skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much is that going to cost? You need to get the tree hauled to a mill if one is close by and cut into lumber that needs to be sorted through to select pieces that are furniture grade and then sent to a craftsman to actually make it. Sounds expensive!

Honestly be grateful it’s gone. They’re crappy trees that are dangerous to have near property and people.
> There has been one reported event of an explosion in 22 years of use. There have been no reports of injury or death.
I have that exact setup for control, and there’s 1 thing I want to control, and that’s the start time of warming up in the morning depending on outside temp. It’s less efficient at lower temps so takes longer to provide enough heat, and my house loses heat faster at cooler temps, so needs more heat at those lower temps. I want to say “make it 72 at 8am” not “start at 6am to try to get to 72 at some future time”

I’m also concerned about what happens when their online system stops working. Technically I can program some on the connected unit, but it’s not ideal

Oh, it also can only use the temp from 1 remote thermostat at a time. My last 3rd party one allowed, for instance, the night temp to be the remote in the bedroom and the daytime to be set by the living room remote - Trane doesn’t support that in the schedules at all.
The articles based on a questionable paper.

15 to 35 isn’t a tight band. The top of the range would have twice as many as the bottom.
This is a naive reductionism.

Also, the fact that Meta employs lots of spooks is commonly perceived as "Meta is accountable to the US government", which is no less reductionist.
Cool. I'll almost certainly never do this but I like to know that I can.
Yeah, this part smells like the government agency needing a document with the correct contents so someone working there can tick several boxes saying "Requirement fulfilled". The post ends with him wondering why he got the visa, I suppose he just met all the requiments...
I was going to post the same. Calling Win10 a hit is a gross exaggeration. It was pretty much universally hated at release.
I have not read the article but it is my understanding that reach in classic social medias s
(Fb, Instagram, Twitter) has become incredibly bad.

E.g. a post on Instagram would previously reach 40% of your followers and is now closer to 5%. So the value for a business also went down dramatically.

You might as well just invest in advertisement rather than a social presence beyond the minimum.
> I suppose you could argue for anything with this reasoning.

Yes. It's the divide-by-zero error of philosophy.
Thank you for your correction & very interesting info. I overly generalized the matter as of one societal changes that led to class mobility.
We ran out of columns in our 80-column Hollerith card master file. So we divided the 12-row columns into three groups of four bits, giving us the “240-column” card, with triple storage.

This was the 70’s, so our cards looked like lace doilies (0111).
Compared to Windows ME, I remember it as a hit. Windows 2000 was a homerun though
Yes, approximately. In X11 at least, the hardware codes are called keycodes, and the human readable names are called keysyms. Example of the XkbKeycodeToKeysym function in use: https://github.com/anko/xkbcat/blob/8abc3402cb679027a3bd0313...

Keysyms don't necessarily strictly match "key location"; keyboards are allowed to output whatever codes they want for whatever key they want (see e.g. QMK firmware; often used in custom keyboards to do complex conditional key remapping), but they're in practice relatively consistent between common keys on most keyboards, and consistent on the same keyboard even if you switch keyboard layouts in software, unless you have some custom keyboard firmware which functionality is stateful.
Nicely done. But I don't need the existential terror that it induces.
You can literally just buy articles like this. The question that could be asked is the long term ROI here actually going to be worth it for Sam?

The article talks about his "luck" in "surviving." Which is about all he has, apparently. No consideration for the future of the product, the company, or the industry. The triumphant conclusion of this article is "a bunch of CEOs pulled weight and Altman got his old job back, again."

The more of these I read, the more convinced I am that his company is going nowhere, as they seem more skilled at producing "internal drama" than "new product."
Fun how this makes a year seem so small
A ban implies there is some order that explicitly targets Meta. It's like saying Europe has a ban on American chicken imports, when the reality is that they have no problem with it so long as their laws and regulations are followed.
How do you stop management who make the decisions from scapegoating some junior underling?
Ring the bell. Doesn't hurt anything. Eventually someone will turn the machine off.

The later ASCII machines don't have the big gong, just a smaller bell.
This is a beautifully poignant post about life and selling one's time. At 39 I've reached this point where I can verbalise that sentiment whereas before I could only really feel it. Having to sell one's time to others sucks. Doing things on someone else's schedule sucks. And ultimately as the post ended, having the freedom to spend life the way it should be spent means sacrificing that extra bit of money we might want but don't need. Great post.
That is part of the CEO's job. But the primary goal should be to create a company that is profitable (assuming incentives are correctly aligned). For the past decade incentives were not correctly aligned and the primary job was to do the Silicon Valley equivalent of flipping a house.
Can you quantify this assessment? What are the dimensions?
well not really. People being able to find my info is very different from my browser directly telling advertisers and sites I visit my bday
I think it's an important point to reinforce because news stories like this can make patients afraid of MRIs, potentially resulting in them avoiding necessary imaging. Most people on HN are probably not going to make that error -- but I think we have a responsibility to help communicate to the broader community in this regard.
It was manufactured in August 2008. The regulation where I am is 15 years, so I'm just under the wire (or would have been had it shipped right when I bought it in September)

The article didn't mention how far back this goes. I'd love to see a list.
> Is there any evidence...?

My bet - "No Evidence Whatever". But most people don't know what happens if you build a big pile of oily rags. Let alone about the fire hazard created if you pile up green hay.
In that case--although it won't happen--I'd expect to be told that I'll be a cog who will be dropped or replaced at any moment. Perhaps a contractor position.
I'm afraid that English teachers here are killing Shakespeare. They hardly make their pupils read Shakespeare, but instead try to make it fun! Oh, so much fun. Yes, youngster, let's make fun. Shall I tell you about Shakespeare's dick jokes? Haha, I'm sure you're going to like that and pay attention.

And then all they remember is vague jokes they can't tell, because they don't have the vocabulary.
"Ask existing users if they want this feature" is a bad idea because users are going to say "yes" to everything, especially in a B2B SaaS app. It means nothing.
His keynote at this year's OpenAI DevDay is an example of his focus. Have you watched it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9mJuUkhUzk

His pacing, clarity, and proficiency with the product are impressive; regardless of how one might feel about him.
I’m excited to start working on the Android version of Umami (https://umami.recipes). Like the iOS version, I’m building it 100% native, this time with Jetpack Compose.
Yeah, so I don't have a problem with a personal blog where a person posts about what interest them. I just don't see a good reason for it to be at the top of HN.
I'll second just about all of this, the one bit of colour I can add - years ago I had a summer job in a German-speaking (auto) shop where a majority of the workers, including some of the management were immigrants with a fairly wide range of German proficiency but everyone had picked up the onsite du/Sie conventions (along with some others like shaking hands at the beginning of the shift). It's, like you're saying, as much a cultural convention with contextual intricacies as it is a grammatical feature of the language.
Just as likely he'll start asking you to check under his bed for the monsters "mega dada" and "the one with five eyes"!
The quality of Roman oratory (as attested to in the historical record and imagined by Shakespeare later) is impressive.

Performed, for the thinking public, to plant a thought inside their heads.

Political speeches are so hamfisted, lowest-common-denominator affairs these days.

And why should they not be?

(Also, I'll watch Damian Lewis in anything)
Unpopular opinion: I like Win11 (that district which is bloatware-lite) and running shutup10 to fully uninstall Cortana, ShatGPT, and disable the extra sneaky telemetry and privacy nightmares… can’t complain.
There's a big difference between others simply knowing your birthday because you told them vs others knowing your birthday in some unknown way. How do they know that? What else do they know about me?
Working on nothing, but currently reading Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
This ^^. What we call "work" gets totally redefined in later years. That flip makes you realise, you are not your job and your job is just a means to an end.
Not only are BBSes alive and well today so are many ansi artists who make the block art to power them. Be sure to give the ansi archive a look (https://16colo.rs). Create an account and give some rating love to artists who still keep this medium alive.
You have seen the light. Thing is it’s doable. Keep pushing.
What was that about Stuxnet, run to walk to crawl,… and send enrichment programs back to the drawing board! what a world we live in.
Isn't $5800/month a shit ton of money in Romania? Who even gets paid similar amounts there? He mentions a consulting job, but you don't consult as many hours a month as a salaried person
Icychat (https://icy.chat), a new superchat app is giving new signups free ChatGPT 4 for a limited time.
they will bloat it more with copilot/edge/online/office/onedrive services so it will be shit like everything else. why can't they focus on core windows making it stable, fast and everything else optional, ah, it's MS, it's impossible to have it my way, they will do it their way, that's why I asked for M2PRO this year in my company and I'm delighted how good it is. Middle finger to MS.
The student edition was particularly well received around campuses
The fact that the device manufacturer profits by selling a replacement part is not evidence that the part does not need replacement.
GDPR could also make it hard on the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy. The Easter Bunny at least is probably unaffected.
Oh, absolutely. MRI machines are incredibly dangerous if not handled properly. But the overwhelming majority of MRI-related dangers are well understood and avoidable.
There's more to responsiveness than scaling. Column based applications don't work on phones and rows of cards are terrible on desktop, just to name two examples.
> There is nothing less productive in this world than a team of developers

Ever met people with "brilliant ideas" but no skills to make them concrete? They're not only nonproductive, but usually sap everyone else's productivity with their "expertise."
No, appropriate would be if she made a professional observation about her field. A professional realising they're personally doing "their" thing wrong - from a professional point of view at least - is indeed ironic.
Toxic teams and lazy developers will also find way to produce crappy software with Rust.

The Rust developers of today might produce better software, because they are the early adopters who care about performance, safety and correctness, but I believe (assuming Rust becomes mainstream) if you give regular developers Rust to code in, they will produce the same quality as they do with Java, Javascript, or C.

The environment and the individuals are significantly more important than the programming language they use.
> many philosophers find it intriguing

Citation needed.

Other (great) philosophers discussing it are very clearly linked in the article.

Spaghetti/teapot stuff

Considering the tradition of genuinely great minds taking the argument seriously (including Russell in spite of his facetious teapot), dismissals derived from internet atheist memes look emotional or knee-jerk in comparison, which is possibly why you missed the links.
That’s by design. You are meant to work for a corporation. Capitalism is nearly dead due to this - corporation flooding the market, drowning indie enterprise, and clogging money. We need a return to capitalism and do away with guilded corporatism.
> The question that could be asked is the long term ROI here actually going to be worth it for Sam?

Don't you think most entrepreneurs would call Sam if they have a chance?
I sent an email and it was blocked: "Recipient address rejected: Access denied."
> The controller upgrade process was something I never imagined a browser could do.

There's some (minor) controversy around this. WebUSB/WebHID are web standards that Google has pushed, and essentially gives a website similar access to USB devices as a native app running on your computer (which can of course do things like upgrade firmware on the device).

Mozilla refuses to implement WebUSB or WebHID, citing security concerns. I tend to side with Mozilla on this (your average non-technical user will click past most warning dialogs, just wanting things to work), but I can see the appeal: otherwise Google would have to release completely separate Windows and macOS tools to accomplish this, and then Linux users like me would probably be left out in the cold, waiting for someone like OP to reverse-engineer the process.

Of course, if I had one of these controllers and wanted to switch it to Bluetooth mode, I would then be grumbling that I'd have to install Chrome in order to do the switch...
I had trouble grasping difference between frequentist vs bayesian. After googling frantically I found this article which turned out to be very informative about how bayesian analysis of a case might look like vs frequentist one:

https://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(21)03256-9/ful...

I didn't understand much from the part where they use Markov chains to calculate probability of something that is hard to know but the rest illustrates differences really well.
Remote attestation. You already can't take a screenshot of Netflix on windows. Remote attestation will allow them to detect workarounds and block you.
Is it not the case, that wait time goes to zero if you pay in cash immediately?
>> fully uninstall Cortana

>> disable the extra sneaky telemetry and privacy nightmares

Does that require a rinse and repeat at every monthly Windows Update?
Shout out to the folks who used to hang out in the Enlightenment IRC channel until we all got told to take the social stuff to a new channel :D
Can't speak for Japan, but in the US, the immigrant does have the burden of proof that all requirements are satisfied and not submitting enough evidence can lead to a request for evidence (RFE) or notice of intent to deny (NOID). And so the law firm we used had the opposite strategy: submit as much evidence as possible and really help the adjudicator check all the boxes. Our petitions tended to be 250-500 page documents.
> Whataboutism

Comparisons and distinctions are the most natural way to perceive, learn and reason about stuff.

The motivation that drives people to attack attempts of building a frame of reference is always suspicious.
Ukraine and Baltic countries are not the same. This comparison is false.

No wonder the whole world went mad and demanded vaccine mandates for vaccine that does not even prevent the spread of infection. Too much reliance on “experts” that repeat mindlessly “vaccines good” instead of looking into details of a particular vaccine.
I don't think that's quite right.

Rayon / viscose is basically: you take some cellulosic material (wood pulp, could be bamboo pulp, whatever) and dissolve it in a strong basic solution. You now have cellulose in solution. Then, you shoot it out of tiny holes to make almost 100% cellulose fibers of whatever diameter (the hole size). Then you make this into yarns and weave it into something. You can make it seem like silk, cotton, wool, whatever.

I don't think the feedstock has much to do with it (though lignin-containing vs. not is an issue).
True, but landfill operators do. I think the unspoken subtext in the article is that this was an abnormally hot period (possibly climate driven) that the old landfills just weren't designed for.

Kinda like the Fukushima sea walls (which were there, just not high enough).
Most mathematics isn't written for computers, but for humans, so that's why mathematical notation is optimised for that use case.

If you want to write mathematics for computers, you can use Coq, Lean, etc. - or, in a different direction, Mathematica.
Shakespeare's dick jokes were equally for the contemporary audience. Man knew his patrons, who didn't all know the finer points of their letters.
See also the William Shatner version in "Free Enterprise" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73tjF0bzAi4

Interesting because the movie portrays it as a ridiculous idea - a musical of "Julius Caesar" in rap form. But funnily enough, a hip-hop musical of the life of Alexander Hamilton was a great success. Maybe every stupid idea is close to being great.
I find ontological arguments interesting because so many smart people took them seriously (Leibniz and Godel being two, but there are many more). Even if these kinds of arguments are wrong, their popularity seems to suggest something interesting about human psychology and pitfalls that even geniuses can't always avoid.

Ontological arguments are also interesting because of the cricisms they provoked. Hume, Kant, and others famously criticized ontological arguments.
With the rapid growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT, I’ve started to question the future of our field. As a 21-year-old, I realize I don’t have a clue what I will be working on in just a couple years. Every year, AI capabilities grow, proving our old theories wrong. Just a few years back, we thought computers were very efficient in doing calculations but couldn’t understand complex things like human language. But look where we are now.
I played around with this for at least an hour. Countless rounds back and for with ChatGPT on SVG. I'm no closer to something better than the examples in the StackOverflow thread. I hope he figures it out though.
But if you get to decide what is “meaningful”, it’s just a reminder of the finiteness of life.

I’ve spent a bunch of this holiday sitting on the couch, relaxing or letting my mind wander or just enjoying being near a warm fire. I don’t think I’ll regret that at the end of my life (provided my life isn’t all sitting on a couch)

I’d argue if you feel pressured to do “meaningful” things that apparently don’t bring you joy, you’re just miscalibrated about meaning of your life?
I really hope you change your outlook on children development by the time you get to having them, unless you're talking about kids older than 7 y.o. If you really want to, you can make kids think whatever you want, that's why religious brainwashing is so effective.
So they don't explode when they're new, but after a while? How old was the machine exploding?

Not sure how your message disproves mine, this would be the second recall in few years for philips, whatever, doesn't come through as high quality
I don't think being overly connected to the "silicon valley social graph" is particularly useful. I actually think it's probably going to be a negative drain on your time, or sacrificing that, a negative drain on your reputation.
Yeah the bristles wear out after use, cool images of new vs used from an electron microscope: https://youtu.be/cwN983PnJoA?si=2M0XEvND_VDqfcKO
> A word salad devoid of any concrete knowledge

The parent's claim was "Biodiversity does not directly benefit everyone, while global trade does." If you or the parent want to make a more concrete and specific claim than this, I will happily reply in kind.

> No, extinction of species due to infections is not a planetary catastrophe. It's natural and perennial.

Indeed, but our human economy is built on top of relatively stable and predictable natural circumstances. If there is mass ecosystem collapse, the economy is coming down with it. If you don't believe this check out the graveyard of civlizations that overfarmed, overfished, clearcut forests, or otherwise weren't good stewards of their local ecology.
It is so awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!
Name the author please!
Then again, Stadia's streaming performance and graphical capabilities were subpar compared to established competing services like GeForce Now, Xcloud, and ShadowPC. If it were better it might have been worth it.
Right, but that's true of all MRI's - so what's different in this one?
A big problem is that the social media platforms are incentivized to try and keep people on the platform, aka away from external sites where you can sell your services. So your links to where to sell your stuff or whatever is not promoted
We have a UX team - they have their own column on the planning board. They do work on features that require new patterns, but I write up cards directly if we already have patterns for the feature. No need to have UX burn effort on yet another field/form in the app just like the existing ones. So there is collaboration on who needs to do what for any given feature, and the board tracks it all.
He runs a massive unregulated surveillance apparatus with no opt out and forces adults to accept it by buying the good will of children with goods made by his stable of captive unpaid workers
There is at least one person commenting that mathematical notation is stupid in every maths submission on HN, and the author usually never gives any indication as to having made any contributions towards mathematical research. It's an inevitability at this point.
> If negotiating the tu/vous distinction takes major mental effort, are you on the spectrum

For me it’s the fact that these days it’s very inconsistent. The “rules” were pretty clear 20-30+ years ago. Now it’s a bit of a mess and there is a lot of overlap.

> Saying people like myself aren't worth your time sounds like sour grapes

I mean.. you’re somebody who just claimed that a random person is autistic because he doesn’t conform with some social norm you find to be somehow extremely important (specifically) in your environment. So it might not be such a bad heuristic.
Yeah but people’s budgets are not made fully of restaurants and groceries. The bulk is made of housing, cars, phones, goods, clothes, which cost the same as western europe for the most part. In some cases I find food in the UK cheaper. Petrol is also comparable. While far from London the real estate market in a large city is comparable to say Manchester or similar. I doubt people writing apps live in areas where a house costs as much as a house in Detroit’s rundown areas. So op’s expenses are likely higher than that stat.
Your arguments imply that you also believe Palestinians have the right to retaliate against innocent civilians because of Israel's actions. IDF regularly takes hostages (calling them "criminals" doesn't change material realities), murders extrajudicially, etc. By your reasoning Hamas was acting in morally righteous ways. History didn't begin on October 7, 2023.