skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As per the company's older One Way Aerospace website, the system's starting cost is $25,999 USD. However, more recent figures suggest that the baseline configuration costs as little as $15,000 USD, with additional features potentially raising the figure to around the $30,000 mark.

While relatively "cheap", I'm optimistic a sub $10k drone would be achievable with some creative engineering.
Possibly related: https://github.com/SukkaW/nolyfill vs. ljharb and nodejs 4
It's just a funny misphrasing of his name.
Plenty of displays use various temporal and spatial dithering methods
Segfaults are reported in section 10 of

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=189992958054266148

The paper also reports in section 7 the state-of-the-art in statistical tests --- DIEHARD and NIST STS seem obsoleted by TESTU01.
I think a contest would be antithetical to the idea being circled here. The early web (to me) was filled with content front people who put out there because they wanted to share. Put your page up because here’s something you think is cool. I feel like it loses something with a contest.
Yea, companies using H-1B to hire cheap workers fought the changes hard.
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? [video]
Not really. If the costs are equal, then there is no point in investing in a new technology, new plants etc. that don't provide a competitive advantage.

What's the startup question again?

What about your new product is 10x better than the incumbent?

Not sure too many VCs have advised companies as follows: "Hey your new product is exactly as good as the incumbent, you have an absolute winner on your hands here. Where do we need to send the check?"
I go to a restaurant. I ask the waiter, "does this sandwich have mustard on it?" The waiter responds "No, this sandwich does not have mustard." I order the sandwich and find it has loads of yellow mustard on it. I go to the waiter and ask what gives, and he replies "well, it doesn't have any Grey Poupon."

Was the waiter correct in telling me "this sandwich does not have mustard"?

Is saying "there were no ads" when the fact is there were ads correct? Even if we were to just scope it to pre-roll ads, the argument that cable offered "freedom from ads" overall is untrue. Because there were still ads on most cable content, whether that be interruption style ads (which did exist) or pre-roll.

Saying the point of cable was freedom from ads is rewriting history. Most of cable had ads from day one. A few channels didn't correct. But that's not all of cable, and that was never the main point of cable.

And I did get the reference to the joke. It still doesn't change the fact the Sci-Fi channel had ads since its inception and yet you somehow didn't notice until recently, which was my whole point.
conspiracy is simply private coordination
Up to the client really, I know that Lagrange[1] supports this.

[1]https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
The mop doesn’t get moldy for me. What I meant is that there are such reports for other vacuums. The base station is sizable, yes, but tbf it does carry a lot of liquid and dust storage.
I actually wish Mozilla put out a dedicated password manager.

They have Sync, and they have SoPS (or well, used to?).

I'd gladly pay extra for it
Anyone want to try to figure out the gas costs for deploying 30GB worth of smart contracts? xD
> Simple Mobile Tools was sold?

It looks like Tibor and Naveen are still in command:

https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools
The FF address bar is an extremely unappreciated and under-praised search apparatus. I use it wholesale, dozens of times a day, and it can almost completely replace bookmarks (if you have a memory for titles and keywords), so it has for me, but the whole conceit only works if you sync history.

Syncing bookmarks is similar in reasoning and just as valuable. Syncing history and bookmarks both and abusing the address bar's search feature means I can have a two-tiered sync system where things that get bookmarked become "read later, forget now" and things like a documentation page for an ORM's conventions don't need to be bookmarked and can still be near-instantly and directly visited.

Syncing browser settings and extensions makes setting up a new machine or reinstalling or whatever trivially easy. Firefox felt right on my new work machine in a couple minutes.

There's autocomplete for credit cards, personal details, and address information that you can manually curate and sync as well. I don't trust it with my CC info, but having Firefox (on all devices) know who I am and where I live has saved me three minutes here and there dozens of times.
Okay, now you made me want actually look into that ;) I should be able to recreate the old code (it was years ago, but I still have the script) and make a comment if I end up actually finding statistical anomalies.
Loads for ages, prompts for player name. smh...
News flash. The demand has started to slow down.

20 years ago, the Chinese backlog used to be in the decades range. Now it's 2 years.

The Indian backlog used to be multi-decade too, but is now 11.

Already, we've had engineers at portfolio companies decide to return to India to either earn a dollar salary or start their own startup.

At this point, we've decided to straight up outsource jobs to India, Israel, and Eastern Europe. The talent base we need doesn't exist in the US.

These guys could have become taxing paying members of American society. Now they'll make contributions to India, Eastern Europe, and Israel instead
Yeah, a functional approach is fine. In reality you can think of an "update" to a tuple in a relation as a "replace this relation-valued variable with a new one where this tuple has been modified." And so mutations to base relations ("tables" in SQL parlance) just means changing the value of that relation in in the global shared, named base relation list. And if you use a persistent data structure behind the scene, and do CoW etc, you can even probably make this relatively efficient...

And I don't think it's so much structural typing, as it is defining method/function dispatch off predicate matches. More.. structural values? Clumsily:

Disconnect(connection_id) = with project ConnectionState CS where CS.Id = connection_id {
if CS.state != 'connected
Raise('not_connected)
else
CS.state = 'disconnected
}
After observing how quickly Texas turned women's healthcare into criminal activity, I'm inclined to disagree.
I'm sorry to say I'm as confused as I was before I read these sentences.

Let me try to rephrase: with X Windows, the UI server runs on your local machine, while the UI client runs on the remote machine (e.g. your application's server). Is that correct?
Any even remotely WADA compliant drug testing uses chromatography, this story is most likely false.
Firefox needs to celebrate the small wins I guess.
Vim is the only tool I've been able to use at every place I've ever worked at, from intern to staff engineer in three FAANG companies. I've watched tool teams spend months integrating the latest GUI editor, only for it to get killed by corporate acquisitions and replaced with N+1 that offers an almost identical feature set.

Meanwhile there's always a community of vim and emacs users who build all the internal integrations by themselves. Vim and Emacs aren't editors, they're platforms and communities, and the benefit of using them over VSCode of JB is that you get to be a part of these communities that attract the best talent, give the best troubleshooting advice, and share advanced configurations for everything and anything you could possibly ever want. They are programmable programming environments first and foremost, and that attracts people who are good at programming and like to hack on stuff.

Technologists who choose the propriety path of least resistance when it comes to their most important tools I think are ultimately missing out in a lot of ways, least of all is the actual editing experience. A craftsman should understand his tools inside and out, and picking something you can't fully disassemble and doesn't have the breath of knowledge a tried and true open source tool ultimately becomes just as frustrating as the initial learning curve of these older tools.
I used to think my wife was silly for spending more at beauty stores for her skincare products, but after realizing how insane Amazon's quality controls are, I think someone needs to actually shut them down. I wonder if there are any grounds for lawsuits. The number of counterfeit products they sell, even under "Sold by Amazon.com" is WILD. Zero supply chain discipline.
To reply to your edit, you are making my case for me.

One of my points is that FOSS can be worse for the end user because companies like Juniper can take a lot of it and make it proprietary. This is true even for the GPL in these SaaS days.

I personally think that copyleft is a necessary thing for non-FOSS SAMS because of this.
The fact that it is easy to confuse the server with the client in X, it does not change the fact that the XServer and XEmacs are running on different computers, so each interaction is a round-trip.
>OTC Hearing Aids: What You Should Know [Content current as of 05/03/2023]

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/hearing-aids/otc-hearing...

>A Complete Guide to Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids [Updated November 7, 2023]

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/hearing-aids/complete...

>Guide to over-the-counter hearing aids and personal sound amplifiers [November 9, 2023]

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-rngr6ToVv4q/learn/otc-hearing-...

>The Best Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids and Other Hearing Solutions [Updated December 4, 2023]

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-over-the-cou...

https://archive.ph/tjyaU
FF sync reliably fails for me. No matter how often I disconnect/reconnect devices. It's not worth the hassle for me.
> Any slightly lengthy text will just bury you in a desert of letters.

So what do you make of books, then?

I don't think people "keep trying to make Gemini happen" in the sense that you mean. They're not aiming to replace the web. They've got a cozy little community that likes the 'smol', text-based web. And while 90% of people might think they're crazy, there are others out there who would like it too if only they knew it existed. Posts like this make the community a few individuals larger. I think that's the goal.
EV Chargers then. Search for Level 2 EV Charger. The number of generic chineesium chargers available that will move 40amps of power in your garage without UL or ETL certification is mind-boggingly high.

I've seen some advertise "UL Safety Report", which I assume is weasel-words for "We failed UL certification so we can't actually say the magic phrase 'UL Listed'".

I've seen some claim to be UL Listed without being able to find them on the UL site.

Sure, it's nice to buy a cheap chinesium drone, but something moving 40amps of power and heat in your home without accepted safety checks? That feels like something that should have some liability on the merchant's side when it burns something down.
> I think the main benefit is community involvement in submitting bugs, contributing changes, writing docs, and being part of the project.

I disagree entirely. You're describing various communities around various OSS projects, and what you're describing is fantastic. However, none of it is inherent to OSS. There are more OSS projects out there that have no community around than those that do, but they are no less OSS.
I recently documented some similar thoughts on the “cheap” web:

[1] https://potato.cheap

IMO, protocol is largely a distraction from the good stuff.

The question I’ve been wondering lately is, “why don’t most people I meet have personal websites?”
> Amazon needs to stop co-mingling inventory

That alone would solve 99% of the problems, as dedicated inventory would allow to quickly weed out the bad actors.
I didn’t make up the word underemployment, economists did.

Here is some data that tries to at least look at this question: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/06/does-majoring...

The gross number is only 1/3 of stem degree lead to stem jobs. But that includes quite a bit of soft degree's, still in the ballpark of half of all graduates not working in their field.

> software jobs

Yes there is higher demand for software which is met with higher wages and drawing underemployed people with other degrees as well as immigration. The immigration restriction argument is that increasing that part of the equation will lower wages and increase corporate control of their workforce.

So an alternative way to meet that demand is to hire us citizens who have those qualifications or a related degree that could be trained.
> you are better served elsewhere such as Yandex

What an interesting example you picked considering its tight affiliation with Russian Gov and the well known record of censoring news and search results

Just one of examples https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/01/a-window-into-yandex...
What an idiotic system! Any sane policy would just put a max number of annual visas or total active visa holders and choose the best value applicants based on a scoring system, but no we can't have nice things.
Thank you, today I've learned something new.

So the easiest answer to the original question (whether a number is even or odd) likely involves &1, not %2. Note taken.
The US has double taxation treaties with tons of countries. Every remote worker I knows benefit from it.
Bc you are DMA-ing the raw bits into cache with the GPU, but the CPU is going to check those ECC codes on read as the caches on Apple SoC's are ECC-native. It's an integrity 'protection' not a security 'protection'
If its economically relevant us will use its iron fist to have its laws adopted the world over, like most things such as copyright or drugs
How many of those 3B would qualify for an H-1B absent any caps? How many more STEM professionals could the US absorb at something close to current salaries?
Wait, I can put it under pressure and it will make me money?
Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)
Simple:

Take the Vogtle-3 time, divide by average time to construct a nuclear reactor.

Apply factor to Lazard "estimate".
I was able to recreate this, eventually. I deleted my earlier comment where I failed to reproduce it - my method of extracting a bitstream from the list of numbers was flawed.

First, I greedily requested 10,000 random numbers from xkcd with a script. These numbers are here so nobody need re-commit my deed: https://gist.github.com/tonyb486/0da38e7575071f241551d14101a...

Then, I filtered out all numbers 2048 and above so that I just had 11 bits of entropy from each number from [0,2048). I converted that to a stream of binary in ASCII, 11 bits per random number.

I fed that list of 78100 bits into STS, as 100 streams of 780 bits. It segfaulted, but it had already written out some results:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RESULTS FOR THE UNIFORMITY OF P-VALUES AND THE PROPORTION OF PASSING SEQUENCES
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
generator is <xkcd.ascii>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 P-VALUE PROPORTION STATISTICAL TEST
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
13 15 7 9 7 6 9 11 17 6 0.137282 97/100 Frequency
13 5 10 12 11 7 4 10 12 16 0.191687 98/100 BlockFrequency
13 11 14 9 2 9 10 7 13 12 0.249284 97/100 CumulativeSums
11 10 12 11 1 10 9 15 8 13 0.181557 98/100 CumulativeSums
6 6 8 18 9 8 11 14 7 13 0.122325 99/100 Runs
16 7 6 12 13 9 7 14 9 7 0.275709 97/100 LongestRun
10 13 12 0 23 0 18 0 24 0 0.000000 * 99/100 FFT

Delightful.
Agreed. Though to be clear, I meant legal right to privacy, not necessarily in practice. The USPS cannot legally open mail without a warrant, whereas any LEO can legally just ask google for access to your emails and google can legally just give it to them.
For Desktop, I'm a big fan of Wails. On mobile, I used React Native for a while however I recently switched to Flutter and couldn't be happier. Although Flutter does support desktop apps, I prefer Wails since I find Go more ergonomic and performant for desktop programming.
Hi, I'm the primary developer and designer of Formulator. Currently, we don't intent on open sourcing.
I think the big difference is stated purpose vs execution, especially combined with who/when that elicits a response vs passive agreement/disagreement. An extremely small proportion of even the super techno-nerd crowd are really about the principles of open source, all other considerations be damned, when selecting software to use. That said, when something claiming supposed to be the bastion for that use case and antithesis of what the closed for profits do does something they'd expect from the latter it elicits an extremely strong response from nearly all of those that are as well as a good portion of those who have other considerations just because of the hypocrisy. Windows/macOS adding a new Bing or Siri integration somewhere, while getting some mumblings, isn't going to illicit nearly the same kind of reaction from the crowd though as everyone already knows and expects that of them. The majority of even highly technical users tend to use software based on what they find most productive, not necessarily the software with the best policies and licensing. So, statistically speaking, you tend to get complaints about open source software not being up to snuff or principle followed by most people choosing non-open software much of the time anyways because they feel it works better for them.

For Firefox specifically, it's long failed at holding the web back from Chrome and the choice isn't about that anymore. That title has firmly been with Safari for a long time now. Because Safari isn't available on all platforms it leaves not much of a concern to choose a Chromium based browser outside that group who operate solely on principle not 100% of the browser is open source.

I think for a long time Firefox languished a bit too far behind Chromium in many architectural aspects (I remember waiting fooooreeever for Electrolysis then when it came out the browser was significantly slower than Chrom* at the time). This comparison is leaps and bounds better today but it's a bit of a day late, dollar short situation in that it's not better enough to get droves of people to switch over again like the IE vs Firefox era.

The other thing I'll mention is when the topic of browsers comes up people's goto is the last issue they personally had with each. Given the size and complexity of browsers combined with the amount of hardware, OS, and use case variance this tends to feel more akin to people arguing whether lottery numbers skew odd vs even based on their last experience than anything about the actual browsers. Even when the discussion steers towards talk of a specific feature a lot of the time that feature didn't even originate in the browser it's being brought up for.
> Even in 2023 you can get vim to be more powerful than VS Code. But it's that much more difficult.

I absolutely agree, assuming you're using "powerful" in the same sense as saying that a Turing machine is more powerful than a MacBook.
Absolutely. And Amazon should also pay for it!
Product development is not synonymous with providing economic value.
Why Patents?
If we’re going to have an honest conversation, Sildenafil does have some serious potential side effects and contraindications. Googling “why does viagra require a prescription?” I get an answer attributed to Healthline: “due to these severe (but rare) side-effects, Viagra requires a prescription”. At least acknowledge that, it is a good reason.

A doc visit does take time but it neither takes 2 hours nor costs $100 for me, co-pay is still $20 I think (or maybe covered 100% once a year), and the visit might be 45 minutes when the clinic is pretty busy. There is plenty that’s messed up and wrong with our health care system and insurance, but maybe the minor hurdle of having to require a doc to check on the potential for side-effects really is justified?

Another decent reason, I speculate, is that the drug is relatively new and we don’t know the long term effects of overuse, nor all of the contraindications. If it’s available over the counter and many men use it when they don’t really need it, just because it’s available and easy, there could be dramatic unforeseen consequences. Like a lot of drugs, Viagra might be something that people look to as an easier alternative to changing habits or doing preventative work.
Yes correct, Greencard is not tied to maintaining current employment or having a visa, its a separate process. I know ppl who came to USA for the first time on a greencard. I was addressing the word "meanwhile" in your comment, i guess it technically possible that someone gets their greencard applied while they are on OPT/vistor visa/some other visa ect and then go through the h1b lottery.

just saw this.

> What else is wrong?

> And when they finally get PR/citizenship, their (now quite old) parents have no hope of receiving PR/citizenship

Family based greencards have current wait time of ~11months start to finish.
I wish there was an extension that would make it work in Chromium based browsers. I use Firefox in windows while gaming ... but for dev work on Linux I use Brave. I use Xbookmarksync to sync bookmarks and Bitwarden for passwords. It basically works but I have a Firefox account anyway and history could be sync across browsers and maybe some setting that exist in both the same way.
Rust 1.75.0
I might be able to share some insights on this one : I worked on the uses-cases, tech design and first deployments of RFID at decathlon, back in… 2008-2009 I guess.

We faced major issues back then, but the most important one was the cost of tagging every single product ; both cost of the tag and cost of attaching it (comparatively, antennas and IT where marginal costs at scale). Back in the end of the 2000s, tags were more expensive than today. Decathlon had one major advantage though : it manufactures most of the product. That means we could add the tag in the label at the factory. But still, to make it economically viable, we had to pile-up multiple uses cases. Every single one was important in the balance to justify buying so many tags and tagging so many products. So we went very creative, designing new ways to reduce costs in the whole manufacturing/logistics/storage/retail/after-life chain. Because no single advantage was enough by itself. We also had to imagine these new enablers and uses-cases with the state of this new technology (especially at the time) : airwaves are difficult to predict, and not 100% perfect in terms of detection, collision, …

We invented new ways to do things that were mostly already done, but cheaper (in man-hours for repetitive tasks mostly), better (quality and fiability of results), and/or more frequently. Thing logistics optimization (wrong door / parcel detected earlier), whole lifecycle and whereabouts tracking (for defective product callbacks for example), daily inventory (we had the idea to use cleaning carts with antenas to have a daily store inventory), NOSBOS (« not on shelves but on stock », detecting prodcts that where in inventory but not available at this specific moment in the department/shelf), warranty tracking, …

At the end of the story, self-checkout is mostly a by-product, not a target for the deployment. It’s something that was made possible but not a first target.
This is fascinating. It's like a more complex game of life than John connoway's. It's crazy that little creatures seem to form at such small scales easily with these parameters. It's almost like the parameters of our real universe intentionally made it difficult to form life, rather than easy as some people seem to think.
My experience with using Firefox as my only password manager has been great. Aside from functioning as intended on my computer, it makes it easy to access them on Android (shortcut to passwords if you long-press the app, systemwide password provider integration)