skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take that back. For the first time ever, last night the relative actually turned down the volume without cracking the shits, turning it up instead, etc. (!)
Measuring is knowing indeed. You can throw out 90 percent of your hypothesis of what is going on, with a few well placed data probes.
This is what I'm trying to explain. Society doesn't exist anywhere besides in your head. When you're somewhere being "confronted with society", it's just other people. Each one an individual like you. So what you're saying is that some other people are never considering your needs.

Dividing the world into "me" and "society" is a simplistic perspective that is far from the truth. The same for "us" and "society". It's always people, and each bears an individual responsibility as to their behaviour.
It sort of seems to me that Heroku stopped development / experiments after getting a bunch of traction. They were spot on solving a specific problem, early, and as time went on, said problem became a non-issue?
RCS brings to my mind Reaction Control System, as in spacecraft. Been reading a lot about space recently…

Although I suppose the headline doesn’t make much sense in that context - spacecraft systems are rarely in a “confusing state” (except maybe Boeing Starliner)
Sounds like an excellent excuse for "digital makeup" in Zoom.

Another option is an angled camera from the main body. Apple can already track faces digitally.
What is a delta function at a composed with a delta function at b <> a?
RIP magazines. The tutorials in Future Music and Computer Music were excellent. Curated downloads were nice also (and could often be used in the tutorials.) And guitar technique tutorials are basically timeless.

I actually enjoy reading ads (not to mention reviews and tutorials for various products) in music magazines. It's disappointing that companies seem to have switched to junky web ads instead.
I provided three different references. Despite the massive downvotes on my comment I guess by Google engineers, as a troll...:-)I take comfort on the fact nobody was able to advance a reference to prove me wrong.
This dovetails with my own experience more or less exactly: when I launched my company, it was easy to throw everything on Heroku, and to their credit and detriment it was also fairly easy to move pretty much everything _off_ of Heroku (RDS for a database, RedisLabs for, well, Redis, and so on.)

Back in 2021 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648325, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30177907) and 2022 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32608734) Heroku went from "well this is costing enough that it probably makes sense to divest at some point and save the $X00/mo" to "Heroku is now the biggest systemic risk to uptime that I have", and it felt _very_ high-priority to get off of them and onto someone else.

Two years later, though... the inclination has ebbed. Heroku hasn't shipped anything meaningful for my use case in the past 24 months, but also they have been fairly stable. I'm sure I will migrate off of them onto something else in the fullness of time, but it would take a pretty severe precipitating event.
The "sanitary" replacement is a wax, I always just knew it as sortkwik (? It's been a while), that you dip your fingers in. I'm sure it's still a thing for literal paper pushers to this day.

Sanitary in quotes since I'm not sure a pot of wax collecting stuff from your fingers for months or years is much better than licking.
Org code blocks are great but not quite the same as having a REPL. But like I said above, I think this is really a great piece of software. I can definitely see this being a game changer in my daily work with Emacs.
Can't help but feel that you're barking up a somewhat nonexistent tree here. This project is for interfacing with the deprecated Spotify CarThing. If you don't know about it, you're very likely not their target audience, so I think it's pretty fine if you don't get it. If you do know what the CarThing is, the readme intro covers what this project does pretty well.

In similar vein, you wouldn't expect a Javascript library readme to start by explaining what Javascript is or what a software library is, but if you didn't know those things, you would feel equally lost.
Correct - that's a feature. You can learn the pattern of key presses through a series of individual functions to execute more elaborate tasks quite quickly.
Agree, that would be a much better solution.
Would it be better to use replication rather than a backup on S3?
Ah damn! After joining a Family - it crashes
I personally think Haskell is a better choice because it is purely functional.
Ohh, you mean a clock for the game Go (wei qi, baduk)

Sure thing, that should be doable.
I read the article. I just think it's crazy to have a title like that when robotaxis already exist
Big Brother Is Watching You
You could checkout void and alpine.
It would be interesting to use motion tracking on a web cam to target vehicles with lidar.
This is great. Good job! Great looking website! Six bucks is tolerable for this utility. I would be more willing to purchase myself if the app was actually named “Replación” like I thought it was.
Maybe a key chain instead with a moistened pad that doesn't easily go dry? :)
It works for my phone's fingerprint scanner. I used to have issues with it, and eventually thought it might be caused by the extra "safety glass" glued on top of the screen. Then one day, after another failed fingerprint unlock attempt, I noticed a text on the screen suggesting to moisten my finger. It must have been added in some system update, and I'm very thankful for that, or else I'd have to wait until this HN thread to figure this out.
Ask HN: I accidentally left a microfiber cloth in a pot of greens – safe to eat?
My neighbor and I made a pot of greens last night. We've eaten about 1/5th of the pot, and just noticed that we left a microfiber cloth (87% polyester and 13% polyamide) in the pot while it simmered overnight at low temperature.

I brought it to a brief near-boil (setting 8) for 3 minutes, then it simmered on a setting of '2' for about 4-5 hours, and then a setting of '1' for 4-5 more. Well below boiling.

I took it out of course, but now I wonder: is it safe to eat the rest of the pot?

I realllly want to eat it; it has yummy local collard greens, turnips, and pasture-raised pork. And it's delicious.

My best guess is that it wasn't really hot enough, for long enough, to create a level of exposure that's a measurable health risk in one pot of greens.

But if there's somebody here who works frequently with these materials (or who has recently refreshed themselves on the available evidence), I'd love to hear empirical thoughts.
This looks like it is a really cool toy.

It does not strike me as particularly useful from a scientific research perspective. There does not appear to be much thought put into experimental design and really no clear objectives. Is the bar really this low for academic research these days?
People outside of the US have solved this problem by adopting an OS-agnostic Internet-based messaging platform like WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger, or Telegram. There are one or two people I exchange SMS messages with, but other than that, my SMS inbox is full of automated notifications, and the actual chats happen elsewhere.
We don’t implement stuff like this because it would go off when you’re going down a slight incline for example, and the more bandaids you slap on it to get it to work, the more complex testing the failure scenario would be.
They probably will fall fast into tragedy of the commons kind of situations. We developed most of our civilization while there was enough room for growing and big decisions were centralized, and started to get into bad troubles when things became global enough.

With AIs some of those "protections" may not be there. And hardcoding strategies to avoid this may already put a limit on what we are simulating.
Red/Rebol has a different, powerful approach to homoiconicity and DSLs.

And there is this XL language that has very interesting approach to extending the language, but sadly the compiler is not in a runnable state, I could only assess it by the docs.
Haha, surely he can afford to pay for VSTs. And Sylenth1 (a classic and still eminently usable soft synth) is reasonably priced and worth paying for.

I have a bit of sympathy though, since managing plugin licensing is a total pain. Licenses seem to break randomly, or after any OS security patch or DAW update/bug fix, and then your project no longer runs properly. Kind of the last thing you want if you are a practicing or performing musician.

If I were him I'd consider using the pirate versions for reliability/usability but paying for new licenses yearly in order to support the plugin developers.
These platforms enable horizontal scaling, but ironically, many apps only need to scale horizontally because the base instances offer such underwhelming specs.

It's frustrating to see engineering teams in 2024 spending countless hours optimizing their applications to run on what essentially amounts to 2008-era hardware configurations.
Some of these flaws are crazy. Do companies release products without actually trying them out?
Early on when I was learning, assembly language blew my mind. I went from Basic to Pascal but I wanted to make games so I tried my hand at C/ASM and it was just so wild to be that close to the metal after a couple years at such a high level.

In recent years, Go blew my mind with it's simplicity and how strong of a case it makes for writing boring code.

It's been decades since writing C/ASM and my guess is what little I remember isn't applicable anymore, but I plan on diving in again at some point if only to better understand Go.
The fact is that bitcoin's current primary use-case is long term store of value. To use bitcoin is to simply hold it for years, protecting yourself from the dilution of value that occurs in any other liquid asset in the world, of which fiat currencies are the worst.
Once you stop looking at the world through the fiat lens, things make far more sense. For example, house prices are currently the lowest they've been in 40 years, if you use gold as your unit of account.
These conversations always degenerate to people bickering about DST and non-DST and which is better.

Can we just agree to stop the fiddling FIRST, then we can spend the next 25 years arguing about which one is better?
The GitHub Next team sounds more like a department than a team. It also sounded odd to hear that a group of that size uses and loves something that is unlikely to be used by a large percentage of the team directly. Yay corporate motivational speak! I can use another look at https://despair.com/collections/demotivators after this.

When GitHub Next asked for this, there was already pressure in place for ASF to give that to them, because they're locked into GitHub, so it may not have been given entirely freely. You can say that you're confident it was, but to me it seems impossible to know for sure. I don't know if it was or not. It might be that they would have decided to give it freely but the thought of their relationship with GitHub came to mind while they were considering it. In any case, it's a big ask, because if this takes off, soon the phrase Spark Application that another commenter mentioned will be ambiguous.
Ask HN: Why don't novelists want to achieve immortality via AI writing as them?
By this, I don’t just mean that AI would write novels in their style, but that it would also take into account all their novels, life experiences, interests, knowledge, and current events.
What if we made that the job? I don’t want an overworked, stressed doctor. I want a peaceful, calm, thoughtful doctor with a happy home life.

These are all our systems. We built them, they serve us. We can change them if they stop serving us.
Is that necessarily a bad thing? Cant some posts be relevant even if they were created before covid?
Your argument is essentially that emergent properties don't exist. It's like saying "there are no such things as waves in water, just individual water molecules." Individuals are the water molecules, and "society" is the blanket term for the emergent properties that happen when a lot of people are together. The phenomena are real and have real effects and impacts. Intrinsic and environmental factors affect the system: hydrogen bonds between water molecules (intrinsic) creates the emergent phenomenon we call "surface tension" and wind (environmental) creates waves. So too in people: intrinsic attributes of individuals and connections between them as well as environmental factors affecting entire populations create emergent effects that can be observed and studied.

I suspect you mean to appeal to the recognition that, unlike water molecules, individual humans have free will and agency and the ability to make choices completely independently. I suspect you abhor the notion of 'groupthink' and excuses for behavior that are underpinned by concepts of culture and social constructs. And there is truth to these ideas, but as with most things, they are helpful as part of a broader model, and not as a totalitarian view of human behavior. We are complex creatures, in complex systems; to ignore the tendencies of our emergent behaviors is as risky as turning your back to a rough shorebreak, believing all the individual water molecules will simply be rational and choose not to hit you, only to be engulfed in a wave that really does exist.
Interesting. So is this what differentiates us from all the animals?

(See^^^)
Ads pay for much of the content we consume or services we use, my policy is to give a site a chance to show that they run ads in a respectful way- that is, ads don’t interfere with the user experience. If they abuse ads, then I block them, otherwise you’re basically stealing content.
Can I also use this to create icons for my own apps?
https://archive.is/2024.11.03-162450/https://www.telegraph.c...
I wish I could suggest something for you. My path was moving to the Bay Area 13 years ago to work for a small startup, helping to grow it, then going remote after a few years. Startup is a B2B with an ethical technical founder, and it had a credible business model from day 1.
The different content TikTok and X showed an undecided voter
You sorta answered your own question there - it's largely, if not wholly, about your childhood experience, what validated you etc. Gonna sound very projectionist and therapising here - but I'd say with a 70-80% probability that op (or the myriad software engineers with this trait) had someone of significance in their childhood that gave them praise when things were perfect, or when they knew something.
And clojure
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Doesn't iOS have RCS support now?
Honestly, and in line with a reply upthread[0], fresh saliva may be more sanitary. I mean, it has some non-zero antimicrobial properties, plus it doesn't accumulate random stuff that could grow over time.

Yeah, I'm starting to understand why old people may be past the point of giving a damn about the optics.

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42036400
>I read somewhere that Douglas Adams (writer of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) was the first person in Europe to own an Apple II computer.

Not the 1977 Apple II, but the 1984 Macintosh. Adams owned a variety of computers from the obscure DEC Rainbow, to the also-obscure Apricot, to the BBC Micro, but as far as I know he never owned an Apple II, but he was a fan of the Macintosh from the first time he saw it and even wrote in the "about the author" section of his books that he "lived with a lady barrister and an Apple Macintosh".
Tried this, thanks, but unfortunately it just makes its error beep
Yes, if they can diversify and expand their positions in gateway economies like Mexico (gateway to North America), Hungary (gateway to Europe), CCP-controlled companies can sell into Western economies without being sanctioned to hell. And Western economies have gotten addicted to cheap Chinese goods: it's the one thing keeping the poor & middle-class from revolting in many first-world nations where people may have been priced out of home ownership. So, even the economic angle isn't a slam dunk for the US and her allies.

Just decades of sleeping at the wheels finally catching up.
Sastsweep: Automatically detect potential vulnerabilities and analyze code repos
Automatically detect potential vulnerabilities and analyze repository metrics to prioritize open source security research targets

sastsweep is a tool designed for identifying vulnerabilities in open source codebases at scale. It can gather and filter on key repository metrics such as popularity and project size, enabling targeted vulnerability research. It automatically detects potential vulnerabilities using semgrep and provides a streamlined HTML report, allowing researchers to quickly drill down to the affected portion of the codebase
You have to make sure that robots know their place. Today you treat them too gently, tomorrow you have a robot uprising destroying the whole humanity on your hands.

Haven't the last century of sci-fi books and movies taught you this?
Ask HN: Are there any examples of startups failing due to corporate espionage?
Computer Music magazine helped me understand the basics of how to setup a DIY digital recording studio in 2001-2002. Around this time, I was reading a CM article about trade schools for learning audio engineering and saw one mentioned in Emeryville, CA (Expression Digital Arts, or similar; they've had many name changes). I alreadu wanted to move to the Bay Area and it turned out to be across from San Francisco (Berkeley and Oakland adjacent). I called admissions the next day and had an appointment to tour the facilities by lunch. I flew out a month later for the tour.

It was the fastest progression from idea to execution on any major decision in my life. It was one of the best decisions I ever made. I didn’t complete the program, but got what I needed for my own musicianship and production. Music never got beyond a hobby, but I learned a great deal there. Later, I was well-placed geographically to enter a career in tech.

I’ll miss these magazines, even though I’ve rarely bought physical copies in the last decade. I've got multiple boxes of issues going back many years because even as the software changed, the tips on mixing techniques were timeless. It’s the end of an era.
POSIX doesn't forbid new flags or options. It's up to the author to read the spec and test his portability, or else willingly rely on certain distros. Some GNU tools have had strict modes as a courtesy (they used to jokingly call it POSIX_ME_HARDER).
But that's stuff you don't need to touch while driving.

We only need knobs for crucial things like fog lights, turn signals and skipping podcast ads.
In every example I recall seeing where using an Oxford comma causes a problem it is because some sort of appositive or parenthetical phrase has been set off with commas.

Commas are the most common way to set off such phrases, but they are not the only way. Most grammarians seem to think that em dashes or parenthesis are acceptable, and I've seen styles guides that recommend doing that if there are commas in the sentence.

As far as I can tell if we just stopped using commas to set off such phrases when other commas are in the sentence (or just stopped using commas to set off such phrases all the time) that would get rid of all the cases where including the Oxford comma in a list makes the list ambiguous, without changing the cases where not having an Oxford comma is ambiguous.
It's unfortunate that dendrite is on life support. I've been using it for a long time to contact family in countries with high censorship.

I want to migrate to conduit or a fork of it but can't find any docs on how to do that. Would rather not spin up a server from scratch as breaking existing accounts would mean a complete loss of contact with some people that would need assistance to even sign up.

Of course, I'm not switching just for the sake of it. I've had a ton of bugs with dendrite suddenly taking up gigabytes of memory when federating (turned the feature off) and somewhat random crashes
This is what I'm trying to avoid. The complexity there is enormous. Webcams have rolling shutters and decent latency, pointing a lidar from a camera detection is not trivial - there's distortion and delays and everything would need to be very fast and steady. It's a very hard actuation and sensing problem. How do I even calibrate it so I know the lidar is pointing at the right pixels?

Easier to use a few cameras on my roof (for wide baseline) and do triangulation. Maybe with GPS edge trigger.

But the appeal of a small antenna and MCU is also a factor. A 5W transmitter is small and easy to use, there isn't any traffic to deal with just occasional cars, Doppler effects are fairly well understood and radar has been around for 80 years so there's some retro cool too.
I think it can be quite interesting especially if you consider different character types (in Anthropic lingo this "personality"). The only problem right now is that using a proprietary LLM is incredibly expensive. Therefore having a local LLM might be the best option. Unfortunately, these are still not on the same level as their larger brethren.

[1] https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/evaluating-consciousness-and...
Very early in my experimentation with some of the GPT family, one of the first things I noticed was that at no point did the model ask questions of its own, except (perhaps - I don't quite recall if I'm the one hallucinating here ) to indicate that further clarification of a previous prompt would improve a response.

I haven't touched them in quite a long time and I don't know if they now do this, but it struck me that their lack of (even simulated) curiosity was a major void in the popular dialogue about whether they are or are not "intelligent."
These capacitive buttons are actually super cheap, a lot of microcontrollers have this function built-in so the buttons are effectively free, just an extra pad on the PCB.
Yeah ok, but I think it is also clear at the same time that a lot of food that we eat today is much more sugary than the previous millions of years before that, and that we seem to be getting more and more problems with overweight and diabetes type 2.

So yeah in moderation everything is ok of course, but I do have the feeling that on average, we might be overdoing it a little bit with the sugar.
they were the vox populi. a lot of it was garbage, but having a mental filter for it is what set a bar. humor is a more reliable signal for truth than official consensus any day. I think they captured something essential.

while you are probably sincere, when I hear terms like misinformation and disinformation these days I think, "tell me you have a received ontology without telling me you have a received ontology." that's how divided the discourse is. I'd save them because those sites were what people said when they felt they could express themselves honestly, and all gems are covered in muck, it just takes some digging and refinement.
Does this mean that individual complexity is a natural enemy of group cohesiveness? Or is individual 'selfishness' more a product of evolutionary background.

On our planet we don't have ant colony dynamics at the physical scale of high intelligence (that I know of), but there are very physical limitations to things like food sources.

Virtual simulations don't have the same limitations, so the priors may be quite different.
Effectively disabling dislikes is what has led to this mess in the first place.

If your algorithm takes takes the like and dislike ratio into account for what videos are shown then people are encouraged to create content that is not offensive to the majority of people. There is a natural self-policing and extreme takes get less visibility.

If you optimize for engagement, well we all know that spreading hate and general negativity generates the most engagement. So content creators will focus on that kind of content. There is no way for the moderate majority of the user base to keep them in check.