skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creativity can be trained just like any other skills! :)

I second taking note of stuff; like most things, genuinely practicing means you will get better.

Something that's also overlooked often is (1) Technical knowledge, (2) Methodical invention (3) Motivation!.

Technical knowledge helps you know which projects are possible (or just economically feasible), and map the roadblocks on the way; impossible inventions are not really useful.

Methodical invention means methodically looking at things instead of just randomly inventing. So you analyze a problem, like: (a) I want to make a volumetric display, (b) I want to bring (virtual) 3D objects to life. Notice the subtle difference between the two. Volumetric displays (a) can range from a lightfield display, which is a very elegant theoretical foundation (and can be realized in a number of ways), to volumetric persistence-of-vision displays like the own shown here. It's likely you will eventually arrive at whatever solutions are possible when you deeply research about a problem domain. Bringing a 3D object to life (b) can mean anything from digital fabrication, VR glasses, haptic interaction, robots, and more. It's a much wider problem domain.

Motivation is also really important. Understanding why you're inventing, and what you what you want to bring to life is also significant. Are you going to bring people joy, is it just very cool, is it a useful medical device that can save lives, etc.. Focusing on worthy subjects is also something you can study and that will really increase how good you are at inventing. Of course making stuff just because [we like it] is also important and valid :)

And for me the most important part is to have fun while you're at it...
> Businesses exist in as much as they are the primary determinant of most people's lives. They shape our cities, our media, laws, politics, foreign policy and have a huge impact in just about everything else that matters.

By this standard, ancient religious figures (now mostly regarded as mythological) exist. Thor, or Zeus (if anyone is a pagan here, I don’t mean any disrespect to your beliefs, but let’s think about whichever one you don’t believe in).

> Real or not, it has _real_ impacts all around us.

Sure. But people were much more devoted to these figures than any business! Religious wars were fought, people lived and died for these gods. But some of these figures still were imaginary. Being imaginary doesn’t mean they aren’t important. But it means they don’t have interests. In reality, these organizations (religions, businesses) have members, users, and leaders/owners, and the business is an abstract representation of those people.

That’s why it doesn’t make sense to ask whether “the business,” which exists entirely as an abstraction for some of their interests, ought to be prioritized above or below them.
> <author quoting Nasim Taleb> “Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile.”

Well in that case there's also no word for the exact opposite of robust. I think this is why we use modifiers such as "completely robust" or "extremely fragile".

> Most people don’t like writing and can’t maintain relationships primarily through text.

Is this generally true (outside of the author's friends), and to what extent (what kinds of friendships) is it true?

It sucks what the author is going through.
Ok, I read your post and though "no way, there has to be an Icarus Airlines out there"... And well, I could find 2:

https://airlinehistory.co.uk/airline/icarus-airlines/

> Icarus Airlines, known as Greece’s first airline, was formed in 1930 but went bankrupt within months

That history seems fitting. And this one:

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

> Icaro Air was an airline based in Quito, Ecuador. Its main base was Mariscal Sucre International Airport, Quito.

That one operated for 4 decades.

If large space transporters ever become popular, there's no way there won't be a few named Titanic. People like those names, and the context doesn't hit as quickly as the awe.
In this case, I don't believe the NSA actually broke the law. They purchased data that was on the open market. You don't need a court order to collect data when it's *that* convenient.

The buried lede here is: why is it legal to resell that data in the first place. (Hint: because it makes Intelligence Community's job 100x easier). This ultimatum for answers is simply theatre.
I understand your angle but the reason is not in the language's technicality but in the community and its culture. Most Perl speakers are seasoned hackers who are great at low level programming and use Perl when C was an overkill; their documentation skills are also noteworthy. Just my observation; I've read Perl docs (just type ('perldoc perltoc') if you're on a non-Windows box) and giggled at some of the funny remarks and admired pithy writing.
Nifty!

Of course, if one is interested in really understanding the nitty gritty implementation of a lot of Objective-C (and UIKit classes), then there is probably no better place to poke around than Mike Ash's blog. He now works for Apple and hasn't posted much since then, but the level of detail combined with the clarity of his writing made it a go-to source for everyone in early days of iOS development. It demonstrates why his getting hired by Apple for systems/language engineering was highly overdetermined.

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/
I believe you’re significantly overstating how good and thorough a job they do of such things. Also it’s not the sort of thing that’s particularly conducive to A/B testing.
I’ve heard of lots of people first noticing tinnitus while being sick, as well as like the sibling comment, right after getting a vaccine (flu, covid, etc.) It seems like inflammation generally makes the symptoms worse, and I’d bet that most of the time inflammation is causing latent existing tinnitus to cross a threshold and become noticeable and reach your consciousness. I distinctly remember that the first time I consciously noticed my tinnitus, I knew I’d actually been hearing the sound very quietly for some time and not recognizing what it was… I don’t know how long I had tinnitus before I knew I had tinnitus.
Personally, no, but on my ~11 person team things are split for work on Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript, Java etc. IIRC the daily drivers for people are:

- Neovim (the most common)

- IntelliJ

- Emacs

- VS Code

I used to use emacs via spacemacs several years ago, but can’t be bothered trying to wrangle editor configs any more - I’m firmly in the Jetbrains tools camp now with the exception of note taking (Notes.app) and commit messages (neovim with committia).
I believe it is $200 for the window motor replacement. The most help I could ask for would be food. If I can get help with food it will free up what I have to address the other stuff ($70 of food would pay my registration for example.)

I can be reached at spdgg@fastmail.com. I'm also just interested in connecting with folks who: are dads, have gone through divorce, work in IT, live in New England, or anyone also just looking to connect. For anyone wanting to do that please feel free to reach out.

If you are someone with auto mechanics knowledge,it is a power window that will go down but not up. It doesn't need to work, it just needs to go up for the winter. Any help with this is greatly appreciated.
I use Chrome for Google websites and Firefox for everything else. I like keeping everything else separated from my Google account.
Google has of course considered doing this. We can't know their exact calculus, but whatever it was, they came to the conclusion that playing cat-and-mouse is financially advantageous to them. Maybe it's a legal concern, maybe it's a market share concern, maybe adblockers don't actually erode their overall ad profitability to the degree we think it does. But whatever the reason, Google decided they will profit more this way.
This is the standard North American approach, we have large insulated tanks that hold water at generally 38-48 degrees Celsius. My home uses a 40 gallon "water heater" using natural gas with an always burning pilot light. It's possible to "run out of hot water" as a result.
If your enemy (and the US seems to place absolutely everyone on this category nowadays) has the power to insert information at will into your spying device, it will always be much, much worse than useless.
For anyone wondering (like I was), Merriam Webster gives both "smooths" and "smoothes" for 3rd person singular of "smooth (verb)".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smooth#dictionary...
Same here. The sound's always been there and it's the only thing I can control my attention towards perfectly. Kind of like how you can't not think about pink elephants but through a lifetime of practice I can do it with this one specific thing.
There's a problem though: either you have to ban transferring NFTs (or other tokens), which makes those a lot less useful, or you need something to prevent double spend attacks (something that blockchain solves).
Maybe they're only given a limited supply of basically overstock chips from AWS. When AWS is building out data centers they need all the chips. Just speculating.

(Annapurna is the CPU company Amazon bought)
Apple releases security updates for iOS, iPadOS and macOS
IPv4 will continue to dominate until IPv4 experience is very noticeably degraded for users or seriously more expensive for providers to get an address.

It's just reality, it's hard to care about non-problems, specially when fixing them creates real my-problems.
Unpopular, at least compared to cars: e-bikes.

- costs next to nothing to charge

- fast and fun to get around

- never pay for parking

- cheap maintenance

- hauls groceries easily

- good exercise
Co-learning synaptic delays, weights and adaptation in spiking neural networks
> datalist

I agree with most of these (I haven't played with dialog enough to have an opinion) but datalist is not a valid choice IMHO unless it's an internal tool. It's ugly, limited in what you can do, and not style-able. This is the problem with a lot of the "just use the built-ins" (looking at you date picker), not only are the defaults not great but you can't change them even if you want to. As soon as you hit one of the many brick walls when it comes to styling or changing behavior (Oh you want the week to start on Monday? Too bad) then your only choice often is to reach for a full replacement library that, yes, uses JS.

I'm all for using the lighter-weight options and agree with HTML > CSS > JS hierarchy but sometimes JS is the only answer if you want to make your UI look nice and have the features you want.
Dramatically Overclocking the Fastest iMac G3 [video]
Show HN: Transformers Calculator
The other day, I was wondering how big of a model I can train on a single GPU in one month. I found this great blog post and I thought it would be cool to make a simple calculator:
https://medium.com/@dzmitrybahdanau/the-flops-calculus-of-la...
And for keyboard remapping on macOS there’s GokuRakuJoudo: https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo
How are startups shaped by macro conditions at birth?
BigCompany A/B testing has this unfortunate tendency to demonstrate positive results to whatever you are testing. Like the A/B test that repeatedly demonstrated that after you buy a blender, your most likely purchase is another blender... (which Amazon still hasn't fixed nearly a decade later)
Expose a MySql Stored Procedure via an Apache Module.

https://github.com/codecando-x/peregrine
Discussed at https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/12/do... .

From the abstract: "While funding conditions cannot explain differences in outcomes, a labor market channel can: recession startups are better able to retain their founding inventors and build productive R&D teams around them."
I am. The overall experience is very good. I write C++ and Python in emacs for work everyday. No, it’s just me using emacs in our team (or maybe even in my company). I don’t see any integration issues with others: the underlying linters and/or language servers are essentially the same (e.g. clang-tidy, clangd)
I don't disagree that some degree of social policy is needed for a country to be healthy. Brutalism, though, was the blind application of the socialist principles to architecture, which generated more misery than what it tried to prevent.
That's the beauty of choice.

I have long found my personal emacs config, so I don't have to wrangle configs any more either, but get to still use it.

But also note that the packaging system for Emacs has greatly improved in recent years, and the time spent to configure new modes is certainly orders of magnitudes less than the time spent using that mode later on.
Sad to say my startup is part of this grim statistic. We raised capital in October of 2021 and were unable to raise follow on capital. I laid off all staff and we shut down two months ago.

Founders today are conserving cash. Gone are the days of raise money, build a big team, and grow grow grow. Now it's all about doing more with less, with slow and steady growth.
Gmail’s always very nearly unusable on mobile safari, mostly due to their user-hating decision to use custom scrolling. Constant accidental touch events when trying to scroll, and it breaks in weird ways that require reloads to fix. And that’s aside from the scrolling itself working poorly to begin with, but short of outright breakage.

IDK if it’s better in iOS Chrome, but it’d be pretty damning if it is, since they necessarily use the same engine on that platform.
Interesting. Thanks for the anecdote, I had no idea this was possible.

Further validated by https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification....

I find it pretty funny that the top of the website says "Adult passengers 18 and older must show valid identification at the airport checkpoint in order to travel." Yet later in the page it says you can still travel without it.
The LV2 audio plugin standard[0], and related stuff like the Atom format[1] used to feed arbitrary data between plugins in realtime.

[0] https://lv2plug.in/
[1] https://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/atom

Edit: Hydrocolloid blister plasters
Sure. Hybrids should be more reliable than gasoline vehicles. But often people point at this article to say that hybrids are more reliable than electric cars, and is why I push back. That's just cherry picking. That statement is hiding behind the stronger facts that Toyotas are more reliable than Teslas and the first year of a new model is less reliable than others.
Article has a typo, now instead of not. "In contrast to JS, which is imperative, HTML and CSS are declarative. You tell the browser what to do, now how to do it. That means the browser gets to choose how to do it, and it can do it in the most efficient way possible."
US to slash powerful planet-warming methane by nearly 80% from oil and gas
Ads will never be the 'new content'. If I want to read a news story, or find some key information, do you really suppose I will appreciate being confronted with "Avoid the Noid" or other fatuous games?
I agree, but it seems like a lot of times you get:

(o foo)
(bar o)

And I don't know if I'm supposed to click it to change to `foo`, or if that means it is already in the `foo` mode.
Am I missing something, there appears to be no context to this article? When it says "543 startups shut their doors", that is 543 of which population of startups? Are they just referring to companies with SEC filings? There have been millions of companies started in the US this year, given "the US Census Bureau shows that 5,044,748 new businesses were started in 2022" [1]

[1] https://www.commerceinstitute.com/new-businesses-started-eve...
> Best to say nothing than make a fool of yourself – something I'm still learning.

I love seeing people plumb the depths of irony this way.
When I was at school (a long time ago), they tried to explain computers to us by making an adder using beads and matchboxes. We didn't have classroom computers back then. I'd like to know how that worked.

I've always wanted to build a digital clock entirely running on fluids. It would use fluid gates, and present a digital display by pushing blobs of coloured immiscible liquids back and forth through glass tubes (perhaps arranged as a seven-segment display). The counter itself would be made using fluid gates (which I don't know how to make). It would be slow; but for a wallclock with minute precision, you hardly need nanosecond gates.

So I wish "fluidonics" were popular.
How are you expecting them to gain market share on Windows, Linux and Android?
Pocket knives.
As far as my understanding, nothing much different from what other plants do.

Anybody with any experience with home plants will know that for most plants if you cut off the tip of the plant/branch (places where new growth happens) it will promote sprouting more branches in lower parts of the plant. Most plants will have special places where new growth can happen and experienced florist/gardener can exploit this to shape the plant to their desire.

As far as I understand, there is a chemical gradient that causes nutrients produced in roots to flow to the tips of the plant for growth. If you cut off the tips, there is no more a place where the chemicals are used and that abundance -- mismatch between the large root system and much less ability to consume -- is what triggers new growth.

Here, you have an enormous tree with developed root system but you essentially killed/cut off the upper part. The abundance of nutrients causes new growth.
"design-by-PM"
Covid vaccines do sometimes lead to increased tinnitus symptoms. But you can’t draw any conclusions from that, because getting COVID often leads to increased tinnitus. I’m not sure whether it’s known yet, but it very well may be that on balance there are fewer cases of tinnitus associated with the vaccine than with the virus. Also, BTW, flu vaccines and catching the flu both have reports of tinnitus increase. My theory: any inflammation event may be likely to increase tinnitus symptoms.
Web3/crypto is especially hard right now, because the market shrank overnight. A lot of 'solutions in search of a problem' going on in that world.
One can only hope. Freeing them to focus on something else is good for society and the economy.
A Sphinx plugin[0] allows for writing in markdown, and I'd heavily encourage using it if you're looking to get widespread adoption of sphinx on a project or at a workplace. Rst is fine once you learn it but removing barriers to entry is useful.

[0] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/markdown.html
Another example why you shouldn't take ChatGPT at face value.

The clicking sound is the opening of the Eustachian tube. Flexing the tensor tympani sounds like a deep rumbling.
Not sure if it counts a 100% as Weird Youtube, but Bill Wurtz music is my favourite weird stuff on there (because it's also actually interesting musically).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elizAugXVcI
It's a step in the right direction but CSS is another tool of abuse by what Philip Greenspun called "artistes" to make unreadable pages. I'm not a proponent of Gemini but basically all aspects of layout and typography need to be returned to the browser, which must be controlled by the user. Designers have endlessly shown that they can't be trusted with it.
My question was how much of an aberration this was from a "normal" year?
People who start seeing ads will know the difference. People don't like ads and will ask their local geek why ads are back and how to avoid them.
Not many that are venture backed though. Jasper and few others will suffer here.
Also, you're not being rational and consistent. First you say no body truly knows what consciousness is, that philosophers debate about it... then you define it as an "experience." Two inconsistent statements. For your second statement? Isn't that just a definition you chose that many "philosophers" disagree/agree with?

Don't answer that question. It's rhetorical. A rational discussion. can't be had with someone who is inconsistent with the statements he makes or someone who is deliberately trolling. I suspect you are the later.
Show HN: ChatCBT – AI-powered cognitive behavioral therapist for Obsidian
ChatCBT is an AI-powered cognitive behavioral therapist for your local Obsidian notes.

You have the choice to use OpenAI, or a 100% local model with Ollama for total data privacy.

When you're done with your conversation, ChatCBT can automatically summarize the chat into a table listing your negative beliefs, emotions, categories of negative thinking, and reframed thoughts. This way you can start to recognize patterns in your thinking and begin to rewire your reactions to disturbing circumstances.

Conversations are stored in markdown files on your local machine, ensuring privacy and portability while giving you the freedom to organize your sessions as you please. You could easily share these files with a therapist.

I built this for myself when I noticed the patterns of chat help I was getting from my therapist in between therapy sessions was essentially coaching that didn't require much context beyond the immediate situation and emotions. This felt like a particularly good use case for LLMs.

ChatCBT has been pretty effective for me to talk myself through spiraling episodes of negative thinking. I've been able to get back on my horse faster, and it's convenient that it's available 24/7 and 5000x cheaper than a therapy session (or free if using Ollama). That's why I'd like to share it - curious if it helps anyone else.

It's under review to become an Obsidian community plugin, but in the meantime it's available now via git clone (see readme). Happy for feedback
Good old-fashioned AI remains viable in spite of the rise of LLMs
Have you looked above the keyboard?

For me it shows the options above the keyboard where normally word suggestions are shown.
Are these bad actors scientists, or not?
Congrats on the £2.5mln! That's a big deal, given the general UK economic environment.
Podman - containerization tool I use in all of my side projects
Aren’t they still violating linux’s GPL license?
Yes I use Emacs for my daily work (OCaml, C++), and for Clojure personally. Team is like 40% Emacs, 40% vim, rest various IDEs / editors I'd guess.
from wikipedia

"HDMI Ethernet and Audio Return Channel
Introduced in HDMI 1.4, HDMI Ethernet and Audio Return Channel (HEAC) adds a high-speed bidirectional data communication link (HEC) and the ability to send audio data upstream to the source device (ARC). HEAC utilizes two lines from the connector: the previously unused Reserved pin (called HEAC+) and the Hot Plug Detect pin (called HEAC−).[51]: §HEAC-2.1 If only ARC transmission is required, a single mode signal using the HEAC+ line can be used, otherwise, HEC is transmitted as a differential signal over the pair of lines, and ARC as a common mode component of the pair."

HDMI Ethernet Channel (HEC)

HDMI Ethernet Channel technology consolidates video, audio, and data streams into a single HDMI cable, and the HEC feature enables IP-based applications over HDMI and provides a bidirectional Ethernet communication at 100 Mbit/s.[43] The physical layer of the Ethernet implementation uses a hybrid to simultaneously send and receive attenuated 100BASE-TX-type signals through a single twisted pair."

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

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This gives me the impression that packet sniffs, and many other operations have been in play since HDMI 1.4,

possibly a subscription based desktop as a service, or game console as a service, could distribute this way, and leech off local LAN gateway, for heavy loads.
A very high proportion of them, but really, every founder is struggling right now.
Collection of books about Pick: https://jes.com/downloads