skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39546175
Assuming it's the same as LoRa, up to 50 kbit/s.
And it's not that hard to
understand, it wasn't as if women would faint at hearing the word fuck, but that casual swearing made an environment feel like a boys club which used to be strongly exclusionary. Go talk to your grandmothers about it, the 60s was the start of second wave feminism— we're not talking about "they said guys to refer to a mixed group" but "how dare a skirt talk back to a man" level sexism.
Item: there is something there.

Item: it is not electrostatic

I am, for my sins, what's called a "Reiki Master Level III" (and yes I feel foolish stating that "out loud" as it were.) I am also a rational materialist and, while not actually a scientist myself, I count among my heroes such people as Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov both noted scientists and skeptics of "woo".

Whatever "chi" is it is very much real in the same way that electricity and gravity are real. However, it doesn't register on electrostatic instruments, at least those I've tried.

That's all I've got.

Please stop saying it's not real because that's both wrong and regressive. The sooner we "do science to it" the better.
The key takeaway I think people are overlooking is that there’s a level of intelligence and persistence in thieves that make physical security an intractable problem with exponential cost scaling as you patch “holes.”

So from a systems approach, the better solution likely is something like:

Employ and provide safety for the people stealing from the units so they do not feel compelled to steal.

Imagine if the money spent securing these things, which is a multiple of this persons efforts, were spent on solving the root cause? Sounds like a better return on investment
Taking “best” to mean, “About to be banished to a small, rocky island in the North Atlantic, can pack one book”: Ulysses, and it’s not particularly close.

The book is fractally intricate and intellectually puzzling in the best sense—something new and special to notice every time you pick it up.

But it also wears like old
leather, and I find myself returning to favorite chapters simply to sink indulgently into the characters, dialog, and setting.

Anybody who says no one has actually read Ulysses is unknowingly half-right: You can certainly get to a point where you’ll never finish reading it.
We Didn't Playtest This at All (2007)
Fully agree. I think one thing future generations will look back on us with disgust is how flippantly we care for children. With an LLM we have at least a chance of instilling the right values, providing the right answers to questions, etc.
Error 503 - Service Unavailable
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753096
I'm pretty sure they don't: source I've helped move people's stuff in and out of a couple of different places. My experience is very limited, so if you have more data points where you have seen such things, please share.
It's because of the quantum properties of USB connectors. They have spin 1/2.
Right. If I accidentally crash my vehicle into someone's property (or worse, someone) I don't want to be out of pocket for potentially 100s of thousands when I could just pay my sub-$100 premium and not worry about it.
The others in the Irish mythology series are really great too - Song of the Sea is my favourite. Great to watch with kids, but also can be enjoyed with no embarrassment by adults!
Mentioned by the OP! See "Note added October 18, 2017".

The same cartoonist, Paul Noth, did this one too—also brilliant: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/images/Jastrow/New... (see "Note added June 30, 2017").

OP notes "Noth must have really enjoyed his introductory psychology course" and links to https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/images/Jastrow/you... as well.
He means why do they think it’s a good idea not why do they think they have the right to.
Fiction - [Trouble on] Triton by Samuel Delaney. It just has so many relevant big ideas told in a very subdued way via a not very likeable but appropriate character.
I never asked above leetcode easy/medium anyway and would explain solutions for some problems. That was enough to see who actually coded day-to-day and who did “thought leadership” or whatever
The staying power of “Firefox Send” as a brand is baffling to me. It never did anything that wasn’t already available by multiple other services, didn’t do it better, and it was embarrassingly obvious from day one it was another one of those projects Mozilla would abandon in no time.

Just goes to show how powerful (and mismanaged) “Firefox” is a brand.
So I’m at a loss as regards the thing we’re being distracted from.

Right, not the original submission but the reference to the Russo-Ukraine war, mid-thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748747 - and in reference to which, pointless/vacuous accusations of hypocrisy tend to emerge with depressing regularity. Judging by the volume and tenacity of their output, a lot of people do seem to feel that the topic of Western hypocrisy is vastly more important and interesting than that of the genocide/invasion itself, basically.

If it were just about people lounging in a lecture hall, I wouldn't have chimed in at all.
Grew up with the original "The Way Things Work" [1] (found out later it was an English translation of the German book, "Wie Funktioniert Das").

[1] https://archive.org/details/waythingswork0000unse_p9x7/
You can have your cake and eat it too by allowing replication.
The Best Yellow
I was always frustrated with my acrylics colors not covering well. Then I decided to test and find the best colors on Amazon. Now I know, which is the best yellow. I documented the process of finding it and the result is the article linked :)
The awkward factor is that we could have avoided this sort of bubble on a broader scale by sticking to more traditional pension rules.

When everyone gets a 401(k), and everyone gets the cookie-cutter advice that index funds are cheap and tend to outperform active management on the long term, it couples WAY more of the American public to the stock market than was conventional.

If the market fizzled in 1980, it would bankrupt some rich traders and a few over-margined firms, but the aspects of the economy that actually made and sold useful things would soldier on. People with guaranteed pensions and secured debts would make it out (relatively) whole.

Today, a proper reckoning would be political suicide. We're now forced to deal with the political consequences of "NVDA retreating to $10 per share means a bunch of grandpas (who vote) are evicted from their retirement homes."

I expect we'll see a lot of elaborate Rube Goldberg schemes to keep stock prices afloat. We'll insist there's an AI gap with China to unlock endless federal grift, much as the missile gap with the USSR made it of vital national interest that we showered Lockheed and Raytheon with trillions. I wonder if we'd eventually see the equivalent of 'capital controls'-- limiting the ability of institutional investors to sell their shares to prevent price deflation if there's a "market-spooking" event.

Of course, this bleeds actual productive assets, and when the bottom finally falls out-- when there's no amount of state intervention that will hold back the obvious-- it's going to burn far worse. Maybe the final endgame is that we end up nationalizing part of the market-- swallowing everyone's IRAs/401(k)s/ESAs and converting them to funny-money that can be marked at whatever price is necessary to keep Grandpa from losing his shirt.
This one isn't it, but it's quite good and fits the description. Thanks.
> Imagine if the money spent securing these things, which is a multiple of this persons efforts, were spent on solving the root cause? Sounds like a better return on investment

The root cause is social inequality of various kinds (including drug dependency). That should be something for society to resolve, not a burden for storage unit or home owners on their own - short of automated guns, there's not much any individual can do to keep out thieves.
Great post @fnands!
The sad thing is the high brow tech crowd on HN accepting this with minimal questions.
Having a preference for large suburban homes is fine, but your view of vulnerable people in your community is gross. It sounds like you'd rather insulate yourself from the failures of your local gov't, which is a privilege many people don't have.
Sure, but for the rest of us it might suggest a food we had not yet tried.
Discussion (161 points, 4 days ago, 118 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726698
Your problem was right there in the name - google "cloud" vision.
Such a service is the opposite of a flywheel (a brake?) in practice. Those tokens are extremely low quality data.

1) I strongly double if even one in a thousand people actually bothers to report the outcome of their result. I and every programmer I know certainly don't (if we give up or it works we both just stop asking). And I'd think its one in a hundred thousand who gives detailed feedback that is useful for training. And one in ten million an expert that sits down and talks about its deep knowledge with it (and the problem of how you deduce this from chats that it isn't some crazy person).

2) AI's are extremely confident in their answer, which fools many people, especially those in a void of knowledge. Even if people did tell OpenAI whether every solution worked or not, I would heavily discount the accuracy of such data.

3) AI output autocannibalism does not lead to better outcomes, AI companies avoid using AI data for training like the plague. Mixed tokens I doubt would be much better.

The situation in reality is something like one in some huge number - maybe hundreds of thousands - of mixed tokens can be useful. Of those, those that are repeats of high quality sources like textbooks, dictionaries, man pages - have no value. Of the remaining, there is huge problem of how do you extract these needles in the haystack with high confidence. Given the incredibly lopsided confusion matrix (with the massive amount of actual negatives to actual positives) and this incredibly unstructured data set, I doubt its even remotely possible to find a way where you don't end up with a totally unacceptable ratio of actual to false positives. Letting this kind of garbage data in is how you get Gemini's gasoline spaghetti.
Well, you can’t blind it but you can still randomize. If your outcome variables are sufficiently objective and important (e.g., mortality or cancer risk, not just perceived health), the possibility that the causality flows through a placebo effect is much less worrying. If [people correctly believing that they ate yogurt] reduces [the incidence of cancer], great!
Aren’t you overlooking constraints on transmit power for mobile transmitters being better served my low earth orbit than higher orbits?
Airport security knows what laptops look like under the scanner. Modifications will probably result in it being immediately flagged - increasing done automatically by the machines themselves.

What is the likelihood that the manufacturer put explosives into your laptop? Very low, perhaps zero.

Additionally, laptops have lots of other components - unlike pagers - that absorb some of the damage, so that can reduce the damage to things outside the laptop.

There are also additional checks to laptops on international flights - they must turn on, for example.

The purpose is to reduce the risk, not to eliminate it.
Harvard students hack Meta glasses to compile dossiers on strangers in real time [video]
France 24 report describes it as "a surveillance nightmare" but it's arguably more a sousveillance nightmare. This would be an incredibly oppressive tool of surveillance, but in the hands of literally everyone, it's that plus a recipe for chaos.

Impressive tech demo though!
“Insignificance isn’t ineffectiveness”
Your "existence proof" is no such thing; you simply moved the deleted information to the metadata by telling us which reconstruction algorithm to use.
I use midjourney to create images inspired by abstract art and I usually add '--no person' for this very reason.

(I wanted to avoid the phrase 'create abstract art' since I don't want to claim that it actually is art (at least I wouldn't want to claim so here on HN))
Don't most array languages have first class functions?
Funny, I was actually thinking of micromouse when I made my comment, thank you for clarifying
It's in the html doc title but the article doesn't deliver.
I've moved enough times to have thinned my book collection down quite a bit. Books that I can't quit, the original "The Boy Mechanic" books, "The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus", "Jingo Django" (I have quite of few of Sid Fleischman's books, actually), a set of "The Book of a Thousands Nights and a Night" (the Arabian Nights) ... to name a few.
Discussed here:

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020792 - Oct 2023 (67 comments)
The underlying study makes a much weaker claim than the people who are using it to campaign against fluoridation.

A big issue in this discourse is that for the strong claims to be true, it would essentially require existing science around fluoride toxicity and the related mechanisms of action to be materially incorrect, contrary to all historical evidence. Fluoride poisoning is a thing that happens and has straightforward interventions. Are we supposed to pretend this science doesn't exist? I actually worked in fluoride chemistry, it is difficult to square this circle.

In addition to the "plausible mechanism of action" question, there is the inconvenient observation that exposure to fluoride from natural dietary sources is far higher today than from municipal water. Why the obsession with municipal water augmentation in historically low-fluoride environs? Most people eat far more fluoride than what their water exposes them to.

I find this particular social contagion deeply weird. You see the same persistent misrepresentation on social media as climate science, but in the case of climate science the effects on people is obviously consequential so the motivated reasoning is more understandable. The fluoride thing is trying to invent an issue around a topic that is inconsequential by all evidence and science.

Who benefits by encouraging people to tilt at this windmill?
What are you talking about? I haven’t had a hallucinated link since 3.5 to paper sources. They must have some sort of post processing in place to remove made up links.
How so?

(Not me, but I'm curious, and who knows, maybe someone else here can.)
anything that can run openwrt
Are you USA? Is it possible to get two passports X and non-X? A lot of countries will let you have a second identical passport so you don't try to enter Iran with a passport stamped from Israeli border control. How about getting another citizenship with another passport in your birth gender just for these rare occasions?

I understand your policy against these countries, but countries aren't their citizens, and I know some really amazing people in these countries who absolutely don't support their government's policies (at least in private). The "underground" LGBTQ population of the Middle East is enormous. In fact, my experience is that in private a significant amount of the citizens don't support these policies. Is there a single household in Dubai or Qatar that doesn't have a VPN subscription to get around their national firewalls?
Cell signal is terrible for privacy, uniquely identifying each individual’s location at all times. Though Wifi can also be tracked, it at least is possible to use anonymously with MAC randomization as is the default on many phones. (Leaving aside countries like Switzerland which outlaw wifi without mandatory registration.)
Ask HN: Is there an app to find a movie based on the style of a song?
You can type the name of a song, and you'd get movies that matches that vibe. Is there something like that out there ?
This assumes your paranoid network admins don't disable CDP/LLDP one day because of nebulous "security reasons" and sabotage your scripts, but this is the wrong time and place to rant about that :)

Cool hack!
Yea it's very similar rn. You basically get that feature in chrome with this. However, I plan to add a bunch more features to it (saving history, saved prompt templates to use per domain, etc) soon
It's interesting that Boots [0] recommends it only for treatment, not for prevention.

[0]: https://www.boots.com/boots-dual-defence-nasal-spray-20ml-10...
Show HN:I made bot to help improve your mood using GPT o1-model
As the parent comment said. Even if you never need to do it. Being quire familiar with these topics can help you select the correct solution.

Sometimes you don't need a binary tree, you just need a O(n) linear search but someone who has never played with the actual low level datastructures has no idea when that matters, so in their mind a hashmap makes a ton of sense because searching is between O(1) and O(log n) depending on implementation. But in many cases a flat array will be significantly more performant and is a simpler implementation but in their mind a hashmap is the better solution.

Now it probably doesn't matter, but when it matters it's better to know the the answer.

That for me is the big distinction between software engineering and software development.

Plumbers don't need to be engineers, but there are times when you really need an engineer to design the plumbing system.

Strive to be the engineer, purely because you will enjoy the craft a lot more, and people recognise drive and ambition.

It doesn't matter if you are in the right place at the right time if you don't have the skills to back it up.

Granted if all you want to be is a plumber that pipes APIs together and lives a different life, by all means I encourage you to enjoy life. But don't make students believe thats all their is to the industry.
Fiction: Hyperion by Dan Simmons (especially The Consul's Tale)

Non-Fiction: Peopleware (opened my eyes when I was a young newcomer to the industry)
aka “Why I waste the time of companies who are hiring”.
House of Leaves

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

You must use a physical book, it's full of typographical and color changes to impress context different then just the words. Every time I re-read it, I look though a different lens and get something different from it.
Probably less long if you are prepared to go to China where the research in the paper took place. The FDA seems to be a bit slow.
Something I don't see being mentioned in the comments:
What's a really frustrating part of working with the C API?
Setting up the compile/link flags!

The python3-config works generally well but is only available at the OS level.
But you don't want to mess with that (e.g., to access pip-installed packages).
Beyond that, everything is a mess!
python3 -m venv doesn't even bother creating such a script.
anaconda/miniconda? Don't even try!.

So every package pollutes their build scripts with many hardcoded `python3 -c "import sys: print..."` calls.

I've opened a CPython/PR that may help a bit by adding `python3 -m sysconfig --json` flag [0]

[0] https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123318
Could you share more details about your job, if you don’t mind?

I posted in a comment in this thread, but I changed 3 jobs in 4 years (a mix of FAANG and startups) and each one has been more miserable than the previous, so I can definitely relate with the previous poster.

So I am wondering what kind of “normal job” people have that is so good that they’d do it for free.
Discussion (161 points, 3 days ago, 120 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726698
What’s with the annoying cursors ?
Fuck.

I had Bruce as a teacher in one of our early CS classes at college, he showed us all sorts of black-magic performance tricks (at least as it appeared to us at the time) and that curiosity in wanting to understand the how/why played a large part in where I am today.

I don't know if it's any consolation but I know he had an outsized impact on a number of us back then.
Carragelose now is used as eye drops [0] as well!

[0]: https://www.carragelose.com/en/portfolio/common-cold-product...
she really isn't, though. her papers are mediocre, so she compensates by pandering to conspiracy theorists and transphobes.

edit: to be clear, my intention here is not to engage in ad hominem. instead I am saying that augmenting unimpressive research with social media is not a good model for the modern intellectual
When I travel to Europe, my North America–only cell service doesn’t work at all. I definitely appreciate free Wi‐Fi at my destinations.
Sure, was just a bit surprised by the amount of ram, but I'm guessing they just had old ram from older high-end servers and put it to use.

Seems it was also just sold out, maybe because of your comment.
They have some gorgeous Asian exhibits as well from what I remember.
i have the book and tried to read it many times, but never grokked it tbh. ;-)
first result from google come for "effect of deterrence on property crime"

https://www.house.mn.gov/hrd/pubs/deterrence.pdf

second result, summarizes and links to several review papers:

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterr...
No, the original title is correct, small caps are just an alternate way of setting lowercase letters.
And the numbers themselves are NATO propanda to push a NATO world order, it's not all propaganda just because you disagree, pointing out that China disagrees with the US on a very US vs China geopolitical and ideological dispute is indistinguishable from cheering on your favorite sports team at this point.
The storage unit industry is one of the most awful, customer hostile industries I've encountered. It's impossible to get the local facility on the phone, publicly listed phone numbers are all redirected to a national call center where reps are unable to even accurately quote prices. TFA covers the insurance kickback scam. Then after I moved into my unit, I discovered 75% of the units in my facility could be broken into with zero tools because the padlocks provided by the facility had enough slack in the shackle that if you rotated the lock 90 degrees there was room for the bolt to slide the half inch needed to clear the bolt hole in the strike plate. Then there was the rodent infestation.

The paradox is that the monthly cost of a unit will quickly exceed the value of whatever is stored there unless the items have sentimental value or are very expensive. In TFA, their losses from theft was $500 and their insurance limit was $2,000. Within two years they would exceed that in rent payments on the unit. A Google search suggests the average storage unit tenancy is only 10 months. That's reasonable. Long-term storage only makes sense when the value exceeds what can reasonably be entrusted with the lax security of a storage facility.
Strangely, Boots is not mentioned [0] by Carragelose even though they say they contain it.

[0]: https://www.carragelose.com/en/portfolio/launched-products
Not sure if there's a better section elsewhere, but at least this one touches on it:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/destructors.html#tempora...
Yeah likewise. I get no satisfaction from any full time work. It might be nice for a few months but then it always turns into drudgery. I think most of this stems from the fact that I absolutely hate working with people and on teams, which is very different from the active social life I lead away from work. I don’t think it’s my coworkers but the very structure of a work place that makes it impossible for someone like me to make friends and enjoy my time there. On the other hand, I can spend hours and hours on my hobbies over decades and still always look forward to them.
IIRC some finance apps either don't have web sites that can perform financial transaction, or are lacking a number of features of the mobile app. Cash App and Venmo used to be some of the worst offenders, but have improved in recent times.