skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought you should need to press and hold Mode to set the time! And I thought I was the only one who was bugged by this. Timex watches got this right.

I recently got an A158W (the shiny version of an F91W) because I want to drop a Sensor Watch board into it. I'm going to make damn sure to modify this aspect of the firmware.
Last time I tried dataclasses-json it had no type safety whatsoever and relied on the data being correct without checking it.

It was also an order of magnitude slower than other libraries, and at the time all these libraries were much slower.
> Opera was the first "not IE or Netscape" browser I used. It would be poetic to go back to it now.

If you want to go back to the "original Opera", that is now Vivaldi.
There were just a series of mass race riots by right-wingers across the UK, in which they went around smashing up shops owned by immigrants and beating up people who don't look white. This isn't about illegal immigration. It's about racism.
As a US taxpayer, charge them.

Charge them, and make sure they understand why - they’re benefiting, and have been benefiting, from software developed at no cost to them. If they want anything, it needs to cost them; otherwise, …
bro, it's not just about the money. He's promoting himself, building up a portfolio, learning new skills and entertaining himself.
> One button mouse was one of the worst inventions. Mice need at least 3 buttons to be useful.

I think the way the article lays out the invention shows that it was a good idea at the time. Apple sticking to a single button mouse was a bad idea. But it wasn't like Tesler saw three buttons and said "If I remove two, I'm a genius".

I don't know what you do with your third button, but I have never used it. It's not a core interaction in any interface I've seen. On my windows machine it does all sorts of unexpected things from starting a scroll mode, dragging items (very rarely) to closing tabs, to nothing on most things. It's not useful. Now the back and forth buttons are super handy, but I wouldn't say they are essential to a mouse.
Why not? Isn’t it just a smart implementation of ligatures?
My friend has the opposite problem. The ISP's map claims to offer fiber service on his whole block, and if you type in your address they'll even offer service at that specific address. The problem is his block is at least 80% multi-tenant dwellings, and they'll only do new installs if everyone in the building subscribes. They don't just want permission from the landlord to wire the whole building at once to save time if future tenants subscribe, they're just not gonna do it unless everyone pays. In my friend's case, they didn't even tell him this ahead of time, despite explicitly saying he was in an apartment on the form he filled out when he attempted to sign up. They just "helpfully" change it to a request for DSL service. This was explained to my friend by the technician that showed up with DSL hardware only capable of a faction of the speed he was currently getting on coax. Obviously, he refused service. Then he got to fight AT&T for a few months over bills for DSL services he never requested, and rental for hardware he never accepted.
> 100% fidelity is impossible

I don't think anybody asked for 100% fidelity. We are talking about a complete outage that affected at least North America and Europe. If the status page shows green in such a case, its fidelity is around 50%. People expect better from GitHub.
I don't know about those particular currencies uniting, but I'd thought the general l.s.d. breakdown went back to the Romans (and had also been popular in Continental Europe, before decimalisation there).
Once upon a time a team I was on used Lotus Notes to document and coordinate the design of our project. What I liked was that we had a hierarchy of folders with documents and anytime someone updated a document it would appear in bold (and its folder and its folder's folder etc). This meant, it was easy to see at a glance, what had been updated.

Since that time, teams have used wikis and or other systems. None of them provide that feature of highlighting what's been updated.
It was identified in a monkeys originally, hence the name
Option A, if course. I feel you, Option B feels like a visit to Java land, not great at all.
There's probably social bias against it too, to the extent that it already means Australians burned down and killed everything, this would just be transferring that to other places.
The top tab bar in Firefox can be disabled:

<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1417387>
The product through its utility, asthetics, pricing etc shapes its market and market factors like consumer demography, competition, macro economy etc shape the product. So PMF can only be an incremental process.
This is a solved problem.

If the ID is on your phone, you can make it so that the transaction details have to be digitally signed by the person authorizing them in order to be valid. Then, if 3€ shows up on your phone, that's what you're authorizing, not 300€.
I currently have Yarvin in the "inconsistent" bucket (eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41228601 ) so if you think he actually has a line, I'd appreciate learning what it may be.
The European boats fishing under a veil of secrecy
Why do you need Plex for that?
Highly recommended read !

I found his style very modern - it reads really well even today.

I remember reading his Autobiography as a young student and I was thinking - well, if this is the kind of people who where the Founding Fathers, then no wonders US became a world superpower.

Another recommended read would be the 'newer' version - by another big thinker, inspired by Franklin - Charlie's Munger 'Poor Charlie'a Almanack':

https://www.poorcharliesalmanack.com/pca.php
I honestly love the part about how the author did the key layout.

No hiding behind statistics or any sort of structured process, just doing what feels right, avoiding what feels wrong and iterating.
Sea transport appears to me to be so risky that there may have been multiple stones lost at sea. An interesting project would be to search for lost stones using side-scan sonar. Artifacts found with such stones might provide worthwhile information about those who built Stonehenge.
In part, sure, but given that we're talking about a dishwasher here (as opposed to an electronic device washer), I think it's not a stretch to assume using dishwashing powder. Which won't be highly corrosive, but certainly does interact with aluminium. But even without detergent, contact with water can start things rusting pretty fast.
I think the basic story of the Boring Company is that they assumed that they would be able to optimise or disrupt what is actually a mature and optimised industry (tunneling) and completely failed to do so.

Literally the only “innovation” is that they made the tunnels a bit cheaper by removing space for emergency egress… Apart from that, the capacity is laughable and always will be, as long as it uses cars or pods. There’s a reason the kind of transit systems that can move hundreds of thousands of people a day (in tunnels only about double the size) use trains that can fit so many people (up to 1500 per train for large systems like Crossrail in London) - with small pods you will never get the throughput with any kind of safety margin between them.

I’m all for innovation and re-thinking the conventional wisdom, but the Boring Company just didn’t actually ever seem to have any really practical ideas that would make something better than the kind of mass transit we see in Asia and Europe…
How does double compare to Betterment?
Have you tried to create accounts with Outlook, Twitter and OpenAI recently? Its just horrible got to solve puzzle after puzzle and then still wont allow or ban your account in few days.

Most geniune posts are not even allowed on Reddit. I hated the whole experience.

HackerNews is godsend TBH
That is the entire portfolio management industry, it has a proven track record of success.
Seems analogous to putting seaweedfs in front of a cloud S3. Then adding a database. We use(unrelated) Zenoh and Loki keeping state on S3 so it would be interesting to have a KV engine.
> The operations manual spends more page length on answering questions about Elon Musk and The Boring Company than it does on fires.

This tells us exactly why Elon shouldn't be making any decisions affecting public/critical infrastructure.
This gives you knobs to turn, which gives users shots of dopamine (at the cost of lower long run expected return) and helps retention.
Reminds me of a post on HN: No random clinical trials were done to demonstrate parachutes actually work.
Ironically, that chain of thinking might be a case of the argument-from-fallacy fallacy. Just because someone is seems to be good at rhetoric and makes some bad arguments doesn't mean they are arguing from a bad faith position, or even imply that their position is unsupported.
I wouldn't suggest WebTransport unless/until Safari gets support. Instead you can use WebRTC DataChannel today for UDP in all browsers. Also, WebTransport doesn't support direct P2P connections but WebRTC does.

I have ported Quake III to use DataChannel and it works great (once all the WebRTC boilerplate is in place). You can test it here: https://thelongestyard.link/ Once you click the multiplayer link you will get a URL with your server name, which others can visit to join your server instantly.
It doesn't, and in fact I believe the person you're replying to has it confused with another result where the answer would also be "it doesn't".

The sum 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 ... - what we call the harmonic series - runs off to infinity, although it does so very slowly (the nth partial sum is approximately equal to ln(n) plus a constant whose value is about 0.58). Showing that this series diverges is standard calc-textbook stuff (it's the textbook example of the integral test for convergence, although there are plenty of other ways to show it).

However, in math well beyond basic calculus, there are methods for assigning meaningful values to series that don't converge in the conventional sense. Those methods assign the same value to convergent series as the regular old calculus arguments would, but they can also assign values to some divergent series in a way that is consistent and useful in some contexts.

For example, the series 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ... is a specific example of a more general series 1/1^z + 1/2^z + 1/3^z + 1/4^z + ..., for some arbitrary number z. This series only converges in the standard calculus sense when the real part of z is > 1, but it turns out that that's enough to define a function called the Riemann zeta function, whose input is the value z in the series and whose output is the sum of the series.

The zeta function, as it turns out, can be extended to values where the original series didn't converge. And doing so gives you a method for assigning values to "sums" that aren't really sums at all.

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It turns out that even THAT won't get you a completely nice value for 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ..., because that sum corresponds to the zeta function's value at z = 1. But the zeta function isn't well-behaved at z = 1. If you do even more massaging to beat a number out of it, you don't get 1/12, you get the about-0.58 constant mentioned in the previous section.

Which brings me to the way the poster you were replying to is probably confused. I think the sum they meant to refer to was the even-more-obviously-divergent sum 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... This sum happens to correspond loosely to the z = -1 value of the zeta function, since 1/2^-1 is just 2, 1/3^-1 is just 3, and so on.

Again, the sum 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... does not converge, but if we choose to identify it with a zeta function value, we'd identify the sum 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... with zeta(-1). And the value of zeta(-1) happens to be -1/12 (yes, minus 1/12).

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So the answer here is just that no, 1 + a bunch of positive numbers is never < 1. It's actually a decent basic calculus exercise to prove that any series a_0 + a_1 + ... a_n, where all the terms are non-negative, either fails to converge or converges to a value >= a_0. But because we're taking some extra steps here to leave the domain of convergent series in the first place, it turns out we can get results that (for conventionally convergent series) would be impossible.
This is such a neat project that you made!
Low Level Guide to Doing Ethernet on an FPGA
> A colleague pointed out that toasters are cheap. So I tried it. Mine works, too. JD

That's the single best conclusion I've read.
I remember it. The name was changed during the pandemic of 2022, because in the west it was mainly affecting the gay men and LGBT associations thought that having "monkey" in the name of a disease affecting mainly gay men was stigmatising and pushed for a name change, and the WHO accepted.
The Quantum Butterfly Effect
> The best solution is an income and deduction limit

You don't have to help them try to make it make sense, it isn't intended to make sense.

A completely sensible proposal is to lower taxes on the middle class. But that's also entirely uncontroversial and furthermore they repeatedly say it and then don't do it so no one believes them and therefore no one pays attention to them if they say that.

"No tax on tips" gets people excited because a) there are a lot of service workers (which is the point; that's a lot of votes) and b) anybody can see that it's a tax loophole so large that even non-service workers can concoct a way to get in on it, but c) they haven't heard it before and it sounds like the kind of thing that could pass, because it won't cost the government too much revenue if the only people getting it would be a couple of waitresses and they themselves who will, unlike other people, come up with an ingenious plan to use this to avoid paying taxes anymore.

In other words, it's a silly proposal with extremely high memetic fitness. Don't try to fix it, just realize that what working people actually want you to do is lower their taxes.
Neutrino detectors essentially slow them down - a neutrino hits an electron, transferring momentum, and then the high speed electron gives off Cherenkov radiation.
I mean, if we’re not allowed to know that we’re not allowed to surveil the shit out of you, it seems like something we can’t worry about
I saw one of these on electro boom, he was almost disappointed not to die
Apparently housing makes up 90% of the increase

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-costs-continue-drive-...
So proud to see star treck manifesting.
I have on my browser several multilingual dictionary extensions and others by small developers that I do not completely trust. I do not have the inclination to audit the code, and I want to keep the extensions updated. There is a very real possibility that the authors sell control over them to malicious actors. Manifest v3 deprecating remote-hosted code makes it more feasible to use such extensions without trusting these developers, only google's review process. For me this is more important than uBlock Origin being able to execute remote-hosted code for ad-blocking.
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The Vegas Loop will have huge advantages over subways (cost, faster construction with fewer disruptions, smaller station footprint, mostly point-to-point service, more privacy for riders), and Vegas is the perfect place to showcase it to a large audience of visitors. Self-driving is much easier in such a controlled environment, and since it's clearly coming, focusing on the current use of a driver is pointless.
This one isn’t available in that format, but it looks like this open source tool could help:

https://github.com/KarnerTh/mermerd
Only in the US. In the EU and other jurisdictions is does have protection [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_...
Sixteen years ago!

I saw “applet” and thought it was retro, then someone tried it in firefox 3 and I had to check the year.
Antineutrinos can cause inverse beta decay, so maybe neutrinos can cause inverse fusion?

Edit: apparently it just causes transmutation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestake_experiment
this is not what they did. They took unicode and separated it into words.
Which seems silly since the online archives are already separated but I guess it's useful for new texts where the word boundaries are not clear
Interestingly, I was at Google during I think the very end of its golden years (2011-2016). I loved it and when I heard about how sclerotic it had gotten was pretty surprised.

Looking back, IMO the seeds of its downfall had already been planted by the time I was there, including the culture of blameless postmortems.

There was this idea that any problem—any outage or whatever —reflected not stupidity on the part of the perpetrator (Google hires the smartest people after all) but a process failure. Blameless postmortems avoided blame by ending with a process recommendation.

I’ve worked at startups since, and I do think that creating an environment where people are comfortable taking risks is just a fundamentally hard culture problem, and you don’t even have to be big to have it (though it doesn’t help). I’ve seen 15-person startups where engineers wouldn’t fix something because “I’m just an engineer and this is really a product decision” while the PM says “we need to get the engineers together in a meeting and come to a consensus on this.”

IMO Google’s hack of giving people space to take risks by letting them pass off failure as a process problem did sort of work, to their credit, until they got to where it sounds like they are now, where you can’t do anything without being accused of bypassing “good process,” which means going to endless lengths to get everyone’s opinions and placating everyone who disagrees with you.

It seems like at Meta they solved the problem by regarding failure as good and just. At my current company, to do something risky, you have to write a design doc and have a comment period, and then you’re free to do whatever the doc proposes. Idk what other approaches there are—I’d pay to read a book about it, though.
Good example, because I thought it was a terrible book, utterly pedestrian and pseudo-deep.
Yes, they do it with ultrafiltration and as the patent says with nano filtration and, with salt addition to get reversed osmosis. The steps are quite clear described.
If Double doesn't charge management fees nor commissions for trades, how does it get paid? Flat fee or payment for order flow?
Given some of the stuff in Pomppei, most likely.
iOS and macOS too, found in accessibility settings.
One of Musk's original points was that cost of tunneling isn't linear with diameter--double the size more than quadruples the price, or something like that. But then the insistence on using electric cars seems... counter productive.

The London and Budapest subways use very narrow tunnels, about the size of Musk's tunnels. Their engineering is considered anachronistic, but given the cost formulas for tunneling one wonders if planners are being short-sighted or stubborn by insisting on larger tunnels. A subway with narrow cars is better than no subway at all. But then there's probably considerations, like handicapped accommodations (i.e. large wheel chairs) that make London or Budapest-sized subway cars a non-starter today, at least in the U.S., notwithstanding that it'd likely still be far cheaper to build a narrower subway and then pay for private, on-demand road transport for those physically unable to use the subway.
> “The key innovation was putting more arrays, with very precise targeting, into the speechiest parts of the brain we can find,”

I wonder how many other parts of the brain can be similarly translated?
>>I've always disliked this strategy. It doesn't feel good to start off your relationship with a customer with deception.

> It should not be deception.

> The landing page should say: "We are building this product, but it's in the early stages.

But you aren't building that product. You're considering building that product.

IOW, it's still deception.
Microsoft patches CVE-2024-38063 IPv6 RCE vulnerability
> And why else would you open source something?

It's nice to know when you're building something on top of other tech that if you need to, you can dig in to the code and fix issues. If the company folds, and you rely on their tech, you can continue to maintain it. If you want to look at their code to see how something works, you can do that. If you want to hire somebody to do a security audit on it, you can do that. If you're picking software to build with, having the source code be open or available is a positive.

And there's no downside to companies doing this. I see this happening frequently: people getting upset at companies that do some kind of sort-of-open-source/source-available thing, because they think the company is just out to get their free labor. If you don't want to give them free labor, then don't.

And besides, they are using AGPL! OSI-approved! What more can you ask for? That the company either dissolve completely, so that their software may become a garden on their grave, tended to by a community of free engineers, or else must remain cloistered and strictly closed? You don't need to celebrate it, but I just don't see the point in pooh-poohing this.
One thing that never is discussed is how laws are barriers. Some YouTube channels exist and if they were in the USA they wouldn't make it due to our strict laws.

Also, some lab equipment is just a small market and so prices are insane. See any semiconductor manufacturing device....or special lasers or vacuum pumps.
Somewhat sad Seymour Hersh's bogus story gets 1000 comments and when mostly the real situation surfaces, no one on HN cares.