skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy.com - let's you easily make virtual burner cards that you can use for free trials and not worry about having to cancel the subscription on time.
I still believe that the economy, "broke" in 2008 when we started QE1, that was the end of reality and when we first went down the rabbit hole.

When the people that print the money decide to print money and give it to their friends then that is no longer a functioning economy, certainly not sustainable.

Hyperinflation is a result of printing too much money and there is no way out.
Fantastical family plan, hands down.
We swapped YNAB for Tiller and never went back.
A colleague of mine has a project that's meant to simplify this stack for Drupal sites. But I think it could be repurposed for other platforms fairly easily.

https://source.cknweb.it/open/shuttle
Irfanview virtualdub2 foobar2000 xnview
Second to YNAB. I’m sad they’ve raised the price, but 99% of our budget and finance strife is gone due 100% to YNAB. Plus the deal to have free budgets for your older kids? Very nice.
He's not going to accept a 3.5 hour workweek for JP Morgan and neither will his successor. Owners and managers will always squeeze hard. It's the nature of competition and he knows it.
Why would you use mathematics or computer science to ascertain whether someone has been corrupted by a government agency?
What features are missing at this point? I think their addition of offline maps this year was the last thing that they were missing. At least as far as I can tell.
Under what reading of the First Amendment is that allowed? Some historical argument based on the Alien and Sedition act, because criticizing self driving cars is a threat to national security?
As I wrote, I can read tribalistic nonsense anywhere. Perhaps if you put more time into trying to show some reasoning beyond if you read about it you'll feel like me unless you're evil or stupid then you wouldn't get these kind of questions.
Piggybacking onto this thread, does anyone use software or any services for their parenting that they find invaluable? I imagine mentors and services like Kumon are popular with this crowd? How about the non-academic front?
That’s relatively easy, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interquartile_range
Boring and readable are not the same thing. Also, you can edit your comments on HackerNews
When your competitors are dumping, can’t you just buy their goods and resell them at cost until they go broke?
I’ve never used this. Instead, the best thing my wife and I did was create a “bills” and “play” account. My recurring bills come out of the bills account and everything is paid automatically. My discretionary funds go in the “play” account and I feel free to spend that until it’s gone. This is handled with automatic deposits.

Later I added savings accounts to the list but the first two are the cornerstone of my budgeting.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675831
Last time i looked, the musl library allocator was also exploitable by similar style 'house of' attacks. Maybe its been fixed now. I dont know if you can make a judgement call that musl is better because it has 'less code' when its still open to exploit mechanisms that glibc fixed many moons ago.
At least thats something you can test on Earth using existing technology. IIRC the Soviets built centrifuges big enough to live in & did some longer term experiments, so there might already be some data available for this.
1Password family has been hard to get everyone on… one or two people yes, but not the entire family.

YouTube Premium is probably the only thing everyone in the family uses significantly and frequently… but mostly because they don’t notice it. Netflix, Disney+ maybe go without saying. Alexa/Google/HomePods too, mostly for music playback. Spotify Premium has excellent family features also.

Background but storage from Google One, Apple and Microsoft Office are also frequently used and relied on.

For me the hardest part is actually telling family what they could have access to - I wish there was something like https://duo.com/assets/img/leadin-images/sso_leadin_img.jpg but included all the content, apps and subscriptions we share, regardless of service provider. Whatever it is, it has to have tight integration with mobile and desktop computers so I and others can push notifications like, “Amy just signed up for NYTimes, add a shortcut and saved password?” Or a banner appears or customized Kagi results that could say, “Listen on Spotify,” if that’s what we have signed up for would be nice.

I’m thinking it might work like Apple’s notifications for health and/or activity sharing, where you get to see what others do, but instead you get to see what you have access to via the family, etc.

I tried setting up enterprise style accounts and domains and even a Google Site for this purpose and it went nowhere. Everyone already has logins and identities and half the problem is no one wants to visit “yet another website” just to find out what’s new. I haven’t tried making an app with push notifications and installing it on everyone’s devices with a web browser extension, but I also have to admit, I’m tempted to develop such a thing. Might also be useful for very small startups, etc.
I just installed KDE Plasma+Wayland today on mint Linux. Working great so far, although I’m not noticing a large difference in performance, maybe my specs are good and load is light.
Most people have no idea how much power current large scale desalination methods consume:

"It is estimated by 2030, 50% of Saudi Arabia’s local oil and gas will solely be used to meet the rapidly growing demand for water." -- source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
back in the day I had to buy a GPS software for my "smart phone", more like a palm with phone capabilities. A HTC model with windows 7 (i guess). Was the first time I felt confident in driving cross state by myself.

The whole time I was think "this thing can predict the future" cause I could see sharp turns and straight roads before hand. Simpler times...
My comments only seem "cruel" to you because you have chosen to prioritize the desires of men over the needs of women.

As you've decided to promote this viewpoint in a public forum, you should expect to be called out on your misogyny for doing so.

Getting aggressive when people disagree with you isn't healthy either. For all your preaching of what is and isn't welcome here, I don't think that sweary rant upthread where you advocate drowning people you don't like aligns with the spirit of this site.
I walked to school by myself starting at age 6. Everybody I knew did. Is the world more dangerous now than it was in the 1960s?
> Is everyone forgetting just how small Amazon is when you consider all of retail?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274255/market-share-of-t...

June 2022, 37.8% of all ecommerce market share.

Not sure why you're comparing to physical retail considering the antitrust practices alleged are in the ecommerce space. And even if we were to compare all retail in the US, Amazon is likely to overtake Walmart across all retail come next year. https://www.ascentialedge.com/press/ecommerce-shakes-top-5-r...
Is this book any good? I was wondering if I'll learn anything insightful or just inside stories...
Spotify Duo. Works across all the variety of devices we have, jam group sessions are fantastic feature when riding the car together and their weekly discovery consistently brings in a lot of new music.
With the ear protection I just feel like I'm at a rave. I can sleep to that.
People have been saying that for a year but I think the new Gen of internet users are simply broken, too dumb and scared. Your average tictok users cant figure how to save a mirror link.
Stranger Things pitch warble effect turned up to Eleven[1] at about 5:40!

That effect always evokes Vangelis on Blade Runner <- analog synths <- Buchla, who could have implemented steady pitch but apparently designed the oscillators to slowly lose pitch, because so do violins but so what? :)

Which makes one wonder...

Bizarro Buchla designs a precise oscillator -> precision and fidelity war in analog synths -> precise, staccato Bizarro Vangelis Blade Runner -> warbly Bizarro DX7 -> wide-vibrato 80s dance music -> warbly glitch hop -> VEDM (vibrato electric dance music) -> nostalgia for precise, staccato analog sounds in Stranger Things?

1: double pun: Spinal Tap and Stranger Things!
I also took a break from Meetups between about 2019 through 2022 due to some life events followed by COVID.

Getting back to meetups (including those outside of Meetup.com) has been slightly strange. As some of my previous favorite meetups became more popular, the type of audience they attracted has changed.

There's much more of a self-promotional vibe to a lot of the talks I've visited recently. Several speakers have actually flown in from other states to present at local Meetups via sponsorship from their company, then delivered what was clearly a very rehearsed presentation. At one point someone from Google flew out to deliver a rehearsed talk about their work. I was actually interested in asking him questions afterward, but he acted like he couldn't get out of there fast enough. He just wanted to present, get it recorded for his LinkedIn and personal website, and get out of there.

One of the meetups I was involved with organizing has also struggled to filter out local presenters who are just going through the motions of resume building. In the past it felt like a small group of enthusiasts getting together to talk about things they were interested in. Now, half the presentations feel like somebody decided they were going to be a presenter first and then looked for something to talk about second. We have a real problem with some people putting on presentations that are more than 50% memes and animated gifs.

Maybe I've got a rose colored glasses thing going on, but it feels different now that it's becoming a competitive resume builder activity rather than a fun get together.

Our local conferences are starting to feel the same way. A significant number of the talks from the last big conference I watched felt more like cheesy motivational speaker content.
MacroFactor is where it’s at. It is so much better than MyFitnessPal.
Step 1. Write crappy paper
Step 2. Seek peer review.
Step 3. Wait months for peer review
Step 4. Apply to journals for publish
Step 5. Wait months for journal publish
Step 6. Add paper to CV

Most research papers are garbage, and almost completely ignored, unless it can be used as a cite in a similar crappy paper. The major journals aren't going to take your paper unless you already have a reputation, or you're connected to someone with a reputation. They aren't going to take a poorly thought out provocation piece from a nobody, when they are swamped with poorly written garbage from researchers trying to make tenure.
"Code" is not what is stopping people from building, city zoning and regulations are. There's some things that add a bit to the cost, like GFCI outlets, multiple egress points for bedrooms, and inspections. Mandatory setbacks, minimum lot sizes, height restrictions, ADU rules, etc are what dictate what is possible to build.

You could easily describe a moderate house you desire to an architect, hire a GC and have a house built to code for $75k-$150k if it weren't for permits, zoning and regulations.
Wait, why did you hate it at the end? I thought it was great the whole way through.
Oh I should add that iMessage, if you can get the whole family on it, is killer for maintaining group chats. Really though, just having a group chat with the entire family on it is great. Especially if the app has Find My features where you can see where folks are. For the youngest tho, we use Facebook Messenger for Kids on Amazon fire tablets if they want to join in on video calls etc. Sadly there isn’t an all-in-one service that is also very child-friendly (and Fire tablet compatible to be kid proof)
This was brought up by someone else in another forum, but do the MIT desalination numbers make sense to anyone else?

They claim that a box with a surface area of about one square meter could desalinate 5 L of water per hour, using nothing but solar energy.

To evaporate one liter of energy of water takes 2.30 MJ, and that's assuming that it's already boiling point (the most efficient temp to evaporate). Solar energy maxes out at about 4.97 MJ per hour per square meter. That’s just a bit over 2 liters – and that’s assuming best case scenario and the sea water is at the boiling point.

So how is this box with 1 m^2 surface area gather enough sunlight to evaporate 5 L water per hour?
Datura is absolutely outlandish, though.

I'm a very experienced psychonaut and even I won't dare touch that stuff. One of my friends did and just watching him on it made me never, EVER want to do it.
Please don't. No one wants your SPAM.
This is such a cool example. "Adjustments" makes so much sense, doesn't have the very modern "settings" implication of a device UI/machinery
I will add this, unrelated to security:

> making healthcare costs lower

That's a laugh. Any cost cutting in billing function will absolutely not translate to lower patient costs. It's highly attractive for hospital and group provider profits of course!
Not without potentially creating a scandal.

“IGA coordinates anti-consumer buyout of Woolworths milk”

“Why is IGA skimming your milk?”

“Woolworths vs IGA — Calf scalps bull’s milk”
Or undervolt, or adjust the fan curves in BIOS?
Stronger/heavier materials needed for higher G, right ?

All that added inertia could also make maneuvers & burns harder.
How about sharing contents of specific windows for webrtc (or OBS)?
>Who here actually works a 40-hour week?

Uhh, I did? First job I had a total of 5 weeks of OT. 2nd job never had to work above 8 hours a day, de facto nor de jure. I even had a 4 day experiment for 4 months there and it was lovely. Third job, no overtime.

Did I do some extra hours here and there off the clock? Sure. Especially with wfh I can get fixated and want to spend a bit of time getting something compileable. But outside of that one OT period listed above, I never worked above 50 hours.
Kind middle between Moon (1/6) and Mars (1/3)?
I agree with not trying to over penalize low income people in the absence of damage, but I think the other purpose is to act as a sort of insurance for the ones that were unlucky where the same act did cause damage larger than they can afford to cover.
Effect of fluoridated water on intelligence in 10-12-year-old school children
One in Yahk, BC let me pay after filling up last week. In fact, that was the only option there.
Australia?!? Who gives an f about australia or singapore?
What youre saying is your arguments have no merit against mine... Cuz mine operate for the place I live in. I understand your gross under generalization ... but if you are living in a house its only worth is a roof over your head.
I agree with Carmack, but let's be real here.

Asking the average Joe to crank out their own personal LLM is like asking the average Joe to stand up their own Mastodon (i.e. unrealistic).

When given the choice between owning your data and spending two minutes to do so vs. opening $MEGA_LLM in your browser and telling it to make you Instagram for Guinea Pigs, $MEGA_LLM will win every time. Doubly so now that $MEGA_LLM is starting to appear in _everything_.

Case in point: OpenAI is already well-past 100M users. many of them are _paid_ users (which is unprecedented).

I don't think running your own LLM should be illegal (under what grounds would that happen anyway?), but I'm also concerned about the world depending on, like, five huge entities for all knowledge.
Disclaimer: I haven't looked into this at all. But on a first-principles basis, it should be possible as long as the desalination process recovers most of the evaporation energy during the condensation process.
You say that as packages never receive updates. Unless you’re doing a lot of installs every day (let’s say on CI), you’re suggesting it’s better to forcibly download a hundred megabytes of data daily just to potentially save a couple of megabytes once a week.

There’s a smarter mechanism than that: npm already caches packages locally twice, both in node_modules and in a global location.

In reality you’re probably never going to install every dependency from scratch every day, so you’re already using either cache on every install.

What I’d like to see instead is a pre-resolution of packages done by the registry. I have a list of 30 dependencies, please resolve the tree and send it all over instead of forcing me to do a waterfall of fetches.
1Password family has been a game changer for me. Just for sharing secure data with my partner who used to use the same 6 letter password on every site, life changing. It’s also been a great tool to teach my teenage kids good security habits while also building trust. It also sparks conversations when a website inevitably gets compromised and why it’s important to have unique passwords per site and they’ve actually been pretty good about using it too.
The nuance is that their technique allows you to slide the context window along without introducing a jagged discontinuity in generation. At least that’s my feel for it.
Economists love putting numbers on lives, but at the end of the day even if it was a lot of funny money it was funny money in an unregulated and uninsured market that the investors risked investing fully knowing those risks. It’s not really murder and it’s not really going to save any lives either because it would never have been used for that purpose. I get the sentiment, but it just doesn’t work that way.
What's the actual difference between not taking the non-water out of the ocean vs putting the non-water back into the ocean?
A Pedestrian Was Hit; Cruise Car Subsequently Runs Her Over and Stops on Her
A key to 1Password Family: make sure that's the only way you share passwords. Kid wants to watch Netflix? 1Password.
Strikes me that big giant hole is an impending disaster waiting to happen.

The amount of stuff that could get jammed in there could straight up kill…anyone nearby

Same can be said of any bike of course - but this seems like a very big weakness, or is it just me?
The FTC doesn't get to determine the relevant antitrust market. Part of Amazon's defense will be pointing out that consumers buy soap on Amazon and in physical stores alike. It will be up to a judge to decide.
Good to know! I hope you at least get good services back in exchange for those windfall tax dollars when there's a paper property valuation boom.
Thanks for building this. A few suggestions

- The "Load More" in "Want to read" scrolls the page back up to the top. With thousands of books this becomes a pain. Firefox 116.0.3 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 22.

- Add multi factor authentication. In today's world it's a no-brainer.

The Goodreads comparisons are inevitable but we need more options, so it's good to see Hardcover. Storygraph does not cut it for me and we never know when Amazon might shutdown GR.
A few weeks ago I had excellent results using this to install Ventura on a 2017 MacBookPro13,3. While obviously not as fast as a newer machine, everything I tried so far works great, iCloud, Universal Control, latest apps etc.

Compared to other vendors, it seems like Apple has an aggressive obsolescence position. This app offers a significant countervailing force to eWaste, and IMO deserves broader recognition. Authors: great job, thank you.
> That's part of the sadness. But it is possible to spread throughout the solar system, and so it's a matter of scale after that.

Not really. In this solar system, the off-Earth real estate is pretty bad. Worse than almost anywhere on Earth. Most of Canada and Alaska are vacant, after all, and those areas have air and water. Now that it looks like human population is peaking, there's not much pressure to inhabit low-value real estate.

Space travel belongs to machines. Small ones. Read Ashlee Vance's new book, "When the Heavens Went on Sale". All the action now is in small satellites and small to medium sized rockets. If and when Space-X gets its Starship working, it may turn out to be a white elephant, like the Space Shuttle. There just aren't that many big payloads worth launching. About once a year, somebody buys a Falcon Heavy launch, and once or twice a year. China launches a Long March 5.
We bought Tody before they changed to a subscription model. The app allows you to create a task list for cleaning of each of the rooms with a desired repetition period for a given task (for example mop the kitchen floor every 3 weeks). I found that having a list of tasks that are overdue in the house helps a lot with the mental burden of cleaning.
I am quite interested in knowing if it is going to rain or snow, if there might be ice on the road, if my hot tub might freeze if it is not turned on, etc.
Lawyers have some pretty decent progression and it's very common to open your own firm later in life. It makes sense for those with aspirations to work that hard for that payoff.

Tech, not as much. There are certainly unicorns that probably became billionaires after burning years of midnight oil, but many tech ventures fail, regardless of the experience involved. There is always a need for a lawyer, meanwhile.

I wouldn't do all that overtime on a gamble, and I argue you don't even need to do overtime to win such a gamble in tech.
Learn to draw if you don't know how already.
Well, if they could launch and assemble all that ship & luxury, they presumably have the drive technology to match.

That second ship that docs might very well be something like antimatter propulsion tug or even something wilder like nuclear salt water rocket. Probably nothing nuclear/electric as no serious radiators for all the waste heat such a system would generate can be seen.
General question. What is the end game of all this? Corporations that have the money and other means are just wildly burning electricity while sucking up the world's art and knowledge work.

How can anyone possibly protect their work in this no holds barred environment?
I haven't found RTO to make the information flow happen, at least not the way it used to, where I could just listen to all the background noise of people talking, and occasionally overhear something of interest.
Three conditions must be met.

https://www.upcounsel.com/lectl-california-antitrust-law

> Loss Leader Sales

> The Act also bars "loss leader" sales, defined as sales (1) below cost, (2) to induce, promote or encourage the purchase of other merchandise, and (3) with the intent to injure competitors or destroy competition. Business and Professions Code 17044.

If that were not the case, cell carriers couldn’t sell phones below cost to sell service plans and the entire “razor vs razor blades” model would be illegal.

That also means that game console sales would be illegal.
How are you using it that makes it worthwhile for you? I used Fantastical for a long time until their recent rate hike. All of our family scheduling works nicely through shared iCloud calendars, though.
Love anylist - bummer about Google assistant dropping them. Almost enough to make me switch to alexa
In forestry road use agreements payments are made based on m^3 of wood hauled in the format of logs
I've never understood the love for IrfanView. I've always found XnView better for my needs.
Any evidence?

Not enabling Starlink in sanctioned country -> Russian asset.

Imagine the furore if he did actually enabled it...
> Sweden probably has more people in prison for drug possession than America.

Don't know if you picked Sweden in particular intentionally but they are very much an outlier of their own when it comes to drug-related crime. Simple possession of small quantities for personal use can still have you end up in jail or even prison for up to 6 months.

They're still all-in on the War on Drugs.