skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once spoke with a nurse who said they have the walls scrubbed on a regular basis. I can't recall if it was daily or weekly, I think weekly.

They're not paying the nurses to do that, the people who are doing it probably consider it shitty work and I wouldn't be surprised if things get missed due to the sheer crappiness of the work.

I think there's probably a reality there that can't reasonable worked around. Sure, in theory a perfect scrub will solve the problem but how do you regulate that into effectiveness?

The best you can do is to design tools to make it less shitty but you'll never make it non-shitty.
> Most people I see talking about their legal literacy are best described as cocky and dangerous to themselves and others they give advice to.

100%.

I have a side hustle doing etching, engraving, and CNC-type things. The forums and groups for this kind of things are teeming with people who not just believe, but tell others, that copyright and trademark either don't apply to them for $reasons or doesn't even exist for things they found for "free" on the internet.
Yeah, you're right. Someone can spend at most five hundred or seven hundred dollars on a complete embedded systems development combination-set which maybe consists of something like one or five or twenty ARM microcontrollers and the convenient hardware application programming interfaces that are compatible with them, the small computers. Micro computers?

Anything else, anything outside this standard specification you've shared with me, is where some hardcore hacking goes on, in my opinion.
I don't see the problem as long as they're using dark mode
I wonder if you realize that in a traditional farming family, children were used for agricultural menial tasks very early in their lives, and then booted out of household around adolescence. That's where all of these soldiers and sailors, but also housemaids came from.

Children were genuinely profitable. Not anymore so birth rates plummet.

Nobody can seriously reason how they are going to increase the overall quantity of children while at the same time increase quality of these children('s lives). It's a tradeoff.

But there is a brighter side, if the whole society still benefits from being economically, demographically and culturally solvent, that may offset that tradeoff's quality of life decrease for these children. As we all see it's quite crappy to be a Little Emperor until you are 18 and then realize that education debt + real estate prices = 8===э
Brewery uses drones to deliver beer to customers tables
The ITV/C4 service was originally Oracle; this was later replaced by “Teletext Ltd”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORACLE_(teletext)
Mechanically crushed rock can be used in concrete in place of river sand. There's no danger of stripping the rivers bare of sand (or running out of materials to make concrete) in places that have a modicum of environmental laws and law enforcement. Sand theft operations plague places with weak rule of law, where there's free money to be made by stealing from the commons even when responsible ways to make concrete are only modestly more expensive.
People already invested in VR are not a big market at Apple’s scale.
Apple is positioned in high-end, high-margin products.

I obviously don't know what their costs and financial and sales plans are wrt. the Vision Pro but I think it is fair to assume that the pricing is set for a high margin within that plan.

Now, considering the high price and seemingly niche target, personally I am impressed that they already sold 200k units.
I've got an HTC Vive which is also ~110degrees. Although you do initially get the 'looking through ski goggles' feeling when you first put it on, that feeling VERY quickly goes away when you start doing anything inside. It's plenty immersive. Sure, more FoV would be nicer, but it's not like looking through a telescope or something.
Step 1: Make platforms liable—in civil and criminal senses—for content they elect to promote (not just host). "Elect" includes "an algorithm did it". This also includes things like "an algorithm said we should put this ad, which no human at our company has even looked at, in front of this particular person".

There is no step 2. The worst parts of social media and ad clearinghouses (Jesus, all the scams Google promotes and makes money off of) are destroyed, anything remotely defensible survives. Personalized "algo" feeds and "algo" suggestions? Untenable. Customized ads served from a system no human monitors or checks to make sure they're not serving blatant scams at a massive scale? Gone. Both the incentives and ability to try to connect strangers with one another in ways they didn't directly ask for? Greatly diminished.

Ad-supported media survives (for better or worse). People can still communicate just fine. People can still publish without trouble.
I agree that this should be considered long term, however... you are able to snap VisionOS / iPadOS apps anywhere around your Macbook view AND you are able to control those very apps with your Macbook trackpad.

So even though you have a sequestered Mac output alongside Vision apps, you can use the same controls for all them simultaneously. This should help in the interim.
Macintosh '84 didn't have a killer app until 1985-1986. And it was a laser printer.
Yes, it is appreciated :-)

As I said, Emacs has many ancient defaults that many people have to fiddle with to make the editor theirs. Some of them is because of a slow drift of user preferences over the generations. But memory management strategy is one area where objectively a new default strategy would make a lot of sense. One which automatically adapts to RAM size, since Emacs scales down so well, unlike its competing memory guzzlers.
Thanks for sharing, it was a good read!
> crime rate has fallen off a cliff, and the economy is booming.

Sounds like a politician's talking point. I'd be interested in some credible sources (not Twitter) if you have them.
i know how it feels! have you ever tried to get rusty caliper carriers off of an old volkswagen?! ;)

but seriously, they don't provide much detail on these "fasteners", but it sounds like they reinvented the wheel to seal this canister. anyone have more info?
Both of those are accessories to the phone.
I think we are now at a stage where VR hardware has surpassed software. Between this and the Quest 3, we have powerful, polished and consumer friendly devices, but beyond a few niches (fitness, simulation, gaming to some extent), there is nothing to convince users to put the headsets on.

I am hoping we will see a lot of experimentation in the coming years, and I am excited for what the Apple ecosystem will bring to the table. That said, from what I have seen so far this does not seem to be a revolution compared to the current offerings, but an evolution on various fronts, without addressing the killer app question.
I find that a good analogy is the AK-47. As with AK-47s, the surrounding ecosystem is an advantage all of its own.
> Calorie counting is a fiction mostly.

it works, but in short bursts.

maybe if you've got enough money for a professional cook and meal planner a la hollywood types or billionaires.

i could do it for ~3 months while cutting during my bodybuilding days, for example. no way i could do it for the next 50 years of my life.
>But Guffey says he believes that Meta and other social media companies are not being held accountable

100% true.

Very sad to hear and I hope he wins. But these companies are very powerful so I doubt things will change. A blatant is what Apple did in the EU after they lost their court case.
Widespread Internet Outage in Russia Related to DNSSEC
Climate change has killed 4M people since 2000 – and that's an underestimate
Chicago man accused of leading SIM-swap scheme that stole $400M in crypto
I can't imagine having to hear explosions every 2 minutes for 20 days!

The Army is doing some artillery training during the day and night for the past week or so in my area, but luckily they aren't doing it every 2 minutes all day and night, just for a few hours up until about 11 or 12 at night and maybe every 5 or 10 minutes they will fire a few rounds. It doesn't bother me anymore after hearing it constantly, but I also live directly next to a very busy street, so I am pretty used to loud noises. Maybe next year when they do the training again I'll try to pinpoint the explosions using this method (just for fun, because I am pretty sure there's only one firing range around here).
The Verge's review says the FOV feels noticeably smaller than the Quest 3 which is 110°:

"The displays have other limitations: the field of view isn’t huge, and the essential nature of looking at tiny displays through lenses makes that field of view feel even smaller. Apple won’t tell me the exact number, but the Vision Pro’s field of view is certainly smaller than the Quest 3’s 110 horizontal degrees. That means there are fairly large black borders around what you’re seeing, a bit like you’re looking through binoculars."

https://www.theverge.com/24054862/apple-vision-pro-review-vr...
I don't think it's even possible to get a fully immersive FOV in that form factor with the current SOTA optics, the few headsets which do have ultra-wide FOVs are enormous bricks.

The widest FOV headset you can currently buy is the XTAL 3 at 180 degrees, and it's huge, despite being a PC-tethered design that doesn't need to make space for a SoC or battery.

https://www.xtal.pro/product/xtal-3-mr

We're a few breakthroughs away from having full immersion and a reasonable form factor at the same time.
In my circles of even non-tech people, everyone has a new Apple Silicon MacBook now, I rarely see people using their iPad for work.
That's important to note, but not what this is about. In this case, a direct link is seen between what might be the birth of climate change science as we know it by the petroleum industry that has fought so long to denounce it.
Fitbit customers say devices unusable after update
It is certainly part of the problem, but it's not the root cause.

Yes. Access to and knowledge of firearms dramatically increases the lethality of suicide attempts.

But in this case, the kid was scammed for nudes and then blackmailed with them. Without easy access to guns, he could have survived the suicide attempt, but there's no guarantee.

The root cause has more to do with childhood, internet access, and maybe even parent-child relationships.
I find it strange to blame the industry just to absolve everyone else. As if they had been in a somehow privileged position to know. To me it seems like there was some early research and then more and more research, so that by the 80s there was a clear picture that included the likely scope of the consequences. Despite that, the technology to move away from fossil fuels at scale was just not there yet.

Now we have the means and yet it is extremely difficult to get even moderate measures passed if it means a car needs a few minutes longer to charge or shower can‘t take as long or the energy is just more expensive and so perhaps something else has to give. Like the second car per family.

So I see no need to look far back. It‘s a bit like the diabetic regretting that nobody told them how harmful all the donuts were, all while they still don‘t diet because „now it‘s too late anyway“.
I let them do it much more than I used to; closer to normal than zero as it used to be.
I'm glad the article posts about visa sponsorship changes, as an immigrant to the US/EU this is the biggest falloff I've seen. Over the years I've seen relocation as a perk slide:

2013: Was flown to EU country for an interview, accepted, they handled the immigration paperwork (mostly) and helped me find a place and get settled. Plane trip was at my discretion.

2015: Immigrated to US with same company, they handled the visa and gave me help to find a place and get settled. Plane trip was at my discretion.

2018: Accepted new job in US, visa was handled however plane trip was 3am in the morning out of Gatwick.

2021: Accepted new job in US (after leaving the US for 3 years), visa was handled but I had to pay for my own plane trip. No help with finding apartments or any relocation expenses.

2022: Accepted new job in US at FAANG, work permit was handled however visa was not, all expenses to get the visa came out of my pocket (plane tickets, hotel accommodation, embassy appointment). No relocation help or expenses.

2023: Accepted new job in US, all work permit/visa issues came out of my pocket including the fee paid to the lawyers for handling the visa application. No relocation help or expenses.

Not sure how much further this perk can slide.
>using a pseudo account

points to one of the major issues around this. Why are these even possible? Instagram is a social network for real people. Implement a strong form of ID verification. Charge people a dollar for a sign up. Sure there'll still be edge cases of people using stolen creds but it cuts down what, 99.9% of scam? The kid in the article was extorted for 25$. Drive the cost of this crap up.
At some point the tree needs to be shaken. It just cannot go on like this forever. This is insane.
What's the difference with https://sweep.dev ?
It's not impossible to defend. Here's the former head of Microsoft's Windows division defending it easily:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39194445
Friends of mine told me that someone automated that for you https://github.com/movie-web/movie-web
> What's the killer app?

Movies on airplanes. I’m guessing these will become virtually ubiquitous in the front cabin within a few years.
virt-manager with PopOS host, usually Ubuntu/PopOS guest on a Ryzen 5500(? Something in that series). Do not know what virt-manager runs under the hood. Again, never done anything other than install virt-manager, so would be happy to read a guide on any recommended configuration settings.
I agree that it's not truly abolished, but I strongly disagree with the implication, as I read it, that nothing has changed. Look at labor conditions 100 and 200 years ago; it's night and day.

Much more to do. We can't rest here.
When things like this happen I always think that the more important problem is the fact that he chose suicide.
This sort of thing cannot be gotten rid of entirely. It's impossible. They can always be lured into another messaging system that doesn't track or analyze data at all.

I know this would be extremely embarrassing but it is far from life destroying (or at least it should be). Within a year life would've moved on and no one would even care. We all need to better come to terms with this reality and neutralize its impact and the shame of it.
Selling sand to the Arabs is a thing. Their sand is too fine if I remember correctly.
There seems to be a common assumption that if workers don't like something, they have a moral obligation to keep their mouths shut and "just leave".

This assumption is, of course, wrong.
Haha, for posterity, if anyone was interested in the things I mentioned. My specific frustrations came from leaving out torch.no_grad when running inference.

I used copilot to refactor that, and it just didn’t put no_grad back, and I did not notice.

I was uselessly recalculating all of my weights to /dev/null and waste heat.

I daemonized my process to control it more tightly, but I still see way above expected vram allocation.

Just keep in mind. It’s not like the models are going to get smaller, past the quantization limit. What, is there a quantization of retrievable information to 0 bits? ;)
I've seen a few ideas that seem really interesting, just not at the price point Apple is offering. And honestly I'm just going to wait for these headsets to be smaller and lighter too before buying one. I don't think anyone at Apple is under the impression this device is going to be a money maker, but more of a gen-1 device to provide a place to start from for further work.

- Learning instruments in a guitar-hero way (Piano, guitar, drums)

- Cooking with timers and recipes right in front of you (will be even more doable with better internal displays in the future)

- Coding with virtual displays on-demand. This is another thing where we still need more resolution to make it really doable.

- Watching movies. Obviously a solo way of doing this but I could see it being big.

- (once these are much lighter and less intrusive) I could see these being huge for virtual workouts like Yoga, weight lifting, etc.

Also regarding your question, I'm trying to think of the "killer app" is for a currently successful device - iPhone. I mean, camera? Texting? Most people use tiktok a ton but I wouldn't consider that a killer app. I think it's more of the device providing a home for a bunch of different apps.
I can't wait what the Vision Pro 4S-equivalent would look like and what capabilities it would have.

I already imagine how people from 5 years in the future will be sharing photos of the current Vision Pro asking "Remember when this was the best VR headset hhh??"

Sure, VR headsets existed before Apple's foray into that segment, but also did laptops, smartphones, tables computers, smart watches and bluetooth headsets.

And if one to learn from history, all these products categories were significantly improved after Apple entered their respective markets.
Less than a year ago, this would have been "Russian disinformation."

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-train-derailment-russia-disi...
It always throws me off guard seeing the old state abbreviations instead of the 2-letter codes (i.e. Fla. instead of FL)
It feels like we’re in a bit of a nadir, agriculturally, in terms of soil exhaustion and erosion, crop monocultures, and so on, largely because of technology letting you do the same thing to bigger areas more quickly and with fewer people, and we’re reaching the end of the epoch where the cost of this can be blithely externalised.

_However_, it seems like it could also be an inflection point, again because of technology. Imagine if tractors could tow behind them not a spraying trailer but a computer vision + laser system that could identify and zap individual weeds rather than napalming the whole ecosystem chemically, or that had arms that could pick only the correct, or ripe crop, or sub-varietal of crop, on a field planted with a variety of useful plants that balanced out the intensity with which they extracted nutrients from the soil. All of this at the cost/scale required to support the 8 billion (or so) people on the earth now with the agricultural land we have now, but perhaps too with the ability to open up more marginal bits of land to agriculture, and de-intensify the current wrung-to-death expanses of flat that we have to use now to accommodate the limitations of current farm machinery.
anorexia is a problem for a trivially small portion of the population.

being slightly overweight might be fine, but most of the population isn't "slightly" overweight, they're clinically obese and are fat as fuck. As in, like 60% or more of the population is full-on overweight. the rest of the world is catching up quickly, too.
I was thinking NOC myself. One monitor per major system being monitored.

Not a ton of space ship vibe (especially the Dragon, for example), just a lot of poorly integrated individual systems that each comes with their own monitor and control system. Which is maybe better than a tightly integrated system when it comes to farming implements.
CreateFile and friends will indeed treat "/" and "\" the same, it's even documented that way these days. Except if you are ever in a corner and need to prepend the path with "\\?\" to get around other limitations.

For a while, I think it was the only supported way to have paths longer than 260 characters, so I've seen some high level APIs add it to the path to work around issues (C# used to do this in some paths, not sure if it still will).

It might be rare, but as someone that's had to debug a "why doesn't c:/whatever/data.dat work but c:\whatever\data.dat does?" issue, I err on using the correct file separator.
> As if they had been in a somehow privileged position to know

That's the very point of this ''smoking gun'' article: the petroleum industry had an originators' view of the birth of climate change science, while suppressing and ridiculing its findings over the decades since.
On a shorter timescale it could also come in the form of third party apps

If Apple approves it, of course. This is one of my major concerns; there's a lot of potentially useful functionality that could be implemented, but you have to jump through the app store hoops and hope that Apple doesn't decide that it conflicts with their idea of what you should be allowed to do.
Every parent I've talked to has found that pretty appealing.

We're already looking at pictures and videos of our kids on the phone a lot of the time anyway. Which required us to be holding our phones in hand while playing with our kids.

It only seems weird because it's unfamiliar. But it's not more dystopian than trying to capture special moments with a camcorder.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179929
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> cold storage

This is the equivalent of 19th century criminals burying their cash. It’s fine. You just put the person in jail until they cooperate or die.
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> some tend to not put any effort because... well, they are smart so the answer will come naturally to them right ?

Also, it's easier to preserve that self image by not putting in effort and failing. By putting in effort and facing an uncertain outcome, one could jeopardise their self image.
Software testing needs a unique mindset compared to traditional hardware reliability testing. The software doesn't "wear out" like the hardware but tends to fail in coordinating functions. Too often, we rely on simplistic measures like a hard restart to manage coordination failures, but that isn't always an option on safety-critical applications.
First: you have no data there.

Second: even if this were true, it would still be a net win. Babies now are better than babies 3 years from now.

Also, women have a limited number of fertility years. This would give them the chance to have more.
True, but it's also the cost of ~3 gas tanks of gas, which to me is pretty small in the long-term ownership of a car versus the risk of dealing with it being stolen, which would take longer than the 3 weeks that gas would get you around for.

I guess I think about value differently than many consumers?
Oh wow that was a typo! Too late to edit it apparently. I meant to say WFH not RTO. Oh well, my downvotes are well deserved.
Got it done in time. Cheers for the motivation, HN! :)
Finally, it's possible for Perl to be configured to do compile time method lookups the way Dylan can for sealed classes. Just as Doug MacEachern intended in

https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/06/dougpatch.html/

sealed.pm: Available on CPAN now.
My dream is to have Obsidian inside of a database.
> Being a parent is definitely harder that being a software engineer if you want to do a good job. Same for being a farmer. It isn't the default job anymore for a reason.

There's a difference between hard = effort, and hard = difficulty. Most people struggle to understand software engineering concepts. If you do understand them, then the effort required to succeed at the job is less than parenting/farming/etc; but there's a reason software engineers are in the top 20% of the economic ladder and picking vegetables on a farm is on the bottom.

And at last check, subsistence farming was still the default job worldwide. Perhaps things have changed in the last decade or two, but I have my doubts.

(I'd also take issue on the idea of parenting being difficult, vs. good parenting, vs. newer cultural expectations on parents/education/helicoptering, vs. kids being free to roam etc etc., but that's a whole huge discussion on its own - and I think there's a pretty strong argument to be made that raising kids is not harder on either axis than having a job, but doing both at once is very difficult and forces an economic choice many women are making in favor of money.)