skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a super interesting read. Another factor that's probably missing is a weird form of prudeness/sexism. I remember reading articles years ago about new discoveries about the clitoris, and thinkig "how the fuck was this missed", or the debate around the existance of the G-spot, or the existence (or not) of female ejaculate. I suspect there's more female anatomy left to be discovered/described than male.
It Depends.

I said in another post that I hated all the ceremonies, including standup. And it goes without saying that means long standups.

But, one team I was one, we had long ass standup and it was perfect. It was very dev-driven, we were facing hard problems, and that was our time of the day to really nerd out. The PM would get bored after about 15-20 minutes and then we'd be working out how to deal with the issues that faced us. Sure, it could have happened at any point of the day, but that was our designated time where we were all in the office (this was pre-pandemic)
Thanks! If you try again and still have it don't hesitate to create an issue on GitHub and I'll look into it!
Why would someone write "Under" instead of "On" in this context?

Was this common back then?
Out of interest I looked up who controls the DNS root servers:

Europe (2): RIPE and Netnod AB. RIPE is Europe’s RIR, run as a conference by European ISPs. Netnod is a Swedish ISP.

Asia (1): Project WIDE, part of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

US (9): Verisign, Cogent, NASA, US Department of Defense, US Army, the University of Maryland, ISC (as in the Bind9 people), ICANN itself, and the University of Southern California.

The last two seem to have some overlap and there is probably a lot of overlap between all of these organisations.

Verisign runs two root servers which is why the list has twelve entries but the root servers run from A to M.
Gold bars that you can create a backup of in case of loss of protect at a molecular level with cryptography.
Not having sugar AND salt in every food helps. To lose weight, a trip to the old continent where fruits are cheaper than processed food, does a better job than any diet.
I didn't know what it does. There's no copy explaining it. No examples either.

But when I asked, it responded well.

> what does this do?
> Can you give an example?

And I got:

> It translates corporate jargon into plain English. For example:
> "We're leveraging synergies to optimize our core competencies"
> Becomes:
> "We're trying to do our jobs better"

Maybe add this to the site's copy?

Good little tool.

What's the usecase you had in mind when you built this?

Also, if you care to explain, what' the stack used?
On the contrary if you're a coder doing anything non-substantial and only rarely need to do some basic 3d modelling I would say definitely look to openscad!

I make models for my 3d printer just a few times a year. I find it much easier to get back into openscad than remember my way around a gui or wrestle with more advanced tools.

There's nothing I've not managed to make with openscad yet, though the things I have made are embarrassingly simple (yet highly functional).
I think he implied Ozempic.
realistically, the complaint isn't about lack of things being taught at school (tho it's framed that way).

The real complaint is the lack of being told exactly what to do that leads to a path of automatic success. What they were told to do did not lead to automatic success, but is in fact, fraught with traps and dangers, most of which is avoidable but only for those with the foresight.

But i am a believer of personal responsibility, and that following the crowd (or common advice) without thinking critically about it will merely lead sheep to slaughter.
It could theoretically be a B2B product only (or something else limited) and not B2C.
I am not sure I understand the point of using TPM + PIN to decrypt the drive for a single user system.

I am fine just using the passphrase and I just configure my graphical login manager to log straight to my preferred user on start in order to not have to type crefentials twice at boot time.
A server with 100K TCP connections isn't much different, and you might be surprised (or maybe not) by how extensively dynamic data structures are used in the TCP stack implementation. I'm not sure all of them can be made 'cache-friendly,' and embedding all layers together would make the code unmaintainable. Intensive access to external memory is inevitable when accessing a large enough number of unrelated states.
Ouch. I think the blame is partly on the build configuration. IMO build configurations shouldn't degrade silently this way. If the user is OK without a 32-bit vDSO then they should explicitly specify that.
Why not both? Even better if you have to obtain accreditation as a professional in every different market because EU software is different from US software is different from Indian software...
It's worth noting that even on x86, -m32 isn't as complete as a real i?86 build of gcc. It's "complete enough" for the kernel and many other things, but, say, I found it very difficult to build a 32-bit program that didn't rely on SSE since the 64-bit version assumes it.
With Bitcoin, you could create that third party in a trust minimized way, something impossible to do with the banking system.

For instance, if the third party refuses to authorize a legitimate transaction, you have a third key you keep offline somewhere that can be used to force a transaction through.
Not in Ubuntu repository
It looks like maybe that is no longer the case for children under 12: https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/travel/accessibility-and-as...
I wonder if saying that "it's all encoded in DNA (which is only 6 billion bits)" is accurate. Every time life (considering only humans for now, to simplify) arises, in addition to the DNA (the "code"), you also have the rest of the first cell (the zygote), which already has an "expression" of that code (which may contain additional information beyond what is already in the code), + the entire environment of the mother (which obviously provides additional information).

This makes me think that we need far more than just 6 billion bits to actually encode the entire process of new life formation (each instance always piggy-backs off the previous, and always provides processes/information).
those are false equivalencies.

you can teach someone about financial concepts, without having the actual monies. These are not physical activities requiring actual mediums like driving or swimming. They are mental concepts - an extension of critical thinking and maths, with a bit of instruction following mixed in.
If a passenger cannot take care of themselves for whatever reason, I think they should be allowed to sit next to whoever takes care of them without having to pay extra.
i always thought I'd love openscad, being from a more coding background, but it turns out I'm not too fond of it. I eventually used freecad after watching some YouTube videos when I needed to make something.
Mini-lm isn't optimized to be as small as possible though, and is kind of dated. It was trained on a tiny amount of similarity pairs compared to what we have available today.

As of the last time I did it in 2022, Mini-lm can be distilled to 40mb with only limited loss in accuracy, so can paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v1 (down to 21mb), by reducing the dimensions by half or more and projecting a custom matrix optimization(optionally, including domain specific or more recent training pairs). I imagine today you could get it down to 32mb (= project to ~156 dim) without accuracy loss.
This is what is meant with Bureaucracy. And it's not just the BOFH's of the world, this is the same in all areas where there is a bit of personal power. There will be rules and they will be followed very very closely no matter what breaks down. Be it package delivery, care of elderly, hospitals, permissions related to building houses, and so on.
Precedence rules are mostly a formalization of the underlying basic convention that the operations whose terms are written closer together are done first.
Ask HN: Issues with Apple Pencil?
Hi There,

I just discoverd that if I leave my Apple Pencil too long off the charger, the pencil dies. My pencil now won't charge and is basically bricked. That is because the pencil hit zero charge and it seems the battery dies whan that happens.

I found this thread[1] that points this out. I couldn't believe it but it basically describes my scenario: I forgot to charge the pencil for a couple of days (or perhaps the best part of a week), charge hit zero percent and now the pencil is bricked.

If that thread is to be believed, I'm not the only one.

What I was wondering is why a) no one at Apple explicitly told me this - by the sounds of it, the battery is rather fragile and needs looking after and b) why does the iPad not give me a warning - the Find My app seems to be able to display the charge level of all my devices and tell me when I leave them behind but it can't warn me if my pencil is dangerously low on power?

Rather disappointing since I now have to go back to the Apple store, explain the situation and hope for the best (I've still got warranty so it should be ok).

I really enjoy my Apple gear, no questions asked! I don't won't to complain but my expectation of Apple was that this kind of thing shouldn't happen - hence my surprise that something this simple (as not charging a device) could lead to it being bricked. Could this also happen to my AirPods?

P.S. I didn't drop the pencil nor place it near nuclear grade weapons, i.e., I did nothing extraordinary with the pencil other than use it!

[1]: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251085967
> Over 300 million people visit the national parks each year, generating nearly 70 million tons of trash.

What? Does this include waste the parks themselves generate in brochures and such?

I cannot fathom how each visitor to a national park generates an average of 467 pounds of trash.
I’m not sure why the above comment is being downvoted:

I was reading The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, and I came across this quote:

Royce’s 1970 paper, which is credited with “inventing” the model, actually identifies it so Royce can criticize it and suggest improvements. He wrote it is “risky and invites failure” because “design iterations are never confined to the successive step.” What Royce suggests as an alternative is similar to what we now call Agile. Sadly, multiple generations of software developers have had to suffer through waterfall projects thanks to people who, we can only assume, didn’t read the entire paper (Pfeiffer 2012) [p. 175].

https://www.jjinux.com/2015/07/the-waterfall-model-was-straw...
> Self driving works.
No it doesn't. Only in San Francisco maybe.
> navigate life's challenge, such as avoiding scammers, how to judge quality information, how to diagnose and solve emotional challenges

where are the parent's? They're meant to be the ones teaching these non-academic education to their children.

School does not replace parenting. School is for academic studies - stuff that a parent won't have had the qualifications to teach.
Sorry, there is no parallel between technology with direct implication and dreams from VC's and investors with low level of tech literacy.
A very reasonable approach indeed
it's stochastic parrots all the way down
The Waterfall Model was a straw man argument from the beginning (2015)
> is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt

a student does not pledge their services as security for the debt. It's not debt bondage at all.
Instaboard: Revolutionizing Remote Collaboration
I prefer when personal websites are used but agree
I’ll be honest, this is a pretty poor article. It focuses solely on macronutrients but doesn’t even touch on satiety. Sure, some random tribe may eat 50% more carbs than we do, but the difference is our calories come from low satiety carbs such as high fructose corn syrup, and their carbs come from sweet potatoes, one of the more satisfying foods to eat. So it can hardly be called a “mystery” why a more physically active, lower calorie lifestyle produces a group of people who are healthier. It’s throwing a ton of stats at you that sound plausible but break down under scrutiny. Not to mention this is just the “mysteries”, and no actual hypotheses are drawn.
Or a false premise, perhaps (from which anything follows).
It's beyond software: any domain that requires oversight of non-trivial work should really have leadership from the ranks so they are able to ground their observations.

Managers with no domain knowledge are just an extra layer of indirection and overhead without any of the benefits. Would any IC want their career gated by someone who has zero insight into the team's day to day duties, doubly so if it's at a supposed "tech" company?
Then your third key would be vulnerable to the same $5 wrench attack as your seed phrase is now.
According to Jan Guillou, one of the best selling authors in Sweden - yes. He still types on an old-fashioned typewriter. Granted he is about 80 and grew up with them, but I can see that the constraints you have to live with are just to accept, and that can give focus.
I also think it is great to call out that not all 'missing' things like this are a conspiracy, it is just inefficiencies, or competing goals of different groups.

"No shadowy Illuminati group deliberately made this decision, but as a civilization we have collectively ‘decided’ that three groups of people would get to peer inside the human body, and they’d all be hobbled."
FWIW, Wikipedia has a list of the most common place names in the United States. "Washington" leads at 91, which means nearly two occurrences per state, though this includes variant names such as "Old Washington", "Port Washington", and "Washingtonville":

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._p...>

Other issues you might want to consider are locations with multiple names or spelling variants, say, "Ciudad de México" and "Mexico City" or Pretoria/Tshwane, various script variants, or disputed names. Or closely-paired locations, such as Minneapolis / St. Paul or Dallas / Fort Worth. Or those which have changed names (Bombay / Mumbai, Calcutta / Kolkota, Madras / Chennai).

For the United States, using MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) will tend to group people by urban region, with less ambiguity and grouping of reasonably proximate locations. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a widely-used standard elsewhere.

Cue: "Falsehoods programmers believe about geography"

<https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/15187>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14891185>
I just saw it in the new Matt Parker video and was about to submit it here :-)
> Unfortunately, if it is possible, nobody seems to have figured out how to do it.

I'm not sure if you're referring to directional bass or to small speakers making decent bass. The former is fortunately a solved problem today - cardiod speakers (and their variants) do so, albeit DSP may be required/help.

For the latter, the issue is partly because you need to move double the air volume for every halvening of an ocatve. So going from 120hz to 30hz requires 4 times more moved air for same dBspl... but because of human ear (insensitivity), we need way more loudness at lower frequencies to sound "as loud" (Fletcher Munson curve or dbA weighting). Consequently it's kinda hard to get loud enough bass from small drivers (I can explain in more detail if you'd like). There's some interesting tech like Mayht speakers and Resonado but in its current form there are limitations.
> compact disc

It’s probably not far off being easier to read DNA than a CD. And it’s surely less frustrating.
Maybe thirty years ago. Today, his money is the most relevant thing about him.
> Access tried to be this a decade ago

three decades ago :)
What does the parse “on a tear” mean I’ve never heard it before
What are some recent sources for high quality similarity pairs?
Reminds me ommwriter.
Frankfurt am Main and Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany.
DragonFire Laser Weapon Will Equip Royal Navy Warships from 2027
HN won't probably like the tone of this one. But one thing I want to emphasise from the post: you don't need to be innovative

I see a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs wanting to build something, and get obsessed about finding a new idea that's never done before, and failing at it.

As if there was only one of everything in the world. There cannot be another restaurant in this city because there's already one. No one can make money selling phones, shoes, browsers, utility software, because they already exist. Nonsense. Either you have a new idea and invent a monopoly, or you have an old idea but you make it better. And you probably don't want to build a monopoly just yet, that's a whole other game.

The bonus of being a startup is that you can afford to try out new approaches to old problems. You don't need a crazy new idea, just to make a marginally better product than the competition. Effort > originality.
Paris has not always been the capital of France. Many other cities around France have been capital.

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

There's practically no subject you could bring up that an LLM wouldn't "hallucinate" or give "wrong" information about given that garbage in -> garbage out, and LLMs are trained on all the garbage (as well as too many facts) they've been able to scrape. The LLM lacks the ability to reason about what century the prompt is asking about, and a guess is all it is programmed to do.

Also, if you ask 100 French citizens today what the true capital of France is, you're not always going to get "Paris" as a reply 100 times.
productivity tools are a bit crowded. Why does this set you apart from the others, except being a better trello?
couldn't you install/upgrade win10 ( and possibly win11 ) on it?

Last time I checked you could totally use drivers built for windows 7 on a win 10 OS.
Daily standups are horrendous. I don't know how people put up with that level of time wastage and micromanagement.
> Am I wrong, though?

Yeah. Congestion makes a single-node Internet unusable.
Absolutely right. Well put.
He didn't mention an ad blocker. I wonder if that would change things.

Especially if (like me) he's got an ad blocker in Chrome but not in Safari.
OpenSCAD is amazing for thinking of 3d design as a coding workflow. Here's my minimal intro to it: https://jcarlosroldan.com/post/151/parametric-design-with-op...
From "tearing paper", a continuous ripping action, giving rise to the english idiom "he went on a tear" .. as in "started partying and didn't stop" or "started coding and didn't stop".
The most famous of course is the Kobayashi Maru.
I assumed that too, but all Ozempic is (as I understand) is an appetite suppressant.
Great idea! Those things cost money though and users won't like paying up-front--they'll have to be sure to make up costs with obscene fees, the more obfuscated the better. To minimize pushback on the fees they should consider focusing them on the most disadvantaged users, since they're least likely to be able to do anything about it. Isn't it a great system?
Terra – A Companion for Mindful Wandering
Building NotebookLLM using PHP and OpenAI APIs
Is anyone else having a hard time with the bunny/seagull illusion? I just see bunny/upside down bunny
I'm glad you liked it :) .
That's a good idea for the colors, I'll put it in, thanks!
You're also right about the trailer, I'll put it there.
The Jacquard Loom predates that by over 80 years. I'm sure we can stretch the definition further and go back even farther.
I thought about it but their colleagues would have had the same problem, yet didn't. Plus becomming flight attendant removed that activity.

Not to mention it happened during the hollidays too.

It's probably more life style related, but I was there during said life style and couldn't figure it out.
What's so funny about getting an AI app to give you a roasting?
For those who are interested. I have been working on a similar CAD Modeler. I think of it as a spiritual successor to OpenSCAD.

It has support for bidirectional modeling (ex: get the height and width of an object and use it later) and multi part workflows to design more complex works.

https://www.dslcad.com/
many citizens' lives were improved. The cheap material consumption and availability is an improvement. It's just that the benefit is so widely available that people stopped thinking of it as a benefit.

It used to be that owning a TV or radio was an expense you planned for and it had to last.

Of course there are those who were hurt from the move from blue collar manufacturing, but overall, the aggregated benefit is higher than the losses from those who were laid off. And it's not as if new industries did not spring up.
some links don't work. too good at blocking bots.
> * Electric cars. For new car sales, 10% in US are electric. 20% worldwide. 50% in China. US is way behind.

Norway: hold my beer. 94%.

https://electriccarsreport.com/2024/09/norways-ev-sales-set-...
Directionality is a normally an almost completely unwanted quality in speakers. You want speakers to be heard equally well from all directions (that are frontward of the speaker's baffle). That's one reason why speaker boxes use multiple speakers, and these get smaller for the higher frequency ranges. "Dome tweeters" are shaped as such in order to radiate all around.

A "full range" speaker will send the lows in all directions but the highs mainly in the direction of its axis. A listener caught in the beam will hear a shrill sound, whereas someone off axis hears it muffled. Guitar speakers are like this; particularly the 12" ones and particularly in the 4x12 cabinet arrangement. Sometimes musicians use dispersing devices mounted on the speakers, like "beam blockers". Or the speaker is picked up by a microphone close to it, so that the audience hears it fro the PA system (which solves the sound dispersion problems in its own way).

There are situations in which it is desirable for a speaker box to "beam", like when it is mounted far away or high above a target listening area that is relatively small, calling for the speaker to be a kind of spotlight.
> The difference is that nobody will pay programmers to keep programming once LLMs outperform them. Programmers will simply become as obsolete as horse-drawn carriages, essentially overnight.

I don't buy this. A big part of the programmer's job is to convert vague and poorly described business requirements into something that is actually possible to implement in code and that roughly solves the business need. LLMs don't solve that part at all since it requires back and forth with business stakeholders to clarify what they want and educate them on how software can help. Sure, when the requirements are finally clear enough, LLMs can make a solution. But then the tasks of testing it, building, deploying and maintaining it remain too, which also typically fall to the programmer. LLMs are useful tools in each stage of the process and speed up tasks, but not replacing the human that designs and architects the solution (the programmer).
Only if cities remove all permanent parking space and it forces people to switch.

People are too attached with property and social status stuff.
Upvoting this.

It is extremely frustrating when you recognize a like-minded individual, you want to engage with them, befriend them, for the benefit of both, and you're just unable to because they neglected to add some contact detail/link/hint.
I for one prefer Scrivener.
On my phone but: The Business Model Canvas, Getting Real.
Expo '67 Gyrotron: https://en.worldfairs.info/expopavillondetails.php?expo_id=1...
The Godot game engine has its 2d graphics origin at the top-left of the screen, with the positive Y axis pointed down. Having clockwise trig functions is a natural consequence of that.

I think it's a fairly common setup for all 2D graphics software.
This can't possibly always be true.