skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many in tech whose jobs rely on selling personal information in ways that users would never consent to if they were made fully aware of what was being collected, how it was being collected, and how it was being used. I can't imagine it feels good to constantly deal with the cognitive dissonance required to participate in such schemes.
https://home.omg.lol/info/switchboard, the "external domains" section
This is what they voted for.
Nice, where did you go?
Are you asking why the government should prosecute crimes, or are you asking why securities laws exist in the first place?
I am literally researching now for a home network upgrade. Been running Dr-wrt on a linksys for years and WiFi is starting to get super unreliable. Can you say more about your ubiquiti experience?

I am looking at ubiquiti, meraki go, and aruba instant but am open to ideas.
Maybe the 'y' was a typo.
I tend to not link products on hackernews (advertising) - but if you ask for it, I'll post the one I bought in germany...
Hello. see my response to the other comment RE finite resources and can you please provide a source for the stat about internet anergy consumption? seems suspicious to me...
It's not wrong, though. This is just a rephrasing of the same problem. Imagine two people, one with a family that will take them in in an emergency and another with nobody. They both become heroin addicts. The addiction results in a job loss and a few arrests. Soon they've sold all their possessions, their health is declining, and they're behind on rent.

Person A puts their tail between their legs and goes and sleeps in mom's basement.

Person B becomes homeless.

It would be fairly deranged to say that "life choices" and "events" didn't matter "at all," that the second person's homelessness can be entirely explained by the lack of supportive family. It's both things. Homelessness arises when poor choices intersect with a lack of options.
I bought an Ecovacs DEEBOT X1 Omni.
I no longer have to care about vacuuming or mopping. It auto cleans, auto water refills and has hot air drying. It runs on a schedule and I only have to clean the dirty water tank about once a week. It never gets stuck and does a good job so overall it has been a huge time saver.
> I didn't know what I didn't know.

I think that’s a good point, some things are extremely obvious for some people and they don’t need any consulting on that subject. Good for them, but it may not be obvious for other people. That’s normal and that’s fine.

It is completely normal to hire a trainer for learning a new sport, why shouldn’t you do that for other skills. If you’re bad at picking clothes, you can easily spend way more than $175 on stuff that isn’t comfortable and you will never wear.

And if you look at people on the street, at least one third seems to be bad at shopping clothes ;)
3rding the recommendation. I have an S6 and it actually cleans unlike my old shark. It sucks up all the cat hair and does a decent job at maintenance mopping. It's much smarter too. It doesn't just battering ram everything until it finishes a floor. It can operate in the dark so I have it clean the living room at night when we're all asleep. It's an incredible machine.

For privacy conscious people, you can mod these things with firmware that keeps everything local.
And some terminology is so fun when they are essentially messing over you. Mandatory gratuity, hmm why not just call if service-charge? Or just directly include it in price and not even mention it?
To the extent that SF renters are organized, they're organized around groups and ideologies that don't prioritize supply a solution. They're focused on things like rent control, just cause eviction, foreign/institutional investor boogeymen, and preventing even substantially or fully below-market housing developments because they still threaten to upset what renters believe is a delicate balance their neighborhoods/communities depend on.

It makes sense, renters who are politically engaged and organized are more likely to be long-term residents, and being able to preserve your tenancy/community is a different thing from being able to easily move or upgrade.
Amazon’s flying indoor security camera (first look)
Announced 2 years back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24581821

Finally coming out seems like.

I was moderately interested until I saw it was under the Ring brand. While most camera manufacturers route the video through their cloud and can inspect it (very few are local-only with no external dependency), Ring in particular is known for law enforcement being allowed to access the camera without a warrant.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/police-can-get-y...
https://www.dallasjustice.com/ring-cameras-and-police-survei...
They benefit from the stable marketplace every time a bit of ownership is exchanged from one party to another via stock transactions.

Compare this to some partnership or other private structure where owners may be unable to exit unless they can force the company to liquidate some assets to buy them out. Companies and investors who work that way can face liquidity hazards compared to a similar-sized stock corporation.
Well, news outlets are perfectly comfortable with saying that this or that COVID policy "killed" millions and will kill even more... If only the British instituted lockdowns, quarantine, and mass testing for diseases, the Native Americans could have lived!

(Not saying this is the right perspective, but I understand why people would argue for it, especially when using ahistorical lens of today's diseases handling)
How much ram does that take? I find Firefox problematic after around 10 tabs.
I think the zero inbox folks would have a heart attack. Impressive you can maintain the tab state that long!

I usually have max 100 open, but I reboot all the time (for power mgmt reasons) and use OneTab so that seems to solve my hoarding tendencies. That and keeping searchable local notes / using history / bookmarking the really good ones that I'll also never read.
A weight set.

I browsed Facebook Marketplace for a bit and was able to piece together a set consisting of a power rack, bench, and a couple hundred pounds of free weights for probably $600. We're in a post-pandemic glut of home fitness equipment, so with some patience you can find gently used equipment for a fraction of the new cost.

I run pretty regularly, and used to swim pretty regularly, but since having kids the latter has fallen by the wayside because it's just too difficult to coordinate between the pool's schedule, my work schedule, and my kid's daycare schedule.

While I've done a good job avoiding any parental and pandemic weight gain, I definitely noticed my body composition changing without regularly swimming anymore. It's been great to start reversing that, and I forgot how much I enjoyed the post-weight lifting endorphin rush.

It's been a bit humbling, though - I used to weight lift pretty regularly when I was in high school/college and I'm a lot weaker now than I was then!
you are all wrong people,

Roman legions were co posed of Roman citizens, they had to procure their own sword and shield, and could be called up to serve.

As the Roman empire grew, they captured many slaves and territory. Wealthy romans could buy up slaves and land. They accumulated large holsings farmed by slaves and could outcompete ordinary romans in agricultural production.

This was a problem because they were bacrupting the very same people who formed the legions. All the legionairs would recoeve for their military success, was increasing poverty.

This led to decreasing quality of troops and political instability
Not many at Google receive that much in their offer letter, but with the stock appreciation over the last decade and stacked refresher grants, I'd be willing to wager there were thousands making >$1M as of Nov 2021 (many fewer since the stock has fallen though).
> Gastrointestinal issues are also easily faked

weird post, man
Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?
Indeed. As I recall about 80% of pharmaceutical profits are made in the United States, while these same drugs are sold in other countries at much lower negotiated prices.
I bought the boots from a local ski shop, after trying on several brands I landed on the Dalbello Panterra, which I like a lot, but everyone has different feet. I've learned my lesson not to buy footwear online over and over again :)

If you wear eyeglasses, Revision Optical Snowhawk are the best integrated glasses + goggles I've used so far (but I'd be willing to believe that there are better ones out there - plus they are a PITA to order)
People miss this so often when they respond to arguments to reduce car usage with "I need a car because of xyz reason" where that reason probably doesn't apply to most people, certainly doesn't apply to all people, or only applies to most people because whatever society they exist in (probably the US) is incredibly car-centric already. The Netherlands is clearly not car-centric but with 0.5 cars per person clearly people that need (or strongly want) cars still have them. Reducing car usage in the US can only have positive benefits for society imo.
Ok, how much better is 13 blades?
Past results don't guarantee future performance ;)
I'm not saying anything about that. What I'm saying is a decent amount of tradesmen don't know what they are worth and undercharge. In most instances it's because they underestimate the scope of the job they're taking on and are eager to get business. But business is generally easy to get in non-recession times and they could bid higher and still win jobs. It's often inexperienced guys and it's why you see so many startup construction/trade companies go out of business quickly. There's business - they just don't know how to run one.
Does she eat her own excrement?

Crowley did.

He'd be banned really quickly.

He was also a pedophile BTW.
While I agree that FP doesn't solve all problems, I've personally found it to remove a large class of complexity regarding state.

For example, separating deterministic pure logic increases the percentage of your codebase that's deterministic.

Just personal experience so your mileage may vary.
> You can spend more but the coffee doesn’t get better - you just get more automation.

Not always. I was going to restore a Faema E61 and discovered that the basic model is almost identical to the original. Parts are interchangeable. It’s manual, it’s beautiful and it’s expensive.

https://www.faema.com/int-en/product/E61
The issues stem from Copilot frequently regurgitating code verbatim, as seen in examples like this: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
Usually they work for commission, at least where I shop. They either go to the cash register with you or put stickers with their personal number on the price tag.

Which means they will give you the clothes with the highest commission, and are going to tell you that those look best on you.
> Imagine you're a municipality like San Francisco.

I couldn't get past this because the analogy breaks down already. SF as a polity is not controlled by one person or single department. The power is highly decentralized (the Board of Supervisors hold most of the keys).

Thus, even if you have someone who can make sweeping changes, likelihood is they'd never get elected in such a setup (or if they do, be able to effect change).
A landlord is, by definition, a homeowner.
I think the real fear is that you never know what the FBI really wants. So unless you feel confident that you've covered all of the possible angles that an intelligence agency with 10000x the information you have could only be seeking exactly what they claim to be seeking, then sure, answering their call is fine.

But the general rule is to never ever talk with them unless you have a lawyer present. You have no clue whether you're the target of an investigation. You have no clue whether the FBI knows some percentage of their targets were victims of this scam, and are using it to get an in with them (you). You just don't know anything going on behind the scenes.
When Apple compensates employees with shares they issue them out of thin air IIRC. These are dilutive and are listed on their quarterly financial statements. So yes, they are financing projects with stock.
Void Linux with ZFSBootMenu isn't far off. Multiple core Void team members uses and maintain ZFS support; kernel version bumps are blocked on OpenZFS support. ZFSBootMenu handles the bootloader, which can support fully upgraded ZFS pools and doesn't need pared-down zpool properties like Grub.

ZFSBootMenu is developed natively on Void, and their wiki has bootstrap instructions for a Void install with root on ZFS. Everything's well supported, including native zpool encryption. Plus gives you a multitude of tools right in the bootloader -- snapshot rollback/management, boot environment creation/management, booting older kernels, and a full recovery command line with zfs available. You can tweak the bundled dracut config to include other tools as well.

Even supports generating a unified, SecureBoot-signed EFI binary.

The experience is leagues ahead of the Ubuntu mess.
Reminds me of that old Simpsons episode, where Homer is given a fake award for "Outstanding Achievements in the field of Excellence"
I find the Pros migrate out no matter what size I use. I was hopeful that the new XS size on the v2 Pros would help, but it doesn't appear to.

As a result, I use my old Airpods (not sure what gen, but pre-Pro) for zoom calls. I don't need ANC under these circumstances, and I prefer to not be reaching for my ear every couple minutes to push the pod back in.
Its kinda sad though being a great company and the only thing people know you for is high salaries. Anything else good about the company?
This has a lot of implications for translations and translators that attempt to "disambiguate" the original because it contains difficult to translate meanings.

It makes me rethink all the translated political speeches I've ever read.
If there's a weak correlation in a population, finding no correlation in some subpopulations and a stronger correlation in others is expected.

For example, a very weak correlation between GPA and job performance exists. In some disciplines, like law, the correlation is strong. In other fields, like extreme medicine, there is no correlation.
This is risky advice. Many (most?) people need social context to create meaning and will get depressed if they don't have a job to do and people relying on them. Look at what happens to people when they retire.
A Festool dust extractor and Mirka sander.

Coupled with Abranet, I can now sand indoors virtually dust free. It makes doing DIY so much more pleasant. Expensive but I wish I'd bought them both earlier.
Loving all these funny URLs with their funny TLDs. No .com TLDs yet!
right; I'm just blaming chronological for the fact that to find your reply —even from today— I've had to manually go back in "threads"; if the site had meant to encourage long-lived threads, the new posts and comments wouldn't bury the old ones.

(compare to a mailing list, where as soon as one participant has resurrected a thread, even one from deep in the archives, it is easily replied to by all participants)

[Edit: once a week I try to go back 7 days in threads to check (most manually) for fresh replies, but it's usually a fairly quixotic affectation]
There have been a few valiant attempts to build crypto exchanges with modern technology and matching engines. Generally the problem these run into is that, while the algo traders and market makers love them, they have no competitive advantage in attracting retail order flow. Trading firms have no interest in just trading against each other, so without retail flow nothing happens.
Cool! You have some really neat projects. I especially like the IoT weather station.
I live in Salt Lake and most of the time when I mention this issue to friends or family it isn't even on their radar, but this is likely going to cause my wife and I to move somewhere else. It's too bad because this is such a great place to live and its where our family is at. We usually have a really bad inversion in the winter time, and it seems like the summers for the last few years have been filled with wildfire smoke. I'm sick of constantly worrying about the quality of the air I am breathing.
"Unknown goals"... We know what their goals were. No need to sugar coat.
This person knows what they are talking about.
Although I have been pretty successful in obtaining realistic hands by prompting photographs and including make of a camera, lens and film [1][2]. Somehow this seems to narrow down the model to mostly produce realistic output. Still, some variants will occasionally feature Chernobyl-levels of fingers.

[1] https://cdn.midjourney.com/6f52a6e9-b3f2-4830-81b1-84c8f8ca4...

[2] https://cdn.midjourney.com/361e143f-5121-4bff-ada9-069c2e400...
The other person to mention would be Dan O'Dowd. He wrote those PDP-10 / PDP-11 cross-assemblers, and may have had a hand in the earliest handheld games. I think he was Glenn's first employee.
Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women over past 250K years
There have been a lot of tech layoffs.
> the people who complain about tech workers and gentrification in a place like San Francisco

The people who are complaining about this are not the same people who are restricting housing access.

A similar dynamic happens in Boston, where people are resentful of gentrifiers, and I can't blame them. They're not the ones voting to block housing, it's the already rich people in the area who do that.
Especially for a city that is explicitly progressive, why the "all rapid change is bad, it must take decades or centuries, otherwise it's not natural" approach?

Germany's large cities have similar issues where they don't want to start building new districts because it'd be artificial and not naturally grown building by building. And it's better to have rents double every 10 years, apparently.

I don't get the "why", but the approach is fairly explicit -- and politicians get reelected while following it, so I guess it's what "the people" want.
Of course for legendary game like Dwarf Fortress it doesn't make sense and it much lower, but for normal indie game 30% is not a limit so most of developers get less than 50% of sales after Steam and publisher cut.

Usually % that goes to a publisher depend on stage of development, risk publisher taking, whatever you give up your IP and your agreement on recuperation. E.g. if you keep your IP, but publisher cover most of development costs after prototype then they will likely take up to 50% after Steam cut.
I bought a Sony A7R IV full frame mirrorless camera for around the top end of that range, though MSRP is higher. Completely worth it (for me) to dive deeper into photography. I absolutely love it, despite the high cost, seemed a worthwhile investment that I use frequently to provide value for myself, friends, and family. Aside from artistic expression, it's useful to create headshots for others, photograph friend's weddings, etc.
I use the same bag (also bought 2 years ago) and I'm not a student. It's great for transporting things to and from work, and I travel with it too. I suspect you'll find it useful for a while!

It's so easy to organize for all kinds of trips. I love the dividers, and I generally feel way safer keeping electronics in that bag over others.

Also, I bought a mechanical pencil (more specifically a lead holder, I guess) 20 years ago and I still have it and use it. They're such a great investment. Mine isn't rotring-nice, it's just a little blue staedtler thing, but it has been a great tool. It's essentially this one:

https://www.staedtler.com/us/en/products/technical-drawing-i...
> I am curious what makes the author think that expert reviews are free of any incentives for abusing their influence.

Author here. I definitely don't think that!

The internet is swamped with annoying listicles like "100 Vacuums That Will Change Your Life in 2023".

Affiliate links and SEO offer perverse incentives for expert reviewers.

But word-of-mouth survives! At we speak, there is an affiliate-free product thread on the front-page of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272687

EDIT: wrong link :)
You sound like you’ve hit the sweet spot where you pass on coffee out as it better at home.
Meater plus, a wireless meat thermometer. We don't even do BBQ, just cook in the kitchen. The phone app shows meat internal temperature, oven air temperature, tells you how long to cook, estimated time remaining, and how long to let your roast, chicken or fish rest after taking it out of the oven. The app also keeps a log of your past cooks.

If anyone from Meater reads this: Please add a feature to add a photos of the food to the cooks log.
32” 4k monitor - $550

Good standing desk - $500

Adjustable dual arm mount for monitors - $100

RTX 3090 to play with Stable Diffusion - $1000

Good reverse osmosis filter - $400
I always thought there must be big money to be made as a call volume forecaster, given how many major companies are stumped when its "unexpectedly high".
What’s the weight?
Although for that price you can buy a 65" 8k TV.
Fyi, it’s pretty simple to add a custom filter to any decent adblocker like uBlock to prevent annoying domains from showing up in search results. I haven’t seen a Pinterest result or Stackoverflow clone in years…
The first rule of timestamps is, we agree on nothing!

Reverse-middle endian YYYY-DD-MM is used in Kazakh writing (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country )
Ask HN: What dumb product did you regret buying in 2022
Following discussions about useful purchases of 2022 I felt we can talk about products we regret buying.

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272687
It 100% is.

The problem is that preventing it is difficult to impossible.

You can't calculate recoil server-side because the latency would make it nigh unplayable. But once it's done client-side, it's cheatable.
Academics, esp in humanities and social sciences, are masters of bullshitting; they learn this art from their mentors (Ph.D advisors, teachers), who have mastered that. Just look at the followers of Foucault, Derrida, etc.
Agree with this - and non-fiction too, all good writing is considered and distilled. One of the things I value about HN is the links to pieces I wouldn't have found otherwise - with links to source within a well thought through opinion. Good writing can make you think/feel deeply in a way that, in my experience at least, conversation can't.
pics plz!!!
This is terrible advice. It’s more complicated than this and depends on your situation (age, social security, pensions, tax deferred account timing) but generally you want less stocks when you enter retirement but gradually going back up in retirement.
This is not tech specific, this is the world we live in. It is built on ignorance.

- It is the steak I ate at dinner.
- It is the AC I turned up in summer.
- It is the car I drive etc.
It reminds me of those 'surprising' rational approximations of π where xyz/abc≈π with 7 digits precision and abcd/efgh≈π with 9 digits precision. It's not that surprising when you take into account that abcd/efgh does not save you many digits compared to just writing π out.

Somewhat similarly the ±23 chars of

"∫ 0 ∞ cos(2x)∏ n 1 ∞ cos(xn)dx"

giving 43 digits of another number is not _that_ surprising and in the realm of what you can expect with some likelihood.

I expect that one could theoretically find some double integral with less then 25 signs which approximates e^π or ANY number to 50 digits.

Now if you find some 20 char expression which approximates another 20 char expression up to 100000 digits and THEN suddenly takes a different turn, that would be really curious. Like those properties of natural numbers which are true for some orders of magnitude before someone found a counter example.
The main sources of discomfort come from when Copilot really does copy-paste code blocks verbatim. It doesn't happen all the time, but there are still many examples like the following: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309