skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. CO2 is an imperfect proxy, but it's a pretty decent one. And, even for spaces that have high quality air filtration (e.g. a strong commercial central air system with good HEPA/MERV filters), the CO2 measurement can also tell you if the system is configured with a good recirculated to outdoor air ratio (residential systems usually have no such thing, unfortunately).

But yeah, as you said, the best aspect of a CO2 monitor is that it gives you a useful upper bound for the general respiratory virus risk in a space.
A lot of older council apartments in the UK seem to be a bit grim. There's some skepticism against apartment blocks and a lot of newer ones seem to have odd pricing.

I live in a nice apartment in Austria but I'd be a lot more critical looking for one to live in the UK.
I generally cross out such nonsense and nobody has ever even commented.

But note that even if you haven't crossed it out, it's still not a valid contract - "whatever number we might pull out of our ass later" isn't defining consideration, plus there is no counterparty signing it.

Such documents are really just part of stage managing the victim for a later shakedown.
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> how quickly this community swapped from being champions of the free exchange and use of information for the betterment of humanity to gleefully stomping on an incredible and beautiful new technology

You're assuming this community is a monoculture. I'm sure you'll see people on various sides, from ardent free exchange advocates to die hard copyright supporters.
Look, I'm no fan of the occupation, to put it mildly (very mildly).

Perhaps a more pertinent question to ask would be: do you consider the settlements (at more or less their current scale) as being helpful to Israel's security interests -- or unhelpful? (For the purpose of this question, we can just allow ourselves to imagine that it was somehow possible for civil society in Israel to get its act together and implement a working freeze on settlement footprint, and perhaps even roll back some of its more egregious recent expansion).

But it's not the whole reason for the conflict.

Not the whole reason, of course. But the occupation (and the settlements issue in particular) does seem to be an integral component of the "magic sauce" that's been keeping the conflict going for far too many more decades more than the international community should have ever allowed it to.

It basically seems to be its center of gravity, in fact.
It might sound naive, but how does LinkedIn confirm and be sure that someone is a European user?
Isn't it the opposite? They don't want to be blamed if something happens so they uphold a blatantly unjust ruling. To be clear, thats not how any of this works. You can't just imprison someone indefinitely because they "might" do something.
I see the open weights/source model community as the ones willing to give the baby away.
It doesn't work anymore, especially after what's been happening the past year.
I was reading about this. It depends on a lot of things, however if you want end to end encryption, only cryptpad and seafile seem to have this capability.
Here's an article about Australia charging households with solar power for putting power back into the grid:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/...
That sounds fantastic, I really love open source stuff.
Hardware is also imperfect, but "good enough" is much easier to accept in the context of hardware. Good enough should also be good enough for software.

Changing from using one system API to another shouldn't push an app over an N MB filter anyways. If the user runs into an issue, they can update. Otherwise, if it still works fine just continue to use it.

The argument for updating to keep up with API changes can also be flipped against updating to protect against UI/UX changes. I have lost features from Android updates that I have never been able to get back on my phone, only recreate them on my GNU/Linux desktop.
Eating only eggs, beef, fish, olive oil, greek yogurt, blueberries, walnuts and some cheese and dark leafy greens can do the same.
Actually useful. Not uncommon that I'm trying to pull a logo or branding for some project or another and it's always a pain.
The default viewer does have that. Rijksmuseum's website where this is implemented chose to disable it.
You're right -- there's nothing axiomatic about the trustworthiness of pixels, and there was a brief window of Time in human history when photos/videos had the qualities you mentioned, and (sadly) that era will end soon.

Being savvy means not treating photos/videos as "untrustworthy", which (ironically) is one of the things the Western world made fun of the Taliban for -- their fundamentalist view called it "haram":

https://www.deseret.com/1997/10/6/19338048/taliban-army-bans...

I worry about written matter too, and here as well, vast masses of LLM-spewed text will surely pollute the landscape irreversibly.
The only times I’ve had to use Xcode for my flutter app is configuring some things related to signing and distribution. There hasn’t been anything that required Android Studio except for setting up emulators.
Because they're getting fired
I get this too
'sudo su' is pure absurd but then how name naming it a "golf" ?? :)))

So maybe Perl is not so write-only after all ? ;)
> But perhaps "the Python community" (with inclusivity as a core value) is meant to represent a much smaller group than Python developers in general.

I’m not really sure what you are trying to insinuate here. That pycon should be more racist and chauvinistic to increase its reach?
It was a no-content throwaway comment in the article too; highlighting it on HN is pointless. I doubt the downvoters would care much whether it was in the article or not.
Well you need input so no, not just mirroring.
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A few days back, someone commented on my comment on a different thread, “Lots of noob chess players out there to beat!”

There are lots of CSS developers who would benefit from spending that $100.

I've worked with developers who always copy codes from the manual and online help “to avoid syntax errors.”
Love this. Years ago I hand-wired a CPU that natively executes Brainfuck code: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q8G2fWprwyo

Might have to test some of these :)
God, the title reminds me of when I when I took an x86 assembly class in college about a decade ago. Only 6 of the dumbest souls in the CS program dared to take the class the semester. The professor for the class was an ex-NASA computer engineer. Our test used to be writing assembly by hand. We were graded for accuracy too. I swear, at that point in time, I could convert between Hex, Dec, Oct, and Binary almost without thinking. I made a D in class with 40+ hours a week of studying. However, I learned more in that one class than my entire degree.

Anyway, thank you, OP, for sharing this. I have been looking into picking up ARM as way to crawl out of burnout from my career. It's been a years since I even touched x86 with any seriousness. I will add this book to my list resources.
Just spitballing, but maybe a good tradeoff is to use NLP to find good candidate comments that are likely to contain a sentiment, and then analysing a small number of them with a more expensive model (say a quantized 3B or 7B LLM with a good prompt). The quality over quantity approach
https://github.com/bf-enterprise-solutions/os.bf/blob/master...

An entire OS in 252 lines. I wonder how many CPU architectures supported by this OS

:D
The story says 100 people per year in the US, not specifically children, die of choking on pen lids. I can't find any source for that number. But choking is the third leading cause of death by unintentional injury (https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/deaths-by-demograph...). The vast majority of choking cases are from food, and largely by the elderly.

Edit: it appears the source for the claim is Rachfeed[1], the news and entertainment blog that this Independent story comes from. Rachfeed links to a story from OMG Facts[2] which is down due to a DNS error. The Wayback Archive only has 1 record for that page, and it's unavailable. So the only source for the claim is basically nonexistent.

A sultan-and-oligarch-owned tabloid quoting a rag quoting an unavailable source. This is a newspaper of record in the UK.

CNET ran a similar story[3] in 2016 with the "100 deaths a year" figure, quoting The Independent as a source. Thousands of sites seem to have republished it, quoting those two as sources.

[1] https://rachfeed.com/pen-caps-hole/ [2] http://www.omgfacts.com/health/8329/Pen-caps-cause-100-death... [3] https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/pen-caps-have-holes-beca...
Microsoft's GRIN-MoE AI model beats competitors in key benchmarks
Construction of 220V hydroelectric power plant [video]
https://www.timesunion.com/health/article/attorney-general-s...

We have a huge problem with this in New York.
Exactly. FBI gathers crime statistics from every police department across the nation, and most States also do an independent set of statistics on crime. There is absolutely nothing to indicate that they are lying, and their personal incentive is to the exact opposite, as they receive more funding in times where crime is higher. These institutions already make up the majority of most City and State budgets, its well into the billions. But good luck ever trying to reason with people, crime has been used for emotional manipulation on social media and news for decades now, facts don't matter to most people on this topic.
Unfortunately, the bitter news is that LinkedIn works for 98.42% of people.
Very cool app! Are you considering adding a self-hosting alternative?

Idea: you could for example do something like a €199 one time fee for people who'd like to self-host.

I think this is something a fair bit of small SaaS founders need, but tbh I don't think this is one of the most crucial things to have a subscription for.
Yes i dont see why not. At least on the surface technical level.

I used to work at ms on xbox backcompat games and we AOT recompile PowerPC arch to x86. (Xbox 360 to Xbox one).

You could likely aot recompile any arch with enough resources to fix up issues and things.

One key difference is older games were fixed so no more updates. It can be a little trickier with modern games still taking updates but could be done.
Because it's very likely every Israeli you meet is in the Mossad right? Just like all Americans work in the CIA?
I don’t think Intel v. ARM matters too much once the engine HALs support it natively, or through Rosetta 2. This to me doesn’t seem too bad.

The OS APIs and building an ergonomic experience is the challenging part. Supporting APIs is harder than it may seem. That’s graphics, sound, task scheduling and multi threading, I/O for both files and devices, and many more. All these things have different approaches on different OSes, as well as different limits of what is allowed and what is not. Different best practices and degrees of documentation, too. This all then needs to make for a good player experience and meet gamer expectations. It’s a Herculean task.

It is even harder, because many graphics APIs, for example, support different features. So either your artists must accommodate and create several versions of skeletal meshes, visual effects, and similar; or your engineers must develop new graphics technologies to compensate automatically. And if that didn’t seem hard enough, try recruiting from a pool of game graphics programmers for macOS without a hot six figures a year burning a hole in your pocket. Now consider this for other APIs, though they are often more standard and less challenging.

I could be wrong, but many corners are cut for platforms that don’t have that many players — you just can’t justify the costs it would take to do an excellent port. And that creates pretty deep and difficult to patch issues. The same is seen on games ported to Linux.
What is a European user anyway.

Someone who created their account from EU IP-address, someone who says they live in EU, someone who says the work from a company (division) based in EU?
Windows already AOT compiles x86 binaries to ARM64 when they are built with /ARM64EC option. It doesn't support AOT for older executables yet.
Have same issue. The above solution did not resolve the issue. It doesn't bother me much because I mostly use Firefox, but it causes problems when I'm testing front-end stuff on Safari.
Funny thing about Rust. I use it for a few small projects. I have advocated for it on a current work project in part because it makes sense for a few reasons. I had planned on it, an advisor (small startup) recommended it, so myself as a mid experience and two people more junior in their career, are writing Rust.

As I said, I have used Rust for multiple unrelated to this task thing. Had various versions of our planned project working. Then I revisited it and made it more Rust-like. It literally looks like I've done nothing since I through a lot of things out.

It's fun to learn.
Microservices are also the result of technical debt where the core monolith has become too much of a ball of mud to hack on efficiently anymore. It's the "you have to write code twice— first to find out what you actually need, and again to build the right thing" on a larger timescale. Never seen a satisfying way forward once you find yourself here.
I’m not sure what you mean by “without the need to be monitored by adults.” A friend of mine from college was prosecuted for letting her kids play alone in the park across the street. Leaving kids alone outside in a US city park is child endangerment, literally.
I'm reminded of Chris Rock's "Guns, don't kill people, bullets do!"

In a more serious vein, this is definitely about unleashing an extremely powerful technology, at scale, for profit, and with insufficient safeguards (imagine if you could homebrew nuclear weapons -- that's inconceivable!)

There will be collateral damage. How much, and at what point will it trigger some legislation? Time will tell.
IIRC it's almost impossible to bring a contract breach lawsuit against someone where you are not named in the contract.
this may sound strange, but i've decided to try and use Linear as a personal writing tool.

i used to use Notion, but the lack of offline mode, even after all these years, made me decide to look for alternatives.

i thought about obsidian, but there are wasn't a simple, free way to sync between desktop, ios, and android all at once; Google Docs also seemed like a possibility, but it doesn't seem to have markdown support on mobile (it does in the web)

so, since Linear has a comparable free tier to Notion, great offline, and apps on all platforms.... here goes nothing
Extremely unlikely but such statements aren't without purpose when it comes to raising funds, motivating employees and applying political pressure to regulators.
Secure from who I guess.

Like sure, someone particularly interested in your home nextcloud instance could probably find their way in eventually.

But if you are concerned more about dropbox killing your account due to nonpayment, cloud backups getting encrypted and the master key being lost, cloud engineers snooping on your files, cloud platforms targeting ads based on your downloaded files etc etc etc it offers an alternative.
> though can't say I think it's a good idea though.. feels like a free rein for state level adversaries...

All iOS devices have secure boot that (unfortunately) can't be disabled.
This makes sense if you count 20% as a “vast majority” of a group. The singular use of “serious mental illness” in that pdf is this sentence.

>In this study we
use clinical service records from the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health to estimate 20%
of individuals participating in Street Outreach services had a clinical diagnosis of serious mental illness
within the previous twelve years.

Alternatively if you simply imagine that any and every counted incident of any mental health issue as being serious to the point of calling for mysterious unpopular “hurt the poors” policy, you do not even need a pdf to back that up. You can simply believe it in your heart like a matter of faith
Nitpicking on your one claim that "taxi prices were transparent" - in some countries, maybe. In others, taxi drivers still have very creative ways of scamming their customers, with or without meter. This was actually the main reason I recall that Uber and others used to promote their services, clear upfront prices.
Does this mean no more discounts? If so that would suck. That's how I buy my phones. Like I only paid $350 for my iPhone 14 Pro because they had $1000 off with a trade-in. And I was able to buy an eligible used trade-in phone from Amazon to get the deal.
I'm a big fan of the Jetbrains subscription model - you pay for an annual subscription and if you choose not to renew, you get a perpetual license to the last version of the software when you subscribed.

On another note, never deal with a company that can effectively hold your data hostage. If they don't provide an easy way to exfiltrate your data, you send a strongly worded email and do your absolute best to not rely on them.
I don't disagree. I don't really have too much of an opinion on which one we end up with. I was more pointing out that, at the limit, it's not certain that we will end up in a dystopia through abundance, more that it is extremely uncertain of which one it will be and to extrapolate as the GP did is to not full take abundance to it's limit.
Perhaps it only does that on Macs?
For some time niow, been noticing that FT are trying harder to subvert the guys who own the country harder than the guys who think they ought to run the country (grauniad) themselves?

(In another thread. seem to be selectively highlighting VC data from china to fit their agenda)

Btw, Acemoglu et al seem to be cited by the CI Jones review of Romer.

And here is what im trying to steer towards a specification of designori:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13529578

(P21-3)

P23:
>[the founder] starts hiring [capital/managing upwards] today

>Disclaimer: This paper should not be reported as representing the views of the European Central Bank

(But should it be interpreted likeso?)

My understanding of AirBnB may be dated to last decade when they hired some of my classmates as interns.. afai understand it, there might have been a slight chance of them getting indigestion from Design_thinking#Applications stanfordian d.school sophistry (the place where stans foorth)

Exercise: where are the engineers in the AAPL diag you linked?

(Think RAND & Systems Thinking updated for the age of quasi-Aquarius, it relatedly amusing how systems engineers are lowest status in CS depts.. below graphics!! human capital destruction yo)

Edit: perhaps you can try to explain to me how RAND has been conflated in my mind with Stanford :)

Olivier Nomellini senior fellow lol
At least Unreal, Unity and Godot but most likely more target Android and iOS as well.
Agreed, if these can be put into an array without interfering with each other it seems like it'd make a really cool expressive instrument. Cost would be a concern, though many of the existing instruments are exactly low-cost as is.
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I don't understand why and how does Apple keep breaking stuff that has worked perfectly fine for the previous 24 years. Like, just don't touch it maybe if it already works?

Also yearly major OS updates are beyond stupid.
Not possible to fully AOT for all applications because you don't know which ones do JIT compilation to generate x86 code at runtime. Many games make use of LuaJIT, for example.
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That’s pretty startling to hear. As a child growing up in a london suburb we would disappear for hours to the local park and environs. Playing cricket, other games, or just roaming around. About the only supervision was if the dog came too.
It's literally how children have played for 99.99% of human existence.
Some have vulnerable bootroms, yes, but I doubt those can use this new restore process anyway
RTO and Elon Musk are both overwhelmingly neutral sentiment? Seems unlikely.
> A lot of older council apartments in the UK seem to be a bit grim.

Living on a 1960s council estate (in a non-council apartment) with several low-rise blocks and some high-rise, yeah, it's mildly grim.
Given that we've seen things like C compilers written in Bash[1] and TLS libraries in Visual Basic[2], I think it's only a matter of time before someone with the right skills and motivation actually does it (or writes a compiler for $language in Scratch).

[1] https://github.com/otakuto/bashcc

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35882985
Some of these terms are pretty general and their usage will depend on the user and context. I'll try to define what I think are the most appropriate and common usages of each.

Grid - usually a regular D-dimensional boxes that are packed, axis aligned. Sometimes used synonymously with a set of points that are also regularly placed and axis aligned. I've used this to describe a (finite) rectangular cuboid (in 3D) but could just as easily be used to describe an infinite set of boxes. As in "Label each cell in the grid an alternating color of red or blue".

Tiling - A covering of some D-dimensional space from a (finite) set of smaller tiles, with no overlap and no gaps. I've used this to describe higher dimensional spaces but is often used for 2D. As in "A set of Penrose tiles can be used in a plane tiling".

Packing - Placing a (finite) set of smaller geometric elements into a large area such that the geometry doesn't overlap but gaps are allow. The larger area that can be be finite or infinite. The dimension can be arbitrary. This is often used in context of trying to minimize the gaps within the area being packed. As in "Randomely placing 3D oblong spheroids (aka 'M&Ms') in a box of side length L will yield a sub-optimal packing. Introducing gravity, friction and 'shaking' the box for some amount of time will yield a better packing"

Tesselation - A synonym for tiling.

A grid is a tiling. For example a 2d grid is a tiling/tesselation of the plane by boxes.
Apparently we prefer death over Oracle. But on a second search Oracle is then better than death...

No, I don't think it is.
> VM hosted by someone else ... would still be self-hosting because I am in control of the service.

A hosting vendor will have detailed "Terms of Service" by jurisdiction, self-hosting will not.

> complicated to rewrite (or review) the applications ... build your own hardware from scratch

There are options between those two extreme scenarios, many discussed at length in HN self-hosting threads.
Cryptomator works if you one user of vault. How do you handle conflicts with multiple people using vault?
There's also huge e-waste and technological regression from shutting down the 2g and 3g networks. I have several perfectly good old phones that are now useless as phones. They were better phones than current ones, because they were smaller and used much less power, through the one weird trick of not containing what we used to call workstation-class processors. I don't understand why they couldn't make the current base stations (they are SDR anyway) serve multiple standards. I had thought that was possible.
The cheapest one that is not eCO2 (estimated) will do the job of telling you when you’ve not ventilated enough just fine. No need to spend hundreds to thousands on lab-grade tech.

+- 50ppm, or even 100 or 200 is nothing. You will mainly care if the ppm is around 500 or around 1000-2000 (depending on preference).

The devices that have alarms are quite nice. Leave them on a desk and they’ll tell you when to open the window. The ergonomics of how you’ll use it are maybe more important than accuracy when it’s <200ppm off.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41618685 (posted seven hours earlier, already on the front page, and active: 102 points, 16 comments).