skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like a 11 year old ThinkPad would be pretty slow at modern web apps like Gmail, especially if you have a lot of tabs open.

My 7 1/2 year old ThinkPad was painfully slow loading Gmail this morning for some reason though the fault could be 100% on Google's end.

My Thinkpad is also noticeable slower than a high end modern desktop running Windows at doing simple things like browsing for files, though that doesn't discount the possibility that it's the OS's fault.
I think it is also a trust issue - GM doesn't trust Apple will approve updates to their iphone app and so won't risk it. Also Apple charges a lot of $$$ to car company to connect to carplay and I think GM called their bluff. I'm not sure what the costs to android auto are or why GM wouldn't still connect to that.

Note that as a consumer I don't trust anyone above. Sure GM's app will work great now, but in 3-6 years I expect they will decide drop support for my currently working car in their app. Apple and Google will also change their OS and so the app that does work with my car won't work anymore on new phones. I also expect updates to CarPlay/Android Auto that won't work with my old car in a few years. Nobody in this business wants to provide support for the average car which is currently 12 years old - unless you pay which someone driving a 12+ year old car won't want to do. (GM provides parts for those older cars, but people pay for those parts)
There's no mention of software support lifetime. If this is just another multi-hundred dollar electronic gadget that's going to be useless in 2 years, why would I buy it for my kid?

I can get a refurb Apple Watch SE 2nd gen direct from Apple for $209. I'm clearly not going to buy this Google watch because of the price.
Congrats on the upcoming little one! As someone who also had first infant late last year, consider dialing back your productivity expectations with a newborn (both because it's a wonderful time and because oh-heaven it's so much work).
Cant help but think they should reduce their store footprint and increase product density. I personally would love to buy a monitor after looking at it physically in-store but I want a good selection, not the 2 random monitors they happen to have in-stock that meet my size, resolution requirements.
If I have to buy online, amazon is cheaper.
> Personally I think Chris Hemsworth was a big miscast and just plain boring and weird

Huh, I’d call out his performance as one of the best elements of the movie (which I also liked a lot overall, this isn’t a backhanded compliment)

[edit] this though:

> They didn’t use any dynamic and rememberable soundtracks.

Yeah, it bucks some stupid and bad Hollywood trends (you can see what’s happening in night scenes! You can understand the dialog!) but does follow the nigh-universal trend of having a boring soundtrack that zero people are humming on their way out of the theater. I wouldn’t have guessed I’d be looking back favorably on the original soundtracks of middling 90s movies but here we are.
Fifth entry in a movie franchise is not generally a sign of quality either.

Nor is being directed by the same guy that made a film about dancing penguins and another about talking pigs.

I'm looking forward to it though.
I'm not sure I agree with less intrusive. Having a tracker attached to your body that can notify you of anything it wants is very intrusive. It is, however, seemingly less addictive in some capacities. No doom scrolling, etc.
GP claimed that passing arrays as (ptr,len) would have a dramatic performance impact. I used Rust as a counterexample.
I'm contesting this point:

> If they wanted lots of coverage, they would pick a much more recognized person within the party as a champion to push something forward. For stuff they want to sneak in, they pick someone much more obscure

Most laws are added this way. It just feels sneaky because most people don't follow the daily goings-on in the House or Senate.

And if there was some "they" that was worried about blowback, they would have given it to a freshman Rep instead of a ranked member.

Finally, public notoriety =/= power within the house.

For example, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar is fairly notorious, but they are unranked members. Meanwhile, similarly junior Raja Krishnamoorthi was able to get a ranked position on a select committee as well as be a member of highly ranked committees like House Intelligence and Oversight.

Not everything is a conspiracy, and following politics for entertainment is dumb if you don't actually know how our institutions work.
Putting a frozen pizza in the oven can spike most apartments to 300 in under 10-12 min, especially if you leave it in too long at 450F
I am amazed by the way decisions are made at Google.

In my imaginations the story was something like that:
- How to keep next generations hooked into useless technology?
- Oh, let's make their parents buy smartwatches to their kids, this way we A. will track them 24/7, sell other useless stuff too.
I would raise the bar on reading levels and open the world of books for every child that can visit the library.

The public library is free for everybody, but we aren't lining up to read the books because our system is broken. Ninety-five percent of kids can't access audiobook versions of the books they want to read.

We do have CD audiobooks for many classic titles, but these aren't always available, and many people don't have CD players or find it inconvenient to use one. Modern libraries are phasing these out. Another option is Vox books, but they are seriously limited, available in less than 0.01% of books, and cumbersome to carry around. The tiny speaker, among other issues, makes it impractical. There is a screen-time version of audiobooks called OverDrive, but its selection is slim, and these versions don't have embedded page signals—a deal-breaker for early readers and semi-literate children.

What we need now is a way to scan a book cover and instantly start playing the audiobook version, complete with page signals and a slew of other options to enhance engagement. It is widely known that active reading is magnitudes better than passive reading when it comes to developing our memory, thereby fostering better learning. What does this mean? When we read out loud, at the end of the page or book, we ask the users a few questions to check if they've understood what they just read.

This would be a non-profit organization. Contributing to society starts with literacy. Literacy begins with engagement and accessibility. This is my contribution to making a society more rational, health, and well-coordinated.

UPDATE:
We have applied to the Amazon Small Business Grant, and this vision is soon to become a reality! interested in joining our mission, or following along? we need readers! we need testers! join us on discord!

https://bit.ly/join-ichatbook-discord
Definitely not at that price point
Can you elaborate on "really made their membership program into something special"? What exactly could they have done that you think would make their membership something special?
Anyone else who would be uncomfortable opting your child into location, behavior and health surveillance by the world's largest advertising company?
I would love to know how some of these APIs work internally.
Can the on-page javascript detect the difference between click and control-click? If so, you can count just the former, and wait for the back button press, to get a sense of visit duration.

I think control-click is a power user feature that they just don't care to track. Average consumer is the target audience of the advertising...
I have a pixel 8 pro and a canon r5 and honestly, unless I'm shooting at f2.0 or less, I generally prefer the pixel images. Not to mention they're instantly sharable.
Whoa, you're just way off base here. You can take a long exposure and avoid star trails depending on a couple of factors, primarily the focal length of the lens. The longer the lens, the less time it takes to start seeing trails. The wider the lens, the longer you can take. I've taken up to 45s exposures with a 20mm lens on a DSLR with no trails. Since most lenses on camera phones are typically wider angle, the limiting factor is having a support to hold it for longer exposures.
Guide to multi-tenant SaaS data modeling
In Japanese we have the word 風土 (Fuudo) which is a compound of 風 “fuu” which means in this context “manner/style” (it can also mean “wind”) and 土 “do” which means “earth/soil”. Like “terroir” it describes the interplay between the physical land, local customs, and spiritual aspects.
A few years ago I heard about a method of using bundles of fiberoptic cable to "pipe" sunlight from a rooftop into rooms. My impression is that it's cheap as hell but impractical.

I can't find the article, but this seems to refer to the same idea: https://www.quora.com/Can-fiber-optic-cables-be-used-to-carr...
On the floor below me is an army of technical writers. All making a living.
Right, but the biggest advocates for the destruction of privacy are the ones who just received legal protection for their private jets. They're getting protection for what they got rich destroying for the rest of us.

I don't understand why this is so difficult to understand.

Zuckerberg and his ilk got rich destroying my privacy, but somehow it's unseemly for me to not respect their privacy? Privacy for me but not for thee?

I don't fucking think so.
> There seems to be something about retail

It is being obviated by screens that allow people to shop with sufficient data without needing to browse in a store. And in Best Buy’s case, many devices also got obviated by one or two devices, sold by just a few manufacturers, leaving them to be a middleman with little value add.

And high labor prices for skilled labor relative to the price of new, replacement goods makes “services” a non starter.
There is one issue. The image you see from your phone display is not "original" anymore in traditional sense. It is enhanced in so many ways that it looks pleasant, but it can also alter things. Even unnoticed, by guessing what could look good and what you want to see.
For sure, I understand usage statistics and device targets, etc for your audiences. I don't think it diminishes the informative nature of the article. You can be still be excited about new features even if you can't use them for your particular product/audience/etc.
There is a very large scale in between "artisan" and a megacorp with a budget larger than many countries.
IMHO, the real problem is that there is zero value to go to bby. The sales teams are either not to be found, or know nothing. Checking out is a nightmare of "where is anyone to check me out?" and the place looks like a dump (the three I have gone into recently for an emergency part, which I could not find).
This is interesting. Once manufacturing (and other tedium) was outsourced, I'd have thought that's "making it". More or less "passive income" presuming the employees took care of everything else. If the revenue truly was 208k, you'd just need to "hang in there" for 2.5 years and you'd make whatever you got in the sale, then everything else coming in later would be just "extra".
"Changing minds" is what I said, not changing policy.

> Q. 26 Do you think New Yorkers should accept new migrants and work to assimilate them into New York, or New Yorkers have
already done enough for new migrants and should now work to slow the flow of migrants to New York? (Order of choices was
rotated.)

> DATE | ACCEPT/ASSIMILATE | SLOW THE FLOW | DON’T KNOW/NO OPINION

> October 2023 | 29 | 64 | 8

> August 2023 | 36 | 58 | 6

https://scri.siena.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SNY-Octobe...

> Dozens of stories in whatever news media you consume has nothing to do with whether there are serious policy conversations about revisiting sanctuary city laws in those cities.

Ha, is AP news up to your standards[1]? How about a direct quote from the Mayor of New York City?

> Citing his “fundamental disagreement” with those laws, [Mayor] Adams, a Democrat, said the city’s police department should be free to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents when a person is suspected of a serious crime, such as robbery or gang activity.

You can dislike it all you want but bussing immigrants has had a major effect on people's opinions in the sanctuary cities they are bussed to.

[1]https://apnews.com/article/new-york-sanctuary-city-eric-adam...
I take your point. Yes, I do agree that would be clearer.

Just to restate my position for anyone else reading, I don't believe that the fact that a point could be restated with more clarity means that the original version is misleading.

Everything, everywhere, always could always be made better than it is. The question is not "could this be made better?" but instead "is this clear enough [to avoid accusations of misinformation]?"
That and you're not getting another 200k miles out of that used transmission.

The other thing that people don't talk about as much is the parts market got seriously messed up during COVID and still hasn't fully recovered. It's more common now for repair parts to either be unavailable or enormously marked up. Like a particular repair might only take a few hours and what should be a few hundred bucks in parts, but the car gets totaled because one of the parts is unavailable or inexplicably costs thousands and the shop doesn't want the liability of hacking together an alternative solution. Especially if the missing part is an ECM or sensor or something else that might make the car fail an inspection.
They can't go under soon enough. The low point of my shopping there was when they tried to hard-sell me an extended warranty on a 9-pin serial cable. I've avoided them ever since.
Rather depends upon what you consider "long" to mean. The sun moves about 15 degrees per hour and the angular field of view on a zoomed iPhone 13 shot is about 23 degrees (according to a blog). 12MP resolution so crudely moves about one pixel per second. A ten second exposure is certainly long compared to the light gathering drive by the eye, but a ten pixel elongation of the blob of a bright star won't be very obvious, may be rather less than the smearing caused by atmospheric "seeing"
People need to distinguish between ChapGPT-the-model and ChatGPT-the-service. The latter has memory; the former does not (as far as we know).
They seemed to play their cards at least OK given what happened to competitors. But I think the one time I was in there for years was to drop off some recycling. Maybe for a once a decade TV purchase?
Isn't this the Bates method, a pseudoscientific snake oil cure that roped in Aldous Huxley?
I thought the Taiwan study showed this didn't really do much.
What? When was this a thing. The main advantage to the sensor or film is that ability to do long exposures capturing way more photons on the same spot than your eye can do in real time. This really just seems like a confusion of the entire concept to me really.
This is one good product.
Online games have historically been quite a way for people to organize beyond the wide Internet. Steam and Discord in particular gained notoriety in recent years [1], but I distinctly remember UT2004 being flooded with Nazi trolls all the time even around 2010.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-took-over-steam-discor...
Kino is directly or extremely similar to the word for cinema in many languages, including German, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Danish, Croatian, and Finnish, to name a few. The word cinema itself is ultimately from the hard-K Greek kínēma:

Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cinema#English
As soon as you invent the In Live and Let Die watch that deflects bullets with magnets or something, I'll buy one for my kids as long as you leave out the buzzsaw.
DARPA intends to wirelessly charge drones while in flight by power-beaming
My project, sbts-aru,

https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-aru

uses a GPS to synchronise the time with and then even when running completely disconnected from any network the clocks will be accurate to real time with less than 1 microsecond of error. Typically the system time hovers around 100 ns or less from the real time. And I’ve tested this by triggering interrupts on gpio’s on two devices with the same switch and printing the time.

Syncing to sub microsecond accuracy is usually achieved in under a minute.
No. Because I'm not a loser with irrational paranoia and hatred towards corporations undermining my own ability to live a happy, productive life
How much of this can be learned by reading a couple books? I wonder how much higher profit he actually made compared to if one could self teach these skills.
it's 35M 1024 vectors Plus the text
100%. My kid is not getting a smartphone until he's ~16 but we're looking at a restricted smart watch right now

(a flip phone would also be acceptable but a watch is physically attached which is ideal for 7 year old).
A Tesla Megapack 2 can provide about 2MW of power, so you need 50 of them to replace the gas peaker. And since they have a 3.8MWh capacity, they only go for about two hours before being depleted, so if you want to cover the whole night when solar is not producing, you need 6x more, or 300 in total.
I think it's much less addictive. And if you only allow very urgent notifications, it's almost like a plain watch.

Whereas on a phone, the temptation to open apps to do things is always there.

It's almost like comparing an eink device with a regular tablet.
Dealers are charging about $200/hr labour in my area. Independent shops are $150/hr and up.

I don't think anybody is replacing my transmission for $500.

Did you mean the whole job for less than $5000?
Not specifically made for kids, but see “family setup” for the Apple Watch also

https://support.apple.com/en-us/109036
I get it, a decade or so ago I happily blogged around on my own and plenty of other websites, my posts were released under CC BY-SA whenever I could get away with it. I was quite happy to do that! It brought me all-expenses-paid conferences, TV interviews, you name it! (Not a lot of tech bloggers at the time in this part of the world, I got cool opportunities simply for existing.)

I was "famous" enough that ChatGPT now definitely knows about me. If you ask it very nicely it'll without a doubt refer to me in particular, by my full name, but every single detail it'll tell you about me is wrong. Where I'm from, what do I do, everything. And it's all just slightly, but demonstrably incorrect. No, I'm not from Serbia, I'm from Bosnia, and no, I'm not an infosec guy, but a devops guy, those kinds of errors. And of course, there's absolutely nothing I can do about it. I already get to live that shitty future you fear, my work has been used already, but in the worst way imaginable.

Needless to say, I haven't actually posted anything in quite a while (excluding HN and Mastodon), and if I ever do so again, I'll do my best to block every single AI user agent I find. I'll also switch to CC BY-NC (only non-commercial purposes) and pretend like that actually means anything.
There's still an angle where the copyright owner claims that the person who caused this to happen did not have the authority to apply the license to it.
Apple Watch exists if that's what you want.
I frequently have exactly the same double speed issue on YouTube, nice to know I'm not the only one
I just use the opensoundscape library that can use as many sound sources as you like in the equation.
If it had an IR emitter and camera in the right place, one could play laser-[watch-]tag, although the classic cheat of obstructing the sensor would still exist.
Plate tectonics: Implications for finding ET civilizations
She was the protagonist of the other one too. The Jay Gatsby to Max’s Nick Carraway.

And AFAIK this is built almost entirely off the extensive character background notes developed while writing her for Fury Road, so it’s not like they just cooked up this story because they needed something.
I've been digging for the article since morning, iirc it was something around directx, will update this comment when and if I can find it. It's not this link but it also touches on some of the stuff on this node https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/25955/did...
Jose may show up here and answer your questions... https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=josevalim
Valid point, Siri Ultra is not actually a brand name. Shortcut has a name of "Ultra" so that it let user to activate with Siri by saying "Hey, Siri Ultra", user can also change that name to something else such as "Chatty", then activate by "Hey, Siri Chatty"
There are a lot of things that you just straight can't get from an LLM if you don't understand what a given model is best at. Some models will spit out decently-good python code, but fail to consistently make a sonnet in proper iambic-pentameter, while another will do so brilliantly.

Most people don't find themselves using a pickup truck when they're trying to race motorcycles, or accidentally get into a Miata when they want a minivan, because even laypeople know what those broad archetypes (coupe/van, truck/motorcycle) are, and signify. With LLMs, that's not the case at all.
Sometimes you get harassed by someone hawking DirecTV or the like (same problem as Home Depot, Sams, etc, but it's still a negative)
If we trust the founder is smart enough to build a business worth x, he's smart enough to decide a fair commission for selling it.
You can also have private repos with closed source code in Github.
I'm using ftpd server on my phone to copy files off/on.
You can do much bigger chunks with models that support RoPE embeddings, such as nomic-embed-text-1.5 which has a 8192 context length: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5

In theory this would be an efficiency boost but the performance math can be tricky.
Had a friend who was a heavy devilish lettucian. He said when he quit he had very vivid dreams for months. Interesting to think of the long term suppression of the minds possibilities.

Wonder if the species survives capitalism long enough to get custom drugs to target positive brain impact
> how hard starting/running a business is

That it is, but here Michael is explicit that most of the pain [0] was from doing hardware, software, and e-commerce all at once. Surely, there are other relatively easier businesses in tech?

[0] Reminds me of Avery Pennarun's A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure (2012), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754531
This probably deserves its own article and might be of interest to the HN community.
Has anyone taken a crack at building a shading language debugger?

I want to be able to step through a shader and see the values at each step (ideally for any / every pixel)

The best case scenario would be while it's actually running, but simulating it seems like a great solution too.

These are the best I could find: https://github.com/burg/glsl-simulator and https://github.com/cdave1/shdr - both seem to be missing a fair amount of features, though shdr seems like much better support.

There's also: https://glsl-debugger.github.io/ but it doesn't support OS X and feels quite out of date.

There's "print statements" for wgsl: https://github.com/looran/wgsl-debug

I guess WGSL is the up and comer... as opposed to GLSL - but both would be great.

Anyone else have this hope/dream?

The hacks I use today are crazy - like conditionally exiting early based on a time variable and mapping values to colors.

So many folks I talk to are like, "yeah that's how it is". But this just seems not good enough to me...
There's https://github.com/not-fl3/miniquad
> weld in new pieces but it's just not safe and practical to do that with unibody vehicles

Unibody cars are repaired safely all the time, whether for collision or rust repair. It may have been easier in the body-on-frame days, but it safe and practical now still.
But blackmagicCam is free..