skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I attend this local annual event that has a time capsule. Each year, we bury one and dig up the one from 5 years ago. This has gone on for several decades, and people are always thinking of interesting things to put in there.

I made a little electronics project that is somewhere between "what happens inside a time capsule while it's buried?" and "what if you could wind a watch once and have it still be ticking in 5 years?"

I nearly forgot that I made a project page for it: https://hackaday.io/project/160740-low-power-environment-mon...

I dug up the first one last year and it had made it to 4.5 years, and I'm actually due to dig up the second one next week.
Not entirely I bet!

I think of science in much the same way that you think of other disciplines.
It is developed in the mpeg standard already, there is a whole group of people for that from some years ;)
The diagrams look nice, but in the end of the day, they are merely nice visualizations of what's fundamentally algebra. There is not much geometry going on besides a quite simple group structure of order 12.
> Vision Pro has been released for near a year now. I don't think it got the traction that's anywhere close to the hype when it was first announced.

In the first year, they were constrained by the number of displays Sony could produce.

> Sony, the supplier of Vision Pro's ultra high resolution OLED microdisplays, can't manufacture more than 900,000 displays per year. Apple needs two displays per headset, so this bottleneck would impose severe limitations on how many Vision Pros can be produced.

https://www.uploadvr.com/apple-vision-pro-production-severel...

As far as I've seen, their sales were in line with the number of units they could be expected to build, at least until Sony is able to ramp up production.

> 2024 Apple Vision Pro Shipments Estimated Between 500–600 Thousand Units, Micro OLED Key to Cost and Volume

https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20240118-12003.h...
Oh I want to be clear that I’m not defending the use of the design guide in this context - I think style guides are fine for certain things, but not necessarily desktop apps like these. I get that it’s Electron, and so in theory the same components could be shared to their web experience and to other installers etc but I don’t know if they do that.

I was one of those people who thought XP/ME went too far (im a System 7 Stan tbh, but 98 was solid enough). And then when Office got the ribbon I was so unhappy lol. I don’t like a lot of how MS has embraced trendy UI, outside of windows phone which I actually really liked (and that made sense, it was a system that didn’t have much to go on, and they weren’t living up to any expectations outside of “be different than Apple and be better than Google”. I will def be salty here because MS had a great opportunity with windows phone and just blundered it. For every solid idea they have, it feels like they fumble 10000 other actually decent products).

I personally really appreciate that Apple has largely not changed the fundamentals of their OS in regards to the dock and menu bar - sure the dock is “new” as of OSX but that’s going on what, 20 years old now? At least? And the menu bar has been with us since always. Using native MS apps in 11 and not having a visible File menu drives me bonkers.

> I’m sorry I recognize that I’m a little salty on this topic but I do feel like the industry stole something important to the users, or at least if I’m honest, to me, which is the basic knowledge of how to use a computer.

I feel this. For the company I work for, we have an A11y group that is comprised of representatives from different departments (across engineering, product, marketing, and design) that meets regularly. Our component designs focus on accessibility, discoverability, and usability. If we are going to say “well we want a blue button with a drop shadow” instead of whatever the browser and OS do, fine, I’m going to make sure it’s still USABLE and accessible dammit. /rant
> we would only need to worry about this when converting from BF16 to F32

This should be:

> we would only need to worry about this when converting from F32 to BF16

My apologies for the typo.
I think I get what you mean. Never been to the U.S. and was just really surprised about this sentiment.

Some people drive tiny single seat cars here in Europe and I never considered that particular dangerous for them or anyone next to the relative way bigger cars that are common.
https://archive.is/pwxuC
Supersonic: Python library for managing pull requests
Two questions:

1) Going by the Runtime vs GLUE graph, the ModernBERT-Base is roughly as fast as BERT-BAse. Given its architecture (especially Alternating Attention), I'm curious why the model not considerably faster than its predecessor. Any insight you could share on that?

2) Most modern LLMs are Encoder+Decoder model. Why not chop of the decoder of one of these (e.g. a small Llama or Mistral or other liberally-licensed model) and train a short head on top?
> Samsung make trackers?

Yes.

> Are you referring to tile?

No.
With a no-name, for sure. And maybe you see the difference after a long time? But after a year of unfettered abuse, my $50 Victorinox kitchen knife is still as dangerously sharp as new, and I have only sharpened it a couple of times.
ISTM that this use case would be better served by building a nice piece of openhaystack hardware.
Can you talk about why separation of concerns is useful? I like it too, but I have a hard time trying to articulate why I prefer it over keeping everything in the same file. I've started working in a project that uses react and tailwind, and I've gotten pretty comfortable, but (ideological purity aside) it just isn't very enjoyable to use.
This is pretty cool, thanks for building it!
Sure, Logitech "G" series mice are supposed to be "gaming", but for a very long time I used them exclusively for office work.

My first one was a g9x, followed by a g700s. Those may look a bit "gamery", but I later had a g703 which was as sober as they come.

And, even though it's not as critical for office use, I found it very pleasant to have next to no lag on a wireless mouse. I now have a mx master 3s, which has "ok" wireless performance and is surprisingly nimble for its size and weight. I can't complain about it while I use it, but I immediately feel the difference when I switch to a Logitech G Lightspeed or a friend's Razer with whatever their equivalent technology is called.

And since these aren't that expensive (the MX is actually the most expensive mouse I've ever had), this tends to reinforce my considering them as full competitors to logi's "office" line.
Relatively modest hardware requirement: Intel N100 or equivalent for Whisper Base (for large public dataset languages).
For many people, especially from some terrible cultures I've personally met, the odds of being punished are really the only deterrent.
I was introduced to Dave Barry through his 'Year in Review' parody of the year's events (back when it came in print in the 'Tropic' magazine included in the Sunday Miami Herald.) I laughed and laughed, the way a Bill Bryson book might make you laugh.

He once borrowed the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile [1] to pick his son up from school.

And my wife is so used to my using one of his tropes, 'That would make a great name for a rock band', [2] that she has started predicting when I'm about to say it ('Feral chihuahuas' was the subject, but that's TMI.)

[1] https://www.oscarmayer.com/wienermobile/

[2] https://www.davebarry.com/gg/rockband.html
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https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-ki/rojas_home/documents...

"However, we should be careful with the metaphors and paradigms commonly introduced when dealing with the nervous system. It seems to be a
constant in the history of science that the brain has always been compared
to the most complicated contemporary artifact produced by human industry
[297]. In ancient times the brain was compared to a pneumatic machine, in
the Renaissance to a clockwork, and at the end of the last century to the telephone network. There are some today who consider computers the paradigm
par excellence of a nervous system. It is rather paradoxical that when John
von Neumann wrote his classical description of future universal computers, he
tried to choose terms that would describe computers in terms of brains, not
brains in terms of computers."
My wife and I tried that, but we did not find that there was any amount of anything available online which could make up for the boredom and loneliness of rural life. We left our affordable house in the sticks behind and moved back to expensive ol' Seattle, where we have friends, things to do, places you can go without having to drive there, and a much better life overall. We'll never go back.

I did enjoy building an elaborate treehouse while we were out there. We still fantasize about building (or maybe just buying) a cabin in the woods, or out on one of the islands. But it's one thing to have a place you can escape to when you feel like it, and quite another to be stuck there all the time.
Ada has inout parameters.
Didn't that work well with car theft? I believe reading something like that
I've also heard from people who worked in chemical process plants in regions where there are monkeys, that they love to turn valves, push buttons and generally imitate human operators. So they have to use lots of locks to ensure only humans can control the process.
A dash in a domain though is pretty ratchet.
For the people interested with the link. The blog post "The Best" is talking about a silverware set which is good for a museum, and only for a museum, it is impossible to eat with it.
Was responding to the sufferings of travelers who disliked the strikes.

Unions are at war using any effective and legal weapons they can find. The same stands for "the capital".
This is really easy to set up - and is much more accurate than asking the LLM to predict True/False.

Just feed the outputs of an embedding API into logistic regression, e.g. from sklearn.

import voyageai

vo = voyageai.Client()
# This will automatically use the environment variable VOYAGE_API_KEY.
# Alternatively, you can use vo = voyageai.Client(api_key="<your secret key>")

texts = ["Sample text 1", "Sample text 2"]

result = vo.embed(texts, model="voyage-2", input_type="document")
print(result.embeddings[0])

https://scikit-learn.org/1.5/modules/generated/sklearn.linea...
You have to distinguish between the renderer and the assets it is rendering. In the video you linked to there are a huge amount of very specific assets (especially textures) and a few effects are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

In the demo on this page it is fair to say the starting camera position is about the least impressive location in the whole scene though. If you move it to hover up nearer where the lights are you see a lot more is going on.
If they are working for you full time, but you aren't paying them living wage, how exactly are they supposed to make ends meet?
> I suspect that the difference between many that are bullish vs bearish is quite likely coming down to ability to structure and communicate thoughts effectively.

Strange perspective. I found LLMs lacking in less popular programming languages, for example. It's mostly down to statistics.

I agree that being able to communicate well with an LLM gives you more results. It's a productivity enabler of sorts. It is not a game changer however.

> don't be too quick to assume that LLMs aren't already making an impact within production systems. I know from experience that they are.

OK, I am open to proof. But people are just saying it and leaving the claims hanging.
> of course having a lot of kids is also not that popular in the West, so.

A twenty-fold increase in parenting time (from my parents' generation) + our modern 4 income economy = no clear path for typical_income couples to start families.
Maybe restaurant supply stores? Likely more durable than consumer stuff, and the manufacturer is likely to maintain a product line for years. Restaurants are not going to be ok with mismatched pieces.
So.. you're saying foreign political interference is bad and you agree that no one in Britain should buy Tesla or use Twitter. And, correspondingly, no American should buy UK political parties.

I'm so glad we agree.
numerical solutions to ODEs/DAEs is a field with a lot of very good methods.
Ask HN: Facebook account hack
I recently lost my facebook account in the midst of a chat conversation. On the next login attempt I got a message that my account was suspended dur to guidelines violations by a supposedly linked Instagram account of someone I don't know "rochella29857."

I found reports of similar account hijackings on Reddit. The relevant common factors are that it happens fast, the suspension reason is bogus, and account recovery tools do not work.

To add insult to injury, the message says to log in to insta and follow directions to appeal and the button links to my apparently normal insta account which of course has no instructions on how to appeal anything.

Account hijackings happen, but how does Facebook fail to protect their own account recovery process from being rendered useless? How do they send out account suspended messages linked to an insta account that doesn't have recovery/appeal/whatev steps to take?
Many a birthday have I begun by sitting alone at the bar, in a cubby hole, at The Princess Louise, reading for pleasure and necking G&Ts, in a gradually-improving mood until the evening, when friends begin to show and we find a bigger - never better - spot in the pub.

And no visitors to the city have ever felt disappointed in an English pub if taken to the Louise, John Snow, Cittie of York, or a few of the other unmodified Sam Smith’s pubs in town. I even like most of their beers.

But they are a bit weird and stories of the boss are pretty legendary, and this confirms it in glorious detail.
I do wish openhaystack would be updated for MacOS 15, currently using a fork from a PR because of changes in MacOS 15’s mail app.
I've retrieved stolen bikes, one because of an airtag. Showed up with a couple friends standing by but not trying to be intimidating. It's mostly about staying calm and telling the person this is mine, I'm taking it. They always say "no it's my friend's, you're gonna piss him off" or "I just bought this" or something. Maybe you offer some fraction of a "reward" to smooth it along and cut your losses. Don't try to start a fight and it generally goes OK. Also, try not to accuse them of stealing, they'll just get defensive. "It's someone else who is screwing us both, but this is mine sorry."
I had the exact same thought. The screws are recessed, so knurling is unimportant. I love the idea and will buy some for the cars but give me a stainless m5, hex cap head screw, I don’t care about the process.
> The third time someone calls to complain that the alkaline batteries they put in this leaked, they'll wish they used a soldered-in 3V lithium primary cell. Even though that goes against a certain ethos.

Those aren't alkaline batteries. Energizer makes AA/AAA-size lithium primary batteries, which is what they are using. They wont leak and have a 25 year shelf life.

https://data.energizer.com/pdfs/l91.pdf

And I don't think they'd get complaints about alkaline batteries leaking. I think pretty much anyone (even those who don't understand batteries), would tend to blame the batteries themselves, not the device they're in.
adhd is real (i got adhd-pi myself) but its wild to suggest these things without asking the person:

- if he's exercising consistently

- if he's eating properly without junk food

- if he's hydrating properly instead of other beverages

- if his overall physical activity has a good baseline

- if he's in a line of work where his interest, competence, and the challenge of the work is a good match.

most people's inability to focus comes down to lack of self-discipline and self-care, or just being in a wrong place, wrong time, or wrong environment.
This is a largely political problem. Cross pollination does not affect the utility of commercial help-only its legality. You can study wind dispersal, etc, but at the end of the day, the problem is a bunch of clueless old men.
You sure need that ease of return when Amazon repeatedly ships the wrong item again and again.
I used to work with a Cortex-M3 port of uCLinux, but it was kind of a pain to manage. The biggest problem being every executable had to be statically linked to all of its dependencies.
Ah I completely missed that, thanks! Very nice that this is supported everywhere now.
It is formed inside a simulation. That simulation is based on information gathered by my sensors.
All that work for ONLY a $240 Amazon gift card is absolutely wild to me. It still surprises me that people choose not exploit these things when these mega corporations basically award them pennies for finding major vulnerabilities like this.
> Left unsaid is that many human traders are subjected to similar Pavlovian "training" -- and are treated with about as much kindness and dignity as those rats.

I think it's pretty clear from subtext that that is the core thrust of the work. ;-)
I would presume the battery status is sent as part of the beacon, firmware is updated only when the phone is locked and charging in range of the tag.
This is very good stuff.

Did you do the whole reversing of the z trick?

I despise implementing cascaded shadow maps, and have a lot of respect for anyone that makes them work.
Tangentially:

ERNIE is probably the most famous "computer" in the UK, which has been picking winners for the UK's premium bonds scheme since the 1950s. It was heavily marketed, to get the public used to the new-fangled idea of electronics, and is sometimes considered one of the first computers; though (a) it was more of a special-purpose random number generator rather than a computer, and (b) it descended from the earlier Colossus code-breaking machines of World War II (though the latter's existence was kept secret for decades). The latest ERNIE is version 5, which uses quantum effects to generate its random numbers (earlier versions used electrical and thermal noise).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bonds#ERNIE
Is that game more a feat of GPU technology or of textures and animations?
> Use QWASDE keys to navigate the scene

Interesting key ordering in the instructions.
If you construct the file to be able to save a copy of itself with updated data, then it can do so automatically without any user interaction, either on a timer or in response to some event.
Big bets on AI point to VC industry's shift
Who, other than shareholders, or perhaps employees, would worry?
Right, $1 / month is not worth the overhead to enterprise customers. My understanding is that many would rather find a $10,000 / month solution that has all the bells and whistles--and a support contract!

Is there an uncanny valley between free and enterprise--or is that actually a fertile long tail?
When scaling browser automation, generating random fingerprints for most common high entropy data points is counterproductive. It just ends up lowering your trust score and shifts attention to other browser properties with less entropy, making those primary identifiers.

For example, degrading canvas, WebGL, or WebGPU fingerprints (e.g., by introducing noise like Brave does) might lead anti-bot systems to either ignore them or punish you with captchas. Once ignored, other signals, such as screen resolution (just an example), become more important.
While this helps people with privacy by blending in with users and a single user visiting a website normally will probably not notice much, an influx of multiple users with degraded fingerprints and similar resolutions become easy to detect and might get a captcha or get blocked (e.g. 30-50+ browser sessions generating cookies for a specific captcha concurrently).

You can spoof multiple resolutions and then add some other properties, but it requires consistency across all of them, which can come down to weird browser specific quirks as well as whatever the data set of the anti bot vendor contains (regardless of how accurate). There are only so many plausible values for each low entropy data point that anti-bot systems will give you a high score for, forcing you to spoof as many data points as possible to maintain a high trust score across many concurrent sessions and eventually scale back or hit a limit for your operation, or deal with captchas by solving them and lose to the competition that doesn't have to do that.

Fingerprinting at scale isn’t just about spoofing individual data points - it’s about aligning all points in a realistic way and knowing which and how they relate to eachother, which requires extensive data and research.

On proxies: flagged IPs with residential ASNs often work fine if the overall trust score is high, but degraded fingerprints like Brave’s can undermine that advantage and then it becomes a lot more important, though it's always nice to eliminate if you are able to do so.
Definitely, there should never be more than one house per acre really.
>this study (still a preprint) was preregistered (meaning all methods and analyses were specified before the data were collected)

This is the way forward -- preregistered studies. That, together with a promise from the publisher to publish the result regardless of whether the effect is found to be significant.

When you think about it, the incentives for publishing in science have been wrong all along. The future will be different: It will be full of null results, of ideas people had that didn't pan out. But we'll be able to trust those results.
Wow, hundreds on Amazon, too.
Why not just… turn it off manually?
I don't have a GPU and it runs fine for me with no errors or messages.
One of my own pet peeves in Forged In Fire was that every contestant would submit Damascus (-style) blades for their final showdowns. It just wasn’t necessary and often just looked trashy.

As a secondary nitpick, the term is perfectly acceptable for the process commonly used today. As you’ve already mentioned - the original process has been lost to time, so no one actually makes it.
Ask HN: Trustworthy, low-bias browser reviews?
Seeking recommendations of sources of information on technical topics, including reviews such as comparisons of web browsers (various metrics including privacy, security, performance, etc.)...

"Search" (Google, DDG, and others) seem to be only getting worse, and many sources of information from the past are now owned by corps/orgs with some agenda or conflict of interest.

How are you finding reliable sources these days, and can you please share some?
I replace AirTag batteries every 6 months to be safe, so $15 (plus batteries) isn’t significantly more expensive over 5 years.
> It is our expectation that once the inspection has been completed by this group of people from the four countries, the ship will be able to sail towards its destination

Seems like a better deterrent for future sabotage is to ratchet up the consequences by seizing the ship until it is settled in the courts.
Ask HN: Should all software engineers be periodically tested on linear algebra?
Isn't linear algebra more important now than ever given the focus on AI nowadays?

Even if a software engineer isn't working on AI today, they might soon and maybe companies should prepare them in advance?

Yearly testing would make sure they remember important linear algebra concepts.
I remember laughing at Spock saying "we have a 33.2% chance of surviving this mission" but then I found out out people were mocking Robert Macnamara about this for making similar predictions about the Vietnam war.

If I was going to remake Star Trek: The Original Series I'd make Spock a Bayesian who always says something like "the probability that we survive this mission is β(5,15)"
Only 15% of all Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024