skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a bit going off topic, but I'm down the exact same route: used .NET Standard + EF as a Windows guy up until around 4.8, then I started TS development (not for backend but because of switching focus on frontend, also simultaneously switching to Apple ecosystem/iOS dev etc. but still) and still love it.

If I were to start a new backend project today, I'd be going with node.js/TS but because that's what I'm used to as language/framework, not because it's necessarily better. But I loved C#/.NET/VS/EF/Azure stack just as it too back in the days.

Would you recommend going in with .NET Core/Vscode/EF Core on macOS today, if you were to start a fresh backend project?
Well, camera placement matters in the obvious way: it has to be on the finish "line". Where "line" is really a plane extending vertically from the line drawn on the surface.

I vaguely remember an article about a bike race photo finish that showed that this is not a given and reverse engineered where the camera was pointing (based on background) and who the likely winner was.

edit: found it https://www.tglyn.ch/blog/amstel_gold/
Atmospheric CO2 Increasing 10x Faster Than in Last 50k Years, Study Finds
Cardiovascular health and cancer risk associated with plant based diets
James Webb Space Telescope can see objects 13.5B years old
I see your point, I don't know enough to evaluate it rationally and agree (or disagree) with it.

It feels like ChatGPT already know that stuff, because it knows 10 times more openings and variations than I do, and can tell me official game names and years. Still, it seems it doesn't really understand? That the issue for me. Like the story of the French scrabble champion who doesn't speak french at all. It's impressive, sure, but how can he knows that much and not understand?
2023 temperatures were warmest we've seen for at least 2k years
I reread it - it says 40% reduction, that's -7dB... I can believe that part.

Edit: checked DCBL772X1 - it's listed 68 dBA - that's not necessarily loud, so if they managed -7dB, massive props to them.
Raspberry Pi Computer Maker Announces Plans for London IPO
Try this one: STIHL BGA 86 Akku Laubbläser. It's shocking how quiet it is.
It will get there I suspect, the tools and batteries can charge in the truck en route. Easier to just fuel up the truck once instead of filling up little gas tanks all the time.
I think this is unintuitive to me, because “dying with Covid” makes the assumption that the person was actively dying from a completely separate cause and got Covid before they died… which isn’t necessarily true for folks with underlying health conditions. Like if I had uncontrolled diabetes which made me move slowly due to foot rot, and someone struck and killed me with their car, do they get to argue I actually “died with car accident”?
Its not just the US as most last mile standards are not symmetric because they only use one line for both directions and use different frequencies for each side (most DSL, cable, PON). So the spectrum available is limited and since most users will benefit from more download rather than upload the split is not even by choice. But like in your example the ISP can sometimes tweak how much is available in each direction and you end up with those insane differences.

Where I live we mostly have symmetrical ethernet fiber, and some cable. We started using fiber long before PON came out and it never became popular here so pretty much all fiber here is 100/100, 1000/1000 or even 10000/10000.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40374795 (posted 9 hours ago).
I am at a point in my career where I can be selective and only consider 100% remote roles. I am also a manager, so I understand some of the management challenges that lead people to dismiss or be skeptical of the claim that remote work can be just as effective as office work.

One thing I will admit: It is harder, as a remote manager, to manage low performers or people who show signs of disengagement. You can get more out of an office worker who lacks intrinsic motivation than a similar remote worker.

But that's not a knock on remote work itself. You just have to have the right people on the team, just as in any other circumstance.
I don't seem to recall that being the case, the CIA are discussed multiple times.
Not in rural areas. People shoot guns at 1am and... "god given freedoms" and "piss off back to the city y'all" and all that are trotted out anytime a complaint is made.

Again, it may change in another couple generations, but it'll be slow.
There are some videos, both of the start and of their progress. Some of the most impressive work I have ever seen, remarkable.
- "clear strong net positive for society,"

This has been debated to death for centuries already: of course it's a clear net positive, in the same sense that prohibiting alcohol, cannabis, regulating video games, legislating sex, putting ankle monitors on fat people to monitor their activity levels—all these things are "obvious" social improvements: in practice, not at all. These isn't a novel debate. It's a revisited, misguided paternalism to imagine you can fix people's (admittedly defective!) lives, make them healthier and better people, through coercive political agencies supervising and guiding them. (A less charitable comment would substitute "authoritarian" for "paternalistic").

There's two experiments running in parallel right now. If you want to live a free human in a free society, live in the West; if you want to try the alternative of a benevolent father-government, go to the Middle Kingdom—go somewhere where you can assume that lifestyle, where government shuts off your addictive video games, puts social credit scores on your alcohol purchases, sends social police to re-harmonize your life when it's un-harmonized. Where (of course) TikTok has been banned for a long time already, and all dis-harmonious, time-wasting social media is already helpfully filtered out of your life by a nationwide internet filter.

Please don't turn the West into the East: speaking for myself, I would like the option of living in a free society, somewhere. Unfiltered internet access is a core part of that.
Small gardens
If this becomes popular, I hope they get a Nobel prize.
So if an AI wrote a touching poem, would you call it fake or not? And how is that different than a joke?
Yes, if you can embed Windows in a Mac app, you have created a Mac app. Parallels is a Mac app, too. If it looks like a duck and quacks like duck, it's a duck.
I also like dart having used it for flutter.

How’s the performance story when using for backend?

I love and use go for 99% backend and node for scripts (usually there’s a npm package that does what I need - done in 10 min) or spinning up simple aws lambda.

Go is so highly performant at all things including CPU bound tasks (no point comparing io bound stuff, although it can handle a larger volume of these).

Plus the scaling story is that it just always works fast the more resource you throw at it.

I don’t use rust because I don’t need that level of perf. If rust is 10 go is 8-9. That’s fine for me. For context I have services doing 10-100k rps that cost me like $4 plus bandwidth (depending on usefase, each).I don’t need beefy instances.
Sounds very reasonable. These very large and influential companies require some special oversight imo and I do think the EC is probably the right org for the job.
Honestly, I would have too, if I were in that VC's place. Hindsight is everything obviously but at that moment, if a founder were to arrive to an important meeting 20 minutes late without good reason, either the meeting was of little importance to the founder, or the lack of punctuality speaks volumes of his dedication to his company and his potential partners. Dave McClure once told me that he passed on Travis Kalanick for similar reasons.
I've been "bullish" on it for more than a decade, and worked as a developer full remote since 2019, with roughly one or two office days per month at most when employers have insisted on it.

The company I work for now is fully remote and has been since it started. We have two to three meetups per year. Project leaders and CEO do roughly as many trips to customers and prospects per year.

When we hire and bring in consultants this is one deciding factor, that people are willing and able to work remotely.

To me, if I were to demand that someone spends time on a commute, then I'd also want to pay for this time. I much prefer that they don't commute and I instead get work out of it, and that they have a short distance between work and family or hobbies.
Yes if they are associated with accessibility attributes (Aria). Many, many sites including massive B2B do not do this (a shame). So no, you are seriously minimizing the problem. This approach would also be architecturally poorly thought out - The solution needs to not depend upon aria, nor any other non-global approach (Which this solution does so far).

Everything shown to me so far has been a solvable problem by scripts/xpath template/creation logic. I've handled all of this for over 10 years with one script. When I see it finding everything and associating them with correct external labels, then they have something. Otherwise I am concluding it non-functional and a long since solved problem where ML is over-engineering.
Investigation finds Swedish old growth forests pulped for ecommerce boxes
Who cares? Do you honestly think things are much different in the US or Europe? It's just more corporate corruption that doesn't leak through society where you suddenly find yourself having to openly bribe a cop for a traffic violation. It's also not like anyone really cares about corruption or Germany would've long been penalized for not having implemented a EU ratified anti corruption law.

If anyone in the West actually cared about corruption we wouldn't be sending billions in cash and military equipment to Ukraine.
Show HN: I made a macOS app to set market-specific prices in App Store Connect
I played with RevenueCat's new experiments feature this year, but as I have custom price points for my apps based on the Purchasing Power Parity of each country, it took me a long time to set up all the new products with different base prices manually in App Store Connect.

So I made Pricetag - a native macOS app to automate this task.

It uses the App Store Connect API to automatically set the prices for all countries according to a selected base price and PPP index.

Currently available is data from Apple Music, the Big Mac Index, and OECD making it possible to price apps like the big players!

Price changes for individual countries are also supported + there are a lot of other benefits because it's native.

Let me know what you think and I’m happy to answer any questions!
Depends on where you live and the size of the yard. Electric are great when the size isn't that big. Once you go larger, it becomes very hard to do practically with electricity.
Whisper Aero is a startup trying to commercialize a quiet leaf blower. I don't think they're selling their product yet, unfortunately.
Yeah need to be able to try before buying. Vanilla CLIP isn't as great as advertised
Coin was cool (I had the beta and final card) but it didn’t work on every POS system (just wouldn’t read) and I didn’t love how easy it would be for a server to accidentally hit the button to switch which card you were using. Chip cards would have marked the end of Coin if they hadn’t gone under before then.

I wrote about it on my blog [0] almost 10 years ago, cool idea, failed execution.

[0] https://joshstrange.com/2015/07/22/my-experience-with-coin-a...
First on-device Vector database for mobile devices
Making something officially transgressive often makes the thing more attractive.

Is one supposed to avoid purposefully releasing diesel particulates by rapidly increasing engine speed? Yes and people sometimes still do it for whatever reason.
Yeah and bad employees fear office work lol.
HN 7-months ago | 199 comment

Similar story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37932971

EDIT: why the downvotes?
American here, this feels very uniquely “American Capitalist” to me
> VC is a job like any other

No, it's not; or at least not supposed to. That's what communism is (regular plebs of the working class deciding how to allocate resources with no skin in the game).

It's funny that I heard a VC the other day claiming the US is turning into the Soviet Union...
Indeed, we don't have that model, and we definitely need it. I don't think it's intractable. We've made a lot of progress. I would like to see more focused effort on this particular problem from the academic community.
#4 and #5 are using placeholder attributes, and the text itself is contained within the node. Show me a simple form with labels external of an input node, then rearrange the labels to be some above and some below, and I will be shocked! No placeholders. Label must be its own 'text' node.

Edit: I do not intend to come off as negative or disparaging - I already discussed this with some OS projects I work on as well as internally at work. You guys did something great, and I am just trying to point out gaps that could take it from great to unbelievable.
Wouldn't you need to sign over your name, image and likeness (along with an affidavit that it isn't already exclusively owned) in order for them to legally reuse it?

Granted, I've seen tech employee contracts that do include that wording, but it hasn't been in any of the pre-employment paperwork like NDA, etc., in my experience.
Serialising ASP.NET method calls for later execution
I was out weeding my garden yesterday evening and there was some pleasant bird song around me. And the droning of a gas mower a block away. And someone zooming back and forth on their crotch rocket on the main street in the other direction. At least the mower sound probably wasn't intentional...
Did GPT-4 perform electrocardiography ECG assessment?
This correctly describes bad VCs, but not good ones. In my experience, the vast majority of VCs from outside the Bay Area are bad in this way (particularly true in Europe).

Not all VCs from the Bay Area are good, but the good ones are far more common there than anywhere else. One reason "move to SF" is such common advice.
Onboarding is harder. Social cohesion is… different.

Remote work has just as many issues as in person.

But perhaps a lot of the issues are the employers problem more than the employees. Hence the shift and the tension
Do you have any data supporting this?

The five largest weapon manufacturers are all from the US [1]. The US army is bigger than the next ten-ish armies together by budget [2] (I eyeballed that one).

The US has a rich history of propping up extremist to take over democratically elected governments and supported the killing of millions of civilians.

And they gave amnesty to some of the worst criminals from Germany and Japan after WW2 in order to give them jobs after the war to make use of the "knowledge" these criminals gained during their crimes.

Honestly, I can't see any country competing with the US on this one. Even if there would have been intent, they would still lack scale....

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/12221/the-worlds-biggest-arms...
[2] https://www.globalfirepower.com/defense-spending-budget.php
npm does show last 7 days download metrics by version!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-router-dom?activeTab=ver...

As it happens, I was curious about the same thing last year and wrote a script you can run in the browser console to add them up, and it does prove something:

react-router-dom

v6 5820458
v5 3274886
v4 275081

react-router

v6 5993187
v5 3366625
v4 302549
v3 156121
v2 25726
v1 8448
v0 2447

Code here:

versionsHeader = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("h3")).find(
(h3) => h3.textContent === "Version History",
);
// requires a second .nextElementSibling for react-router
// because of the deprecated versions checkbox
versions = versionsHeader ? versionsHeader.nextElementSibling : null;

nums = Array.from(versions.children)
.slice(1)
.map((el) => [
el.children[0].textContent,
parseInt(el.children[2].textContent.replace(/,/g, ""), 10),
]);

for (const v of [6, 5, 4]) {
const sum = nums
.filter((c) => c[0].startsWith(`${v}.`))
.map((c) => c[1])
.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
console.log(`v${v}`, sum);
}
> JHU should make these comments!, and also offer their designs for free given these are public orgs using mostly public dollars

JHU is private. It seems like this research may have been sponsored by Black & Decker, also private.
I suspect that they will find solution. Digital identity, and requirements to show ID, or biometrics to verify your age.
> Apple enacting RTO, one has to wonder whether the author would go so far as to say that Tim Cook is a "bad" CEO who "fears" remote work.

Still, the author isn't saying "A CEO is bad if and only if they hate remote work". Being bad is the premise.
it's an abstraction of the aperture size and exposition time. If you expose twice as long it gives the same light than an aperture twice the surface. Those 2 are discrete in camera, so it is abstracted as stops. Exposure time is limited by movement, and aperture size is limited by the optics itself. Sensor stabilization allows to gain "stops" by extending the exposition time before the image becoming blurry from the photographer movement, thus allowing as much more light to come
Evaluating trillions of event matches in real-time
All in Russian, but the pictures are great
Yes.

I learned this the hard way. I'm glad to see people _getting it_!

Good luck!
He talked about the book in a recent Conversations with Tyler podcast episode: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jonathan-haidt-a...

It's an untypical episode, usually Tyler just rapid-fires questions, but here he takes the opposite view (on the balance, social networks are a good thing for teens) and debates quite a bit.
Pigment CSS: the next generation of CSS-in-JS
I’d start with a subscription for beta and see how you do with it.

Imo subscriptions are an easier sell, since it’s more predictable.
Show HN: Just Launched My SaaS Website – Looking for Feedback
Hey everyone,

I'm thrilled (and a bit nervous) to share that I've just launched the website for my first SaaS product! The product itself hasn't been released yet—I wanted to get a feel for whether there's any interest in the idea before moving forward.

I'd love to get some feedback on the site and the app concept. Any thoughts, suggestions, or constructive criticism would be incredibly helpful. Thanks in advance for your support!
https://evius.io
Tl;Dr plant diet appears to be better with lower risk
> Open access means that people don't need to be researchers at Harvard to have access to science

It means they don't need to be in academia at all. That is the explicit goal of open access.

> But the target audience of a paper is quite obviously other experts in the field.

It doesn't matter who academics would like their audience to be, the actual audience is anyone who needs or wants to read it. That's why they get given grants and why the open access movement was created.

> Not to mention that even if we could say today that masks were not effective, it does not mean that back then it was a ridiculous decision

Remember that at the start, all the 'experts' were happy to say masks would have no effect! If you dig in and look at why they were saying that, it's because masks would have no effect (and didn't). Their step change came after political pressure to agree to masking both from within and without, which they just immediately acquiesced to apparently due to the strange belief that such things don't have any downsides. All this has been well documented.

I read a lot of mask and epidemiology papers during COVID. They were all terrible. Standards in computer science are much higher, so this belief that Lemire shouldn't be allowed to have opinions is kind of entertaining.
I might be going deaf and losing high-pitched frequencies, but I couldn't tell much of a difference in the video example of before/after.
Text Manipulation Kung Fu for the Aspiring Black Belt
> I really like that we are now two posts deep from a quote from a ~1973 paper by Hoare

Thing is that by the mid-nineties Hoare had already noticed that there might be something a little misguided with the very foundation of '70s-era focus on soundness: http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~gfisher/classes/509/handouts/h...

Since then, more advanced unsound methods than simple tests have only made unsound methods pull ahead of sound methods even further (I've posted other comments on this page to that effect).
> There's a section of folks who enjoy loud engines. It's their jam, they love being 'outdoors' with loud gas powered engines, big trucks, riding lawn mowers. It's a fantasy escape world for them.

That’s an awfully uncharitable projection.

The lawn business people I know would love to adopt full electric fleets of gear. They aren’t sending their teams out with gas engines because it’s a “fantasy escape world”. They do it because gas engines are currently the only reasonable way to keep the crews running all day without spending thousands of dollars on batteries over and over again.

Current battery tech is hit or miss. The packs should be protected from over-discharge and last for hundreds of cycles, but in practice they got a lot of early failures. They also need extra packs to rotate while others are charging. At $100-200 per battery, they might be spending $1000 on batteries to operate a machine for a season, which would have bought them two gas powered machines and gas to operate them.

There’s also the issue of charging throughout the day. Getting a reliable charging setup that works on a truck inverter and getting crews to perfectly manage batteries throughout the day, including spares, is significantly harder than just filling up a gas tank.

Projecting all of this on to “fantasy escape world” is silly.
Isn't it called a leaf rake? Frankly I never understood the popularity of leaf blowers to begin with. They are noisy, less effective than a leaf rake and very bad for health and back of the users.

It seems they exists only because people are stupid enough to think that something that makes noise and use a lot of energy would necessarily be better.
Fair enough but I don't need to tell you that if SF is "too cheap" and you have to pick the highest prices on the continent to make your point about general prices, you're making the wrong point.

Not even getting into the whole "subsidized parking" gem, as if the normal price is "peak price" or else it's subsidized. This kind of ludicrous statements undermine any point one might try to make along side. Curious about their opinion on their own heavily subsidized bicycle, down from the normal price of $500k [0].

Bonus, there are more places to park for under $10/h in Manhattan than there are for $50 [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Trek_Madone

[1] https://www.parkme.com/new-york-city-parking
> There's a section of folks who enjoy loud engines. It's their jam, they love being 'outdoors' with loud gas powered engines, big trucks, riding lawn mowers.

That is the only reason leaf blowers exists.
If governments want to help the adoption of electric tools, they should mandate the use of standard batteries.
I do not use it for work; I've considered taking it on a few upcoming flights but honestly considering taking my iPad instead due to the sheer size of the Vision Pro.

I absolutely love it for home cinema though, great surround sound and the 3D movies are a cool benefit. I do have to mention, it would benefit me if the weight were lowered a bit. Also, unless you have it frequently plugged in or are swapping out batteries, you may have to spend a large amount of time charging your Vision Pro.
Is leaf blowing a worldwide nuisance or an American thing?

I hate it. And it serves no ecological purpose.
mmm, the spec says 90dB [1] which is the sound level of a motorcycle at 25ft [2].

not amazing (at least on paper)

[1] https://www.stihl.de/de/p/laubblaeser-blasgeraete-saughaecks...

[2] https://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dbl...
It is indeed quite the double standard.