skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not buying it. There are regulated and under/non-regulated financial institutions. Coinbase is regulated. Eastern European casino/crypto is under/non-regulated. Under/non-regulated financial institutions attract fraud and crime like software developers to an online news aggregate.
my cat 100% knows the word “hungry”
There is no reason why supreme court decisions couldn’t be made more democratically. The law should not be in the hands of a select few elite
The usual problem with toothbrush bristles is they become microscopically worn down, so they don't scrape off plaque as effectively. Even if you can't see the problem, it might not be working as well as a fresh head will.

You can find electron microscope scans of fresh toothbrushes and worn ones in this[0] Applied Science YouTube video.

[0]: https://youtu.be/cwN983PnJoA
* proof of existence and necessity of existence left as an exercise to the reader.
I wrote about my approach here: https://sjer.red/blog/2023/screen-time/
The vasectomy gives you God status IMO, and dang, for cheap!
I can't imagine basting a beef wellington, because of the pastry wrapper, but that doesn't mean you couldn't, so I was trying to work out what your definition came down to.

It sounds like you're saying that if you think something could be basted, then it's a roast, but if it couldn't, then it's baked.

If that's your intent, then it feels like the can's been kicked down the road to the comparably confusing definition of a 'bastable food', yes?

(To clarify -- this is because I'm assuming, per previous response, that it's not so much if something was actually basted, but whether it should / could be.)
Every experience I have had with LLMs generating code. LLMs tend to follow the prompt much too closely and produce large amounts of convoluted code that in the end prove not only unnecessary but quite toxic.

Where LLMs shine is in being a personal Stack Overflow: asking a question and having a personalized, specific answer immediately, that uses one's data.

But solving actual, real problems still seem out of reach. And letting them touch my files sound crazy.

(And yes, ok, maybe I just suck at prompting. But I would need detailed examples to be convinced this approach can work.)
New science fiction books of July 2024 include debut from Keanu Reeves
> completely disconnected from reality

How to say you've not been in a border state in the last decade, without saying it.
I think it's less about morals and more about social safety net?

When you're at the bottom in a country that has decent safety nets for you isn't as bad as the US. And once you've done one crime, the rest get easier to justify, I would assume.
That it keeps its value is a huge assumption.
> How often is that actually happening?

I mean if you can move that watch in a way that doesn't get you caught for 1/4 of it's retail price, twice a year, that's a decent salary. Doesn't need to happen all that much.
Perhaps I should have said "impactful" instead of "productive", but in my experience the two tend to be correlated.

John Wiegley has authored a number of highly used open source tools and libraries. So has Adam Porter (although perhaps not as much as John).

I wasn't comparing them globally with all SW engineers. My point was that they likely have accomplished more than most, if not all, the commenters in this submission. I, personally, would be cautious in criticizing their workflow unless I can demonstrate something better. Otherwise it's just armchair criticism.
I experienced a lot of the benefits mentioned in the comments on this one but rather than an e-bike I just got a cheap used 50cc gas scooter

Its so much easier/faster for doing quick errands around the neighborhood

Taking the car now feels overkill in comparison

Just another option to consider rather than getting a second car
Usually, speedruns aren't actually faster than the TAS, unless the speedrun used some new technique was developed after the TAS was made. Normally the biggest different is that TASes and regular speedruns use different methods of timing.

TASes are pretty much always measured from power on to last button input required to trigger the credits. With normal speedrun, timing various from game to game, but a common method is timing from selecting new game to the last hit on the final boss. So games with long openings or with interactive post-final boss sequences that have to be played before the credits start would have inflated times on the TAS.

The TAS counts about an extra 15 seconds before the game starts. The TAS reaches the point the speed run stops counting at 18:52, and continues to play out the ending. So the TAS would be measured as about 18:37 using speed run timing, so the speed run is still genuinely faster than the TAS, but less than the official numbers indicate.

It seems like the speed run uses a glitch that the TAS deliberately avoided. From the TAS description:

> At the same time, a major new glitch allowing Ecco to go through nearly any wall was not used because the frequency of its use would make the run very repetitive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwood_Edwards
At the time, hard drives used stepper motors, but didn't use microstepping. Paper printers like the MX-80 used stepper motors too, it's true, but didn't use microstepping either. Gearing makes your step size smaller but adds backlash, so it can be the enemy of precision; position feedback like current inkjet printers use is much more precise.
In the US, compensation of top-earners of public companies (and non-profits) is public information in annual reports and, even if it weren't, you can pretty much assume a top exec of a large public company is fairly wealthy.

"Average" people may not share their wealth in general (in part because they may not want friends and family to know they have a lot of money) but it's no secret that the CEO or SVP of a Fortune 500 company has a ton of money.
Nah, this only works if you’re willing to leave the ice pick there, because the ice pick will have a wildly different speed of sound than the bone or brain, and it will scatter the ultrasound strongly as a result.
It's not like that. I worked with some pioneers in the space who collected millions from the very early days and were within their rights to use those funds as they saw fit but they were coerced/forced into creating non-profit entities to hold the funds (the fact that they were forced was common knowledge at the time it happened) and then they started pouring money down the drain, actively preventing development of the tech and slandering/defaming anyone who tried to improve things. It culminated in them essentially redirecting all raised development funds towards their biggest competitor! This is all public info BTW and could easily be proved in court... Great, if you aren't worried about 'hidden' ramifications! Anyway, all this was done with the explicit approval of government entities. I saw all this happen in real time.

Also, one telltale sign is that they were allowed to get away with stuff which I later learned would have been in violation of regulations. This was a very high profile project that reached 3 billion+ market cap. It didn't fall under the radar. The government knew the whole time and was involved in all decisions.

I also saw some scam projects receive repeat funding from EU government entities in spite of having failed to deliver anything. Then they raised more funds for later projects.
Not playing the original audio is a crime. First thing I think about when someone names that game is The Offspring. "Ya ya ya ya ya"
The Great Salt Module Migration
I don't think moderate deflation after a period of hyper-inflation is much of an argument. It's just a weird little gotcha that someone who doesn't want to abandon their priors will whip out. Not compelling at all. It's like claiming a failed medical intervention is the cause of a death because it had some negative effects that might have even made things worse, but the patient was already sick and dying. Many cancer patients die from the effects of chemotherapy before the cancer itself gets them, it doesn't mean cancer is actually good.
Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos
Hey HN!

A few years ago, I left my cushy big tech job to make hardware.

And made the device I always wanted - an automatic piano recorder!

I usually play piano improvisationally, and manually hitting record never meshed well with that. But there are always moments I wish I recorded, and now they are!

Hopefully it scratches a similar itch for some of you as well!

A few of the tech details:
* built on an esp32-s3
* custom injection molded enclosure
* BLE comms, sd card storage, DS1302 RTC
* android & ios apps with Flutter
* Shadertoy vfx support for video sharing

- Chip
The world is full of things that were once considered common knowledge, but are now considered silly or downright wrong. Science is exactly in the business of finding out which parts are actually true and which aren't, whether someone believed it before or not is rather irrelevant.
Preprint on Alzheimer's drug deaths ignites dispute among authors
> ... and long established meanings ...

Are you arguing that roast ≈ fire/coals, and bake ≠ fire/coals, are not as long established as your preferred meanings?
CLI for Working with JSON. Period
Well it is. We had electrical ovens without fan that were great. We had electrical ovens with a fan that were great. Air fryer has much more advanced fan with much more power than earlier.

For me this is how meaningful technological progress happens. It is not like someone one day wakes up and suddenly has rocket that reached space caught back on landing by mechanical arms.
Trump’s election odds took a huge and sustained dip to below 50% after that debate and his “concepts of a plan” line.

Kamala then fumbled that lead.
It's more of a temporary workaround iiuc, the real fix needs to happen in the UI. Posts have two timestamps, the "createdAt" timestamp which can be anything the author says it is, and the "indexedAt" timestamp, which is not an intrinsic property of the post but whenever the AppView server first saw it (which is relatively more trustworthy, but could be different across multiple AppView instances).

The proper fix, imho, is to have the UI display the "createdAt" timestamp but warn (perhaps with some kind of alert icon) when there's a significant mismatch between createdAt and indexedAt.

(An even more proper fix might involve a quorum of "witness" servers but that might be an exercise in scope creep)
God forbid if people are paid to work on something.
If by "render the gcode" you mean "interpret the G-code" then, no, G-code dates from 01963 and is easier to interpret than the BASIC that home computers used in the 01970s. If by "render the gcode" you mean "produce the G-code" then it depends on the geometry you're producing G-code for, and the algorithms you're using to do it, but potentially being able to do it overnight gives you a lot of flexibility there. People were doing computer numerical control with the APT language already in 01959.
> How is this not common knowledge?

There is a lot of stupid common knowledge, from fan death to cold weather causing colds.
Great news, but I'll be waiting until 8.1 to upgrade my apps
The license doesn't matter if you can have the DRM-free installer on your harddrive forever. They sold it to me (and called it a "purchase"), I downloaded it, who cares about the license, it's mine now.
Agricultural chemicals are more toxic to insects than previously thought
So then why not change into a job that requires less mental effort? Or reduce your expectations outside of work?

Makes no sense to torture yourself over something you can literally change tomorrow.
Thank you for making Firefox plugins available for iOS.

I pay for search, but not Orion. I assume you see that much of my paid Kagi search traffic comes from Orion, and put money into appropriate buckets.
Linus ships a kernel –– where would his stable interface live if not the syscall ABI? The *BSD and macOS folks ship operating systems, where they have the option of defining their ABI at a higher level of abstraction.
> How often is that actually happening?

Often enough. One gang alone took 18 raids in about two years, making about 1.5 million euros [1] - it's about once a month the police actually bother to make a report. Even if one assumes they can get only half the price due to no heritage, 750k for 12 people tax-free, that's more than even experienced developers can net in a year.

> It seems just a little insane for someone to be casually walking around with a half million dollar watch on their wrist and some thief just happens to know "Hey, that looks like a half million dollar watch!"

That's the thing. Munich has a ton of luxury shops for obscenely rich tourists, a good scout is all it needs. Quite some victims actually didn't have insurance.

[1] https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/banden-reissen-in-muenc...
You don't have control over your data, but Facebook does at least, so long as you trust Facebook, it's fine.

Keyword: TRUST.

Decentralization is often paired with trustlessness, and that's where things fall apart. The average person isn't a paranoid cybersecurity expert. They will trust on services evem if those services' whole mantra is "trust nobody, even us."

In essence, with Facebook, you are knowingly transferring control of your data to Facebook. With decentralized social media, you completely let go of any control and there is nobody to take over it.

Most people won't understand that nobody will have control of the data. They'll think they can just ask Mastodon staff to delete a post from an instance across the globe after they pressed the delete button and for some reason it didn't completely disappear from every instance.

I'm afraid all the privacy problems of decentralization didn't manifest yet because almost nobody is using it to begin with. If more people start to use it, it's going to be obvious we're only trading one privacy violation by another.
One of my g-g-g-g-grandads was called Joz Gerder. His boy was originally called Johann Henrich Gerder. I am obviously an immigrant!

Joz rocked up to the UK from Germany and married someone - records unavailable for birth and death dates, let alone anything else. John Henry (as he became) has dates: ca 1819-1851 (possibly 32 years old). It is thought that he died from "lacerated wounds" after punching a window and injuring his hand during a drunken brawl.

I can go back 14 generations on some branches (thickets really, not a tree!) of the family. I'm not only a German immigrant but also Cornish, Devonian, Cumbrian, various flavours of Scottish and obviously Irish (both Northern and the Republic).

Anyway, that should give you a clue as to my real name!
I'm aware the felonies were from New York. Despite that, he still made it on the ballot in New York, didn't he?

Do you not find it _insane_ that he was awaiting a federal trial to determine whether he was guilty of interference in the previous election, was allowed to run, won, and will now make that trial just disappear?

I agree that it could be abused by an authoritarian to silence political rivals. But there are plenty of laws that can and already are abused, including to prevent justice from being served. For example, the several people close to Trump that were pardoned by him right before he left his 1st term.
Yeah, that's fair. I guess you have to make the ice pick out of tofu.
I do wonder what the RoI is here

15M is like one month of salaries for 500 engineers, so like 40% of their whole eng. team
Chickens are birds and therefore dinosaurs.

Therefore instead of Chicken of Theseus, I propose Chicken of Thesaurus.
I’m working on using LLMs locally on my MacBook and feeding conversations back into them to fine tune
What happens if one is in a place with no connectivity for a long time? There are areas of the world like that. Periodic forced reboots are useless and harmful there. Think about reading ebooks offline or following a map with only GPS on.
Ask HN: Have a STEM degree but left tech?
Are there any of you here who pursued a STEM education, entered a STEM field but left STEM altogether not due to retirement age?

Some people became jaded on being a cog in a huge machine. Some people got fed up with the work. Some people got burn out. Some people failed to find a fit in the field.
I wonder how this would play out for someone like me who ported in their 'real' number?

I would hope they would provide a port out at minimum since it was never "their" number to begin with?
You'd hope that most of it is just rm -rf .venv && poetry install, or similar.
Programmable Quantum Processors: Equivalence and Learning
Computer programmer. You just need to have been in a country that's had a civil war to realise how useful a pile of cash is for getting out quickly.
The phone isn't locked in either of those cases, no?

This is only happening on phones that are currently locked, but which were previously unlocked since the last reboot.
I didn't say that rich people are "in debt", I said they rely on debt and leverage.

A mortgage on a single home seems kind of like a special case, they tend to have unusual rules that insulate borrowers from the effect of interest rates to a certain extent, which otherwise work to cancel out the time-preference effect on money. Otherwise the working classes have their wealth tied to the sale of their labor, something (wages) which is notoriously sticky, hence a greater effect on them.

I don't disagree that the macroeconomic argument does incentivise rich people to use their wealth productively, but it is precisely this argument that relies on the idea that the wealthy have means available to them to protect the value of their wealth. You can't have the former and not the latter.
Any tips on loading onto a Kyocera duraforce? tia
How would that work in our system. The election are distrusted and open by law. Trump is an authoritarian who will test the system but the system will hold.
Looks cool. Have been looking at something my keyboard that would record what i play for fun
Should they be responsible for what they algorithimcally show to users?
Never heard about it. I use nvpy, a simplenote clone.

How can I install org-roam? Looks difficult.
Right, but that requires there to be an identifiable and large enough population of people wandering around with such watches on their wrists.

I guess what I'm saying is I can understand a lot better how the "kia boyz" thing happened. There are a lot of easily identifiable kias everywhere. But luxury watches just seems so niche that it's hard to think someone stealing them would be a crime wave.
This is how the whole rest of the web works, though. I can backdate my self-hosted blog articles to whenever I want. Heck, I can even backdate my git commits to whenever I want.

There is a safety issue here in practice and I don't want to downplay it (it violates user expectations), but I don't think it's "obviously" bad.
Bryan Johnson explains why we choose death over living forever [video]
Ah, good catch. We (read: I) introduced a bug that gave customers $500 worth of credits in a month as opposed to the $100 they paid for, and this user saw that and took advantage. Needless to say, we fixed the issue and added more copy to show to users when they _do_ exceed their thresholds. We haven't had that issue since. And of course, we ate the cost because it was our (expensive!) mistake.

The user had spent the entire weekend developing the app, and admitted that he would have been more careful to manage his Codebuff usage had it not been for this bug.

We're open to adding hard limits to accounts, so you're never charged beyond the credits you paid for. We just wanted to make sure people could pay a bit more to get to a good stopping point once they passed their limits.
Register a domain and throw some $ at migadu and it's pretty straight forward. Super cheap too if you don't really send or receive a ton of email traffic. (Ie. Their micro plan)
"a rising tide..." ummm are you paying attention to the last 40 years in the US? wealth disparities rivaling the Gilded Age
How hard have you found Finnish? As a language addict, I've always heard (and seen) that it is very hard. Hungarian hard.

I worked for Nokia for a while, but was lucky that everyone I spoke to in Finland spoke perfect English.
Trump Likely to Scrap Biden's AI Safeguards, Lighten Regulation
There’s that bending over backwards I was talking about in a sibling thread. Trump supporters do everything they can to twist his very obvious words to mean something that isn’t as insane. Then they turn it around and say I’m the crazy one for listening to his words.

I’m not accusing trump supporters of being stupid this, I’m accusing them of supporting what he says even though he’s obviously off his rocker.

He’s talking about putting disinfectants inside your body. He’s not using some code word for medicine. He’s talking about how fast disinfectants kill Covid outside the body, and that we should try putting them inside the body.

At this point I’m done with this entire thread, dealing with his apologists is going to give me an aneurysm. I weep for our country.
If you live in an area with decent infrastructure, cycling to and from work is a great way to get exercise in without sacrificing much time (in some cases you even save time)
For some prime direct examples of cat language comprehension, look at YouTube videos of cats set up with talking buttons. Most will pick up the basics like "food" and "play" easily, and some will actively use dozens of words to communicate as well as basic compound ideas (like "mad" "outside" when it's raining).
> Holding them accountable would make them beholden to the truth

I don't understand how this would work. Who determines what's true?
That's a terminal program.

I only consider graphical applications to be applications.
This could get far more mileage with people by saying "activity" instead of "exercise." It is amazing how much people can get out of a simple walk around the house. Make it out and around the neighborhood, and you start getting absurdly good results.
I thought that was an italian album?
Physical cash is much more difficult to:

1. Handle in large quantities. The ransom paid here was $1 million. With crypto, transferring that much is a few keystrokes. With cash, it's basically a large bag of cash that needs to be moved around.

2. Hold for ransom. Given point #1, kidnappers (of people and data) know that it's much easier to demand payment of large amounts in crypto than cash. If you kidnap a rich person in the crypto world, kidnappers know it's easy for him to sign over a very large amount of bitcoin quickly, which looks to be what happened here. Even for a very wealthy person, it's not logistically easy to get a million dollars in cash, never mind hand it over in a way that isn't a huge risk for the kidnappers.

3. Launder. Crypto tumblers are still a thing despite US government crackdown. Laundering cash with recorded serial numbers is much harder.

I'm not denying that crypto may have some legitimate uses, but it's basically a dream come true for criminals.
There are clearly overlaps in those cohorts.

Doubtless plenty of the 60-75% demographic that eats some amount of meat, are getting insufficient protein.

I speculate that's because meat is not readily available to them - though it's likely also true that the non-meat foods they're eating are not filling the protein gap either.
Remakes are often bad because they're phoned in too ,to capitalize on the success of the orginal.

I'm sure if as much effort was put into a remake as an original then the remake would be great.