skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, the one comforting thought in all this is, politicians can try to argue and bargain with physics as much as they want. Physics doesn't care.

You either accept that infinite growth in a universe with limited resources is impossible, or you're stuck loosing the rhetoric battle against physics.

I think the only sustainable way forward is to divorce our concept of wealth from growth, and ever increasing exploitation of resources.
stay away from samsung fridges too.
What's the surprise about documentation being open source? The overwhelming majority of the source is going to consist of the text of the documentation, which is open anyway.
The George Bush wiki page has the biggest number of edits, isn't it an example of how the appropriate narrative happens?
However, there was no warhead attached, meaning there was never any danger to the community.

I think the headline may be slightly click bait…
when is 12% everyone?
Using the verb "prefer" is questionable editorialising. One could argue that the brain prefers the easy thing, ie typing.

The title of the study is "Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity".
Since some have posted favorite twists on the genre, a delightful one I discovered recently, Dungeon Sweeper[1], is themed like an isometric city builder, where the mines are dungeons and the clues are graveyards around them. Uses hexagonal tiles.

[1] https://setamopixel.itch.io/dungeon-sweeper
Man that sucks. Rest in peace. I loved his character in The Mandalorian.
Maybe version control is actually a hard problem, and there are no simple solutions. And I'm sorry to pile on, but if you haven't learned more than the basics in 20 years, have you considered sitting down and doing some focused git work? Maybe play with libgit2 and learn the internals.
Glowing-tree – Three.js tree experiment
For a brief period I considered becoming a private detective. A friend of mine knew I was looking to practice and sent me a photo on Wikipedia that was faked. It claimed to be of private military contractors in an outfit called GK Sierra in one country, but they were actually US soldiers in a different country.

I spent a while digging into this company and a couple of related companies. They had edited themselves into Wikipedia articles in small ways over the years, and gotten themselves included in click bait lists of military contractors. They made a half-assed effort to cover this up by
changing their Wikipedia user name, but that just creates a different record that was still searchable. There was a Wikipedia article mentioning a rumor they worked for Mossad, but I suspected they were also the source for that rumor. They claimed they worked for the CIA, and they had a real contracting number with the DoD. But I didn't find any evidence these contracts were real, and when I sent a FOIA to the CIA they said the information either didn't exist or was classified.

The weirdest thing I noticed was that it had bled into the culture to some extent. People who wanted to give themselves an edgy camo aesthetic would find these click bait articles and vandalized Wikipedia pages and not realize it was a sham - or realized and were doing it ironically, how is one to tell. I saw an admin of some forum who took it as a handle. I saw someone present a military-themed outfit in GTA named after it.

Eventually I got to the point where I was gathering more and more evidence and none of it was making any sense, and I realized I was never going to make real headway without finding a way to interview these people. I could see pieces of what they were doing, but as far as why they were doing it, that information just didn't seem to be written down on the Internet. The prospect of flying across the country to try and track down someone who was doing things I couldn't understand wasn't appealing, so I just let it go.

As a disclaimer, I'm working off of memory here, some of the details may be wrong.

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Looking back at their deleted Wikipedia page on the Wayback machine, it's all so outlandish that I have to imagine it was an elaborate prank. It's a lot more paperwork than most pranks involve, but I just can't imagine that whoever put this together intended anyone to believe it. Maybe they wanted to see if they could do enough legend building that the Wikipedia mods would have some doubt and keep up the page for a ridiculous hoax? If I was practicing a skill, maybe they were too? Impossible to say.
That's not an excuse. Most people won't see that.
Code: https://github.com/Robpayot/glowing-tree
Same. Maybe I was a naive young adult, but I totally did not anticipate the twist in that plot. So in that regard I felt like I got my money's worth.
Totally missed Designer News, but getting a glimpse of what it was through the Internet Archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20150618094329/https://www.desig...

In a way, it does feel like HN as someone point out in another comment
Likewise. GE dishwasher got a fault after a couple years and spewed water everywhere. Got a Bosch and never had a problem in about 8 years now. It cleans way better too. Simple, reliable, looks and works great.
Show HN: accdoo cipher web app now fused with offline Pi cutter (100k digits)
accdoo.app is a Web App / PWA that help you to crunch some numbers:

arr.map(BigInt).reduce((a, b) => (a * b) ** 2n)

The same operation can be performed on any off-the-shelf calculator (or in mind), but this one comes in handy for large numbers without losing its precisions, up to 100,000 digits on Web, 1,000,000 in CLI, configurable from API (npm:accdoo).

Aside from the spirit of xkcd/936, it is widely applicable (does not require a dictionary nor an ANSI keyboard) and can be used for things like door locks, vaults, pins, passcodes, entropy seeding, or even root password for password managers (yes, all numeric is fine), etc.

Now back to Pi, it is an infinite data source and constant across the universe (base-10), figured would be great to have it chopped freely and then mixed into the calculations above. The Pi is produced on-the-fly, using JavaScript native BigInt and Chudnovsky Algorithm ([wiki]), the code was taken from one of the examples in the QuickJS project ([quickjs/pi], [pi_bigint.js]).

The syntax for cutting is the same as in the manual ([accdoo.app/about]):

pi#6 // take 6 digits of Pi (314_159)
pi#6#3 // take 6 digits of Pi but drop 3 beforehand (159_265)

pi#1#40000 // take one digit at 40,000th

This is the second Show HN post as its major feature bump, here's the link to its first intro 10 days ago ([39115559]) and a previous sideways on Ask HN 8 days ago ([39138957]).

[wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_algorithm

[quickjs/pi]: https://bellard.org/quickjs/pi.html

[pi_bigint.js]: https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/examples/pi_b...

[accdoo.app/about]: https://accdoo.app/about#manual

[39115559]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39115559

[39138957]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138957
Walnut, a white-naped crane with a Smithsonian zookeeper as a mate, dies at 42
If someone wants to remove the old lines from the pole to the house, who would do that now? I don't use my landline anymore and trying to cleanup the clutter of old lines.
Groups of many people working together. Historically, this has proven far less likely to produce bad results.
Building a hypervisor, 1: KVM Introduction
One thing though, one difference. The media.

Newspapers and TV were much more limited and gated. I remember having no access to cable, and thus only 3 TV channels, and two "national" newspapers available easily.

So news was textual, and the TV news was only on at 7am, 6pm, 11pm.

Then came the rise of cable news, and 24 hours news. And they needed to have more news to fill the gaps.

So people turning molehills into mountains is a thing, misconstrued interpretation of actions, unproven allegations, and more is now far more common. And before a thing would vanish quickly from the news, but with 24 hour networks they would come back to it for months.

This took time to develop, so the 90s 24 hr news networks weren't like this instantly. They evolved into this.

Then came the internet. Twitter, facebook, etc. Now more news was needed.

From what I can see, this is a large part of the change.

And as an aside, quite literally "enemies of democracy" work to amplify this. And it's so easy to do.

Pick the nuttiest nut, the least tolerant of boneheads, and donate to their foundation or cause.

The nut doesn't need to even know, they are the ultimate "useful idiot", feed them and they grow into an influential nut.

Nation-states don't need to use bots, they can just donate to causes which cause the most internal friction. Then these characters run around, pointing out every flaw.
tell me you don’t have a convertible without telling me you don’t have a convertible
That's going to be hard for people on criminal home confinement. Those anklets connect to a base station that connects only to an analog land line. Most of those things are obsolete technology.
It can be extremely hazardous to birds (https://www.ewg.org/research/canaries-kitchen) and can also make humans sick ("Teflon flu").
> I stole copiously from The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly by Ian Logan and Frank O’Hara

This was an actual book, readily available at your local bookstore, that had a full, independently produced, Z80 disassembly listing (with great comments) of the original Spectrum's 16K ROM.

That the actual Sinclair team were using it as their main reference when they updated the ROM is just fantastic.
I have a 10 year old Bosch. A part recently failed. I repaired it myself. During the repair I noticed that this thing was built for repairability. The parts manual is available online. The company seems to take an interest in quality.

I just can’t say the same over the other appliance brands in my house.
I'm not so sure about Miele. I looked at their washer dryers recently and there were a lot of complaints about TwinDos. I would say keep it simple and don't extend to features you wouldn't normally expect just because a manufacturer is offering it.
This isn't for tabular data though? Time series transformers have been around for a few years now, see Transformers in Time Series: A Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07125 and Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13504
I just tested to see what happens if you don't name a branch before leaving it. Surprisingly, despite all that scary looking text about detached head, if you switch over to another branch git will print out a message that you're leaving commits on an unnamed branch as well as instructions on how to get back and name it later (and of course the commit hash can also be recovered from the reflog).

So yeah not only is the detached head state not a broken state, it's not even really a scary state to be in.
I've been happy with my Electrolux fridge (it's only seven years old but literally zero maintenance in that time and it's still working like a champ), which I bought because my parents were happy with theirs which they'd bought five or six years before I got mine. Theirs is still going well too.

My washing machine is a Bosch series 8 which has also been really good, same age, no problems.
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ESPhome timers are actually local to the ESP device. They just depend on a time signal for timekeeping. For now, the time is sent by HomeAssistant, but I could stick an RTC or GPS timesource on the ESP,and have it run 100% locally.

But since this is mostly supplemental food for dental concerns, and he still gets two bowls of wet every day, its not really an issue
I'm going to complain about this, because I have attempted to follow several origami books in the past to utter failure, usually due to a single cursed step that I simply could not parse (and video-tutorials always corresponding to a similar but different design) -- I want this to be a useful thing.

Using video control icons for operations that have nothing to do with the associated video control behavior is insanity.

Play seems to mean play the current step animation (not sequence of steps)

Restart seems to mean replay the current step animation (not restart the whole
sequence)

Fast Forward/Backwards seems to mean move one step forwards/backwards

Not sure what video mechanic |<- corresponds to, but >| is usually "next video", and here it means "restart sequence"

It also irks me that you can't skip to a specific step by clicking the item in the list

restarting the animation sometimes resets the camera position, defeating the purpose of being 3D. Crane steps 9,10,11 seems to do this consistently

I actually have no idea why there's an animation in the first place. It seems like it's always two-frames -- one to show the arrows, the other to show eventual crease? Since it doesn't actually animate into the next image, I think this would be better off as simply a toggle flag to view and persist

Relevant points in the current step should probably be perpetually highlighted, rather than only on-hover. On hover, do an additional highlight (bigger circle, brighter color, etc) to denote the specific number hovered on.
Athletes are probably considered more as billboards for brand ads than humans. So if something could attract more audience, then it will happen.

Also, most probably it will not attract attention for more than 2-3 years and the whole Enhanced Games will disappear after that.

The big problem for humanity is a huge step towards doping normalization as a result of this commercial event. We will lose more many young people because of it. It's sad.
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Unsure if that is a joke or a real error message.
Mweb is the name of a South African ISP.

Interestingly, they were one of the very first ISPs that I can remember, certainly one of the, if not the, most advertised to consumers at the time and I think it is the only ISP which still exists today from those very early days.

I wouldn’t ever use them personally, an apt analogy might be that choosing them today is like choosing AOL in the US.
Ede – An Fltk based desktop environment (2014)
Indeed Samsung oven I own had issue with control knob. Samsung fridge and induction hob are fine for 5 years or so.
I mean to make it from scratch.

I thought that you can put the prompt into Mistral but instead of going all the way to output, you just like take the state of Mistral when it's like halfway done and use that as the "embedding". Then that gives you the prompt embedding or something, then you feed that into the image generator. Is that not how SDXL works?

I don't have a few million lying around, but it shouldn't be hard to get if I have a good prototype that generates 64x64 images you know. Do you know how to make one from scratch?
I guess that it's a fallacy because we don't need to determine the "full truth", just as much of it as we can if doing so would prevent mass poisonings.
My parents have a clothes drier from the 1970s and a fridge from the 1990s. They have needed repairs, but they were infrequent and not so costly as to necessitate buying a new unit.

My A/C is only four years old and the maintenance guy is telling me one of the fans is drawing too much power and will need to be replaced soon. Despite the part being free under warranty, they want $600 to replace it. This seems to be standard in the industry. Same for the capacitor: the part is only $17 but the authorized service companies want several hundred dollars to replace it, a job that should only take 15 minutes. It's almost as if they know they have us over a barrel.
Google is paying to have it worked on.
One of the many problems with sleep apnea treatment, is that we're treating AHI. AHI is an imperfect proxy for all the things that really happen on account of sleep apnea. Not breathing, underbreathing, micro arousals, clustering of apneas etc. Things like UARS can go undetected nearly forever.

You can have an AHI of 1 and still get zero REM sleep because every time you start going into REM, a respiratory event knocks you out of it.

Apneas and Hypopneas have to last for 10 seconds or more to be included in the AHI count. You can literally have hundreds of respiratory events and have an AHI of zero, but you're still going to feel pretty bleedin' awful.

There is also an RDI, Respiratory Disturbance Index, which includes the AHI events but also includes arousals caused by breathing issues. It is typically much higher than AHI in un(der)treated patients. It's also imperfect, and it's harder to measure.

Then, of course, we come to the CPAP machine reported AHI, which seems to be what insurance and doctors are interested in. In short: the number is garbage. These machines are absolutely TERRIBLE at correctly identifying events. Using those numbers as the basis for any kind of decision is awful.

Maybe one day we'll get CPAP devices with EEG devices in the head strap and with unobtrusive SpO2 sensors that actually work. Maybe then we can start reporting useful numbers which can actually be used in support of treatment.

Until then, it's very much possible to keep feeling like shit even though your sleep apnea is allegedly "under control".
Great. And the point is..who cares what humans do ? We’re not the arbiter of intelligence anymore than birds are the arbiter of flight.

Nobody is trying to build a digital human here so, “they’re not doing what humans do” is about as meaningless as it gets.

I mean sure, you could cook up whatever definition of intelligence you like, make it so that humans are the only things that pass just because. Then, what's the point? It's not a useful definition.

That’s one point but really there’s more. If you say “mimicking intelligence” is a real meaningful difference, then it should be testable. “There’s a difference here. You can’t see it in the results but trust me bro, it’s there” is really not an argument.
One thing to be wary of (sorry to muddy the waters), is that some brands sell their name in some regions.

So a tfal pan is legit in Europe, but a Chinese cheap knockoff in Canada, the brand name sold to Canadian Tire.
When we upgraded our appliances, the "smart" or "wifi-enabled" ones were specifically avoided like the plague. "Dumb" appliances - especially fridges, for some reason - are becoming hard to come by, but they do exist. Electrolux, KitchenAid, even LG all make some no-frills models that can save both money and frustration. Hopefully those companies continue serving the "luddite techie" market.
Use MQTT for all interop, and allow config to be changed via captive on-device portal. Put OTA keys in escrow if you insist on restricting firmware updates, so keys can get freed if SHTF.
I tried it out and downloaded the iOS version, but unfortunately it doesn’t save between sessions. That sucks, especially for a game in the puzzle genre.

Also, the ads offset the display but the taps still go to the original positions. Hope these can be fixed!
What is it doing exactly? I jump between Google and Apple Maps a lot and never noticed any issues.
I did exactly that with a custom GPT and it works pretty well. I did my best to push it to respond with its training knowledge about brand reputation and avoid searches. When it has to resort to searches I pushed it to use trusted product information sources and avoid spammy or ad-ridden sites.

It allowed me to spot the best brands and sometimes even products in verticals I knew nothing about beforehand. It’s not perfect but already very efficient.
> when someone comes near (eg a flight attendant), it breaks through the immersive VR and shows them to you.

Or when someone walks past to use the washroom.
We are actually quite happy with our Samsung American style fridge. It is about the last model before they went all the way with integrated lcd and wifi etc. It is also pretty energy efficient for a double door fridge/freezer.

Bosch, Siemens, Neff, is all the same brand underneath and there is little difference between the models across years. Just get something that is offline.
Applied Embedded Electronics: Design Essentials for Robust Systems
These two ideas are not in conflict. You can create something and give it away free, or you can ask money. Many SWEs do both - eg. open-source for fun, proprietary at work.
> I assume "explicit" means manual moderator intervention, but I don't really see anything that suggests that

Because there is no visible indication when moderator intervention happens. It doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Apple says the EU accounts for just 7% of its global App Store revenue
Wirecutters should do the job I think?
It was this film (The Woods, 2006): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380066/

...which was actually a rather cool movie! Anything with Bruce Campbell and Patricia Clarkson piques my interest.
Why should every application be aware of whether it is running on a v4 or v6 network? If the application merely wants to connect to an external service, that is firmly in the OS's job to decide.

As a user, if ipv6 is flaky today, I want one central place to configure for ipv4 only, I don't want to go and change every application'settings only to revert that tomorrow.
Successful companies are mostly that due to having made the right business decisions, these come mostly top down. You can have a million workers, but if they don't have great leadership they'll produce basically nothing of great value.
No, they’re doing so because holding USD is better than holding their own currencies.

It’s simply economically smarter to hold a currency that appreciates against your own. USD outperforms every currency, and USDT just makes it easier to hold.
Aren't we all dying slowly Day by Day, one way or another?
I can do you one better. Ever heard of the Davy Crockett?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_devic...
i don't understand why people buy smart devices. with anything smart i can't know what exactly the device is doing. plus the software will most likely stop being supported. by then it is just a potential tool to being hacked
First Apple Vision Pro Kernel Exploit
https://archive.ph/TWGsk
So just because it's useless now, that means it will never be useful? I guess we should give up on every new technology that's not immediately beneficial.
I imagine very large objects you'd like to be able to shard across multiple servers.
You are looking at a too short of a time frame. Expecting a system to be getting strictly better every second of every day is utopian. The real world has ups and downs, restructuring to accommodate change, shutting down legacy industries, making room for new ideas, etc
When the device was in service, the sensors didn't really work, and were likely never enabled in the software. The hopper feed level never accurately indicated in-app, and was mostly just based on calculating the approximate amount dispensed vs a "full" hopper, and the machine would often happily report that it dispensed food, and never actually did, so I doubt the scales actually were enabled either
Just don’t read it then. You are not the intended audience for that book. It’s ok to not to read a book
With mining you can reduce the cost basis of solar significantly.
I have only bought small things like a kettle since the "smartening" of household items started, and every time it feels like navigating a mine field of planned obscolescence. But I guess it is good motivation to give my current old and trusty appliances more TLC.
Chris Wellons' "A Magnetized Needle and a Steady Hand," a piece on building an ELF executable from scratch:

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/11/17/
When some branches brought mine down in a storm, I cut mine off on the house side, spooled it up secure with electrical tape, and hung it low on the pole on the street side. Probably shouldn't disconnect it at their box but past there it's yours if you own the house.