skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a CS graduate, I've always had a related inferiority complex towards "real scientists" like biologists, chemists, physicists who confront the real mess of reality, instead of our cozy self-made thought-castles as computer people. We live in a world where everything is intelligible in principle, if we take the time to dig into how it works; they live in a world of true mystery. However, I take consolation in the fact that seemingly CS can touch the esoteric and mysterious regarding computability and computational complexity.
It's not quite that simple. The line isn't quite as hard between seed and 'nut'. Namely people may commonly refer to things as a nut when it is a seed.

e.g. a Peanut is a seed, as are almonds, cashews, walnuts.
They recently increased 1st class prices to reduce demand, because lack of crowding is the main selling point.
The issue with these "discrimination" lawsuits is that fee shifting provisions mean that if you lose, you pay their lawyers, but if you win you get nothing. So lawyers file these cases and ask for 90 pct of what it would cost you to bring the case to trial, and then spend infinite amounts of time and effort on discovery. It is legalized extortion
Hey everyone, I'm working on an automated fact checking service that works like so:

1. Paste a link to the website, X or facebook comment you want to fact check,

2. Select a quote on the site,

3. We search for relevant results from research databases, reputable news sites and searches on the web,

4. You get a web page with the quote, fact check rating, summary of the findings and sources,

5. Share that generated fact check page back to the source, so people can be aware of the relevant information.

This is a work in progress (currently a landing page) and I'd love to know if you are interested in it (it's worth me continuing to work on).

Would love to hear your opinions or ideas
Two stories.

1) Just yesterday I went to a an acclaimed dental school (UNC) for low cost dental care. They not only gave me a panoramic x ray but also a full set of bite-wing x rays. I read this and I want to break the world apart this morning.

2) When I was a child I kep needing root canals. It turned out our dentist was making these all up and was later found passed out from laughing gas in his office.
and why does it have 'how to connect' plastered all over its supposedly user-facing back? why have initial setup stuff end up just being always there? or more annoyingly, exposed for others to fiddle with it? (if it's gonna be used in places with other people around)
Telegram launches phone number verification for just $0.01 per code
If you're a chess grandmaster then you're good at a game.
Nice! Posted a few issues! Also when quitting with cmd+Q obviously it quits comlpetly Google Chrome, which is annoying :)
That depends on the granularity of your proof steps. That old joke doesn't hold for a very long time now (take a look at Isabelle/Isar proofs), yet people keep bringing it up.
Having a repeating free review and treatment is above basic care to survive. Both compared to many other places in the world now and historically.
Google Analytics vs. Clarity: The Ultimate Combo
When launching a tech startup, DATA IS EVERYTHING. I used to rely solely on to track basic metrics

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I'm so incredibly thankful that there are people like Pavel and Chris putting effort into articles like this. You are truly the best of us
There's a big difference between tolerance and friendship.
Unemployed could get weight loss jabs to return to work
>they still start wiping in dry conditions

That's for safety if a flake of dirt or dust lands on the front window right over where one of the cameras are, it will do a wipe and try to get rid of the thing that is distorting the image. Or it will do it if you are driving straight into the sun sometimes, presumably because it's doing a best efforts action in case the visibility problem is further exacerbated by dust which can be cleared.

It's strange to me that actual helpful features are misinterpreted as flaws, but that's how it is with new technology I guess.

Failing to detect actual rain, yes I see that too a little sometimes. I think they should augment with audio detection. There is a microphone, obviously, for the speech button, and depending on how things are wired sometimes speaker cones can also be repurposed as microphones.
>This product looks more versatile. Being able to automatically tie it to meeting status or set pomodoro timers could make it more interesting.

Seems this one automatically enables "Busy" if the microphone is activated on the device, though I can't see any reason a similar product couldn't check your calendar
The author's post explaining why Python was chosen: https://browserbook.substack.com/p/why-python

Apparently some of it now runs in the browser ("in the book itself") by compiling Python to JS?

https://browserbook.substack.com/p/compiling-python-to-js
Are they expensive to build, or are they expensive because nobody else is offering hurricane proof housing in the area?
WhatsApp vigilantes in India are converting Christians by force
Yeah - I had a dental bone graft a few months back and I certainly hope its a once in a lifetime thing!

NB No criticism of the dentist that did it - took two dentists and an assistant nearly 5 hours and they have an impressive amount of kit...
"A generation or two ago" roughly corresponds to the Tamagotchi era too.
The Shuttle cost $48 billion to develop in inflation-adjusted dollars — contrast this with the ~$5B spent on Starship development thus far. It’s hard to defend the claim that NASA is or ever has been under-funded.
So the user can be trusted to allow arbitrary websites raw access to potentially sensitive USB devices but cannot be trusted to give extensions the required access to fully block ads?
At Rails World 2024, David Heinemeier Hansson introduced Kamal 2 in his keynote, and many are excited to try it. However, some prefer a managed database for peace of mind.

That's where Crunchy Data comes in. They provide managed Postgres service.

During an internal discussion, one of our engineers raised a crucial question: What impact would latency have on performance with the server in a different data center?

We decided to find out by running benchmarks. Check out our findings here: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/crunchy-bridge-vs-digital-oce...
> Mainstay?

For sure it is. Every boy (and probably some girls, but never seen myself) plays conkers and likely puts their life in great peril climbing horse chestnut trees to gather the best conkers before anyone else gets them.

When I think back now to some of the massive (old) trees I used to climb and the action of shaking the branches to try to get the chestnuts to drop (whilst the branch is breaking underneath you, 100ft up), I’m surprised I’m here to talk about it!

This is a serious business.
I am not entirely familiar with the .psd format. However, a rule of thumb is that if you can open an image file in a text editor, see readable code, and modifying the code affects the image, then the image is definitely written in code.
I didn't say (or didn't mean to imply?) you were anti-Christian. But now it sounds like you're calling me an extremist, which actually is controlling/manipulative behaviour, is it not? And for no good reason.
I've been levelling up on browser internals, and this book is awesome. It helps build up intuition on how browsers work, without going through the millions of lines of chrome code.
ESA astronaut on the difference between flying in Soyuz and piloting Crew Dragon
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41807954
The scary thing is excellent advances in all the other AI/ML need to fake people: text to speech and back, yolo, video generation. The illusion might become the reality. We need a few generations to die (100 years time?) before we will shake of this need to even be human! Who is going to say no to a perfect memory implant. Now a never get dementia implant. And so on! Finally what is the cow even?
> pretty sure safe travels is critical to maximum value to their shareholders

Well, it is... sort of.

Obviously you can't have Uber be a guaranteed way to be robbed by a highwayman, but when you've cleared out most taxis in a given city, you can start to dictate the terms by which customers accept your service.

And if that means including language in your ToS that shove your customers into a binding arbitration agreement [0] that effectively shield you from the risks of hiring incompetent or malicious drivers, well... that's what that means.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2024/10/02/nx-s1-5136615/uber-car-crash-...
Show HN: Google Sheets add-on for quick time series forecasting
Given how he is now accused of creating a toxic work environment for household staff and defending his mother when she sexually harassed the staff it does indeed seem like he is not a good person at all.
Oura seems interesting, but if a subscription is required, I'm out.
Modern CSS makes SASS mostly redundant imo.
> 2015: Breville makes a beautiful microwave oven with "a bit more".

It really is better - it has a well designed UI unlike virtually all microwaves (except the cheap 80s ones with a mechanical timer knob).

The Breville has one knob for time and one knob for power and you can vary either while it is running. All the specialty buttons still exist but are just inside the door so not visible unless you want to use them.

The two knobs are digital spinner knobs - with acceleration on the time knob something like mouse acceleration - fairly intuitive. The start button does 30 seconds at full power by default if you just tap it and adds 30 seconds each tap - as a secondary UI.

I do wish they used a slider for the power level. Presumably not used because harder to keep clean and not as cheap as optical rotary encoders.

I gave one of these microwaves to my elderly parents and no complaints.

This has made me passionately hate every other microwave with buttons - it's so commonly a fight to set 100% power for a minute. And had also opened my eyes to spending more when I find well designed UI on appliances. Most manufacturers are horrific.
An optician fits lenses, an optometrist measures your vision (and can refer you to an ophthalmologist if they spot something unusual).
Green H2 isn't competitive with cheap NG unburdened by CO2 taxes.

Realize that global H2 production is enormous -- 75 million tons/year for pure H2, another 24 MT for hydrogen in mixed gas streams -- and much of this needs to be produced even when we're entirely off fossil fuels. Green hydrogen is not an optional thing. So all the problems of making and storing it are going to have to be solved. Once that's done, adding some turbines (very much like existing ones; it's likely possible to just retrofit existing NG turbines with new combustors) is not a large additional step. These turbines already have an after stage that reduces NOx back to N2.
I built a Google Sheets add-on that makes it easy to produce forecasts on time series datasets directly inside your spreadsheet.

Story behind it - more than a year ago, a friend of mine asked me to produce some forecasts on some (legal) drug sales data. I don’t have the Office suite on my machine, so I tried using Google Sheets. But Google Sheets’ built-in FORECAST function didn’t work because the data had seasonality. I checked out other Google Sheets add-ons, none did the job well either (please correct me if I’m wrong!).

The only way I could make it work is by creating the forecast in Python. I found it a hassle, but had other projects so I set the idea aside.

One year later, I decided to look into building add-ons for Google Workspace, and remembered this idea. There was a lot of trial and error, as the documentation can be quite confusing sometimes. Nevertheless, the add-on's finally been listed on the Google Workspace Marketplace: https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/forecastsheets/...

(I put the link to my landing page in the Show HN because I find the marketplace listing UI hard to read).

The add-on is very basic at the moment. The prediction algorithm uses the Holt-Winters exponential smoothing method, with an additive trend component and an additive seasonal component. There are no other options for the model, and no other models either.

The add-on's free, but to be fully transparent I'll probably have a premium version, subscription-based, where you can do more stuff in the add-on.

In terms of who might use this - I'm thinking mainly that it's people in data analytics, marketing, maybe high-volume sales. I've kept it fairly generic in case I discover other applications.

I'm looking for feedback so I know whether it's worth developing it further. Totally fine if not. Either way, let me know what y'all think of it!
> They require drivers license and car insurance registration, anything like a CDL would make being a driver prohibitively expensive.

Taxi companies made it work.

They just accepted less return on their investment than the tech bros behind Uber did.
That only seems cosmetically similar to me. If cruise control would usually do the same thing but occasionally try to take a curve for me, I would consider it unreliable. Even if it always got the curve attempts it made correct, it is unreliable if its actions are not essentially a mechanical response.
Data extraction is definitely one of the most useful functions of LLM, however, in my experience a large model is necessary for a reliable extraction - I tested smaller, open-weights models and the performance was not sufficient.

I wonder, did anyone try to fine-tune a model specifically for general formatted data extraction? My naive thinking is that this should be pretty doable - after all, it's basically just restructuring the content using mostly the same tokens as input.

The reason why this would be useful (in my case) is because while large LLMs are perfectly capable of extraction, I often need to run it on millions of texts, which would be too costly. That's the reason I usually end up creating a custom small model, which is faster and cheaper. But a general small extraction-focused LLM would solve this.

I thought about fine-tuning Llama3-1B or Qwen models on larger models outputs, but my focus is currently elsewhere.
Is 1=1 disputed in philosophy of science?
Agreed. We actually had a company wide meeting where our senior level management and directors are very happy to announce that they will roll out ChatGPT access to all employees starting with Engineering and HR. Apparently, some random director is buddy with some IBM big honcho and was sold about the immense productivity gains seen in IBM plus how certain IBM office managed to lay off most expensive super senior engineers and had seen only productivity and margin gains.

ChatGPT has the branding and first mover moat. Outside of tech folks, Claude/Gemini/Mistral/Phind/Perplexity/Midjourney do no exist, only ChatGPT+CoPilot are real and AI.
The CAB (who are setting the TLS cert issuance rules) are optimising for their users' security.

Their users are "people using browsers", not "people asking for cert signatures".
It's down to the laws of the country and the government could make an exception to go direct if they want for special items. One of the things the airships might make sense for is huge wind turbine blades that are too large to go by road. The government might well do it for that kind of thing.

But for regular freight I doubt it. I use to fly from England to France in a single engine plane, pre Brexit, and you might think just stick stuff in the plane in an airfield in the UK, fly to a field in France drop it off, vive the single market and that. But no you have to fly to a customs airport in the UK, queue up with your passport as usual, do the same in France then fly on to your field. Probably France to Germany say would be ok. It all depends on the local laws.
Fair point given how poorly I worded it. Maybe I could try again.

Yes it's awesome to collaborate with people but if you find a workplace that ignores human factors of knowledge workers, and deters and deep focus, that is a negative signal about that employer. Egs:

* a noisy, open, "pit" with low/no partitions, where sales guys yell into speakerphones right near people heads down
* there are no "focus booths" to make private calls or work
* meeting load is scattered across the day so there's no way to block out working time on calendar
* adversarial IT dept

This kind of environment does not promote work and also increases stress due to context switching (citation needed) and people walking behind you all day in peripheral view (seen a study somewhere). If you find a place like this, your health and career might be better served elsewhere.
Making a Real Potato Camera [video]
Why though? You lose quite a bit of credibility when you say that theorems that apply to any system of logic don't apply to you in any way.
A more correct term would be "saddle points". They're stable, until the tiniest of perturbations occurs, then they're not stable anymore.
The voyage of the James Caird must count as one of the most incredible feats of seamanship in history - 1300km across ferocious seas in a small boat with an absolute need to hit South Georgia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_James_Caird
Show HN: Mermaid ASCII Diagrams
I’m not even British but I’ve read enough novels to know of those things.
Not for long. Schools are looking at banning smartphones.
Scientists cast doubt on claims Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Spain
What microwave doesn't suck in 2024 that's what I'd like to know
The Sailfish OS phones are in some use, and they've been running full blown linux since 2013.
Yeah, wow, humanity is so stupid for not distributing the machine readable format for the local newspaper in 1920. Gosh we're just so dumb
American here. I first heard the word conkers from Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy, but this was pre Google, so I just figured it was some scifi word.

Then I learned that it was a game from an episode of Kipper the Dog, in which his cheeky friend Tiger cheats at the game by painting something to look like a chestnut.
Javascript has a compiler called Babel, which plays a huge role in modern web development. It is in fact a transcompiler, meaning it doesn't turn your javascript into bytecode, it is just transpiling stuff without changing the level of abstraction.

React Compiler is just a babel plugin for automatic performance improvement, memoization specifically, for never perfectly memoized React code.

Can library have compiler? Well why can't it? For example stdlib has a compiler, because C does.
Show HN: I made Laravel starter kit to help you code better and faster
This starter kit comes with ton of useful features and modules to help your start in minutes. It's in the final stages of development so you can join the waitlist to get nice discount and premium support once it's ready for public.

The stack powering the kit is: Laravel, Vue, Inertia, Tailwind, Stripe, etc. with React version on the roadmap.
this looks great on paper. Leetcode and hackerrank doesn't seem to do anything anymore. curious to know how you score performance?
LocalStorage vs. IndexedDB vs. Cookies vs. OPFS vs. WASM-SQLite
The lobby network: Big Tech's web of influence in the EU
It used to be the case that glibc implemented nanosleep for small values below the scheduling quantum with a spin loop. It was explicitly documented to do so.

This was changed sometimes in the last 20 years, probably with battery powered devices becoming more prevalent and CPUs implementing more advanced sleep states.
This helped me a lot, thx.
Doesn't read like a rage rant to me. Reads like a sober assessment of Musks behavior in regards to politics recently. He has gone full Trump fan and Kamala hater. He's become what he says he hates. He's become a demagogue.
Quick carbon removal demand math
I looked into this a bit further and it seems to be a range from [0,50]. [1] explains that if there is a pre-existing timer interrupt at 0, then the queue will be resumed at 0. But yes - given no other timers it will resume at 50.

1. https://people.kernel.org/joelfernandes/on-workings-of-hrtim...
> JTB is not enough, for something to be “true” it needs _testability_

How could something become true in the first place such that it could be tested to discover that it is true, if the test precedes and is a condition for truth?

Do you have tests I can run on each of your many assertions here that prove their truth?
Cartoon devils are everywhere in pop culture, from deviled ham to Looney Tunes to sports mascots. If even a significant number of Christians cared enough to avoid associating with any company that has any kind of devil logo, there would be evidence of it as a trend in the market. As far as I know, no such evidence exists, therefore it's reasonable to assume that using a devil logo doesn't limit anyone's user base to any degree that matters.
Kinda where AI is today.
Yes, my fault! Thanks! David Copperfield, the illusionist.
Thanks for mentioning this documentary. I didn't know about it, after all the noise created by the Oppenheimer movie (which I hated with a passion). I'll be sure to watch it. People just don't realize the magnitude of what Oppenheimer achieve, and they fail to realize it by a few orders of magnitude. And the Oscar-studded movie, instead of trying to convey that, decided to focus on the fairly mundane point Oppenheimer losing his security clearance because of some political machinations.
It is a fascinating topic. I spent a few hours on it once. I remember vaguely that the logic is very configurable and you had a lot of choices. Like you choose law of excluded middle or not I think, and things like that depending on your taste or problem. I might be wrong it was 8 years ago and I spent a couple of weeks reading about it.

Also no suprise the rabbit hole came from Haskell where those types (huh) are attracted to this more.foundational theory of computation.
Shackleton's Boat Journey by Worsley (the captain) is the way to go.
It absolutely can happen, but not for routine goods where being on schedule is highly important. But for outsize goods, waiting for a favorable weather forecast is a much smaller concern than strengthening roads or perhaps even removing a bridge or two. For how wind turbine deployment, freight airship would be a gamechanger and there's a long (but truly narrow) tail of more niche use cases. Including any "unknown unkowns" that really can't exist before matching transportation.

The challenge is fitting the engineering required into the revenue that could be expected from those tiny markets It's tempting to characteristize turbine blade delivery as bigger than tiny, but compared to commodity transport like shuttling containers between China and the rest of the world that's still tiny.
As I said: “according to many credible witnesses, not all of them anonymous. Heck, some of it is even on video.”