skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I had a son, I started trying to cook. It's been almost six years now, and while I'm not a great cook, I've learned few things about cookbooks in particular.

* Unfortunately, for plenty of dishes, cookbooks don't and probably cannot capture the essential parts of what to do to make a particular dish good. Take for instance chicken fried rice. The "margin of error" on components that go into the dish is very big. There are plenty of optional or interchangeable components. What's nearly impossible to describe in the book is things like "how dump should the rice be before it goes into the pan" or "how to stir the ingredients in a wok". And the later is what makes all the difference. And, unfortunately, the best way to learn that is by watching someone else do it.

* Plenty of instructions are absolute inexplicable nonsense (oh, how I like it when these cookbooks go into details about a proper order of adding various ingredients to make dough, which is then just kneaded for ten minutes in a stand mixer!) And, these instructions are presented as a sort of a "special ingredient", while in reality they completely don't matter. A lot of these instructions tell you what to do, but not why to do that.

* Measuring ingredients in anything other than grams or fractions of each other. I came to believe that if a recipe uses spoons, cups etc. it just means that nobody actually really tried to cook that and there's no way to tell what the ingredients are actually supposed to be. It gets even worse with oven temperature or pan surface temperature. These seem like they'd be easier to measure, but, in fact, you'd need a very expensive oven if you wanted to know how hot it is inside, and how uniform the temperature is inside. You'd still need to learn the timing for warming up the oven and where in the oven to place whatever you are baking. Laser-guided thermometers give wildly variable readings even on a very evenly coated pan. In either case, you'd have to simply learn how your stove top and how your oven behave by trial and error. And through that trial and error you'd learn how to get bread with crisp crust, open and springy crumb. Even watching others do it won't help here, let alone reading a book...

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It's ironic that I have a similar relationship with art history / theory books. For how many of those are written, there are maybe only two worth reading: Delacroix notebook and Kandinsky's book about mixing paints. I've not seen an art history book that wouldn't be ridiculous to read for an actual artist (but they usually don't bother).

I feel like cookbooks are kind of the same thing. Regardless of when they were published, they are just not really useful.
The issues I raise are somewhat applicable to English, but to a far lesser extent.

In Chinese, just about every syllable has its own set of meanings. In English, there are compound words, and some words have prefixes or suffixes, but you can't just arbitrarily break a word into its syllables and assign a meaning to every syllable. Imagine if the word "syllable" could be broken down as syl-la-ble, and every person who spoke English could tell you what "syl," "la" and "ble" individually meant. That's the situation in Chinese, for almost every polysyllabic word you can utter. They can almost all be decomposed into syllables that have individual meanings. It's a very different paradigm from English.
some tweets about it, I guess we'll find out soon enough how bad the damage is

https://x.com/FossilLocator/status/1840218595541778791

https://x.com/emollick/status/1766504587781878196
> When I read a self-help book, but it's laced with stories, I lose interest. Just state the point.

The reason why these books are filled with stories that repeat the same point over and over again is because then the idea will typically stick in your head. But some people have better imagination then others and come up with stories themselves when they read about a novel idea.
I've not seen that, I can ask.
After seeing how much they are going to charge for it, I am not sure if it will not cause more homelessness.
I had a similar thought, although they had to make it talk and sound just like the stereotype of people there in the valley. Like, of course like, it has to sound, like, authentic, ya know?

On a side note, really great to see something innovative and useful! Google nails this on occasion and I think misses credit because the other appendanges are simultaneously laying eggs or deleting working/valued products from the portfolio. It's gotta be pretty hard to operate at that scale, but damn.
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> The concept is that we must reduce GHG in the atmosphere and oceans, and reduce the amount of new GHG added there.

That's an assumption.

I'm usually in favour of fixing the original problem, as so much of what is wrong with society would be simpler to fix by focusing on the source, but we prefer technological solutions rather than be confronted with changing our behaviour.

The problem with global warming is the source of the issue is extremely large, complex to reverse, and extremely difficult behaviour to change because it underpins economy. It is also one that is guided by economy on a global scale of supply and demand, making a single country green tends to just displace emmission to a poorer country (see what happened with coal).

For GHG I think the human forces at play are way too strong. This one needs a solution that will unfortunately allow for GHG, because the weaning off on a global scale is way longer than you think, and reversing it is going to takel even longer.

It's too late, we need climate engineering, i.e controlling the temperate with other mechanisms.

We saw this in action during the transition to cleaner shipping fuels a couple of years ago. I'm not suggesting we polute more, but controlling temperate with particulates clearly works.
Imagine a hypothetical world in which a nonprofit funded by donations and grants from nonprofits and governments funded your code editor.

That was eclipse.

There are lots of great examples of well funded open source software projects. Companies have a history of killing them off, which hurts everyone.
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I don't doubt you're right about social media and smartphones rotting our attention spans. But also, peripatetic philosophy is ancient. I spend most of my day sitting. Whether its work, entertainment, or hobbies, most of these things have me sat in front of a screen. So its nice, and I do think it increases my retention, to be able to do something while walking or cycling instead of sitting.
Like that Venus phosphine gas story, "the only synthesis route we know is biological, thus it's presence must mean life if there"
That graph shows gas is the most used fuel in the UK for all years since coal was the most
I like your particular brand of snark.
You can regard other POVs as a potential threat to your own hegemony, and thus feel the need to study them to understand how that threat may play out. Doing so does not inherently accord them any merit.
It’s not clear to me why having two different sets of tooling for solving two different kinds of problems, is an issue.

In most well-resourced companies, you’re probably not going to have to ask your Go engineers to fix data pipelines in Scala.
Maybe, but the resources it takes to live are an optimization problem.
Russian weapons are nowhere near state of the art. More like hopelessly outdated Cold War designs which makes sense because the USSR unlike Russia was actually capable of innovation though often narrow in scope.

And just like every other Russian industry its MIC is heavily reliant on western components. Even dumb Shahed drones are assembled with American FPGAs and microcontrollers. https://hackaday.com/2024/06/08/how-many-western-ics-are-the...

> hypersonics

If you are talking about Kinzhal then it is hypersonic in the same way ATACMS is hypersonic. It is not maneuverable at hypersonic speeds and can be intercepted by modern air defense systems as proven by Ukraine.

> These so called "human wave" attacks never happened

How ironic to read this just a few weeks after the "Goodwin" and "Ernest" scandal. What does your metodichka say about them?
Would be easy to take ad filled podcast transcript and re generate it without the ads
> it seems there is conclusive evidence (LLMs) that quantum explanations are not necessary to explain at the very least linguistic intelligence as advanced linguistic intelligence is possible in a purely classical computing domain

Any reference explaining this? It isn't clear to me that LLMs have proven advanced linguistic intelligence
Yeah there is so much gambling discussion on sports show, it’s a complete waste of time to actually hear about sports.
That's a very naive view of the world. There are predators waiting for deregulation to flood the market with snake oil and profit from everyone. By the time the FDA can launch any campaign, people will already have been scammed or even killed. Moreover, the information age doesn't help or prevent these issues—just look at obesity rates, despite the wealth of information and science about junk food. What you're proposing might work for a small percentage of the most informed and intellectually capable individuals, but it creates risks for everyone else.
Every two years someone post a new nuclear battery that is a tiny radioactive source between two "solar panels". It has like 100mW, so it can only power a watch or something even smaller. For example see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38989690

I guess to scale them to a car size device, the two main problems are security and heat management. (Big objects (like elephants) are difficult to keep cold because they don't have enough surface are for the heat to escape.)
I'm not normally one to require features in order to use, but this one is an absolute must for me.
I thought I was the only one who noticed, I'd much prefer the YC companies do a monthly "here's who's hiring" much like the "who's hiring" instead of individual ones.
I'm working on a system to help guitar/instrument shops post their products (by way of importing listings from Reverb.com) on social media to increase visibility to drive sales and followers.
Thank you for sharing that perspective. I'd never heard it put that way before and this makes it crystal clear what Musk was trying to accomplish. It also explains why Musk seemingly doesn't care about "the numbers."

Thanks!
Cool! I wonder if it is possible to have this trigger via shortcut keys or similar?
It’s a very interesting hypothesis. And I guess research is difficult given the size of these structures and lack of tools available to monitor them with a high level of granularity.
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> I realize that unfortunately there is nothing that can be done at this point to stop this technology from being used by people

Seems like you answered your own question? Since there's nothing they can do, what would you want them to do?
The myth of the heavy sword is a stupid one, and I was convinced that it had died out a long time ago. I'm not sure who still believes otherwise? DnD's weights are hardly a reference, as those weights are important for the mechanics of the game, not for historical accuracy.

The comments regarding Game of Thrones blurb don't make much sense either. At no point in that quote does Syrio claim that Westerosi swords are unreasonably heavy or that knights are clumsy. But a knight in full plate with a longsword is certainly much less agile than someone with a rapier and no armour.
I reckon it might be interesting for esports, those types of games where people turn graphics settings way down and purchase very overpowered hardware go push FPS into hundreds, resulting in lower latencies.
It't the second lowest monthly price point for subscriptions and I thought that dropping 2 months off on yearly pricing is nice: https://a.dropoverapp.com/cloud/download/df0874fb-2800-4d2e-...

It's an extremely niche product, if I end up getting 1000 paying users, I will be making about 1000 USD/month from this after Apple's commission and sales tax.

I don't expect to have that many users, honestly. So if it happens that I get a few hundred paying users I can pay a freelancer to improve on the app occasionally or rationalize spending time on this fixing bugs and adding features.

Also, it's completely optional app that is for convenience only. As I explained, the same effect can be achieved by manually changing the input source from the settings or write and setup a script to automate things.
> Creating models that don't tag their output as such would be banned.

This is just silly. Anyone would be able to disable this tagging in an open model.
Ask HN: whats work like in acompany owned by private equity firm
hey hn.

On last interview with a company which is owned by a private equity firm - were acquired last year.

What is it like to work in companies owned by a private equity firm - please explain your experience? What have been your concerns?

The majority of my experience is working in Large Enterprise environments.

Thank you
That's exactly what I do - An aggregate device (called 'Forced Onboard Mic') with only 'MacBook Pro Microphone' selected.

This is configured from 'Audio MIDI Setup.app'

Apps configured to use that as their input device then don't reconfigure themselves whenever a Bluetooth input device shows up.

I dont add output devices as I'm happy for that to flip between speakers/headphones - whatever is available.
I recommend to go to a medieval fair, there you can touch and handle melee weapons freely to get an idea how they feel. I remember that I once handled a parade sword which had a very thick and ornate blade, my arms were hurting immediately. Then the guy handed me his own short sword which was used in the fighting demonstrations and it was literally like picking up a can of beans: much lighter weight than expected and I couldn't feel at all the "length" of the blade when I swung it around - it was perfectly balanced in the hand.
Unfortunately, this writeup doesn't mention any words like "spin" or "rotation" or "angular", not even to disclaim that those aspects are not presently being addressed. It looks like a great resource for kids in grade 11 or 12 physics.
Right, but if I had 1 hour in NYC versus 1 hour in LA how many clubs could I theoretically go to? Probably a dozen in NYC, provided I leave immediately. Probably about .5 in LA.

So while what you're saying is true, it doesn't disprove anything. LA is much less dense and therefore has much less "stuff" available for its inhabitants. But it's still more than a rural area.
Not the person you're responding to, but no, it doesn't really bother me at all. What does bother me is that I don't have confidence in the value of the output, where as if I listen to This American Life, or a podcast or audiobook from a trusted authority, I don't have to worry about that.
It's funny you say that, since it seems like early 3D games are seeing their own retro revival. Quite a few collectathon platformers based on Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie and Spyro the Dragon are being created by indie devs at the moment, and quite a few horror games are taking on a Silent Hill/early Resident Evil aesthetic too. Heck, you could even say the deludge of mods and ROM hacks for games of that era are evidence of nostalgia for the period too...

You might even say we've gone past that era, given that PS2/GameCube/Xbox games seem to be getting a fair bit of love from people who grew up with them recently, whether through mods based on them or indie games inspired by them.

But maybe retrocomputing as a whole is a bit different there.
have a look at this, it's hilarious

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=F24&batch=S24&ba...

I expect "AI Nip Alert" to show up any day now
Very cool. Appreciate the comments for the mesh functions in the source code...I've played around with photogrammetry but never took the time to appreciate how the 3D polygon logic worked at a low level (AliceVision).

And the UI is impressive but somewhat overwhelming. Could use a UI tool to help better manage the pitch\yaw\roll of the globe or individual vehicles\sensors (unless one already exists and I just missed it).
> So, it's quite complicated.

Subsets of ASN.1 that match the functionality of Protocol Buffers are not "quite complicated" -- they are no more complicated than PB.

> Still, ASN.1 is a telco protocol through and through.

Not really. The ITU-T developed it, so it gets used a lot in telco protocols, but the IETF also makes a lot of use of it. It's just a syntax and set of encoding rules.

And so what if it were "a telco protocol through and through" anyways? Where's the problem?

> It shows everywhere: syntax, tooling.

The syntax is very much a 1980s syntax. It is ugly syntax, and it is hard to write a parser for using LALR(1) because there are cases where the same definition means different things depending on what kinds of things are used in the definition. But this can be fixed by using an alternate syntax, or by not using LALR(1), or by hacking it.

The tooling? There's open source tooling that generates code like any XDR tooling and like PB tooling and like MSFT RPC tooling.

> Sorry, I'm glade to learn you can make ASN.1 efficient if you are a specialist and now what you are doing with the myriad available encodings. It's only inefficient in the way everyone use it.

No, you don't have to be a specialist. The complaint about inefficiency is about the choice of encoding rules made by whatever protocol spec you're targeting. E.g., PKI uses DER, so a TLV encoding, thus it's inefficient. Ditto Kerberos. These choices are hard to change ex-post, so they don't change.

"[T]he way everyone use it" is the way the application protocol specs say you have to. But that's not ASN.1 -- that's the application protocol.
Can anyone explain why something like this is necessary on a Macbook, but when I use my airpods with my iPhone I seem to get high quality audio and microphone usage at the same time?
My understanding is that uncontaminated ammonium nitrate does not explode when exposed to fire. Fuel contamination is required.
Are they capable of producing these en masse?
I, too, found hardcore history a bit unstructured. If you like history, take a look at https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/.
At work, I am helping internationalise and localise an HR platform as well as maintain a legacy one that is the biggest mess of spaghetti I've ever seen.

During my spare time I am building a web app to help my mom manage her healthy food market and trying to finish a ChatGPT wrapper web app to help me create meta descriptions for web pages a little quicker. Might monetise that one if it's worth the effort and will be valuable to people, we'll see.
CCD sensors render differently than CMOS sensors and, if their strengths are what you are looking for they could still make sense. Compared to CMOS they require more light, but when you are capturing an image properly they do a really good job of rendering colors and details. CCD sensors also introduce less noise as part of their pipeline (though again, the ceiling on how sensitive they can be is much lower than CMOS).

Basically there has always been a community of photographers who like the "CCD look" and it's not surprising to me that someone who's geeky enough to make his own camera went with one.
> all quantum objects we know of are small

There are quantum effects that manifest at macroscopic scale. For instance, superconductivity and superfluidity occur on bulk volumes but are due to quantum effects.
Fine, fair point. Then at least adopt the thing jetbrains for example does: buy this version now, get x months of updates.
That's not what they were saying. What comes across your screen and can be picked up by your device's mic includes other people's data. This is a nightmare for anyone in the EU or two-party consent state. If we are on a Zoom call, this is recording both sides of the conversation without notice or consent. If we are meeting in person, and I leave my device on the table with this installed, same problem.
Remember when you could just buy a piece of software and not have to keep paying rent to use it?
This seems like a $5/year app—not a $20/year one. Or, make it a one-time $10 charge; if future MacOS versions require significant work to keep it up to date, charge an upgrade fee.
An open source and easy to use globally distributed network monitoring and testing platform called Globalping https://globalping.io

Currently it's at stage of "RIPE Atlas with better UI and UX" but I plan to expand the functionality to cover a lot more use cases like ISPs,Cloud,Edge rankings and performance
For me, it's not OOP vs functional. I find "functional" to be a misnomer as its applied to most react components. Functional used to have a clear definition about having a stable return value and only varying based on parameters.

However, the same problem started afflicting class-based components prior to the introduction of hooks. When fibers were created, component instances no longer tracked their own state. State was injected into them prior to invoking the render function, based on reconciliation. I suppose even before that the reconciler was still choosing which component instance to render.

But at least components had an identity that could be addressed in application code. Now component identity is effectively the fiber instance identity (or its alternate), which is impossible to get a reference to.

In real life, people really seem to like hooks. I can see some of the benefits they provide over the OOP class-based component model. But I can't avoid also seeing the mental foot-guns associated with it.

The very first time I every tried to write a react app, I got tripped up by this. I add a component that moves around in a parent component conditionally. So I had `const inner = <Inner />`, and then based on some condition it would be inserted in various places in the rendered parent component.

Of course after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I learned that this variable declaration wasn't establishing a component identity. It merely creates an "element", even if it has a key attribute. Component identity, as used to retrieve state, is fundamentally tangled up with reconciliation which can only see the final rendered output of a component. No other components can have state, at least as recorded by a hook.

Most people don't seem to have trouble with this, but it's not how I naturally think of things.
>They seem to take the Google approach that the person who owns the device is allows to consent for everyone else around them (or any data they share with certain people) when that is not ok.

This is what's often overlooked (intentionally so?) in discussions about privacy. Too much of privacy is framed as "I am OK with sharing this data." But too often the data you hold is actually about other people: contact lists, conversations, associations. When you let a third party sift through your information, you're also making that decision for everyone else you interact with. I think the right way to think about privacy is: even if I have nothing to hide, I respect the agency of those I communicate with, so I won't make that decision to disclose unilaterally.
I used to add my links to a github page :)
Now I add all my frequently used links to easyy.click