skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market isn't allowed to work it out because of single family zoning
Very rustic practice?
Well, you can be a little bit happier tomorrow if let go of that train of thoughts for a little while and do something fun for you.
Just a few of my opinions regarding why there’s so much low-quality software:

1. No culture of craftsmanship in software outside of niches such as native Mac software development. “Move fast and break things” was supposed to mean embracing iterative development practices and not being afraid to make changes when necessary, but this philosophy has been stripped of its original context, which has resulted in recklessness.

2. Unrealistic deadlines that favor slapdash, “get it out the door as fast as possible” solutions instead of taking the time to deliver quality software.

3. UI/UX designs that serve business priorities over users’ needs. Egregious examples include dark patterns and annoying ads. Less egregious examples include design for branding instead of design based on the platform’s UI guidelines. Unfortunately the Web lacks UI guidelines, and so each website has its own UI/UX.

4. What’s the incentive for quality? Market dynamics such as network effects and lock-in that prevent competition from gaining a foothold or even from existing in the first place. Why would a company improve its software if people are required to use that product and there are no alternatives? A lot of people, for example, complain about Microsoft Teams, but if their job requires it, they can’t use an alternative platform.

Some of my favorite customer-facing software includes The Omni Group’s Mac software such as OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner, ClarisWorks, the classic Mac OS (less for its underpinnings, which weren’t the most reliable, and more for its interface), Mac OS X (especially the Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard era), and late 1990s and early 2000s Microsoft software (Windows 2000, Office 97 and 2000, Visual Studio 6, Visio).
Haha, exactly this is why I like pure HTML blogs of smaller tech enthusiasts:

- No cookies

- No newsletter

- No notifications

- No ads (affiliate links are kind of ok to me)
I think using guinea pigs as guinea pigs is ethically wrong. We sure as heck don't ask them for consent.
Funny how portable toy users think that bare base features that proper computer OSes have been doing for 3 decades with sub-100 MHz processors and sub-32 MB RAM, are somehow crazy stuff.
Small new cars are safer and have lower emissions than older models from same class. They are worse in some other aspects though
I personally miss the magical era of Wordart, MS Works, Clippy, Desktop Destroying Screensaves, Winamp skins and ICQ

The unbounded creativity and pushing of boundaries of that era has given way to a/b tested, reduced to the boring mean, slick and lifeless software that has removed all the joy, the discovery, the experimentation in favor of maximally enshittified sludge of boring productivity.

The current experimentation phase of AI has tiny sparks of it, until they will be snuffed out again.

“Professional” in this context is boring, average and dystopian really, a sign of the time where our Personal Computer has become an extension of corporate productivity rather than our creative playground.
We used the same technique to port our C applications to Apple platforms, but to do so we wrote an automated tool that created a C wrapper for any cocoa API we need. It works on all current Apple platforms we have tried it on iOS,iPadOS, and Apple Silicon Macs.

Its open source:

https://felixk15.github.io/posts/c_ocoa/
Turbo Pascal for Windows v1.5, on Windows 3.1, the transition step before Delphi came to be.
Don't you confuse services with software? My unconnected laptop works perfectly for me.

What about examples, I always mad when my old devices stops being functional despite nothing has changed in electric circuits. Ati videocards have no free drivers, Blackberry devices can not render webpages due to https requirement out of thin air, some parts of Lenovo laptop do not fit to another one duo to lock in BIOS.

BTW look at modern laptops, they also became worse. I can not upgrade laptop CPU after 4th generation of Intel, also nowadays laptops just do not have a lot of ports and durable case.

> I have a few theories why this happens: Are we all too distracted to do focused work? Does the industry focus too much on the newest trends rather than building things right the first time? Have easy coding tools led to devs who don't grasp the fundamentals?

These questions do not touch me, try formulating once more.
You in fact do not need to commit at the end of the day. You can just… wait until the work is done.
I agree that s3 compatibility is a bit of a moving target and we would not implement any of the AWS specific actions.

We are transparent with what's the level of compatibility - https://supabase.com/docs/guides/storage/s3/compatibility

The most often used APIs are covered but if something is missing, let me know!
Yes, this website.
So you don't think your belief that the scientific mindset is a preferable mindset is a philosophic belief rather than a scientific belief? Because it is, since that is a belief that can't be proven empirically, rather it is reasoned to philosophically.

Now to address your misguided belief on the mind being reduced to the brain.

Under atheistic materialism what is happening is matter in motion. This means even the matter in your brain. What does that mean? Your brain is determined by the laws of physics, chemistry, etc and even your comment was determined. You destroy the possibility of justified knowledge claims under that worldview when taking it to its logical conclusion. Also as Sean Caroll noted, quantum physics and stochastic probabilities don't mean anything, taking the worldview to the logical conclusion means determinism of the movement of matter.

You also can't account for universals and particulars on that view and solve the problem of the and the many.
There’s a really important thing here for anyone trying to do sales to big companies.

Find an exec that needs a project to advance their career. Make your software that project.

Suck in as many other execs into the project so their careers become coupled to getting your software rolled out.
Most datacenters are not powered in a significant way by fuel shipped overseas from the Middle East.
It’s better than it would have been in the early 90s by a huge margin, but it’s not that great. It’s very scary.
The feature I miss the most is marking numbers as spam
You only have to look at some of the businesses that launched the last couple of batches. The AI products in particular were of very questionable quality.
Ah those were the days. We’d buy the game, go home, play for hours end, get stuck, then call our friends the next day to exchange information and see if someone has progressed further. It created a form of belonging and exploration that’s long gone.
They are safer indeed, but gaming too much towards safety in automotive produces too much displays and also surveillance.
The fluctuations aren't that bad. Now, I don't trust the infrared sensors myself, because I can't see the "local gradient" of what they're measuring, nor how it changes momentarily (why does it always take a second or two to measure?), and there certainly are areas on the face that vary by whole degree centigrade in temperature.

How do I know? Because I got so annoyed at the IR thermometers that I recently got myself one of those USB-C thermal cameras (UTi721M, specifically). It's like a 256x192 array of IR thermometers, measuring continuously, so you actually see what's going on. Lots of interesting things you can learn that way, for example that cheeks, chin and nose can easily be 1-2℃ cooler than the forehead, or that the neck/throat shows about the same temperature that the forehead, but seems more stable. And, it's much faster to take temp of everyone at home in one go. And then you also can learn a lot about your own environment, too. I highly recommend this to anyone.

That said, I found in-ear IR most reliable, and use it as a baseline for health checkups. You do however need to watch out for insertion - if you put the head in the ear too fast and measure immediately, you can get a result that's a degree or two centigrade above correct, which I imagine is because of momentary friction heating.
That's exactly the observation I made when working for a corporation.
I see YC as doing what every successful mature business does, which is come to rely on its experience and market position (it’s hard to disrupt yourself), which for better or worse creates habits, which in YC’s case means very coarse investment heuristics. As an outsider they seem very obvious. I’ll omit how that relates to my own experiences and biases (I’ve only ever made one half-baked on-the-deadline application so I don’t think they are relevant). Just my 2c as a long-time follower.

I think it would be awesome to see YC break at least some of itself off into some more elite and disruptive units (where elite refers to the quality of the intake and YC expertise, not the founder education history).
Well, they have the funds do they not? I don't think there's a class of wealthy real estate investors from DPRK eager to get into the condo market in South Florida. In that context it makes perfect sense to focus on China. Still, given the expansive jurisprudence on targeting specific races, and the general allergy we have in American politics to doing anything even adjacent to that idea, it would've been better to draft a more expansive policy for the bill.

Personally I think foreign real estate investment is bad, and should be severely dealt with. I don't think it's fair for rich foreigners to essentially park cash in American housing. That specific sense that this activity is wrong can be generalized into a better policy solution, where we don't have to pretend that it's only bad when the Chinese or the Russians or whoever does it. It's also bad for private equity to do this, but that's a separate topic.
That's definitely not true. Where did you get these numbers?
A real contender to the connectionist approach.

I always suspect Varela gave us some true keys to unlock the mysteries unsolved about AGI.
Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout
> Please prove me wrong so I’ll be a bit happier tomorrow.

Recreative drugs are great nowadays, there are new stimulators on the market and new ways to consume such as battery-powered pen-shaped little something.
Safari on iOS has had content blockers since 2015 and other kinds of extensions since 2021.
Aren't most EU cities significantly more dense than in the US?
You can do this on Pixels as well.
Hmm, here's my N=1: One-a-Day Men's has 120mg, RDA is 400mg. Not quite "almost none," and Hypermagnesemia is a thing.
So people are screaming for it to keep going. Good opportunity for someone to copy the site and take those believers.
Persistence is not "the most reliable indicator". It's possible to be persistent at something that isn't working and isn't going to work (I know; I've done it). That's not useful, so persistence is far from sufficient. It is necessary though.

If there's a most-reliable-indicator at all, it would be something like what pg called 'relentless resourcefulness'. The includes persistence and a lot of other things as well.
h5ai – modern HTTP web server index
I probably shouldn't judge based solely on this, but I had never heard of Post News, so clicked their home page.

Most of it is covered by a "login" prompt, and the trending story is 'Messi unfollows Taylor Swift's ex on Instagram." Is that "toxicity-free?" I don't really know.
Photons don’t experience time, from their relativistic frame they are created and destroyed instantly. This is because they are massless and therefore always travel at the speed of light. Due to relativity they experience a different simultaneity - in our reference frame we can observe their emission and absorption as energy and existence and measure them etc but, even given they can’t experience anything anyways, time doesn’t pass for them. This is one of the weirdnesses of relativity.
There is no per request pricing.
Speaking from a US-centric point of view (I don’t know the situation abroad), making a living and keeping up with inflating costs feels like being on a treadmill that goes faster every year, with more and more demands for productivity from employers. I fear not being able to keep up. These employers face heavy demand from their shareholders to grow at all costs to keep those stock values increasing. It’s all about a relentless pursuit for growth. This is why there’s been a proliferation of subscription services; there’s pressure to monetize things as much as possible.
I scripted something similar at an old workplace;

Basically you'd pass a command to the script and it would track down the last commit that did not fail the command.

It'd search HEAD~4, HEAD~8, HEAD~16... until it found a good commit, then bisect.

The problem that I found is that bugs that have already been fixed still triggered in the past, and the only solution that I found to that was to branch the first buggy commit, apply a fix and squash and then rebase on top of that.

Not the best practice, but it saved me a lot of time.
Yeah that makes sense, I think my point was to avoid magnesium oxide and stearate since it’s completely useless - rather than advocating for a specific bioavailable form. I think folks assume the form of magnesium in their multivitamin is useful when overwhelmingly it’s not useful at all.
Why are you commiting things that do not compile or pass tests to a shared branch? Git is not your backup solution.
Congratulations on having a successful business. There's nothing wrong with a business that grows slowly, pays you a salary, and remains profitable.

I've walked a similar path and, while I'll never be a multi-millionaire, I'm very comfortable and have more than I need. Small, stable, businesses that offer good secure jobs are the backbone of the economy.

All that said, there are investors out there who are interested in folk like you and me. A track record of success, coupled with potential, and immediate returns is attractive.

VC investors are ultimately investing in people, not businesses. The idea matters to some extent, but its more of a pitch in the person or team. This is partly why college is so predominately material. In the folk "starting out" there's little else to look at.

(Always have your first date on a famous college campus, then you can forever drop "we met at harvard" into the conversation.)

To be honest, VC investing isn't for me at this stage in my life, and it may or may not be a good fit for you. For many it's a great fit though, and in some ways their "first good job".

So I think the advice in thr post is fine - if you -want- to go this route then go for it. The worst they can say is "no".
I signed up to Vapi, was able to reproduce a similar proof of concept within your app very quickly ; as well as add one of my custom ElevenLabs voices and a phone number - all of it in minutes.

One of the most surprising learnings - the OpenAI 3.5 "turbo" (?) LLM was basically as fast as Groq... so the overall experience still felt "real-time" with GPT3.5.

This is very promising and I'd be very interested in integrating it within our app's chat agent.

BUT! - a couple of pieces of feedback:

1. I think you would have much more virality if you had a "share" button for each assistant which would give a direct link to a page with a push-to-talk button (similar to the one in the OP demo link). Right now the quickest way I can share a Vapi assistant to others is to buy and link a phone number, but then the voice recognition is really not great.

2. How can I meter the use of a given assistant? If I want to sell a voice-assistant service as an add-on to my existing chat assistant, I need to somehow either limit usage or bill on usage. So I would need Vapi to give me those stats.

3. You're not currently providing a way to delete recordings/logs. That would be a problem for GDPR reasons.
What's the Pixel version of Dex?
No? iPhones have had ad blockers / extensions for a long time.
No, that is different. I'm aware when my background brain does work because like you say next time I arrive at the subject it's easier. This is not that.
Read Prof. Michael Behe, Prof M. Denton, Prof. J. Tour, PhD D. Axe and so many.
I dont quite think of functions and abstractions as the same. Abstractions seem to do more with having a self referential property. Though I suppose that can be seen as the identity function f->f.

IIRC Church was heavily influenced by Turing and vice versa.
https://cryptome.org/eyeball/walmart/walmart-birds.htm
Magnesium L-Threonate works better for cognition and sleep.
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Avoid syndicated content.

Actual article & more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092328
Exactly, I don't understand how people are bending backwards to not accept this. I could be explained integrals as "it's a banana", 2 hours later someone explains it properly and I get it, and some of these commenters would tell me my brain was working on "it's a banana" and that's why I understand integrals the second time.
Dex is really valuable for me: I use it a lot; about 50% of my programming time. The other 50% is a MacBook Air m1.

This really should be an Android standard. I would prefer Linux instead of Android, but this is the next best thing.
I assume you’re referring to Feynmans demonstration that since photons are neutral with no antiparticle in QED a photon going forward in time and backwards in time are the same photon. But from our frame of reference the photon always originates at the origin and hits our eye. From the photons point of reference it’s not meaningful tho to say they go backwards or forwards because time actually doesn’t elapse for them.
Ah yes on re-reading I missed that important bit. My bad.
Actually had Windows NT provided better POSIX support, I would never ever had bothered with dual boot into BSD or Linux during the 1990's.

In hindsight not doing that is what opened the door to FOOS on PCs in first place, so beware what one wishes for.
The #1 feature for me I can't do without is the bubble overlay. I'm learning a language and having a dictionary accessible with one tap anywhere is amazing.

If you are learning a language, Android is a must have just for that alone.
The fact that when I tap the WiFi and Bluetooth shortcuts in the notification panel to switch them off and they actually switch off is enough to keep me on Android.

Also, sideloading and file system access. With Syncthing, I can sync local folders between my Mac, Windows PC and phone in one go.
> "not growing fast enough"

So you were growing, but not enough to keep investors happy, who would eventually throttle the product for every bit of return once it had even a smidgen of community momentum around it, and turn it into the same ad-filled mess that are the current alternatives.

Where are the not-for-profits in this space?
The brand should not matter if the chemical composition is clearly specified and you can trust that what that brand claims is true.

I have tried a few magnesium supplements and my opinion is that you must use pure powder instead of pastiles or capsules.

The pastiles or capsules contain various excipients that are at best useless and at worst harmful. Moreover, using powder allows the choice of any fractional dose and mixing it uniformly with food, like you would do with table salt, which guarantees a more complete absorption.

Among the available powders, I have settled on magnesium bisglycinate. The cheaper alternatives, like magnesium citrate, carbonate or oxide are not soluble in water and even after they become soluble in the stomach the magnesium ions can be precipitated by various food components, which prevents their absorption in the intestine.

Magnesium bisglycinate is soluble in water and it remains soluble until it is absorbed. It is very easy to mix it in food, exactly like table salt.

The slightly higher price of bisglycinate does not matter much, because at normal doses a box of a few hundred grams should last for many months or even over a year, adding only a few cents to the daily cost of food.

When computing the daily dose of magnesium bisglycinate powder, you must pay attention that its magnesium content is 24/172 by weight, so you must multiply the desired dose with 172/24, i.e. about 0.72 g for 100 mg of Mg.

To add it to food, I use the smallest measuring spoon of a set of measuring spoons, which has a capacity of 0.625 mL. I have determined the density of the powder by weighing the box after taking a measuring spoon from it for the first few days and averaging the results. The density of such powders is usually a little over 1, e.g. 1.1, so in my case one measuring spoon provides about 100 mg of Mg.
> experiment is the ultimate arbiter of truth

Can you help me design experiments to prove the following?

* Simpler theories, with equal explanatory and predictive power, are preferable

* I'm not dreaming and there's no evil demon deceiving me

* The next swan will be white because all prior swans I've observed are

* Technology acts as a context of justification for scientific propositions, and proves its efficacy

* Experiment is the ultimate arbiter of truth
Fast forward merges.
Or, just create a feature branch, commit as you go, squashing before you merge.
Thousands protest against Canary islands' 'unsustainable' tourism model
I switched back to Pixel after two years of using an iPhone recently. It’s got a lot better phone and text spam detection. I get 5-10 spam calls and texts a day. The iPhone got unusable.
Humans cannot absorb magnesium oxide. It’s a laxative, not a magnesium supplement.
> Firefox with its (limited, true) extension ecosystem

Didn't they lift the restriction on which extension you can install on mobile Firefox as well?
There’s a book reading club in the database internals discord, on this book! We’re up to chapter 8, but a motivated reader can still easily catch up: https://databass.dev/discord
see also https://worldofsolitaire.com/ and https://www.solitaireforfree.com/ ( self plug, it is not my website/domain, but it is my code)
Used it yesterday

You train people/enforce in CI that all commits on `main` compile. People shouldn't not be committing broken code. Squash if they can't manage that.

1) You can `skip` a bad commit if it happens

2) You can branch and rebase a unit test into the history to use a scripted bisect run
On my Sony Xperia I can force battery limit to 90% or 80%, but on my parent's Pixel 5a only the automatic/adaptive option was available? This seems like one of those things that's easy to offer, but Google hides it to be more slick and apple-like, while Samsung and Sony add the control in for power users / "value-add".

(There are other trade-offs between Google and Samsung, of course.)
Researchers discover glial hyper-drive is triggering epileptic seizures
Not me! I want to write the dumbest most maintainable code possible. I want to use the most maintainable hardware, and the least complicated toolchain available.

Now, please excuse me while I practice leetcode for my first job out of grad school where if I cannot regurgitate a complex algorithm (which is available in a well maintained library that I should never try to reproduce) I’m an unemployable dumbass.
it's called resume driven develobment
Still both can be true. I'd say it's even a common thing in medicine. Researchers may be researching something real with well-defined range of effect/application, meanwhile many a scoundrel will pick up the same term to market their bullshit treatments or lifestyle advice, and when interrogated, they'll actually point at some of the published studies of the real thing, hoping people won't understand the difference.
I am in the US, and what I notice is it must be worse everywhere else because the US exports its inflation more to other countries by the virtue of Dollar being the reserve currency and everything else is priced in Dollars. So it must even be worse everywhere else.
I agree, unfortunately I think this is what hacker news looks like when dan is asleep.