skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have these culture wars about braces in the end or new line, while the whole thing should be on the editor's side. It shows you the way you want it, then convert it to the agreed upon style upon saving.

Text editors are easy, but are waaaaay in the past. There could be much much better 3D like editors out there, but everyone is lazy to make one that would make your life much easier.
At this point, years only. No more specific than that.
Looks nice, but I mostly read content on mobile so it's missing a Firefox mobile extension
I have a sound bar. I'm not fooling myself. It's much better than the built-in speakers (though my soundbar has a small subwoofer, so that helps a lot). Is it equivalent to a real A/V receiver/amplifier with large speakers? Definitely not, but that setup costs a LOT more money, plus I'm limited in how much I can turn up the volume anyway because of my neighbors.

The projector thing is a no-go for many people. They cost a lot of money, the bulb inside has limited life and is very expensive (and makes a lot of heat too), but worst of all, they just aren't bright enough for many viewing environments. I would never be able to see it in my apartment, except late at night.
Definitely not ok with Comsumer products either, especially once they are in this price range.

It's basically in the range of an expensive laptop, fancy fridge + dishwasher, big couch, etc... Something that might have taken multiple weekends to shop for and maybe even a day off work to get delivered, possibly followed by months of personalization for an electronics product like a laptop.
> But it’s not a good reason to call the senior manager who doesn’t understand the situation “competent”.

I'm not so sure that this is actually true... It certainly seems like a certain flavor/kind of "competency", for a manager to wander into unfamiliar territory, or come across an unfamiliar topic, and to have the wherewithal to then say, "well I don't understand why we have a $10M budget, and I don't understand what will happen if we reduce it to a $6M, gee my rationality is extremely bounded... but I know enough about management in general, to know that making big changes is risky, and all my underlings keep telling me that cutting budget to $6M is a terrible idea --> therefore, despite my too-bounded rationality, I will be competent enough to realize that not changing anything is the safer path (even if I don't fully understand why, and even if I have no crystal ball to predict next year's budget process)"

Maybe you would just call that having "self-awareness of their own bounds"? And if you have self-awareness than maybe that automatically disqualifies you from being "too bounded"? But absent arbitrary semantic rules like that, the ability to make wise choices with imperfect understanding or large gaps in knowledge, is itself a demonstrable and valuable skill that some people have, others can learn, and also some that will utterly fail to ever grok.
Weatherbot: Weather Forecasting for Vintage Macs
Spanish guy here. The standard name is cilantro, used for both the seeds and the leaves. The Mexicans got the name from us, not the other way :P

However, I have seen the opposite situation, Mexican people calling the seeds "coriandro", probably due to USA influence.
I couldn't tell you. I wanted to release my apps on iOS (also about a decade ago), but there's no way I'm paying Apple $100/yr to release free apps.
If the slaves in Sparta far outnumbered the native population of Spartans, what exactly kept them from revolting and taking over? Was it just because the Spartans were all trained as warriors?
This is true about a lot of things.

The optimal number of (minor) crashes when training for a mountain bike race is non-zero. If you never crash, you cannot be sure you were going fast enough around that turn.
That's a truly excellent tip, I definitely need to go tweak that setting.
KLondike-5 is really just 555. Those old exchange names were made up from the exchange's assigned numeric digits. That's why both the K and the L are capitalized, and why e.g. ACademy, BAldwin, and CAnal were all the same exchange. Probably still a better example than 1-800-FLOWERS though.
Quarterly fees are ~$15k

The domain for my work project was over $400k. Buying a gTLD would have been way cheaper, but wouldn't have managed to get us the cool domain we have.

edit: on the other hand, we're hostage to a country who could ruin everything. I guess someone above my pay grade rolled the dice
> The most people seem to be able to do is to cargo cult / parrot, misunderstand, and misappropriate quips like “security by obscurity bad!"

That is the point. It is a good rule of thumb for people who don't know much about security. Anything they create trying to add more security to their system is more likely to do the opposite.

If you think you know better, feel free to ignore it. Just be aware you wouldn't be the first who thought they knew what they were doing or even the first who did know, yet still messed up.
Do they? The point of digital nomads is to live anywhere, so they won't be attached to their location.

It's the Danegeld, why should we want to attract those people?
I think GP's comment describes the business model of AdBlock / AdBlock Plus / Ghostery to a tee, and they collectively seem to be bigger in usage and notoriety than uBlock.
Yet Another Link Shortener => Custom Metadata API and Free QR
>"There are many groups for whom hotels as the only option simply doesn't work," she says. "While the hotel industry has done legwork to be accommodating to families, the room layouts and prices don't work for the majority of families (especially those with 2+ kids) trying to take short breaks to cities. There has to be a way to balance the goals of the city while still catering to this segment of travellers – it's a huge loss to parents who want to introduce their children to the world."

As someone who occasionally travels with his two children: this ignores pricing completely. The second you need a family-sized AirBnb you might as well go for a hotel; at least here in Australia family-sized rooms are cheaper in hotels than on AirBnb, where you generally need half a house. I'd rather my children live in a world where they can afford rent.
Not Wittgenstein :cool:
My point really was about scale. Put some wasteful code in some rarely used application and it means nothing (the proverbial drop in the bucket). Put the same thing in a very popular app or library which is used by millions (or even billions); then it is a whole different story. It seems YouTube fits this bill. But because the collective cost is spread across all the users; no one is pressed to fix it.
Well, yeah, those people now need to find a new solution and they lost their data (save files).
A Mini Monitor for a Pi
PSA: Try not to chuck 'unsafe-inline' into your Content-Security-Policy thoughtlessly--it disables the anti-injection protections of CSP. There are safe ways to permit inline scripts, if you even need them.

https://content-security-policy.com/
this must be a native nations influence into the laws of Ecuador...so cool!
"Radio is more resilient than software."
Good Hear!
I had the privilege of rocking up in NOLA in a sodding huge cruise ship some years ago after whizzing across the Atlantic. I am well aware that it wasn't the "greenest" action I have ever performed.

It takes nearly a day to crawl up the river M from the Gulf of Mexico. A 18 deck monster at around 180,000 tonnes has to take it easy to avoid damaging the levees with its wash, scouring out the river bed etc. At one point, over the course of 45 minutes, our captain decided to overtake a tanker (showboating). A few minutes later we had to park up in a herringbone formation to wait our turn to dock, which took several hours.

I think it is around 70-80 miles from the sea to NOLA. From 18 storeys up a river as huge as the Mississippi still looks huge. The levees don't look very large though from up there though, they look very flat and fragile.

I studied Civil Engineering in Plymouth (Devon, not MA) and that trip on a cruise ship gave me quite a perspective on engineering works and nature.

@pjot - if you get a chance, take a run up the Mississippi on a really big ship. Its quite an eye opener.
> you'll see that private capital formation always played a critical role

Portugal's previous economic successes have always been state-adjacent, as every single other place on Earth: CUF had state monopolies, EDP, PT (state monopolies), TAP (state owned). Just like Silicon Valley, there's nothing private about takin money or privileges from the state and selling it as "hard work".
Thank you! I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on with the bracketed words.

I didn't try very hard, because the post was already heavy down voted and I thought maybe there just wasn't much sense to be made of it, but I'm glad someone explained.

Suffice it to say I would rather deal with numbers out of order than random words.
Mozilla wants web users to be targeted with online advertising and/or pay for online advertising not Firefox development.

Mozilla is an online advertising advocacy project. Just try suggesting to anyone from Mozilla the idea of web without ads. They will be 100% opposed, unwilling to even consider alternatives, as if they are being paid to defend this pro-advertising position. They are indeed being paid indirectly from the coffers of an advertising company.

"Free and open web" apparently means web open for advertising. The presence/absence of advertising on the web is a non-negotiable. Mozilla insists advertising is a must-have.

Why was the original internet free of ads before it went public. Are there more important uses for a computer network. ISPs privatised the financing for the network. We pay for internet. It is not free. Funding from advertising has never been a necessity.

But Mozilla argues advertising is 100% essential.
I wish this had a way to hook up to a Hyper-V Virtual Switch. That way I could get 86box on a the network reliably, SLiRP and PCap works badly imho.

Anyone knows where the API docs for hyper-v virtual switch is?
To complement your argument, I once was invited to speak at an event in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and was astonished to learn that outdoors advertising is _banned_ in that city.

Yet somehow people have still been buying mattresses, cars, and laundry detergent.

I can't say I missed the ads one minute during my trip.
I just yesterday logged into Prime video after not having used it for a while and saw that they added ads. I went straight to Amazon and cancelled my prime subscription.
home loans at 6%+ and house prices still shooting up!
> you only get a couple of these un-launches before you get a reputation like Google has.

That's just not true. Companies cancel things all the time. Obviously these weren't exactly selling well -- what else is a company supposed to do?

The fact that literally no other company has the reputation for cancelling things that Google has, should tell you that their reputation is something very specific to Google, for whatever reason.
I feel like this is a great idea, but as with other lisps, it looks really unfamiliar and loses the simple readability that python has for me.
So DocumentDB? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870397
True, but you’d have to travel for hours to get there, which makes it kinda inconvenient unless you want to have a permanent club meeting.
This is cool—happy to see more stuff like this. I like the idea of creating a private RSS feed with a CMS and having it ship out to a service like this automagically.
That’s not true - the average storage duration for grid batteries used in non-stabalization roles is 4 hours - see https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51798 and that’s from a few years ago. Since then the xMW, 4xMWh format has become almost universal.
I’ve used SES for nearly a decade. It’s fine if you stick with it.
Is the number of sallaried employees smaller than the number of companies? I bet it is.

Every film is technically a company, it's easier to account for expenses that way.
I don’t understand this comment.

It IS a predictable problem. And they predicted it, and did something about it.

If you live in a super hot location you can’t always get stuff shipped year round.

I’d prefer that to dealing with the return and refund process.
AIUI, Servo has been a failure because Rust is not very good at this problem domain. Browsers have to deal with circular references and this is easily handled in C++.

Hopefully someone who knows more will explain this better
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They branded it as Apple Intelligence, they won't just say "AI" anymore
Yeah I should put this somewhere! In the meantime, right after img.alt =... you can add

// improve styling
img.className = frame.className;
img.id = frame.id;
img.style.width = frame.width +"px";

That last line is a hack (eg resizing), but it's required to make the test website work since annoyingly their CSS uses :is(frame).
God this comment is obnoxious.

If a visitor has different opinions then they can implement their opinions. Webmaster didn't stop that.

Nearly every user won't care.
I am glad "pop culture" links to exactly the song I expected.
Yes, if the tax rate was 0, all Americans would move to Portugal. It's only economically efficent.
Someone already shared an example of how difficult the dsp code is to read. There's tons of magic numbers and short variable names with no description of why the code does what. Again, that's cool if you want to use the compiled version in a song, but it's not friendly to learn from. But I don't think the goal of this project is to be educational, it's just a little bonus that the code is open source.

There's also just things like uneven indentation, lots of things to reduce linecount at the expense of readability like single line if statements. Old optimization tricks that aren't necessary with modern compiler like `while (--sampleFrames >= 0)`.

Here's another example file

https://github.com/airwindows/airwindows/blob/master/plugins...

And the project structure is really weird. Normally you would use a framework like JUCE or iPlug, or write your own, such that your dsp code is written once and your multiplatform code is separate. Instead every platform (Mac, Windows, Linux, VST, AU) are a separate codebase with all the dsp code duplicated.

He's definitely using some sort of templating system to do this, maybe even using some tool that lets him write the dsp in Python or Matlab and converts it to C++. Basically these files in the github are not his true "source", this is generated from his real source. For that reason, commits are often massive and unhelpful in tracing changes to any individual effect.

For example, a recent commit where he added the WolfBot effect, a guitar amp simulator, has 427 changed files and 150,284 added lines. Also even though the commit is titled WolfBot, this commit includes the addition of other fx, CreamCoat, DeRez3, kCathedral3, kGuitarHall, kPlate140, kPlate240.

https://github.com/airwindows/airwindows/commit/7623a1c14b01...
That's because they want people to write AI apps and the only place getting new apps made anymore is ipad and ios.
They have plans to release related products for the home.

So no, they shouldn't be obligated to release the code, because obviously that's code that may be greatly reused, and they don't exactly want to help out competitors (nor should they be obligated to).

Also, they're refunding the devices entirely (with an additional credit) and taking them back for recycling. So they seem to be doing 100% the right things here.
This is the one near my place. I suspect you can find a similar one nearby: http://sdh-takaido.sakura.ne.jp/kumin.html

(It was a bit more expensive than I remembered, but still extremely reasonable)
I don't mind this person relating their experiences, and encouraging others to do similar. But as someone who is (and strives to be!) non-verbal in a lot of my thought, keep in mind that there are other brain types out there (:

This article is sprinkled with "people this" and "people that" terminology, which is mirrored in our broader culture. But I say it is actually "some people this" and "some people that." Don't be a word-chauvinist.

To be fair, I do appreciate that a lot of the author's sentences started with "When I ..." and similar. Makes it more palatable to me.

----

This idea I just wrote down was fully-formed in my mind, and I could have just moved on with my life. I chose to put it into words (and pick those words, and re-edit them, spending my short time on this planet to do so) in order to communicate it to you, dear reader. Not to help me think (:

(though I do sometimes use words to help me think, too. Let's not get too black-and-white about it)
If your kids can't afford rent, that's because your city/county isn't building enough new housing units. It's not because of AirBnB.

The way I see it, AirBnB is simply taking advantage of the fact that, in many cities, there's too few hotel rooms, and the prices are much too high for various reasons (excessive taxes, lack of supply, etc.). It shouldn't be cheaper for an individual to buy a whole house and rent it out on a per-day basis (esp. at the crazy prices houses cost in those same places) than for a person to just get a hotel room for a few nights from a big company that's built a large building full of separate rooms for this specific purpose, but it frequently is. That means something is deeply wrong with the market. The problem isn't AirBnB, the problem is the local (or national) government and its policies and regulation.
Radio receivers have significant digital components which may leave more trail than the spy intends.

I like how some malware hides in plain sight and relays through google analytics.
I did.

I used to pay for their stuff, but I have moved to Seafile and Fastmail. Only google product I still use is YouTube, everything else has been replaced and I don't consider new Google products anymore.
The state that certifies the colleges.
Pythontutor
Different products for different markets are different products for different markets.

It's entirely common to pivot from non-product-market-fit to product-market-fit. That's what companies are supposed to do.
> If you can provide a citation for this claim I'd get a subscription today. I don't pay for their side projects because I don't want them to take it as a signal of demand for VPNs, but if it's truly 100% profit I'd be willing to risk it.

Fair enough. They publish their annual financial report but it isn't splitted per project so it's hard to know for a fact with the public information we have access to. However, it isn't unreasonable to think that at the very least a percentage of the smaller products revenues are reinjected elsewhere in the organization (e.g Firefox) since the goal seems to be to diversify their income sources.

> People keep saying this, but given that it's never been tried you have no proof. And even if it were, what harm is there in opening up one more option for those of us who want to be really clear about what we're paying for?

It's been tried over and over in the FOSS community. Few projects are able to get decent money with donations (e.g. Thunderbird). However, it's nowhere near the complexity of a web browser.

For example, Thunderbird made almost $7M (USD) in 2023 for an average of $20 per donation which is 350k users out of 20M monthly active users [1]. Firefox has 10 times that number of users so we could estimate that they'd make $70M/year. That's far from $500M/year they're doing right now.

[1]: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...
lot of us would take first two over high bandwidth

so far im seeing starlink + modded smartphone

"s4tll1te p1r4cy" that ppl outside N America ignore but supposedly risky for everyone else

variations on LoRa (still not convinced it can evade tri)
Agentless: Demystifying LLM-Based Software Engineering Agents
False economy. The trade-off between "saving some syllables" and the concomitant problems it causes is not worth it.

To this day I don't know what Eli8 means, and I'm not going to even bother to look it up. It's not communication.
ESXi has great virtual switch support, more extensible, adaptable, and scriptable than Hyper-V so far as I’ve seen.
Ah, yeah, we kinda have to work around the fact that the antivirus and scanner stuff keeps installing far after the time the instance is done processing the job.

On the plus side, I actually get actionable notifications from the stuff, so it’s not purely bad for me.
"Google", as a verb, should begin transitioning to mean 'cancel product':

Amazon have googled Astro robots.
Go see him in person. He’s now doing in person shows. I had to see it live in order to really believe he was doing what he showed on his social media. Absolutely mind blowing. He’s my favorite
Even if it returned 1.0, that would still leave 9 being produced a _very_ small amount of the time (like 1 in 18 quintillion assuming the full range of a float mapped from 0.0-1.0). Even at 20 characters, 24 times a day, year round, you’d only see a 9 pop up once in every 100 trillion years or so.

Lots of ways to mess that up (`rand() % 9`?). I’m more surprised that nobody noticed for so long. It’s not like this was some subtle cryptographic bug that would have required deep analysis to catch… “you had one job”, and just glancing at the output was, evidentially, enough for a lot of other people to catch on.
Tor is neither anonymous or safe, there has been variety of vulnerabilities, zero days.

The other options involving radios, satellites is far more sexy
> Germany has been the biggest exporter of electricity in the world in 8 of the last 10 years.

Sure. The good old coal power plants and natgas turbines are extremely reliable and capable.

As for Germany being an exporter, Sweden and Norway both have recently declined to expand their interconnects with Germany. They don't want their local markets to be swamped by cheap low-quality power during the summer, and then squeezed during the winter when German renewables are greatly diminished.

> Not to say that there are no grounds for criticizing German policy but most of the criticism seems to be politically motivated rather than based on specific failures of the policy.

The specific failure of the policy is simple. Germany's power is DIRTY. And it's not getting any better.

> Secondly, why hydrogen?

Because there are no alternatives. Power-to-methane is going to be about 3-4 times more expensive than pure hydrogen. And again, this is not my personal preference, but the official policy of the German state.

> To be honest it's a minor issue in the grand scheme of things - keeping natural gas around to cover the last 10% of electricity

It won't be 10%, more likely 30% once Germany switches to electric heating and EVs. This switch right now is being held back by horribly high energy cost.
Good god, this is straight up rackateering
Yes, Con Ed now has smart meters that report electricity usage in realtime at 15 minute intervals. If you use Home Assistant, you can perhaps make use of the Opower integration to get this data: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/opower/

Although implementing the realtime API in the Opower integration has not yet been completed. That said, I don't think it would be too hard to implement. See: https://github.com/tronikos/opower/issues/24

This realtime data is also available and graphed on your account page on the Con Ed website and mobile app.

I wrote my own code that uses Con Ed's realtime API and writes the data to Prometheus so that I can view it in Grafana. My code was heavily influenced by Home Assistant's Opower integration code. Here's my code: https://github.com/dasl-/pitools/blob/main/sensors/measure_e...
Can anyone with access to the paper list the results by brand?
There’s a great app called PiPifier, which allows you to use PiP for free on iOS.
Intel, R2 Semiconductor Each Take on Risk in German Patent Fight
https://archive.is/bwh3f