jackcarter

Is there any professional software that wouldn't benefit from high information density? Most software design is optimized for the non-users who have to approve it.

I haven’t encountered this bug, but I have been frustrated that there’s no way to give a babysitter temporary access to the cameras in the kids’ rooms.

I ended up hosting a local site that embeds the RTSP feeds, which works pretty well, but I was surprised that there’s no native way to do it

It’s funny that this is probably due to bias in the training texts, right? Humans are way more likely to publish their “Eureka!” moments than their screwups… if they did, maybe models would’ve exhibit this behavior.

Now that AI labs have all these “Nevermind” texts to train on, maybe it’s getting easier to correct? (Would require some postprocessing to classify the AI outputs as successful or not before training)

"At some point I realized that rather than do something else until it finishes, I would constantly check on it to see if it was asking for yet another permission, which felt like it was missing the point of having an agent do stuff"

Why don't Claude Code & other AI agents offer an option to make a sound or trigger a system notification whenever they prompt for approval? I've looked into setting this up, and it seems like I'd have to wire up a script that scrapes terminal output for an approval request. Codex has had a feature request open for a while: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/3052

> wants it moved over to the others side of the utility closet so that when you open the door it is easier to put clothes from there into the dryer

That's when you swap the hinges so the door opens the other way, and you thank the manufacturer for providing such an easy solution to a common problem. It's good to keep things flexible and user-configurable.

Now quick, someone reply with a counterexample of how user configuration complicates the product and increases cost. It's design tradeoffs all the way down...

This is very cool, congrats on the execution!

Seems great for grandparents. Have you tested with older people with frail or arthritic hands? I'm curious how much dexterity and force is required.

It's been this way for over a decade: https://www.vox.com/2014/3/31/5563600/everything-you-need-to...

"How Good is ChatGPT [3.5] at Coding, Really?"

I don't know the answer, but there's a famous lost camera owned by a team that perished on Everest before Hillary/Norgay successfully climbed it. It's possible that the camera contains proof of an earlier first ascent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory#Reaching_the_su...

Kodak has published instructions for how to protect the camera and develop the film, if it's ever found: https://web.archive.org/web/20130303001517/http://www.veloci...

Camera limitation – it doesn't capture a full sphere. That's exactly the spot where I also noticed it.

This isn't true for RSUs in the USA. You're taxed on the value at the time when you receive them.

Hopefully, a self-driving car would have waited for a safe opening to make the turn.

A heat pump warms a home more efficiently than using the same amount of electricity for resistive heating. It can do this because it's not generating the heat from scratch; it's moving heat from outside to inside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Performance

“A hotel that did a business of $10,000 per week in room sales found that its receipts from room sales were less in May than those in April. It looked as if the business was dropping off. May was one day longer than April and yet its room sales were less. The figures, however, proved to be very misleading. As a matter of fact business was actually better in May than in April – ten dollars a day better – but the monthly comparison seemed to show that it was worse.”

So revenue/day was up in May, and there are more days in May, but total revenue was down in May? What's the explanation?

Does anyone know if there's a secret advanced option to search by keyword?

Some Airbnbs have free bicycles available, but there's no "bicycle" filter (possibly for liability reasons). There's also no way to search for homes that mention "bicycle". Instead, I have to comb through every listing.

I think this used to be an option, but they took it away. This is the only feature I've ever wanted from Airbnb search.

If you use Chrome, the extension Video Speed Controller: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...

David Lynch on contemporary product placement, 14 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wh_mc8hRE

This is about the notification that a book is ready for pickup.

It was $39,381 in 2009, $58,230 in 2019 [1]. These are tuition-only, exclusive of room & board, books, etc.

The $100k figure is a projection for 2025.

[1] https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/trends/university-of-c...

I learned about Figma recently, in this HN-frontpage article about fast software: https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/

It really is delightfully fast. It's no surprise that the team behind it is producing this caliber of content.

Some national parks already have lottery systems for certain areas, e.g. to hike to the top of Yosemite's Half Dome: https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hdpermits.htm

Some more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/04/0...

I built one myself with some spare parts. I love it, to the point that I wear my helmet for short trips when I otherwise wouldn't bother.

It's modeled after this one: https://www.efficientvelo.com/home/safezone

The key component is the flexible, stays-where-you-put-it arm. Safezone is repurposing an industrial product called "coolant hose" - a 1-ft length costs less than $5. Epoxy a small mirror to the end, and attach it to your helmet with zip ties or velcro straps.

Here's mine: https://imgur.com/a/a9H7bXq

From a comment on the article: "The normal way to excavate bedrock is dynamite. This would probably not be feasible on this site. But at this rate, from the photo, they are going to be jackhammering for another three years to reach thirty seven and a half feet. I’ve read that in London the Uber rich do these basement pool - theatre complexes all the time under their town houses, but probably digging out dirt. The neighbors should get their council persons involved to pressure DOB to put a blanket prohibition on what is clearly an untenable method of excavation. A Bedrock Amendment: if the site isn’t big or isolated enough for blasting, bedrock is the limit."[0]

In London, lavish basements have become trendy[1], but they don't have to deal with bedrock so close to the surface. The Guardian article only mentions the noise once.

[0]https://nyti.ms/2D2qPOp#permid=31403929

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/07/pool-basement-...

iOS does something like this with the Apply Pay Cash card in Wallet: https://twitter.com/supcat/status/1083537384233328640

> Why state it that there's a 1/2 chance you win $1? It doesn't seem to help answer the problem because assuming you're playing you will always always win $1. The reason they say this (I think) is that there's really a 50% chance you win $1 and a 50% chance you win $2.

There is a 50% chance of winning exactly $1. There's a 25% chance of winning exactly $2. It sounds like you might be interpreting it to mean "at least $1" instead of "exactly $1".

Ah, that’s interesting and believable. Do you know where you heard that?

I found this article, which talks about a slightly different effect: If Antarctic ice melts more quickly than arctic ice, then the Antarctic land rebound will shove southern-hemisphere water north, raising sea levels in the northern hemisphere. The opposite effect happens if arctic ice melts before Antarctic ice.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/01/cities...

Won't post-glacial rebound counteract rising sea levels?

If I'm willing to accept as little as $60, then I should bid $60. If someone else bids $1000, then I get $1000. I don't do any better by anticipating their bid and inflating my own bid to $999. If they bid $61, I get $61, and because I value not-having-Facebook at $60, that means I get $1 of surplus value.

Anyone bidding higher than their minimum price doesn't fully understand the second-price auction. Probably lots of people don't understand it, which could lead to inflated bids. (but that doesn't mean you, knowing better, should inflate your own bid!)

The optimal strategy in a second-price auction is to bid the true amount you're willing to pay (or be paid, in this case).

You can show that bidding higher or lower than this amount is dominated by bidding the true amount. If you bid higher than your true amount, this can only hurt you: You won't get any more money to stop using Facebook, because if you win, you get the second-lowest bidder's bid amount. It only makes a difference if you increase your bid too far, and lose the auction.

If you bid lower than your true amount, you might win when you otherwise would not have won... but you underbid! You're not getting enough money to compensate you for the loss of Facebook.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction

Now, I could imagine that there might be a systemic bias towards overbidding, because people aren't good at valuing their cost of foregoing Facebook.

You could even put this stuff inside of the glitter-dispenser: http://bernews.com/2010/04/police-tasers-anti-felon-confetti...