skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before you all clamor over organics, I'm going to leave some evidence to ponder.

The food shortages in Sri Lanka are primarily due to ditching industrial agriculture in favor of organic:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farmi...

We depend on industrial food processes to create the yields necessary to support society. Organic food does NOT provide commensurate food security.
So MS spyware?
I'm aware. This adds to the point I was trying to make.

Definitions of fundamental quantities based on things that aren't contant is simply incorrect.
The number of parity drives is often fixed, so the odds of the number of failures being higher than the number of parity drives goes up as you increase drive count.
>Do you have any data to backup your claim?

I would suggest The Great American Drug Deal, by Peter Kolchinsky.

Also - https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9412.html

>For example Cuban healthcare/treatment/outcome is excellent based on its own research

Cuba does not contribute substantially to global pharmaceutical research.

>Roche(Swiss) nor Merck ( German, not related to US Merck) don't benefit much (if at all) from US subsidies.

Roche makes 55% of its revenue from US drug sales (https://assets.cwp.roche.com/f/126832/x/db9d31e8a7/fb20e.pdf p22)

EMD Serono (formerly Merck KgAA) is similar.

These revenues are the topline driver of the drug development industry.
i am considering pfsense for my homelab setup - can you easily troubleshoot issues and whitelist addresses if you need to?
Quest 2 has impressive sales figures – 8 million in 2021, which is a quarter of Apple Watch at 32 million the same year. But the market for Quest 2 is very much games – I don't see much application outside that area, nor have I heard of break-through must-have or games.
I generally buy from a national "federated cooperative" (Intermarché) witch despite the claim is a corporate like any others made up by a series of mostly national producers and a network of supermarket, of course foods have traveled because our actual food system is not much local-centered BUT instead of buy small batch (with packaging and so on) everyday I buy in quantity, store at home. Bread can be freeze issueless, various kind of cheese, not all unfortunately, the same, meat and various sea products equally etc. I drive 20km once a month in mean for groceries. Back in city I've driven 5km every week, notably with equal travel time due to city traffic.

A set of individual cars is not more efficient than a single truck BUT buying in quantity, with little packaging vs buy small quantity with much more packaging change the number of trucks on the road and the numbers of waste we made, packages are not produced at the supermarket backyard they also need to travel. For instance I tend to buy wines directly from some producers (not all wine I use, but a significant slice, they are between 30 and 45 km) I generally buy in four classic barrels (glass+plastic and glass+straw / wood) bottling in my garage with the same glass bottles every years. Compared to buy single bottles I made FAR LESS traveling because if I buy in bottles they are always new ones, having traveled empty, fill, stickered, traveled again full etc. Similarly for olive oil, I tend to buy it once a year in metal barrels from a relatively near local producer (75km). In the future when I expect far more expensive gasoline prices I'll probably buy an EV recharging it from my present p.v. system, nothing really "ecological" for sure but still cut the need for distributing oils at any station, witch happen with trucks in most cases.

That's not much of a math anyway, the point is that in a distributed economy we tend to produce at a short range, like we have done in the past, surely not all is local, I can't buy local bananas here so to say, but many things can be. For instance why importing Brazilian meat when we have a national production? It's cheaper in the actual system but it should not. Sunflower oil? In a moderately recent past (~20 years) was produced nationally, then Ukrainian/Russians one became a cheaper option for sellers production have shifted. Again we do not need that shift and it was not resulting in lower prices for customers, only bigger margins from sellers. A State-made logistics for national enterprises might be the most efficient answer.
it's not silly; you can't take ownership of your own health without having at least basic cooking skills.

the "time commitment" is just another BS excuse. there are plenty of recipes that can be prepped, cooked, and served in the time it takes to order and pickup takeout. there are tons of youtube videos on this exact topic. search "but faster".

the equipment and space concerns I'll give you. there are some people who literally don't own a functioning heat source. that's a non-starter.

but if, like most americans, you do have a functioning oven/stove, you can made a wide range of tasty and healthy meals by adding just a couple cheap items to your collection. to get started, you just need a knife, cutting surface, and a sheetpan. cut things up, add a light drizzle of oil, and roast them in the oven. takes a couple minutes of prep followed by 20-30 minutes of doing something else while it cooks. bonus: add a meat thermometer to safely cook meats. or alternatively, try all the same combinations of meats, starches, and vegetables in a skillet if you want to put in a little more active time to get a finished meal faster.
The 'Manage Site List' feature is relatively new, it wasn't there in earlier versions.

Also, the UI is... not great. For example you cannot add new urls here. Some websites forward you to some other external url through another domain for example. there is no way to add these custom domains. So annoying. There yet another extension to solve that problem, but... it doesn't support Firefox 'sync'.
Exactly - what I mean by incompetent engineers is they will get “blocked” and then wait for someone else on the team to eventually find out and rescue them. Synchronous communication helps for these types of people. For engineers who can more independently work, and figure things out on their own (such as reaching out to experts if needed), asynchronous works fine in most situations.
Lotta clickbait in that tweet. Down rounds suck (1) for employees and companies.

Transparency and revaluations don't put money in your pocket. This is just the risk we take working at startups with our income in illiquid assets. I wouldn't say they're worthless, because some are actually less than worthless and others are more tax friendly depending on how you think your company is going to weather the storm.

(1) https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2016/02/27/down-round-financ...
This is very interesting to hear. In 2014, my wife and I went on a vacation in Germany and I found that it was cheaper and more convenient to rent a car than it was to use trains as we've typically done countries like Italy and France for our vacations. I chalked it up to Germans being a big fan of cars.
I didn't ask why they didn't "think" about it a couple years early. I asked why they would make it a priority 10 years out.
Why is it downvoted? He has a point.
This feels like a non issue. A human being directed the AI, and they are using a tool in discovery of an invention. It’s not like the AI woke up one day with a brilliant idea and decided to patent it - a significant amount of human directed activity drives these inventions and they are the inventor.

These attempts to anthropomorphize current AI are a bit absurd. They’re very powerful tools, but in all respects they are still tools used by humans. Discussing the rights of tools is a waste of time, and trying to say the tool is the inventor rather than the person wielding the tool in search of discovery is ludicrous. That may change in the future and it’s useful to question if we are there yet periodically, but IMO we are very far away from that day.
Building a retro handheld console with Fedora and a RPi zero
The curious part is that the Green New Deal invest in WFH, at least in advertisement, and IT giants have formally done the same to sell services...

Anyway any change is hard in general, any social change happen only in long timeframe, but it's clear to anybody that jobs eligible from remote work should be done as much as possible remotely. Surely we benefit from being together, so for certain activities, like schooling we must keep physical proximity, but for many others the trade off is far on the side of remote.
Have to say I agree with Jony Ive on all of these points.

The idea of an AR wearable that is tethered to a fixed base station is so very lame. Why even bother with AR when you can only augment the reality that is in your office or bedroom?

Also the eye-view outer display is essential for situations where one person is using the goggles but others aren’t. How unsettling would it be for someone to look at you, be able to see you, but for their upper face to completely obscured by goggles? How could you have an in person face-to-face conversation with someone like that?
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Earnest question - what is the length at which a not-blog-post becomes a blog post, and what's the name for the shorter-thing?

EDIT: I feel you, I'm also irritated at the drive to SEO - just not sure what naming you would apply to the shorter-thing.
> What is the advantage of this in this case?

Not specific to PiHole, but perhaps keeping the OPs infrastructure management consistent may have monitoring and maintenance benefits.

And specifically mentioned in the very next sentence:

> The Pi Hole project already has a nice Docker project utilizing compose.

It is a supported configuration for PiHole so it fits in nicely, no need to even product their own docker based solution.

Not much of a docker user myself (I've tinkered, and we use it for some things in DayJob, but for my own stuff I use VMs or occasionally LCX if I do want a container instead), but the answer to your questions was really quite obvious.
> Even desk sizes seem to be getting smaller and smaller.

Heh, I didn't realize this, but during covid my company mandated every other desk to stay empty, and suddenly it felt like I had as much space again as I used to have 20 years ago.
Thanks! I plan to undertake one project spanning a couple of months purely on the frontend and if I continue to hate it, I will stick to backend. I agree it does appear quite messy.
Though I'm American, I use metric units almost exclusively in work and really even outside work. I don't really use imperial units for short measurements other than to occasionally translate for other people.

I've had multiple "cm or mm" shouting back and forth across the room conversations that have caused confusion. I've also had a few "vanishing decimal points" in drawings which are a bit more confusing in cgs than mmgs. I've grown to strongly prefer mm.

False precision is always a risk. But for most things I do, mm has the correct amount of precision. (Circuit boards like tenths of mm; most small mechanical assemblies like a mm or a tenth of a mm).
4) needs a better source. He apparently has a history of claiming things not backed by science.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chris_Kresser
I'm pretty sure Europe is bigger than US surface wise.
I would love if there was an open 4K HDR TV but I think only a very niche audience actually cares about this so most manufacturers will not see a market opportunity
I work in the drug development industry, its a shame this has been downvoted, it's largely true - at least for new drug innovation. The fact that routine procedures are expensive in the US is unrelated.

The US is ~35% of the global pharmaceutical industry, which is the topline driver of new drug development.

When the US pays top dollar for new drugs, it does effectively subsidize European access to the new research.

>Do you have any data to backup your claim?

I would suggest
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9412.html

or the Great American Drug Deal, by Peter Kolchinsky.
The mess of DB isn't that much different from how the oligarchs in a lot of eastern European countries came to be. Privatization without real plan. Privatize the profits and socialize the losses.

The rails near Hamburg Altona are rotting, but the Bahn didn't want to foot the bill. So they came up with a horrible new station somewhere else. As a result the city chipped in to make a better one and pay of it from tax money.

I'm the last person to favour the government institutions in Germany. They're slow, lazy and full of old lazy hierarchies that must have been productive 30 years ago, but what is the point of privatizing something when the structure itself doesn't change and the privatization does nothing but siphon money out of the system and pump tax money in anyway? Half the ICE fleet is out of commission nowadays.
At least in some languages like Elixir and probably most FP languages, tail calls are practically only used when said dependencies exist, so their usage can perhaps be a marker for when some optimizations are not possible.
Thanks! Plan to do a 2 month project on the frontend and will play by ear thereafter
> they must sell the drug in the US for the same price as the lowest price they sell it to any other country. This would largely fix our expensive healthcare, but would also harm the world heavily in advancement

Drug prices are far from the leading cause of the high cost of US healthcare.

The whole system is deeply dysfunctional with massive perverse incentives.
> spatial hand tracking as a new UX paradigm

I only see this as a supplemental feature for certain use cases (coarse-grained 3D operations). In general nothing beats the efficiency of working with a keyboard for navigating application functions, or (at least with current technology) the mouse for precision 2D navigation/selection. Their advantage being precise and definite/discrete input.

For actual work, even with a VR headset I see myself still mostly using keyboard and mouse.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the cover version is by the Muppets, the most famous of which is called Kermit.
A Letter to D1sc0rd for Not Supporting the Linux Desktop
None-sense! If you have to blame 99% of the website (clothing, media, restaurants, ...) as being malicious in order to defend a piece of legislation then you're obviously wrong.

I don't care about the intentions of the law. I care about the effects. No one is trying to update/fix the law within a feedback loop. It's a one time process.
The claim is largely true for drug development, but not for routine procedures. Those are expensive for unrelated, and largely pathological, reasons.
If you want it to be strictly a NAS then TrueNAS should suffice. If you want to do anything more then I'd consider Proxmox or Ubuntu.
> As a Spanish professor, it's interesting to read this because it highlights various cultural differences.
> - Here, it is always assumed that many students (maybe 50%?) will cheat if they believe they can do so without being caught. […]

It really is a cultural difference. Spain and the UK have ticket barriers for their public transport, while Germany and Switzerland don’t, preferring to rely on random controls.
> cheating is a more energy efficient way of getting good grades.

Well, except for the fact that to cheat is to engage in an arms race with an agent who is incentivized to ruin your career if you are discovered cheating.

For someone with my personality type and abilities, the above adds a significant cognitive load that makes just plain studying a lot more energy efficient than cheating. I'm sure it's different for people with different personalities and abilities.
Time for the FTC to act and split ip those larg enterprises.
Ha! Agreed. Nodejs is tolerable with typescript (hopeless with js), but gosh, I just hated python (even with mypy) with django for server side dev. Django has way too much magic.
I suspect gilt-edging is cheap to add now (the Barnes and Noble “classics” in hardback have it and they’re not very pricey) - I wonder if a modern process could be designed to “print” these fore-edge paintings.
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The claim is largely true for drug development, but not for routine procedures. Those are expensive for unrelated, and largely pathological, reasons.

I would suggest: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9412.html
or The Great American Drug Deal, by Peter Kolchinsky.
Thanks! Plan to do a 2 month project on the frontend and will play by ear thereafter. I agree with you so far though.
It's a different issue altogether. Even in vectorized code artificial data dependencies are an issue. E.g., for fast dot products (not actually usually applicable on most input sizes because of memory bandwidth, but related problems can be CPU bound) you'll roughly double your execution speed by alternating between two running totals and merging those at the end, and that gain is mostly orthogonal to the question of whether those running totals are vectorized.

Edit: And many modern compilers have been doing that particular optimization for a few years anyway, but it's still an important idea to keep in mind for any non-trivial graph of operations.
Unless it’s a Mac…
I am living in Ireland, currently doing said masters. Should've been more explicit in that.
“It will be free upfront; the team is looking at developing premium subscription features for enterprise users, perhaps somewhere around $12 a month, echoing the freemium model of Slack Technologies Inc., Dropbox Inc., and other productivity services.”

Good luck with that. The majority of browsers that were commercially closed software didn’t make it. If it’s open source then it will be ridiculed for not having an open license. If there’s an open license then it’s no longer yours to control and monetize.

Chrome gets away with this because of chromium is the core, Chrome is the added “management” of your browser “experience”. Safari gets away with this because WebKit is core, Safari is the added “management”. Both are free from a monetary cost perspective on the user. Both position themselves as the keeper of secrets for their platform.

I’m all for an open/free/libre browser that isn’t WebKit. I believe it’s naive to think you can change the existing web experience with a browser alone.
I don't work at Zoom/only have outsider information. It looks like they are using Media over DataChannels[0]. So they are still using WebRTC!

When Google announced WebCodecs/WebTransport they said Zoom was involved, so maybe they will switch to that eventually?

[0] https://webrtchacks.com/zoom-avoids-using-webrtc/
The simulation of collisions becomes trickier when tangential compliance cannot be ignored. For example, a ping-pong ball (very high tangential stiffness) rotating around an axis perpendicular to the motion falls straight on a table and bounces back up; the rotational velocity decreases, but it does not change sign. Whereas a superball (low tangential stiffness) will change the direction of the rotational velocity. I did my PhD on this, back in 2000, but haven't kept up with the field.

If anyone is interested in a way to take tangential compliance into account my thesis may be of interest:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/collisions/collision.pdf
The promise of no-code isn't to replace developers, but to lower the bar to a point where you don't need a senior engineering rockstar to solve business problems. None of the low-code solutions I'm familiar with advertise themselves as a way to get rid of your developers. It's all about reducing the complexity you're responsible for and delivering solutions more quickly.
I have both, but prefer Proton;

I frequently have DNS issues with Mullvad, and also speeds are lower.
Proton is also more expensive though...

Also, there's a long outstanding issue (on their Github [1] ) which they have confirmed) that the Mullvad app causes iCloud services to stop syncing (bookmarks, Files, etc.). That's a showstopper if you use Apple devices...

[1] https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/issues/2401
What you miss with raw Debian compared to TrueNAS is compatibility. TrueNAS makes sure that all pieces are compatible with one another so that when you update each piece or OS, the storage doesn’t break. The whole package is tested throughly before release.

Also, TrueNAS makes setup painless: users, permissions, shares, vdevs, ZFS tuning, nice dashboard etc. With Debian, you get a lot of config files and ansible playbooks that become hard to manage.

Ideally you won’t run other stuff on a NAS, outside Docker.
Switch-mode PSUs are very inefficient at the low end of their duty cycle.

A 250W 80-bronze PSU for a 60W load will be operating at 25% capacity and 82% efficiency or better.

A 500W 80-titanium PSU at 60W will be at around 12% and 90% efficiency or better.

So, an 8% difference in minimum required efficiency...for a huge increase in cost.

It's much better to buy a high "tier" PSU (for reliability and safety), sized so that it spends most of its time at or above 20% duty cycle (which in OP's case would indeed be 250W.)

80-gold is very common in the marketplace and where most people should probably be buying.
What library did you use for WebRTC? What were the pain points you hit?
I strongly disagree. Style is a skill and can be learned like any other. Sure you might never match someone who is just naturally gifted, but anyone can achieve competence.
The us now is like england was before the First World War - it’s business is money and trade, having shed manufacturing to less developed countries. Asia did the same as fist Japan and then Korea took over ship manufacture and have now graduated to electronics.

This is HN. Nobody’s interested in sweat and callouses when they can bring in vc. And there’s not much vc out of China vs. SV.
Or you design your components around this concept, its not really a hard problem to solve.
This, 100%. I couldn’t agree more.
I’m currently a Software Engineering undergrad in Europe and, at least by my personal experience, the whole education system just focuses on preparing people to pass an exam, not to properly learn a subject.

IMHO, the problem starts when the students get used to memorizing and repeating sample exercises which involve 0 creativity and then graduate and get an actual job.
What sort of cost is associated with pihole, with respect mostly to very latency sensitive things like competitive gaming. Is it problematic?
The HN hivemind hates JavaScript, mostly because they believe that complexity on the web is a problem self-inflicted by eager "framework devs" continuously chasing the "new shiny", which in their mind invalidates any legitimate engineering credibility or progress.
“optimal” is a different goalpost than “a lot faster”.

Some easy-to-parallelize math and vector operations can yield impressive results without it being anywhere near optimal.

I do agree that optimal requires mastery of GPU programming; but I also think GPU programming can yield good results without said mastery, and be quite accessible

If anything it should be easier than writing raw multi-threading code, because GPUs aren’t (weren’t?) general purpose calculation units.

So more bare metal concerns, but less to reason about overall.
privacy and security is a pendulum, it swung hard to security post 9/11 and is swinging hard towards privacy currently. Id be surprised if we ever actually reach a happy middle ground but I am sure at some point we will see things swing back towards security

and to clarify when I say security there is of course the national security apparatus angle but also things like spam, fraud, cyber security, crime etc. All of these will happen and as governments grapple with addressing them unfortunately the easy button tends to negatively impact privacy versus things like providing better funding/training for law enforcement and regulatory bodies