skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tenure of homeownership has more than doubled in the last twenty years, and it is a harmful symptom of the housing crisis, not something to be accommodated. When the housing market was more functional and job mobility in America was more robust, people only owned homes for 4 years at the median. That was the same as the median tenure at jobs. That’s the way it should be.
> There are numerous bodies of data supporting waning immunity at this point.

Why that happens is less clear though. Is it a fault of mRNA tech itself? Or the dosing schedule? 21 days is very close together for a 2 dose vaccine, most are 6 months or years apart.

Using 21 days was a good way to get the trials done fast, if they'd used 6 months we'd be where we were 5 months ago, but this was one of the risks. Canada, which spaced doses out further, isn't seeing nearly as high of a rate of breakthrough cases.

I'm not saying we can conclude definitely that dosing is the problem, but it's a question worth investigating before coming to any firm conclusions that mRNA vaccines aren't good enough.
FYI Allen Edmonds no longer makes all of their shoes in the US; since 2006 parts of the shoe, and sometimes the whole shoe, are made in the Dominican Republic. They were also recently bought by a larger shoe conglomerate so IMHO the writing's on the wall for their MiUSA approach.
Wait, are fake review detector sites a real thing? What is an example of one?
Mozilla (the non-profit that makes the Firefox browser) has a VPN service and not only do I trust them more than these other private companies but I like supporting them as an organization. A VPN is the best thing for a crook or spy to run, so I expect that eventually they will be all run by them, if they aren’t already. Even SSH encrypted content can be man in the middle attacked by SSH proxying, I don’t see how your VPN couldn’t have access to your bank account or anything else you’ve logged into.
Greenpeace claims that carbon offsetting doesn’t really work

https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/the-biggest-problem-with-...
There's plenty of "change the world" opportunities left. How about a company that mines the ocean floor for minerals? What's completely full to the brim are tiny companies that are pretending to change the world but are really just thinly veiled ad-based/subscription models, which are half-hearted attempts in various sectors to replicate the success of Google and Amazon.

The world still needs companies that are actually looking to change it, we've barely scratched the surface on what we can do with what's available to us.
Very glad to read that. I agree wholeheartedly.
Suddenly, the entire study of statistics and demography is unsound to you after I ask for clarification on your issues with a paper's conclusions.
I read on reddit in a long drawn out debate between to researchers was a concern that MRNa could triggering auto-immunity in case of covid treatment. As errors happen in copying/duplication. And covid treatments are training immune system to attack virus but error could easily train to target to some receptors on human cells.
What if you met someone carrying their phone in their breast pocket, with the camera facing outward? Would you ask to see their phone to see if they were recording you?
And the free two-day shipping seems to be limited to only select items now. I know it was never universal, but free two-day shipping has turned into free 5-7 day shipping, but you're still paying for prime. I'm really re-evaluating whether prime is worth it anymore.
I think it comes from the program that apple has. I think instead of financing the device, you can do the 'iPhone forever' plan where you pay $30/month and can upgrade at any time.

Edit: Here is the link. Looks like the price went up, but when it started I remember it being $30/month.
https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program
Carbon offsetting as it is sold today is mostly a scam.
Great work and great summary!
My Mom got one for me when I was about 6 or 7. Oh man, that speech synthesizer was amazing. It felt so cool to make it say stuff. I also learned to program on that thing. I used it for years. I still have it in the box too :)
Yes, something very obscure. Maybe a handful of companies in the world have a need to operate something like that.
Is this unique to truck drivers? In my experience, the worst and most unsafe drivers usually drive cheap commuters, not pickups.

Also, to preempt a repeat, last time there was a thread on HN about saving pedestrians by banning pickup trucks, I ran the numbers and a very optimistic estimate for number of pedestrian lives saved by replacing every single pickup with a commuter car was like 200 people per year.
> Ah, more of Zuckerberg's jealousy because Snapchat refused their acquisition offer?

This sounds like a complement, to be honest. If we get awesome, real, AR glasses because Zuckerberg is jealous, then more power to him.
Anyone out there learning Pijul?
> ask any 2006 non-techie if they'd consider carrying a pocket computer and they'd laugh at you.

That depends on the question you ask, if you ask them if they want to carry a bulky device they will say no, but if you ask that the device will be very small, light, sleek and you can make calls and check email and browse the internet, almost everyone will say yes.
Looks like it's basically adding a Linux featureset to the bootable DOS command prompt.

Since you're already expected to have DOS to begin with, wouldn't it be simpler if there was just a single Linux folder to place on your C: volume and enable it using the native DOS command line once DOS has been booted, or automatically using AUTOEXEC.BAT?
>I've stopped buying clothes manufactured outside the US and EU

Is it really possible to make anything that isn't a product of the global economy?

When something is labeled as "manufactured in the US", I always thought that was a term of art that meant final assembly.

It is said that around 1/5 of the world's cotton comes from forced labor. This has been reported on by the BBC and The Guardian.
Beijing and Peking are different romanizatiins of 北京

Beijing is Pinyin and Peking is Wade-giles

Both are pronounced the same way
Trade-in math works even better. iPhone 11 came out in 09/2019 for $699. Two years later you can trade it in for $340, making those two years cost less than 50 cents per day.
See the HN guidelines, and dang's/pg's writings. Most of the magic lies within.
Wonder of the number and frequency of these 'surprises' has anything to do with them being trialed and authorized in 3-6 months rather than the standard 6-10 years.
Honestly, comments like this are why I stick with hacker news.

Thank you! There's a lot of difficult-to-google info locked up in comments like this, and I truly appreciate the effort spent replying to randos like me :)
I bought a used iPhone because I expect it to get software updates for a couple more years. I stopped using the Android phone I used previously when SSL broke due to a lack of updates. I really hate that mere software limits the useful lifetime of my devices.
Yes please. It has been such a pain to deploy.
There is zero reason why developers should even concern themself with BE these days. LE officially won, just as two's complement, UTF-8 and IEEE-754 won. Sure, most software could easily be agnostic and probably most software is. But unless tested you don't know for sure. And why would you? It has zero application.
It's supposed to be a currency, but almost nobody uses it to buy and sell anything.

The merchants that do try and adopt it almost always end up abandoning it.

It's also difficult for the average consumer to use making it several times easier for people to lose their money or have it stolen while offering no real utility advantage.
I have found Kirkland brand products to usually be the highest quality available without spending crazy amounts of money. One product that comes to mind is the Kirkland olive oil. There was a report that found that many of the major brands and even high dollar Italian brands of olive oil actually had other types of oil added to them. Kirkland was one of the few, if not only major brand that was pure olive oil.
I’m always confused when people focus on Apple when it comes to waste. Aside from Apple’s best in class environmental practices, are people aware of the mind bogglingly large amount of crap that gets produced and disposed of every second of every day? Plastic bottles alone.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/26/1009817...
I'd rather have a vaccine that only lasts 6 months than be dead.
3 weeks of outdoor exposure means absolutely nothing. The minimum for most paint manufacturers is at least 2 years in a sub tropical area like Florida.
https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news provides news stories aggregated from major news sites with the news sites ranked by their bias level: far-left, left, center, right, far-right

AllSides also has a mobile app that works fairly well.

As others have stated, there are no unbiased news sources. Seeing the takes from different sides shows the biases and helps you keep an open mind.
Find anything on Amazon not made in China.

Amazon has actually started an extensive push to recruit South Asian sellers to provide just any kind of counterweight to Chinese.
>mostly a scam

Citation needed.

I am familiar with the field and can tell you that there's plenty of honest, transparent companies working on this.
People who buy something labeled as made in the US, because they think it's the right thing to do, are by definition not price sensitive at least to a point.

$50 has nothing to do with the cost, it's an entirely made up amount that is the estimated maximum increase the market will bear. It's the price of the conscience of the consumer who feels they should buy American.

Remember, nobody is trying to make a "fair" profit, they're trying to make as much as possible.
The roof of my father-in-law's garden shed happens to be made from the copper plates that were used to print those maps! He used to work for OS, and they threw all the plates out with the transition to digital printing. You can sit in the shed, look up and see mirrored engraved maps all over the ceiling.

As far as I know he was legitimately given the plates as scrap, but I'm using a sock puppet to avoid any possibility of OS deciding that the plates are theirs after all and going after him.
That isn’t true in other countries, like most of Western Europe. It isn’t how it should be, especially if you have kids (yes, I moved around almost exactly every 4 years as a kid, it sucked). Good transit in urban areas with a lot of jobs is a wonderful combination. Also, husband and wife don’t need to work in the same neighborhood, which is highly unlikely as you go up the skill chain.
Is it because of trying to use too many features? Or working with large groups and everyone trying to do too much?

I've been through 3 source control systems now, and Git is by far the easiest. I only branch, clone/init/add/commit/push/pull and merge. (And now most through the gui in vscode) There are some minor fixes I've had to look up, but it's rare.

Almost all the complaints I hear about are from very obscure commands and situations I've never seen.

Is using Git in a simple way the answer to everyone's problems with it?
https://reviewmeta.com/
A couple reasons come to mind: the size of the company and the short lifecycle of fancy products. There is no doubt people could squeeze an extra decade or so out of most phones before they upgrade. I'm still on my 5s, for example, and aside from software being outdated it still runs fine.
Show HN: An Org chart inside Slack
Similar experience here - I once left a detailed positive review of a product and many liked the review. Amazon showed it as the first of many 100's of reviews. A few months later, I bought the item again for a friend, and noticed that the specs had now changed but Amazon still listed it under the same product listing. I updated my review and pointed out this discrepancy. Suddenly my review which was at the top, was buried deep. Another issue I noted with Amazon reviews was that if you post positive reviews, Amazon slowly hikes the price of the same product when you buy it next. I just don't trust Amazon's review system anymore.
I have a fairly similar spend pattern on amazon and I’ve had tons of issues.

The most egregious example in the last few months was I bought an $800 Warn winch, “new”, shipped and sold by amazon, and they send me a not only clearly used, but used in such a way that it was extremely dangerous in a way that was only apparent to a trained eye.

Amazon’s dishonest practices like labeling used returns as new if they think they can get away with it is not only unsafe, but leads to a ton of returned-item fraud where people buy equipment, replace it with a superficially sort of similar knockoff, return it to amazon, and amazon sells the fake item as new. This happens a lot with things like optics (scopes, binoculars, etc) where there’s a robust market for fakes in China.
You can confirm this.

It’s a standard request for our big clients. Everyone wants single tenancy.

We don’t offer it to anyone at all.

We still service many of the biggest players in our industry.

Edit: I should say, some things are separate for everyone. Most things are shared resources and we don’t bend on that. It’s relevant to our ability to scale with no real notice.
The couple that I know of are https://reviewmeta.com and https://www.fakespot.com/analyzer

Looks like ReviewMeta's creator has left the project, but the site still seems to work. Fakespot really wants you to use their app or browser extension, but the link I pasted allows you to ad-hoc check item URLs.
A bunch of the more established Chinese brands tend to introduce more models from broader ODM space, there's a lot of new stuff not making it's way to North America anymore. Just seeing MPOW go through iterations was amazing. Which is a shame, Anker seems to have stagnated in the past recent years. They've also dramatically cut back on bluetooth audio.

Can still order from Aliexpress, but trying to filter through rebranded generics and gambling on defect manufacturing lots with zero support, and waiting weeks for ships is not worth hassle. Selling on Amazon with question free RMAs and next day shipping for what seems like 25% markup of already cheap items was incredible for consumers.
Also some issues with Elm like breaking changes, lack of library support, etc, makes it a little awkward for prod
Try https://ganfast.com/products
It's a cheaper way to combine "good enough" capacity and "good enough" performance.
A decade? So that iPhone 4 I purchased around 2011 should be a viable phone up until about now or so?

As a pure phone, sure, but I don't think it'd be able to run much, even if its OS was still being updated.
They don't add methanol. You can check this easily by looking up a Safety Data Sheet. They will add a bittering agent to make it extremely unpalatable.
Ask HN: How do we help Jeff Meyerson, Software Engineering Daily podcast host)?
I used to listen to those podcasts almost on a daily basis 1-3 years ago and greatly enjoyed them. Now down to just one or two listens per month and was surprised by the "Mark Suckerberg" episode as I'm sure a lot of other people were. But I thought it was some sort of crude joke. Only after listening to the more recent "Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg" did I begin to realize something is awry so I found his Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/the_prion/status/1439136727797362697) and another HN thread similar to mine posted recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28504276), but I'm curious how anyone in general can help Jeff, not only those close by to him in the SF area.

I don't know him personally, but I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder shortly before attending college while experiencing a pretty bad manic episode, and that greatly altered my future in an adverse way. That was ~10 years ago now and haven't been in a psych ward for the past 5 years but it's still occasionally painful thinking about how radically different my life could be had none of those issues/episodes took place.

Seeing Jeff's tweets and listening to those two podcast episodes made me rethink how a current version of myself would have reached out to my past fully manic self (who believed I was on a trajectory to take over the world and become the next Jesus) and what things I'd tell my past self given the chance. I honestly can't theorize what would have been effective messaging but going over past emails sent to me from concerned friends/family members made it clear I was disregarding their concern / misinterpreting their intentions to help as their beliefs that they didn't want to see me become massively successful in life.

I'm curious what other people's thoughts are on how to mitigate the damage Jeff's current online behavior could potentially cause. I'd hate to think that a large amount of regular listeners of the podcast will just stop listening without understanding the current aberration is due to mental illness. Or even worse sponsors cutting ties because of it. But Jeff's well-being is more important than either of those.
What shoes does your sister make? Are they similar to Doc Martens?
lung cancer and cigarette
Proprietary software but "open systems", in the way that OpenVMS is certainly not open source, same with OpenStep, and several other examples I'm forgetting. But they're documented and accept/output open formats, as opposed to being giant proprietary monoliths.

(this is why some people are very insistent on always using the full "FOSS")
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

~ Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Do you also want to make the decision for everyone else, that they can't wear Mark's glasses?
how about good luck building any wealth at all working under others without sizable equity :~)
Docker acts as late linker for dynamically linked apps, bundling shared libs and executable together. Statically linked Rust apps certainly go against the grain in that model but can often be made significantly smaller with some build and dependency tweaking.
And munch man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munch_Man
Wow, I had no idea that 2 existed. I'm a bit of a Luddite it seems, I still get awkward with self checkout. But this sounds like a really cool idea. So you can bring your own tote bags and fill them as you go, then at the end just...pay? Sounds awesome. But also sounds really ripe for abuse, unfortunately.
How much uranium is needed for subs vs power plants? I assume the reactors are much smaller.
Sorry but this is an ignorant take of someone who I presume does not own property. I would have thought similar until we bought a house. Some costs that a renter never thinks about: property taxes, home insurance, flood insurance, leaky roofs, flooded basements, mold remediation, HVAC system replacements, the list goes on. If you think a landlord buys a house and never has to put another dollar in, you are on crack.

If you are a landlord you face plenty of other risks - time between tennants, you incur all the expenses and none of the revenue. Ditto if your renter stops paying and it takes you months or years to evict them. Or your tennant does damage to your property that their security deposit doesn't come close to covering.

On top of all that, there are real risks of asset decline. Just because that hasn't happened recently in most places doesn't mean it won't happen. I can name 5 plausible scenarios under which my house ends up never being worth what I paid for it.

It seems to me that you and others claiming that being a landlord is free money just have zero idea of what it actually takes.
I really like the New Balance 990. I have the same opinion as you. It costs a bit more but it is well made and lasts much longer. I hope they continue to make it.
That's different. There are ways in which ipv4 is subjectively better than ipv6, and "the catastrophe of needing more addresses" has not really panned out yet.
Rust on the MOS 6502: Beyond Fibonacci
Source is HTML, but came back as JSON MIME type. Something in their memcached borked.

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Err ... that's an opinion from a guest writer on Greenpeace's blog.

Anyone could, thus, opine in the opposite direction and we're back to where we started.

To be fair she raises some valid points but they all revolve around tree-based carbon offsetting.

On the last couple years, there has been an explosion in carbon removal techniques and startups who, as the term says, literally and measurably take carbon away from the atmosphere. I believe this to be the kind of solution that makes sense, and, regarding costs, it is still within the realm of "offset your personal emissions for $1/day".
They are already here, put "Aukey Webcam" into the search and you will find a very suspicious AUKEYPOWER brand.
U.S. to Target Crypto Ransomware Payments with Sanctions
The first question that immediately comes up is: has this project received any independent third-party security audits? Has it been otherwise peer reviewed by the security community?
My wife and I had similar experiences with LG, Samsung, and HTC. Then we switched to the Pixel 2 and have been with the brand ever since. The contrast is so bold that instead of thinking Apple vs Android, people should really think Apple vs Custom Android vs Google Android.

After extensive work experience with the iPhone and personal experience with Pixels, I won't buy an iPhone or non-Pixel Android for the foreseeable future.

Disclaimer: I work for a company only some on HN have heard of, and have no affiliation with or direct financial interest in any major device manufacturing company.
I want to wake up at 8:00 regardless of my timezone. I don’t want to wake up at “8:00 NYC” when I’m in Europe nor should I need to adjust the alarm every time I change timezone.
Right, a decade may be a stretch, but that is what this article is getting at- these phones are being designed NOT to last (at least that is the claim), hence the wastefulness. In another timeline, I can imagine upgradeble phones where people put value on long-lasting durability.
That would be nice but it would likely just follow you around serving you ads and deliberately getting in your way to get your maximum attention!!
There’s also a decent market for European-made shoes - I just picked up some leather/suede Spanish imports from J Fitzpatrick in NY at the per-pair price of a “high-end” Nike sneaker made of plastic in China. Solovair makes boots in the UK in the old doc martens facilities (doc martens are in Vietnam now IIRC).
Have not seen this mentioned yet: FCC frequency changes pushed me to replace an aging phone which was having the supported frequencies phased out.
Maybe you can patch the existing firmware, rather than starting from scratch: https://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php?title=SamyGO_Firmware_Patch...

I'm not sure whether sources are available.
The pilot isn't needed, he's just there as a backup.

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/479633-coming-soon-pl...