skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29225777

DonHopkins on Nov 15, 2021 | root | parent | next [–]

The iSmell developers were hoping to make money the same way, by selling big smell combination pack cartridges that you have to entirely replace after any one of the smells ran out.

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

>The iSmell Personal Scent Synthesizer developed by DigiScents Inc. is a small device that can be connected to a computer through a Universal serial bus (USB) port and powered using any ordinary electrical outlet. The appearance of the device is similar to that of a shark’s fin, with many holes lining the “fin” to release the various scents. Using a cartridge similar to a printer’s, it can synthesize and even create new smells from certain combinations of other scents. These newly created odors can be used to closely replicate common natural and manmade odors. The cartridges used also need to be swapped every so often once the scents inside are used up. Once partnered with websites and interactive media, the scents can be activated either automatically once a website is opened or manually. However, the product is no longer on the market and never generated substantial sales. Digiscent had plans for the iSmell to have several versions but did not progress past the prototype stage. The company did not last long and filed for bankruptcy a short time after.

This Wired Magazine article is a classic Marc Canter interview. I'm surprised they could smell the output of the iSmell USB device over the pungent bouquet from all the joints he was smoking:

You've Got Smell!

https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/

>DigiScent is here. If this technology takes off, it's gonna launch the next Web revolution. Joel Lloyd Bellenson places a little ceramic bowl in front of me and lifts its lid. "Before we begin," he says, "you need to clear your nasal palate." I peer into the bowl. "Coffee beans," explains Bellenson's partner, Dexster Smith. […]

>"You know, I don't think the transition from wood smoke to bananas worked very well." -Marc Canter

The failed quest to bring smells to the internet (thehustle.co)

https://thehustle.co/digiscents-ismell-fail

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476460

DigiScent had a booth at the 1999 Game Developers Conference, with scantily dressed young women in skunk costumes.

I told them about a game called "The Sims" I had been working on for a long time, and was hoping to finish and release some time soon.

They unsuccessfully tried to convince me to make The Sims support the iSmell, and even gave me a copy of the SDK documentation, because they thought it would enrich the player's experience of all those sweaty unwashed sims, blue puddles of piss on the floor, stopped up toilets in the bathroom, and plates of rotting food with flies buzzing around on the dining room table.
I usually just use <header> for section headers. Technically you’re supposed to put an h[1-6] tag inside a header tag, but I just drop the header text in there raw and style it with scoped CSS.
> Let me guess, you are not from Europe? People like you make me weary of the future.

I'm from a European country that Russia has threatened to nuke.
Yes, in particular for PreK-12 schools here in the States. Here in NJ nearly all board members know little or nothing about education, but are elected as popularity contest. Superintendents get paid big salaries and are often severely under qualified. There is a lot of bureaucracy created by this.

Many companies that target PreK-12 also know there is a lot of incompetent admins with boat loads of cash. Pricing gouging is very common.

People are shocked when they learn about 70% of property tax bills goes to the school district, not the municipality or county.
West is doing some things yes, I'm just emotional that we're not nearly doing enough.
Clojure – Transducers
https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

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I personally have wanted something like this for years -- but at the same time im anti surveillance - what would be interesting is "anti-surveillance surveillance"

Imagine placing these in the planter in a conference room... board room, green room. Stick one in the head-liner of an SUV used by political folks.

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(also not sure why "LED" is listed as a feature on the "connectivity" section...

I had posted earlier about a redditor who wanted to make a thing similar to this with whisper and such, for transcribing conversations at a corporate conference...
Did you ever live in Japan in the past decade?
> We know as a hard fact that LLMs do not understand anything.

A bit late to the party, but we most certainly do not even know what "understanding" means.
‘just’ is command-oriented, not target-oriented; this allows you to have:

- two ways of producing the same file

- a command with no side effects

- not having to draw up a state machine

just can enumerate its own commands, which is minor but helpful

just can execute in multiple directories, and can descend directories

just treats spaces and tabs identically for indention, rather than space-indented for shell scripts and tab-indented for make commands
Repeating the same claim more incredulously isn’t really a good debating tactic.
You still have to figure out things for yourself today. Novel things instead of tedious things like "why doesn't this function work the way the docs say it should."

Again, anyone who was actually a programmer back then and is now today would never have nostalgia for those days. It was not better before.
The original still works fine but good to hear there is a fork.
That nordstream mission damaged the country that invaded Ukraine and was a wake up call for rather pro-russian Germany government (or more like pro-russian-gas at any cost), its rather a typical spec ops and they didn't even try very hard to cover it up. Plus highly logical and considered as one of possibilities right after the attack.

Why would Ukraine attack NATO member when they receive all the help and support from them? No logical reason I can think of.
It's unfair to compare LLMs to early or even late stage Google.

Early Google was a very simple keyword search engine. Entering a question would confuse the algorithm returning results that sometimes matched the lower value words in your question. It was slick for the time but would feel tedious today next to the simplified output from free and local tier LLMs.

The reason Google and the internet feels tedious today has less to do with Google's ads and more to do with the gamed page rank results, the mountain of ads you find on websites that have aggregated all of the content that used to be useful on the internet and the lowering of information quality over the years.
Just trying to be helpful. Can’t tell how green someone is a priori.
Just because they are rattling their rattler doesn’t mean they don’t also have ability to bite. War hawks like to test the opponent in hopes the opponent is rational.

One hopes Russia, North Korea and China remain rational. Yet they retain the ability to strike and underestimating that is foolish.
If I am not wrong cost is a big factor currently not the tech advantage. It's one of the reasons we got the meme Moore's law is dead. So if someone is able to get even a generation or so older node compared to previous at cheaper price it will be a huge shift in the industry.
Either Rasmus Ledorf or Bjarne Stroustrup. Arguably, another Danish programmer contributed to the history of Pascal: Peter Naur (and also Jørn Jensen, but he was more into implementing ALGOL 60 compilers).

Honorable mention to DHH, although he didn't create a programming language. And also to Lars Bak for being the lead developer on V8.
As someone who is not neurotypical I actually could really use something like this due to memory issues associated with my diagnosis. Especially professionally.
I smell a protest. French trains were disrupted prior to the olympics. Fiber lines are a soft target that crosses public land, often in remote locations, and so is very difficult to defend.
>The glue people are incredibly nice people who sit at interstitial boundaries between groups, and they assist in activity. And they are very, very loyal, and people love them, and you don’t need them at all.

Eric Schmidt

>Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men

Charlie Chaplin
I have not, but I shall! Thank you!
Those were escalations not red lines, and Putin has not threatened a nuclear response to anything Ukraine has done (or even anything it could feasibly do).

The western media declares pretty much every escalation step to be a crossed red line though. This meme has reached new heights of absurdity.

Edit:

* No, Putin did not threaten to nuke anyone if Sweden joined NATO. A western newspaper might have declared it to be a red line. It's not a red line.

* No, Putin did not threaten to nuke anyone if Finland joined NATO. A western newspaper might have declared it to be a red line. It's not a red line.

* No, Putin did not threaten to use nukes if Ukraine invaded pre 2014 Russian territory or fired drones at refineries. A western newspaper might have declared it to be a red line. It's not a red line.

* No, "Putin said something vaguely ominous about nukes" is not drawing a red line.
One story of incaccessibility:

An online bank does video verification. Being deaf, I couldn't complete the verification because I didn't understand the instructions. I asked someone for help, but the bank said, I need to do the verification alone.

What went wrong: The application didn't offer the possibility to send written instructions. The fallback of having support by someone else was declined. I offered to call a professional interpreter but that was declined, too.
I agree with you in sentiment. I don’t have chrome on my personal computers.

But I have a critical plugin I use for work that is Chrome only.
Not serverless, not edge, not Kubernetes, not auto scaling
Consider that the theatre of international relations and politics is only one, and that behind the scenes there is a bigger narrative at work around trade and corporate power and most importantly the oil and gas sector.

There are many in the investor class who have interests in both Russian and Western oil & gas companies. And under the Trump administration the same people even openly penetrated the official state executive (Rex Tillerson, etc.)

The spectre of climate change -- or more particularly what state actors might actually eventually attempt to do about it -- unites those people more than national borders divide them. Number must go up.

Most of the song and dance about the Russo-Ukrainian war is about this. Nordstream 2 being only one part of it.
I would encourage you to download the linked paper and run it thru Claude. I would post results of doing so but that is not allowed here.
>possible argument

It’s a proposed possibility that doesn’t defy logic. I am not saying it is reality.

Also, it carries about as much weight as their arguments that safety features aren’t helping reduce fatalities/are driving up car costs. Neither of us is presenting any evidence.
Its true. I think the brain drain has had a severe impact on the evolution of the language as it exists in Delphi. However, some implementations, such as Oxygene, appear to evolve rapidly.
You can see a lot more if you toggle the “showdead” flag in your profile. A lot of posts go into the “dead” state right away, usually because somebody keeps posting nothing but links to the same blog. I see he had one “dead” back in 2017. My advice is he should:

1. Look at articles on the front page, pick out a site which frequently gets articles there

2. Look at 10 or so articles from those sites and pick the one you like the best.

3. Post and see what happened.
Could also just mean they're shit at social media
Holy crap, hundreds of pairs? What do you do with them? Run them through the washer just for fun? :)
I noticed that "Using state in components" and "Building forms using controlled components" both come before the introduction to the useState hook. That seems backwards to me, and I'm curious how you plan to teach those two sections without the use of that hook.

Overall, though, the content in your course looks good. I also highly recommend basing at least some of the content on the official React tutorials/docs (https://react.dev/learn/thinking-in-react), which do a great job of introducing the React way of thinking about applications.
Yep, it's just some "cargo cult".

I attended a meetup a number of years ago at a local trading firm, well known for a barrage of impossible puzzles and some simpler, like implement an order book for a matching engine. One of their senior guys did a talk on their trading system. I asked a basic question and the answer was so naive it was shocking. Maybe their best people don't do the talking.
If not for video phone we would not have the penetration of work from home we now have. It was science fiction when featured in Back to the Future
Thanks alot for your article! Do you know by any chance how to train FLUX.1 LORA locally?
seriously? so i have to register with microsoft to reboot windows to install linux now?
Blame Safari. The standard includes the `is` attribute, it's supported by all browsers except Safari, but Safari not only hasn't worked on supporting it, they've stated they won't do so.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...
Bots being paid by a state that is a misinformation campaign is not the same as spam.

Assuming the Fediverse was as popular as Twitter/FB, they could simply run their own instances, no need to pay for access through any specific server.
Ask HN: You remember to upgrade software on that VM/container you have?
Product managers, technical program managers. You know. Glue people.
The X Window System was originally released June 1984. That's 40 years ago.

And yet we're still having debates and active development on how to have graphical sessions on Linux.

iptables was released in 1998. That's 26 years ago. And yet those Linux devs are still working on nftables and firewalld.

If those Linux devs still haven't figured out how to do graphical sessions or firewall by now they never will.

FFS how to boot/init Linux is still under active development and some rapid changes over the past several years. If they can't even figure out how to boot how can you take those devs seriously?

Or maybe you redesign your stuff for the realities of today instead of just assuming what a few people did in the 80s was the be-all end-all of software and UI design.
I know the West has been a big help to Ukraine, and that’s a big part of why they’re holding up.
You mentioning Delphi reminds me of the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, a large model railroad with a day/night cycle, cars driving on the roads and planes "landing" and "taking off", a lot of it controlled with Delphi: https://www.embarcadero.com/case-study/miniatur-wunderland-c...

A video of their control center with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9SGsxauu7o
You might try Codux...
I think it's just an increased odds thing. Most likely the number was from oregon and he proved his guess by finding the person.

I have an old utah number that I've taken around to several states and I always get fun conversations when people ask what I did there.
Inspired by Hotglue[1], the opensource content manipulation system thats also self-hostable (duh)?

[1]https://hotglue.me/
> all the while ignoring that such usage actively keeps them from improving their own coding skills

That's an opinion not a fact backed by any data.

In fact it feels like "you hurt your hacking skills by using an IDE rather than a simple text editor, or higher level language than assembly, or managing your memory manually rather than using GCs".

Also, maybe coding skills will become more and more irrelevant for most developers the same way knowing how memory or CPUs work is largely irrelevant for all but a tiny part of the industry.

In fact, if AI assistants will keep getting better, the best skills to have will be ability to direct those assistants and overseeing their output while meeting business and product needs.
Platinum-group metals on earth: $965/oz

Water, volatiles and carbonaceous materials anywhere else in the solar system: priceless
Thanks! I was pretty sure Safari was the only major holdout but didn't have a link handy and didn't want to speak out of turn there.

That kind of support is a really tough one to work around with a major browser lacking support. For certain features its not a big deal, but when it comes to extending to get full accessibility support the only substitute is avoiding the feature and rolling it all custom. It really is a shame in my opinion, extending built-ins is extremely powerful.
It also doesn't help that there is massive yearly churn.
There's no need to worry, I'm sure someone will create an open source equivalent (if there isn't one already).
You're right that the situation is complicated, but helping Ukraine now is necessary. Leadership in Russia will change eventually, but we can't wait for that to happen before taking action.
There are lots of ways to search through your conversations, just not through OpenAI's web interface. If you don't want to explore alternatives because you don't want to lose access to your conversations, I would argue you've just demonstrated to yourself why you should avoid proactively avoid vendor lock-in.
Interested to hear what you mean when you say "turn clinical researchers into real scientists." Are you thinking of expanding the MSTP? Or just better statistical literacy for physicians? Or something else entirely?
If you restrict your diet & make sure to properly cook your food you can greatly reduce your frequency of food poisoning

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804545
It'll get fixed if they think it'll result in a lost sale. As they are effectively a vendor monopoly, this probably won't happen.
I was in moab last november and took a dip in the colorado for my "bath". Good lord that was cold. lol
> But what really made TP 7 special was its CP/M heritage. Turbo Pascal came to Windows by way of CP/M and MSDOS, which meant it had a compiler core that was designed to run with tight memory and a comparatively slow CPU. In the days when most compilers had to write a stack of intermediate files on disk, TP just constructed everything in memory. [...] It doesn’t matter much today if your compiler spits out a heap of temporary files, because disk storage is fast and cheap. But in the days of the floppy disk, you had to minimize disk access. Unfortunately, you also had to minimize memory use, because there wasn’t much of that, either.

Of course, the “heap of temporary files” is itself originally an adaptation for low main memory. The genius of Turbo Pascal is exactly that on those early PCs main memory was large enough / mass storage was small enough that for the program sizes in question the architecture of many passes communicating via disk files just wasn’t worth it. As far as I know, that was never true on minicomputers that our compiler tech was born on, and it’s very much not true on PCs now. (Consider: DOS machines had 100s of K to perhaps 4M of RAM and a couple megs to several dozen megs of floppy or disk, amounting to a proportion of perhaps 1:20. The laptop I’m typing this on has 4×10¹² bytes of mass storage and 64G bytes of RAM, a ratio of about 1:60, and I specifically made sure to get an abnormally large amount of RAM.)
I've spent more hours over the past decade wrestling with Windows than with Linux. So not only is Windows costing me money to license it, it's also costing me more time than chucking it in the bin and using Linux. I'm so done with Windows.
But gdb tui doesn't have menus, does it?

The missing TurboPascal-like menus are the main thing I was trying to point out.
This isn’t remotely true unless your golf carts are equipped with climate control, comfortable seats, entertainment systems, etc. and have ranges measured in the hundreds of miles. They’re selling well internationally because they’re a good deal and countries which don’t have domestic car manufacturers to protect aren’t trying to keep them out. The U.S. has tariffs because Detroit has been chasing the luxury market and isn’t prepared to compete on price.

https://apnews.com/article/china-byd-auto-seagull-auto-ev-ca...
The friction might be beaten as part of a network effect. Onboard a large internet celebrity, create a payment platform that syncs to open markets, soomething like the ronin bridge, people's funds can then be used to pay to post on said celebrities forums, expand to other web content, not just for posts but for viewing, 402 replaces ads.

The psychology is already there, "all" that's required a snowball to start adoption in the online media space.
I am not really sure who this argument is for, who is arguing to run a blog or small site on K8s? Your $44k a month business is chump change in the world of tech, that is about $1 per minute. You can have a 2 hour outage and only lose $120.

Sure, for a personal blog or small business its fine, but having done SRE work for years I will tell you right now any one server will absolutely fail and it will happen at 4 in the morning.

At a previous job, we had revenue in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per minute, especially when we ran large ad campaigns during football games and such. Would you risk running that on one server?

What about a EMR / EHR? I sure as hell am not running an in-patient system on one VPS...

Once you commit to 99.99% it always gets more complicated, but that is part of growing up as a company.
I got a Quest 3 recently, and the necessity for side-loading apps onto it to make it useful is kind of puzzling. SideQuest is almost mandatory. You can't easily copy files on or off it to network locations without CX File Explorer, side loaded from an untrusted source, hidden from the default application launcher.

You'd think they'd loosen the reins a bit in order to get a bigger installed base, but it's trying to drive so hard towards this Horizon Worlds metaspace thing that I just do not give one whit for.
Doubtful JPG will ever be replaced. It hits a sweet spot between implementation simplicity, (adjustable) visual fidelity, and ubiquity.

Even gifs persist because of they're grandfathered into auto play, despite being worse in every way than alternatives.
Russia has been undermining democracies all over the world since puttin' came to power, sometimes from shadows sometimes not so much. US elections, any EU elections, heck my own country had or maybe still has a very healthy FSB/GRU community meddling into anything they can, and parts of political spectrum especially far right is literally on their payrolls. Seems a ridiculous claim, but all far right organizations in central/east Europe switched from focusing on their national sovereignty into uncritical open russia support within last decade, which goes directly against their core principles.

Russia (well its cleptocratic corrupt leadership) is as much afraid of democracy as US was of communism in 50s - seen as existential threat to 'russian way'. This doesn't represent opinion of population, but in such regime their opinion is largely irrelevant, and they know well to bow down and be quiet or else.

And Europe is top target - geographically closest, russia feels they should export their glory as far as they can, and also not so homogenous so feeding confrontations within block, ie by supporting folks like Orban or now also Fico.
I definitely miss hitting F5 and instantly seeing the output my program compiled with the change that I just made.
Who is getting the service here the individual or society. A neoliberal world view might assume there is no society but that is patently absurd.

If society wants too have a functioning and prosperous economy it should provide education as a utility not something that's geared towards profit. If anyone thinks neoliberal solutions will bring anything other than economic rent seeking you've been living under a rock for the last 40 years.
It could also run Windows 3.1, but could not run the most famous Windows of all time (3.11 for workgroups).