skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise of the piece is that some large-enough-to-be-"we" group finds these settings and people compelling. That compulsion seems really weird to a non-Briton. Perhaps that's where the USA gets its own brand of "rich people must be somehow worthy of social attention" disease.
I had a lot of fun a decade back pulling ISS SSTV off of a home-made Yagi behind my hackerspace with an old buddy. It was in the middle of Phoenix and there was no chance we could actually see the ISS because of light pollution but it sure was there!
>Let the enshittification commence.

My feelings on the direction of present day Ubuntu:

"You were supposed to destroy The Sith (aka Windows), not join them!"
This is a good illustration of the current state of permissions for mobile apps.
Emulation, preservation, and the fight to save old video games
I am sorry, but that's not how this works. Both software developers _and_ the jobs your described should benefit from better conditions. It would appear that you think that since other have it worse so should tech workers.
It is very difficult to believe any company that "spontaneously" puts out a "fact check" or "record straightening" website without it being spindoctored, marketed and run through legal to the very limit of what the English language is capable of.
Auto dang-bot that posts the comment he posted would be nice!

Recurring threads on HN are not limited to textbooks / resources. They're also working as intended (I think?) -- if they're getting upvotes, it's because they are bringing value to people and new to a sufficient number of readers.
SRAM bike parts was founded in 1985.
Do you have any reference for this?

I'm very curious to see how they managed to pull this off since from my knowledge of the development patterns, .net has historically been much more allocation-heavy (not that it isn't very efficient with allocated data).
Technically, that species was only discovered in 1998. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67363874:

"The importance of the specimen only became clear in 1998 when X-rays revealed it was not a juvenile of another echidna species but in fact fully grown and distinct. It was then that the species was named after Sir David Attenborough."
SCOTUS impeachment is a virtual function from the electorate through their elected officials. Hopefully the receiver isn't a null object...
That's intentional, afaict. The circle in the diagram represents the stroke start point.
That’s just punishing businesses that are labor intensive and rewarding companies that can offload as much as possible to contractors
You may want to read the article since others have issues as well.

>Many of those stories focused on Justice Clarence Thomas and his failure to disclose travel and other financial ties with wealthy conservative donors including Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers. But Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor also have been under scrutiny.
that's a great idea! did you message the mods?
Yeah the UK is bust in terms of tech pay and conditions. But most tech workers have been in favour of hybrid or onsite. No wonder since the UK is rather under skilled, not just in tech. And usually it's those who can't work without endless talk due to lack of experience that want to be ordered back into offices. A shame, the UK used to be the lead in tech in Europe. No longer it seems - neither pay nor skill.
I think you have encountered some projects built by undisciplined teams. That is not a reflection on the framework, rather a reflection on the people improperly using it.
That’s a good description for how I’ve felt since I got Covid a few months ago. I have to force myself to do anything, even sleeping is hard. I can’t focus on anything and life feels unreal somehow.
Agreed. The most "long term" effect a US president has is nominating supreme court justices.

I also fail to see how a "code of conduct" might change the way individual justices interpret the current constitution.

Worse yet, who is writing the code of ethics? Is it going to be a constitution v2? Constitution-lite?
Which is React SSR. A few years down the line, React is gone. Legacy. Most on this forum don't care, they'll just move to another project.
Interesting DIY project! It reminds me of a startup called OccuSpace (https://occuspace.io/), which offers a similar occupancy solution but as a service. They may be leveraging similar technologies to provide real-time occupancy data, which is incredibly useful for managing space in offices, public venues, etc. It's a good example of how these concepts are scaling up commercially.

I wonder How well can your DIY sensor or OccuSpace figure out what kind of devices are in the room or who's using them. Can they tell different users or gadgets apart?
So convenient! I have been looking for tools to craft GPT-powered frontend components. This is an excellent fit for my development
In the context of that interview - cash is paper notes (and coins) issued by national Central Bank (named "Tier 1 money, public money"). Then there is electronic balances held by the Commercial banks (named "Tier 2 money, private money") that is convertible to the "Tier 1". (there is also "Tier 3 money" like Paypal and so on) So in this context "cashless" means "without the existing Tier 1 money" and issuing electronic balances as Tier 1 that replace existing notes (that get retired). Given that China, India, Brazil, countries in Africa etc all have the same (Fiat) money system - not sure in what way this is "western" or "mentality" TBH.
> lifetime appointments

The lifetime appointments are designed to put them outside of the scope of politicians and the need to run for re-election. I guess you could serve a single 15 year term with no option to rejoin the court.

> zero accountability

Supreme Court justices can be impeached and removed from office.
Isn't that the strength of the institution though? If they were elected, they'd be fundraising nonstop for re-election and be far less concerned about their actual job.
I bet there is a pirate EPUB somewhere already.
Good. There's a lot of unrest in the city, and cops can't be everywhere. I know HN is very anti-cop, but as an NYC resident, voter, and politically active person I support this.
Admittedly the reply was a harsh way of saying "learn how the system works beyond a pop culture level understanding."
The key is to build a Ruby app and then provide HTTP access and persistence using Rails. You can find a lot of articles about this by searching for Rails and hexagonal architecture.

My biggest issue with trying to do this is ActiveRecord. I'd much prefer the repository pattern.
Article III, section I of the Constitution.
Nothing is binding. They are all exempt. This is just theater and means nothing.
Soon Samsung would be like able to show moon and Saturn twogether in their photos
> The fact that you spent any time typing a comment on this site is wildly irrational.

I find making such comments very rational: They convince random observers not to support wars and child labor without any reason apart from following blind marketing.

> If you really believe that humans can or do operate "rationally" about any significant part of their lives

People can and do operate rationally from time to time: It's our main difference from the animals.

> Your definition of "rational" and the assumption that it could be universal is itself irrational.

If your definition of "rational" is supporting wars and child labor, then I indeed agree with you that you are irrational.
It's cool. Another similar option is Platformatic by the creator of Fastify.

https://platformatic.dev/

But still... There are no queues or jobs. No HTML over the wire. No colocation of presentation logic. Etc.
Probably unrelated to the fact that a ton of Americans now smoke weed from the moment they wake up until the moment they fall asleep.
>They can be impeached?

To answer your question: yes.
Look at https://dry-rb.org/, some of the patterns there may seem more familiar.
Those departments are executive branch departments, their leadership can be fired by the President and can be appointed with a simple majority in the Senate - hence how we've had 7 FDA commissioners since 2017 - not remotely comparable to the US Supreme Court.
> The only way to do that is to have some kind of smarts doing very non-trivial computations to arrive at the next-next-next-next...-next word that makes sense within the context of previous words and words that haven't been yet generated/sampled/statistically selected.

Do you have any evidence for this claim? Like...I would like to believe this. I would like to say that LLMs are genuinely different in some way. But it just seems very possible that if you throw 10-100x the compute at "raw statistical correlation" it generates much better, specific sequences.

> Perhaps there's a lot going on behind the scenes to make the trick work?

Perhaps indeed!
Exactly, I write a literal message with a literal if/then meaning. She reads it as "my partner is out in the rain and would like me to help".

Of course I think _my_ communication style is "better". But the best communication style is actually the one that communicates your thoughts to the other person, not the one that "makes the most sense".

And meanwhile there are still cases where it will be the other way around and I am going "well I said X, but surely you could have read between the lines..."

So yeah, the best response is to tell her about the miscommunication so she can know better next time, but it's stupid to try and say she was "wrong". It takes two!
You’re inserting the word “grand” into what is otherwise standard collusion, which is easy to do with plausible deniability or even unspokenly when there are few competitors (at least for large franchises fast food)
Is this proven to work? ML models are usually trained to learn a model of the environment by giving them environment data. I would have expected feeding it model outputs just trains it to learn a model of the model creating the data.

Without seeing some kind of demonstration otherwise, my feeling is that it would be like regressing stock price on inflation, then trying to generate more data using the regression model and random inflation numbers. All you'd learn is the model that you put in to generate the data.
You need to be able to explain the goal sufficiently well, and then you need something goal-seeky to do the work, i.e. a closed-loop system.

LLMs are impersonators. They take a prompt and then make up something that relates to the prompt based on their corpus - they are open-loop systems in that sense.
Hah. Enterprise pricing again.

Once in a while I think of giving them some money. Every time I look into paying them for my home server, every time I see it's enterprisely priced and totally out of the question.

Yeah I have the free ESM enabled. Still, they could let people pay 25/year for server updates for up to 3 machines or something.
I wouldn’t say HN mitigates my loneliness.

However, it does keep me from feeling alone…what I mean is HN is where I am not the only person with interests in the things I geek out on.

I don’t work a tech job. I don’t work in academia or a library. In my meat space, a friend recently said “what’s a pdf?”

So HN is a place where I can say things about regex’s and Borges and black holes and the worst case is losing five karma points and the average case is just being ignored as line noise. Both being better outcomes than the worst or average in my meaty life.

I guess the thing about HN is that it doesn’t operate on exclusion. Sure it’s not for everyone, but it is for anyone.

YMMV and this is not an argument that your experience is like mine or should be like mine. Or even that you should think I am right. It is just a draft of some thoughts I have on this particular Monday morning.

Good luck.
The way you worded this, I'm not sure if you're attacking my point or corroborating it.

It sounded like you appreciated that the AGC simplified things via abstraction and then implied it wasn't possible to do today, despite that being the basis of all modern tech. I wasn't attacking abstraction in any way.
Years ago, I backed a US based drone on kickstarter. It took forever for them to send it to me. Eventually, I managed to get it and I took it for one single flight and it went out of control and crashed itself into the side of a building. Somehow I eventually managed to get my money back, thankfully.

The company realized that consumer focus was wrong (nobody had a good experience with their product with tons of complaints in user forums) and pivoted to govt drones because they got millions in grant funding. I can't imagine these guys ever producing anything even close to the level of quality that DJI does.

Needless to say, their website hasn't really been updated in years. The amount of grift these guys managed to pull off is insane.

https://vantagerobotics.com/
Another option would be LoRa - it’s pretty long range. The problem would be that could add a lot to power usage. Though 6h should be plenty of time - wake up, send a small packet, sleep for 6 hours.

You would have a central LoRa receiver in a place that can reach all of the sensors. How far apart are the trees?

Other than that, I would suggest testing out lots of different hardware. I bought several different boards before any decisions were made, and I’m glad I didn’t stick to just one. Costed me maybe $30 to buy a gamut of devices and now I’ve settled on a single one that does what I need.

Also, make sure you’re flashing with the largest image size you can, if your code becomes too large. For me I had to enable an option in the board settings to use the full memory space.

Lastly, one thing you should do is the low power option. See which board supports it the best. Then, what I would do at startup is turn on all the sensors, collect and send data right away, then turn all your sensors off. Do ultra deep sleep for 6 hours. then when it wakes up, don’t bother doing any kind of loop to the beginning - hard reboot. That avoids any problems with memory allocation becoming too large somehow over the course of the program, since it always starts fresh (which is all you need!). I’m not sure the trade off here but for me, I reboot every 12 hours and it works great. (I would do it after every scan but I don’t delay between scans for more constant data, so it would be a lot of set up every single minute).
Roughly equivalent to "all news networks are biased", overlooking the "but not to equivalent degrees."
What's coming soon to Apple Health?

Apple hired hundreds of key employees from top health and biotech companies. What can hiring patterns tell us about the future of Apple Health?

CGM on your wrist?
One of the worst-kept "secrets", Apple has been working on non-invasive CGM since the "Jobs days". Pouring fuel on the fire in hopes of a world-changing innovation, Apple continues to hire top research and engineering talent from Dexcom, Abbott, Novartis, and other leading CGM and diabetes companies.

Is Apple taking on Amazon Pharmacy?
Apple has been increasing its recruiting from top biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Is this a signal that they are preparing to take on Amazon's pharmacy offering? Or, is the company simply building out a roster of top talent that knows its way around the highly regulated health and medical industries?

Mental health iOS?
Your Apple Watch measures your health and well-being. Can it help you improve it? Earlier this year, Apple launched new mental health features including mood, emotion, and mental health tracking and assessments. What features are the company's most recent hires from Headspace, Cerebral, and Modern Health working on?

The health hires that Apple has made recently highlight some of the product areas that the company is actively working on. Who else have they hired and what are they building?

Which company's product roadmap should I dig into next?
I don't even understand the question. Is there in truth no beauty? Why do anything that doesn't add value to the physical world?
That's a great point. I have experience w/ Arduino and have made a carrier board one time [1], but am not familiar with full custom PCB + MCU designs. Do you have any suggestions on where to get started for someone with my medium level of experience here? And also, how difficult would you anticipate a custom MCU to be?

[1] -- https://zachbellay.com/projects/odaf/#iteration-3-phase-2-wi...
Shame on you for passing judgment on NPR based on someone’s unspecific offhand anecdote
One of the noticeable lacks I see is that there's a mention that a justice shouldn't be a member of a civic or charitable organization if it's going to be engaged in litigation before the court, but there's no corresponding mention for legal organizations that may be engaged in litigation. Given that one of the issues is the role of the Federalist Society in the many seeming conflicts of interests it produces, this does seem like an intentional oversight.
Spoutible is down (noon PDT)
After 1 month: is the iPhone 15 pro worth it?
You gotta read carefully the text and try to click the correct button on each screen in a multipage workflow. Then everytime you’re buying something, make sure you’re not re enabling it.
They have a `FactoryBean`! I always assumed that was just a meme. Must be a serious concept then.

https://github.com/infobip/infobip-spring-data-querydsl/blob...
That may be true, but the extent of the reporting suggests that The Honorable Justice Thomas might be a bit more ethically lapsed.
Autonomous lab discovers best-in-class quantum dot in hours instead of years
Show HN: I wrote a multicopter simulation library in Python
* [Documentation](https://multirotor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

* [Source code](https://github.com/hazrmard/multirotor)

* [Demo/Quickstart](https://multirotor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Quickstart.html)

There are many simulation libraries out there. For example AirSim using Unreal Engine, several implementations in Unity3D, Matlab toolboxes. I wanted a simple hackable codebase with which to experiment.

So, I wrote this. Propellers, motors, batteries, airframe are their own components and can be mixed and matched. The code lets you create any number of propellers, and an optimization function learns a PID controller for that vehicle. Additionally, there are convenience functions to visualize in 3D and sensor measurements.

Please let me know what you think :)
> The goal in this study was to find the doped perovskite quantum dot with the highest "quantum yield," or the highest ratio of photons the quantum dot emits (as infrared or visible wavelengths of light) relative to the photons it absorbs (via UV light).

"Smart Dope: A Self-Driving Fluidic Lab for Accelerated Development of Doped Perovskite Quantum Dots," (2023) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.202302303

> Abstract: Metal cation-doped lead halide perovskite (LHP) quantum dots (QDs) with photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs) higher than unity, due to quantum cutting phenomena, are an important building block of the next-generation renewable energy technologies. However, synthetic route exploration and development of the highest-performing QDs for device applications remain challenging. In this work, Smart Dope is presented, which is a self-driving fluidic lab (SDFL), for the accelerated synthesis space exploration and autonomous optimization of LHP QDs. Specifically, the multi-cation doping of CsPbCl3 QDs using a one-pot high-temperature synthesis chemistry is reported. Smart Dope continuously synthesizes multi-cation-doped CsPbCl3 QDs using a high-pressure gas-liquid segmented flow format to enable continuous experimentation with minimal experimental noise at reaction temperatures up to 255°C. Smart Dope offers multiple functionalities, including accelerated mechanistic studies through digital twin QD synthesis modeling, closed-loop autonomous optimization for accelerated QD synthetic route discovery, and on-demand continuous manufacturing of high-performing QDs. Through these developments, Smart Dope autonomously identifies the optimal synthetic route of Mn-Yb co-doped CsPbCl3 QDs with a PLQY of 158%, which is the highest reported value for this class of QDs to date. Smart Dope illustrates the power of SDFLs in accelerating the discovery and development of emerging advanced energy materials.
From an exhausted and humiliated veteran of the failed struggle against the verbification of "impact", you have my respect and sympathy.
I've never read anything more out-to-lunch than this in my life. Clarence Thomas is a signatory of this code of conduct; in what way has he avoided impropriety and even the appearance of impropriety while accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free vacations, housing for his family members, a six-figure recreational vehicle, free private schooling for his child, from straight up lobbyists such as Harlan Crow, on whose affairs Thomas would later rule without recusing himself or even disclosing the existence of these frank bribes that had to be dug up later by journalists? Every decision with Thomas's assent on it should be considered corrupt and legally invalid until proven otherwise.
insubordinate clause
Means nothing if not enforced.
Do you think maybe there should be a distinction between trips reported on annual disclosure statements and those taken privately and without being reported?
Absolutely! I switched from PHP to Rails in 2008 and I've been able to upgrade all of the relevant projects to modern 7.1. Lots of changes/maturation along the way, but all in the right direction. Still best web framework for fast prototyping in 2023. I use Rails every day. Not the best for high concurrency or system tasks, but great for expressing maintainable business logic and working on web apps in teams.
The ability of automation to drive the worker contributions lower and lower will far outpace the workers “hustle” in this regard
I'm German and I've never heard of this word but will use it from now on. The fun thing about German is that you can smash any number of nouns together so you could make it Sonntagmorgensleere or Wintersonntagsleere etc.
For their evaluation to be effective, they have to have a reliable way of measuring employee performance. It is not clear that any company knows how to do that.

In addition, there is no way to evaluate the candidates that were rejected. Apparently FAANGS don't care about that, as they get tons of applicants.
I missed the part discussing enforcement and consequences, because surely this wouldn’t just be a mealy mouthed list of suggestions without recourse. What would the point of that be other than a fig leaf over Clarence Thomas?

Oh wait…
what can they do about it? Are there going to be enforcement mechanisms?
why is that, 15 years Ubuntu user here looking for alternative, Debian seems a natural one though it's LTS is only 2 years by default
The article this tweet is referring to: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/30/mcdonalds-chipotle-to-raise-...
Sunlight: 90,000,000,000MJ/kg
Defaults matter. Google's internal communication indicates that they know this. Microsoft testified that defaults matter and that unless they (or anyone else) could put up more money than Google then they had no shot.

You could innovate and make a better product and it doesn't matter because you can't outbid Google.
Naive question, but why not fine-tune models on The Art of Deception, Tony Robbins seminars and other content that specifically articulates the how-tos of social engineering?

Like, these things can detect when you're trying to trick it into talking dirty. Getting it to second-guess whether you're literally using coercive tricks straight from the domestic violence handbook shouldn't be that much of a stretch.
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You're right of course. I burn with shame.
Tracking this sort of info in a doc is a great idea BUT, for the love of god do NOT do it in slack (or on your work computer, for that matter.) This is the sort of info you'll also want for updating your resume and in the case of layoffs, what's the first thing that gets locked?

Yeah, Slack access.

Use a notebook. :)