skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious as to whether this would really make better coffee. Is fresh roasted from green beans a better cup? Is their regular roaster worth getting vs the digital one? Do green coffee beans last longer? Where do you get green coffee beans?

Does anyone have firsthand experience with this product that is not associated with the company?

So far what I've learned from the faq, unrelated to my original questions:

A gas heater source is preferred but not required (particularly single burner camp stoves work well).

Apparently smoke production (release, capture, generation?) is one of the most important variables. (Which is something this addresses?)

So far that's what I got. The rest of the faq seems more concerned about taxes and shipping. If someone (or an employee) with personal experience can answer the first questions, it would be appreciated. My wife enjoys her coffee and her birthday is coming up soon. :)
“I want to drive my car without airbags, but I have all these other stupid people on the road who might hit me, so I have to invest in airbags. Maybe I should just preemptively sue them for forcing me to invest in my safety.”
It’ll come
I'm just gonna throw into this thread that when I bought a car, I deliberately demanded a model with a physical, metal key. Software is for things that are supposed to be flexible but don't really need to be reliable. For things meant to be reliable but not necessarily flexible or changeable, get hardware.

And if someone's giving you software where hardware belongs, ask what flexibility they're getting out of it.
Apple leaders have voluntarily chosen to have DEI policies. Shareholders didn’t demand those policies be put in place, it was a decision by the company. They just rejected a resolution that asked the company to consider (it didn’t force it) ending their DEI program. Also it isn’t really a “shareholder” vote as much as a few people at financial groups (like funds) that cast votes for actual shareholders.
uv does this out of the box, I think other tools (poetry, hatch, pdm, etc.) do as well but I have less experience with the details.
Snippets Everywhere on Windows with Autohotkey
Politicians are also a burden
> An energy breakthrough is really required to get the world back on track

Not really, the energy technologies we've needed have been around for about half a century, with quite reasonable economics (albeit less and less so, as the time pressure increases), especially compared to the alternative. The problems that need to be solved are political and economic, not technical.
It isn’t really “optimized” for gaming. From what I read it’ll perform like an Nvidia 4060 on graphics. It is a bit odd because the same processor fits in tiny tablet style laptops. But Framework won’t offer this particular processor in their actual laptops, only this tiny desktop.
Nintendo 3DS gang rise up! Though it wasn't perfect or useful that much it was still a nice feature, made some fun photos with it.
I can't be the only person curious about his Fortunescope: https://www.etsy.com/listing/719052863/antique-1935-fortunes...
I can generally see the Magic Eye pictures very well.. these are way harder.

The tiny thumbnails at the bottom of the page work, but the larger images I can't cross my eyes enough.

I think it depends greatly on getting the screen/image size just the right size and also getting the viewing distance right. On large monitors it seems harder to see.
Can Prime users instead get a discounted prime without this Alexa stuff? Seems like it should be $20 cheaper per month. In other words Prime shipping should be free.
Complete blackstarts are scary stuff. We have all this infrastructure to assist with pulling one off, but it's not the kind of thing you can test. As they saying goes "your backups are only as good as the last time you tried to restore them."

For example, you can't just turn on all the power plants. Ignoring the phase issue, power plants require some power to operate (which is where the flywheels and batteries come into play). This means you need to isolate them, and bring them up one-at-a-time (and you probably want to isolate consumers until the whole process is complete). How do you coordinate this in the absence of power/internet? Radios, but now you have to worry about the logistics surrounding that. Do you have a stockpile of petroleum that can be tapped without power, because your people aren't getting on-site in a reasonable time without a car. How familiar are people with the process, having never practiced it?
> "We've decided to prioritize other candidates, as you are strong in the fundamentals but lack the kind of experience in Vue that we're looking for."

I have a nuanced view of your particular example. I've been in this industry for almost 30 years. I cut my teeth writing C/C++, had an interest in language theory and frameworks and was brought up to care about portability. I always wanted to be able to easily transition from one language to another, or one framework to another.

And I always assumed this was the case for other engineers in our field as well.

However, I have worked for startups that like to move really fast, and hired talented developers who passed our technical screenings (read: "had the fundamentals down") under a "framework agnostic" hiring policy ... only to see them display stunning degrees of incompetence trying to learn our tooling.

The problems that compound this are:

- When you enter a new company with a large codebase that you have to ramp up on, you're not only required to learn the language or 3rd party frameworks and libraries that they use ... you need to ramp up on THEIR "framework." Depending on the complexity of the system, there is a lot of domain specific knowledge and custom supporting code that will have been written. Try to learn the ins and outs of Angular change detection, for example, while also ramping up on a massive codebase that does things in weird ways for legacy and historic reasons.

- Every business, but some more so than others, has time pressure. You need to be able to write functional, easy to maintain code but also get it shipped yesterday. If you come into a company unfamiliar with the languages and tools that they use, you are essentially coming in handicapped. Expectations that you can deliver are very high, despite the time that you need to ramp up. Maybe you're one of those 10x'ers who can learn all the ins and outs of a new tool in a week or two before starting your position and then apply that knowledge at the level of someone whose been working with the tool for years and has learned all of the hidden footguns ... but if so, you are a rare specimen indeed. The industry can save itself a ton of inefficiency if it takes a "better not take a chance" attitude.

- All problems are people problems. It's not that the company needs people who know how to code in the language or tool ... they need someone who has worked on enough different projects with that tool that they can navigate the completely fucked up ways that THIS company uses it. Because THIS company will for sure have years of active development behind it by developers of all sorts of different experience levels ... and some of those developers did it the right way while others found creative solutions and did things weird. The company doesn't need someone who can write the Hello World tutorial in the language or framework, they need someone who can evaluate the good decisions vs the bad ones in an existing codebase.
This is very common in structural biology papers, where you need to make figure of complex 3D arrangements of atoms, but the figures must be printed in 2D. Typically using molecular modeling software, you find your view of choice. Then you rotate +- 0.5° and render two images, and put those side by side as a stereo pair figure.

It takes quite a bit of practice to see them well:

https://spdbv.unil.ch/TheMolecularLevel/0Help/StereoView.htm...
I remember reading news papers in the 1980s and 1990s. Basically they were a mix of actual news articles (typically copied verbatim from agencies like AP, Reuters, and national equivalents), some original reporting from their own journalists, and a lot of filler content, opinion pieces, cartoons, etc. With lots of ads.

The original reporting and opinions was why you bought a news paper. The actual news would be stale by the time it hit your doorstep but it still had some value because news spread slowly.

As soon as news started being distributed online in more or less real time, the shelf life of news articles reduced to zero. And since that stuff is basically being tweeted out in a gazillion different ways, the value dropped to zero as well.

That also affected original content. Because the second that's published, people will extract the essential facts and write about that online. The whole point of original reporting was that it was exclusive to the publisher for long enough that readers had no choice to get the information in a timely fashion by buying the paper. That time window went away. As soon as you publish something, the essentials are being reported on by world + dog. In a matter of seconds. You can be well informed without ever buying paying for a news paper.

So that left news papers in a place where they were basically distributing old news with low value bundled up with some filler content. The filler content could go on a blog or in a magazine just as easily. And a lot of it did not have a terribly large audience to begin with. Most people didn't have time to read news papers cover to cover.

Google helped accelerate this process but they did not cause it.
How is this reminiscent? And can you point to any articles, comments on forums, anything that backs up this point of view?
They probably understand, but the Alexa team are powerless to make the necessary changes without higher level executive initiative (as the way things go in big orgs like Amazon). Even something pragmatic like "why not restrict the available options to known brands" can have more nuance and can be far more complex than just coming up with a list of brands to whitelist.
From my perspective drugs are not a part of public life in America either. I hope this continues (My kids will enter high school soon, and that is one of the places where they will leave my bubble for both good and bad)
"The Swasticar"
I swear my Zojirushi travel mug defies the laws of physics.
Because multiplication gives rise to simpler algebras than convolution does.
Yep! You'll need to buy half the spice shop, but it is really good. It's not quite as bitter and notably more vegetal, but it really hits the spot, especially in a spritz.

The Zero book from the Aviary is a lot more cookable than their original book, not as cookable as the summer or holiday books. The Campari replacement is really good, I've had less luck with the other liquor replacements.

There's a drink in there called the bramblin man that is probably my all time favorite N/A cocktail
> Even if a company somehow managed to put every one of their competitors out of business, shareholders will still demand endless growth so the only thing left is to screw the customers and degrade the product which is exactly what we see over and over again once a company has anything close to a monopoly.

But this is exactly the point.

A competitive market is going to have at least a dozen suppliers. There are some corporate apologists who like to pretend that a duopoly is competition and only a strict monopoly is a problem, but that's BS. With sufficiently few suppliers they can easily collude with each other or use conscious parallelism to make sure that everybody is screwing customers and therefore nobody has to stop.

A competitive market isn't a thing where one company is so great they put all of their competitors out of business. It's a thing where entering the market is easy so lots of people do it all the time.

Suppose there is a market with five companies all colluding to screw the customer. If entering the market is easy then soon there are six companies, because investors like money. If the incumbents are getting 50% margins and you could go eat their lunch while still getting 20% margins, that's what you do. Then there are six companies getting 20% margins, but that's still a good profit margin and it's still easy to enter the market, so soon there are seven and their margins are 8%. Trying to buy out the new guys or collude with them doesn't work because the combination of "industry with high margins" and "easy to enter the market" means new companies will keep showing up forever until the margins come down.

Whereas if there is a market with five companies all colluding to screw the customer and regulations make it hard for anyone new to enter the market, the customer is screwed. Which is what keeps happening.
My Three Years at Developer Experience Team: Lessons Learned
I worked on the Developer Experience team for over three years, facing many challenges along the way. In this post, I’ve tried to share about some of the struggles I experienced.

Feel free to share your thoughts and feedback. Apologies for any mistakes in my English
It's a heavy black box which emits neutrons.

The good news is that neutrons are easily absorbed by steel and water.

The bad news is that the resulting irradiated steel isn't anywhere near as strong as it was pre-irradiation.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run...
Thanks. I packaged on the play store (free). Nobody seemed to care, and it got 0 downloads. It's now on f-droid too, where I got a nice message from a random user. Maybe I should make a paid version for play store/app store/steam, while continuing to give the same game away for free on web and f-droid (it's OSS). I don't like really like app stores and their annoying rules and monopolies, though. And I feel like they don't promote good stuff, they only push adware in front of visitor because they get a cut of the ads, so even if I package the app and publish it (ad free), the stores will probably push the clones. I might eventually make the move, but for now I'm happy to make good OSS software.
Oh come on, are you seriously being blasé about this? What could ever impress you?
If you're into this kind of thing, B.A.C.U. (a Romanian org) published a really nice hardback book / photo album titled "Socialist Modernism in the Former Yugoslavia" back in 2020 or 2021.

It looks like there are a handful of copies around, fwiw selling for about 40% more than what I paid back then.
There's a whole bunch of these over at https://old.reddit.com/r/wigglegrams/ if you want more
A Science Fiction Workshop Lexicon
Is this your reaction when someone climbs a mountain? "Bipedal locomotion was shown sufficient for climbing mountains centuries ago, given reasonable assumptions about the terrain, why should I be impressed?"

Doing things can be difficult and admirable, even if it was confidently believed possible beforehand.
Terrible as these people may be, even they do not deserve the Brazen Bull (nobody does).
I think if escaping from garrotting is something you should consider when buying a car, you are better off sitting in the backseat and let someone else drive you around :)
I wonder if there are any small changes/improvements to TS that would make this orders-of-magnitude more efficient to run? It would be fun to go implement some random TS feature with the secret sneaky goal of making it run Wasm better.
I remember seeing video done this way on youtube during the 3D tv craze about 10 years ago (not the 3d stuff that youtube supported, this was just people messing about with 2 images side by side). It worked about as well as the examples here, but was not a particularly comfortable experience for anything longer than a few minutes.
Does anyone know the url of the variant with multiple balls? Blocks have numbers and you get more balls the more you play. I cannot find it, is was on ycombinator news a few years ago.
You have much competition in this space with for example
https://ichigoreader.com
https://ismanga.com
and many more (just search the chrome extension store for examples). What is your plan to stand out and remain competitive?

On a side note, if anyone’s been watching the fan translation community, it’s clear this is the end game.
The trick for me was to completely cross my eyes and produce the double images, then slowly uncross/cross them until I could start to see the image, which eventually clears up.
That's one reason that trying to value TSLA by comparing it to Ford et al doesn't work.
Is it possible to reuse the same paused VM multiple times from the same snapshot?
The thing is we can't wholly give up our devices and apps, because so many peoples' professional and social lives depend on them. So we have to manage it. It's more like a food addiction than alcohol, since alcohol, you can live without.

I wrote about this here.

https://vonnik.substack.com/p/how-to-take-your-brain-back
Grapheme clusters are locale dependent. Also, if you aren't allowing combining characters, then you are going to need lots of extra codepoints. In some languages, like Indian ones, vowels are combining characters. Or there are languages where multiple code points produce grapheme cluster, like Hangul syllables. You are going to need a lot more code points to represent all possible strings. Text processing is going to be much harder cause there a thousand different representations of Hangul character.

Also, backspace is locale dependent. In some languages, backspace removes the accent, which makes sense with combining characters, and other it removes the whole character. Which is going to be fun when whole syllable is code point.

Languages are hard, there is no way to make them simple.
Alternatively if The Romero Hypothesis is proven to map the distribution of Mancubus numbers ... >_<
Robots Will Write the Macro Forecasts
I did this on a school project back in the 90's, with a structure of quinol clathrate that was completely wrong but very pretty. I was very into povray at the time. My chemistry teacher didn't quite know what to make of it...
What climate change?
> I don't think there is a mathematical proof.

Even mathematical proofs don't have mechanized, verifiable proofs, so physics has a ways to go. Once most mathematicians are using formal tools like theorem provers, maybe they will be usable and general enough to trickle down to physicists, and you'll have a more verifiable chain of reasoning from top to bottom for machines and observations. It probably will turn up a few minor issues, but I wouldn't expect anything drastic.
Deception with respect to him having full control of Wordpress, which is what the quote was about.
Musk fanboys are always impressed by how much he does, but it's becoming clear he can't have time to be the CEO of Tesla, owner of X, CEO of the Boring Company, CEO of SpaceX, CEO of SpaceX, CEO of xAI, owner of Neuralink, Reichsleiter of the DOGE, and top-20 Diablo IV player.
Yes, making them smaller certainly helps.
True, but if they start producing non-existent facts consistently LIKE LLMS. You will be concerned about their mental health.

I insist that human hallucinations are NOT SAME as LLMs.
It is open-source, you are of course more than welcome to take a crack at it.
It is just you, I think.

Recreating the WASM runtime makes you learn a crap ton of useful stuff no matter what you use as your host compiler. In this case, the host being the typescript compiler happens to also add a wow-factor.
Apparently the cp command in CoreUtilities also supports copy-on-write on macOS: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/311536/cp-reflink-a...
Do it all locally.

I wrote a blog post[1] describing what a local only LLM could do. The answer is quite a lot with today's technology. The question is - do any of the tech giants actually want to build it?

The locally hosted scenarios are in some ways more powerful than what you can do with cloud hosted services, and honestly given that companies could charge customers for the inference hardware instead of paying to host, it would likely be a net win for everyone. Sadly companies are addicted to SaaS revenue and have forgotten how to make billions by selling actual things (with the exception of Apple).

[1] https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some-actual-...
Photography:

- William Klein

- Helen Levitt

- Sergio Larrain

- Jane English

- Josef Koudelka

Generative coding:

- Inigo Quilez - https://iquilezles.org/

- Shelby Wilson - https://shelby.cool/

- David OReilly - https://www.davidoreilly.com/

- Rekka and Devine - https://esoteric.codes/blog/100-rabbits

- David Whiting - https://www.vitling.xyz/
Next one: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vira-the...
Look at the breadth of his work over the past years, not a single piece posted today
You're right that LLM context is the limiting factor here, and we generally don't expect machines to be used across different LLM contexts (though there is nothing stopping you).

The utility here is mostly that you're not paying for compute/memory when you're not actively running a command. The "forever" aspect is a side effect of that architecture, but it also means you can freeze/resume a session later in time just as you can freeze/resume the LLM session that "owns" it.
> nowadays

People have been writing provocative titles for things since before the internet.
I think most government workers including elected officials in both parties will be biased towards spending and granting themselves more power over time. I think if each party actively damages the other party's cherished institutions and programs (eg by creating policies undermining the defense industrial base, or undermining SNAP) it will require excess spending just to stand still. Each party is stuck rebuilding stuff every 4 years and nothing gets done for either party's agenda, at astronomical expense. Tragic, and obviously unsustainable. In a perfect world, liberals push spending on useful well run programs and conservatives resist foolish spending on fads and over zealous interventions and policy with little impact. We need that balance. We do not have it. As such, those that want to burn it all down will win, unless the left change their ways. (Moderates on the right are and forever will be outgunned by the more intelligent, typically wealthier Milton Friedman types.)
I don't actually think it's 'the end game.'

A vast majority of AI translations are usually enough to get the gist of the story but tend to miss a lot of really important with-context story clues. What I've found is that the best case is that you can get a 'speed translation' with AI, and then have a translator come in behind and clean it up. Much like using AI to generate the base of an image and then painting over top of it to fix any artistic choices it's made that the artist doesn't agree with.
Red Bull Racing: The Life of a Bolt
For that matter, there are a couple of "Magic Eye" videos out there, which look like TV static until you cross your eyes enough.
> Is this your reaction when someone climbs a mountain?

My reaction then isn’t “wow, this blows my mind that it’s possible”. The first time someone climbing Mount Everest 72 years ago was impressive and possibly astounding. Nowadays, not really that much.
Was going to say the same thing. Presenting stereo pairs has a lot of layout and resolution issues to say nothing of the fact that some people have stereo blindness to varying degrees (lazy eye is an extreme case).
The author is correct that stereo depth can greatly enhance an image, but a wigglegram does this at full resolution with no visual puzzle solving.
> In my understanding, there has to be actual damages arising out of an action.

Depends on the specific tort, but actual damages aren't the only thing for which there can be liability. Statutory damages, punitive damages, and non-damages based liability (unjust enrichment, disgorgement of profits, etc.) are all things that exist for various torts.

> "I could have been hacked, so I had to spend time/money on it" isn't actual damages unless they were _actually_ hacked.

Why wouldn't reasonable costs incurred to determine or rule out adverse effects of a wrongful act be considered actual damages of that act?