skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> anyone can use X, even the far left (and oh boy do they use it) and censorship there is now highly uncommon.

For the right, censorship on twitter is uncommon. For the left it is common, especially if you dare criticize whats his face.
Ah I found one helpful URL: https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/saferules/

Looking for more like this. Just extremely practical, not verbose and stupid filler
And has the best name!
A7III has a dedicated DSP for focus & tracking, plus it has a computer vision model which can detect eyes and focus for them (even when you have sunglasses it can spot eyes perfectly), moreover you can give 5 faces to it with focus priority, and if it finds any of these faces in the frame, it focus to that one (lower the number, higher the priority). System works at 30 calculations per second, correcting focus 30 times per sec, as required.

This is Sony's AF system, 2 generations ago. I'm sure big three can do these tricks, at least at 30FPS. Latest, highest end Sony cameras do it at 120FPS, plus it can track whole body after losing the face, so they can track the same person in the frame after latching to it.
Once all of your water is steam, how do you get it back into a liquid phase so that you can do it over again?

Or so that you can do other things, like drink it...
The post is not about the book. In fact, as he commented here, he had never heard of the book.
Are those the knife people? Or the baby food?
The two factors mutually reinforce each other.
You are missing the forest for the trees here; what we call the device we strap to our face is neither here nor there and of no relevance to my earlier argument.

The issue is a great many people just won’t want to sit wearing anything at all on their face in a meeting - especially those who may have put effort into appearance of their hair and makeup etc etc as just one of many examples.

It’s also not a “meme”, or “hyperbole”. That is literally what you have to do today and in near term with an AVP or meta Quest etc- strap a heat generating, heavy, sometimes fan cooled (AVP) computer across your face.
Thanks for a very informative article. It would be interesting have more detail about how EBS achieved a strong culture around quality and system resilience. Maybe a future post?
>> it would be terrible policy to try to charge existing customers more than new customers.

Companies do this very, very often. This is part of the reason why they have a "call the sales department for special pricing" option. They can give large contracts a nice discount to get them onboard, then slowly (or in some cases, if they really think they have you hooked, not so slowly) ratchet up the price. This is common in both B2c and B2B businesses.
I wouldn’t necessarily have worked these 8 hours for 160$ after tax, I’d have gone to pick them up.
Papers are a terrible way to learn unless you are already an expert in the field, because the prerequisites tend to be "the entire rest of the field". It's a rare paper that actually assumes you might not know everything the authors knew.
I don't know if it's a feasible business anymore for example in the UK for soccer matches they just switched from a relatively expensive custom build tool (custom hardware/code) to detect offside and other offenses to a more reliable one using just iPhones and AI.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220197/iphone-offside-v...
It all went wrong for tourism
Exactly, Hotmail became Outlook.
I think in general it's easy to get distracted by optimization instead of focusing on the highest-leverage decisions. Tax and legal structure is a good example. It doesn't matter how good your tax situation is if you have no path to success as a business.

https://notes.npilk.com/optimizing-isnt-good-enough
The whole "anti-make-reinvent-everything mentality" is merely a form of "bike-shedding" - https://patrickkarsh.medium.com/bikeshedding-in-software-dev...
Ollama doesn't have a UI.
Can't spotlight already do most of that?
I use AeroSpace and I am really liking it <https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace>

Seems this window manager is more like a drop in replacement for non-i3 users.
On that note, the recent proliferation of "progressive web apps" has been pretty irritating to me lately.

PWAs give this deceptive illusion that you're installing an actual application, when in reality, it's just a bunch of ephemeral data thrown into the user data folder of the respective browser. Yeah good luck migrating that to another computer particularly if the original website goes down.

There's also a baffling amount of praise around PWAs, but wrap that same damn app in Electron (giving me the ability to run it offline as well as archive the installer in case the website goes down among other benefits) and people lose their collective minds.
Just thought I'd add a comment as someone who came top of the state in my grade in multiple olympiad competitions:

I always felt that a large part of my advantage came from having a strong understanding of maths from the ground up.

I felt that a lot more people could have gained the same level of understanding as I did if they had been willing to work hard enough, but I also felt that almost no-one would, because it'd be an incredibly hard sell to convince someone to engage in years-long project where they'd go all the way back to kindergarten and rebuild their knowledge from the ground up.

In other words, excellence is often the accumulation of small advantages over time.
Node.js "preprocessor" script to log from comments
Yes, I know we should all be good enough to not need to ever use console.log statements, or to even iterate for that matter but sometimes I find myself tired and working on a project and just want to double check my data structure is in the correct state. If I use console.log I risk the chance of forgetting that line of code and submitting it to LeetCode which will cause a failure. Using this comment based approach makes logging easier and is "LeetCode safe" in that no console.log statements will ever be executed.
windows embedded standard
I completely agree with this ratio view. Too much on ships and not enough on HR -> need to decommission the excess ships.
To be fair, part of the whole thing is that by the nature of the beast, this requires they have eyes on the macroeconomic structure on the scale of years, which isn't easy. Because that relates to their funding and how desperate people are for work. And ships and ship orders I'm sure take a few years to push through. All that being said, it would have been wise for them to have some hedges in place for such scenarios, and to consider non-traditional employment structures such as "sail from home" type work where employees zoom into the engine room
I expected to see some eldritch css monstrosity, but no, its just a pdf. A well formatted one, at that.

What’s your issue there?
looks more like a web page than web app
Site's dead. The irony?

Here's wayback machine from August 22nd - https://web.archive.org/web/20240822193714/https://deathcafe...
It's a thing of maturity. In programming and system administration, that kind of obscure thing can be really helpful. I was debugging an NMI just yesterday.

So, doing obscure things and knowing intricate details of a machine is always a plus if you're facing it 8 hours a day, and having small wrestling matches with it from time to time.

However, having a piss contest out of it is not cool or nice.
This site can’t be reached

archive.ph took too long to respond.
One problem is that it's easy to think you know the prerequisites when in fact you don't.

For instance, a student struggling in calculus may think they know algebra because they got a decent grade in algebra class, even though they struggle to solve a quadratic equation and they've forgotten how trig works.

-- Maybe they got saved by grade inflation, or

-- maybe they did learn these things but they've gotten so rusty that they need to effectively re-learn them again, or

-- maybe they learned and still remember everything from their algebra class, but the class was watered-down and cherry-picked the simplest possible cases of problems within each topic (e.g., quadratic equation always has leading coefficient of 1 and is solvable via factoring) ...

There's a million different ways that a student can look at a list of prerequisites and mistakenly think that they have learned them, especially if the prerequisites are listed as a handful of high-level categories as opposed to hundreds of granular atomic topics.
Very cool! At first glance this looks a lot like SpiceDB, which is also a Go service based on Zanzibar. Excited to see more entrants in the space, can you talk a bit about what makes Permify special?
Edith Macefield
MacGyver hasn't been on the air for three decades... I was pointing out that language changes and "cringe" has been recognized as part of the (American) english language for a few years now (by one dictionary publisher).
IMO, for prepackaged foods like frozen dinners, the UI should be that you put the food in the oven and close the door, and the microwave figures out the rest. (Of course there would also be manual controls available.)

The simplest way would be with a barcode on the plastic food tray. The barcode would contain the actual cooking instructions so that there's no internet dependency.
It seems impolite to make up your opponent's argument and then make commentary about it. Maybe let them respond?
I use https://taskfile.dev and I love it.
Two rotary knobs for selecting power and duration and two push buttons for start and stop.

Actually a third push button is also required, for storing a power+duration pair, when you want to have multiple segments where different powers are used.

When using a microwave oven for cooking, not just for reheating, it is very common to use a high power for a short time, then one or two decreasing power levels sufficient to just preserve the current temperature, in order to avoid making a mess in the oven, due to violent boiling or high pressure steam generation.
My 1st was 3.0 (bundled with a Z-Nix mouse).

For functionality. I prefer modern control panel over 3.x - and over Settings.

1) Settings has no applets I can pin to the start menu (ex: printers).

2) I can't be in two parts of Settings at the same time.

3) Commonly-used control panel options: In Settings they can be missing, neutered or moved+moved again.

4) Settings still reverts to control panel applets for some functions. Will those options still exist without a control panel? No one knows.
50 years ago Silicon Valley was the upstart. It was not as big player in the military industrial crowd (even if it has its origins there). The behemoth tech companies are today "the establishment". Now they are the ones needing protections from smaller more nimble upstarts.
Some credit needs to be given for just jumping in. Just analytically breaking down complex problems into pieces that are understandable.

It's often faster to work top-down and turn unknown unknowns -> known unknowns -> known knowns.
On the note of small strings, Compact String[1] was i believed released after this article and has a nifty trick. Where Smol and Smart can fit 22 and 23 bytes, CompactStr can fit 24! Which is kinda nutty imo, that's the full size of the normal String on the stack.. but packed with actual string data.

There's a nice explanation on their readme[2]. Love tricks like this.

[1]: https://github.com/ParkMyCar/compact_str

[2]: https://github.com/ParkMyCar/compact_str?tab=readme-ov-file#...
Learn Kanji via an English Context
I’m 100% down the idea that we have individual responsibility to the environment and must make some personal sacrifice. Paper grocery bags are much less convenient than plastic but I’m in support of legislation to ban plastic bags even if all the cost and inconvenience is passed on to the customer. Biking to work is a great choice if you live in range.

Neither of these deprive you of truly transformative experiences like travel. Air travel will never be a green endeavor. It will always be something that we’ll have to compensate for elsewhere in pursuit of being carbon neutral.

I’m not willing to tell someone that they should not fly across the country to see their friend in order to be an environmentally responsible citizen. Not while we still burn coal and gas to keep the lights on.
That was seven years ago. I've seen enough Medium articles in the last year to know they are not automatically suppressed. Same with Dev.to

The old article might have been auto-killed because it was from a green account and had the same subdomain as the user's HN account. Back in 2017, that might have auto-killed it. Not sure it would kill it today. But it might.
Yes, police have a lot of power and can sometimes get away with doing illegal things. The probability increases when the victim is somehow marginalized. Most people won't bring it to court, but if the search is fruitful, it's guaranteed to end up in court.

The increased use of car and body cameras makes this particular abuse harder to get away with. A request to search denied followed by a call for a dog, followed by unusual delays recorded on dashcam leads to a challenge even the most overworked public defender would raise.
Afghans are being slowly poisoned by their evening meal
Having friends in middle school can be pretty tough.

Learning how to have friends in elementary school and high school is a lot easier and mostly unconnected with middle school friendship.

Hopefully your social life doesn't revolve around friendship with middle schoolers, so no big deal if you miss out on that skill.
Reading two column PDFs on a mobile phone sucks.

Plus I can't use web tools, like "Read this page" in Mobile Safari.

And copying and pasting is harder.

And I can't link to individual sections.

I'm honestly baffled by people who prefer PDFs for this kind of information. Are they printing them out on paper and going at them with a highlighter or something?
reminds me PRQL https://prql-lang.org

and SPL from Splunk
Yes, I do believe this is the correct take.
DMCA is a weapon abused by corporations. These laws are written solely for corporations.

What I do an end-user is my discretion; if I want to remove or alter data sent to my endpoint, I should be able to without some corporation dictating what can be done.

Everything on the web needs decentralisation as we're nearing some sort of dystopia where corporations dictate how we live. Git itself it decentralised, but the hosting of files shouldn't be so easily removed.
I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to jump headfirst into things that interest you. I would just recommend that you need to be honest with yourself about whether you're making progress -- and if you're starting to flail (or, more subtly, doubt yourself and lose interest), then it's an indication you need to re-allocate your time into shoring up your foundations.
To see how well it works, I uploaded the PDF to Google AI Studio and ran the prompt "Convert this document to neatly styled semantic HTML" against the gemini-1.5-pro-exp-0801 model - the result is actually pretty good!

https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2024/Pipe-Syntax-In-...
I'm not really sure I understand what you're saying and/or asking.

As far as I can tell, the statement in question was simply saying that showing the steps to come to a solution is rare, and also that it helps to teach how to think (how to solve a problem). I guess don't see where the arrogance lies.
I would welcome this! I’ve been using SQL for over 20 years and I still sometimes have trouble expressing certain queries, which in my head are well understood. I typically get there but I wish the amount of trial and error was shorter, and the process of turning what I have in my head inside out disappeared.
> it’s totally ok to stumble blindly through this stuff at first until you’re making significant dough.

I would rephrase that as “don’t rush to create a new legal entity until there’s an event that forces you to.” Events such as:

- raising money from outside investors
- forming a partnership
- hiring an employee
- so profitable that the plaintiffs/lawyers are circling

Forming a new legal entity takes time and money and distracts from getting the business off the ground. If the business doesn’t get off the ground it’s time and money to close down the entity.

(Someone will respond to this by declaring that you need limited liability protection for your personal assets, which is a level of paranoia I don’t subscribe to mainly because your personal assets are already at risk even before you start a company. Sane people/customers aren’t hunting for lawsuits, they have lives to live and businesses to run.)
Intelligence is far too complex to be meaningfully described with a single number like IQ. Measures of physical capability don't suffer from this issue - a person might be strong, or they might be fast, and everyone knows that the power lifter and the marathon runner use wildly different training regimens to improve their abilities.

If physical capabilities are highly trainable, up to some genetic limit that the vast majority of people never even get close to, then it seems that intelligence must work the same way - e.g. prodigious feats of memorization can be achieved via training regimes (memory palaces etc.), as can one's three-dimensional visualization skills (e.g. a chessboard layout, or rotating a platonic solid, etc.) or the ability to rapidly construct arguments using logic and reason - but we don't seem to be able to classify different areas of mental ability as easily as with physical abilities.

Sadly, this is one of those politically difficult topics as the blank slatists and the genetic determinists (Lysenko vs. Galton) have tried to use all kinds of pseudoscience to support their ideological arguments, when the underlying point is just that training your mind is as beneficial as training your body, and everyone should do it at least to some extent.
In EU choices like your jurisdiction, company structure and place you conduct business from will make a huge difference. I think it's the most important thing you should worry about. You can end up working for 25 years in Germany just to end up with the same amount of money as someone who worked 15 years in Poland running the very same business and that's not including cost of living and bureaucracy costs. If you need to hire people the difference is going to be even bigger.

Taxes are very real cost. They mean years of your working life, risks you could take, choice you can make, life quality you can afford, close ones you could help etc.
PDF content is not web-indexed. Their Google Scholar link doesn't even work either.
Conference papers use templates. It's not like Google can choose.
Building software to last forever (2022)
CUM has a train headed for DC show up once a day at 9:30am. Takes 3½ hours, which is about an hour longer than driving.

In the other direction to Pittsburgh leaves at 7:30pm and takes 4½ hours, more than 2 hours longer than driving.
Here is one example from the PDF:

FROM r JOIN s USING (id)
|> WHERE r.c < 15
|> AGGREGATE sum(r.e) AS s GROUP BY r.d
|> WHERE s > 3
|> ORDER BY d
|> SELECT d, s, rank() OVER (order by d)

Can we call this SQL anymore after this? This re-ordering of things has been done by others too, like PRQL, but they didn't call it SQL. I do think it makes things more readable.
The first-page of the paper has 13 co-authors listed - but all with the same affiliation ("Google, Inc") - so this is ultimately a single-vendor making a unilateral proposal to break with the past - which means I'm confident this proposal won't be gracing the pages of the ISO/IEC 9075 (ISO SQL) standards in my lifetime - no matter how badly we all need QoL improvements to SQL.

...okay, if I dial-back my feelings of resignation to mediocrity, then I'll admit that Google probably does have enough clout to make this go somewhere - but they'd need to add this to all their database offerings (BigQuery, Spanner, Firebase's SQL mode) and contribute patches to Postgres and MySQL/Maria - maybe after Microsoft relents a decade later to add it to MSSQL we'll maybe start to see Oracle's people refer to it vaguely as a nice-to-have they'll implement only after they start losing more blue-chip customers[1].

Also, it's giving me M (Excel PowerQuery) vibes too.

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[1]For context, Oracle's DB lacked a `bit`/`bool` column type for the past 40 years until last year. People had to use `char(1)` columns with CHECK constraints to store '0'/'1' - or worse: 'T'/'F' or 'Y'/'N' (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/3726846/159145 )
Same here. I often connect to mariadb via console and try my queries there. I confess that I've used gpt to help me with some hairy ones and it worked quite good.
> There are at least 54 other jurisdictions within the US alone that have incorporation statutes. Those legislatures and courts haven’t all sat still for the last 30 years, they compete directly with Delaware, other countries and each other.

No other jurisdiction really competes with Delaware. It's got a robust body of case law and everyone knows what to expect.
They can choose to publish it in both HTML and PDF.
Why Has the Internet of Things Failed
Can't you use those simple people counters? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_counter
> The goto scientific SEO process hasn't really changed in centuries.

> You submit your article to some exclusive groups of researchers,

> anonymous peer review is arranged, and if deemed acceptable the

> article is included in some publication.

Barely 50 years, actually. Peer review is a latecomer to the party[1] and is actually part of the problem. It's fundamentally gatekeeping and (along with an analogous process in funding) serves to slow/prevent paradigm shifts by locking in popular models at the expense of creative thinking (e.g. the amyloid hypothesis[2]). It's not part of the scientific process, it's part of a concerted effort to tame and regularize it.

[1] https://mitcommlab.mit.edu/broad/commkit/peer-review-a-histo...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652035/
A really fascinating corollary I've observed since I've gotten into more advanced maths, or even doing actual research as a PhD student, is that there's nothing special going on at the higher levels. You're just working with different materials. Materials that require more time and effort to 'get', but once you get them they are just another tool at your disposal.

I was similar to the author in that, throughout high school and undergrad, I presumed that the mind that could comprehend advanced math or do novel research (in any field) was truly unknowable. Like there was this x-factor they had that wasn't there for me.

I've long enjoyed puzzle games (like The Witness or Stephen's Sausage Roll). It turns out that problem solving in non-trivial domains is never terribly different than problem solving in those games, or any other domain really. Like my brain isn't doing anything different than the usual tree-search algorithm that any chess player performs when they are projecting moves ahead into the future.

Its just iterating on concepts that seem abstruse to most people. But at the end of the day, deep problem solving in math or AI research tends to be the same moving-shapes-around-in-my head that I would do if I was trying to move an awkwardly shaped couch through a narrow doorway.
Everything I said is still right.
It’s almost like what snobby self-important dev communities like vs dislike is as arbitrary as they are in any other group. It’s just that for some reason developers are delusional enough to think that they’re actually smart.
Somehow Python and JS can get away with json in std lib, but thing that builds binaries can’t?

How often does it even need to be updated to parse freaking json?
I think a few iq points is actually much more impactful than you realize. 1 iq point boosts lifetime earnings by $50k.

https://www.sebjenseb.net/p/how-profitable-is-embryo-selecti...