skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upcoming wallpaper: 2,048 x 2,048 infrared, 1,024 x 1,024 near infrared. But I assume we will get composite pics much larger than that.
It never had a purpose when it was new, beyond making people feel like "something is being done".

To work, it has to be invasive enough that people still notice it. It has to be cheap enough that they don't, mostly. So, we will have it for as long as people feel like something, anything at all, needs to be done, no matter whether any good ever comes of it.
My wife has a misdemeanor from when she was young and can’t enter Canada for the same reason.

As a Brit, I think it’s pretty petty as she was fine to move to the UK and work there. We now live in the US where she works for a large employer and has passed numerous background checks.

Sometimes I think Canada is more interested in portraying itself as a progressive beacon to the world than actually being one.
That's not correct under current federal law. Doctors can't write prescriptions for Schedule I drugs. They can only legally be used with special permission for research.

https://www.dea.gov/drug-information/drug-scheduling

(I don't agree with this, just explaining the law.)
> 47% of Americans cannot meet a $400 emergency expense. You deny their poverty?

Yes. You yourself posted: "About 15% of the US population (50 million people) are at or below the Federal poverty rate." You refuted your case.

> small cohort

I've seen these middle class people everywhere I've worked. They're not a "small" cohort. In fact, most of the people I've worked with fell into this category. As far as I could tell, I was the only engineer in the office building who did not deposit the paycheck the same day. I know this because others expressed shock that I didn't.

> it still knocks a rather major hole in a foundational premise of free-market economic theory

No, it doesn't. These people chose to behave this way. It's their right to. Nobody made them buy the boat. One of these boating people would sell his boat when he needed cash, and when he had cash, he'd blow it all on another boat, or a new car, or an RV, or whatever caught his fancy. Free market theory posits that people have a free choice. Not that what they do makes fiscal sense to anyone else.

> It's a poor basis on which to make assessments of national wealth, poverty, and/or inequality.

How much cash is in your bank account is a very, very bad assessment of wealth, poverty, and/or inequality. But that's what you're putting forward.

For another example, I have next to $0 in my checking account, and don't have a savings account. But I'm not poor, even though you'd classify me as poor. I keep it all invested. I only use cash as a transfer mechanism.

P.S. I actually did have a boat once (!) and me and my friends had a couple marvelous summers waterskiing on Lake Washington.
The thing is - the bank referenced in the story has COBOL programmers, but they kept recalling the effective COBOL programmer.

That's the issue with self-training for mission critical systems. Sure, some people can self-train, but a company doesn't want to pay people to learn on the job, while thwey are counting the beans.
My company committed to AWS-native EKS, didn't want to deal with the management headache of on-prem or self-deployed
Kubernetes in AWS/GCP, presumably AWS support is pretty good, DevOps is happy so far. One anecdotal win for Amazon.
A small consolation after everything he did to empower the the surveillance state.
Playing music. Playing an instrument is a great alternative to staring at a screen.
>I am wondering why mobile apps too haven't entirely been replaced by Web apps

One reason is we don't have unlimited energy sources on mobile devices. I am yet to see a non-trivial "web app" that can run fast without drawing kilowatts from the outlet.
> storage of nuclear waste (it doesn't produce high-level waste)

It does. You cannnot fuse just D+T, other trace gasses, and lighter isotopes will be present as well.
As to why all the downvotes: the folks here are well aware that you're talking out of your rear-end or are unaware that we are exposed to EM waves orders of magnitude more powerful and of significantly higher frequency. This type of EM radiation is called "visible light", perhaps you have heard of it. Take a physics class before talking about capitalist industry agenda, please.

Oh, and as for your references: both non-opinion pieces (Scientific American blog post is an opinion) explicitly state that no adverse effects were noticed. Didn't you read them or did you expect nobody would call out your bullshit?
Eh, with COBOL I can just see them not existing at a reasonable price point and not having any avenues to gain the experience from senior people.

Say that you have a pair of chickens that people really want chicks from. Pay whatever you want. You cannot really speed up chick production because of that initial bottleneck.
I'm just looking at some of these graphs and they seem a little concerning? Like the y-axis on 3G and 4G is 0.1degC ... no measurable health effects measured for a few decades, easy done and justified.

But then these 5G graphs are measured at a scale 200-300x higher on the y-axis and have like 20x the energy penetration deep in the body. That's real brave. Should my next phone be 5G or is this saying no?
Great questions. I strongly encourage folks to be careful with portfolio “back-testing”. There are a number of problems with using historical returns (or “boot-strap” sampling) for forward-looking analysis. The most conspicuous concern is the prevailing level of interest rates. Using historical stock and bond returns would entail annual performance of 10%-ish and 5%-ish for each asset class, respectively. In today’s environment, given high stock price levels (P/E ratios) and with interest rates fluctuating near historical lows, the consensus is that we should expect considerably lower returns for the foreseeable future.

For example, J.P. Morgan’s most recent capital market assumptions forecast a compound annual return of just 4.1% for large-cap U.S. stocks (e.g., S&P 500 Index) over the next 10 to 15 years. This is in stark contrast to the 10% to 12% historical returns pop-finance personalities often cite when setting expectations for future returns. For this reason, performing forward-looking analysis based on historical investment performance could result in grossly optimistic results and a false sense of security.

Monte Carlo simulation does in fact account for sequence of return risk through volatility and random number generation (but perhaps I misunderstood your point on that front).

As for the cyclical nature of returns, that’s a topic that continues to be debated. The historical behavior of markets in a developed country with enforced property rights, relatively strong institutions, and victories in two World Wars (e.g., the U.S.) is much different compared to other parts of the world. Maybe mean-reversion exists, or maybe we like to see patterns in data. In any event, we do plan to add customizable mean-reverting functionality in the near future.

Here’s some more info you might find helpful:

Studies of Market Behavior in Academia:

https://www.honestmath.com/learn/academia

Perspectives on how little we actually know, and how little historical returns might actually tell us:

https://www.honestmath.com/learn/nobody

Some more relevant thoughts:

https://www.honestmath.com/learn/simulation-probabilities-ar...
Related: last month (Aug 16th), the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in the EHT (Environmental Health Trust) et al. v. FCC case that the December 2019 decision by the FCC to retain its 1996 safety limits for human exposure to wireless radiation was “arbitrary and capricious.” [0]

The court held that the FCC failed to respond to “record evidence that exposure to RF radiation at levels below the Commission’s current limits may cause negative health effects unrelated to cancer.”

[0] https://ehtrust.org/in-historic-decision-federal-court-finds...
Because those unvaccinated people are so inconsiderate of other's health. They shouldn't have any rights at all because of their irrational fear of fully tested and government approved medicine.
(I used to work at aws)

yes! specifically, quite a number of teams use fargate and its one of the 2-3 "obvious" ways to build services.
>they're only angry... situationally.

You don't know, though! I mean, not everybody gets angry that easy, but many are aware that you don't have to commit a crime or do something wrong to be barred from crossing an international border.

I remember an article by a woman who was turned back from Canada because she had antidepressant medication with her.
After a year I don’t see any issues with it, the sensors don’t seem to have drifted or changed in their responsiveness at all. It has crashed once or twice and stopped responding but was fine after a power cycle.

With any IoT device I’m wary about longevity re app support, I can’t say how long Awair will support this device or whether they’ll provide access to it after they stop, but I’m less concerned for a device like this vs, say, a major appliance.
May I recommend this wonderful podcast on Cancel Culture? Basically the term is so distorted that it’s meaningless. The podcast is very well researched and if you haven’t heard “You’re Wrong About” you’re in for a treat.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cancel-culture/id13800...

As for “master” - nothing wrong with the word. It’s the context that shifts. No one lives in isolation and acknowledging the context shifts sometimes makes sense.

Insinuating that people sensitive to the context are somehow criminalizing the ones who deny it’s existence is absurd.
> I'm open to anything to get us out of this mess: anti-parasitic, anti-biotic, Zinc, Vitamin-D from sunshine, whatever it takes - I'm not picky.

Funny (really just sad and predictable) how vaccine isn’t on this list.
Writing, either analog or air gapped. I'm a heavy user of an offline Kindle but dead trees are better. And grab long thinking walks from Thoreau and Darwin.

Greetz from a former ADT'ish.
I just pick 4 random servers from the Debian pool to monitor, but my reference clock is GPS time. The RTC on the board has been carefully calibrated to be accurate to 10 parts per billion.

time.cloudflare.com seems to be the worst. It's stratum 3 which is weird for an infrastructure company to be operating. (I dunno, maybe someone just made a shitty NTP server and set their reverse DNS to cloudflare. I didn't investigate.)
Even for 2017, this is extremely late thinking. Back in '10 it was clear the consumer desktop was dying a rapid death. Now professional and business software are going the same way, and it is no wonder because nobody respects desktop development anymore. The advent of tools like Cosmopolatan libc are looking too late and too "hard" for new developers to catch on, so far...
SR-71's “R2-D2” May Be the Key to Future Battles in GPS Denied Environments
Here on HN, you might be surprised at the range of backgrounds people come from. There are people from all over the world. It's a startup forum, so it attracts "indie hacker" types, entrepreneurs and bootstrappers of all kinds vaguely tech related, and people whose IT interest is primarily open source, not just well-paid salarymen.

By "a lot of assets" I mostly mean "a house", but a decent size pension would count instead. Both are out of reach for many people now.

I agree that most old people in the developed world don't end up homeless.

On the other hand, there's a growing economic housing crisis affecting a lot of people in almost every developed country. Mostly affecting (current) younger people, and most (current) older people are almost oblivious to it. It's working its way up the age range. This is new.

You cannot assume what worked will always work, when there are factors that appear to be changing across generations.

Many people are paying >50% of their income in rent, and rents are still rising in most places faster than incomes. Most renters cannot find a way to get on the house buying ladder. If things carry on as they are, many people currently young will retire while renting. If you're paying 50% income on rent now, what are you going to do at pension time, as pensions are typically 1/3 or less of the income prior to retirement. You'll have to carry on working, but that gets harder with age, faster for some people than others.

I agree with you most will probably not end up homeless, but the point is, for that to work out, something will have to change.

I personally know an IT person who reached retirement age and is dependent on state benefits to pay their ongoing rent, and found those state benefits enough for almost zero properties in the area they lived for decades prior, making it hard to find a place from which to continue looking after their own older parents. They struggle, and have to work on the side.

And another, skilled and knowledgable software engineer, currently paid well, who for a period last year was unable to pay for rent or food due to running out of money and access to credit. They needed help from local volunteers just to eat. How can that happen, you may think? This is HN, where not everyone is working for a company. Like many HN readers who are entrepreneurial (it's notionally a startup forum), they were a business bootstrapper, and it's easy for that to become financially precarious when things don't go so well. Add a badly timed pandemic into the mix, government support for everyone except small business owners, and a time where jobs were not proving easy to get, and you have a recipe where homelessness really was realistic for a skilled IT person and, unfortunately, their family. I'm sure they're not the only one around here who's had to seriously face it last year.

My own pension is projected to be less than my current rent, which is already low for the area, so I think it's rational to be thinking about that.
That direction needs to be planned, or you could just make it worse. It was a big worry that when Bruce Willis triggered the nuke, splitting Asteroid Dottie in half, it would just happen to line up with doing nothing, and all would be for naught.
> Even Schedule I drugs are still legal to possess with a proper prescription from a doctor. There's prescription methamphetamine (Desoxyn), for example.

No they're not. Desoxyn is only legal with a prescription because methamphetamine is a schedule II drug, not a schedule I drug.
The CIA’s least covert mission
I use VScode for code and text editing (mostly Latex etc.) which is also Electron.

Also, I don't really use mobile apps for most social media which have working mobile web pages.
There’s nothing wrong with the industry wanting to switch to layout engines for desktop applications.

The problem is that this type of runtime environment is still fairly new. Desktop OS’s should have HTML/JS runtime built into the application layer, maybe even deeper. It’s such a dominant user functionality these days.

Instead we get a bunch of headless chrome instances. There needs to be an engine that maybe isn’t as performant as Electron, but is much smaller in memory and can handle these apps like Discord.
You can upgrade instantly on AWS, it doesn't take weeks. A lot of problems with AWS Elasticsearch Service are caused by corporations trying to squeeze a dollar out of a dime.

T2 and T3s with no Master Nodes, let alone three, leads to a lot of problems.

When everything lives in MMAP'd memory and you are nickel and dime'n it with 4GB and one CPU. You're going to have a bad day.
You’re my hero
>Which is not actually a right.

It very much depends on who you ask. Some libertarians will say that it hasn't been that long the modern system has been in place. I think since roughly WWI?

The lack of a "right" to enter a country could be compared with the modern lack of a right for pedestrians to walk in middle of most streets. Now and then some people get quite bitter about that.
It doesn't have to be that expensive, unless you get military contractors involved, of course. Most applications you'd just have to change the calls to dialog boxes to request a session with a powerbox instead... everything else would pretty much port as-is.
I recently started getting into photography as a hobby. I found that once I got used to carrying a camera around with me I no longer felt the need to have a phone with "an amazing camera" and was able to downgrade. This helped a lot in decreasing screentime on my phone when I was out of the house.
Thank you for this hacker response!
What is intrinsically wrong with running systems on COBOL? These systems have a very long lifetime, and COBOL has worked for that entire time.

Would it really be an improvement to rewrite a banks's backend processing software in the latest fad flavor of language and framework? We know those would become obsolete in a year.
This seems crazy expensive. $2,097 in the span of three years?

My home insurance is merely about 130 € per year and covers all of the accidental damage to all Apple (and all other) products in my home. Granted, the deductible is 150 €, so I'd only be able to get the screen repair of my Apple Watch down to 150 € (instead of $99), but it seems like hell of a lot better option than buying AppleCare.
edit: downvoted for literally asking how this fits into Amazon's business model, thanks for that.
2017? Anything new since then on this you think?
Canada provided (and still provides) shelter for nazi war criminals (e.g. Helmut Oberlander).
It’s beyond theory at this point - there is strong clinical evidence that fasting and dietary changes will significantly alleviate rheumatoid arthritis.

To anyone interested in this topic I highly recommend exploring the literature connecting RA, glucose metabolism abnormalities, and the benefits of fasting/dietary changes.

[1] Fasting followed by vegetarian diet in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK68524/
Correct. It seemed that the agent thought that that issue was grounds to prevent entry but wasn't positive, and was doing their due diligence to confirm as much.
Company men, most likely. Not well liked around the world these days.
Do You Need VitaminShopee Pharmacy Store Location Details?
Scrape a complete list of The Vitamin Shoppe Pharmacy Store locations in the USA including direction URL, geo-coded address, etc.

List of data fields:

Store Name
Address
State
Zip-code
Phone
Store Hours
Longitude
Latitude

Website: https://hirinfotech.com/search-engine-scraping/

#pharmacy #medicine #healthcare #nutrition #pharmacist #location #data #googlemap #address #website #store #datamining #datacollection #automation #USA #France
> If it's too high, were wasting energy by heating up the water too much. If it's too low, the dishwasher doesn't work properly.

Even if it's too high, it's not wasting compared to electrical heater, but possibly it break dish washer. If it's too low (but not cold), then just additionally use electric heater in dish washer. Still efficient than just heating cold water by electric heater.
My local loanshark.
A cloud-hosted AWS console changing configs on an on-prem vSphere cluster doesn't sound like something that's going to appeal to a broad audience to me. There's also the option of having your on-prem EKSA cluster have a hard dependency on the cloud AWS IAM. Youch.
I spent a couple years working for a company in Calgary, with a staff mostly from the US, and this was a recurring concern. It's not a thing that just started for Chelsea Manning.
COBOL must be effective, since it is used to great effect in these mission critical systems.
Just turn it down to use 4G. Sometimes I'll use LTE for meetings or big downloads. 5G - hard no. I sleep with my phone and Wi-Fi off. Don't knock it till you try it. Get a meter if you are serious about it.
Re: cosmopolitan libc: As cool as it is, I don't think the barrier to widespread adoption of C as a greenfield language for application development was ever that things didn't run cross-platform, it was, you know, the footguns and complexity of building anything significant in C.
Web apps purposefully cripple mobile performance, battery life and accessibility. Nothing is going to change until this changes.
The load limit for most truck routes is 80,000 pounds and most loads don't weigh that much. Existing semi trucks already weigh 10,000-25,000 pounds. An electric semi would be at the higher end of that range, but it would also have lower fuel costs. So you get a cost savings for the large majority of loads that weren't already at the weight limit.

There will also be different electric semi tractors. The one with a 500 mile range will weigh more than the one with a 250 mile range. So then you can use the one with the shorter range for the heaviest loads, leaving more of the weight limit for the load. If you weren't transporting it farther than that range then it doesn't matter. If you were then you have to stop to charge more often, which has a time cost, but it's not obvious even in those cases that the extra charging time is going to cost you more than the fuel savings.

The general expectation is that overall costs will go down, because that's the thing causing truckers to buy electric trucks.
One of the things after working with zig for a bit, is that the dangerous stuff is cumbersome to write (not hard to read, though), and has lots of fiddly bits like @ signs... So your eye is drawn to it as if to say "here are the parts of the code that need careful review".

Relative to c, though there are imo fewer special chars:. Zig adds ! and ?, Which are there for really good reason, but subtracts for example <> and #.

The hardest thing is the . syntax for anonymous structs and tuples, but to be fair it is very consistent, and so many times I'd think,"hey I wonder if..." And then try it with the syntax and of course it works.
> Harder to track people and feed them ads.

In native apps, you mean?
I write/maintain multiple code bases for XMega, SAMD, and STM chips. The kind where 32K ram is cool and 256K flash is lots. I'm curious if either of these is ready for normal humans to cross compile for these kinds of targets (M0 and the ilk). Zig looks very interesting to me.
>*It's nice to let the type system help you enforce your application boundaries, but I think you could wrap it pretty easily in a struct of your own if you needed that.

Well, as you said "Unicode is quite large and complicated".

And in 2021 it's not just anglosaxon software users anymore (if they ever were), good unicode lib if not type is a must.
I'm sure it wasn't, but I know nothing about your friends. I was responding to these specific statements of the GP:

Outside of that, a presidential commuted sentence, by its very nature, is political, not court based.

Lastly, each country puts the safety of its citizens, above the rights of foreigners to visit.

I am not a cheerleader for Chelsea Manning, who I have sympathy for in some respects but dislike in others.