skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The end goal is for all information to come through government sanctioned media only. A small number of large corporations will be the executors of the will of the government in every part of the economy. The management of all major American corporations and the US government already belongs to the same tribe. Just research the background of the owners of the private equity firm that bought out the library system. They are part of a large family with a strong support system that the average person is not part of. Economic planning under capitalism occurs via decentralized, competitive, and voluntary decisions. The end state we are headed towards will be centralized, uncompetitive, and decisions will be involuntary as there will be no choice.
British colloquialism!
> direct impact on their lives

Even then, they will just say it's always been like this, that's what young people born in 2000s are saying now.
> To tell us that we had to load some commercial app on our device to get eBooks, rather than compatibility with some existing, popular eReader at least

I don't understand this - isn't a popular eReader also commercial? If you had to log into Kindle to get the book, would that be better?
Well, in 2023 a majority of that would be web or electron apps so they might not be able to tell the difference. They would be equally stumped at the sight of a CD/DVD no matter their choice of OS, as machines have not shipped with optical drives in ages.
Yes, Steam Deck is Desktop Linux. It runs a Linux Desktop[1], which you can easily switch to.

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-use-desktop-m...
Libraries take pains to follow copyright and teach their community members how to legally enjoy works.
It was number of partners before marriage.
Being unwilling to even try talk through your emotions with the /person who you are going to marry/ is absolutely a bad signal and deal breaker.
I wonder how interesting the Genesis VDP would be for a retrocomputer project. Is there a good detailed doc for software development? I looked around and there isn’t much I the most obvious places and formats.
rent seeking sounds benign now?!
Cool trick! For anyone who isn't conveniently on Linux: https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/master/ping/ping.h#L...
Interview with Modyfi
Science very clearly says what happens to consciousness after death, people just don’t like what it says. That doesn’t make science wrong any more than it’s wrong when people dislike the the speed of light etc.

It might be wrong, but that’s a different question.
The author mentions talking to librarians on Mastadon, does anyone happen to know where large quantities of librarians might congregate online?
The readers aren't there is the main issue.

Even our local library (part of a small local 'shared independent library systems') really has to focus on kids, movies, and other media.

However, you can still get quite a bit of good stuff if you want via interlibrary loan and on DVD and CD.
i have worked on multiple languages - php, java (spring etc.), ruby (rails), golang (gin), javascript, typescript (nextjs), and many i am forgetting to recall.

FastAPI is the sweetest and the most intuitive web framework.

I just checked a few doc pages for your framework, seems heavily inspired by FastAPI.

So what have you not found in FastAPI that is making you write a new web framework from scratch?
Presumably it's a reference to California not having a statutory limitation on the time horizon for alimony payments (and also allowing for courts to reopen alimony decisions years later) after a marriage of more than 10 years is dissolved.
> Sure, but transission losses are generally a low single digit percentage

Around 6-8% per 1000 km. That's a lot.
Also frameworks in other languages, e.g. express or leptos
Winter temperatures above 35C in South America leave climatologists in disbelief
But most do in fact want children and do not really know the risk. Modern Western societies are structured to encourage people to use their most fertile years to further their careers and to keep “searching” and “experiencing”.

We’re running a global, uncontrolled open air study on whether affluent societies with birth control, divorce, feminism etc. can exist long term. Given resulting reproduction rates, it’s not looking good.
Where did they say one has to install the app? They use the web interface exclusively and the feature that went missing was a web interface feature. . .

> “For about a decade now, OverDrive has provided users with digital library access two ways: through its website (individual library portals hosted on overdrive.com) and its mobile apps (OverDrive and Libby). I’ve always gone the web route myself — at first because it was the only option, before the app was built; later deliberately avoiding the app in order to reduce the amount of surveillance data collected.”

As for the feature itself, your comment seems to boil down to “Dark pattern UI changes are ineffective” but we know that’s not true; if they were unprofitable, companies wouldn’t constantly exploit them.
I've been thoroughly enjoying implementing a compiler and bytecode interpreter in Zig for a little scripting language I've been designing.
There have been a few invoice sites posted recently but this is the first one I’ve seen that actually takes you straight to the invoice.

This looks like a nice simple option that maybe even my folks could use. Shame it doesn’t work on mobile for now though.
That's an oddly defensive take.
Coincidentally I have been working from a public library this week. The majority of patrons are homeless. Many are physically disabled. Some are mentally ill and yell at random at nothing.

It's sad. I feel conflicted because I don't really want them near me but I understand they have no where else to go. I don't get how the library because a homeless shelter but it's probably not somewhere I'd take a child.
That's way too logical. Have some respect for the artisanal bike shedding that went into IPv6!

Calling it IPv5 is genius though.
“Please, seize, squeeze”.
The whole writing industry in general is exposed to enshittification. Most books selling well nowadays are "personnal development" title written by the writing equivalent to a snake oil salesman / charlatan.

In the same way internet search is broken by affiliate links heavy, contentless websites looking for easy money, good books end up hidden behind all this huge wall of easy money personal development bullshit.
There are a ton of suggestions floating around already on how the efficiency could be improved and some of those are very clever and involve using the superconducting properties of the individual grains to help sort them out from the bulk material.
For some ppl $25 a hardcover is expensive. They might also not have the space or want to create the space.

I buy books. I underline, etc. But I do know ppl who prefer the library, which is 100x better than not reading at all.
CIDaaS - Capitalism Induced Decay as a Service
IF a Gov subcontracts a company to design + impl a system, they as Customer (if you like) have the right to request specifics; maintenance & integration with the wider ecosystem is a massive concern in this case. That's not "legislation" though.
Retrieval Augmented Generation: An Overview
If KDE isn't Desktop Linux, I don't know what is.

It's not "vanilla", but so isn't Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora Sericea, or whatever else. The underlying stack is the same, there's just customizations on top.
Diverse in nationalities and backgrounds, yes. Diverse in viewpoints, not so much.

The Overton window is quite narrow on HN, and I have the distinct impression it is narrowing further. Though I do admit that within that window, discourse is very lively, to the extent that a casual observer can easily be fooled into believing this is a place for free exchange of ideas.
One, slightly more cynical, theory is that the rogue employee's motivation was to push the research out there in order to create an opportunity for them to engage in their own research or get funding to do that research by making public what they may otherwise have not be authorized to make public. It'll be interesting to see if there are any threats over an NDA or trade secret violations that come out of the original, premature, publication.

Everyone's assuming it's about the Nobel, but it is much more likely it's about far more lucrative goals.
Precisely. Your logic was flawed.
In the UK we have seen libraries falling like dominos in the "austerity" (post financial crash bank-welfare) era to pay for the failures of the bankers.

Those that remain open are often turned into community hubs which while sounding nice on paper don't always sound nice in reality with screaming kids and zumba classes, etc; the end result of often being a rather rather un-library-like ambience.

Shhhhh!
> Even if your ohmmeter conductors have a resistance of several ohm, you could still get an accurate measurement if your tool has a high enough resolution.

Not that low in range though, you will end up seeing thermal noise that dwarfs your measurement.
Our minds build internal models from what we are seeing. What you perceive of the world is pulled from this model, which is "running" in mind and is apparently 3D.

To effectively mirror this process in machines, we need models that can extrapolate a 3D environment and it's objects from sensors. If we can get an approximation of what something looks like from a different perspective, it's valuable for naviatigation and objective planning.

We could also theorize about the effects it will have on machine's awareness and attention.
im wondering why is it not just shittification but enshittification. shittification seems to have more power to me.
Sounds like partial blame can be assigned to head empty smooth brain tiktok clout-seekers who don't _usually_ go to the movies, but are going en masse because TT, same thing with the grimace shake BS.

Gen z doesn't understand how fucking easy it is to market to them - all Macca's had to do is seed a tiktok meme where you drink a grimace shake and then something terrible happens and BAM, tens of thousands of sales or more just bc these people want to post "their version" of the same damn thing to their TT. Let alone half of TT just seems to be "look this things looks cool buy it buy it".

As the article points out things like this (at concerts etc too) have been on the rise but I would find it interesting to determine what the main source of it is. I think it's the same poison as Vine (on which people also did stupid "prank" stuff for clout) but TT seems to have a much larger audience than Vine ever did.

But I think TT is just magnifying a larger, more human problem: there are some on TT that denounce the bad behaviour, but the majority of people seem to be like "ha ha is funi" when watching a video of some TT'er walking up to someone and assaulting them "it's just a prank bro". Ugh.
Cory Doctorow is the king of cringe and always has been, which makes it super hard to take his thinking seriously despite the many times he's been right.

But maybe it requires people who are that shrill and eyeroll-inducing to change things?
The market for cheap 3D printers is mostly as a toy that sits on a shelf, it can still be quite profitable.
Its great for people with young kids. You can be present and get a spontaneous shot.
I agree, what is wrong with calling it "privatization" or "enclosures"?
There are 3 different triflange tip sizes, and foamies. Getting the seal right for me is about being willing to put them in deep enough. It certainly takes a bit of adjustment to how deep you have to insert them. There are plenty of non-deep insertion IEMs, but they are "only" usually around -20DB.

I've used the 7HZ Timeless, and it is an excellent IEM... But it doesn't match the ER4, for my use-case.
Except libraries pay for their books, and those books cannot be copied and distributed in an unlimited manner. Artist deserve to be compensated for their work.
> My dad exclusively use ie(due to activex/flash in some internal corp site), excel, and word on the laptop I bought for him.

That was a majority use-case between 2005-2015. Now it's a niche case (yeah, even if absolute numbers are still big enough, relatively speaking it's a niche)
People lining up in Argentina to have their iris scanned for Worldcoin
You don't think attractiveness plays a role at all? Like, doesn't even make your list? Your list is the kind of thing an attractive (or at least, not hideously unattractive) person would say while being completely oblivious to the issues a good chunk of the population face.
Ask HN: Worth doing a startup in a space saturated with other new startups?
The space in particular is improving language learning with AI. I see 1 or 2 new startups everyday! Not sure what to make of this level of competition. Is it worth entering a market like this and if so any particular things needed to succeed?
Honestly, this happened to me with smartwatches. I’ve had at least two over the years. One Samsung and one Apple. I’m pretty sure they’re both sitting around somewhere having not been used for years.

I just really hate having to constantly charge things. My phone is enough. It’s half the reason I was disappointed with everyone dropping the headphone jack.
There would be some massive deprecation at the CERN and ITER sites.
Things have already gone worse for many groups of people.

Economically: fishermen, businesses near low-altitude ski stations, mediterranean farmers (Spain, Italy, Greece, Maghreb).
Quality of life-wise: Iran, Northern African countries now have to live with 45-50C temperatures every summer.
Disasters-wise: increased intensity of floods in South-East Asia, China, Taiwan, South Korea during rainy season, ...

The list goes on. The thing is, QOL improvements based on economic growth often counter-balance these in the short term. But growth is slowing down and warming is speeding up.
I was kind of surprised that Meta went ahead with shipping these after the clear failure of Snap Spectacles, a very similar product technically although with a more outré youth-oriented design.
I do not have account. Even if Twitter links loads (which is not always the case) - there are no comments/thread.
Something Fly.io also does, so they aren't the only one's.
His history is "fine", if you consider that this is par for the course for the pharma industry. Acquiring IP rights to a drug, then ratcheting the price is a tale as old as time.

Shkreli's main sin is choosing a drug that is primarily used by a specific protected class. It treats parasitic infections that normally don't take hold in people with healthy immune response. Daraprim's customer list is something like 92% AIDS patients, and 8% immuno-compromised for other reasons.

Shkreli did something that happens all the time, and we don't bat an eye. But you don't do it to protected classes without a mob response.
I can’t wait to see AI applied to reverse engineering of decapped chips.

Do we have tools for exposing specific layers instead of 2D images? It would, perhaps, be interesting to go with diagonal slices as we grind the chip and, aided by exaggerated vertical features, capture the full depth on a single pass.
> Alternative platforms already exist: one promising place to start might be the Palace Project and the associated Palace Marketplace.

It's great to see the Palace Project mentioned as an alternative in this post! I'm one of the developers working on Palace. The idea behind the project is to create a single app that aggregates all of a library's digital content and makes it readily available to library patrons.

If anyone here is interested in it, all our code is open source:
https://github.com/thepalaceproject.
What are the most important factors to consider when choosing a SaaS product?
What are the most important factors to consider when choosing a SaaS product?

When selecting a SaaS product, it's important to consider several factors to ensure that you're making the best decision for your business. One of the most crucial factors is the software's functionality. You'll want to make sure that the SaaS product offers the features and capabilities that you need to effectively run your business. Additionally, you should consider the software's ease of use, pricing structure, customer support, and security features. By carefully evaluating each of these factors, you can ensure that you choose a SaaS product that meets your needs and helps you achieve your business goals.
They've been there for at least a decade.
> if the cost of the hardware is already baked into the cost of the cheapest options, which means they are paying for all of the hardware they have in their cars ...

The way to think about it is that the people paying for these extra features / buying the premium model with software-unlocked features are paying to add these features (locked) to every car sold. Because this is cheaper than making a different physical model.

For example imagine that 1/5 people want heated seats. Assume that adding these seats costs $100 to the manufacturing costs of a single car. There are two options here:

1. Create a new model. This makes the base model cost more (because you are making 1/5 less units so the overhead of design, validation and setting up the production line is spread across less cars) and makes the premium model cost much more (because you are only making 1/5 of the units). So maybe now you add $10 to the cost of the base model and $1000 to the cost of the premium model.

2. Add the seats to all models. This raises the cost of the car by $100.

Let's imagine that the base model price shouldn't be affected by the addition of the premium model. So we want all of this extra cost to be passed to the premium model. In scenario 1 this is effectively $1040 extra per car ($1k for premium + $10x4 base models). In scenario 2 this is effectively $500 per car ($100 x 5).

So option 1 doesn't make sense. It costs more for no real benefit.

> I can't see how the consumer benefits in that scenario by paying for something they can't use.

This is the thing. In theory the base model doesn't need to pay extra. Yes, their car was more expensive to make, but this cost was paid for by those who bought the premium model.

I don't know if I would argue that the consumer of the base model "benefits". Their model could be subsidized, or it could cost more, money is fungible in that way. But there is no reason why having this hardware installed but locked should increase the price that they pay. Without further evidence one would hope that the price of the car is unaffected by the premium model. Or maybe even cheaper because of benefits of the economy of scale (especially if the ratio of people buying the expensive model is higher).

I wrote a post about this a while ago with very simple examples of how the math works out https://kevincox.ca/2023/05/14/ethics-of-locked-hardware/
I thought the "Click Yes to notifications to prove you're not a computer" was one of the more amusing traps.
When I saw this update my issue was that the downloads button doesn't always show. Like something would download and I'd open it but then if I wanted to get back to it the downloads button would be gone. There's probably a setting to keep it visible all the time but I don't see it yet.

I'd also like it if "show all downloads" just opened my downloads folder instead of the nerfed, in browser view.
I think it's less significant than it's often made out to be.

> You may wonder why we don’t use Roman concrete today if that is the case; well, one of the reasons as to why is because, although it gets stronger over time and withstands erosion from water, when this cement is still young and has not had time to develop its strength from seawater, it likely does not have the compressive strength to handle modern use.

https://www.forthvalleyconcrete.co.uk/the-differences-betwee...

Also, Roman concrete didn't contain rebar which is necessary in many modern applications and rebar rusts which reduces the overall lifespan of the structure.

That said, apparently Roman concrete has some potential issues in structures adjacent to bodies of saltwater since the saltwater would accelerate the strengthening process.
I’m in an academic lab right now. I have never once had to get approval from three levels of management to do any experiment, nor have I ever heard of anyone having to do that. I’m not even sure who would be three levels of “management” above me.
More compact magnets that are easier to manufacture I imagine.

CFS magnets are smaller because they're able to use the newer-est tape for it, but if LK-99 turns out to be a success it'll help them make things even more compact.

I really hope CFS succeed, their idea of creating a smaller tokamak with much stronger magnets just sounds right inside my head. I don't know anything about fusion except the basics, but oh my god is it exciting to watch from a distance.
I'm all for decarbonisation.
For the BBC, which claims to be a world class journalistic organisation, to omit the fact that the data they cite only begins sometime in the 1980s is very poor.
They expect us to be ready...

GitHub does not even have an IPv6 address.
This is partially why allocation is left to the caller (concurrent data structures are often intrusive), have single consumers (made lock free using separate synchronization) or only have lockless guarantees not obstruction freedom.

I think the obnoxious part in Rust is doing intrusive and shared mutability parts of data structures. Having to go between NonNulls, Options, Pin, and Cell/UnsafeCell is not a pleasant experience.
There is a lot of leeway to be had between "will I bother anyone else by doing X" and "will anyone else be bothered by me doing X": it's active interference versus passive objection-taking. Socially aware people can learn the difference.
I don't think you understand the context. Much before 1920's, you didn't need a document at all to travel anywhere. If you had the resources, you just showed up - go to the border, said hello - and that's it.

Travel like that was never "reserved" for explorers, missionaries or high ranking dignitaries. If you had the money/resources, you could go anywhere.

Now there is a "caste" system of countries that have Visa on Arrival, Free Entry, or Visa required where you have to prove that you are financially capable, or even wanted in the country, or promise not to work or be illegally employed/compensated.

And then that alongside many countries in the developing world that still have undocumented people, no birth certificate, no identification, no tax ID, etc.

How does a country verify someones birth? Especially if someone wasn't born in a hospital? In the west, until 1950's, mostly this was done via church records. Also, are you granted citizenship by birth or only through parents? (Big deal, especially for Puerto Rican births - or countries that don't recognize foreign births in their land, e.g. United Arab Emirates / Saudi Arabia - even Japan or China, where sure you can be born there, but that means absolutely nothing.)

So, no, it isn't really a greater system for international worldwide travel - it is a system of control to ensure someones identity is who they are and that the country they are form atleast certified to some standard that their name, their picture, their birth date, their location of birth are somewhat tangibly real.

And this isn't even getting into information sharing. The above is just a standard, that now is "machine" readable and has an RFID so that collection is more easier for the state.

Context is amazing, isn't it?
Does it include religious preaching?

That would be an interesting case in the US. A country deeply steeped in God.
I like the simplicity. can you save your layout?
How did I imply that there are many real money prediction markets, that was exactly my question, did I miss the ones where everyone is or are prediction markets just not that popular and that is why even the big ones do not have a large number of predictors.