skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seemed so absurdly impossible that I had to look it up. I went to Edmunds and sure enough the 5-year TCO for a 2022 LR Model 3 is $115k. The 5-year TCO for a 2022 LE AWD Prius is $69k.

The Model 3 is ridiculously expensive. Base price RWD $47k. You can get into a Prius for $25k. At 58mpg there will never be a breakeven for the Model 3. Economics will be different with this upcoming $7,500 tax credit, but that obviously doesn't apply to any current owners.
Does anyone have an RSS link for this blog? I want to be alerted of his follow up article
Strong agree. For all the evidence and talk about 'the microbiome is a newly discovered organ', people sure do struggle to look beyond the surface reading of the research-- yes, all the research in this area is research about shit, and often involves putting things inside arseholes. Hilarious as arseholes undoubtedly are, its a real shame seeing this research held back by this.

One interesting corollary of the article-- I wonder if human corpses sink or swim in accordance with their former flatulence-- and how much the old tale about eating after dinner is determined by these selfsame gasses!
> But arguing that all they're trying to do is make public accounting isn't the right counter argument here.

This will not solve human moral turpitude that leverages technology to self-enrich at the expense of others.
Literate Executables
This is really interesting, and I'd love to learn more about it. One thing to look into is rollups - they will soon enable custom application with cheap transaction fees, but with the full security of Ethereum. See e.g.: https://docs.celestia.org/category/recipe-book/
> My theory is these designers dont have family members or they dont care about them.

Or they don't have family members with bad eyesight.

Or they actually do have family members with bad eyesight, but those are not active smartphone users.

Or they actually do have family members that both have bad eyesight and are active smartphone users, but they take the advice to simply buy a device a mobile device with a larger screen.
HyperStudio, hypermedia authoring for schools, inspired by HyperCard but very different in many ways. (I was the initiator and team leader)
I’m sure the right-wing label is due to his repeated efforts to legitimize race and IQ science. He probably has lots of opinions that match up with the Democrats, but that one’s really stuck with him.
The gif in the linked article about circle decomposition is nuts:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-ancient-geometry-problem-f...

And the authors reckon it could be done with 22 pieces!
That can always be an argument. You could place all humans in Great Britain easily. Would perhaps be more productive as well. Imagine all the biotopes that could strive again. But it isn't a question about productivity and I believe the vast majority live in high density setups for utility. At least I do. It is nice enough but it remains a compromise.

Not from the US, but expect this story about high density areas paying for the others is a stupendous political argument to get people angry at those suburbians and not too much else. The distribution of funds is probably unjust, but the solution is certainly not to bring everyone into high density living.
I don't intend to de-rail the convo, but this is an important one.

> improve inter-family relationships

It could, maybe, but it can also be a significant source of strife. It's tough spending all day, every day with someone. Because of that, you find that people are either looking for larger homes in order to have private work spaces or renting office space. Both of those shift the cost burden from the company to the individual.
Microsoft is turning Windows 11's Start Menu into an ad delivery system
Do you have a link to the Wikipedia discussion of the refusal, or even the name of the inventor?
I completely agree with you but it's surprising that the biggest factors aren't being brought up.

Most people won't pay for a ton of small services since it adds up. There is a minimal threshold to pass to make online transactions financially reasonable, making the pricing models make little sense for most services. Given that most cheap services (ie. those at or below $5/mo) don't have large infrastructure costs, it's an even harder sell. Not to mention that sometimes people rather watch movies or television than get tools to make them more productive.

This is doubly compounded when you look at opportunity costs. With the amount of software that can be self hosted, the costs isn't just the comparison of having the tool or not or even other developer focused offerings, but instead having this tool (or access to it) versus any other tool that can be self-hosted (including those that might not exist yet).

Also, lets say we spend $5/mo, well for that we can host our own server which can easily be used for more than one purpose (with WireGuard now even the smallest VPS can be used to saturate most home links and bypass CGNAT easily). Increasing the monthly spending just increases the amount of opportunities.

This of course doesn't touch the elephant in the room which is privacy.

For the regular user privacy isn't a huge deal for these small services. For the average reasonable user that doesn't upload sensitive data, at worst it would be something like a personal photo being seen.

On the other hand as a software developers using these tools is a lot more complicated. Licensing, copyright, and possible work contracts start to matter. If the service interfaces with code (like Kite or GitHub Co-pilot) then you get into a some serious murkiness due to the fact that you don't really know what they are doing with it on their end. Even the things like telemetry and what type of data is being sent back matter in corporate environments.
The levels of support for the small groups that fought primarily against small groups on the other side were never really gauged. However the political successors to the only one of those groups that really counted is currently the largest party in Northern Ireland.

The Brits left split polities in quite a few places as they decolonized. Almost as if it was policy.
It's solving a simple and well-defined problem: making sure that whatever tokens you put in the exchange, you can get back out. You may think this is beside the point, but it's exactly what FTX miserably failed to do.
"It could just be a database" is my litmus test now for an engineer who thinks he's really smart but really isn't.
> It's also certified for AMD FreeSync and Nvidia G-Sync, but doesn't have hardware acceleration for either.

What does that statement mean? Does this monitor support the GPU frame syncing or not?
Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash 1997
Doesn't work for the latest Safari browser.
Rahul Kumar Patel (whyorean) is the developer of Aurora Store (https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore), a FOSS client for the Play Store. Aurora Store is one of the most convenient ways to download apps from the Play Store without using Google Play Services or needing your own Google account.

Recent versions of Termux are not available on Aurora Store because they are also not available on the Play Store. However, whyorean also develops Aurora Droid, an alternative F-Droid client, which does have the latest version of Termux. (Aurora Droid has not seen updates for a while.)

whyorean's apps are trusted by many Android users, and I don't know of any good reason to avoid his work in general.
> because ossl_a2ulabel had no unit tests until a few days ago

it's not realistic to enforce unit test coverage % with a project at the scale of OpenSSL, right?
I would certainly expect a cruise-ship-wide paid network to be managed professionally.
Is there a practical applicate for this, or is that more of a large pizza problem? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHtVwLXXAAAeKR6?format=jpg&name=...
Well there were two joinings. In the first one the Scottish King (James VI) took over the English throne after Elizabeth I died.

King James then began to try to create a unified state, merging first the churches. Of course there was then that little Cromwell bustup, but after that James VII of Scotland was on the throne and causing religious grief, his daughter and her Dutch husband then took over.
If you are in a position where losing access to a significant amount of money due to the actions of the state are likely, would it not make sense to have a backup plan?
Aren't suburban neighborhoods actually bad for the environment though. Also the lack population density makes it hard to support the infrastructure costs for a large area with fewer people.
I think that's true for fungible goods - it's a pain when you search for something generic like dish soap on Amazon and get 10000 kinds - but not for non-fungible goods. When it comes to books, I want Amazon to have as wide a selection as possible.
I always think about teams as on a sliding scale from "can rely on informal communication" to "cannot rely on informal communication"

A team of 3 people all in the same office can rely entirely on informal communication. A team of 1000 people distributed throughout the world cannot at all.
Collective intelligence sounds like a good thing but in this case the intelligence part is a bit suspect
Yes, but the investment in things can be so great that it becomes impossible to change according to customer preferences. The business then has to find new problem spaces for their things.
It's not the type of currency you have that prevents bank runs. There were plenty of bank runs with very real dollars in the beginning of the century. What stopped it was proper regulation.
EDIT: I mean the beginning the 20th century, of course.
should have gone with burnt umber imo, but to each their own
On Mac I use Mimestream and like it a lot. It’s a native client dedicated to gmail.
The story of tracing the magic number back is really fun and it's interesting to see how the trade of computer graphics programming was passed down from one company to another. I don't think it's legendary status was at all diminished when it turns out not to have been Carmack's invention.

https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120920120948/http://blog.quent...
To a certain extent, you are correct that the physical support like jams and toner replacement was typically handled by the lab. However it still meant having 30 printers, all of them of different makes and models and firmware versions on the network. Thirty ethernet runs having to be patched in, and 30 more ports on the switch lit up, and 30 more static IP leases doled out. All of that is relatively minor on its own, but at the end of the day its still a liability. Not all liabilities are necessarily a bad thing though, if it allows you to reach a desirable outcome. So what was the desirable outcome in this case?

Not having to walk 30 feet down the hall to the shared copier/printer on every floor to retrieve your print.
been using newpipe exclusively for like 3 years now, have managed to switch everyone at home on it too....

it crashes every often when google messes something but other than that, it is smooth sailing. you should send crash logs to the team
As others have pointed out, there was always debate. But I think what's changed is that the down-shouters have backed off. When we'd say "there's nothing here, and what is here is likely semi-criminal" there was almost always a vigorous thread of people who would argue back.

Especially so because a large part of the HN community have this libertarian tinge which brought them philosophically close to web3/crypto generally.

Many of those people have gone quite quiet recently. And I don't want to turn this into a "told you so" moment; I think this is good. Let's try to let the hype cycle end without knives coming out.

The question is what the long-term shake-out from all of this will be for tech more broadly. Many legitimate technologies and projects have gotten themselves caught up in this hype cycle, and there could be fall-outs for people and projects that associated themselves this way -- what I'm calling "crypto-taint." I'm thinking everything from the Rust PL community (where the bulk of employers are web3 companies, it seems) through to a lot of recent novel database tech generally.

I recently quit a job in part for this reason. The product itself was not crypto, but was associating itself with the language and community around ETH. I personally don't want the taint on my resume, even if it's merely marketing.

Where VCs put their money can be fickle. And the consequences for business entities emphasizing in the wrong place can be brutal. This is the third "down cycle" I've been through in my 25ish year software career, and I have some sense of how it could shake out.

Right now, people need to focus on fundamentals.
No, define away! Descriptivism is a wonderful way to examine artifacts of human activity. But be wary of prescriptivism -- because you have defined a category does not mean you have provided a test for membership, especially if there are connotations associated with the original category.

Definitions when applied prescriptively have to be looked at from an operational perspective -- _why_ does it matter that this instance belongs to that category?
Amazon will shut down end-to-end encrypted messenger app Wickr next year
It’s now a regular commercial thing known as vacuum insulated panels. They are of course, expensive, and damage makes them useless.
It's interesting that the good fight for LGBTQ+ is given up as soon as there is a place with actual LGBTQ+ repression and powerful resistance.

What then is this signalling for?
Really appreciate you writing this because the progression has been difficult. In the interest of just figuring things out, we built the first house without much consideration for anything other than "can we build and sell inexpensively?" which we did manage to do for $50k. Some significant Covid inflation later, though, and that price is now a pipe dream, but we do think at the $80k number it's sustainable. And like I said the real goal now is to potentially get these financed so the people who can't afford to pay cash (i.e., most people who would be interested in buying) can actually get one of these. Anyway, thanks again. It's taken longer than we want, but we're making progress.
OK, I’ve always considered these types of questions as disingenuous. But, enough people seem to disagree.

So, at risk of stating the obvious:

- Avoid risk of accidental/malicious deplatforming

- Personal control of all data, avoiding incompetence/malfeasance presenting faulty data

- Deploying enhanced presentation of existing functionality and data cannot be restricted

- Reuse of existing functionality in private environments can’t be prevented

- Guarantee that results based on trees of publicly committed data are themselves valid, without personally traversing the tree and recomputing results

- …

As I write this, I’m struggling to comprehend how these benefits aren’t obvious.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been searching for solutions to these problems since the early 90’s for distributed industrial control and monitoring. But seriously, I’m certain lots of developers run into these constraints and are seeking solutions.
You can use this without root by using the rish provided by [Shizuku](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=moe.shizuku.pr...), because it only need adb shell permission for this.
As the astronauts of Apollo 10 found out
Not exactly tech news but a news roundup you will not find anywhere else from someone who did high-stakes intel collection while down range.
Thank you. I feel like the tide is finally turning on this. The Ethereum VM (and its derivatives) is one of the biggest innovations in recent history.

I've been yelling at the top of my lungs why NFTs have revolutionized digital art and happy to see the top comment nails it - a zero trust verification environment makes it possible to sell it on an open global market. This just wasn't there before.

Blockchains are useless takes are already out of date.
End to end encryption can hide the recipient, at the cost that each recipient has to attempt to unencrypt all encrypted messages with their key to see if they were the intended. This is fairly fast on modern computers, and is how secure scuttlebutt works. Note this is only feasible on gossip protocols, pub-sub, or content addressable hash stores where you are only looking at a subset of the users that you follow, instead of inspecting all traffic without another side channel for indicating what messages should be inspected.
> I'm so sick and tired of subscriptions

sounds like theres a product gap and a market need; lets make a subscription "subscription service" service - the last subscription you'll ever have to manage!

what if there was an open protocol with a public API where you could just purchase fungible subscription primitives and then disburse them into any SaaS like Netflix, JetBrains, or M365? you'd probably want an immutable transaction log for both consumer and business protections, and it would be better if the system were distributed and trustless so you don't have to worry about any funny business on anyones part. also you dont have to count on those privateering, regulatory-captured bankers to prevent or replace erronerous double-spends and manage payment disputes - all the records are chained together and auditable!

I am no longer having fun writing this post. fungible subscription primitives - i made myself sad.
> And yes, my answer to all those crypto related shenanigans is proper government oversight.

So SBF was making the same argument, argued in front of Congress for it, and was using his customer's billions to lobby for favorable legislation that would carve out expensive, exclusive licensing agreements that only him and a few others would be able to afford.

Even if you pass draconian legislation in the U.S., it does not affect what happens off-shore. FTX's core business was based in the Bahamas.
> Exists precision resistors with accuracy +-0.5%, or even 0.1%, but high precision applications, typically used some very different technologies. For example, are high quality multi-turn variable resistors, laser cut resistivity pads, created with high cost materials or even rare-earth materials.

Most modern resistors are of either a thin-film type, with sub-micron-thin layers of nickel directly sputtered and onto a ceramic body, or a thick-film type, with a metal oxide/ceramic paste applied and baked onto the ceramic body.

The process window is aimed at a target, but binning operations after production are all that separate precision resistors from cheap resistors.

If you sputter on a little too much nickel, or your paste isn't quite as conductive after baking as you hoped, you just sell that one as a 10% or 5% resistor.

If you get lucky, and produce one that is within 0.01% of an E96 resistor (which might even happen while aiming for an E12 resistance!), you sell it as a precision unit.

Agreed that these aren't that important in most modern designs.
Well, it's a Java app. It just works everywhere.

I was able to create an account just fine, though I don't have any contacts to message. I don't have any reason to believe it wouldn't work fine, though.
There's a pretty awesome non-profit called Open Source Ecology which is doing this with the 40 "most important machines for civilizations".

Perhaps with some funding & technical assistance they could be convinced to do so for EV Vehicles.

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

"We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration."
That's a very general argument for a very specific request. Transparency is good, but nobody is coming on to HN asking citing transparency and asking for audited figures for the value of US-owned dump trucks, or how much wood pulp we could produce in Grand Tetons National Park, or how much money we could make grinding up the highway system for scrap metal. So why gold specifically?
When I worked in NYC a few years ago, I was living in an apartment on Long Island, the LIRR was 1h30m on average, plus 10 minute drive to get to the train station, plus another 20 minute walk from Penn to 3rd ave where I worked. On rainy days I'd take the subway but there isn't a direct route so I'd have to change at times square so it always ended up taking longer than walking.

Easily 2+ hours each way from door to door. And let me tell you, the LIRR is vastly overfilled during peak. You're lucky to get a seat for that 90 minute leg of your trip, and if you didn't, you were probably sardine packed in the aisle.
By the same token "EVs are good for the environment" wouldn't change anyone's mind
>
You're kidding right? Having a desktop PC in the pre-internet days was a scary experience. My smartphone and iPad are both cute and work unblinkingly every time all the time.

I beg to differ:

- no scary golden cage

- no fear of being surveilled

- it was possible (DOS) if you were seriously to understand at least huge parts of the whole OS that ran on your PC

- it was possible to understand the bare-metal software interface to the hardware; you had to, because if you were writing, say, games for DOS, you typically accessed the hardware (e.g. your sound card) directly.
I had a basic Withings, not the Steel, and there was a lot I liked about it, particularly getting many months out of each battery, and the step counter being a dial from 0 to 50 to 100% of whatever target number of steps one set in the companion app.

But, for me, the lack of a second hand and backlighting or glow-in-the-dark hands & numbers, combined with the strong potential that my health data was being snooped on, convinced me to return to a traditional analog face wristwatch.

But I may look into the OP's original Casio - a sturdy watch with a barometer and compass built in, that would be handy.
Fracking is not sustainable (you're not going to be able to frack forever, we've already tapped a lot of the 'cheap gas' wells, future wells will eventually get prohibitively expensive, it already is very expensive and not even that profitable[1], and got a lot more expensive this year thanks to it requiring a specific type of sand that's now 3x the cost[2]) and is harmful to freshwater, not only by using a ton of it (average of 45 millions of gallons of freshwater per fracking well) but also because it mixes tons of chemicals in with the water it uses, making the wastewater toxic[3]. It also leaks a lot of methane[4], which is 80x worse for warming than CO2 emissions in the short term (CO2 stays in the atmosphere longer).

"To determine the potential impact of fracking in the U.K., a group of Manchester scientists ranked it and other energy sources, such as coal, wind, and solar, after considering environmental, economic, and social sustainability. Of the nine energy sources examined, the scientists found that fracking ranked seventh in sustainability.

To make fracking as sustainable as energy sources higher up on the list, such as wind and solar, there would need to be a staggering 329-fold reduction in environmental impact, according to the researchers."[5]

[1] https://www.barrons.com/articles/why-are-natural-gas-prices-...

[2] https://sports.yahoo.com/sand-fracking-now-3-times-114500960...

[3] https://cen.acs.org/environment/water/Wastewater-fracking-Gr...

[4] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/frack...

[5] https://futurism.com/fracking-among-most-harmful-forms-energ...
Just wonder, what would you have done if you had a cellphone?
I really like the direction Automattic is going with their acquisitions. Tumblr embracing the Fediverse and PocketCasts open-sourced and committed to adding Podcasting 2.0 features. Awesome stuff!
It should be realistic, line coverage isn't really that hard. The hard thing is that high line coverage alone is usually not enough for numerical stuff...