skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has a $5B market cap, and I was not able to confirm that the organization has every produced a working product. A cursory look at Wikipedia for the guy and the company would indicate it is a scam. Not to mention naming the company to be off brand, but related to a real company.

The only source of his wealth might be Worthington Industries, but his track record indicates he has no expertise in making or managing anything, so is he related to someone high up there or something?
Also I have tried to get a patent for a silly thing I made. If I wanted the real deal and not patent pending it would cost like 10k minimum. A lo for a single person but nothing for a company.
As a South African I guarantee you that getting something ludicrous verified by a bureaucrat is not remarkable.
It gets even worse / weirder - I've found if you search for products that might not even exist, you get made up lists of products.

A while ago, I wondered if there were such a thing as a microwave + toaster oven combo (there are several convection oven + microwave combos on the market, but none can toast like a toaster oven).

Here's the top non-sponsered result: https://www.chefspencil.com/10-best-microwave-toaster-oven-c...

And the second result: https://thebrilliantkitchen.com/best-microwave-toaster-oven-...

Sure sounds like there's at least 10 of these items in existence for me to choose from - but none of the items in these lists are actually both microwaves and toaster ovens.
> Audio is the most important and hardest component of learning a language so apps have a huge advantage over textbooks any day.

Assuming the apps actually use native speaker audio. Which Duolingo doesn't do.

> I really don't think recommending textbooks is at all relevant these days.

I disagree completely. Textbooks are still, in my opinion and experience, the most efficient way to start learning a language.

> really you have to be pretty far along for grammar to be the main stumbling block (over listening, pronunciation, and vocabulary).

I wouldn't agree you have to be "pretty far along". Grammar becomes a huge stumbling block as soon as you get outside the pleasantries section of learning. Once you start trying to talk about your day and what you'll do and did, then the grammar really starts to matter.
Lots of people in power are willing to act. The problem is that in the US, the system is biased towards inaction. It takes an overwhelming majority to pass legislation. You have to control the House and 60% of the Senate and the Presidency, all at the same time. A minority willing to band together is nearly always able to prevent action.

Even when you get all of that, actually choosing an action on climate change isn't easy. It's a thorny, difficult problem. When you add in the difficulty of requiring absolute unanimity among that supermajority, it's no surprise that you can't get anything done, even if a majority of people recognize the problem and wish to act.
Ask HN: Crypto Pools and Mining?
Is Monero a good coin to mine? Price seems somewhat low, but I'm speculating it will go up with time. It seems it can still be mined with a PC.

Are there better coins to mine with a PC? What are the best pools and wallets? Are there miners that can use GPU and CPU simultaneously?
I made a slightly different thing:

If you are on

/home/user/projects/app/src/handlers/

and you want to go to `app/`, you'll do:

> up src

Or give name of any other child folder/file of `app/`. So if `.git` exists in `app/`,

> up .git

would work too.

I made it for Fish shell:
https://gist.github.com/ajitid/81a4993be410586c038f8b3fc140b...
If you haven't seen the Hindenburg report, I recommend reading it for the comedic value: https://hindenburgresearch.com/nikola/

Notable laughs:

* Nikola rolled their semi truck down a hill to show that it worked

* Trevor appointed his brother Travis "Director of Hydrogen Production/Infrastructure" when his only experience was pouring concrete driveways

* The infamous "HTML5 supercomputer" comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPL-PbDUKrM
I use SO all the time for gleaning information from the answers, but never for asking questions, for this very reason. The questions that show up in search results are full of great answers and information, but mine ended up full of people who didn't know the answer to my question but were eager to tell me about something they did know. Then I'd put more and more effort into providing context and justifying the question, until eventually the answers dried up. I decided I was better off seeking help on mailing lists, issue trackers, chat rooms, etc.
Well, let's look at the evidence.

- HN has no highly-upvoted posts asking StackOverflow-like questions

- No one has responded to you

- People do respond to such questions on reddit, Discord, and Github issues, and StackOverflow

If you have any evidence, please share.
I think we're pretty much in agreement then. Emergency procedures don't have long waiting times in any of these nice European countries. (Of course, even in the US they will give some urgent life-saving care to someone who can't pay.)

I also think that these (some several year) wait times aren't unavoidable. Management of these national public health systems is fabulously complicated and difficult and expensive, but it could certainly be done much better. In the end I think a country that really wanted to, and was willing to pay, could have a public system at least as good as what a 1%er in the US gets.
Synchronized software updates in large scale IoT Projects
I'm wondering for other folks that have created tools like this how do you do moderation of anonymous content as I can see this quickly devolving into a cesspool.

The thought of that has held me back from a couple of ideas I've had that allowed for public anonymous text.

(btw, I don't want to get into a discussion about if moderation is needed)
The mods of subs for the most part know what those look like as do the existing communities. Most niche reddit subs are very sensitive to astroturfing because the people involved in it rely on good information from those subs, they also know who the regulars are as well.
Shorted it down from $40 to $30. Bought a watch with my proceeds.
A couple of thoughts when I heard about this. Why should I think of this as anything but exploitation of a relationship with a cultural icon. And I still don’t see that NFTs are anything more than An illusion of value.
Based on interviews, Lucas Arts were using common MIDI tools and composition software.

The real magic happens in their music driver, which takes the sound effects, multi-track MIDI music, along with track priority infomation and dynamically down-mixes it to however many tracks the current audio device has. Just one in the case of the PC speaker.

I assume they would have had a setup that allowed them to quickly hear what the track sounded like on all their target audio devices.
Pick up a book or two to round out your formal understanding of grammar, and make some German friends, maybe even just online if that's easiest to help you with your pronunciation.
There is the language and there is the standard library.

In C for instance it is common to throw out the stdlib. A language like Java has a big stdlib and also has the maven central repository which is like the stdlib in that you are always going to be using it if you work on other people’s code.

JavaScript has a small stdlib, although it is typically attached the the browser which is a universe in itself. Npm is its own universe.

In small languages people are often reinventing the wheel in dangerous ways, for instance string parsing is hard to get right, you don’t want to write urlencode/decode, yaml serdes.

For doing innovative and challenging things a big language with attention to detail (Java) frees you to think about specifics as opposed to being the first person (it seems) to discover and work around problems in your platform.
I used to do meetups for some hobbies before the pandemic. For me, managing no-shows is very important. Many events have an attendance limit, and everyone who flakes takes space from someone who intended on going.

I only started getting no-shows and late cancellations under control once I started kicking people out for doing more than X no-shows. Also, it really helps to take money for reserving a spot, contrary to your assertion.

For me, especially with pandemic restrictions, managing no-shows is a very important feature.
Searched these and the rabbit hole was awesome. Thank you.
I’ve learned vocal tone range is a consistent across my mates, with higher pitched women never making the cut.

I wouldn’t be surprised if scent or some pheromone level is a major factor too.

This is in addition to form factor.
>, an operating system is not limited by outside appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design."

I think I understand the intuition behind that... in other words... coding an os kernel seems to have less entropy, less degrees-of-freedom, less subjectivity ... than frontend programming like painting GUI pixels and Javascript-framework-of-the-month.

But there's a lot of subjectivity and philosophical debates about low-level os design:

- the famous "Worse is Better" essay tries to explain difference between "New Jersey approach" (Bell Labs UNIX) vs MIT approach of error handling in a system routine [1]

- famous debate between Linus Torvalds and Andrew S. Tanenbaum about microkernels vs monolithic kernels [2]

- David Cutler (designer of VMS & Windows NT) criticizing UNIX i/o architecture[3]

- even lower level than o/s is cpu design where some criticize RISC-V not having arithmetic overflow traps in the minimum base specification. And in the 1990s, the RISC (MIPS philosophy) vs CISC (Intel philosophy) was a big debate.

[1] https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...

[3] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14150/how...
Congratulations on the launch, it looks great!

Just from a curiosity standpoint, how does this compare to something like https://replicache.dev/
Being able to use your README as real docs has taken a very long time. Super thankful that the rustdoc team finally shipped this.
> The agents said the Israelis’ technology, which helped carriers troubleshoot their customers’ smartphones by sending them an SMS link that enabled the carrier to access the phone remotely, could be useful for saving people’s lives.

A decade later:

> Saudi Arabia, using “Pegasus,” hacked the phones of Jamal Khashoggi’s ex-wife, and of his fiancée, and used the information gleaned to prepare for his monstrous killing and its subsequent cover-up.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-nso-group-peg...
[2] https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-l...
Ah, sorry I missed that. Then to answer your question more succinctly "yes".
Is it? SEO spammers seem like they'd have an easier time making a page with every permutation of the search string compared to legitimate authors who would likely have only a single variation
This company was an obvious scam from the beginning...the EV hype brought on by Tesla swept up so many naive people. Some of my family invested in this stock and lost a lot of money.
An Unhealthy Nation: Dieting Will Help
Ah, Ok, guess I'm only a half ABBA expert - unfortunately I can't edit my comment anymore to correct it...
Some staff might prefer to work in an isolated environment to have more productivity rather than dealing with traffic jams daily. Staff might observe that it is better to work at home, especially if the product's performance is similar or better than the traditional working space.
But FSD doesn't work downhill as well yet space jesus is free.
I still occasionally post these _when they aren't urgent_ because there's an off chance someone will know, and a greater chance some future traveller will find it by search and turn up with a good thought or answer.

But yes, it can be a lonely game :)
Medicare is available to Americans 65 and over, regardless of income or assets.

One of the proposed means to improve our healthcare system is to reduce that age from 65, potentially to as low as 0.
Saying it is part of "far-right" (which is the current boogie man) is frequently repeated, yet I never see any actual numbers regarding this. What I usually see is a screenshot of /pol or somewhere similar. It would be like going to /g and finding a meme of Richard Stallman.
I can identify most of what you are saying from my position.

The lack of mentorship is a big issue I recognize it.
I have even tried to have remote ones but it's hard to maintain thoses relations.

Being a "Jack of all trade" is not even bad for companies but in the process of recruitment. A jack of all trade is not really trusted by companies. Companies prefer recruit you as an expert but work with you as a Jack that's kind a paradoxal.

Thank you for your answer.
It sounds like the Clark County restrictions are a very cautious conservative requirement for an untested system. They don't want a tunnel full of burning Teslas on their hands.

I don't think this whole concept should be dismissed out of hand. Obviously autonomous driving is in the plans - and presumably if the concept is successful they'd develop their own vehicle more suitable for public tranist.

Why not a railway? It seems to me the Boring Company are essentially shifting the complexity from the fixed tunnel equipment (rails, signals, points - all the stuff you get in standard railways) into the autonomous car. Whether that's cheaper overall is yet to be seen - but it may well be. Subsurface railway is notoriously expensive (and the tunnel boring part is just the beginning - the fitout is also incredibly expensive). If they can move as much as possible into a factory environment and make the tunnels not much more than a concrete tube, they're going to significantly reduce the cost.

The only big downside of this approach that I can see is the efficiency of the vehicles - rubber tired cars or buses are less efficient than trains.
Hacking eInk Price Tags
Yep, so I wouldn't suggest a potential competitor try to make a game about skeleton kings.

... Minecraft, on the other hand, was an adequate idea (and not even original to Notch) doggedly implemented over years of iteration.
Of all DOS games I ever played, by far the coolest PC speaker music was in Star Control 2. Unfortunately (understandably) it was not loud enough, but it was great.

MI music is great though, I speak it as a person who has LeChuck fanfare on a ringtone.
I'm seeing a trend of apps that help to (micro)manage distributed / remote workforces. Virtually keeps track of who is late and no-show to Zoom events, Dailybot has automated standups that basically keeps tabs on employee work and productivity.

I'm curious to hear from the founders as to what motivated the creation of the apps and whether WFH plays a significant part in the value proposition. Would you need either app in a traditional work-from-office environment?
Gene therapy is available on the NHS in the UK.

And the American system that is systematically bankrupting sick people for profit is a damn sight less perfect than the European authorities issues.

Yes, it goes both ways, but it goes much further one way over the other.
Yes: if someone wanted to switch entirely from traditional cooking to sous vide they would need much less equipment, and it would be cheaper.

(Not that I would want to give up browning)
why would anyone take traffic estimates from a site like SimilarWeb as legit?

All those kinds of traffic rankers like Alexa etc have been uncredible for like 20 years. There's too much bot traffic out there now for hits to be filtered reasonably by an external third party
That's true, but they are the foot soldiers for the technocrats. Like Mao's Red Guard, they are the ones enforcing it on the ground, ousting dissidents and running the struggle sessions. They humiliate, bully, ostracize, get people fired, destroy reputations. Without them the technocrats would have far less power.
I am not a HR professional or lawyer, so please verify everything I say.

The US healthcare system is a pain in the rear to navigate, is incredibly awful if you are uninsured, and (as a system) is insanely expensive.

That all being said, if you and your partner are insured it should be fine. It’s perfectly normal to ask for details of insurance coverage and other benefits during the hiring process. Basically, you’ll want to ask 4 things

- Will my partner be coverage under my insurance (if you are legally married the answer is almost certainly yes, if not the company should help you navigate an answer). If you partner won’t be covered on your insurance that’s a big potentially move stopping issue.
- What is my monthly payment (this comes out of your salary)
- What is the deductible for you and your partner/family (this is the amount of money you must pay every year before insurance starts paying out. With a chronic condition just expect to pay it every year). Expect this to $5000-10000.
- What is the out of pocket maximum? (Even after you pay the deductible you may be on the hook for something like 10% of a bill until your total payout reaches the out of pocket maximum. This should be something like $17k for a family at most.

What does all that mean? Basically if you are a really expensive patient the most you and your partner(together) can expect to pay health providers is around $17k. Realistically, it’s probably less.

The one really big wildcard here is that not all doctors or hospitals are covered by any given insurance (called in-network versus out-of-network). This generally isn’t a big deal- you just pick from the list provided in by your insurance and doesn’t apply to emergency care- but people sometimes still make the mistake and it can be expensive.

One distinction you might encounter are HMO (health management organization) plans versus PPO (preferred provider organization) plans. HMO plans are more restrictive but are cheaper. I’d take a PPO plan until you are settled in the US for a bit.

In general, healthcare in the us on a $100k+ salary is going to be fine. I have a friend who had a very pre mature child. Kid is doing great, but his care cost $2 million in the first year and ~$15k there after. They paid nothing the first year and about $6k/year afterward.

I hope that helps. Please verify with an HR professional at any company you receive an offer from- explaining benefits is a major part of their job and there might be things I’m forgetting.

And (presumptively) welcome to America. I was born here, but still think it’s a pretty great place after living elsewhere. I hope you are able to find as much joy and fulfillment in this country as I do.
Wow. What store?
Hi, thanks? This is off-topic, but I don't think I am as up-to-date as it might come off. In fact, news.yc remains the only source of content I consume, which also defines my limit. I guess it isn't really a good thing to be spending as much time as I do on news.yc, anyway.
You don't have to use really long IPv6 addresses. If you get a /48, you can leave all the rest of the bits zeroed out, and they'll be shown as "::" in the notation; then your whole address is just a triplet like X:Y:Z::, where each individual X might be between 1 and 4 characters long.

If you run your own ASN, you'll probably get a /32 IPv6, then the shortest possible address is even shorter than with a /24 IPv4:

xxxx:xxxx::

is shorter than

xxx.xxx.xxx.x

Of course, for privacy, you're supposed to get a randomly-generated 64bits, but you can disable that setting in your favourite address, and use static addressing.
Not the parent, but not really, no.

Over the past couple years we’ve witnessed and discussed at length the level of regulatory capture that has affected the FAA (via Boeing).

That makes me wonder if the FDA has also succumbed to the same issues (via Pfizer).

The agencies have a similar role and similar potentiality for capture. Revolving doors, lots of $ at stake, huge multinational corporations.

I’ve brought this up before and was downvoted to hell. But I’m just putting it out there without bias. It’s based on a logical thought process. I don’t understand why we can’t even discuss if there are issues with the FDA’s process being corrupted by corporations with billions of dollars.
You should demand a refund on your man SaaS subscription!
It looks like share price was ~10$ at the start (2018 to 2020) and is currently ~13$ so presumable your family could cash out right now for a 30% profit.
Found via mention on this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996359
Here's the official Intel notice about the July 29th 2021 "Last Product Discontinuance Shipment Date" (PDF): https://qdms.intel.com/dm/i.aspx/F65EEA26-13FB-4580-972B-46B...
I kind of prefer this other video by LGR on the subject of monkey island title music through different PC music devices. It does not have the commodore 64 as it only cover PC, it more devices and illustrate how different the same song is on same platform with different hardware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a324ykKV-7Y
I used to make chiptune (and still do to some extent). Pulse waves (periodically alternating high and low sound pressures) are a type of waveform, and the width or duty cycle of the waveform (the percent of the time the sound pressure is high rather than low) controls the harmonic spectrum and perceived timbre. I could identify by listening that it was greater than 25% but less than 50% by listening by ear, and hone in on a guess by comparing to FamiTracker's emulated VRC6 (which can output duty cycles between 6.25% and 50% in steps of 6.25%).

I don't know what you mean by "muddy", but I did notice the speaker (perhaps mic too) has a crappy frequency response, and the bass notes are quiet and difficult to identify the pitch of.
Interesting how even after this was announced, their market cap is over $5b (https://www.google.com/finance/quote/NKLA:NASDAQ) in the same ballpark as established car companies like Mazda (https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MZDAF:OTCMKTS)
Nope. Setting aside resistance to government, there is home defense, which is more practical.
We are discussing a public safety issue here.

If you want to take a political tangent, it is your choice. Again, this is a decision by a private company. If you are against big government, you should be in favor of the freedom of private companies and individuals implementing their own policy. In your single mindedness you have failed to realize that private companies being allowed to make their own decisions is actually not an example of big government. Also, you cannot have personal health Privacy without bug government. But that is a debate for another time.
Except a blank page is exactly what I want to see if there are no results or if I mistyped my query. These shoehorned-in results throw me off every time because it takes extra mental effort to reinterpret them as "oh, google has no results for what I typed in past this point, so they're showing me random crap". I miss the old days when search was as precise as a scalpel.

Maybe I'm naive about the complexity of the problem (every article I read about the difficulty of what Google's doing certainly suggests so), but I honestly believe that we've reached the point where a talented and well-founded startup could outplay Google at their own game.