skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another campaign promise fulfilled, although to a small demographic: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4d75zl212o
Mario teaches typing, Mario is missing. Where are my other Mario’s?

This data is very incomplete, and thus I conclude that there are very many Mario’s missing.
Volvo EX40, fully electric is made in Belgium and it does not seem that it will be phased out soon.
> Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school

>...

> Exeter is one of the nation's wealthiest boarding schools, with a financial endowment of $1.6 billion as of June 2024, and houses the world's largest high school library.

>...

>Its list of notable alumni includes U.S. President Franklin Pierce, U.S. Senator Daniel Webster, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and three winners of the Nobel Prize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Exeter_Academy
Yup.

When I test, I always find bugs. Never fails.

Watching this posting dive down from the HN front page has been interesting (and expected).
I think my hometown has a “time to sheep” rating of like 30 seconds. Possibly up to as much as 4 or 5 minutes if you pick your starting spot perfectly.
consumer Optane were not "power loss protected", that is every different than not honoring a requested a synchronous write.

The crash-consistency problem is very different than the durability of real synchronous writes problem. There are some storage devices which will lie about synch writes, sometimes hoping that a backup battery will allow them to complete those write.

System crashes are inevitable, use things like write ahead logs depending on need etc... No storage API will get rid of all system crashes and yes even apple games the system by disabling real sync writes, so that will always be a battle.
I also have Shelly but haven’t been able to flash them. Do you have a link?
the transmission in the recording is actually VVV GBR
The HN dream. Congrats and enjoy the fruits of your labor :D
Scale AI's whole business model is wage theft. I don't mean to be insensitive, but out of all the Scale AI experiences I've heard about, yours is the least egregious. It's a dystopian, shitty company.
Ask HN: Reality show where contestants are trapped until they invent something?
Unlike most shows, the goal is to have the audience vote them off — thus freeing them.

To achieve this, contestants must create or say something creative enough to convince the audience to set them free.

The contestants could leave before being voted out, but they would not earn the prize money.

Do you think this would make an interesting show and produce interesting inventions?
I was very confused by that as well.

I studied the video, and the only thing that I can conclude is that he simply unbolted the pedals from the chain ring. The pedals would therefore not be doing anything at all except support the rider's feet.

The site says "pedaling recharges the battery." This would require re-bolting the pedals back on.

It's hard to see angles that can really make this clear. Maybe there are some freewheels that let the chain ring spin independently of the pedals, which makes no sense to me.
Question - What is typically the future of companies that are acquired by Private Equity firms?

As a former employee of VWO who worked there for ~3 years, I'm curious about the future of the company.
Hmm... Hasn't been my experience. I've been shipping a lot of really high-Quality stuff for decades.

It just takes a lot of work. No shortcuts.

But that WFM. YMMV.
There was an article in the nyt last year which is in some ways more informative https://archive.ph/SGWaS

They've been using natural hydrogen for power in Mali since about 1987 when they found some by accident and there's an operation in Lorraine France hoping to go live in a couple of years. Whether it can scale fast enough to make much difference I don't know. But I guess there's plenty of oil and gas drilling kit knocking around if people find some big deposits.
There are a striking number of stories in this thread of incompetence and unethical behavior on the part of Subaru, and it makes me sad that the company has turned into such a wreck. Maybe they were always run this way but older technology didn't allow them to be quite so scummy.

I bought a Subaru in the aughts that I absolutely loved and had assumed my next car would be from the same company. But when I test drove and looked into a new model I was shocked at how many terrible changes had been made, and I didn't even uncover half of what is in this thread.

I'm not holding my breath, but hopefully the bad press affects sales enough to make the people running this company care and alter their behavior. The mechanical cars themselves are still nice to drive, but the terrible interfaces, obscene amount of spying, and intrusively unethical behavior really kill the experience.
Check out Lightroom.
Respectful conversation involves sarcasm and satire. I hope we are not in church to avoid using those. I wasn't using aggression against the person I was replying to and my comment was pretty calm, was it? What is really flamewary and pretty rude to say is stating that trans people need an NSFW tag. If you so much want to avoid flamewars, whatever this means, you probably should have replied to that person in the first place.
I'm not sure which model you have, but I don't think that's true. I think instead it's that unless you pay for the remote start upgrade (which as you say includes the extra fob) you can't start your car using the normal keyfob. But if you have the upgrade, you can also use the keyfob if you are close enough. At least, that's how it works for our 2018 Outback.

I think I've only used the dedicated remote start fob a couple times to test it, but I use the keyfob for remote starting frequently. If you want to try, here are some 3rd party instructions for which buttons to press to make it work: https://www.wheelsjoint.com/how-to-remote-start-subaru-outba...
Don't be afraid of rabbit holes
I appreciate both your initial comment and responses as it gave me a place to ask and learn more. I wasn't asking as an accusation–so I hope it didn't come off that way– but as someone not understanding what makes something work/not work in linear/non-liner systems.
The first couple seasons were Jamie and Adam, with a fairly minimal film crew, "doing stuff." Going to random stores to get things and talk to people, and generally having a good time doing it on a shoestring budget. The show largely focused on the process - how the rigs were built. What sort of small scale testing was done in the shop. The tools and processes they used to test this sort of stuff.

The mid-seasons added the build team (Keri, Grant (RIP) and Tory), and started what was, in my opinion, an unwelcome turn to "mainline television." They started adding more myths, more animations to explain things, and a lot of "Here's what we're going to do after the commercial!" and "Now that we're back from the commercial, here's what we've done!" sort of repeated filler - to the point that there was some subreddit that made versions without the filler and repeated content. It was a lot more "Here's the myth, here's the test" sort of TV, and mostly ignored the process.

The build team got along well enough for the first few seasons of it, but towards the later seasons with them, the tension and dislike between various people was obvious even on air. Kari and Tory couldn't stand each other, and the "pranks" on Tory went from "entertaining" to "genuinely mean."

The last few seasons were back to Adam and Jamie, focusing on the build, except with a budget and name recognition that allowed them to do basically anything they wanted - and you could tell they were loving it.

I know there's some contract drama and such behind the scenes as well, but the above is how it felt watching it. The last two seasons are easily my favorites, because they'd worked out how to do the show well, and they were able to test a lot of impressive-scale things that wouldn't have been an option earlier in the show.
A Software Engineer's Journey into ML Deployment: Discovering Kubeflow
I see your perspective. I should also have not made such a general statement. I certainly did not mean to imply malice, more negligence or concern for cost over safety.

Just to be clear, I was not talking about operators who are physically on the boats when I wrote about owners. There are three classes of people involved: owners, captains, and deckhands/engineers. Often the owners are never on the boat and are not subject to the same risks.

I know far too many people who are missing a finger or worse. It is a terrible industry in some ways.
A little bit of a tangent, but I'm really curious what benefits could come from integrating these LLM tools more closely with data from LSPs, compilers, and other static analysis tools.

Intuitively, it seems like you could provide much more context and better output as a result. Even better would be if you could fine-tune LLMs on a per-language basis and ship them alongside typical editor tooling.

A problem I see w/ these AI tools is that they work much better with old, popular languages, and I worry that this will grow as a significant factor when choosing a language. Anecdotally, I see far better results when using TypeScript than Gleam, for example.

It would be very cool to be able to install a Gleam-specific model that could be fed data from the LSP and compiler, and wouldn't constantly hallucinate invalid syntax. I also wonder if, with additional context & fine-tuning, you could make these models smaller and more feasible to run locally on modest hardware.
While I'm glad Sanderson finished the series, I still felt there was a pretty strong change in the feeling of the story.

Until he took over, Rand was basically continuously loosing his sanity in the pursuit of power, which he needed to fight the dark one, which brought him closer to the madness, feeding the cycle.

It kept getting more urgent, things kept escalating. But Sandersons Rand never really lost control, imo. Rand's success felt preordained by his story telling, whereas previously the only thing we could expect was that Rand would go down fighting.

To be clear, I'm aware that Sanderson finished the story via Jordan's notes. But I strongly suspect he wouldn't have kept to them if he wrote it himself. I base that opinion on the fact that the series was supposed to be way shorter. I don't remember the exact number, but it was something like 6 books
This is actually good. I expect them to utilize this in code editing as well if there is some real efficiency gain under the hood.
Just because you can build great things with Tailwind doesn’t mean it’s not democratising design. In the same way as putting frets on a guitar helps amateur players make better music without stopping great players doing their thing, Tailwind is the “frets” on CSS that make sure your hands play the right notes. You can still get it wrong, and you can do inspired or uninspiring design with Tailwind, the same as any tool.
Sounds like some Terry Davis level differences.
> The mouse and keyboard are definitely dying (very slowly) for everyday computing use.

Not to be that guy, but where's the evidence for this? People have been telling us that voice interaction is the future for many, many years, and we're in the future now and it's not. When I look around -- comparing today to ten years ago -- I see more people typing and tapping, not fewer, and voice interactions are still relatively rare. Is it all happening in private? Are there any public metrics for this?
Well, then don't read it! While that's the most campy distillation of the premise, the writing is anything but. George R.R. Martin himself declared Tregillis "a major new talent".
My personal experience as a trans woman? The space is full of men who want to have sex with trans women, while most of these trans women are interested only in people similar to themselves. IE, queer, non binary, trans.

And you get spammed dickpicks by the hundreds. Even if you explicitly say "I DON'T WANT DICKPICKS AND I WILL REPORT YOU IF YOU SEND ME A DICKPICK" and then you receive a dickpick? And point to the report thing?

You get sent another dickpick by the same person at a different angle.

Happens to me almost daily.

Almost nothing I do works. No moderation settings, no report features, no profile texts.

Grindr is best for gay men and bi men. Trans women, trans men and non binary people are not treated as first-class citizens by the values they care for the most.
Interesting that DeepSeek R1 which supposedly cost only $5.5M to train currently has the top score at 9.4%
This. Cow-bound Monte-Carlo analysis is already supported by a thriving community.
Weird, just spot checking a few places I know relatively well I see a few issues that seem like they would show up from that method. I wonder if there are issue in build up environments? Unfortunately that link is down for me.

A collection of streams go uphill in this map where in reality I believe they flow into an underground pipe or something that drains into the lake in a different place. I wouldn't expect the underground section to be perfect, but the hill the streams ascend is ~50 feet.

In another place two ponds are not shown, maybe due to dense tree cover? I believe both have water year round, but one was fenced off after a kid drowned and the owners may have filled part of it in.
it looks really slick but the timeline scrolling is a little heavy.

also fwiw no way to filter location for posts without sharing your own...
To help OP further, I don’t do any fancy manipulation but the boilerplate is present to grab geometry and futz with it:

https://github.com/emberian/blender-graphify

Maybe this can inspire some dabbling
Congratulations!

I just checked when I started using VWO, and found a really nice exchange between you and me from Fri, Dec 11, 2009.

VWO is still the absolute best split testing tool out there. You deserve all the success.
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This looks very interesting. Can this be trained on the user's codebase, or is the idea that everything must fit inside the context buffer?
HadesFit: Syncs fitness data from Google Fit and smartwatches into one app
Even for hard real-time systems, focusing on correctness first is often the right way to go. At least in my experience, it's typically been much easier to make a correct system fast than a fast wrong system correct. With some particularly delightful (read: catastrophic) results when some folks really wanted to push their fast wrong code (fixed years ago, fortunately, and they had a good corporate culture change not long after so no point in naming and shaming).
Thanks, this is really great advice!

How would you go around the security question? CFO knows we're a startup. We don't have any security certifications yet and we'll be handling sensitive data.
>hijacking the agenda to turn the meeting into a brainstorming session

As someone who has reason to call technical meetings on a regular basis, I've always had trouble with this. Do you mention 'brainstorming' in the agenda? Do you use a different header?

Most of the meetings I end up having are only vehicles to get necessary players into the same room and engaging in dialogue about a problem with a technical angle.

Advice appreciated.
So, what's the use-case for PINNs, then?
Tesla has been down/flat recently

almost impossible for it to go any more up than it did since the election...
Someone did? Could you pls share a link?
> If you keep losing data to power losses or crashes, perhaps fix the cause of that?

I keep telling my users to make sure to plug their phones in before the battery dies, but for some reason they keep forgetting...
Same as self-driving cars 10 years ago? Yeah...
But there's also been substantially more investment now than say 2 years ago (AI + AI-adjecent companies have, what, 4-5 trillion USD valuation now?). CEOs tout how they stopped hiring. And then these benchmarks having names like "humanity's last exam". All that implies LLMs are a direct replacement for human workers so imo it's fair to measure LLMs against the hype/promises.

So I would say the goalposts are moving just in step with the market expectations/hype. Nobody's disputing that LLMs are amazing at generating useful text anymore.
Ah mate, I'd settle for manufacturers to even publish colour quality of there lights, even if it's just CRI. At least here in NZ, like 99% of the consumer lights say nothing about colour quality, and many are pretty average (not to mention flicker).
Or built for a place with only dirt roads, heavy muds during a rainy season, probably very limited ability to get spare parts, and a desire to use it for years after buying it.
Man, you can't buy service like that. Oh wait, you can.
“Available to pro users in the US”—another win for the EU bureaucrats. I’m kind of amused by how big tech companies in the US seem to have given up on complying with this legislative nonsense and instead just nerf their products in the EU or stop offering them there altogether.
Texas hills are also an option, if Himalayas are not in your backyard :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42806991

This guy has taken the (conceptual) step beyond viscerality-as-a-salve:

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/01/22/deat...
I read 600 books this past decade; these are my recommendations
You could rent a car out of Auxerre, but don't count on being able to get by in rural l'Yonne without one.
But there are still new games coming out! How do they press those? You can't do that ahead of time, you need the gold master build.
Show HN: TextAI – Native SMS AI assistant for individual and group chats
Hey HN community! Like many of you, I spend most of my day in text conversations. One day I found myself switching between group chats and various AI apps, and thought, why can't AI just live where we already chat?

So I built TextAI. It's an AI that works right in your SMS app. No new app to download, no platform to learn.

Just text +15626840069 to start chatting or add it to any group chat!

The tech and stack details:

- Native SMS/MMS integration with context management across conversations

- Handles multiple participants, learns group preferences, and scales for concurrent chats

- Able to converse in multiple languages

- Built with Twilio on top of a foundational LLM model, plus building my own domain logic on top

Some cool things people have used it for:

- A group of my friends used it to plan a weekend trip to Las Vegas last week. It was their first time there. They used it to get suggestions on the must-do activities, casinos to play at, and finding restaurants that worked for vegetarians and meat lovers.

- A high school student showed the power of AI and started a group chat with their grandpa! - my personal fav

- A couple who used it to find new hiking trails around where they live without arguing for their preferences

I built this because I believe AI should be accessible through existing communication channels, not locked in new apps. It should be accessible to all, and frankly, it's important to keep things simple.

Hope you find it useful, and I would love your feedback, the good and the bad!

Thank you for reading!
If your livelihood depends on 50+ miles travel every day, and you're 55 years old, you may well appreciate the assistance.
What fault do you think GP was finding?

Do you think GP is wrong and that the President is, in fact, deeply invested in this? And if so, why not say it instead of complain weirdly about persecution?
A while ago I have implemented something similar to that in Python, although specifying versions requires using function calls instead of imports. Turns out in Python you can execute arbitrary code during imports via hooks, including calling out to pip to install a dependency.

https://github.com/miedzinski/import-pypi
Nice. I’m going to look into this more.
We currently run a dedicated server next to our vercel apps just for ws support. Adds considerable overhead.

Maybe game changer is an exaggeration but In the vercel community, ws has been a top requested feature for years. See comments on https://x.com/rauchg/status/1872729115595587627
The heaviest thing on a bike is the rider, generally by a pretty good margin. I've seen plenty of bikes with shitty brakes, but very few where the straw that broke the camel's back was the weight of the ebike componentry.

For most e-bikes, you're looking at maybe an extra 30lb/14kg. That's generally within the envelope of reasonable rider weights. If the combined bike and rider weight is too much for the brakes, it's probably also too much for the whole bike.

Again, not that there aren't worthless brakes in the world, but it's usually not the weight of the battery and motor that pushes a set of brakes over the edge.
Fairly valid speculation, I my opinion.

If I were in the US, and particularly in one of the seriously intolerant red states, there's no way I'd want and of my details in their database.

I don't think it's catastrophising to consider there may well be very real risks to being openly trans in the US in the near future. Risks of not only blackhat 4chan hackers, but also from government and legal system attacks on sites like this.
Show HN: I create a Mac app for activity tracking and smart break reminders
I built CLY Bear to help Mac users track their computer activity and maintain healthy work habits. It runs quietly in the background, automatically monitoring mouse/keyboard activity without any manual input needed.

Key features:

- Effortless tracking: Automatically monitors mouse and keyboard activity without manual input

- Clean, intuitive dashboard for real-time activity monitoring

- Converts your digital activity into real-world distance: Your mouse movements and keystrokes are calculated into real kilometers/miles traveled

- Track your bear's journey: Each day's activity creates a unique postcard showing your bear's adventure based on the actual distance covered

- Smart break reminders: Unlike fixed-time reminders, CLY Bear analyzes your real-time activity patterns to suggest breaks

- Detailed insights: Real-time dashboard and comprehensive daily/weekly/monthly reports

- Light and native: Built specifically for macOS with minimal resource usage

- Privacy-first: All data stays local on your machine

It's free to download on the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/time-tracker-focus-cly-bear/id...

I built this because I wanted a simple, unobtrusive way to understand my computer usage patterns and remember to take breaks. Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Why you'll leave X (as well as Instagram and all the other private platforms)
Writes in the POSIX API can be atomic depending on the underlying filesystem. For example, small writes on ZFS through the POSIX API are atomic since they either happen in their entirety or they do not (during power failure), although if the writes are big enough (spanning many records), they are split into separate transactions and partial writes are then possible:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/34205715e1544d343f9a6414...

Writes on ZFS cease to be atomic around approximately 32MB in size if I read the code correctly.