skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will a competitor now offer a fully ad-supported free tier? Or at that point are we just streaming YouTube content?

I would be interested to have curated streams of content from YouTube that has been found to be, by some metric (or some critic), top-shelf content.

Just as an example, I consider Pete Beard's entire channel to be a first-rate history of the golden age of western illustration:

https://www.youtube.com/@petebeard/videos

Click on any video, I think you'll be impressed.
Right, the article reminds us that the Nobel was for his work on the photoelectric effect, and implies that relativity was too radical for a substantial number of scientists.
The Source of the Cake Dataset
Most of these things don't require Anki. It's a tedious waste of time.

> every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map

That's a stupid thing to memorize, not to mention constantly churning due to political instability.

You really need to gatekeep what you stuff into your noggin.

Most educated people could recognize certain countries by shape, like Italy, Africa, USA. But every country? Come on ...
As someone who knows very little about security, this is really interesting, thanks! A question though: how would one know if there has been a breach? These examples look relatively easy to detect, but I guess there would be more complex cases?
The obvious answer to this that I believe you already know is to check with health specialists. The part of being older and/or changing interest is another factor to take into account.

Since we are slowly understanding more things about COVID and other diseases you can also try new things and no believe 100% in what is published. Trial and error is a good problem solving skill. For example, engaging in new activities that "play" with one or more of our senses (e.g. music).
For those who are aware of Hamilton Morris’s work, this is his father
My mind went to an optical sensor. Either interrupt a beam with the pendulum or attach a small reflector to the arm.
Isn't this the natural lifecycle of public companies, or companies with lots of investor ownership? You have to keep growing even after you've reached the apex of what your original vision could possibly have produced. It's just a rule. So, you add lower-priced or free tiers to bring in new customers, and make it cost more money to have the same experience on the pay tiers. You expand into new geographic areas. Most companies would have created a second product and used the first as a channel to drive people to it by now, but I guess Netflix's move was to close off account sharing. Innovation!

But the key thing is that even after your product is "done", you have to keep changing it anyway, to make it look like progress. It goes without saying that all this stuff usually makes the product worse. I'm surprised the word 'enshittification' didn't show up in this article.
That one is a private residence, it was converted into a one-bed home.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-...
It's one datapoint. Not sure why I should by default distrust somebody whose life was ruined by it and is essentially involved in a human-style reinforcement learning crowdsourcing trying to figure out how to recover by sharing what worked and what didn't.
I wonder if this is another unstated motivation for RTO? A much larger portion of my day-to-day conversations are over text than when I worked in an office.

This has a huge upside - when I can't remember what someone said to me about something two months ago, I can search! But I'm sure it makes legal nervous. (I don't think I'm personally working on anything that would get us sued - but some folks in my fortune 500 co. doubtlessly are)
Immigrants do those gigs because citizens won't.

Those are not community sustaining jobs.
Cardputer
Ask HN: Niches where contractors typically work on monthly retainers
The title says it all. Currently working in a niche as a consultant where I can ask a retainer and bill against it and then ask for a new retainer. This has the disadvantage that there are periods without income requiring me to hedge by cold calling to sign on new clients. Thinking of pivoting to another niche where monthly retainers with no carry over are common.
Vaccinated three times, had it twice. The first time, no long term effects. The second time, well... I think it is getting better, but I feel you. Stuff I know I know the solution to, I know I can do in the blonk of an eye just seems to be hidden behind some wall of fog. Takes sheer willpower to get through that, then it is done in a heart beat. After that, my energy seems to be gone.

Wasn't a problem at work, for now.

Physically, well, I am low on stamina. Did hit the gym since, I don't feel like 2 hours of boxing are a particularly good idea at the moment.

Sucks, you are right. My significant other so told me it goes away, and sometimes I feel close to break through whatever that shit is. Still better of than a friends son: 10 years old, unable to follow school since October, unable to do more than 2 hours worth learning per day, unable to excercise. All this despite being fully vacinated three times, the second time Covid hit him, it hit hard. I can only imagine how it would be without vaccination...
> CRPGs have done nonlinear gameplay narratives for decades at least.

CRPGs have done the illusion of nonlinear gameplay narratives for decades. Baldur's Gate 3 simply has a vastly more polished version of it, rather than paying lip service like recent, mainline RPGs - anything from Bethesda for example.
I love Pleco, especially the OCR, but I had the same experience. Learning from flash cards is boring to me and, no matter how well I drill it, I eventually forget the material. Probably it works better for people who will be using Mandarin/HSK vocabulary in the near future and for a long duration.
You can read more on this here:

https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/51/D1/D1512/6814452

Yes there are general challenges in research, but not sure how that really changes the argument that there's significant amounts of research in this area and novel peer-reviewed findings.
For what it's worth modern heating with wood is zero carbon (at least in Canada).

We plant a tree that gets burned, so embodied carbon gets released. And the modern appliances emit 1g/kg of particulate emission.
You want to pay per show, and assume that would make you pay less over all. Maybe even simplify your experience. Assume that Netflix wants you to pay more and work backwards to explain why this hasn't happened, or what the actual implementation of this would look like.
Please put (2018) in the title, since this isn't new news.
The literature is all there on the internet. If you want to repeat the experiments, the instructions are all there on the internet. If you want to look at the theory from what the fact was derived, it's there on the internet.

Approximately nobody had access to anything before it.
2021: When programmers still sourced images for their blog from Getty Images rather than just generating whatever they needed.
If you’re modifying the cards to fit your needs and ChatGPT is basing them off of your personal notes then I’m not sure you understood the commenters suggestion you’re referring to.
> when one major tech company downsizes staff, the board of a competing company may start to question why their executives are not doing the same

So executives are just playing a big game of "monkey see, monkey do". Why do they get paid so much?
This paternity worry seems to be a leftover of agrarian societies where it is important to ensure inheritance. In tribal societies, as we lived for millenia, it was much less of a worry as raising the kids was a tribal concern.

There is a famous quote from a Montagnais Native American to a Jesuit priest that tries to tell him that he should prevent his wife from having other relationships or he would risk bringing up another mans child: "Thou hast no sense. You french people love only your own children; but we love all the children of our tribe" - https://sexgendersoc.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/4-montagnai...
I was joking a bit. Flash is part of DC. The writing on that series is atrocious. I didn't really comment on marvel.

MCU is good writing. Tony Stark especially is just well written.

The movies are obviously not works of literature. Super heros are a genre and within that genre the writing is excellent. The writers fulfilled the role well.
In the sense that the Chernobyl reactor, the Boeing MCAS system, and the duck-billed platypus were designed, yes.
While that is largely true, I don't see another scheme that would be unaffected. For example, a lot of what happened with consolidation was also due to efficiency and economy of scale, which would still be desirable even if profits weren't the main motive. The offshore and outsourcing has more to due with trade imbalance (not necessarily overall, but within specific sectors) and consumer preference (race to the bottom) than with profits. I think imbalance of where the profits end up is the bigger issue than profits themselves - the higher ups and the people with capital make sure they get a bigger slice of the pie while the average people/workers are left behind.
Walts Kitchen – Cook with your favorite Disney characters
You are being asked to review every business you interact with
You do have a point.
MDs should have been prosecuted.
Execs should have been prosecuted.

But alas, they did not.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/founder-of-purdue-pharma-made-a...
Thank you,

Sent an email.
I understand that, for example, in Slack and Google Workspace you have specific plans for more information retention. The question, economically-wise, is if this is enforced how does it apply in company costs. Thinking mainly about SMBs in different countries.

In my limited observation, the prices for Slack and Google are "normalized" for developed countries.
Einstein was, of course, a devout pacifist. It must have turned some heads that he argued for a bomb to be made.
You thought I meant to say Apple literally sells just fantasies? Or did you stop reading in the middle of the first sentence?
I’m also an immigrant. Average Americans outside the coasts (and even many of the people on the coasts, like black people[1]) are not benefiting from immigration. Immigration is generating benefits for the top 10-15% in the form of profits, jobs in knowledge work industries, and cheaper products. It’s not a comment about individual immigrants, it’s a comment about economics and political economy.

[1] https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/immigration-comes-at-a...
Could be the vaccination: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9833629/
I like it! Thank you for making it available and bonus point for it to be WPA.

I won't be using it because as many others have pointed out, it still need to be refined, but overral looks like quite a good job.
The article says that it’s one of the few “must-haves”. Not true. I removed it from our household and it won’t be coming back. This product is addictive and it has a negative impact on the quality of life.
The entire industry of CAD
Fracking does this on a small scale. I had an excellent geology professor, Donald Prothero, who argued manually triggering earthquakes could be a much better idea in high tension areas than waiting for them to happen organically, as we could prepare, and the triggered earthquakes wouldn’t be as bad as waiting for them to happen. But the paperwork would be a nightmare(:
Show HN: A text-mode periodic table in C for GNU/Linux terminals
I'm sharing a retro-looking periodic table I made in C that I think looks really nice.
Bovine muscle engineered to produce their own growth signals
This is why some people run a honeypot in their network... and even those won't necessarily catch everything if the honeypot only mimics services that the attacker isn't probing for. You can set up tripwires on access and egress of sensitive data but that's only part of the surface area (and if the system gets attacked those tripwires could be disabled, if the attacker either knows what to look for or has a plan for a side channel for exfiltrating data).

Really the only good answer is defense in depth and keep looking for any indicators of odd behavior, and wall out unrelated systems entirely from each other, keep the DMZ and public facing bits as simple as possible.
> Apple's insistence that everyone is billed at the 1st of the month means customer service is flooded the first week and sitting idle the next 3 weeks.

This seems counter productive. While simplicity of due dates on the first of the month is nice waiting on hold sucks. It’s similar to businesses that have a big marketing and discount push centered on a single day and overwhelm their sales funnel capacity.
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In security red generally means encryption/protection is active.

And then there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_light

> In the active (on air) mode, tally lights are typically red.

> Some cameras and video switchers are capable of additionally showing a preview tally signal (typically green) for when the camera is about to be switched to and become the main source of video signal. Once the switch happens, green changes to red.
I lie when, for example, Google Maps wants me to rate every McDonald's I stop at during a road trip.

I do give small businesses real reviews. I just fudge in reviews of evil multinational corporations.
> We have the knowledge, the technology and the means to live in domes in the vast deserts of this planet, to go to the moon or to live in space habitats anywhere in the solar system.

This is incorrect. Please stop saying we have the technology to live anywhere else other than on Earth, it's false: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9YdnzOf4NQ
I don’t anticipate “natural language programming.” I anticipate systems that maintain a declarative state of running services, based on requirements and iteration/adversarial chore-checking.

You won’t be using ChatGPT to write source code that you copy and paste, and debug.

You’ll be saying “no she was wearing a shorter dress, with flowers,” like Geordi LaForge using the holodeck to solve mysteries.

The boilerplate below won’t even be necessary. Here’s how I see it working though:

“Hey, welcome to Earth. So here’s the deal. You maintain my website that drop-ships pokemon cards using paypal merchant integration. You will have a team of AI designers who you will hire for specific skills by designing a plan with detailed job descriptions.

I want one guy to just make funny comments in the PR history. Make it look like cyberpunk. Respect EU privacy laws by maintaining regional databases, and hire another agent who has a JD to follow similar regulatory requirements in the news.

I hate oracle databases and j2ee, use anything else ;)”
Kodak releases new Super 8 Film Camera
People make the best decisions when the benefits are up front, not delayed to a yearly tax filing with a probability of distribution dependent upon income.
How do you distinguish the feeling of being less sharp from the psychological impact of lockdown?
Evolving Errors – New Errors in Your API in the Age of AI Agents
I've been noticing a lot of new error patterns with my development of ChatGPT Plugins, GPT Plugins, and AI agents with BabyAGI, AutoGPT and other AI agents. I wanted to do a deeper dive on why these new error patterns are different than before and how they manifest in real world situations.
Netflix is a dying mall where all the prestigious chains are closing down and getting substituted with dollar stores and cheap gift shops. Sometimes a big youtuber does an event there, attracting a few children, but then everything goes back to being depressing
I also know very little, but something that struck me upon reading your question: if a breach is successful, the logs can't be relied upon for detection/analysis if they're on the same server. It's important to ship them elsewhere.
Now there is the biggest incentive in human history to invest in long distance space travel and communication tech.

Before the americas were discovered by Europeans, sailing and travel tech was nothing compared to what it became after there was a new undiscovered area that caused for a major shift in the mindset of where to pool resources.
The canonical way of using pendulums as time reference in electronic circuits, is to use magnetic pendulum coupled a special circuit (a bjt and an inductor) that would not only sense the pendulum but also reenergize it.

example: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/685779/elect...
China India and Russia are an issue but will probably cut back if there start to be noticeable problems. China is already cracking ahead on the solar and nuclear.
I guess in a pedantic manner, but then they were always documented, since their country of origin knew who they are.

In terms of immigration, undocumented typically means you don't currently have a valid visa or residency permit. In that case no, they would still be undocumented, since the ITIN doesn't grant them either.
It's not so much that the upper classes adopted French after 1066, it's that the upper class was replaced by people that spoke Norman French.

If you examine the richest landed gentry in England today a very sizeable number still bare the family names of those that fought for William at the Battle of Hastings.
New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'
But, as always, the question is not what mode of transport is more efficient, but why are you travelling at all?

Historically, the whole reason for a city's existence was so that everything was right there. But cities, especially North American cities, for someone reason have to decided to become rural areas for people too poor be able to afford to live in actual rural areas.

It's bizarre.
Couldn't agree more. So many performance problems could be mitigated if people wrote their client/server code to make as few requests as possible.

Consider the case of requesting a webpage with hundreds of small images, one should embed all of the images into the single webpage! Requiring each image to be fetched in a different http request is ridiculous. It pains me to look at the network tab of modern websites.
An investigation of morphological awareness/processing and low literacy
I feel like Netflix is still being included in FAANG because otherwise it would become a slur. Other than that I don't get why we still value it so high in the tech world
Of course they’d do the jobs if immigrants weren’t driving down the floor. Look at European countries where agriculture is done by native born people.
I read in a thread from 20 years ago that some systems in the trains use Windows NT. I guess they still use it.

I think they can't update the internal system responsible for the engine and brakes that easily, as well as the cockpit control systems.

But the system that displays the time and the next stations. With some investment you can communicate via serial or parallel port with the internal system. I guess using the WIFI for this instead would be a problem with security and reliablity, so they have to use the internal system.
Put the Arecibo message on heavy rotation.
I have weekly Portuguese classes in Skype.
During the lesson, when there's a word I don't know, the teacher explains and writes it in the chat.

After each class, I take these words and put them in Anki. However, I feel that this is not a great system, a lot of times I need the context of the conversation, the word needs to be in a sentence or sometimes I would prefer the reverse card (English and Portuguese on the back)

Any recommendations for using Anki for learning languages that is not the basic word-translation pair ? I thought about incorporating Chatgpt in the process, and dump the chat history but I am not sure what would be a good system.
Lol, the name of that channel ("Elektryka Prąd Nie Tyka") is a Polish saying, "electricity doesn't touch the electrician". I guess these hooligans weren't electricians!
15+ years ago I was reviewing server logs for small, local businesses we hosted and came to the conclusion we should just block all APNIC IP addresses.
Not only lies, but I think there are plenty of contradictory results also regarding this assertion:

"Products with five or more reviews were purchased nearly four times more often than products with no reviews."

Subjectively, I often look at the one-star reviews specifically when booking a hotel or whatever I am doing. Granted, no reviews may indeed be a bad sign in a consumer's mind, which is also kind of sad for new companies.
Intel's Inside
You wrote, "If Apple made a profit by selling standalone devices, I could respect this argument", so I thought you'd find it useful to know that they do.
Did you try ChatGPT? It may also assist you in the matching.

As a visual helper, you could also chart the 1K tags as embeddings in a 2D graph [1]

My setup when manually working on this is a split-screen outliner (filter, drag&drop...).

Once the taxonomy is done, I assume you will not be able to reflect those levels back in pocket ? I just see a flat list of tags there.

[1] https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/visualizing_embeddings_...
Showing the current state matches light switches with the state on them.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-15-Amp-Single-Pole-Switc...

Or car door locks which show red (unsafe) when unlocked. It's showing the current state, not the state that will be when toggled.
I saw the phrase “are we X yet” used in the Rust community (is Rust ready for games or whatever) but never realised the phrase’s origin with Mozilla. Thank you for the little piece of history.
Ideally they shouldn't be cut off. I would think we should look into a different prescription and payment paradigm where the meds required for weaning them off (based on the protocols for how long they were on them and what dose) should be part of the initial prescription. That way if you lose coverage or something you can't just be cold turkey.

I also wonder how many people, including physicians, really understand the transition required. I had an elderly friend who went on some sort of narcotic after a surgery. They were told after the fact that since they were on it for a month, it would take them a year to wean them off. I don't have the dosing or med name, but that seemed insane to me. It was ultimately a contributing factor in their death due to some side effects and other complications.
My problem with Garmin is that the software is shit. The hardware is phenomenal, easily everything I could have wanted in a Pebble successor except that the design isn’t quite as fancy, but the software is absolute garbage compared to the Pebble I switched from.
I was on a moonshot team in a previous role. Research is a lot of fun to get paid for certainly doesn’t necessarily imply academic (being a DS lends to a bit more of this than typical SWE). In my experience it’s big open problems that no one really expects you to solve, and rarely would there be any top down direction on how to do so. And those problems aren’t always e.g. mathematical. It could be figuring out how a new product could enter a market, quantifying demand for some product, testing out a new algorithm, or doing a greenfield rebuild of something that exists but could only be meaningfully improved by starting over.

I think what is satisfying about this is the fact that your day to day is largely self directed and open ended. It’s not the type of thing that lends itself to backlogs and well defined tickets, and typical productivity methodologies like whole/scrum tend to fall flat in teams like this for this reason. You just sort of dive deep on a problem, put together prototypes, figure out how to quantify their utility, and keep trying new things. There also tends to be less pressure on deadlines because of the lack of top down.