skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a company can make more than Australia but not be a monopoly?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...
What are the chances the video feed is just being sent to India like Amazon’s “just walk out” technology
Poorly, in most cases, via various flavors of JavaScript and derived frameworks therein. Sometimes with additional overhead referred to as "targeting" which gives a worse outcome and user experience, regardless, over simpler implementations that serve to inform. Targeting forgets causality, typically.

Next comes YELLING-LOUDLY-TO-COME-DOWN-TO-THE-LOCAL-CAR-DEALERSHIP-FOR-NO-MONEY-DOWN-OFFERS phase of advertisements, which type are also routinely and nearly uniformly ignored.
If there are active maintainers they can just close PRs that aren't worth pulling. It's true that it makes malicious takeover easier. If personally liked something that allowed vetos from downstream projects. As they have skin in the game on what gets merged.

I wasn't thinking about the time based auto merging when I came across this project. I don't know how much project orphaning is a problem though.
Unrelated to excellent article content, do we have today an AI solution to enhance the quality and readability of scanned PDFs?
Liquid Death became a billion-dollar beverage brand
> The London→Brighton bit is only valid that day, but the Brighton→London bit is valid for 30 days. Get through the barriers at Brighton with a Brighton→Hassocks ticket.

Wait, if you already have a Brighton→London return ticket, why would you bother to buy Brighton→Hassocks and Clapham Junction→London tickets? Couldn't you just use the Brighton→London return ticket?
Companies can align price to competitors' without colluding. Basically, if you check how much others are charging and charge the same then there is no collusion.
For an extended read, you may try "King Rat" by James Clavell - same author of the current hit show "Shogun".

The book is set in the same Changi PoW camp where the author was held during WWII. The character Lieutenant-Colonel Larkin is based off Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. "Weary" Dunlop who was the real life surgeon using these tools for creating artificial limbs amongst other things and whom Clavell knew and presumably Bradley too.

It's not exactly a cheery read but very much an inspiring one in terms of survival, ingenuity, and moral complexity.
It is marketed to be more than a drawing device tho. It fails at anything but being a glorified scratchpad. Very narrow usefulness.

I got the first iPad (2016?) with pencil, for 400€, I think. It still does completely fulfill my needs for brainstorming. For anything else, the app ecosystem and locked down system are useless.
That reminds me of Apple's "Designed in California" on some products.

(My 2016 Mac Pro also said Made in the USA, as it was in Texas.)
Damn, that's a shame. I'll look up the book, thank you.
I can’t believe I’m arguing this, but: it actually might be fine UX?

As long as they’re sorted and I can jump with the keyboard, that bare-ass drop-down is probably going to “just work” with default behavior. Anything further and we don’t know the intended use case for the element itself, but on the surface… it could be fine.
The article makes it sound like it was ultimately a great decision, because now coal use is at historically low levels while renewables have been increasing. What it neglected to mention is that if nuclear had remained there, the share of coal would have directly and proportionally decreased. To achieve a 5% switch from very dirty to clean energy would be a spectacular feat, and the Germans achieved the opposite when closing their still perfectly usable nuclear plants very recently.
These lathes?

https://www.crozierspeedlathes.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzaOsPcaoi4

It looks to me like they're for hand-finishing (deburring or polishing?) parts. I wonder in what kinds of work that comes up often enough to justify dedicated machines?
You're looking for the Gingery Lathe.

He builds it and bootstraps a home metalworking shop, building new tools with the old ones.

It's a book series.
Was unimpressed by bloated NPS calculators online so I built a simple one
I find it hard to believe that they copied the word for workshop (presumably 工房) convincingly enough that it wasn't obviously written by someone without any understanding of how to actually write the language. It's extremely obvious when someone tries to copy Chinese characters without any understanding of stroke order, stroke pressure, etc. The way that someone would show how a character looks to someone without any knowledge (ie textbook form) and how they would naturally write such a sign is also different. You would be able to tell instantly that a non-native prisoner wrote it.

Actually, signs were also written right-to-left horizontally during that period but it's likely that someone showing them how to write on a piece of paper would have written vertically, so they would probably not even have the knowledge to know the correct order of the text.
I mean, if I was running TfL, I might be tempted to make the ticket machines difficult to use, to discourage people from using them. From TfL’s pov, it is always preferable for people to use contactless.

(I was in Lisbon recently, and am convinced that that was going on there; there was no possible reason for the ticket machines to be so awkward to use, other than deliberate deterrence.)
This is a pretty biased take in my opinion. I personally know at least one person who has lost more than 80lbs on Wegovy, after not being able to lose weight for years. It's been a literal sea change for her life, at least.
Sounds like a fun project. How do you find the lathe? I always preferred old American iron to something new from China/Taiwan but having to haul around two tons of lathe when you move is not a trivial task.
EVs aren't zero emission on the road, either; roughly half of the pollution of an ICE car is not from the exhaust, but from the tires breaking down and releasing tiny (likely carcinogenic) particles, and heavy electric vehicles wear down their tires faster than a lighter car.
Boeing can’t get fake doors right. I ain’t trusting them with this.
Heresy, I know, but Make is a dependency in windows land.
Rowzero is a better spreadsheet, while PySheets is a better Jupyter Notebook. Although they converge in certain aspects, their distinct target audiences set them apart. This divergence may create some overlap, but it also leaves ample room for user preference.

PySheets currently runs inside the browser, on top of WebAsm, and the limitations there are bigger than just Python's slowness. You have only 4G addressable memory, including the interpreter and libraries. Network bandwidth is also a limiting factor for client-side computation.

That said, PySheets can render a sheet based on a 50,000-row Excel sheet in 0.5s and needs about 20s to do a full end-to-end recompute run. There are limits to what you can do in the browser without using an external kernel that can run Polars on large datasets. But, I think most people will be fine with what PySheets can let them do.

Finally, as the author of PySheets I am honored that a "competitor" sees us as a threat. I am quite impressed by Rowzero myself. Nice work :-)
Which package management strategy did you use? Virtualenv + pip + requirements.txt, Poetry, something else?
Likely. But if the company providing the service is caught in an audit not implementing the data retention policies that are in the contract, they are dead on the spot.
Do you know anyone taking these drugs? They can dramatically reduce cravings for food - the effect is significant. Not to say there aren't plenty of valid concerns about such drugs...
Or better regulation.

Treating refined sugar as the addictive substance it is, and keeping those products in a separate part of the store rather than at the checkout line. Removing subsidies for unhealthy ingredients, subsidising healthier ones. More education in schools. Better funding and requiring school districts to meet certain quality standards for the food they provide to children. Ensuring all children have the right to a healthy meal. Where previous initiatives have fallen short, critically evaluate why and make them better. Thinking about social psychological factors for our collective mental health and thinking about how this influences our dietary and exercise choices.

There are lots of actions that could be taken that are not just pharmaceutical.
Weirdly, Cloud Atlas also stars Halle Berry. I really like the movie of Cloud Atlas, myself. I've read the book at least three times, but I don't remember anything about the Moon?
Mistakes that data science students make
The Simplest Thing in the World: Modifing Keymaps in Wayland
Pip Boy 3000
In the United States price fixing is only illegal if there is an agreement among two or more competitors. When prices are openly advertised (and announced in advance) it is easy for suppliers to set the same price without any actual agreement.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
It draws from the original UNIX text editor called "ed".

https://zed.dev/faq#why-zed
I don’t know about nextstep but macOS had all this stuff when I first used it 20+ years ago. It featured compositing rendering, had the apps, supported ppc/x64 in an app image, had a microkernel. I even remember it got an emulator for running ppc code on an x64.

The newest macOS still needs more memory and suffer bloat but 8GB is still perfectly useable if you avoid google chrome. 8GB is also perfectly usable for Linux too.
It’s a rigorously tested medication, not a fantasy.

You can read the original FDA approval for the data highlights:

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...

“The largest placebo-controlled trial enrolled adults without diabetes. The average age at the start of the trial was 46 years and 74% of patients were female. The average body weight was 231 pounds (105 kg) and average BMI was 38 kg/m2. Individuals who received Wegovy lost an average of 12.4% of their initial body weight compared to individuals who received placebo.”

These were multi-year trials with thousands of patients.
As someone who travels to the US a lot, I’ve wondered what drives this phenomenon for a long time now as it’s unlike anywhere else in the world for the vehicles you see. My assumption had been a snowballing macro edition of one-upmanship that was in the car makers favour so they leaned in with marketing, I had no idea it was legislatively beneficial to go bigger. 4 out of 5 vehicles sold being SUV or Truck is crazy though, no way does 4 out of 5 of the population need that surely.
Your comment is a prime example that operators are confused and unclear about how to operate the system. You call it a "nag", but the manual [1] clearly states:

1. Autosteer Bubble 1: "Keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times, be mindful of road conditions..."

2. Navigate on Autopilot Bubble 2: "Always keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the driving path in front of you"

3. Navigate on Autopilot Bubble 3: "keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times, and remain aware of your navigation route"

4. Autosteer on City Streets Bubble 2: "Keep your hands on the steering yoke (or steering wheel) at all times, be mindful of road conditions..."

A system that requires hands on the wheel at all times for safe operation should, like a regular car which also requires hands on the wheel at all times, only have hands off the wheel for a few seconds at most. This warning is provided side-by-side with the warning to always pay attention and thus demands a similar degree of importance and adherence. A warning after 30 seconds of failing to operate the system safely is not a "nag". You are operating it incorrectly for a tremendous amount of time every time that warning occurs.

In fact, it should generate after 1-3 seconds like the attention monitoring as it is something you must do at all times. They could remove that restriction by designing a system that does not require hands on the wheel at all times, but while that is a requirement it should be enforced correctly instead of enforced as a useless legal ass-covering afterthought.

That you are confidently asserting the belief that you must take responsibility for attention, but the equally important requirement to keep hands on the wheel is viewed as a unnecessary nag, and repeatedly referenced and advertised as such by official spokespeople, shows you are fundamentally confused about the safe operation of the system and the commercial messaging about it is inherently confusing even to sophisticated operators.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-E5FF5E8...
Medicare is also now allowed to negotiate prices. I fully expect this one to be on the list ASAP.
Relying just on h-index is bad in the first places. I habe colleagues in experimental physics who are on papers with tens of coauthors, working only on a small bit that enabled multiple experiments and have an amazing hindex. you cannot compare that to a theoretically working niche field. In the end it is about wrong incentives in science. See also this article on rising self citations [0] . Having said that h-index is a good KPI to track for myself.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00090-z
The electronic health records bit totally resonated. I was involved in a selection committee for a new health record for the municipal public health clinics I worked for a number of moons ago as the physician champion. They went with the product that the billing, finance and statistics department wanted, ignoring the fact that the interface was poorer for the clinicians and that the beancounters worked with the data, not with the program itself (i.e., forgetting that "garbage in garbage out"). I made the strategic mistake of saying honestly that we could learn to work with anything but it was suboptimal; they heard the first part but not the second and went with it, then they got mad when I refused to endorse it and sell the other clinicians on it. In the end it was never implemented and they chose Epic a few years later that now everybody hates. A massive waste of time and money.
looking for credible sources only. thanks anyway though.
There are several great examples of factors that contribute to vehicle size bloat in this article. One factor I don’t see mentioned often is the increased rates of obesity in the US. We’re nearing 40% of the population being obese [1]. Perhaps there’s several Americans who are so large they need larger vehicles in order to comfortably fit inside?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html
The conversation around microplastics rarely includes this info - a significant fraction of microplastics in an urban environment are from car tires, potentially the single largest source IIRC.
Art isn't supposed to make you comfortable
"Imagine a DAW or plugin that only runs on a certain make and model of computer." - Logic.
GDP is similar to revenue, not to market cap. Google's revenue is significantly lower than the GDP of Australia.
That doesn't say where it's piped though. It could be redirected to a file, or piped to something harmless like jq.
Ask HN: How much days/time to spend in SF?
I'm currently based in NY and involved in the AI space. Lately, I've been contemplating a move to SF to immerse myself further in the tech community. The goal is to meet founders, hack, and filter the signal from the noise to brainstorm a product idea.
At a rate proportional to the fourth power of the weight per-axle[1]. So considering how much more EVs weigh compared to their ICE counterparts, we can only hope that compact and lightweight EVs become more prominent.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
A friend of mine is earning millions of dollars / month connecting people to this drug. The trick is working out the insurance company rules. With Medicare they're going to be rich as fuck. Just a giant pump of taxpayer dollars into this. It's going to be fantastic.
The epidemic itself is pretty strong evidence. Gastric bypass and these new drugs are basically the only proven effective ways of reliably helping people lose.
Always wondered why not spend the same amount of effort on talking to users, and improving the product, finding early users?

Are there any reads on whether it’s worth at all to get in to YC these days?
If you're reading this and the cost prohibitive part of this story doesn't make sense you have to understand how far forward the Texas grid is when it comes to renewables.

There have been many occasions where the cost of power in Texas has gone negative. (see: https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/understanding-negative-pr... )

For this to happen there are a lot of factors that come into play but it indicates a downward price pressure on generation that is not going to go away. Storage and transmission are going to be the largest costs for the system going forward. These "ride through" upgrades make sense in the near term (generation side) but in the long term become just another cost that in theory could be put on the storage portion of the system (not in place yet).

Texas cutting itself off from the national grid, is now at the bleeding edge of renewables. 20 Years ago, that sentence would have gotten you laughed out of the state.
5% of my support has to do with payments and it's all about refunds.

Everybody pays for stuff online
Now this sounds like wisdom. I'm going to read the French manual.
A friend of mine has deep wounds around their experience of making the wrong decisions during formative (college years) they they feel has set them back in life.

Everyone around them sees their story differently: a successful career pivot into a field that they love which compensates them well. They have truly inspired many!

Yet for my friend, the story they tell themselves is that their poor decisions in college will essentially haunt them forever because they don't have the academic pedigree and work experience of their peers.

I have my own relationship with rumination, and appreciate this perspective from Michael Pollan in his book "How to Change Your Mind"

"A lot of depression is a sort of self-punishment, as even Freud understood. We get trapped in these loops of rumination that are very destructive, and the stories that we tell ourselves: you know, that we’re unworthy of love, that we can’t get through the next hour with a cigarette, whatever it is. And these deep, deep grooves of thought are very hard to get out of. They disconnect us from other people, from nature, from an earlier idea of who we are."

My advice for anyone reading this is to listen to the stories that you tell yourself. Ask yourself how you can adjust these stories to have a more empowered understanding of yourself.
The most likely candidate would be the Yuan, not the Rubble
Do you have a debit card? Just tap that.

Also, no-one is forcing you; the ticket machines still _exist_.
I was expecting to read about LOng RAng radio communication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
Actually no:

Australia GDP: 1.7T

Google annual revenue: 0.3T

Australia effectively creates an entire Google every single year.
More true for people above a certain height. There are many countries with a higher obesity rate than the U.S. but none who sell 80% trucks and SUVs.

Edit: if the above hypothesis is true, we would expect average car size to correlate with obesity after controlling for factors like proximity to a dense urban area. Could be true. If you gots data let's go
PDFtk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents
thats not what the word emissions means
I don’t think it was that hard. I remember them being around all the time, but maybe it was a European thing with them being readily available here.
The Waning Reign of the Wetland Architect We Barely Know (Hint: Not a Beaver)
ChatGPT builders have complete freedom to define prices of chat subscriptions, availability, and duration of trials. The service itself simply verifies subscription status and grants or denies access to a given chat based on it, and it has a free tier available to anyone willing to try monetization.
Large-scale power outages are exceedingly uncommon in Germany, or really all of Europe. The last big one was in 2006 because of some mistakes when taking down a major transmission line [1]. I don't remember reactors being offline ever causing a power outage. When France has to shut down its nuclear reactors Germany just fires up more coal plants, that's the beauty of a large interconnected grid.

What does happen are smaller scale outages. Power lines are mostly buried along streets and under the sidewalk, just like telephone lines. That doesn't stop the occasional excavator digging too deep and taking a street off the grid. At an individual level it's extremely uncommon, maybe once a decade. But deploy thousands of boxes with networking equipment all around the country and it happens to your equipment all the time.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_European_blackout
Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests
Latin phrase to support an argument for pure law and order -- parody gold
What's interesting to me are:

- market cap

- random layoffs

- overstaffing

- falling competence

A lot of frictions build in there. I'm curious how it will play out.

I tend to translate market cap for big companies into dollars per person. 8 billion people in the world, so Google expects $250 profit per human being in average to be accurately valued.

That feels high, but what do I know?
Observed this, including both size of seat and difficulty in getting in and out of normal-height cars
It doesn't necessarily need to be AI, it could be a simple filter, etc
What country are you from? Obviously this is all context dependent.

I do agree that thinking you’ve always made the best decision is a contradiction at the very least. You never know it’s the right decision until after the fact but also it’s impossible to guess how other outcomes would play out.
OCR has been around for a few decades by now: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition
Consciousness is simple. Simple is hard. AI can have it
"zero emission" usually refers to greenhouse gases
With US ranking 10th, there really aren’t many https://data.worldobesity.org/rankings/
I don't know any other language where you have so many rules for politeness :

https://8020japanese.com/politeness-levels/

It is cultural indeed, but it has impact on the language. Can you cite me another language with so many rules for politeness ?
API - Actually People in India
Not even India, it's just piped into all our capchas
I get what the article is saying. But if `ls -d ../*/.git/` prints the names of all the company's repos, and the same happens in a few coworker's computers, I start to question things.
Who do I need to annoy to make another Stupid Shit Hackathon happen??
Market cap is not profit
We should stop thinking of this complex in terms of "abuse" and "slight changes". We suck to varying degrees and obesity is obviously a societal issue. We need help.

We should keep looking for better options, we can and should always keep an eye on potential consequences down the line — and we can always elongate that line — but the very real, proven consequences of being overweight/having high blood pressure can be calculated like those that are attached to burning coal and they are worth tackling without prejudice, within the guidelines of what good science deems safe.

Anything we can do to help with cardiovascular issues needs to be explored. Doing otherwise would simply be immoral and irresponsible. We have tried eating salads and going for quick walks. It's always great when that's enough to change one person for the better. When it's not, we should help with empathy. Currently, there simply is no clearer, quicker path to doing more than these drugs, on a societal level.