skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting how Dunlop was trying to solve the same kinds of problems Engelbart was, with the added constraint of preserving the shifgrethor of the top IBM executives. The fact that late-20th-century businessmen viewed such things as typing to be subordinates' work has had a more profound effect on the adoption of computer technologies, their development, and their marketing that we in modern times could guess without having known.

I'm also reminded of the Ashton-Tate software package Framework, which is one of my favorites from the 1980s. It's what they used to call "integrated software", which was a package of several productivity applications: word processor, spreadsheet, maybe a communications program or database or graphing capability, bundled together and sold as a unit. Unlike, say, Microsoft Works or DeskMate, Framework featured powerful versions of these tools and the ability to create composite documents, as well as a programming language with Lisp-like semantics to automate workflows. Because of this, Ashton-Tate pitched Framework as an executive decision-making tool, which was quite a bit different from how competitor programs like Lotus 1-2-3 were marketed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQMc0yIbvDg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIx-TGUkiSg
NB: "old Windows was far better at these things than ... any current Linux DE", where "these things" is explicitly the breadth of desktop UI user settings, and to a slightly lesser degree, applications respecting them. Not saying it is, or ever was, better at anything else.
That's section 10.2 of the linked article, yes.
This looks great! I think I need to wait for some reviews to know if the coffee is good, but I would also like to offer you some advice. Your website is very poorly designed and does not match the craftsmanship of the machine itself. The animated fonts, constant videos, lack of white space—it all adds up to something that feels like a quick design job by a mid-level design student.

Any paid template from any of the big website building companies would be better than what you have at the moment.

Also, photography-wise, as a lot of other people have suggested here, take a few steps back. Just show the whole product on a worktop, without videos. You're not Apple; it’s not iconic yet. A close-up won’t suffice. We need to see the whole thing static, not in a close-up video all the time. (The reason you’ve done this is that you’re very familiar with the design. Visitors are not—you’ve forgotten what it’s like to see it for the first time.)

I hope this comes across in the way it’s intended. The device is gorgeous; it should be treated with the respect of a good website.
I'd argue FlickBoard is closer, but I'm probably very biased!
I don't think he reviews products that haven't shipped yet. It would be a PR disaster if his video sends people to pre-order something that doesn't actually ship.
genuine question: how much can the frontend really impact compile times at the end of the day? I would guess most of the time spent compiling is on the backend, but IANA compiler engineer
>At that point you might as well say that people shouldn’t be allowed cosmetic surgery

Indeed, they shouldn't.

>lasik

Which a lot of people report regretting and saying that has only made things worse...? Not a great example.
The “Ramping up the supply chain takes time” has an interesting back story:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/563786/why-d...
It is not possible for 3rd parties to disable Intel ME. Nobody but Intel themselves can disable ME.

The most you can do is drop it to some kind of reduced functionality mode some time after boot (through the HAP bit, or hackery which overwrites part of the flash memory). This is why dishonest vendors like Purism resort to confusing terminology like "neutralize".

https://x.com/rootkovska/status/939058475933544448
https://x.com/rootkovska/status/939064351008395264
What we’re experiencing today has happened many times before in modern history, but those moments only become legible in times of crisis
How do you go through life without once deciding to learn the rough conversion between kgs and pounds (just double it, 1kg~=2lbs) or miles and kms (~1.5x it, 1mi~=1.5km) and so on?

Do you consume american media and just shrug every time you see a number and go "oops there's no way I can understand this now" unless you use Google?

Also european here.
Aren't people using GNUboot nowadays?
If I start to develop some kind of age-related mental deterioration that is uncurable (eg dementia, alzheimers), I'll probably find a way to exit before I become incapable of making decisions like that independently, because I'm less scared of death than I am of losing myself like that
Especially when considering that most of that 13 Wh/kg for petrol is typically delivered as waste heat. You can get a decent estimate of how bad it is comparing miles per kwh for an EV to miles per gallon for a typical petrol car. It's about 3-4 miles per kwh vs. about 20 miles per gallon. EVs just use their kwh a lot more efficiently than petrol cars. Because batteries and electrical motors are just really efficient.

An 11 wh/kg battery would result in a battery that delivers about 5-6 times more miles per kg of battery than petrol. You get weight parity around 3-4 kg. If you factor in the weight of the engine (they can be quite heavy) it gets a little better. Of course the weight matters far less than people think. The amount of energy needed to move a vehicle does not necesseily scale linearly with weight of the vehicle. Which is why a heavy cyber truck and much lighter / smaller EVs can have miles per kwh metrics that aren't that far apart. Same with petrol cars. Halving the weight doesn't given them twice as much range. Heavy batteries are not that big of a deal. Unless you put them in a plane. Weight matters a lot in planes.

So, a battery like this would be amazing news for battery electric planes that currently fly with 200-300 wh/kg batteries (at best). 11kwh/kg would be a 70x improvement in energy density. That's a lot of range. Even a small fraction of that would be a massive improvement. 700wh/kg more than doubles the range already.

I think we'll see batteries break 1kwh/kg next decade or so. 500 wh/kg is already on its way to production. So, a doubling is only a modest step up. At 1kwh/kg, most GA flight will become electric. 3-6 hours of range with dirt cheap electricity turns a 100$ hamburger into a Starbucks coffee run. That's game over for ICE engines in small planes.
A species isn't defined by if it can interbreed with other species or not. Horses and donkeys can produce offspring (although they are mule - and there's some discussion about how certain Neanderthal/Sapiens combinations could possibly also be mule, but that's not important). And Darwin's finches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_finches) are defined as different species, but can technically interbreed.
> > I’m pretty sure take one lead molecule per day would not cause any detectable harm [..] even 1 additional nanogram likely too
> "You're pretty sure" isn't unfortunately scientifically admissible evidence

From those two comments I feel obliged* to point out that one atom of lead - or indeed one atom of any element - is really a very, very, very small quantity...

A quick refresh on just how many atoms an element there are in one gram of that element might be in order.

> There is no known safe dosage of lead

I'd happily ingest a lead atom if you can prepare one for me.

Q: Is there a safe known dosage of ionizing radiation? I ask because I'm flying later today...

[* full disclosure, Chemistry PhD]
Show HN: GTD on Airtable
Awesome demo! I piloted a very similar product at my then 15 person company so hopefully you find this feedback useful:

The product seems great if you're familiar with the data and schemas, but for a product like this to appeal to teams and have impact for anyone on a team there needs to be
(1) a way to provide system prompts and add business/product context to the underlying schema
(2) a way to store historical queries that can be used as a starting point for other users, much like saving a query, model, or dashboard in a BI tool

I hope to see more news about CamelAI in the future. Good luck!
> Over my lifetime they seem to have both shrunk and become much more reliable so someone is iterating and improving the designs, just not at a high speed we are accustomed to in the IT world.

The reliability is one thing, that got improved mostly by better monitoring (you can spot early signs of degradation by analyzing the oil for residues indicating arc discharge), but the size is in the end fundamentally dominated by physics - you need a minimum gauge of copper wire to transfer a given current.

The only way to improve the size of transformers will be the widespread availability of room-temperature superconducting material, which is as of now not even theoretically predicted, much less proven in practice.
Hardly the first conical burr grinder.
Niche Zero has been available for quite a while; https://www.nichecoffee.co.uk/products/niche-zero

Edit: Misread cylindrical as conical
Odd. I remember all of the exercises in this book, but in Dutch for a monochrome version. (Over four decades ago, I was about 7 or 8.)

It's strange how the first exercises still haven't changed a lot, if you compare this with more modern curricula.

I'm wondering how we'll end up in a decade or 2, when AI has raised the bar for abstraction... Will we still start out with these kind of exercises, or will today's programming languages feel like today's assembly by then?
KDE up until version 3 was very configurable and robust. KDE 4 was neither. Basically it seemed just like a (bad) copy of GNOME and other recent DE efforts. That's why there's this fork.
Naw.

He doesn’t get a pass when it comes to time-related criticism of him if he doesn’t also afford the same pass to his employees and the regulators of his businesses.
There's more nuance to it than that, but indeed, this is because of the occupied territories. No politically acceptable solution to "exclude occupied territories from Schengen without recognising them" has yet been found.
Here’s the law: https://dejure.org/gesetze/TMG/5.html

It mandates a Impressum for „ geschäftsmäßige, in der Regel gegen Entgelt angebotene Telemedien“. If it’s not geschäftsmäßig (Business-Like?), you don’t need an Impressum. If you do it for free without any intention to make money now or later, it’s not geschäftsmäßig.

If I have a blog that I update regularly but don’t have any ads from or take donations for, I don’t need an Impressum.
Katie Hopkins – We Should Not Support No Platforming [video]
For all the talk about "beautiful" design, the photos and videos look super overlit and quite amateurish.
>I honestly think it would be a huge mistake, especially at this point. I think they are too far invested in this strategy to abandon it now.

Don't assume any great intelligence on the part of these board members. If all these company-running people were so brilliant, Intel wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
Microsoft products are transitioning to the cloud.microsoft domain
Is that fresh out of the factory or after a few years of service? I think a lot of the metrics around hybrids are a bit optimistic. In the same way that official metrics for EV ranges are usually a bit more than is realistic.

Hybrids running on battery are about as efficient as an EV. When you enter the highway, they turn into ordinary ICE engines. If you use your prius exclusively for traffic in your neighborhood, you only use petrol to charge the battery, which is efficient and about as good as it gets with a hybrid. Unless you can plug it in of course. It won't use any petrol at all in that case.
My problem is that I love languages but I hate people, which makes me completely half-ass the learning process by detaching the language from the culture.
Colourblindness is <10% of the population. But yes, quite right it's not a good idea to rely on colour as the sole indication of something important.
same as with cash and crypto payment method it's to minimize data exposure outside of the service itself. If you don't trust them to connect with your ip why bother using a VPN instead of just tor.
Not related to this discussion but, it's fun to see a word from The Left Hand Of Darkness here.
We might bicker on the meaning of "starting", but Mikhail Chigorin is definitely the most famous example. He was taught the moves at age 16 by a school teacher but in no way pursued the game until well into his twenties. He would then go on to compete at the highest level, including for the world championship.

While he's the most famous example, many famous older masters also started quite late. And I think one big difference was culture. There's a really great film about chess from 1925 (!!) here [1]. The tournament footage there is real btw - it was the Moscow tournament of 1925, and it even has a cameo by Capablanca!

The image of chess, and chess players, was quite different in the past. It was very much an adult's game. Now a days it has quite a different stereotype, and I think this impacts people's decisions on whether or not to seriously pursue it, with consequent impact on overall outcomes. Because in chess one of the biggest difficulties is when you hit your first serious plateau, which happens to everybody - it even happened to Magnus where his rating only declined for more than a year. If you lose confidence or start working poorly, that plateau will be where your improvement ends. Self belief and confidence is extremely important to keep improving.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN6m711ddZk
My manager takes one look at this and asks: so, in the end the effort was unsuccessful? No impact? That’s OK, let’s get you refocused on something productive :)
Not a (former) mathematicien (but as a former PhD student in theoretical physics still some affinity with math): I remember being shocked when, having derived a result using pen and lots of sheets of paper, my co-promotor told me to just write '<expression one> can be rewritten as <expression two>' and only briefly explaining how (nothing more then a line or two), as the magazine we were to publish (and did publish) the article would not want any of those calculations written out.
I guess this is itself a social science experiment, namely to see if there is a link between doing social science and having "a balanced, happy society" :)
`import venv; venv.create('my_venv')`
In Norway the switch happened almost overnight, approximately 1980. Good riddance, the plural polite forms didn't exist in my dialect anyway and it always sounded extremely cringy when somebody tried to use those forms in dialects which didn't have them.

I always say that it's not the words you use which matters for politeness, it's how you say them.
It’s not all machines. Some have rotary pumps which are very nice and quiet.
Start a wrapper company.
You’re really misunderstanding.

A book or movie does not talk back to you.

A book or movie is a deterministic system. It is static.

If you cannot see the difference you are willfully being obtuse. I’ll make this claim even if you truthfully believe there’s no difference. That has no impact on my claim.
Some sites are only relevant because of JS (games etc). If you don't need JS why use it. My guess is you are looking at libraries and frameworks which use JS just to produce static pages. Probably best avoid them.
> mirror microbes could make bioproduction facilities, which use bugs to churn out chemicals, more resistant to contamination

That does sound like a good plot starter for the Alien franchise—first they were on a quest to synthesize smoked salmon without risking to have the batch get infested in the bioreactor, then the sludge somehow escaped and wiped out life on the planet.
This. Plus a clear video of the thing(s) in action. Right now I have no idea what I would be actually buying.
Its more likely that you hate what you see in people than the people themselves.
My brother in Christ... $1400 for a coffee grinder and espresso machine?!

I am into mechanical keyboards and IEMs and that feels outrageous to me. I'll spend $40 on a pen, but that price point feels insane to me.

Maybe I just like my garbo Aldi's whole bean coffee with cream & sugar, so I am not your target market... I hope you find your niche - I am sure it is out there if you went this far. But man.. I couldnt ever spend that much on the tools to make coffee.
Wiki, open source projects, stackoverflow and democratic country, all are different, but they definitely have similarities.

Established old-timers have significantly more authority than newbies in any organisation.

Trust built over time matters.
Yeah but as said going down to 70 MHz alone won't give you that many popular ham bands (at least not the ones allowed in Germany).

An SDR that can transmit down to the 160m band (1800 kHz) however... that would be practically the end of ICOM, Yaesu, Kenwood and other high-price brands.
This is cylindrical, which the author purports to be different
> if you stop doing social science (which isn't a science) then what do you do when people turn out to need social scientists? Aren't we interested in having a balanced, happy society?

The implicit claim that you're making is that state funded academic studies of social science are important for a balanced, happy society. But where's the evidence that this is the case? Someone could argue (and at times have) that the state should fund religious institutions because they're necessary for a happy society. But some would counter that religion isn't necessary for a happy society, while others might counter that religion is important for a happy society but that it's unnecessary for the state to support it.

If we're making the claim that these things should be funded by the state, and that they're important for a happy society, then those claims should be backed up by some fairly strong evidence.
Indian philosophy is not translingual though, its all written in one language, Sanskrit, and translated from that language. If anything, Indian philosophy demonstrates hierarchal dominance in its cultural context.
Have you heard of insulation?
Their claim is something else, though: "The first cylindrical burr coffee grinder"
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I don't think so. There are loads of ongoing lawsuits.

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/AI-lawsuits-explai...

I don't think any significant ones have been decided yet, but please post a link if I'm wrong.
In case you were wondering, Anthropic does in fact have a reply to the inevitable Hacker News comments:

> Risk: Despite our privacy mitigations, the existence of a system like Clio might be perceived as invasive by some users. This perception could lead to an erosion of trust in AI assistants.

> Mitigation Strategy: First, we plan to be radically transparent about Clio’s purpose, capabilities, and limitations to the public through this report, rather than building and not disclosing the system. For example, Clio is a tool that can be used to make systems safer, as well as a tool that can be used to gain insights that can be used to gain a better understanding of and improve the product. We are also transparent about how we designed Clio with important privacy protection features that safeguard user data and privacy. Second, beyond these use cases, we are committed to turning Clio’s insights into a public good—for example, we released information about our most common use cases in Figure 6 because we believe it is in the best interest of society to know how AI systems are being used in the world, despite the fact that this information could be commercially harmful for Anthropic to publish from a competitive intelligence standpoint. We plan to share further insights from Clio in the future, and hope these disclosures contribute to an emerging culture of empirical transparency in the field that can inform broader AI safety and governance efforts. Finally, we plan to actively engage with user communities, addressing concerns and incorporating feedback into our development process—for example, during our work on Clio we met with a number of civil society organizations to gather feedback on our approach and made adjustments in response to their comments.

Unfortunately the feedback they gathered is not included in the paper.
The techie's midlife crisis isn't a sports car, it's an espresso machine.
Eh, the news dealing with issues that affect 60% of people seems pretty reasonable to me?

I also don't really think it's particularly helpful to categorise people in this way - if we were talking about an immutable characteristic, like if the news spent half of the time talking about the struggles of being 7ft tall even though basically no-one is 7ft tall, that would be a bit odd.

But buying shares is a generally available thing.
I got around to building v3 of the Airtable GTD tracker / dashboard template to share. Feel free to make a copy and get started; link in blog post.

Airtable syncs with my Google Calendar, and I’ve configured it to send me a daily digest. It’s typically in my inbox by 5:30AM Pacific Time, so I get to see what I have due that day.

Enjoy!
They didn't claim to be first conical burr grinder. The claimed innovation is in the cylindrical design.
Well he sure ain't a regular human.

If you're applying mnemonics to remember things then the act of doing so also takes time and energy. The issue here is the volume of information in the stated time span.
One obvious example of this would be C++, where a smarter frontend that doesn't do textual inclusion of a million lines would significantly improve compile times.
> I would assume that companies are semi-rational actors and would switch if they could improve productivity that way.

lol
Spanish, English and French have Latin roots. Whether Nigel knows Latin or not he had likely picked up on those underlying patterns.
It seems to go where ever you like it to go.

> The result is a freedom to use a far more thermally stable source of hot water - like the kettle you already have. And because no water is stored in the machine - it’s fresh every time.

Seems like a interesting idea, but I feel like there is a crucial point missing. What if I do not want a random water tube hanging into my water kettle?
Feels like that is a big hole in a otherwise great thought through product.
> Billons died from communist wet stream in the 20 century but the lessons are still not learned

Billions didn't.

USSR census population in 1989 was only 286 million total, while the Holodomor and the Cambodian genocide combined were between 4.4-8 million.

And the Holodomor (and broader famine in the rest of the USSR) looks suspiciously similar to the failure mode of the British government with the Irish potato famine and the Indian famines under British rule, each of which played a part in those people wanting independence, as does the Chinese great leap forward's 15-55 million.

Even with those, and the Chinese famine happened so soon into a transition away from agrarian society that to me it seems more like a tragedy than a consequence, it's still not billions.

No, what saved billions from starvation is fertiliser, and policies of subsidising over-production so that the bad harvest years food is merely expensive rather than insufficient.

If it was "capitalism", then the Lassiez faire British empire wouldn't have had the Irish potato famine nor would the East India Company have been in charge for so many famines in India.