skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real performance data from 8,000 dental practices suggests that dental practice revenue declined by 6% in 2020. Dental hygiene appointments declined by 47% year-over-year in spring 2020, before recovering in the summer and dipping again in the fall.
NoScript + uBlock Origin to the rescue!
This isn't intended to sound braggy: I honestly just don't buy that many non-consumable items? Most years I buy more items as gifts during the holidays than I do for myself the entire rest of the year. This isn't some kind of extreme-frugality thing: I simply can't think of additional things I would want to buy. And most of the purchases I do make are things I put thought into, where I don't mind shopping around a bit or paying a little extra for shipping.

I just really don't understand why people have a hard time giving up Amazon retail, at least when it comes to the majority of HN who can absolutely afford to pay an extra $10 for shipping a few times a year.
Dotfilehub: https://dotfilehub.com

I've always found various solutions that use git for sharing configuration files cumbersome. I set out to make my own simple version control system, and a lightweight web application where I can browse and edit them remotely. The main idea is that paths are aliased to simple names, so I can say `dotfile pull i3` and it will install https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/i3 to ~/.config/i3/config

Overall the project is stable and I use it daily for all sorts of miscellaneous files.
The simplest solution that nobody wants.
Costco operates in the same market conditions Walmart. It's just that their revenue to employee over twice as high, so they can sustainably pay a small number of high-quality workers more rather than a large number of lower-quality workers.

Pro-labor operates under the false assumption that employing a small number of well-paid workers is better for society than employing a large number of lower paid workers. Let's say Walmart could afford to pay a "living wage" by replacing their shelves with pallets, laying off most of their shelvers, and redistributing their wages to the other employees. Would that really be any better?
Yes, launching was a lot of work. My focus is on product. The real talent is a 3-person team in Croatia who I found via a HN "Who wants to be hired" post. We started April-2020. What you see today is the result of everyone working evenings and weekends, during the quarantine lockdown, while maintaining a full-time job.

Much respect and love for: Bruno, Ivona and Kresho. They are an excellent representation of how the SELLFF platform can work. If you are looking for talented programmers, I can definitely recommend them.
And SMS was stupidly expensive like 10 cents a message for years. It wasn't quickly adopted because it was not a good value.
Not if you use Linux, and Chromium is also in the Chocolatey repo and Homebrew.
Java is _very_ prevalent in Financial IT - almost everywhere. C++ is probably the only language in the same league in terms of usage. I have also seen C# lately in bunch of places but mostly middle-office/back-office.
Just add a bitter chemical, like they do with the coating of medicine so that children don't think pills are candy.
Isnt that also just not how the Pareto principle works? Doesn’t it say that 20% of inputs (people accused of fraud) are responsible for 80% of outputs (cases of fraud)?

So this is actually exactly backwards. On top of being frighteningly amoral, I mean.
Ultrasound has potential to damage coronaviruses
Setting aside that I was making an absurd argument to prove a point: Hey I’m just saying the phrasing is stupid! It’s an abstract thing completely separate from the person who did the phrasing /s
Each individual skill may be rare, but given how many thousands of different skills there are, the trait of having some rare skill should be common.
> C++ is more portable because it doesn't require the JVM to run

Java is portable BECAUSE of the JVM. If a new computer architecture hits the scene, once someone writes a JVM for it your .class files will run on it (probably).

Your C++ program, however, will definitely not run and you'll need to recompile it with a compiler that targets that new architecture.

The same compiled Java code will(should) run on a Mac or a PC or any Linux box, but you need a different executable for each target with a C++ program.

The JVM isn't portable. That needs to be recompiled for each new target, but your Java .class files are portable.
It seems to me HOAs aren't mostly about maintainence, they're mostly about old farts yelling at you for installing a fence or planting the wrong type of flower or using the wrong color of paint.

None of that stuff affects maintainence. Those farts shouldn't even be allowed to step on land they don't own.

The stuff that actually affects maintainence, I can understand, but participation should be optional by law. If you want discount maintainence, don't mess with your water pipes and electrical conduits. But hey if you're okay with finding your own maintainence, you should be entitled to do whatever you want as long as it's legal per fire/building code.
They already did series-e and looped back around: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/docker-series-e--a2...
I don't think this is completely accurate, nor is it recent.

Their "community edition" is open source and free:

https://www.pfsense.org/download/

Also, they have https://github.com/pfsense/
I don't care if its Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music or some new competitor. But if they get more expensive they will not win people over.
The lack of Thunderbold has nothing to do with Intel.
Apparently AMD has not supplied hardware partners with any reference designs implementing it. If you do it then it would be up to you to come up with your own design implementation.
There is one desktop Ryzen board that supports Thunderbolt
Ah, so that's why he stripped the bark off. That was my first question. My second question is: What's with the moss between layers? I assume it's to fill in the gaps and provide insulation, but won't it rot?
The GP clearly wrote:

"What would be wrong though is to blindly take that probability for the fact."

And it's right: your algorithms can use all sorts of indicators to flag suspicious cases, but in the end the evaluation needs to be done by a person on a case by case basis. As long as the investigation on the single case is performed "silently" (i.e. without causing any loss of time or money or any annoyance to the person who is investigated) I don't see the issue. Otherwise it's the same as saying you cannot sort rows in an excel sheet according to some criterion and start looking at the data from where it looks more promising.
Pirsig couldn't fix or understand every component of his motorcycle, but he advocated having some degree of control over the components he did understand and knew how to fix or jury-rig. His anecdote about using tin from beer cans to jury-rig a simple fix -- and the wounded reaction to it by his friend John -- is enlightening.

It's not all or nothing.
Heuristics for Good Software Design
The IPO Pop Isn’t All Bad
I feel like everyone should read Back Redneck, White Liberal.

Reading this was illuminating. I had never heard this take on the story of America and race before reading Sowell.
Show HN: How I volunteered to re-architect Internet email
I think back in the 90s the tech just wasn't there yet. Reducing latency, increasing framerate, and increasing resolution makes a huge difference to the VR experience. The difference between 256x256 and QHD+ is huge.

Valve has a lot of data on user comfort while in VR, you should look it up if you're interested. Their figures put it around 20% of the population being uncomfortable with VR (at first), and continued usage can make things better for them. Definitely not just "locked out" of using VR entirely, as you suggest.
>As a student most of the way through a Java course, I'm wondering what Java is still used for.

A huge majority of all code behind services, websites, and businesses you interact with every day. From Google, Facebook, Apple, and Twitter to your bank, and from Android to you favorite new unicorn. Of the top 25 unicorns "20 use Python; 19 use Java; eight use Kotlin. Coinbase was the only top-ten unicorn found to use Swift." [1]

And that's just startups and FAANG. On top of that, every enterprise, government organization, and financial organization also uses tons of Java with the exception of Microsoft shops, which use C# in its place (or also use C# on top of Java).

Think of it this way: you know how C# is a big industry? It's #5 in the TIOBE index. Java is #2, and has been between bouncing between #1, #2, and #3 spots for decades.

And on top of Java there's the JVM, which also powers Kotlin, Clojure, Scala, Groovy, and other languages...

>Java applets are dead

Java applets have been dead on arrival. It was just a fan around 1997-1999 and not that succesful even then (I was there). They were never a big part of Java's allure.

>Java is supposed to be able to "run anywhere," yet C++ is more portable because it doesn't require the JVM to run.

That's a non-sequitur.

[1] https://insights.dice.com/2019/07/12/python-java-kotlin-skil...
It's not quite as straightforward as "yes it does" / "no it doesn't." There's a temperature at which it's too cold for salt to work, and a great deal of the benefit of salt comes from friction as cars drive over it, crushing pieces of ice and forming that slush we all know and love, even at temperatures where it won't actually melt the ice.
>If the company is really worth nothing

I'm not sure I understand why that would be or why that would even come up if you were investing in 'worth nothing'.
Blockchain is the snake oil of the Internet age. No matter what ails you, blockchain is the cure.
> some mosquitos

Now now, surely you mean thousands of mosquitos. Especially if you have a lake nearby, which is a real big possibility in Sweden.
'Sometimes the answer is to do nothing': unflashy French duo take Pritzker Prize
Honest question: why are all those people not on Bandcamp instead?
Firefox has been faster than Chrome for months now. I switched over to it on Windows and I'm enjoying myself so far. It's not for everyone though, so I get your apprehension.
Right Marcuseanism
I get the impression the problem was someone misinterpreted and got incorrectly offended by his comments, then HR made a knee-jerk reaction without bothering to check the facts.
"Identity management is hard. I know, let's just let the phone company deal with it!"

Later...

"Oh no! The phone company is doing a terrible job of solving our identity issue!"
Hasn’t quite a lot of time passed since they gave up on that motto? I’m not upset about the content of the “article”, I hope it wasn’t a secret to anyone that Google, the owner of the worlds largest web advertising platform, has been collecting data from users this whole time.
8 is still “modern” Java right? 11 didn’t add a ton ton for most developers.
The makers of Cricut have sued those who have tried to market alternative software before. I'm guessing they'd issue DRM related takedown notices for any open source projects. Won't block the effort but make it less useful to the non-technical audience that usually buys Cricuts.
For all music ever recorded, maybe. But Spotify doesn't even have half of what I'm regularly listening to - a regular annoyance - let alone half of all music ever recorded.
> Credential sharing only works between apps registered to the same developer.

That's right, but it does allow persisting an id through reinstalls of the same app, and sharing that id between apps of the same developer.

> So no, this does not allow an tracking ID usable by all apps.

It effectively does though. For example, imagine a mobile game company with 10 games. With this technique, you can track that user across app re-installs in each of those games.

Now imagine another game company doing the same trick. If both companies send up their independent tracking IDs to a central server along with any other info they can get about the user (email, screen name, IP, whatever), then you can strongly correlate users across multiple tracking IDs. The user has no way to reset these IDs even if they delete and reinstall the apps using them.
Author here: I'm not aware this analysis in typechecking systems outside of Typed Racket and Psalm – if you point me to them I'll happily update the article!

I've also discussed the article with the authors of the linked paper, who didn't suggest anything else in the way of prior art.
My general impression is that the portrait we get from the media about "black America" is actually only accurate for something like 10-30% of black Americans (i.e., progressive black Americans). For example, the "defund the police" movement was marketed by the media (question #1 might be "why is the media marketing anything?" but ignoring that for now...) as a movement that black Americans wanted, but subsequent polling suggested that only a small minority of black Americans wanted less policing. I would bet that these beloved-by-the-media, "pro-black" policies are supported by a smaller share of blacks than wealthy progressive whites.

It's interesting (or it would be were it not tragic) because there seems to be an increasingly popular belief that there is some "true Black" way of seeing the world. Some people will call a black person who deviates from the stereo-type, "not 'politically black'" or suggest that they have "internalized white supremacy" or "minority whiteness". They argue that "worship of the written word", "objectivity", "wester civilization", etc are traits of white supremacy as though there is some force of nature that compels blacks toward a certain set of experiences and a certain way of processing those experiences which ultimately results in a very homogeneous, narrow set of "black opinions"--and deviations from that narrow band of opinions are regarded as pathology. It's almost as though they see blacks and people of color as a distinct species from whites, that white people are so incapable of understanding black people that, on the basis of race alone we are compelled to preclude whites from volunteering with a school board or translating the work of black poets (although it's fine for a white person to translate Shakespeare or ancient Greeks, suggesting the experiences of contemporary whites and blacks is more divergent than two white people separated by centuries or millennia).

Personally, I don't understand how this sort of ideology is supposed to get us closer to a post-racial world.
I tried to look into what radio paid out to these same people as a comparison, but the information I found seemed to be purposefully obtuse:

https://soundcharts.com/blog/radio-royalties

I couldn't actually find out what was paid, but it did look to be that, artists weren't really paid. It was song writers and publishers who were paid. Performing artists, however, only generated word of mouth which generated ticket sales - so far as I could garner.
I definitely wouldn’t buy something that had been intentionally crippled, on principle. Even if it were a very slight crippling.
This is definitely good, but I'm also meaning Clojure style lists, maps, etc where you can treat any given copy of the entire data structure as one big immutable value.
While you have a point, I'd suggest a solar car is feasible if it is designed lighter ie. an electric bike puts out 250W which is enough to take a rider to 15mph. Something like the Citroen Ami (or electric TukTuk, or any of the small chinese EVs) which weighs 450kg is a halfway house between Teslas and bikes.

The Ami can charge off 13A 240V in 3 hours (6kW motor and 5.5kWh battery pack), and is useful for a number of duties eg. school runs, shopping, mobility, bad weather.

Obviously the car featured here isn't designed around light weight<->practical charging but I reckon you could make an ultralight design for 4/5 people. The other problem is other larger cars on the road, that's a separate debate from the technical one.
Ghost 4.0 released
How Biden’s Cyber Strategy Echoes Trump’s
Pardon the second top-level comment, but I have a few questions about the product:

1. Have you considered making the guided-tour functionality available for developers to integrate into the live app? That way applications can guide the user through the process of getting started with real data in their real account.

2. What about applications that have different UI entry points for different kinds of users? Can you do a guided tour where the user starts at entry point A, goes through a couple of screens, then switches to entry point B and sees what that side of the app is like? Maybe we can get into more specifics privately; I don't want to make this thread about _my_ product.

3. Do you support dynamic, server-initiated page updates, e.g. sent via a WebSocket in the real app?
The poster confuses billionaires with 1%. Maybe this was a casual comment, but when we're in this part of the wealth distribution tiny changes in percents reflect enormous changes in wealth. In fact billionaires are the top ~0.000625% of households w.r.t wealth(800/128M households*100). Whereas the threshold for 1% of wealth is ~$11M. Something to ask oneself is how much wealth is held by the 1% who are also not billionaires and how many days of funding the government does this represent?
HoAs are how neighborhoods fund communal property like pools, parks, plowing of parking lots, etc...

Where you get into trouble is when they also try to enforce "property value" guidelines, which tend to become "against whatever the most power tripping person on the council thinks is 'ugly'". Solar panels are exactly the sort of thing that can be considered "ugly" and end up being banned. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
It kinda does, because the nature of the ban is not any different, and neither are the social consequences. Prohibition failed not because consuming alcohol is actually healthy, but because the social costs of maintaining a meaningful ban far exceeded any advantages from reduced consumption. The same, then, applies to any drug that is not any more harmful.
I can bet whatever you want they did this improvement for microsoft/windows repo.
Is this kind of artificial delay even legal under the GDRP? Does anyone know if there has been any lawsuits against trust arc and co over this stuff? After waiting forever I was greeted with: "Some opt-outs failed. Opt-out requests responded with error or timeout. Please try again". How is this okay?
I too went desktop route. Built what I want - including lots of ECC memory. I too have a laptop for backup and travel (and a Chromebook used as RDP client).

Sync isn't an issue. All work is on VMs, and they get backed up every day to my Synology.

My backup laptop is a 6 year old Thinkpad, which hasn't been out of it's bag in over a year.
How do you think they got to $2T market cap in the first place?
Emphasis on "trying". They aren't actually reducing nuclear production because renewables can't replace it.
why not replace landlords instead of workers ?
You are right, I have noticed this especially with the tiny house people. They build the house to save money and then park it somewhere. But where? Almost inevitably, it's family land, like a farm or something.

Other posters have noted this but Canada is almost unique because of its vast forested wilderness and sparse population. If you wanted to buy a parcel of forest somewhere and build a cabin, it wouldn't be a particularly expensive undertaking, so long as it's well away from an expensive urban area like eg the Lower Mainland of BC.
> It is literally impossible to view everything you say through all possible interpretations. There is no way that any single person can know every possible interpretation of what they say.

100% agreed. Don't see how it relates to what I wrote however.
Yeah, same feeling here. The special-casing feels off. They must have had very good reasons to do that, I just haven't seen them outlined yet.
> economists don't think it's strictly bad to do this anymore*

Those same educated voices also tend to support UBI and other ... less than fully considered social engineering ideas. When it comes to government mandates I'm cautious, especially because you can't usefully go back. Even if they're a PhD they're in a field where you cannot test your ideas.

If you want to pay a worker more, actually do that. Walk up to a barrista and offer them a monthly cheque to make up the difference between their wage and your proposed minimum. Your vote that Starbucks must pay more usually isn't accompanied with a certain minimum purchase guarantee that they can use to actually fund this.

> You just said the business owner is the "only person paying" and then contradicted yourself by saying "people" pay more. Everyone pays for things because the economy is a cycle.

Not usefully in that sense. I'm the only one paying my rent. You're not doing anything towards it. Even if you shop at my employer and indirectly pay my salary, you aren't putting money towards my rent. I'm the one who makes the food/fun/shelter tradeoff. If there's a slack month or unexpected expenses, I suffer.

If you actually paid the store an extra 15% line-item specifically to use to pay their employees then I would accept that.
No, that's a setting in your Google account and not in the browser. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en
My bad, I did not catch that.
It's one of the demands, the "user-centric" model. It's mostly because the major record labels (who have the top artists) might see a reduction of revenue. But even that was disproved in a recent french study:

https://cnm.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/CNM_UCPS_SyntheseF...
Thunderbolt uses USB-C since ~2015.
Doc Searls, Kevin Kelley, probably Clay Shirkey, various O'Reilly heads, Howard Rheingold, Stewart Brand, Esther Dyson, Declan McCullough, I recall or suspect, were among the boosters.

I'm reading some late-1990s sources (Lawrence Lessig's Code, Andrew Shapiro's Control Revolution) which cover some of this ground. I was there for it myself, though memory is a faulty guide..

Online search is difficult as later writings cloud the results.
> better be in a Java shitshow with slow idiots than in a C++ shitshow with autist geniuses :D

Please don't use Autism as an insult. It's exceptionally degrading to conversation here and presents no value; it does nothing other than cast you in a negative light.

I'll ~delete~ edit my comment if you edit the remark out, provided you do so before my ~delete~ edit threshold expires.

Edit: delete threshold expired. Can only edit, and won't be able to edit once the edit threshold expires.
This is the kind of thing that makes my blood boil. Why is this even an approval? Why do you think you have ANY say over their solar installation? Why does it even have to go through an approval process for anything other than fire/electrical/building safety?

It's not your property. Stay out.
This is what made me stop using Apple products altogether. Their privacy and security bit is all smoke and mirrors, and I'd much rather just directly understand what my privacy model looks like instead of trying to surmise what's going on through the other side of the frosted glass. Their compliance with China's Uighur roundup is despicable, and I don't trust them in the slightest to defend tech in the long-term. They're out to make money, which is why they're the most profitable business in the world.
This is just an instance of a whole class of problems which I doubt will be solved by movements like "right to repair". A higher level of approach is required to eliminate all of these issues in a generic manner. "right to repair" is an attempt to solve a whole class of problems but is fundamentally incoherent and will be easily circumvented. New ideas are required in this space otherwise the cycle will repeat indefinitely.
This is really similar to something I've recently created: https://github.com/simonmeulenbeek/Eezy . Although in my project's case it's scoped to the specific PWD you're in.

I really like using the folder structure to have 'subcommands' (i.e. 'sd blog publish' ). Very neat!