skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a cool use case. You should be able to use several DHT22 sensors per unit without too much trouble. If I were you, I'd consider mounting the unit on the wall near your radiator, then running some flexible 3 wire cable to all your various sensors.

I'd say the strength of my project is that it's fully open source and designed for casual hackers. The code is only a few hundred lines, and the hardware is all cheap commodity stuff.

The downside is that you'll need to get your hands dirty to set it up. But, there's a big upside in that you'll never get locked in to a proprietary service.
Washington DC made mescaline and psilocybin "lowest priority" in 2020
TIL style subject. Read how somebody wanted to throw people out of America for mushroom use, and became curious where it was legal. Surprisingly, Washington, DC has nearly legal magic mushrooms (and mescaline). Since 2020.

Technically "entheogenic plant and fungus" means any plant or fungus of any species in which there is naturally occurring any of: ibogaine, dimethyltryptamine, mescaline, psilocybin, or psilocyn.

> The Metropolitan Police Department shall make the investigation and arrest of persons 18 years of age or older for non-commercial planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, engaging in practices with, and/or possessing entheogenic plants and fungi [...] among its lowest enforcement priorities.

> Effective: Mar. 16, 2021 "after a 30-day period of Congressional review"

Originally found because of: https://tripsitter.com/magic-mushrooms/legal/
Restating that: How can we train a Mapper AI instead of a Packer AI?

Once you've trained the model, it only has it's context window to work with for long term memory. Adding a memory prosthesis in the manner of MemGPT is likely to result in a superhuman level Packer.

It's the deep drive for consistency in a knowledge base that mappers possess that would result in the most powerful AGI.
Agreed. Especially when TUI projects like this exist: https://github.com/kraanzu/dooit
makes me a bit nostalgic of remember the milk, managing todos was fun, I specially liked the keyboard shortcut 1-3 for priorities
lol, that's actually pretty clever. never occurred, oh well.
I mean… Yeah? Most likely?
Every local government in America has basically figured out how to value real estate for taxation, although it's not perfect - I think that loans against a property should be limited to it's tax value as a first step, and ultimately land-value rather than improvement value should be taxed based on who else is trying to purchase the land.
> as it is amazing for travel.

Do the Anker one's come with international plugs? I didn't see any indication on their product pages that they come with the adapters. Nor could I find them for sell.
a network... verified worked... anonymous validators... maybe we can call it squarelink technology?
seethe wincel
> Hopefully 2 Stanford CS PhD students hacking on their project would be funded by YC today :)

Around the dawn of YC, IIRC, when PG did the "summer founders" or something like that, a group of 4 of us Lisp hackers applied as a team. No response.

We were mostly in grad student-like lifestyle modes, and not tied down, were energetic, and already had various applicable experience.

But I think PG was mostly looking for barely-20 year-olds to drop out of college, rent an apartment in Harvard Square together, and sit around hacking in towels.

Since that's what he wrote in one article. Which I guess trumped the article in which he said Lisp hackers are great for startups.

Now his latest article says he's going after 14 and 15 year-olds. :)
People say whatever they need to say
Yes, it'd take me several minutes to track down a pen and paper.
Yeah, the reputable chargers aren't even expensive now that we're on USB-C. Knockoffs were a lot more tempting during the MagSafe era.
I use bear for that, it has an iOS app.
So how does that work if you are in another job? Most contracts forbid working for another company. And if they aren't in another job how do they pay bills on ten hours a week?
Yeah, Rust may be a suitable C++ replacement, but it's not a suitable C replacement. (Arguably, C isn't a suitable C replacement…)
Why is this flagged? It may not be the best article, but this is interesting news and comments.
Stripe accounts verification is broken
It's 5 days that we are fighting with Stripe support to resolve a simple issue with one of our connected accounts.

After 5 days the reply I've got is the following, which is somehow absurd:

"While the information on the document matches the information on the Stripe account, it is being rejected due to a formatting issue as it is a photocopied or scan of the original document."

Over a "formatting issue", they are literally taking our customer account hostage, blocking payments and payouts.

Our platform handles something around 2M in transactions, with more then 70 connected accounts, and the only resource I have to deal with this issue is to post on HN.

I'm literally out of options and feel so powerless. Please if you have any internal contact at Stripe that can help me out here let me know.
Folks underestimate how incredibly skilled Notch was and is. Unfortunately ludum dare has taken down its historical compo pages, but I remember that he had several games built from scratch in 24 hours which were mind boggling impressive.

One had a full 3d rendering engine implemented in Dartlang written in 48 hours. Another was a minecraft top down rpg clone.

Dude is the Bobby Fischer of tech
this Q is covered in the longer-form interview, but in short, here's what I've seen and heard from audience feedback:

-If it's a UHD TV, and has an ATSC1 tuner, it seems everything we test or encounter will decode HEVC pictures, up to 2160p, at up to 30 FPS

-If it's a 1080 only TV, but has usb/sd/mmc card support, and made after 2020, it's likely that it'll decode HEVC up to 1080p30

-If it's a 1080 but made between 2013 and 2020ish, and has usb/mmc/sd/etc, it's likely it'll at least decode AVC up to 1080p60

If someone is using a USB or network tuner, and decoding on something like a computer, laptop, tablet, etc. with software like the VideoLAN CLient (VLC), the "Channels" app (for hdhomerun units), or ffplay/etc. then it's totally likely everything will work up to the limits of their system. That seems to be 2160p30 at least, today, but likely p60 if they've got a semi-recent GPU or fast enough cpu to decode & push frames around to their display.
An interesting look at Steve Jobs, from 'behind the bastards' (last episode of the job's series came out about last week).

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-the-terrible-...

Available on apple podcasts...
Any good resources for app install banners or other growth hacks?
Any good resources for app install banners or other growth hacks?

I am looking for a site to provide hello bars, app install banners, and sign up pages and the like.

Any good sites (free or paid) for this?

Thanks!
LOL. Can’t see a way to change it but thanks for pointing it out.
Which cross platform solution would they have had to use to get your $150?
"Hi siri, remind mind to do AB CD EF"
They shouldn't advertise Mac support then. Canon specifically put a Mac logo on their boxes and uses that in their advertisements.
You could set this up as a service on unbullshitthis.com
LTO-6 drives can be had for a lot cheaper used. I have two external ones now. The tapes of course aren't as big but they're big enough to still be pretty useful at 2.5TB.

My LTO-6 drives cost about $250 each. They annoyingly use SAS instead of something like USB or Thunderbolt, but I already had a rack mount server to install a SAS card in.
Exactly, honestly I think their business model could work if they have a GPT-4 level model for subscription.
Yes, I know PG isn’t picking a side in that ‘fight’. He’s pretending it doesn’t exist. He’s suggesting that anyone with the resourcefulness of a founder, who has access to that college network, could have an equal opportunity to find the magic combination of cofounders and ideas to make a Google.

My point is that his empirical evidence and continued willingness to bet on startups that emerge from that path does not justify his claim that that path is the open for everyone to take.

If you are among the stratum from whom startup founders and cofounders will most likely be drawn, then sure, 100%, these schools are a networking opportunity which will help you on that path. Great place to meet cofounders.

If you aren’t, going to these schools will not make you magically able to take the financial risks needed to become a founder; they might make you among the smartest people some founders know, and get you a gig working for one.
The real problem with those lists is that they only include people whose wealth is known and can be reasonably valued based on public sources. It's often not easy to trace the net worth of old-money families. It also means you won't find people from countries with very low transparency or dictators on the list. For example, you won't find Putin or any of the Saudi royals on the Forbes list even though they are among the wealthiest people in the world. Perhaps even competing for #1 depending on what estimate of their wealth you find to be the most reliable.

It's impossible to draw any firm conclusions from those lists because they aren't representative samples of wealthy people. They're a sample of wealthy people with public assets, and of course that's going to skew heavily towards people who founded large publically traded companies who live in countries with high degrees of financial transparency.
Speaking of, I sorely miss the AirPort Time Capsule* product line. It made backup of multiple computers a breeze and saved my skin in grad school when I thought I’d lost everything.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Time_Capsule
Love the concept and the execution. The landing page is crisp and clean. You know exactly what's happening, are provided clear instructions and it isn't hidden behind unnecessary authentication. Great work on the user flow.

I wonder how one would incentivize the other side of this system -- the human to be checked -- to actually complete a check. Great work!
Looks really nice. Any plans for a Windows release?
Man lives 10 mo without recurrence after groundbreaking glioblastoma treatment
> If you're not sure what technology to get good at, get good at programming. That has been the source of the median startup for the last 30 years, and this is probably not going to change in the next 10.

Did not expect this tbh. So many people here worried about the future of programming but PG believes we're safe! Alas, something positive!
Hang on, let's pump our brakes and take a quick peek at the calendar. The comment thread we're in was talking about the Canon D530 which was released in 2012, which supposedly broke in MacOS Monterey released in 2021. It's a stretch to call 9 years "moving fast and breaking things".
> You won’t notice anything unless they fail in an unsafe way. Unlikely, but possible.

Cheap chargers skimp on safety. Entirely possible they fail unsafely.

I once bought a cheap no-name Android charger and it literally exploded after a year of use. Hot metal droplet landed on phone screen which was a cute reminder for a while (until later the screen cracked through where the droplet was).

That tingly feeling has been found by me on plenty of different device power supplies. That is high voltage getting passed to the low voltage side - a sign of bad design. The last two devices I remember were (1) a multi-USB charger which tingled but seemed to work okay and (2) cheap speakers for a PC where the voltage hum was causing serious problems with other devices connected to the PC (and hard to diagnose cause).

I'm amazed how many unsafe electrical devices we own: the safety standards are not working in my experience. And I think New Zealand has stronger standards than the US.
I'm just here to remind everyone that doesn't already know that the "full" raspberry pi models are also quite accessible[1] as bare metal platforms today. If you need an MCU with 8GB of ram and 1TB of flash, you can absolutely have it!

I'd like to try to find an example project where I could do something with a bare metal Pi Zero 2W.

[1] https://circle-rpi.readthedocs.io/en/46.0/#
Hmm, then where is that stray voltage coming from that's definitely present (in my experience) on non-grounded MacBook chargers?

I think that's what the Y capacitor does (also pictured in the article): https://www.vicorpower.com/resource-library/articles/back-to...
Fantastic quote. It also sounds like the very antithesis to Google and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft
No one is taking in consideration output decay?
What data are these tools going to use 10 years from now?
I am not an ML engineer but these models are not able to reason and are just as good as the training set.
Please debate on these points.
The academic job market is an absolute shitshow though. The academy pretty quickly realized that apprentices were cheap labor, while masters were very expensive but could train multiple apprentices at once (especially if they take on several journeymen/postdocs). The result is an extreme overproduction of apprentices and journeymen, with a very limited pool of available master positions available to them on the other end. Lots of people work very hard, for a very long time, and still get stuck in this daisy chain of highly-precarious $60k-$80k/yr 2-year contracts that can last another decade or more. Industry is sort of capitalizing on this imbalance right now (my pet theory is that this is a major cause of the data science/ML/AI boom in the last decade), but I wouldn’t call the model overall “successful”.
Well done. This is everything I love about Omnifocus but with better collaboration. If you can give me a Windows version so I can also use this on my personal workstation this is an instant buy.
Disagree with the criticism of current Apple vs Jobs Apple on the Apple Car. Of course Jobs could grow Apple by focusing on smaller markets. Apple was smaller then.

Now it’s a multi-billion-dollar juggernaut. Cook needs to keep it growing. So it needs bigger bets. Apple Car was just that. Some bets fail. Jobs had failures too. No risk, no return.
I think I have to know what chain of reasoning is behind this or that fact and/or deduction. i would like to be able to verify that.

For example, the proof of the absence of solution in SAT should be accompanied with the easily verifiable chain of reasoning. This shows the absence of incorrect deductions and missing assignments. Another example is autovectorization in contemporary compilers, they can show you why parts of your loops are not eligible for vectoriztion.

All LM's can do is to show me that these parts of those inputs are important for that output, but nothing else. Thus, they cannot be trusted even for minimally critical tasks.
Have you ever noticed that everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac, and everyone who drives slower than you is a moron? I think code abstraction fits a similar pattern.
> For real estates, but not for other assets classes. Unless you tax the ownership of every asset.

Other assets are (supposedly) productive - investing in companies lets them do research, pay employees, etc, investing in property improvement (as opposed to land) gives more people nicer homes.

> That begs the question, is even more regulation really the best solution?

Even more than what? These regulations would improve things. Which particular regulation do you feel is harmful?
Sunsama is a tool like this if you use the apps it integrates with.
Indeed, indeed !
When Google started, you didn't need a business model for a "dotcom" (as we called them, before "tech stocks" became the "tech" that we now call ourselves).

We already realized the necessity of finding information amongst the exponentially growing wealth of Web servers (sites).

And Google obviously worked much better than the existing crawler-based search indexes and curated directories.

And lots of people thought a "portal" was a good place to be, if you could manage it.
No need to panic. An entire generation never refreshed this fluid and vapour lock was still a rare incident. Replacing 20% of this fluid every year is more than enough.
Poor Mayoshi Sun from Softbank. He held a $3.1B position in Nvidia in 2019. That would be 19x at $60B today. He was super bullish on AI and robotics. Just ahead of his time.
And it is not a 10B loss, because employees gain skills and there are learnings or other tech innovations that can be used in other projects
He did tho. He mentioned more than once that OOP was more about message passing than behavior + state.
> I recently read something that played out a thought experiment

With all due respect, the world isn't a thought experiment and the dynamics of a system with 10.000 people is not comparable to that of 7 billion.

My argument was pointing at the fact that it may be pointless to compare your own plans to success against someone elses success story, when they had completely different starting variables in life and people who refuse to at least consider this are either trapped in the Silicon Valley hustle culture or are, sorry, completely ignorant, bordering on idiotic.

With that same logic ala "Not everyone can be X" I can justify almost all of human suffering in the world. I refuse to believe that you follow an ideology like this if you're on this site, because if you did, you were already rich by means of some criminal enterprise exploiting humans far beyond what tech startups are capable of.

This isn't some appeal to idk, introducing communism and making everyone equal but this argument is as dumb as making a healthy runner compete in the paralympics.
BTW you could consider me guy from Philippe Kahn world (I begun with Turbo C and Turbo Pascal, than was Delphi, eventually Modula, other pillar of reliable world).
i think you just learned about scale and number of sales (and age of software).
Worth noting that Anker's 150W charger[1] isn't quite as fast as the 140W Apple charger, because the Anker will only deliver up to 100W to any single port (even if it's the only one being used) whereas the Apple can pump the full 140W out.

Of course, outside of fairly niche situations, this isn't going to make a practical difference to your life. :D

[1]: https://www.anker.com/products/a2340
A => B

You'd think that would be hard for even engineers to screw up, but here we are.
That's interesting, but from 2021. Did anything change in practice?
Yeah, I've seen them before and it's super cool looking. I might try it but ~$325/yr is a lot for a side business that only needs it here and there. Also, no macOS means I can't move everything over which would be annoying. Thanks for the suggestion though!
I believe they addressed this by having different saves, if the post from Steam is to be believed.
I frickin' LOVE the Agon Light. To me it's the most exciting and promising of the "retro-inspired new computer" designs.

I've messed about with Forth on the Commodore 64 (via THEC64). It's fun but I haven't dug too deeply into it, like building a game with it or anything.
TickTick looks pretty nice, and doesn't seem to be Electron. Thanks, gonna trial it now!
Rive Renderer – now open source and available on all platforms
From DeepMind

It can suggest tactics for soccer set-pieces that are even better than those created by professional club coaches. The system, called TacticAI, works by analyzing a dataset of 7,176 corner kicks taken by players for Liverpool FC, one of the biggest soccer clubs in the world. Corner kicks are awarded to an attacking team when the ball passes over the goal line after touching a player on the defending team. In a sport as free-flowing and unpredictable as soccer, corners -- like free kicks and penalties -- are rare instances in the game when teams can try out pre-planned plays.

TacticAI uses predictive and generative AI models to convert each corner kick scenario -- such as a receiver successfully scoring a goal, or a rival defender intercepting the ball and returning it to their team -- into a graph, and the data from each player into a node on the graph, before modeling the interactions between each node. The work was published in Nature Communications today. Using this data, the model provides recommendations about where to position players during a corner to give them, for example, the best shot at scoring a goal, or the best combination of players to get up front. It can also try to predict the outcomes of a corner, including whether a shot will take place, or which player is most likely to touch the ball first.
Open sourcing would only guard against human programmers. The fact of the matter is, we don't _really_ know why LLMs work.
Yes, it would have been helpful if Spolsky cited any of this. (Again, maybe he did but it wasn't in the article.)

There's a fair amount of research also demonstrating different distributions of interest in working with "things" vs. "people", with men leaning towards the former and women the latter. It would be interesting to tease apart how much each factors into the lack of women in software, but I imagine very difficult to accomplish.
I find a few issues with the study paper:

The papers results section says:
Results Among the 81 participants with AHIs, the mean (SD) age was 42 (9) years and 49% were female; among the 48 control participants, the mean (SD) age was 43 (11) years and 42% were female. Imaging scans were performed as early as 14 days after experiencing AHIs with a median delay period of 80 (IQR, 36-544) days. After adjustment for multiple comparisons, no significant differences between participants with AHIs and control participants were found for any MRI modality. At an unadjusted threshold (Pless than .05), compared with control participants, participants with AHIs had lower intranetwork connectivity in the salience networks, a larger corpus callosum, and diffusion MRI differences in the corpus callosum, superior longitudinal fasciculus, cingulum, inferior cerebellar peduncle, and amygdala. The structural MRI measurements were highly reproducible (median coefficient of variation less than 1% across all global volumetric ROIs and less than 1.5% for all white matter ROIs for diffusion metrics). Even individuals with large differences from control participants exhibited stable longitudinal results (typically, less than ±1% across visits), suggesting the absence of evolving lesions. The relationships between the imaging and clinical variables were weak (median Spearman =0.10). The study did not replicate the results of a previously published investigation of AHIs.

So it seems they did find large differences, but the differences did not change which they interpret as "the absence of evolving lesions" and hence nothing to worry about. If this was one time damage from exposure to something why would they expect evolving lesions? How can they ignore the large differences they did find compared to the control subjects?

Also they say they started the study in 2018, but the original cases started in 2016, so based on their subject selection criteria their results only apply to people who reported AHIs in later years.
Which makes one feel even shittier when you realize that even with that skewing, the list STILL contains a lot of inherited-wealth or comfortable-highly-educated-wealth people.
Questioning trustfulness to ontological hallucinatory automatons. Nailed it!
I literally remember following his progress as he posted on Reddit. I imagine following Linus Torvald’s posts on Usenet must bring similar memories to the slightly more matured people around here.

With fully 2 datapoints, I conjecture that this odd Scandinavian combination of being highly advanced nations yet isolated from the action in and around Silicon Valley increases the probability of public social Communication, as we (Scandis) are used to not having peers physically around us. The chi^2 is good with this one.
Get one with the “figure 8” cable connection and then get a figure 8 cable for your destination.