skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot speak to the above comments intent, but felt their words deeply. I assume they meant living with self-awareness. Consciousness of one’s own place in the world contextual beyond oneself. Becoming suddenly and irrevocably aware of one’s own inevitable mortality, rather than continued enjoyment of adolescent bliss. Evolving beyond liminal, secondhand awareness of suffering and injustice to an instant and innate understanding of the brutality and brevity of life itself.
Meet's GUI eats screen space and reduces the size of video feeds as a result with not being able to do anything about it. It took years for it to let you choose audio and video sources from the button itself like zoom has had forever and forced you to go into the setting panels and tap on 4 screens. Same with video feed layouts. I really dislike meet compared to zoom.

Zoom also transmits much higher quality video and screen share feeds than meet does.

This new feature is very impressive although, most echo cancellation is "mute everyone except one speaker" which leads to walkie-talkie style half-duplex talking, which really hurts normal communication flows. I wonder how they do it here.
Chemical processes don’t occur at any temperature. So the ideal storage temperature depends on the goal temperature and a bunch of other factors.

The argument for storing at 1500C could be 500C is useless not just worse economically.
Tuition is free for a lot of low income students. For example Harvard is free if your parents make less than $150,000.

But even with free tuition Harvard is super expensive because it's in a high cost of living area.
The nice thing about voxels is that it gives this nice retro look without feeling low quality.
same thing happens in any language or platform with less than billions of OSS code to train on… in some ways i think LLMs are creating a “convergent API” in that they seem to assume any api available in any of its common languages is available in ALL of them. which would be cool, if it existed.
Sort of trashy and shallow, but a good writer makes themselves a part of the work, rather than posturing as purely objective. Ok style wise I guess.

Interesingly, avoiding chocolate when pregnant is really good advice given, as has been posted here numerous times iinm, most commercially profuced chocolate contains lead and cadmium at toxic levels. Sometimes false prophets hit upon truth.

Anyway, I suppose all of this is very reassuring to catholics. Not sure the author could see the bigger picture though. Seemed a bit petty and small minded with scattered humble brags like growing out of her little kierkegaard phase. Lol
The costs for announcing the customer's IPs and making sure that only they are the ones actually sitting on them would be minuscule. Nowhere near $10k/mo. Maybe $100/mo.

Anycast/unicast changes nothing here. Anycast simply means that the same prefix is announced in multiple different PoPs.
I'm absolutely with you. If you want to attend state institutions in your home state, and maybe even as targeted as in your region in your state, the tuition should be free.

The problem is, states are not pulling their share of costs. It's federal dollars and loans or other private payments.
Some people do see it that way, and I think it's fine if you do, but I think I disagree. To me, the definition of N-bit two's complement is that -x (i.e. 0 - x) is represented by 2^N - x. The fact that that is equal to ~x + 1 is not obvious, or (as I see it) part of the definition.
> And if you pass enough current through copper

Yeah, but how do you make a copper wire heat up without also heating up the wiring that leads to that copper wire? You can make it thinner, but these bricks aren't very thin.
> To me, it seems that returning to the concept that search results should at least reflect a broad consensus of what is true is a necessary first step for Google. As part of that, learning to flag obvious trolling, clickbait and bad-faith content is paramount.

Who will decide what is obvious trolling and bad-faith content and how will they decide it? The problem they have is that search is only useful if it gives users what they are looking for. Their business model though is predicated on finding a way to introduce ads into the mix, and if they are also then trying to become arbiters of what truth people find and see, then all the conflicting goals will create a series of contradictory requirements. The search tools that usefully find what the user is looking for, with helpful suggestions, will win. Once users find that their experience is curated and that they are coerced by unelected arbiters and censors they will not trust the platform in question and someone else will get that market share.
> it’s exclusively manufactured by our display factory in Japan.

That is super impressive. This means you must be looking at selling big numbers?

I am running a small company that is making e-paper calendars and smart screens.

(You can check them out here: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... )

My number one struggle is that at the low volume I am selling, my choice of screens that I can procure is extremely limited and expensive. This then also drives the price of the final product.

I guess I am kind of stuck in a local optimum (niche product) , where the other optimum is a high-volume, more mass-market product which would allow me to source a cheaper screen at higher volumes.

I am obviously super curious what kind of screen you are using and who you are sourcing it from. I totally expect that you don't want to share, but on the off chance that you want to - my email is mail@konstantinschubert.com.
I don’t think we need any conspiracy theories. I can easily see people getting tired of these kind of articles and the predictable torrent of outraged comments.

They are valuable in keeping people aware of what’s going on. But only to a point and people will endlessly argue over where that point is and scream censorship and over ups by corporate interests.

It gets rather grating after a while. Even more so when I suspect an article is omitting key facts to generate the attention they want.

I haven’t flagged this article but I can easily see why people would.
I remember GRC for DCOMbobulator, that disabled DCOM.
The garden metaphor seems tacked on.
Unless you need legible screen dharing of a code editor in my experience. Zoom is awful in many ways but blows Meet out of the water for our needs.
There were EU (and probably others, but EU is a huge camera market) tariffs on anything with 30m+ video recording. 2007(?) and on.

However, as a result of an expansion of the WTO ITA, those should be scrapped now. https://www.fujirumors.com/yes-eu-import-duty-reason-fujifil...

It'll probably take some time for the market to force camera manufacturers into stretching limits though.
Sadly this is feature-gated behind Gemini :/

> Available for Google Workspace customers with the Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Business, Gemini Education, Gemini Education Premium, and the AI Meetings and Messaging add-on.
For a moment I thought this headline was about the lunchmeat, often spelled as "baloney."
Actually the crazy part was finding my friends at 3 AM after walking a few miles in the dark from the concert grounds to where we parked the car, with only a rough sense of where I was going. Amazingly we found each other!

On the way in, a few miles away from the venue traffic just “stopped” and we had to park on the roadside and walk the rest of the way, cutting through fields and woods, following others who seemed to know where they were going. We left the issue of getting back to the car as a problem for “future us”.

Not sure why we didn’t pick a meeting spot, or maybe we got separated too quickly before thinking we needed one. Though actually I think we just weren’t too bothered, figuring it would all just work out. And it did.

Yeah, this was all pre-cell-phone (well, “car phones” were a thing, but mainly for the rich). If we had had phones, the adventure would have been much less interesting. We’d have gotten there much quicker w/ sat-nav, we’d have found each other and cut all anxiety wondering where we all were when the last set ended at midnight.
Curious what examples do you see there. I don't doubt the experience.

When I draw analogies of my past experiences to present situations, that does not mean that my past experiences are the best way to convince people of what is the right thing to do. I still need to do the hard work of pointing out what it is that is in the common interest and why eg deleting stuff and simplifying is good.

In such a discussion it won't help me to say people who disagree with me are generally just emotional, does it? Even if I may have encountered people with such emotional reactions.
The likelihood of being accepted into Harvard when being raised in a family with that total income is extremely low. The environment for studying, focus, discipline, mental health, etc. simply requires more material security.
I don't know, you see plenty of people stating they only do X hours of real work in a given day. That sounds an awful lot like the same basic idea.

If I think about it too, half the lines of code being wasted is probably a relatively reasonable measure for writing code. Not because they're actually literally useless, but because you write a lot of scaffolding, a lot of first passes and a lot of code that will be a dead end or superseded before you're done. If you knew before you started exactly what lines of code you'd need to write, you'd be much more efficient, but we don't, so we write a lot of "waste" code too.
Their parents aren't making the decision.

They can borrow the money all by themselves.
How is this not still #1?
488 upvotes in 3 hours.
It was number one, the right to the third page?
sus...
okay. that was insightful.
The biggest problem is the fundamental inability of two higher education camps: "education should be free" and "education should be market priced" to agree on anything.

It would be better to have a mix: free education slots for students who pass (tough-ish) entrance exams and slots that university can add at market price for students who do not meet the bar. If there are more market price applications than slots schools can select any way they want except on price (i.e., all market rate slots should be priced the same). My 2c.
I just don't understand how this can work perfectly in Discord while working so badly in Zoom.
You can retire early in most of the countries with that income.
Something that adjusted my cynical attitude as a college student was reading "Don't Blow Yourself Up" by Homer Hickam. He was an early role model of mine as a child watching October Sky on repeat, and in the book he describes being judged for his time in the military regardless of what he did or how he felt about it.

And just in case you're going to run into someone who will chastise you for thanking them this weekend: Memorial Day is dedicated to the dead, Veterans Day to the living / all veterans. So attending a memorial service may be an appropriate way to mark the weekend.

https://www.hfotusa.org/difference-memorial-day-veterans-day...
In research, reaching the point of "writing down the problem" is already a huge accomplishment.

What distinguishes the first-rate researchers and the second is their (1) ability to identify which problems are worth their finite time in solving, (2) defining the problem so that it is manageable but impactful, (3) using approaches other people in th field have not thought of to tackle the problem.
There is 0 difference, unless you are already feeding in some information it wont customize, it's all the same.
Try turning down the color saturation. For me ~ 25% of original saturation is sufficient for using UIs that use color information.

I had the same annoyance as you, switching back and forth wasn't pleasant, and I'd forget. I think part of the reason is that switching between 0% <-> 100% saturation doesn't give room to adapt. It feels like a bandwidth of information is missing. But, if the colorspace is barely noticeable, your brain will fill in the colors for you with the information it gets... and the high-saturation default color-set would start to appear abrading and unnatural.
SpinRite 6.1 is out:

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
Your employer offers health insurance. You go to doctors who bill the insurance company for your services.

You paying directly for your services is almost entirely removed from the equation.

You even deciding on which insurance company you would like to use is removed from the equation as well because it’s more expensive for you to sign up directly than it is for your company to sign up as well.

If you wanted to be a part of a private insurance group with diet and exercise requirements for membership, including annual physicals that could potentially get you a lower rate…but you don’t really get that option. The market doesn’t even get to attempt to provide that option because of how separated the producer and consumer of the service are from the people paying for it.

The market is completely removed from the equation.

The only person who proposed a plan that would have resolved this problem was Dr Ben Carson fwiw. It was by far the best solution to fixing healthcare in the US that I’ve heard in the last 20 years but instead we got ACA.
Same here. Visual learning is the answer for me
“Well, I have a good lens so I guess I’ll go take pictures of squirrels” seems like an odd post-hoc justification to come up with.
There are a number of related problems.

1. Doctor cartels (this one is sort of self-explanatory) and other provider coordination on pricing

2. Over expansion of insurance (insurance is not meant to cover things that are expected, we have expanded insurance to cover routine expected expenses) and the associated costly administrative structure

3. Lack of price transparency

4. Global free ridership on drug prices makes us think we could get new drugs for much cheaper than we could

5. Lack of neutrality in tax law between cadillac health insurance plans and income

6. Overutilization (partially due to fear of malpractice lawsuits, partially due to overexpansion of insurance)

7. Political failure to address any of these. Obama tried to resolve 5 and Trump tried to resolve 3. Both have essentially failed.

Almost all of these are caused by bad policy more so than the market-based outcome. This is not a ranked list, if I had to find primary culprits it would be 2, 3, and 6.
I don't necessarily disagree. I would say the problem is capitalism, which is not to be confused with "the market." They are distinctly different things.
Hard to say as this sort of data is very 'dirty'. Basic analytics will generally take account of returning visitos, but someone might be counted as multiple visitors because they looked at a website on multiple devices.
I suspect this is the answer, and it's just "momentum". once you're at a location and you're doing considerable "stuff" the move becomes painful and $200 more a month doesn't seem a lot if you're a company, but if they do that every 6 months or so before you know it's $1000 a month
Meet’s default audio noise cancellation is pathetic compared to Zoom. Initial Teams was also poor but has improved.

My daughter’s school uses Zoom for her IEP where at least one attendee is remote that day. Not a fun experience.
Isn’t PowerShell itself the third party package? At least on Linux and MacOS, I mean.
My guess is they're talking about regional monopolies ?

There's generally a misunderstanding from left wing voters — when people say "markets" they understand "crony capitalism and monopolies with regulatory capture" when most other people just mean "fair competition between suppliers".

We'll all agree the second option isn't easy to get, but the disagreement often comes from the fact one team thinks it's impossible or even undesirable, and something more radical should be preferred.
When I was young, I would go down to Front Street in Philly on weekend nights. It's an industrial area so the street is real wide to allow for 18-wheelers to turn in and out of the warehouses and factories. This made it ideal for drag racing and showing off souped-up cars. It would get really crowded with folks showing off their cars and participating in the races.

One weekend after my buddy and I went down there, I saw on the news that the police intervened finally to stop the drag racing. It was a very big operation to quickly and simultaneously pull enough cops cars out to block both ends of Front Street entirely to corral all of the racers and spectators in. Helicopters were also deployed in case someone wanted to try to speed through the city to escape. In the end, all the cars they managed to corral got impounded. I don't know what the long term effect was on the drag racers.

I imagine that if you're going to do it right – and not just set up a bunch of reckless high speed chases through neighborhoods/cities – it actually has to be a fairly large operation, pulling in a lot of resources for a substantial amount of time. And I don't know if it ultimately stops drag racing or just pauses it for a while, nor do I know what the opportunity cost is of pulling all the resources away from other policing tasks.

While I'm generally for impounding drag racers and ATV swarms, I do think there are tradeoffs and risks that the police department leadership has to take into account.
I don't use it, but I know of it: https://www.mcmaster.com/products/pipe-hangers/id~1-1-4/
I'm not that deep into Google latest rebrand activity... how is Google Meet related to LLM model? or do they call many unrelated things Gemini?
Might be also related to the delay in communications. There's the time the packets traverse the networks, but also delays due to buffering to accommodate poor connections.
Funny that with the rise of "hidden history" "mud floods" channels like MyLunchBreak which show a lot of this historical uncanny or not well known paintings/pictures, more accurate history sources are also coming out to explain them

But seeing ideas and opportunities of 500 years ago, that took dozens of years to take off, might help us better understand the opportunities we have now

Aisha Ray - The Flying Train of Tartaria (electric)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9nhe9mPHKLI
Thank you for sharing. Needed it.
Related. Others?

Braid: Synchronization for HTTP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26385480 - March 2021 (1 comment)

Braid: Synchronization for HTTP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626261 - Nov 2019 (47 comments)
Same here; getting a handle on string interpolation was particularly challenging.
Thanks for reminding me I implemented this 10 years ago. Here it is in 180 lines* of C https://github.com/fsmv/Tiny-GIF/blob/master/src/LZW.c

* The dictionary part takes up a similar amount so maybe 2x that

I think some image viewers didn't like how I made the gif data and then I didn't care enough to make it perfect because LZW was the interesting part and that worked.
or don't feel like using an online dictionary when it's quicker than typing a question especially when you take feedback time into consideration. I just don't grok why anyone would do that.
There should be a limit on the loan size you can take out.

It's wild that you can take out 200k with no collateral
Janet has nothing to do with Lua though, am I missing something
The primary beneficiary of treating productive young people is society itself, and they are also the most efficient to treat. The primary beneficiary of existing socially subsidized care is the elderly. Since this is the optimally bad outcome, it is reasonable to assert that every system of healthcare incentives is misaligned.
Yes, obviously there is some conceptual similarity to written language, but the goals are really quite different. Human language is used to communicate, which involves theory of mind and modelling the listener. Programming language is just specifying a computation to be performed.

Still, it's interesting to consider why the "language areas" of the brain apparently are not used for reading or writing computer language (or for other different types of mental activity for that matter).

Some processing areas of the brain are obviously dictated by connectivity and adjacency (visual pathway connects to visual cortex, auditory pathways connect to auditory cortex), but reading of both prose and computer code comes in visually, so why does one get processed by Wernicke's area, and one not?! The best I can guess is that multiple areas of association cortex might be competing to recognize/predict visual inputs, and those areas best equipped to do so will win and perhaps suppress the others.

If this suggestion is true - that via competition the best suited area of brain gets used, then it begs the question what are the key differences, pertinent to the brain, between written prose and computer code that cause this differentiated processing?
Hundreds of examples of data, maps, etc on RAMADDA-
https://ramadda.org/repository/alias/examples
Eric Siegel – The AI Playbook – Talks at Google [video]
> If you're accusing RenTech of something, be direct about it.

Oh now trying to explain the algos, of a fund of 300 employees, who never has losses, and makes some of the biggest political donations in the US...Is accusing?

What happened to intellectual curiosity? Don't look up?

> Always pointing out "look there..."

There is plenty where to look...

https://www.reddit.com/r/hedgefund/comments/18johku/medallio...

"Democratic donor built up vast $8bn private wealth fund in Bermuda" - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/07/democratic-dono...
I don’t think this is a real problem because as users start being more intentional about who they subscribe to and more thorough in ranking content according to its usefulness and quality, the low quality stuff or regurgitated stuff will just vanish.

Why would it matter if there are clones of the best, say, blog post on how to make spicy ramen? If they are not adding anything new or making that original effort better, then they will not surface in searches as search tools improve. Nobody will save that content or recirculate it or refer to it when they need to remember how to make spicy ramen.

And people will build curated subscriptions and followings and recommendations that are more tailored to the individual, and we will spend more time determining who is trustworthy and who is not.
It's easy to break your phone addiction—I've done it a 1,000 times...

But, seriously, I've tried launchers, leechblock, and other software solutions. For me, they don't work long term because I end up just reverting and unblocking. I always have some justification in my head as to why I need to reinstall Discord or browse YouTube and then it's over.

For me, I've had much better luck with a device where those types of slips are impossible. Mostly... although sometimes I really do need a smartphone to scan a QR code or to pay a foodtruck with Venmo.

The Jelly Star seems to be the best compromise for me so far. It's still a smartphone, but the screen is so small that it's a lot harder to be on it for hours.
Do other platforms already provide something similar? While I've been picking up calls mostly in meeting / silent rooms (times of gathering around a jabra like a camping bonfire are fortunately gone for now) - some of the users of a platform that I've built (https://flat.social) would occasionally experience the atrocious feedback whistle while being in physical proximity.
What is with the sudden, coordinated push against raw milk?
> ZFS scrubbing is designed to counter issues that crop up with bit flips caused by extremely unlikely hardware errors and things like cosmic rays - which are extremely rare, but when you have petabyte scale storage, they actually become plausible risks.

It's not rare at all and you don't need petabytes to hit it in your home. I also doubt it's caused by cosmic rays.

People seem to have this view that hardware is rock solid all the time. It isn't. Components fail.