skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they have a decent API I might consider buying it.
Unfortunately it's not yet yet released in my region.
Skopje’s eccentric post office (2021)
I remember discovering ggWave few years ago, before the rebrand, it's still the only working( and fastest verifiable) library that can transmit data over sound.

I could not get to work on a project using this then, because of college. But now I am integrating this in my startup for frictionless user interaction. I want to thank the creators and contributors of GGWave for doing all the hard work for these years.

If I find something to improve I'd like to contribute to the codebase too.
The fact that you don't see how that title could have been more accurate and neutral is the problem with our world today. People think their opinions are fact, and their pre-existing political leanings are neutral objective reality.

It's the word "abuse". Even in that very poorly-produced video, there was no abuse. Bad word choice at worst. There's nothing neutral about the assumption of abuse.

And "Y Combinator backing..." makes it sound like YC is on board with "abuse".

Here's a neutral, accurate title: "YC24 startup Optifye makes software to optimize factory labor that could lead to abuse."
Plus three months of recording/cutting/editing the video. Well done.
They just can't let it go
I didn't propose to leave your door unlocked. It was a cynical take on how much hurdle most locked doors are when someone is determined to get access. Maybe I am that cynical because I attended a lockpicking tutorial once (CCC Camp summer 2003, fun with tech at 37C temperatures, good old times), and as a tech person with some interest in security, learnt my share about social engineering (mostly to pretect myself).
thanks for the suggestion man, will definitely think about this
> Often he and the hostess, Bernice Philbin, would be the first two people there, and they would have a polite conversation before Irving took his place in his booth—the first half circle to your left as you came in—and ordered breakfast: scrambled eggs back in the days when people ate eggs, and, more recently, banana and granola with skim milk.

TIL that my last 30+ years of egg eating has been a faux pas.
The API could be used for non-AI use cases if you wanted to, but it’s built to be integrated with an LLM through tool calling. We provide an MCP (model context protocol, for integration in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf etc.) server.
It is, but those cases tend to be obvious.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176314
Invocations of the anthropic principle come with more baggage than may be realized. And I suppose, by extension, the Copernican principle too.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec17.html
Thank god they didn't follow the way Python did.
The End of Programming as We Know It [video]
The NY specificity implied by the publication name is archaic. Apart from the event listings or performance/exhibit reviews, The New Yorker's long form coverage has been nationally (sometimes globally) focused for decades, albeit through the lens of what America's coastal elites find interesting.
I'm not arguing about where to get the best döner kebab in Europe. Just saying it's sad that the best we can get is this mediocre.

Shawarma is basically a variation of the same dish:

"The shawarma technique—grilling a vertical stack of meat slices and cutting it off as it cooks—first appeared in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century in the form of döner kebab,[1][14][15] which both the Greek gyros and the Levantine shawarma are derived from."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawarma
Original source: https://x.com/SCC_eng/status/1894734999552692580

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>This is a deeply cynical and unhappy way to navigate life.

And deeply true. Here’s the thing I feel a lot of people think happiness is all that matters. What about truth and reality?

My claim is that stupidity being intrinsic to humanity is fucking absolutely true. It has nothing to do with cynicism. I’m baffled at how people don’t even argue the veracity of the claim they just claim it’s “unhappy” as if being delusional is the better alternative.

> I think people who get irrationally angry at the ability to control things from a phone are missing out at this point. You don’t have to use it or buy it, but I’ve derived a lot of value from it.

I work at a place where there are no keys. To unlock a door you have to use your smart phone. Imagine if they did that for lights. I rent an apartment with no physical switches and they force you to use your smart phone. Infuriating. I think if you were rational you would know I’m talking about smart phones in place of physical switches not smart phones paired in addition to physical switches in situations where you have no choice to use it.
Tools like this rub me the wrong way.

We have well established conventions like prefixing private modules and symbols with an underscore, or declaring your public interfaces in the __init__.py file, but the Python developer decries it as "busywork", "weird" and "hard to read", so we instead use tools like this.

We can manage dependencies with protocols, a type checker and generally following SOLID principles, but the Python developer decries it as "too indirect and convoluted", so we instead use tools like this.

This is more commentary on the Python developer than this tool. Tach looks great.
Anyone looking for additional recommendations : the popular "A short history of nearly everything" by Bill Bryson covers in a historical context how these planetary distances were calculated
Everyone has been talking about.... 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631876
I have implemented most points, except the 2nd and last ones. I felt its better to have buttons as they are easier to click. I'm figuring out how to implement the last point.
You can tell Teams, gchat, discord, and other have taken away from Slack's dominance. This isn't even frontpage.
Cognitive load is part of it, but it's not the only part. If you want to scroll the page, you have to engage physical movement. That's an inefficiency in itself.
setting the temperature is very useful when you need control, like keeping the oil temperature stable when frying or avoiding overcooking a creme anglaise. That said, the constant ads (because they're ads) for Breville products are tacky and off putting
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> we’re focusing on large commercial shipping (>10,000 TEU) and mobile military vessels to provide ship-to-shore power capability

I can't tell for sure what this means, if it's propulsion or a temporary ship to shore power plant. I suppose this gives them the latitude to target both. Or perhaps the idea is to get exposure to maritime shipping investors.

A mobile power plant might be useful for deep sea mining, or meeting seasonal energy demands for major cities.
hi! yep! this definitely happened. I do mention it in the next "why" video, but it's good feedback to know this is interesting to people because I could say a bit more about what those rejections were like - specifically the one where I failed the technical screening.

I'm actually really excited to share that part of the story because I hope it can be a small thing in the back of people's mind to help them if it happens to them. It can happen to anyone. Interviews are SUCH a lossy process and most engineers I know don't have any training on how to do interviews at all - yet we just assume they know how to evaluate people's skillsets.
Try and make an evidence-based argument to help the OP's flippant implied claim that 'most VCs are unethical' ("Are there any ethical VC funds?").

I could see that there are incentive problems in VC that can, and have, lead to bad behavior, maybe even moreso than in other fields of finance.

But to claim that 'most VCs are unethical' is just ridiculous. Hence why the OP sounds like a whiny adolescent appealing to emotion and feels.
When has this group ever done anything for anyone but true believers? It's been a winning formula for them.

Every time democrats lose, they reflect that they need to appeal to more voters by sliding right. Every time republicans lose, they have a meltdown and also slide right. Centrism has gone from "we should have a government that runs effectively and efficiently" to "well, opinions differ about whether we should have a government at all, but we probably might need some of it?"
Typescript does support it. You can do everything ts can in js with just jsdoc style comments. I actually prefer it.
Yes, that exception was the main dynamic I gave. But the cost of setting up a large enough system to have those options is at least one and half orders of magnitude more than the generator.

I stayed away from discussing propane because it's adding another variable. I too thought that was the way to go, until I realized it doesn't work so well in the winter because the self-evaporation rate is too low. It my experience it takes 3x 20lb tanks teed together to run my small 2500 watt inverter generator, and the baseline load isn't even that much.
Do you trust the opposing party to manage a Sovereign Wealth Fund if they get into power?
This might have been during the "eggs are bad for you" part of the egg cycle.

So it's kind of a tongue-in-cheek jab at contemporary cultural mores.
Absolute the same experience with my google home. A large majority of my interactions with it now are repeating myself to get it to understand, or yelling at it in frustration when it "doesnt know but heres what comes up in search"
holy Father! this is amazing, the things a human mind can do, ask an LLM for that and it'll give you 10 more complicated and unmaintainable ways to do it.
May I ask how you got the opportunity to invest in this company? If you are a VC, makes sense, just wondering how normies can get access to invest in companies they believe in. Thanks
I guess you have to ask yourself, what truely gives value in life? The answer is that value is subjective, and this person is wasting his time no less or more than you or I.
>But work in Mendelian genetics was essentially illegal at the time in the Soviet Union, because of a pseudo-scientific charlatan by the name of Trofim Lysenko (Joravsky 1979; Soyfer 1994).

>In the mid-1920s, the Communist Party leadership, in an attempt to glorify the average citizen, began to promote uneducated men from the proletariat into the scientific community.

You cannot fix science through ideology, especially when that ideology is actually just loyalty, and is mostly being used as an excuse to get rid of people who keep telling you that you are wrong.

But don't worry, that could never happen here.
Should you become an Engineering Manager?
Network edge gets 64-bit ARMv9 AI. And watches. And server remote management
I don't think its a question of whether there is an essential reality or not, but rather whether we have access to essential reality. Donald Hoffman makes a strong game theoretical argument for how natural selection chooses effective presentations of reality rather than necessarily accurate ones [1]. Based on your level of interest in this conversation I'd expect you would really enjoy that book!

The game is certainly easier than the mind—I like it as an example because most of us have a hands-on knowledge of what the qualitative experience of "playing a game" is like. But the game still only emerges because the game developer, computer manufacturer, and player jointly give it a emanating system into which it can emerge. On its own, the raw game data doesn't really mean anything at all—if the bitstream of Diablo IV washed up on the beach, there's nowhere in that data encoding the experience of killing Diablo for the first time. One wouldn't even recognize it as something that could be decoded into such an experience [2].

I agree with you that the "why" is tough. Why have a conscious experience? Why have a sense of self at all? Why experience emotions rather than have them be—like you described—a purpose-driven internal signal? And then you get into theories like Internal Family Systems, which has empirical support at least within a prescriptive context if not necessarily a descriptive one [3].

The whole thing is a mess. A great, big, beautiful mess.

[1: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution-Truth/...]
[2: https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2021/02/21/Three-Layers-of-I...]
I just tell Alexa or Google home to do set the temperature and change the color. Superior technology less hassle.

It has nothing to do with me not being able to set it up. It more has to do with the stupidity of the user interface of pulling my phone out of my fucking pocket, navigating to the app, navigating to the menu and picking the lights and the color and flipping it.
That's far clearer. Yes.
The nationalism was always there. At first, it was strongly suppressed. Stalin in 1941 found it expedient to suppress it less (to try to motivate the population to fight Nazi invaders). Brezhnev in the 1970s found it expedient to suppress it even less (to try to motivate the population to not succumb to Western cultural influences). Then Gorbachev pulled out the control rods even further and it exploded.
(author here) that was one of the 1st-week "ok, but THAT'S surely a good reason this can't work..." until I dug in and (to my great surprise) found a way.
and what better way to spark joy on the new team than the opportunity to leave all the tech debt behind with a clean rewrite (in rust!)

only half joking.
> People generally do not intentionally throw away stimulating, happy, healthy lives to become destitute drug addicts

It’s true that people don’t intentionally become destitute drug addicts.

However, it’s completely false to claim that people wouldn’t get addicted to drugs if they had stimulating, happy lives.

A very common entry point to drug addiction in modern life is when people are having a great time in life, doing well enough to afford large amounts of drugs, and feeling invincible because so many things in their life are going their way. People willing experiment with drugs for fun, which can quickly turn into a habit and a cycle.

I don’t know where this myth comes from that drug addicts are a product of their environment, not their own actions. When one of my friends was in rehab (fully recovered now for many years, thankfully) one of their rules was that people had to accept responsibility for their choices and actions in getting involved with drugs. Apparently it was common for people and their families and friends to generate a lot of “not your fault” excuses to absolve them of any responsibility for getting involved with drugs: Blaming peer pressure, a breakup, a bad job, a tragedy. This made people temporarily feel less guilt, but it also allowed them to avoid addressing their own behaviors and actions. Their theory was that entirely externalizing the drug addiction and turning the patient into a 100% pure victim just opens the door to relapse when those circumstances happen again, because it teaches them that it’s not their fault and out of their control anyway.
The HN battery checklist needs to be reworked for fusion power. Arguably, even though people think it’s trolling to use the checklist, I’ve found it surprisingly educational each time.
Apparently Sonos acquired them in 2020.

https://audioxpress.com/news/data-over-sound-pioneer-chirp-a...

Seems to have been euthanized.
I was thinking: "an entire article about a guy who used to tan at a hotel pool... when we start focusing on such trifles, it's usually a foreshadowing of some major upheaval coming."

Then I saw the year of publication: 1993.
Honestly, I think this is probably too kind on word clouds. They're tragic and any time I see one on a presentation it makes me cringe.
> look just like

In my experience, there is usually an obvious difference between seeing a phone used as a camera versus not, based on whether it's aimed at an interesting subject or not. There are exceptions, like sitting with your elbow propped on the arm of a chair for a few minutes to avoid fatigue, which causes the phone to be at eye level and therefore perfectly vertical, but this is rare.
It was the rack and peanut steering that sold me on it.
To be fair, their status page reported problems super early. It might even be automated. Usually you have to search Twitter for accurate information on outages.
Maybe you can use iTunes on Windows? I haven't use the latter in a long time, but IIRC, it was just adding the file and syncing it to the iPhone.
Agreed. But repeating your self is an unintentional artifact. when it works it’s beautiful.

The phone app is just annoying by design.
So do you want Cicero or to speed run to the crisis of the third century?
Cause the us is no save haven for money and ownership anymore? Look at other autocracies where the dictators give and take the riches ala russia.In a oligarchy with king, you are one bad emperor day at court away from loosing it.
The article is from 1993. If you are old enough to remember that time, it was indeed when official nutritionist advice was a complete failure. Eggs were advised against because it was thought their high cholesterol levels raised blood cholesterol, which is false for most people who consume a moderate amount of eggs. This is the time during which fat was demonized (anyone remember SnackWell's???), the "foot pyramid" was the rule of the day that was based on eating lots of bread, pasta and carbs.
You could say the same about art. Artists put lots of time and effort into creating unuseful things to inspire others. Just like here!
I chuckled, then cried. Ymmv
That's exactly what I asked for, wow. To whoever asked why should Amazon want to do this, it's to keep their customers from bypassing their own search with services like this one.
Yeah, I'm not wrong. Its terminology is antique.

As for the rest, been there and done that, but then you have to invest in your knowledge of Elisp, which has zero other benefits.
That's not true, the authors of IIT [1] propose a number of experiments that would support or deny the underlying theory. To my knowledge, those experiments haven't shown much support. But there are aspects of it that are absolutely empirically falsifiable.

[1: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn.2016.44]
I wonder how much of the HN readership was not even born then....?
And what is your software?
And how exactly do I copy & paste or even use my keyboard to input text to Alexa+?

I believe that I have my phone in my hands no longer than 10 minutes a day, and it is not linked to my PC, nor will it ever be. There are only a few things I consider as worthless as a keyboard on a 65mmx40mm touchscreen surface. Only in case of emergency.
What does it mean to be "owned" here? Are you not the one choosing to pay Amazon, or to use your Google phone? You surely get something out of this trade.
Those interviews select for the type of person that believe it is worthwhile to dump tons of time into studying minutia to succeed at those types of interviews.

The purpose of a system is what it does, after all.
is the Aviary Campari replacer from their book on non-alcoholic drinks? it's very interesting to me!
I enjoy coming up with questions deemed so politically incorrect that alexa responds with a BONK noise.
Hey folks, author here. Appreciate the comments and discussion on the post! Happy to continue the discussion or answer any follow-on questions folks have about our investigation and resolution.
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Also, what's you intermediate plans between :

2025 -> Post on HN

2028 -> Q>1 achieved (by you ? by someone else ?)

CFS plans Q>1 for 2027 with a tokamak design. If they succeed then there will be plenty of VC for similar designs. I'd place my bets that CFS succeeds with Q>1. And I think the real problem will be the energy flux and neutron handling and thus much more a material sciences problem than a plasma physics problem. Thus the idea to look for a niche that has lower power needs is a very clever one. My bet would be rather on Maritime Fusion than Helion. But nevertheless, CFS will be likely first at Q>1 however there is always space for another competitor.
> don't want to crash the party

> I just see a massive waste of time & effort

Kinda seems like you do wanna "crash the party". I disagree that this is a "waste of time" of course, the value I see here is manyfold:

1. Learning how to do self-directed learning, managing time, etc

2. Learning, at an expert level, about dozens of complicated (not to mention in-demand) CS subdomains

3. Doing something that nobody has attempted, and few people could realistically accomplish

4. Having fun on the journey of taking a ridiculous idea from conception through to a truly functional implementation

5. Sharing something you've built with the world

It is, of course, not everyone's cup of tea, but if someone wants to spend a not insignificant fraction of their life building something unique (and beautiful, in its own way) and sharing it with the world, to the detriment of quite literally nobody else, I support them in their adventure.
Personally, I think they'll move some of the Alexa+ functionality to prime subscribers and increase the prime rate again to subsidize.
Rennpappe: The "racing cardboard" of East Germany
Eggs had a rough go of it in the 90s. There were studies where it seemed like even looking at an egg would cause your cholesterol to sky rocket and kill you.
Link to the article: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-end-of-programming-as-we-k...
Not using SQL makes it basically a complete non-starter for any business unless it had some extremely compelling niche feature that you absolutely need and can't be found elsewhere. SQL has a massive ecosystem around it. All the examples I see are either some bespoke typescript library, or treat queries as strings. Obviously it can't hook into any of the zillion query builder libraries out there, and you'd have to go implement one or write a decent amount of code for an existing one to be able to use it. I also don't see any docs for JVM usage at all, which is like half the industry.

If you want to experiment with syntax for database queries, macros that translate to SQL at compile time seem like a much better way to get traction, but pretty much everything I've seen ends up being a more verbose cosmetic variation of SQL. The one big flaw to fix is that SELECT should have been at the end.
Exactly this !!