skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we have power over & can shape & share

This is where She's being way too optimistic.

What we have now is software that looks like macdonalds.

She thinks the tools we have are going to enable home cooking. Software is way harder than that.

The step between is "local" restaurants. You dont need to build software for 8 billion people, or 300 million Americans. You can build for a region, or a niche group.

> It allows more. It allows soul.

You might not be old enough to remember zine's but they were a thing. We're about to have the software equivalent.
TFA posits that it's actually fracking water creating the pressure that is pushing the old "fill" water out of these wells. That's somehow less reassuring b/c it means the fracking water is creating enough pressure to blow old wells out, doesnt it?
I haven't heard anyone anywhere say that "typed exceptions are an antipattern" just "typed exceptions _as implemented by Java_ are an antipattern". The general problem is well set forth by Anders Hejlsberg, Bill Venners and Bruce Eckel in _The Trouble With Checked Exceptions_ [1]. Briefly, typed exceptions in Java are not genericizable. Everything must be known at compile time. That is to say, you cannot write:

interface ThrowingRunnable<E extends Throwable> {
void run() throws E;
}

Instead, the best you could do is manual multiplication of interfaces:

interface AThrowingRunnable {
void run() throws ExceptionA;
}

interface BThrowingRunnable {
void run() throws ExceptionB;
}

// ... snip thousands more ...

Or give up and erase all the type information by saying `throws Exception` or `throws Throwable`.

Genericizing throws in particular was tried in Midori [2] and worked out really well (by report). In addition, several less-than-completely-obscure languages are starting to experiment with the algebra of effects in general (as opposed to error handling in particular). Pony [3], OCaml [4], and others are experimenting with bringing what Koka [5] (among others) to the masses.

[1]: https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...

[2]: https://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/

[3]: https://www.ponylang.io/

[4]: https://ocaml.org/manual/5.2/effects.html

[5]: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html
Wipeout XL/2097: The Making of an Iconic PlayStation Soundtrack [video]
I am serious. And don't call me Shirley
That is just about one of the worst licenses I've ever seen in a program. You did not limit your liability and added in a bunch of wording that could be used against you in a court of law.

I understand that you're just messing around, but this license will absolutely not cover your own butt, arguably the most important party involved. This is why it's almost always better to use a pre-written and battle-tested license instead of rolling your own.
"Why anyone would use a debit card in the United States is beyond me"

I don't think you understand the law. If you have fraudulent debit card purchases and you haven't lost your debit card, you have 60 days to report them with 0 liability.

Summary: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/credit-cards/credit-card-...
> Chomsky, for some weird reason, chose to take Russia's side.

This is a mischaracterization. He explained Russia's stated motivation for invading Ukraine, that it felt threatened by NATO's continual eastward encroachment and breaking of promises not to do so. That's different than endorsing the invasion, which he did not.
Neither of them are doing their image any favours lately.

They'd do much better if they just shut up & built...something they're both clearly good at
Congrats on the launch! I work at Sieve (https://www.sievedata.com/). We do a bunch of stuff with AI and video. Excited to check this out :)
I like this one for syncing from iCloud Photos on my NAS: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...
awesome project :)
Do you have a model/brand for such an alarm clock?
> Then I found sleep restriction.

Get up when the alarm rings, no naps?

Ed: Ah, I see - mechanism is basically that - but the addition of not going to bed "too early" (compared to when you plan to get up):

> Some sleep-restriction methods involve shortening a person’s time in bed to the average amount that they actually sleep per night. Other methods delay a person’s bedtime.” For example, If a person objectively sleeps for 5.5 hours, the experts allow the person to be in bed only for six hours. A preliminary lab study in which participants delayed their regular bedtime by two hours showed that such sleep restriction can reduce the number of arousals during REM.
Povray is 30 year old tech, Cycles runs on a GPU, its way more advanced.
Any source for the valuation number? Article does not mention.
Thank you for your concern I will update it.
Can I include this license after a different license still? Been wondering which one gets applied first/last.
Anyone who doubts that these chemicals are actually causing harm to the general population should read the book “Count Down”.

It goes into great detail on the evidence for harm and the details of how these chemicals work.

https://www.amazon.com/Count-Down-Threatening-Reproductive-D...
Kids in my highschool used to routinely load up a VW camper van and go surfing in Baja and camping on the beach, without cellphones and without contact most of the trip. No way I'd let my kids do that today.

Side note it's crazy that today a camper van is unaffordable to the rich yet alone a budget highschool vehicle and Pacifico commercials are on TV. The future is weird.
what you are saying is so obviously true to me, i have trouble understanding what people even think is happening with measurement otherwise. i remain dumbfounded that copenhagen is still the preferred interpretation
So basically, housing is the best investment vehicle based on all the numbers.
My guess is yes. I have a little MP3 player (HiFi Walker) with similar thickness and hard edges, and I had to find a little silicone sleeve for it because it rubbed a hole in my pocket from walking with it too much.
You take ferries/ships as needed on such trips, usually with the intent to use them for as little of the trip as reasonable.
You can't control the phone, but you can remotely view its screen and tell the owner what to do.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/109365

Interestingly, you can remotely control a Mac using the Screen Sharing utility (which is a standalone utility, not part of FaceTime).
The STM32 F0/G0/C0 lines come to mind. More I/O, more peripherals and built-in flash.

For hobbyist levels, buying 1-10 pcs they are comparable in price to an RP2040 + SPI flash. However at volume pricing, the STM32 MCU's can be cheaper than just the RP2040 itself. I do think Raspberry Pi needs to figure out volume pricing if they want to be competitive for anything that's not just hobbyists.
An exception allows you to handle exceptional errors at any level, without having to handle errors, or write a single line of code, at every other level. You can assume perfection, and put that catch at the level of the abstraction where there's an actual concern for the exceptional, keeping all the other code simple.

I've always worked strongly in the physical world side of software, like network stacks, test equipment, robots, etc, so I can't see a sane alternative, that doesn't involve in increasing the LOC by 20%, and being error prone (it's trivial to accidentally eat an exception if you're relying on returned values).

If you don't want to bubble up the exception to the user, that's trivial too. You just catch it at whatever level you choose, handle whatever, then return something nice.
To me, this is the right move. The skillset needed to build such RF endpoints is not that rare. Any decent EE college graduate should be able to rig one up with an off the shelf software-defined radio and some literature review. If all they did were to build it for laughs and boasts I would hope they would just be yelled at and threatened with a sizeable fine next time they try such spectrum violations.

But they apparently phished a lot of information with the intent to defraud folks, which in my book completely changes the proper response. My 2c.
> many natural things provide a benefit in terms of procreation but detrimental to health

Maybe... but many more either kill you or they don't. Lets take your whales-getting-the-bends example. That gives us a dimension: pressure. Suppose you're whale.

- Let x be a randomly chosen pressure

- Let y be a pressure that your parents lived through

You have to spend a few minutes at x or y, which pressure do you chose? y would be a safer choice.

The same goes for potentially hazardous chemicals: the safer bet is to pick the one that comes with evidence that things like you can survive contact with it, and that'll be the one that was in your environment when you were born. Otherwise you wouldn't have been born there.

If somebody wants to sell us something that our parents never came in contact with, the evidence that it is safe should be stronger than the effect described above. I'm not a statistician, so I can't quantify that effect, but it exists, and the naturalistic fallacy distracts from it.
> - Due to emulation, network transparency, etc, a common set of conventions for message formats will be made so that they can use the same endianness, integer size, etc on all computer types. This will allow programs on different types of computers (or on the same computer but emulated) to communicate with each other.

If you're going there, you could consider just going to wasm as the binary format on all architectures.

> - There are "window indicators", which can be used for e.g. audio volume, network, permissions, data transfer between programs, etc.

Kind of like qubes? More so, obviously, but it reminds me of that.

> - USB is no good.

What? USB is extremely high utility; just this makes me think you'll never get traction. By all means lock down what can talk to devices, do something like https://usbguard.github.io/ or whatever, but not supporting USB is going to outweigh almost any benefits you might offer to most users.

(Also on the note of things that will impede uptake, throwing out POSIX and a conventional filesystem are understandable but that's going to make it a lot harder to get software and users.)
Consider this scenario: Your friend sends you an image of some art they produced. It looks very impressive. You ask them how long it took them to create. They say oh, only a minute or so, I made it with a MidJourney prompt.

Do you feel disappointed in that answer? If yes, then surely you see that appreciation of something can be relative to effort.
99% of people who use Quora don't use it as a social network, they click that top Google search result claiming to answer their question and then get frustrated at how fucked up Quora's website is and how rarely it actually answers their question.
Outside of calling it hate, why do you think people even in the most "allied" places respond to you in that way? Do you think perhaps they're afraid they may be helping an activist who may deem their services unacceptable? The track record has it that in these situations, service providers are at a major disadvantage, if anything remotely goes wrong during their interactions.

If activists belonging to protected classes are creating such enormous fear, do you feel misrepresented by them? What are you willing to do to help remove that fear? Do you think it creates an unfair imbalance?
I much prefer the ESP32, the RP2040 doesn't even have WiFi or bluetooth, you would think every microcontroller should have those things these days.
Sad state of affairs, but yes.
You can fork and fix that with sed. Haha.

I decided on using sigils and then my thought-process drifted to Perl/Php, so $ naturally felt like a variable definition (which naturally must pop from the stack). I guess ^ is “push ‘up’ to stack”. But it’s all really arbitrary irrelevant syntax. YMMV.
A lot of countries has converged to median values, and the median is the one you won't consider safe for yourself and your children.

Another difference is perhaps that back then, population of most countries will consider a European as an ET or nobility, and will not question their ways. If these do something weird, they'll look the other way because obviously.

Now, they don't perceive the difference between themselves and the First World that much, and therefore will bother occassional tourists with upholding the customs of the land.
> I trust that the "typed exceptions are an antipattern" people know what they're talking about, but I really don't understand the reasoning behind that position.

The reasoning is that they force a contract upon implementations that they may not be able to implement in spirit.

Let’s say a library defines a container interface that says a method can throw a NoSuchElementException.

Now, I implement that interface to implement a disk backed container. What do I do when that code encounters an IOException? Swallow it (very bad), throw an NoSuchElementException, possibly wrapping the IOException inside it, if possible (highly confusing, as now the class changed the meaning of NoSuchElementException), or throw an unchecked exception that wraps it instead?

Most Java code would pick that last option, and you end up with a nice interface that says that a call can throw NoSuchElementException, but callers must be prepared to get a RuntimeException that wraps any other kind of exception.

That makes the implementation adhere to the interface, but only in name.

(Note that the writers of the interface, the implementation of the disk-backed container, and the user of that container often all will be different teams at different organizations)

So, why declare that typed exception, in the first place?
I know many non-artists who want high refresh rate displays and low latency stylus input. It’s not “super fancy”. Let’s not move the goalposts; the iPad hardware is years beyond any other tablet.

Android is not “just fine”. The hardware available is relatively low quality compared to the iPad.
All the stuff in the first half sound great, but adding an llm dependency is a complete antithesis to local first and well crafted software.

I don't really like the term barefoot developers, but local craftsman should own and understand the tools they work with and the code they write. Their tools should be local first as well.
"traumatized" by seeing breasts? my brother in christ you need a therapist
It seems it's using `better-sqlite3`[0] and saving the database to a file called "private/unforget.db"[1].

(Although, I don't have experience with SQLite, so that file might be as volatile as `localStorage`.)

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/better-sqlite3

[1] https://github.com/computing-den/unforget/blob/master/src/se...
I see some microchip offerings, but am not clear on how they fit into this trade space. https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/wireless-connectivi...

These range from $4 to $14 for MPU + Wifi.
Whats wrong with their image? They're still able to raise billions no problem. Their day to day doesn't change.

Altman just did a big deal with Apple.

Musk's board is still likely to cram through a $45B+ comp package for him.
Add whatever challenges you are currently working on at work or your side-hustle to your alarm. Soon, you will see your productivity skyrocket all while getting a few more minutes of much needed "sleep".
Is there a reason cellular tower base stations don’t have this spectrum surveillance capability? With such broad coverage, it would be straightforward to triangulate and report coarse location of unlicensed broadcasting.
Wow.

The guy has a different opinion.

It's going to happen a lot so maybe better to get used to it?
if you are woken up and go right back to sleep it's completely normal not to remember it.
It would be great if both of these guys would become eccentric recluses like Howard Hughes.
What’s sleep restriction?
In the context of YC and HN the question might be “Does having a safe API open any doors as a differentiated feature?” In my past SOC-2 was such a thing (now an expectation), and it feels like problems with data integrity are more frequent now than in the past. But still below the radar or not?
Hand-waving. Are you seriously comparing "the last few hundred years of archaeological evidence" to the advances made by the Hubble and the James Webb, or other progress in astrophysics in the last 90 years?

They do have a trickle of new information. Gibbon probably IS outdated. But don't try to say that archaeology is anywhere close to other sciences.
For me, personally: I'm fairly introverted myself and generally had only a few friends near me before I moved, so it suits me well. Also: I've been here a decade or so and I moved for marriage - I've always had at least one friend here. I've worked a little bit. And then I got into board games (both immigrants and local folks), so I meet some folks that way. The person that organizes the games, though? They struggled a bit for a while.
Usually it is a proportion. 100k for 10% of the company is a 1M valuation
If you include multiple licenses, it could be argued that it is dual-licensed and you could potentially end up in the worst of both worlds. It's best to just not mess around with anything before the header, if you can help it.
I live in a city where's it's pretty common for people to blast music at what used to be absurd levels because of very large, yet portable, battery powered speakers.

You used to need a decent budget for D batteries if you were going to do this with an 80's boom box, but now you can run a full-sized PA speaker for hours on the built-in Li-ion batteries, so it's way more common.
> Dunlap suspects it may be related to the injection of fracking wastewater. West Texas oil producers pump millions of gallons of so-called produced water, laced with chemical lubricants and numerous hazardous compounds such as arsenic, bromide, strontium, mercury, barium, and organic compounds, particularly benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes, underground every day for disposal, often into old oil and gas wells.

No shit. The Permian Basin is home to some of the biggest fracking operations and they've been depleting the ground water to supply the wells so much they've started to run out and have to recycle the waste water: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/19/texas-permian-basin-...

Pennsylvania is increasingly having a similar problem with what they're calling "frac-outs" where the fracking water breaches nearby wells and poisons residential water: https://www.wesa.fm/environment-energy/2022-07-15/dep-invest...
Crazy coming from the guy that can literally pull up any convo you’ve ever had in your Tesla
All this external money raising when it comes to AI scares me.

For companies that are built off these AI services, there's a very real fear that the prices we're getting on API calls aren't covering the costs of the requests themselves under some assumption that costs will magically go down, or we'll get locked in.

I hope the companies like Mistral and OpenAI know that if they're selling API access below cost they could be the origin of a __lot__ of companies closing and choose to make sure their operating costs are sustainable. (I understand creating new features and new models taxes additional capitol and that's a perfectly fine use of VC money. But selling a $1.00 for $0.90 is dangerous and bad.)
Marijuana keeps me up unfortunately, since my brain becomes more stimulated and I just want to get up and do things. But I‘ve had massive ADHD my entire life so that’s not a neurotypical response I suppose. I wish I could just smoke weed and feel chill and calm or sleepy.
probably so, but crote was talking about external fram chips

the msp430fr4132 you linked costs 160¢ in quantity 35, which is actually considerably cheaper than comparable flash-based chips like the msp430f233 https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments... which is 500¢ in quantity 25. so that's maybe one reason people would use fram: evidently it's cheaper than nor? but i'm pretty sure there are μcs with 8k of nor flash that are cheaper than that and in fact cheaper than the price difference. is this pricing policy some sort of loss leader by ti to drive fram adoption? it seems unlikely. does using fram instead of nor make it cheaper for ti to make the chip? surely 8k of nor couldn't account for such a large cost

on further investigation, i don't find μcs with 8k of nor flash that are cheaper than that, at least in stock at digi-key and still in production. https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/embedded/microcon... is the link to my search, which i trust hn will abbreviate in a useful way. but lcsc has the ch32v203 in stock for 39¢ in quantity 100 https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontroller-Units-MC... and that has 20k of sram, 64k of flash (presumably nor!), and 24 gpios. that's half the gpios of the ti chip, but i believe my digi-key search linked above was not limited by pin count

so maybe the only reason fram costs more is that ti doesn't license the fram patents to chinese companies? it still beggars belief that ti (and microchip, st, etc.) would be spending three dollars a chip on 8k of nor, or even three dollars a chip divided by two layers of profit margin
I'm so glad LFP batteries exist, at least at home you don't have to worry about a massive fire like you do with other lithium ion batteries.
1. An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

2. Comparing modern economics to serfdom is ridiculous on it's face.

3. What, exactly, are you thinking automated career tracks are going to get replaced with this time around? Keeping in mind you've got Industrial, AG, manufacturing, service, and white collar sectors, the first three are already heavily automated. Automating the last two results in massive unemployment. I'm not hearing any push for realocation of wealth so yeah, how exactly does this not completely brick the economy? While we're on the topic of "improving quality of life" how do you frame the near total economic collapse of rural communities in the US and the transition from a single breadwinner middle class to basically mandatory dual income households as "improving quality of living"?
There's definitely a lot of fiddlyness when it comes to the web stack.

Having said that, indexeddb has been very reliable. There are some annoying limitations though. For example, if you want to create an index on a store using multiple keys, you can't specify which key should be ascending or descending.

If you add the PWA to your home page, i.e. install it, then the browser must not clear indexeddb on an update or something. And as far as I can tell, browsers do respect that.

My overall experience building PWA has been mixed. I think it really depends on what app you're making. For a note taking app, where the data can be backed up to the cloud encrypted and synced, I really think a PWA is the best option. But if you want tighter integration with the platform e.g. accessing the file system, then I would stay away from PWA.

Another issue is ios safari which is missing a lot of features for PWAs and I think unlikely to support them in the future. E.g. background sync, offline push notifications, etc.

Are you considering PWA for any particular app?
Personally i'd rather we bridge the gap between using excel and writing python with something that is between the two, rather than relying on LLMs.

Call me a skeptic, but i remain very unconvinced that LLMs will be the enabling tool that lets non programmers program.
I am interested in this question as well. In particular I would like to get an idea of what a product manager, project manager, program manager, engineering program manager, engineering manager, all do, in summary, on a day to day basis, without sugar coating it, and which of these roles is easier to transition into as an ex-founder, which ones you can level up the fastest / easiest in, and which ones will pay you more in the same amount of time as you climb up. I'm perplexed that this issue has not been discussed in more depth on HN.