skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be concerned about individual contractors ghosting before or mid-project, throwing the whole plan into jeopardy. I doubt many contractors would be willing to continue someone else's work. Also, storing the materials can be a hassle -- the panels alone would take up half of my garage, for an unknowable amount of time (it takes months to find contractors willing to bid on projects around here).

At least having an experienced general contractor overseeing the project reduces the chance that an individuals' ghosting could cause large delays.
You can definitely hear, see, and feel the passion of Larry Smoot in the video on that page.

Also, Disney has patented their inventions since the beginning: https://patentyogi.com/technology/celebrity-patent-walt-disn...
The Openbuilds machines are the closest thing to a "standard" in low-cost CNC routers. They are a kit, but they're well-designed and have good support.

If you want a CNC router that truly "just works", you're looking at spending five figures on something that's delivered by a semi truck. You can't escape the laws of physics, so a reliable and stable machine necessarily requires a big steel or cast iron frame.

https://openbuildspartstore.com/machine-Kits/

https://lagunatools.com/cnc/swift-series/
I'd much prefer companies actually follow NIST and stop using SMS for any type of authentication.

eSIM has the advantage of allowing me to switch to cheaper services without paying $10 and waiting for a physical card to arrive. Is it's security crap? Well so is the security of my mobile provider's kiosk minimum-wager workers.
I know someone personally who was offered MAID because they didn't want to treat him. Happily in the end this person got the procedure done and they are alive.

Canada has become a brutal shit show. Homelessness is rampant everywhere.
Ah hah I did mean "nobody here". I can't think of a single friend or family member who isn't depressed by the weather and ready for it to be over!

Of course, we shouldn't ever complain about anything as there are children dying in Africa :) ! /s
NIMBYism is rancid in general because it prevents the realization of anything that could materially help people, and keeps people at arm's length from problems.

Concerns about property values, congestion, and other impacts are valid, but are plainly less important than preventing homelessness. Or not having medical care. Or not having good drinking water. Etc.

It's possible that the NIMBYs in this case are right, especially if the proposed new "affordable housing" isn't really affordable at all, etc.

But in general NIMBYism is essential for keeping things exactly as they are: it lets people feel good about "wanting" better things for society, without having to make material decisions which are inevitably imperfect and zero-sum.
It is supposed to save the environment, serve social justice and stop discrimination, etc. It is just another way to make a company woke or else it doesn't get investments from banks. Ask Disney, they followed ESG standard and lost a lot of money on the Marvel and Star Wars movies by going woke.

LGBT rights are human rights, women's rights are human rights, etc. But if you mess with the formula of the movie or TV show with bad writing but diverse characters, well even Doctor Who did it and lost. They blame the fans, but the fans know it is bad writing and bad acting. Forced diversity is a failure, crate new characters and make them diverse instead of changing established characters into diverse characters. That's my opinion.
I think it's a safe assumption that by the time someone got around to putting up a sign, you're at least hours if not days after the fact. The "everybody go out and search" stage happens well before the "I guess we should put up posters" stage. If you're seeing a poster and not a search party, it's been at least a day.

The post you're replying to covered it. They're meant to ask you you to keep your eyes open in the area, not stop and search. They're not asking you to interrupt what you're doing, just pay a little extra attention while you're doing it.
Zelda, link's awakening... one of the best Gameboy games ever made.
The shit don't even have proofreading. Leave it to TechCrunch to write the narrative.

> and developers feeling spurned and insulted enough will be more likely to wan too help replicate

Wan too, wan too, testing.
He didn't mention the methods not involving monitoring the client. Most of them would involve monitoring it, yes.

- Response time

- Strength consistency within current game

- Strength consistency across all of user's games

- Is user switching windows

I bet these are already integrated in current cheat detection.
I you commute by bike you know that the risks are significant.

I stopped cycling because I have a family to come home to. This has negatively impacted my quality of life.
As if by magic: Lifelong inventor Lanny Smoot holds over 100 patents
Oh I agree - the roads may very well be impassable and/or gridlocked. The plan is to stay in place and live off provisions. If leaving was possible, it would be a few days before we even tried to do so.

My worries about a tsunami are tempered by the coastal mountains. This would send a surge of the Columbia River and likely take out the airport. But we live on high ground well-above any flood zone.

In the absolute worst case scenario - we might all be toast.
I feel this way too. Something about Microsoft office products makes my skin crawl. I remember back when Teams didn’t have native notifications either, oh man was that painful!
Only a few million iPhones were sold before the App Store (which was introduced in July 2008), as this chart shows:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho...
"realistic political path to eliminate traffic deaths"

Just a note, they may be able to greatly reduce fatalities (guessing since the tech is not fully rhere yet), but no system will entirely eliminate them.
I got curious and wrote it in assembly (Disclaimer, I haven't written any assembly code since university, it was mostly chatGPT). See the attached gist. This should be the gold standard for a "fair" loop, one that's actually looping in raw assembly. https://gist.github.com/rbitr/0649972657f5d0d959eeb71a5b3e02...
I'm going to ask an inconvenient question - What gives Spotify the right to deploy on Apple's OS & hardware?
It’s terrible that they would rather create smog in cities than live among nature in a 5 br / 5 ba. But human greed and capitalism are just too powerful.
Funny, that exactly sums up one of the plot twists I completely forgot about in the X-Files: secretly set up UFO/UAP events and abductions, feed nutjobs with alien theories by having Mulder&al investigate and leak trickles of info to the likes of Lone Gunmen, all while denying UFO/aliens to further feed the UFO conspiracy theory, all that to divert attention from the actual, very earthly conspiracies (turns out one of them ends up being about actual aliens and The Project, but Smoking Man makes it quite clear how he's using Mulder and the X-Files to the above end and that even fewer conspiracists know about that, with the rest being conned into thinking they sit at the top conning everyone and that there are no aliens)
I don't know how long I read looking for these answers. Tank-you for your service.
link for the curious?
Speculative Decoding
Not an analogy but he said in one of his speeches that "Preaching is moral violence", he said that in respect to religion but that that kind of helped me change my attitude whenever I talk to younger kids or cousins.
> Choosing to serve different code to different browsers complicates development and maintenance,

I didn't say I was going to serve different code to different browsers. I said I would have to serve different code to different browsers if I used <hr> in <select>. That's a hypothetical. The alternative is actually to use a totally different technique for separating options that works on both desktop and mobile.

> for almost no upside (minuscule bandwidth savings).

It's not about bandwith! It's 100% about the user interface. That's what neither you nor eyelidlessness seems to understand. The entire point of using <hr> in <select>, or some other technique for separating options, is for the user interface.

> no negative impact on usability (the iOS <select> looks and behaves identically with or without the <hr>).

What you describe is a usability problem. That's a bug, not a feature.

It really boggles my mind that you can't understand the basic requirement: I want to separate the options on both Mac and iOS. Leaving the options unseparated on iOS is not an acceptable alternative.
That doesn’t mean anything. If you have two drunken lawn gnomes can I take one?
If you die, you lose the rest of your lifetime. It's not infinite.
It pays artists that don’t use labels 70%. Saying Spotify doesn’t pay artists is rooted in ignorance because most major artists use labels and don’t own the rights to the recordings.
A robot surgeon is headed to the ISS to dissect simulated astronaut tissue
Is that some sort of beta application or is everyone using that by default? Mine on macOS says classic Microsoft teams.
>When I finally played it I couldn't believe that this was what people were holding up as being a master class of game writing.

Interesting. What games in your mind is a master class of game writing?

For a fantasy adventure story taking place in the setting of the forgotten realms the writing can't actually get better imo.

I guess your thinking of something like Last of us? Is last of us or last of us 2 truly better than BG3 in terms of writing? I would say it's equivalent. It's just a different genre. If you want deep compelling character studies with the backdrop of a typical YA setting then Last of us, Planescape torment or disco elysium is right up your alley.

These are just different genres. People often conflate good writing with the genre. It's why science fiction rarely if ever has won the pulitzer prize.

Most likely you have a genre preference in the same away the academy awards have a genre preference.
It looks like their shuffling not walking.
Huh. "Simulation theory" is almost indistinguishable from classical deism, if you squint.
I'm not sure you fully read what I wrote....

>The best evidence against you is no evidence.

Hence, you were agreeing with what I said.
I wonder how quickly you can spin someone while they're walking without it being perceptible. If you have a large area, you could use sneaky rotation to constrain movement while minimizing the amount of sliding people around you have to do. Though I'm not actually sure that'd be less noticeable at practical sizes.
... and the alternative is? Apple management answers to shareholders and "service income" is the only thing in Apple earnings that hasn't been going down for years.
Serious question: Why would you want to get rid of Google Sheets?

* Anything that's shared will have the same issues with data. Plus it forces other users to join some product they've never heard of.

* Local hosting would require time that would probably be better to spend elsewhere.

* Google Sheets is extremely mature and stable.
Quiet possible a balance issue. When walking you are moving you mass forward this pushes your feet backwards I would imagine that if not carful it could cause you to fall
If the EU is serious about breaking up the monopoly, the notarization requirement is what they will go after.
Gee I wonder why Blackrock did Bitcoin ETF then.
Brand new market-rate housing is rarely "affordable", just like new cars aren't, but the economic research is very, very clear that it creates "moving chains" that fairly rapidly do have effects on the overall market:

https://bendyimby.com/2024/01/01/housing-supply-and-demand/

Agree with everything else about NIMBYs.
Here I'd fundamentally disagree. I think all we have 2 years of completely unprecedented propaganda and "information warfare." Information about what's happening, and has been happening, is only now starting to make the Western news, as the war seems to be headed towards its terminal phase. I think we're only going to have plenty of evidence and meaningful analysis many years from now, starting November 6th, at the earliest. For instance, that Newsweek article merely debunking the claim about Russia claiming Kyiv would fall in 3 days was only published in October 2023 - more than 1.5 years after the war began, when that claim was being widely spread by our media!

I'm not entirely sure the point about Afghanistan goes against what I'm saying. Yes, the USSR destroyed the government, and highly motivated fighters continued to fight, and ultimately defeat, them. The exact same thing happened to us. That's, more or less, the point I am making. Russia knew extremely well there were relatively large numbers of heavily armed, trained, and motivated nationalist types in Ukraine. The only way they were winning quickly is if they could negotiate a settlement with the civilian government.
I trust ICANN to be the opposite of reasonable if they can make money off of it.
Stopping at red lights can add 10-15 minutes to a motorist's cross-town journey. So does the Pythagorean Theorem. What can you do.
Even a reduction by a factor 10 means thousands of fathers every year who do not have to explain to their children that mommy won't come home tonight.
Honestly, the problem west of I-5 is not the real issue.

By this I mean, were something like this to happen, west of I-5 suffers its devastation quickly, perhaps a lot of people are lost from quakes or tsunamis or whatever. But, once it's done, it's done and recovery can start.

The real issue is east. The quake will tear through this region, which is rough country, potentially doing severe damage to roads and, more notably, bridges.

There's a reason FEMA recommends a 3 Day go bag, and, perhaps, 2 weeks in place. And the premise behind that is that once the event is passed, the cavalry will arrive. So, there's little reason for folks to maintain months and years of supplies. Even Katrina was mostly resolved, from an emergency point of view, in less than 2 weeks.

This will likely not be the case for eastern part of Oregon. The far east, dry side, sure. But that middle section, no roads, no bridges, rugged terrain, dense woods, not easy for the cavalry to arrive in any length of time. It is very reasonable to expect that aid will not be readily able to reach you (or evacuate you) in, perhaps, months. I think folks in that area need to seriously consider a 60+ day plan to get through something like this.

Urban preparation is very difficult. You can store up some supplies for your family, but you're likely surrounded by families. Ye Olde Ant and the Grasshopper fable.

So, in truth, it has to be a community effort. Easier said than done. If everyone stocks up some for their neighbors as well, it can go much easier.
You are being downvoted because it’s obvious that a cabal of hyper intelligent dogs fits the full body of evidence better than any other explanation.
That's a good example.

Look at the video showing off this exact tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw

You feel like you are part of the family while watching this.

It's a completely different vibe.

Honestly, I feel vaguely threatened by the HoloTile Floor demo tone. The way he answers the question about what's it's going to be used for feels like a parent that doesn't want to reveal something to a child.
This doesn't even have to be a metaphor, there are literal cults based on literal aliens. Some of them are quite large and influential.

The non-organised ones though, I think make people feel good for themselves by either making them feel important(advanced civilisation came across the universe for me) or reassured (it's going to be alright, the universe works as expected - no funny business)
How does this compare to the karpathy video [0]? I'm trying to get into LLMs and am trying to figure out what the best resource to get that level of understanding would be.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
Also I know that my medication plays a role in my tinnitus -- I switched for a while, and my tinnitus went down notably; unfortunately with the other medication I had tachycardia, which is worse than tinnitus...
"An odd feature of the model is that, the older you get, the quicker your trips become, at least in expectation, and the more you should speed."

I am reminded of the track from The Dead Kennedys, Buzzbomb from Pasadena.
Depending on your level, it could take a lot of weeks to go through the already available material (code and pdf), so I'd suggest to purchase it anyway... It makes no sense to wait until the end, if you're interested in the subject.
Depends on your definition of "cheap", but a Shapeoko handles light cuts in aluminium very well. Cheaper routers are readily available on Aliexpress if you don't mind tinkering.

https://shop.carbide3d.com/collections/cnc-routers
Is your mom also terrified of the phone, because Apple can't supervise every call? Does she get cagey about opening Safari because there's nobody checking every website for scams?

The iPhone is already dangerously capable, Apple can't have their cake and eat it too.
... rule 32 “Pics or it didn't happen”
Your sarcasm might be a bit too subtle
It'll just be converted to residential.

Young people still want to live in cities. It's how they find people to date and things to do.

All the new high rise construction in my city is now residential, and there's quite a lot of it going up.

My city curiously just bought an empty high rise office building with the intent of converting it into affordable housing.
This is basically the opposite of haptics. It's trying not to be noticeable while solving a problem essentially unrelated to perception.
It is absolutely that!

see my previous rant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33580896

I think that maybe I get really worked up about this because I am still pissed off that Santa Claus wasn't real, or at least that I once believed he was. I am not being facetious.
Try Lighting in Nostr or Stacker News.
Weeks of Your Life
I think it remotely applies to working, as a founder, at a startup. You might go real fast for a while, but then you (might) burn out and quit altogether.
It's turtles all the way down, many of these startups customers are all startups.
> the vestibular system still won’t think you are going forward

Why not? Movement is relative, of course, and I'm moving relative to the floor and relative to what I see. What does the vestibular system detect that isn't happening?
Yep. I'm willing to pay extra for something dead simple that does what it needs to do and nothing more. No ads or distractions, connecting to sensors over ANT+ "just works", devices are supported for years, and if I think of a useful feature or metric to display I can create a monkey C module in about an hour.
Makes me wish all IOT devices were like that.
My only gripe with them is their segmentation of devices with nearly identical hardware into different segments (e.g. edge explore vs edge 130) and walling off features.
> I’ve tended to like the idea that when something breaks, there is a team of people watching for it and fixing it

I've tended to agree with that, but so many services go under with little warning.
I'm fairly confident about it because I've seen this pattern before, with moral panics, fairy tales, witch hunts and other group/herd behavior in people throughout history (and modern times as well).

Yes, I think it's sociological in origin and the UFOs don't exist. There are probably a core group of "true believers" that are absolutely convinced that aliens exist.

Here's an example of a somewhat modern mass hysteria, which started in the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
Tetragrammaton with Rick Ruben – Mark Andreessen
Rick Ruben started a podcast in 2023. The style is really great. He asks very direct and interesting questions and mostly listens and lets the guest talk.

I find episodes with non-arts oriented people the most engaging on this podcast, as the combination between artistic and non-artistic minds is always going to be fruit for interesting discourse.

There are of course going to be mixed feelings about Andreessen here, but that's exactly why I think these kinds of discussions can be fruitful to show - as it's not a case of a start struck tech podcaster interviewing Andreessen. Rick by no means asks 'tough' questions though.
Rather curious now to know how many global admins Microsoft has.
While I'm not a fan of patents in general, it's more about how you manage your IP that matters.

And honestly, this videos feels like they show it off because they have to, but have so many restrictions to do so that they must weight every single word.

It doesn't look like they want us to have fun with it.

It looks like it's something they hope to sell us.

If I enter a restaurant, I know they want to sell me food, but I want to think about the food, not the bill. And I appreciate a passionate chef.
I would read John Gruber's post before taking anything Spotify says at face value.

Spotify lobbied hard and got their language adopted as part of the DMA - which as Gruber noted - is really much more a "anti-American business" bill. Now that apple has a approach that they believe meets the letter of the law, Spotify is complaining about the intent of the law.
Troll, license, sell, whatever
I think that balance of power has shifted from the artists to consumers which is driving down direct artist pay. I’ve still got the same amount of time each day to listen to music before streaming services existed, but now I’m afforded so much choice in music that each song/artist must compete harder for my attention. There’s always been way more talented artists than I could possibly listen to, but with Spotify I can now actually get the music to my ears. Now the limit is my time. All of a sudden, each artist is now competing with every other artist (and not just the big ones, either!) because of the new streaming distribution model. It seems natural to me that the price is going down.

The new streaming model also isn’t going away because it’s changed the way consumers engage with music. Before I would have to gamble on CDs/records in a pretty high-friction process. You would pay for the big names because you knew they would put something quality out, so it wasn’t as risky to buy their stuff. Now the cost for me to switch to other songs is basically 0, so I’m much more easily able to find stuff I like.

I’d argue that this new streaming model is incredibly valuable and warrants Spotify’s high valuation. Though, I agree with your sentiment here. Artists and their music power Spotify, so it seems fair that they get the lions share of value. Right now, it doesn’t feel like that. However, I think in the long run artists will win because their music is truly inimitable. Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, etc. are all fiercely competing on this distribution model. I haven’t seen a single feature that can’t be copied on any of these platforms. On the other hand, it’s basically impossible to copy another artist’s music (and make real money). Over time, I think streaming services’ margins will slim down because they must compete on price if they can’t compete on unique features. This will ultimately allow more artists to earn more money which is something I think we both can agree is what we want out of the music industry.
These aren't "the rules of capitalism" they are just maximally self-interested hubristic behaviours by companies with monopolies. Capitalism doesn't have rules; states have rules. Capitalism has market incentives and stakeholders.
The "flying by on the right" thing feels like a recent (within the last ~decade?) phenomenon. Am I imagining it?
The only connection between the three is thematic. The have no narrative connection. It's odd that they call it a trilogy to be honest. You can read Timothy Archer without reading the others.