skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just really hard to see whether your solar install actually generates any power since it's free of moving parts. Solar installs are one of the few areas where data isn't just a gimmick but actually crucial to efficiently run them. But hey, I'm sure just people on the spectrum want to save on their energy bill with their investment into solar, everyone else just installs it for the cool looks.
This is unrelated to your main point, more to clarify an edge case for those interested in learning more: B cells can breach the BBB under certain conditions.

At least one pathogen, Epstein-Barr virus, is known to inhabit B cells.
I'd like to, but can't find a practical way to do so.

I doubt there is any consumer level service that would do this- the "23andme for dogs" type services likely aren't setup for this. It would need to be a professional level biotech project, where one would prepare the sample themselves and send it off for sequencing where you get just raw data back.

I am an academic scientist with a lab, and know how to do this, but feel it would be inappropriate to use my work facilities for such a project.
Is the salary listed in the job description total compensation, or there other benefits? Medical?
"Relatively" simple. Save for getting access at different locations where there's no VPN connectivity between. I don't think it's usually recommended to have your LDAP endpoint public. And running an LDAP host is probably beyond most users, but basic home users can easily make a Microsoft or iCloud account.

And yes, using my Microsoft Account gets me pretty easy access to my NAS. I just grant permissions to MicrosoftAccount\me@hotmail.com and I get permissions. I just set it to MicrosoftAccount\my_wife@outlook.com and it works. I just grant it to MicrosoftAccount\my_friend@gmail.com (Microsoft accounts can be tied to any email) and it works.

I don't really experience much baggage though. Running an LDAP server to do it all comes with far more baggage and management woes for a home deployment. Trust me, I did it for many years before Windows 8+ was widespread. Domain trusts to log into friend's and family's computers with my account was pretty complex to manage and maintain along with actually bothering with site to site VPN connectivity. And when that one friend manages to wipe his forest root without backups...oof.
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Absolute pitch: a completely useless skill, which having can in some cases even be detrimental. While being very hard to impossible to acquire. So naturally I will stop at nothing trying to develop it :)

A couple of months ago, this paper made the rounds: Absolute pitch in involuntary musical imagery [0]. In a small sample group, nearly half the time (44.7%) when someone was asked to sing their current earworm, were they perfectly in pitch. Random chance would be 8.3%.

It’s a fun thing to try for yourself. Just hum your current earworm into a voice memo, and check the correct pitch against the recording of the original song. You may discover a skill you never knew you had, implicit perfect pitch on involuntary music!

Trying to make this more interesting, reproducing a particular song on demand (there’s references to that too in the paper - it also works better than random chance, but less so than the involuntary kind), I find it works best for songs that start off with a single note, preferably sung. Or then at least you can immediately check whether you were right, e.g. “Tom’s Diner”. I’ve been having a lot of fun humming the first tone to Laufey’s cover of Sunny side of the street [1] whenever I open YouTube. I’m more often right than wrong, and if I was wrong, I can just listen to the whole thing to brighten my day anyways.

[0]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-024-02936-0

[1]: https://youtu.be/wK6gbKC90Ps
We've seen the enshitification process play out too many times
> The book dedicates a considerable amount of pages running you through a walkthrough game. Every time I open it I’m reminded that a large portion of the rule book is, in fact, not rules.

What's wrong with that? Genuinely asking. It sounds useful to people trying to learn, and easy to skip if you've already learned.
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Remember the days when you would be in danger of your apartment being burglarized and thieves would take your TV or receiver or CD player etc.? Nowadays that's called junk removal and you pay for it! How times have changed...
It's a pity there's no schwarz-schwartz like there is Lorenz-lorentz
I guess everyone is just different.

I loath, loath, loath videos, for "teaching" anything. For basically all types of information.

I find the pacing to be terrible, and even if people talk as fast as I read, I absorb almost nothing from watching people play games.

I can't tell if other people are just slow readers, if they absorb visual information much better than me, or what.

Apparently everyone on Board Game Geek agrees with your side of the ledger, in that most board games have ~2 text reviews of the game and dozens of video reviews, but I basically pretend the videos don't exist.
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Would be great if I could share a URL to the room, instead of a room code.
Quite possible. To loop back to my first post, my point was I could have sworn there were at least strong implications at times that it was male-coded, although without gender. But perhaps it is just my own personal mandela effect.

What I do find interesting though is how many people chimed in here with a very strong sense of this detail but it was all a mix of responses! :)
It's in use in customer facing apps, Prime Video is built with React
The Cuban government provides great health care, while keeping everyone desperately poor. It's not one or the other.
Big if true! But has it been reviewed by experts?
In addition to what you said, faster searches can also provide different search options. For example, if you can execute five similar searches in the same time that it would take to execute one. You now have the option to ask "Can I leverage five similar searches to produce better results" and if the answer is yes, you can now provide better answers and still keep the same user experience.

Where I really think faster searches will come into play is with AI. There is nothing energy efficient about how LLM work and I really think Enterprise will focus on using LLM to generate as many Q and A pairs during off peak energy hours and using a hybrid search that can bridge semantic (vector) and text. I think for Enterprise the risk of hallucinations (even with RAG) will be too great and fall back to traditional search, but with a better user experience.

Based on the README, it looks like vector search is not supported or planned, but it would be interesting to see if SeekStorm can do this more efficiently than Lucene/OpenSearch and others. I only dabbled in the search space, so I don't know how complex this would be, but I think SeekStorm can become a killer search solution if it can support both.

Edit: My bad, it looks like vector search is PoC.
Those solutions seem more aimed at keeping the system clean vs isolating what resources a program can access.

Flatpak does indeed get me part of the way there with better isolation, but available apps seem so scatter shot that I need a fallback mechanism for when there is not an official Flatpak artifact. Distrobox makes a point of indicating they are not a security boundary.
So, outsource the core government function of regulation to "the public". Who exactly do you imagine is going to actually do this public verification, and where is their paycheck going to come from.

Some software is critical infrastructure and needs to be treated as such. We are not special. Every other engineering discipline has gone through this same process as and arrived at the inevitable conclusion that government regulation is essential, but only after causing unthinkable damage to the public first
Also GPT-3.5 was another extreme if I remember correctly. They first trained only on code then they trained on other text. I can't seem to find the source though.
Microsoft sends a warning to anyone using Windows 11 on incompatible hardware
I find I can recall something with accurate pitch, but the "memory" of that pitch fades over time. Whatever my current favorite song is, I can hum it at the right pitch. But, if I were to try to do so a month later, it will probably be transposed a bit because I somehow lost that sense of the exact correct pitch. My idea of what "feels right" in that regard somehow fades, or something...
Translation Space was not an interesting book to me, where I remember sincerely enjoying the first three.
> As someone who enjoys technical documentation writing, I think board game rulebook writing would be a rewarding experience. Not exactly sure how to get into that field though...

Do what the author did and start by writing a new rule book for an existing game. You can upload it to BGG and get feedback from players. After doing a few of those, they got contacted by a designer to write one for a brand new game.
Walmart is cheaper for the customer (modulo the expense of driving to a Walmart).

But Walmart is also a lot cheaper for Walmart. One delta is larger than the other.
The width of modern mobile phones isn't far off from the average pupillary distance of adults. It feels like there is an opportunity to create a glut of useful 3D data by simply placing one camera on each side of the phone rather than trying to infer it from a single view of the scene.

Maybe when there is better technology for viewing 3D content.
Yes, yes, like the Mystery Science Theater 3000 theme song "If you're wondering how he eats & breathes, and other science facts, then repeat to yourself it's just a show, I should really just relax."
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If all developed countries suddenly opened their borders completely, we’d end up as one giant third-world country.

Besides, why stop there, libertarians? If borders are immoral, why not property lines? Private property is just as much a creation of the state as are borders.
Starred!

I’ve been playing with hooking up a MIDI controller to my OBSBot Tail Air PTZ camera and OBS.

The config and filters and triggers looks similar to my prototypes.

I’ve been wondering if there’s any sort of prior art or standards here from other domains like lighting consoles or workflow systems.
The nspawn does look interesting, and potentially exactly what I want. Although, this wiki page is dense enough that I am concerned I am going to somehow misconfigure it and be less secure than I would be without using it.

I Flatpak wherever I can, but several of my required applications are not first-party packaged, which makes me extra squeamish about installing them.
As a predominantly rust shop, why choose go for this?
Now add a chatgpt prompt to it to generate HTML you want and there you go.
OnePageRules [1], a free Warhammer alternative has something like that. They have a short quick version and an extended version.

[1]: https://www.onepagerules.com/
> I think you’re drastically underestimating just how complex and magical the inside of a real SQL database is. They represent literally decades of engineering and research into the best ways of storing and querying databases. If anything close to what you’re suggesting was a good idea, someone would have tried it.

I was with you up until the last sentence. I almost certainly am underestimating how magic the internals of databases are, and how much work has gone into them. But there is a mountain of good ideas in CS that simply haven't been tried because of convenience and momentum.

For example, SeL4's microkernel architecture is brilliant - but it'll probably never make it into Linux because of simple inertia. (Its too hard to rearchitect linux like that, and nobody really wants to port all their working software to L4.)

One reason that this approach to database design probably hasn't been tried before is that there's dozens of database client driver implementations. Moving any logic into the DB client would require all of that logic to be reimplemented a lot of times, and thats a lot of inconvenient work. But webassembly changes that calculus - since the database itself can hand a wasm blob to the client to run. Thats a very new capacity that was really hard to pull off a few years ago. (Foundationdb does something similar - the client library is a native library that needs bindings on every language / platform to work - but its incredibly inconvenient to use as a result. And a native apple silicon version of the library took years to come out, even though its maintained by Apple.)
I think can see where some of the points made in the article come from outside an "obviously a shakedown" light. Specifically since it references Stability AI's Stable Diffusion, where training = distribution of the model after (not just ability to use). Even without that though... I think there is still a decent amount of controversy to be had, no matter how clear I feel the answer should be. Ultimately I think it boils down to questions like "who decides when it stops being generic creation from input bytes to decompression of copyrighted data from training" and "where is the line between copying material and deriving generic insights from it to be drawn or measured".

I don't trust anyone who claims to be absolutely certain on these types of questions. Same for "when does it stop being prediction and start being intelligence" or how many steps between there might need to be. I do trust those who feel one way is overall more advantageous for society even though they aren't precisely sure about the details though. Personally I've always had trouble with believing existing copyright laws are at the right balance for what's good for society anyways so I tend to lean towards the "let the data be used for training" side of things too. I just think the questions are even fuzzier than normal copyright questions rather than clearer.
This is more common than people thought. I don't remember who said it but most people can get pretty close to the first note of All Star - Smash Mouth for example.

Of course this is still not really perfect pitch as we know it. Maybe one could argue that this is still relative pitch, but through day-to-day practices we are able to hold pitch memory for long enough of time.
> would the data from my wearable have helped healthcare professionals with my treatment?

This presumes doctors practicing medicine 2.0 have any effective treatment. For the flu, sure there is tamiflu; or COVID, paxlovid; but absent those 2, for the short term interference; the best options are somewhere between zinc lazenges, creatine, water, and sleep.

Both the flu and COVID now have vaccines, which are more effective and preventative than interfering treatments. Anti-biotics should, generally, rarely be given at early stage, unless there are significant factors, as they have both individual and population level side effects.

Now, can a glucose monitor or testing cortisol or liver proteins more often tell you something? Yes, but not with much more actionable items than eat healthy, work out, sleep more, drink less (Yes, there is hrt, glp1s - but those are unlikely to be prescribed if the issue is not significant over a longer term)
Since this is HN, I'm hoping for some discussion of how this could be applicable to software documentation. I've felt similar frustration with complex board games and software, and thought often about crossover in techniques of presentation. At the least, I'd like to see software manuals have a consistent structure, like those of the old SPI wargames.
Google has an experimental API in Chrome using Gemini Nano: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in

A walkthrough showing it in action: https://afficone.com/blog/window-ai-new-chrome-feature-api/
I hope you enjoy the next 40 years, becuae they will be the same as the last 40 years with people like you making the same excuses election after election.
Wireguard's premiere user space implementation is in go.
On the other hand the SE3 is 54% of the price of the 16 (assuming base models of both), so long term it could be cheaper to go with the SE3 even though you would have replace it sooner.
> the data brokerage economy was the only way such a thing could connect people

For people profiting from that economy, of course. For everyone else? Not at all.

> what current social media is today

...the social media of today is undesirable. People would absolutely pay for social media if the product was good enough. In fact, I believe we're heading towards that future[1].

"Free" search exists. However, so does paid[2].

The idea that companies need hyper growth, "escape velocity," or whatever to succeed is outdated.

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[1]: https://socii.network

[2]: https://kagi.com
If the suppliers were shifting their costs unduly to small retailers, then there was a market for new suppliers

where should these new suppliers come from? and how should they compete? by offering lower prices? how? farming has a cost that can only be lowered through massive scale. to get massive scale, suppliers need to sell to big chains where they face the same problems the existing suppliers already have.
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and conversely whether probiotics for the brain might exist.
Technical nit: spherical harmonics are used in quantum mechanics but were developed for classical mechanics.
That's a fair point, I would just contend that I imagine a cohort of techies shared my views on the subject although i can't prove that and I wasn't old enough to be employed by a tech company when these issues were around.
> If you end up with a 20-page rulebook, perhaps the problem is not how best to organize that rulebook, but that you have 18 pages too many rules in the first place.

Exactly. My pet peeve is when a game is launched as a kickstarter and they add new game mechanics as stretch goals. If it was a good game with just the basic mechanics then why on earth would anyone want it be more complicated just because more people have funded it? And from the other angle if it is a better game with the extra rules and mechanics added then why not make that the game? It is the job of the game’s designer to make the very hard choices and tradeoffs between complexity of rules and the fun people will have with them. If they abdicate this responsibility and leave it up to “let’s see how viral our kickstarter canpaing will be” then they don’t understand their task.
This is super neat. I have been looking for a tool to download some of the videos on X so I can watch them offline. There is so much relevant conversation happening in X community/streams etc.

Are you scraping twitter or using twitter API for this?
[not the original person you asked the question of]

I cannot stand Becky Chambers. I've tried to read her three times, and after about 20 pages I give up. Of the thousand or so novels I've read in the last 20 years, I've done that with about 5 books.

One of my friends asked my why I was so vituperative about Becky Chambers. I said it was just so bad.

They pointed out that I really, really sounded like I was channeling the "I am a man and I really want everyone's favorite things to be what men like in Sci Fi" trope.

I don't think this is accurate! I like all sorts of feminist sci-fi.

But I loath characters who sit around and don't do anything much while some low-stakes activity is happening and there's a bunch of angst that strikes me as unimportant whining not driving any plot.

So, fair enough, I have only encountered that style of writing from female authors. But I don't think it's a particularly damning individual preference.

I happened to love Murderbot (and A Memory Called Empire), though, per the original point of discussion for this post.
What would this say about taking antibiotics? Would the blood-brain barrier keep them out?