skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracking Yuja Wang's Heartbeats During Her Rachmaninoff Marathon [video]
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer. I am now a writer.

Granted, I detoured into software development, but overall I'm surprised at how consistent my interests have been throughout my life.
That's because these charities wait until you default on the debt, go to collections, collections finds it so hopeless that they'll collect that they sell it to another collection agency, on and on, until it's bundled as the absolute cheapest debt you can buy, at less than a penny on the dollar. The only folks buying these junk debt bundles are hoping maybe 1 out of 100 of the debts are worth going after. Then the charity takes a look at buying up the cheapest bundle and forgiving it. $11 billion of bundles could have cost the charity $11 million total. There is a floor to the consequences on the customer, which is pretty much hit the moment it goes to collections (unless you have enough assets to make a lawsuit worthwhile). After that it's so far in the rearview mirror they probably don't even discover it happened. I wouldn't be surprised if collections agencies are the main supporters of debt forgiveness charities. Just another income stream for them.
I just made a big file (something like cat /usr/share/dict/words >> /tmp/zot a few times) and then just cat'ed that at the commandline
I saw another one called Vale just today. There are a few HN threads about it.
It just means there are a lot of rich people
If I'd have said the truth, it would be that I didn't dream of labor (I wasn't the happiest or most agreeable of children). I probably just said firefighter because that's a pretty basic "what to be when you grow up" type job, but also my father was one.
The training slowdown is not really a problem... There's a pretty wide range of robust, good-enough values that don't slow things down much at all. As with all optimizer cruft, the 'optimal' value is going to be problem-dependent and a pain in the butt to actually find. So it's best to find a good-enough value that works in most contexts and not worry about it.
> As of this moment 100% of comments have to do with “I guess other people have a lot of money”. Very weird thing to be concerned about.

I like a total eclipse as much as the other guy but come on, money IS a struggle for many people, don't act like you don't know.
Even before the economic divide, there might be mental issues at play, but the article goes there only very briefly, when mentioning identity. I don't know this Turchin guy, but you can't always explain everything with just numbers. Did he really say that people are deemed "deplorables" due to economic or education status, as this blog implies? I'm sure anyone can think of plenty of people with multiple degrees and millions in the bank who are horrible humans, sociopaths, inveterate narcissists or any combination of those.
Less mouse is required, but less mouse is permitted. It's just "less mouse". Sometimes I just want to use the mouse.

(if you only want keyboard then i3/Sway is great though, obviously)
I use revanced for this on Android. Pretty cool, adblocker, sponsor block, customization like removing shorts. It patches YouTube APK, so you retain same UX, no need to use a new app.

Edit: forgot to add link - https://revanced.app/

Be aware of the fake ones.
They'd actually been pushing it since before the pandemic. The idea was to ruse elderly customers into home care replacement devices (e.g., LifeAlert but with bluetooth) and a "support" service as part of their annual Prime-style subscription. You could tie it all into connected home/security system setups.

Everyone realized it was a non-starter and no one but the most unscrupulous associates really sold from that angle.
My experience working in machine learning academia is an overfocus on failed projects from the early 00s to 90s that really only stopped in 2020+.

We can often trace back successful projects to failed precursors, but often the people behind the successful project are not even familiar with the failed precursor and the 'connection to the past' only really occurs in retrospect. See the 'adjoint state method' and connections with backprop.
This is a great idea! There are multiple tentatives of achieving the same feature with HTTP/2. A RFC is even being written https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bt-httpbis-reverse-htt...

HAProxy implements something similar in HTTP/2 with the 'rhttp@' keyword.

edit: wrong URL.
There's something heartwarming about this: Just slapping a bunch of panels on any old abandoned structures and calling it a day seems so fundamentally un-Swiss -- It's like they're starting to become human!

(In humor of course -- Switzerland is impressive, I'm fully aware that there's plenty of rural agriculture and other such "suboptimal imperfection" there etc.)
It could be that they're saying you should artificially hold back part of the news to ease the shock, which I don't agree with.

But there are situations where a problem unfolds gradually, the sort of thing where you become more and more aware and certain that something is going wrong. For example, when a schedule slips. It's possible they're talking about that kind of situation.

In that kind of situation, there's some threshold where it gets bad enough to let people know. But you could also give people a warning some time before that, i.e. have an additional threshold and an additional earlier communication. So maybe the advice is to go ahead and do that additional communication.
Rotz: Cross platform dotfile manager written in Rust
I think what you just mentioned here, at the time there was a lot more software for windows for assistive tech which was a much better experience, where mac os x's screenreader became difficult and buggy.

previously macos just worked way better given that the apps were developed with apple's framework and polish, and accessibility was part of that
Cargo-APK: Helps cargo build APKs
> We all have different keyboards plugged into different USB interfaces plugged into different computers running different versions of different operating systems.

I've actually been curious about getting a wireless keyboard recently, but wondered about how big of a latency impact there would be. Normally I use IDEs that definitely add a bit of sluggishness into the mix by themselves, but something compounded on top of that would probably make it way more annoying.

A quick search lead me to this site: https://www.rtings.com/keyboard

It does appear that they have a whole methodology for testing keyboards: https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/tests/latency

For what it's worth, it seems that well made keyboards don't have too much latency to them, even when wireless (though the ones that use Bluetooth are noticeably worse): https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/1-3-1/graph/23182/single-key...

Just found that interesting, felt like sharing. Might actually go for some wireless keyboard as my next one, if I find a good form factor. Unless that particular keyboard does something really well and most others just have way worse wireless hardware in them.
Context matters here. This sounds like corporate advice ("managing up"), rather than startup advice.
I absolutely despise the fact that they try to add subscriptions to every damn thing.

I wish more people understood this and would actually refuse to purchase.

"Consumers can vote with our dollars. Consumer backlash has already affected the rollout of some subscription schemes. Refuse to purchase these products, and join with others who are rejecting these developments."
It's C-b by default, C-a is what screen uses. Maybe you copied someone's config, as that remapping is fairly common (or weird distro default? but seems unlikely). I'm personally fine with the default C-b and have always kept it everywhere.
What do you dislike about the city stuff? I think all bureaucracy I had to deal with with the city of Düsseldorf have been better than the state or federal agencies. Kita Navigator, Straßenverkehrsamt, appointments for the Bürgerbüro were all working pretty well online. Not all the way, of course, but post COVID Straßenverkehsamt is a million times better than pre COVID Straßenverkehsamt.
> A technology that made it easier to talk to anybody, anywhere!

Seems like the phone made it easier to disconnect from the people around us by giving us too many options, IMO. It's more just to ease commercialism.
Yup. Homeowners in the first world need to start to feel some serious tax pain, which should go directly to building as much housing as fast as humanly possible. And screw crying about home devaluation. You making a handy profit when you switch houses in a decade does not trump the basic need for people to have housing.
Your younger self was right about sanitation workers. In my city it also pays well.
What motivated this article is generating "rich" protobufs for model graphs about 3 levels deep, and we render long lists at $work. Since there were some opportunities for caching I was wondering whether this could be optimised in some way. Interestingly enough, the "use the branch of templates as part of the cache key" made things harder for us, not easier (as we were rendering very similar proto messages over and over)
Being overly cautious on the road is as bad as being reckless. The frequent example about 4-way stops is a perfect one. If a car is behaving unpredictably and stopping when it's their turn to go then it is creating a dangerous situation for everyone at the intersection.
They are indeed. Mostly screen replacements.
> It turns out this paper from Talhelm & Dong supports its methodology by citing a paper by Talhelm et.al. and one by Dong et.al.

This should be the top comment. This thread is chock full of pop sociology, to the degree that I really wasn't sure how to respond to much of it.
Plus, you never know when you might need a giant satellite dish!
What is "feeling"? If my senses can register changing spectra of the stars around me then yes, I will "feel" the acceleration.
Well... no.

The academy over here does tend to train weaponization of outrage and has actively attempted to replace traditional ideas of morality with oppressor-oppressed dichotomies to varying results. This article is one of those results.
2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA [video]
Orca: Cross platform GUI apps using WASM
Given some of the issues we've seen with other cars driving correctly and predictably or negotiating things that aren't cars on the road, I'm not sure taking the human element out of it is enough. It would be safer still if the cars can talk to each other and to the roads.
Find My Device on Android
Latency isn't everything; but that doesn't mean it's irrelevant either. I'm OK with a metric that accurately represents latency with the caveat that feel or other factors may be more important. If key and/or switch design impacts latency in practice; shouldn't we measure that?

I guess that is an open question - perhaps virtually all the variance in latency due to physical design is tied up with fundamental tradeoffs between feel, feedback, sound, and preference. If so - then sure: measuring the pre-activation latency is pointless. On the other hand, if there are design choices that meaningfully affect latency without meaningfully impacting other priorities, or even where gains in latency are perhaps more important than (hypothetically) small losses elsewhere - then measuring that would helpful.

I get the impression that we're still in the phase that this isn't actually a trivially solved problem; i.e. where at least having the data and only _then_ perhaps choosing how much we care (and how to interpret whatever patterns arise) is worth it.

Ideally of course we'd have both post-activation-only and physical-activation-included metrics, and we could compare.
Life expectancy decreasing seems to have an obvious answer. We just had a pandemic.
She says that because it works.

It’s important to say things that confirm people’s existing biases because it makes them more likely to believe the other things you’re saying. “She’s spot on about my data being misused, so it’s possible she’s right about this racism theory.”

Here’s an example of people all to ready to believe an article that follows this narrative, from HN 10 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858850
Show HN: AI that manages cross-promotion campaigns
It's not a problem to do cross-promo between your own products, but it's hard to use this approach with other people's projects.

To make this process easier, I decided to combine existing marketing mechanics, AI and recommendation systems. As a result, I got xPromo (nothing to do with adult websites and ex-Twitter).

In theory, everything looks good, as usual. But we will know the real performance only after beta testing, to which I invite you and your project.
Last time I checked they weren't doing any repairs on site. They would collect your device and ship it off to a service center.
I cannot reproduce this with xterm(372). I build a file that needs 20 seconds to print whole, but I can stop it with ^C instantaneously anytime I try.
Google posted another blog on how they built the new Find My Device network: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/04/find-my-device-netwo...
Google rolls out Gemini in Android Studio for coding assistance
If you enjoyed "Genesys" and should happen to stumble onto a copy of WEG Star Wars (perhaps even from some shady cantina dealer with a gray sense of legal acquisition), you will probably enjoy the WEG predecessor just as much. It is timeless in surprising ways that most D&D editions are not, including its reliance on simple, effective d6 dice pools. That's one of the more fun contrasts between WEG Star Wars and Fantasy Flight (now "Edge Studios: An Asmodee Brand") Star Wars: "Genesys" uses pools of custom dice with unique faces and WEG's system is often called "d6 Star Wars" because it just uses pools of one of the cheapest and most common form of dice.
I used vala back when I had a Nokia n900 - it really was the perfect thing to write small apps for my own use, and there was a nice cross-compilation toolchain. in all the years of owning an android I have never done that.
Maybe? It feels strange to be able to order computers (and everything else) from Aliexpress, but have a company that ships to half of EU, but not to the other half of EU.
Another Dutch class action against Google for collecting Android users' data
99.9% of my karma is from comments, hardly any of the links I post get more than 2-5 points. Likely I'm just really boring.
Bryan Capalan – How Hamas Devalued American Universities
Linux 6.10 AES-XTS for Disk/File Encryption 155% Faster for Zen 4 CPUs
Absolutely, humans are incredibly good at dealing with consistent and predictable latency in a fairly broad range. Dynamic latency, on the other hand ... not so good.

I recall a guitarist friend who figured out their playing was going to hell trying to play to a track when their partner used the microwave. They were using an early (and probably cheap) wireless/cordless system and must have had interference.
More than 20 years ago, I had my first bs claim from a hospital, where at a hospital that was covered by insurance, my doctor they provided happened to be out-of-area because he was a substitute or something unbeknownst to me and became a several thousand dollar surprise charge.

How this was somehow my fault or problem was ridiculous, so I simply didn't pay the bill. They turned it to collections, I started getting calls, but I never across years pick up calls from random people on my cell anyways. They eventually sell off to other vultures that try, and get the same. Then at some point they just stop bothering.

What impact did this have on my credit? Absolutely none perceptibly.

Since then I make a habit of not paying these when they arise, and let them bounce off a combination of call screening and my ignoring phone calls anyways. If I'm part of the problem, they're the perpetrators of the problem to begin with, and still get rich regardless, so why feed the beast?

The whole medical industry and bottom feeders that surround it like collections are just fuct in the US. The industry and governments do nothing to fix it, so why play the game fair.
Doesn't rule 15 violate rule 8?
I think it’s sad how out of touch with reality you are. These comments are saintly compared to what you would read on 4chan. The opinions expressed here are very much in line with how the average person feels; they are not far outside the Overton Window. You are the one in the thread making it personal and calling people’s ancestors racists (as if that somehow had anything to do with them or their opinion)
Mind-Blowing Kubernetes Hacks
AI could be as consequential to the economy as electricity, says Jamie Dimon
Who here became what they wanted to be when they were <18?
Coding forms, accumulated until someone had access to a keypunch.

Turnaround time could be days, which encouraged being very scrupulous when coding.
Dang. Uncontaminated blood found dating back to the Korean war that was saved and archived. Now that is messed up.

And then ofc you see stuff like this on Duponts website “DuPont is using science and innovation to make the world a safer, healthier, and better place to live. It's how we're helping to invent a better now.”
Ask HN: Where to Host an LLM in 2024?
What do you use today to host your LLMs? How has your experience been? What are most of your friends using?
What's the point then? (serious question)
I'm happy with how usable F# is as the moment, though it's not hard to sympathize with the sentiments that get thrown around.

F# has had a good run with a lot of open-source efforts in different domains, but as some core parts of the domain evolve (asp.net), if there are changes made which make it more complicated or prohibitive to use F# (t4 templates, roslyn analyzers, custom code-behind behavior), it can seem like F# is on-track to become deprecated by the moving-target that is it's native platform tooling.

I don't have much of a doomer mindset about things, since from the evidence of the F# team's priorities, it's keeping up with CLR and C# specific features (check the F# releases for how many features are compatibility-focused) while also delivering on some very cool F# specific things (SRTP, nested record copy/update, etc).
> being melodramatic about that helps in some way?

No, it’s simply a tragedy. Together we lament.
Indeed. The pay is shitty though. Probably more suitable for kids from rich families who do not want to follow their parents.
Hackers stole 340k Social Security numbers from government consulting firm
I wanted to grow up and become an adult.

Be careful what you wish for.
Interesting topic, but the agronomy/plant science assumption that the article is based on is lacking.

Rice doesn't require complex irrigation - dryland rice farming is common. Rice and wheat both give more yield when irrigated properly using complex irrigation systems. I don't see any reason to claim that growing wheat is just generally easier than growing rice.
Let's be clear here. Exposure to specific PFAS are associated with a variety of health effects, including altered immune and thyroid function, liver disease, lipid and insulin dysregulation, kidney disease, adverse reproductive and developmental outcomes, and cancer. And while eliminating the firefighting uses of these compounds (as an example) would cause some issues, 3M, after significant evidence of broad toxicity was discovered, went on to expand the market for these compounds from domestic cookware to , among other things, children's clothing and food packaging materials.

Comprehensive toxicological studies haven't been performed on every single compound in the family because the market has been flooded with over 12,000 individual compounds. That is a startlingly large number that given 3M's prior bad faith decision-making around this family of products immediately brings to mind the designer drug industry's habit of burying regulators in compounds tweaked to get around regulatory bans.

In industries that actually perform comprehensive testing before releasing a compound into the wild it costs on average between eight and fifteen million dollars to perform a full suite of toxicological tests. So if the onus to test is placed on regulators that's roughly one hundred and twenty billion dollars out of public coffers and several decades of lab time, to confirm 3M, Dupont, Chemours, et al haven't poisoned the planet.

So if I understand your position correctly you're claiming that since we have absolutely no evidence that any of these compounds are safe at any exposure level (as you said, no toxicology has been done on most of these) and despite prior bad faith acts by the companies involved, we should continue to extend the benefit of the doubt? I think not, and your own choice to install water filtration equipment into your own home suggest you aren't as convinced as you'd have us believe here.

To be clear my proposal is that going forward manufacturers be required to perform the same pre-clinical trials that pharma companies have to perform before they can apply to move to human trials. Retroactive testing of existing compounds is absolutely a nice stretch goal because I think we can all agree if something harmful to our families is making it's way into the ecosystem we'd like to know about it sooner or later. I am utterly untroubled by the notion that these additional requirements might impact shareholder value and see no particular reason why taxpayers should be expected to foot the bill for 3Ms shareholders.
Most HN people don’t seem like startup founders, so this is more a community of early adopters, just one that is allergic to certain practices.

You can’t convince large swaths of the hacker news community that insights are anything other than spying.

Consider Fig and their HN intro.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27277819

After a few top comments about other things, the next bunch are all about telemetry or even what their website asks for. If you see the main edit, it is also people complaining about telemetry. One highly upvoted comment is complaining that they required an email for signup.

You’re asking for a lot of hassle including a tracking parameter.
Note that it doesn't provide NKRO - it's just a fancy way reducing the likelihood of key collisions, so pretty much the same thing cheap diodeless keyboards have been doing for ages.
Thanks for trying it out! Also, please feel free to message me if you've got any feature or model requests.