skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People want to spend less on food, and they're either unaware of the tracking or don't care about it as much as they do about paying less.
At my current workplace (particle accelerator) one control panel in particular has red for "good" as in "this is red, so don't go in here, because everything's fine and you have no reason to". Always amuses me.
Viewing Illegal Streams: No Cautions, Fines or Arrests Say GM Police
Horribly, I joined a friends start up and it was all lies. I didn't realize they were dishonest and that friendship meant nothing to them. Basically every promise they took back. I was young and naive so I didn't get it in writing.

In the end I left with them owning me money I never got back. It was a lot for a young person.

All that said, it wasn't because we were friends, it was because they were dishonest so your mileage might vary.
> Small companies with better aligned incentives

My previous company (~50 employees) did not have performance reviews at all; Instead, employees were handed out a blank spreadsheet with names of every personnel, and asked to fill who should get how much fraction of the bonus pool.

The numbers were aggregated by CEO once a year, and bonuses were paid out accordingly.

I liked the system when I worked there, because it served as a yearly check on how I was perceived. The results were sometimes brutal, though.
how do we access it?
Thanks for that. I hadn't heard this detail in the mass media sites I read about it. HackerNews as usual has a succinct summary, why can't normal media be this clear? I think it's because most journalists are missing an engineering background. Just adding those few sentences tells us so much more.
And while at it don't forget to lubricate the hinges as well.
Two unrelated items:

I had very good results many years ago polishing the last steps of my French while in France. My tutor used very novel and interesting short articles, one example was a short article about shrimp found in a cave with no light. At the time this was a novel bit of information and quite interesting on its own. I think an effort to find novel and educational information to learn from is an effort well worth the time.

Please add Albanian. I should learn this language but I am not motivated enough. I would definitely give your tool a proper test run.
Eel river ribeyes used to be $11 at Whole Foods. They are now $18.99. This is a recent price hike. Prices are quite literally multiplying.
Sort of related, in many parts of the world, thousands of people have the same Google account because when they buy an Android phone at the store, the vendor logs into the mandatory Google account.
Ask HN: WTF Is YouTube Doing?
As of the past weekend, Youtube is almost unbearably slow doing anything on my iMac running Safari. Yes, I use a content blocker (1Blocker) and a DNS sinkhole (Adguard), BUT, I pay for Youtube Premium.

I finally started paying for Premium in response to their attempts to stop ad blocking, but now they have my money; apparently they never wanted it in the first place, just my data.
> I've been thinking there could be a market for place-based experiences with XR headset

You're not far off, the industry buzzword is "LBE" for "location based experiences." There was a startup that was killed by COVID/mismanagement called the Void that was building some great LBE stuff with tie-ins to Disney IP (Star Wars, Marvel, etc) and had locations in their parks.

There is definitely a market for it, and even "cheap" LBE like escape rooms have kind of proven that there's a market for entertainment that works like a ride.
I don't disagree! But perhaps they should have two sets of "actuarial tables" -- one for the overweight/obese majority, and one for the right-sized miniority. When ever I see a study that doesn't talk about the "elephant in the room" I don't trust it.

There's a prostate cancer treatment algorithm that the Mayo Clinic uses that separates obese people from healthy-weight people. I trust that.
Show HN: Unfetch.com – I'm working on teaching AI to make API calls
Ok, and the lesson was you still trust this service?

That is insane. Why would you stick with an irresponsible company?
Unless it is a cultural thing and they are the Walmart of that local area?

I do not get it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjmjqlOPd6A
Please be kind. That doesn't stop you being critical, but try and be kind and more helpful.

What's confusing? It's clearly a language learning app, with various features that it seems like the landing page leads you through. The HN link is to the playground, which also does explain things.

Where are you getting stuck?

Perhaps these may help OP improve the page.

edit - I see the comment has been updated to be softened, which I think is a good choice.
The example app is 5 years old. Is anybody using this?
I agree, I was thinking about it while writing it. My thinking was that it should somebody sworn in to try not break the chain of trust. But adding somebody new in a chain will always weaken it (in this context).
As the sibling comment mentions, it wouldn't have to be mandatory as well.

It's just that in general I find the "anonymous sources" a bit too easy to use. It's very easy to have your article say whatever you want by using "anonymous sources".
That is…shocking
In Python it's common to have functions whose return types depend on the run-time arguments.

For example:

def fooify(x):
if isinstance(x, list):
map(fooify, x)
else:
x * 2

I guess this is to make scripting more forgiving.

In typical typed languages, you would have two functions instead:

fooify : number -> number

fooifyMany : [number] -> [number]

But in the Python community, it's common to have a big function with many behaviors. However, then the type annotations cannot be so precise:

fooify : any -> any

Not an experienced Python dev, so curious how this works in practice.
U.S. Failed to Stop Drone Attack Because of Identification Mixup
I've lived with these my whole life, in every place I've lived, plus with one or two switches that were sideways, so the first time I'd ever heard "up is on" was in a comment thread like this a few months ago. I didn't think there was any sort of standard, it's just always been "flip the switch if it's not currently what you want".

This is in the US.
That's first sentence:

> Now, you might argue that the number of seconds required to research, acquire, and implement keyhole lubricant would easily outweigh the amount saved through optimal key insertion — and you'd probably be right.
> someone actually had £1000 taken. They actually only had £250 worth of points in their account – however, because the Nectar points balance doesn’t refresh immediately, the fraudsters hit their account 4 times in quick succession. Leaving them with a debit of £750 in their Nectar account balance.

It's astonishing that of all the software engineers involved in programming and reviewing this system, not one of them thought to lock the DB records to prevent this (or worse, someone ordered them not to for some reason). It's so simple to do and should be top consideration when dealing with financial transactions.
The Criterion Collection's packaging for the film is very unique I must say:

https://www.criterion.com/films/28822-dr-strangelove-or-how-...

https://criterion-production.s3.amazonaws.com/carousel-files...
Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now [video]
Family movie night being replaced by everyone sitting plugged in to their headsets sounds very dystopian, something out of Snow Crash.

And that’s after you buy a VP for you, your partner and your 2.2 children… only $14,000!
I try to ignore as much as possible. Almost nothing in the news directly affects me. I'll hear about anything important -- people love to talk about news. I have a weather app on my phone, that's usually all I need to look at to go about my business.
The cool thing is that if we really did see ten million dollar per year offers, then most people wouldn't want to use the services of truckers anymore (too expensive), so you'd still have the right number of truckers, if not too many, among those currently able to drive, without the need for more. No need to wait on anyone else getting licensed.

You have done well to highlight why a technical shortage is defined the way it is.
wait... Intel APX is a real thing???
This must be why there’s not 50 vape shops in my town with big neon signs.
One of the strange things is that the Soviets had eventually developed something similar as described in the movie. It was as automated as in the movie but the general idea is the same

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand also called Perimeter (Периметр).

There is an interesting point in the movie that the idea was to always inform the opponent about it, so they don't even dare strike first. But the system was kept secret, at least officially, for many years. One of the designers explained that the other purpose of the system was to protect against hot-headed generals who, on short notice or from a faulty warning signal, may panic and launch an attack. In that case it wasn't necessary to advertise the system.

My idea is that the opponent (US) also knew about it from intelligence channels, and the Soviet knew that US knew, and that was enough. There was no point in officially making it public.
Since I just recently completed my certification as a Firefighter I/II (also Wildland FF 2), and have been an open source developer for more than 35 years, with the last 25 years of that being full time and the last 15 having FLOSS as my actual income source, I'd like to comment.

The primary difference between professional firefighters and their volunteer counterparts is hours on the job. When I graduated from the state academy, I knew as much as about firefighting as any of my fellow graduates and had been through precisely the same training requirements. However, the gap is going to open up very rapidly since the career guys will be doing regular shifts every week, whereas I will be answering 1-3 calls a month on average, most of which will not be fire-related. A year from now, the career guys will be even more familiar with everything we learned during our certification training and more, while I will be working hard to remember any of it.

So the question is: how well does this analogy hold for s/w development?

It doesn't.

First of all, the gap between most proprietary development outcomes and their FLOSS equivalents has more to do with UI/UX design questions than actual coding skills. At the source code level, it's generally proprietary projects that are "burning down left and right" (shoddily and quickly built, with inadequate attention to engineering and insufficient caring about one's work due to marketing deadlines).

Secondly, the difference between proprietary developers and their FLOSS equivalents in terms of hours of experience is not deterministic. It's going to be a function of employers, personalities, life situation. Plenty of (typically younger) FLOSS developers squeeze in more quality hours on their FLOSS work than their proprietary cousins do.

Thirdly, a firefighter only gets to put out the fires that actually happen. A software developer can pick their own problems and goals and work on them at any time. There's no relationship between the outside world and your ability to advance your skills and knowledge.
Opportunities for rail in the transport of carbon dioxide in the United States
VR glasses aren't very practical if much of your work consists of Zoom meetings with webcams.
> (2) If you're thinking about buying an AVP ...

At the low production volume they have right now they're clearly targeting the super premium market and developers who want to get in early, so they have good apps ready when the AVP hits the mass market.

It's not like the first revision of iPod or iPhone was a global phenomenon over night either. They were also full of compromises and flaws. I know maybe one or two people who got the first iPhone. I'm the only one I know who got the second gen iPod. But with the third gen of each of those I know dozens who got into it.

I think in the next two generations, the Meta's headsets will go up in price and functionality to be closer to AVP in both. Apple's will stay stable (letting inflation "reduce" the price) or come down a bit. By the third generation AVP will still have a hefty premium, but maybe more in the 2-3x range, and it's not like that has been a problem for Apple in other market segments.
> "Rules" are just discovered patterns in the arbitrariness of language, convenient ways to capture and communicate how most people

Yes, that's a the descriptive rules. They are useful for people who are interested in understanding how the language works or for people who just want to be more effective at communicating.

But then there are also "prescriptive rules", which are rules that don't necessarily reflect how the language works but are rather about how the language "ought to work". These are useful for people who want to create a distinction between an in-group and out-group, or generally just want to preserve how things used to be in the golden days of when they were young (or so they think).
Have you not seen people vaping at a young age now?
2030: Deepfakes are rampant, causing significant issues in politics, entertainment, and personal privacy. However, instead of technological solutions, there is a growing trend of regulatory capture. Large corporations and governments begin to argue that deepfakes are an inevitable part of the digital landscape. The cost-effectiveness of creating deepfake content compared to traditional media production becomes a significant talking point.

2031: As deepfake technology becomes more sophisticated and cheaper, it starts to replace traditional media production methods. Major studios and media companies lobby for and receive regulatory approval to use deepfakes as a legitimate form of content creation. This shift is justified by the reduced cost and logistical ease of using AI-generated characters instead of real actors.

2032: A scandal arises involving a particularly damaging deepfake, but instead of driving a push towards authenticity verification technologies, it leads to further normalization of deepfakes. The argument is made that since distinguishing between real and fake content is increasingly difficult, society should adapt to accepting deepfake content as a new norm.

2033: Social media platforms and news outlets begin to openly embrace deepfake technology, citing cost reduction and the ability to generate more engaging content. Traditional media actors and creators are increasingly marginalized, with deepfake creators dominating the market.

2034: Regulatory bodies, heavily influenced by big tech and media conglomerates, begin to actively promote deepfake content. New regulations make it easier for deepfake content to be produced and disseminated, while traditional media production is bogged down by increased costs and regulatory hurdles.

2035: The public gradually accepts deepfakes as the primary form of digital content. Traditional media, with real actors and genuine locations, becomes a niche market due to its higher production costs and complexity. Deepfakes evolve in unexpected ways, permeating every aspect of digital media and blurring the line between reality and AI-generated content.
You're technically correct.

That said, our Turing Machine model of computation is discrete, and the Church-Turing thesis implies human thought is Turing Complete.

It's not empirical evidence, but it's something. (I really doubt an empirical test is possible at all, so it seems philosophizing is all we have, unfortunately.) I'm not aware of any (communicable) model of thought that actually can't be reduced to the Turing model (in fact, that AFAIK precisely the reason he proposed the model).

Analog signals can be approximated to arbitrary precision, so while we conventionally think of it as continuous, it doesn't imply our cognition really has infinite precision floats internally...

I think it's really unfair to only focus on half of the picture (saying there's no evidence for "Cognition is discrete") where in fact we actually have no evidence at all whether anything is fundamentally continuous or merely approximated as such with high precision.

Traditionally the math in physics is continuous, and the math in computing is mostly discrete. If people point to Hilbert space as some kind of justification for believing physics is continuous, then it seems equally valid (or invalid) to use the Turing model as justification to believe cognition is discrete. I think both approaches are misguided, but as I said, it's really unfair to point out only the convenient half of these invalid arguments.
Thanks for reminding, I will update the post later. By the way, the storytelling of Haruki Murakami influenced my a lot, I should have mentioned it when the title first occured to me.
The use case does not include operating remotely at 70mph on freeways, esp because internet connectivity is hard over most the USA. That bit is mostly lvl 3/4, and is something that is addressed well by other companies. It's the long tail between lvl3/4 and all the scenarios that remain in which a remote driver solves the problem. Esp in logistics yards, which are chaotic, fast paced, and driven by voice communication.
It's not about trust. It's about the fact that in the UK now, you have to have a nectar card to shop at Sainsbury's. Not doing so is a financial mistake in itself.

Many products are deeply discounted just by owning a card. You also cannot use certain features, such as scan-as-you-shop, without them.
Yes! Also, most people will dribble a bit when they get old no matter what--with or without prostate cancer. I'm much more concerned about my mental health than having to wear incontinence pads in my 80s.
I am very thankful for tipping in the US. It provides an incentive for better service, allows me to express my gratitude to waitstaff directly, and gives me influence over the pricing that I do not have in any other kind of transaction. It's great!
My teenage kids regularly quote that line. Along with Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Strangelove is one of their (and my) favorite old movies.

For anyone that hasn't seen it, it really is a fantastic dark comedy.
Apple recently rolled out a feature on iOS and Macs called Communication Safety. I’m sure it would be easy enough to apply to third party web browsers.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212850
I value the discounts more than a grocery store knowing that I buy fruit, milk, coffee, beef, turkey, and fish. On a $200 grocery run, it's common for discounts to be $20-30.

Am I willing to sell the correlation between this week's trip and last week's trip for $20? Absolutely.
What's the downside? I'm quite serious when I ask that.

If someone is going to offer discounts anyway, then I want discounts on things that I'm likely to buy.
C's type checker is the MMU - when you mess up types, it give you a segfault. If you're lucky.
Yea, the trick has always been cheap availability of Graphene itself.
> Unless you are maliciously incompetent as an installer there is no risk of destroying anything.

It's actually quite easy to accidentally create a leak with various common roof systems. It's often quite easy to fix the mistake when it's made. But the mistake is not always noticed, and the work is not always done by competent and experienced people. There doesn't need to be anything malicious about it. Part of my day job is fixing those mistakes.
You can annotate OR types in python so in this case you could do

def fooify(x: int | list[int])
Yes, look at ebay - there are plenty of boxes for apple gear for sale. There are collectors, just like vinyl.
In the landing page I could see this for French :

"Toujours produire" découvrira le métier de ta vie de la même façon que l'eau, aidée par la gravité, trouve le trou dans ton toit.

If you replace the first two words by "tu", and correct a minor mistake in the third one (add a "s" at the end), it has a meaning but otherwise not. I guess we cannot trust it to learn a language then.
They're right about what the scale of Middle Earth is _supposed to be_, but really, it should be thought of as about the scale of England and Denmark. It's closer to a Norse Saga like Beowulf in scale than anything else.
> Steve Jobs said that web apps would take their place

Yes I remember this. But he must have known their plans and basically lied about it.
That’s a really good point I totally forgot about. I would expect it to be controlled by a combo of gestures using eye tracking + some auxiliary input device, like a ring or a smartwatch or something like that.

I agree, for now we have no good or even barely established UX/HCI paradigms for hypothetical standalone AR glasses.

Not that we even have those types of paradigms established for currently existing AR/VR devices, but we are getting there slowly. With each year since I first tried the original HTC Vive, every new device and update slowly but surely made the interactions better, simpler, and feel more “worked out”.

What gives me hope is seeing how the touch-only UIs have changed since the original iPhone release. At first, everyone was scoffing big time at touch-only interfaces ever becoming functional, viable, and widely used. The first third party apps on the App Store were also extremely disjointed and had almost nothing in common between each other in terms of UI/UX. Felt like everything was just spliced together and stamped with “we think this should work.” Not casting shade at devs of those apps, everyone was in that position back then, as there were no established UI/UX for touch-only interface smartphones.

In 2024? While there are still continuing changes, things slowed down overall as the general cohesive UI/UX principles for touch-only smartphones have been established. And they indeed became functional, viable, and widely used devices.
One thing that has kept me from ever returning to MIT (where I did my PhD) is that I don't think I could bear the feeling of loss that I am sure would overwhelm me when confronted with the sights and smells and memories of that period of my life that I can never go back to live again. I have lived in quite a few different places during my life, and have pleasant memories from all of them, but my time at MIT feels completely different - it's not just memories, but it feels much more personal, as if it's not just a place but represents who I really am. I have often wondered whether everyone feels like that about their PhD years, but your comments seems to suggest that it is not universal.