skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The last 3 or so years have turned America into a giant mental asylum and it’s starting to be not worth it to talk to a rando.

It's more than the past 3 years. People really started coming unhinged in late 2016, by my observations. But the trend has been increasing for a while, and I'm willing to point a pretty sharp finger at the various social media, news, etc companies who are enabled in their "pour liquid oxygen on the fires of division for stoking outrage in the pursuit of more ad views" by things like the smart phone - because now someone is connected 24/7, by default.

Host firepit nights and invite people. I've yet to find a better solution to getting good actual conversations going than to have regular firepit nights (right now, I have one a week, and would like to get another few per month going this summer with different groups of people). Yes, some people will look at you like you're nuts, and others will turn into solid friends.

Fundamentally, I don't think we're going to fix the problems of smartphones and consumer tech (in the general "surveillance capitalism" sense) with more of that stuff.
It is not a fake demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZckj0SsWdU
My smiles back to you ... in 1964, I coded our high school's IBM-1620, to solve a pythagorean triangle. Yep: punch-cards, assembler, and a very finicky Selectric. The computer couldn't even add (you had to load arithmetic tables first).

Since then, I've had the delight of learning from so many people - in computing, physics, and math. Like so many on HN, I appreciate the astonishing accomplishments in our field, and recognize the troubles and challenges which we've created.

Across sixty years of computing, I'm honored to spend time (usually as a lurker) on Hacker News.
Of course it is not just their choice. Russia has indicated their willingness to accept current holdings (for now, you are right there are no guarantees).

Ukraine could and should get better than just that, but this notion of taking back Crimea is a pipe dream and I don’t support continued funding until that goal is realized.
I'll admit that air travel is the opportunity to read books and watch films that I don't do enough of at home.
Let's break it down further into payments to the government, payments to the laborers, payments for parts, and payments to the executives.
Totally agree. I have tried multiple monitors so many times over the years but always come back to a single display, usually 24-27”.

Turning your head is a hassle. I also find turning my eyes fatiguing if the angle of movement is too great. So I tend to prefer smaller, higher PPD displays over larger displays with the same resolution. I want a lot of pixels in a compact FOV.

For me, 4K 24” has been the sweet spot for desktop monitors. I currently have a 27” due to so few good 24” 4K monitors being made these days, and at the viewing distance allowed by my setup, even that is just slightly too big, such that looking to the corners can get annoying.

The PPD on these headsets still just isn’t anywhere close to the point where it can match a single high density desktop monitor, and making the virtual screen bigger or adding side screens just doesn’t work for me ergonomically.
Also keep in mind what the person is gazing at is what is higher res, the rest is lower res (foveated rendering to save resources).
I think there was some guy who wrote an entire game or app just using his phone. Definitely masochistic though!

This video does not look remotely better than a normal PC.
We were all there, the US and UK were warning about the invasion for a long time before it happened. The Russians and their useful idiots in the West laughed, of course they would never invade! Then the invasion actually did happen and now magically history has been rewritten and it was the US that somehow caused it in the first place.

Only problem: I do have a memory and I can remember 2 years ago. So yes very clearly Russia started this war all by themselves despite the US trying to dissuade them from doing so.
> Prove me wrong.

Neoconservatives are not, and indeed have not held power in the US for the better part of a decade. Indeed not even back when Russia invaded Crimea if memory serves me correctly.

Of course, there's a decent probability that you've redefined "neoconservative" to mean "people whose politics I don't like" as opposed to any definition that's actually useful for an analysis of foreign policy, and concomitantly that you are so myopically focused on one specific component of foreign policy that you would refuse to admit any evidence that might actually prove you wrong.
I believe this is a real screen capture from an actual Vision Pro (it came out last friday). The video description says "See what a real workflow looks like with the new #visionpro". There's more videos on his channel also :)
This is largely personal, as everyone’s face/head is different.

Personally, it’s the most comfortable headset I’ve ever used.

Many people recommend the dual loop strap, but I actually love the solo band and find it super comfortable.

Many people are also experimenting with different ways to wear it. For example, I have been wearing mine with no light seal, which increases the FOV and I surprisingly find more comfortable. I think people need time to adapt on how to best wear it, and third party mods will be a thing.

All that said, I wouldn’t want to wear it for 8 hours straight. It will continue to get lighter and more comfortable each generation.
Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
> Why are you including only US airlines for comparing a plane model's safety? That seems very convenient

737 MAXs are not identical worldwide. There's a number of optional add-ons, which even discount US airlines will pay for, but emerging market discount airlines will not.

Specifically for the 737 MAX crashes, it was from a faulty AoA sensor. Neither of the crashed planes had the AoA disagree alert option, but all US airlines paid extra for it. It's not something you're supposed to need, hence being an optional extra, but for obvious reasons budgets aren't as tight at North American airlines as discount airlines in emerging markets.

This isn't to say we're guaranteed that an AoA disagree alert would have avoided the problem, it was undeniably a faulty design, but it probably provides an additional layer of safety. There's a reason that when the MAX returned to service it became standard equipment for all MAXs sold.

So, it's not entirely correct to totally exclude planes from other countries. But there is a fair point in putting more weight on similarly configured planes.
Agree that an approach that more semantically models the data is better,
especially when you want to eventually let the non-technical users ask questions.

When you're on a higher abstraction level, it also allows you to make clear definitions (e.g. for certain KPIs) and define business logic that always needs to be applied to get the correct results.

There you don't want to leave it up to chance that a filter gets hallucinated in or out when you ask e.g. about your company's revenue.

At Veezoo (https://www.veezoo.com) we have taken the approach that instead of going directly to SQL. So when a user asks a question, Veezoo translates it first into a query against the Knowledge Graph (which represents the business objects, their relationship etc.). From there we compile it into a SQL query depending on the target database (they all have slight differences) without any AI involvement. In this compilation step we also make sure that the business logic is properly applied.
Is there a way to mimic the experience on a "normal" android phone? Making everything b/w with monochrome setting is easy. But reducing framerate and maybe also reducing resolution? Maybe even put a filter over it? Anybody tried that?
Adding a Custom Icon to the Social Links Block Should Not Be This Hard
Yes. A dedicated eink reader usually goes into full suspend-to-RAM mode, between each page refresh.

Also, e-ink displays consume power when they update. It takes a lot of energy to change the state of the pigment cells, and no power when static. So the always updating, graphically busy interface of an Android phone (even if themed for eink) is much more power-demanding to render.
Natalism as Non-Conformism
No, the reason Hondas and Acuras have it is specifically because of (if I understand it correctly) a bug in the car’s Bluetooth handshake that sends audio streams as data. Someone found this by doing a Wireshark capture connecting a laptop’s Bluetooth to the car.

I have little hope for a fix. It seems likely that its easier to just replace the entire controller that drives the audio and screen, and that sounds really really hard.
Currently self-employed with a web hosting company started with some former colleagues when the company we used to work for was bought out and shut down. We were fortunate to be included in a list of alternate providers that the old company gave to their customers and had an early influx of a couple thousand customers. As a result we've got a ton of customers who we've been working with for 16+ years.

I handle the customer-facing stuff, ie service and support. That sort of work has the downside of dealing with occasional negativity, but for the most part our customers are happy and capable of producing complex problems that are fun to solve :)
The comparison between Putin and Hitler is ridiculous.

Europe’s economy is in shambles, they do not have the power to push back if Russia and the US were to push for détente never mind that the country with the most EU influence (Germany) is a major dove on this issue.
What is the source of the author’s angst? Are they a recruiter who struggles to find qualified candidates? A developer who feels they constantly work with 0.1x developers?

I “unfollow” all 8 of those points and still struggle to find a job (the market is tough these days). I can tell you having a Github with recent commits and actual code you’ve written (that others have forked!) means nothing. The few offers I have gotten in the last month would have me taking a pay cut from my last job.
Is that going to directly address this particular problem? This mfg defect by a third party. They're already broken up in the context of this problem.
What does where Osama was killed a decade later have to do with where he was operating out of in 2001?
If the included timestamp doesn't expose sensitive data, then using UUID v7 is a good default, because it has performance advantages on database operations and items might be sorted by ID in a meaningful way, what is sometimes desired (even if I never used it).
Are you saying Ukraine has not been lobbing bombs into Donbass for the better part of 10 years?
Where there any success stories that came out of Stanford start up school? Or was the success Stanford monetizing the process?
Usually when you want this property it is also a benefit that your events when ordered by primary key, also gives a rough ordering by time, no need for a secondary index
Are you hiring? Haha
10k is not on the cheap side.

lentils and potatos, my friend. lentils and potatos.
I was self-employed from 2020-2022, mainly for tax reasons. There are lots of things 1099 employees can deduct from taxes (home office rent, lunches, any work-related electronics and furniture you buy that the company doesn't reimburse, etc.)

Just make sure that when you negotiate the rate you bump it up enough to account for self-employment tax, health insurance, and vacation time. The company would have to pay for these anyway for W-2s (self employment tax becomes payroll tax) so they shouldn't be opposed to the slightly higher rate to account for these things.

It's idiotic that W-2 cannot deduct these but it's reality.

As a bonus if you ever work overtime you actually get paid for your additional work. Another thing W-2s should get but don't.
That's actually exactly the wrong thing to do.

The problem, at least in this case, is that Boeing chose to break off what is now known as Spirit Aerosystems into a separate entity, and now Spirit has Boeing by the balls because Boeing can't replace them and has to deal with the consequences of their shitty manufacturing and QC.
Please make it open in a new tab, that'll make more sense (I suppose).

It's not pleasing to go back to use it again.
Don't use UUIDv7 if you want to keep the creation time of the event/id/entry private.
But why would one need it? I don’t get get idea behind it, what’s with me having a fake extra display? Is it somehow tricks the DRM or what?
> I think it helps to be older though, slow cell divide and regeneration, slow down even "aggressive cancers"

Are you suggesting that older people are less likely to get cancer?

My understanding was that cancer was mostly driven by the immune system's mechanisms for killing rogue cells failing. The assumption is that there's always cells doing things they shouldn't, it's when you fail to stop them it becomes a problem.
I had a chance to play with one, it was a phenomenal phone. It's a shame it fell apart.
Do you have any analysis of this? I'm finding plenty of studies, but don't know what "little evidence" means in the scentific world as I'm not scientist, so I defer to my doctor.

His recommendation was to us the spice copiously in cooking. I'm a vegan and get tons of fiber, which he also recommended (both through food and supplementation) but thought I was mostly good on that front. He did have me take guar gum on the side.
Ukraine has been fighting Russia for nearly a decade, with active if low-level warfare in the Donbass region the entire time. I wouldn't exactly call that "accept[ing] it and liv[ing] on."
Boeing is about as representative of the US government, or country, as German soccer is for our government.
I don't think consumers or the government would care too much if the fees were spelled out on the bill. The government fees have a purpose and it's actually a good thing to know that, for example, we pay a fee to subsidize rural phone and internet access. The important part here is that the advertised price for the service should match the total price that's actually billed.
You’ll be happy to learn that Boeing and Airbus have roughly equivalent safety records.

If you wish to fly safely, fly in countries and on airlines that observe stricter requirements on pilot training, rest, and CRM, and which are rigorous about maintaining their planes.
I'm no expert, but I do. There is a lot of rotten olive oil sold in the US because we don't seem to care so much. Smell and taste is the best indicator. I am really irritated that my Italian dressing only contains only rapeseed oil and not olive oil so it's something I've been looking into lately. Olive oil is apparently very volatile and rather complex.
Public Speaking Tips for Developers to Gain Confidence on Stage
Prioritizing software right to repair: engaging corporate response teams
much like there's always room for startups, there will always be room for exploring new giving opportunities. Ubi is no substitute for Givewell.
Naysaying is that these problems can't be fixed in C, this kind of naysaying does more harm than good. Rust merely uses an idea that was known before C even existed.
What makes you think that SQL doesn't have "for loops"?

Ever heard of LATERAL joins/CROSS APPLY?

SELECT loop.value, x.squared
FROM generate_series(1,5) AS loop(value)
CROSS JOIN LATERAL (SELECT loop.value * loop.value AS squared) AS x;
If you're comfortable answering, I'd be SUPER interested to know how the income compares to tech!
At university I studied 'natural language interfaces to databases' (NLIDBs). I recall that very early, I think in the 60, NASA and other organisations were trying to build things like this for their scientists. Of course, there was no SQL in those days. Once SQL rose to prominence, my impression is that NLIDB interest faded, especially with the lack of NLP breakthroughs. My project was to create an analog to SQL in more plain, naturalistic English (a bit like what AppleScript is to other programming languages), and then let the user construct the queries by using a GUI rather than free-typing. The GUI would constrain the query text to permissible syntax, letting the user click to add new clauses and select columns etc, while maintaining a 'layman intelligible' sentence. Anyway, maybe now we can get NLIDBs with true NLP.
How do you find work? I've been trying to start a similar consultancy but I've had a hard time finding organizations who don't want staff augmentation.
How does tech help you to run this business?
Math tutoring was my main gig for years around and after college. In New Jersey I had plenty of $50/hr cash clients (circa 2010). Some were even up to $100/hr.

It's an excellent self-employment opportunity with virtually zero costs (other than traveling to students by car).
Developing a whole new language whose reference contents page spans two phone screens, with classes, built-in packages and methods, bindings for various languages and language servers for various IDEs, just to replace yaml? Seriously? Either the configuration is broken, or if the yaml is doomed to be repetitive to be repetitive (to allow flexibility etc), won’t sandboxed JavaScript do the job of outputting a readable yaml?
Also: pirated content is usually available. There have been so many times my wife has spent 15 minutes on imdb searching for something to watch, but then we check where it's available and ... it's only available via torrent.
It's an ollama interface, not an actual model implementation in Ruby. Title should be "INTERFACING with Open-Source AI Models Locally with Ruby"
don't read it then, let the people who want to be informed and not be mislead about corporations increasing prices and lying about the reasons
It's incredibly annoying when this isn't taken care of. Alt + Left Arrow becomes impossible to use and I have to resort to using my mouse.

Don't Microsoft's support pages [1] do this as well? I just checked with a random support page [2] and it looks like the middle redirection url is the same. Is that a different thing?

[1] support.microsoft.com

[2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fix-file-explore...

(Firefox if that matters. Currently on Linux, has happened on Windows)

Edit: I just checked on Ungoogled Chromium and it looks like this (the microsoft support) isn't an issue. It's only on Firefox. That's bizarre.
...?

(Absurdity check: we're both talking of suicide prevention, right?)

I really don't know how to best answer you - so I recruited some help:

"Catching the early signs of someone struggling—like pulling back from activities or expressing a sense of hopelessness—can be key. It’s about noticing changes and gently encouraging a conversation or professional help."

"Sometimes people just don’t know where to start with getting help. If we can proactively share resources, like info on good therapists or support groups with someone in need, it can be a nudge in the right direction."

Assuming you believe psychology/psychotherapy has scientific merit, that is.
Hmm, is it? Boeing is in the category of too big to fail. I agree its not government per say.. but it is really not a private business either.
[dupe] because of Cory's weird permalink scheme...

Here's the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261875
Did you make it to the part about the tortoise and hare problem where he suggests that the book may actually be finished at that point? With the rest of the book as noise that looks suspiciously coherent despite adding nothing new conceptually? At that point I had to read the second half to check LOL
Very interesting, this should broaden the case for Tenstorrent well beyond the usual kind of "AI" and into traditional HPC workloads, which will` tend to involve quite a bit of custom code and heterogenous compute where every "core" is not working on the same thing.
Shocking that a “Scholastic Aptitude Test” or “American College Test” would predict future scholastic achievement at the collegiate level.
The costs of space solar compared to terrestrial solar are just absurd, and unless we are talking about some sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale science fiction, it makes no sense whatsoever.

The area required for ground-based solar to produce enough power for all of humanity (~20 TW average currently, ~400k km2) is about 20% of already-built urban area (~2 M km2.) Solar is distributed right to where you want to use it for the most part too. Industrial solar is approaching $1 per watt installed, and GDP of the top-ten nations combined is around $60T. Spread over 20 years, to install enough solar to meet all world energy needs would require ~1-2% of GDP per year, a lot but definitely doable (less than what the world spends on "defense", ~$2T/yr.) And this overestimates the cost, as at this scale costs will come down and GDP is still increasing. This also overbuilds solar as we still have other sources of clean power (and even, say, 75% reduction of fossil fuel use would give us plenty of time to figure out the rest.)

So, in summary, lifting solar panels to space to bring energy to Earth is close to the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
> I do not miss T9 texting.

I don't mind it. It's easier to do half-blind and just sanity check your results.

But more importantly, it's been a thing I use to move some longer form interactions to email. I won't have a long form conversation via text anymore, I go to a proper keyboard.
Qwen 1.5
I would love a software right to repair. Companies are using software to block customers from repairing their automobiles, computers, smartphones, washers, dryers, refrigerators and many more devices. Not only is this an immoral hijacking of your property, but it is TERRIBLE for the environment. Any device with minor issues has to be thrown away.
Kayak lets you do it, although there's no guarantee the airline won't swap out the plane from under you after you've completed booking.
Of course we can. Even with a lot less. We can automate the hell out of everything :) In fact there's a big concern that there won't be enough work. Even hypercapitalist countries like the US are thinking about UBI now.

Food will be a bigger problem but less people also means less food needed.
I really want to lay into the people behind this because it feels like a cash grab probably using LLMs that others have built and made open-source. Personal feelings aside, the job market is such that this product probably won’t see as much use. Finally, it seems to cross the line for “cheating” on coding interviews. $100/month to score a job at Meta is probably worth it though.
Be careful about combining 2 pieces of information in to 1 column. From the above examples, you may want something to uniquely identify a record in your db and you may want something that tells you when the record was created. If you combine these two things, you then have a problem if you want to give an untrusted party that unique reference without telling them when it was created.
this says more (good stuff) about Dartmouth than it does about the standardized tests. If scoring higher on something that is close to an IQ test doesn't predict higher academic performance, what does that say about the coursework?
Yes, in the end these are (mostly) fully fledged android devices with all the baggage running in the background. Modem aside, wifi is usually the biggest battery consumer, keeping wifi off usually will significantly improve the battery life (which is true even for normal phones, but especially so for these e-ink phones).