skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have struggled to find an established name for this value. I thought it would be something called the "Schwarzschild density", but no luck. Famously, the [someone's name??]-density of the observable universe just happens to be very close to the density that would tip the universe over into being a very large black hole
It’s possible to repackage Chromium with a couple people. It’s not possible to build a browser from the ground up with a couple people.
We Closed Institutions That Housed Mentally Ill, Made It Harder to Receive Care
Show HN: Snoop Hawk – Zapier for Web Research
Hey Everyone,

I wanted to share something I've been working on for the past month. Snoop Hawk lets you automate web research. Think visual unit tests. ;)

You can set up jobs on any website and have an AI extract insights from it. What's really powerful is that you can schedule these jobs, and soon, set off triggers to notify you of changes.

Think design reviews after code changes, competitor analysis, or automated monitoring.

This may not be the audience for it, since y'all are technical and might give me the whole "Well, I can set up a cron job and hook to an API" spiel, but I appreciate any feedback you have. :)

Bilal
Are the responses AI generated? (I'd add that to the FAQ)

"You are not alone in this journey. Together, we can overcome these feelings of loneliness and keep moving forward towards our goals." has quite a different tone when "together" includes an automated script.
>> breaks down alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract without harming the body.

Likely no. This stuff will destroy the alcohol before it enters the bloodstream. So it sounds useful to stop people absorbing more alcohol (pumping the stomach situations) but won't do much for alcohol already in the blood and causing effects in the body.
I’d love this to happen but the average person is not skilled enough
It sounds like a cross between the "TikTok text-to-speech valley girl voice" and a "Real Housewives reality-tv voice". The worst of both worlds when it comes to an annoying voice. Why would you pick something like that for what is supposed to represent a helpful assistant?
Genuinely curious as to why? Is it just the name/brand? Do you intend to own it for very long? IMO you stack the mach-e up to anything that is price or feature comparable (ICE or EV) and it's nothing but alarm bells. The common attributes among happy mach-e buyers in my experience is that they 1) hate tesla 2) just want to go fast 3) lease a new car every 3 years and most importantly 4) are susceptible to salesmen (See #3).

F150 Lightning EV is another story; it's a good platform although I have no idea why they made the acceleration curves so awful; It "drives like a truck" but I am not paying it a compliment there; the simulated engine/transmission lag is just the worst. You also basically still can't buy it so there's also that.

Ford has a very long way to go.
You have got a chatgpt wrapper start up right there.
> or the cruise control on my Subaru

Hold on, is Subaru known for its lane keeping? I sort of used mine's performance as a benchmark for a low-effort system, contrasting it with Tesla's--a seemingly high-effort system--and finding the latter lacking.
I can't help but wonder who this is actually for?

Conversing with a computer sounds pathetic, but this will be pushed down our throats in the name of innovation (firing customer service agents)
I don’t know, Coppola selling his winery to finance the movie sounds reminiscent to the Apocalypse Now production to me [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/pFYzVsrrPjE?feature=shared
Or Pigo? it's written in go after all :D
I give you slime molds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29114686
If you found the title bewildering (I sure did), it might help to know that "Sweetgreen" is apparently a restaurant that sells salads.
This is why I'm wary of starting a new community. I don't want to be an online janitor taking out the worst kind of trash for no pay.
Sure, but don't Android tablets suck -- especially the ones with 11-inch displays rather than 7-inch displays?
Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck
Related:

Case of Alabama prisoner’s missing heart is dismissed. His heart was never found. 4/25/24
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2024/04/case-of-alabama-p...

Alabama prisoner’s brain missing after UAB autopsy, says family 2/14/24
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2024/02/alabama-prisoners...

UAB stealing dead Alabama prison inmates’ organs after autopsies, families claim in lawsuit 4/18/24
https://www.al.com/news/2024/04/uab-stealing-dead-alabama-pr...

Alabama House passes bill to make it felony to retain organs from autopsy without consent 4/25/24
https://www.al.com/news/2024/04/alabama-house-passes-bill-to...
Now I understand a little bit better why AppleTV (or whatever the streaming service is called) doesn't support multiple profiles either.
Both products are rotten beyond salvation.
Previously:

(2011) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131692

(2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33740259

I guess someone let the domain expire recently.
they have money, they just wont put more into this venture because their pride is in the way

its an amusing interpersonal problem masqueraded as a business problem
India's Oyo, once valued at $10B, seeks new funding at 70% discount
You could use Workstation Pro to directly assess VMs running on an ESXi server, so maybe the idea is to make company's more dependent upon the central infrastructure where they can squeeze.

You could actually cajole the free player to do this with ESXi but it was definitely not license kosher.
I went on a Sweetgreen phase earlier this year, and I'm so surprised that they can't seem to make any money. Most of their business appears to be delivery via apps, so they have minimal front-end staff. Their food wasn't uniquely great, just fresh and overpriced. There was always a line. They have low amounts of seating, so lower real estate costs than somewhere like Chipotle.
That doesn't set Haskell apart at all. Rust is the same. You have to first understand what programming patterns are strongly discouraged because they don't work well with the borrow checker (for good reasons!) and therefore best avoided.
Colleges and universities normally teach students the basics of digital logic and electronics before diving into Verilog or VHDL. At least that's how it was when I was a student many years ago.

You can learn computer architecture without knowing an HDL but it helps.

In my experience, commercial ASIC design in the US, VHDL is more popular in colleges and Verilog is more popular in industry.
he didn't launder it. the contract does. it's out of his control if criminals use it to process billions of ill gotten gains.
Sounds incredibly problematic
Not a big surprise. Garman has been working up to this for a while. It will be interesting to see how the VPs reshuffle and whether anyone else who thought they might get the CEO job leaves in a huff…
I saw this book about a year ago it changed so much! Looks really cool btw
So, like react.js right now?
there is no way to moderate feed except of not watching bad videos

You can unwatch a video by x-ing it in history. Together with dislike and “not interested” this works very well for me. “Don’t recommend channel” does work too.
Geocoding crime data locally using ArcGIS and Python
Certainly cheaper than smart phones.
I program on a 13 inch laptop all the time. I would love to be able to use the 13 inch iPad Pro for that.
There's a clip of it on a MKBHD video on a different Disney product [here](https://youtu.be/1KEtxTQUzxY?t=282).
It’s challenging to incorporate in a country where you are not personally tax resident. Permanent establishment and controlled foreign corporation rules make it complicated to manage it correctly
> key problem in both cases is imposing the requirement to be connected to the internet, after which it's game over

My point is we can do this for anything. Clocks enabled capitalists to exploit workers. Lights took the night from rebels. Steam engines took farmers out of the daylight and put them in mechanised factories. Hell, agriculture enabled modern civilisation but also created such a wave of oppression and anxiety we're still worshiping the gods we invented to save us from it.

None of those statements is wrong. But they're also incomplete.
"Just barely passable" is the endless customer support carousel, the nickel-and-diming of airline fees, the addition of more and more ad space and cloned-content spam to web pages, and automobiles that spy on you to sell the data to marketers.
That still doesn't disable all telemetry from being sent. There's a whole slue of settings that you need to change in about:config and then there's still no guarantee.

Even if you follow those steps you listed there and uncheck all those boxes you're shown in the standard settings pages, then Firefox will just continue to send out 'pings' when you interact with certain elements in the browser interface. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Mozilla is like one of those politicians that just won't stop yapping about traditional conservative family values, who is later found to have several extramarital children and numerous affairs with same-sex partners themselves.
In all likelihood, they're buying that data from the credit card companies. CC companies are very active in selling that stuff.
Al Gore
That's kinda what I meant with customers demanding it with their money. But, avoiding upselling is not really what I see stores doing. I don't want the cashier (or payment terminal) to push me to open new credit accounts or buy warranties. I don't want them to arrange their stores so I have to walk past more ads and products that I'm not interested in today. They still do it, and they work hard at doing it.
You've got it backwards. Laziness requires mutation to work well. Laziness is just a thunk (a closure) that can be overwritten by a value at a later time. It is impossible to implement laziness if you cannot mutate memory: if the address of the unevaluated closure and the evaluated value cannot be the same, you have to update references to the closure into references to the value, but you cannot do that if you can't mutate memory!

People always assume garbage collectors in Haskell might somehow be different due to immutability. But due to laziness it works just like Java garbage collection because laziness requires mutability.
I fancy myself as creative. still waiting for a win, let alone a big one.
1) Do you have two separate codebases for free and paid?

No. Sentry has one codebase between free and paid. We have a Django monolith plus some services where all our features are implemented:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry

https://github.com/getsentry/relay

https://github.com/getsentry/snuba

https://github.com/getsentry/vroom

etc.

We have a Docker Compose wrapper in a separate repo:

https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted

We have a private repo called getsentry/getsentry that is another Django app that imports the public one and uses Django signals (iirc) to meter usage for billing. That is what we deploy to SaaS. All product features are implemented in the public repos.

3) How about employee access?

Employee access is managed through UI, I honestly don't know whether it lives in getsentry/sentry (public) or getsentry/getsentry (private). Probably the latter?

2) How do you handle updates to your product?

Employees work in public on GitHub. We ship more or less continuously to SaaS. It's possible to deploy approximately continuously on self-hosted as well, though we also bless monthly snapshots for a more relaxed cadence. Does that answer this question?
Yes, android has had all this working for years, on phones and tablets alike.

It's not trivial but I'm not going to give a trillion dollar company reprieve for a feature standardized in all of its competition.
Project Astra [video]
It then helped establish the study of the precession. Hipparchus used the Babylonian astronomical information to look into changes over hundreds of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy#Influence...

> In 1900, Franz Xaver Kugler demonstrated that Ptolemy had stated in his Almagest IV.2 that Hipparchus improved the values for the Moon's periods known to him from "even more ancient astronomers" by comparing eclipse observations made earlier by "the Chaldeans", and by himself. However Kugler found that the periods that Ptolemy attributes to Hipparchus had already been used in Babylonian ephemerides, specifically the collection of texts nowadays called "System B" ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus

> Earlier Greek astronomers and mathematicians were influenced by Babylonian astronomy to some extent, for instance the period relations of the Metonic cycle and Saros cycle may have come from Babylonian sources (see "Babylonian astronomical diaries"). Hipparchus seems to have been the first to exploit Babylonian astronomical knowledge and techniques systematically.

> ...

> Hipparchus probably compiled a list of Babylonian astronomical observations; Gerald J. Toomer, a historian of astronomy, has suggested that Ptolemy's knowledge of eclipse records and other Babylonian observations in the Almagest came from a list made by Hipparchus. Hipparchus's use of Babylonian sources has always been known in a general way, because of Ptolemy's statements, but the only text by Hipparchus that survives does not provide sufficient information to decide whether Hipparchus's knowledge (such as his usage of the units cubit and finger, degrees and minutes, or the concept of hour stars) was based on Babylonian practice
He didn't trample that guy, the horse did.
... I've had a Fusion licence since v10 was current (~2017) and I don't think I've used it to run Windows even once.
> iPhones share the location of nearby AirTags with apple. Good for the owner of those AirTags, but the owner of the iPhone may not want this.

You can turn this off. Though, doing so is bidirectional: it also prevents your phone from sending out its own Bluetooth beacons when it’s not connected to the Internet, for other phones to pick up. Which might not be what you want. But if you’re worried about privacy impact, it probably is what you want.

Also keep in mind that the protocol already minimizes privacy impact by, among other things, encrypting the location coordinates with a key Apple doesn’t have.
Weren't these things ear-splittingly loud from the constant formation of plasma balls in midair? That's what I recall from a demonstration In The Day
I don’t think in conspiracies normally but in this case I think it’s apt. I think an independent Apple Watch would cannibalize iPhone sales. Just like a fully capable iPad Pro would cannibalize Mac sales.
"A small truck is what everyone wants. The old shit box pickups that could haul a sheet of plywood were amazing. Bring those back, make them cheep, dont pile on nonsense features. I'll buy one."

I agree. I am so tired of watching car commercials. I spend a lot of time watching NBA with my elderly mother. Cars and trucks splashing through the mud in the middle of no where, driving to fast on empty streets, and other dumb stuff (often with disclaimers about professional driver and closed courses). <hyperbole>Cars are just money sinks</hyperbole>.

I would like something reasonably priced, reasonably maintainable, and can get me and whatever I am carrying down the road. It would also be nice that I do not need to log into some server to drive (or fuel up) or to unlock some feature.
> What will it take to get a better voice assistant for consumers?

Give it eyes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVvvRhiGjI
I agree with this take.

It's not like the power users who currently use Firefox and yet dislike this stuff are going to switch away from Firefox, since there's nothing to switch to other than Chrome, which is clearly worse.

Personal anecdote, I didn't like Pocket being added to Firefox, but eventually I did start using it - only because it came from Mozilla. And I currently pay Mozilla money for Relay (along with VPN), which are examples of them expanding outside of their core browser features.
Gemini 1.5 Pro will add 2M token context window
But given that the universe is expanding, if we're close to this density doesn't that mean that the density used to be higher than the threshold at some point?
> The researchers found that a pulse duration that minuscule doesn't result in any appreciable skin damage unless the laser is firing at that same spot at one shot per millisecond for a duration of 2,000 milliseconds

Haha so if this thing is misconfigured badly enough it can just melt you
yes, today. When it came out, it was missing some features that were enabled in the bigger models. I don't remember specifics, so I can't be more helpful here.
You should really have some info on your landing page/ homepage if you want ppl to sign up and use it. Purchasing a custom domain would also make you look like you are more evolved/further down the line than using the Vercel subdomain

Or- if you don't have the time / resources to do that, consider creating a waiting list for beta users and position it as early access, rather than "it's a beta and can be buggy"

Good luck!
It looks likes Sweetgreen's food costs (28% of sticker and 24% of costs) are on the low end of the restaurant industry's average [1] and middle of the road for fast food [2].

The 35% corporate overhead seems like the exception. McDonald's, for example, charges a 4 to 5% royalty [3].

[1] https://www.7shifts.com/blog/restaurant-costs/ 25 to 40%

[2] https://restaurant.lunchbox.io/what-are-food-costs-for-a-fas... 25%

[3] https://www.franchisedirect.com/foodfranchises/mcdonalds-fra...
People will take their cue from you as to how to respond. If you act embarrassed about it, they’ll react accordingly. If it’s no big deal to you, same thing for them.

I quit cold turkey years ago. I was worried about the same things. But even my most macho & hard-drinking friends just accepted it without comment.
Two more modern anecdotes of using songs for rhythm or timing:

The ideal pace for CPR chest compressions is pretty much exactly Stayin' Alive by Bee Gees. Or if you like darker humor, Another One Bites the Dust by Queen.

At the peak of COVID-19, the recommended duration for hand washing was Happy Birthday twice.
There are many display technologies that just didn't make it to mass production.

A favourite of mine is Field Emission Display technology. However they are largely irrelevant now because OLED essentially fill the same role.
Thanks for sharing. Just started listening
What @bombcar said.

"Free" ESXi is.. well, free. They are converting enterprises to enterprise customers. Some bloke with WKS is not an enterprise customer.
I'll add, I do see the sibling commenter was being rude and that I wasn't sticking up for you, and I have experienced that myself and understand it's not easy to disentangle those conversations and see that I wasn't calling you childish or condoning it. It's not acceptable, and they shouldn't have done that. I could've said something in your defense, but I didn't, because I felt you had bent the conversation in that direction with your "trembling" comment. But two wrongs don't make a right and I should've said so. My apologies.
Google announces Veo, their Sora competing text/image-to-video model
Remember that this is an unsolicited trial, so 2% is a very large number.

If somebody signs up for a trial and only 2% of those convert, that's bad. Signing up signals intent and interest.

But nobody signed up for this self-driving trial. It's like if you received a free sample in the mail, and then decided to subscribe. 0.1% would be a good conversion rate for unsolicited "free samples", 2% is really high.
The problem is that the free market only really works when all information is available to all parties and there's low switching cost. So it works decently for commodities, but no business ever wants to sell a commodity. In fact most business advice I've seen is about how to get away from selling commodified products into a free market and instead sell opaquely differentiated products to a locked-in market with high switching costs and barriers to entry.
That’s great - for me that was probably one of the most mind blowing tech things I’ve experienced in my lifetime, but in my case I went from 56k dialup modem to DSL (still phone line) that I think capped at 1mb/second but it absolutely rocked my world.
The same way as a pure and lazy programming language. That is to say, the IO monad. This abstraction works for both lazy and eager evaluation because it's internally just passing a token from function to function.

When you have something like `doThis >> doThat` (two actions sequentially) the first action results in a token (RealWorld#) that must be passed into the second action. Even though the evaluation of the two actions may be undetermined in a lazy language (but determined in a strict language), the token being passed around has a definite order.
Another way I like saying it is "Non-unique software is generally called a library".

In civil engineering there are a lot of small creeks to cross that you'll pretty much use a drag-n-drop bridge solution for. When you make an estimate of how long it will take to build, it's most likely going to be correct.

It's when you come up to the wide river that you pull out the senior engineers and do a massive amount of homework before you even dig up the first shovel full of dirt. And even then your best laid plans are likely to go into cost and time overruns when one critical part gets delayed due to issues totally out of your hands.

I commonly find software far worse in pre-planning. People commonly bring large amounts of data together, then realize they have a computer science problem and are left scrambling on what to do, or cost surprises on how much computation is needed to process data at that scale/speed/latency.
Common misunderstanding. RSU grants at public companies vest regularly. At Google I had no cliff and my shares vested monthly. With auto sell it was just another ~10k of cash per month. Smaller grants would vest quarterly.

FWIW I consult now and make more than I ever did at a company, so also find a niche and raise your rates.
Google I/O Thoughts?
Interesting announcements (so far):

* Gemini 1.5 Pro context window increased to 2 million tokens
* Gemini Flash launched (lower latency model)
* Increased image and video generation capabilities
* Cool new interface that can analyze live video
* 6th generation of TPUs (Trillium) that deliver faster performance and lower TCO
At this point, I am sorry to say but Windows is spyware. M$ turned into an ad machine.
The only real use case of FSD is to show off to your friends, who previously haven't seen the technology. Once you have seen it, the novelty quickly wears off. And beyond that, it's not practical to use for anything else because of all the limitations.

With that said, it is not surprising that people don't convert. Only die hard enthusiasts will convert, the vast majority of people will have worn off the novelty and shown those of their friends and family who are interested and have no further use for it once the free trial ends.
> "Blank Tape" back in the 90s

a punk inversion of this would have been naming one's band "various artists" in the early years of MP3 players.

In fact I'm fairly certain I've heard of a group actually doing this, but somehow I can't place the name.
What I think I am waiting for from Mozilla is instead of this enrich the suggest experience just go full Yahoo like Microsoft did with Microsoft start. Make an organic 'good' home page, and let people who want to not use it switch it out and capture interest that way. Make links people can share so you can convince them to try Mozilla. You have to FIND Mozilla nowadays, and in comparison I look at what Opera has been doing lately in actively helping people find them. I am at least seeing a path for Opera to grow more than Firefox right now.