skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do a lot of writing. The best recipe for me when I really need to focus is to not use my macbook at all, but a dedicated laptop with no wifi or anything. (Bought a cheap lenovo X1 second hand for this purpose). Pen and paper is also wonderful.
Great point! But yeah I think it does, given the source indeed uses “generates”:

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/teaming-up-to-keep-park-was...

bringing in and generating nearly 70 million tons of trash

God knows how they get to that number tho. Probably was a sum of all trash operations for all parks system-wide? That would include all the ranger’s trash from living there, along with any waste generated by maintenance, hospitality, and rescue activities. That makes a bit more sense if we consider that there are many national park service units (including national lakeshores, national battlegrounds, etc.), some of which presumably have a much lower ranger:visitor ratio than, say, Great Smoky Mountains NP. Like Gates of the Arctic NP!

Some activities are pretty wasteful (looking at you, mountaineers) and some people dump their RV trash in the little trash cans at the visitor center, but no way that puts a dent in 400lb/person, IMO.
Wouldn't this have been addressed by paper checks long before direct deposit came into play?
Free can mean anything from "unlimited bandwidth for free for everyone" to "free limited/capped service with an add on premium bandwidth service for a fee".

Given that Starlink is still a relatively low bandwidth service and there would be hundreds of people wanting to stream Netflix etc. I'm guessing the latter might be more likely and perhaps better for those that want/need decent internet.
Would it be possible to blow chilled air down the hole that would quickly condense the rock vapor into particulates that don't stick and instead get vacuumed out ?
Take a nice drive through the Midwest/south, you'll see all kinds of branded barns used for drying tobacco... assuming they're still standing

I say this more to reminisce than anything. It used the big industry, not anymore. People either adapted or they didn't. Kentucky and Ohio for example used the be Big Tobacco. Now, in large parts - nothing.
I'm curious. Is there anywhere I could read about what has been done? An article, a book, or whatever.
"Android TV" is also old enough for many unpatched and vulnerable TVs/appliances to be in the wild too though.
Bass speakers are not directional. Near a wall, air cannot displace, only the pressure can vary. When standing waves form in a room, the places near walls are nodes with respect to displacement. That makes them antinodes for pressure. A speaker next to a wall is in a pressure antinode for standing waves of multiple frequencies, an ideal position for driving those waves.

Corners maximize this effect. A speaker in a corner where two walls and the floor meet is in an ideal position to drive standing waves along three axes.

I suspect, turning the driver toward the wall helps it get closer to the wall, and to create pressure in that space.
> A good sign that it may be time for a re-shifting of voices in tech

Yes, it would be good to get some domain experts in, rather than people who are comfortable re-hashing press releases with an "trust me, the physics of this perpetual motion machine check out" or "lol they are shit" overlay.

Especially as tech now is moving from a "oh thats a simple idea, just needs executing" to actual "shiut the physics of this make it super hard" (ie AR)
Wow, looking at the syllabus, I can't imagine learning all of this in a single semester at more than a very surface level (and the course notes definitely don't seem surface level).

Take just rendering (my area of expertise): There's game programming in general, OOP and ECS, input and update loops, setting up a window, common patterns, etc, necessary prerequisite stuff.

Then there's rendering APIs and the GPU, e.g. learning about vertex/fragment shader concepts and syntax, buffers and uploading data, binding resources, making pipelines and such, etc. Then there's how to make an actual rendering _engine_, e.g. abstractions for batching entities, generating draw lists, command buffer recording for various passes, etc. Then there's lighting - analytic direct lights, many many forms of baked or realtime indirect lighting, BRDFs and PBR shaders, the pain that is shadow mapping, etc. Then on top of all that there's actually optimizing everything both from a CPU and GPU (shader) perspective.

And that's _just_ rendering. Game engines are usually way more. Asset management, physics, UI, possibly scripting, possibly networking, animations, usually some sort of scene editor, etc. All of those with many many subfields and complexities.
“There’s another solution, but it’s on shaky ground. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine preserves historic copies of websites as a public service, but the organization is in a constant battle to stay solvent. Google’s Sullivan floated the idea of a partnership with the Internet Archive, though that’s nothing close to an official plan.”

Too lazy to find a link, but this is now public and live, although pretty well hidden. Three dots menu for a search result -> More about this page.
> HN won't probably like the tone of this one.

Oh, I emphatically agree with both the post's content and the post's tone. I think it is a lot about building something you like well.

It doesn't have to be unique, it doesn't have to cost you a burn out and your health, it just has to be something well made and with some passion.
People building software for themselves. I like it, and see even more of it in the future with AI.
> Basically the wealthy freeze technological growth until they can understand how to make profit from it.

And it is super apparent, especially when you look at the latest from OpenAI. They applied CoT duct tape and bailing wire to a glorified mechanical text processor that magically balloons the token generation costs for marginal improvement. Cha-ching! Not a new model architecture or whatever.
Show HN: DeskDingo: Customer Service Solutions
> But now, as usual, everyone has overindexed on everything, so we're sitting here comparing Aaron Swartz to Sam Altman as if either of them would be successful parachuted into the median immediate-post-PMF company.

Yeah, my take was that the AirBNB guy said, "I was told A, so I did B. C happened, which was terrible. So I did D, and E happened, which was better."

Paul said, "Huh, lots of people seem to have a similar issue with A. There's a general pattern here we should figure out."

But basically all the subsequent discussions have been about A, without knowing even what B, C, D, and E were; much less knowing what all the other similar experiences were that prompted Paul's post. Maybe Paul's an idiot or maybe he's a genius, but without that data there's no way to tell.
> Eventually, trolling right wingers just became who I was. I was good at it—I still laugh at how I got Zuby banned for saying “ok dude” to me and then him writing his most popular song about it

Somehow this person (hope this doesn't get me banned as well) felt that that was ok to put down into words. Twitter brain-rot at its finest, Musk did these people a lot of good when acquiring said company because it has allowed some of them to try and get some sort of normal life back.
Discovering OpenSCAD via its official tutorial:

> On the example above, the second cube sits exactly on top of the first cube. This is something that should be avoided as it’s not clear to OpenSCAD whether the two cubes form one object together. This issue can be easily solved by always maintaining a small overlap of about 0.001 - 0.002 between the corresponding objects.

This goes against the whole point of doing parametric design and should be logged as a bug. If the CAD software is unsure whether object spanning [0 to 1] and object spanning [1 to 2] are physically fused, that should be a bug. Mathematically they are fused.
The Dangers of Podcast Historians
Oh indeed, I don't think there's a shadowy cabal suppressing the knowledge of the existence of our third eye or anything like that. But in the past, the long arm of the catholic church certainly had a chilling effect on some research.

Like the guy who built some of the first microscopes and discovered the sperm in semen, he wrote to the scientific community to discuss the discovery, but made sure to include that the semen he used was "what was left" after he copulated with his wife. Wouldn't want to give anyone the idea that he had masturbated, heaven forfend!
I would recommend The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. It’s a classic that introduced the MVP concept to the world.

And for a bit of different approach, Make by Pieter Levels. This also recommends trying a lot of ideas and seeking what sticks, but perhaps with a more straightforward approach.
It can also be explained by there being stuck with the same soul-destroying business model for decades that's slowly taking over everything and making life shittier for everyone except marketers to optimize revenue.
Amphetamines solved obesity in the 60s (this is from the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obetrol)
Putting cheat devices into TI calculators [video]
The Man Who Made Nike Uncool
> It may be explicitly stated, but I’ve never had a scrum meeting without all managers and project managers.

This, this, this and a thousand times this.

It's always the same with Scrum. Every time you point out something clearly wrong, the response is always "well that's not really scrum, you're doing it wrong".

It's like when discussing communism with some diehard fans - when you point out the flaws, the response is always "well that wasn't real communism that's why it failed".

Well to both of those camps I say: if most attempts ended up implementing it "incorrectly" in the end, it's not a very useful framework to begin with then, is it?
>With sprints, there are no breaks, little autonomy, and insufficient time to prepare.

That's the TLDR and on the dot.
> How has this space not seen more action on the consumer side?

Navigating a house requires a level of understanding that we still can't get using a top end GPU and optimal sensors.
Yes, I know about all of them but at that point just running qdrant becomes preferable from a cost/benefit standpoint for my use cases.

Edit: Just noticed we had this discussion on X with you already.
So, how many people listen to Mozart and how many to Taylor Swift?
Did this take into account the effect the prognosis has on the patient?
The U.S. generates ~300 million tons of municipal solid waste every year.[1] 1/4 of that is generated in national parks? Not a believable figure.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...
Continuous delivery IS mass production.
The constraint is not inherent to TSDB generally. Influxdb supports string values for example, as mentioned in the article. You also have log databases, like Loki, that are designed like a TSDB, except they only store strings.

My guess is that constraining to numbers greatly simplifies the implementation, especially so for the query language and aggregation functions.
As a developer, I do try to use LLMs in my daily work, and I get a slight productivity boost, but I wouldn’t say it’s a spike. It helps me write tests faster, it helps me write pure functions faster, and it helps me autocomplete some documentation faster. It also helps me go faster with 1-time fixes, for db data migration queries or stuff like that.

That said, LLMs in code editor come with some kind of "hyperactivity" which I find really unpleasant. They’re too "in your face", make the code move a lot and sometimes make it a bit harder to focus than without LLM. They can also be extremely frustrating and result in productivity loss, for example when they generate code that’s slightly wrong and you need to take some time to fix it. It’s harder than just writing the code.
Github Link:

https://github.com/chromalock/TI-32/

TL;DW: he made a small pcb with a wifi module that is not affected by the Test mode of the calculator and not outwardly visible to an inspection.

The wifi device allows access to ChatGPT.

He plans to put a camera for his next video.

____

The problem is simple, chat gpt or not, do test need to be carried out in faraday cages, or do exam enters now need to bulk purchase a known batch of certified sealed calculators for exams?
But it works? We only have functional public transit in small amount of cities in NA as well. If we can scale it up, it might be a game changer. I’m as pro-transit as it gets, but unfortunately we don’t have political appetite for it.
> LLMs do now have a concept of truth now since much of the RLHF is focused on making them more accurate and true.

Is it? I thought RLHF was mostly focused on making them (1) generate text that looks like a conversation/chat/assistant (2) ensure alignment i.e. censor it (3) make them profusely apologize to set up a facade that makes them look like they care at all.

I don't think one can RLHF the truth because there's no concept of truth/falsehood anywhere in the process.
If you do this, the dirty funds need to connect to a different RPC server than your clean funds

dont use infura or a node in a data center on the same IP address

if youre not using your own node on your own network, you need to mask your IP address and think about who knows it. Tor works better than VPN for this
To me, the boredom comes from seeing technology inevitably get corrupted. Self-driving cars turn into self-driving ads, and AI is used to displace jobs or track people. Everything we’re promised eventually falls apart, and I’m tired of where it all leads.

The utopia would be an equitable society, where we work far less than our ancestors did, allowing us to focus on pursuing our interests and desires—not just buying security. But not only does that seem unattainable, it's pursuit is considered laziness or opting-out of a social contract whereby 99% of people fight to make 1% rich with the delusion being that maybe it's me that's the 1% and that with the riches I can score I can ride off into the sunset, and get off this foul ride forever.

Makes me sick how far we don fell.
don't bother with the above link if you're not subscribed to wired, use this instead:

https://archive.is/rWpjI
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Pear consists largely of a VS Code extension built on top of Continue.dev's VS Code extension. We're building a more native integration into the VS Code editor, similar to Cursor. Is there anything you like about Pear that Cursor doesn't offer?
I recall the links disappearing quite a while ago. It's a bummer because cached links are genuinely useful - helps one visit a site if it's temporarily or recently downed, sometimes can bypass some weak internet filters, can let one view the content of some sites without actually visiting the server which may be desirable (and maybe undesirable for the server if they rely on page hits).
But this outcome shouldn't be surprising.

In the beginning, the industry was dominated by nerds and hackers who were passionate about tech. Then those with business acumen noticed that this could make them very rich, and swooped in to "help out" those hackers, who, being fair, probably wouldn't be able to run a successful business on their own. But there are also examples of hackers themselves getting business savvy, and business people becoming tech oriented, and many combinations in between.

While the Silicon Valley, VC funded, hypergrowth mentality is incredibly toxic, I think you'll find many examples in the industry across this spectrum. What we're seeing with crypto, AI, etc. is just the usual hype cycle. This will inevitably be flocked by all types of characters, but we've always had these. Remember the buzz around the early web, the "information superhighway", and the inevitable dot-com bubble? Or the video game crash in the 80s? The same will happen with modern tech. We'll eventually reach the plateau of productivity of these technologies, or they will lose our interest and we'll move on to something else.
The idea is that without copyright there is no benefit in keeping the source code secret. It justs makes it a little bit harder for the customer to recover it. The GPL is ultimately intended to be customer-friendly, therefore sharing source code together with the build system is preferred.

It's still a form of proprietary lock-in similar to not offering data export, but it's not an unsurmountable hurdle anymore.
He did though:

> […] but I did install an ad blocker on both for a few tests, but they didn’t change the results at all for me.
I was going to mention The Mom Test when I saw the title of your Ask HN, so I'll dive a bit deeper because it's IMHO the most important book I read when starting my current startup[0] and it's what took us to first sale before the MVP was even available.

> before investing in your idea, talk to potential customers to see if anyone wants it or not.

I would reframe this a bit, otherwise someone not familiar with the book will take from your quote the exact opposite lesson from the one taught in The Mom Test. I believe the main lesson from the book is:

- Don't talk to people about your ideas

- Ask people about their actual use cases and frustrations

- Figure out where they're struggling, investing effort and money. Let them talk

- Don't ask people about your idea and don't ask them if they want it or not. You're only trying to validate the problem.

Questions to ask:

What's the hardest thing about [doing this thing]?
Tell me about the last time you encountered that problem...
Why was that hard?
What, if anything, have you done to try to solve the problem?
What don't you love about the solutions you've tried?

[0]: https://www.onetake.ai (an autonomous AI video editor for SMBs)
So you are saying Donald John Trump is likely not a US born Citizen?
The first 25 pages of Steve Blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany (here's a PDF for some Stanford class [1]). Sounds very similar to The Mom Test, but presented from a much different angle. It diagnoses the startup failure mode of excessive focus on product over customer understanding. It hit me like a freight train after my first startup failed. His detailed examination of downstream consequences in other areas of the business, like sales and marketing, are just uncannily accurate to how they played out in my business.

Validate, validate, validate. "That's really cool" is not validation from a customer. "That's really cool. I want it. How much does it cost?" is validation from a customer.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/up...
So, replacing erroneous signs is beyond the current state of technology ? As is proofreading before committing to metal ?
startup owner's manual should cover 80% of what you need to know
Michael Levin has some awesome experiments where he screws around with the bioelectric fields of planetaria and he gets them to grow two heads and no tail, while being genetically identical to a normal one.
Your reply says

> I meant a text box that users could type in, and a drop-down that returned filtered results from the input.

That's what I'm objecting to.

If I type in "San Jose", are you going to show me 1,700 "San Jose" lines where I'm supposed to find the right one?
Adopted from China as a Toddler, I've Spent My Life Searching for Home
Conveniently forgetting to mention any of the other big Open Source players in the field. Cortex, Graphite, Mimir, Thanos, M3, TimescaleDB.
You know how the internet and things like Tor are products of the Department of Defense?

The State Department has been using the internet (and anonymization tools like Tor) to organize dissidents in foreign countries for various purposes, often coups. One example is the Arab Spring[1].

I'd wager they are very afraid of someone doing it back to them, and might have some capability in place. Even if it's just to shut the internet off for a time (like
Pakistan and other nations have done during elections[0], maybe in response to US interference) or perhaps prevent connections to other nations/the rest of the world more generally.

[0]https://www.accessnow.org/campaign/2024-elections-and-intern...

[1]https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.35.3.0255...
I am not even remotely an entrepreneur, but if I were then this is totally the sort I would want to be!

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I agree. The path is not easy but I'm not worried. As I said in other comments all Neeto products are "by products" of my consulting company. Even if I have zero customers today we are profitable as a whole company.

To prove my sincerity I have not yet built a way to charge money. Sign up for NeetoCal and there is no way for you to pay me money today.

Unlike Silicon valley fucking notion that you need to go "all in". I'm not all in. All in means I will cross the river or I'll drown. Fuck that shit. That's too risky. If Neeto doesn't work out nothing will change for me. That's why I can afford to compete on fucking price.
Sprint planning 1h? Lucky you. At the former employer that was 6h (so basically the whole day was wasted)
I guess you should be fine. My face gets blasted with point based IR day in and out by FaceID and Windows Hello and I can still see fine lol.
"Bet your expecting"

After that I'm not expecting much.
exactly! tech needs more Woz+Jobs and less Cooks.
That wouldn't prevent hallucination. An LLM doesn't know what it doesn't know. It will always try to come up with a response that sounds plausible, based on its knowledge or lack thereof.
Finland is surprisingly sparse. I've always had the impression that it usually seems to be rather over-represented in other fields of computing.
Can you elaborate a bit more on the come and gone part?
You could say the same thing for X, Facebook, Reddit, or YouTube. They all have flaws and controversies. Why not let each person decide which socials they want to participate in and share?
You’re kind of correct. I have mentioned these things on HN often enough that I didn’t want to bore people. But I also like letting people know that a normal person can get pretty far using well-known techniques.
Every time this is posted I look at the "API reference" which sadly is severely lacking. Perhaps the software is actually limited to just a few primitives.
Out of bounds access would raise a runtime exception, so absence of runtime exceptions proves that cannot happen. Recent versions of SPARK add functionality similar to Rust’s borrow checker as well.

You can find more information in the users guide.
https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/index.html
In my country, Casio calcultors are more common, and iirc, none of the calculators we used ever had a connection port or any programming function.

I think I had the FX-350 when I was in school, and only cool thing was the ability to do fractions more 'naturally', otherwise they were just simple machines.
Which is the exact thing that addresses your objection. People, in general, are unable to downregulate their appetite on their own in order to "just eat less". Ozempic does it for them.

Honestly, I question the whole idea that failing to "eat less" is a personal problem. Historically, we jumped into obesity epidemic straight from the time when food was scarce and not very nutrient-rich. Ability to manage caloric intake in times of abundance may not be something humans have in general, as long periods of abundance didn't happen until 100 years ago.
Issuance Auditability: Certificate Validation Methods
One of my old classmates' area of research is applying electric stimuli to various types of cells. Apparently the right amount at the right time can briefly allow foreign material to pass through the cell wall unimpeded. The complexity of a single cell is insane, that of a complex organism is way beyond insane.