skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were profitable, they'd be profiting.

Parking lots are parking lots because they require low CapEx, almost no OpEx. You buy some abandoned land, raze it, asphalt it, charge $30 a day per space (at let's say 75 spaces), tow the rest (at the driver's expense). You're pulling in a little under $67k/month. Wait for a commercial developer to come buy and take it off your hands for 3x its value.

You know how much it costs to dig up the ground, install power lines, a box, then bury footings, bolt in legs, install panels, etc, 9+ feet high? For a whole parking lot? $300k-500k, minimum (that's how much it costs just to install a small fleet of EV chargers btw, that's not doing major construction over an area the size of half a football field).

How much you gonna make off these panels? A 200kW panel array generates about 480MWh/yr, which at 1MW/$40 comes out to about $19,200/year in SREC credits. PA energy price is $0.18/KWh, so 480MW is $24/hr. But you're making 80% efficiency and it's not sunny all day all year, so at even 50% usage, that's $24,960/year. Almost a third of what the parking lot makes a month. Before we talk paying back installation costs, assuming your net metering deal is perfect.

It would be cheaper to build a multi-story garage, where you'd make WAY more money.
Forgive my frequentist bent, but:

When in doubt, simulate (with code). Do this N times for a large N, and take the ratio to get a probability estimate.

So the question is: How will you code it? You'll find half the people code it one way (to get one answer), and the other half will code it differently to get a different answer. That's because it is ill posed.

As an example, I would code it as:

Let n be a random number from 1 to 100 (cannot be 0!)

We throw away one red ball as we know we picked one.

Construct a list of n-1 red balls, and 100 - n green balls.

Pick a ball at random. Success if it is red.

Repeat this N times where N is large.

Take the ratio of successes with N.

When I run it, I get 50%

How would you simulate it differently?

The problems with the code in the submission:

If n==0, he continues, but still counts it as a trial (he still divides by num_trials). He should deduct the number of trials every time n==0.
Time will tell. The naivety in that quote is impressive.
Those do sound like terrible experiences. Maybe I've just been really lucky.
I believe: https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Intelligence-Revised-Manage...
Ask HN: What Is Afflicting WhatsApp
For almost a year now, WhatsApp has been slow to deliver messages, sometimes delivering after 15-30 minutes. Video calls have such poor quality that they are unusable now. I could think of a few reasons:

- "Optimizations" to Android from Google or Samsung throttling the quality
- Overloading of Meta infra due to the recent maddening surge of business accounts
- "Optimizations" from Meta for example reducing infra usage or using untested compression, e.g. ML-based schemes
- Deliberate quality reduction from Meta in an effort to lead users to (future) paid plans

Speaking to friends and family the issue happens on iOS too so not a platform issue. It could be overloading but I'd be surprised Meta has not detected it themselves and I could find at least one StackOverlfow thread with someone suggesting a bug in Meta cloud API being used by business too so its not just the free consumers. It has been going long enough to backfire if a paid plan was the real alternative. WhatsApp has great penetration, especially in India and it would be foolish of them to push users away towards alternatives like Telegram.
why would this get flagged when it was a simple description of the TFA
It seems to me they are using it, but as you mentioned navigation may not be the purpose. There may be none. It may just be that insects that do this congregate and reproduce thus it’s just a mate finding thing that’s evolved. Since insects often have short lives, I’d guess it also explains why they’re always doing it (they need to mate asap).

Might also explain why they don’t go directly to the light but eventually end up there circling it erratically, increased odds of bumping into a mate.
the problem with using this in plane is you cannot have your macbook in your carry on bag. You have to remove it from your bag and open the screen lid and see it with your vision pro headset to connect to it. This is not maybe an issue if you are flying business class and with economy class I don't find it comfortable - plane tables are too small and macbook pro 16'' too big and heavy for such environment.
My First Post-Mortem
See how it feels to make the first serious software incident at a company & what i learned from it
There is no need for a self-hosted option. You could use Obsidian or LogSeq, they have a host of features including Markdown support. They support Android, iPhone/Mac, Linux, and Windows. Both offer cloud options that are encrypted. However both app's cloud features are behind a paywall, and LogSeq's is currently in alpha.
No you’d be sitting at a desk with a mouse and keyboard, like today
$50/month to subscribe, which gets you tools, advice, and bill negotiation support.

Then separately they may ask you to opt in to additional payments to other members. I see a generosity score, but I don't see if they explain how that's calculated or how that impacts receiving funds when you need them.
You may have trouble on this with systemd-resolved on Linux, which is hard-coded to refuse to resolve TLDs with a single label. :-(

A few years ago I wrongly thought that the ai TLD no longer had an A record because of that. Grumble!
Intel sold their XScale family of processors to Marvell in 2006.

I remember very well as back then I was working in University porting Linux to an Intel XScale development platform we had gotten recently.

After I completed the effort, Android was released as a public beta and I dared to port it too to that Development Board as a side project. I thought back then Intel was making a big mistake by missing that opportunity. But Intel were firm believers in the x86 architecture, specially on their Atom Cores.

Those little Intel PXA chips were actually very capable, I had back then my own Sharp Zaurus PDA running a full Linux system on an Intel ARM chip and I loved it. Great performance and great battery life.
I like your positive attitude to this. Do you feel any sense of loss over the possibility your skill (being extremely good in math) might soon be overtaken by machines? Or do you see no possibility of that happening anytime soon?
Good luck doing so being russian
>Since any use of the variable is undefined behavior

use of the variable as an lvalue is not undefined
Disagree. The type of people that like Instagram won't just arbitrarily start using threads which appeals to different audience. In that sense we will see if demand for a new twitter can just be created out of the user-base of Instagram. I have my doubts.
I remember a paragraph in Wired and an only slightly more extensive website than the current one pager.

ChuckMcM has more on them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200231
The book Innumeracy that you linked: why did you call it "the Erdos book"? It is not connected to Erdős in any way, as far as I can tell.
Have you even looked at the Apple store? Some of the base Macbook Pro builds cost the same as the Vision Pro. They go up from there.

The Vision Pro is hardly "priced higher than almost any other apple product in history."
This is it exactly. I’m surprised the HN crowd isn’t immediately picking up the bandwidth issues with streaming unlimited 4k screens from your MacBook.
Firefox's builtin DoH ignores /etc/hosts. I'd prefer systemwide DoH instead.
Most likely they’re not using the new impeller rendering engine. My flutter app is very smooth on iOS and I didn’t have to put in any fancy hacks to make it that way.
Update : I tried to log in again. Again, code sent to my recovery email, and I keyed in the number. This time, the message changed : "We can’t sign you in at the moment. Please try again in a while"

So this is probably a yahoo issue not an issue with my password. Sadly, chat, support centre and calls could not help solve the issue. I guess I'll have to wait and try to log in again to see if I can finally log in.
If it's too far to bike or the weather is lousy you can always take public transport. Bikeable cities are easy to cover with public transport.
The lack of a pipe organ is a very bad oversight.
Yep, focused on the play button on a YouTube video to get my mouse there and then my eyes immediately went back to the center of the video a fraction before I clicked the mouse button.
Not as a welder, as a welding workshop sole proprieter with employees, including children.

> He has 10 apprentices - aged between 12 and 20 - at the workshop where he is teaching them the skills of the trade.

> "Even as apprentices, he gives us 10,000 naira every month and a daily stipend for food."

That's $11.36 per month. How much does the owner keep if retained earnings meet or exceed a normal salary for an academic in Nigeria?

> Academics in Nigeria have long struggled on modest salaries, most earning between 350,000 naira ($390; £305) and 500,000 ($555; £435) a month

More than about 80%, if there are no other costs. This is a story about entrepreneurship, not a recognition of manual skill, or an expose of underpaid academics.
Where I live the prices at local stores are pretty much the same as at the bigger stores farther away.
while we catch up to other forms of dealing with our climate overheating.

Your approach is called "not having to deal with our climate overheating". Anything that fits in the "let's avoid it" bin is far more likely to happen.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but here's my take on global warming: We've spend decades terra-forming our planet in a very lucrative fashion. The only way to get out of this is if the solution is _more_ lucrative than the problem.
Yes, I agree. However, I don’t necessarily see this book title as an imperative to innovate. Patent trolling can also be a way to deal with competitors.

After all, Apple and ARM came from the idea to have better end user products around softer factors than shear CPU power. Since Intel‘s products aren’t highly integrated Phones nor assembled computer, Intel had no stake directly.

It is complex.
Working with Colors in JavaScript
The decline of username and password on the same page
Well you have no sources and you can be full of it. But following the scientific method, I’ll try your hypothesis next chance I have! :D
Which in itself makes the entire ruling a farce by this judge.

A court opinion should not be the same as a opinion news article posted on CNBC.
Not gonna lie, I had a professor who retired from Intel as a director or something like that. Worst professor I had the entire time. We couldn't have class for a month because he 'hurt his back,' then half us saw him playing a round of golf two days later.
So is digging it up and transporting it...
Besides the obvious tech challenges, I wonder which organization would decide for all of humanity to block some of the energy they use to live off. Besides the risks from destabilizing our world even further and then having no 'undo' button.

High tech solutions like this will only be used to postpone the inevitable need for real action, they are more likely to make matters worse than better. The developed part of the world needs to get its emissions under control and needs to curb its consumption. The rest is a sideshow.
The VNC client can display whatever the server sends it. Doesn't even have to actually be images of a desktop at all.
I have a feeling this has to do with AI and all the lawsuits regarding content and copyright, storing and displaying the contents of a third party website to the end user might not be the best idea right now (I know the way back machine exists but they’re not a for profit company like google).
Sounds like this is specific to the Cupertino widgets? I’m not using those because I think they’re just going to put you in the uncanny valley of almost native Mac UI.

The material stuff looks good and performs well and at this point users have more desktop apps on their machine that don’t use native controls than do.

My flutter app is way more responsive and efficient than the electron prototype it replaced.
Idgi. What feels right has always been very high numbers.
No one is saying shittier oculus quest. It has a much higher resolution and I presume people will get used to letting their eyes linger a bit longer on what they want to click. We’re so used to a mouse paradigm we try to immediately apply that here.
*Chocolate > Vanilla; Vanilla > Strawberry; Strawberry > Chocolate*

Having real trouble grokking what is incoherent / irrational about this. Seems to me that e.g. preferring Strawberry to Chocolate does not interact at all with my feelings about Vanilla in some other contest?

Sure - given a choice between three flavours, this set of preferences gets you nowhere. But isn't that because we're comparing three objects, two at a time?
A friend of mine lives in Argentina. It's a nice place to live... Except in the second tier city he lives in, they steal everything. He had a bag of sand for mixing concrete with that was left outside. As soon as it was emptied enough for a single person to lift, someone stole the bag of sand.
The HN link mangler got it. The link is https://isc.sans.edu/diary/How+to+Find+Hidden+Cameras+in+you...
Link should be:
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/How+to+Find+Hidden+Cameras+in+you...
See also

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

https://beej.us/guide/bgc/
Correct link https://isc.sans.edu/diary/How+to+Find+Hidden+Cameras+in+you...
VisionOS is pretty limited right now and seems like a much larger leap to justify that iPad vs iOS was.
What country are you in? Some places block parts of WhatsApp; I've seen calls blocked when messages work when travelling, for example. Your ISP could be throttling video calls. Anecdotally, messages deliver quickly for me.
I remember reading about them, they had some crazy features too.
> They've moved up so many process nodes so quickly and have made some earnest headway in being an actual fab.

I'd buy this if they'd actually built a fab, but right now this seems too-little, too-late for a producer's economy.

The rest frankly doesn't matter much. Intel processors are only notable in small sections of the market.

And frankly—as counter-intuitive as this may seem to such an investor-bullish forum—the death knell was the government chip subsidy. I simply can't imagine american government and private enterprise collaborating to produce anything useful in 2024, especially when the federal government has shown such a deep disinterest in holding the private economy culpable to any kind of commitment. Why would intel bother?
Why is this on the front page when it has 3 points, and links to something that appears to be the wrong link entirely?
I've found RabbitEars.info [1] to give the results that best match what I actually get with my antenna.

[1] https://www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php
Oh I know. I've plumbed RTCM3 streams over radios and cell networks aplenty as well. There's a real cost to setting up and maintaining a base station properly, though. Subscribing to a service is attractive if you're only operating a small fleet, which is sort of the point?
That has been my biggest pet peeve with scifi depiction of futuristic inputs. Why would anyone want to move _more_ not less? Better tech should be more sensitive and accurate allowing us to do more with less not the other way around.

That's also the main reason nobody uses Quest 3's hand tracking despite it being really good. Why would I wave my hands around when I can achieve this with micro movements of my thumb.
I also live in the Bay Area, surrounded by highly educated people, many ethnicities, mostly in tech, some in law, medicine, etc.

I don't know a single person who has encouraged their kids to skip college and go into the trades. (Even when the kid has very little academic inclination, the parents pay for four years of private college.)

It's great that you have ironworker friends, but from what I see, "working with your hands" is not what most educated white-collar people want for their kids.
Flutter web is much less mature and performant than the native build targets. If the web is your primary target it’s not a good choice, at least not today.

Flutter mobile/desktop on the other hand performs great and is way more efficient than web UI.
Early in my career, when I first started interviewing, I used to ask a version of this to recent grads. It was never a make-or-break question, but I found it to be a great way to a.) see how people approach problem solving and probability and b.) see how they respond when you start asking whys (even if they answered/guessed 1/3). It's something that takes zero code to answer, and the intuition is easy to grok once explained.

The other part I particularly enjoyed was the people who initially guessed wrong, but then got to the answer intuitively almost always sent me code proving the answer.

For the record, my question was: "Two points are randomly and uniformly selected on a line 0.0 to 1.0. What is the most probable distance between the two points?"
And no token. Many token scammers try to sell their token as part of a new social network. This project doesn’t sell a token
Yes but the article is talking about the total amount of money the average American spends in their lifetime as an absolute number. If a billionaire spends 100x less of their wealth compared to the average person, they could still skew the distribution, just not by as much as if they spend even more than that.
Quotes from The Verge’s review:

> the Vision Pro has the best video passthrough I’ve ever seen on the sharpest VR displays any normal person will ever come across

> the eye and hand tracking control system… is light years beyond any other consumer hand or eye tracking systems

It calls out other aspects similarly.
I second the idea of trying to bypass paywalls. Archive today ( https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archive.today ) notably archive.is and similar, work reliably.

One can often bypass paywalls, nag walls, etc with Safari Reader, bypass paywalls clean extension for Firefox and Chrome (Opera uses the chrome engine) or disabling JavaScript for selected sites. I use Sheriff on iOS to do this. Other extensions will do this, I am sure.

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Twitter links are often posted here, and without an account there, you can only see tho OP.

Discussion of workarounds here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151768

There is concern that nitter.net may flake.
This was a very minor plot point in the Revelation Space novel Chasm City. To make the world slightly more habitable, a lens was deployed at a Lagrange point to focus (filter?) light to be more amenable to humans on the new world.
Show HN: XssKillah – A Fast HTML Sanitization Library
Still WIP but please take a look,
https://github.com/julienetie/xsskillah

Leave feedback and suggestions. The article gives somewhat of a synopsis to why it was created.
My app has lots of complex heterogeneous scroll views and performance is great on iOS (with impeller).
"Nigerian" here is redundant.
Making more as a welder than a professor is standard everywhere.

(To be honest, welding is a harder job and requires more stringent qualifications.)
Military diesel subs have snorkels so they can run their diesels when they are at periscope depth. If they need to go deeper (or don't want a radar-reflecting snorkel sticking up over the surface) they shut down the diesels and rely on batteries. Traditionally huge banks of lead-acid batteries, not sure if newer subs use Li batteries.
Tangentially related: I notice that in some EU countries, and the UK, people can skip universities, go into the trades, and do very well in "white collar professions" or in politics.

That's much less common in the US.
I would go further and say that the second reading is in fact incorrect interpretation of the problem in the English language. Being a mathematician doesn’t give some special right to gaslight people on their knowledge of English.

This problem is in a similar category as badly explained monty hall problems where the statement of the problem is so bad that it ends up changing the answer.

For example I have seen the Monty hall problem stated in popular media like this:

“There are three doors, behind two are goats and one is a car. You choose a door at random and there’s a goat behind it. You choose another door, but before opening it the host asks if you want to switch your choice. Is it more profitable to switch or to stick or does it have the same chance?”

Of course it doesn’t matter. This is actually a good way to trick inattentive mathematicians who pattern match on the problem but don’t actually read it.
I'm not sure if this satire that I'm missing but some people consider running with a kilogram of sweat on their brow?
How so? The court issues wage garnishments, it gets taken out of the check directly. This might help people paid under the table or in checks from clients but I think that’s a small cohort.
I think people know about that but aren't interested because the resolution is obviously too low on current headsets.
That story is pretty much completely media bullshit. You can just disable this plugin and it won’t do anything and won’t bother you at all.
Insects aren't attracted to lights at all – they just get vertigo
> people want to enjoy photos, videos, movies with other people and it can't include them

Eh... I prefer empty cinemas

No loud babies, no popcorn sounds, no people explaining the plot to people not paying attention, just me and the world of the film. Bliss.
There’s a clear strategic reason for that — reduce dependence on Google for more vertical integration.

I don’t see the VisionOS play here and wonder if it’ll be Tim Apple’s first major fail at the helm. There’s no clear set of competitors or established industry for Apple to just polish like they have with most products. There’s not an obvious large tam for VR headsets and I’m skeptical optical ar is close.
I don’t get it but I’m sure the internal Apple and board view it as a strong thesis.

Still glad it’s this and not a car.

Looking forward to how it plays out.
Yes, ChexSystems is mentioned in the original blog post.
More downvotes than upvotes. :/
Yep. My credit union has some flat fees for wire transfers, but is otherwise basically fee-free. Their web interface is one of the worst things I've ever used, but you don't ever have to use it except to make transfers between accounts. And they have Zelle now, so you don't even need a wire transfer to send and receive money from most of the US.

They recently tried to personalize their debit cards though, which caused them to stop being accepted by some merchants, since they're no longer identified as Visa (even though they still are). I now have to use ACH transfer for certain purchases, where debit used to work just fine...

They apparently did this for tap-to-pay support, which is so not worth it because who still buys things in person? Who would want to sacrifice the ability to make online purchases for that??