skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not willing to carry around a corporation controlled microphone on my face.

The only voice recognition I am comfortable with would run on open source software on hardware I owned and physically possessed. I have looked and this doesn’t seem to really exist.
Also, if you have the new Airpods they can already do 'Hey Siri' even with your phone in your pocket.

I suspect the draw here is intended to be for people who already wear glasses all the time, but I personally would trust Amazon exactly not at all with that kind of omnipresence.
What brand would you buy at home?
Startups do all the time via the internet, and they are growing, but the issue is getting involved with insurance companies and optometrists. It's not as complete a monopoly as one may be led to believe, but Luxottica still does control a large portion of the market.

See https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/does-luxottica-own-80-of-t...
“This decision study was based on 566 real business decisions made by 184 business teams in a wide variety of companies from July 2015 through June 2017. […] The study was able to measure when teams made better decisions by tracking how often the decision maker changed their mind based on the input of the team. […] Decision makers changed their minds based on team feedback for 66 percent of decisions overall […] The impact of different team compositions was compared to this average.”

The results are as follows (probability of the decision change, number of experiments, P-value):

All-Male 58% 95 0.07
Overall 66% 566 -
20+ Year Age Range 72% 127 0.13
2+ Office Locations 72% 240 0.04
Gender Diverse 73% 217 0.05
Geographically Diverse 75% 117 0.04
Gender Diverse, 2+ Locations 79% 173 0.0005
Gender Diverse, 20+ Yr Age Range 80% 94 0.005
Gender, Geographically Diverse 87% 69 0.0002

“Decision results were measured 2-3 months after the fact by asking the decision maker to review the decision expectations written at the time the decision was made and compare those expectations to the actual results. […] we found that male decision makers inflated their decisions results by 7 percent compared to females. Also, after controlling for other factors, the study found that mixed gender teams are 13 percent more likely to miss expectations when following through on decisions compared to all-male teams.”
So you're paying $179.99 for empty frames and then untold amounts for the actual lenses

This seems like smartnes.

Pretty much every employer vision plan I've had for the last 20 years has given its employees $150 credit toward frames. So now employees can opt for paying $29.99 out-of-pocket for Echo frames, instead of $150+ out-of-pocket for frames, since any frames worth putting on your face cost $300+.

The last time I got new glasses (a few months ago), the cheapest pair of frames in the shop was $450.

Frames and lenses are always covered with separate co-pays/co-insurance at every employer I've ever had.
This was one of the weakest Do The Math entries. Perhaps because it hinged upon human behavior more than physics/math (the author's strengths). The thesis:

In brief, the idea is that once we enter a decline phase in fossil fuel availability — first in petroleum — our growth-based economic system will struggle to cope with a contraction of its very lifeblood. Fuel prices will skyrocket, some individuals and exporting nations will react by hoarding, and energy scarcity will quickly become the new norm. The invisible hand of the market will slap us silly demanding a new energy infrastructure based on non-fossil solutions. But here’s the rub. The construction of that shiny new infrastructure requires not just money, but... energy. And that’s the very commodity in short supply. Will we really be willing to sacrifice additional energy in the short term - effectively steepening the decline - for a long-term energy plan? It’s a trap!

Yes, "we" would be willing to tolerate the use of increasingly scarce fossil energy to build non-fossil energy resources. Because the "we" investing in new non-fossil energy is largely separate from the "we" who worry about paying this month's bills if gasoline prices go up by a dollar a gallon.

Investors care about what consumers want insofar as they see a way to profit by building things that consumers will pay for. Building non-fossil energy projects in a time of high fossil energy costs counts. Depleting their investment capital to temporarily subsidize retail level prices of fossil-derived energy doesn't count. They were never going to offer to do the latter, and even populist politicians (of the American variety) rarely propose seizing wealth to directly subsidize gasoline/electricity/natural gas at the retail level. American politicians have different approaches to making energy cheaper.

There's a relatively small number of countries in the world that directly subsidize fossil fuels at the retail level for large swaths of the population. If this blog entry were written about e.g. India or Egypt I would find the political/institutional problem with higher fossil energy prices plausible as described. But it doesn't describe most of the world's democracies, nor China (for different reasons), nor most other countries.
> Ostensibly both Uber and Lyft are doing the same thing, but with the item that will bring the marginal cost down being self-driving cars.

The key factor in the Uber/Lyft business model is not so much anticipating self-driving cars, as offloading the overhead costs of inventory (who owns and maintains the cars) onto someone else, so they can focus on just being a service broker and not have to get into all the messy details of large, expensive physical objects. From that viewpoint, self-driving cars really improve things more for the car owners, by decoupling having the car provide a service from having to drive the car yourself, thus reducing the overhead to the car owner.
Sounds like Anti-SLAPP with IP characteristics.
There are. From Zenni Optical (https://www.zennioptical.com/) you can order a pair of no-frill glasses for less than $10 if your prescription isn't too crazy (so you don't need high-index lens), and you're okay waiting for a couple of weeks for shipping.

However, it's not for everyone. For one, it's out of network for insurance providers, so you have to deal with paperwork yourself and the deductible is high. Also since they are online only, you have to adjust it yourself, which isn't always easy. And being online only means you can't try it on beforehand.
Are you saying that conspiracies don't exist because secrets are hard to keep?
Direct competition for https://www.bynorth.com/focals. Not sure how North (fka Thalmic Labs) competes?
They could have a feature phone like a Nokia 3310 or maybe they trust their phone carrier more than Amazon.
Plasma flow near sun’s surface explains sunspots, other solar phenomena
But today, AWS is hugely profitable and hides the money losing parts of the business.
Two possibilities:
1) Jamie Dimon and Softbank/Saudi Arabia are the only idiots here, and everybody else just chipped in relatively small amounts; neither could be considered classically "SV VC".
2) Similar to many people deciding to all buy the same stock at the same time, bidding it up far beyond it's real value but hoping to sell before everyone else realizes it, the VC money was thinking that the sheer size of their investment would make everyone else get on board, allowing them to cash out. A sort of "pump and dump" before it technically went public, such that it is (perhaps) not illegal, except that they did it too late in the cycle so people spotted a bad deal before buying.
isn't it intended that mother's milk helps the newborn put on weight (fat) and grow?

That macros ratio of carb and fat is indeed interesting
like in video-games, latency kills the experience. You want to have the lower latency from where you want something (e.g. listen to music) and when it actually happens.
Because employers are subsidizing their employee's eye insurance, which is owned by Luxottica, and only usable at Luxottica's shops.

Ultimately even with insurance it is often cheaper to go outside of Luxottica's network, but many people don't even check and just assume that because they have reduced cost "insurance" that it will be cheaper to stay within Luxottica's spiderweb.

The way you solve this is to split up Luxottica via strong competition controls. Have one retail giant and one eye insurance company, not one monolith doing both.
>Amazon did predatory price for several years, subsidising sale and delivery with venture capital.

Amazon was founded in 1994 and went public in 1997, and sold more than books in 1998. Where does "several years of subsidy with venture" factor into this?

It's also hard to believe that Amazon weathered the dotcom crash while losing money.
I think the concept of separating healthcare coverage from employment is an important first baby step to bringing costs down in that it makes healthcare consumers more aware of how much they are spending instead of hiding it as off-paycheck compensation.

This awareness can be raised in other ways. For example, some employers have added a chart in HR websites that outline how much is spent on each employee (it is personalized for each employee) in categories of wages, taxes, retirement, healthcare and the like. It is a way of communicating how much money is expended on an employee.

If one were to know how much was spent on one's healthcare coverage, would the average person think "ok, need to be efficient to get that number down" or "gosh, I better get what I'm paying for?" In the sense that healthcare plans are transfers from the healthier to the sicker, one would hope the former. In the sense that healthcare plans are almost-all-you-can-eat buffets of medicine, I think the latter is more likely.
I just got my renewal quote: $2,372/month for a family of 4 is going to $2,883/month. That's a ~20% increase, to $34,595 PER YEAR.

(And this is while benefits continue to be cut back: $150/month for many prescriptions, etc.)

As others have written, there's no single reason. But, I think there's a major unintended structural problem: under US law, insurance companies are required to pay a high percentage (like ~90%) of their premiums out to service providers. The intent is to cut administrative overhead.

The effect: it's very hard for an insurance company to invest in technology or administrative improvements. So, the status quo persists.

WORSE, the admin overhead is pushed onto the providers, so the overhead cost gets hidden. It's not uncommon for a family medicine general practitioner to have a back office of 3-5 people dealing with billing and insurance paperwork.
Anecdote, but: we use our echo all over our house for doing things like setting alarms, and checking the time.
What the Apps That Bring Food to Your Door Mean for Delivery Workers
But then ad companies wouldn't be software anymore!
Literally my first thought was, "is this a repost from April 1st?"
No, not at all. That's a straw man argument. I never said that the product has always-on data mining and you're attempting to use that to invalidate my initial comment. If you have any genuine, logical arguments let me know but you're just attacking a viewpoint you seem to disagree with using blatant fallacious questions and statements
> Having every person under the same plan that has the negotiating power of 327.2 million people will definitely drive costs down.

Why do you think this would be true? Why do you think the bargaining power would work the way you think it would?

If you were correct, then cop cars must be fairly cheap compared to normal cars. Is this the case?

What about other goods? Laptops? Cruise missiles? etc.

Actually is it true for any good which the US Gov is the sole buyer? Can you think of even a single good where your supposition is true?
AI generates logos from whole cloth
There's a rather large gap between "not a hoax" and "spaceship", though.
we are letting out of our control because it's more convenient. Nowadays to truly own your data, you have to go to great lengths, but the solutions are arriving, but probably not for the mainstream consumer any time soon.
Technically it's not competing on price. It's competing on cost, a result of which is often, but not necessarily, a lower price point. Business strategy courses explicitly teach you that simply competing on price (that is, simply lowering prices in hopes that you'll beat the competition), will blow up in your face.

A classic example (presented to my MBA class) was the two adjacent pizza parlors in NYC competing on price and driving the selling price of a pizza down to less than a dollar, whilst a shop a block away and around a corner was able to keep normal pricing.
The journal article this is based on can be found here:

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5087613
I agree this looks promising, though I'm not an expert in this field.

But the title is a bit, well, overpromising or broad. I don't think we'll replace traditional motherboards anytime soon (except maybe in smartphones?). Rather, it will be an incremental progress.

- first, SoC's will be replaced with chiplets

- then we'll start seeing more and more stuff being integrated on this wafer.

- say, instead of a server motherboard with multiple sockets, have all the CPU chiplets on the same wafer and enjoy much better bandwidth than you get with a PCB

- integrate DRAM on the wafer. This will be painful as we're used to being able to simply add DIMM's, but the upside is massively higher bandwidth.

The motherboard pcb per se will live for a long time still, if nothing else then as the place to mount all the external connectors (network, display, pcie, usb, power, whatnot).
Facebook Home
`awk` is not needed since `sort` can apply to the fourth column.

curl ... \
| sort -t, -k4 -n
| less
>While we're on the subject of skepticism and 'baloney detection' whenever somebody says X will happen in Y years there's usually a bit of baloney in there.

Agreed.

One of the most popular New Year’s Day posts here was a popular tech personality with his 2019 predications that definitely had Trump removed from office.

I look forward to bringing that up next New Years, not because I’m a Trump fan, but because if all these Ms Cleo fortune tellers are so smart I wonder why they waste time with blogging.
It isn't pertinent to the conversation re: europe. Also, it's false, you can be imprisoned for inciting violence (or taking other unlawful action) in the United States. Finally, there isn't a categorical distinction between having speech restricted by a suit brought in civil court vs in criminal court: in both cases my speech is curtailed by law.

I drew the obvious contrast with most of the rest of the world in the parent comment, I have nothing more to say there.
No. We're all being gamed. Academics were just nearer the front of the queue.
Is it pronounced slashy-slash?
Is this an early April Fool's joke? The video showing people interacting with the ring does not remotely look appealing or cool. I'm surprised this went through all the way to actual production.
Yup just wait for the "Cloudflare allows access to domestic terrorist sites" headline next time the CEO pisses off the NYT
OK, well then go open book store. Online or brick and mortar.

There's no money in it, because Amazon has such as HUGE advantage in mindshare, pricing and delivery that you can't compete.

Does a book store have a network effect? No. But it's hard to sell something for more than the dominant competitor without a compelling reason.
Sci-fi also showed us the risks of such things, if not implemented properly. STtNG had several episodes where the U.S.S. Enterprise was commandeered via voice hacks.
If a consumer electronic device suddenly refuses to power on, it's a failed electrolytic capacitor most the time (in my experience). Finding them requires effectively no knowledge of circuits. Sometimes one is visibly deformed/exploded, but I usually just replace them all.

If that doesn't work, yea you pretty much start testing things with a multimeter starting from the power source. But if it isn't a capacitor failure, it's probably ESD or power-surge related damage and not worth trying to fix.
The sole purpose of this "Ask HN" post is to put out a slanderous premise.

Facebook working conditions are not horrible, and for people who don't like it there is a great option of not working there.
Could you add Privacy restrictions? I'd like to see a maximum 18 month data retention, and some restriction on changing the terms: promise to never change them, or only change with 6 month public notice... idk
To be fair public company valuations are not that different. Sure, the price discovery is more efficient, but still if you were to sell any significant part of the stock it would lower the value of the company.
Same answer here.

The only company I'd even think about maybe-sorta-kinda trusting with this kind of device would be Apple, and that's only because they've put a clear priority on making more and more stuff happen on-device and on not selling info on what happens off-device.
Sounds more like a cargo cult than counterfeit. And he describes it as a social problem. After Theranos, everything is possible, investing seems faith based. And incidentally, Tech is faith-based too , with some bets failing, like VR/AR, self-driving.
Yeah it seems overstated. Maybe they mean in terms of raw materials? Like iron ore and extra cotton production... still seems steep.
"Joe Bob's fabrication of Arakansaw" has some licensing requirements his foreign competition might not. And some materials handling friction that's probably less costly elsewhere. His employees have overhead and administration costs which are again, higher than many other places.
Most TJ teas come in paper bags. It's still wasteful because of the outer plastic wrapper, but at least you're not ingesting these plastic microbeads.
it has wifi... had to laugh at that one
Ask HN: Best static site API generation?
Doxygen [0], for C++ and other compiled languages, and Sphinx [1], for Python, seem to be two de-facto standards for automatic API extraction from docstrings.

However, they both generate rather boring and outdated-looking static sites. I have had some luck with MkDocs + pydoc-markdown, but it's not a streamlined process.

What do you use in your project for API documentation?

[0]: http://www.doxygen.nl

[1]: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/
There’s always an implicit (or explicit) “if conditions X, Y, and Z hold” on these statements. That prediction wasn’t wrong, conditions just changed, largely because predictions like this managed to wake people up to the dangers.

Ignoring the unstated assumptions in these statements isn’t really skepticism.
Apple Antara Opens Friday in Mexico City
That's true, but the solution I suggested works to sort on the last column, whether or not there are exactly 4 columns. I avoided having to count how many columns there are, assuming only that the date comes last.

But yes, if you know the date is in the 4th column then your solution also works.
You're right, but in their raw, raw format it wouldn't work. The only piece of that that's an issue is the butter. I doubt you could eat enough salt or popcorn to get fat off either. It's the processed animal milk that's the real winner. Now this doesn't meet the "ultraprocessed" spec at all, but the processed bit is the one that's the actually an issue, especially when combined with the salt. I doubt cow's milk and popcorn would have that effect.
Maybe for people who already wear glasses, but are unable to wear earbuds?

Whenever AirPods come up in discussion, there are plenty of people on HN who say they don't fit right, or are worried they'll fall out while exercising. Maybe that's the audience?

Or maybe people who can't wear buds at work?

Yeah, I'm not really sure what huge market there is for this product.
>and in most cases they very explicitly legally are businesses.

By that definition every nearly single non-governmental organization is explicitly legally a business, so stating that an organization is a "business" is meaningless.

A church, a soup kitchen, and fraternal lodge are also explicitly legally businesses as well, but it's not useful to classify them alongside for profit businesses.

Many very well off schools don't even charge students who make below a certain income, and the vast majority of their operating expenses come from donations--saying they charge money in exchange for a service isn't a very useful description of what they do.
NUMA will be much more important. This will really push on memory hierarchy aware data structures and programs.
I've thought recently that the low cost of container shipping blows the economic theory of comparative advantage out of the water. At least the common and naive one that's based on national/political boarders.

Ask why Australia ships iron ore and coal to China to be made into steel.
Sadly these days (probably has been true for a long time) the first thing to do when reading an article is checking the authors ties to a topic, and what agenda they might be trying to push.

Since I already knew the company, when I saw the headline and their domain, my immediate reaction was: "Of course they would say that. They are a software vendor!"
Remove ORMs and write raw queries for everything? Or write our own orm/query builder?

I didn't like orms much at first but with some practice you can shape your queries. Much neater and cleaner if that matters in your case.
And what’s the term for a figure that’s hard to estimate but which you guess at anyway? An “assumption.”
I think they mean specifically if the bartender asks you to open your tab before taking your order and/or pouring your drink. For what it's worth I don't think I've ever experienced this, but I could see it being somewhat off-putting.
Anecdotally, no one in SV ever believed in WeWork except Softbank. I couldn't find anyone to take the Bull case on WeWork, whereas at least some people could argue Uber had a real business model that depended on self driving cars.

WeWork, and Theranos before it, are not really the norm in SV. But SV and the tech ecosystem in general has a culture of "money talks," so when Softbank and Kissinger start backing these ridiculous companies, people think "well, good for them?" and move on. Skepticism towards WeWork's model has been the conventional position since Day 1, but no one is going to argue about the validity of Masa Son's dollars.
> Bookstores provide a lot of service value, a decent bookstore will allow you to find similar material, allow you to browse as you please (instead of the skimpy sample pages), usually contain an expert that can offer advice and allow you to walk out with your purchase. Additionally it's common to see a heavy effort at investing in the atmosphere.

The key part is “decent”. Outside of the “walk out” part, none of these advantages apply if you don’t have a bookstore that matches what you’re interested in, which can be pretty difficult outside of mainstream subjects and the latest-Summer-novel-everybody-buys. There’s no discovery system that I know of that would allow you to find a bookstore near you based on what you like or want to read.

This is why I use Amazon so much: I have a half-dozen wishlists and bought my books here for years, so its suggestions are often relevant. I like to be able to compare prices between new and second-hand books from third-party sellers. Reviews may not always be great, but that’s still better that what you’d get in a bookstore: one single review from the owner, if they did read the book.

Note: I live in France, where the law requires that books are sold the same price in bookstores and on Amazon (you’re allowed to do go down max -5% on the public price). You can also ask any bookstore to get any book for you, most often free of charge. However, this means they get very little profit from it since they have to pay the shipping cost themselves.