skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're exactly right here. It's not that people don't think of it as a health device, and that probably helps sales via justification. But most people I know who have it, when asked, have no F-ing clue what about their health they're tracking.

And yeah, if you do care that much (amateur or pro athlete training) there's no way the A-watch is the primary device for you. Garmin is the king of the hill in that market.
from their homepage

> Xata is the only serverless data platform for PostgreSQL.

ummm. what about https://neon.tech/?
question is DOES OLIVE OIL HAVE THIS COMPOUND? HOW MUCH?
Yes. Or more general:
work hard to get something. Even if you will never reach it, you might still improve enough in general, to be ready to do and get something else instead.
Conceptually, just a bit, practically (in terms of implementation), a lot. The standard python implementation internally compiles a kernel for your specific hardware.
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You’re right. It bugs me that pain teaches but fun doesn’t. Not much to do about it though.
What a practical use case of such thing?
Passkeys or FIDO hardware tokens are the solution, as written up by Google ages ago, because they only enter the TOTP code when the URL matches the right site, it wouldn't enter the code for the phishing URL
> to allow long term profitable companies to weather short term undercutting by larger companies who can take the losses to kill a competitor

This doesn't work in a free market. Look up David Friedman's discussion in, IIRC, Price Theory of competitors to Standard Oil.

> the Exxon Valdeeze spill

This was a product of ineffective government regulation, not a free market. In a free market Exxon would have been bankrupt after one such spill--and knowing that would be the outcome, they would have taken better steps to prevent it. Similar remarks apply to, for example, the Deepwater Horizon spill.

> the cost of litigation is massively skewed

And why? Because governments made it that way.
The technology is extremely flexibile, off the top of my head:

* Education (Linux, Programming, Security, ...)

* Live docs for arbitrary languages and binary libraries

* Preservation of historical software and games

* Virtualization of legacy Windows enterprise apps.

* Dev environment for Web IDEs

Just a few examples, the list could go on for long
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Micromouse is primarily a robotics competition but they care about their algorithms greatly. It's a rectilinear maze and concerned about turning accuracy and acceleration etc, but there should be plenty of more abstract stuff in that space about most effective maze solving algorithms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromouse

For example: https://swati-mishra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/advanced...
Yeah, there's a recurring meme that all VR/AR needs is some "killer app" to show up and suddenly break through to the mass market.

The device is simply far too expensive. No software is going to meaningfully change the value proposition relative to its competitors.
> I think this started around the 90ies that devices turned into magic black box consumables that are expected to "just work" while being undiagnosable when they don't.

I would say that it's more that the architectures where a manual created by the integrator could tell you anything useful, became irrelevant/obviated by architectures where it wouldn't.

Including a manual with a printed wiring block diagram of the hardware, made sense in the 1970s, when you (or the repair guy you called) needed something to guide your multimeter-probe-points for repair of a board consisting of a bunch of analogue parts.

And such a manual still made sense in the 1980s, now for guiding your oscilloscope signal-probing of jellybean digital-logic parts ("three NOT gates in a DIP package" kind of things) to figure out which ones have blown their magic smoke.

But once you get to the 90s, you get complex ICs that merge (integrate!) 90% of the stuff that was previously sitting out as separate components on the board; and what's remaining on the board at that point, besides those few ICs, just becomes about supporting those complex ICs.

At that point, all of the breakage modes that matter, start to happen inside the ICs. And if it's the ICs that are broken, then you none of the information from a wiring block diagram is going to be helpful; no problem you encounter is likely to be solved by probing across the board. Rather, you'll only ever be probing the pins of an individual IC.

Which means that what really helps, in the 90s and still today, are pin-out diagrams for each individual IC.

Providing that information isn't really the responsibility of the board manufacturer, though; they didn't make the ICs they're using. Rather, it's the responsibility of the IC company — who you don't have any direct relationship with, and therefore who don't have cause to be sending you you data-sheets.

Thankfully, these IC companies do sell these parts; and so they mostly have their IC data-sheets online. (No idea how you would have figured any of this out in the 90s, though. Maybe the 90s equivalent of Digikey kept phonebook-thick binders containing all the datasheets they receive along with the parts they order, and maybe repair people could order [photo]copies of that binder from them?)
Doesn't feel conclusive. A markdown file in a somewhat popular repo is likely elsewhere on the internet too
Other countries have a larger denominator to reduce the proportion of visits vs arbitrary detention and torture.
I personally don’t feel like my tax dollars are wasted, by and large. I also live in a large metro where I see my tax dollars being spent all over the place on worthwhile projects. Is every dollar spent as efficient as possible? No, but humans don’t operate at peak efficiently and never will.
This is novel to me. The last line is critical though, this only works if you are out-investing a maxed out 401k. Meaning, after investing over $20k, if you are investing an additional $100k, you are better off taking risks in that 401k because a moonshot there would be well protected and a loss there would be minor relative to other investments you presumably have.

Thanks for sharing, but for most this is, as you said, terrible investment advice.
I hope for your own sake you don't talk like this to people in real life.
> I'm struggling to think of a case where the free market came up with an environmentally-friendly solution.

Ronald Coase would beg to differ.
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> The team extracted the acid from existing oleuropein products.

That may be the best route, chugging some Olive Leaf Extract... For example, this product has 95mg standadized Oleuropein

https://www.barleans.com/collections/olive-leaf-complex/prod...

I'd want to see some lab results of the potency & purity first though.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40936995
(Same answer as a more deeply nested comment below)

The technology is extremely flexibile, off the top of my head:

* Education (Linux, Programming, Security, ...)

* Live docs for arbitrary languages and binary libraries

* Preservation of historical software and games

* Virtualization of legacy Windows enterprise apps.

* Dev environment for Web IDEs

Just a few examples, the list could go on for long
> But you're saying that you want a single model to handle all NPCs and the whole world.

No, I did not say that at all. I didn't specify how the LLMs may or may not be structure. I'm saying that current LLMs - and yes I've used Claude 3.5 Sonnet - are insufficient. There is no existence proof that they're sufficient.

LLMs are great. They aren't great enough for video game NPC. Not yet. Further innovation is needed. You're free to disagree. I can't prove a dispositive. But there is no working example.
Maybe you and your social circle. I get to work at 6:30 AM; despite being fairly far south in the US, I wake up in full night and drive to work in nautical twilight around the winter solstice.

Even in summer, I wake just before the beginning of civil twilight.

Needless to say, a late night for me is 10 pm.
> how Apple announcing they've cancelled the next Vision Pro to work on a lower cost version is squared up

Apple's made no such announcement, and the presence of the "Pro" moniker implies that a non-Pro version has always been planned.
Also, on modern machines you almost never want to be editing the xorg.conf. xrandr took over the responsibility of doing resolution stuff.

To fix the resolution on a modern distro the sequence is something like this (use your actual monitor dimensions and refresh rate of course):

% cvt 1920 1080 60

Copy everything past "Modeline" into a cut buffer.

% xrandr --newmode <paste the line from above>

Keep a note of the first line in the field, it will look something like "1920x1080_60", this is the "mode name"

Next, find out what your monitor is named:

% xrandr | grep ' connected '

It will be HDMI-1 or VGA-1 or something like that, this is your "interface name".

Now add the mode to your monitor specification:

% sudo xrandr --addmode <interface name> <mode name>

Finally, switch to the new mode:

% xrandr --output <interface name> --mode <mode name>

This is the modern way of doing it. Manually setting up modelines in the xorg config file is oldschool.
The answer depends on a still unresolved issue of whether RFL can build usable safe and zero-overhead abstractions around kernel APIs. This work isn't complete, and it's hard to say whether the current issues are from immature integration, or a sign there are fundamental limitations.

Rust was able to give safety guarantees where other languages couldn't by forbidding certain code patterns that complicate or break static analysis (ambiguous ownership, unrestricted mutations). Rust also has its own arbitrary design choices such as reserving a right to memcpy structs to a different address.

For Rust code written from scratch these limitations are not a big deal. Rust programs pick architectures and design patterns that work with and not against the language.

But Linux never had to worry about having statically known ownership of pointers. It could do whatever it wanted with uninitialized memory. It could play with pointers however it wanted.

So RFL needs to bend backwards to support design patterns that are not idiomatic Rust. It remains to be seen where the compromise will end up (less safe Rust APIs? or more complex? Not zero-overhead? Maybe the Linux will change its APIs to fit Rust, or maybe Rust will change to help RFL).
Related:

Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40939627
Any reason why "follow the right-hand wall" (and perhaps a few little scratches on the plywood) wouldn't work?
Medieval is right.
Some other coverage: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/10/elon-musk-does-not-owe-ex-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935439
Thanks, appreciate the answer. I expected there wasn't much to it, but sometimes these things go deeper.
"Haidt has a whole career built around demonizing letting children use the internet."

Social media is not "the internet".

Looking at the total volume of Haidt's publications over his academic career, most have nothing to do with the internet, social media or even computers.

Further, only a minority of his books are about the computers or the internet.

As such, this statement does not appear to be supported by facts.
Do you think the people who authored Kubernetes are unfamiliar with Ansible?
No, thanks :)
Yeah, that's the answer (it's a shame it's currently so low), but I don't think it's in terms the OP will be able to relate to. I'm sure he can achieve all of those examples already.

So I'll try to refine it.

The main reason an organization uses Jenkins or Chief instead of in-house code is because they can just post job positions requiring knowledge on Jenkins or Chief, instead of minutely describing the person's tasks and training newcomers on their internal tools.

So, yeah, those tools do lots of desirable things. And slightly simplify a huge number of tasks. But the main reason one won't find a job without some experience with them is that they act a lot like competence standards on the job market.

And yeah, for a job seeker it does look a lot like they are bullshit. (And they often are - Jenkins and Chief not so much, but others are a lot.) The OP's question is a lot like "why should I learn standard calculus notation if I can calculate everything just fine on my own notation?", and if you replace that with stuff like type theory you will find people actually asking that question. The answer is always the same, it's because you need it to communicate with other people.
It's a bit different in academia, especially if you are Donald Knuth! When do you think was the last time he sent a CV to a company looking for a job? The 60s?
European talking but do you feel the proportion of tax being wasted has increased or decreased since the last 2 decades ? Did public service got better or worse ? Social program ? Education ? Foreign Policy ?

I always felt that America had low taxes and most of it was used to deliver the bare minimum services (police, defense, public servant, social program) or even below (public schools, teacher, justice, IRS...) what is necessary for a society to sustain itself.
Actually, he's not messing with the fuel.

Note what he said about the ascent engine failing to eject. That means he's using standard professionally manufactured hobby rocket motors. (Which, realistically, is all that most people legally can do. The bigger stuff is subject to a lot of hazardous materials regulations that range from burdensome to completely impossible depending on how much space you have.)
I had some $1000+ months with Adsense (not affiliate) but I think total I may have made $400 so in Amazon Affiliate marketing over the last 20 years (books) and close to $0 with the others.
> The true test for Apple’s spatial dreams may rest on the rumored (slightly) cheaper headset.

They're gonna have to do a lot better than "slightly" there. At least to make it a success in more than just the US.
> Already feels like they can work around that by having the "Don't wait on hold, we'll call you back when an agent is ready" feature.

I tried this recently with an airline (AA). The next callback time was like 10 hours later. A bit crazy but ok I took it.

When the time came I get a call. From an agent? Nope. From the same automated system which cheerfully announced this was my callback, now please wait for the next available agent! After being on hold for 10+ minutes I gave up.
If I'm hiring 20 people in a field that's 80% women and 20% men, why would I expect to hire more than 20% men? Unless I have some evidence to think that one gender is better on average than the other, then we'd expect a non-discriminatory hiring process to hire women and men in equal proportions relative to the field.

If a firm is staffed by bigoted hiring managers that favor men, we'd actually expect closer to equal representation amongst those bigoted firms. Because they're bigoted against women and less likely to hire them, they end up with a more "equitable" workforce. If a firm in our hypothetical field is bigoted against women, and hires women at half the rate as men, then it'd actually end up with a representation of ~40% women and 60% men. It's closer to equitable because of its discriminatory policies.

This is a great example of why equity isn't evidence of nondiscrimination, and gender disparity isn't evidence of discrimination.

> Separately, why would this be obviously best for the company?

Illegally discriminating against pregnant women benefits the company: maternity leave is expensive, and avoiding expecting women saves money. Does that make it a good thing? Remember, nondiscrimination is both morally right and the law of the land (in most liberal democracies, at least), even if you have reason to believe that increasing or decreasing the representation of certain groups is advantageous.

> Does matching parity with the field somehow ensure the best quality or cost/performance?

Hiring the best candidates ensures the best quality and cost to performance ratio. Unless you have some reason to believe that men are better than women, then matching parity of the field is a side-effect of hiring the best candidates.

> Does this still hold at firms that are smaller than the largest (say: under 5k engineers)? Why?

Sure, a small sample size is going to have more variance. A one-woman consulting firm is going to have 100% women employees. That's not evidence of discrimination. But nor is a one-man consulting firm that's 100% male. Smaller firms have a lower sample size and are naturally going to have larger variance due to smaller sample sizes. But it'll all average out.
There's a YouTube creator I follow who started using AI images for his thumbnails and it's very off-putting. It makes me not want to watch his videos.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40938696
Outdoors, I guess you could use direction of sun as a guiding beacon, to decrease the confusion of which way you're pointed. 8ft tall walls in a desert will hide other landmarks I assume.
Me and 10 out of 15 devs of my team got hired and we are very happy with current client for almost a year now.
I think it’s kinda nuts that we discuss changing what time it is instead of like, “we should start work and school later in the day”

I mean sure changing the clocks for DST is silly and we should stop, but the discussions are almost always really about “everyone hates waking up super early for work and school”. We can fix this without changing our clocks.
The Wired deep dive on the couple whose lab this came from is worth a read: https://www.wired.com/story/sleep-no-more-crusade-genetic-ki...
Gimjang week is pretty common in SK as well, especially among the elders

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimjang
> "Accelerate" would mean firing your rockets to change your orbit

That's almost what I meant! Spacecraft, acceleration to pick up speed (not to go higher), stock-exchange cheaters.

I don't get the "don't need" or "don't want". It is part of my scenario. I also don't want a twin falling into a black hole, but it is a thought experiment that helps put things in perspective, specially for layman like me.

I always heard of the scenario of the twin at the speed of light that remains younger. I am introducing an element of communication (originally, clocks with laser beams then stock exchange rates) into that scenario and trying to understand what the offsets mean.

This is all above my paygrade, I know, so don't worry! I know I'm far from getting it and I don't want to bother :)
Does it really need a CPU as powerful as a MacBook Pro though, I wonder. It certainly doesn't offer the same capabilities as one.

This looks like one of the primary targets to start cutting.
As an engineer I generally want logs so I can dive into problems that weren't anticipated. Debugging.

I get a lot of pushback from ops folks. They often don't have the same use case. The logs are for the things that'll be escalated beyond the ops folks to the people that wrote the bug.

Yes, most (> 99.99%) of them will never be looked at. But storage is supposed to be cheap, right? If we can waste bytes on loading a copy of Chromium for each desktop application, surely we can waste bytes on this.

My argument is completely orthogonal to "do we want to generate metrics from structured logs".
Counting his money. I use a magnifying glass.
I'd argue we wouldn't have Snap [for the better] if their LTS releases weren't visually bound to years... saving overhead they regularly create for cosmetic reasons.

Wouldn't have to create it to consolidate platforms if they stopped making them so often!

They have three concurrent LTS releases when they need one. Maybe two. 18.04 is the python2 of distributions. Let it go.

Having worked in several places that relied on it... ESM is being the bad kind of enabler.

Fedora handles "The Snap Problem" -- many target distributions -- with 'fedpkg' and 'mock'. Software and machines on the build side. Not by degrading the end user experience. They do participate with Flatpak... but that's peer pressure more than anything.

Flatpak is more well-rounded IMO. Probably from being the broader answer. Maybe this all doesn't make an argument. Just a bunch of statements. I don't know.

Back on topic: I wonder what all of this Canonical stuff in particular is for/leads to. New software isn't scary; 'just' plan/test. It becomes scary when you get lazy here... so accept your involvement.
I'm really sure that drinking olive oil increases bodyweight, not decreases it.
Always a place for Steve Buscemi type characters in Hollywood if you have charm
This is what I've heard from those I know that take anti depressants - the time that is suggested before you would be able to look back and say: "I'm doing much better than four weeks ago", is a bit daunting.

First and foremost because you take them at a point in your life where you're, well, depressed (used as a blanket term here). So patiently waiting for the effect to manifest is a burden in itself, in addition to hoping it works and not being sure if you're experiencing a placebo or actual effect.

But what scares me more, personally, is that it takes such a long time to get on and ween off. It seems to fundamentally change something in the human body or brain. As opposed to e.g. amphetamines, and benzos, which may have long lasting effects from prolonged use, but otherwise appear to be pretty straight forward.

Having never needed antidepressants, I'm curious if others who have taken them, worried about this before or afterwards?
> providing customer support on a massive scale is hard

This is a silly myth that these providers want to use as an excuse.

Support has a lot of economy of scale so providing support to a huge user base is a lot cheaper per user than doing so if you only have a few customers.
>Why did they build a maze for the Minotaur with a possible escape route rather than just an ordinary prison? Why leave the possibility of escape open?

Because it was not a maze, the Minotaur lived in the center of a labyrinth. A labyrinth is a continuous path that leads to the center. The objective was to send people into it so they would end up in the Minotaur's lair and be devoured. The reason the monster stayed was that he had everything he needed there, especially food.
What is it wasted on specifically and what do you think taxes should be spent on specifically?
It doesn't work in my Chrome on Android. The cursor is blinking, nothing happens.

If a browser is not supported, the site should display a specific error message.
I would love a service, where I can pay 2$ per month, pre-paid, something like my email, and then get a worry free Postgres instance - some limits as what these free databases offer, just for 1-2$ a month so that I know that I pay my part and that the database is kept alive.

But all DBaaS's seem to offer free or at least 20$ per month, which is excessive for a small hobby project.

Does that exist?
> So far the only market for VR is niche entertainment.

That's not true. VR also thrives in corporate. Niches, yes. But it does do well there. Training and simulation scenarios in particular. There's some tools like uptale and arthur that capitalise on this.

And VR games are really really good and add a lot of immersion. I don't like to game without it anymore.

I don't think VR is for everything and everyone but there certainly are usecases for it.
Sounds like this person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ragan
Is it not possible to fix the one package from the debian sources vs waiting for ubuntu to allow him to get it from them?
Is there a similar conspiracy today for LED lightbulbs? They should be lasting 10,000 to 20,000 hours, but they don't.
That reminds me of using a CRT monitor to broadcast audio through radio waves: http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/