skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this is probably related:

Soup Dumpling Index: How prices compare around the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41172923 - Aug 2024 (3 comments)
What I love about the Chromecast at the cabin is that people visiting can just cast whatever streaming service they're using from their phone. No installation, no login, no sharing users.

If instead it will become a more Apple Tv like experience where apps have to be installed and logged in to, it's just a hassle. I will have to log out to avoid guests staying using my subscriptions. A kid watching YouTube will wreak havoc on my suggestions etc.

So not a product I really want. It works well as it is.
It was an introductory talk so you probably didn't miss anything big. Luckily the talk was recorded, so you can re-watch it :)

https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn22-262-programmieren-mit-dem-puren...

(ignore the forgotten night shift)
https://archive.today/zZu0E
Yes, they added a frowny face and less information.
One of the authors, Charles, here. I wrote this up because 1) I've been following work on sampling/inference-time compute scaling and the "Large Language Monkeys" paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21787) results looked promising and 2) our reproduction was effortless and immediate, which has not been my experience with most research.

Happy to answer questions!
Look, go ahead and increase fuel taxes. If you reduce car fuel consumption by just 1%, but this company succeeds and quintuples (!) the fuel consumption by piston engine planes, the environment still comes out ahead. Flying is a tiny environmental factor compared to driving.

[Avgas consumption in the US is about 200m gallons a year, car fuel consumption some 130,000m gallons. Car plus planes 130,200m. Car -1%, planes x5: 128,700 + 1000 = 129,700m gallons.]
KryoFlux digital technology will never match the quality of images on vinyl.
Node.js – v22.6.0
Pol Pot understood this, evidently, and tried to convert Cambodia's population to being largely agricultural. This led to the near extinction of humans in Cambodia, which it would seem many commenters here would applaud.
What is your use case for screensharing without audio? I can't figure out when that would be useful, you have to communicate with the other person somehow.
They opted for at will employment which means they almost universally defer to business in practice.
It's not quite a preview, but back in the 90's there was something called sym-lock.el that would render TeX escape sequences as the corresponding symbol. I have no idea if it still works, but Google points me here:

https://github.com/sid137/emacs/blob/master/sym-lock.el

(I used it with xemacs at the time, because it had more flexible font handling.)
I kind of want some for my 80 series, the factory hand brake is terrible (linkages rust and it tends to drag on the rhs wearing prematurely). The sealed design is awesome. The only drawback I can see is the separate high pressure pump and control package seems like a pretty high complexity tax. And I bet they're not cheap.

EDIT: Another question I wasn't able to figure out from their brochure is how they integrate with the factory front disc brakes.. Like, is there some kind of balance control?
The comments used to add so much discussion, insights and lore. It’s a real shame that Microsoft managed to kill the all twice during migrations.
Meet, it's called Google Meet now.
what data would best be kept in a hexsheet rather than a table?
I struggle to see the best use case - hexagons are cool - I would like it if this was useful.
I know them as bee hotels. I want to build some by next Spring.
The documentaries I have seen on YT suggest Ukraine is building >1M drones annually, which would be enough to cover going through 4K daily, ballpark. Lots of those FPV videos do show various "low charge" warnings, maybe it just doesn't make sense to fully charge something that's basically a guided bullet on a one-way trip?
Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives
McDonald's heavily discounts its items nowadays, but only through deals in their phone app. In my mind that makes the last few years of the Big Mac index unreliable.
Who even makes a good non-smart tv these days? I'm not going to limit my watching experience just to avoid a tv having apps.
Yeah, and I’m fairly confident that HomeKit will be around in a few years.
That doesn't really matter, everyone know what a Chromecast is, that is worth far more than a descriptive name.
Improving Performance and Power by Safely Eliminating Load Instruction Execution
>I wonder how they'll fuck it up.

They fucked up the price at $99.

I have 5 Chromecast with Android TV around my house, I paid about $30 for each one. There's no way I'm going to buy 5 of these new devices at a $100 price.
It was a good brand name when it launched, but not for how it evolved.

It was a device that made it possible to cast video from your Chrome browser. When it was released in 2013 it reinforced the superior utility of Chrome which had just began to dominate browser market share.

Embedding the Google Cast protocol directly into video streaming apps and having the Chromecast brand name coexist alongside the Android TV and Google TV brand names made things confusing.
This is a good analogy. If you look at a modern mainframe CPU it becomes pretty clear where the differences lie. Fewer, beefier cores with a lot of focus on cache.

Supercomputers tend to use more conventional cores, but way more of them, and connect them in a large fabric. There's a lot more focus on parallelization and horizontal scaling.

Mainframe overall compute is nowhere near a supercomputer, and you probably shouldn't be running a massive physics simulation on a mainframe, but you may get more consistency and reliability for well defined tasks.
osmnx looks like a cool library, I haven't seen that one before!

As for self hosting overpass, I have considered it, but the installation steps seemed a bit tedious to me compared to a lot of tools which are dockerized.
I'm interested to try this out for a game I'm banned from. My little brother did a thing little brothers tend to do (lol) and I got caught in the crossfire. This is my baseline test for all VPN services.
A quick Google says that 40M televisions are sold in the US every year, into a market with 130M households. So... a whole lot more often than once every decade and half.
I see, thanks. It was not obvious as comments like yours are found all over HN without the sarcasm.
All: can you please not post low-quality angry/snarky junk comments to HN threads? They're tedious and have nasty effects.

I realize this story is a cluster of divisive topics but that's why HN's guidelines say "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.
How much of that do you think was by following his "design" vs just luck and privilege falling into his lap? I think that's the point he's getting at, but I don't know his backstory and I don't see where you gleaned that from this post.
It sickens me whenever I read comments under one of Elon's posts on X. 99.9% of them are from followers deluded into thinking that Elon is a champion of free speech and he is saving democracy.
The point is that most people would rather take private than public transport, all else equal (besides externalized costs, I don’t care how much co2 my pod emits). I would even pay a small premium for private transport compared to equally quick public transport.

To convince people to take public transport, you have to make it at least a side-grade, and making private transport worse without improving public transport will just lose you an election.
>> There’s no difference in going long or being short.

When you're long, the maximum potential loss is your total investment.
When you're short, the maximum potential loss is infinite.
> On Amazon you can "subscribe" to your regular consumables, so they send you some regularly and you don't have to go to Rite-Aid for it.

I will never trust Amazon with food or medicine.
Most techie people I know have an Apple TV, most of the others have a Chromecast. I'm in the UK, I don't know if that makes a difference.
Why have you chosen to simulate players if Nash Equilibrium can be computed analytically (or at least numerically)?

I've used optimization of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov_function in my Bachelor thesis https://github.com/Artimi/neng to do that.
That's a good approach. But don't let your bees swarm. Split them instead. If you end up with too many hives, sell the excess hives.
If you don't like how devices get bricked routinely, services cancelled, and your PII is the product, try Home Assistant. https://www.home-assistant.io
Thanks, I will update docs. "robotgo" has some issues on Windows, I am currently looking into some of them.
I think it is great Sentry folks do not pretend it is Open Source. It is great to see innovation and we will see if it becomes popular.

What I see is a lot of "single vendor" projects which carry most of development burden want their business protected while having, often minimal, contributions from community.

The "Real Open Source" though is multi-vendor - think PostgreSQL, Linux, Kubernetes among others, in which case many parties share the burden of development and maintenance but also have even playing field monetizing product.
Having a job and finding a way to do more of the things you like to do are not mutually exclusive.

For instance - find a job that takes less of your time. Or find a way to manage your time better so you don't work all of it. Or both.
Gaggiuino – Augmenting Home Espresso
Debugging running Python scripts with PDB via GDB
Can you define "open-source aesthetic"?
I hate it.

"Doesn't stand out in your home" - The chromecast wasn't even visible, so this is a clear downgrade. Why would they even bring it up.

I wanted to love Google Home. I don't have Apple products, and the Alexa app was horrible. But alas, it was Googled. It became such a clusterfuck of convolution that it's not even usable for me anymore. I was using it on my Google Apps email, which I switched from to a regular gmail (because youtube premium wasn't available on Google Apps, neither was Google Home integration with my calendar), and now I can't move my devices to my new account.

All of this, on top of the fact, that Google has proven to be the least trust worthy company when it comes to managing users' data (arguably tied with Meta). I can't wait until my house starts shouting ads at me, or 24/7 listening 'to improve ad quality' becomes standard.

Take me back to IRC and phpbb.
I think early in the history of Windows, the first 3 versions or so, Ballmer's official role at Microsoft was head of Windows. I may be misremembering stories I heard about that timeline, though.
America is really bad for this sort of thing though? One example that stands out in my mind:

The shower is outside on the back patio. The shower is fitted with hot water from the conventional water heater plumbed from the house. The shower is surrounded by a stainless steel privacy screen and a lot of really tall tropical plants. It’s the one feature that friends and family seem to like the most about the cottage. But the county authorities said it was completely illegal.

First, the county inspector cited the raw sewerage that was being released into the environment. By “raw sewerage” he was referring to warm soapy water. The “environment” in this case was my rural back garden. The remedy was to plumb the outdoor shower with a drain that carried the “sewerage” into the septic system for safe disposal. I had this work done at some considerable expense that I struggled to afford at the time. Then the inspector was invited back to final the plumbing permit. Unfortunately he cited the project for another violation instead. It seems that rain water was able to drain into the outdoor shower and enter the septic system which was a code violation. He couldn’t have told me this earlier? Evidently inspectors shy away from proscribing holistic solutions. Instead they just look at what’s in front of them and check off boxes on their clip boards. It’s up to the property owner to understand and comply with the impenetrable codes on their own. So I covered the outdoor shower with a simple roof that prevented the rain from entering the drain (completely ruining the whole concept of a tropical outdoor shower). When the inspector returned this too was a code violation since a covered structure with plumbing constitutes a second dwelling unit on a lot that is only zoned for one unit. I removed the roof from the shower in disgust. Finally a sympathetic neighbor said he had a similar problem with his outdoor shower and solved the problem by re-labeling it as a hose bib on the permit documents. I plugged up the shower drain with concrete, removed the shower head, and invited the inspector back to approve the hot and cold hose bibs inside the little privacy screen on the back patio. In fifteen seconds he was able to check off the little boxes on his clip board and there were no more problems with the outdoor shower. A sense of relief and calm washed over me. But it only lasted for ten seconds. The inspector then said he couldn’t sign off on the building inspection because this house didn’t have a shower or bath tub…

source: https://granolashotgun.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/building-cod...
This is great advice to people who DO have a job that takes up "all their time." Find ways to do things you enjoy; maybe eventually, it even leads to a job you might like more or that takes up less time so that you can continue pursuing the things you like.
Yeah, it probably is an attempt to hide the blood in the water. They tell their competitors they aren't weak, they've just found a way to be more efficient through the use of AI. And sure maybe a couple hundred folks were replaced by some streamlined AI tooling but this is a ridiculous amount of folks to replace with AI, if it were true.

So yeah, AI. Inflation. Overhiring during the pandemic. Supply chain issues. All the usual excuses to never admit mismanagement.
How is a wireless audio technology comparable to chromecast? If it is, bluetooth audio streaming started in 1998, beating airport express by 6 years. And don't get me started on radio...
So has the daily wire
Oh god I ran into this issue! Fewer nodes, but still.

I created an HTML page that used vis-network to created a force-directed nodegraph. I'd then just open it up and wait for it to settle.

The initial code is here, you should be able to dump it into an LLM to explain: https://github.com/HebeHH/skyrim-alchemy/blob/master/HTMLGra...

I later used d3 to do pretty much the same thing, but with a much larger graph (still only 100,000 nodes). That was pretty fragile though, so I added an `export to svg` button so you could load the graph, wait for it to settle, and then download the full thing. This kept good quality for zooming in and out.

However my nodegraphs were both incredibly messy, with many many connections going everywhere. That meant that I couldn't find a library that could work out how to lay it out properly first time, and needed the force-directed nature to spread them out. For your case of 1 billion nodes, force-directed may not be the way to go.
The layers don't really matter. Any side-effect or implementation detail (especially in a language with an optimizing compiler) is not a good protection against side channel attacks.

Where Rust (and most languages with a robust type system) can help prevent side channel issues is via typing - all cryptographic operations in a given library can be implemented with (for example), a TimingSafeU32 type that only implements constant-time operations (comparison, multiplication, addition, etc). This massively reduces the opportunity for mistakes. Traits make implementing this type of system much easier and more elegant.

`rust-timing-shield` and `subtle` are both a good example here, as well as really everything in https://github.com/dalek-cryptography .
Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
The Chromecast Ultra released 8 years ago was already able to play 4k hdr with dolby vision, where is the giant leap in performance?
The difficulty you'll face for mobile is users man-in-the-middling their own device to find your developer's API key, and then making their own POST requests to increment their credit balance. This is why platforms like the App Store offer the ability to validate receipts of transactions [1].

Probably something you'll need to grow support for if you want this to be a drop-in solution for mobile devs.

[1] https://medium.com/@ronaldmannak/how-to-validate-ios-and-mac...
It's clearly driven by politics and media.

I've never been a fan of Musk fwiw so I remember when the default attitude was to worship him. Why do so few people remember that? It was just as glaring as the hate now.
The 3DS does indeed have a 3d camera, and it produces MPO files, so theoretically it should be perfect for use with this app.
From TFA:

> 1fps.video is perfect for introverts and remote workers who prefer sharing their screen without the pressure of audio or video calls. It's a versatile solution that works alongside any team chat application you're already using.

It seems closer to "text chat while sending screenshots" than "share screen in a voice call." I can see why some would prefer this.
In the comments section of that article, the writer (Stefanos Chen) listed a few additional reasons for corporate landlords to maintain the status quo:

The tax benefits for landlords who keep a space vacant may be overstated. While it's possible that the property owner can sometimes find a tax advantage to keeping the space empty, there are a number of other scenarios that incentivize them to keep a building empty.

For example, some owners are waiting out the leases of adjacent tenants in the same property, so they can resell or redevelop the entire lot. They're betting that they will make more from a mixed-use apartment building than they would from commercial rent alone.

Others owners are simply in a holding pattern, because they are still collecting rent from a corporate tenant and have no incentive to move quickly. I've heard of a number of cases where the pharmacy landlord received appealing offers from well known brands, but turned them down, because they don't want to spend the money to reconfigure or subdivide their space.
> Vastly less than would be warranted to lock everything as they do

Do you really believe you can conclude this from your personal observations?

The company has all the data on theft. At the end of the day, they are motivated by profit. Don’t you think they ran the numbers and found that locking items to prevent crime, even if it’s an additional barrier to paying customers, was better for business?

edit: fixed a typo
Inspektor Gadget: comprehensive tools and framework for eBPF data collection
I mentioned to someone I game with that I was no longer following the NFL since there are too many things about it that I find repugnant. He responded with, “Oh, cancel culture…” I didn’t engage with this response but I found it quite bizarre. Do these people think I’m obligated to engage with companies/people that I find morally repugnant?

Does Musk really feel entitled to a portion of every major corporation’s advertising budget? It’s weird that he thinks everyone else ought to change their values to accommodate him and not the other way around.
Have you tried https://search.marginalia.nu yet?
Does it work in China?

I would think it would've been best to keep this update "silent", so to speak, to avoid letting said parties know of this new protocol.
One of my goals is to understand markets through Game Theory. On the producer side, every player can hold, increase or decrease their price. And that changes the rewards for every other player.

What are good references for this?
But now it has a QR code!
there is the AuthorizedKeyscommand feature that allows for a command to fetch keys not yet existing on a system. Gitlab uses it to fetch keys from a database, for central user and access management. They also ship a own sshd implementation which does kinda neat lookup things for very big databases.

theres already projects solving central ssh key management, for example:

https://github.com/ierror/ssh-permit-a38 (distributes via authorized keys)

https://github.com/netlore/OpenAKC

https://tenshidev.medium.com/centralized-ssh-authentication-...

and

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/operations/fast_ss...
Can I watch all those wonderful YouTube Shorts on it?
The earlier Chromecasts did run a cut down Chrome on cut down ChromeOS. https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...
How about ads? Is it packed full of ads?
Thanks for replying with some depth-specific concerns.

Okay, so perhaps the worst case scenario is only goods are shipped in the tunnels - taking all semi-trucks off the roads for at least the major long-haul routes?

All-or-nothing thinking without critically thinking or brainstorming through how adaptations for adoption could be made isn't helpful.

Re: Safety

Perhaps battery tech that eventually is safer than currently driving a vehicle, perhaps even safer then with the casualties from airplane crashes, or other solutions like before entering the tunnels everyone is provided emergency kit/safety-oxygen masks/goggles, etc; and maybe necessary for doors that have an emergency "blowout" handle to pull and have doors pop off their hinges? I'm not sure you're correct about being unable to open and get out of a vehicle in such the tunnels.

We go through security checks, etc, at airports to save time - what level of "inconvenience" are people willing to implement or follow if a ~5 hour drive can turn into say a ~30 minute ride in a Hyperloop?

Also, in the Hyperloop almost vacuum state that's planned, fire will be less of a problem - and perhaps a safety system could be implemented, especially if everyone is temporarily given an oxygen mask-goggles for each longer ride or all rides, that at certain points a fire extinguishing-suppression system could be implemented where non-oxygen gases are flooded into the tunnel between the point a fire is detected?

Arguably so long as cost of implementation is less than or the same cost than current existing infrastructure costs, where the time savings are arguably up to invaluable - but a cost per ride for each person using the system will be determinable, then it can be a great alternative especially with the positives of how it allows transport regardless of winter weather conditions, etc.
You state because you couldn't find your prefered way of coffee you think your visited country (and maybe a while continent) doesn't know coffee?
Twitter to sue advertisers who “illegally boycotted” the platform
> has signed a bill into law that will significantly curb the penalties companies could face for improperly collecting and using fingerprints and other biometric data from workers and consumers.

Darn. I would really like less biometrics.
That makes sense; my copy of Star Trek: The Rebel Universe (DD) still works, while few of my circa 1990 Sierra floppies (HD) work.
So my understanding is Elon reduced the algorithm's bubble effect - causing people to be exposed to contrarian content, content a person doesn't agree with, so that it would be witnessed by more people.

Do you think it's a problem that people are coddled in bubbles?
Should a person with the most followers in the world have more people seeing, to then be able to know what they are sharing or saying, to then have more eyeballs to scrutinize them?

Should they have more or less eyeballs witnessing them, and responding to them?

I'd rather see what they are saying directly vs. seeing other articles about him that are most likely propaganda nowadays with how corrupted the media currently is, hence partly why ELon felt compelled to buy Twitter-X to begin with.

But fair enough, blocking him then could make sense.