skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one don't understand why one would switch to yet another corporate controlled social network. Have people learned nothing?
We long ago switched to refillable pods for our Keurig.

That said, the Nespresso pods are aluminum, not plastic.
I’m not aware of a bison grass vodka from Russia. I quite like the Polish bison grass vodka (Żubrówka). Though perhaps that’s your point.. the Russian variant having notes of paint thinner?
There is already a smart toaster that toasts the toast according to the desired browning level and not simply according to time. It even manages completely without high-tech. The only catch is that the model is 70 years old and is no longer in production. But there is a great video from Technology Connections on YouTube about it: The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours Link: https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y?feature=shared
Erlang is based on virtual threads (confusingly called processes).
The Erlang virtual machine schedules them on OS threads.
Erlang processes communicate using message passing, preventing deadlocks.
You can use millions of Erlang processes without problems, e.g., to handle millions of Elixir LiveView sessions.
That is very strange. Commenting to follow this thread later should anyone else comment.
For what it's worth, I did search the same thing on YT and nothing out of the ordinary came up.
For a vintage SF treatment with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis at its center, read The Languages of Pao by Jack Vance. It's been a while since I last read it, but I have fond memories.
I seem to remember a pretty high profile shooting which involved several antifa people attacking someone and being shot in retaliation. The trial was also very high profile and ruled in the defendant's favor that he acted in justified self defense.

Many people seem to disagree with the ruling on emotional grounds though.
Yes, it is. That’s because their discussion of pinning is incomplete: it needs to mention forward progress.
Whether something is transformative is one of 4 tests for fair use.
Fructose is involved in the metabolic pathway that leads to gout. You might want to try eliminating fructose from your diet for a while.

https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson/
I think the invite system worked. They managed to keep high-bandwidth low-effort users out until nicest of online people recreated early-Twitter-like culture, unlike how Mastodon Fediverse had gone with flood of empty calories trying to make a big exodus happen. There are probably lessons on how to build a successful social medium, more so than about architecting a technically scalable system.
I listen to Data Skeptic and Practical AI. It's interesting content, and I find Practical AI has guests who are particularly relevant to what I want to learn, but you should keep in mind that the guests are usually trying to promote their own products, so everything they say should be taken with a grain of salt
The big thing it's helped me with (also learning) is that my learning style is, after reading a new concept or thinking I get it, imagining fringe/edge cases, and trying to understand the battery limits of the concept and how it fits in with others to ensure I'm comfortable. I'm not explaining this well, but "what's the difference between this method and the one I learnt 3 chapters ago, they seem really similar. Why would I use one over the other, and why is there a need for both to exist?" would be a good example.

Without ChatGPT I'd just ensure I got an exercise right, and move on, half cloudy and uncertain in my understanding. The static content on Codecademy obviously doesn't explain that when first teaching you, but ChatGPT allows you to do ANY such comparison, and explains things exactly as you asked them, complete with demonstration code blocks and said fringe/examples where, in the above example, one method or the other would break or be suboptimal.
Send one to me. greg at the email qbix.com
AWS pricing and optimization is just capacity planning, which doesn’t go away if you run on prem - it just looks different, with longer time horizons & financial implications.

“Will my data center run out of floor space & I need to expand?” (years+)

“Will I have enough cooling & power to support the new racks we need?” (6 months+)

“When do I need to get the server order out to ensure we meet our capacity needs?” (6+ weeks)

Every one of those are capital expenditures, so line them up with the annual budget cycle - be sure to keep enough spare capacity to be responsive for last minute asks.

Don’t think my intent is to romanticize the cloud, either. It’s not better, nor worse, just a different way to manage things.

Of course if your company is sufficiently small, do whatever you know and can do quickly - customer acquisition will be more important than debating the cost of either infra in aws or a colo’d server or two in some racks somewhere. But the complexity doesn’t go away if you go to the cloud, OR if you are all on prem. TINSTAAFL.
Yeah, would be even better if it where atom feeds with pagination, IMO.
"You know the last time you had toast. 18 days ago, 11.36, Tuesday 3rd, two rounds. I mean, what's the point in buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don't like toast. I mean, this is my job. This is cruel, just cruel." (Call it Talkie)
Python Memory Optimization Techniques
The only point I’ve made which you address here is that you object to me using the word atrocities and then go on justifying the conduct which I called atrocities. The rest is irrelevant to any point I’ve made so I’m gonna ignore it (at least here).

Genocide is by agreement not justifiable. Article III of the Genocide convention makes it clear that genocide (a), incitement to commit genocide (c), attempt to commit genocide (d) and complicity in genocide (e) are all punishable crimes. The convention offers no exemption for these crimes, and therefor no justification. So if intent is found, any crimes committed against Israel prior to these atrocities (sorry, I don’t know a better word, so I’ll keep using it), then it is demonstrably false that the October 7th attacks were a justification for them. Because legally, they aren’t.

If the court fails to find intent, then honestly you’ll just have to look at your humanity and see whether the same atrocities committed because of carelessness instead of intent, are then justifiable. Personally I think human lives are worth more.
The problem is not “long running synchronization” but synchronization that relies on stuff running outside of virtual threads to unblock itself. There is no issue beyond performance if you perform filesystem operations in your mounted state.
No need to get complicated or have dependencies - I do this with a git repo checked out and a bash script that creates all the symlinks in $HOME/
> the program is in control of the main event loop, user input is handled as part of program flow

Is that supposed to be a good thing? I don't want to write an event loop - I'll probably screw it up and introduce bugs.

> the program state is both minimal [...]

Um... The comparison of normal web programming and your proposed alternative shows an order of magnitude more code for the same result. And it's not even really the same result, I can't select text and right click to copy for example. What about complex things like varying the UX depending on the size of the screen and input method. Or accessibility features for someone who's blind or can't move their hands... those aren't optional.

> and cleanly separated.

Huh? You've got a function called "loop()" that contains all of the code. Where is the separation?
If you’ve had psychosis, there’s a decent chance that might happen again.

Most of my trips were pretty surface level but that’s probably because there was usually a lot of external stimulation going on (music festivals, concerts, drum circles etc.). I’ve also had good trips just sitting around with friends and listening to music but those were a little more introspective. My bad trip was in a familiar, comfortable setting too but as soon as the trip started I couldn’t escape the bad news I was anticipating and fixated on it the entire time.
"The whole purpose of my existence is meaningless if you don't want toast."
It looks like they only repaint when there is interaction as well (so it does sleep while nothing is happening).

However, my point with linking this library was just to demonstrate that accessibility and IMGUI are not inherently incompatible.

My point with the example I created above was that you don't have to trade away battery life in order to take advantage of the IMGUI paradigm. My secondary point was also to implement the "interactive rectangles" optimization I mentioned above (which only took a few lines of code).

While I agree with you that there are definitely tradeoffs, I don't think the aforementioned ones are necessary.
I noticed this shortly after the loginwall came down, and am subscribed to a few feeds. The post mentions the lack of links, but what I find more frustrating is the lack of embedded media (or indication thereof) on posts where it's present. This is also a problem with Mastodon feeds.
Ask HN: Why aren't there more hearing aid startups?
The social impact of a better and more affordable hearing aid would be immense. Especially since the social isolation of hearing loss takes such a devastating toll on one's social life. And it's there's interesting technical challenges that have to be solved. Mainly packing as much digital signal processing onto a very low compute environment.

As someone with hearing loss, it's sad to see promising startups like Whisper.AI leave the market. There should be dozens of hearing aid startups out there. Where are they?
Maybe it's just me but having 215 unmarked graves seems a little sketchy.
Why "stimulate" an Ubuntu-"like" VM when you can have real Ubuntu in a real VM?

This docker-based solution looks needlessly complex.
Also, the AccuToast (TM) displays ads, to "help cover costs".
Modeless Vim
Asia is pretty big. Arabian, Gobi and Thar deserts are not that much north. They are also near densely populated areas of the Middle-east, East China and Gangetic Indian plains.
> What is it about journalists that you enjoy?

Their job is to seek the truth, many fail, but the goal is admirable. I actually push myself to read views that I don't entirely agree with, within reason.

> In any case, based on what OP describes, and the groups you mentioned, is it fair to say it's a hothouse of left wing political discourse?

Compared to X? Oh, yes. Personally, I am a non-US centrist, which I think makes me pretty-left on most issues from a 2024 US political POV. Lots of gay and trans people who are not being attacked as well, so that's nice.

There is a large pro-EU/anti-authoritarian contingent, which I very much enjoy more than anything.
Yup, if you want to do it at home, make it a little bit mushier. I don't like it, but it is very doable. Commercially they may use a binder, I don't know, I just wanted to make sure people knew they're available!
Fascinating - is there any chance you have some links about this?
Popehat Report: Win a Dream Date with a Litigious Douchebag
I couldn't do it with a single R420. When that first booted up in my basement - good lord I wasn't prepared. There wasn't a soul in my house who wasn't suddenly in there with me trying to understand what had just happened.

Adjusting the RPMs in software helped a little, but even at the lowest speeds, it was a hovercraft. It had to go.
Yeah, Bret always seemed quite defensive about Dynamicland being his Next Big Thing, incubating it in semi secret, sharing things only when they're ready, trying to follow some top-down timeline of the next 50 years, etc.

I guess he genuinely believes(d?) that he's building the next printing press or something like that, and therefore any tiny bit of interference could be detrimental to his grand vision.

For a while there were many, many more people excited and interested about Dynamicland than there were opportunities to actually try it and experiment with it. If you were genuinely excited about the vision, but 1) didn't live near Oakland and 2) didn't know people there who could let you in, there was no way for you to interact with the project. It's always a shame when that energy just dissipates without becoming productive.

In my opinion, if Dynamicland had been open source from the start, shared with as many as possible, so that enterprising teachers/librarians/hobbyists could've had deployed it themselves, maybe it'd have had a greater chance of truly morphing into something big.

More like what folk.computer is doing now, although maybe it's a bit too late now that that initial lift is gone.

But what do I know, I'm just a guy on the internet.
> That was dangerous enough, but at 200-400C carbon [tetrachloride] also reacts with water to form phosgene gas, which was used as a chemical weapon in World War One. It is said that 85% of the 900,000 deaths attributed to gas were from phosgene so it was a pretty dangerous substance to have in your home or factory.

How much of modern longevity is sanitation, sterilization, and medicine, and how much is just not doing really, really dumb things anymore?
Finally I can link my bank account to a website that is working on getting a language model to solve the n word trolley problem in a way that is satisfactory to people that have reached a level of enlightenment that transcends ideology
Huh, you're right, thanks. I still can't really see the point in Nespresso. Freshly ground coffee is better.
Blog title is blog title, sorry in advance, forum rules. Defamation legal analysis by Ken White.

Complaint: https://popehat.substack.com/api/v1/file/4fd8f56b-b1c4-49ab-...
It really doesn't do that. He was giving examples of how people's needs changed, to critique people who said that everyone's needs are the same. As I said, this where he disagreed with many leftists, and the name of the text is "Critique of..."

The next quote literally says that some are better or work more and therefore the right to one's work is a right to unequality.

If you want the full context, read the full text. It's not so long. Otherwise, you have to trust me for the context and not imagine one.
Wish I could offer more than best wishes, but I am in a similar boat: pondering some product ideas while working as a SWE.

This line caught my attention - "I also love learning about mechanical engineering and manufacturing"

How do you go about that? Have you found any good books, YouTube videos, etc. that are accessible for us SWEs?
This may be a bad take but I'm always a bit surprised at how difficult it seems to be for people to host something that can take an influx of traffic. Are auto-scaling servers futuristic technology or something? Just about everything besides on-prem servers should have auto-scaling abilities, so why does it still seem so common for this type of thing to happen? I can't help but laugh at the irony when a software engineer's blog crashes from the HN hug of death.
That is so very close to the sort of "innocent" question I would get on twitter from people that would then try to use bad faith arguments.

That goes doubly so if you didn't have any sort of regular interaction or rapport with the OP before asking that question.
That's sad to hear. BTW, my post wasn't intended to argue for private schooling in general but more that teachers matter. There are some truly wonderful public school teachers. The problem is if you're not lucky enough to live in the right area of the right district at the right time, there's not much you can do about it except opt out.
Well, on the plus side, at least you're not being slowly cooked to death anymore.
When I tried Haiku 3 years ago, it hanged regularly.
Available on Amazon. Usually zero reviews. But there is that screenshot circling around of a 1-star review based on someone attempting to and failing to put out a campfire.

If you rely on these and you end up dying, you can make a personal application for a full refund.
Just a few minutes into the video, the reporter gets some splashback in his mouth. That direct hit aside -- there are multiple "tributaries" actively dumping waste into the main tunnel. With all this moving liquid, there's bound to be some of it aerosolized into the air, especially in an enclosed space like that.
The bison grass mostly adds coumarin as a flavor component, which is the same component that gives Tonka beans their main flavor (also the popular Waldmeister in Germany). Personally a fan of that Vodka, never found it tastes anything like grass. But maybe we talk about a different one, I only know the polish one from Zubrowka.
The majority of them probably aren't interested in trying BeOS as a daily driver, either. More likely they'd use Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Maybe a BSD.
>And your conclusion is to go back to a platform that's being run to the ground by a combination of a terrible CEO and nefarious political influence?

Speaking of bait questions...
The invite system is ostensibly rate limiter and moderation tool, rather than a hype machine. They've mentioned getting rid of it soon. Maybe they "missed the boat" in some sense, but I'd rather see steady and sustainable growth.

Dorsey hasn't been doing them any favours for a long time, he's all but publicly disavowed it, deleting his account to focus on nostr. He's still on the board of directors last I heard, but if his public statements are anything to go by, he's not actively involved.
(Haiku developer here.) There is one hardware accelerated driver, for Radeon Southern Islands; but it's third-party, out-of-tree, and not particularly simple to set up and get running. So, not really.
Yeah, I wasn’t being particular about this exact issue and was generalizing about synchronization pinning the carrier. A deadlock is trivial once the implications of that are thought through.

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/loom-dev/2023-July/005993...
"Funny" regulatory story on those. They are not legal in the US since the regulators decided they were fire extinguishers and then compared them to the rules for fire extinguishers. They noted the lack of a nozzle, gauge, and locking device and proclaimed them out of compliance. They also noted that there are fires the balls do not put out, which to be fair, is kind of true for everything except the heat death of the universe.

It's a shame. It would probably be a good thing to keep over a domestic laser cutter or 3d printer.
It isn’t uncommon to say your price band is $100-200, then find something costing $250 which checks all the boxes. In this case, fuzzing prices while presenting results seems like an acceptable trade off.
This is the kind of thing Kickstarter is for. It gives you a way to both raise funds and reliably establish that demand exists. And if the campaign fails then no harm no foul.
At least in woodworking, tool setup and maintenance is a significant portion of the craft.
How much do you think people would be willing to pay for this toaster? How many people like that are there?

What will it cost you to make?

For toasters or similar, what is the typical ratio of manufacturing cost to retail price? Is this enough to pay for distribution, marketing, logistics and returns?
Three things:

1. Look up PAO - it's a tangentially related mnemonic system that uses images.

2. Test your recall periodically with/without the images otherwise you may find that the true nature of recall (aka in the wild) without said images is adversely affected.

3. Is it Trivial Pursuit? A friend of mine deliberately memorized all the cards of the original Genus edition.
There's a "flat" decorator which makes things look more 'modern', if that's what you want: https://github.com/unarix/haiku_darkstyle#darkflat

(Available in the Depot; install "haiku_extras" package.)
If you can’t beat them, join them and insidiously undermine them.
Related and relevant read https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/.
Than what?

Hardware burns capital way faster than software (in general).

Though it’s easier to spin BS reasons to burn billions on software maybe, since no one is expecting to actually hold the thing?
In some companies, staff positions can only be effectively done by someone who has been there for 10 years. They know the specific tech stack that the company uses, know the application, know where the bodies are buried, and everyone in the company trusts them. It's basically impossible for someone to parachute in and do the job.
"Made in" laws can be "hacked." For example, I can purchase fully manufactured printed circuit board assemblies in Taiwan or China. I then ship those boards to Singapore where I load firmware and do all my testing. I can then say that the products were "Made in Singapore" because the value of the firmware is greater than the entire hardware BoM.

The above example comes from a colleague who used to work in the SSD business.
I think they want the same thing they do at lower levels - prestigious school degrees, and without that, it's a total crap shoot.
That's true, if you use binary encoding to represent the b states. I were referring to base b representation, in which by definition we use b states to represent log2(b) bits: for example, 4 states to represent bits 00,01,10,11, which could correspond to voltage levels 0V,1V,2V,3V of a variable (analogous for other values of b).

In this case, the average voltage used would be the average of 0, 1, 2^2, 3^2, which is 0+1+...+(b-1)^2 / b ~ b^2 (proportional to b^2). I showed that in this case in theory the "optimal" base would be sqrt(e), but I can't think of simple representations of a variable with less than 2 states (you could have say 2 variables representing less than 4 states, for example the 3 pairs { 0V/1V, 1V/0V, 0V/0V }, but that seems a tad complicated![1]), so the least non-trivial integer base is just 2.

I think in reality this kind of argument doesn't apply to real computers in a straightforward way, because there are many other factors at play than what I would call a 'dynamic power consumption' associated with the square voltage. There are things like leakage currents (that consume some fixed power per transistor) and other effects that significantly complicates things, so that such simple claims of being "optimal" don't apply (so I agree with the other comment about avoiding absolute claims!). But they can inspire designs and we can see if there are any advantages in more realistic cases.

[1] Further analysis: In our example, the 3 voltage pairs have mean square voltage 1/3. If we instead use the pairs { 0V/0V, 0V/1V, 1V/0V, 1V/1V }, the mean squared voltage is 1/2. In the first case, we encode log2(3)/2 bits of information per voltage value, in the second, 1 bit per value. So the energy per bit is (energy per value)/(bits per value) = (1/3)/(log2(3)/2) = 0.420... for the first case, and 0.5 for the second case. Unfortunately, it's a loss!

As an exercise, I believe that if we delete the state 1V/1V/.../1V of a k-voltage tuple, for large enough k-tuple, we come out ahead (probably not by much), although again that's not necessarily useful in practice.
Have you looked at other high quality toaster makers abroad?

Dualit is in the UK and has been manufacturing high quality, hand built toaster for a long time, but most consumers would balk at the prices they ask for their appliances and I doubt you as a startup would be able to manufacture a toaster any cheaper.

https://www.dualit.com/collections/classic-toasters
https://www.dualit.com/collections/spares

Frankly, I don't even own one, in spite of being a champion of the "buy it once" mentality. But it's on the bucket list.
That is really interesting and it mirrors my intuition: there are 0 toasters on the market that have "Made in the USA" stamped on them. I think that there may be a decent sized market of people who will pay extra for that stamp on a normal household toaster.
Aren't the best toasters in Japan ?
Poisoned History is a term I've never heard before, when it's really just algorithms and sponsored products pushing company interests over the users