skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had an explicit "no stamping" rule, which could be overturned by agreement before a game.

Actually, we used to have a rhythmic string of rules which were very sayable, which I can't remember, along the lines of "no stamping no biting no _____ no _____ no ...", with a list of things, and a rhyme or two in there. I'm going to ask any old friends I run into and see if I can get the full thing back again.

I'm pretty sure the first two were no stamping and no biting though. If you'd anything like that, I'd love to hear it!
My partner is an orthodontist. (That’s a specialization within dentistry.) I’m a software engineer btw.

The saying goes that you only need to floss the teeth you want to keep.

If you think about it, a toothbrush will only clean 3 sides of a tooth. Top, outer side, inner side. Not the 2 sides facing neighbour teeth.

How on earth is it very important to clean those 3 sides but not the remaining 2? That just doesn’t make sense. If you think flossing is not useful, to be coherent, you must believe toothbrushing is not useful.

On the flip side, learn how to do flossing right to not hurt your gums. The floss must follow the shape of the tooth, and not be straight. (Ie. move along a U path.) Flossing in a straight line does more harm then good.
Whoa. Somehow I have not heard of this. Can this be used to make cross-platform GUI apps?
This comment was very well-written. And, it stirs up thoughts about what works and what doesn't. "What abouts" like that one battle royale game (that failed) that coupled advancement to being a good sport and respectful to others, and it kindof worked. Could that kind of "good sport" thing be engineered into public forums somehow.

But in the end, all my feeble "what if's" collapse, and I end up agreeing with you.
Of course it is. It already passed many tests (for example gravitational lensing) while some dark matter candidates (WIMPS, primordial black holes) have effectively been ruled out through tests.
Evaluating reliability in wearable devices for sleep staging
Key extract:

On average, sleep/wake classification accuracies were reported to be 87.2% based on 53 assessed devices. There was no significant difference in accuracies between devices using only accelerometer data (86.7%, d = 28) and devices using both PPG and accelerometer data (87.8%, d = 22), as determined by a t-test (significance threshold p < 0.05). All reported accuracies ranged from 79% to 96%, except for Kanady et al.’s study28, which reported lower values of 54% and 64%. This difference can be attributed to their 24-hour measurement, which had a higher wake-to-sleep ratio compared to overnight measurements in other studies. Therefore, these accuracies reflect the generally poor performance of sleep classifiers in detecting wake. The average accuracy for 3-stage classification (wake vs. NREM vs. REM) was 69.7% (d = 3), and for 4-stage classification (wake vs. light vs. deep vs. REM), it was 65.2% (d = 9).
I work in open source. I would not pull the kind of bullshit Matt has pulled.

Matt is not some poor underfunded open source developer. He's the CEO of a company with thousands of employees.

What Matt is doing is trying to effectively remove open source components of wordpress from the market so that he can sell them. He's already co-opting other peoples work and taking control of it (e.g. AFC).

I think you should look into the facts of the matter before deciding that I'm "confused".
it's useless thence I love it.

I lied, in fact I just used it to create a couple Slack emojis.
Firefox is great. I use Nightly. Sync bookmarks and everything. Chrome completely unnecessary.
This actually makes me think these people are unserious. This is an obsolescent airship design. ZeppelinNT, Airlander 10, and Lockheed P-719 all use the semi-rigid design with integral gas bags.
Yep, I'm never leaving my dentist because he tells me things like "this crown will probably need to be replaced some time in the next twenty years, but it's not worth spending the time and money to do it yet."

Bonus anecdote: My previous dentist, who I went to once, had an office full of hygienists that were young, blonde, skinny women without exception. Something tells me the interview process was not merit-based...
If you only have 3 months then forget learning technologies or padding a resume. Real skills are only measured in years of experience and often require some form of demonstration.

Instead seek entry level certifications. I recommend Security+ and what ever the entry level AWS cert is.

If you want to ignore all this advise and absolutely have to focus on a technology skill then master everything there is to know about data transmission. Learn the OSI model, HTTP, WebSockets, gRPC, certificates, and so on. Read the RFCs several times. In order to really attain mastery you should plan on studying 45-50 hours per week minimum with that time being intense dedicated focus.

Transmission mastery is what got me my current job, but in all fairness I was at it for more than 3 months. I had written an original WebSocket library a few years earlier and improved upon it over time. Despite the current industries most esteemed experts telling me one thing regarding the relationship between HTTP and WS I was able to prove them wrong, with working code, by demonstrating that HTTP could be served over WS and that WS does not have to be served over HTTP as many claim. Insights like that takes longer than 3 months to realize.
oh I did review that, thanks! Seemed like it fit show hn, along with other extant hands-on guides/tutorials? You can clone my repo and run the Docker Compose stacks, and apply either pattern (attempt 1 or 2) to a homelab with Traefik & Docker Compose. The tricky part is understanding the pattern in the first place.

But if it fits better outside "show hn" I'm fine with that too, I guess a mod is free to remove "show hn" from the title.
> I just happen to think that the US has far more resilience

Well, if this is true then democrats are lying. They pretend the US can be transformed into a dictatorship if Trump is elected.

But the real point is that in terms of foreign policy the US is already a nondemocratic state, because both parties support non-ending wars and are financed by the MIC. The voters don't matter anymore.
I'm also seeing CBD gummies on the photo link. I don't see a "More" link at the bottom of the main page, though, at least not on mobile.
The idea, in theory, is to measure your "minimum" or baseline blood pressure.

That your activities throughout the day add variable amounts to the baseline but never go below it.

It is a very good question though -- some people have activities/jobs/lifestyles where their BP is significantly elevated all the time. So surely you would think that must matter?
> they frequently talk about how tired they are of tech guys who read "The Mom Test" who now skulk around asking probing questions about pain points in a doctors daily work.

Those tech guys are doing it wrong. If you want to address a particular market, the way you learn about the pain points in that area isn't to annoy the people working in it. It's to work in it yourself long enough to understand first hand.

I'm certainly not saying to avoid asking people for their expert advice, I'm saying that interviewing people is better done once you have enough baseline experience to know what questions you should be asking.
I think both you and the person you’re responding to are correct. The supply chain reports said <1M displays producible. That’s <500K devices producible.

Regarding stock, Apple almost always dips by a significant amount during an event. They’re very much traded as buying on the hype and selling on the news.
Today we download pirated PDFs off sketchy Russian servers. So, a minor improvement at least.
Ireland is like that but without a decent way to report dangerous drivers or racist rants
> I do not like a web browser deciding for me if I can use my own CA

What browser does not allow you to load your own trusted CA?
Google provided a useful lookup service at the expense of brainwashing society with consumerist propaganda and the complete destruction of personal privacy and the normalization of the surveillance state. It wasn't worth it.

Amazon inspired us to think we needed more cheap crap in order to inspire us to buy cheap crap that we didn't need. We aren't any happier than we were before we had the ability to buy cheap crap on a whim, but we sure do have a lot more cheap crap than before. That wasn't worth it.

Facebook is essentially as good at helping people keep in touch as any instant messenger that preceded it. But unlike those instant messengers, it's supported by invasive targeted ads, and consult the first paragraph for why this is a negative.

This has all been a waste. Society isn't any better as a result of these companies existing.
Thanks, that does seem like a bonafide ‘unicorn’ by any metric.
Presuming that you mean "stairs", these exist and impress Hacker News users who think any problem can be solved with enough overengineering, but nobody really uses them because they're so much worse at everything else. I've used one to board an airplane embarking from the tarmac, that's about all they're good for.
absolutely fascinating. conkers is an amazing game
Show HN: Paktol a boring spending tracker (NO AI)
I always spent more than planned so I decided to try budgeting applications. It turns out you need to be an accountant or a control freak for those apps.

So I made Paktol with extreme simplicity & efficiency in mind. My sole goal is to spend less than I planned.
Where Paktol differs:
- you define a monthly goal
- every month your position starts at $0 and it increases every second
- when you add an expense you will either stay in green if above your position or go in red and we tell you how long you have to wait

It's simple, boring and not sexy but it works for me (and friends/family).
Give it a try.
sounds like the dentist was on the level. lotta things it could be, and those may be easy to address without dental surgery.

did you ever figure out what the root cause of the migraines was?
Elaborate marble runs are very popular, although many people use steel balls instead.
Tell you the truth, that doesn't help clarify to me much.

If it is compatible, then can't I 'drop it in'.

They sound like they are saying the same thing.

It is compatible so clients can connect to the server and be fully operational, and thus, I should be able to drop in this server, and use it as a server?

How can it be compatible if it doesn't maintain data, configuration, etc..

Edit:
or is this about Pumpkin files. Pumpkin will maintain it's own files, data, configuration. So it can't just use existing Minecraft data files.

So if it was a new world, Pumpkin would generate new pumpkin formatted files. But couldn't just 'drop it in' on an existing world and use the existing Minecraft data files.

Not sure of long term viability as far as effort, but if it is files, couldn't a converter from MineCraft to Pumpkin file structure, make the server 'drop in'?
How will the airship and its cargo clear customs at a random warehouse with presumably no staffing of border agents?
As an aside, I own a home and now merely dream that renting should be as cheap as owning. Having equity in something that needs constant repair, loses heat on all sides, and has a bunch of fucking grass around it, is only equivalent to a certain amount of cash.

I suspect the real reason owning is cheap is not that it's inherently better, but because everything is cheaper when you have lots of money.
Yes, layout is difficult, especially because (I think):

1. The most "core" parts of layout, like CSS 2 stuff, is pretty poorly considered with a bunch of weird features that interact in strange ways. (Floats and clearance? Margin collapsing?) Some parts of this "core" were intended to be universal even though they're a bad fit for other layout modes. (Margin and padding, for example, don't have a clear purpose for say grid elements.)

2. It's not well-modularized the way JS APIs are. A JS API can often be implemented fairly stand-alone, but each layout module interacts with every other layout module since they can be nested in various ways. I think newer specs like grid are trying to be stricter with this but there are fundamental challenges: the actual 2D screen is a shared resource that different layout modes must split up.
A lot of CAs are non-american. Also not sure how encrypted HTTP and DNS allows google to snoop on your traffic? If you don't trust google then don't use their eDNS service?
“The taste of their food and the beauty of their women made British men the best sailors in the world.”
China's average energy cost for businesses is 10c and the US is 13c according to a quick search I did so I'm still not following.
In june evaluated PayloadCMS (v3 beta), Strapi and Sanity for powering an app with (30+ content types) and a website.

In the end i chose PayloadCMS.
- I can programatically define content types in typescript
- selfhosting
- localization support.

Sanity:
_Pros_: great DX, easy to start
_Cons_: i was afraid of exploding bills, it felt a bit slow/sluggish

STRAPI:
_Pros_: open source, selfhostable, managed solution available,
_Cons_: too much clicking in the UX, and having to write middleware to get related data.

So far I am pretty happy with PayloadCMS.
You don't have to be an "active" patient and "self-advocate" if you trust your medical professional to make the decision that is in your best interest. Ergo, if you're advocating active medical involvement, you don't trust your medical professional either.
> When you get to that stage, software engineering has failed fundamentally.

Agreed - this is a survival mode tactic in every company I’ve been when it’s happened. If you’re permanently in the described mode and you’re small sized, you might as well be dead.

If mid to large and temporary, this might be acceptable to right the ship.
why python, why not a system programming language like
C, OCaml or Go (or newer languages like zig or odin)

Are web browsers, not considered to be "system software"
If they decide to accept the Safe C++ proposal, it will require it. We’ll see.
I love it: https://s1.gifyu.com/images/SB5A9.gif
Yes Firefox user here. I hide my useragent too because of stupid sites like Microsoft 365 that disable a lot of functionality for Firefox but everything works totally fine if they think I'm using edge. The same skulduggery that Google used on Gmail to make chrome big.
Yes, it's based in the real world. This was the Falcon 9 launch price that I could come up with in the amount of time I was willing to spend on a shitpost. I agree that launch prices will continue to come down, but launchers will always be mass-constrained and launching lead spheres into orbit will never be a practical solution.
The second part could instead be more like "detects an edge case and handles it, accidentally working around the first defect".
It has now been 0 days since a new minecraft server was written in Rust
https://dayssincelastrustmcserver.com/
Then you should be using something like Textract or other tooling in that space. Multimodal LLMs are no replacement.
Do we even need to extract the water? The point is to capture weight, and the only reason to liquefy the water is to store it more efficiently, by volume.

Storing higher humidity air doesn't sound very efficient, storing liquefied humid air sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, and storing compressed air sounds like an unnecessarily complicated alternative to just compressing the hydrogen.
Odd, the fact that I couldn't have separate "panels" in Windows seemed like the bug/missing feature to me :).
I wonder how Ozempic will change this? I really do expect we will all be on this soon and maybe we can resume the increase in lifespan that has been stalled by obesity, lack of exercise, and processed food.
I hope the AI gets good enough to dynamically translate from one language to another with high reliability, in case not everyone is a fan of Python
The tricky part is understanding the pattern in the first place.

That's what makes it a guide/written material rather than "something you've made other people can play with". Those are not really Show HN's because otherwise half the site would be Show HNs. It's more things you make than things you've written about.
You have to stretch to get even one of those claims to
be true.

Has DoorDash put some restaurants out of business, probably. Have they put restaurants out of business, absolutely not.

Has Airbnb raised home prices, yes by around ~1%. Have they destroyed the dream of home ownership, lol no. We're talking about ~$5k on the loan
which isn't making or breaking anyone. And claims on destroying communities are dubious because they're just not that dense in places where people actually live.

Has Facebook increased political polarization and sent people down the right-wing pipeline, yep. Would
this have happened anyway with a constellation of smaller social media sites, it already has.
At some point in the future the real cost of operating with fossil fuels will catch up.
I have to say even something really low-resource like Piper (pure CPU) sounds amazing these days. TTS really appears to be a solved problem now.
Likely some sort of legal or PR reason.
Show HN: Easily publish key metrics to mobile dashboards with an API
You can re-enable the old group by behavior, which we did.
Or perhaps an entirely new platform/protocol, since this one is completely saturated with complexity at this point.
Humane Technologies (2021)
Sorry, I just added '1999' as a meme for retro design. Apologies for any confusion caused.
The smallest app built with Tauri is 500 KB.

[1]: https://tauri.app
[2]: https://syntax.fm/show/821/is-tauri-the-electron-killer/tran...
Nothing new, I expect better from IEEE. The argument they present is speculation, not technical proofs.
Meta's Horizon OS is Android, so they could basically just do the same. Of course, they don't have a proper app store for that, but the compatibility should be there.

The main roadblock would be the OS support, and Meta's already has that. They are of course lacking another big roadblock, which is the store.
Microsoft says governments should bear the responsibility handling cybercrime
Sure you can, it's a 2D graphics library. It's more like the JS Canvas API though instead of a UI framework.
I wish they had improved the screen a little bit as well.

It makes sense to update the model with apple intelligence but that might not be enough for a lot of people to upgrade.

Perhaps we're looking at a device that simply will be out of lineup soon (next few years).

I do like this form factor a lot though, well, eventually we'll get foldable phones to become mainstream I hope.
I think by "JavaScript" here you mean rendering—that's partially true. In macOS and Windows these days (also I think Linux with GTK4 on Wayland, though only in a limited way), the window manager is itself composited and a window can send a small display list to that window manager for it to composite. In that case, it's possible to actually have the video decoding to happen entirely in hardware and never have the browser directly interact with decoded video bits. That said usually the window manager compositor is pretty limited and the browser will only do this when the stars align. The sort of things that can break it are any kind of weird clipping, transparency, or effects applied to the videos.
Journalist or Russian spy? the case of Pablo González
> Business is more about execution than being the first to market with an idea.

It took me far too long to learn how deep this truth runs. There's a reason for the saying "the pioneers get all the arrows". From a purely business point of view, you don't want to be first to market. The real sweet spot is to be second or third, learning from the mistakes of the first.
Happy to hear this! Thank you for chiming in here. Hope to see you around the community.
Because that's less flexible and there may not be water at the destination in the first place. That said, Flying Whales are trying to do exactly that, because ballast tech just isn't capable enough yet.
Pumpkin is already on that list.
99 is close enough and only 2 button presses, and the same button at that.
Kinda sounds like I did and they kept ignoring them. Some of us try to approach problems like grownups, even if we leave the details out when they’d break the flow of a story.
One person reported that "Contract library" is no longer visible for him in his MyCommerce account, and supported it with a screenshot. I suggest that we all download all documents that could be useful from their portal - contracts and sales/order reports for problematic months.

Edit: he clarified later that he's already in the process of cancellation and that's probably the reason he doesn't see contracts any more
> Meta's Horizon OS is Android, so they could basically just do the same.

They just announced they're doing that: https://developers.meta.com/horizon/blog/building-2d-apps-on...

AFAICT there won't be Play Store support though, so devs will have to publish their 2D Android apps specifically to the Quest store.
I have spotty education on the matter but I believe they all conform to a FASB taxonomy so there is at least a list of possible tags in use. I do wonder if any of the big data vendors actually use this though.
I doubt consumers at the checkout line buying software are thinking about how fast or slow the software will run on their hardware compared to the competitor software
I like it... faved for future fuckery. Can you add background photo rotation or shades rotation?
The Pulsed Fission-Fusion Concept for Space Exploration and Power Generation [pdf]
AFAIK, these islands of regularity/stability are a common aspect of chaotic systems, say the logistic map[1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map
This Babylonian tower will crumble one day.

Layout does not have to be so complex. There are dozens of GUI frameworks with simpler layout system. Those are enough for applications everyone uses.
For the absolutely massive amount of code one needs to implement for production-grade CSS layout, the Servo source code is illustrative and IMO quite cool to see. For instance, this file just implements block and inline contexts; there's a bit of Rust boilerplate here, but the vast majority of lines are "business logic" around various parts of the specification. And there's a whole folder of these. https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/main/components/layout/f...

But implementing a layout engine is doable. CSS is not magic; there's a spec that can be (meticulously) transformed into code. I've occasionally showed code like this to people frustrated that CSS seems arbitrary, just to show them that there is a logic to the execution environment. Granted, you're not going to regularly click into it the way you'd click into the implementation of a library, but it's no different from something like React in that regard. I think it helps!
Startup funding sunk in third quarter but fintech and health tech ride high
I doubt it... The platform seems like a dud without some big changes. If big changes are coming, how much time to market do you really save working on this iteration?
Going to take a wild guess that maybe they're going to rely on the excellent, extensive standard library of Python which C and Zig can't compete with. The second constraint was probably that they want to keep the number of lines of code low to encourage more people to buy the book. That's where Python does better than Go - you can do a lot with list comprehensions and you don't have if err != nil every few lines.
Wow, no kidding he deleted it. By far the most childish Matt has looked this whole saga. Growing up, I really admired this guy...
> each frame passes through JavaScript to be composited

What do you mean by that? There is no Javascript doing the actual compositing, and the actual compositing is (usually) hardware accelerated.