skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because it's inconceivable that a veblen hobby community would ever decide something that costs a few thousand is "the best" as opposed to "beginner". The entire concept of a "beginner" watch that costs $15,000 or thereabouts is such obvious gatekeeping.

Ferrari is exactly the same. You first have to buy a starter Ferrari or two in order to get invited to Ferrari events which in turn might get you an invitation to buy a limited edition Ferrari. Gatekeeping all the way down to maintain artificial scarcity. One might have wheels and the other keeps time (poorly) but they're the same and the scarcity is the product.
This is what I wonder about. Locking items behind glass has to have some second order effects? When Target started locking toothpaste and laundry detergent behind glass, I stopped going to that store entirely. They lost the sale of whole basket of goods to prevent shrinkage of one item!

When I see this I can’t help but think that these big box retailers are in a death spiral.
I have subscribed to a book summary app, which is not anywhere closer to what you get from reading a book, but it will give an idea of what book is worth investing time and money.
Exactly -- this is no different from lots of other restrictions manufacturers already put in place.

I'm baffled by this, and what law or legal principle they are attempting to use, and why they would apply it here but not in the thousands of other situations.
> gaining access to the iMessage network?

I wouldn't say they "gained access to iMessage network".

They figured out a weakness in Apple's authentication that allowed a user with a fake serial # to authenticate. Apple is slowly making it more strict/checking the serial #s better (my opinion/guess).
I very much feel the pain, my house is too small and we really could use two more bedrooms.

Alas, that's not in the cards, so my office is the garage. I installed a mini split and it does a great job keeping it cool in the summer, and an ok job keeping it warm in the winter.

It's actually an excellent room for me - I use it as an office, my workout stuff is out there, and I play music out there too. The only disadvantages are the fact that it can't be solely dedicated to work, that I have to dedicate a good amount of the space to bikes, toys, mower, etc, and of course the minor quibble that there's no room for the cars in the garage.

(But honestly, when your house is just over 1000sqft, what kind of madman would give up an extra 400 in the garage just for cars?!)
It's too late for me. I, like Douglas Crockford, am completely done with JavaScript [1].

HTMX, LiveView, WASM, Dart, ClojureScript, Kotlin, ScalaJS, Dioxus -- There are lots of options folks. We don't need to surrender to the tyranny of JavaScript.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc5Np9OqDHU
just feels like poison...even hoppy zero alcohol makes me feel shit.
though it doesnt taste that good - i cant drink more than 1x 2.5% or 3.5% beer without feeling like absolute crap. not to mention the gluggy feeling of the liquid itself...
Nope, they're using GPT for those

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/08/22/microsoft-and-ep...
Good point. You could probably charge a premium for convenience, but would be hard to make it worth it.
This is a great clarification. I actually do this a lot of the time (not always), but I do tend to skim the TOC and scan around before starting a new thing and it really is helpful.

As you said, it's a different than RTFM'ing, but it's an important clarification.

Thanks!
My family is from Russia, and we were luckier than most due to some factors (which, again, mostly came from luck.) But yeah - it's odd to go through some of those memories when comparing them to the writings and memories of others, realizing that while I lived through a very strange period of time, I didn't get to experience much of that strangeness due to my age.
This story is not written by an independent journalist nor published by an independent news organization.
Thanks for the nice words on txtai. There have been times this year I've thought about an alternate 2023 where the focus wasn't LLMs and RAG.

ChatGPT certainly set the tone for the year. Though I will say you haven't heard the last of semantic graphs, semantic paths and some of that work that did happen in late 2022 right before ChatGPT. A bit of a detour? Yes. Perhaps the combination is something that will lead to features even more interesting - time will tell.
2024 Calendar: Painting Masterpieces and Bauhaus Heritage – Free and Print-Ready
Happy New Year! Whether your workplace or home, I hope these 2024 calendars will elevate your space with a touch of artistic sophistication.
Even new cell phones, for that matter.
lmkd (low memory killer daemon) works fairly differently off of a different set of signals and different policy. But yes, conceptually they try to achieve the same goal.

I also do not know if Android combines system libraries into one big file for the savings, something Apple devices do.
That's a good review, but you should read Angle of Attack, the book. It's short, and very well written, lots of aerospace engineering details. I was a stress analyst at Martin Marietta in the 80s, there were no discernable technical errors in Angle of Attack.
Shock of the old: 11 murderous and macabre Victorian Christmas cards
I had a watch streak.

I really like Seiko mechanicals when I need a watch.

If I had infinite money I'd get an Omega and then a used F.P. Journe with tourbillon (I found one in Tokyo that was comparable in price to a Rolex).

Rolex is the Gucci of watches, every one knows the name but very few people get them because they authentically like the brand (in my opinion)
https://archive.is/doCRw
Transient is, if I recall, a big part of magit’s special sauce. It’s a great library for interactive chording.
Cumulative “rate” of inflation is not a thing. You can tell because your number is not a rate. It’s not “per” anything.

The average rate of inflation over the period you’ve highlighted is about 3% per year.
Are you saying the iOS contacts API lets apps read and write the verification code? That seems like terrible design. What need would a 3P app have for that capability?
I don’t know that this is a problem specifically of the US or higher education, just humans. Humans want to have the best, to be the best. There’s only so many “bests”. When competing with millions or billions of other people, the odds you are the best are very low indeed.

I think it was less painful pre-internet, pre-globalization, where you only had to be the best in your town, or your state, and that was pretty dang impressive. Now if you aren’t the best in the world what even are you?
What? You can’t possibly be serious.
> As far as I'm aware, no other messaging service offers interop any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services#St...
yeah we already live in a society that's obsessed with both. you can clearly see that when corporations use untested "AI" that racially profile minorities as a way to "protect" their property. again, can you present some kind of coherent argument? are you trying to convince us of something, or just trying to be smug? bc i still don't understand what your point is or what you have to be smug about.
There is the flashy flash mob videos that make for good news media. But a lot of organized shoplifting is more like some fence giving drug addicts a list of stuff to walk out of Target with. It’s organized in the sense that a fence is getting a group of people (who are otherwise freelancers) to steal specific things that they can easily exchange for drugs.

There is also the right wing exaggeration, but at the same time if you live in Ballard of Seattle, you’ll see it happen at least weekly, if not more. Whether it’s organized or not is more of a behind scenes thing.
Still a great outcome if that’s the case.
I've been wearing the same watch that doesn't work for 10 years.

I went to change the battery years ago, took it out, and never ordered one. It has never bothered me once. The watch looks just as nice, and it usually takes GFs many weeks to realize it's not working. And that's only because it's set to 11:11 which is a common cliche meme type time that girls like. (Yes I set it to that on purpose for a girl once)

A watch is basically a form of acceptable male jewelry. It still acts as jewelry if it doesn't tell time.
He makes a comment about graduating and moving to university in the blog post.
What point are you trying to make? What anecdotes have your totally-legit-retail friends shared that are relevant to this discussion?
If you haven't heard of The Time Piece Gentlemen, aka Anthony Farer, it's my favorite recent ponzi scheme as he documented the entire thing online.

Because of the scarcity of Rolex's there are 'Grey Market' dealers. And one of those dealers just went to jail on $5million worth of fraud, basically stealing consigned watches.

What's fascinating about the story is that during Covid the prices of the watches 10x'd for some of them so they were going for insane prices. And this guy vlogged the entire thing all the way up to his bust last month. It's a great way to see and learn about these expensive watches, and knowing the whole thing is bullshit is *chefskiss*

https://tv.watchscammer.com

https://www.youtube.com/@skerriesrockart

https://robbreport.com/style/watch-collector/anthony-farrer-...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-08/spending...
According to https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-contact-key-verific..., the actual verified hash of the account key is stored in an end-to-end encrypted CloudKit container and merely linked to from the contact card.
Show HN: EstimateGPT – Software planning and estimation tool
One hard problem customers face with software outsourcing is that estimating the project cost takes days and sometimes weeks.

Engaging with software dev agencies and running RFPs is even more lengthy and requires commitment and resources.

Playing with GPTs, I found some satisfactory results it can get, given the proprietary data I provided it with.

Introducing EstimateGPT: A software development planning assistant and custom GPT tool to quickly get a draft estimate and plan the project.

It uses the redacted data of estimates we had done by hand for the last 5 years, and it was given a context and instructions that apply to software outsourcing projects.

Here are some examples:
1) https://chat.openai.com/share/d2a8aa16-26aa-4971-a20d-d62d450670ea
2) https://chat.openai.com/share/b4b36eba-c225-4287-b631-4f73003831ce

It certainly does not make ideal estimates and may miss something or hallucinate, but the results seem to be close enough to what you may generally find across the industry.

Would be great if you could try it out and share some of your thoughts. It works great with PRD/SRS, and you might need to get one handy to speed up the process. Feel free to copy a sample from the example.

Here is the EstimateGPT link (requires ChatGPT Plus subscription): https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Cghb6X2U7-estimategpt
Yeah, 5 minutes outside in the summer heat would change their mind on that. Walk even a few blocks in August and you a shower.
Inconceivable. Elon bought Twitter to take care of the bots.
Seems like they would be motivated…to tell the truth about this.
I think they mean "work" as in everyday functioning, not as in a job. How their brain works, I guess.
Thanks for asking. I ended up revisiting the text to make sure my impression was accurate. It is more ambiguous than I recalled.
i've definitely used 2-d cad programs that can't handle 3-d, and 3-d cad programs that are at best anemic for making 2-d drawings

they're not one and the same, although some programs are capable enough to do both
11ty, it's just JS. Use a blog template to start with and host it for free on github
You're correct. Of course the price for this is not only does it cause compiler authors to go bald earlier, it also means that you have natural language-style garden path parsing problems where the meaning of an expression isn't obvious at all and may take several attempts to discern.

And so it also leads to situations where a human thinks "I made a Doodad" but the compiler sees instead "For some reason the human just decided to draw my attention to the fact Doodads exist, which I already knew". In a language like C or C++ where you do need to constantly repeat yourself because it's designed for 1970s compiler technology, warning about this will lead to too many false positives, so it's not done. C++ lock guards are a famous example where this happens - leading to code where authors and even sometimes reviewers believe a lock has been taken properly, but from the compiler's perspective there was never any lock at all so mutual exclusion isn't achieved.
I havent read the source yet just wanted to point out to make sure the closet is well ventilated, get a co2 sensor just to stay safe if using a windowless room is really a must.
Show HN: Automatically trim audio based on subtitles, removing gaps, noise
Great tips! In my bedroom office, I have a west-facing window behind my monitor, with thermal curtains for night and honeycomb light filtering blinds for the afternoon when sun is bright. Also an overhead light. I think its pretty good lighting, though daylight is inconsistent as a lighting source, so that makes it hard to stitch together recordings made across a workday and have them look cohesive.
No, it isn’t a massive conspiracy. A handful of executives decided to score some political points by publicizing a demonstrably farcical narrative around organized retail theft.
Looking at this graph of breast cancer mortality, the drop has been significant, steady, and showing no sign of leveling off. https://seer.cancer.gov/statistics-network/explorer/applicat...
Can pandoc help?
> God forbid a flash mob storms the Capital again and writes a slur on the wall without killing anybody.

Except for the capitol police officer whose skull was busted open after being brutally hit in the head with a fire extinguisher over and over again. Slur on the wall? I suppose you mean the literal feces smeared all over the walls.
You realize that the carriers are all pushing for RCS now, and Apple has been intentionally dragging its feet on that front, right?
Optimizing for STEM is a bit different for optimizing for extreme puzzles.
Math Team is a corner of math (not even the main part), and not STE at all.
It's a bit of a distraction from learning useful math for S, T, E, and even pure and applied M. One of the choices a math student has to make is whether to pursue advanced caclulus/stats/engineering math, or pure math, or contest puzzles.
It's a (hard!) puzzle contest (and those are fun too, but we don't pretend that taking them to an extreme level is relevant to a career).
Pay-at-pump is ubiquitous here in New Zealand, I don't think I've seen a station without it for years. This may be because around 90% of all retail transactions are done with payment cards here.

It's easy. You select the max amount (up to NZ$200), tap your card, and it's done. Pick up the right fuel nozzle, refuel, and go. Exactly the same can be done on EV chargers.

The process card-side is not a charge-and-refund as refunds have fees to the merchant. Rather it's a pre-authentication and finalisation. Pre-auth holds the funds for a set time (determined by the merchant agreement with the bank) and the vendor can finalise the charge up to the pre-authentication amount. Most hotels and car rental places do this for security deposits as well, if they don't charge or explicitly cancel your bank will release the fund hold at the end of the holding period.
I use a shell script to choose a random line in a random file every half hour, and read it out aloud using my OS's built-in TTS engine. It doubles as an half hour chime, reminding me of the time. If I'm curious I will press a shortcut to open the file to that line to see the context. It could be on any subject whatsoever and sometimes connects in interesting ways with what I happen to be thinking about.
Code which solves a well defined problem with the absolute minimal amount of logic necessary is not technical debt.

If a module is fully replaced later, it doesn't mean it was technical debt. Technical debt is characterized by its need to be refactored/modified in a way which is not backwards compatible. If a module can be substituted in its entirety with minimal changes which directly reflect requirement changes, then it wasn't technical debt.

Good code is about setting up components in a hierarchy which allows you to adapt to requirement changes by substituting modules as opposed to refactoring those modules.

Note that if you're adding features to an existing module, this does not count as a refactoring. Not if the module is backwards compatible with respect to its dependents. But of course when adding new features you want to stick to the minimalist philosophy so you need each module to have clear responsibilities.
I'm a security engineer and I'm not sure I'm capable of keeping a private key secure for the long term.
United States:

Q: One of my suppliers marks its products with a Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). Do I have to charge this price?

A: The key word is "suggested." A dealer is free to set the retail price of the products it sells. A dealer can set the price at the MSRP or at a different price, as long as the dealer comes to that decision on its own. However, the manufacturer can decide not to use distributors that do not adhere to its MSRP.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

Australia:

It's illegal for suppliers to impose minimum prices for the resale of their goods or services.

For example, suppliers must not:

• set minimum prices in formal policies or agreements
offer retailers a discount if they sell at or above a minimum price

• refuse to supply retailers that sell below a minimum price

• punish retailers for selling below a set price, for example, by taking away a discount or sending a warning.

https://www.accc.gov.au/business/competition-and-exemptions/...

EU/UK:

Generally speaking, suppliers are entitled to recommend retail prices to their suppliers, but any attempt to restrict the price at which products are sold will constitute vertical price-fixing, which is in breach of EU law

https://www.howatavraamsolicitors.co.uk/know-illegal-supplie...
re-recording digital stuff by playing the sound through something analog is a good way of making things feel more 'real', and can impart really interesting, hard to get character to a track. It's just time consuming to do, as the analogue world really only works in real time.

Speakers, themselves, have an absurdly broad range of nonlinearity, even within a single speaker, the way it behaves at 10% power and the way it behaves at 90% power can be drastically different. That makes them fairly difficult to model. Impulse responses are the soup de jour, and do a good job, but, they only really model a slice of what a speaker can do, ie, a given amplitude.
This reminds me of first learning VI. What context am I in!!!!!
> I have never in my life felt that countries matter. That a person might be better off in one country than another.

I think the people walking across central America to escape violence only to risk more of the same at borders, or taking rickety boats across the sea knowing full well that many of them sink killing everyone aboard, would strongly disagree with you.

> I with half the life span of my parents believe that personal issues and events completely eclipse any effect the political and cultural environment has.

I see where this is coming from, but sometimes events beyond our control - whether it's a lahar coming down a mountain, tanks firing rounds through your house, or a revolution that means your family are suddenly pariahs - can eclipse absolutely anything else, because suddenly those people who you have personal issues with are no longer people, but just meat that's no longer breathing or thinking. And some countries tend to have significantly fewer volcanic eruptions, or violent uprisings, or transfers-of-power at the end of a gun.
Just to give an example of "the rarefied field of physical modeling": SampleModeling/AudioModeling/SWAM instruments enjoy some popularity, I'd say they were the go-to demo when MPE controllers had a burst in popularity a couple of years ago. Most of them use a hybrid sampling-synthesis approach, and some of them use almost entirely synthesis. Astoundingly realistic when used correctly.

Personally, I'd say physical modeling still has a lot of unexplored potential, but that doesn't seem to be a popular opinion.
Huge recommendation, already switched. Thank you!
More right wing or not, The Algorithm certainly puts a whole lot more ads on your timeline, and scammy ads at that.
All the car needs to store is some private key corresponding to yourself, to prove it's that car. On modern hardware you can make these really hard to steal, short of taking the entire chip with you.

Worse case, if someone steals that key (or the hardware that stores it), they can steal electricity with it. Which also means they'll be caught approximately tomorrow.

If you have that level of access/capability, there's better things to do than using it to get 50 dollars worth of electricity and probably being picked up by police as you siphon it.

Besides, there's easier and stealthier ways to get free electricity.
I don’t understand this attitude

Everything shown in the industry backs up the claim of its dangerousness to the point where this entire article revolves around an industry changing in order to make up for that.

Why would you, somebody who is not in the industry and has absolutely no clue about this, have an opinion this strongly held?
I fear this is going to be a very naive HN comment but: could a robotic arm and some computer vision do it? It seems like a very constrained environment that would be well suited to CV.
Right, but my point is that I want to be able to look at my wrist to tell the time, so if my nice watches stopped working, I’d have to either shell out money for a new nice one, switch to a less nice one, or just accept having to look at my phone for the time. Any of which I would find annoying.
Beware Slint's license, it's either proprietary or GPLv3, or whatever this kooky thing is that doesn't allow mobile apps: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/blob/master/LICENSES/Licen...
Looks interesting, trenching that will probably not be fun. Hope it works out, esp getting city to work with them. The first one to solve this idea is probably the next trillion dollar company.

Surprised no one has mentioned Zipline yet, the drone startup that got their start in Rwanda with gliders delivering blood by air. They went on to make a quiet drone that uses a cable attached pod to accurately place deliveries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNBu9DkU
m68k variants were quite popular in the embedded world until fairly recently.
This is what I mean when I talk about different kinds of brains.

Some of us need a certain amount of clarity and structure before we can feel good. This a great! Especially if we're aware of what we need and figure out how to get it.

Others of us have trouble building from the roots, and we're more effective probing around in dimly lit fog with occasional bits of moonlight illuminating leaves.

Eventually, we may both find ourselves in a well-lit forest, but we approach from different starting points.

The important thing (for me, at least), is to know which path I need at a given point in time and for a given context.