skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on the ability to read sky brightness without a sensor.

I've always been interested in stargazing, but had a curiosity about how "good" the stars I was seeing were relative to conditions in other places on earth.

I'm working to answer that by doing inference of the value a SQM would get you, but over H3 cells in a geojson file, and then reporting on the cell with the highest reading during the last iteration over the set of H3 cells.

https://github.com/nonnontrivial/ctts
You need time for that.

It’s true that first you care for yourself but after survival is secured many people care for others without profit concerns.

But if you need more time to satisfy your own needs you have less time for others.
> the doctors need to be payed more

USA here, I think we need to pay them less. It's basically become a game of how little can they do and how much can they charge. Many already don't care about your symptoms, or bother to do any research. They just prescribe stuff as it's pushed. If they aren't already, I'm sure your doctor will soon just be entering your symptoms into ChatGPT.
As a grad student it was beaten out of me to be honest about my misgivings about my own results. But now that I'm in the system I don't know how we change this system.

I get the sense sometimes there are actual psychopaths amongst us who do mean it, however and they often do rise in the ranks, and those folks are essentially the other nuke holders in this MAD sort of situation. Amongst other things that need structural reform in science, I don't know what it takes to fix it.
In my experience it works pretty well under progressive governments that are willing to do the necessary tax-and-spend approach to make it work. Alberta's government is radically conservative, far beyond moderate pro-business conservatism.

As much as the media fixates on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it's important to remember that Canada's healthcare is administered provincially, and most provinces have Conservative governance.

Publicly-funded healthcare is much less-expensive with respect to public health outcomes compared to the American system, but it's not so cheap that you can cut it to the bone without creating awful negative consequences.
>it has become almost expected that everyone is fully confident all the time

I still remember my first discussion with a CEO in my first job as a programmer (not even out of uni yet). My project was delayed because of a buggy installer and I had problems reproducing the issue.

I was am repeatedly asked "how long until the fix" and I kept saying "I don't know, it's a bug, can take 2 hours can take a week".

We both left this conversation frustrated. Though of course for her it was business as usual, and for me it's still awkward and stressful when I think back to it.

Anyway this taught me to confidently state something like "this will take three days" instead of trying to convey uncertainty to the higher management.
I'm sure they do have sufficient data to answer this question, but it's not in what you linked and I'm not going to be diving in to do the analysis myself.
How possible is it to make your tool "zero-config" by default? I see a lot of comments in this thread and elsewhere on twitter asking for essentially `go build`, `go fmt`, `go test` for Java/JVM. I think the language has quite strong convention around directory layout and file naming already, so do you think it would be possible for mill or a mill wrapper to offer the same kind of standardized zero config workflow? I think a JVM tool that gets that right - takes it as far as possible to the golang model - would have a lot of happy users.
If every developer cared for optimizing efficiency and performance, development would become slower and more expensive though. People don’t write bad-performing code because it’s fun but because it’s easier. If hardware is cheap enough, it can be advantageous to quickly write slow code and get a big server instead of spending days optimizing it to save $100 on servers. When scaling up, the tradeoff has to be reconsidered of course.
I group the skepticism that I see around this topic into two buckets.

One is "it's not 10x, but is maybe 4 or 5x"; the other is "if differences exist at all, it's definitely less than 2x".

I get/have sympathy and agreement for the first type on a technically-precise level, but it also doesn't really change any of my behavior as a technologist or people/org leader.

The second type of skepticism I just don't understand at all from people who have worked more than a couple years in industry.
At least in the U.S. (and likely elsewhere) the design of the suburbs encourages neighborhoods with individual houses and very little walk able space (occasionally there are sidewalks or parks in the richer areas, but developments may be large and they're not evenly spaced throughout). Exclusionary zoning in the U.S. has also reduced the number of "third spaces" (coffee shops, malls, grocery stores, barber shops, etc. where people congregate and meet) near or in neighborhoods. This means fewer chance encounters since you have to plan to both go out in a car to meet. You have to find a friend then say "let's go get drinks at 13:00 across town at this place" instead of just happening to walk into the small neighborhood grocery and seeing each other.
It's even worse in the exurbs where large housing developments have been created with no amenities nearby, sometimes within upwards of an hour drive!

There are a number of good books on how the built environment affects our social life, if you're interested. It's not specifically about suburbs but "Palaces for the People" by Eric Klinenberg is one of my favorites that covers a lot of this sort of thing.
The situation is worse than I thought. The term "function", as used in foundations of mathematics, includes functionals as a special case. By contrast, the term "function", as used in mathematical analysis, explicitly excludes functionals. The two definitions of the word "function" are both common, and directly contradict one another.
While you can create and build a local package with U+FE0E in its file name, you cannot create or download a module using that character in a file name. So you could run this attack in someone's top-level repo but not in any of their dependencies. That's something at least.

https://go.googlesource.com/mod/+/refs/heads/master/module/m...
https://go.googlesource.com/mod/+/refs/heads/master/module/m...
You just deliver the replacement bulb or install as well?
I've been experiencing this exact issue in the US. Lately a medical issue of mine has been getting worse, and the earliest I can see a new PCP is in May 2025. I managed to get a referral to a specialist by visiting urgent care, but they referred me to a different specialist, and I won't be able to see the latter until late January 2025. Meanwhile my medical issue is continuing to get worse, and I have no one I can talk to about it. I'm looking into alternative options but things are looking bleak. I'm probably going to have to go out-of-network and drive 2 hours to find a doctor that has wait times on the order of weeks (as opposed to the in-network providers, that have wait times on the order of months).
Not really an issue on the same scale because it resolves itself once the domain registration has aged a bit. IP reputation is stickier.
good luck dealing with duplicates and hand-written variants.
How does that meaningly differ from rural homes, which do not have the isolation problem? Rural areas have the strongest social communities I have ever seen.
I think people will hit a breaking point and it will be undeniable that heavy regulation and subsidization is the root of dysfunction and deterioration of most important aspects of life.

It's hard not to see the parallel between healthcare and education where the parasitic overhead has been completely unchecked and enabled by federal subsidies. There's a similar deal with food, housing and other areas. It's absurd the amount of money that has been spent by the federal government in these areas with so little to show, the average person feels not only a lack of progress but decline.
SpaceX has caught a rocket. So what's next?
> Wikipedia has the major advantage over any other source that the edit history is public.

This is why anything attempting to compete with Wikipedia, has to start from that point. Otherwise, full stop, not to be taken seriously.

> even though there are many incidents with Wikipedia's moderation, the website has also existed for a long time... some incidents are expected.

Wikipedia can never be perfect, as nothing is. At the very least, they are very public about editing and moderation history. You can at least publicly challenge anything and everybody about what was done or what they are doing.
We need more doctors and nurses [1], full stop. Anything that prevents an aggressive increase in supply of these workers is something that needs to be actioned against.

Healthcare is a utility masquerading as a profit based industry. Squeeze the profit and inefficiency out, any comp should be going directly to systems and people providing care. Insurance companies? Gone [2]. Pharmacy benefit managers? Gone [3]. Lock private equity out of owning anything healthcare related [4] [5] [6]. I don’t want to knee jerk “union” for individual contributors, but you need some sort of governance mechanism so the CEO of a non profit hospital isn’t taking home $1M/year [7] [8] [9] while doctors and nursing are fighting for proper compensation and work life balance (including patient ratios, which are used to increase labor load without increasing labor costs or hiring more practitioners [10]).

[1] https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...

[2] https://penncapital-star.com/uncategorized/americans-suffer-...

[3] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/07/...

[4] https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(23)00589-2/fulltex...

[5] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/17/private-e...

[6] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/10/slash-and-b...

[7] https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/19/nx...

[8] https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/news/national/revealed-c...

[9] https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/nonprofit-hospitals-s...

[10] https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2023/09/a-primer-for-cover...
There's an older version of this argument in Schneier's Applied Cryptography (1996). He also concludes that a 256-bit key is secure "until computers are made from something other than matter and consume something other than energy", IIRC.

However, despite things like Ed25519 using 512-bit curve points for 256-bit security (you lose a factor 2 off your exponent because math), this particular instantiation fails much harder if a quantum computer running Shor's algorithm ever becomes reality.

Meanwhile, 123456 still tops the password charts wherever it is allowed.
It will probably never replace Elixir as my favourite web technology. For writing daemons though, it's already my favourite.
PivotalTracker Alternative
Hi,
We were sadden when we heard news that Pivotal EOL April 2025, and wanted to something about it.
Do you think this is something that community would be interested in?

We are building software for the past 13 years using Pivotal and wanted to something about it.

Currently exploring market, you can see our goals: https://litetracker.dev/yc

What do you think?
I've been doing jvm apps for almost 20yrs...
What builds need to do and what people made the builds do are completely different things.
I don't remember a single project I was involved in that could not had had a simpler build...
> The industrial revolution didn't really change anything about land.

I didn't say otherwise.

I said the industrial revolution changed what wealth meant. We don't pay for rents with the productive yield of vegetable gardens, and a lawn is no longer a symbol of conspicuous consumption due to signifying that the owner/tenant is so rich they don't need all their land to be productive.

And indeed, while land is foundational, it's fine to just rent that land in many parts of the world. Even businesses do that.

I still expect us to have money after AI does whatever it does (unless that thing is "kill everyone"), I simply also expect that money to be an irrelevant part of how we measure the wealth of the world.

(If "world" is even the right term at that point).

> Arguably, it's much more important, and even more relevant today given how our land use policy is disastrous for our species and climate.

Not so; land use policy today is absolutely not a disaster for our species, though some specific disasters have happened on the scale of the depression era dustbowl or more recently Zimbabwe. For our climate, while we need to do better, land use is not the primary issue, it's about 18.4% of the problem vs. 73.2% being energy.

> So, yes. It is important to ask how consumers will pay for all these robots if they don't have any sort of income that would make using robots economical.

With a 2 year old laptop and model, making a picture with Stable Diffusion in a place where energy costs $0.1/kWh, costs about the same as paying a human on the UN abject poverty threshold for enough food to not starve for 4.43 seconds.

"How will we pay for it" doesn't mean the humans get to keep their jobs. It can be a rallying call for UBI, if that's what you want?

But robots-with-AI that can do anything a human can do, don't need humans to supply money.
stock prices and dead whistleblowers tend to do that
Ask HN: Local Price Search
Anyone know of a company/project that has started to maintain a price database of services? I know yelp exists for reviews and pictures and almost everything else but you always have to dig for prices. Ie: prices for barber, cpa, coffee ...
> Socialism ... Canada ... UK

I would hardly describe any of the governments of Canada or the UK in the past, what, 50(?) or so years as being socialist...
This is great to see. I had my own effort around this that I could never quite get done.

I didn’t notice this on the front page, what JVM versions is this compatible with?
My best friend since high school is a doctor. Hearing all the bullshit that she had to go through, the different selection processes, abuse (scheduling), etc; it's crazy.

It doesn't weed out people who will be bad doctors, it weeds out people that can't handle the abuse.
Photons.
My wife has been using ChatGPT to generate coloring pages for our Little Free Library and they've been coming out amazing!
Please do a post on this. I think the food industry is causing this fat vs. sugar debate to confuse people.
One reason doctors have so little time for each patient is because 1) demand is through the roof due to artificial constraints on doctor supply, 2) they spend tons of their time dealing with insurance paperwork, and 3) they don't actually get paid that much which means they need tons of volume to stay in business.

(2) and (3) are related since "dealing with insurance companies" == arguing for reimbursement from those companies, which means they're losing time arguing and losing money when they lose those arguments.

You know it's okay simply not to have an opinion on something if you can't spend more than 5 minutes or so thinking about it.
It'd limit the audience and involve a lot of work but maybe by co-ordinates? Bundle a bit of a walking tour of the team's history into the collecting process
https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1ecf9ja/poc...

AFAIR it uses Marvell PHY (..Alaska 88E1111 - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-hwZ5mXkAIBAdv?format=jpg&name=... )

- similar to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfz1tJIX-XA

- but more like that (v1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0BLqzWLXoY&t=1726s .

(for 1 channel coax TDR you could use nanoVNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrfAv6bXYkA

or.. DIY https://entertaininghacks.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/poor-mans... ,

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/my-time-domain-reflec... )
The individual IPs may not all have too bad reputation but you don't control who shares the block with you and don't have any control over new neighbors - and that is enough for some agressive organizations (Microsoft) to block you.
> And by and large, I suspect the insurance companies will be found to be at the root of it.

At least in the US, this is true. The pervasiveness of interaction with insurance and the power they wield turns them into a rent-seeking layer with the massively negative economic effects of socialism.

Insurance is meant to insure you against massive economic damage caused by unlikely events, like breaking your spine. It is not meant to be used for routine care appointments. It's meant to be risk-pooling, not cost-sharing. The very fact that you have to pull out your insurance card at a yearly doctor checkup should tell us that something is very wrong.
As a scientist this stuff irks me more than the openly anti-science people- because it deprives science of the whole point- to be able to question and understand things yourself.

I dislike how every food item, exercise, etc. is now “scientifically proven to be optimal.” And if you look at the actual research it will show that some biomarker was higher in some comparison… but who is to say having that higher is better, and that they were actually measuring the only relevant factor out of thousands of possibilities to measure? We simply don't know nearly enough about biology to measure one biomarker and conclude that it proves something is "optimal" for the health of every member of an entire species of complicated organisms over their entire lives. If I'm going to lift weights I don't care how it modulated some level of some immunological molecule the authors were studying because it's what they happened to get funded to measure- I just care if when other people tried it if they got stronger, and didn't get hurt... something I can learn from word of mouth rather than peer reviewed literature. And you will get called “anti science” if you question it… as if questioning things that don’t make sense wasn’t the main point of science. /rant
It seems to me that capitalism discourages that behavior. If the system is setup to be transactional, and you can't rely on others reciprocating altruism if you need it; then it seems like engaging in altruism would be for suckers.
The problem is that F-Droid takes time to review new releases, when they're already available from other (direct) sources.

I have discovered Obtainium[1] not too long ago. Allows you to install and update apps from pretty much any source you want (e.g., directly from GitHub releases, as in NewPipe's case).

[1] https://obtainium.imranr.dev/
My fantasy football team.
The UK's problem is that it wants universal healthcare paid for by general taxation, and free at the point of use. However, the previous government wanted that whilst also reducing public expenditure. You can't have both.

It totally can be done, but it's expensive. I, personally, hope to see taxes rise to pay for this system to work as it should.

Private healthcare is already digging in its claws in the UK due to the fall in availability of state-provided care and (from my experience) it's not a good experience; and it's still expensive!

The UK's state provided system is pretty good, but it runs too much on good will right now.
A few years ago, I made a silly little platforming game for my wife that was holiday-themed (Thanksgiving). Since then, I've tried to create at least one new sequel each year for a different holiday.

This year, I'm doing one for Halloween. They only take a few hours to make, but are a fun little thing for me to enjoy making and her to enjoy playing.
As a side project I'm working on a multitrack audio play along website. If you are learning bass you can mute the bass track.

I used to play along to Jamey Aebersold CDs back in the day, and now on YouTube there are many Play Along videos... but I thought it would be fun to make one where you have more control.

Here's the demo, feel free to upload a track if you have one handy!
https://jamz.stereosteve.com/

The source code is here:
https://github.com/stereosteve/playalong

It uses this wave surfer multitrack example, which is a pretty nice vanilla JS project:
https://wavesurfer.xyz/examples/?multitrack.js

Now that the basics are working... hopefully I'll actually spend some time actually making some practice tracks!
I don't disagree per se, but it seems from reading the article that they're bemoaning the shortage of qualified doctors and how they're all spent cause they have to work within the confines of centrally planned subsidy prices.

Really they should be charging as high as possible directly to consumers until doctors are attracted into the profession. Cut out the middleman, there is no reason that routine expenses like a sick visit that gets routine labwork or medication need to be insured.

It'd be better to reroute the software developers that construct complex systems to SERVE ADS and addict people to scrolling.
What makes that different from rural areas, where social communities thrive?
Progress. It doesn’t have to be the best. It just has to be better than C++.
oh, wonderful question. I need to think about that some more.
it is absolutely greed as you defined it (profit motive) -- tomorrow never comes, they want their quarterly payoff, and they want it now.

eventually they find executives willing to play that game, and they wring all of the value out of the company until it dies. greed kills companies.
> It's no longer online and I lost the code, but it was like one line of code.

My mom is really into audiobooks and I made telegram bot for her via node-red where she can share youtube links. The links are sent to a fifo where a little daemon (1) downdloads them sequential and saves them into an incoming folder I setup for this special purpose. The bot can either download only audio (for her telegram ID its only audio) or complete videos.

This folder is watched by jellyfin which she can access to download or listen. She loves it and in two years she downloaded way over a TB of audiobooks.

1: https://gist.github.com/entropie/d265e94136b9777cc6b3190189b...
So did my father, but I would not consider him "techy".
I built and am now maintaining a website [0] and open source repository [1] for the hardest sport climbing and bouldering ascents in the world.

Maintenance is mostly updating the underlying data when the strongest climbers in the world scale some random piece of rock.

[0] https://www.hardestclimbs.com/
[1] https://github.com/9cpluss/hardest-climbs
Elon said a couple of days ago Tesla cars might never be able to self drive.

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-realizes-all-teslas-self-driv...
good on them, because it will increase their Co2 climate levels
I think this is a gross and psychopathic vision of the future.
Tell your grandmother that you're going to automate away her need for human connection. What a terrible indignity. I hate my industry.
> Isn't this just an arbitrary order

yeah but there are very limited number of alphabetical letters and commonly agreed order as a convention.

There's no such a thing in Chinese. For example, you can't easily sort names by A-Z in Chinese except PinYin (or Unicode codepoints for what matters)
Beware the risks of using NIFs with Elixir. They run in the same memory space as the BEAM and can crash not just the process but the entire BEAM. Granted, well-written, safe Rust could lower the chances of this happening, but you need to consider the risk.
The sort order of the alphabet symbols is arbitrary, but since all of the words are composed of an ordered set of symbols then sorting the words relative to one another is trivial.
I'm not sure why you're bringing up the Canadian and UK systems after launching an opening salvo at socialism. Surely it makes more sense to take a look at access to healthcare in socialist countries like China or Vietnam?
As with many things the best model to look at is Singapore, which spends far less than most of the OECD with outsized results. They spend half as much on healthcare than the UK and far, far less than the US with results that often put them in the top 5 for healthcare outcomes.