skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://ouraring.com/product/heritage-silver

This is a health monitor ring. It is a service, though: You pay $400 for the hardware, then $6 for the privilege of accessing the data it collects, locally, to your device.

I was going to buy it until I saw they were looking for such a predatory revenue stream.
Optimizing a 60 Hour in Expression
> Retiring RSS was a scheme, just like removing headphone jacks on modern cell phones, which was really a ply to make new insecure bluetooth and wireless headphone sales more money.

Not only that, a headphone jack does not support DRM and therefore is a loophole in a closed system fully controlled by manufacturer.
btw, is this host a man or woman, or some other gender? I genuine what to know so that I could use the correct gender pronouns on this person. That host shall wear a badge with preferred gender pronouns.
Humans are tribal.
https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2019.pdf

https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2021.pdf

More recent versions by the same author.

HN article on the most recent one with comments from the author.
This is a done deal for developed countries. All of them are below the 2% replacement rate (many very far below). The places where the replacement rate is at or above 2% (often very far above 2%) are places where non-white people primarily live. Suggesting that they need to stop having so many children smacks of racism so it is politically and socially not something that people are willing to talk about.
Its virus protection also indicates "Chech" instead of "Check"[1].

Evangelion is full of amazing thoughtful details, I love how they mixed the pseudoscience with the pseudo-mystical concepts of the series[2].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/dx2QQy7.jpg

[2] https://i.imgur.com/uYV2WiD.jpg
Thanks!

It was quite sad to read the announcement that development had stopped. Phabricator provided me with one of the best development experiences I've ever had. I guess Github + Gitlab won, and it became insanely difficult for the smaller players to make a dent.

I'm keeping an eye on SourceHut, though.
The discussion was that in Go, given the current lack of generics, you have two options to have an optional parameter:

1. Take a *Vec3, using nil as the "optional is missing" value.

2. Take a Vec3, but consider some value as "invalid", often the 0-value as possible.

1 invokes exactly the issues in Hoare's essay. 2 doesn't work for all types, as some types don't have any bit pattern that are not useful, this is what I was trying to point out.
He is duped because the system has no understanding, yet he believes it does[0]. A counterfeiter who evades detection is not a mint.

[0] I believe that the original thought experiment was intended to lead to this conclusion, but in popular culture and in the above post, is marshaled towards the opposite end.
Ask HN: Why don't cars amplify cell signals?
I plug my phone into my 2017 Subaru Outback to play music and charge the battery, but why can't it also act like a giant antennae and increase the cellular signal?

Are external antennae not a thing for cell phones?
And yet it opens the door for new competition to enter.

If China is smart they’ll start selling cars that “just work”. Much like the appeal apple originally had against the crapware loaded windows laptops of the early 2000s
Without currency, what is the incentive for nodes to cache and forward content?
Ha, I see now. :-)
I agree to an extent but if you know somebody is saving up for something (eg. niece saving up for a gaming pc) then it's a great gift to bring them closer to their goal.

For a co-worker you should probably think a bit harder
I think it is useful, though, to teach people that it's disrespectful to send vague meeting requests without an agenda. Using your "I am busy -- do you have specific recommendations..." response obscures the real objection.

Certainly I think there's a better way of saying it than OP did, though: perhaps, "before we schedule anything, can you propose an agenda so we can both be sure a meeting is the best use of our time?" or something like that.
I wonder what "blockchain" means here. The word is all over https://logsentinel.com/ but it may be just to make "immutable audit trail" more buzzwordy.

In 2017 they posted a skeptical https://techblog.bozho.net/blockchain-its-all-greek-to-me/ which in linked to from very recent https://techblog.bozho.net/digital-transformation-and-techno...

> Technology alone will not solve anything. And my blockchain skepticism is a hint in that direction – many blockchain enthusiasts are claiming that blockchain will solve many problems in many areas of life. It won’t. At least not just through clever cryptography and consensus algorithms.
> Sooner or later, we won't even remember how it was before. Who even remembers the internet before advertising morphed it into something completely different? How long was that period? 5 years?

That's what worries me. After a long stint of playing entirely only smartphone games, going back to play some older titles on PC was... really weird. None of the usual pay to play friction or engagement traps that are so ubiquitous.

I did not feel happy that the lack of these things that I actually hated was making me uneasy.

Is the memory hole effect really that strong?
Cable manufacturers probably realized that the secret to profits lay in resisting commoditization, beat a path to the table, and made it happen.
Yet his blog is also served over http..
> How do you pull yourself up by the bootstraps if the bootstraps require a subscription you can't afford?

Can't have those upstarts worming their way into elite circles now, can we? I thought you'd understand. Once a poor, always a poor, you know.

There's a rather depressing trend of this sort of stuff lately, and a lot of it is coming from people who claim they care about lower income classes - but then conveniently just so happen to do things that are the opposite of what they claim to support. When called on it, you mutter "unintended consequences," "nobody could have foreseen that," and shut the mic off for anyone who predicted exactly what just happened.
As someone else said, "evidence you have never lived in the midwest."

That enhanced area covers St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville, and Memphis. Millions and millions of people that you expect to spend the night in their basements (many of which don't even have a basement), on the still-very-remote chance they may get hit by a tornado. Even in this abnormally bad outbreak, we're talking about just 100s of people impacted. The risk is just not high enough for that kind of response.
But don't you see, Apple bad.
I too want to work with a marketer for my web design business, but I've found that many simply want to do early stage lead generation and then "drop" the clients over to me as a client manager, which doesn't reassure clients that marketing promises will be upheld... I think the best (development) marketers are people who invest in learning the nuances of the business (e.g. knowing there are quite distinct differences between coding in ASP.Net and PHP). The same can be said for tech recruiters... aY yAY yAy... lol.

As a dev I had to learn marketing inversely, to allow me to better understand the process of ensuring clients a smooth and trust-worthy process... In running my business I have to daily be involved in absolutely every aspect of it (without being too controlling of course) because managing delivery and client experience is a key to gaining and retaining new and follow-up work.

The best method of self-marketing/promoting I've found is to build my own products/portfolios that represent what would be useful and engaging to new potential clients. Working product demos also help marketers to better be acquainted with what they are ultimately selling, and make intuitive screen shots and presentations of the products in support of their efforts. That way I also have a template I can build quicker from, but I also demonstrate to clients that I can actually do the work.

IT is far too complex in presentation these days; many clients are not focused on tech stacks, methods, tools, services, or things developers are usually focused on. Modern clients are usually most concerned about their requirements and business needs, a marketer should focus on being a translator in a way when it comes to marketing development work, linking that work to productivity, progress, and things that satisfy requirements and provide benefits in a clear and usually less-technically inclined manner than a developer would detail a solution...

E.G.... We keep selling "the cloud" to everyone, but if you ask a client what "cloud" is they simply don't know/don't really care what it really is, as long as it fulfills their business goals.

In a world where people are using imagery alone to market their capability, the real working examples of what we do as a company are often what wins us new work.... Even if we don't win new work, the products we build usually end up being valuable and highly useful to us ultimately in real life.
Quake 3 Movement for Unity
Just don't connect them to the internet, now you have a TV that's cheaper than it should be because they expect to show you ads, but they can't
Win95 was a revolution in the mswindows world (as was NT). Win98 was the refined and polished version. Not revolutionary, but fully evolved. I used both, still have both, and vastly prefer 98.
Plus DECnet, XNS and the short lived OSI stack too.

Most unices of the time barely supported anything else other than tcp plus whatever vendor specific stack they might need.
My ERP, PLM and MRO vendors are all still investigating.....

I suspect we'll be patching quickly before Christmas.
Does this impact your access to Tesla services or charging infrastructure? Can you still supercharge?
What happens when they (inevitably) move to eSIM?
Refusing to acknowledge the ERCOT problem doesn't mean it isn't there, it just means you're content to let it persist. It's not new. This has been happening since long before I was born.

On water: living in a place where it is on-brand to not investigate public health disasters is not great. You've heard of Flint, but not Piney Point.
I explained why this doesn't work -- what do you do when you combine two heaps with different internal orderings?

You need some way to enforce that the orderings are the _same_. A canonical ordering per type is how Haskell does it; dependent types are a more complicated alternative method.
The other possibility, which would explain the different delivery numbers and different understanding of the dedicated IP status, is that the sales rep was confused, screwed up, and was looking at some other customer's data while thinking it was Phabricator's.
Newton was a huge douche. Genius often flourishes in the most extreme environments.

Regarding Ender's Game, I think it includes a very good depiction of modern American authoritarianism.
> Seems like a market gap, no?

The problem is that the backend analytics they're collecting are worth so much that they would either have to lose a ton of money with subscriptions, or admit just how much they're making from your "free" eyeballs.
Electron is just web stuff.
Agreed. Therapy is not a practical option for everyone, though it now makes me curious enough as to why the author insists upon it so much.
I don't know about "better". Anyone who has repaired a mug with kintsugi and then put a hot cup of coffee in it, knows what I'm talking about. You're living a perpetual gamble with the quality of your patchwork.
Well some people argue for that too in the form of sugar taxes and mandatory exercise in state run schools
I meant that people, in general, continue going about their business under those conditions, particularly in places where such warnings are frequent.

I didn’t mean business strictly as in Business.
I'd say a car might be safer than being exposed on open flat ground. At least it's a steel cage around you. But maybe the second-to-last place you want to be.
> people use a zero value to indicate that a value is missing

Go supports returning multiple results. Maybe I don't read enough Go code to understand what's actually popular, but AFAIU the idiomatic way to accomplish this in Go is something like:

if v, exists := lookup(key); exists {
do(v)
}

or

if r, err != foo(); err != nil {
do(r)
}

The compiler, unfortunately, can't enforce proper conditionals. OTOH, unlike C compilers Go won't make any dangerous assumptions about dereferencing nil pointers, which is something.

I'm not sure Generics can help here. What you really want is compiler enforcement of comprehensive condition checks. For example, via pattern matching switch statements. That's easiest to do with optional types as the unwrapping operation creates a simple point for static constraint checking, but in principle the same thing could be accomplished with annotations on multi-value return types that describe the association.
Thanks for the tip. I am thinking about a course, but spent so much time on the book I unsure if I could make it in a reasonable time :)
Right there with you! Spent two years building a project, got some initial users, but need to shift to marketing and I feel an immense mental block... I actually took time off because I became so stressed thinking about the next step of shifting to marketing.
Vote with your wallet never worked, and is never going to work if your wallet is empty in the first place. Why do you think people don't all buy free range eggs and organic produce? Because it's out of their reach, even if they care.
I remember when USB2 came out and similar mischief ensued. All the hardware manufacturers got together and pushed the standards body to re-brand USB 1.1 hardware as USB 2.0 (full-speed vs. high-speed). It allowed hardware retailers to empty their shelves, while consumers thought they were getting the latest technology.

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2003/10/2927-2/
DisplayPort and DVI both support HDCP. This wasn't the purpose behind HDMI, though support for it was no doubt a requirement for adoption. It was designed to be a single cable for carrying video and audio between playback devices, receivers, and displays.

For this purpose, it succeeded and did a much better job at it than alternatives. HDMI still makes far more sense for use in a home theater environment than DisplayPort thanks to features like ARC.
If the demand for large townhouses is naturally lower than detached homes and you can fit more of them in a given unit area then maybe just maybe they actually have some hope of addressing the housing shortage in expensive metros.

So far, though, evidence is that people will still pay a pretty high price to live in denser housing in SF, Seattle, etc.
We're Sunsetting Slip.so
Come on, I didn't hump that many people.
The differences have been proven to be due to socioeconomic factors, not biological ones.

But I'm guessing that fact makes _you_ uncomfortable.
I forgot to mention - freshman and sophomore Calculus was taught by grad students, not professors. Grad students have no training in teaching, are very poorly paid, and do it only because that's part of the aid package they received.

Freshman physics was taught by Prof Goodstein, who is a world class physicist. I had no personal interaction with him at all. The homework was graded and administered and coached by grad students (in "recitation" sessions). A couple years after I graduated, his lectures were recorded and made available as "The Mechanical Universe" series of videos. Lots of fancy animations and stuff were added, but in my not-so-humble opinion added entertainment but little value.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5...
The school district might have 100 employees but have 100 active pensions. Compare that to having 100 employees being paid 5% more and 0 pensions..
The difference between theory and practice...

Education in the US has never been more accessible or more extensive, yet we have a massive student loan crisis ($1.71 trillion of debt) and we import more knowledge workers than we produce (~350k H-1B visas in 2016 and 2017).

Maybe we're just "doing it wrong", but we're not yet seeing the fabled "highest return on investment".
For that price you also get access to the entire Office App suite, both online and desktop app, and 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage.
> This is a textbook Gish gallop, so I'll avoid the trap of responding point-by-point

And this is textbook avoiding an answer

> My point was that if this was the case, you would already see the low-hours-per-week strategy in place as a non-trivial factor in OSS funding.

Yes, and your point is based on the flawed premise that there are many engineers who can do that.

> The population of people maintaining OSS projects are more than capable of pulling eg $70/hr for contracts[1], especially at the low volumes we're talking about.

And you pulled this estimation out of which crevice?

> To reach UBI levels of income at this rate would require _1.5 hrs/wk_ of work, or 6 hrs per MONTH.

Ah yes. Because there are plenty of jobs which will gladly pay you for 6 hours of work a month.
Done! thank you very much for this resource.
From the sound of it, should be gource [0]

[0] https://gource.io
Jpeg-XL makes use of Brotli, and once it hits 1.0 it will most likely be turned on by default in browsers and thus you will probably see a lot of jxl in the wild, particularly since it provides lossless recompression to existing jpeg files with ~20% smaller size as a result.
What features like that does Apple hide behind paywalls today? That doesn't sound at all like their strategy with iOS or Mac OS. I guess there's stuff like the Apple Developer Program, which I know a lot of folk have complaints about. But that's hardly a feature most folk would desire -- whereas all of those things you listed for a perspective car are.

That said, if Apple did bring some of these features to market at that price, they'd be doing considerably better than some of their competition. Tesla's Full Self Driving is locked behind a $10,000 cost or a $199 monthly subscription. You'd have to subscribe to your speculated service for 42 years before it cost more than that getting the upgrade on Tesla you had 4 decades ago.
And look at any video of an aircraft emergency evacuation. Half the people have their carryon bags with them.
I digress but what happend to the milk market? Could you post a reference?
Took a quick look at your product and I’d be a good fit.

Here’s the thing, for non-technical marketers, they’ve become so used to SaaS/cloud because it’s easy.

The moment I see “self-hosted” and “own server” my brain freezes up and I think about how much work that might be to set up.

You can keep it self hosted but maybe say “3 steps and set up in an hour”

Or just submit to the cloud because most marketers and business owners don’t value self-hosted as a net positive!
The idea that a computer would automatically download an update that changes how something on the computer works is insanity. I'm not buying a computer with that "feature."
Associate developer program January cohort
Look into technocracy if you're interested in learning more about appointing government officials based on their technical knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

Anyone know of any studies of famous techocrats and the overall view on the effectiveness of appointing ppl that aren't career politicians?
> it's giving _everyone_ a megaphone.

Are they, though? It seems like FB amplifies things that they think will generate more engagement and "stickiness". Sensational things that cause outrage tend to do that more than cold, hard facts. I would not at all be surprised if misinformation gets amplified orders of magnitude more than the truth.
Toyota was never an option as they failed at electric cars
My car's running on a 12 year old set of navigation data... And I can't say I've ever felt the need to drop $199 on updating it.

We just don't build new roads in North America.
No, it is unreasonable. It's baseless speculation, which is easily disproven [0]

[0] https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po...
I know a family that had 13 children. They had "the means to raise them accordingly" (basically they lived in a middle class neighborhood, drove older cars, didn't hire anyone to do work around their house - despite the father having a very high paying chief financial officer position with a large company). So... is it okay for those kinds of people to have 3-5+ kids?
What do you mean fresh milk has vanished?
Just for reference here's the posting that confirms such:

https://spring.io/blog/2021/12/10/log4j2-vulnerability-and-s...

Also worth noting this is not log4j 1, but log4j 2, like angular vs. angularjs. Version 2 is a backwards-incompatible rewrite with a different package structure, effectively a different product. Version 1 is unaffected by this mess.
Other than a Tacoma, no reason to buy a Toyota.
I don't know about web use, but xz's major advantage for me is the seekable format. We build disk image pipelines based on remote xz-compressed images where only the parts of the file being accessed need to be downloaded and uncompressed. https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-xz-filter.1.html
Except in this case we know that there have been many organizations, FB pages, and fake individual FB accounts set up specifically to spread misinformation and FUD about COVID and vaccines. That's the definition of bad faith.

Certainly, from there, real regular people pass on and help spread this misinformation. Hard to say how many of those people are also acting in bad faith or have just been manipulated and scared into believing the bad information. But it seems certain that the source of much of this garbage is bad-faith actors.
Our worst and ugliest trait
I use a similar strategy of targeting 2 to 4 year old used cars in good condition, and then swapping out when they get around 10 years or 100k. It's worked quite well for me.

I have no idea what I'm going to do next time I'm in the market for a car, because every trend I see in the industry is stuff I do not want. And it's not just cars. It's freakin' everything. I don't need a touch screen on my fridge. Like that joke tweet from a decade ago, I feel like it's just a matter of years before all the couches on the market are wifi connected.

I'm just sitting over here hoping there's blowback that keeps some reasonable stuff on the market. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to become some sort of personal expert on keeping things from 1990 or older running.
> cron to submit in 10 years the same post with updated number to say 12B

Apparently not, look:

https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-projected-reach-...

"World population projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion in 2100"

It's slowing down. But increasing a lot, in a few countries. (I didn't downvote b.t.w)
People like simple good guy vs bad guy stories, and some people designate Apple a bad guy.
People want inflammatory content like a moth wants a flame. Facebook amplifying a signal from the lunatic fringe preys upon the need of non-lunatics (or different-thinking lunatics) to argue against ideas they consider dangerous or just wrong. As a side-effect, it makes the ideas appear more mainstream, which has the effect of making the ideas more popular. This further increases the compulsion of non-lunatics to address the ideas.

I'm not sure if that qualifies as being what people 'want' or not, but it seems like it's profitable.
You’re right! I haven’t seen an email from them for a few weeks now. I love the stuff they find.
I’ve come across those but - perhaps because they’re just slides - they really don’t go into the same depth the 100Gbps article does. They’re amazing resources but a little more high level and feature very little kernel hacking.