skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It helps to understand the mechanism your eyes use to focus. For eyes with normal vision, they are at their most relaxed when you are looking far away and your lens is at infinity focus. When you look at something close up, a muscle pulls on your lens to shift the focus point closer. (Additionally, as you get older, your lens gets harder, so it takes more pull to get it to focus closer , and you may need reading glasses once you can no longer focus as close up.) If you do close work all day, that muscle will be pulling all day, hence the recommendation to look at something far away every once in a while to give it the opportunity to relax.

What I did was to get a pair of computer glasses. I measured how far away I usually keep my monitors, and I took that information to my optometrist. She put the eye chart at that distance and we went through all the questions (is A better, or B?) to figure out the prescription. Now, when I'm at the computer, my eyes are at the same relaxed focus that they would normally be at for faraway things, and the computer glasses are providing the focus adjustment for close up.

I learned one other thing as well. If you have progressive lenses, only the small "intermediate" zone in the middle of the lens is really good for computer use. The top "far" zone makes your eyes work hard to focus close up, and the bottom "close" zone is generally focused too close for the computer screen. The problem is that you can't really scan well across the screen with your eyes while wearing progressives -- instead, you have to turn your head to keep the screen in that intermediate zone, which started to give me neck trouble. The computer glasses took care of that as well, since the whole lens is at the correct focus for the computer screen and you can scan with your eyes instead of your head.

One last thing. If you do hobbies or work that is really close up, I would recommend an Optivisor or a jeweler's loupe. I used to be able to do fine soldering without one, but I'm in my mid-30s now, and it really helps. And check the ergonomics for your setup. A high bench and a low chair, plus a Optivisor or a loupe, is way easier on the eyes and neck than a high chair and a low bench, which will make you crane your neck to get it closer to the work, and then strain your eyes from focusing so close. Look at a watchmaker at their bench for an example. There are plenty of watchmakers who work on tiny little parts into their 60s and 70s without messing up their vision.
This is similar to (or possibly a superset of) the theory that famines are impossible in democracies. When you look at historical famines, it generally turns out that it was inflicted on a specific group of people for political reasons, often as part of a war, rather than a purely natural phenomenon.

> Few scholars have left more of a mark on the field of development economics than Amartya Sen. ... Sen is famous for his assertion that famines do not occur in democracies. ''No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,'' he wrote in ''Democracy as Freedom'' (Anchor, 1999).
the final coffin nail for SPACs?
The article already mentions connecting a Wemos D1 mini, which lead me to searching for a howto. Stumbled onto this excellent article by my old friend Guy, complete with assembly pictures: https://style.oversubstance.net/2021/08/diy-use-an-ikea-vind...
Just so you know, in all the major browsers and operating system you can change the default zoom and font size, without a need for plugins.
Yes and (Adjacently): Dispensaries also need access to basic financial services. Like merchant bank accounts.

In my jurisdiction, dispensaries are still cash only. Because of federal law, banks won't touch weed money. (Ironic, given how many have laundered cartel monies.)

IIRC, there's been security problems. Like stick-up robberies. Which increases risks and costs (more security).

I know people working on weed policy. Harmonizing all the laws up and down the legal stack. Totally not my issue, so please correct me.

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My throwaway crazy uninformed idea: Merge the marijuana and state-run bank policy advocacy. So that dispensaries (et al) have a safe, convenient alternative to handling cash.

Aha. WA State Rep Hasegawa proposed this policy in 2014.

https://cannabisnow.com/washington-state-could-manage-mariju...

Hasegawa is a great guy. So I'm probably repeating an idea I heard during some presentation (and not being original).

Any way. SanFran should create their own bank for their own small businesses, including dispensaries.

Edit: Maybe even just start their own credit union. Like a union of local small businesses. Sponsored by the local chamber of commerce and partially underwritten by the city. Totally spitballing here; I have zero knowledge about this stuff.

Sorry. I no idea about the current status of state-run banking, in WA, CA, or else where. In general terms and in principle, I support anything that takes power away from commercial, publicly traded banks.
My wife, who is three years younger than me, used to tease me when she caught me squinting at something, or doing the old 'look through your fingertips' trick to see read some fine print.

Now she doesn't laugh anymore.

Everyone I've talked to says basically the same thing as you. It sneaks up. You don't realize at first the compensations you are using, unless someone says something. Or when the first thing you do on a new computer is crank up the font size. LOL.
None of the product managers in those companies you cited are paid to stay the heck out of features that's already working. They are paid to scale those features, add more usecases and re-shuffle the design so that all the latest use cases are captured. This means the softwares are evolving at a pace the industry hasn't seen before.

And there's another dynamics at play. Design community these days are infected with apple driven thinking, treating users as stupid and worrying about decluttering. The focus instead should be on how will a design scale for known unknowns and unknown unknowns? How will complex usecases compose well with simple usecases? What happens when an unknown error happens? These are stuff that nobody seems to worry about in the UI design sense, IMO.
You're welcome. And just to clarify, I don't have anything against your process (I've used Zenni myself), I just wanted to make the point about being careful with the PD.
But then you're relying on the IPFS version to accurately say which Youtube video URL it is equivalent to. I could upload any number of videos claiming to be the same as your video, right?
This. As annoying Amazon can be sometimes, the customer experience is still among the top. Everything is as frictionless as possible; returns are usually a breeze. Even my last direct call, where seller used deceptive picture to sell me something was resolved within 15 minutes.

I search in vain a memory of mom and pop store, where I did not have to spend inordinate amount of time to resolve any issue.

Amazon was successful, because it filled a need that Bezos noticed that it could be better.
but there is one number that does not exist — 53 foot containers.

https://www.gatewaycontainersales.com.au/all-about-53ft-cont...
Cheap, easy to use is o.k. not sure of reliability. Another IOT at home air quality solution is Purple Air. Offers units for outdoor or indoor. Not as cheap as IKEA but affordable.
https://www2.purpleair.com/
Truer words have not been spoken.
> used commercially way more

Depends by what metric and the definition of "commercially".
I'm not sure this is the case for (physical) devices sold with software pre-installed.

I mainly see BSD licensed binaries on network appliances (routers, firewalls and other security appliances), apple hardware, automotive headunits, ...
I use Pushover for this: https://pushover.net/
We have examined that as well, last week we tried a AMD 5950X which has half the amount of cores but much better single core performance - the result was still at 60% of the Epyc performance
I am currently wrapping up a project whereupon I am adding pg support to a previously mysql-only large open source application. The footguns that I discovered when doing this (this is a very CRUD-like web app) weren't performance related, but rather the bizarre data integrity issues MySQL ships with out of the box. Did you know, for instance, that the default collation that MySQL installs with is case insensitive as well as accent insensitive? This means that data that contains é, for instance, will match the e character in queries. MySQL is in general much more forgiving about data type coercion than Postgres as well. MySQL makes assumptions about certain things regarding dates and times that Postgres doesn't.

All of the above bodes well for someone trying to quickly hack together an app that does stuff, but for long term data integrity it's much easier than pg to introduce subtle differences and flaws in the data through some application code that works at face value for CRUD operations out of the db but down the line fails due to subtle data differences.
The progression from international to multinational to transnational corporations is also a prominent theme in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.
Copyright doesn't just protect the single implementation, but also any derivative works. If I take some C code and copy it (with a rewrite) into C# (or whatever), the C version's copyright still applies because mine is a derivative work. That's where the "clean room reverse engineering" idea comes from: Implementing a spec isn't infringing, so just have the person reversing and the person implementing communicate using a spec.

In this case, the "spec" of the coreutils would probably the man pages.

Changes to the C code to be idiomatic Rust does throw a wrench into the whole thing, and it would have to be sorted out by a court, but it's not as simple as people like to think.

As usual: IANAL
That should be the same when bound to an interface, shouldn’t it?
There need to be more co-op open source shops rather than corporate behemoths that don't care about UX, consistency, or users.

Churn is pointless changes. Changes should improve things, not provide job security, offer design novelty, or waste time or money.
Yeah that mobile experience is just about as bad as you can make it. Also, I'm pretty sure they're doing crypto mining in the browser...at least that's what my device temperatures are implying.
Automated Testing of IoT Mesh Networks
Solo devs who want to make a few bucks should look into developing desktop applications. VC companies can't compete in that space, it's not profitable enough.

Only problem is we don't have any good UI toolkits anymore, all are second rate compared to the browser. Qt might be the best, but their licensing scares solo devs.
Elon Musk 'making the rules' in space with rapid expansion of Starlink Internet
> Part of the key is that when there's an increase in power demand in a grid, they usually have to use more expensive sources of power, but if they can temporarily shut off their bitcoin mining to meet demand spikes, they can more efficiently manage their network load

Or they can do anything else more useful with the excess energy, like store it ( fill batteries, pumped up hydro, hydrogen, etc.), power energy intensive processes, etc. Or, with flexible power plants, lower production temporarily when it's not needed.

Bitcoin literally brings nothing besides a way to waste electricity, but there are many other ways to do that.
Ah yes, you're right! Thanks, I'll fix that.
I believe the author is suggesting that large institutions are doing this to earn extra citations - the currency of academia.

A large institution can make a dataset for X then browbeat other researchers into using X and citing X. Using X also likely leads to citations of derivative work by the lead institution.
Milly should be able to keep or sell what she found, if it was her land. If a museum or government wants these things, then they can go find them themselves on their own land. This socialization of individual efforts is maddening.
I can recommed the Plantower 5003 PM sensor. Plantower also has smaller ones, e.g. 7003 or A003 but we get the best (most accurate and stable) readings from the 5003 model.

We also experienced with more expensive ones e.g. from Sensirion but did not really measure a significant advantage compared to the Plantower.
The school district in my town of 25,000 (school enrollment ~4,300) has a /21 and a /23. They got them back in the 90s.
I'm helping you reconsider a weak argument. You're hoping your statements are self explanatory.

Also don't direct the behavior of people on a comment board. There's other places to go where you can feel good about yourself.
> again, 'vim' or 'alpine' are very different than a constantly updating status like 'top'

How so? What if `top` redrew the terminal screen if and when you pressed the r-key instead of using a timer?
Best of luck! I first heard about it 3 years or so ago, but also dismissed it until I found out I could just try it out at almost no cost with glasses from Aliexpress. One of my best decisions of the past few years :)
As someone who worked (still do) with the legal community and hundreds of lawyers, they are the hardest to change in order to modernize. It's slowly changing, but the older generation would use a bottle of ink and a feather to write if you gave them that.

I'm not from the US, but have met folks from the US. Essentially, the law firms change and digitize, the older institutions such as the courts, will be the last as they are full of people that are much older (judges) than the general workforce, and to them, there is no incentive to change what works, and what is comfortable to them.

Also, they are trained to argue. So you can't just go in there and easily change their mind.

EDIT: They still love to print paper.
I'm amused and perplexed at your choice of the word "cobble" there
Qualia have entered the chat.
What was the M1 % relative to your Epyc?
If only half the effort in changing offending language would go to actually abolishing slavery. It is still rampant in parts of the world.
Hi, thanks for the article!

Are there any non expensive sensors you could recommend? I care about the indoor air quality but it gets very pricey. I have Awair at home but it covers only one room and the unit runs $300 a piece :(
It's even getting into my toothbrush. I started using a smart toothbrush with an app to guide me, and one night the whole pattern changed.

I don't want to re-learn how to brush my teeth right when I'm about to go to bed!
Can't go wrong with Tufte, but I'm also partial to Stephen Few for a more pragmatic approach ("Show Me the Numbers", "Information Dashboard Design").
Very nice! I didn't find this earlier, thanks for sharing.
Another interesting article that was posted here in October – 32 Bit Real Estate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28920269
> [...] you’re still going to need to pay for hosting, which could be done cheaper without the blockchain overhead.

IPFS has no blockchain, and the overhead of transferring files is incredibly low thanks to lib-p2p.

> Similarly, an NFT doesn’t prevent everyone from accessing it so you can’t force people to pay for the cost of their access and it doesn’t protect your ownership — that’s done by copyright laws enforced by the government.

By itself it does not, coupled with other mechanisms, it can. Access control to personal files is very much removed from where I expect government to exercise their own control.
> In my few years working as a dev, I am absolutely convinced that scrum and agile are the worst possible development practices you can have from the perspective of a developer, even though they are sold as 'developer centric' or that seems to be the impression a lot of people have at least.

33 years for me, and Agile is by far the worst thing to happen to software development (and developers) that I've seen. That, and open-plan offices.
Interesting idea, but very difficult to account for so many other major factors. First time i've read about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia idea.

Flipside, I feel like the theory is just finding a sideline relationship.

Early 1900s had so many major experiments start happening. Refrigerants is only 1 of them. How about major new pesticides? How about a major shift from eating animals to plants? We also have similar discovery of obesity growing about the same rate.

There's a clear and obvious relationship here. Everything is food related.

So what happens if you simply reverse what changed in the last 100 years. Try carnivore and after some adjustment period your crohns goes away. As you reintroduce plants into your diet, crohns symptoms return.
Don’t get me wrong. I think there where places where JavaScript, SPAs and so on where the right decision but we used the same tech all over the place. I think that is the negative impact of working in a future oriented industry and one of the reasons you might want some older people in your team to prevent new projects to be started on new tech JUST because it is cool now.

But even within the JavaScript community and the tech there I sort of like Ember.js and it grew out of the Ruby and Rails community. It is not perfect but it fits SPAs perfectly and there is integration into Rails that makes the data handling less tedious (still need to try because unfortunately I got none ember projects + rails or ember + node.js).

If I take my none Ruby and none Rails experiences of the last years I have to say I trust tech that comes from Ruby and Rails guys in other techs more. You can accuse me of Ruby chauvinism but I do believe that we as a community where better able to foster good taste in technology solutions.
KYC; For example KSMStarter, TruePNL, Thorstarter etc. send the user over to an external page to complete the KYC with selfie/id card/utility bill. Then you come back and login with your Metamask.

Auto contribution; Ah, I see. Thanks for explanation.
Well, I recently released a NLP dataset of almost 200K documents and I got 4 whole citations in a year. Wish I could find a way to join this cartel and get someone to use it or even care

https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/debatesum

https://huggingface.co/datasets/Hellisotherpeople/DebateSum

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uHozRV4AAAAJ&hl=en
A /8 are 16777216 (2^24) addresses and IPs are sold for around 50$ each [0] so somewhere around 800 Million.

[0]: https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales
Those aren't the same thing. This reminds me of those sort of pedantic disingenuous arguments where people take two words that are sort of in the same conceptual framework but have very clearly distinct meanings and say that they mean the same thing.

Greatest hits include the idea that there's no difference between working for a company and having your own business ("you go from one boss to many bosses") or the idea that prostitution and dating are the same thing if the man is paying for dinner.

And so on. That sort of gotcha is never as clever as people think it is. Yes, the concepts are related to each other. No, they aren't the same thing.
> Details: BuzzFeed said in an SEC filing following the vote, “the transaction is expected to raise at least $166.2 million," with about $150 million coming from convertible debt financing and $16.2 million from investor cash.

>That $16.2 million of investor cash is 94% less than the $287.5 million the SPAC raised in its IPO in January.

Big oof. The SPAC investors hate the deal and mostly pulled their money out of it.
Oh no worries, I didn't understand it in a negative way. I'm always happy to learn new things - especially in this case as it does sound important and I haven't really been paying attention to PD.
Blackfin Linux was EOL'ed ~ Mar 2019
https://ez.analog.com/dsp/software-and-development-tools/lin...

Devices with ARM A5 (like https://www.analog.com/adsp-sc589) are still supported.

Disclaimer - I work at ADI.
This is a great summary/reminder of a few techniques good to read.
$200 for the cheapest model though. That's a factor 20!
Because otherwise in the worst case Youtube can't remain free, which is arguably a good thing.
You are sometimes the product when you buy something, but it's not a necessary part of that model.

You are always the product in "free" services like FB, YouTube. It is a fundamental part of that model.

There are plenty of shitty companies in both buckets (and seemingly more as time goes by) but let's not pretend there's never a difference.
You may find the Breezometer app helpful - I’ve found it quite accurate for local outdoor air quality in several different areas.
I have no idea of what the latest 6 versions of iOS brought of features. I likely use none of them.

I don't even have an idea of where to go to find out. So much is unknown gestures, some activates by accident when I want to do something else.

Textediting in Notes is difficult after they removed the looking glass. I really want it back.
I suspect that the ranking is somewhat distorted by the data source: every person working in the general field of notary would be represented in those lists of taxed household heads, whereas in e.g. the field of stonemasonry this would only be true only for a few masters I think, but not for their apprentices or various other forms of low-level support. And I suspect that the wandering stonemasons traveling from project to project wouldn't appear there either. In short: I suspect that interpreting the source like that might be a tiny little bit like trying to derive the percentage of Americans working as plumbers by looking at what is listed at the NYSE.
reading the post about medieval jobs, I don't think this time ever existed.
While not entirely self-contained, `pex` is pretty close. It relies on a Python interpreter in the environment somewhere, but in my experience it successfully packages a venv + code into a single executable "binary" with no extraction stage.
So if I'm understanding this correctly, Firefox compiles its dependencies as WASM, effectively blocking function calls to things it shouldn't and illegal memory access, and then translates it back to C so it can compile it normally? Sounds neat!
This is why Amazon is better for Main St than Walmart. A mens clothier on Main St gets shut down by Walmart. Owner and employees work at Walmart. With Amazon, they can become Amazon retailers. In theory at least.
I found the source of the problem.
People who trade crypto they don't see it as an alternative to banks or real money they just use it as gambling platform with really good odds than casino.
> Your comment is implying that somehow 1000s of people around the world don't realise they are doing something stupid.

Agile and scrum have now been around long enough that large numbers of devs have never known anything else. So yes, they don't realize they're doing something stupid.
Before the negative comments for Buzzfeed come in, please check out their investigations: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations

These are hard-hitting, actual journalist investigations that is absolutely on a different level than their regular content on the main site. It seems the ad revenue from the Bad Buzzfeed funds their investigative journalism.

Edit: Yes, even BuzzfeedNews.com is sort of bad - it's a mix. Below article linked from throwaway894345 is an example of a bad one but a lot of the articles on the main page seem to be legitimate news (if not as detailed as their investigations unit).
> It’s probably the only non-profit I donate to regularly.

That might say more about you than about Wikipedia.