skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WFH does not need an executive level suite. That is just your preference. I'm currently staying with a friend for a month in a 1k (1 room plus a kitchen) apartment in Tokyo and it's been surprisingly easy to adjust to a smaller desk and one extra monitor from my WFH setup stateside with three on a much bigger desk.

If I was permanently living here I'd opt for a simple 2k or higher like I used to have which was easily affordable as a couple on mediocre salaries and definitely affordable on a dev salary. Probably could get a nicer place than I used to have and recreate my US based setup.

My friends location has dozens of restaurants of basically every type, even more bars, multiple grocery stores, and various other services I won't need for a visit but would use in daily life like dentists and gyms.

That's also ignoring the ten minute walk to multiple train lines to the whole of Tokyo that gives me access to nearly anything you'd ever want to do in a city. A smaller space is definitely a worthwhile trade-off millions of people elected to live and work in. I'd say it's a very easy choice when the city is built around people with things to do within walking distance and good public transportation, instead of planning for cars and Lyft transportation.

Ignoring NIMBYs and allowing large amounts of housing to be built also keeps rents from becoming the silliness that they became in SF. If you go the opposite way in Tokyo and elect for a smaller place (perhaps because you work at a restaurant and don't WFH and are fine using the various amenities Tokyo offers outside your home) it's possible to live in basically the various hearts of Tokyo on a solidly middle of the road salary.

The smaller space only becomes an issue when people have kids and start a family, when some percentage moves to the suburbs. However, not everyone because rents in a bigger place are expensive, but once again not insane.

But you were complaining about WFH not being luxurious enough outside of a detached home.

American cities could reinvent themselves after the mass exodus of people leaving down town offices. I don't think most will, but it's definitely possible with the right planning
Can't we add a feature to ChatGPT that goes as follows :

"Did you write this and if so when?"

That would solve like 80% of issues.
Another F# fan here =)

I really like it for building backends but I haven't found the frontend story as compelling. Currently I use F# for my API and then use a standalone frontend (currently SvelteKit) to try and get the best tool for backend / frontend.

Q: How's your experience been with F# frontends? I'm assuming you're using Fable?
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Those last two, I pretty much avoid at all cost.
I'm curious as to what papers mention this! Quickly pulling up one related appears to clearly support EPA omega 3 supplementation being a beneficial tool to help with depression.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-019-0515-5
I think it is misleading to frame this as "behavior". I think what we really have are battle-tested concurrency patterns, which then uses the language feature called "behavior" to implement. This collection of battle-tested concurrency patterns that has been in use for a long time, in a variety of settings, is called OTP. It's why you'll hear long-time Erlang folks talk about how, it's really about OTP.

You can implement those same patterns, if you also have lightweight processes, messages, and message queues. There's a Rust library that aims to do exactly that. The new WASM runtime (Firefly, formerly known as Lumen) aims to bring those patterns into the WASM ecosystem, potentially using this kind of concurrency pattern client-side.

What's potentially novel is adding in newer concurrency patterns that are in use in the Kubernetes community -- use of selectors, services, scaling with replicasets -- so that, instead of a static supervision tree, it can be a dynamic supervision tree, spread out across the entire pool, even as that pool expands or shrinks.
Not exactly my project, but I have been helping a friend of mine work on his pet project for the last couple of months: https://limeline.app/.

He currently makes no money from it and has no intent on making any anytime soon, hosting cost are pretty low and it was pretty much just created out of a need we both had: being able to aggregate all our sources for our morning technology watch.

In the end, with feedback from a couple of friends, he built a simple "no inbox" RSS aggregator with some nice extra features (account-less page management, sharing & forking of feeds, ...).

It is still in a pretty early stage, but I really like where this is going and feels like it deserve more visibility.
In what universe can Wii U or Game Cube be considered "failed"? They were hugely successful. You need a much better definition of failure than "not number one".
US Cities Are Falling Out of Love with the Parking Lot
Are IG accounts worth something on the black market?

I don't doubt a few people would want the "Alex Stevenson-Price" alexprice. But, I'm guessing there are a lot more who want the "Other Famous Alex Prices" alexprice.
Evidence Is Mounting That Covid Is Bad for the Brain
> Are you going to allow them to search the entire warehouse?

Yes. Especially when you can make your bag beep by tapping a button on your phone.

When you grab a bag from baggage claim, nobody cross-checks your ID against the bag. We already trust people not to steal. If you steal from a warehouse, the same thing would happen as if you stole from a baggage claim.
SunOS was BSD-ish originally, then around 1994 they shifted to a more SVR4 variant and rebranded to Solaris. I think Solaris 2.x was SVR4 and Solaris 1.x was BSD retronaming of what was SunOS named earlier.

It's been a while so I may not have the numbers quite right.

Anyway, there was some overlap in nomenclature, so a version bump of the SunOS naming (and Solaris numbering) implied a shift from BSD-ish to SVR4-ish, as I recall.

(And I worked for Sun for a while after that, and used Suns a ton around the shift)
https://zagi.net/ is a pay-for internet search engine, backed by Bing. I have been using myself for over a year. As it turns out, getting a payment system working is super frustrating.

Current revenue is less than $5 per month (just me), and costs are less than $100 per month.
I originally wrote that on Craigslists rants and raves at a point in the process when I was starting to get frustrated.

Just writing it out was therapeutic, it helped me see the absurd humor in the situation. Then someone responded with a link to an LA reporter who had written about similar situations.

I contacted him, he wrote a story about me, and all the bureaucratic problems just went away.
Happy to answer your questions (I'm one of the maintainer of Hurl)!
Depends on where you are. In the UK I called the police in Bristol over a “stolen” iPhone. I said I had the Find my IPhone active.

They asked me for the login and they were going to use Find to get to the phone. I got there first and it turns out it was just lost. But I was surprised that they would use it.
[-11] == [1], even more so, they are the same object, because they are sets. Sure you can designate the answer however you want.

4/6 = 2/3. I'm not sure what you mean by "whats the point"
You could use a throwaway account, if you really have those mindblowing examples to share.

So far all of the claims of Wikipedia as a pile of shit never had a real base to me. And political topics are controversial by its nature. There are authorative sources saying Marxism(Capitalism, or whatever) is good and Marxism(Capitalism) is bad, so what is the right side, Wikipedia should present? It struggles to cover the middle ground of scientific consensus, saying those said this and they said that. Which is why scientific articles about biology or physics are way better of course, but sure, in its current state, Wikipedia is good for a overview of a topic, but to dive in, you should read the quoted sources.

Usually the first thing when I encounter something new, is indeed to check Wikipedia. And I am glad it exists. I know I cannot believe it fully, but I still trust it way more, than some random site that might be better, but how should I know at first glance?

To really study, I read the scientific books and papers about a topic and Wikipedia is a good start for that.
Of course you need to take other things into account as well besides current profitability, such as your trust in management’s ability to steer, for long term product/service foothold, etc.

I was juts making the point that all else being equal, you wouldn’t invest in a company that doesn’t try to make handsome profit, which was the suggestion. And Apple makes handsome profit, and then some.
Prof Mark Jacobson on how wind, sun and water can power the world
Even funnier: ~all humans suffer from the phenomenon, and are similarly unaware of their own personal ignorance. People view reality through a relative lens, the view is more pleasant than an absolute lens.
I found this article insightful: https://milkyeggs.com/?p=303

When the internet empowered more people to do the lawyers’ grunt work, compensation became bimodal. There is more value in being on the high end, but less on doing the grunt work.

I think that’s gonna happen with other professions. Including ours (engineering). If you’re doing grunt work – be afraid. If you’re doing high level work – rejoice, it’s about to get easier.

You see this same effect in design for example. An art/design director’s job is about to get easier. The designer making the 5000th billboard for $Brand based on a style guide … could be tough.
Ah yes, the famously cash-strapped military... ;-)
https://sickmartian.com/trackendar/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sickmartia...

Trackendar, an habit tracking calendar app. Not currently monetized, got some initial traction, put ads which I promptly removed as they made the app look like shit and had some 'add ons' with which I made between 400-500 USD, I didn't get to see that money as getting an USD payment in Argentina was a PITA so the US has them now :/

All local data, so no cost except a lot of time learning 'old' android and constantly maintaining whatever google wants to change or deprecate + updating the date/time library with the latest TZ changes. Has more features that it needs or users want to learn to use like categories, themes, reports...
Urgent search for radioactive capsule in Australia
I kept using 10y laptop to avoid giving my money to China.

I will buy parts made not in China to assemble PC when it breaks down.

I don't know how Americans support the evil CCP after knowing it's exporting fentanal which ends up killing 100k young people per year.

America doesn't care about its workers it seems
The article doesn’t answer the question which would have been fascinating.

Article tldr; it’s happening, it started in the 80s, it persists, it’s real bad, it doesn’t do what companies think they want, oh well.

Then why? Because there’s another reason unstated here? Because it’s the lowest effort one that lets them set up a machine and claim the equation did it? Because they’re cruel and that’s the point?

That’s what I’d love to know, and it’s not here.
If Apple sent such emails out, that would just make it very easy to phish the original owner.
The underground marketplace for desirable social media handles (OG Handles) was explored in this excellent episode of Reply All: The Snapchat Thief [1].

In that story the basic technique was a SIM-swapping attack [2]. Fraudster calls the cell provider, claims to be the victim and that they lost their phone. Cell provider then ports the phone identity over to a new SIM. After that the fraudster just resets the account's password and gets the 2FA SMS (or even easier, one-time passwords) to their newly connected phone. Don't know if that same basic technique still applies nowadays, but in any case the most surprising part of the episode to me was how large and mature a black market there was for these account handles.

[1] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam

e: Corrected, original post incorrectly said new number, not new SIM.
Apparently, this is a thing: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/97/
In most areas you're correct, but the political slant/bias of Wikipedia is fairly blatant and is getting worse.

See for example: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/41946110
I was just thinking about Lytro the other day... I was quite young but very excited by the prospect of that technology. I know computational photography and AI have done more for cameras in the past decade, but I'm still hopeful there's a paradigm-shattering advancement in sensor tech.
Wikipedia is somewhere between useless and actively bad on anything controversial. I remember checking the discussion on a famous-ish human trafficking case. The moderator straight up refused to consider new reporting because he considered the whole thing settled by the courts.

That kind of thing has ironically been made much worse by Qanon-style wackos. Anything not widely accepted is now treated as a conspiracy theory psi op.
It's also entirely possible that the tag became detached or damaged which lead to them being unable to identify the owner of the bag.
So I just started on this a week and a half ago, but thanks to a recent layoff, I'm able to churn through it a little more quickly than I thought I might be able to, and I don't anticipate it ever making any real money, so I think it counts.

The gist is that it's a site for imagining who would be cast into the roles of comic books, anime, books, or old TV series (or film) if they were adapted into modern a modern movie.

It was originally born out of the idea when The Dark Knight aired, and I was pretty confident that Heath Ledger was going to be good, but when I was chatting with a different group of friends than those who had already heard me say that, nobody believed it. So the first pass of it was just a simple form of social proof, but the more I've thought about it over the years, the more it's evolved.

It's pretty useless right now, but at the pace I'm going, I should be able to have a workable MVP in the next few days before I have to start looking for another job.

https://fancasting.com

The frontend is Next/React, and the few 'backend' pieces are also Next API functions (which isn't something I've really delved into before, so kind of fun, ignoring the weird latency effect of functions) - the only thing that currently resembles what I'm used to as a backend is the Planetscale DB, which it speaks to via Prisma.
I mean... There are lots of ways to browse Wikipedia offline without having your IP recorded, absent using something simpler like a VPN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

I can understand if this is just too much effort to put into an online discussion though, I probably wouldn't bother myself.

And yeah there have been lots of scandals with Wikipedia. This one was pretty infamous:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-...

Ironically I think your attitude probably protects Wikipedia quite a bit, and from that perspective I'd like to see more of it. The less people see it as a good source of information, the less incentive there is for all of the agenda-pushing you've described (which also definitely happens).

I still think the bulk of it is pretty decent though, on non/less-polarizing subjects, which describes most of IMO.

My main issue is that most articles are an inch deep. I find myself using textbooks and journal articles more often these days, while sailing the open seas as this would otherwise be cost prohibitive.
I think it boils down to a combination of:

1) It's hard to sell the output of this research. Your health insurance isn't going to pay $100 a day to make a healthy person smarter.

2) The output of your research is going to be low priority for regulatory approval

3) As both result and cause of the above, there's virtually no existing funding for this kind of research

4) If you succeed, you're going to spark an immediate furor over fairness and the morality of human enhancement (which I'm not saying I personally agree with, but it will happen)
That’s very very unfortunate and warrants sympathy for sure. At the same time, one’s employer isn’t the one responsible for securing your financial stability or future.
When your presentation layer should be symmetric about zero.
I just listened to that again. I don't have a good enough feel for what he sounds like vs. the guys in the group.

He does get a credit for vocals and lyrics in Discogs, but they don't say which track:

https://www.discogs.com/master/97226-The-Manhattan-Transfer-...
That's a bad way to compare. You are obviously not factoring in the checkin,boarding,de-boarding, and travel to airport times, which will almost add up to similar times.
Japan has literally bought major cities in commute distance with bullet trains.
What takes 10 hours in a flight will take 13 hours on fast trains. You factor that into your plan and travel comfortably and peacefully. If America is serious about trains, all it has to do is add more sleeper cars, and you will see how liberating train travel is.
Activation lock can be disabled with find my on another device sharing the iCloud account, can’t it? So are these repair shops not even calling old trade in contacts to request removing the device? Because it’s stolen or something?
There's a famous quotes from Bill Gates that is "My children will have computers, yes, but before they will have books. Without books, without reading, our children will be unable to write, including their own story."

On my personal experience, ChatGPT is a precious tool to refine knowledge and thinking, but it depends on how it's used.

The same painting brush can be used to paint Monalisa or a meaningless blurred thing. It depends on how it's used.

To use ChatGPT and other AI tools properly, we need to build a solid foundation of knowledge and critical thinking skills at first.
Then triangulate the answers given by the AI with other sources, our own previous knowledge along with new evidences through experimentation.

Since the brain urges for cognitive relief, most people will be lazy, while just a few will extract the true potential of ChatGPT.
Maybe I should start a PhD in ML as a university drop out, it sounds like a list of basic stuff taught within the first two years of any math/CS program, but I might miss something as it's far from being detailed...
ChatGPT’s Need for Computing Power Keeps It Tethered to Microsoft
To be fair you only hear about it when there's a problem. I'm not a frequent flier, but on the dozens of flights I've taken over the course of my life I've never lost a bag. That said, your odds vary wildly by both airline and airports involved.
https://www.price4limo.com/lost-luggage.html
Hostile takeover? If intel’s market cap drops enough someone might decide to buy them out
It does work though. I had a thief break into my house a couple of years ago (2019 or 2020 can’t quite remember), they stole my expensive DSLR kit out of the cupboard, left the six-month old iPad Pro that was sitting on my bed.

For the dead person scenario, you can get access to iCloud with a court order once they are deceased, or if they have set up their legacy contact. So that would be the procedure to unlock the device.

For the ones in the article, the people sending them to the recycler seem to be refusing to unlock the devices and want them destroyed. Perhaps Apple should take back these machines for refurb in such a case (especially since they’re quite new)
So you disabled Windows Defender?
https://www.bootstrapsite.com

I've been working on a Bootstrap 5 landing page builder for almost 1 year now (mostly just weekends though).

It's like my pet project than any money earning business but it gives me pleasure to work on it so I just keep at it.

My plan is to open source it soon so people can create their sites and landing pages for free and host it on their own servers. Initially I made it create my own sites and learn Vue 3 but I'm kinda hooked on how it's turning out to be.

Right now everything is free including ssl hosting. Maybe to support the hosting cost I will charge a one time fees later on, but except a small "Powered by blurb" there will never be any difference between paid and free plan.

It's work in progress so I don't think it's ready for a Show HN just yet but that's the next big thing on my list.

The main USP of this builder is it's targeted more for developers and people who know what Bootstrap 5 is than just another website builder (need to update the landing page to reflect that soon).

If anyone has 5 minutes to spare and want to play with it I would really appreciate your good honest feedback about the builder and everything. No signup or cc is needed for trying by the way.
And there's presumably some amount of liasing/branding/QA/etc. that goes on with suppliers of AmazonBasics, Amazon Commercial, and other house lines.

And anyway surely warehousing & distribution is just as much a 'real' (=traditional? physical?) company activity as running a factory?
How many engineers have gotten laid off in 2022 and 2023 so far?
This is redirecting to Google for me
Yes. I know 4 letter ones (even just random gibberish) are going for ~$50-100. 3 letter ones are $500-1000 at least. So anything which is a dictionary word or a noticeable abbreviation are worth much much more

https://files.catbox.moe/5jp5qw.png

https://files.catbox.moe/7gdx6k.png
Ha ha, none of my projects make any money.

I did a couple free solitaire games to learn Javascript [1]

Also a free moon-lander game to learn HTML5 [2]

And I am currently working on two more projects destined to not make any money.

[1] https://kardland.com

[2] https://www.mooncraft2000.com
I am going to open a restaurant where everything is $1 and in tiny text at the bottom of the menu explain that you also pay a $19 Price Convince Fee per item.
Well, many/most airlines already have bar code tracking. I can look in my United app and see where my bag was last scanned. That said, I do throw an AirTag in as backup on the rare occasions I check a bag.
this is a long-standing meme: any behaviour you don’t understand on the internet must be some sort of sophisticated operation by a nefarious third-party network.

The question you should always start with is why and if you can’t come up with a why then you should start from a more neutral position on the behaviour.

Spam isn’t free to engage in, especially on platforms like Facebook, and spam is rarely an irrational money-losing act, it’s just profit generation on the wrong side of our view of what is ethical. Why would someone spend money to unleash chat-bots on a Facebook group to discuss a piece of furniture?

If you can’t explain why, your theory is probably wrong. I would be absolutely shocked if it’s anything more than just some real people who love furniture and use a localised phrase that you don’t recognise.
Speaking only for my ageing self, whose recall benefits from such hints, it is a helpful tip that I've possibly/probably seen the material before. In that sense, it adds valuable context to the title string. To wit, compare these examples and examine your own reaction:

Transistor Breakthrough Astounds Researchers

Transistor Breakthrough Astounds Researchers (1962)
Acoustic Naturalism (2021)
Java is also a language with extensive library support, and some of the most sophisticated tooling and virtual machines with state virtual machine and garbage collection implementations of any language. The most recent versions of the language are much more programmer friendly than previous versions, greatly cutting the expressibility gap with other languages.

Just stay away from Spring, and you can have a nice development experience.