skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only mean to say we have a boatload of Apple products. All started with parents having iPhones. Eventually Apple Watches and AirPods because they work well with iPhones. Got smaller kids Apple Watches so we could track/contact them Eventually gave them our old iPhones, allowing us to control them with Screentime. Several Apple TVs and HomePods so we can all elegantly control them with our iPhones, and of course an Apple One subscription for shared iCloud storage, Apple Music and Arcade. Family controls smarthome through HomeKit.

Believe it or not, I’m not an Apple fanboy. It’s just that once you have an iPhone, the system really works well together. If I had an Android, I could not approve app requests or downtime extensions from the kids. I couldn’t instantly control the Apple TV. I’d have to use hacky workarounds for the HomePods. And, yes, absent Beeper the family would have to start using a different messaging app, which neither my wife nor girls would want to do.

I wouldn’t say we’re brand loyal. If other products worked as well, we’d buy them. I’ve tried several Samsung phones over the years, but I always come back given the friction above. Apple makes nice products that work well together. We’re an Apple household.
And they were exceptionally rare.

But here are 2 films from different eras with somewhat similar themes:

1985: The Breakfast Club, 1h37m
2023: The Holdovers, 2h13m
Typically the price of not having horizontal scaling is felt more by the engineers than the users, at first:

- Data migrations, schema changes, backfills, backups & restores, etc., take so long that they can either cause or risk outages or just waste a ton of engineer time waiting around for operations to complete. If you have serious service level objectives regarding time to restore from backup, that alone could be a forcing function for horizontal sharding (doing a point-in-time backup of a 40TB database while dropping some unwanted bad DELETE transaction or something like that from the transaction log is going to be very slow and cause a long outage).

- The lack of fault isolation means that any rogue user or process making expensive queries impacts performance and availability for all users, vs being able to limit unavailability to a single shard

- When people don't have horizontal scalability, I've seen them normalize things like not using transactions and not using consistent reads even when both would substantially improve developer and end-user experience, with the explanation being a need to protect the primary/write database. It's kind of like being in an abusive relationship: you internalize the fear of overloading the primary/write server and start to think it's normal not to be able to consistently read back the data you just wrote at scale or not to be able to use transactions that span multiple tables or seconds as appropriate.
Completely reasonable when understood from an evolutionary point of view.
Have a try at Gambas.

https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

Or Lazarus, for the Delphi variant,

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
then you must have gone missing for past few years
It is more than just improving the customer UX, it creates massive savings for the retailers. The further reduction of manned checkouts, and the faster customer throughput (some data that it is 25x faster) meaning reduced queues, which increases volume of sales. Every bit of reduced friction for the customer, increases profit potential.

Further, loss prevention is reduced as accidental scanning errors, and ease of intentional theft is reduced. The issue you raise of containing metal is a historic problem, but has been solved for many years through RAIN RFID tags, where a metal surface itself actually becomes part of the antenna, making it even stronger. Are you aware of any further current issues?

I agree, the cost is higher than a barcode, but when the barcode was introduced the same argument was valid. What is the benefit to the manufacturer to get involved in stock management, when the shop was previously responsible for "pricing-up" the item themselves. Wrigley's gum was the first to do it, but how did it benefit them?

With more adoption, the price will decrease, and this will become standard. Or, what is the alternative? That we use barcodes for the next 100 years?

Regarding chip-and-pin, I was responsible for writing some of the middleware in ~2004 that interfaced between chip-and-pin machines and terminals (& other devices), for what was then the largest provider in this space. It's wild that you state it was as simple as you claim, it was a massive effort across the industry, requiring lots of revisions to standards, collaboration, conferences etc. You feeling it was just a case of swapping the machine over, my former colleagues and I should take as a complement that we did it so well to give that impression.
So the inverse of the final scene in Patrick Süskind's "Das Parfum" is plausible?

1) collect women's tears from donations (kickstarter.com)

2) spread them as a fine mist at G20

3) world peace

Edit: maybe this is what Hugh Laurie was singing about here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8chs2ncYIw
15 to 20 years ago a lot of systems didn't have to be distributed, multiprocess, run in the cloud and deal with as much data. Of course there were some then, but the trend has moved this way.

Also, the leet coders have taken over, back then they weren't as influential.
It has. The full test results are on this page: <https://ucs-detect.readthedocs.io/results.html>.
> If I’m doing the math correctly, growing their existing end-user offering at 20/month to a billion users

If a billion users had/wanted access to GPT/LLM tech aren’t they likely to get it through their existing Windows/Google docs/Adobe/SAS/Salesforce/etc subscription and workflow tools/data rather than a standalone OpenAI subscription?

The bulk of OpenAI revenue will be B2B although I’m not sure how much they’ll get
Construction, mining and oil extraction firms make plenty of use of people with geology and engineering degrees, particularly in jobs that involve doing research and calculations.

Seems fairly obvious why three years of sitting in classrooms and libraries isn't seen as a particularly useful way of demonstrating aptitude for operating heavy machinery.
Is anyone actually in prison for abortion?
the most likely regulatory action is to ban/tax shein
Spraying some into opponent's corner before a fight match to increase chances of winning a bet?
Surprised to learn it's not tesla or comma with the first level 3 driving system approved for sale in the US. Would never have guessed Mercedes would beat them to it.
Hah. Well you always need to just learn new things. That's what my life taught me.

Check it out. Year is 1999 or so - [edit: scram that, more like 2001] and I'm working at a Starbucks on my laptop. Mind you, wifi does not exist. Having a color laptop is sort of posh. One other person who shows up there every day, this kid Jon who's my same age, he's got a laptop. We end up talking. No one even has a cell phone.

Jon's my age and he's writing PHP scripts. So am I. I have a client I built a website for that needs an online store - they sell custom baby blankets and car seat covers. They want a store where you can choose your interior fabric and exterior fabric for each item, and see a preview. They have 10 interior and 20 exterior fabrics. They sew these blankets by hand for each request, for like $100 each. This is a huge job at the time... it pays something like $4000 for me to write the store from scratch. (I'd easily charge $60,000 now for it). First I have to mock up 200 combinations in photoshop?... so instead I write a script that previews the exterior and interior fabrics. Then I write a back-end in PHP to let them upload each fabric and combine them.

One day I'm sitting at the next table to Jon (he was working on a game at the time, I think - fuck, who knows, we were both 18 year old drop outs) - and I showed him how I wrote these fabric combinations to text files. And he was like... "Dude, have you tried SQL? It's AMAZING!" And I was like, "what the fuck is SQL?"

Yes, people used to pay idiots like us to build their websites. I'm still sort of proud of a lot of shit I got to do back then. But I am thankful to Jon that he introduced me to SQL when I was at the time trying to invent databases from scratch with fopen('r') and fopen('w') and hand-built parsers ;)

[edit] Just one little thing I'd note my friend: If you have a brain, it's always the wild west. Those jobs that make you create something from scratch, they haven't evaporated. Sure, it helps to know newer technologies, but the more important thing is being sure you can do what they're asking for, and then figure out a way to do it. This is the hacker ethos.
I've been interesting in learning to make a paramtric kernel myself. any recommended books or websites I can go to?
The Johnson Solids (2019)
Don't try to apply standards of common sense to legal protections. You and I, and any sensible person, know if would be foolish to interpret a random blog post as legal advice. But a bad actor acting in bad faith could _pretend_ that they were misled by that advice, and conduct a frivolous lawsuit (or, more likely, the _threat_ of a frivolous lawsuit) for profit. By the simple act of putting ~20 words at the top of the article, the author has protected themselves from this. Simple Cost-Benefit Analysis makes this clearly worthwhile.
Given Tesla's haphazard approach, even if they had a level 3 driving system available, they probably would just launch it without any approval.
>The Matrix was also destroyed in its 4k transfer by ridiculously bad color correction.

Which of the color corrections destroyed it? The one where they made everything green? Or the one where they made the colors 'normal'?
And who is to say what a film looks like?

Why should anything have "film grain"? Why is 24hz a standard? Why is letterboxing a thing?

These are all tools, the public can't "forget what a film looks like" because if that happens, that's what a film looks like now.
To be followed by a Show HN listing for someone's Women's-Tears-as-a-Service startup
Actual tear gas
TKP doesn’t suggest “non-physical information” exists. It suggests that some information cannot be relayed through means other than direct personal experience. When the actual blue light hits Mary’s retina, that is net new information, and information that could not have been conveyed by numbers on a monochrome screen. It is very obviously physical: the text “blue light has a wavelength of 450nm” conveyed in light at 700nm is a totally different piece of information that will be processed by the retina and the brain totally differently from an actual beam of 450nm light.

Critically: in either case the brain will process those photons hitting the eye with a combination of random and deterministic processes. This is a physical fact, not a thought experiment, and so I think warrants a stronger rebuttal than simply asserting, “this is absurd, and therefore we should reject it.” If it’s not a physical fact, explain what other non-random and non-deterministic process is happening.

What specifically is absurd? That your subjective experience disagrees? We can reliably and trivially produce all sorts of illusions in which your subjective experience loses touch with objective reality.
I ask it about creating a conversation in Polish with English translations about an encounter between two neighbours walking their dogs.
It had never been necessary before?
Imagine getting so mad and then you just hit an inhaler of tear gas.
PromptBoom offers a bundle of 10+ AI tools
https://PromptBoom.com offers a bundle of 10+ AI tools and you don't need to switch between various AI products with different accounts and pay for each AI tool separately
So what does a textile mill do? Does it grind cloth into fine dust, or does it something else? Is the sawdust produced by a sawmill its primary output product?

The word mill is overloaded. In Dutch, these are two separate words: molen, a singular noun describing a machine using a rotational mechanism for powering some industrial process; and malen, a verb describing the milling of particles into flour. In this case, the article describes a mill of the first kind.
do you have a reference to how this might be accomplished? how do you avoid high read / write latencies if you put everything into a single table / key-value pair per user?
Does it only work with women's tears, or would the same effect happen with men's tears? So interesting!

I see they compared women's tears with saline solution, they should compare male tears and female tears next!
60EUR absolutely isn't a drop in the bucket for households in the EU, that can be a monthly bill for someone living in a smaller apartment.
That's how the wireless kind works. One unit blows in while a second identical unit (theoretically located across the house) blows out, and they switch roughly every minute.

This balances the airflow, so you don't get non-regenerated (or more accurately, less regenerated) airflow "somewhere else" like you do if you use a single unit.

"in thermal regenerators, the hot and cold fluids pass through the same channels in the packing, alternately, both fluids washing the same surface area. In recuperators, the hot and cold fluids pass simultaneously through different but adjacent channels."[0]

So these regenerative-type HRVs alternate the flow direction of the air, using the packing material as a thermal "battery" to warm the incoming fresh air from the outgoing exhaust air.

While they are indeed simpler, my understanding is that they don't really perform well. There's no humidity recovery, the CFM is too low, the cheap units don't do any active pressure balancing, you can't continuously exhaust from bathrooms/kitchens, and the lack of net flow to distribute air throughout the house means you're mostly exhausting the fresh air you just brought in. Not great.

If you're going cheap, skip the regenerator-type and the HRVs altogether and go straight to a jury-rig ERV.[1] Though again, ideally you can run flex duct (or temporarily on the interior, even just dryer hose) to pull exhaust air from the opposite side of the house, and specifically from bathroom/kitchen areas.

However, first you should test your CO2 levels and/or do a blower-door test. Most buildings aren't tight enough to need an ERV anyway!

[0] https://www.thermopedia.com/content/1087/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnLwJxCbxfM
> What's a viable business model for web search other than ads (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Naver, etc.) or paid search (Kagi)?

Not my problem. Those companies, and any other with business models reliant on advertising, don't have a right to exist. If your business can't be profitable without child labor, your business has no right to exist. This is no different.
This does not match my own experience.
Though my experience is about 15 years old, which may be a factor.
I have met a large number of students with cs degrees in the US
who never wrote a single line of code.

I looked through the study and I was not able to find the test they were given.
This is the organization that makes them:

https://www.ets.org/pdfs/mft/comp-sci-test-description.pdf

The phrasing for the US number is different but probably semantics:

We also obtained assessment data on 6,847 seniors from a representative sample of CS programs in the United States.
When it comes to the foreign countries the district term "tested"

The sample size is drastically different:

China: 678
India: 364
Russia: 551
US: 6837

Further Americans developed all tests.

It would be interesting if the reverse tests were done.
Russia developed one test, China one, India one,
Then the sample group from this test would take each
one seperatly and with good time to rest (days) between tests.
If the results were equal to this first study.

They might well be.
That waffle maker with the 1x1 piece on the top right bugs the crap out of me…
Quite a lot of headlights already have a blue tint to them and I don't think there's really any confusion regarding those. The fact that the lights don't flash are already quite different to emergency lights.
Try “The Ghidra Book” [0]

I’m still going through it myself

https://www.ghidrabook.com
quite - the hyperbole of the subtitle (or it's presence on HN) doesn't match the banality reality of 'checkouts used by millions of people around the world still in use'
I don't understand why it is so hard for people to understand the difference between open source and free software.

I don't mind at all paying for open source software, and I don't see why I shouldn't. My expectations/preference for open source software is purely motivated by resilience (enabling continuity of service in the case the original editor goes bankrupt or stops innovating its product) and security (enabling the community by offering access to the inner functioning of the product).

The article title and intro (seems to be removed now) seem to try shaming Google for charging for Android. Android as a ton of issues but I don't think not being available for free is the issue.
Years ago secret military and intelligence bases were outted based on Strava heat maps.
This product has undergone a huge revision, and these new tools have greatly improved the efficiency of my work.Good job.
When I see advices like this, I always remember Garr Reynolds [1] PresentationZen and, above all, Guy Kawasaki's rule of 10/20/30 [2]

A pitch should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.

[1] https://www.presentationzen.com/

[2] https://guykawasaki.com/the-only-10-slides-you-need-in-your-...
I believe Beeper cloud running on the Mac handles the renewals automatically, but I haven't seen it yet (nor would I?).
That image in your screenshot looks like coupon codes for Arabic web shopping sites.
The key here is that the query sample is uniformly distributed, and that this is sufficient. I think some other comments in this thread give some decent intuitions why this is true. Cheers
Apologies for not responding quicker.

For context, my team wrote scripts to automate catching spam at scale.

Long story short, there are non spam-related reasons why one would want to have their website show different content to their users and to a bot. Say, adult content in countries where adult content is illegal. Or political views, in a similar context.

For this reason, most automated actions aren't built upon a single potential spam signal. I don't want to give too much detail, but here's a totally fictitious example for you:

* Having a website associated with keywords like "cheap" or "flash sale" isn't bad per say. But that might be seen as a first red flag

* Now having those aforementioned keywords, plus "Cartier" or "Vuitton" would be another red flag

* Add to this the fact that we see that this website changed owners recently, and used to SERP for different keywords, and that's another flag

=> 3 red flags, that's enough for some automation rule to me.

Again, this is a totally fictitious example, and in reality things are much more complex than this (plus I don't even think I understood or was exposed to all the ins and outs of spam detection while working there).

But cloaking on its own is kind of a risky space, as you'd get way too many false positives.
Bard is getting quite good at queries for upto date info:

“What was the last FED announcement?”

“When does Apple announce results”

“Where can I see the Barbie movie online in Finland”

Google Search has a vast system gathering live data that can be added to Bard - as probably is being done to Bing
This guy is really churning out awesome projects right now (or at least the videos for them).

I got his satellite clock kit for the office and love it!
In one model, when the universities negotiate for government funding, one key factor is the number of degrees of various kinds they are expected to produce. That has interesting effects on admissions.

Some fields have highly competitive admissions, because the number of people willing to study them far exceeds the demand for graduates. This may be because the field promises a well-paying high-status job (e.g. law, medicine) or because it is inherently interesting (e.g. social sciences, biology). In other fields, particularly in STEM, admissions can be easy, because the demand exceeds the number of capable and interested students.
I find the emphasis on the automatic decision making and operation here interesting. Why does it need to be automatic?

Is it to relieve political pressure on the decision- makers, since closing the barrier prevents traffic in and out of Rotterdam?

Or is it because the algorithm is so complex and it has to anticipate water flow from the Rhine?
That’s literally built into kagi. For me their rewrite feature is more important - I can now go directly to old reddit.
Cool: Make music even if you know little about making music.

You can hear some of the AI-generated songs here:

https://app.suno.ai/
An autonomous driving system is either good enough to drive on our roads without supervision — or it's not. If it is good enough, it shouldn't matter whether others know if the driver isn't human. Any unsupervised driving system is likely to be around two orders of magnitude safer than a human driver.[0] So effectively they're special lights to tell others that a car is extremely safe.

This will backfire horribly. While there is some residual benefit to law enforcement, these lights will signal to human drivers and pedestrians that this vehicle can be bullied with impunity, and with no risk of angry retaliation. Human drivers will cut in front of them mercilessly. Pedestrians will step onto the road in front of them. Maybe not in classy affluent suburbs, but definitely in rough neighborhoods.

--

[0] I think it's obvious that anything less than two orders of magnitude (100X safer) is socially unsustainable. Think about it. 40 thousand people die on roads in the USA each year. Replace all drivers with an AI that's "only" 100X safer and we'll initially marvel at the 39k lives saved every year. But that will quickly be forgotten. What's left is the brutal carnage of 400 people mercilessly killed by robot cars annually...
Love it! Reminds me about Chip’s Challenge! I used to play it on my old man’s 486 at the ripe age of 6 or 7. Found it last year on an online DOS emulator and was stunned to know that I knew the entire sequence of one of the earliest ice puzzles through pure muscle memory (some 25 years later)
H2 into Action
I've read this one three times over the years. What can I say? Sometimes, a book just grabs you and won't let go. It was the first novel that truly rewarded my effort.

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

"His white knit shirt and name-brand shorts were soaked through so you could see the straps of his jock biting into the soft ass I was handing him."

"Jim, [Marlon Brando] moved like a careless fingerling, one big muscle, muscularly naïve, but always, notice, a fingerling at the center of a clear current. That kind of animal grace. The bastard wasted no motion, is what made it art, this brutish no-care."

"The key to the successful administration of a top-level junior tennis academy lies in cultivating a kind of reverse-Buddhism, a state of Total Worry."

"Yes, I'm paranoid -- but am I paranoid enough?"

‘Hey Hallie? I think I’m being followed.’
‘Some men are born to lead, O.’