skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential, but I recently read The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K Dick. It was one of his last books (and one of his best) and has a character inspired by Alan Watts. There's an interesting sequence where that character suddenly grasps the conceptual nature of reality at a deep level. He goes home to write it down, but sees two children playing in the street. He tries to explain to their mother that they're in danger, but she doesn't speak English. So he spends the rest of the afternoon watching the kids, and then forgets the epiphany he had.

> What I had acquired, there on that walk, out of my apartment where I had no access to pen and paper, was a comprehension of a world conceptually arranged, a world not arranged in time and space and by causation, but a world as idea conceived in a great mind, the way our own minds store memories. I had caught a glimpse of world not as my own arrangement—by time, space and causation—but as it is in itself arranged; Kant’s ‘thing-in-itself.’”
To an extent, having a polished established look is to build trust.

If the website looks poorly executed, customers will walk. Think about it, if the site has zero reputation and looks really janky, would you put your credit card in?

Your average consumer will say no.
Not having to think about charging another device is huge, and it charges so quickly that if I forget before an activity that I can plug it in while I’m getting ready or showering and have plenty of juice to last throughout.

Real reason I got my forerunner though is for backpacking and skiing, so conditions where I’ll be in extreme temperatures batteries don’t like, without cell phone service, without power overnight, and potentially needing to navigate on offline maps. I know this doesn’t reflect the average buyer though.
From the paper:

> There are limitations to consider in the interpretation of these results. First, devices were worn for one night.

That is odd.

What I noticed is that my Garmin watch may be wrong at times, but overall provides a fairly good and very useful assessment, especially comparatively day vs day and overall for trends.

In addition it takes a bunch of time for the watch to work out enough data to tune the algorithms for a particular person: some UI bits explicitly call out that for accurate results the watch should be worn continuously for ~2 weeks.

I've now been wearing this particular one (Fenix 7) for 6 months, a serious upgrade from a Forerunner 735xt continuously worn for 5 years. 95% of the time the watch is stupidly accurate in ways it has no business being as a simple wrist-worn set of sensors.
Motion sickness in VR is not universal. Many do just fine playing unoptimized, stuttering games/apps at 50fps including when using smooth locomotion.
Oh, stock photos will soon be "AI" generated ... by "AI"s trained on "AI" generated images. Infinite loop, baby!
In education, that's called "multiple means of representation." If you just listen to a lecture, you will remember a bit of it. If there are visuals along with the lecture, you'll remember some more. If you write stuff down, type stuff out, discuss it with a group, you'll remember even more.

I take handwritten notes all the time, but rarely have to refer back to them.
Didn't know about this one; thanks!
The USA basically has one politically viable solution to every problem it faces: “handing money to corporations.” That’s all Congress and States are willing to do. Electric utility graft and corruption? Hand them money. Banking failure? Hand them money. Airplanes falling apart? Hand them money. Health Care incentives misaligned? Hand them money. Poverty? Hand money to corporations that will embezzle most of it. People out of work during COVID? Hand their employers money. Top corporations getting too big and powerful? Believe it or not, hand them money. That’s the only tool in the toolbox. It’s helpful to think of Congress as a gigantic money funnel where our tax dollars go in and they take turns aiming it at their favorite corporations.
At 14, if the kid is very strong at math, they should try first year university classes. There are tons freely available -- just poke around university math dept web pages (e.g. Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, MIT). Some have full videos, some have full lecture notes, some have exams with answers, etc.

For a 14 year old I'd recommend US universities as the first year is at a lower level there than UK universities (don't know much about non-anglophone universities). E.g. look for classes called "Precalculus" -- that will not be too difficult for them. And also introductions to mathematical logic (and set theory) to get their math thinking off on the right foot.

The other advantage of this is that it will get them in the mindset that a university environment is where they're going to be in their 20s. Doing an undergrad degree and then probably a masters/PhD, which it sounds like is what this teenager should be starting to think (not yet, but when they're 16/17).
For sixty bucks you got yourself a "toy" keyboard which will let you play those chords with just pressing the root note. When you're ready to move on and play the full chords yourself, you already know which roots to play.
It’s a problem most people experience, having worked in VR for years, I am still very sensitive.
Wish browsers would start shipping a sensible multi-select. There’s one now but it’s not user-friendly enough IMO.
Over my head, but heres the patent (pdf): https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...
I reject your insistence that making an activity log, however opaque, visible to anybody with physical access to a device is a "minimal privacy concern." Repeating it as though it is settled fact does nothing to convince anybody. Perhaps if you'd ever had to deal with an abusive partner you'd see the obvious implications.

I also reject the comparison to DUI checks on the basis that those must be performed ASAP in order not to lose the evidence, thus necessitating urgency; the same doesn't apply to phones. As we've seen in, for example, the case of the Uber self-driving car operator who was using her phone when she killed a pedestrian, they were easily able to determine this after the fact, without such intrusive features.
I had heard of the Japanese just putting you in a room with nothing to do instead of firing you, but this sounds next level. They basically created a corporate version of hell, where people don't truly die but have to endure others sinners for eternity.
Wireless internet should be low latency (unless you're talking about geosynchronous satellite).

During high demand, our local WISP has 1 second latency to the internet because their wired backhaul link is terrible. It's less than 1ms to the tower. Starlink to the internet is in the 20-30ms range, and it's bouncing into orbit and back.
I also love Terrence McKenna and though I don’t take everything he says seriously, he was a fascinating speaker.
> Yeah it’s hard to look past that. Ugly behaviour.

From the article:

"... but he notes he only took a poster if there was more than one pinned up in the neighbourhood"
> and that doesn’t feel really weird.

Seeing people step on a treadmill for the first time I'd say it definitely does. You get used to it but the feeling is very different from regular walking/running.
> All I want is a simple watch with simple features that doesn't require charging every day.

Have a look at Pinetime. It won't be discontinued, since it's an open-source smart watch.
Withings is French, which would complicate Masimo’s legal strategy. They’ve probably got their hands full going after the big fish in America where their patents were originally granted.
I think it's far more likely that this will be used in the parks division: Selling to consumers involves far more variables than creating a VR enhanced ride. Only if it's successful as a ride, with time to get the problems figured out and the prices low enough, they will consider retail.
And how does it perform when rotating, starting or stopping fast?
I think most of the latin alphabet languages have cursive forms. Cyrillic as well. Definitely English is no exception.
With the caveats that I:

* Don't use Facebook or any other social networking apps

* Don't really use very many apps, period

* Have the deepest disdain for every company involved in this

Apple's pricing plan doesn't strike me as crazy. Given the value that being on the App Store brings to Facebook, even if they choose not to monetize through it. If you asked them: would you rather pay $70MM or not have your app listed on the App Store, it feels like they would rush to pay the money, knowing that if they disappeared from the App Store it would be catastrophic. My naive understanding of pricing makes this seem like a fair trade.

Those for whom I have more sympathy are small app developers who would be punished by success under this model, especially the vanishingly few who release free (unmonetized) apps and could become so successful they went bankrupt under Apple's model. That failure makes me dislike the proposal. At that point, you'd be insane to release a good and free app, and that's not the world I want to encourage.
It's something I've been saying for years honestly. Most game writing is bad. This has always been the case. The result is that gamers have very low expectations for the writing. And for many people now, their primary exposure to writing is through videogames and blockbuster movies, so they don't have any other baseline for comparing against. I also think that the quality of the execution matters more than the actual story. A lot of games have basically the same stories but one will be praised and the other not, because one executes the story better.

Anyways, my main point is that standards for game writing is so low that really mediocre stuff gets a lot of praise by comparison to even worse stuff.
Ah, this is a more general question on which it is hard to give specific suggestions because "problem-solving" can mean anything/everything without knowing your exact context.

However you might want to start with The Thinker's Toolkit by Morgan Jones. This gives you a catalog of models which teaches you to structure your requirements born from problem analysis in various ways to aid problem-solving.
White House rule dramatically deregulates wetlands, streams and drinking water
This was in the 70s. There were, for most people, only originals. The article clarifies this even: "He was touched by the “folk art” of missing posters – the hand-drawn dogs and the poetic pleas meticulously crafted in a time before computers and printers were household goods."

And this article, which is extensively advertising for this guys products and bands, is helping make him money for this behavior.
Scale of methane leaks from fossil fuel production and landfills exposed
I did and played it most of the way through and enjoyed it. Also played BG3 and loved it so it's not that I never play them but it has to be masterpiece level
In comparison to the diverse, fulfilling job of being underpaid developer #5003 at a given position at Ubisoft?

What you reductively see as robotic and repetitive can be a source of meaning, depth and passion to someone else.
Count to 1B in Ruby, Python, R, JavaScript and C++
I am sorry I did't know how to create a post in Ask HN. Now that. I know, I don't know to to delete this post. New Here.
I guess I spent a lot of words saying:

The ACP tries to make an expensive thing less expensive by artificially increasing demand. What if we tried increasing supply instead?
Does anyone know how it actually works? I can’t tell on the video.

They don’t look like wheels.
I can highly recommend Ente Photos[0]. It has automatic backup, and a very good replication architecture for maximum reliability[1]. It's also super easy to use and everything is encrypted by default.

[0] https://ente.io/

[1] https://ente.io/reliability
> Most academics didn't choose the career for the management side of their responsibilities

Except for MBAs, who did? And why exactly should academics be some kind of special case when it comes to money?
I'm very wary downloading and running software on my computer in general, but I'd be even moreso with software from some unknown company providing a hacking tool.

Definitely better to do this in a VM, but then your performance would take a hit
> relationship with the Government

I'm probably a bit of an oddball but I still do everything by paper. I print out forms, fill them out by hand, and mail them. It's how I do my taxes. It's how I renewed my public health insurance recently. If I run into an issue, I don't call but generally write a letter, and mail it to the ministry responsible. Few things are actually urgent enough for that to not be fast enough.

I do have a phone number. But I avoid using the phone because I'm hard of hearing. And people tend to assume deaf relay calls are crank calls.
I hope someday we get the real story of what Eric was hoping to accomplish with Beeper. His previous company Pebble was basically annihilated by the Apple Watch—was this an attempt to give regulators the opening they needed to take Apple down? If so, the choice of iMessage is utterly baffling, as it's only popular in the US and has plenty of very popular alternatives.

The whole thing just feels like a monumental waste of human effort.
>90% of the people who salivate over these giant death machines aren't using them for hauling goods or farm work.

Sorry for being blunt, but where you grew up brainwashed you. Or you are young and very naive or like to speak in hyperbole.

The most sold vehicle in the US is being used for work purposes and has been since the truck was invented. There are many people that drive trucks outside of work, but you are very misinformed.

I lived in NYC for 20+ years without a car. On a hot summer night walking close to Holland tunnel brought rage to me as well. Hopefully the much needed congestion pricing will help.
You mean... iterative development?

It is simple, you break up whatever improvement work you want to get done into small enough pieces so that these pieces can be included to use up any capacity margin during your development cycle.

You always want to have some spare capacity to fill with improvement work. This way you can manage unplanned work by temporarily reducing your improvement work rather than overrunning your project.

The important part is that any improvement needs to be broken up into small enough pieces that each can be shipped separately. You don't want half done, unshipped work to be a continuing feature of your development process putting an overhead on everything you do.

As to refactoring, best refactoring is usually done in small increments. I look at the codebase, I see something I do not like, I pick one thing I can fix here and now. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Some of the worst mistakes I have seen that really put the existence of a project in question was bright developers getting their managers to agree on a huge step change and that change never getting done. This usually is some sort of rewrite even if devs try to hide the rewrite. Usually they say "let's create a brand new service where we will keep everything clean and then we will slowly migrate the functionality from the old to the new". And it rarely works.

Because of these experiences, I have pretty much banned rewrites at all projects I work with. I now understand that a rewrite carries with it a huge amount of various risks and that people are biased to overestimate the costs of the ugly stuff they see in the old application and underestimate the risks of things they are not aware of when deciding to do the rewrite.
Community did it first.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z4FGzE4endQ

(Fixed link)
One idea for VR is to hold these static and let you walk around normally but anytime you stop walking they move you back to the center.
Amazing the number of people on HN who dislike any measure of helping those less fortunate.
I’ve been seeing a lot of lost pet posters lately. One of the things that has struck me is that they seem pretty ineffective. Most of them have really small writing and when you’re driving past them in the suburbs all you really see is that there is some lost dog or cat and you probably pass the sign too quickly to get much information or write down the phone number. I was pretty sure that there had to be at least 10 different websites trying to help solve this problem and a quick web search confirmed my suspicion. I have a feeling the websites aren’t much help. The only thing that seems like it probably works is the chip database, but I’d be interested to see if anybody has done research on the most effective ways to find and reunite lost pets.
It does not come for free. If China can at the same time use cheaper cost of production to compete against countries that have to increase their cost then other countries will loose. In both scenario everybody loses in the end but in the first scenario China will come out on top until then. The only winnable long term strategy is when China will play along all the time.
> Ukraine is currently the only country that can defeat Russia.

No, they’ve demonstrably shown they can not. No wonder weapons would have changed the outcome.

The travesty was the wests meddling in Ukraine politics and having them antagonize Russia for years leading up to the civil war and invasion. Proper diplomacy would have saved hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives.

Pretending the military always knows the right thing to do would have led to MacArthur nuking Korea.
About iMessage Contact Key Verification
Thanks for the suggestions, https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news is indeed great. Although I prefer not to install a chrome extension.

I was thinking something similar to alternative frontends for youtube which already exit.
I think the conclusion is that /total sleep time/ is actually very accurate, while deep/light/rem measurements are crap.
T a x F r e e was about employment or starting a business.

Dubai should not be a tourist destination. There is nothing there.

If you want desert and desolation, with mountains, and nicer people, go to Oman. Musandam is remarkable (fjords on the Strait of Hormuz!), and usually accessed from Dubai. Hiking around Jabal Shams canyon, or Jebel Akhdar, can be tough but enchanting (apricot and rose harvests), and there are a smattering of old forts in the mountains (e.g. Nizwa).

Egypt is much more famous, and rightly so. However, the best single destination in the world, not just the Arab world, is Petra (Jordan), which should certainly top any bucket list.
This is actually much closer to what I was hoping Google Sheets could end up becoming before Google shit the floor. Thanks!
> someone hand drew and coloured a poster for beloved missing dog -- not a print out or photocopy -- and someone just took it because they wanted to collect them

I do think this is problematic, but I imagine that the owners would usually not retrieve/keep the posters anyway, so I'm not sure the issue is necessarily with the fact that an original is being taken like there might be with some other artistic creation (I'm not sure the owner would object to not getting the original back; the posters will probably just be discarded anyway).

My concern is more that if someone put a lot of effort into making these posters for the purpose of attracting people's attention in order to get their pet back, it seems problematic to take it without knowing for sure that the pet has already been found even if there are multiple posters in a neighborhood.
You seem upset, and refuse to answer pretty straightforward questions, so I’m afraid I can’t continue engaging with you.
What are the best sources for recordings of Watts and McKenna? I've found some of Watts, but somebody mixed in new age music and did other edits that I thought made things worse.
Weird, iOS here too and syncing works. Sometimes takes a minute for a photo I just took to show up in the app but it will eventually. Is that what you mean?
i believe Universal Basic Income & All you can Use research resources would be a sustainable model for people who prove mastery on a subject (Phd) and can show "improvements" to said subject (acclaimed research?). That would free a lot on creative/innovative talent in what matter, innovation instead of playing academy political chairs game, at the price that some of recipients would be lazy and non productive (but i believe say becoming a leading phisicist is a masochistic way of becoming a welfare recipient).

We can see gatekeepers of academia are more interested in economic/ideological qualms instead of pursuing truth/knowledge. Throwing money at research can be counterproductive.
Your testimony about your own behavior is not hearsay.
You aren’t actually buying power from different people in states where you choose a “different” provider. Those are all middlemen offering a variety of more expensive rate plans and “benefits” that appear to be cheaper but actually are more expensive than buying directly from the main utility provider. (The middle man has to make money somehow after all) In reality the power travels over the main providers’ lines so the main provider is usually cheapest.

It’s just an illusion of choice and I would rather not deal with the constant door to door utility MVNO salesmen.
The farther up the stack, the easier it is for the community to contribute. The compiler infra has been the major investment they’ve made for a few years, and it’s starting to show dividends but most of the benefit is still on the table there.
Doesn't like 70% of the stream revenue go towards licensing the music?
> then the gasoline car would be able to do 16 times more work per unit of fuel

OK, so we've got ~300 mile range electric cars.

Where are the 5,000 mile range gasoline cars?
Get a Synology NAS it has spreadsheets you can share and host yourself.
Results:

c++ 1.129 seconds

python 41.674 seconds

ruby 8.730 seconds

R 13.602 seconds

js (node) 0.481 seconds

What surprises me: Python slower than R and ruby. js faster than c++.
This sentiment is obviously driving quite a lot of current regulatory action, but I'm not sure I really understand it.

Apple is large yes, but not remotely close to a monopoly. They have 25% smartphone marketshare, and there are numerous other major smartphone manufacturers.

If Apple abuses its power, there are plenty of alternatives that customers can switch to. They should otherwise be free to do with their products as they see fit no?

I presume you disagree with my last question, so I ask then where do we draw the line? Should Nike be forced to carry Adidas clothes? Should AWS be forced to allow customers to co-locate their own hardware? Should Tesla be forced to produce cars that can also be converted to internal combustion engines?

If I want the product to be different from the one being offered from vendor A, I simply go buy one from vendor B.
Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step
Isn't that the same as walking?
BG3 is what I dreamed about videogames being like when I was a kid. It's the only one to ever live up to that dream but it did it fully and perfectly.

The writing is good, especially for a fantasy video game, and the story branches and voice acting is incredible, but the entire game is just absolutely unbelievably amazing.

I loved how when it released a lot of game studios were putting out news stories trying to lower the public's expectation for other games.

I feel more like it was just one of the few games where they really made it for the users -- and like you say all the data even said they wouldn't make that much money. Everything now not even just in video games is just about how to leech more money or attention out of people, and I think that's part of why it stood out too.
> Usually they say "let's create a brand new service where we will keep everything clean and then we will slowly migrate the functionality from the old to the new".

The "create a new service" part or the "slowly migrate" part? The latter sounds like it would be iterative in exactly the same way