skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone Hacked a Nintendo Game Boy Color to Control Apple TVs
"What if you cross a Nintendo Game Boy Color and an Apple remote control? What you would get is a pretty nifty device that lets you play all kinds of nostalgic games and stream all sorts of content.

Otto Climan released a video (embedded below) where he illustrated how he took a regular old boring Nintendo Game Boy Color console and upgraded it to work on Apple TVs. This makes sense, after all, considering the Nintendo Game Boy console is the third best-selling console of all time.

The video is worth a watch just to see the sleek new console with its white buttons and the retro Apple logo on its backside. We must admit that just looking at it makes us want to use it. But for what? Playing games or watching Apple TV? A little bit of both perhaps?"
Agreed with everything above.

If I ever X vs Y in google, I append site:reddit.com

I'm not a huge fan of Reddit, but it's about the largest forum. I really miss Forum search in Google.
> Implementing a better vertical layout by exploring the possibility of not using the <tree> XUL element and relying on a highly scalable and equally performant HTML component.

Hey, does that mean we can have two lines per mail in the mail column :) ?

Otherwise, I am not convinced by matrix integration. Unless it's a deep one and creates new scenarios impossible with two standalone applications.
This is something I cannot understand. Why would you want to retire so early? I think that would impact my mental health negatively. I just love to work and I couldn't care less about FI. I mean it's nice to have money, but this will sound cliche it will not buy you happiness. However, it is certainly better to cry in a luxury apartment than under a bridge to your dog.
He mentions MRIs costing 2-3k€ a pop. That seems really expensive. I’m guessing this is US? Doesn’t competition push down the price of these operations? We’ve got private clinics in Finland offering MRIs from ~230€ without any subsidies (AFAIK).
> make it all a bit more meritocratic

The only way to make it more meritocratic is to completely remove algorithms. But that could make it even harder for smaller channels to grow.

> In the last there were big logistical challenges and costs to making a movie. In YT there are no real costs.

Exactly, anyone who has a good idea and a smartphone can record and upload to Youtube. Can it be simpler than that? Of course, in some places people don't have internet/smartphones, but that's not something that it's up for Youtube to fix
The land industry is total scum. They make us all poorer with sprawl, they are the industry with the worst history of systemic racism, they're more deeply invested in the status quo than the car industry which could retool a few factories to crank out traincars and e bikes.
Yeah, you would think that obviously useful features that were added in a principled way up front would in fact be better than features bolted on after the fact.
Phabricator is used by a few big names like FB and Uber, and at startups that splintered off from those places, so a good number of teams but nowhere in the GitHub PR range.

It’s pretty opinionated around things like fewer bigger repos, rebase-by-default, trunk-only: basically the stuff that big shops use (because anything else is an NP-hard pain in the ass, literally, once you’re dealing with feature flags or A/B testing or bandits or any of the stuff that you need if you’ve got a consumer-facing product with a lot of users).
Of those 61%, how much of that is attributable to gyms being closed or only open in a very limited -- and inconvenient -- manner?
This comment somewhat contradicts its parent comment. Deep fake detection research will postpone the day nobody trusts video and audio.

I don't know which is better. It's very hard for me to imagine the world where nobody believes such things. Will we continue to have a third of US society believing in an alternate reality? Will people start signing every statement cryptographically, so that nobody can put fake words in their mouths? Will the need to track the reputations of news providers (rather than taking the videos they provide at face value) render spewers of nonsense less influential?
No, financial independence is what matters in a world where returns on capital will greatly outperform returns on labor.
> I keep telling friends that i would rather buy a home with a lower price but higher rate/apr than vice-versa. You can always refinance, but you'll never be able to change the price you've paid.

This is true, but assumes that prices drop significantly rather than merely stop rising like crazy and also doesn't include that if you're renting, you never get that rent back from the period of time you were waiting.
No I meant the result itself, but I see it too now, I thought they were blocked altogether. I don't know if it is changed or it was always just never/rarely near the top (and maybe that legitimately organically happens).

Searching 'ADHD' and Wikipedia's extensive page is midway down the second page of results. Drug ads for amphetamines from Google on 3 or 4 of the first page's results, but not the top few results (which are CDC, NHS, etc.).
Dramatically worse... if that's true, then I wonder how good they were a decade ago. Because every search I've done today produced the result I wanted on the first page of the results, above the fold.

I can't say I've really counted how many days that's true. I can't even say that I really remember what searches I did yesterday or the day before. But if I'm not totally weird and google searches were dramatically better in the past, then they must have produced the desired results every time on almost every day.
CTRL-F bureaucracy

Cue HN complaining how much "bureaucracy" and how much "red tape" the EU has, and smth smth socialism.
But IS it a mere byproduct? If it adds significant revenue, it’s no longer a mere byproduct but now part of the business proposition of the mine. About $30 billion of nickel is mined per year. About $8 billion in platinum mined per year. 30 tons of rhodium are mined per year, which at current >$900/gram prices, means the revenue from rhodium is actually HIGHER than platinum and on par with nickel.

So you could as well argue that nickel is a byproduct of rhodium (and platinum group metal) production.
Allen Pan leveraged GVS to remote control his friends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S7FO2Qd6Zc
A book I read on writing had this quote, on the process:

"Hate writing. Love having written."
I've had similar issues quite a bit recently and have resorted to trying other search engines. Sadly DuckDuckGo, Bing, Wiby.me (!) and others aren't really better.

Good search was historically one of the harder unsolved problems on the web, even back in the 90s. The problem is that nowadays we treat it rather like a solved problem when in reality it's still probably one of the harder unsolved problems on the web.
I came across this reversible USB A connection searching for a usb power pack with sound for my blind
friend. I was curious to how they achieved it. https://accessibility.energrid.us.com/products/energrid-vs15...
Even with the minor and major shocks in his life, he ended up with 20% more money than he started with. The main reason he wants more money now is that he wants to share it with his new partner, and enjoy some lifestyle inflation.

So I don't think it makes sense to extrapolate "leanFIRE cannot sustain minor shocks" from his circumstances." It certainly cannot sustain a certain level of lifestyle inflation, or (more generically) big enough changes to your expense sheet.
yes, for content-only sites it makes perfect sense. For sites hosting private data requiring login, (especially if there's some sensitive information in the URL) it poses a risk.
> A happy life is not a life of retirement, its a life of meaning. What was meaningful once (aiming for retirement), loses its meaning once it has been attained. You have to keep moving forward.

you figured out the meaning of life for everyone?

maybe you are rationalizing your own lack of freedom from work and responsibility as "serving others" and secret to happiness. Which is fine but its a bit weird to say that applies to everyone and ppl who aren't doing have just not made that "transition" to a life of meaning.

I am glad You figured out formula of happiness for your life don't you think everyone else has the same freedom to figure out their own path and formula. Why do you think everyone should follow your universal formula.
Would not these count as gross misconduct?
Can't argue that being a self employed cleaner would be lower stress. What's your friend charging and what kind of work does she do? I only have limited experience with paying cleaners in the uk, but she must be charging more than those I've seen.
Oh, like a mask object.
While cute, this is false. "Argument from fallacy" is the fallacy whereby you assert that the conclusion is false because the reasoning is false. GP doesn't assert that the conclusion is necessarily false, and in fact very specifically qualifies his language to the reasoning. Webster's gives "fallacious" as a synonym for "specious."
Pixel 4 XL

Got it when it came out, mainly because of the camera, the stock OS and the ongoing updates. I'm still loving these, but other than that, it's a pretty mediocre device.

Before that, I had the Galaxy S9+. The Galaxy series is great, but it cease to receive updates after a short while, and that's a deal breaker for me.
It's not perfect, but maximum annual out-of-pocket for an individual ACA plan is $8550, plus premiums. If that's your entire savings, you were certainly not FI.
Not sure what the definition of rich here is, but people in the 10% of income earners most definitely still need health insurance and suffer from illness. For example, my psych meds would be $1500 a month without insurance. Even on a software engineer salary, that’s quite a hit.
Of course, but that wouldn't stop them from saying otherwise, suing and binding him in prelonged and expensive legal battle, would it?
I've bought them when my office was going in on a pool. I didn't want to waste money on lottery tickets, but if the office pool did win and I was the only person who didn't participate, so that I had to watch everyone else retire early, I would not be in a good state of mind. $5 every couple of years is insurance against an unlikely but awful mental health catastrophe.
More than 40M according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_India
Since Regan, the US doesn't care about concentration of market power, only whether prices for consumers are affected. Since Google services are "free", no anti-trust violations are incurred under this standard.

However, it's looking like things might be changing slightly. Biden appointed someone that cares about anti-trust. We'll have to see if that's just for show or not like most of his administration.
> incompatible with human nature

A commune will inevitably fail if its members are allowed to leave at will. Because individual productivity of people varies, in time the most productive members will grow dissatisfied with the way the rewards are distributed and quit, the commune remaining stuck with the moochers.

It is human nature, just like in another great example, the Tragedy of Commons.
Yeah point 3 is underappreciated for sure.

> You need to open a JIRA ticket to get a namespace, create GPG keys, register keys in a keyserver, and add SBT plugins just to get a manual publishing process working. It’s a lot more work than publishing to PyPI or RubyGems.

It's a little annoying to have to go through that, but you only have to do it once per domain, and the turnaround from the people who manage the sonatype jira is usually pretty quick. In return the ecosystem gets a lot of protection from the kind of exploits you mentioned.
Cheating devalues games. Ambiguity heightens absurdity. Maybe I should have added that the IP has rock solid patents, is open source* and the startup is still in stealth while raising a series G.

* some restrictions apply, please agree to the terms of service to allow super cookies and review that the license SKU matching your service region to a stacked arbitration regime established in the People's Democratic Republic of Korea and Delaware
The Playbook to Monitor Your Models Performance in Production
:-) I once replaced some one (UK) who "disappeared" - apparently he went to NYC
Frameworks produced by Windows dev team are a very good example of that.

They could produce something that looks like Qt, OWL/VCL, or nowadays .NET like but in C++.

Instead they produce libraries where one is forced to use C low level details, mixed with Win32 and COM pointer handling and casts everywhere, not even MFC escapes it.

Not to count how many interactions of COM smart pointers that have come up with since COM exists.

C++/CX looked like they finally learned their way and would offer something similar to C++ Builder, but no that wasn't meant for us to enjoy it.

So now anyone doing UWP with C++, gets to manually edit IDL files without tooling support, and merge the generated files manually.

I really don't get their macho developer culture.
I do not think you do much high kinded Fp coding in slick other than "lifting" values from scala code to sql, though I havent worked with slick for in a while. I am not sure why they exposed internal types as we didnt really have any control over them
There's no hard line, but there's a soft line at the letter vs intent of the law. More concretely, when the wealthy as a category are contributing less than their fair share to society, the intent of the law is not being fulfilled. Even if it's a tough thing to solve.
No, I don’t see where you’re going with this. Sounds like a group of people created a product that helps facilitate real estate transactions, and they want to get paid for it:

https://www.nar.realtor/nar-doj-settlement/multiple-listing-...

If you don’t want to pay the real estate agent organizations, you can put your real estate listing on Craigslist, buy online ads, stick a sign on your yard, go door to door to various real estate agent offices, etc.
UX research can act as observations to form an initial hypothesis, while A/B testing can acquire the necessary data to perform experiments in way that assimilates the scientific method.

It might be a scale issue for sure, but qualitative data alone is not enough, especially when dealing with user biases and small, non representative populations.
The US healthcare system isn’t really a very good model of market competition.
A benefit they don't really highlight is alignment of incentives. The platform doesn't benefit from 'repugnant' sites -- they actually hurt the platform's bottom line. Compare to e.g. Facebook whose statements about fighting hate speech or disinformation are seen as non-credible because of the conflict of interest.
The worst manifestation of these force fit features are the Kubernetes ones. That integration is wonky to say the least.
Time it takes a hacker to brute force your password
I got myself a nice chunky laser projector with more than enough lumen output to overpower the sun. In fact I loved it so much I got a second one for basically the same price. Sure it's not 4K, but I get the screen size.
Yes, this!

Having enough money that you don’t need to worry too much about work seems like 95% of the benefit. Spoken as someone fairly early working towards FI.

Having a paid off house, no debt, and enough money to survive tragedy unscathed is really the goal. I want to be able to work whatever job makes me happy without feeling the need to be competing for the highest salary. Take a few months off work here and there without sweating about getting a new job. To let my future wife or I stay home with the hypothetical kid without needing to think about the money.
Same for me, I once left a job with nothing lined up and 5 years of living expenses in the bank. I went rather stir crazy although I lasted 6 months before needing to find something to work on. Would have been quicker but I had a bunch of friends with flexible schedules to hang out with.

I like doing things and solving problems but generally lack enough self-drive to do so on my own except on sporadic projects. A day job give me a focus, external motivation and deadlines which I actually enjoy having.
Ask HN: Privacy focused apps/SaaS that can be replacement to popular choices?
Let's discover some good alternatives to popular data hungry apps/websites we have been using.

Search Engine: DuckDuckGo
Social Media: ?!
Chat : iMessage, Signal
Navigation: Apple Maps
> not using the <tree> XUL element and relying on a highly scalable and equally performant HTML component.

Another question is: there's no HTML tree component.
That's a little too cynical.

I use smart home stuff, because:
1. I use it as security device (i have tons of zigbee sensors for motion, and contact).
2. I forget about simple things, all the time. I forget to lock my door, i forget to get my keys etc. All of this is taken care for me in case i forget. I haven't hooked up my garage door yet, but my kid (1 yo) likes to find the remote and press it mindlessly, and i really don't want to leave it open.
3. I like the convenience in general.

If you come to my house, it's definitely not something you'd say a "status symbol". It's only expensive because it's in bay area, otherwise it's a mediocre house.

I have been a programmer for as long as i remember, and these things excite me, that's another aspect.
This is a beautiful comment. Thanks for sharing.
To be fair, Zig provides a spectrum of memory safety as the comparison table in the post makes clear. Sure, it isn't 100% memory safe, and especially not around UAF, but it's still orders of magnitude safer than C. In the safety department, it's not at all a "C-like language" in that respect. It's a massive leap forward.
My way to deal with IoT devices: A virtual "guest" WiFi w/ AP isolation using DD-WRT. Devices in there can access the Internet. That's it. They can't see other devices in my local networks. That makes me sleep better.
Yes and no. There are complex rules around joining letters depending on where they fall in the words. Also there are no vowels but sometimes there are vowel markers.
I did not mention JavaScript, whose only worthy place is the browser.
UK to test existing drugs as treatment for MS in world-first trial
That's what has been done at Yellowstone National Park. All the tourist-accessible thermal features have boardwalks built out to and around them for both safety and environmental protection from the millions of vistors. Other features, like Old Faithful geyser, has been surround by cement paths and benches for visitors to view eruptions from. The backcountry, however, has no such facilities and people who visit those are basically on their own and need to use their own discretion. That said, people die in hot springs every year because they're too dumb to recognize the dangers.
Richard Stallman Is Back at Free Software Foundation
I wouldn't object to all product review searches to be Google ads now because it's all spammed anyway
> something I cannot understand

> I just love to work

I think your own personal circumstances apply to you. Have you met any people who do not love to work?

Also, understand that in Financial Independence, "independence" means having complete control over your decision-making. You can attain it, and then choose to work, or choose to vacation, or choose to read books, or choose to play video games, or choose to write a novel, or choose to take up some other creative endeavor, or choose to push your body to its limits - and you will not be constrained by the remainder of your hours left after your work day is over.
"where polling shows farmers are overwhelmingly Republican who tend also tend to hate immigration legal or not."

source?
I've seen 2 different opinions from people when it comes to the copy. 1st is to tell what value you provide to your customers (Mario analogy https://twitter.com/GorvGoyl/status/1334116488349827072). or 2nd is to tell what exactly your product does (your audience will figure out value on their own).
DoorDash will let you order at-home Covid-19 testing kits delivered to your door
I'm guessing Backblaze will come back with a more detailed report on this, but I wonder if the data already given to Facebook can be deleted properly (so that Facebook doesn't have it to use for other purposes elsewhere). Is that even possible to get done for a relatively large company like Backblaze?

Also, isn't this a violation of GDPR in EU, or is there a "you opted in by default when you logged in and so it's not our fault" argument in play here?
The blog explains that he does not love to work. At least not in the field that he is skilled in.
I want something like this, but given the already enormous power cost of Bitcoin to maintain a paltry few Gb of data, and the petabytes of video produced by humanity every hour, it's not obviously possible to me even with the cleverest hash tree algorithms imaginable.
But why have we decided lately to fall for the tyranny of what "ordinary users" want?

Why can't we have a full featured Firefox hidden behind a setting, so this mythical "ordinary user" can have a dumbed down interface and the rest of us can have a real browser?
Not to mention that it’s infiltrated by quora, Printerest, and Wikipedia.
Your point works better without the last sentence.
The US has this thing in some states called "certificates of need". People who support the US market driven healthcare will say that interferences like CoN distort the market and prevent it working properly.
950k isn’t a bad stash but he’s a fool limiting himself to 4% withdrawals and a paltry $30k a year.

He should build an aggressive stock portfolio of growth companies with about 60% IV each while he’s still young and going back to work is a good emergency fallback, but for primary income he could just sell OTM options against his stocks and be making about $2k to $3k a week fairly conservatively with little risk of assignment at low deltas.
>Germany, with no history of its own rockets during the European Union era

I guffaw'd at this one
Out of curiosity where are you finding high returns on capital today? I just don’t see them. (As an engineer, conversely, I see very high returns on my labor.)
Using and needing the exact url to form an affiliate relationship sounds like a very rare situation.

And I don't know how you can say it doesn't help privacy with a straight face.
I feel it is more about escaping the corporate machine than "doing nothing." For many the modern office workplace is insufferable.

You could argue they should go into business for themselves and some appear to do so.
Discounting seasonal work my SO has been unemployed since 2016 and her experience was pretty much like in the article.

It's like immortality and why you wouldn't want to be immortal according to Neil deGrasse Tyson - when there's no sence of urgency, there's nothing to make you do anything, so you just sit there and stare at the wall.

Really depressing come to think of it.
US contractors don't seem to be able to charge the premium I would expect in the UK.
Yes. A co-worker suggested it, and when I read about it and saw the response, I joined and commented.

I'll watch it, but at this point, I don't see the value add.

If I'm big enough to use the product- why wouldn't I just have/use 'junior employee' you mentioned above?
What does Julia Computing do?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia
On an (un)related note, I only new realized they have been all this time rewriting Thunderbird in JavaScript.
I think most often 'retiring' is not meant literally. In other words, one does not work at an ordinary job anymore, but they pursue other endeavors. They might even 'work' more after 'retiring'. It is true that FIRE does not buy happiness, but it is a nice tool if for example you like your hobby more than the current job.