skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Requiring cities to put that on their balance sheet would mean that governments are highly incentivized to make children commute an hour into cheaper suburbs to get schooling.

Or move the school into a floor of a multi-story building which would significantly reduce its proportion of land value tax and in so doing consume less of that hot real estate and contribute less to housing scarcity.
The early "3D coprocessors" weren't very 3D at all, they basically accelerated triangle rendering in screen pixel coordinates. So "2.5D" at most. I could definitely see some version of the Amiga shipping with something like that, leading to something not too unlike Sony-PS1 level graphics or so. But the real problem for the Amiga (and its nearest competitor, the Atari ST/TT) was that the 68k architecture was ultimately abandoned by Motorola, and at the time (with Moore's law in full swing, and thermal constraints not too important just yet) the PowerPC looked like the best alternative. Of course ARM was a thing already, and it even got used in a high-level game system (the 3DO). So you could surmise that we could've gotten an ARM based Amiga/Archimedes mix instead which would've kept some kind of "cheap home computer" market going for some time, trying to disrupt the costly PC and Apple Mac platforms at the low end.
The prohibition should stand. People should have a voluntary option to pay or not pay for services as they choose. Except I suppose in quite exceptional circumstances.

If a group of locals want to pool their cash and start up a local broadband service then good on them, best of luck. But taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook to help them.
This list is long on fluff and extremely short on any hard technical skills such as corporate finance and valuation.

If you're interested in seeing if finance is for you, I highly suggest reading Investment Valuation by Aswath Damodaran. Highly respected professor and most of his stuff is free on his website as well.
I’ve done part of an MBA program. I’ve only hit pause because I couldn’t make the workload work with how demanding my job is at the moment. That does mean that beyond experiencing the program itself, I spent a fair bit of time looking at MBA program curricula. What I found was a pretty significant amount of study into areas that to me seem integral to actually running a business in reality. The sort of stuff that techies love to pretend doesn’t exist, or that they can just intuit with a combination of reading a few Wikipedia articles + their largely incorrectly self-identified transferable expertise.

I don’t know if my MBA program is particularly good. Whilst it’s run by a legitimate institution it’s certainly not a particularly prestigious one. I’d expect that it is in a lot of ways very middle-of-the-road.

One thing it has done is reaffirm my pre-existing vague suspicion that, whilst there are obviously no shortage of formulaic, uninspired, and largely street-dumb MBAs out there, a lot of the hate for those with an MBA that I see in communities like Hacker News is probably misdirected hatred toward the realities of business. Especially given how many people here have grown up in a zero-interest environment where they could bounce from place to place being paid very well to sit around in beanbag chairs thinking about engineering problems whilst the money fairies without fail backed truckload after truckload of cash up to their San Francisco office loading docks.
Sure, but there are many shades of gray. Directly leaking the entire key on an external bus is very different than needing to find and somehow bond to individual traces (likely below the top metal layer) on the die itself.
In hindsight, I should have adopted used this in the past for the apps of my startup, instead of going for the Xamarin.Forms route.

Why do I say this? Because the migration from Xamarin.Forms to MAUI was (actually, _is_, as it's not really 100% finished yet) a horrible PITA.

Let alone the migration from .NETFramework to .NETCore (now called "dotnet" since v5) which delayed us months if not years (but people that used Avalonia would be affected by this too; so the way to dodge all this would have been choosing Flutter or ReactNative, I guess).

That being said, the main reason why I chose Xamarin.Forms over Avalonia at the time is because the latter didn't have Mobile support. How's Avalonia's mobile support now? Even if the port is 100% complete, I always thought "well, XF/Maui are centered around mobile, making desktop just be an after-thought", which to me is an advantage because I prefer better UX for mobile by default, and require devs to spend extra effort for desktop support (instead of the other way around); given that desktop usage of apps is declining day by day.
That seems reasonable. Also, wireless bandwidth would be an issue with so many sensors running at the same time.

You would need to stream all the sensor data in one direction while also streaming two 4k display streams in the other direction.
If you want to use nuclear technology to get to orbit on a planet with an atmosphere, you pretty much have to use bombs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...

More conventional nuclear propulsion has similar trade-offs to an ion drive: great for long distance travel when you are already in space, but useless to get off a planet.
Plus nobody wants hot pockets.
Also, judging from the cable on the valve index ... a much heavier and harder to manage cable...
The same, especially the short concern, applies to the proprietary cable, no?

In general, it seems that the lack of a built-in energy storage (even if short-term, for 2-3 minutes) is an issue; for instance, it makes hot swapping of batteries very hard.
do you have to use the battery? Does it have a passthrough for a power adapter?
If someone fires people, writes market-moving tweets, and speaks to shareholders while impaired, we should shame them.

Living a private life while on drugs is fine, as long as it's victimless. Living as a powerful public figure (with control of other people's lives) while on drugs is not victimless.
Ask HN: What is your wishlist for a new browser interface?
Browsers today are not made for the kind of browsing that I often do: playful surfing. When I say playful surfing, this XKCD strip comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/214/

I'm doing an open-ended exploration on what I'd like a new browser to look like, and the workflows/modalities I want it to unlock.

Pain points:

- Navigating a flat list of tabs feels like a chore

- Tab search only indexes title/url, not the content
- If I have 50 tabs opened, currently on tab 35, and remember a vague term I read in one of the 34 tabs before – How do I trace my way back to it?

- Bookmarking should be tag based, not folder based

- History is siloed

My wishlist:

- Tree-style tabs sidebar (like the Firefox add-on)

- Full-text search over open tabs with ability to narrow down on specific sub-trees

- Interaction-aware search ranking. For instance, if you scroll 60% of the way through on one tab and then search for a term that existed at the 55% mark on that tab, it should be show up first.

- Tag based bookmarking

- Built-in annotation tools & Google-docs style collaborative marginalia

- Timeline-based history (Inspired by https://maggieappleton.com/historical-trails)

- Bring your own sync server / self-hostable sync server

- Everything gets saved to a SQLite database, so you can plug it into your own home-made tools

What features would you like to see in a new browser (interface)? What workflows would you want it to unlock?
No, Doom didn’t kill the Amiga. Wing Commander did.
You must use the battery but the battery has USB-C. Although it will slowly lose power while using if you only supply 5v1a via a USB-A to USB-C cable, using a more powerful brick is required to gain battery during usage.
>Why not remove monopoly rights instead of adding more regulations/bandaids?

Because it is in society's interest that utilities be available to all. We don't have a post office for only the areas profitable to deliver to.
Humans are (nearly?) the only animals that got really into throwing stuff, especially throwing stuff with heft and precision. (As a corollary: you can train seals to balance balls, and apes might through excrement; but only (some) humans can juggle.)

If throwing things well had been much harder, perhaps no animal would have ever bothered?
Multi-core scaling (in particular within GC) is one of the strongest points of .NET (for example, Go used to have poor scaling on many-core systems (has this changed in 2024?) while in .NET the throughput would continue scaling linearly)).
Famous tunneler: Seymour Cray ( https://shop.minimuseum.com/blogs/specimens/cray-supercomput... )

In his spare time, Cray dug a massive tunnel under his house, complete with a periscope, and joked that elves in the tunnel would help him solve whatever computer problem he was faced with. As Cray himself once said: "I'm up in the Wisconsin woods, and there are elves in the woods. So when they see me leave, they come into my office and solve all the problems I'm having. Then I go back up and work some more."
Clearly the lead was not essential then, and there were viable alternatives.
You'd probably need to create a religion for them about some gods/ancients that they are serving in their mission. That seems to be how humans stay focused on long-term social organization across generations.
It's relatively common in the US[1] for to start weeks on Sundays. Much of what you see is probably derived from that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#/media/File:First_Day_of_...
Its quite unfortunate because it would be a great opportunity to accurate price the risk to encourage better building standards and fireproofing. In reality we don't need people to move to greatly reduce the risk.

In many wildfire events homes burn because brush/scrub burns all the way up to the house and catches the siding on fire, or because embers land on the roof or enter soffits and start a fire that way. These things are really easily improved. Insurance could require fireproof siding, no bushes/plants right up against the house, fire screens on roof/soffit vents, and fireproof roofing. Those changes alone would decrease the number of houses that burn in a fire.

Obviously there are some areas where the landscape, wind patterns, and nature of trees means if it burns it will rage and everything's gonna go up no matter what you do. But that isn't everywhere.

What I don't know right now: how much does CA law allow insurers to price this kind of risk? Is it a matter of law not allowing them to send accurate price signals? I can believe this is the case. I also don't know if CA law allows them to only sell in certain areas... there's no practical wildfire risk to the Bay Area for example so why stop writing policies there?

Or are insurers going into knee-jerk mode or even using this as an opportunity to goose profits (knowing that wildfires wax and wane)? I can also believe this is happening.

Like I said: it is unfortunate that CA law, insurance companies, or both are not using this as an opportunity to improve fire survivability in rural areas.
There is a world outside of the Bay Area, I assure you.
I get the point of it, but I’ve had countless conversations with people wearing sunglasses, or ski goggles, where I couldn’t see their eyes and it wasn’t a major problem.

If I’m having a serious conversation with someone, I’d expect them to take the headset off, just like I’d expect them to put their phone down, or look away from their laptop.

With all the negative press they’ve gotten for it, I assume they will put a significant amount of energy into improving the quality of the eye sight for version 2.
Its not just their linear compressors, its the fact that they use very thin aluminum tubing on the high side, and apparently have had assembly issues where weld material has splattered on the tubes, which after a bit of thermal cycling (or maybe its just galvanic corrosion) they start leaking.

I to had a LG refrigerator declared "unfixable" and bought back by LG, but I actually decided they were idiots and fixed it myself after having not only their local repair people fail to fix it, but the "expert" from LG's regional center come out and diagnose it. (It should be noted that he diagnosed the condenser, the only part not already replaced at that point, and that failed to fix it so, they declared it unfixable).

Turns out in my case, the leak was in the yoder loop, a modern trick for increasing the efficiency of a refrigerator by running a high pressure refrigerant line around the doors to avoid needing electric defrost loops (what pretty much every fridge made pre ~2005 or so has).

And since the yoder loop is embedded in the spray foam insulation between the exterior and interior of the fridge is is largely unrepairable because the insulation would have to be destroyed and somehow partially refilled, which wouldn't be possible without adding a bunch of access holes/etc to the exterior.

So, I bypassed it, as a "research project" before buying another fridge, something the LG folks told me wouldn't work, and the tech refused to do. Which funny enough i'm an EPA certified small appliance repair tech (don't ask! lol) so, it apparently is just up my alley. And guess what 5 years later is still going. I've had to manually defrost the ice maker fan once in that timeframe and it does tend to get some condensation build up on the bottom of the french doors, but nothing that wipeing it away every few days doens't solve.

As an additional bit of fun, this refrigerator has a steel condenser and both aluminum as well as copper tubing/fittings.
I’m with you in spirit.

But WA has 7.7M people of whom 3.9M live in Snohomish, King, or Pierce counties.

I agree a majority needs cars, but it’s hardly overwhelming — and worth remembering that half of people live in a narrow, urban bubble. A lot of WA’s political strife is caused by this.
Pharmacists don’t always get the respect they deserve. I trust my pharmacist a lot more than any pharma company. This is a great example why.
That study actually did NOT find that Vit D reduced autoimmune disease rate. P=.05 means not significant (it needs to be <.05). Pretty gigantic blunder by the researchers to be honest.
I have a lot of respect for you and am disheartened to hear such a blasé condemnation of a big umbrella. The signal to noise ratio is poor, but there are genuinely interesting things going on.
Three years ago, when Air Pods Max came out I recall seeing comments on HN about the anticipation of seeing people wear their big bulky expensive headphones on a plane. I was embarrassed for a while to wear mine in public or in video calls. Now? I don’t think twice about it. Three years from now I could see something similar with Vision Pro.
Not sure about what OP was saying but, for a brief time when Uber was still new, before UberX launched in mid-summer 2012, their only service was black cars. Drivers had limousine licenses, and were merely filling time in between other gigs they had booked traditionally.
> Not being multiplanetary seems like the least of our existential problems here on Earth, and will continue to be that way for awhile.

That might be true, especially if your 'for awhile' talks about millennia at most.

But it's an extremely relevant concern in the context of the Fermi paradox.
are you rewriting history out of thin air?
My high level speculation is curation. There actually is (or should be?) some sort of peer review system by people for that journal. That labor is valuable.

Also, simple grandfathering. I imagine once upon a time Science journals was a literal term. Easier to keep the same hook if your users were used to it in another medium.
It's a peer reviewed review listing a bunch of studies that according to the OP shouldn't exist so I think it's pretty relevant here.
the mac 2 was like ten times the price of the Amiga.
> The lesson from Google Glass is that people didn't like not knowing what was happening.

I think that is at least in part a highbrow post-justification, though I accept it's going to be more common among Apple pundits who need the Vision Pro to be a success but spent time deriding Google Glass.

The instinctive reason is quite different; it was about inattention and rudeness. Google "google glass rude" and you will see _plenty_ of coverage about it at the time. People don't like this stuff on other people.

I certainly reserve the right to dislike these things on a purely instinctive level. Whether or not they have to choose to take a photograph of me or not.
A civilization just a few decades ahead of us is (theoretically) almost unimaginable. Bio augmentation, true AIs, who knows what advances in fundamental physics knowledge... Just to start.

What I'm saying is that whatever engineering and environmental limitations we currently perceive are probably irrelevant.
Django Plus for Vim
I was promised an Iron Mole in "At the Earth's Core". Where is my drill tank?
Hardware designers had a better version than AGA in the works but Commodore scrapped it and instead went for the minor upgrade than AGA was
Well, at that level, you are talking about clouds of probability or structures in the wave function or something like that.
I'd love to take you up on that. I spend a few months a year in Portugal.
Everyone should be encouraged to exercise their right to interoperability, coders should be praised for these types of projects.

Potential risks are that a company might have to use their might against an individual potentially setting the precedent that terms and conditions are not legally binding contracts with any reprecrussions other than account deletion (imo fair game).
Falling Cat Problem
“Of course”.

Thanks for responding — can you clarify this interest benefit you are talking about?
Data centers use a lot of water though, don't they?
Show HN: I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy
I’ve been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better.

I plan to turn PrivacySpreadsheet.com into a place for privacy data on everything from cars to video games. It’s all open source too on GitHub.

Not trying to advertise, I just put a lot of time into researching all this (over 150 hours), and I want to share it since I think others could benefit.
I fully agree with your point of prescribing well known meds. (By the way tyrosine as a natural ammino acid is fairly "safe"). What I meant was as a response to the OP where they talked about how "if it worked, they'd be selling it as a medicine". It may be much "lighter"/less effective for sure, but there may be some patients (for example with depression, or those hesitant to take stimulants) who may still benefit.

> If the traditional medications don't work or have intolerable side effects, maybe that's the time to explore uncommon approaches, but that generally is not the case for the stimulant meds.

It may not be the case for probably 70-80% of patients, but a lot of people complain of reduced appetite. I would experience annoying joint/muscle pain that can apparently be a "very common" (more than 1 in 10) side effect. (This is not specific to tyrosine, just replying to your comment specifically. I didn't realize that different stimulant meds can reduce/stop side effects altogether to such an extent until some time back.)
On earth, you could use active support to build your tall structures, then you don't need exotic super-materials. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
I think they have a lot of advantages here. They have tons of microphones, they know exactly what the noise sounds like, exactly where it is positioned and exactly where the speakers are relative to your ears.

I suspect that makes the problem constrained enough that it becomes possible.
The rust belt continues to contract and perish.
Economy is the movement of money. That is not a measure of wealth. There can be a lot of money moving around with nearly everybody living pay check to paycheck. People are better off if they can build wealth. It is more stable for society to make it easy to build wealth.

It would take a lot of evidence to convince me that deflation is worse in the long run for human flourishing than inflation. I don't care about the economy as conceived by bankers and economists. If ever more people are flourishing the economy is working.

If a few are getting exorbitantly wealthy, at the expense of everybody else, by being close to the flow of new money, the economy is not working.

We have been at inflation so long there is no painless way out.
WoWMIPS – Windows NT MIPS Emulator for x86
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Bruyneel
Are you aware of the paper mills that churn out way more than a mere 2k of junk, and do you consider those researchers wasting their time or responding to the incentives set by the Little Non-Curcumins within their profession?
Better yet, they just ban the use of phone numbers as an authentication method, but social media companies won’t because they need to sell it to advertisers who will also link that number to other sites/services.
I'm past 40, my older child is 9.

First time I went to the beach with her, I had this sudden memory blast: we should dig a hole. It is indeed a weirdly satisfying feeling which I had forgotten.
Is it wrong to continue rooting for the wolf solution?
Unlikely tech firms care about unemployment. They care about 10 million dollar sexism/age discrimination/racism law suit
because they pretend to fight for Internet Freedom while they never say anything to criticize Google. it undermines any message they put out.
I'm arguing in favor of coupling. Don't think front-ends should be decoupled in most situations.

There's this notion I don't see discussed often. The more distant/unstable the link is between a caller and a callee, the more coupled they should be. The closer and more reliable the link is, the less coupled they should be.

That's why when we build interfaces in a single codebase, we can let them be minimal, and let callers use loops for batch operations. But when talking over network, we build elaborate protocols and languages (e.g. SQL) to allow for more complex operations in one roundtrip.

So if one is trying to treat their backend like it's part of their front-end's codebase, that can be fetched and looped over with little regard for the many failure modes, they're going to have a bad time. The front-end to back-end is one of the most distant and unstable links we have in computing, if not _the_ most unstable. This also applies to any intermediary back-end over network.

Minimize network interactions, and shift most work into the single backend codebase for maximum reuse and reliability.
> I believe the primary issue with drugs is their ability to alter perceptions of reality. This aspect makes them inherently dangerous to political and societal systems, regardless of their health impacts.

While using weed, I’ve come to many realizations that I’m not sure I would have been open to normally. Most of those realizations were of the kind that those in power would like to tamp down, in general, to prevent unrest. I agree with your assessment in that last paragraph.
Reminds me of the short story "The Cold Equations" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cold_Equations).
its MUCH easier to corrupt a single person. which is why individual corruption is thriving