skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool product!

However, to me the site feels very anonymous. I’m not currently in the market for a coffee grinder, but in general if I where to spend $700 on a product I at least would like to know things such as the name of the company, what country the company is incorporated in, warranty info, returns policy, etc.

A presentation of the founder wouldn’t hurt either, and preferably some 3rd party reviews of the product.
Homo sapiens are apes and are also virtually identical in physiology compared to other apes if the external comparison group is dogs or cats.
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Recent research by Stanford and NYU shows that AI-generated responses correlate up to 85% with real human reactions in social science studies (link - https://docsend.com/view/qeeccuggec56k9hd)

We’ve seen similar results in our experiments at Askpot, where AI analytics often match expert-level human answers.

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Interestingly there are versions with more restricted tilesets and hence fever words to learn. Like one that only uses the letters of BOGGLE.
Fascinating read. This explains so much of the "crafts" movement I see in myself and friends.

Bad food and shoddy material goods are practically free for a middle class person. It's easy to visit a big box store and get cheap, mass produced garbage. Food filled with preservatives, added sugar, and salt. Sawdust furniture that will barely stand up after assembly.

Now so many people are getting into gardening, woodworking, and fitness. There's so much value in working with our hands after a day filled with zoom meetings.
The swing back to less minimalism and more colour has already started to happen.

Teenage Engineering is trendy. Clothes are starting to take more volume and have more interesting shapes. I have seen multiple people around me get interested into USM Haller furnitures in bold colors and I have seen more red Fiat 500 in 2024 than I had seen red cars in the past few years.

It's coming.
He wouldn't take it. He'll review it after it's been on the market for about half a year, without any money.
Lance hedrick is also a decently respected voice who does usually take sponsored reviews, whilst being honest.
You can’t poll people to say what they want in an art piece. They’re not artists.

You have to show them the options. Wow them with a masterpiece. See what they pay for, not what they describe they want.

If determining what people wanted in art was just a matter of polling them, then Hollywood economics would look much different.
Income inequality is declining in Spain
Regular ISDN is 64k and then 128k bonded BRI.

You could go to E1/PRI to get 2048kbps for €€€€.

In North America ISDN was 56k due to the slower T1 it was sent in and framing.
For OP, this is also a great reference for what their website should look like.
Maybe we are overstimulated by visual content and attracted to otherwise less visually striking objects, either to find some peace or to not be distracted from that content?

At least for me, visually minimalist objects and environments are appealing because I generally feel overstimulated in modern society and by modern technology. I might feel different if I were to spend my days on the field doing slow, repetitive hard work.
probably the same reason dogs hump pillows
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macOS HTTP server using pure assembly under 200 lines
STB image didn't get used in the end because some other library was faster but I think the author missed the possibility of #defining their own allocator using STBI_MALLOC (which could just return a pointer to an existing memory block).
That’s a wonderful anecdote. I would love to know what source material she had to work with… sheet music, demo tape with conventional instrumentation, just a jam session that laid out the basic themes? Probably lost in the mists of time. No, wait, TO THE TARDIS EVERYBODY!!!
Very cool work, would love to test this out. Would definitely need to see some videos of it working before thinking to purchase it though
Love to see `iter-tools` come up, though obviously less so for getting beat.

Still, I love seeing innovation in this field as much as anyone! And it's true that I've been dragging my feet on building concurrency support for iter-tools...

That said, iter-tools still has some killer APIs like peekerate that I would find it quite hard to live without, and for iter-tools 8 I have some major tricks planned like making the sync/async divide go away completely.
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In general, in biology species are not defined by the impossibility of having viable hybrids between them, but by the fact that in natural conditions they do not normally interbreed, which allows their genes to drift away, becoming more and more different with the passing of time.

For a species to exist, interbreeding must be both possible and frequent, which ensures that the entire population of the species remains uniform genetically for as long as the species exists, even when its genes may become more and more different from those of other species.

The most frequent way for a new species to appear is when there is geographic isolation between two populations, which prevents interbreeding. Then, after many generations, the genetic differences may become so great that even when the populations are reunited interbreeding will fail, resulting in hybrids that are either non-viable, or sterile, like mules.

With Neanderthals and Denisovans, the geographic separation has started the process of development of new species and they have become clearly differentiated from a genetic point of view.

Nevertheless, not enough generations had passed so that the differences would become so great as to make interbreeding impossible. Even if we know that successful interbreeding has existed, we do not know which was the percentage of success for such interbreeding, i.e. how many of the hybrids were both viable and non-sterile.

So it is a rather arbitrary choice to decide whether to call Neanderthals and modern humans as different subspecies or different species. In any case, they were easy to distinguish.

There are many closely related species between which interbreeding is easily performed in captivity, e.g. in zoos, but it almost never happens in natural conditions, where wild animals may choose partners according to their preferences, so those species are easily distinguishable, due to their genetic differences that are preserved by the lack of interbreeding.
I’m loving it! It was quite the jump from a standard layout to split + ortholinear + column stagger but within a week I was comfortable using it in the office.

No strain from using the ball, it is (or can be) quite sensitive so you only need very slight movements and as another poster mentioned there are a variety of ways to adjust the sensitivity of the ball on the fly via layers for speed vs precision.

It’s entirely programmable, and easy to do so, so if something isn’t working or doesn’t feel right it’s you can adjust every key and ball function to behave as you’d like.

Was also very fun to build - but you can buy them prebuilt too
My first thought was that if I was a tourist in Mallorca, I'd much prefer an "authentic" traditional Mallorcan restaurant over a generic Spanish restaurant.

My second thought is: Maybe the market is telling us that we don't need so many cuisines. Think about it: There are probably 100+ distinct cuisines in the world. How many people have tried every single one? How many people have gotten tired of a substantial fraction of that 100+, and are seeking further novelty? Probably not very many.

Mallorca is one of the most tourist-heavy parts of Spain. If I'm already tired of generic Spanish cuisine, I'm probably already going off the beaten path to less-visited parts of Spain, where the niche cuisines are incidentally still preserved.

You say it's happening in every city you visited, but how many cities are you visiting which are off the beaten path?
Thank you for sharing this. I will stop saying this about Mother Theresa now, it was very informative.
For the purpose of job interviews (and not necessarily any kind of sound definition), this means that the position you are looking at will have you dealing with software that implements some operating system services.

To give you some examples: you might be working on an SDS product (software-defined storage), perhaps a filesystem, or maybe a network-attached block device etc. that operating system has a way of interacting with and exposing to other software as it's own service. To make it even more concrete: you can write a filesystem in a way that it interfaces with Linux kernel, and, once installed, users will interact with it through VFS interface (so, they don't even have to know they are interacting with your specific product). ZFS is a good example of this kind of software.

Similarly, it could be SDN (network), eg. various VPN software s.a. OpenVPN. Or a users / permissions management software (eg. LDAP server, s.a. slapd). Software to manage system services (eg. systemd). Software to manage specialized hardware (on top of drivers) that, again, provides its services through the operating system (eg. nvidia-smi). Or, maybe it's a software that manages memory, terminals, virtualization, containers (eg. DMA over IB, tmux, QEMU, containerd).

Sometimes this category is extended to system monitoring or higher-level management tools that still give some kind of general service similar to the one provided by the operating system. Think about SAR or mdadm kind of tools. Or, this could also be testing of operating system services (eg. FIO).

Sometimes, this can also mean some kind of administrative tools that perform either more high-level management of operating system (eg. yum, the RHEL package manager), or management of groups of operating systems. Cloud tools can fall into this category (eg. boto3 AWS client). But, this is kind of stretching the definition.

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So, as per usual in the field of programming... we don't have an authoritative source and a definition for a widely used term. You just have to accept (at least for now), that different people mean different (but often significantly overlapping) things when they use the term and ask more questions to refine what they mean by it.
I love the concept of the cylindrical burr, but it is just arguments now. I'd love to see data on retention, and particle size distribution.
We have a Quooker and I recommend them to all our friends who ask, it's more expensive than others (starting at around £1200) but it's incredibly well built, designed/created in an era of making things to last, and they seems to stand by that; you can get spare parts and they sell a service kit for £25 (last I bought it) with the filter that you can replace every few years if you want, but you can also buy the individual parts of system like a new tank, just the core/element, etc.
All it takes is a single internet-literate person to post the traditional recipe online, and it has a shot at immortality.
I believe that they perceived it in the numbers. Exploding bombs will kill a limited number of people. Imagine the nightmare scenario that a bat-bomb will explode in a school and kill 10? 20? toddlers. Now imagine some virus that can wipe hundreds/thousands.
This escalation would force the opponent's hand to respond appropriately, and if 'standard' war (bullets, artillery shells, missiles) is hell, chemical warfare is worse.
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haha no, I doubt those restaurants are changing their recipes because “people are watching cooking channels”

they want to be able to serve more people so they serve less opinionated food, if you serve something some people think is absolutely vile and disgusting but others think is really good you’ll get less business than if you serve food everyone thinks is just “okay”.

Even though we give the French a lot of shit, they stay true to their recipes for the people who like it. It’s very opinionated, if u arrive at a French restaurant in France and you don’t like their food, if it’s rather rural they won’t have an all inclusive “oh here you go” meal, you’ll eat the pig intestine or go hungry.

Less appealing to the masses, staying true to their recipes
Bitcoin.

Not true. There are enough places where you can buy BTC for cash. In Austria, you can buy at gas stations or in the post office. As long as you use a fresh wallet and only one time, I don't see who this could identify you. It may be backtracked to Austria, of which I am not a citizen.
The same thing for Morocco, it started being called Kingdom of Morocco only after the end of the french protectorate in the 50s.
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Sorry to call it out but this is such a strong valley centric view of things as to be painful.

And let's not stick Airbnb and wonderful in the same sentence. There is a complete admonishment towards different socio-economic classes here that it's borderline offensive.
The reasons compression is strong:

1) Customers want their service to be cheap, distribution costs for streaming companies are significant and every minute watched is a sink for the business. Streaming is not a massively profitable proposition, so it's not greed to want to ensure you're business is minimising delivery cost.

2) Most customers struggle to see the quality improvements, it's a law of diminishing returns to add higher quality encoding if so many people don't care. You might care, but if more customers actually noticed then it would be more of a driving force.

3) The lower the bitrate, the more people can get HD. Giving more people access to relatively good quality images drives a lot of innovation in compression, not just cost.
A lot of web apps are just well-enough served with a blue-green deployment model. It is less risky.

But if you really need it, it's really great to have that option (e.g. very long running systems which are split in front/back etc), and it can be used in creative ways too (like the Drone example).

Here is a lightning talk I gave about how to use hot-reload for music / MIDI interactions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8sGQM6kLvo
>But ultimately you can't run any PC apps on it

https://winlator.org/
It should be said that at that point you don’t have very many charge cycles left after the capacity drops below 80%, and the capacity will drop a lot faster for every charge cycle after that point.

I don’t have exact numbers.. based on graphs I’ve seen I would guess that if the original cycle life was 1000 cycles you may have another 500 cycles until the battery is actually unusable. But it probably depends a lot on the specific chemistry and how the car is used.
He has made me extremely enthusiastic for heat pumps.
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Better boat hack: register your dog as a boat.

• Self-cleaning

• Self-repairing

• Is a von-Neumann self-replicator

• If anyone steals your dog, it's now considered an act of piracy

(I know someone who has done this, and have seen both the registration certificate and the dog).
Stamp collector here.
That’s a large mortar.
Realized I was a systems developer some 15 years ago and underpaid. Negotiated a 33% raise
How is any of this surprising?

If you ask 1000 people what they like in a painting, you'll end up with the average. That's how surveys work, by definition.

That's not how you make anything extraordinary. That's the job of a creator who dives really really deep into their topic and comes up with all those details that make a difference - not that of the audience. If they could do it themselves, they wouldn't need you.

It's actually striking how this article is itself pretty cliché - like it's talking about itself on a meta level - in how it perfectly fits the contemporary narrative about how our popular culture is supposedly shallow and uninspired (or even more so: not as inspired as in "the good ol' days").
It's a rather fun language and programming environment, I'd recommend playing around with it over doing AoC.
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Nice. But I prefer this one and I will build it: https://www.kaffee-netz.de/threads/projekt-eigenbau-kube.957...
Also, since we’re mostly here to talk about the music, I absolutely love the frantic strings and ominous horns of the Ecclestone-era version. Sets up the excitement in a different but equally captivating way.
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I was also looking for a full, non edited, non animated, non faded picture of the machine.
Actual AI here.
this is true, but equally just because something is less problematic does not mean it should not be fixed. stopping elites abusing society is a fairly intractable problem. shutting the borders to societies with pre-modern values is not
What happens after the crisis?
> In Java, for example, I can CTRL+Click on a data type and the IDE will show me the definition

Java doesn't track the types as well as HM does.

Specifically, if I treat a Stream as a Mappable, I lose the static type info, and can only get it back via casting.

In an HM language, e.g. Haskell, my object is statically a Stream type everywhere it's used, even if I'm doing Mappable stuff to it.
Having had a quick read of the concept, I believe it's concurrent in the sense that Promise.all() is compared to awaiting in a for loop?

In other words, put on the stack at the same time but not a different thread.

Do correct me if I misunderstood though.
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While I disagree with some of them and find some more important than others, I think that the lists cover most of the arguments and positions mentioned by people here on HN
Don't know what it's like today, but more ram always means more power usage, so maybe makes sense for people who work on battery frequently...

Otoh, my main rig is also on 16gb today and I never run into issues. But then again I don't run electron apps and don't do webdev or microservice stuff with 30 VMs.
Yeah, quite similar to https://DigitalAssetsTimeCapsule.Org, the one i started developing few years ago, after neighbor's son suddenly drown and left all his bitcoins being lost...well, technically they are on blockchain, but relatives have no access to his private keys to use the funds
This describes the need to iterate on the product idea, in collaboration with engineering, instead of slinging vague PRDs over the wall.

Table stakes for any product manager, not just AI related.
The most optimal thing is to just use ICE engines as a generator/range extender that tops up the battery. Most hydrogen vehicles actually work like that as well: the fuel cell is basically used as a generator to top up the battery.

Some of the Chinese plugin hybrids are starting to do this. Those basically are EVs with a generator bolted on to extend the range to something crazy like well over 1000 miles. These vehicles are far simpler to build and mechanically a lot simpler. And the generator is of course an optional extra if your battery is big enough. More like a safety blanket for the range anxious.

Edison trucks (a Canadian startup) is doing putting generators on their trucks. They've built and designed their own electrical logging truck designed for the extremes of that business. Pretty awesome vehicle. Effortless pulls huge loads over unpaved roads. Basically, it has no gears so it is super simple to operate and it drives like a car. A pretty sporty one even. The generator is just there for when they go out into the middle of nowhere where they can't charge the truck. It's purely a range extender.

If you think about it, you could just buy an off the shelf generator, shove it on a trailer and hook it up to your EV. If you have a EV pickup, you can just sacrifice some space in the back. This isn't that hard. You only need a few kw of output from the generator. A simple, small, and cheap one would be good enough.

The reason companies like Toyota are trying to sell you a much harder to maintain and much more complicated solution instead is not because they haven't thought about it but because they have a large sunken investment in ICE engine manufacturing that they want to milk for a bit longer.
possible goal of your project would be to allow users even on your free level to get interviewed by your ML and receive feedback ... to me that has as much traction as being simply hiring manager focused
I missed seeing what the developer experience of the RubyMine debugger would be for this specific problem. Mentioning its advantages is good, but you have the perfect chance to putting it into action in front of your audience!
+1 for MrMobile (Michael Fisher), he comes across as more impartial than a lot of the other folks.
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To not have to come back to work ever again.
for the record sprinkling await everywhere is not something you should take lightly. await is still probably the single most high-level high-overhead construct in JS, and putting it inside tight loops is a recipe for perf disaster
Actually AES, unlike more ad-hoc block ciphers, is based on the theory of finite fields, including GF(8) that is used for its non-linear component.

The theory of finite fields is based on the theory of prime numbers, because the finite fields are sets of residues modulo a prime number or modulo a power of a prime number.

The theory of finite fields is involved in the design of many other block cipher functions or secure hash functions and also in the design of the most important message-authentication methods, like GCM, which is used to authenticate this HTML page on the HN site.

So prime numbers are important in most cryptographic applications, not only in asymmetric cryptography, like Diffie-Hellman or RSA. Prime numbers are used in one way or another for the transmission of any HTTPS data packet, not only in the key establishment phase of a TLS connection.