanism of action of most drugs. That has never been necessary. The gold standard has always been "Does it work better than placebo in a randomized, controlled, double-blind trial?"

People get up in arms about psychedelics because these drugs have recreational uses. That owes a lot more to puritanism than to serious consideration of the medicine, or even really thinking about addiction. They just define it as unusable, and prevent any research that might prove otherwise.

Nobody would bring up the fact that we don't know the mechanism of action if it were any other medicine.
This was a lot of fun. Thanks for making and sharing.

The "find" command would be very helpful for the last step (to get the passcode).

I found that you can do "ls 0/0/0/0 0/0/0/1 ..."

So I wrote a python program to print out the ls command that shows all directory contents :)
That's a UK English keyboard. The International English keyboard uses the US layout.
You missed the recent article about Hertz's maintenance and repair nightmare from attempting to run the largest publicly-known fleet of rental Teslas :)
Similar for me.

I'll add that I take a small magnesium supplement mid to late afternoon as well which helps me relax and if dreams are any indication of deeper sleep I have many more memorable dreams when I'm taking magnesium.
Because interfaces require situation-specific reasoning that purely expressive art can be imitated without. And frankly, I think the slick looking images that AI spews out from actual artists' munged up work is a far cry from being equivalent. Like interfaces, the people who wouldn't pay an artist or designer to begin with probably don't care enough about the quality of the art or interface for it to matter. Cookie cutter applications and stock images are going to suffer, but developers making basic crud functionality or simple API interactions will suffer soon after.
Sisvel launches a patent pool on Wi-Fi 6 (2022)
Google invests $2B in AI startup Anthropic
Yeah, but I'm always curious where specific people specifically came across it!
Its all immoral - spending the proceeds of crime (theft).

I'm not going to cheer it.
Tangentially related, Firefox-from-snap completely broke for me recently in a way that I couldn't be bothered to diagnose ("error: cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/firefox: dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory").

It prompted me to finally wipe Snap fully from my system and install Firefox from the Mozilla PPA. The only other Snap app I currently use is IntelliJ, and that has issues in its Snap packaging according to the mighty Serge, so I'm switching to a tar.gz install for that.
The company will likely become owned by Softbank (it already mostly is).

It can still become profitable by removing the bad leases/renegotiating, I believe after the bankruptcy filling it will be an okayish company, but I doubt that it will still be a public company.

Doubt Softbank will ever recover what they invested in there though
Ah yes, mockery, did Samson not have a good comeback line recorded in the canons for you to lift? After all, I suppose if those of weak minds aren't told that a comeback line has been divinely approved, then how can they know it is in fact a sick burn? curious
As said earlier, any and all discrimination is illegal/unethical and there are checks in place to prevent it from proliferating. Anyone who is a victim can report a HUD fair housing complaint form, contact their local state's office of fair housing, or contact their local Association of REALTORS® to report an ethics violation.

And people do report:

> The most important finding of this report is that the number of housing discrimination complaints increased significantly in 2021, despite the fact there were fewer agencies reporting complaint data. There were 31,216 housing complaints in 2021, an 8.7 percent increase over the number of complaints filed in 2020. At the same time, there were seven fewer agencies that reported data in 2021 than in 2020. Had all fair housing agencies been able to submit their data, undoubtedly the number of reported fair housing complaints would have been even higher.

https://nationalfairhousing.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2...
I found it strange how little chargers there are in eastern Canada last time I went. In the US West Coast, smallish towns have one or two Tesla supercharger. I rented a Tesla in Quebec last summer and the supercharger stations were quite far apart and very busy. Something doesn't add up.
Two things.

Wyze Cams, lets me check on things no matter where I am.

Corsi-Rosenthal box fan, the quality of air in my house vastly improved. No cooking smell, less dust, etc.
It's coming. Search for barium sulfate paint.
Autonomy - walk to the loo and your laptop continues doing it's thing instead of stalling due to the phone getting out of reach. It also makes the phone battery last a bit longer. Performance will be better as well. If you only use mobile data on the device every now and then a tethered phone is fine, if you use it all the time a built-in connection is preferable.
Good riddance!

So the proposal was sponsored by HP, Symantec and Intel. I was expecting something related to Microsoft and it's ill conceived idea of "Managed C++", but it all boils down to: Hans Boehm.

As surprised as the next guy to find this in C++ standard. ...Again: good riddance.
“Sacrifice your child for the greater good of society!”
I'm not saying to abandon it

But many people, both in this forum and in meat-space are doing just that. Perhaps not directly, but the end result of "school choice" (of which there are several flavors) will be the end of generally good-enough public education for most of the population. Toss in the latest conservative boogeymen (CRT, book bans, etc) and the outlook looks pretty gloomy.

parent involvement is one of the largest factors for academic success

I often wonder if our schools are fine, but everything else is broken.

Stagnant wages, longer working hours, fewer 2 parent households, other things.
For what it's worth my bar is higher. Can we expect every teacher to design a top-tier curriculum independently?

Or, in other words, do we need hundreds of thousands of curricula? Doesn't that leave a lot of by definition below average curricula. Would selecting among even dozens of well-designed options make sense instead?
Its not so straightforward. Caffeine consumption has been shown to reduce the chance of dementia.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836063/
What form of magnesium?
Ask HN: What happened to who's hiring post?
Its the first of the month, and the "Who's hiring", "Freelancer", and "Who wants to be hired" posts aren't on the site yet.

Any idea whats going on?
why then is hertz citing high repair costs for EVs ?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/hertz-pulls-back-on-ev-plans...

I dont think the assertion that "EVs have lower maintenance cost" is backed by hard data yet.

And for DIYer like me who want a "right to repair" - EVs dont even have repair manuals - why would i want to buy one - and have the manufacturer own me ?

modern cars are too complex for their own good. the electricals in the car are the worst offenders here. it is too time consuming to debug and fix them.
You are now "paying" google twice - once with money and twice by giving them your data.
Companies, regardless of what the Supreme Court says, are not people; they don't have ethics and morals. All that matters is the balance sheet, the stock price, and the executive bonus.

You can have people running the company change what the company does to be more ethical or moral, but it's like training an elephant to do tricks: an unnatural edge case. Their natural incentives are more like swarms of locusts or jellyfish; the more you feed them, the larger they grow, the bigger impact they have on their environment. No real thoughts, just an urge to consume and expand.
no alcohol, no coffee after 12:00, try to eat less(caloric food) at dinner & try to eat no closer than 3h before your sleep, make sure the room you sleep in is fully dark, make sure you have comfortable temperature (if you are rich, you may as well get that ultrafancy mattress that regulates the temperature), make sure pillow is comfy, not too hard&not too soft
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38098224 | https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/toyota-raises-uaw-strike-fo... ("Toyota raises factory worker wages after UAW strike settlements")
It's a humblebrag, an assumptive claim that if the artist Anish Kapoor got his hands on it, he'd buy all of it out so nobody could use it.
Samesies, and man it sure seems like everyone who doesn't realize this has it easy. Like, people will say that you're depressed, but I'm pretty sure it's just rational.
I thought I was the only one. I was excited to get a Thinkpad because just about every nerd praises them all the time and I thought the AMD one would be a great experience, but it was terribly slow. Additionally, the trackpad, the screen and the camera broke independently of each other and needed to be replaced which makes me really doubt the build quality (though having a technician come to your home tk repair it is great).

All in all, it was a bad experience and didn't even last 2 years for me. I don't think I'll be buying another Thinkpad soon.
Yea, maybe (although I'm not able to quickly find what the teensy DSP's latency looks like), for the same price you can complain that its pre-amps are gonna suck. But on the other hand, this is much easier to implement and work with (and be cheaper) than most/any fpga systems.
Mapping the October 7th Massacre
Most of us aren't even on our first EV.

Or did you mean "most of us EV owners"? If that's true, that's a problem - EVs are not attracting new users at a rate to make the new users the majority.

Or did you mean "most of us early adopters"?
I think people who post comments like this aren't aware what the new car market in the US is like right now. The most common new cars on the road today are gigantic crossovers and blinged-out F-150s that cost more than Teslas do.

Via Consumer Reports in Sep. 2023:

> The average cost of new cars is now well over $48,000—up almost $6,000 from two years ago and about $10,000 from September 2020, according to Kelley Blue Book. That figure largely tracks with inflation, but there are many other factors at play.

When the average price of a new car is pushing $50K I don't think it makes sense any longer to say "nobody would ever buy a Tesla, they're too expensive."
This seems very much US specific. In many other places, EVs are still 2x-3x the cost of ICE cars.
Everything is dangerous.

Especially those people who take "everything is dangerous" to mean "we should ban everything".
I think it's more than just "getting used to."

You aren't just buying an EV. You're buying an EV and a way to charge it. If you have a garage, that's not a problem. If you have to run electrical to have a way to plug it in, it's an annoyance but solvable. If you live in an apartment complex or rent a parking spot or rent a house... you likely have no options.

There is going to be significant structural cost to the transition and only part of that is new cars.
The empirical test for my subjective experience is my experiencing it, what a mind blowing revelation that things can exist in gradations. Shocking. I never said empirical tests are the only way to establish truth, but if you're presupposing an objective and universalized "correct morality" then it doesn't seem stupid to suppose that such a universal thing might be empirical. Or, failing something you can point to that exists in external objective space, that maybe you're just practicing the same kind of moral relativism an entire group of people are practicing and all loudly crying that "boo it's not relativism because sky daddy loves us :'("
It's likely not a single person understands the entire MacOS stack anymore, at least since Mavericks, all the pre-1985 old guard engineers having retired by then.
Ask HN: Who is hiring (Co-founder Edition)
This thread is for CO-FOUNDERS.

Please state the location and include REMOTE and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.

Searchers: try https://www.remotenbs.com, https://hnjobs.u-turn.dev, https://hnresumetojobs.com, https://hnhired.fly.dev, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com.

Don't miss these other fine threads:

Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739026

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37739027
Interest rates went way up, those who wanted an EV urgently mostly got one, and the rest of the market is going to temporarily suffer from the NACS transition. Manufacturers selling EVs without NACS should really commit to a retrofit program, as no one in their right mind would buy an expensive EV today that's using a dead-end charger plug that's both inconvenient to use in the field and has a much worse network than NACS.
IMHO the plug in hybrids are a great compromise. I'm happy with mine. If one can charge at home and one's daily mileage is within the plug in range, one can easily cut most of their emissions.

It has the added benefit of not having to worry about range/changing on road trips. My biggest concern with it is stale gas in the tank from not using the gas engine that much, I don't think I've filled the tank more than three or four times in the last year.

As you point out, not driving is better, but for many people it's not possible due to the public transportation systems/bike paths not being particularly great in most of the US.
Amid Regulatory Gaps, Telehealth Prescribers Flourish
NHS practices are private businesses, which are contracted to provide NHS services.

That's why there's the complex business of 'partners', which buy into the "business".
How many years would it take to reach parity with SWE wage, or at least a middle-class wage? It seems like a high-stress field with long hours but low pay.
I run Manjaro Linux with i3wm on a T14s gen3. I connect to two 2560x1440 external monitors via thunderbolt 3 dock.

I wish I could say it is 100% stable. It's close, and close enough for me to rely on it. Occasionally when I plug in to the dock the external monitors do not activate. Also if I plug in power while suspended, it powers on. I have face unlock working, which is nice. I have problems with connecting my Samsung bluetooth earbuds, but I haven't tried very hard to make that work well.

Idles at around 5 watts, which is nice. Real world use is around 6-8 hours battery, which is just about good enough for me. I had an X1 Extreme gen 3 before and it was the battery life that made me change. Before that a P51s which I do miss because of the clunky docking station and numeric keypad. It was too heavy though, and battery only just ok, even with two batteries including extended at the rear.
100% of those that were created by developers who are worth their salt.
You are allowed to say your previous manager was bad, but you are expected to be able to say it in certain ways ("development opportunities", "technical direction", "team vs individual responsibilities", ...).
HubSpot to acquire B2B intelligence company Clearbit
> Cryptographic hashes are designed to be fast.

Not really. They are designed to be fast enough and even then only as a secondary priority.

> You can do 6 billion … hashes/second on [commodity hardware] … there’s only 4 billion ipv4 addresses. So you can brute force the entire range

This is harder if you use a salt not known to the attacker. Per-entry salts can help even more, though that isn't relevant to IPv4 addresses in a web/app analytics context because after the attempt at anonymisation you want to still be able to tell that two addresses were the same.

> And that’s true even if they used something secure like SHA-256 instead of broken MD5

Relying purely on the computation complexity of one hash operation, even one not yet broken, is not safe given how easy temporary access to mass CPU/GPU power is these days. This can be mitigated somewhat by running many rounds of the hash with a non-global salt – which is what good key derivation processes do for instance. Of course you need to increase the number of rounds over time to keep up with the rate of growth in processing availability, to keep undoing your hash more hassle than it is worth.

But yeah, a single unsalted hash (or a hash with a salt the attacker knows) on IP address is not going to stop anyone who wants to work out what that address is.
>To be fair Youtube has to make a profit somehow.

I'd gladly pay for Youtube sans ads, but not if google also gets to steal my data.
This lack of a decent open text to speech is really frustrating, because some of the closed ones are just scary good.
I got a full MacBook Pro replacement when my MBP had something wrong causing it to charge extremely slowly - completely on Apple's dime. They first sent me an overnight shipping box to send in my MBP, where they then replaced the top case assembly. After that didn't work they overnighted me a brand new in box MBP.

I had to spend 6+ hours on the phone over multiple days with a senior tech support staff to make it happen, but at least it was eventually resolved and I didn't pay anything for it. Obviously it wasn't a documented problem because we troubleshooted everything possible before replacement.
Ghost built a recommendation system that's compatible with the open web
My experience is that what you're describing is only initial_prompt, and it only affects the first 30-second transcription window of the audio in question.

It's effectively useless for helping the model transcribe new words in longer content. That also wouldn't be a long-term solution anyways... no one wants to compile a huge list of "words Whisper probably doesn't know" and have to pass those in every time the model is being used. Even if that worked, it would also distort the transcription, since you're not saying you know which words are in the actual speech, you're just passing in a list of words. So, you could end up influencing Whisper to choose the wrong words, giving priority to this list of random words being passed in.

I am similarly curious about how we can train Whisper models to learn new words over time, unless OpenAI plans to release updated models themselves.
I do not have an answer for you, but I have a very low level of trust in the deep sleep numbers, as they are based on heart rate and not brain waves.
There might be pricing pressure, and a lot of people entering the space, but it is more than a nice to have. If you do not have some sort of SIEM solution, you will pay more for or not be insurable for cybersecurity/ransomware insurance.

Implementing observability/SIEM yourself has also become a lot more complicated because the domain of things that have to be observed is increasing. There are many organizations now that have things that need to be monitored in several clouds, infrastructures like k8s, and stuff on prem. So you need a vendor that has the tools to collect this data easily and aggregate it.

The startup world and startup whales might be dying now. But there is a giant iceberg of companies that are becoming more hybrid and their systems that used to do things like funnel syslogs and firewall flow logs to a collector are no longer adequate.
When you right-click an element on the page (and you have uBlock installed at default settings) there should be a dialog for it at the bottom.