skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2011, I joined a software startup working on a product which aimed to prevent stuff like the Deepwater Horizon explosion. The founders talked about how throughout the industry and the world, tons more data was being generated than ever before (of course), but we (humanity) didn't have a good handle on making use of all of that data, so a lot of it was not being interpreted, reacted to, etc.

Not long after that, I found out that Palantir got their first energy industry customer. Some employees in Palantir thought it wouldn't be worthwhile to go after oil & gas companies because they viewed them as old school and slow to adapt to new ways of doing things. However, in those days Palantir was focused on acquiring no more than one customer per industry, because they were trying to boost their valuation as quickly as possible and wanted to demonstrate how many industries they could serve. And then, due to a contrarian within the company, they did get an O&G customer, and it was the biggest single deal so far in the company's history.

What I don't know is exactly how well they served that customer. What I do know is that they were selling the customer on the idea that they have sooooo much data and they're leaving tons of low-hanging fruit that could easily boost savings in the company. Stick all this data into Palantir's product and we'll help you on a million fronts and therefore boost your profits significantly. One example is the longevity of machine parts and all the data you can get about historical wear and tear, etc. Now, this is what they were selling, and I don't know which areas ended up being the most helpful, but yeah, as someone else in here said, they were insisting on customers putting in all the data they have and the product would make connections, or reveal insights, etc.

Even if it's a crude product by Star Trek standards, you've gotta admit there is probably a ton of low-hanging fruit like that in most companies, and a lot of the time they don't go after all that because they're making money, but just don't have extra manpower or expertise to look into all that, so if Palantir delivers on the promise to boost the bottom line, then I guess it's worth it. It also means there's room to compete, although a big problem is even if you're a sharp cookie, Palantir probably started with way more business connections than most nerds will ever have.
Plot twist (thriller/sci-fi)

astronauts sent to psychiatric asylum after

a) confessing that earth is flat after landing.
b) confessing that they landed of different version of Earth they originally departed from
c) suggesting that whole time they were in simulation and spacex is fancy alien vr tech
d) a new kind of virus affecting gravity particle / waves borked physics in thir legs and they can't walk normally
I've never heard of anyone being hospitalized for motion sickness. Symptoms stop quickly once the patient is back stationary on solid ground.
Then you’d be forced to watch 8-12 hours of interrogation, in some cases multiple times to cover months or years long investigations.

You can’t cut that time down across the board, it produces results. (Obviously it has drawbacks and it’s often not the right results.)
> the SNES PPU's default-on-boot graphics mode is compatible with drawing NES-PPU-formatted CHR-ROM data;

SNES 2bpp tile format is actually identical to the Game Boy's format; iirc the difference from NES is that the bitplanes are interleaved instead of separate.

> But is the SNES's (variant) 65C816 ISA a strict superset of the NES's (variant) 6502 ISA?

Mostly yes, the biggest exception being the infamous illegal opcodes which a few NES games did use. The other being that decimal mode actually works.

The main challenge in porting a game from NES to SNES would have been with the wildly different PPU and audio systems.

> it would be theoretically possible to write a NES-to-SNES static transpiler.

For simple games, static translation might be possible, but later era NES games' widespread use of cycle-timed raster effects and bank switching mappers makes it more complicated. (You could theoretically put such a mapper in an SNES cart too, but nobody did that.)
You don't want to hit people because you'll feel bad about it? That's good, but you have nothing at stake. You will not be the one dead/injured and the laws are on your side. Drivers have little incentive to care and it shows.
> Two days ago I was watching the election results on various sites, along with many others. Some sites just didn't work in a slightly older browser, and those which did were still consuming a lot more resources than they really needed

JS crypto miners working overtime. Will allow CNN/MSNBC/Fox/etc. to stay in business for another 4 years.

(Along with Ozempic ads, which are basically completely unnecessary now.)
I will always prefer the "developer" title, because I build things, I don't necessarily design them. I think there's a distinction and we should use it.
> Is always striking when I see a really good musician perform live.

> It hits you like a ton of bricks.

This. Such an effect... And looks like it's not only about music but more general thing - when something of quality materializes...
NI man (33) arrested in Dubai over negative online review
A staff engineer is Elon Musk. An engineering manager is Bezos.
If you check the section "Extensions of the standard dictionary numbers" on the page you linked, there's a system for naming arbitrarily large numbers as -illions. The prime here is approx. 8.82 * 10^41024319, and 10^41024319 is the 13674772nd -illion (short scale), so it would begin eight tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentilliduoseptuagintaseptingentillion.
Except that:

>We're aware it's likely that if you're reading out a long string of digits like this, you're likely to slip up or say a wrong digit. Mistakes are a very human feature, but as long as you correct it and carry on, they're fine - we just need evidence of humans having said the whole prime, not necessarily in one go. You can watch your video back through before submitting to check it's ok. If you want to edit together multiple clips to make your video, that's also fine!

So they need the some degree of semantic understanding to recognize corrections, in the various forms they can take. Speech to text alone is insufficient.
"Social contract" is a term people use to try and bully people into things they never agreed to. Non-imaginary contracts require acceptance.

The essential elements of a social contract:

- I want it to be true real bad

- Other people are forced to comply with it

- I dictate the terms unilaterally
For archiving a page:

javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/save/'+location.href));

Should probably encode the href but it has worked so far
Try comparing OpenBSD (or Solaris or ...) man pages to those on Linux?

The one for traceroute(8) has some great commentaries on the sample output ("God only knows what's going on with 12."). It's a personal favorite.
Solar calipers are around US$10 at the usual far-East online shops.
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This 00is 0Hacker 00News, k?
And you know what they’re doing? They’re eating the cats and dogs…
The problem is different people have their own interpretations of the word "lying", including courts and judges.
The History of PC Audio
> Now when you have both the data and words of someone who is actually experiencing it every day are you willing to reconsider?

No because the data has a gaping hole: it records cyclist deaths per capita, not cyclist deaths per cyclist.

The UK looks “good” but cyclist uptake is like 1% compared to Dutch uptake which is FAR MORE than 1%. You expect more people to die doing a thing if more people do a thing. Dutch cyclists are also more common than Spanish cyclists, again so you’d expect to see higher numbers.

There’s no breakdown by country and by other party involved in there. Just separate charts, so you can’t say more drivers are running over more cyclists because it’s just not in the data.

Also, I’ve experienced cycling in different European countries and you don’t need 500 hours to see the stark difference between countries that get it and countries that don’t.

> The infrastucture is terrible and dangerous.

This doesn’t surprise me, most countries are shit at it.

> It would be much better to just change the law to: "cyclist can be on the road whenever they please and can take the lane when they think it's for their safety".

This is the law in the UK. Read some Twitter threads and you’ll see drivers don’t appreciate it. The only thing keeping us safe is cameras with good police enforcement.
The motherboard and wi-fi module are technically removable as well, though that might affect the system's operation.

> This is obviously not a consumer friendly upgrade path, but we'd expect to see third party upgrade options at some point in the future, assuming there's no black listing of third party storage modules

Probably wishful thinking given Apple's tiered pricing strategy, but it would be nice.

It is interesting that Apple has its own custom flash controller which macOS and the file system are presumably taking advantage of to manage the raw storage modules.
> Javascript is the only programming language available on the client side of the web platform

Not any more. WebAssembly enables all languages on the client side.

Why am I using JavaScript when I can use anything else?
Hope you don't mind the self-plug, but I'm helping run a community [0] dedicated to reviving the craft, with a conference [1] coming up in a couple weeks!

[0] https://handmade.network

[1] https://handmadecities.com
Moore Curve Voronoi Animation
Anton Seder's the Animal in Decorative Art (1896)
its a title that prevents a brilliant engineer who would make a terrible manager from having to become a manager in order to get a payrise.

It's also kinda self feeding - why would you take on the extra hassle and responsibility of management without getting a payrise for it.
The percentage of the population imprisoned or under some sort of parole has increased a lot in the last 30 years, either the police and the system they are part of has worsened, or the population has.

I'm betting the police.
Injective Types
It can show a problematic pressure on management to demonstrate how they are cutting costs every month and saving the company money even the smallest amounts.
My dad worked for a big mill and even though he was mostly a laborer he through a few coincidences he worked as a part time foreman. They would do these monthly meetings where all the management and foreman would get together and discuss what they did to save costs and improve. He said these guys would get up and being telling the dumbest things about how they would do things like get a cheaper toilet paper for the bathrooms or how they took out the free coffee and got rid of the coffee pot. This is a multi multi million dollar company. Men standing around telling how they saved the company like $100 a year. Stupid.
The funny thing was in the story my dad told me when they got to him many of the management looked down on him as he was just a "laborer" so he felt that they were wanting to see him fail and even one of the higher up managers said Oh it's okay you are not a full time foreman you don't have to tell us what you did, but my dad said well actually I do have something to report.
He then told them how he started making the workers who worked on the log booms take a log book of all the sticks and something else I forget the name which came from another company. This company was over charging huge huge since no one kept track so they would just send over a bill for whatever they thought they could get away with. My dad said I have accurate logs of what exactly we used and saved the company, I think it was like $100k so far, and will should be saving xxx amount over the year. There was more to the story about how he saved them an additional $80k with another crazy move but I enjoyed hearing my dad the laborer and how he outshone all these higher up managers and how they got rid of free coffee while he did actual changes that really saved.
Cars isolate their occupants from the environment. Not just physically, but psychologically - drivers are less aware of their surroundings and unable to communicate with other road users using body language.

I think that is the leading cause of road rage and the disregard drivers have towards pedestrians and cyclists.
> in C you can write a header file which says this is a pointer to T, without ever saying what's in T

What you're referring to is a forward declaration. Forward declarations only work when the definition will be known at some point during compilation.

If you're writing an API header to a binary you're shipping and you don't want to provide the definition to the user of the API, then a forward declaration is no bueno. The compiler needs to know the size, alignment, etc.
I once looked into mouse sensors for similar purpose, but the raw frame export capabilities were disappointing. Looking at the datasheet of PMW3360 which claims to have up to 12000 FPS, but the timing sequence for raw frame dump suggests ~20ms if not 40ms to transfer the whole frame which would give only 50-25FPS. That doesn't necessarily mean the main spec is lying, it just isn't capable of dumping the frames over SPI as fast as it is producing and processing them internally. Frame dumping seems to be more of debug/test feature, so no big surprise it's not capable of fully utilizing the sensor and there is little motivation for sensor manufacturer to improve it. But there is also a chance that the manufacturer has put very conservative timing for it in the datasheet, since it's not the main functionality of sensor.

If anyone has explored further how much the timing can be optimized, or maybe there are other mice sensors for with better frame dumping capabilities, I am curious to hear about it as well.

With that said even if you remove all the unnecessary delays data transfer over SPI will likely be a limiting factor for very high framerates. Assuming 4MHz SPI and 32x32 8bpp image that would be at most 500FPS. Few hundred FPS would still be nice, and you might push it a bit higher with increasing frequency but it's probably not possible to push it much further than 1000FPS without MIPI or some kind of other parallel data transfer protocol.

The ardupilot project in sibling comment seems to be using the mouse movement output directly instead of capturing the frame and then doing optical flow analysis on main CPU. The image dump is only being used to verify camera focus.
WebAssembly has no DOM access.
If the definition is known at some point during compilation.

What if you're providing an API header to an otherwise closed-source binary and you don't want to expose the struct definition?

How would the compiler know the size and alignment required for struct Foo if it never gets to see its definition?
The US technician exam has almost zero relevance to operating a radio, outside of some legal reminders to broadcast your call sign every 10-minutes.

I'll second the recommendation for hamstudy.org. 90 minutes cramming that the night before the exam and I aced the test in 7 minutes.
My NYC Treehouse Apartment
From a quick try results aren't good. Sounds bland, and the text I type isn't exactly equal to the text that is spoken. Didn't try with voice cloning though.

Why is good TTS so expensive and why are there no good open source options? Is it just from the need for high quality training data? I don't imagine these models are more expensive to run compared to SOTA LLMs, yet they cost so much more.
WebAssembly cannot access the DOM. So, not a full replacement.
Show HN: I am building a payments app to shop from social media
Hey HN,

I'm building a payment solution that lets customers buy directly from social media without leaving platforms like Instagram, Facebook, etc. So why do we all need this? There are millions of small and medium businesses and brands that can't establish an online presence, and most of them regularly use social media to post about their products.

I want to help these businesses. Instagram and Facebook have shopping features, but only for a few brands, and they are not available in many regions like India. India has the world's second most active social media users and millions of businesses trying to acquire customers using social media. I want users and buyers to be able to shop directly from posts without leaving the app. I want my payment model on these platforms to create more convenience for customers and reduce business costs.

So, if someone who has worked at Facebook, Instagram, or any other company has valuable advice for me, please share.

How can I make this happen?

Will these platforms allow me to?

Thank you
Cool.

Unfortunately I couldn't help noticing however that when the maintainer announced that he is about to stop working on the project, he ignored all questions and requests about transferring the maintenance duties to someone else. Somehow I feel the project was held as a hostage, waiting for a ransom (which was paid eventually).
Yes, sorry, the implicit assumption I accidentally left in my head is that when we're talking about factoring being important, it's products of 2 biggish primes (hence an answer one step removed from the lists of largest known primes).
They seem to have misspelled it.
It doesn't, but it's well established laws that certain protections don't exist when you cross an international border because the government has a responsibility to maintain security at the border and manage imports/exports. They can't do that if they don't have some rights to search.

But that said, I would agree that carte blanche right to "inspect" an electronic device seems overly intrusive. It's not like the government can require a bodily cavity search at the border, so clearly there are limits that require a warrant.
Just crazy, isn't it? Nothing could be better proof that drug laws are both ill conceived and ineffective than when otherwise lawful people are forced to consider converting easily available but highly illicit meth into a medicine that's much needed by millions because it's essentially unavailable through stupidity.

If aliens were to visit they'd likely bypass contact on grounds that the planet's inhabitants are low-IQ nut cases.
Technically yes, but "promo committee" has also changed to be your immediate org instead of being independent. Which makes your promo more dependent on your manager's influence.
I used DriveStrike at an organization
You underestimate the sheer complexity of it. You’re talking $1B, I am talking a blank check. That’s probably 100s of different research teams, each with a $?B, whose “research” would have to industrialized.

Then there’s integration and SW. Not to mention performance, metrology, diagnostics.

Now you have to actually integrate these new tools into a new leading node process. This by itself takes years, assuming you have the tools. China does have existing Immersion process nodes, but still.

Even with unlimited resources, I claim China can’t have EUV within 10 years. Maybe not even 20.
Yes, having an ability to do simple math across the whole ecosystem is extremely useful.
Hey HN,
I'm building a payment solution that lets customers buy directly from social media without leaving platforms like Instagram, Facebook, etc. So why do we all need this? There are millions of small and medium businesses and brands that can't establish an online presence, and most of them regularly use social media to post about their products.

I want to help these businesses. Instagram and Facebook have shopping features, but only for a few brands, and they are not available in many regions like India. India has the world's second most active social media users and millions of businesses trying to acquire customers using social media. I want users and buyers to be able to shop directly from posts without leaving the app. I want my payment model on these platforms to create more convenience for customers and reduce business costs.

So, if someone who has worked at Facebook, Instagram, or any other company has valuable advice for me, please share.

How can I make this happen?

Will these platforms allow me to?

Thank you
Of course you are opposed, you are not the target audience. Bike infrastructure is there to let your average person bike at 10mph to work/school/the grocery store. It's not supposed to be a racing track.

> Riding in traffic is an absolute pleasure when you know how to draft vehicles. The suction created by larger box trucks can actually pull you along with minimal effort.

Well, I chuckled ;) Just FYI, if you're "drafting" you're probably well within the "if they brake hard, I'm running into them" territory. Proceed at your own risk.
Congratulations, OP learned about "we expect loyalty and effort from you, but you won't get any from us", which is 99.5% of all companies out there. I hope OP does well on their own and don't have to work in this kind of disingenuous places in the future.
This is EA's top priority, apparently. Their broken garbage launcher doesn't work.
> Bradford says the officers in Yakima, Wash., claimed they had biological evidence that would prove he did it, and they weren't going to let him leave until he admitted it.

I had the opposite experience. They kept promising me I wouldn’t be arrested if I answered the questions and approved their searches, I did everything they wanted, nothing suggested any guilt, and then they arrested me anyways for 5 days before putting an ankle bracelet on me. I’m sure my case wouldn’t be included but they shouldn’t be able to lie about things or the process.
My company basically has EMs shifted one step up from engineers, making their pay bands L+1 from ICs with the same numbered title.
> I don’t complaints about syntax error for lines I haven’t finished writing

How about “complaints about” syntax errors after you’ve finished writing?

Jokes aside, to answer why knowing the value of ‘a’ might be useful before writing the full equation: ever work in excel and you’re building up a calculation, and when finished, your answer isn’t what you expected? Tracing that missing parentheses or brain-fart typo can be frustrating. I imagine that’s the same reason why some people would care about the value of ‘a’ before they’ve finished.
That sucks. Another non-dissenting voice silenced.
Careful with posting the same thing over and over again. It can lead to insta-deading future submissions.

Also, to be on topic: as long as "meta pay" exists, your chances are unfortunately slim, unless you leapfrog its features somehow.

Extra note: I'm a bit hazy on the details, and I'm not a TikTok user, but I'm 99% sure that this exists there, to buy stuff directly from the app, related to the currently watched video with paid promo (though someone with more knowledge might fix me on this)
Chips are made in a semiconductor foundry / chip fab.

Printed circuit boards are made at a printed circuit board manufacturer / "fab house."
I have to agree, the interactive content was annoying more than anything. I couldn't watch their only interactive show because it required so much interactivity without being fun.

As for their gaming department, they can't stop that soon enough. It's a horrible annoyance on my tv and I have zero trust in them
People have kept pressing me on the commercial potential behind my latest hobby. I took some time to dig and was surprised how the renaissance in self-hosting actually opens up a lot of new possibilities further accelerated by the latest AI tailwinds.

Curious to learn about others who are self-hosting. What's your use case?