skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
all major news sources tech sector. Then we somehow rank them to get the 5 most interesting/important ones. How do you think the content is?
If you strip the context from this interesting article, you are also left with an interesting point. That is: there is value in different perspectives and approaches to a problem, yet the more different the perspective the harder it is to explain to others.

QM had to move forward as a slow-rolling wave for this reason (probably I thought of this case due to the horrifying example chosen by the author), while special and general relativity did not require that (instead GM was simply extremely hard to understand :-).

But the example I find most interesting is Newton introducing* calculus to England in order to address bugs in celestial mechanics and prove that the orbits were elliptical.
I don't follow, can you help?

- a generic form of one sentence in the paper is "X could affect Y"

- you can replace X with Z and still form a sentence.

- so the study writers / link sharer are simply farming for HN karma?
It's rare, but I have done it twice. The thing is it doesn't matter if I say nice things at your funeral, you're dead, work less.
You wouldn’t cite Reddit as a positive example of successfully using Python to run a large scale, high traffic application?
Useful I don't know (for some people, I suppose) but a great answer.
TfL claims they have an operating surplus.

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2023/march/...
This always bugged me about Harley Davidson, because only around 70 to 80% of the parts are made in America. Most of Harley-Davidson's sold across the globe are made outside of America. Yet.. it's "Made in America" when in fact it's just assembled here. Always felt that was dishonest but IIRC they use a special loophole
Interesting. Is there a way to do this in a 3d physics based simulation environment. It would be cool to see if a genetic algorithm could be used to discover new aerodynamic configurations for drones/other platforms in simulation.

I don't know enough about genetic algorithms to say for certain. Anyone have any reference materials for someone that's just started looking into this?
I presume when you say "remove from the search results", you mean removed from the first page or top n spots or whatever.

But what if there are 20 good resources? They can't all be on the first page, or in the top spot.

Perhaps yhe other sites improved, or were better in some way?

Being on top for a while is no guarantee you'll be on top forever. It's precisely Google's business to change the algorithm.
The inputs of the formulas for the hydrogen energy levels in the paper are: The Rydberg constant, the fine structure constant, the electron-to-proton mass ratio, the electron-to-muon mass ratio, the Compton wavelength of the electron, and some nuclear properties (charge radius, Friar radius, and nuclear polarizability). All inputs except the nuclear properties are as fundamental as it gets according to our current understanding of physics (note that the Rydberg constant and Compton wavelength are simple combinations of other physical constants). Nuclear physics is dominated by quantum chromodynamics which is not nearly as well developed as QED.

The constants are determined by fitting the theory to the best available measurements (not only in hydrogen). This is exactly what fundamental constants do: They convert unit-less theory expressions into measurable quantities.
Citation needed? The study concluded in Sept 2023 but no results were provided. Are results on these studies usually so delayed? Perhaps they didn’t get the expected result?
https://hackaday.com/2022/08/08/automated-microsd-card-swapp...

https://hackaday.com/2014/06/08/the-in-circuit-sd-card-switc...

more links: https://hackaday.io/project/19783-sd-card-emulation
You can do more than 60hz if you use HDMI. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/101571
Imagine dogfighting in a Cessna! I imagine the arms to be pilot wielded colt 45s and first officer to be a jug of whiskey.
Too late now... but I'd like to edit :)

:%s/vim/any editor/

A similar idea applies to skateboarding, basketball, whatever. Sure - it's physically exhausting to get there, but the motions become routine
It’s amusing that it got a second chance.
> “I accomplished something hard in my life so I know everything" crowd of the utility of empathy as a tool for exploring your "unknown unknowns".

Do you believe you’ve demonstrated “the utility of empathy” in your post? — or even your interpretation of what was said?

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> Of course as I write this I'm thinking of all the times I didn't practice what I'm preaching now.

> Not in even necessarily in a malicious or foolish way, but in a "it can catch you even when you think you're accounting for it" kind of way.

> This is harder to do if you systematically overestimate yourself and underestimate others.

Mm.
If you're interested in stuff like this there's also the diary of Antonio Pigafetta who took part in Magellan's circumnavigation.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_First_Voyage_Round_the_Wo...

https://ia804703.us.archive.org/34/items/firstvoyageround00p...
Thank you for the reminder. The price is now publicly visible. The requirement to log in before generating images is to prevent abuse. I will make sure to indicate this clearly in the future. My apologies for the confusion!
Ask HN: Is ActivityPub better than RSS?
Spacecraft approaches metal object orbiting earth, snaps pictures
7¼ - ¾ == (7¼ + ¼) - (¾ + ¼) == 7½ - 1 = 6½
For a non-browser python based spreadsheet application: https://pyspread.gitlab.io/
Hopefully they multiply the fines by pi every time they repeat the violation. “You want to make it 10M?” in angry dad voice.
It is not uncommon for flight operations in the wilderness to be up to 15% heavier than the certified maximum limit, and still be perfectly legal. Relevant regulation: 14 CFR § 91.323 - https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...
How does this differ from Traceloop’s Openllmetry?
https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry
Data structures are useless without functions, and functions are useless without data structures. In use, ropes are like `ShowS`. It feels to me like you're making a grammatical distinction, of a kind I try to avoid so I can think more abstractly. Our categories are historical accident.
Calling it here: mslt, to apologize, you should say "I'm sorry, I didn't read far enough to justify my own snark. That's who screwed up here. I apologize to the poster I lashed out at"
What Are Americans Doing While They Watch TV? A Majority Turn to a Second Screen
I’d never heard about Genie before, that’s absolutely gut wrenching.
In my mind it would make sense if there are some laws to which they want to adhere, perhaps something EU-related (GDPR? IDK), and moving to Munich might be a good way of prioritizing. Perhaps something US-related they don't like, see for example that TikTok is an AI company and yeah, or the KYC-related stuff [1]. However, I am talking out of my ass, I don't really keep up with laws, upcoming bills or anything like that. :shrug:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158752
Fabrice Bellard is a great programmer. For me, 10x is about delivering real value. not just showing off how clever you are. I wish we all knew this but based on my experience that is not the case.
>> then you would already have CS anyway

Would you? Because I would argue that CC processing is the point where you NEED near real time CS. Before that handling customer issues can be done better through forums, and you're going to get a lot of self service support from those.

>> (OP is talking about word doc apps, so we’re obviously not talking about indie $2 side project apps)

Your competing with free, libra office, Zoho writer (shockingly popular)... I would not know how to price the product to compete... 2 bucks a month as a trial? Would I pay 10 bucks a year if you were great? IF you got said productivity app past 100k users, getting to a million isnt a stretch (you have velocity and popularity).

Unless your doing something really slimy, your going to be able to get a better rate out of apple if you ask your rep.
This seems overly harsh. Poor development environments, documentation that takes too long to find anything, annoying code practices, etc. are all ways to snap yourself out of of flow.

The point of the article is that you should examine what keeps you in flow and what knocks you out, and optimize for the former.
Fixating on basic arithmetic in the intro and discarding the entire essay is considered a very hacker news discussion?
To clarify this comment: there are two primary types of UPS, double conversion and line interactive.

Double conversion takes power from AC, converts it to DC to charge batteries, takes battery output, and inverts it back to AC. All power drawn from the UPS goes through the battery and inverter stack, and there is no transient/power loss when AC mains are lost. They tend to be more expensive, louder, run hotter, etc.

Line interactive UPSs, on the other hand, tend to be cheaper and are in most cheap consumer products. They take AC mains, convert it to DC, and charge batteries. But AC mains is also connected directly to the output device through switch circuitry that will quickly switch the power source from AC mains to batteries/inverter if power loss is detected.

Reputable UPSs will use pure sine wave inverters for converting DC battery back to AC. Modified sine waves are indeed a lot cheaper but are not suitable for some sensitive equipment.
Completely agree, daily using LLMs and Gemini doesn't currently compete with ChatGPT.
It can scrape linked pages too by defining the depth but make sure the depth parameter is not too much else it will consume too much memory and time.
I wonder what makes you choose such expressions as "thoroughly debunked", but that aside, It's not like 15W processor actually runs at 95W. It's still a close enough number to real power draw, especially when a laptop with "15W" CPU comparable to M1 runs for same 10 hours anyway.
Rule of Acquisition #239 - Never be afraid to mislabel a product.
What's the best Linux for remote desktop?
I've tried a couple times to access a Linux desktop from my Mac, and each time ended up feeling like it was more trouble than it's worth. ssh and cockpit are fine, so arguably there's no real need. But sometimes I want to do something that seems like it would be most easily done using a GUI app, even using a machine as a remote server, so I'm not completely satisfied.

It occurred to me today that there might be a Linux distribution that makes it particularly easy to set up some kind of remote desktop. So, in case that's true, I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions.
Well, in the "advice-indus­trial com­plex" as the OP correctly identifies it, the OP being in the advice business (sort of) himself, has two choices: join the inflationary 'self-help, you can do it' camp and have a hard time getting himself remarked from the crowd, or join the tried and true 'contrarian' camp, yielding much better results for a minority who wants to hear and feel 'different'.

Truth is that there's no one true way. Statistically there will be people who get second chances and people who don't. My guess is that the latter crwod gets even more bitter and depressed hearing all "it will get better, you will overcome the hurdles".
Thanks for the info. Yeah, nothing has ever challenged my willpower when it comes to diet like mirtazapine has. I've had to cut out sugar and other carbohydrates entirely because I just crave more while on the medication.

One of the "good" things about it is that it lends well to combinations with other drugs if it's not working on its own.

> PSA: If some is prone to major depression - exercise, going outside regularly, and avoiding alcohol aren't vague suggestions doctors make casually, they're pretty close to life-saving.

Agreed, exercise has very much saved my life.
I think the underlying platform (built by that team) was posted here only a week or so ago... I'll see if I can find it

EDIT: found it! LTK: https://github.com/pyscript/ltk
Love it. I did something similar with mapping a digital piano to keyboard events. With a whole band we can control a computer
I have been a passenger in a C-170 with a STOL kit that flew backwards over a beach on the Washington coast. We landed well behind where we took off. The takeoff and landing were both nearly vertical. Had a steady wind from the ocean.
The Snout House, The design, like America, puts cars front and center
Sure! I’ll check those :) Thank you for suggestions hoping for some awesome contributions from you :P
I am a physicists (theory), and about a third of my work is “pencil and paper” calculations (and related notes) on the iPad Pro. I use it professionally ~20 hours per week.
Oh go switch to Android. Until very recently, iOS had a minority share of the market and still does worldwide. It’s in no way comparable to Microsoft 25 years ago which then had an overwhelming market position. Were you one of those guys who spelled Microsoft with a ‘$’ btw?
What do you think would have happened to the automobile if Ford had to take liability for every accident? There will be a few years when FSD is worse than human drivers, and then it will be super human. But to get there you need data. Or you can go the slow route of Waymo, but delay this technology by 5 years and you've killed a great number of people, probably thousands. 40k die in car accidents every year in the US, only a handful of them are ADAS-related. Not only that, but Tesla releases statistics that show cars using autopilot have fewer accidents than those who don't. There may be issues with the data, but it's clear that it's not significantly worse.
Jews have a rich tradition of finding deep meaning and significance in numbers, which goes far beyond gematria. The Torah is filled with intriguing examples, such as the seven days of creation, the 12 tribes of Israel, and the 40 days and nights of the Great Flood. Many Jewish rituals also incorporate symbolic numbers, like the 18 blessings in the Amidah prayer or the custom of giving monetary gifts in multiples of 18 (representing "chai" or life). From the cycles of the Jewish calendar to the 613 mitzvot, numbers permeate Jewish thought as a way to understand both the divine order and our human place within it.
Nothing is better than a comeback story and I try to feel as inspired as I can every day because the truth is people have made groundbreaking discoveries in their 50s, started businesses in their 70s and completely overcome much harder obstacles than picking sciences instead of humanities? Like really that’s an example? Career changes are literally one of the easier things in life to do if you’re determined. This article is just too pessimistic for me.
Holographic Parallax Improves 3D Perceptual Realism
Indeed! There is no one size fits all, the more you customise the closer you are to your usecase!
I suspect it’s 2. Local organizational optimizations to garner promotions for middle-managers and without regard for systemic impact.
I'm not sure how to respond to this -- I'm almost certain you're just going to lament that I'm a product of a broken education system infiltrated by the evils of neo-Marxist propaganda. But I'm curious of your credentials when you mentioned explaining to an academic audience, and I'm wondering what capitalist heroes you think Marx slandered in Capital?

Your characterization of Marx as an "evil dark and envious soul" is humorous to me. Also, why do you keep capitalizing "Envy"?
Thanks for the explanation. I don't need to add anything to this reply :)
Are you sure? If they don't have unique IDs, they can be easily duplicated.
The technical part was kind of interesting, yet the commentary on general Microsoft was pretty funny.

Conjures images that they're all fighting to the death with spears over at the Microsoft offices.

> It was an early attempt at an operating system for a touchscreen mobile device, one that, in classic Microsoft fashion, competed internally with another project to build an operating system for a touchscreen mobile device (called Pegasus) and died out along with the rest of MAW.

"We'll pit them against each other in the Thunderdome and see who survives." Instead they both fatally stab each other.
One of the pages is missing. I wonder whether anyone has a copy of it?
Yeah. Let's be honest, how many articles have you replied to without reading in full? And we love math around here.
It won't be anywhere near 12V while supplying those 100A.
My bet, Apple begins designing chips specific to each product line.

Meaning,

- iPad get their own unique chip

- MacPro, unique chip

- etc

And this iPad rumor is just the first Apple Silicon unique product chip.
Could you elaborate please ? You got me intrested but I can't make anything of what you mean by "curation".
Discussion yesterday [0](51 points, 16 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180749
The easy fix for this is to use a nutrition style labeling for origin. Just list the origin of each part. Problem solved.
I had six ounces of kefir yesterday and was awake until 3 am. And I had no late afternoon caffeine which is my primary failure mode. Nor chocolate, which is #2. Don’t think the kefir is working for me.
You're not sounding very humble right now
An actively-maintained Go package for using the V8 runtime
This seems to take a moral stance that efficient is better. However that’s not always practically true. Efficiency often means inflexible and brittle with respect to change and time. Abstraction generally trades efficiency for ease in change over time, or parsimony for the developer in exchange for expense at runtime.

If it doesn’t matter - it doesn’t matter. If the goal is making a document format that is flexible enough to accommodate history, concurrent editing, various layouts and embedding, etc, all this comes with abstractions that add inefficiency. The trade off is ease in adding and changing to the format and the software that consumes and produces the format. If the consequence in the real world is effective unobservable in any material way, who cares?

Maybe as a moralistic measure it’s offensive that something lacking parsimony is practical. But from any meaningful measure - the users perspective, the developer, even the company paying for the processing - if it doesn’t matter - it literally doesn’t matter.

Comparing Google Docs to a program hosted on an Apollo era flight computer is obtuse to an extreme, and I would rather write my collaboratively edited documents with Google Docs than Apollo era flight computer any day no matter whether one is less parsimonious than the other.
Almost no vehicle manufacturers make all their own parts, and vetting the source of every part to make sure also were all made in the states would just mean that some parts are unavailable.

Also, its important to think of the other side of the made in the U.S.A. label which was to bring foreign manufacturers to the states for our market. Think Honda and Toyota. Getting the majority of the parts made here and the assembly here was a major benefit to those areas it affected compared to having that all happen in Japan. If you required 100% or close to it, would that have even happened?

There are both positives and negatives to the current system, but in a global market I'm not sure it's sane to expect complex products with many parts to have a single national origin.
There also was a "German Physics" movement that tried to discredit relativity theory and quantum mechanics as essentially Jewish. Heisenberg was called a "white Jew" in a SS periodical. The movement didn't have much success, and Heisenberg eventually became the leader of the (unsuccessful) German effort to develop an atomic bomb.
Ask HN: Bluetooth Connectivity – A Step Back?
Why do new Bluetooth devices 5.0 LE? have poor connectivity?
Purchased Bose QC 2 earbuds recently. Within few tries they failed to synchronize with each other and then failed to sync with 15 Pro Max. They were already paired with my phone. They worked like a charm at first try.
New out of the box and issues within a day.
As opposed to my Old Bose over the ears ~5 yr old - connect every single time without any issues.
>jaded in spite of astonishing progress

We've all seen something that looks amazing, but few seem to know what we're looking at.

I am unsettled by what I see as a division of thought between extolling AI's amazing effects on one hand and mysterious regards for how it works and its limits on the other.

Noting Arthur Clarke's dictum that 'technology can be sufficiently advanced to be indistinguishable from magic,' AI enthusiasm looks like a Feynman cargo cult.

But technology arousing magical thinking with little discussion of principle of operation and limits is common enough.

This was very much the case with arrival of personal computing: there's something the device is intended to do but most people aren't sure what that is. The devices crashed enough and went out of date so fast you felt ok for not understanding them.

It was even worse with the mobile+web as so much change happened so fast that a generation has been dumbstruck: look at USA politics.

I was looking at old episodes of the Computer Chronicles from early 90s on YT and by that time the show had close to a thousand episodes, but they could barely explain the significance of Windows 3.0 and the Pentium. As to what to expect from this stuff, they didn't even try it was mindless rambling and upsell interspersed with stern warnings from the Software Publishers Association that mucking with the code is a Federal offense. The show's guests all had something to sell with a half life of 3–6 months. For the Pentium episode they show a PC lab with nerds in Dockers (khaki pants) studiously examining how many fans it might take to keep a lanman server from overheating and crashing. Many were amazed by it all.

Also available on YT are old ATT videos, including an introduction to UNIX with Kernighan & Richie. The presentation entirely focuses on the power of the shell. They seemed much more reserved and competent in retrospect, but in its time they looked like a pure priesthood.

Maybe the arrival AI stuff is not so different from the arrival of personal computing?

But AI is basically just one app, and I get the feeling that the scene is far more enigmatic to the point that even the people building the kit don't really know why it does what it does, and no one seems to have a clear idea of what correct functioning means.
This is more like the distinction of a Jr and Sr dev. One needs the tasks the be pre-chewed and defined “good prompts” while the latter can deal with very ambiguous problems
> The center tapped transformer that provides residential split phase 120/240 on its secondary winding connects to just 1 of the 3 grid phases on its primary winding.

I believe that's a USA peculiarity. Where I live, the usual residential and commercial wiring is from 13.8 kV to 127V/220V through a three-phase delta-wye transformer, in which the primary connects between each pair of phases, and the secondary connects between one phase and the neutral (the high-voltage primary side does not have a neutral). When one phase of the high voltage side is lost (very common, since each high-voltage phase is a separate wire and has an independent fuse upstream of the transformer), what happens is that one phase of the low voltage side stays normal (the one between the two intact high voltage phases), and the other two have a lower voltage which varies depending on their relative load.
Thank you!! I believe I found just the product we need in the comments under the first article: https://fiber-punk.com/products/node-max-by-fiberpunk
It's for 3d printers but it should work for us too