skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The downvotes from people waking up at 11am lol
I associate re-usable bags with caring about not wasting things. You seem to value the ability to waste things. You do not seem to think it's worth preventing your dog from destroying your bags. You do not seem to exercise care to actually re-use the bags, since you say they are piling up in your home. If the standard of living is facing such a precipitous decline that you are potentially planning an escape, why would you casually throw away useful items, and continue to spend money on new items when you don't actual need to? What would you think of a person that leaves their car idling at all times and complains that they are oppressed by an increase in gas prices?
We absolutely should price reusable bags higher then.

If I forget my bags and I don't have many groceries I'll just not use bags at all. Otherwise I'll use paper, which isn't great but it's not adding to plastic trash.

Also plastic bags are generally around a $1. I'm not throwing those away, economic reasons and on principle.
Seems like a win-win.
> I’ve decided to combine the words “Digital" and “dystopia” to describe the hole I’ve found myself in.

"Digital" and "Utopia" also combine to make "Digitopia". (Maybe my most HN comment yet.)
It is, apparently no one can handle sarcasm on this forum.
well, YC and other VCs don't seem to like a solo team. Maybe VCs should change their mindset first.
The best you can do is get an early warning by running your extension via an automation framework and getting alerts on errors then publishing a fix and waiting for approval from Google.

Too many unknown unknowns. You're searching for an element to modify or take an action on based on the text content/class/id/aria-label/type? Someone changed apple to train. Or completely changes the element hierarchy. How would you predict or recognize that to modify your logic and be certain it works before publishing to your hundreds/thousands/millions of users?
> Contributing to the Apple ecosystem is a choice, no one is forced to do it.

This is such a disingenuous argument that ignores the huge pile of incentives at play. Here is an equally disingenuous argument: anyone who sells or gives away any software to anyone in the US is taking an active part in the US military industrial complex.
VSCode Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support
> Yeah it would be nice there were a way to limit the entire scope of an addon's permissions to a whitelist of domains.

You can do this for the network read/write permissions, where the permission request dialog on install will tell you the URL patterns the extension wants access to.

I can't do this for my specific extension though. My extension checks web pages for problems like broken links, so it needs to be able to fetch any web page URL you give it and then it has to fetch any URLs that are linked to on the page, so I have to ask for access to http://\\\* and https://\\\* (I could maybe get away with just the `activeTab` permission to check the domain of the current tab if the checks were more limited though).

The extension is only doing operations like this within its own tab, when you have the extension open, and for it's own network requests, so it's frustrating there isn't a more granular permission I can ask for as I've isolated it as much as I could.

It's a tricky problem though. Browser makers will have certain kinds of extensions in mind, and optimise to make the permission system and permission request messages friendly for those kinds of extensions. Less standard extensions usually have to settle for broader permissions with less friendly permission descriptions, until hopefully the permission system gets iterated on based on how it's being used in the wild (Manifest V3 in Chrome for example).
I have a feeling we might be talking about different things. I'm talking about bags like these:

https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwjk8p3YqZKEAxVQZZE...
I’ve been quite happy with Objective-C and Swift from mostly hobbyist experience, but Xcode truly is baffling.

Any time I’ve ever had to do anything with build configs or something relating to project metadata rather than just writing code, I’ve just been winging it based on some average of StackOverflow advice, weighted towards recency cause it all seems to change every few years.

I have no idea if this stuff is all documented anywhere; if it is I haven’t been able to find it.
As a peer comment mentioned, the wisdom of the crowds only functions when people operate independently. When people collaborate, our answers turn to junk again. And any sort of voting system is an inherent collaboration because you are basically seeing what's 'trending' by definition, so it destroys any sort of wisdom of the masses.

The only way you might have it work is if random people were shown random posts from random topics, and asked to vote on them. And the ranking was based upon that feedback. There's problems there as well, but probably far fewer than in the current system.
>the form factor my mother uses has changed from a laptop to an iPad. But it still satisfies that core value prop.

>Let's consider a different context. Even if there were no apps in my phone, I would still buy an iPhone. For myself likely, but most certainly for her.

I have been thinking about this since COVID. I recently posted [1] on Apps required for setting up a new Mac. Apart from BitTorrent client, VSCode, a Video player and related library, 99% of time I am inside a Browser. i.e We are very very close to a point where a Web Browser is all we need. Especially for consumption devices similar to iPad.

This also means having a platform other than Google, Microsoft or Apple is more feasible than ever. Unfortunately Facebook or Amazon doesn't seems to be interested. I dont see any other companies to have this appetite. Ideally something similar to Mozilla or WikiPedia would be better. But both are too small right now to try something of this size.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39164362
"Your real profit per day will be $ 9000."

LOL
Interpreting neural networks through the polytope lens (2022)
Debugging skills learned from software development are highly applicable for troubleshooting mechanical (car) and even medical problems so it's hard to take professionals in other fields seriously when they lack the same debugging ability.

I've taken my car into the mechanic before only to be told the problem isn't reproducible so then I eliminate variables to figure it out myself and essentially do their job for them. Once I enumerate exactly how to reproduce, it's all but clear what the problem is and then they can replace the part.
I don't know if it's me getting old or new HDR/5120 res/monitors with crazy white/black levels but I had to recently change my cursor color from white to green because I started losing it on all white screens.
Seem to be fun. But I can never play this with not inverted y-axis
...this is using wordplay to avoid answering the question. It doesn't explain anything.

Also:

> Thankfully one of you

We can see your name.
What do you do when your normal programming language stops being your normal programming language (you add a language, switch languages), but you want to preserve details of the configuration? Translate it all into your new language(s)? How do you keep these things synced up? You extract the details into a configuration language/serialization format and then deserialize in every language you work with.

Embedding your configuration in your application language only works well as long as you have one application language. (Or perhaps you use Lua or TCL which are both almost trivially embedded into every other language.)
> As long as there isn't a strong bias to people's estimate, the average will converge on the truth.

Yes, as long as the truth is the most significant systematic influence on beliefs, any reasonable method of aggregrate of belief will converge on the truth with sufficient numbers.

Unfortunately, the required condition for convergence on the truth is often not true, and there is no way of reliably determining when it is true other than determining the truth independently and determining if belief converges on it.

Significant effects on belief about facts from cognitive/perceptual biases, especially where the fact is not something easily observable like “is it raining at this instant where you are standing” are not rare, and these biases often align for similarly situated individuals.
with a black hole
You almost have to "enjoy" some of that stress and chaos in a weird way. The adrenaline rush of having to make so many decisions all the time.
You usually don't visit dentist each week or two so the damage you'll receive there can be ignored.
On the contrary, the UK is doing it right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
I don't think advocating for invasive surgery is a good way of dealing with awful insurance bureaucracy. With OP's luck, he might need 666 days to get his hospital fees sorted by insurance.

Snark aside, AFAIK palate hardening is not terribly permanent, it works by creating scar tissue, which can become more floppy than the original tissue as you age. It's only useful if a floppy palate is causing obstructions/snoring. Removing tonsils and adenoids will may free up some space in the airway, but it's not going to make any difference if they're not the cause of the obstruction, and this may weaken your immune system.

While I'm sure you were trying to be helpful, I do wish people would stop treating sleep apnea like it's something that's easy to fix. Just have these body parts removed. Just lose weight. Just get on CPAP. Just fix your allergies. Just have your jaw broken and moved forward. Just have an electrode implanted. Etc.
> Debugging skills learned from software development are highly applicable for troubleshooting mechanical (car) and even medical problems so it's hard to take professionals other fields seriously when they lack the same debugging ability.

I'm positive it wasn't intentional, but you've done a fine job buttressing my argument.
Maybe they'd accept "I give you a 20% (lifetime) referral fee for the next 10 customers, if you referred them to me or not". That's 20% of revenue but it has a limit and still gives them motivation to either active or passive help you grow. Active could be they send you potential customers, passive could be they give you a great testimonial for your website. They wouldn't own part of your company and structuring such a contract should be straight forward compared to company shares.
https://psychcentral.com/health/broken-window-theory#broken-...
> That said, in some processor lines (i.e. Atom), support for this instruction set was introduced rather late (2021).

Just one little sentence at the end but quoting it since it feels important.
A moral equivalence class is an axiomatic equivalence class that when quotienting some mathematical structure the model in question might lose some of its soundness or adequacy properties, but one that nevertheless might be useful for other meta-mathematic reason.

This use of the word is so common in certain math/category theory/compsci communities that I was not aware it was unconventional in any way. It has nothing to do with ethics.

I guess the moral of the story is that the moral of the story can be lost if people don't understand the story.
Maybe hard to sort out small drones from large birds?
If you say so!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/toddler-sh...

https://apnews.com/article/toddler-shot-kenton-county-parent...
I think your point is valid and it’s not way more expensive to host your own, but $10/tb all-in as hosted space is way low of an estimate. If you are getting a NAS that’s big enough to have 1:5 parity it’s gonna be a 6 or 8 bay so maybe $1k, and you’ve gotta amortize that across 10 years which is $8.3 a month. You’ve also gotta pay a lot more electricity to run the NAS. At 50w/hr it works out to 36kw/mo which is $7.2 at 20c/kwh which is a reasonable rate for electricity factoring in fees and such. Then you have to also use up part of your bandwidth and keep some machine running 24/7 to torrent or you have to pay for a seedbox, which is another $5/mo at least. You also might need networking hardware to hardwire this thing in, but let’s leave that off. We’re already at $20/mo of additional costs just for one NAS to keep it running, independent of drive costs.

Granted if you go this route you can host media from multiple different streaming services if you so choose, which changes the calculus some.
I'm pretty sure it's as bad as it sounds haha.

Like another user mentioned because of this I only trust a few key extensions(and like that user uBlock, Bitwarden, etc) with this sorta access.

I'd be very wary of those scrapy screen/session recording startups if for no other reason than they could be particularly vulnerable to supply chain attacks.
Yep, that's true. I can only give a philosophical reply to this; we feel as we are in an utopia when utilizing tech to distract us from the negative thoughts/feelings that we are experiencing!
> "But instead this was just another development thread Google single-handedly stopped out of nothing but ego?"

There's a reasonable cost/benefit argument against standardizing JPEG XL in browsers. You don't have to agree with it, but JPEG XL proponents shouldn't just ignore it.

The argument is: (1) the cost is large -- implementation and maintenance of a complex image codec takes time, and image codecs are high-risk from a security perspective. (2) the benefit is relatively small -- it needs to provide a clear advantage over existing alternatives like jpg, png, webp, avif in some significant general use cases.

Now, you don't have to agree with that argument -- e.g. you can argue the cost isn't that high, or that there are valuable advantages to jxl for significant use cases that aren't covered by existing alternative.

But you do need to engage that argument.

Otherwise what else do you have? Popular demand isn't going to work, because you're in a chicken-and-egg situation. I suppose you can try to bribe and/or bully key decision makers for all the major browsers, though I hope that wouldn't work.
It's not IE by any imaginable standard. And it's only "unbelievably behind" if you count all the non-standard APIs that Chrome ships by default and calls them standard.

As for why Safari isn't the new IE, I recommend Breaking the Web Forward https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...
Consciousness - what it is, how it arises - not proven. A subject full of quantum woo and statements declared as facts but the conjecture is everywhere.

In broad strokes you have the majority which are physicalists, which leads to strong determinism. This is where thoughts and consciousness arise purely from physical reality and have a chemical and physical basis (“thoughts have mass”). If you rewound the universe to the beginning, always the same outcome, free will is a delusion.

In the minority you have dualism, where the mind and body are separate. This is metaphysics. I subscribe to the latter belief.

My personal (insane sounding) opinion is that there is one universal consciousness and we all channel into it with our minds.
That's not a culture issue. The alternative is that no one in the company has the power to do anything.

If processes can't be bypassed, then as soon as you implement a detrimental process, your company dies.
Went for Phalanx article immediately too when I saw the link, I guess there is just something about that 20mm beast throwing massive tungsten slugs at even crazier speeds that no missile can compete with (for attracting readers).

These things require super quick reactions, operator is optional (and thats why no real usage in combat, USN ends up turning it off often in situations where they don't want to risk absolutely destructive friendly fire.

Now if everything will be eventually 'ai'-infused, well, fuck. Navy apparently doesn't trust automation with their lives much, and fancier neural network with unpredictable decision paths ain't gonna improve things.
Care to enlighten me? I am not aware of many contexts that need solar panels but can accept serious degradation in the course of a few months. I guess there could be disposable applications with too high power requirements for batteries, but I am not aware of any.
Why invest time fad-of-the-month technology at all?

Invest your time into foundational pieces of the technology stack instead.
No, of course not. Though talk therapy, as a method, is intricately linked with Freud's theories, so anyone employing talk therapy is by definition sustained by his theories. But when people don't read Freud, they can believe whatever they want about him.

(And sure, there is psych research which has nothing to do with therapeutic methods, but why is that considered important? That's like a mathematician saying they're a physicist just because physicists use math!)
Digiqatsi, even.
And you can't fix stupid.
I should have made it clearer, but I wrote my comment in reaction to his mention that he "never properly evaluated Jsonnet".
Fuller context from TFA:

> Produced in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, the panel achieved a record 25% conversion efficiency, a significant increase on the more typical 24% efficiency of commercial modules.

> Oxford PV, a spin-out of the University of Oxford, is a world leader in the development of perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells, which have a theoretical maximum efficiency of over 43%, compared to less than 30% for silicon solar cells.
Their only reference point is other tech workers. Maybe they should get out of their social bubble and make some blue collar friends to figure this out.
Yes, it's my daily driver. It's much more convenient than people expect, can't recommend it enough.

Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38690597
I thought his initial incredulity around the firing cap highlighted just how much modern electronics and the energy density (and dischargeability) of modern tech has colored our expectations, even for people into older tech like the creator here. When he said the cube used no batteries in the camera, I immediately assumed that it was either going to be a firing cap like device, or he was about to talk about some obscure and forgotten "super-piezo" material. Small explosions of all sorts are the bread and butter of a lot of things from the mid-century. Your car is a rolling box of self contained explosions. Likewise any "small-engine" tool from chainsaws to weed-eaters to mowers. Children's toys like cap guns and poppers were full of them. "powder actuated tools" are another example. There's probably more, but I don't want to end up on a list googling for them
There is such a system, it's called C-RAM and is basically a Phallanx mounted on a trailer. You can find videos of them working at bases in Iraq recently. There's also smaller systems in development like M-SHORAD and MADIS (Army and Marines respectively if I remember right).

Whether stuff like that is deployed to a particular base is a question of them being available and the particular location being well supplied enough to use them. The M-SHORAD and MADIS systems are designed to mount on light vehicles so they can be deployed more readily and to smaller forward positions.
Hum, most systems do not go down that hole at all. Most software stop at most at hierarchical parameters.

For the ones that do go down the hole, you are almost always better on separating them into components, to minimize the ones that need complex configuration, and accelerating the journey of those small pieces. (But yeah, it would be nice to settle on a good workflow description language that isn't a makefile.)

Now, it seems that everybody that is pushing those high-complexity languages wants an infrastructure description language, and just keeps calling it by "configuration language". Since those two problems are completely different, insisting on using the wrong name is quite harmful to the goal.
The humourist Alen Coren wrote a book called "Golfing for Cats" with a swastika on the cover on the basis that those three elements (cats, golf and Nazis) would make it a sure fire hit.

I think the best time to post is when you have something worth posting - unless you are involved in SEO.
Thank you for the link. I have checked the official census data and found out that Armenians being minority in the region as the article reports is just wrong.
> Google and Apple should be regulated to offer the same functionality and performance to the web

And who is going to determine which exact functionality they both must implement?
I wanted to build an internal company extension, but for that (chrome) you still need to go through the review process with Google and it is even worse than Apple’s App Store reviews.
> Most browser extensions by weight are Google Chrome extensions. Google Chrome is unambiguously demonstrating that no API is safe in its quest to juice revenues. Anybody who builds extensions using Chrome's APIs should be very aware that they're quite possibly putting effort into something a juggernaut will stomp away without a second thought.

How unlike developing for literally any other environment.
Show HN: A web-app to make Lego-styled avatar/scene from any picture
Hey guys,

The app workflow is quite straightforward. You upload a picture from your gallery, or click one from your cam, and it converts it into a lego-themed avatar for you.

Typical generations take anywhere between 20 - 60 seconds. I think it could be made a bit faster, but waiting to first gauze the initial response from the community.

Would love to know what you guys think.

Cheers!
There's definitely opposition and psychology iconoclasts floating around here. Others would label this as "trapped priors."

I like to ask, "what evidence would change your mind?" to suss this out. Usually I get no response and the conversation dies. The other response is a standard of evidence unattainable - another way of justifying a trapped priors. If the evidence required outside of the realm of possibility, it's effectively the same thing.
Its too hard for me.
ZARM Drop Tower Bremen User Manual (2011) [pdf]
I don't know. I feel like the compliance checks are more expensive than the machines at this point. They retail for around $/€ 500. I suspect that sleep centres (or whoever hands out CPAP devices to patients where you are) get significant volume discounts. Say they last for 5 years. That's a near zero cost.

Of course, someone is upcharging somewhere, but that's hardly the patient's fault.
Another dimension to this is the arrogant entitlement with which we as
developers have treated the Internet, and the whole world in general,
as our personal petri dish to conduct all and any "experiment" without
regard to social ethics.

The whole edifice of "social media", with it's collateral damage of
depressed and suicidal kids, is just a great experiment for the likes
of Mark Zuckerberg.

Nobody in nervous "academia" can get away with even the most gentle
experiments now the ethical guardrails are in place (and mostly for
good). But set up a "SV start-up" and you can do what you like with
the data of billions, influence, propaganda, whatever...
The article mentions a pile of stolen ID cards used in another fraud.