skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little less than a year ago, I launched Zenitizer, a clutter-free meditation timer designed and optimized for Apple platforms: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meditation-timer-zenitizer/id6...

Motivation:
As a long-time meditator myself, I felt like I had outgrown guided meditations but still wanted a tool that’d support me in returning my focus with regular interval bells and - on occasion - pleasant background sounds (although I personally prefer to sit in silence) as well as show me daily goals and streaks to stay motivated.

As somewhat of an Apple nerd, I wanted this tool to be well integrated (Shortcuts, Widgets, Apple Health, etc…) and look and feel right at home on Apple devices (especially the Watch, which I primarily use for mediation tracking).

It’s the classic “scratch your own itch” story to be honest. Sounds cliche, but it’s a great source of intrinsic motivation! Seeing others use my app on a regular basis and valuing it for the very same reasons I started building it is a wonderful feeling.

Challenges and Hurdles:
One challenge is certainly learning to prioritize new features and other work correctly and estimating the work needed. The latter is particularly tricky when working with new frameworks and technologies and the best way to overcome this challenge is to not be to hard on myself and learn to plan with more slack than anticipated :)
Frankly, this looks horrible. Generics and weird calling conventions instead of setting struct fields, no thanks.

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Account: cloudflare.F(zones.ZoneNewParamsAccount {
ID: cloudflare.F("023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353"),
}),
Name: cloudflare.F("example.com"),
Type: cloudflare.F(zones.ZoneNewParamsTypeFull),
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometer

That's a toy i had as a kid, essentially!
AIUI, many of their antiquated core systems couldn’t be reinstalled on modern more secure OS, hence the very slow recovery
Not so much a reinvention. Both generators and async functions share the property that they can suspend execution and yield to the event loop. Many early polyfills for async functions utilized generators for that reason.
If I understand correctly, it's that everyone will still eat < 100 plants, but they'll be different ones from everyone else. Maybe every grocery store won't have the exact same kinds of squash in it. Maybe we'll have more region-specific crops!
The example given about olive trees is illustrative, I think.
You can pay the ongoing interest with more debt. Sure, this will probably not work forever, not even for the USA and the special status its currency has. But "forever" is usually not a relevant concept for politicians.
This sounds like what Charles Hinton did with jungle gyms for children. They were originally made to teach children "monkey instinct" to be able to navigate better through 3-dimensional space, hopefully increasing their capacity to visualize and understand 4-dimensional space. It didn't work, but it's very interesting!

https://nowiknow.com/mathletes/
Mostly depends on the volume of the part, or equivalently it's weight. Complexity you get mostly "for free" when it comes to 3d printing. What type of material you need to "withstand temperatures and pressures of a rocket engine" is entirely dependent on which part of the rocket engine we're talking about. A fuel injector has radically different requirements than a supporting strut for example.

3d printed titanium goes for 300-400 USD/kg, steel is a bit cheaper at ~150 USD/kg for most inconel grades.
No, you're probably thinking of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693 (He4 exposure temporarily messes up iPhones by glitching their MEMS clocks)
It’s a bit harsh to call “weapons” the tools of freedom and democracy.
Can we thank CO2 a little bit here?
Thanks for the original link, X videos load way faster and with less bloat than Youtube videos for me.
> only if you don't keep creating start-ups or other new things that at least occasionally need 24h support

That's for "when shit hits the fan".

Otherwise, if your startup is a 24-7 commitment, you're probably doing something wrong: If you need to babysit a service, you have technical problems and a know-how gap. If you need to babysit a phone, you're making an unrealistic commitment to customers.
It feels pretty good. I did some reading on some high quality posts about chess that I found through it.

What was the biggest thing you learned while implementing this? Was anything surprisingly difficult? Was there anything that worked better than you expected?
Most countries in the West are doing that at least since WW2. To different degrees, though.
The irony of individuals freaking out over the notion of what the wildly underfunded and largely indifferent federal government might do to collect data when private industry is surveilling basically every aspect of their existence for most of every day...
Looking at the table comparison I almost closed the tab until I realized the 70b model was at the last column

ChatGPT ₥ price has to come down ASAP.
Finally, automated gouging.
> The difference is that oil makes money.

Oil companies might, but gas stations do not.
GKE does ship with both Ingress and Gateway controllers integrated, they set up GCP load balancers with optional automatic TLS certificates.

I think you need to flip a flag on the cluster object to enable the Gateway controller.
And here's part of the epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTsFe1PVs
> It’s part of an infrastructure as a service platform, which is why I view it as utility.

They haven't securely broadened it to the internet or mobile phone service, and you want them to broaden it to individual privately-produced software packages. So the police can't be refused as a customer.
That doesn't explain anything.

And the linked paper doesn't even contain the word 'offset'.
What do you use generators for?
Sends a good AI newsletter on any topic for free
I’m curious now, can a parrot tell the difference between a real parrot and an AI generated one?
Like the saying goes, "this isn't a comment airport, you don't need to announce your comment on my comment". I will absolutely comment this when I see garbage content. But you're right, maybe I should just let HN burn instead of providing some feedback that maybe we don't just wanna read about how nice it is for rich people.
Another open source alternative similar to Plausible is https://umami.is/
now all that is required is a github for passive radar...for educational purposes
If you mean a full non-mining nodes (which only a few people really need, merchants, exchanges, ...), read points 7 and 8 of the whitepaper. For full mining nodes, you need expensive specialized hardware anyway.

Non-mining nodes are just observers that do nothing good to the network. Is like going to war with popcorn as a weapon. Mining nodes are the only ones than can include transactions to a block.

https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf
They want to lock in people.
Show HN: I created a webapp that gathers discounted products
Hey HN,

I don't have a formal degree in computer science, but it has been my dream to break into the tech industry passion. As a self taught programmer, I needed to kill 2 birds with 1 stone..

1. Gain experience building real world projects
2. Build a project-based resume

I've been bodybuilding for several years and as you may know, gym supplements/equipment can be quite expensive. I noticed these discounts are often fleeting, and if you don't catch them in time, you'll miss out. So my idea was to build an web-app that detects discounted gym equipment from various retailers and notifies me as soon as it finds one. At first, I created this app for my personal use, but later on, I shared it with a couple of my friends and I decided to make it public for ease of use.

Let me tell you, the folks on HN are geniuses. When I see the projects that the community has made, it really shows there are levels to this game.
Why is this hard realtime in the face of arbitrary allocations and deallocations? These dots aren't connected anywhere within two links distance from the given URL.
> It's a high-level object (i.e. not a pointer)

I don't know why so many people in this thread try to pretend that there's no reason to see Box as a pointer, no one has ever called it that, and every user drawing a parallel is confused. The documentation for Box is literally (emph mine):

>> *A pointer type* that uniquely owns a heap allocation of type T.

Until that documentation changes I find the article's point quite valid.
The current microgravity solution is a treadmill for running that rubber bands pull you down to.
If 44.9% (or more) of Israeli Jews are of Middle Eastern descent, and 20% of Israel’s entire population are Palestinian Arabs (I.e. also of Middle Eastern descent) then more than 50% of the entire population of the country (Jews + non-Jews) are of Middle Eastern descent.

And the biggest ethnic grouping (if you choose to group them that way, as all such groupings are somewhat arbitrary) are Middle Eastern Jews.

And I’m sorry but it just sounds like you’ve never lived in Israel or even visited for an extended period of time. Aside from the relatively recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union (starting from the 90s) Jews of all backgrounds speak primarily Hebrew, whether Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, or whatever. Aside from some ultra orthodox you will also not find anyone under 80 speaking Yiddish.
At least two of those instances make perfect sense. Meth's a thing and we don't like unidentified individuals fucking around on school grounds these days.
Harvest moon was actively releasing games at that time
Where the Cameos Are
Start by blowing up their ammo depot in Transnistria to send a message.
https://github.com/mihemihe/myADMonitor/

Active Directory monitor tool that tracks changes committed in real time.

I used it internally when I had to do bulk changes or when I have to replicate AD during migrations.

Right now I am working on a new frontend which I will be integrated to the tool soon.
I'm a little proud of it.
The fact that it is a prison with much surveillance has little to do with its low crime? This is not a credible belief.
Increased edge compute has brought a lot of consumer features if you take a step back and think about it. On-device, responsive speech recognition that doesn’t suck is now possible on watches and phones without a server round trip, and a ton of image processing such as subject classification and background detection is used heavily. Neither of those applications were even possible 5-7 years ago and now even the cheap stuff can do it.
Looks similar to what Shaun is doing here https://youtube.com/@dustupstexas?si=YNqltpg87QPqTeG3
Ongoing discussion[0] (85 points, 5 hours ago, 39 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40237855
Psilocybin Effective as Antidepressant
J&J is winning virtually all of the suits that go to trial; it's just the ones they are losing end up with multi-billion dollar jury awards. A jury trial is not a quest for scientific truth, and a jury doesn't need to explain itself - the plaintiff lawyers (search your junk mail folder for the word "talc" to see what a great bunch they are) are going to keep rolling the dice in search of a sympathetic jury.
Since you mentioned MMAP: "Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?" https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2022/papers/p13-crotty.pdf
> Rent control means the end of new supply from the market.

Can you explain why you think this? The way I see it, rent control just means that property developers will have to wait a little bit longer before their investments start paying off. They're still making massive amounts of profits, it's just a little bit less.

The benefit of rent controls means that overall people will have more money to spend, which benefits the overall economy. In my opinion it makes perfect sense.
> The thing about a restaurant is that you'll always have business if the food and service are good.

This is just demonstrably false. Good food and service is no guarantee of product-market fit.
Not much, but let's put it this way.....

Gas stations don't rely on federal subsidies to exist.
I mean, it's a rewarding job, but it is a job. I can assure you that if I were independently wealthy, I would never ever take call again.
I think it's more to do with the sand/soil augmentation than CO2. Plenty of desertification (1/3 of land at risk) without the clay addition.
https://archive.ph/IMnv4
the disagreement over holy matters is not typically the cause of violence, just a convenient uniform to wear to tell ally from enemy
Wow I'm amazed if people are creating fake beaches and waiting that long to use them. Or do they know in advance when the update is going to happen?
> You have been able to purchase porn for decades in various mediums

Have you? Or has it been patchwork and limited and volatile, with people being fined and jailed fairly arbitrarily? There were periods in the 80s and 90s where people were going through pornographic tapes and removing the swearing.

> suddenly invoke

Suddenly, after decades. Is the adjective just to make it sound more unlikely?
side question to this: where can i design stuff involving metal parts (presumably in CAD tools) and have it printed en masse? With PCBs? ex) car components
Why are the years in this article preceded by a zero? For example instead of writing the year as 2011 it’s written as 02011.
TSMC Jumps into Silicon Photonics, Lays Out Roadmap for 12.8 Tbps Interconnect
Related to this subject is Casey Muratori's video about Conway's law and a possible extension to it. The communication overhead of working in teams, and the fact it's harder to address cross-cutting concerns in them, is a key theme in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY

There is also Descartes' quote about how a work produced by one master is often better than one in which many are involved, because of the unifying vision.
I pushed a fix for a comment-collapsing bug earlier today, so I wonder if I broke something.

My fix happened to made some iterative code recursive. Recursive code plus CPU fan rather suggests a stack overflow, doesn't it... I'll look into it.

Edit: I've reverted the change so you can happily expand your [17 more]. Will see if I can fix better.

Edit 2: should be fixed better now.
My idea can't be wrong, it's the world that must change.

That about summarizes these types of articles. Solutions that do not require the world to change its behavior should be favored. Perhaps we could launch seed containers into low orbits such that they automatically and safely return to earth centuries in the future just in case.
Pretty good list, but some of the recommendations I would call "hyper modern", even in 2024. Apologies but I think I'll be mounting with fstab for awhile. Good to learn about the existence of discoverable partitions though
Google's new US layoffs are to replace core jobs in Mexico and India
Thase are great.
here is a brilliant technology connections video about it.

https://youtu.be/t-JN2U4jHgk?feature=shared
I always love people who actually do the math.
Can you link me a source?
> Covid turned out to be 1% fatal in the early days

Are you sure? Pre vaccine rollout across all ages in USA, I've seen less than .5% IFR, and an order of magnitude less than that if you constrain to ages 0-59.

With the inundation of constant bad news that we were under, you'll still find people thinking covid killed 20% of anyone who caught it, and that will probably last forever.
Useful because you can support existing passwords without requiring everyone to login or reset their password. Still has flaws though, like password shucking.
> he concern with asbestos contamination is largely related to inhalation and lung cancer - I haven't even seen much in the form of hypotheses that it is a factor in ovarian cancer

Someone above linked to this: Asbestos Exposure and Ovarian Cancer: A Meta-analysis (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209379112...) which concludes: "This meta-analysis provides evidence of a significant association between asbestos exposure and ovarian cancer mortality."

You might not be aware of any hypotheses that asbestos is a factor in ovarian cancer, but it seems others have for a very long time. In 2017 Germany considered ovarian cancer caused by asbestos to be an occupational disease. A link between talc and ovarian cancer was suggested back in the 1960s.

Talc, as something that causes cancer, has been being researched for a very very long time.
Indeed. In my home town we had the ‘metric martyr’, a greengrocer who defied EU law and continued selling bananas in metric measures.

There was a whole court thing, he lost, and then he died aged 39 of a heart attack.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/metric-...
I agree in general, but if you have unsafe code you should definitely make sure it is covered.
Very. Very. Expensive.

Inconel powder is also Not That Great for your health and at the particle-size the printers rocket companies use, you need full PPE to safely handle the loose powder floating about.

The machines themselves are also expensive. Think in the millions of USD. EOS, SLM, and Velo3D are key players in this market. They require a fair bit of space, and training to use correctly.

You probably need a mechanical engineer who is well-versed in materials science and has a tolerance for finicky machines that constantly breakdown.

Then you have the metal powders. Which, also potential million or two.

And then you have all the associated infrastructure needed. High voltage power. Gas (Nitrogen, Helium, Argon, etc etc) in the thousands of liters per month. Waste disposal. Safety (some alloys are flammable in their powder form). Climate control (the powders are sensitive to the environment. Humidity will quickly destroy your powder supply). Tooling (the base-plates metal printers used are machined from solid blocks of steel).

And last but not least, any of the post-printing work. Heat treat. Coatings. Analysis. CNC Machining.

3D Printing metal on industrial scales is a CAPEX intensive endeavor, and not for the faint of heart.
From the homepage of the site:

> The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking.

Seems that it's adding a zero to make you think of the future, and thinking over long periods of time. Looking at scales of thousands of years instead of tens or even hundreds.
Many features should only be extensions.
Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible
Yes, she probably would have. But had she spent a lot of time boarding in her 20s, instead of working, she probably wouldn't be retiring at 50. Buying a fast car in your twenties? Hell, I could barely afford to maintain the ten-year-old beater I was driving at the time.
Algorithm, schmalgorithm

Andrew Stephens rang a bell. “Save the Web by Being Nice”

My rant: read it or don’t. The way to have the new web is to be the new web. The web is here to talk to folks. I am one of the ones. So are you. Write it like you mean it. Start a blog, join a forum, add talk. It takes time. Do it. Say nice things on other blogs. Post good reviews. And learn to write well.

Check Hemingway’s 5 hints. Write short sentences. Write short first paragraphs. Use vigorous language. Be positive, not negative. Never have just five rules. (As for the fifth, Omar said, “It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs.”)

The point being, forget algorithms. Create! Make the new web. Try small words: let large words earn their keep. Be nice to those for whom you write and make the new web. For grins, I wrote my blog for 16 years; I sent 14 to archive. It’s your turn.
Interesting..so in order to post, you have to pay gas fees?
Heathrow-to-Dubai flights: money-laundering features
Lighthouse Scores of Blog Sites Driven by ColdFusion (WordPress Comparison)
Show HN: List of companies that don't use Workday for their ATS
I compiled a list of companies that use easy-to-apply job platforms like Lever and Greenhouse, which make it 10x less painful and faster to apply than sites like Workday, Taleo, and other outdated sites.

If you're job hunting, be sure to check it out and save yourself the headache of having to create a new account to apply to a job.
Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite
> e hardware costs and the operation costs should all have dropped between 2x and 5x

That would work if they fully recouped the costs of obtaining and running the drives, including racks, PSUs, cases, drive and PSU replacements, control boards, datacenter/whatever costs, electricity, HVAC etc. and generated a solid profit not only to buy all the new hardware but a new yacht for the owners too.

But usually that is not how it works, because the nobody sane buys the hardware with the cash. And even if they have a new fancy 240TB/rack units, that doesn't mean they just migrated outright and threw the old ones ASAP.

So while there is a 5x lower costs per U for the new rack unit, it doesn't translate to 5x lower cost of storage for the sell.
THOR: Tracklet-Less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery
It could be interesting to see Ozempick prices for different countries:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/24/health/senate-ozempic-weg...
Apologies. I meant the snark but not the personal attack. I meant it to read as "if someone" and not that user in particular.
Oh no, we have the exact same definition and honestly I find it obscene that the UK office, assuming you, gets to end the day at a decent 5PM while colleagues towards the east have to completely sacrifice 5 evenings a week.

I don’t even want to go into that last sentence.

If you are true about caring about people’s work life balance (which doesn’t seem to be the case), there is only one option: core hours in the middle of the work day. This way you accommodate both people who are early risers and the ones that start up later in the day.
Article title is clickbait.

All MS is doing is adding another option.
Thanks for trying it out!

> What was the biggest thing you learned while implementing this?

How much the quality of the data and resulting indexes matter. My impression based on this experience is that "RAG" might be a cohesive set of techniques, but their application to various domains likely is very domain-specific.

> Was anything surprisingly difficult?

Evaluating results is very tedious, almost by definition: you need to figure out ground truth by some mechanism and build evaluation datasets from there. To be honest, a lot of this beta was built on "vibes" only.

> Was there anything that worked better than you expected?

In terms of whether something worked better than I expected: modern embeddings are really magical. I'd previously worked with TF/IDF (a decade-or-so ago) and Doc2Vec (6-7 years ago), and while those were surprisingly useful, they really pale compared to what LLM embeddings can encode in very dense representations.
I was agreeing with your statement and referring to article author's departure from Microsoft.
It's a Long Now thing - emphasizing that they are thinking/talking about problems on millennia timescales. They also did the 10000yr clock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months
As discussed by Scott Manley:

"Old Data & New Discoveries: How 'THOR & Computational Astronomy' Discovered 27,500 Asteroids"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUaIQvQORfI