skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firmware upgradeable 33.6k "Sportster" with the promise of a rebate on the front of the box.... no actual rebate coupon IN the box... and it's not like any of my friends actually received their rebates anyway.

Trying to get that thing to run on Linux via LinModem was fun.
My guess is they were chunking the multiplier cascade and handling using parallel circuits so that the waveform could be independent across the chunks and not be dependent?

Edit: found it.

2240004 3-24 C (you will want to search by this key, it's a long document!)

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/CRAY-1-HardRefMan/CRAY-1-HRM....

"Note that reversing the multiplier and multiplicand operands could cause slightly different results, that is, A x B is not necessarily the same as [B] x A"
You really need to look at your salary as how many years does it take to buy an average house in your area. It makes your 6 figure salary look a lot less if you look to the past. My parents bought a $150k house in the 80's when they had a combined income of $50k. That's only 3x annual income to house. That same house is probably going for $500k now. I'd say a family in that area might have a combined income of $100k now. That means the house costs 5x the annual income to house now. This trend is not great. Inflation is the silent tax that working folks need to deal with everyday.
Oracle's change of terms for the JDK spooked a lot of the community and many have moved on to Go and Rust.

Deeply invested companies and organizations moved to various OpenJDK distributions.

“The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.” – Princess Leia (adapted)
Generally if you pay for a device then it really should be “your device”. Nobody goes around saying the owner of an iPhone is Apple (colloquially).
do you mind sharing which company? As that is approximately how I would want to go about it. Oh I assume foamfactory.com

Looks really reasonable pricing-wise
If you implemented a Land Value Tax, all of the surplus value provided by something would be captured by that tax, and you could then subsidize a part of the positive externality using that tax.

One way to do so with IP/information/open source software, would be to give everyone access to just about all IP, but then when a surplus value is not known and needs to be accessed, you give people an option of what they value it. Get a statistically significant sampling group, then pick some percentage of the sampled group should get access, say 95%, and then query them using a Vickrey auction system what their true value is. The people who have the lowest 5% value don't get access to that item for some period. For everyone above 95%, they all pay that bottom 5% price for access to it, not their bid, like a Vickrey auction.

In this way only 5% of the sampled group, which may be 1% of the population lose access, and yet you still get to figure out the range of values throughout the population for that thing because Vickrey auction's incentivize that you bid your true value. Take some weighted average of the bid values and subsidize the IP owner with those funds.
Entity Component Systems: Performance isn't the only benefit
Can you recharge an alkaline battery? Would you consider a device powered by an alkaline battery "all-electric"?
Your taxes also maintain roads you never drive on. And yet you still benefit because the trucks that supply your grocery store or the plumber coming to fix your sink might use those roads. That’s the point of taxes: we all pay in, and we all reap the rewards.
> If you are looking to compete with someone who has a similar approval for a similar thing, you can expect them to cancel the first meeting or two inexplicably and stretch it out to a year, maybe two, because you haven't paid the FAA's brother in law engineering firm to keep competitors out, the other guy you're trying to compete with paid them.

This is a shocking level of corruption you're describing.
Testing for nutrient quantity. The quality of hay can vary hugely based on soil, weather, and other factors.
Will you recognize that it doesn't actually have to be a point to it, though? As long as you can spellbind investors there doesn't actually need to be something useful that's build at the end of the day. "Crypto" is a good example of this. A lot of the products and services that were build using Blockchain could just have used a normal RDBMS.
Google made the choice to implement QUIC in a library instead of getting into the OS distros. This was great for them as they have a monopoly on web browsers, but not so great for all of the other tooling that now is in need of a QUIC library to interoperate with these services.
There are screenshots floating around on Reddit showing limited functionality, presumably from sessions that were still logged in when it started:

https://www.reddit.com/r/roblox/comments/qi3du1/roblox_witho...
Probably just cheaper.
They are. Single family zoning and minimum lot sizes make it illegal to respond to market signals for more housing supply.
Do people really believe in fitness VR?

It feel like big over engineering BS, sport is one of such a basic thing.

Just buy a pair of shoes and go for a run. Buy a bike and go for a ride. Practice any sport in a club, take a gym membership and go deadlifting.

Why do they need to spend billion of dollars en VR development and then the user will have to spend hundred (thousand ?) of dollars to buy the VR headset, expensive computer just to have an activity that will be worse than a jog.
There are also C and C++ toolchains that cost similar amounts (if you want to use them for safety critical systems). But they do have more free or open source options than Ada does. Fortunately FSF GNAT is free and unencumbered (unlike AdaCore's release of GNAT GPL).
I agree with you in general, but O(n²) is always dangerous. Perhaps this example you give is a little to the extreme.

Writing slow software is also a form of waste. Then it becomes a question of ranking waste and getting rid of the most wasteful, according to a cost/benefit ratio, but waste is never a good thing to tolerate in any cultural sense.
Are you really having issues with paying extra taxes in order to help people afford reading more books and gaining knowledge for themselves?

Capitalism has really fucked us up if this is a common sentiment.
Has anyone done exercise with a VR headset? My runner friends go through earbuds ever other year, because the sweat destroys them.
When I had bought my Samsung TV in 2017, I too got advertisements in the home bar. I got livid and disconnected it from the internet, and connected my Chromecast and Apple TV to it. Never looked back since.
Nah, I'm talking about the rest of us dossers ... who spent years creating on the early internet for absolutely no reward.

Creativity was its own reward.

Just need the AI robots to feed us and we can stop worrying about the monetisation of digital assets.
Web browsers? Programs based around images/video? LibreOffice? Krita? Blender? Most "productivity" apps I see are based around a canvas or around images in some way. If they can hardware accelerate that, they will.
Not profitably. Renting out apartments is profitable, but paying property tax and maintenance costs on a bunch of housing that you hold empty isn't. And to artificially control the supply the housing needs to be empty. (This is actually one way we know this isn't happening at a large scale right now: vacancies are at historic lows)

Buying up a bunch of real estate to drive up the price and sell for a profit also doesn't work. For the same reason that a pump-and-dump scheme needs other bag holders: when you start selling the price will drop too quickly
Sounds like the approval process is the problem. Banning lead shouldn't "kill general aviation". We'd still have GA even if leaded fuel had never been invented in the first place.
The elephant in the room is VRChat.

The VRChat team must be salivating.

If they can't buy VRChat, they'll go after the furry VR app Neos.
Unfortunately not an isolated incident [0, 1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and_MV_ACX_Crys...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_S._McCain_(DDG-56)#20...
Huh? I don’t get your point? No vaccine provider has ever taken liability which is why we have the vaccine National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The threat of lawsuits is not the only nor the best way to enforce quality. In fact we have regulations and the FDA for this reason.
Serious question, they can observe the below average connection between the two parts of the brain, but at the end of the day aphantasia is a self reported condition is it not?

I believe I have aphantasia and I am wondering if I should or can get tested.
That sounds incoherent. Why are we all drinking OJ/beer? Can we taste it? If so, I can't mention how this beer tastes to my random group of 20 worldwide strangers (that all understand English and American culture enough for me to gossip about US celebrities apparently?) without risking giving up the lie?

Real Life In My Pocket? I already have Real Life Outside Of My Pocket, too. It's not a utopia yet, I don't see why putting it in my pocket would magically make it so.
That is certainly my impression with CDK. An even bigger heartache is the fact that I am writing a Python "program", but then have to use a JS binary to execute the deployment. Having the CDK synth/deploy functionality exposed via actual execution of the Python script (or even a built-in capability of the regular AWS CLI) would make much more sense to me.
But hay is usually very local, yes? Because it's hard to transport it a long way. So normally a farmer puts a sign by the road saying 'hay for sale' and people in the local area buy/sell it to each other as needed. Under what circumstances would you need to get hay from a long way away?

Are there specialist Hays?
Ah, it seems to be a submission from the second hand pool ( https://news.ycombinator.com/pool ).

That would make sense, as it popped up on the FP?
There aren't. I recently had to get cash back from a Wendy's after they triple-charged me in the drive-through.
Venmo has been next day for me for years (which OP mentions in the article)
They have an interest in the same way that people that are trying to move there do
ReactOS[0], not React[1].

[0] https://reactos.org/
[1] https://reactjs.org/
or just use Signal. people around me have been flocking to it from WhatsApp, I even got my wife on it.
If you believe restrictions construction increases value for your property, why do you think a house in the middle of nowhere is worth so little with such a strong monopoly?
These are still used in mission critical environments where someone with a Wyse Terminal sits on one end (or at least a terminal emulator) and calls systems in places like a cable company's head end. It's definitely antiquated but, in many cases, old school tech works fine, so penny-pinching folks choose not to upgrade.
Another example of the institutional rot that is happening across our county in aging institutions that have little accountability. Will any leadership be held accountable? No. The US Military is a jobs program first and a fighting force a distant second.
I can't say that's been my experience!
Oh you'd love to know that William Stewart Halsted, the father of residency basically was cocaine and morphine addict who thought that doctors needed to completely immerse themselves in the hospital environment and didn't need sleep at all.
> Enthusiasts had to create an interpreter for it (https://github.com/sjbarag/brs) to speed up development time.

Author of that interpreter here - didn't expect to wake up to that repo appearing in a top HN comment! That started as a side project and was maintained with a few coworkers during spare work hours (thanks, Hulu!) for the past 3 years, along with a unit testing framework that runs in it (https://github.com/hulu/roca).

I'm happy to answer any "developing for Roku" questions that come up :)
It's worse than AI. At least with AI, we know the inputs, can get glimpses into how it works, and was build with a specific intent. Fido just wants his treat.
> Just buy a pair of shoes and go for a run. Buy a bike and go for a ride.

It depends where you live, sadly. In some places it can be downright dangerous to exercise outside.

> Why do they need to spend billion of dollars en VR

It's a very fresh market and early investors will dominate it. They're probably just trying everything, because even if most of these investments fail, the few that work out may have enormous ROI, I think.
Me too. I feel that the key insight is that rational mind is almost always too slow to keep flow of the conversation interesting. It inevitably destroys timing and rhythm.
You can observe this clearly in stand-up performances - rationality of the bit is only minor part, the delivery is almost everything.
That's the problem, isn't it... we barely have support for this kind of thing in 2D.

If I make a chair in SolidWorks, I can't even drag-and-drop it into a 3D printer, let alone open the document to use it in the Sims or in an email client. When I drag and drop an email into Excel I get a dialog box asking about what the delimiters are, and woe is me if I want to drag and drop an image to share it with another networked device. To get anything to work, one needs to be constantly aware of filetypes, which applications support which files, and the quirks they have when importing/exporting files (text encodings ftw /s).

If we can't figure out metaverse-style interactions on text files, the only way it's going to happen with car files is in one company's interoperatability walled garden.
You have the right to not have a jury. There are some downsides. It's harder to win an appeal; jury nullification is off the table; plenty of judges are biased or uninformed. Your lawyer can't manipulate a judge as easily as a jury. Still, if I had to defend myself against some emotionally charged claim whose defense relied on legal technicalities, I might prefer a bench trial to a bunch of idiots who couldn't get out of jury duty. If the potential jury of "my peers" were going to be biased against me for reasons of religion or race or culture, I'd be more inclined to let a judge decide.
Git-bug: distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
When Facebook went public, everyone thought it was doomed, because they made no money. It took the addition of the personalized newsfeed, aka the part of Facebook that is the least social, for it to become a billionaire firm. Nobody posts on my wall anymore.
> Needless to say, readability, as a metric, is not branched from quantifiable aspects of the world. So in a sense, it is still a “made up” metric because (as of today), there’s no way to trace it down to the quantifiable measurements.

It is, actually. "Readability" for me means "how long it takes to someone that didn't write the code to be able to understand it, make changes, add features". It's a more fuzzy metric of course, as anything involving humans is, but that's also usually the kind of metrics that matters a lot.

That also means that it's not a binary readable/non-readable thing. A way of measuring "readability" could be: assuming all other variables are equal, what percentage of the new hires are able to add new features after 1 month?
I kind of assume everyone on the internet already saw this, but in case you're one of today's lucky ten thousand:

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...
I remember playing with the original, although it wasn't mine. A friend must have had it.

It would be interesting to know the cost in 1980, and compare it (with inflation) to the current cost.
No. I've not read tfa but being stopped under suspicion of carrying drugs at an aiport because a sniffer-dog got a bit too excited about a humous sandwich I'd just bought tells me answer to this question.

Also raising the question of whether a sniffer-dog can be manipulated by its handler.

Questons, questions ...
What's worse is that judges are elected and it creates perverse incentives.
I think it's a HN feature related to a post with existing comments being boosted to the frontpage by a moderator. The timestamps of both the post and the existing comments are faked for a time period to appear consistent with the time of the boost rather than the original post.

I.e. all the comments were not posted at the same time just now, but over a longer time period hours ago.
Aurora Borealis Visible in Parts of US, Europe, Aus/NZ on Saturday
Racehorses and Psychopaths
I disagree that interest rates play that much of a major role - if a house is worth 100k, a 10% interest is pretty affordable. If the house is worth 1M, it becomes so unattainable that the interest rate isn’t the deciding factor.
Not really. First of all, of course, the point is that bad sleep impairs cognition; the suggested point seems to be that there are "appointments" with scheduled internal operations (whatever: glial cleanup etc.), and that if they are missed it is missed maintenance.
Prof James Maas has been talking about this for 30+ years. He even has the anecdotal claim that dropping morning practice for a sleep deprived athlete (on his advice) contributed to her winning an Olympic Gold Medal in 2004.
Nah that's too obvious. MUST. MAKE. PROFIT. FOR. SHAREHOLDERS. The machine must march on and grow at all costs.
Beyond inductive datatypes: exploring Self types
you don't have to know what a firetruck is to know that it looks cool
Also a DevOps guy, I like Terraform from the “user” experience. It’s much more comfortable eco system to be in than AWS CF. Managing your resources is also better experience. That is until you hit an issue with resource or situation not being correctly supported by TF.
CF has the vast advantage of being native and fully supporting AWS resources. Unfortunately it gets complicated (not complex) so quickly and has a strong feel of rushed MVP.
Sure, no doubt. But the arguments fielded on HN as to why these various technologies are dead ends and will implode once people become rational are weak. They're usually from people who literally have never used the technology (or, used it many years ago.) At best, they have, don't get it (which is fine) but then go on to make the leap that since they didn't get anything out of it, the whole thing is a house of cards. This is a similar error as thinking every new tech that comes along is going to be the next big thing.

The value prop of VR and AR is remote social presence on par with f2f and full sensory override. This is why Facebook is pivoting the entire company around it. This is not something to ignore and dismiss, unless you think Zuck is a complete idiot. The value prop of crypto is economic freedom. This is why VCs are pivoting their entire portfolios around it and why more than a trillion USD have rushed into it. This is not something to ignore and dismiss, unless you think the entire alternative Internet-based financial system being developed around crypto is a bunch of hot air. At a minimum, for those technologies, they deserve steelmanning given how far they've run without dying. The hubris it takes to dismiss things as big as these, which as much potential to radically alter society, isn't just unfounded, but foolish, given that being on the wrong side of this trade in the direction of dismissiveness is hugely risky if you are a technologist.
Hell, it’s Saturday and I feel talkative. If somebody is stuck, several steps come to mind:

Do they understand the problem(s) they’re being asked to solve? Toy or otherwise, this strikes me as a necessary condition.

Can they express their solution in discrete steps? Software is brilliantly stupid, and must be told in detail what to do. This step should be independent of language, and is more of a logic exercise.

Can they express their “discrete steps” in the language(s) that are required. This is an engineering problem that can be solved with references, practice, etc. Perhaps we can think of the steps stage as writing in ones native language and the implementation stage as writing in a nonnative tongue.

Debugging. This is a generally applicable skill for any multi step problem. In the case of software there is language and hardware issues in addition to logic and understanding the problem space that usually make things worse. But I have found that if these two aspects can be separated things go much better than blurring the two.

If needed, tuning can be seen as both a (re)design or additional debugging step which is outside the initial discussion. But aside from design, one should separate making something work vs. work fast unless they have a very good grasp of their problem and solution. Much of what we do is separable, as things like abstractions are so useful.

If a student is struggling, the mentor can help them determine which step they are hung up on and the kind of nudging that would be most helpful. People who can create sound, stepwise solutions are useful - they can apply this to pretty much any environment. Knowing the nooks and crannies of a language without good logic/design merely creates hard to maintain code.
Twitter is a text based game, in a way.
... in this day and age it may just mean everything's been spoiled by Hollywood ...
I mean, yes. But from a user perspective it's the same, that's why I also didn't call it FaceID though, only an equivalent. You said:

> I think a lot of the curiosity about faceid’s absence on laptops would disappear if people tested it for themselves.

My point was, if it were a widespread concern, then the Windows users are an example of a substantial population making use of facial recognition to unlock their computers already. You were saying that if people tried it they'd (implied) reject it, but people have tried it, and they have not rejected it.
I worked for a local ISP in the 90’s and can tell you you were not the only one. In my memory 56k modems were rarely reliably better than 33.6ks. Myself I seem to recall feeling luck to get around 40k connections.
Scammers Creating Fake Students on Harvard.edu and Using Them to Shill Brands
Thanks for sharing that article. In reading it I noticed a few things: 1) the primary author is a well published structural engineer. The article was billed as review of the medical literature, so this is an odd match in regards to expertise and content. Their first co-author does have MD, MPH credentials, but they were fairly green having published only one other article. The journal itself seems legit and has been around for 100+ years.

In looking at the content 1) The methodology was essentially one paragraph and in execution it appears they cherry picked the literature and did not clearly indicate concentration of fluoride as they discussed certain postulated effects. 2) Often they reached conclusions based on single studies that do not seem to reflect the current body of evidence. For example, the reference to a Utah study on bone fracture in the elderly population. Many other studies have found opposite results and have been published prior to the publication of this study. 3) Their graphs that show a lack of association of water and salt fluoridation are used as evidence to make the declaration that there is no effect without discussion of causation for that difference.

In essence, this piece seems like a regurgitation of soundbites from US advocates opposed to fluoridation.

Chile continues its fluoridation program (70% of its population) and milk fluoridation for rural areas https://www.borrowfoundation.org/chile. The question over how to address cavities rates at the population level in rural areas where water fluoridation is not practical is a good one. And in looking at the evidence on milk fluoridation programs as I considered this article, there is room for further consideration and study there. However; this particular study is not enough to base such a policy discussion/ decision. The US does not currently offer or consider milk fluoridation in rural areas.
I wonder if know your customer laws apply to straw purchases