skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> doesn't sound unreasonable [...] if you were using a private companies space

I've seen meetups, hosted by Amazon in Boston IIRC, where upon exiting the elevator, you were unexpectedly required to sign an NDA-ish contract in order to leave the vestibule. Now preregistration deadlines, signing in/out, license capture, headshots, and NDAs, aren't necessarily unreasonable for a company. Nor bag searches, nor surrendering electronics to lockers. But as expectations diverge, between "private companies space" and "I'm just here for a room of conversation and pizza", the energy barrier to attending, discomfort, and absence, may increase. Microsoft Boston in contrast, was built with access-control elevators and a floor of conference rooms, and so could provide "just name the meetup at the desk and go up".
JPEG's compression is very similar to blurring.

It converts the image into frequency domain, and reduces precision of the frequency data, with a special case when the data rounds down to zero.

However, whole-image blur crosses the 8x8 block boundaries, so it isn't perfectly aligned with the blur that JPEG uses. Lowering quality setting in JPEG (or using custom quantisation tables) will be more effective.

There's also a fundamental information-theoretic foundation for this — lower frequencies carry less information.
Yeah: don't use a Raspberry Pi or any similar Linux SOC to translate sensor data to TCP/IP.

GP said "cheap MCU" - which I agree with. Ambiq MCUs use 1mA while active, but most ARM M0+ cores (RP2040, STM32) are going to be sub-50mA generally.

Spin a $2 4L PCB with all the POE circuitry (and receptacle), MEMS microphone IC, and MCU onboard.

This whole thing should cost <$25 total.
Bad code is quick to write and gives the illusion of productivity in the short term.

Good might take longer to write but delivers true productivity gains in the long term.
They don't have to - but a large portion of them are ~%80.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/borrowed-words/
> Lisp maps to S-exps very well obviously but I wonder if the same amount of synergy can be achieved in the language that is not aimed at that at the start

But lisp did not aim for that from the start, as the GP hinted McCarthy intended S-expressions as a data description form, m-expressions were supposed to be the executable language.
Wait... explain.
I question the premise of this article - I think we are absolutely coding features faster than decades ago. As much as we might hate the current state of just gluing together libraries to get a slight variant on yet another CRUD app, tacking on some cloud services, and deploying via your favorite flavor of CI/CD... the fact that we do it so often to be tired of it tells us exactly how much faster at cranking out features and apps than we were in the original dotcom days, even when you are part of a scrum-based dystopia.
What's the deal with the blue "robins" in gacha games?
Part of the problem with math is that it's often taught using examples that are so trivial that they don't require the techniques being taught. If harder examples aren't introduced pretty early, students are left with the idea that they don't need to learn the techniques. You don't really need know any real techniques to figure out that 2x+4=8, you can kinda just figure out that 4+4=8, so x is 2, and if you can't figure that out intuitively, you can just guess and check a few numbers until you have the correct answer. If the entirety of algebra 1 or pre-algebra is taught with similar examples, students will pass the standardized test but not have any of foundations necessary for further math classes and actually won't even have the ability the solve even slightly more complicated versions of the same sorts of problems.
A use case for me is I’m calling a lot of different 3rd party APIs that return similar things but in widely different data structures with a lot of information specific to that site. I take what is standard across all the API’s and store that in my relational database but anything I didn’t use I store in a JSONB field just in case I need it some time in the future.

In other words I’m not really using anything in that JSONB field… at least right now.
Yea and with challenger only one engineer raised the alarm while a large group of well meaning engineers overrode him.

This is reality. Decisions aren’t kill/not kill.
Apple has different servers for China and enforces whatever rules was dictated by CCP. Google simply refused to accept that and stayed out of the country.

The Chinese Android-ish phones are basically doing whatever CCP believes is best for you
It's not as much cleaner as we often think. Only a small % of leakage means that overall the warming potential (from leaks and burnt gas) can be more than coal.
Nevermind that she only asked McDonalds to cover like five figures worth of medical bills, which they rejected. The JURY selected that figure, explicitly as a fuck you to the corporation that had a documented history of giving people coffee hotter than industry recommendations for safety, people getting really hurt from that coffee, and McDonalds sweeping those instances under the rug without making any changes to their coffee temperature.

Now, instead it is a definitive PR win, with an entire generation of entitled asshole business owners swearing up and down that we need "Tort reform" because "a lady spilled coffee on herself and got $2.7 million", which was explicitly caused by a megacorp going out of their way to be dangerous.
It doesn't use https, and doesn't use the system's PAM authentication methods.
>If you keep your skis dry between days out they’ll stay sharp for their entire lifetime. Don’t get him started on waxing. His specific claim was that skis get blunt from corrosion, and all you have to do is keep them dry.

Stopped reading around there. He actually took a microscope to verify what should be common sense for anyone with a basic understanding of physics. And then didn't even do it properly like you point out.

Is it only my perception or are people getting more gullible/stupid? It's something I notice more and more, someone says something obviously ridiculous but instead of dismissing it and filing the person under 'nutter', my feeling is more and more misinformation is taken serious or at least considered as potentially true. Or maybe it's an increasing lack of social skills? Maybe there's a decreasing understanding of the fact that the chance of running into a random guy telling tall tales, being misinformed or outright crazy is high when you're out somewhere with hundreds of people.
That requires a single source of truth for which names go with which tickets. Which is going to be a problem if tickets need to be transferred in contexts where users don't have internet access (but they do have local connectivity between devices) or in contexts where the venue doesn't have internet access. Or in cases where the single source of truth might be vulnerable to attack or doesn't have the resources to handle the load at certain times.

I don't have the solution explicitly, but it seems like it ought to be possible to do this such that PII need not be collected. Tickets could be cryptographic proofs that a chain of custody exists and meets certain criteria. The proofs could be constructed at transfer time and verified at admission, no servers in the loop anywhere. Yeah, we'll come up against the CAP theorem eventually, but we might find that the imposed constraints are workable.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902749
IIRC most people's carbon emissions come from transportation, electricity, heat. My guess is the efficiency of scale at ~40M is within spitting distance of what it would be at 1B. So it ought to scale linearly, for the most part?
Not at all. To be sure, the design is non trivial and rather impressive if it meets the claimed specs. Is it $14M non trivial though? I have a feeling their valuation is overestimating more than I am underestimating.
Medium term - China is going to lead the world in emissions reductions. They have the most to reduce and the most to lose if they don't move to renewables rapidly.

Short term - nothing much is happening. Rome wasn't built in a day.

The US can idly sit around and burn it's own natural gas and oil. The US at least has the option to maintain the status quo for a long time (it won't). But China doesn't even have this option.

Additionally, auto manufacturing (ICE cars) accounts for ~5% of US employment. For China ICE auto manufacturing is ~0, and they have the opportunity to produce a huge chunk of the worlds EVs. They're not only incentivized massively to get off oil - they're incentivized to get EVERYONE ELSE off of oil, too.

China needs to IMPORT natural gas and oil. They'd much rather lead the world in renewables EXPORT EVs and renewable generation than be reliant on Russia & KSA for energy (the basis of their current economy)...

China will likely cut their emissions faster than the US has - which if you're realistic - the US has done an impressive job.

The US emits ~30% less carbon per capita than it did in 2000. And we're on pace to be at ~40% less by the end of 2030: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1049662/fossil-us-carbon...

In 20 years, China is likely to be around ~75% less than today. The US probably won't get from ~40% to ~75% over that time.

The lobbying from our own energy producers will too much to cut that deep that quickly.

The US and China are close to ~50% of emissions: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...

No one else besides India is really going to move the needle (certainly not in the wrong direction - no one else is growing fast enough).

India will be the wild card. Will they import renewable energy generation from China or fossil fuel from Russia and KSA?
I agree this appears to be a clueless VC ripoff. However, do you recall how much bad-faith handwringing there was in the days of COVID vaccines about how incredibly difficult it was going to be to ship and store the vaccines, because they had to remain cool? As if styrofoam and thermometers were alien tech.
At home, 3D printing is a highly skilled craft and takes lots of experience and expensive hardware. I have been doing 3D printing for a decade, and have been through all the pitfalls. It was a long hard road to get consistent quality prints. Sure, if I need something prototyped really rapidly then I'll print it at home. But if I want something done with exceptionally high quality, then for me its much easier to design the part, I use OpenSCAD, and then send the STL to one of the many 3D printing service providers to be printed. My personal favorite is JLC. They offer lots of different materials, and their commercial industrial 3D printing machines do a much better job than any DIY home printer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with.

...

> The project must be something you've worked on personally and which you're around to discuss.

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OP doesn't spam Show HN or anything, so probably worth giving the benefit of the doubt. If it doesn't comply they'll probably realize and fix it.
> The whole sales pitch for the last 1-2 years has been that AGI is "just around the corner" and we can get there via the magic of exponential growth.

I am pretty sure that's less than half the sales pitch. Current LLMs are economically valuable, they are useful to all kinds of knowledge work, despite their flaws.
maybe it could help those doomer "internet is over!" types to even try to look at internet in a positive way - or at least it'd give us a tell through what they'd come up with, if anything at all
curious, is this because you expect something other than Slack supported?
super entertaining read! many thanks.
It holds "four vials". Definitely looks like blood samples to me.
The Psychology of Fairness and Boycotts
Are you autistic or something? You're lack of self-awareness is astounding.
I still don't blame the developers, I blame government. It's not the job of rank and file workers to police companies. I wouldn't work for LN, but I'm not going to blame someone else for doing so. We've all gotta feed our families. (I realize there's a line somewhere, you wouldn't excuse a prison guard at Auschwitz the same way, but I can't get too worked up about a developer making a ticketing app even if I hate the ticketing company.)

Developed countries long ago came to the conclusion that companies should not be allowed to have monopolies because it is bad for society as a whole, and it's hard to think of a current monopoly as egregious as this one. There is absolutely no reason one company should have exclusive rights to 85% of large venues, also be an evebt promoter, and also be the ticket seller.

Anything their developers do is not the real issue, a society that allows this to happen in the first place is.
The AI program for recognizing bird vocalizations, Merlin, is available on your phone. It's really changed how birding is done. It will detect and identify the species of birds in real time as you are walking around, often before you yourself recognize them (if you are even able to).
The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
For Bash with `--enable-net-redirections` set at configure time (not a default, not enabled on popular distros to my knowledge), `/dev/{udp,tcp}/$host/$port` is available for this purpose.
According to this comment† from the very same post on Reddit:

> [Mozilla] in 2018's cash flow was negative ~1 million dollars while in 2022 it actually profited ~167 million.

A reply to that comment‡ states the following:

> Also important is that if you look at their annual reports, while it's still the most significant revenue source, the percentage of revenue coming from search engine royalties (i.e. Google) has been steadily going downwards. Instead revenues from their other services (VPN, Pocket, etc) had been increasing steadily.

And indeed we can verify those numbers on Wikipediaᵃ, where we see "Revenue derived from Google" trending downward every year.

So it seems she's been A) successful with continuing the search engine deal with Google; and B) increasing revenue from their other services (VPN, Pocket, etc.) so that Google's contribution to the revenue pie chart slowly shrinks over time.

† https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1dg7ejv/co...

‡ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1dg7ejv/co...

ᵃ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances
Those are just alternatives.

Literally the first option they list is to just download the jar and run it manually, because this tool truly doesn't need any installation.
I used to work or a mobile event app company that made a lot of the big festival/conference apps. Everything was built to function locally from a sqlite file on your phone that was constantly updated when you did have coverage.

It was 100% expected that you would have no cell signal the entire event and we built in as many mitigations as we could think of.

This was 2013ish, I think there are a lot more mesh network devices that can relay signal nowadays but I'm not involved anymore in that stuff.

It was the best on-call I've ever had because.. nobody had cell signal while the event was on to complain about something.

This person complains that people didn't have network access on their phones when they were at the gate. I can only assume that they waited till they were at the gate to install/use the app so it never got its offline data.

Always open your event apps before getting to the event. Sometimes they're completely bare bones and have to reach out and pull that apps specific database so its sure you have the latest. Most of the event apps are a template that is modified for each event and just has different assets/sqlite.
The blog author also has quite a bullshit job, worked mostly in finance-adjacent (and seems to be quite into cryptocurrencies to top it off), and advertisement-related stuff.
I hate TM and ridiculous fees as much as anyone, but this article is overly hyperbolic.

There's a section named "Pirating Tickets", that just explains how to re-create a barcode that you already paid for. You're not using this to rob anyone of anything.

And at the end, "Have fun refactoring your ticket verification system". Why? There are no vulnerabilities here. A rotating barcode (even if following a known pattern) is still more secure than a static barcode on a piece of paper.
Using an LLM and RAG to Wring Insights from My Posts
The most important thing with wax is to brush it all out of the base structure, otherwise you basically just have a flat wax base. I went years (maybe 10?) before I learned that scraping alone wasn't enough. I used to think brushing was like a small optimization that you'd only do if you're racing, but it actually makes a tremendous difference.
gawk can: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/gawkinet.h...
Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
If you have additional context that is relevant, feed it to the network. Why wouldn't you? As to the size of the network, this is not a simple benefit, because you need to account for the trade off between model size and training efficiency.
Konrad Zuse – a programmer ahead of his time
There's more than enough of it on here already.
>> it’s just more convenient to drag the skis to the store once a year

I agree.

I've been skiing and snowboarding for over 30 years. I used to tune my skis and board religiously myself. Once I got married and had a few kids, it got cumbersome to tune my board, then two to three additional pairs of skis. Then I went back to just tuning mine and realized how much of a mess it makes and how time consuming it can be.

When I was younger, I loved doing it because it was a sort of a 'zen' process for me to lose myself for an hour or so and the idea of tuning my board like a pro and having to live with the results, for better or worse I always thought was cool. The idea of telling people you knew how to do this and you were really good at it also was apart of the mystique of being able to do it.

Now? I just take my stuff to a shop where I know the guys and they do a bang up job for me. Saves me the time and the people I ride with don't give a hoot whether I can tune my board, they just want to know if I can still ride those double black D's with them.
Couple of things:

1) Citation needed. Particularly if you're talking about federal inmates, state, or both.

2) It's disingenuous (re: primacy bias) to lead off with murder and rape, which account for a far smaller portion of "violent" crime than robbery (which I assume includes burglary, in which the victim and perpetrator don't make contact) and assault (which, again, does not require the victim and perpetrator to physically make contact (that's battery)).

All of this is aside fact that an individual who allegedly commits a heinous act against another person or small group of people is in a completely different class from a large corporation whose products put millions at risk (and the executives and managers who sign off on those company's decisions). There is quite the destructive myopia behind the increasingly punitive (rather than rehabilitative) nature of incarceration for the former, when the latter get off so easy.
https://archive.md/hrgE0 / http://web.archive.org/web/20240521005653/https://conduition...
Wokism is a rejection of common sense, exchanged with an embrace of exotic rationalization flowers bred in the left-leaning echo chamber hothouses of academia and Tumblr.

You can reduce anything to "a name thrown at people you disagree with", and anything can be "a known, studied phenomenon". Especially if researchers can safely study it when academia is captured by an ideology that's hostile to certain viewpoints. ;D
Yes!

And it comes down to hubris.

Too many people (in finance, mostly - which drives the rest: entrepreneurs, "big" managers, etc.) in the industry (like to) think that maintenance is bad, because it's not new or growth-capable (which is where they expect to get more, and more, and more).

But maintenance/routine is actually most of the work for everyone, everywhere on this planet. Which is good work.

You can/may outsource, or automate (it's the same actually: getting the same output for a lower cost), it. With the consequences it comes with.

You can/may prefer to be in the 1% of innovation too. But once you innovate (on) something, you've got to maintain it. Someone has to.

The good places where to work are those that admit, and implement (in their structure, in how the manage people and their expectations), that maintenance is most of the work, and that innovation is the small part of it.

It's like in art: most/99% of the time, you practice, you learn. 1% of the time, you get to do/find something great out of it.

Which leads me to the dullness of generative AI: you can't have the 1% if you don't go through the 99% - and you may not understand this if you never tried once to get through those 99%.
It depends how we situate ourselves. We have a lot of land and a lot of potential to hypothetically grow to 1B in the dumbest way possible.
Wayland Support Preview for JetBrains IDEs
Roadrunner, south Florida, 1994 - I can second this

We even had sega channel, which was this insanely cool cartridge you plugged intoyour genesis and had a coax cable input.

You could download and play sega genesis games, rotating every month
Notepad's spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years
This is going to sound like damning with faint praise, but it's not meant that way -- this is absolutely my favorite thing to listen to while trying to fall asleep.

His voice is quite soothing, and it's interesting enough to constantly hold your attention, while not being _so_ interesting that it keeps you awake, and while it's loosely organized chronologically on an episode-by-episode basis, within each episode it's sort of arranged thematically, so you can dip in and out of consciousness and not be confused as to what he's talking about, and you can pick it up the next night at some random spot and not really feel like you missed much. It also has long stretches where he's just sort of listing off words and etymologies, which are the kinds of trivial facts I love, but I think my brain also takes as a signal to turn off.
You don't understand how people at their companies evaluate stuff like this.

Any solution that increases capital or operating expenditures for them or the venues (half of whom they own, if I remember correctly?) is a non-starter if it doesn't generate some increase in revenue.

They will not do anything they don't have to do if it means any impact to their bottom line whatsoever.

We see it as "pennies per transaction."

They see it as "we sell 500M tickets per year so five cents per transaction is $25M/year in lost net."
This doesn't sound like a suuuuper interesting application to be honest because there's already a way to do this directly, i.e. use chemically stored energy to keep stuff cool: phase change material (PCM) cool packs, especially when packaged into containers using vacuum insulated panels (VIPs, which achieve phenomenal U-values ). A PCM cool pack has a pretty constant temperature while absorbing heat and a VIP-clad container by itself has pretty phenomenal insulation already. There's no moving parts and no battery chemistry to degrade and no UNECE Dangerous Goods in these.
Sinkhole appears in soccer field above an Illinois mine: 'out of a movie'
It’s interesting, the more we agree and hold strong, the higher the demand grows for engineers who would help some companies create their hellscape. The incentive will grow higher and higher until people break rank. And you start over.
I think that this is predicated upon a reasonably well informed and educated public. And my estimation is that the general populous is not informed enough on cryptography to be in a position to shame Ticketmaster engineers.

Also, my impression is that there is already copious amounts of public shaming. Some social media sites seem largely devoted to that. And unfortunately, I don't think most people fully deserve the verdict that they get in the court of public opinion.