skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon pharmacy is probably one of the best interactions I’ve had with Amazon and pharmacies in general. We moved everything we could to it. The support has been great. Get things quickly all the information is right up front.
This kind of thing goes back five decades, actually. One of the earliest versions of Unix was PWB/Unix, for "Programmers' Workbench". It was designed as a system for AT&T engineers to author programs for the mainframe in a more sensible (for the time) environment and included software to submit jobs to the mainframe once the programs were written.

The idea of "Unix as your IDE" is a deep, deep cut into Unix lore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX
Not All Achievements in a Software Company Are Technical
Indeed, it's descriptivism versus prescriptivism.
> turns out blaming immigration is a fools errand to distract from domestic class warfare

our post-hart-cellar immigration policy is a tool of class warfare via wage suppression. real wages have remained flat while productivity gains have steadily persisted, due to several systemic changes since the crisis of 1973, among them flinging the doors open to dilute the cost of american labor; this and outsourcing and globalizing supply chains also go hand-in-hand with breaking union power
Most people don't apply your reasoning to any other moral question. Nobody thinks that killing a child is OK because it has little impact on the grand total of child deaths. They don't rationalize that some warlord in Africa will keep killing, even if they don't.

How is this any different? You are either part of the solution or part of the problem, and accountable for your actions.

My point is that the contribution to climate change is exactly proportional to your personal emissions devised by the the total.

You talk about policy Solutions, but how is that any different than personal action?
Ah, women’s health privacy vs men’s health privacy - kind of weird but understandable.
Even if it's cheaper than insurance, your insurance pays for was more than just doctor visits
At the time of reading, there's a banner on the site reading

"CLAIM YOUR EXCLUSIVE OFFER * Join for $99/mo (normally $149) * Ends Friday"

Sales tactics like this are literally the last thing I want from my doctor.
That's not what I really think.

Most of my audience aren't hackers, at least not in the sense I think you mean.

And the poster is likely not a corporate shill. "Shill" has connotations of undisclosed association and intentional deception, neither of which are things I'm accusing anyone of. I don't think there's any reasonable expectation of disclosing associations on a pseudonymous forum. And I don't think most posters here are being intentionally being deceptive--they probably believe what they're saying, as most people will go through great mental calisthenics to believe what they're doing isn't harmful.

The late-stage capitalist ideologies held by much of this forum are extremely harmful, but I don't need to accuse people of malicious intent to say that. People can intend the best and do great harm.
I ran Pi-hole along with my OpenBSD router running unbound for some period. Then I realized I can download the same entries used for Pi-hole, AdGuard, uBlock, etc. I created a simple script that generates an unbound configuration that I can include in my unbound.conf file.

One advantage over Pi-hole I noticed is I can return NXDOMAIN which makes more sense to me. I didn't see how I had that option with Pi-hole.

I just checked, and the generated unbound configuration comes in at 218000 lines, so takes a moment on my Celeron J3060 class router when loading unbound.
Even 192.168.1.0/8 will probably get you ~95% coverage for residential networks.
The original website (I assume your project is fork?) shows proper attribution in the screenshot/video https://github.com/alyssaxuu/mapus

<div class="section" id="attribution-section">
<div class="section-name">Made by Alyssa X</div>
<div id="attribution">© <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright" target="_blank">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors</div>
</div>

On your website you added your own name and links to bitcoin and USD paid services instead.
> The whole country is a gigantic house of cards propped up by real estate, with horrible service quality, terrible healthcare, no jobs, ZERO innovation, risk taking and entrepreneurship.

Canada has generally had a more conservative financial industry, which is a large part of why they were able to escape the 2008 mortgage crisis, and that, in turn, has lead to a stronger real estate market. Additionally, the recent post COVID-19 influx of immigrants has driven up demand for housing like crazy. There's not a lot of question that the real estate market is hot. But...

...I'd point out that considering it's population, Canada has had an impressive number of innovative companies just in the tech sector over the years. Alias & Softimage in 3D rendering. Shopify in e-commerce. Research in Motion in mobile phones. Ecobee in the smart homes/IOT space. Certicom in cryptography. Going farther back, Corel was a software giant. There's relative newcomers to with Hopper, Imagia, etc. I don't think it's fair to say there's no innovation, risk taking, or entrepreneurship.

> All of this is propped up by rampant levels of immigration from China and India. Where US got the best talent from India, Canada got the worst, the ones who scam their way here and take the lowest level jobs.

I'm not sure where you get that from. Canada's immigration policies have historically been more oriented towards merit/highly skilled immigrants than the US.

> Now all of this is coming home to roost. The next decade will be Canada's worst and if they do not learn that risk taking and entrepreneurship is the only way out of the mess they find themselves in, they will become a third world country in another decade.

I'm not sure what is fueling your perspective, but there is a lot of concern about Canada's economic policy coming out of COVID-19, in particular, the big deficits and explosive immigration are putting a strain on the economy. However, there's a very credible possibility that these will prove to be effective "investments" that pay off in the long run. Ironically, given your criticisms, Canada is taking on a lot of risk!
Asserting that housing—or any basic necessity—shouldn’t be an investment is a dangerously naive stance that flies in the face of economic reality and human history. Consider food, water, healthcare—all necessities, yet all benefit from private investment and innovation. The collectivist dream to strip away the investment aspect of housing is a recipe for disaster, leading to shortages, degradation, and inefficiency. Your stance isn’t just misguided; it’s empirically proven to fail, fostering misery under the guise of equality. Housing, like any resource, flourishes under conditions of freedom, not under the heavy hand of state control. To suggest otherwise is to ignore the lessons of history and to jeopardize the very foundations of prosperity and freedom.
I directly addressed what I thought was the main point you were making about luck. Who people "look up to" is a more complicated issue.
Worst case would be a fire hazard. Maybe produce too much poisonous ozone.

If the hardware is fail safe I guess it can waste electricity.
How can you possibly get full detail on a Quest 3?

The resolution of the horizontal on a Quest is 2064 pixels. However this fills the headsets entire ~110 degree horizontal FOV. Also, you are not seeing the edges of the panels, so we need to eliminate some of those pixels you can't technically even see to around say 2000 (cut off 32 on each side which I think is fair).

Now a 1080p video has a horizontal resolution of 1920 pixels. You only have a 2000 pixel canvas that fills up your 110 degree FOV.

Now sure, if you zoom your virtual movie theater screen to fill your entire FOV, then you can say you are seeing the whole 1080p video resolution. But nobody I have ever heard of watches movies at a horizontal FOV of 110 degrees.

Industry standards are around 35-45 degrees. Yes I personally think that is a bit low. I have a 150" projection screen at home, and I sit at about a 53 degree horizontal FOV. I wouldn't want any closer. This represents sitting like 1/3 to the front of a typical movie theater.

However, even at a 55 degree virtual screen, that means the virtual screen is only 1000 pixels across on a Quest 3. this isn't even full 720p resolution which would need 1280 pixels across. Let alone 1080p needing 1920 pixels across.

Now the AVP does better obviously. It's 3680 pixels across 100 degree FOV. If we subtract a few due to not seeing the edge and say about 3600 pixels, and if we say the virtual screen is again 55 degree horizontal FOV, then that gives us a virtual theater screen of about 1850. A little shy of the 1920 for 1080p.

So at best, if you make your virtual screen huge, like 60 degree horizontal FOV, then I could concede you get about a 720p virtual screen in a Quest 3 and about a virtual 1080p screen in a AVP.

Last point I will make is that even at this it's not quite equivalent because you lose a bit of resolution too due to your head being slightly askew and the video pixels not being able to line up straight with the physical virtual theater screen pixels in the headset. So the resulting image becomes a bit softer since the pixel mapping isn't 1:1.

I haven't used an AVP, but I have used many other VR headsets including a Quest 3, and the quality of the virtual movie screen looks quite low to me. Nowhere near even my old 1080p projector on my 150" projector screen. Let alone my current 4K projector on the 150" screen.
It depends on where that ticket is going to lead.

If that traffic stop leads to the cop finding something else in your car, and that leads to a crime, a simple question can make the difference between a legal or an illegal stop in a court of law. Since the best case scenario in a traffic stop is "don't get a ticket" and the worst case is "Be confined to a concrete cell with a serious criminal conviction for the rest of your life" I don't answer any questions whatsoever, no matter how trivial. Happens to innocent people all the time.

Getting a $200 ticket you could have otherwise "talked your way out of" is a small price to pay to vs. the risk.
Yes.. there are way too many developer restrictions on the VisionOS. There are so many use cases regarding eyetracking + external facing cameras that are just not possible with the current dev ecosystem.
Mastodon? Do you mean Fediverse / Activitypub?

No one should call IRC "mirc", email "outlook", or the web "chrome", come on bro.
This is an interesting take! I don't necessarily disagree with it—we could definitely make the DNS system more accessible than it is today—but I don't think it's the panacea either, there are still a lot of costs and paperwork involved with owning a domain name that aren't related to the actual technical knowledge required. How is my 12 year old cousin whose parents don't understand technology supposed to buy a domain name just to be able to comment on a youtube video?
Yeah, if I'm going to attempt to analyze the potential success or failure of this product, it's going to be entirely based on Apple's still indomitable brand position and less about how many nits it crams into it's microleds. The tech itself seems like at least an iteration on the predecessors. Screens are smaller and sharper and use less power and so are CPUs so I don't doubt it's at least a better Magic Leap or HoloLens. Whether or not you see people wearing these around NYC is up to their marketing team. I'm also sure the person to crash a car or get mugged because they were watching MrBeast while walking is going to get a ton of press.
Often the other people in your house would like to be excluded from the movies you're watching, for instance because they want to sleep and don't want the light leakage.
> think the Canadian mortgages linked to Chinese accounts will likely all be paid

Out of curiosity, why? China's stock market is melting down in the midst of persistent deflation. A lot of people who thought they had liquidity may not anymore. Beijing could open the taps, but then that puts pressure on the currency.
For a lot of people, $3500 is nothing especially if they are going to expense it to the company.

A lot of companies are going to buy it just to figure out what types of apps can be made for the platform.
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Thanks, I appreciate the additional detail!
I spent time as part of an entrepreneurship accelerator in university and one of the cohort options was monetizing some IP owned by the university.

Anecdotally, the problem was that the university pretty much stopped developing the IP long before anyone was really interested in monetizing it. Either the university needed to do a lot more legwork to reduce the risk to the person taking the IP or companies/entrepreneurs would need to be willing to take far more risk than they currently do.

The business types had come into the program expecting a business problem and left the presentation with a technical problem and the program chose people before problems, so you had people with no specific background in those things as the technicals.

> In the 1940s Bell Labs had the interdisciplinary team of chemists, metallurgists and physicists necessary to solve the overlapping theoretical and practical problems associated with developing the transistor. That cross-cutting expertise is now largely gone.

With that experience in mind, this explanation makes the most sense. I have academic friends. I read all sorts of wacky research online. Off the top of my head, most in the sciences have plausible areas of application. But who does the in between stuff?
> You can label it however you want, if both the lender and borrower are willing participants, it will be difficult to prevent this from happening

These aren't purely private transactions. If HSBC Canada fails, Ottawa is on the hook. The defrauded party here is the public. (And possibly the bank's lenders and shareholders.)
Show HN: Client/server 2d "defender" game in TypeScript
A small video game written in typescript, uses websockets for browser client side javascript to roundtrip with server side game engine. Perhaps overkill, hey, it was a thought experiment.
Not the parent, but I wonder if it's too simplified. It's true for absolute power, but that's effectively impossible to obtain in reality, and a far cry from middle managers climbing over each other. Donald Trump is powerful but far from immune from everything he's done to obtain power. Mark Zuckerberg is powerful but doesn't have full control over his reputation. More broadly, I think seeking power will likely create enemies, whose behavior you can't control even if your power increases. Lots of leaders fall from grace all the time, in part for things they did to obtain power.
It's surprising to me that IRC diehards jumped to Discord and not to hosting Matrix servers.
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No.

As long as you can issue debt in your own currency, then your Govt can simply print more money to cover that debt.

This is true for lots of developed nations, not just the USA.
You may think you're joking, but 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39223982
Is there a difference in how or whether 'any' and 'interface{}' preserve static type information?

i.e., if I implement `identity(a) = a` in a generic way, can I still call identity(duck).quack()?
No, it's much more than that. Matrix is fancy IRC.
Canada needs more housing supply. Blaming foreigners' mortgage applications, sketchy or otherwise, is just cope.
The current bitcoin blocksize is limited to 1mb. This means, on average, only 1mb worth of transactions can be written to the ledger. With that 1mb we save thousands of transactions. When you pay a transaction fee you are essentially bidding on your data being written to the ledger every 10 minutes. You are correct that the more people bidding, the higher we can expect the price to be.

There is however no technical reason we should limit the blocksize to 1mb. We could have 10mb or even 100mb blocksizes easily. Realistically a 100mb block would be large enough to handle all transaction data our species currently generates.

The transaction fee is a considerable portion of miner's revenue. Miners ultimately are responsibility for making changes to the bitcoin protocol. I think it's unlikely bitcoin miners will vote for a higher blocksize because it will cause short term decreases in revenue. However, they are missing a potential boon from the Jevons paradox -- the cheaper a resource becomes to use the more of the resource we use.

So in summary, it's not really a technical limit to have a high transaction volume but we aren't likely to see it from the current big coins.
I've personally had to migrate instances twice. The first time because the instance suddenly became nonfunctional, and the administrator went AWOL. The second time, I discovered that the incompetent admin had silently enabled auto-deletion of data including posts and direct messages.

Now I'm finally on mastodon.social, which wasn't open for new users the first two times that I needed an instance.
Maybe with an ungodly large and wide FOV virtual screen.

AVP has a 3680 pixel wide screen across a 100 degree horizontal FOV.

If you make your virtual screen take up a 50 degree FOV (which is still somewhat bigger than most people normally sit/view at home or in a typical theater), then you are still only getting at most 1840 pixels across the virtual screen, which is a bit less than 1080p. Nowhere near 1440p.

That doesn't mean I don't think it can be a great experience. I think it can be, but there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Anyone in Wi-Fi range can exploit the device. The sensors of the air purifier can be used for spying, and the device could also serve as a hopping point for exploiting other devices in your home.
The original Mindstorms connectors were actual bricks, about the size of two stacked 2x2 plates
Let's hear it for the sitzpinklers!
Have you used VR much? Quest 3 FOV is much better. And FOV is kind of the holy grail for immersive VR and interactive experiences. So saying Vision Pro is strictly better (and at 7x the cost) makes little sense to me.
Is it supposed to be cheaper?

I doubt they're better. The Amazon of Healthcare doesn't seem like the best place for high quality doctors. but then it should be cheaper than your regular premiums and stuff.

I really don't know what they're offering.
Yup. Hence the capital control (less money leaking out means an easier recovery after the bust).

Of course, as is rational in capitalism, this just makes it even more urgent to skirt the capital control, lest you be caught with the burden of the bust. This was also why crypto was even an option for doing this, for a short while at least.
I have so far had good luck with Forward, been with them for 2 years.

It is pricy, but being able to text someone at anytime and all of my basics are covered is nice. There isn't anything they can try to upsell me on since it's all included.
Yeah, I don't think moderation is "solved" at all on the community scale, but my point is that ActivityPub servers are just way more likely to be at that "community" scale, and Bluesky—as a more flat protocol with a lot of discovery and indexing features—is not. So I think they have a lot better chance of having communities that can reach a local moderation equilibrium.
It's possible to have two important things and yet for one to be more important than the other.
I agree.

Someone was desperate to write a press release.

I had great hopes until I read that nonsense.

I hope the efficiency claims come from Tom's Hardware and not from Canon.

Remember, Canon is the company that sells you a new DSLR camera then surprises you with a $5/month charge for the driver to connect it to.your computer as a webcam.
What's interesting to me is that the project feels very "un-Apple", despite being open-sourced under the Apple org; some typos and lack of proper punctuation in the README, using jupyter notebooks for the data processing instead of scripts or a CLI, poor repo organization, no comments even in the demo: https://github.com/apple/ml-mgie/blob/main/demo.ipynb

Apple truly becoming an ML company when they release ML Engineer quality code ;)
> It sounds like you're approaching the topic with the mindset that lawyers might be entirely replaced by automation.

That is the cynical future, however, and based on the evolution speed of the last year, it is not too far away. We humans are just interfaces for information and logic.
If the chatbot has the same capabilities (both information and logic, and natural language), then they will provide full automation.

The natural language aspect of AI is the revolutionary point, less about the actual information they provide. Quoting Bill Gates here, like the GUI was revolutionary. When everyone can interact and use something, it will remove all the experts that you needed before as middle man.
Yeah, I am in the process of simplifying the offering and split down the site for managed hosting and the "standard" service. https://communick.com/packages/access should you give a link to the package: $29/year for Mastodon/Matrix/Lemmy/Funkwhale.
One of the weirdest irc networks I've seen is a rizon adjacent one, irc.sageru.org - its basic premise is forced anonymity implemented serverside.

It's a bit slow. It's not an entirely beautiful place. But it's a fun idea, at its core.
It's even easier if the device has assigned itself a "toothbrush.local" hostname via mDNS etc.
This would funny but since it's pretty much exactly how printers behave it's more just a slap in the face
How can you prevent being laid off? You can't. Here's why
This is DVD Player dependent and no it didn't carry over to the BR.

My favorite videos for all the problems with DVD and BR: AVGN's You Know Whats BS series: (warning a lot of cussing in the following videos)

[1: DVD]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdzaEVeFEE

[2: BR]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tetXKdi9U3c

My favorites quote at the end when he was comparing DVDs to VCRs: "Its like we are going forward in technology but only making our lives bullshittier"
Canada is the way it is because it is next to the U.S. The Canadian brain drain was never entirely the fault of Canada; the gravitational pull of U.S. neoliberal capitalism (what you uncritically and a-historically call 'risk taking') is a nontrivial factor. Canadian protectionism would not go over well with its world power neighbour, which seeks to exploit intellectual and social capital.
I would post an image analysis - but the images on that site make it hard to compare before and after photos, not to mention that you can't post images here.

The before pic, needs to be flipped to compare to the after pic.

The before pic is not flat - it is taken on a curve. This makes it hard to use for comparisons.

The after pics are terrible quality.

As we are dealing with a long squiggle I can't describe it easily - people will be confused at what I am talking about.

However, once you get the images more or less in a comparable state, I can see things do no line up as you would expect. The first 'peak' points a different way. The lines do not line up. Stuff like that.
I've heard it discussed. A lot more a few months ago when GPT first blew up.

Maybe HN is full of coders that still think themselves 'special' and can't be replaced.

Or maybe, the law profession has a lot more boilerplate than the coding profession?

So legal profession has more that can be replaced?

Coders will be replaced, but maybe not at same rate as paralegals.