skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well-written article. Introduces what the library is/does, gives background context, includes a high-level overview of the system, and demonstrates how it solves the problem.
Let them ponder this - I'm not renting a mouse.
Implementation of RFID systems in real laundries (2017) [video]
IIRC, they produce their own hardware (including using consumer-grade components, if I'm not mistaken) and optimize every bit for efficiency. Managed services also come with an extra fee. From my experience, they're also more selective about clients.

They're also based in Germany, so they don't have to pay the hyper-inflated SV salaries and probably don't overhire, but I'm only speculating here.
Excerpts from my list that might be popular here:

Embedded - a podcast about making and loving gadgets. It is for hardware and software engineers, makers, and hobbyists.

No Such Thing as a Fish - QI researchers Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski and Andrew Hunter Murray share the most bizarre, extraordinary and hilarious facts they’ve discovered over the last seven days.

A Problem Squared - dedicated to solving problems of all kinds

Imaginary Worlds - an episodic science fiction and fantasy podcast that deconstructs the genres and their themes.

Twenty Thousand Hertz - stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds.

Sidedoor - With the help of biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers, and astrophysicists, host Lizzie Peabody sneaks listeners through Smithsonian’s side door to search for stories that can’t be found anywhere else.

99% Invisible - a sound-rich, narrative podcast hosted by Roman Mars about all the thought that goes into the things we don't think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.

Psychology of Video Games - Examining the intersection of psychology and video games
Damn - this + the hospice piece really hits home.

My dad is rapidly loosing his battle with ALS. He has always loved to cut grass. He has very limited mobility (in some ways he is lucky, most people with late stage ALS are basically paralyzed. His progression is respiratory focuses so he is loosing the ability to breath faster than the ability to walk) but with some assistance has still been able to use my zero turn mower and get a little joy out of cutting my grass.

Just this Sunday he reached the point where he can't cut anymore...I guess he is out of salt :'(
Or they could do one bigger tunnel and put a train into it like every other city with a functional public transport?
I probably have a mental list of places I'd like to visit. I also have a set of weeks I'm willing and able to take off.

Then it's a combination of flights.google.com to check for less expensive travel fare for those destinations in those weeks, followed by also googling for nicer hotels in those areas.

Depending on the trip, I might consider airbnb, like if it's a skiing trip or just some little beach town destination, but it doesn't apply to all destinations.

Then once I've landed on 2-3 ideas, I also check if I can get those flights for miles rather than dollars. There's some correlation between "cheaper fares" and "lower miles" but I can't use google.flights.com to search directly with miles, so I use fares as a proxy. If no good deals on miles, then I just pay with hard earned dollars...

It's an involved process, so I will spend some time on it, advance a little, discuss with my wife, sleep on it, come back to it later... it might take me up to a week to hammer out the best candidates, sometimes longer.
>Must it be a war? Must there be a winner?

Definitely a war. There's no question about that.

I'm not all that familiar with Bruckner; but reading about him seems to make me feel like he's not a contemporary anymore; probably not understanding the complexity here.Not to mention the impossible understanding of per jurisdiction differences.

>here had been waves of terrorist attacks across Europe, and endless headlines about the climate emergency coming for us all.

Which has everything to do with this war.

>I think it's good that the status quo got mixed up a bit. The introverts don't have to defend themselves or feel like outsiders quite so much.

It's not so much what the introverts are doing, it's all about what the extroverts arent allowed to do anymore. Having been prohibited by law. Whereas the introverts have not been attacked YET.

>It almost feels like the author is eager to get back to what they are comfortable with, at the expense of (by their numbers) 1/3 of other people's lifestyles. It's almost like they are the ones afraid of this change — like they are the selfish ones.

Agreed, you can see the narcissism in the article.

>But I don't really go for the whole us-vs-them approach at all.

100% it's us vs them. There's no balance to be struck, the attack has been ongoing for a long time and if you surrender in this fight, it will only be getting much worse. The big difference is that
Hack was/is brilliant and is still one of my favourite games. It is so engrossing. No fancy tiles, just the @ character and # for tunnels.
Can't wait to hear how he's a communist for providing kids with free lunch for the next 8 weeks.
15% improvement in menu selection is an absolute game changer for professional menu selectors who spend over half their workday selecting items from menus. Unfortunately, very few users are menu selection professionals, and such professionals might see power gains than average users.

Task completion speed would be a better measurement, to capture the effect of the pie menu interfering with the main task by temporarily obscuring it from view.
It's absolutely amazing how much the tech industry is driven by hype and pure BS.

Supposedly logic-minded technical people never seem to get enough of it. They embrace it over and over again.

OOP, blockchain, metaverse, AI are just a few examples.
The running user may not have a home directory.
As I said, everyone's experience has been different. Sorry you've had a bad experience in SF. This just hasn't been my experience (no gaslighting involved...)
I hear a lot of people say good things about CoPilot too but I absolutely hate it. I have it enabled for some reason still, but it constantly suggests incorrect things. There has been a few amazing moments but man there is a lot of "bullshit" moments.
That's really unusual. I'm also using Firefox on Linux with Wayland on NVIDIA and I've never had an issue. Try checking your system logs and see what went wrong. Maybe an extension is causing problems?
Another word for monoculture is cronyism.
> Honestly, if I wanted the opinion of randomnumbers45123 on Reddit, I'd just search Reddit.

Reddit search sucks, in my experience I get much better results using Google vs Reddit search.
True, but 90% of the mainframe instructions weren't tracking, telematics, data exfiltration, and user profiling. So it kinda evens out.
Playing with Microsoft Florence 2
That requires line of sight with the target. Most drone usage right now is far beyond line of sight.

You could get around that by having a relay drone at high altitude, but that complicates the system by a lot, and you'd have to somehow defend your relay.
For what it’s worth homeless people were having sex on the windows of our office, another guy blocked our door by passing out with a needle next to him, and someone was stabbed and killed at a restaurant on the same block as my office within half a year of me being there. I also got yelled racial slurs and others tried to provoke me to fight them regularly.
Cooking is a huge waste of time. Think about the hours wasted toiling in a kitchen, doing dishes, moving little items up and down and setting them here, now there, now wipe up the mess. All for what, so I can sit still for 10 minutes and taste a good thing, then get up and clean up that mess? If I could swap out my stomach for a Lithium Ion battery I would.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one
I like hanging out in bars. So how about you guys head to a bar near a Boeing manufacturing site and chat to the factory floor workers. You'll hear about many problems and amongst them there will be some that you can solve with your combined talents. If heading to Seattle is inconvenient, any major factory site will do.
That's just a font with a ligature for "0x".
You can absolutely introduce the basic functions needed to build a very simple CPU in 7 minutes.
Expert mode pie/marking selection has strong analogues to modern iPad OS's mystery meat gestures for navigating the home screen. (App switcher, dashboard pull down, control panel pull down)
Ausco Products do indeed appear to still be making these brakes. Here's one of their retrofit systems for Land Cruisers: https://www.auscoproducts.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/102...
... Wait, is it actually _that_ low? That's, like, a high-frequency conventional bus route (ie not BRT). Like, what on earth was the point? Either use buses for same capacity, or build a real rail line for ten times the capacity. The highest capacity metro systems can do something like 40k/hour each direction (though one of those would clearly be overkill in this case, and something far more modest could be used).
This just delays the problem though
And if you’re going to pick one, there are plenty of reasons to pick freight. A single freight train might have 70-200 cars, each of which can carry 1-2 full-size intermodal containers (if not a comparably massive tanker car or something). Trains are more efficient than road vehicles in terms of energy consumption, wear and tear on the road (or railroad), and labor cost, but these efficiencies scale up considerably based on vehicle weight, and the weight of a few hundred loaded intermodal containers is a very high number indeed. Not to mention that intermodal containers are a lot less fussy about hospitality than passengers!
Did you think it would collapse when he canned the 80%
If only UHK was ortholinear. I have Ergodox EZ now and it's almost perfect. Wouldn't want to go back to a non-ortholinear keyboard.
If being sued by the world's richest billionaire or the whole non-profit thing didn't complicate matters, and if the board had any teeth, one could wish the board would explore a merger with Anthropic with Altman leaving at the end of all of it and save everyone another years worth of drama.
That's an interesting name, from a turkish perspective...
America Isn't Ready for the Wars of the Future
> In the US, trips that are 50-300 miles are almost all done by car because that distance is too short for commercial airlines and too far for public transportation.

How can the solution be worse cars rather than better public transport?
I feel that your third paragraph justifies the sentiment in the second? If left to their own devices, a functionary will add enough regulation to kill any fun activity, because they are not affected by the decisions they make.

Another example is the new 406 MHz ELTs; it's not clear how effective ELTs are at saving lives, despite their 'obvious' utility, but now the price is higher, they have batteries that require replacing and only expensive manufacturer-approved ones at that, it replaces a system that was working fine and offers no additional utility to the end-user who may be dead after it activates.

It is not even the above example that will bring down GA, it is the death by a thousand cuts, from NIMBYs moving next to ancient airports and shutting them down, to functionaries dragging their feet on lead-free fuels leading to an environmental crisis, to under-staffing of control towers so GA traffic is forcibly reduced, and so on. So the GA community, like with the gun control debate, has to take a give-an-inch, take-a-mile attitude towards regulation.
Enjoying this today https://the-santiago-boys.com/?ref=post-utopia.com
Speedrunning 30yrs of lithography technology [video]
From my perspective living in Asia I’d place it on par with a small rural village
It's open source for sure. But yeah, there's no DIY required (which is why ZSA and their keyboards are so popular - it's the Apple of the DIY-programmable-ergonomic-keyboard world, providing excellent build quality and great experience for a price).
You Don't Have to Be Lucky, You Just Have to Be Good
> Getting a .com is absurd these days.

What do you mean by that?
It should be remembered that most aspects of culture developed because they have a purpose. In the case of cooking and eating good food, there are definitely practical benefits, largely psychological.

One part of it is about directing attention. If you cook for yourself, you pay more attention to what you're putting into your body, and in learning how different flavors come together you learn intuitions about taste and aesthetics. In directing your attention like this, cooking can also serve as a kind of meditation / mindfulness practice.

In knowing how to cook, you become able to cook for others, which is a very common way for people to connect. If a loved one is sick, making soup for them can make them feel loved and cared for, just as it can make you feel good about putting in effort to help them feel better; especially when it comes to things that you just have to wait out, like flu, something like this is an excellent way of maintaining a connection. Conversely, in knowing how much effort it takes to make a good meal you become more appreciative of meals others make for you.

And finally, in cooking with someone else you learn about them and about yourself, about subtle differences that you might not have encountered otherwise. In solving a relatively easy, low-stakes problem together, you gain a sense of closeness without much risk or cost.

Overall, cooking is a practice centered on ideas that are underappreciated by people too engrossed in "hustle culture" etc, so it's important to have it as a tool in today's world. Of course, everything that it provides can be found elsewhere, but these are the reasons it's so deeply ingrained in human culture. I think you would also struggle to find other things that give you all of the above, and more that I didn't go into, for so little investment. It's not that cooking makes you human or something, but cooking does help you to connect with a lot of the deeper parts of yourself that do.
SF is a deeply challenging city, and you really appreciate this by traveling and visiting other cities. You are constantly on alert, in ways that simply you are not in other places despite the fact that there are “good and bad” parts of town everywhere else.

Perhaps caused by the unpredictability in SF of often finding “bad” in “good” parts of town, with unpredictable drug addict behavior on top, which adds to the unpredictability of the bad experiences.

Anecdotally, my family got assaulted with a hammer in a “good” part of town, while carrying our 6 months old in a stroller. The individual was visibly on drugs. There is no amount of “bad” in other cities that results in hammering and smashing the back window of a car - assaulting a young family and traumatizing a newborn - for nothing. It’s unwarranted violence, it wasn’t even a robbery. I travel 150k miles a year all over the world, including 3rd world countries, and I have only felt unsafe in San Francisco.

And I have a lot more examples like this one. A friend of mine got assaulted with a baseball bat in SoMa by an individual that wanted to steal their dog for drug money, for example.

The whole town is a social experiment where we put families and working individuals into a drug den and see what happens.
An Onion headline comes to mind.

Relatedly, this increases my sense of having made the right decision by staying away from the US despite the significant wage disparity.
I'm happy for you that your public transit is faster than traffic but mine isn't.

Via the DC Metro, I have an 8 minute walk + 2 minutes wait for train + 35 minute train ride + 8 minute walk.

Compare that to a 15-35 minute drive, depending on traffic. It's just not close.
Just mix nontrivial data structures with algorithms that iterate until numerical convergence. Team of experienced devs fought space leaks for weeks, project schedule crashed, directly caused by Haskell's lazy eval. Management and customers angry. Good times, good times.
I made it very clear in my post: Twitter never forced the leadership content directly into people's feed. Musk uses Twitter as his personal social network and to advance his political agenda.

Now you by the other hand is OK with that, because you pretty much prefer every person on twitter to read and follow you political agenda. And that's why Twitter became a extreme right wing echo-chamber.
Your answer resonates with me a lot. Disclosure: I'm not a founder, I'm still employed.

A very important insight for achieving my peace of mind was to have multiple sources for a feeling of accomplishment. Peace of mind is the state where I'm feeling fine and not lonely or bad.
My sources are: Family and friends, physical activity and work. If one of the sources temporarily is running dry, I still have two other ones to rely on.

My sources are very parallel to the activities you picked up in order to counter your loneliness.
Linux UEFI Booting Simplified
I want to get feedback on my software
I own the Voyager and it's a great piece of kit, my only wish is that it was wireless, but the team has clear reasons why they've stuck with wired boards (https://www.zsa.io/wireless). A trackpad would be lovely. Very portable and comes with a great key editor to handle layers.

Also worth checking out the one-man Bastard Keyboards (diy and prebuilt), he does the Charybdis kits with trackballs, or the Dilemma Max split mech with a trackpad alongside ortholinear keys: https://bastardkb.com/product/dilemma-max-prebuilt-preorder/
This is an awfully one-sided article.

> Once they saw Photograph 51, Watson and Crick rushed to publish a paper on their model, incorporating the image.

Which is an unfair character characterisation, because according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51):

> Watson recognized the pattern as a helix because his co-worker Francis Crick had previously published a paper of what the diffraction pattern of a helix would be.

So Crick had already predicted and published on the x-ray pattern of a helix. Further from wikipedia:

> Watson and Crick used characteristics and features of Photo 51, together with evidence from multiple other sources, to develop the chemical model of the DNA molecule

Seems like they did what all good scientists do: gather all evidence and examine them. This article verges on hyperbole.

The Wikipedia page is much more balanced, noting that there is controversy over whether Franklin would have published a theory on the helical structure of DNA, whether she would have allowed Watson and Crick to even see the photo, and mentions that Watson had presented a distorted image of Franklin in his book.
True, those LLMs are not earning them any money, but do you think they lack future applications (and future improvements) that would be worth the money those companies are spending now?
I know one Twitter guy who was a big Elon fan and loved the energy, right up until he got arbitrarily cut in one of the previous rounds of don't-call-them-layoffs.
It does say that, seems kind of strange though, rapidly growing company, apparently an absolutely key member of facilitating that growth and, poof, gone for 6 months at least.
how would someone under such a system decide to take a drug or not? what information would they have?
I totally believe some combo of CBT, exertion, mindfulness works when you're angry. That kind of habit reprogramming worked for me. (It was really hard to change.)

The other half of the solution is to short-circuit anger, prevent it from even happening.

When Anger Hurts https://www.amazon.com/When-Anger-Hurts-Quieting-Within/dp/1...

TLDR: expectations -> disappointment -> resentment -> blaming -> anger

So the trick is to change your expectations. Not eliminate or lower, exactly. But figuring out how to have realistic expectations. Which stops the anger cascade before it can start.

YMMV. Good luck.
"You still load up the ads so the website owner gets an ad view, no harm done." - not quite, without other events like taking a user to advertisers page or linking sales to this particular ad, i think this website will have its ad revenue reduced.
Ziff Davis is buying CNET for just $100M
According to https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926 in the UK

Standard with adverts: £4.99 / month

Standard: £10.99 / month

Premium: £17.99 / month

So less than half price with adverts.

Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean ads bring in £6/user/month - this could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination with the ads just being obnoxious enough to motivate people who can afford it to upgrade.
Similar to https://www.descript.com/
It's up 10% again today :)
It's the best keyboard I've ever owned. The uhk with the riser is my final form.
> it seems crazy to me to not try for profitability

A business is worth the sum of future profits, discounted for time (because making money today is better than making money tomorrow). Negative profits today are fine as long as they are offset by future profits tomorrow. This should make intuitive sense.

And this is still true when the investment won't pay off for a long time. For example, governments worldwide provide free (or highly subsidized) schooling to all children. Only when the children become taxpaying adults, 20 years or so later, does the government get a return on their investment.

Most good things in life require a long time horizon. In healthy societies people plant trees that won't bear fruit or provide shade for many years.
The obvious solution is to target civilians with autonomous drones. Not much different to sanctions in terms of civilian casualties, but much more effective at stopping the enemy infrastructure. Since sanctions mostly kill children and the elderly.
Maybe they could declare bankruptcy and sell for pennies on the dollar to a mysterious new holding company: Ksum Nole, LLC.
It doesn’t sound like having a house will magically make you feel better. Plenty of people are just as exposed to markets as you yet respond differently. I suggest exercise, nutrition, nature, and extended travel if those are not already a part of your life.
I haven't seen any details on what arrangements the other search engines have, this only came up during the DDG testimony.
I doubt it. I drive a manual and find that I spend very little time shifting. Each time I shift it would cost me the time to write one word (I'm guessing - for obvious reasons I'm not about to try this to see). The vast majority of the time I'm not doing anything different than when I drive an automatic.
This book is so good. It's about building early computers but it feels just like tech does today in the way it's described. Which make it feel like this bigger context you're reading into. That even before computers were mainstream, there were still those who tinkered.

Two things are especially memorable to me. One is a casual remark in the book that they found the best way to get things done is to pair someone very experienced and cynical with someone very inexperienced and naive. Combined they would get lots done together compared to either alone. I think this is still true today.

The other thing is the intro. It's about the head of the project getting a group together and renting a sailboat on vacation. On the sailboat the get tossed and at times feel like they barely survived and it ends with someone saying "if this was his vacation...what did this man do for fun!?"
What makes an artillery shell so expensive compared to a drone?
I mean, they did ask why block him. That's why; the site will bombard you with his stuff until you do, so if you don't like his particular brand of weird loser, well, what you gonna do?
If we think about the history of music, the period of "getting extremely rich selling records" is a very short window of time.