skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Won't brain tissues need nutrients? I wonder how long such a petri-dish chip will last. The articles sounds like a sales pitch for VC. Nothing about possible hurdles or shortcomings.
a splash of apple cider vinegar

I love that the adage "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar" is literally false.
Thoughts on the fading away of the age of IE
I have been thinking about two questions for a long time. First, why the market share of IE is so resilient to die? Second, why did IE lose to Chrome from the position of market domination while Windows has always been dominating the desktop OS market? Now I realized that the answers to the two questions are the same — the mechanism of the software update.
All these solutions are mean, fruit flies don't do any harm.

In the winter I kind of like them cos I don't have a chance to see insects.

Also let me wax a bit poetic and say how much of a miracle a little thing like a fruit fly is. How long will it be before a 'startup' can make a flying robot of the same size and intelligence? (my bet is on....never)
It is more likely going to have a pretty good grasp on ingredients that pair well than a random unrated post in allrecipes.com.

Likely won't pair hot sesame oil with milk, for example. (someone please tell me that's not a thing).
Starlink satellites mass 300 kg each. There's about 5000 of them in orbit, so that's 1,500,000 kg.

The Earth has about 5.15x10^18 kg of atmosphere. 5,130,000,000,000,000,000 kg of gas. If each satellite aerosolized completely (which it wouldn't, metals would rapidly precipitate out of the air) then they would make up a couple parts per trillion of the atmosphere. Way lower concentrations than cloud seeding.

In contrast, routine operations of Air Force One emit around 41,000,000 kg of CO2 per year. (They fly not just the president, but his security detail, and the presidential limo to every foreign visit)
Exotic New Silicon-Based Speakers Are Coming to Next-Generation Earbuds
The income rules for securing a mortgage and how much house one could afford were also much stricter in the 1980s.
Why do people keep trying to resurrect PHP?
> Speakers the size of an asterisk have the potential to change the way we reproduce sound, cope with hearing loss—and even make objects in virtual reality feel real.
I think you’re right, but I’d rephrase it as Apple focusing on what can be a great experience right now (viewing any iPad or macOS app spatially, a massive improvement over using either platform currently) vs highlighting what can only be a mediocre or enthusiast experience at the moment (full VR environments, and 3D AR).

They’re smart to set a minimum bar for quality experience and work on future applications over time vs Meta and Google’s typical approach of developing beta products in public.
Tech elites aren't in control of their lives?
As a 'doomer' since 2012, it's also a question of what to do? Gotta pay the bills, and individual changes don't really change the system.

I watched Don't Look Up and the question is what do you do when faced with .. this.
Nobody wants to talk about stuff like this, and I don't want to be a "Debbie Downer" [1].
Nobody wants to be told that something they do causes problems and/or harms other people. Otherwise they have to change their behaviour. The normality of it is unreal.

I have the power like a god. I can sit on the toilet taking a nice long dump, and use my cell phone to get food, clothing, and more shelter by touching a screen, and they’ll magically appear. The consequences are far removed from time and space and personal lived experience.

I throw out probably a cubic metre of plastic every day at work.

Also This: http://www.paulchefurka.ca/LadderOfAwareness.html

[1] This is a 90s SNL reference
I think I'm going to steal and adapt that quote for any new product underpinned by a new-to-us bit of tech.
Signed Git Commits with Buildkite, Sigstore, Gitsign and OIDC
There was never a social contract people signed into in the first place. Every individual is born free, and not as thrall to retroactive "obligations" one had no part in instituting or causing.
> A book about trading isn’t ever actually about trading

Hmm, would "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" [0] qualify as another exception? It's been a while, but I seem to recall it as neither a "I'm genius invest with me" nor "let's point and laugh at those guys".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
No, they do (unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying).

Framework laptops with 11th gen Intel boards seem to unofficially support it, and 12th-gen and beyond boards are officially thunderbolt certified. This applies to all four ports on the Framework 13.

Source: https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptops-are-now-thunderbol...

If you're seeing something otherwise let me know, though!
There’s multiple ways of handling scaling, but all games need to deal with the player gaining skill even if their character doesn’t. FPS often have have player selected difficulty settings not because people want to suffer, but because skill is makes such a huge difference.

RPG mechanics are generally meant to minimize the impact of player skill. A Skyrim stealth archer doesn’t benefit from hitting the enemy in the head, instead aiming is closer to target selection and their perks determine how well placed the shot was. This actually simplifies game balancing because players can self select challenges based on their character’s abilities. Though Skyrim also includes a difficulty slider, it’s not meant to offset endgame gear.

Dark souls is generally considered difficult because the RPG elements are minimized. Speed running the game doesn’t require people to hunt down a huge list of gear it’s just not that important.
GPS satellites may be able to detect earthquakes before they happen
dang can you update the title to reflect that this is a framework for building Electron apps in PHP? The name they've chosen is unfortunate and some are feeling misled.
You only go bankrupt if you can’t afford the mortgage. If you can afford the mortgage you’ll be fine. Unless the economy collapses from all angles which at that point you’ll be worried about a lot more than bankruptcy.
Then why should the plebs pay 50% more for gas to get to their minimum wage jobs?
If the rescue operation is to cost nearly 2x the expected value of the oil, why is the UN still promising the revenue of the oil sale to the warring Yemeni parties that have caused this crisis? It seems that at least the sale price of the oil should go towards it's cleanup.
What the world’s budding Autocrats are learning from El Salvador
https://archive.is/cjD62
>female vocal capabilities, which are objectively higher than men's in terms of range and fluidity.

Why even bother trying as a man then
I find the US mortgage market deeply weird.

I’ve had mortgages in two countries, the UK and Australia. They work very similarly, you can generally get a ‘tracker’ mortgage, which is a little above the central bank rate and tracks the central bank rate, so your repayments vary over time, or you can get a fixed rate.

Fixed rates are usually more expensive, and the longer you fix (typically 1,2,3 or 5 years, though you do see 8) the more of a premium you pay over the tracker rate. When your fixed period expires you usually refinance based around whatever new rates are available at that point, and you are usually constrained from refinancing during that period (exit fees).

But in the US I understand that people usually fix the rate for the whole term of the loan? And I imagine that makes refinancing quite rare?

Is this not quite risky for banks? Not that banks taking a risk is bad, but it seems a very long bet for them.

What sort of interest rate premium over the base rate is common?

In the UK or here AFAICT it’s usually about 1.2-1.5% over base rate for the better value trackers and goes up from there for fixed, depending on your loan to value ratio as well. IIRC I had a five year fixed at about 2.5% over base in the UK, though memory is fuzzy.
I suspect you'll find that the deeper, more reflective your thinking is, the less original (but more profound) your thoughts will become.

Instead of "original," focus on "interesting content for people." Identify esoteric ideas and present them to audiences that haven't had accessible exposure to them. It might be an old idea, but it'll be novel and exciting for that audience. If you can learn to bridge silos in this manner -- ideas from one local paradigm rephrased for consumption by another -- you'll lack more for time than opportunity.
And there are SO MANY named locations, and many things refer to them only by name, but no way to search through ones you've found! I've spent quite a lot of time browsing through the map at maximum zoom to try to find the named area, only to discover hours later that I wasn't even in the right quadrant.

It's quite frustrating at times. I broadly have fun with it, but improving these things would make the game a lot more consistently enjoyable.
I’ve followed this a bit. One take I’ve heard is that one reason Sapporo is shuttering the brewery instead of selling it is that the Union agreements make it difficult to sell. It can’t be cheap having a brewery in prime SF.

It would certainly be interesting if they ended up buying it.

I lived for 10 years blocks from the brewery and fondly remember the musty smell it gave off during certain days of brewing. I hope someone is able to keep it alive and a co-op may be the most tenable long term solution.
The byproducts and smoke of cooking meat and vegetables are the real issue. What do you make? In the old days we would probably be cooking this stuff inside.

Not sealed off homes with simulated cooling or heating.
That was a full year before Trump left office though. Are you confused about dates?
Totally agree with this nuance. Really depends on what layer you’re working at.
That would be the definition of a hereditary condition though, right? You inherit some trait and may or may not experience the disease as you grow up. Lots of inherited cardiovascular issues are in practice heavily influenced by your lifestyle and environment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/5527 seems to agree.
All of this interest-rate hiking hasn't done squat to stop inflation. Why? Because the money supply isn't causing inflation. Oligopoly and monopoly are causing inflation, but those in power are too gutless or ignorant to call it out... and the news media long ago stopped doing any actual investigation or asking intelligent questions (with a couple of exceptions).

We all know the Republicans won't call it out, because they're corporate toadies. But the Biden administration hasn't either, except for a few limp complaints.

So now we have high interest rates AND high prices. Great work, "representatives."
This is a fight over (among many other things) who realizes the benefits of AI/streaming.

AI might mean that writers are freed from drudgery, their talents enhanced with powerful AI tools and now have a much more pleasant job that pays the same or perhaps more because they can produce more content or higher quality content. This is the Star Trek future.

AI could also mean that professional writers are barely needed. AI does the work, studio owners reap the benefit, and writers work day jobs and fight over the occasional poorly paid editing gig.

We as people will choose how AI changes the social contract. Anyone who relies on selling their labor to feed themselves and their families needs to be advocating for my first scenario, where productivity gains from AI are shared between workers, executives, and investors rather than monopolized by one or the other.
dangerous play (as I've read so far)

home values are hugely inflated

when they drop too, you'll end up with negative equity and possibly a denied refinancing

worst of both worlds
Apt also.

I don't know if it's a 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?' situation but I have concentrated over the years with Debian and Ubuntu based distros. They use 'apt'. So do I use 'apt' because I prefer Debian and Ubuntu, or do I use Debian or Ubuntu based distros because I prefer 'apt'?

It's probably a bit of both. I started to use 'apt' because I used Debian and Ubuntu, and now I prefer to use Mint Mate, and have done for around 12 years, because it has 'apt' as its main package manager.
I really don’t see the current Earth governments doing enough soon enough to make any difference. I’m afraid the best case scenario is worldwide mass revolts that literally kill all people in power and the worst case scenario is complete societal collapse due to mass migrations as the environment collapses.
Enough to eventually block out the sun :-) https://satellitetracker3d.com
I recommend her book to everyone, get a hard copy!
https://archive.is/UcuoT
That likely comes down to your preferences or equipment.
I was also curious how much control it has, or if it's sort of a front-end to a PLC or microcontroller.
? That shows that covid took a huge swipe at them. Which is not really a surprise to anyone.

The numbers for this year look to almost be back to where they were? I'm not clear what the evidence you are showing is actually showing?
Dems are also corporate toadies. We can say it out.
PHPoton
What happened to being "this rich a nation"? There isn't a reason to have one group called "labour" and one called "capital". The world could be all of one or all of the other. In the bad old days it was 100% labour. In the ideal future it is 100% capital. Capital is just more effective than labour, that is the reason why the capitalists end up having much more wealth. It isn't an exclusive club - everyone should be signing up.

That is the type of thinking that leads to stupid legislation like what the article is talking about. Rigid thinking in politics who can't imagine that a vegetable seeder could make a living any way except by going out, seeding vegetables and eventually ruining their bodies. The whole trick to improving their quality of life is finding better work for them to do or convincing them to take ownership of capital. They can't possibly secure a great lifestyle if they keep working as seeders. All the most straightforward scenarios that lead to a step change in their living standard are achieved by them not being seeders - automating the seeding process with them as owners of capital, or upskilling them so that they can find more productive work. Trying to convince the one person in the world who will give them the most money that they need to be payed more is a failed strategy that people have been trying for centuries now with effectively no success.
Resurrect? PHP never died. It’s still going strong today with frameworks like Laravel.
No major wars since WW2?
I know this is peak hn but the mortgage rate doesn't matter if you don't have a mortgage. Ideally, higher mortgage rates should push home prices lower and benefit cash buyers.
US mortgages are unique I believe. Canada does 5 year fixed and you refinance at the current rate.

I believe the US mortgages work because of Fannie Mae/Mac and a market in mortgage backed securities ( MBOs? I thought they caused the 2008 crisis but I think they are still a thing with better risk management, I dunno?).
I recall it mostly as efficient market BS...
I didn't mean my point to be a complete dismissal of the concern. Only pointing out that extras have always been sorta ignored.
As opposed to DFS: https://xkcd.com/761/
Correction: Apparently Met uses June 1 as 1st day of winter but it's officially the solstice. One could argue it was not yet winter.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113038178/when-does-winter-...
To some extent, but it's a far lesser extent.
The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Spuds MacKenzie, the Original Party Animal
> One begins to see why all the billionaires are trying to figure out how to escape the planet.

For starters, they can stop investing on creative ideas that accelerate its environmental collapse.
Aren't they traveling much slower versus their orbital plane - basically how much drag they experience?

For example, we travel 1600kmph due to the Earth's rotation.
People in the US refinance all of the time. Usually either because the mortgage rates are now low enough to lower their payment significantly or to take some equity out as cash (for renovations, another down payment or other reasons). I bought my current home 8 years ago and have refinanced twice.
Having no buyers is economics. The supply vastly exceeded demand. There were no buyers, private or otherwise because there was glut. Telangana is an arid region. The recent jump in rice production is thanks to the new irrigation projects in the state.

The scrapped farm laws were ill-considered and I'll framed. Fun fact: Both, the Produce Trade and Commerce Act and the Agreement on Price Assurance Act expressly barred the jurisdiction of courts in entertaining disputes relating to farming disputes and instead gave authority to the local Collector to arbitrate. That's blatant and shameless executive overreach. And that's not even going into the fact that these Union laws intrude on what is explicitly a State subject.
Tangent: I hate OLTP and OLAP as acronyms. They're only one letter/word off and completely obscure the relevant meaning lots of semantic noise. Just say transactional vs analytical processing. (They are still good search key terms because lots of existing literature/resources use the terms)
The Case for Developer Experience
I guess because we keep cashing fat checks with it?
> Is this not quite risky for banks? Not that banks taking a risk is bad, but it seems a very long bet for them.

Not really. Mortgages are (mostly) bundled and on-sold to investors which assume the risk of default and interest rate changes. The originating bank collects are premium for the loan and moves on to the next one.
I don’t buy this argument, it sounds too much like the malthusians explaining there wasn’t enough arable land to support the population before nitrogen fertilizer was invented. I’m not saying we have a “fertilizer for energy” around the corner, but I also wouldn’t rule it out and start asking people to stop building.
> hasn't done squat to stop inflation

U.S. inflation is down to 3 percent in June from a high of 9% last year. You could argue that interest rate hikes didn't cause that change, but interest rates are the Occam's razor explanation.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...
Maybe a boot floppy and then a CD?

Pine finally dropped the weird custom license and became Alpine which I used a few days ago to read my panix.com email
(Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Aptible)

You might want to check us out: https://www.aptible.com/ . We built Aptible as an alternative to Heroku for startups that have more demanding requirements around security, compliance, reliability and scalability. Most of our customers look like yours: fast-growing startups who don't want to dedicate engineering resources to infrastructure.

Features required or useful for SOC 2 (like dedicated networking/load balancing/compute, SAML, granular RBAC) are core parts of the platform. Additional features like host/network IDS, vulnerability scanning and compliance dashboards/reporting are also available, at a much lower price than Heroku Enterprise.
>> why do I need a Laravel app underneath anyway?!

I don't know much about nativephp/electron/desktop ui's, but I would guess Filament is a pretty decent reason.
Just check the thread in incognito window.. I see it, so no shadowban is involved.

(unless you have some very unusual definition of "shadowban"?)
Oh absolutely, but its trivial to get a CVE from the relevant CNA's. A webform or a phone call.

Its a bit silly.
Yeah, I shouldn't have said "still be profitable." For that, I meant they could be in a stronger position to ignore studios.

And it is a bit mind boggling to think of 4.4 billion in profit. Wow.

Still, my point mostly stands? If the studios decide not to let Netflix stream their movies, then they don't stream their movies. This was far more hollow of a threat in the early days of streaming, but nowadays it is very conceivable that they can leverage their back catalog for someone. Such that Netflix is quickly getting to where what got everyone to sign up is at major risk of going away.

And this is far from hypothetical. It is mind boggling to me that Daredevil is no longer available on Netflix. Something they literally helped produce.
Realistically, however, high mortgage rates prevent current homeowners from selling (as they couldn’t match their current rate), thus utterly trashing supply.
The reality is that people need to live somewhere. Cash buyers rolling in and making them a rental property just takes more property off the market. It is a runaway situation.
So basically it works like this?

google watches everything I do because chrome, and has a good idea if I'm a bot or not.

through clever cryptography google tells each website I visit its assessment of me?

Does it also give them the same Id for me each time I visit? (But unique to them)
Superyachts Symbolize Climate Breakdown
The US and Denmark are the two well known jurisdictions with fixed rates for the loan term (typically 30 years in the US).

Refinancing happens when rates go down.

Yes, this does mean lenders take a lot of interest rate risk. The whole US government mortgage securitization and insurance infrastructure exists to help transfer this risk to people who want it.

More in this classic Byrne Hobart essay: https://byrnehobart.medium.com/the-30-year-mortgage-is-an-in...
> Is this not quite risky for banks? Not that banks taking a risk is bad, but it seems a very long bet for them.

It is and it isn’t I think. They rebundle those into securities and sell them on so that other banks and investment firms convert capital into cash flow and it acts like an investment portfolio (then others leverage those securities with derivatives). So the bank isn’t holding the loan directly typically. Of course, as we found out in 2008, the amount of exposure to risk is generally poorly understood even by the players. That being said, I believe similar things happen abroad, so I’m not so sure why 30 year fixed exists in America as an anomaly that you don’t see in other countries and what specific regulation / law encourages it to be this way.
Probably not. Redbox is doing fine, after all. Would they be the billion dollar company that they are? Also probably not.
The last full year is 2022 and those numbers are about the same as 2020.

Covid was basically behind us by 2022 as far as people being overly concerned.
I wish I could be more honest with my failures, but people have abused my trust so many times I have lost count. at some point you just have to cut your losses and keep it to yourself, or to a few select few.
Who is buying million-dollar homes with cash? (This prior question was rhetorical. The answer is: the very to ultra wealthy.) And where are home prices lowering?

My home, just purchased 1.5 years ago, would be well beyond unaffordable now. How is that not insane?
Their net income trends look awful, especially taking into account inflation and the rest of the economy.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DIS/disney/net-inc...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WBD/warner-bros-di...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PARA/paramount-glo...

Comcast, Sony, Netflix, Apple, and Amazon seem to be the other big players, and Netflix seems to be the only pure media company that one can compare numbers to, but it stands to reason they are all finding it harder to make money.
Exploring garbage collection in V8 with WebGL
I just checked to see if GameFAQs was still active and thought that Tears of the Kingdom would be a good game to see if there were any active users still making guides.

There's only one...for horse upgrade recipes. I also didn't know that GameSpot acquired them.

I too mourn the lost era of GameFAQs.
Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?

by Jim Gray

https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf
Bankruptcy is temporary. I wish I had been willing to risk it in my 20s.