skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No worries, I managed to refurb a chainsaw with a gummed up carb but a chainsaw carb is much simpler than a motorcycle one.. mine has two :)
Has anyone attempted to estimate the bill of materials for the headset? The amount of tech they pack in is bonkers: multiple processors, multiple screens, cameras, microphones, speakers, etc. etc. etc.
I’ve heard the flights thing mentioned a few times now. Is that an angle they’re actively pushing?

For what it’s worth, I once brought my Quest on a flight. But when it came time to put it on, I couldn’t bring myself to to do it. The idea of becoming a spectacle while simultaneously shutting myself off from everyone around me felt embarrassing.
I think they have to die and turned into compost, so the benefit is for the next season.

It’s similar for notill techniques — it can take five seasons before it hits a threshold and the soil becomes more productive than with conventional methods.
Me, too. I tried using Dvorak on the phone once I saw it was available but soon realized that my Dvorak skill was entirely muscle memory and that I had no visual sense of the layout. QWERTY (plus "glide" or "swipe" typing) works fine for that purpose, for me.
In enterprise environments this is pretty common. I've worked at places with over 100 developers and 30 testers. So you have a situation with hundreds if not thousands of databases and then multiple schemas in each database. So imagine trying to manually validate if your script will work on all those databases and against all those schemas. How difficult of a task that is.
"Pixel perfect design" is a phrase I keep seeing from Flutter camp, from Towards A Modern Web Stack. I'm so with you though: that's an anti feature!

Developers/companies shouldn't have totalitarian control over the experience, I there should be malleability in software. Software is almost always best when it's not super hardened into form. This grasping for absolute control is poor form, in most cases.
Ok please explain in detail how the test assays protein.
Yeah, this was an interesting but odd article posted by oftenwrong above you. When I had opportunity to visit a demonstration farm run by some Wampanoag folks, they commented that the method (once established) really cut down on weeding and maintenance (although with weeds of European origin, more weeding is needed in the present day than 500 years ago). The article from gardenmyths is quite focused on whether there is scientific evidence that the Three Sisters together increase yield, as you point out, while the emphasis on reduced weeding that the gardeners I talked to resonates with me (non-inferior yield + less weeding? sign me up!). In my own experience, having the squash (or melons) shade the soil helps immensely with water retention, weeding, and overall health of the other plants as long as they're tall enough to get the sunlight.

Other commenters talking about how much corn you need are correct. I have spent my time with a paintbrush or a paper bag hand-pollinating corn, and it's kind of a pain. If you prefer a more decorative version, sub in sunflowers for the corn. You can buy sunflower varieties optimized for eating and get a good snack that way.
I don't think it is short for anything, the way it is used by some, including the specific context that we're discussing. It has become a distinct term.
I've been typing Dvorak for nearly twenty years now. I decided to learn when my programming job turned into an offshore team management job, so wanted to make it more interesting.

Initially looking down at the Qwerty labelled keyboard would totally mess me up, so I had try really hard not to look down

After about a month I could look down on occasion, realise the caps were no help and then continue on

Because I would switch back to Qwerty whenever anyone would come over to my PC, my brain then decided the presence of a person was a key to flip to Qwerty, which was annoying for a while, as whenever anyone would come near I'd lose the ability to type properly.

After the second month I would look down and I was sort of 'see' both characters at the same time: the actual keycap with my eyes and the Dvorak keys with my mind. Was very trippy and a bit difficult to properly explain.

After another month or so, that went away and then I can look at the Qwerty keys and I just sorta ignore them unless I made an effort to read them. My brain has learnt to not read them, if that makes sense. That's still the state now, many years later.

I can still type reasonably fast on Qwerty too if I need to, but it takes me a minute to adjust.

At home I have some blank keyboards I bought, partly to reduce confusion and partly because I think they look cool, but I really couldn't care less any more what the keyboards are labelled with as I rarely look at them.

I use Vim using the original bindings, hjkl are not so badly placed: h and l are still left and right of each other.

I'm actually now debating setting up a stegography keyboard, partly for another amusing brain rewiring exercise, and just because I like geeky things.
Yes, use the User Agent that best represents your needs as an user.

(In other words, pester Google to revert the junk, or use a non-junk browser)
You're right, and the obvious conclusion is that people are not rational. Next, then, it's strange that many others expect this from them. It's denying an integral part of human experience.

I do get what you mean though. People need to look after themselves, because when they are not caring about something, others do, and many make their living out of this.
> repeatedly failed to make a compelling use case for VR over the past decade

Well, including me - I'v never wanted to try one as I associated them with games or some meta world I'm not interested. But I haven't been a target for their ads, so I may not know feature set for those.

Seeing Apple device, I want to try it out as I immediately see the value in having a nice workspace :)

I think everything will depend on execution. If we compare 1 feature between pre-iPhone and iPhone era: touch. The touch was based on resistive technology and you had to physically push the screen for it to feel. It was unreliable. It was disgusting to work with. Saying that some pre-iPhone touch phone and iPhone touch phone has same feature set or even iPhone was lacking... sure. But the ease of use.

If this actually works reliably - no lags, no artifacts, no pixels, controls (eyes/fingers/voice) works as advertised - I think it will be ticket to somewhere, even if it was only extension to your pc/tablet. But this has the potential to be more than an extension.
That is such a well done podcast and give a detailed look at a series of cultures as they grew, prospered, and faded. Fascinating stuff.
Let me address each of your points:

Performance: When we began planning to build Fastgen, our most important consideration was how it should handle load. Therefore, most of our design decisions have been deeply influenced by this. We have autoscaling go backends that are trimmed on performance, handling all customers together. With RabbitMQ we distribute the load and offload expensive operations to different micro services. Redis as our Cache and Centrifugo for real time messaging complete the picture at the moment. Everything deployed on AWS’s Kubernetes system.

Rate Limit: We have rate limits for the Free and Starter tiers while the Pro and Team plans enjoy no rate limit.

Restrictions: We currently don’t support custom code, but rest assured, it’s on our roadmap as part of our commitment to having as minimal restrictions as possible. That being said, it is not possible to export your API, but rather the goal is to give the user as much control over the API as if they have the full source code.
I'll agree that smartwatches seem niche and not particularly useful. (I've never had a smart watch other than Fitbits, but I really don't see much value beyond tracking steps and heart rate. The notifications on my wrist aren't useful; maybe controlling music would be, but I'd rather just do that on my headphones.)

That said, it's probably a lot easier to switch to Android if you have an iPhone vs. if you have an iPhone + Airpods + Smartwatch + iPad + Apple laptop. The smartwatch as one additional small tether could make it worthwhile for Apple all by itself.
one of the best bands in the world has Daft in their name!
Rant:

If you let people install the software easily, they'll just pirate and won't buy the software. If you lock things down you'll irritate people and they won't buy the software. If you make it open source they'll just build it themselves and won't buy the software. If you make it open source with a license that restricts commercial use (or is even too copyleft e.g. AGPL) people will bash you for having a "non-free license" and won't buy the software.

There's really only one method that's working broadly: SaaS. The cloud is the ultimate DRM. You don't even give people the binaries or their own data. You keep it in the cloud and charge rent.

SaaS works. People won't buy software that they can run themselves, but they'll rent it and give up all privacy and control of their own data.

SaaS even lets you pretend to be open source by "supporting open source" (tossing a few bucks in sponsorships or employing one or two open source authors) or having an open source client for a closed source SaaS platform. Nobody seems to care about that. They just look at the license on the source, not the holistic picture of the ecosystem that it works within. At the same time you can build your SaaS on the shoulders of open source, using all those dumb hippies as free labor.

I love making software but I absolutely despise the way this market works. It's completely perverse.

It's hard to make money in software by doing things to make peoples' lives better or increase their freedom. It's easy to make money with rent extraction schemes, addictionware, dark patterns, and outright scams. It's like this market is full of people who want to be screwed and refuse to pay for anything that doesn't screw them.

The reality is that we painted ourselves into a corner with free-as-in-beer, "information wants to be free," etc. without considering how incentives work in large systems. You get what you incentivize. By making anything that is pro-user and pro-human free (as in beer) and educating the customer base to expect it to be free, you remove all incentive and resource base for the development of that kind of software. The only incentives left are for things that make the world a worse place. The best way to make money is to con, dark-pattern, lock in, addict, surveil, or outright scam the user.

I've spent years trying to build useful software. I'm not doing too bad. I've somehow made it work. But with the same knowledge that underlies my current work (cryptography, distributed systems, network protocols, infosec) I could have become incredibly rich scamming people in cryptocurrency or doing dozens of other shady-but-not-illegal (or illegal-but-hard-to-prosecute) things.

Half the time I'm proud of not doing those things. The other half the time I feel like a big fat sucker.
Performance stress. The schools are stressing college to the kids. Living in a more affluent neighborhood they're afraid if they don't go to college then they'll be taking a considerable hit to their standard of living. Apparently they don't mention it every so often. I'm probably over-exaggerating a bit but they're pounding college! college! college! into these kids' heads every single period of every single day.

Making things worse, they can't get a reprieve in sports. If you've been involved in kids sports you know there's a huge push for kids to use sports to get a college scholarship. Even if they're not trying to get a scholarship they're using it to build their college resumé. Gotta get those extracurricular activities in!

In fact that's how all extracurricular activities are. All the joy has been sucked out. It's college! college! college! Become president of the club - looks good on the college resumé! Make sure you have the right variety of activities for your resumé!

I unwittingly signed my kids up for this nightmare. When I signed them up for sports I had no expectation they'd be star athletes - I just knew from my experience growing up playing team sports really helped me learn to work with others. The other activities were to engage the mind. Do things outside of school for both your mind and body. I knew the crazies were there, but I didn't realize the effect they were having.

Now it's becoming clearer what's happened. The girls and boys have responded to the stress in two different ways. The boys are dropping out. You see article after article trying to explain why boys aren't going to school, not getting jobs, and so forth. They've dropped out.

On the other hand, girls have freaked out. They've become an anxiety-ridden mess.

Meanwhile everybody is trying to figure out why the boys are becoming deadbeats and the girls are depressed. They blame video games, they blame phones. They blame everything but where the fault actually lies: stress.

The more interesting question then is why do today's kids feel the stress more than the kids from previous generations? I have ideas but this answer is already too long.
One way is to look at the series of products Apple has produced, and they've been successful.

The other way to look at it is the series of 3d vision devices (both tv and goggles) and view how successful those have been.

So, is this the time an Apple product fails big, or is this the time that immersive 3d takes off? It seems a lot easier to say that VR has largely been rejected and it will continue to be rejected, even if Apple is doing it.
That is a fair point you’re raising, and we agree, we will not be able to build a tool that is right for everyone.

Our hypothesis is that if we give users the right tools (rapid API development + DB) they are enabled to create a large variety of applications (either full MVPs or extension of an existing product) and that should be beneficial to different types of developers. That being said, there are many tasks you want to execute as a backend developer that we will not be the right fit for as every platform that is not pure code will have some kind of limitation by definition. Similarly, if someone does not have any technical understanding whatsoever, Fastgen will not be the right fit for them either.

We agree that focus on a user group is key and we will keep a close eye on how ours is developing over time to build a great product for people that get the most out of the platform.
The modern civil service is still better than the old "spoils system."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system

It was reformed for a reason! Putting politicians in charge of all hiring and firing turned out to be bad for everyone.
That may be true, but in practice I get faaar better battery life out of my M1 Max than I would out of a laptop with a mobile 4090.
I'm starting to think that consumer subscription services that aren't marginally "free" are basically impossible to keep going long-term, unless subsidized by other parts of the business.

By marginally "free" I mean like cable TV - it doesn't cost much at all to enable some channels for a customer, even though you charge them $79.99.

But something that costs $50 to provide, sold for $80+, there's no margin there even though it appears there is.

Grocery stores have tried the "meal in a box" and failed; and they're best positioned for it.
Peer review, at its core, is a social consensus process. It can work, but it is structurally inclined to propagate agreement.

I wonder if it serves to reinforce this problem, as those more motivated to reinforce certain literatures or perspectives will surface those repeatedly in reviews.
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The question is whether the problem for your higher ups is you doing crimes or you getting caught doing crimes.

Just as in safety culture, train all you will — if the lived culture is "rules are for losers" and people who follow them have it harder guess what is going to happen?
The iPod, the iPhone, the Mac...

All started with a high priced offering and introduced lower priced options over time, at least accounting for inflation.

Individual Apple product lines trend upwards, seemingly faster than inflation although I'm not actually sure that's the case. However they regularly introduce cheaper product lines to open up to new markets.
They can, yes.

But the hype machine that's running overtime about LLMs is not making that case at all. It's all about how LLMs are some kind of miracle machine that will either solve or cause all of mankind's problems.

The hype is insane and is absolutely harming the cause that the pro-AI crowd is trying to push forward.

I wouldn't really mind this much aside from on grounds of taste, except that it's actively preventing people from actually understanding these technologies and being able to reach grounded conclusions about them.
Podman offers many data isolation options, and in this post, I wanna cover all the options I know to securely share data with a container.
Growthbook has a better UI and is more fully featured. They also have a java SDK https://docs.growthbook.io/lib/java
There are other headsets without metal frame, so we pretty much know this is not necessary. And we also know with certainty that metal absolutely isn't necessary for laptop cases, but Apple still uses metal. The explanation is easy: aesthetics, feel, "haptics".
I have this same impression but I can't remember how I got to this conclusion. This scares me a little bit.
Tire-fire is spectacular compared to dumpster fire. Highly energetic thick black smoke probably visible from space shuttle with naked eye.
I use unleash pretty heavily and it works well
> I'm currently running thunderbird in a docker image

Why?
They do it by introducing lower-cost models rather than lowering the price of their flagship models. e.g. iPhone SE, Macbook Air, iPad. Right out of the gate they've signaled that they're going to do this by calling this the "Vision Pro"--expect a non-Pro later.
> where the pieces in an AI- generated image comes from.

A single image "comes from" millions or even billions of pieces. It truly works like that (albeit counterintuitive). It doesn't just combine 4 or 5 images and apply a filter.
Security professional tweets prompt major change to Google email authentication
If you want to be flippant about it, fine. Just because you know that other planets exist around stars outside of our solar system but you can't visit them, did we actually learn anything? Having knowledge of something does not immediately mean you are able to take action with that knowledge. Sure, the typical HN reader might have been able to take action with things like installing various extensions in their browsers, running PiHoles on their private networks, using VPNs when on public networks, etc, but we've also learned that these are not enough and avoiding the tracking that we've learned about is nigh impossible. We now know things about persistent tracking that was not shared by Snowden, but we only started looking because of the revelations from Snowden got the wheels turning.
Now lets hear the writers opinion on an iPhone with no App Store, no copy - paste, no video recording, and no front facing camera. Kind of like the original one, which we now can't imagine a world without
Anecdotally, I gave Dvorak a try and became somewhat proficient, but ultimately reverted back to QWERTY for one reason: keyboard shortcuts! Control-C|V|Z are all transformed into either two-handed shortcuts or right-handed shortcuts. In either case, I can't copy/paste while selecting text with the mouse (since I'm right-handed).

I now use Colemak (https://colemak.com/) which doesn't have this issue and I'm quite happy with!
Humans are funny. We pretend (a lot) to be more civilized than we are. Even the best of us falls far short of the ideal.

We like to believe we're very far from human sacrifice, tyranny, the Triumphs of Rome, etc.

We're very much not.
dang: perhaps you could editorialize to improve on the title provided by the publication:

Summary:

> Deadly synthetic opioids like fentanyl have led to an increase in nonfatal and fatal overdoses nationwide. In Wyoming alone, health officials reported 93 people dying from drug overdoses in 2022 — 48 involving fentanyl. Millions of dollars, meanwhile, are pouring into counties and towns to help confront the crisis, but access to vital information that could inform how to use those resources remains limited.

> In our four-part series Withheld, WyoFile looked into what data the state collects and why it doesn’t always make it into the hands of local decision-makers and harm reduction groups.
This has been my experience with nearly every "discount" program. You always pay more because it's anchored to some other price.
I use Dvorak. When typing on QWERTY, I feel like I'm playing a secretary in a 1950s movie trying to ham up the notion that I'm really typing something here, because it feels my fingers have to fly around everywhere in an exaggerated and ostentatious manner.

If you have typing speed less than 50 WPM, you'll probably type faster by switching to Dvorak. If you type faster than that before switching, your typing speed will go down and not fully recover automatically unless you train it back up. I lost some speed that I never recovered. It wasn't worth the effort because I can still type fast enough.

A lot of people get hung up on the keybindings thing. zxcv for CUA cut-copy-paste make a nice little row on QWERTY, and hjkl for vi type movements, but as it turns out, it really doesn't matter. Those help you learn when muscle memory doesn't translate into intention without thinking. Once you learn them by muscle memory, it doesn't matter where the keys are. I just use programs with QWERTY shortcuts and press the key on Dvorak wherever it happens to land on the layout, and it works perfectly fine.

I can still touch type QWERTY, but quite a bit slower than Dvorak.
the geniuses that maintain the extant Unix systems invented UTF-8 precisely because they value backward compatibility above everything else and won't contemplate breaking stuff for the sake of programmer convenience.
I know I'm not that good at predictions, I didn't really understand the Watch at first, the iPhone I knew was cool right away but still didn't think it deserved the massive hype the first version got... still I have to say if I had the Vision Pro sitting next to me right now I probably wouldn't be using it, that's the difference. It's not even about the price, I'd have used the 1st gen Watch and iPhone or pretty much anything else Apple ever made if didn't cost anything, I'd wear it or carry it around even if they didn't do much. I wouldn't want to wear this thing even if it were incredibly useful, it would be a chore.
No way. No legitimate business wants to give the owner of johnsmith@gmail.com the ability to hijack all of their brand accounts by hitting the reset password button. Even if you can change the email aftwards why take the risk of setting it up with a random person's account?
It's bacteria that live in the bean roots that do it continuously. Read more about rhizobia here: https://www.gardenbetty.com/a-look-at-legumes-rhizobia-and-r...
From the Wiki, Singapore declared themselves as a developing country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country#By_self_dec...
> Autonomous flying seems like a much easier and more cost effective problem to solve, given there are orders of magnitude fewer contexts and obstacles.

Not just flying, but (emergency) autolanding is now available:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland#Emergency_autoland

* https://skiesmag.com/features/virtual-co-pilot-garmin-autola...
I tried and considered switching to dvorak as my main keyboard layout.

I didn't stay with it because of two things:

1. The fact I'd have to keep both in my muscle-memory due to swapping onto other people's machines

2. Vim keybindings