skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it still thermally stable after a low-speed journey through a long (? Hard to say how long it is, or if you just plonk it into an open kettle of water as there are only close ups) narrow plastic tube? And what about cold water already in the tube?

If thermal stability is important enough to make such an advertising claim, you should probably show a comparison of input temperatures where the water meets the coffee over the course of multiple cycles against a representative competitor. With actual data rather than stylised cartoon graphs like in TV adverts for washing powder or whatever.

Woolly claims like that without clear evidence really make sound like audiophile woo territory, which would be a shame if you've actually done the research!
I'm not disagreeing, but I'm not necessarily convinced there's real value "for future generations". I love nostalgia, but it seems pretty useless beyond the entertainment value.

What benefits do you, or others, see in looking back at these computer systems?

Thanks.
It is easier for the average person today to achieve the standard of living of the average person 10, 20, 30 years ago, and it would've been impossible for the average person 10, 20, 30 years ago to achieve the standard of living of the average person today due to things that are cheap now not even having been invented then.

But expenses expand to fill the available budget, so the actual cost of living is higher, as people earn more to spend more to get more.

(If you wish you had more free time but don't negotiate a pay cut in return for shorter work hours, it just means you value the money more than your time.)
We know very little about the quality of this product, but it's competing with the likes of Flair 58 and Niche Zero, which makes it adequately priced. But again, if the quality is there.
I have truly quit drinking after being a (functional) alcoholic for 25+ years, on Wegovy, in only a few months. I don't give a flying fuck about drinks for a year+, and can drink moderately just losing interest in continuing after 2-3 glasses. Haven't even been tipsy let alone drunk once for the entirety of 2024. Haven't planned it - just wanted to lose a few kilos - which i did as well. Side effects amounted to 2-3 episodes of headaches (first time, really bad ones though) that lasted for 3-5 days each.
Uf, thanks, a copypaste brain fart.
The New Commandments of the Modern Internet
This series might give you some insights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXbyQ9KFdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeDA8hwQ3Fo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX-EgbauuOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8fBqRa2NLQ
> that recycling facilities throw out black plastic utensils just because the infrared light in sorting machines can't sort it

That is very true. The sorting used near-infrared which struggle to detect these black plastics because the carbon black pigments absorb the light. I've quoted information from one our our suppliers which explains it and what they are doing about it.

What is carbon black and why should it be eliminated?

Carbon black is a pigment widely used in
many materials to achieve dark and opaque
colours. However, it poses a problem in sorting
centers. Indeed, for packaging to be sorted
correctly, it must be detected by a sensor
known as "near-infrared," abbreviated as NIR.
This sensor detects the type of polymer by
identifying bright spots on the surface of the
packaging and identifies the range of light
reflected from the majority of the polymer.
However, the presence of carbon black
prevents the packaging from being detected
because it absorbs the infrared rays emitted
by the device. Undetected packaging is
therefore not sorted and subsequently not
recycled. It will be rejected and sent for
incineration or landfill.

What are the alternative solutions for dark packaging?

As part of the AGEC (The Anti-Waste Law
for a Circular Economy) law, voluntary
commitments have been made by various
stakeholders, including the GUILLIN Group.

We have developed solutions for PP and PET
with detectable packaging without carbon
black. This solution involves eliminating black
dyes in favour of dark dyes validated by
COTREP (Center of Resources and Expertise
on Household Plastic Packaging Recyclability
in France). With this material, our packaging
is detectable by optical sorting and can
therefore be recycled. Some of our ranges are
also available in transparent or translucent
versions, giving you additional options.
Consider https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/04/modern-men-la...
Great video about some cryptic hardware being reused
Ahah! I was expecting this question. Indeed, the interest is lower for me (but not null!). I mean that I based it on my own way of thinking, and I don’t think I’m the only one.

But after all, my wife and I still have a goal just for fun! And I’ve already charged myself! In the end, I still pay the Stripe fees! :D

Thank you!
Unfortunately Magnus is 100% right. Some of the mistakes and choices that were made by Ding are at chess club level strength. Sad to say but this is the truth. The mistake on the final game is absolutely orrible, something never seen in a WCC before. Another example in game 5, Ding plays brillantly and gains a small initiative and gains a pawn then, instead of trying to press, he gives two pawns back with the intention of entering an opposite color bishop endgame. You are not supposed to play to drawn when you are better. And there are several other instances of this in the match. Gukesh deserved the win for the fighting spirit but honestly the games were not at WCC level. I believe that Gukesh will redeem himself as Karpov did after winning for forfait against Fischer but today it's a sad day for chess.
I really enjoyed the author's technical deep-dive and approach to debugging performance issues. Mild spoilers for anyone who hasn't played Riven, but the method for fixing Gehn's faulty linking books is a perfect analogy for the author's more counterintuitive performance optimizations.

While I don’t have a write-up as detailed as this one, I spent a month on a similar journey optimizing an animated ASCII art rasterizer. What started as an excuse to learn more about browser performance became a deep dive into image processing, WebGL, and the intricacies of the Canvas API. I’m proud of the results but I’ve annotated the source for a greater mind to squeeze another 5 or 10 FPS out of the browser.

Maybe it’s time to brush up on those WebGL docs again…

- [1] https://asciify.sister.software/

- [2] https://github.com/sister-software/asciify/blob/main/Asciify...
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20241213031942/https://www.nytim...
I have a vague memory of reading that scrabble in a language that you don't speak has its advantages, as your brain isn't wired to favour words that it uses more often which may not be so valuable in scrabble
I never developed much trust in current smartphones where in some countries the SIM can be a backdoor.
It’s very hard to sell to developers and make money, unless you are big tech
The question "why" has several "layers", if you will. A drift off instinct can be more than "just" something. Many of our own behaviours must have some roots in such drifts, yet are more commonly discussed in terms of culture etc.
That's a big loss indeed...

Speaking of which, what have social scientists done recently?
>the new technology could cause “extraordinarily damaging consequences for the environment, agriculture, and human well-being.”

and I immediately think, but for a brief, beautiful moment can it also cause a lot of shareholder value?
I mean, yes, there's cases where you want that. But there's no mechanism for it, because you would have to stop the world, do the load, and then resume.

Even within a single VM, hot loading doesn't stop the world, during the load some schedulers will switch before others. Although there are guarantees that mean when a process runs new code and sends a message to another local process, that process will have the new code available when it reads the message. (It may still be running the old code, depending on how it's called though)

Dealing with multiple versions active is part of life in most distributed systems though. You can architect it away in some systems, but that usually involves having downtime in maintenance windows.

A typical pattern is making progressive updates, where if you want to change a request, first you deploy a server that can handle old and new requests, then you deploy the client that sends the new request, then you can deploy a server that no longer accepts old requests.

For new replies, if the new reply comes with a new request, that works like above... a client that sent a new request must handle the new reply. Otherwise, update the client to handle either type of reply, then update the server to send the new reply, finally remove handling of the old reply in the clients.

It gets a bit harder if your team dynamics mean one person/group doesn't control both sides... Then you need stats to tell you when all the clients have switched.

Sometimes you do need more of a point in time switch. If it needs to be pretty good, you can just set a config through a dist 'broadcast'. If it needs to be better than that, you can have the servers and clients change behavior after a specific time... but make sure you understand the realities of clock synchronization and think about what to do for requests in flight. If that's not good enough, you can drop or buffer requests for a little bit before your targer time, make sure there are no in progress requests, then resume processing requests with the new version.
That’s actually pretty cheap, especially if it delivers on the promises. I spent about $6k on my current setup.
There's only one clip/snippet in there of the machine actually producing espresso and whatever comes out looks very thin and watery with no crema visible. That's worrying.

Google "bottomless portafilter shot" for how it's supposed to look.
Shouldn't this be asked of someone making the claim, and not of someone who says that the claims should be backed up by evidence? If someone claims that Apple cider vinegar cures cancer, they should be the ones providing the evidence. You shouldn't be asking people who didn't make the claim how to find evidence for it.

Though after decades of funding the social sciences I would have hoped that someone would have looked into whether or not they're actually accomplishing anything. If not, it would speak volumes.
Syrian rebels seize haul of banned drug captagon, country's largest export
I thought there's a rule you need to explain the word used when asked.
The log-scale plot hasn't plateaued yet, so there are still rooms for improvement. (Remind that rustc was initially quite slow at the very beginning.)
Great writeup. A typical "this shouldn't be too hard" story with yet another surprise around every corner. Seems familiar... :)

One thing I wondered is whether with that optimized loader library, is it even still necessary to do the DXT conversion at all? Sounds like mango and pixman could be fast enough already....
What features are you seeking that aren’t available? There are many powerful, heavy laptops. There are many 16+ inch form factors. My current laptop has dual screens!

I agree it can be frustrating when the mainstream focuses on things you don’t like, but that doesn’t always exclude the things you do. I don’t like pop music but there’s more music I like now than when I was young.
> I've also heard that unscrewed bottle-caps, or other small plastics also fall in the common waste dump at the facility.

The EU, and UK, recently brought in legislation where the bottle caps are tethered to the bottle. The main reason is to reduce littering, but it does also make recycling easier.

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-plastic-bottles-eu-caps.html

> I would actually like to know the average percentage of the content of domestic recycling bins that the entities on the other side bother to see recycled.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

"An estimated 73% of the plastic bottles produced in 2020/21 were collected from households for recycling. The rate was 47% for pots, tubs and trays and much lower for plastic film at just 4%."
Copying SaaS products has been happening for decades even without AI
To be fair, books all used to look the same. Orange cover with a black-and-white penguin on them. My mom had a bookcase full of them.
Show HN: I combined customer support and customer success tools for PLG SaaS
I’m an indie hacker who previously built a customer communication platform specifically for travel agencies.

Initially, I couldn’t rely on existing live chat software to support my product because it already included a built-in live chat feature (even though it was meant for travel agencies at first).

Over time, I started building tools to solve my own problems. Every weekend, I’d hack together a new feature—not just to make my product better, but also to scratch that coding itch (yeah, I know, classic indie hacker move). What started as small experiments snowballed into building KnowledgeBase Portals, Feature Request Boards, Bug Report Boards, Changelogs, Email Drip Campaigns, Product Tours, Checklists, NPS tools, and more.

The funny part? Travel agencies didn’t really care about all these extra tools—they didn’t need them. I was the only user who actually used everything I built.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been reworking the positioning of my product—shifting from targeting travel agencies to SaaS companies. I also rolled out a freemium version to lower the barrier for early adopters.

Being a solo indie hacker, I obviously can’t compete head-to-head with giants like Intercom. That’s why I’m here, hoping to get feedback from other SaaS founders. Does this new direction make sense? Should I keep doubling down on it, or am I missing something?

PS: My current paying customers are still travel agencies. About a year ago, I ran a lifetime deal (LTD) hoping to break into a new niche—like e-commerce or marketing agencies—but it didn’t pan out the way I’d hoped.
I started with Hacker's Keyboard and moved to Unexpected because Hacker's stopped working on newer Android devices. It's not a 1:1 replacement, but it works really well once you get used to it, and it also works as a decent general purpose keyboard.
> what do you do when people turn out to need social scientists?

avail yourself of the thousands still at work in other allied societies

the world has more people at work pursuing pure academics than ever, and they are sharing their work
> REIMAGINING OF THE ESPRESSO MACHINE

It's a brave brave person who takes on the decision to reimagine something that people are so particular and pedantic over.

I have to say it's an interesting idea though! Sounds like it wasn't easy too. good luck with the journey!
Yeah, ppl don't realize how easy it is to lose digital assets
Finger text selection is really clumsy and error prone, and copypasting is even worse.
> Because very few people used these icons?

I'm not sure about this explanation. Almost everybody has icons on the screen of their phones amd tablets, and multiple pages of them, and they seem to remember well were those icons are.
And some have a manually-operated lever, which is completely silent.
I think you are leaving out #4. You need to have basically unbreakable confidence. Dealing with that horrible plateau that we all go through often breaks adult players. This [1] is Magnus' rating chart. It looks like an unstoppable line to the top until you zoom in and actually look.

In April 2004 Magnus was 2552. 15 months and 162 classical games later he was 2528. When a 'normal' adult plays 162 classical games, which is often only done over a period of many years, and only loses rating points, they assume they've hit their peak and their spirit breaks, or they try to 'fix' their training routine and just end up completely breaking it. This is one reason it's so much easier for children to improve - they [usually] don't really think about such things in the same way and just keep grinding away.

Chess improvement is brutal. You don't put in 'x' effort and get some proportional reward back. Chess improvement is very stair-step, you wake up one day and you're suddenly much stronger than you were the day before. But until you hit that next stair-step, you see little to nothing.

In my own case I only learned how the pieces move as an adult, at least in so much as 18 counts as an adult, and feel I've gained at least a moderate level of unconscious mastery - around 2600 bullet and 2500 blitz, with the overwhelming majority of that improvement coming well after 30, and I'm still improving!

[1] - https://ratings.fide.com/profile/1503014/chart
I respectfully disagree. Things look the same only if you look at the same things.

Fashion and trends where always a thing. They spread faster and more globally today because the communication is rich and easy, and of course there are a lot of followers of any trend.

But, not everything is "average". That bell curve is probably very high today, but there is a lot beyond the ±σ , just need to look there.
>It's just people tastes that decide what becomes popular //

What becomes popular seems to be whatever we get brainwashed with, ie what we get advertised.

It seems to be less driven by social changes than it is driven by profit motive of those able to feed most of us 10-15 minutes of advertising within each of the several hours of media consumption most of us partake of each day.
You consider writing the Anarchists Cookbook grooming?

To quote Jeffery Lewis: Thank you for your extremely good-faith criticism. I will give it the attention it deserves.
TikTok influencers flee Romania amid tax probe into their election role
Apple didn't discontinue the Vision Pro. A 2025 processor bump is coming to the Pro and they're planning a cheaper sibling.
Wild thought, but I think it might point to something deeper about us as a species.

In the animal kingdom, other organisms who live in collectives like ants, birds etc fall in to patterns that unique. Could it be that we are subconsciously following these instincts and falling into these "consistent" patterns?
Ok so just a warpd/keynav style grid mode then? I thought OP was describing a novel concept based on the idea that initially the whole keyboard would represent the entire screen.
More specifically, we need to wait for the legal systems to decide. There’s an increasing split between what the US courts decide and what much of the rest of the world want.
And, in the case of Spanish, the conjugations, which are valid to play in Scrabble.

Also you need to memorize the different point values of the letters and different tile frequencies for Spanish or French.
Show HN: Free AI Faceswap that just works
We created a simple portal to do AI faceswap.
Upload your face image, upload image to swap, and Download.

GUI is built on Streamlit.

Image Generation done with Flux model.

Two infrastructure backends -

- replicate API

- self-hosted API on a PC with Nvidia RTX 4060

We built this as plain and simple AI faceswaps are all paywalled or the quality is horrible.

Please test and let us know!

PS: We also built https://gen.pixub.com - to generate AI photos with consistent face. Also Free.

Plug: Our main site pixub.com will be our monetization platform, separate from the above sites that we built for community.
They’re a support framework for macro decision making.

All those economics papers you read, all those studies on lifestyle and integration and the effects of migration etc; all come from social sciences.

Economics is a social science.
> in actual production, people prefer to operate at the container level + traffic management, and dont touch anything deeper than the container

I mean, this seems to be "best practices" these days, but I certainly don't prefer it. At least the orchestration I use is amazingly slow. And cold loading changes is terrible for long running processes... this makes deployment a major chore.

It's less terrible if you're just doing mostly stateless web stuff, but that's not my world.

In the time it takes to run terraform plan, I could have pushed erlang code to all my machines, loaded it, and (usually) confirm I fixed what I wanted to fix.

Low cost of deploy means you can do more updates which means they can be smaller which makes them easier to review.
New Warp Session Sharing allows sharing web links to terminal sessions
While that's a good looking cat, perhaps more like a Red Dwarf Cat (Felis Sapiens).
> Android is close. But ultimately you can't run any PC apps on it

Android can run KVM. What Android cannot do is run Windows due to the consumer would not have or bring a license or purchase a license.
I think the biggest "shock" is how quickly these things got normalised, but this is in part down to how we used to see this stuff; back in the 90's I first saw stuff on TV about video calls and computers and the like (but turns out that was decades after that kinda thing was first presented and probably a hundred years since it was used in sci-fi), but the way it's presented is all in marketing fashions, like, very intentionally sitting at a desk, dialing a number for a very formal conversation.

"real" video calling sort of snuck in through the back doors once people got webcams and MSN / Skype, and became mainstream / common in the 2000's with always-on internet, remote work, etc. And at one point the smartphone and mobile internet got in people's hands and (video) calls became casual.

I think the other part there is that it's normal people using them. What I mean by that is that in these videos, it's all very formal corporate people. And then the first people that really get interested in this kind of technology or who have an interest in futuristic stuff are / were the "nerdy" types. (I am probably living in a bubble though). But it was the average joe that normalised this technology.
Securing Actions Workflows with Immutable Actions – Enter the Cloud Dojo
Get this in the hands of James Hoffman, I’d love to hear his take on it
This is what peak performance looks like, which you might not appreciate :-/.
Every time you interview a user or set up a survey to determine customer preferences, you're using techniques developed from social sciences.
I don’t know. A lot of the discourse meant for social progress and revolution became gaurded at the highest echelons of the academic system and perverted to suit the needs of the state apparatus. In my mind, the end of this practice means at least some hope of the work moving back to where it needs to go. On the other hand, our society today is highly educated and academic work is just a job. A huge swath of the population goes through school before entering the work force: how are you going to get to them? But, campus organizing has never gone away really, and perhaps it will make things especially difficult for administrators if they don’t have any professors to scapegoat.
We know well how to, and we have ways that allow for making very efficient DC/DC converters for the voltage levels that the grid utilizes.
I don't get why NZ is 'fucked'. One of the richest people on the planet, with amazing nature, very, I mean absolutely terrific strategical location. Democracy. Big friends with US. I could go on for a long time.

Is it 'fucked' in same way some folks from say Staten island or New Jersey say its fucked since they are not central Manhattan so everything else is subpar or wrong? I don't think rich people want to have their SHTF backup location in shithole, you have prettier cheaper places all over the world, yet folks want to go there.

If you meant there are issues, sure they are everywhere, even in nordics or Switzerland. Not an interesting nor helpful position.