skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lenses are much cheaper to manufacture than most people realize. Most of the coatings and upgrades are 95%+ profit with very little cost.

An interesting thing I learned in that industry, the uncut "puck" of plastic/material is usually cut to your prescription via an CNC style machine. The cut instructions are essentially a pre-built CAD file based on your prescription/measurements. A significant cost of the process is paying "click fees" which are essentially IP to use that CAD file or a usages based tier on the CNC machine (however you want to look at it). I think, for the company I was working with at least, it was tied to the CAD file though. I recall some discussion of us changing vendors as current vendor's CAD files were failing QC checks at an unacceptable level. If I remember correctly, it was about $5 of a $20 finished good (averages for a pair of lenses). Every coating imaginable would only add $3 at most to cost of goods.

Memories from ~3 years ago.

IP/Brands drives a lot in this industry and is how Zenni is able to cut costs. A company like Rayban will partner with a lense manufacturer to put a logo on the lense and then charge $300 for the lenses. It's the exact lense the manufacturer would normally sell for $25 but now it has a Rayban logo on it. (I actually had these and ended up scratching off the Rayban logo because it was constantly visible in my periphery).
> Everything I've seen in the news for last few months just seems to say "sorry, the last 50 years was a gravy train, it'll never work that way again, you're screwed".

I first came to Palo Alto in 1984. All the houses were underwater (worth less than their mortgages). The tech boom was over and consensus was that it wasn’t coming back. Too bad you missed that!

Just keep investing (dollar cost averaging). Pick your poison: “barbell” as some other comments have suggested or just a couple of very broad index funds. Since you have a long time ahead of you, I’d recommend the latter. You can spend some of it on a down payment when that makes sense to you.
Could you /imagine/ a world without lawyers? shudders
What's the Unique Selling Point?
It's in the name
I highly recommend everyone stop using Google, including Google drive. But self-hosting "cloud" file storage is complicated for the average user, and easy to break, so I recommend using Dropbox (which for the past few years has used MS Office Online as editor for MS Office docs) and back that up on your own. Why Dropbox? It's super reliable, doesn't force its own filetypes on you (mostly), and has native clients for everything including linux cli. So this is something you can set up for your entire family, have backups go reliably and in the background, so that if something like this happens you can restore. And of course, for any sensitive files you don't want Dropbox to read, you gotta encrypt it yourself - but I'd say for the average user that encryption is only needed in rare occasions.
As a matter of principle, I refuse to engage with anything that wants me to sign in or create an account before showing me what it is.
One of the things we’ve learned over at Flow Club is that working in the presence of others helps keep you motivated and accountable, especially when working alone. We made this version of a Lofi Cafe to create that feeling. Let me know what you think. Send me a high five (I'm Ricky Y).
I am not so certain that it would have made much difference. Microsoft would still have produced both BASIC and Windows, and we may have had the exact same evolution anyway. DigitalResearch's GEM was mired in legal red tape preventing from much evolution.

Also, MSDOS is opensource now.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/microsoft-ms-dos-early-sour...
I've added BigQuery and run the benchmark and get the results... but due to their ToS , the benchmark results cannot be published. See https://cube.dev/blog/dewitt-clause-or-can-you-benchmark-a-d...

The benchmark instructions for BigQuery are here:
https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/tree/main/bigquery

If you follow them, just add the .json with the results and regenerate the HTML with the generate-results.sh script. You will get the version of the benchmark page with BigQuery included - for your own use.

I wish more vendors will get rid of DeWitt Clause sooner. For example, Snowflake has removed it a few months ago (maybe due to pressure from Databricks), SingleStore also removed the clause recently.
> Cap your downside, go balls out with the rest.

This doesn’t mean anything to me. Can you elaborate? Also, why are revenue generating assets better, and doesn’t pursuing revenue generating assets imply prioritizing cash flow? Sorry for the noob questions.
You can do all but the most cutting edge engineering on your own. People still build cars and planes in their garages. Lots of amateur radio hobbyists build their own radios. Even if you got an engineering degree you'd most likely spend 10 years working on boring projects before you got to do anything novel.
Amazing. Do you have some docs / resources on this online? How would you go around building a computer out of commodity components today?

Do you think compiling everything on own computer results in noticeable increase in performance? Say, distribution provides binaries built on Intel, but I want to run on AMD, does it make sense to recompile binaries on the AMD?
I think they're pointing out the ridiculous costs of law school and the wealth barrier of entry that creates.

Someone who could pass the bar exam, and could end up being a great lawyer isn't even given the chance, because they can't afford to attend law school (which is necessary to take the exam, from what I gather, but IANAL & I'm not from the US).
Many call centers do not allow the workers to disconnect the call without going through some sort of formal procedure, so this could be exploited until that policy changes.
I second this. Don’t use any kind of cloth. Just blow over your glasses a few times, droplets will disappear. Even finest cloth will leave scratches over time. Also it will reapply dirt and grease that naturally builds up as you use it
What synology model by chance?
I'll bet that some of the candidate websites this file linked to had been taking over by malicious actors and WERE being used for phishing. By linking to them and sending them traffic, you were perceived as a bit complicit.
I want one just to get a notification LED back. Thats up there with the headphone jack as something that shouldnt have been removed from basically all phones in my book.
Thank you, I think that is exactly what I was looking for, and just what I had secretly hoped someone might suggest in response to my comment. Thanks again!
Maybe Musk will go into the modular fission reactor business?
Aside from what others said, is the environment where he live good enough for outdoor activities? Like parks, public sport playgrounds, bicycle lanes, lake/river across the city and so on? Because if not, you can't do much. If yes, the best option would be spending some time together outdoor or having some interesting experiences together (climbing, tenis...).
People and companies in US don't know what 'privacy' means. All software companies (maybe except Apple), car companies (especially Tesla), telecoms, etc. just collect huge amounts of customer data not giving a damn about consent.
If you work at a crypto exchange I have an exciting opportunity for you!
According to Wikipedia, there's an inherent limit on MHD generators due to plasma instability. That's also the problem with most fusion systems, where everybody struggles to maintain a stable plasma for seconds. The idea behind this Helion thing seems to be to run in pulsed mode, so long term stability isn't required.

Pulsed fusion systems have been around for a while. There's another startup, First Light Fusion, also claiming to have a commercial energy source Real Soon Now.[1]
People have been claiming that for pulsed fusion since at least 1971, when laser confinement was a big thing.

[1] https://firstlightfusion.com/
A number of things raise the bar: CapEx, regulations, or even high marketing costs (e.g. if one wants to compete against Coca-cola/Pepsi: making flavoured water isn't hard, over-regulated or expensive, but customer acquisition in that space is expensive).

Incumbents rarely want to rock the boat against other, similar-sized incumbents.
Netflix names Microsoft as partner for new consumer subscription plan
... that might be a stretch. If this were a private file, I don't think it is evaluated in the same way. But he's sharing it, so if it is linking to malicious content using Google, they could be perceived as complicit so they need to take action. Otherwise any spammer in the world can host whatever link farms they like.
I don't think just building JS is slow, I think the issue is that most of the ecosystem is ready to move on to more "no build" scenarios now that ES modules are supported everywhere that matters [0] [1] (Node 12+). Webpack still doesn't seem to have much of an ESM "native" approach/roadmap. Snowpack had a relatively good ESM "native" approach, but appears finished and points to Vite now. Vite isn't entirely ESM "native" yet, but there's more work there mentioned in these release notes and it definitely appears to be in their roadmap/planning horizon. I'm curiously following Vite, but so far it smells to me more of a webpack too much of the kitchen sink "fork" than not still for the "no build"/"targeted build" world.

I've been experimenting with some stuff using esbuild directly in a "targeted" way that builds only a few things with most stuff just Typescript transpilation only (again). I've almost got a feeling the next winner may just be Typescript+esbuild, but not at all because esbuild is fast or written in Go. It may still be Typescript+rollup, given the hints of what's coming in the next Rollup major. (Typescript is still in JS and getting faster every release, with incremental build support for large projects getting better all the time. Rollup is still in JS and still a decent esbuild competitor.) In a "no build"/"targeted build" world it's not really speed that matters but a minimal, targeted API that's easy to automate as you choose targets to build and it may be the case that the time of the "kitchen sink plus a million plugins" builder is over.

[0] https://caniuse.com/es6-module

[1] https://caniuse.com/es6-module-dynamic-import
Are you saying that the movie studios don't own their movies?
Is that even possible? Wouldn't that suggest something that is not true?
Why is blockchain better than a centralized database for the end user? What specific advantages does it offer to me when I go to 7-11 and buy a Slurpee with my watch, which is how I do it now?
I think all the reservations about Godot are valid, but let me offer my perspective. In 1996-1997 I remember meeting with Epic to evaluate their engine in develop for a game a AAA game at Activision. I remember in the late aughts (like 09?) being asked to evaluate Unity for a VC that was considering investments and wondering how much commercial developers would actually use it.

These engines are all risky until they aren't. And Godot certainly seems at the tipping point of adoption. Also, all game engines have strengths and weaknesses so that you would want to use Unity or Unreal in many particular cases for a long time. But Godot also has some strengths, not the least of which is that it is open source.

The key thing I would watch is the transition to 4.0 and Vulkan. That seems like a point at which they can either pick up momentum or lose it. The SDK problem for consoles can easily be solved by contractors / middleware if there is enough good games to make it worth the time to bother.
Microsoft MakeCode will feel very familiar coming from Scratch, but compiles into pretty readable (and editable) JavaScript, so it might be a good way to move up: https://arcade.makecode.com/

And it still gives you the image editing tools (pixel editing for MakeCode), asset management, game loop, etc – all of which are too much to take on for a new programmer, but are really helpful, and hopefully make it feel like less of a regression.
> Collecting NFTs? Show them off in 5 different sizes and track their prices on your home screen with the native NFT Gallery

Ugly JPG pictures and a reminder that all of my life savings have been evaporated! What a phone!
Exactly. They are an adult so should be self-sufficient and support themselves.

If said 18 year old has the money to live on their own and play video games, all the more power to ‘em!

But seriously, the computer isn’t the issue. Kid needs to start pulling their own weight or they’re going to be in for a rude awakening.
Ah, sorry I was using the terms interchangeably. I think it's actually a debit setup, kind of like a gift card? I've never actually used the service, just heard some reviews about it.
>no right to enforce

If you want to go down the "no right" path...

Assuming the adult(child) is not contributing financially to living expenses, the child has no right to an internet connection, electricity, room & board, usage of any equipment that they do not own, etc. So while the parent has no right to tell their adult child what to do with their time, the adult child has no right to free resources.
At your strong prescription, are there any styles of frames or lenses that you've found reduce facial displacement?
They were offering shitcoins in exchange to people scanning their eyeballs. That's a double-whammy of dodgy behavior.

No, I don't need to provide details. If you don't see it, you're a lost cause.
Yet things that were built, have been used.
Apart from the app itself ~/Library/Appliction Support/Microsoft/Teams was eating up 1.1Gb before I sent it packing to Trash. Same old Microsoft.
I don’t have a strong opinion personally, but my wife is a lawyer and I remember her cramming all the BARBRI material in the weeks before her Bar exam. She said she basically could have skipped law school and done just that stuff (and saved hundreds of thousands of $$$ lol)
Do we have trustworthy media that analyzes the cause of inflation? I find it insulting that Biden government first denied everything and then blamed Russia for everything even before the war started. I mean, really? Russia has the GDP of a single city in China, and they have their own shit to deal with. On the other hand, I'm curious why Biden government does not blame Trump government, at least to some degree. Trump's government expanded credit for trillions of dollars too, right?

Somehow people got really partisan when it came to issues like inflation, when I just wanted to know the truth.

P.S., I also find it insulting that Biden blames gas station owners and corporates for their greed. I thought "hoarding and profiteering" is the term that communist countries used to justify their tyranny. Case in point, that is exactly the reason that Chinese government used to nationalize millions of business back in the 1950s, and tens of thousands of people were executed for being "greedy" or "anti-revolution".

I also find it insulting that politicians were advocating price control. They didn't know that price only reflects the value of goods or how price control played out in the Nixon era? Somehow the left in the US are really receptive to the idea of price control and punishing companies. Did I miss something obvious, or the Democrat base are really into the communist shit?
Probably 920+!
I don't see how Covid savings would increase the price of butter and meat really. Inflation is all over the board and escalated in January (?).
Is it actually removed or just restrictiones from sharing

Google drive in the last has restricted sharing of files that violate terms but I don't think I've heard if instances of then deleting private data.
It's an electron app. That's not a webpage bundled with chromium, it shares a large number of components but functions quite differently. It's not surprising that your web experience sucks relative to the app.
Which is a bummer, given that since the XNA story, Microsoft has decided to outsource to Unity the whole "how to do 3D in .NET" story.

Given that the DirectX team is quite anti anything but C++, as shown by all attempts that eventually were killed (Managed Direct X, XNA), Unity's death would mean most shops would just move into C++.

While C++20 is quite nice, it would be a pity if such scenario would take place.
Checking Benford's Law on World Population Data
Right, this is the issue. Don't install surveillance devices on behalf of a megacorporation and get butthurt when they use the footage for something you don't approve of.

How the fuck did people go this insane?
“Rendered by the Crystal programming language in 739 µs.”

Very nice!
Write tests as you write code.
Test as you finish code chunks.
Don’t wait until the “end” to scramble and test what you’ve developed.
> Less distractions. More soul. Just pure instinct, formed as a machine. Told through beautiful symbols. Deeper interactions. And brave simplicity. Phone (1) can bring us back. To us.

What?

> Meet the Glyph Interface. A new way to communicate. Unique light patterns indicate who’s calling. Signals app notifications, charging status and more. Everyday interactions, made joyful.

So... a fancy notification led?
this is the kind of marketing that borders on satire
no country _wants_ to reduce trade - they simply accept that sanctions are necessary. Reducing trade necessarily hurts both countries, and there aren't likely to be any functioning developed countries that want to act against their own interests. As such, it's not at all hard to imagine the receivers having a hard time enforcing sanctions. After all, with all the problems a country has - why would they dedicate time and resources to purposefully hurt their own?
Depending on if you count it as a serious programming language, Racket has pretty much all the contract stuff. It has dedicated syntax for contracts, tight integration with the module system, and contract-random-generate attempts to generate a value satisfying a contract so writing an auto fuzzer wouldn't be too hard. In fact, I think Racket's system predates Clojure since there was the 2002 paper "Contracts for Higher-Order Functions" discussing it and Clojure first appeared in 2007.

The only reason I would ever use Clojure instead of Racket would be if I needed to work with the JVM ecosystem or the browser via Clojurescript (which are compelling reasons).

Totally agree about a good calculator language.
I was once this kid..

So from that perspective I can say… the internet and video games were very much filling a void in my life. It took spiraling into deep depression and thoughts of suicide to realize I needed to make the change myself. I suspect any degree of forceful action wont work sufficiently.

Find out what this kid wants out of life, actually get to know them, something my parents never really did. And this might mean asking to play video games with them.

Once you know what they want, what they truly want, you can help provide the tools and guidance for achieving those things outside of a television or computer screen.

Making the effort to actually connect with the person before suggesting an alternative lifestyle is key.

That being said, this person is a young adult and many people live happy lives spending lots of time in front of a screen.
I actually like the look a lot, although I don't see it as a big selling point because the first think I'd do is put it in a case.

Other than that it seems like a well balanced midrange device (depending on whether or not the cameras end up being good).

The real problem is at the current price point it's competing with some pretty good phones such as Galaxy S21 FE and Pixel 6, and then you can get a OnePlus Nord 2, which is still pretty good, for nearly half the price.

I don't know who this is for.
I think it's meant to save on bandwidth/resources by only showing the "speaking" video feeds.
I also use TrueNAS as the main place for storing everything that matters. It is also backed up to Backblaze B2 but using restic instead of rclone.

Having a local NAS with RAID redundancy, a filesystem with checksums and backed up properly brings much better peace of mind than relying on proprietary solutions like iCloud or Google drive.
Glancing through the website my first impression is “The Apple of Android phones”, though there’s more to that statement than just marketing so I’m not saying this is true, just my impression
Market Cap and volume don't need to correlate. Your line of reasoning is a red herring.

BTC as a store of value can have a very low volume and those LN could be responsible for an inordinant amount of volume, with low collateral depending on how fast the trades are.

With OTC, Wrapped versions, and leverage through sythetix its also an impossible task to be able to claim for certainty anyways.
This is not true; rules vary state to state. In Massachusetts, for example, you cannot "secretly" record others, in public or private.
That is infuriating.
When rustc explodes
After a crappy first-adopter experience with Nothing Ear(1) I realised why you don’t want to be a first adopter. If it is legitimately better it will still be worth getting in 6 months when the crazy initial bugs are ironed out.
You also pay way less. DoorDash and all the others don't just charge the fees and the tips and what not, they also inflate the food cost by a pretty hefty amount. A simple example:

McDonalds has a 2 for $2 deal on sausage mcmuffins & hashbrowns - been around forever. Let's say you and the wife want a McMuffin & a hashbrown each - you're in for $4 dollars and a bit of change for tax.

Here is the same meal via DoorDash:

McMuffins: $2.87ea
Hash browns: $1.91ea

Subtotal: $9.56 (just below the 10 dollar minimum to wave the fee if you have DD+)

Delivery fee: $1.99
Service fee: $3.00
Tax: $0.91
Dasher Tip: $5 (good luck getting your order on time if you tip less than this)

Grand Total: $20.46 for $4 of food.

You can "optimize" by ordering an additional hash brown to get over the $10 hump so you can wave the delivery fee and reduce the service fee - which will instead cost you a total of $17.91 for $5 worth of food. Either way it's a shit deal. Not included here are the costs associated with 1 in every 4-5 orders being incorrect, or delivered to the wrong house and the hassle that adds to your life.

Obviously I went with low cost items to illustrate a point but often any food prices you see on DD are a good 50% markup vs going in person regardless of the restaurant before you even get into fees and tips.
18 is an age where a person needs to be transitioning into adulthood and the behaviours and responsibilities that go along with that. That means less time on the leisure activities associated with the common teenager (like spending all day playing computer games and watching YouTube), and more time on choosing and investing time in a career or education pathway.

And if that child is not getting the message that the time for that is now, then it's up to the parents to enforce that boundary.
The latter. But that's one among many sufficient reasons: I also think it's indicative of an economic and social policy that encourages civic alienation and delocalization.

The more snappy way of saying it: we're maximizing short term advantages (any plastic crap I want in 48 hours, shareholder value) at the cost of long term advantages (cities and towns worth living in, a sense of community rooted in part in supporting local businesses, not needing surveillance in every aspect of our lives because we've automated out the tacit security of being around other humans.)
I have friends with just 10 days in the USA.
KYC is good, not bad.