skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking over the replies to this post, its pretty obvious that some of you have never really actually built anything requiring any amount of measurement.

"Why don't I just give my boss a 33mm piece?" -- and leave a 1mm gap in your house, where ants can come in, and heat goes out....

"Why would I ever need a board 1/3rd of a meter long?" -- sigh it could just as easily be a board 10/3 meters long, or 200/3 meters long. Because 3 is a small prime, and by the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, 3 is going to be a factor in a lot of integral lengths.

Say you are designing a switch with two buttons on it, "on" and "off". Well, the centers of those two buttons are going to be located at 1/3rd and 2/3rds of the length of the plate they are mounted on.

Say you design a crock pot with 3 buttons for the heat, "low", "medium", and "high". You don't want two of those buttons to be 1cm apart and the other 2cms apart!

If you look at countries like, say, Japan, or Germany, which really do use the metric system, you'll find that they measure things not in centimeters, but in millimeters. And the lengths they use are numbers like 48, or 120, which have lots of factors of 2 and 3 in them. Because you divide lengths into 2 or 3 parts all the time.

Which is to say, if you want to actually use the metric system in industrial design, you don't use a lot of lengths which are powers of 10. You use lengths which are divisible by 12 anyways.

There's a reason the U.S. never went off the English system, and why countries like Canada and the U.K., which actually make real efforts to try to go off of the English system still use a lot of English units in everyday measurements. And it's not just because of conservatism, or NIH syndrome.
Funny, I added the original implementation of spectral rendering to Lux and then they took it out :D
Isn't that two years ago?
Call me a loonie but I say that base 16 is pure math and anything else is a symptom of corporeality.
I discovered gazillions of movies on Imdb, actually it's my primary resource. Through either the "more like this" carousel on a movie, or by filtered search (eg. best rated 50s comedy with at least 15k reviews).
Yes, a local-only always-on recorder/transcriber would be a killer product. Combine with a local LLM for summarization, and a simple search engine. But there's no way in hell I'm paying a subscription for this, or letting some 3rd party have this data.

It doesn't seem like this should actually be that difficult to build an open-source version of, modulo battery-life concerns.
Buttons. You need buttons.

Analogue Pocket

Everything Game Boy and so much more.

https://www.analogue.co/pocket
Marginal efficiency could allow for longer system runtime with the stored fuel, though. That would be important if fuel deliveries were unavailable, and since utility outages (for me) correlate with poor weather that causes poor road conditions, it seems like a reasonable thing to consider. Also, I think maybe a battery supplied inverter would give me less wobbly power than I get at low load --- I'm pretty sensitive to flickery lighting.

Probably not worth it though at the moment. I suspect it would be simpler and lower cost to double my fuel storage capacity. Lived experience says in 6 years, the maximum duration outage was less than 3 days, and my storage capacity is plenty good for that.
Thanks for the feedback!

The tricky part of this puzzle is how to handle spaces. Prose sentences have regular spacing rules that the ensuing ciphertext doesn't follow. For instance, what to do with several spaces in a row? Should they be rearranged along with the words (effectively be treated AS words), or should they stay put, the words moving around them?

Hint: There are some extra spaces in the waiver that will become indentations if you take the former approach. (It was hoped that the fact that there is no space between the period and "risk" would suggest this: Sentences [following a period] normally start with a space, and end without one; here that is reversed.)

I'm still looking for a better way to hint this, as too many readers are getting hung up on puzzle #2 than I'd like. :)

See also this discussion:
https://github.com/larryboyko/dimityjones/discussions/2
Not quite because they are correlated. As he says, embezzlers are smart. So lowering the second risk also lowers the first as a smart embezzler is not likely to try when the risk of getting caught is high.
Not cheaply, which was part of the OP's post.
I mostly use Twitter to follow interesting people with interesting hobbies, and those same people are still there and just as interesting as they used to be. The experience hasn't changed for me at all.

I wonder how much of the complaining comes from people that primarily used it for politics and culture war shit - their filter bubbles have been popped and they're now seeing things they didn't used to see and therefore it's "gone to hell".
I have no idea who the CEO of Chrysler or Ford are, let alone what their political view is (I assume they are in favour of tax breaks for billionaires). Hell I don't really know what Bezos or Cook's view are, they certainly aren't part of Amazon or Apple.

Musk made Tesla an inseparable part of the Musk brand (so like Bezos and Amazon, or Gates and Microsoft), and then thus every rant he makes is inextricably linked to Tesla.

Interestingly, as Gates mostly retired form Microsoft decades ago, he's been a bit more known -- he does charitable stuff with malaria, and Musk powered outlets claim he's giving everyone free 5g. Both are great things. I'm sure you could dig into bad things, but Gates isn't linked to Microsoft in the way Musk is linked to Tesla
Yes but the 50C ambient is at midday when solar is available.

I find it very interesting that when nuclear power is brought up, there are a lot of people who talk up how solar + wind & batteries are a perfect solution. Yet when it comes to the Middle East and conditions there, none of the back and forth about how it is not the best solution occurs.
Google's Deep Dream images are eye-popping, but are they art? (2015)
I don't want to know what my coworkers make, nor do I want them to know what I make. Too many feathers to potentially ruffle there.

However, I'm all on board with the idea that people who do want to exchange this information should be free to do so without punishment from their employer.
Many people have a sense that they could perform much better, given the right opportunities, the right environment, etc. In software development, the thoughts might be: if only the requirements didn't change, if only the codebase was more modern, if only the architecture had been designed with more foresight so we didn't have to shift the architecture while we were adding features. If only I wasn't being held back by these factors, I'd be performing brilliantly. And these factors have nothing to do with me. So don't I deserve to be paid and respected like a brilliant performer?

Conveniently forgetting that the people who perform brilliantly under actual adverse conditions have to be a lot better at the job, and work a lot harder, than someone who feels that they could hypothetically perform brilliantly under hypothetical ideal conditions.

I've never seen someone like this turn to embezzlement, but I've seen them aggrandize themselves into positions of respect through sheer confidence and then bounce from failure to failure, shifting blame to other people or external circumstances.
However, the name Yagi has become more familiar, while the name of Uda, who applied the idea in practice or established the conception through experiment, is often omitted. This appears to have been due to the fact that Yagi based his work on Uda's pre-announcement[5] and developed the principle of the absorption phenomenon Yagi had announced earlier.[8] Yagi filed a patent application in Japan on the new idea, without Uda's name in it, and later transferred the patent to the Marconi Company in the UK.[9] Incidentally, in the US, the patent was transferred to RCA Corporation.[10]

Ah, the intrigues....Like that blue LED guy. That was so sad!!! :( I felt super angry about that at the time.
Tried Supabase but currently only use their Auth.

The server to database latency was very high(few hundred ms) whereas Planetscale DB in the same region gives sub 10ms.

Still great option for most projects that can do with these issues.
it's not a fork unless source is available (even if it's a name replace copy-paste job) and other license terms are followed.
Ask HN: How to reach US investors from EU?
Hi, we are a deep tech startup in Germany and the short story is that we would like to reach VCs in US. We are in a contact with many EU based VCs but it feels somewhat sluggish and off target. We want more.

Why reaching VCs? "we have too many customers and we cannot fullfill the pipeline and we need to grow" ( I actually took this from a reddit saying this is what VCs want to hear ;) ). We are ~1M ARR and growing like hell. Pitch is ready. All numbers in the spreadsheet.

So I am passing the question to my dear HN: how a company in Europe can reach out to US investors? We maxed out our network reach, but so far no clue.

Are there certain platforms which enable this? Cold calling? Is HN the network I was missing? Can we advertise somewhere, like a VC board?

Any advice and hints are welcome!

PS. We will be in US from 13th to 16th of May in Las Vegas (or we can travel to west coast), available if someone wants to give us advice in person!
> So it might be in 6 different places at the same time (3 safekeepers, 1 pageserver, 2 S3 buckets), details depending on the data's lifecycle through the system.

I hope it is encrypted on S3 at least? :)
Surely they could cut into their profits and innovate?
Depending on how long he lasted, there could be a strong case for being a repeated C player.
I think they are accounting for the entire context, they specifically write out:

>> P(next_word|previous_words)

So the "next_word" is conditioned on "previous_words" (plural), which I took to mean the joint distribution of all previous words.

But, I think even that's too reductive. The transformer is specifically not a function acting as some incredibly high-dimensional lookup table of token conditional probabilities. It's learning a (relatively) small amount of parameters to compress those learned conditional probabilities into a radically lower-dimensional embedding.

Maybe you could describe this as a discriminative model of conditional probability, but at some point, we start describing that kind of information compression as semantic understanding, right?
60k On Hold with Stripe for 9 months..
Stripe has put a 25% reserve on all of my transactions and is currently holding $58,000. This has been going on since last July and is now approaching 10 months with no sign of the funds being released. Every time they say the will release the funds on a certain date, I get another extension on the hold.

I have spent countless hours trying to reach support and on the phone with their offshore reps but there has been no update on this situation. They have asked 4 different times for "more information" on my business which every single time I make sure to give them everything they ask for and also outline exactly what my business does in great detail. At one point they had reduced the reserve to 10% instead of 25% but it only stayed like that for 3 weeks before they bumped it back to 25%. This made no sense to me.

We make just enough profit to cover overheads and vendor costs but I have now gone out of pocket to cover payroll and this is no longer going to be sustainable for me. Does anyone have any good experiences with similar situations or could point in the right direction to getting this resolved? Any help or feedback would be much appreciated.
I understand the point but I also advocate for the opposite, it's not cool for the planet for sure but having all the data points for at least a couple of months is very useful on any large system and +15months for metrics so you can compare with the year before.

I can't count the number of times users (or myself) discovered bug after many weeks because something gradually failed over time. Also it saves a lot of time to be able to pin point the exact day a behavior as changed so you can check the deploy of that day and quickly find the bug.
Sometimes a trend is not obvious after a deploy but is clearly visible on the graph after a long period of time.

And for business intelligence, it's always when you badly need a metric that you realize you never tracked it.
From the original comment,

> But he simply didn't have the time to execute because he was secretly splitting his time between 3 companies. So he was fired for low productivity...
How does insufficient oversight in other jurisdictions apply when the ship was exiting a US harbor?

My understanding is it's the responsibility of every port to clear seaworthiness of vessels putting out (not exhaustively, perhaps, but enough to ensure that, for example, they don't wreck your bridges on the way out of your harbor).
We are taking both the article and the comments here and elsewhere to heart. Our entire focus is on building products that get better over time through repair, upgrade, and overall design for longevity, and software is a necessary part of that. We recognize that we have fallen short of where we need to be, and are making the needed investments to resolve this.

Last week, we published the final release for the Windows version of 12th Gen along with more context around what has stalled the Linux updater: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/framework-laptop-bios-and-d...

Early this week, we'll be releasing final Framework Laptop 13 and Framework Laptop 16 AMD BIOS and Driver updates that have been in Community Beta testing over the last 10 days.

A few months ago, we released an 11th Gen BIOS update for Windows: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/framework-laptop-bios-relea...

With each of these complete, we've resolved both infrastructure and process issues that make it faster for us to iterate on BIOS and driver updates on each platform. Obviously, our words here are not enough. We need to and commit to demonstrating this by actually improving both our iteration speed on software updates and our communication processes so that you both know the status and are aware when we have releases.
Was laid off at the end of '22. Started looking around March of '23. Had maybe 10 interviews over the course of 4 months. Got to the 3rd round at one place, but then they ghosted. Quit looking in June to focus on other stuff. Got a call from a recruiter in late September '23 about a gig - got to the 3rd round again, but they went with someone else. I dip my toes in every month or so to see what's out there, but basically I decided to retire since I just don't care to do the whole tech-interview/hazing ritual anymore.

Recently a friend hooked me up with a friend of his who is working on an AI accelerator chip startup on a shoestring. So I guess I'm about to start working on that. No pay, just equity, but there's a huge amount of money sloshing around in this space right now and who knows, maybe he can get some funding? Interesting stuff to work on, anyway, even if it doesn't pan out.

I guess the takeaway here is that it's surprisingly easy to find a gig that only pays in equity.
yes. https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2024/03/04/donald-trump...
What I meant was that for maybe 3-4 packages total in a year, automation doesn't matter much. It's not a big cost. Risk wise you can be pretty conservative if you are in a high-risk scenario.

But usually I find that bumping dependencies is a detective work because unlike JS where you can depend on multiple versions of the same package, for .NET you can't. So if you update package A, there is a risk that you also update a transitive dependency C, which package B depends on but on the previous version. So even for what looks like trivial updates it's often a chore. Which is why I'm happy to have just a handful of dependencies.
Yeah that would be an interesting experiment too.

This blog post has some interesting ideas as well: https://www.uber.com/blog/reducing-logging-cost-by-two-order...
By what process will the projects be added to the db? I would argue for having some sort of automation process for this. If it's curated by a human, they will eventually bore of it and abandon this.
I’d guess Click: https://screencrush.com/rob-schneiders-racist-stereotyped-ch...
There are bike locks that do mostly defeat angle grinders. They are not cheap, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpVOTEOMRuE

https://www.amazon.com/Kryptonite-Evolution-Integrated-Chain...
Or any of the multitude of Chinese emulation handhelds, which are generally cheaper, can emulate systems like the PS1/N64 which can't feasibly fit onto the Pockets FPGA, and are available in more ergonomic horizontal form factors. The Pocket is a nice piece of hardware but it's far from the only option if you want real buttons.

Here's a primer on the current <$100 market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UGr42nOv54 . Above that price bracket there's options like the Retroid Pocket 4/Pro, which get into the territory of being fast enough to emulate the Gamecube/Wii/PS2.
If you are running Oracle, then the situation is much improved with a "skip-scan" of an index for a non-leading column.

--------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT |
| 1 | SORT AGGREGATE |
|* 2 | INDEX SKIP SCAN| _index_name...
--------------------------

I think that the free XE version of Oracle database supports it, if you absolutely need this capability and you are willing to go closed source.
Your account has unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines, including by using HN primarily for political battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for or against, because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.

If this keeps up we're going to have to ban your account, so it would be good if you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the intended use of the site from now on.
Looks great, do you have any concrete data how much money it will save ?

Also, how does it compare to for example GptCache[0] ? or any other semantic cache solution[1] ?

[0] https://gptcache.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[1] https://portkey.ai/blog/reducing-llm-costs-and-latency-seman...
While this is true, it doesn't preclude one side being completely unhinged from reality.
There is also Central Apnea which is 'fun'. Your brain just 'forgets' to breath.
> what exactly was Roku supposed to be doing to protect you?

Prevent mass infiltration

Especially with close monitoring

> start monitoring account activity more closely in March, it said, and this monitoring led to the discovery of a second incident a
of course they have to enforce other peoples licenses, otherwise they're distributing stolen code. It's AGPL, which is probably not compatible with the app store license, and the code by Delta is also distributed under a custom license forbidding uploading to the app store. I don't think it's a non-standard AGPL clause, it's just multi-licensing in a very informal way
Depends on who does the validation. I've never had a problem downloading downstream forks on F-Droid, because more often than not the authoritative source is ranked right above it. The big problem for iOS users that want iGBA/Delta is that they can't download it to their device, despite the fact that the code is already written and freely available. Now third-parties are taking advantage of that demand.

This would be circumvented if the legitimate version was easy to get. Deceptive forks should still be removed at the store/repository's discretion, but the same goes for proprietary knock-offs like the Lastpass trojans and fake banking apps. It's less of an "Open Source" issue and more of an "App Store" one.
The article makes a point that for people capable of embezzling, the embezzling is less lucrative long term than what they could have done legally with their abilities.

I think in general there's immense power in the narratives people tell themselves. "I am too good/smart to be a straight-forward worker" can then land you in a significantly worse scenario than you can actually attain as a "straight-forward worker."

But it's not like the ego is doing those ROI calculations.
I can assure you that they weren't more cautious back then, but rather they just knew the dangers and accepted them.
I'd love to understand the performance implications of modeling a spectral distribution instead of an RGB pixel for ray tracing.
I learned Spanish vocabulary writing words on my hands to cheat off of, but ended up too nervous to look at them during quizzes. Amazing how the desire to do well, fear of getting caught cheating, can turn into a hyper-powered study technique.
Didn't know smishing was that common a term for this enough for its use here
I think that you are confusing real-time metrics, streamed with very high precision (below 1s) and metrics that are simply polled every N time (most use-cases).

real-time, high precision metrics aren't necessary. when you say that you don't need metrics and then say that you can poll metrics periodically, you are contradicting yourself.
Device design reminds me of the Misfit Wearables health tracker. Loved that little thing.
It's reductive because it obscures just how complicated that `P(next_word|previous_words)` is, and it obscures the fact that "previous_words" is itself a carefully-constructed (tokenized & vectorized) representation of a huge amount of text. One individual "state" in this Markov-esque chain is on the order of an entire book, in the bigger models.
As if I wasn’t already reasonably scared of swimming near boats
1. How will it be better than Github stars? Open source developers use Github already. Closed source developers use it too and Github is big enough to moderate the rating system (at least somewhat).

How will your search function be better than Google? (and how and who will classify projects?)

2. If it is important to you, build a ShowHN. Don't plan, just build and be ready to pivot. Don't expect people to help you.

What most people want is not a list of tools. They want an expert opinion.

IMDb works because movies are passively consumed; have a short period of engagement and there aren't many of them....a few hundred theatrical releases a year in the US.

Good luck.
AI or Ain't: LLMs
So not being able to get the actual version at this point is better somehow?
Did Native Americans Bend These Trees to Mark Trails?
We've found and resolved this issue. We'll be promoting the BIOS update that resolves it to stable later today, but you can pick up the release (3.05) early here: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-laptop-13-ryzen-704...
PostgreSQL Extensions or Protocols: Architecture Roulette
Yeah when he removes accurate community notes on his own tweets, that's not exactly promoting freedom of expression.
I’m actually okay with this I can see why apple don’t want to open the floodgates of cloned open source apps and games floating through. However I’m surprised they’re willing To say they will allow rom loading on “retro” consoles considering Nintendos extremely strict history on the matter..
Lucky for all you in US reporting these things.

For the Canadian targeted ones, they generally geo-target the page (Canadian IP = scam, foreign IP = no scam presented) and it’s an ordeal trying to get stuff taken down. I try at domain, SSL, host, Google safe search, netcraft levels and it’s often a waste of time.

Drives me bonkers when it gets assessed as “safe”.