skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the note of OLED increasing battery life, does anyone know the max number of hours of gameplay you can get on a single charge when the game is as simple as "snake"?

I have searched for answers on reddit and Google etc but I have only found the number to be 8hrs which is not for low power games. Given steam runs Linux and is hacker friendly, one should be able to juice it for much much longer if only early retro games are played.
This is pretty much correct, though I feel there's some finer points depending on the number of options (5? 10? 50?) and the expected number of values chosen (2? 4? 10?).

Checkboxes are a good choice for a small number of options: https://m3.material.io/components/chips/overview . I'd say past a dozen options though this starts to become unwieldy.

Tag-style multiselects are fairly common (see https://react-select.com/home for an example). These are good where the number of values a user is expected to have selected is small (less than five imo) but the number of options is large enough to make checkboxes impractical. If you're expecting a higher number of things to be selected, you could have the option list stay open after an option is clicked, so they user doesn't have to reopen it each time they want to add an option (and, in fact, the "Animation" example does precisely that).

Two column designs ( https://crlcu.github.io/multiselect/examples/search.html ) have mostly fallen out of favor, though I feel they still have their uses for larger lists with large numbers of selected values.
Wow, and the documentation is remarkably good.
> In fact, I find a beauty and elegance in shipping the whole thing as a single HTML file with no dependencies (1 network request!)

This is even easier now we have 'data:' URLs. It's also useful for avoiding problems on file:// URLs, which don't even need a HTTP server.
Yes that's right however usually shifts get moved around to accommodate. My father worked for a large fire department, so my understanding is probably skewed by a department with a lot of resources.
Sounds like we're agreeing with each other and disagreeing with the big SPA framework guy?
> really enjoy seeing older ones still running and well maintained

I enjoy that too but it's at a cost for which you could easily run a more recent vehicle.
Surprised no one has mentioned Alpine Linux yet. Or is it too lightweight?
The Optus outage was in the order of 8-9 hours and was a core network fault off the back of a bodged upgrade rolled out in the middle of the night. It's completely unrelated to China, the United States, or geopolitics in general. Optus has laid off a lot of engineers since Covid and those decisions are starting to have knock on effects.
This gave me a sudden panic, but no - it's all still there in Google Groups, enough teenage angst and purple prose to roll my eyes back in my head with such force that I temporarily tumbled back in time. I don't know if Usenet or IRC were really significant, compared to the social media of today. Certainly there were more nooks and crannies in which to hide, more corners you could call your own. But that's also what growing up feels like. That park bench where maybe you had your first kiss and it was once the entire universe, that's really just a place for people to sit, it means nothing. That small place you loved can't exist anymore because you're bigger, you see a broader horizon, you admit others. You can never fit yourself back down into that little, sheltered place, and you blame the places you inhabit now for being too open and noisy. Growing up is being messy, incoherent, disappointed. There's no medium that can take you back to the clarity of youth.
If you're going to make this argument, I really wish you'd make it more explicit. I think what you're suggesting makes cities unlivable. The homeless drug users have to exist in space somewhere. What do you propose to do with these people? There's nowhere to ship them to that's not owned by someone who objects to their presence.
USPTO and USCO Have Different Approaches to AI Inventorship and Copyrightability
Beware of the engines with aluminum stretch bolts. Those are a real problem and Porsche has been known to stiff people with problems with leaking valve seat covers on account of these even though it is clearly a manufacturing defect.
I’m no Amish expert but I lived near them for a while and it seems to be more about how they choose to lead their lives and there’s a (fuzzy) line between ownership and usage of technology. I’d bet many would be quite fine with using tax software on someone else’s computer. They’ll also use a contractor’s power tools, ride in someone else’s car, own flashlights, etc.
There's a Quebec kid tv show "Une grenade avec ca" I really liked when I was a teenager and at some point one of the main actors got prosecuted for possession of child pornography, so they pulled out all the episodes he played in... which is basically every single episode I ever watched.

I understand their decision to not air those, but it still feels like a part of my childhood got erased and I wish I could get a copy of those episodes.
I mean, if you're not shipping the weight of the water then how could there not be? Tho I guess it would come at the expense of local artisan roasteries ...

Honestly though, I think conscientious / well regulated labeling can do a lot of heavy lifting when done correctly. Especially for highlighting what factors you should be considering, rather than those that are being promoted. Let market forces lead to "source-roasting" and other innovative improvements.
Geekbench does some pretty comparable CPU + GPU prowess tests on multiple operating systems. I'm not sure how comparable the Geekbench compute scores are between platforms (Android vs Mac vs PC) because Android uses Vulkan+EGL, Mac uses Metal, and PC uses CUDA/Vulkan/OpenGL, but comparing within the same category the performance comparisons seem right.

You need some modern level of hardware acceleration for that, though, and platforms like gma950 just don't have the hardware to run that stuff. llvmpipe can fix a lot of compatibility issues but your CPU and GPU score will end up very close together.
It might not, but the post has "OpenAI's Code Interpreter" in the title
Kinda stunned by this one, thanks for sharing.
Powerful enough to land a crew on the moon but would choke on any modern framework.

Don't think we would've made it to the moon if it were up to present-day UI/UX folks.
Agreed - I worked at a company that couldn't get some expensive security tool approved so they just bought it off AWS Marketplace. The AWS bill was high enough that the increase wasn't questioned.
The safeguard is your diligence before approving its actions:

Open Interpreter will ask for user confirmation before executing code.
You are describing network effects. People use Facebook because people use Facebook, as one example. Network effects are part of the reason why a company like Facebook is valued higher than the net of its assets minus liabilities. In accounting, the value of network effects is called goodwill. (Goodwill is only part of the reason for the higher value; another is expected future growth, both of the network effects and of however the company generates profits.) Currencies like the dollar, yen, euro, etc., have value because people think they have value.

Incidentally, the same network effects apply to digital currencies, as does the expectation of future growth. But for the most part, the future growth of digital or physical currencies is based on the growth of the network effects, because currencies themselves don't generate revenue for "shareholders."
>Apple to some extent is protecting us from Facebook and Google and keeping us more in control of our devices, by limiting which applications can be run on them.

Right, Including protecting me from me unless I find extra pleasure in ‘calling big fruit boss every few days’ for running my own soft on my (supposedly) own phone.

To avoid this ‘pleasure’ I have to pay developer fee yearly. If someone is looking for definition of ‘idiocy’ one should look no further.

Yet there is always someone trying to justify even that. ‘It is more secure ‘ - they usually say forgetting to mention that security starts with control and ends without it.

The obvious question to ask usually would be:

So who would protect you from Apple itself?

More entertaining question could be: Who is going to protect you from you?

But then we recall about AI and we can guess the answer which spoils the whole entertaining aspect of the question.

So the only question left is: What people would not justify when some big company does it?
Two gems (among many)...

Periscope Films (on YouTube): https://m.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm/playlists

Digitized 40-60s era reels. It still amazes me how effectively they presented complex topics then. E.g. mechanical naval gunnery computers: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug

And this on-the-ground movie on the Columbia student occupation in 1968: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BUcYLuGiL_s
The scanner is an Epson ES-580W, but any model would be adequate that
can scan directly to a network folder by FTP or FTPS over wifi or
ethernet. Some are claimed to support SFTP but I think the copywriter
meant FTPS. They seem to follow the network protocol standards well
enough to work with Linux even without any special drivers. Although
the scanner interacts with my file server, I prefer to run
paperless-ngx on my desktop, so an incron job runs on the file server
to copy the scanned documents to the desktop if the latter is on line
but retain them otherwise, and a startup script on the desktop copies
the retained scanned documents from the file server whenever the
desktop boots.
The reason is that the US dollar was originally based on the Spanish coins of the time. This meant that they had a lot of 8-real coins in circulation that could pass for $1, and 2-real coins that passed for 25c. People got used to that model, so as "real" American coinage scaled up, it continued to be in the 25c denomination.

A 20c coin was tried to great failure in the 1870s.

There was a $2.50 gold coin issued for most of the era when gold coins were issued for circulation.

I note the 1-5 only scheme is fairly common too: Japan and South Korea went there (with both having a 2000 denomination note as a limited run commemorative); Russia went that way for their 1998 currency reform, but more recently added a 200 and 2000.
And I find it a bad trade NOW. I can't imagine what it's gonna be like in 10 years once they don't push security updates and the Kia Boys can use years old security bugs to steal your car.
The main reason for that is that there are a lot more drivers than there are lathe operators, and that lathe operators usually injure themselves.

There is a relatively low chance that you'll find a lathe on a busy intersection or on a freeway during rush hour. I thought that was obvious.
I am fascinated by old tech like this. It really makes computing seem "real" to me. That you had someone weaving ROM to capture the program just shows it's a bunch of 1s and 0s. Stuff like rope core memory and mercury delay line memory are just this fun intersection of mechanical and electrical.
If you weren’t playing Descent with this you were losing.
There is a large scale war going just now in which the only cyber attack of any effect has been bricking a bunch of KA-SAT terminals. This belief of yours might be more of a science-fiction story.
GPT4 knows it sucks at math, but it's awesome at writing simple code, so it answers math problems by writing and executing simple scripts.
When I worked the register, we would put 50s in the extra slot, and hundreds went below. Commingling different denominations in a single slot sounds like a mistake waiting to occur.
unless you set the flag that lets it execute the code it gets
on my free weekends I've been working on something which is like this and more.

https://github.com/leonid20000/OdinRunes
Ok Quack is adorkable.

What would be the word for "To Kagi"? They use "Fetch" in the search field, but it hasn't really stuck with me.
Grand Theft Auto 6 rumors heat up with potential AI integration
But intuitively it’s weird that the median of the second prime factor is not 3, right?
At that point, you're creating and writing a different flavor of date picker -- and in static HTML land, there is no clean way to update page content dynamically based on user input, without some kind of JavaScript library interacting with those elements (talking to the UI) and coordinating input data, displaying new derived data/info based on those selections with snappy, accurate feedback.

There are hundreds of ways to support this using JavaScript because the community has cleverly come up with many different flavors of view handling to suit different mental models and preferences. What could be better?
> I think this speaks to the bubble you're in and how your kind of software development probably represents 0.1% of what's out there.

Grandparent specifically said they find ChatGPT useful for things outside their wheelhouse:

>> [...]troubleshooting situations that flow into me - working in areas that I have the slimmest of backgrounds in

It sounds to me like it may not be safe to use ChatGPT if you can't check its work.
The 30 miles on each side of most people in the US includes a lot of open space.

NYC isn't 30 miles east of me. There are rural farms only a few miles west. This is representative of the edge of the most dense metro region in the US.

That's the density argument. Belgium and the Netherlands are 10X more dense than the US in aggregate. That 10X makes things wildly different and it tells you how relatively frequent cities and suburbs are there vs here.

The US does optimize for our open space. We have car infrastructure.

Again, give it a few centuries.
Next logical step: make it recursively self-improve.
Ya, CQ is about the size of Maine, hardly just a city. Core urban CQ is only around 9.5 million people, which isn't that large by Chinese standards. Shanghai is much less rural at around 22-24 million people.
I'm not the OP but I had a similar set of experiences with ChatGPT so I find the discussion useful. Essentially I already know how to find what I need using a search engine, and I know how to use cues from the source material to judge if it's correct. When I try using ChatGPT for technical problems I face, I frequently get hallucinated answers that feel like a waste of time.

Then I go on HN and read these paeans from other technologists who say ChatGPT has completely changed how they work and is 10x better than using Google. I'd like to have that too! I just don't get it, it doesn't match my experience at all. And yes I did try the paid ChatGPT model for a month.
Huh. I thought I remembered that they had, and I thought the link agreed with me, but rereading it sounds like they just put a nuclear reactor on a plane and flew it to see if it would kill the crew.

"Between May and August 1961, the Tu-95LAL completed 34 research flights. Much of them made with the reactor shut down. The main purpose of the flight phase was examining the effectiveness of the radiation shielding which was one of the main concerns for the engineers. The massive amount of liquid sodium, beryllium oxide, cadmium, paraffin wax and steel plates; were the sole source of protection for the crew against the deadly radiation emerging from the core."
I came here to say the same.

But note, if OpenBSD is installed on a "very" lightweight PC, you may need to disable re-linking of the kernel :) I thought I saw issues with this in the mailing lists if less than 1G memory.

I think NetBSD is the champion with OpenBSD a rather close 2nd.
Ok, then SAP will have to pay taxes on worldwide income to both the USA and Germany, or will international companies be allowed to headquarter in a country with the best worldwide tax policy? Will Chinese companies have an advantage over Americans ones because they are just taxed in the jurisdiction they are doing business in vs. being taxed on world income by China?
Why not do both? Gmail's a great example of this. Hold shift while clicking two checkboxes in a range of emails, and watch as the entire range is selected for you to manage. :)
> The pre-loonie Canadian $1 coins obviously never gained any collector value. I got a sheet of a whole bunch of different years at a garage sale for face value!

I'll do you one better: I like the classic Voyageur design, so when I visited Toronto this summer I figured I'd pop into a coin dealer and get an album and start building a set.

I asked about the post-1968 nickel ones, and he said he had a big bucket I could go through. How much? "50 cents each." "You mean $1.50, right?" Nope. They were worth less than face value for him because he had to go through the hassle of trading them in.

Went away with 20 of them, and some higher margin items to make up for it.
Hmm, shame they require a CLA.

https://opensource.porsche.com/docs/cla
https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html
I do not know what this means. What would you build from source for OpenBSD and NetBSD ?

Both support binary third party packages.

But building on Linux will also take just as long, so really a non-issue :)
It is just really expensive, it would be better if they didn't do drugs rather than just letting them do it and having society responsible for picking up the pieces. If society has to be responsible for paying for these problems, then its no longer a personal decision with personal effect. We as a society have to decide whether we are going to allow hard drug abuse and "pay the bill for that decision" or not.
Do fixed wing aircraft spend a lot of the time going backwards? Do they, for example, need to turn around and point their engine in the direction of travel in order to slow down? If a fixed wing accelerates to 1000mph and then rotates it’s nose by 90 degrees, how fast is it going and in what direction? What about a space craft?
This, but unironically...
> With, but it's still bonkers that it works so well

Ehhhh…
I love the idea of geohashing systems, but brevity is the wrong goal IMO. Systems like what3words.com (while they have their own problems with openness), follow the CorrectHorseBatteryStaple [0] model—they’re longer, but more memorable because they tap into your imagination. A string like “u4uyegiu” is maybe more appealing than two floating point numbers, but lacks just as much in memorability and ease of communication.

[0] https://xkcd.com/936/
The 1994 Ford Ranger of Holding is real. I believe in it.
Like you said, it's mostly influencers trying to cash in on the hype and I don't expect that to change.

> Aren't these essentially pre-configured prompts?

They also include custom knowledge and actions, and I don't think these are simply added to the prompt. But I don't think OpenAI has published how this data is fed into the model internally?

In general, I've had mostly bad experiences with models that include retrieval or external APIs. It's just too brittle because the model needs a very precise understanding to retrieve what you want, not fuzzy language. The by far best experiences is when you can put everything into the prompt.
I just set up a new iPhone yesterday, and it was pretty frustrating. Apparently there is a known bug that prevents seamlessly setting up a new iPhone from your old one unless you first perform an OS update. The phone started the update, but the screen was immediately visually corrupted and the update simply hung. I was forced to restart the phone and go through multiple attempts to get everything to work. In the end, I had to erase the phone and start over from scratch after applying the updates. Some of the advice on the web seems to be to set the phone up as a new iPhone then perform the updates, then erase it and set it up from your old phone afterwards.
Every time I’ve done this before in the last several years it has worked almost perfectly. So I would agree… I would definitely like to see more than just a weeks worth of bug fixes!
"Here, read the current directory. See that app.py? Yeah, that's you. The sqlite is in the parent directory. I gave you 16 tools. Go forth!"
From experience the stats are roughly thus:

- 4% of users pay for something

- 1% of users fund the entire business
8hr sounds accurate. There’s a wattage slider and you can only set it so low. You might be able to get more out of using the desktop and forcing some idle modes, however it’s impressive enough as is at a few watts and many hours on a portable Linux machine occupying less total space than a 13” laptop.
Philly replaced a burnt bridge pretty quickly. Not sure how different the sizes are but hoping for a speedy fix.

https://www.businessinsider.com/philadelphia-turns-heads-spe...
I won't ever forget the widespread BGA failures caused by the RoHS-forced switch to lead-free solder. No doubt massive amounts of additional ewaste were created, but at least it's "environmentally friendly" ewaste?

Military/aerospace are still exempt and continue to use leaded solder.
I was literally just searching for an episode of The Fifth Estate from 1988 a week ago. A current events/documentary show is never going to get remade.

There's plenty of reasons that people watch old shows. Even on streaming services, the biggest shows seem to be older stuff like The Office, Seinfeld, Friends, etc. Seinfeld will never get remade, and Friends and the Office might, but will not in any way reflect the original.

Going to youtube its pretty clear that there is plenty of demand for old shows: Secrets of War, an obscure 90s era cable documentary show has millions of views across the episodes they uploaded.
> Please define car software.

The totality of all code running on a particular vehicle that was part of that vehicle when it was sold to the end user.

> You have user facing functions, and you have engine control functions, ABS, transmission, and so on.

Yes.

> The first one, I agree, is generally crap.

Ok.

> For the second one, in a lot of models, your manufacturer haven't even written the code, because they buy it from some OEM manufacturer like Bosch.

That depends. If they buy a whole unit there is a chance it is 'stock', there is a chance that the firmware was modified by the manufacturer or there is a chance that development of the software is insourced. All of that depends on volume, cost, licensing, purpose.

> And I am pretty sure that Bosch is pretty good at writing this kind of software.

Based on what evidence?
> Eg, <div><span /></div> will render as you expect because the browser will automatically close the span when you close the div. (!)

span is a bad example. indeed it will close - but then it will reopen (!) when the next text node occurs. <p> is a better example, and it will also auto close when you try opening a new <p>, which can be rather convenient when trying to write concise html.
I'm not against starting with a monolith and even keep evolving it if that makes sense but the problems with microservices I've seen were about poor design. They were mostly problems that could be avoided if people designed good DDD Bounded Contexts in the first place, regardless of being microservices or not.
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