skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is more to life than paying taxes

Exactly. You don't pay taxes to pay taxes, you pay taxes for the collective benefits you get out of it. Paying taxes and not getting the benefits of safe cities, clean roads, parks, and all the other things that government does, then you are living life only to pay taxes.
That's not quite correct. You need a binary blob that's generated by some kernel level stuff I don't fully understand.
Right, I meant biometrics for identification, as in this TSA use case.

Biometrics for authentication/authorization are terrible, at least as currently implemented.
Hence infamously stuttery:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/motion/24p
The answers in this discussion https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26323215/do-any-language... mention some old compilers using the ENTER instruction with non-zero second argument.
Thanks, and yes - it sucks but you can work around things like this. I don't know anything that does what the watch does for me, either equally or better.

I am Deaf, so notifications (vibration) on my wrists are immensely useful. I can't hear the phone buzz or beep when my hearing aids are off.

I also have ADHD + ASD - Reminders/To Do alerts me to things I need to be doing, shopping list, task list, etc. and Timer lets me cope with time blindness by making me aware of the passage of time. It's now safe for me to play a quick 30m round of my favorite game. Calendar at a glance keeps appointments and daily events in front of mind.

I have 3 alarms set - one on my wrist, my bed shaker and my smart lights (I have a cycle that goes from blue-green-yellow that works effectively well in waking me without being harsh).

Activity tracking makes sure I get up every hour (Thanks a lot, time blindness) and move a little. I pair getting up with getting some water. Without which, I would probably sit at my desk and lose a whole day from it. I forget my vitamins always, so I have a medication alert for that.

I never remember to check the weather so having it on my wrist makes sure I always know what it's going to be like outside.

I am always forgetting my phone, so the LTE on my wrist lets me know if someone is trying to reach me (my closest knows to just simply ring me for the alert and then send messages).

It's tremendously useful and lets me appear to function like a normal person.
It is really fascinating how sophosticated and advaced Venice was, from mass manufacturing of ships, policy and government and secret police. There are reason why, despite being geographically small, Venice dominated trade and a significant chunk of the mediteranean at the time.
Watches are pretty amazing, a mechanical engineering marvel crammed into tiny compartment that can easily keep working for 100 years with minimal upkeep, very sturdy, looking great at almost any design era and helping with time. I never got the lure of 'smart' watches of these days, they all look like plastic toys for kids including most expensive ones, definitely when compared to good mechanical watches. Also in formal environment its one of few 'jewelry' items that are always allowed along with wedding ring, anything else may raise eyebrows and give negative points depending on location/company.

I've seen people's OCD around me or similar issues getting worse with arrival of smart watches and nearly constant interruptions from notifications. Yet those folks don't turn them off even if I mention visible degradation on their part, I guess then they would end up with charging-needy expensive-yet-soon-obsolete gadget without much else (sport monitoring is cool for some folks, again I simply don't get the desire for constant measurements and comparisons - for me it takes away most of the fun that sports should be in first place, I focus on being challenged at my current level, not chasing some meaningless numbers).

I guess if one is 'free' from such things the described effect is less bad, but why the heck would I ever wanted to be notified instantly on my hand when something happens? Peace of mind and clear focus are rare and precious things these days, and this destroys it for few seconds of dopamine kick.
How the fuck was "public drug use" not already illegal?
>3. The sensors are rectangles and need to be aligned along their longest axes to maximize the most field of view.

The iPhone 14 could offer a lower FoV. The video format encodes the FoV of the recording already.
"Knowingly agrees" - that phrase is doing a lot. The average consumer who buys an iPhone has no idea about Apple approved apps or app store restrictions. There also not told about it when purchasing the device or setting it up.
Perhaps, but that is not what Epic vs Apple was about.
Makes totally sense, write everything manually in C, versus a full blown middleware engine using C# and C++ with industry wide support.
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At Happy Scribe we have a team of 6 Product Engineers building and maintaining a web application that serves 500k users per month and generates $6M in ARR. One of our secret tools: Ruby on Rails.
> Complex geometries with zero to varying porosities and 280 μm feature size are printed by our method,

> real printing is conducted with as low power as 20 W. The maximum streaming velocity is 20 mm/s for 210 W power, however, it is less than 3 mm/s for 20 W

> The PDMS system used in this paper is Sylgard 184, which is a two component system. The elastomer and the curing agent contain vinyl-terminated siloxane and Si-H moieties, respectively.

> Since we printed Sylgard-184 directly and purely without adding any toxic additives, the biocompatibility of the printed parts are expected.

> The printed parts are washed with isopropanol alcohol (IPA) to remove the uncured materials (similar to SLA printed parts) from the surface of the printed parts. Then the parts are placed in a 40 °C oven for half an hour for drying the washed parts and complete the curing process.

Cool tech. At 2.4 MHz, they're not joking calling it ultrasonic.
I live in Portland. Conservatives do not have anything to do with our city or the county of Multnomah. We haven't elected a conservative since the 80s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_McCready. We're the second highest taxed city in the nation.

If you ask me most of our problems come down to fraud/waste/abuse, mismanagement, and dysfunction.
If someone won't date you due to "green bubbles" ... I think you may have dodged a bullet.
Cog: Use Python in your source files to generate pieces of code (2021)
Very annoying Apple marketing speak! They can't use any technical words that would enable direct comparison with other products.
10 years ago that might have been true, but nowadays Apple doesn't give a single flying shit about fake/scammy apps on the iOS app store.

It's to the point where you can't look up local government apps here without getting some advertising garbage in the results first because Apple started selling app space.
Advertisements for prescription drugs are very heavily restricted in the US. And, as far as I know, companies selling prescription drugs may not encourage doctors to use them arbitrarily.

I don’t know whether anyone has ever tested the constitutionality of the relevant laws and regulations, but they exist and are enforced.
Thanks, taking a look now!
Sorry I meant setting up an account in the FB ecosystem. Prior to that I didn't use FB, WhatsApp or Instagram.
What is you experience with managers?

What has worked well and what do you believe is a red flag for a manager?
This mental model is oversimplified enough to be misleading, throwing up your hands too easily. See eg the Snowden revelations and pervasive passive eavesdropping, and the spectrum of increasingly risky/costly operations icreasingly valuable spoils that can't be had with easier methods. Rogue TLS certs are risky to use because the CA gets burned in the transparency logs.
Assuming just the inner core, using the lower bound for its temperature, specific heat capacity of iron, 20 TW being extracted, ignoring the extra power inputs in the form of radioisotope decay, crystallisation, tidal heating, I get 800 million years, which is close to when photosynthesis stops because of geological processes locking all the carbon away (trees stop working at about 600 million years, not sure about plants in general).
help, there's a new company that just made ~500 employees into millionaires. That raises inequality, not everyone can be a millionaire, fear not, the government is here. no more inequality.
And yet, Aspyr's port of Civ IV is 32-bit only.
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As a music producer who has been working with various DAWs, I've always been super jealous that programmers have git. Not just for version control but also for collaborations.

I always thought, it must be possible because sound is just a list of samples (numbers). Kind of like how a binary executable or assembly code is just a list of values or instructions.

Unfortunately most music software and plugins are proprietary as this industry did not have the same political movements (GNU, F(L)OSS, OSS, etc) that the computer industry had and most professional software has been created for professionals by companies.

It's interesting though because software like Ableton Live has an unlimited undo history but since it is proprietary one can't really look at it.
Technical documentation to code is what an index is to a database. Very small databases may not need an index, and technically large ones can work without an index. But they will be very slow. And yes, it takes effort to design good index structure for a complicated DB.
> There is more to life than paying taxes, and people contribute to society in many ways that aren’t financial.

What are they, and can I do them instead of paying taxes? Because paying taxes soaks up double digit percentages of my productive time and I reckon I could add a lot more value to society if I had alternatives.
It’s a lot, but not a crazy amount. Chemistry scales combinatorically, so if you find a single nitrogen to put a little e.g. acidic group on you’ve got yourself a couple of hundred possible substituents, many of which may have a similar effect on the body.
I see motion aberration in film, so I can't agree with this
In all fairness, the folks saying that the App store model isn't illegal, per last year's split judgment may want to consider Epic could re-open the case.

- Citing the current payment options open to most subscription services
- How practically do these other options end up saving the 30% fees structure for end consumers and businesses
- Explicit demonstrations of non-App Store purchases and restoration of ownership in games
- How Apple enforces App Store review processes for apps with other payment options

If these are proven and turn out to be hurting competition and customers, that lawsuit might see an overturn. We'll have to see where it goes.
I don't buy this "WFH makes downtowns drug-ridden war zones" dichotomy. I've been to downtown Portland before Covid, and it was pretty repulsive, just like SF. Sure, it has deteriorated in both places since, but that was not pre-determined. WFH != war zone in downtown.
> Like old DOS games, your options are to run on period hardware or virtualize.

Great. Where's the virtualization layer for running 32-bit apps on macOS?
While new CCS plants coming online can only be good for development of the technology, something about Sky News being given exclusive access to the new site concerns me. 50 tonnes of CO2 capture is bugger all, and I'd assume Sky (Murdoch) and their petrochem pals will use this to promote false claims about the sustainability of this technology. They mention the inefficiency of the tech in the article, but headlines are what matter. I'm concerned that those who don't know or think critically about the subject could be misled into believing that CCS is effective in its current state.
Okay, how does one emulate Mojave or earlier versions from within modern macOS?
Magical Briefings
These letters are indeed jewels... There's one sentence in a letter to Louise Colet has marked my life:

L'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe

The future torments us, the past holds us back -- that’s why the present escapes us.
I think this is closer to my point, which was that some ideas can only work at scale. That doesn't mean they will work at scale. But having them fail small doesn't prove or disprove anything.

So you come up with a federated database model for your company with 30 employees, and find yourself in dev hell and wasting resources on an expansion that could have been solved with a slightly larger monolith. That means you chose the wrong tool for the local job. It doesn't mean the other tool couldn't be effective for a larger job.
Crypto by Steven Levy is a great overview of the history of modern cryptography, but Serious Cryptography by JP Aumasson is an excellent technical place to start - if he's interested in coding things up it has a lot of useful examples and walkthroughs
Interior Desinger GPT by ReRoom AI
Some businesses end up having the blessing of almost infinite expansion.

Amazon ended up being one of them as it is in the commerce business.

Also, Amazon has been able to increase its bottom line lately and will likely increase its rate of improvement moving forward.
His blog is the best, especially when he talks about ancient versions of Windows. He talk about obscure details, but they're so interesting because they give you insight on how things were made!
That absolutely works for many 2D games where Unity is currently used just because it is the "industry standard" but is also complete overkill.
> avoiding too many calls to wasm and back

Well yeah, that because each call is basically an "optimization barrier" for the compiler (on both sides of the call), and of course the call itself also adds overhead, although that has been drastically reduced over the years.
> That includes those annoying update confirmation dialogs which make it impossible to install updates automatically without user interaction.

Important to note this has changed starting with android 12, now you just need accept installing the app, and the source can update the app without interaction.

Droidify (third party fdroid client) supports it, among others like Aurora store.
Many nation-scale systems are self regulating and past a certain point of growth new factors kick-in. When environmental protestors are talking about your brand specifically; When political parties take notice of your impact on voters; When social movements identify you specifically.

The British East India Company became too much like a government and had to be nationalised

Countries based their foreign policy around unseating General Motors

Standard Oil was directly regulated out of existence

They were sensible enough to take some profits while times were good
This is the type of content that never gets old.

The original post [1] was ranking #4 as the highest-upvoted story on Hacker News before it got kicked to #5 last August by Bram Moolenaar's death announcement [2], then to #6 after Altman's saga ranked #3 a few weeks ago.

Over all, this story is classified as #1 in creative content that is not in the genre of news or announcements.

_____________________________

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324
> Some businesses end up having the blessing of almost infinite expansion.

Without getting all Erlich/Simons, this is bad economics.

It's a logistical curve. it looks remarkably good until the inflection to asymptote happens. Market saturation happens. If you don't bring the undeveloped world with you there's no growth. If you do bring them with you then some goods sell for 2 dong in Vietnam and $20 in the USA.

No cost reduction or rate of improvement will get Amazon above longterm ROI trends forever. I agree it's been a remarkable run.
You can do hjkl -> arrows, and some other stuff. But it's extremely arcane.

You can see it here[1], it works together with us-internationl layout which I happen to use, and it has some other stuff crammed in too (ctrl+j/k -> ctrl+pageup/pagedown, and some specific symbols).

https://github.com/benjajaja/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.conf...
The new local data stack: Integrating Dagster, dbt and DuckDB
We (Aleksandar and Georg) want to share our new blog post on: "Dagster, dbt, DuckDB as new local MDS" here.
It re-introduces the local environment to enhance the developer productivity for data pipelines by bringing back software engineering best practices.
We suggest that PaaS platforms should become an implementation detail and refine the new local stack with great a data consumer experience by combining the best of both worlds.

Please take a read here: https://georgheiler.com/2023/12/11/dagster-dbt-duckdb-as-new...

We (Georg Heiler and Aleksandar Milicevic) are keen to discuss the proposed new stack with you.
Do not hesitate to reach out.
> There is a difference between selling donuts in the coffee shop and preventing anyone who drinks your coffee from buying a competitor's donuts.

Isn't the resolution the same in each case? If you have an iPhone and you want to install an app from another store, you have to buy another phone. It's the same with these deals with Android, just overt.
Probably; SMS seems to only be widely used these days in the US. Everyplace else, for personal communications, people mostly use various chat apps.
Change Agent: Gene Sharp's Neoliberal Nonviolence (Part One) (2019)
»The turn to neoliberalism, aided by Sharp’s politics of nonviolent action, has produced the “State decentralization” Sharp favored. In practice, this has meant deregulation of industry, privatization of public assets, deep tax cuts for the wealthiest, austerity for the rest. But tellingly, and perhaps somewhat tragically, it takes only a quick glance at the news to recognize it is very hard to argue that neoliberal hegemony has produced, as Sharp hoped it would, more democracy, more freedom, or more peace.«
It wasn't about building houses or anything like that. From the article:
"[..] the logs may have formed part of a walkway or the foundation of a platform built over wetlands."
I imagine that this could be useful when you want to perform multiple operations on a subset of the data from the database at the client-side. So you load the RESULTDB to client and then perform subsequent queries client-side and those actually do the JOINs

This could dramatically reduce the load on the database for some applications as well as simplifying some queries that can be awkward to do fully in SQL (some GROUP BYs can get quite complicated to understand)

Another useful thing I can see is using this to simplify the creation of edge databases backed by a central database, like imagine creating a RESULTDB "view" at the edge using this syntax.
Ya, I tested it in the first year and it was worse than publisher data by a wide margin. I will take another look soon to see if it improved. And maybe I can use their data to augment publisher data and improve the overall quality.
> Pretty much. Google Play services runs as like a root process that can (among other things) bypass all the security checks that the OS usually has.

Unnecessarily mind you, GrapheneOs proved that you can get the vast majority of GMS functionality without it needing to run as root.
Even Gpay would work if google allowed it.

> That includes those annoying update confirmation dialogs which make it impossible to install updates automatically without user interaction.

This has changed with android 12, third-party sources can now auto update an app after a user accepts the initial prompt go install it.
*Meta
They definitely do not get their say. If groups of folks cannot vote in any election (in the US, this is the case: Immigrants here get to vote in local elections but no such rights generally exist in the US. Felons cannot vote. Children and teens cannot vote).

Representatives in the US tend not to listen to those that cannot vote and generally dismiss a lot of folks that Do.

Democracy is a name, sure, but flawed democracies are more common than unflawed ones. Those flaws generally mean that some folks' voice is supressed. The US was a "democracy" even while it enslaved millions of folks that it did not allow to vote. Once these folks became "free", many still could not vote. IT was a democracy then, too.
Nearly 40% of U.S. homes are mortgage-free, census shows
The difference is that Epic was instrumental to creation, whereas Google is only rent-seeking.
Late to the party, but I’ve been playing ‘For The King’ a bit recently, it’s a rogue-like, turn-based, table-top strategy with nice cartoony graphics and a fun gameplay and unlocks loop.
Thank you for your information. I love all the posts by Joel, he always keeps it inspiring and entertaining. Currently, at Ottava, we are in the initial stages of verifying essential features, such as pivoted data entry and the integrated workflow combining data manipulation and analysis. While the option to export to Excel is not yet available, it is certainly planned for future roadmap.
HN website is/was down. I'm curious why?
This article is of 2014. Note at the bottom:

> January 2021
> The essay above is now rather old, and amongst other things, it was written before Amazon started disclosing financials for AWS and for Marketplace. I wrote about that here, and have written a few other things about Amazon as well.
After some checking, it seems to be an issue with the free Heroku instance they are running.
Also how GPT-4 works
It would work better if the cameras were further apart, about 6cm, giving the same parallax as the average human eyes. Right now the system has to make up what is behind objects in the picture as it can't really see for rea.
HN is down for me.
£20 says it was DNS
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It's all working for me, but everything's super super slow. Usually opening pages in private mode/not-logged-in is fast, but not this time.

It almost seems like DDoS on CDN or something like that.
> Why?

It wasn't written in rust.
Slow News.Y Combinator.com
What is going on?
> "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!" --Charles Stross

This does properly describe Gideon The Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir.
That they didn't start original development in Rust is beyond me /s
WeRide's swift achievement of both M1 and T1 licenses within three months, from the arrival of its Robobus at the Centre of Excellence for Testing and Research of Autonomous Vehicles to obtaining these licenses, sets a record for expedited licensing in Singapore.
Oh well, I cant start the day now.
I wouldn't be using Hackernews if it wasn't for the community and moderation.

This website is terribly bad:
- UX/UI is terrible and not user friendly
- Infrastructure and the code is like COBOL from the 80s
- No notifications when someone replies to your comment
- Profile section is non-existent
- API is just as bad as the website

I could go on with the list, but you get the idea... for a website which receives millions of visitors, it's a shame that it's so bad.
The UX and the lack of notifications are part of the reason I really like it!
12:01 AM on the 12th of the 12th. Coincidences are cool
Slackord: Migrate Slack messages into a Discord server
super super slow too, probably DDoS
It's not about what made Android successful, it's about what made OEMs ship Android rather than something else. OEMs were conned by Google with an open platform that was then shut by secret deals with some of them. That cost the others who weren't in on the secret deals and it cost consumers in missed opportunities. Take away that scam, and perhaps Android never would have got the OEM momentum it did.
Why the downvotes? I honestly don’t understand.
Interesting Addressable LED Curtain
Htmx Is a Erlang