skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it's the opposite, I can't believe people are so excited for it when it seems to be technologically severely undercooked and/or on par or slightly better than existing, much cheaper products. I have to assume it's because it's an Apple product. If it were a HTC headset with the exact same specs, I think most people would just shrug and keep scrolling.
blot (https://blot.im/about) is a contender. plain text files stored in git are converted into a website; usable for blogs and other types of sites (e.g. your use case, a blog + an about me page). the source code to blot is in the public domain.

$5/month, I am a customer and have liked the experience. also self-hostable for free.
> consumption of >6 cups/day was associated with 53% higher odds of dementia compared to consumption of 1–2 cups/day (fully adjusted OR 1.53, 95% CI 1.28, 1.83)

6+ cups! That’s a cranial marinade.
Pharmaceuticals are a shockingly small part of the spend in healthcare in the US. Like ~10%.
Chinese hackers break into Dutch defence ministry
Those who are using DNS level ad blocking: how much do sites break? And how easy is it to unblock them?

I currently use browser based blocking and find a lot of sites don’t work at all. Typically SPAs.

But if I have to use them, I can disable the adblocker in two clicks. How does that compare?
To OP's point, sending children off to work in a farm is still an unhappy choice of desperation.

This is also an example from over 20 years ago - before NGOs and brands really began policing this stuff. It could be there has been some improvement since then.
Sámi National Day
Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB Preliminary Report [pdf]
They return long strings, but not a full chromosome. Additionally, there's always an error rate when reading, typically ~3% of the bases (this is Q15 on the Phred scale [0]). So you want to sequence each chunk many times, typically >30x, though with lower sequencing depth you can use population genetics and a database of known genomes to impute your sequence at the most common sites. Going to >30x will probably take 2-3 flowcells on the MinIon.

However, preparing a DNA sample for input into the machine is not trivial and requires training. As does the analysis to assemble all the chunks into your own genome.

A further challenge is even buying the equipment. Oxford Nanopore, and most biotech companies, keep very tight control of their customer lists, and if it looks like you are trying to order but don't have a proper molecular biology lab to perform sample preparation and to dispose of the waste products correctly, they almost certainly won't sell you anything. There are also strict legal agreements to return the flow cells when done, etc.

So to truly do this, add in the cost of LLC formation and signing up for a biotech startup lab to actually perform the experiments.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phred_quality_score
How We Stopped Our ClickHouse DB from Exploding
I've previously worked on mainframes (building business software, and worked quite low level with crypto libraries on them), and now do some of the same but for "cloud" based software instead.

Mainframes are such a weird subject to me, on one hand, the results we got out of the mainframes were pretty amazing, but the experience was painful, absolutely, painful. The tooling is some of the worst you've ever seen, official tools feel like something people dreamed up in winforms. I worked mostly with PL/1 which was a great language, stuck in the 80s but great nonetheless, I actually prefer it to C.

What killed it for me was the restrictions, you had to either dynamically or statically link programs, but do it in the IBM flavor and build system. Which made it extremely cumbersome to do, so files were 20k SoC with a single entry (main) and function calls, because creating files was a pain. Line limits of 72 characters, we even had to send in our programs to get syntax checks because the IDEs weren't capable enough (this was in 2018), now I could whip up something to emulate it in docker and neovim, but the people that taught me had no idea there was something better out there and neither did I. We had to release once a week on saturday mornings because the execution model used had to have downtime during the deployment.

Mainframes are cursed because of the lack of tooling, and the restrictions. I think Mainframes and the execution mode it uses could be useful in a bunch of other places, but IBMs business model just continuously tightness the screws and scared people away. It doesn't have wide spread appeal either, it is "Business machines" after all.

It should be said that I worked in IBMs version of Serverless (not what it was called but it was pretty much what it was), mainframes support Linux, Java, etc, etc. But you give up a lot of benefits and performance if you move off, of the native way of doing things.

I'd also argue that with todays tooling and hardware you can get comparable performance to a mainframe, the only reason that mainframes are as performant, and was so dominant, is because of the restrictions it places on the developer. You have to write low level C, PL/1 or Cobol, so often by proxy your software is just fast. Kind of like Rust or C++ is nearly always quite performant out of the box. Most business software just don't need that level of latency control and performance today.
You could display instructions on the phone and still use the depth camera on the device, which is presumably used for tracking anyway.
How will that entity continue operating in the EU when its only business is selling devices that are infringing on EU laws, and it is unable to reach compliance? It can't. Either the company shuts down, stops selling Apple devices, or the proceeds of their illegal sales will be garnished before they can pay Apple. It is a plan that is functionally identical to Apple leaving the EU.

Apple can choose not to operate in the EU. That's a totally legit and acceptable outcome. But that means they have to actually give up that revenue. Any attempt at laundering it will just mean that the penalties apply to whatever entity they try to use for the regulatory evasion.

(Or I guess shrink their presence to do small that the DMA no longer applies. But again, this is Apple. They'll rather hand out user data to the Chinese government than leave China and all their juicy money.)
The Devil?
> one of the best interactions I’ve had with Amazon and pharmacies in general

Clearly they were spending too much money on it. The idea is for there to be no interaction other than a payment/delivery cycle. If there are plural positive interactions the overall system was poor (needed multiple interactions) and staffing too expensive ("best" rather than mediocre).
The Theory of Everything? [video]
It's a simple supply/demand calculation. "Game dev" is high on the dream-job list -- "internal framework developer for MegaCo" is not. Game engines have made game dev more accessible than ever, the raw talent pool is bigger than its ever been.

Indeed. There's even a term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_differential
Yup. The App Store didn't come until the iPhone 3G. iPhone 1 had no non-native apps. (later backported)
self-employed here (company owner)
Ice cream+pirate = captain hook
Learning how to import bulbs into HomeAssistant, or learning how to flash different firmware onto bulbs has been a difficult (yet kinda fun?) way to give myself peace of mind about that. Having that all run on NAS has at least given me some belief it isn't leaving my system.
Fun aside note: To read their privacy policy, you have to agree to their privacy policy.
Does not seem to be a sustainable solution: if the amount of microtranfers increase, the blocksize is going to be an issue again
Nope, i mean i can see how youd think that, but familarity with BuildKit is just part of the job.

We are building on top of it, and sometimes adding to it.
It is not wrong, but it does not force the kids to be creative in a way it used to.

I would rather buy some wooden trains and rails if my kids where young now.
I like SF, and it's violent crime rate isn't too bad.

But, c'mon, you can't point to property crime and say "this isn't a fight about facts" when it's the 4th highest property crime per capita city in the entire country in a country that already has high crime for the developed world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
I'm guessing getting wealthy only through income is not very common. People get wealthy by inheriting or by holding assets, not by earning a salary.
A hint with the capital would be nice, especially for the tiny island nations. Otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed it!

(129/195)
So where have housing prices fallen?
WeWork founder Adam Neumann trying to buy back company
Yes, they can choose one of hundreds of text messaging apps. If not someone can help them. If your bar for a product is that a disabled person has to be able to use it easily, no exceptions, then you are going to destroy a lot of products, from mountain bikes to headphones to pepper grinders.
Why scientists are starting to worry about the moon shrinking
https://archive.ph/Dcvzg
> I don't think the role of the US dolar as a reserve currency is put into question with a hypothetical default.

Why would it not ? Wasn't that how the previous reserve currencies ended ? Are there many examples of relatively as bad defaults that did not result in such an end ?

Especially when the lenders first to be screwed here are (or at least were in 2020) Japan and China.
isn't the opposite of a hard error called a "soft error"?
Some things are very measurable & isolatable.

Writing code & making products is extremely multi-domensional. And most of these dimensions aren't easy to rank.

Look, I really appreciate the photos we have made on the back of science &s experimentation. But in the act of creation there seems to be countless intangibles, little directions & flourished that build to set a very subtle implicit course. I see so much compromise for only doing things right now that have direct immediate results, and the people who argue and push that way have always seems like bullies (sometimes willfull sometimes ignorant).

I really think you should step down off that ledge you are on, willing yourself to abandon. It doesn't seem right, it doesn't seem justified. You yourself are using a hard line to disregard & discard (which seems to be what you are apoplectic over), which is also ungraceful.
He started off talking about how Vision Pro is not an open platform like MacOS and then he focused on how his productivity use case couldn't be realised because of lack of multiple screens. But he failed to draw the link between these.

Ultimately the upside of an open platform is that you can know with certainty that eventually literally any common need or deficiency it has will be addressed by the open market - if you are desperate enough you can pay and do it yourself. For example, when people didn't like Microsoft's desktop updates they created an entire alternative desktop shells. And there are now something like a dozen of these, some of which are / were commercial products. In an open platform, anything not addressed by the platform owner simply becomes a market opportunity for a third party developer. Of course, there are lots of downsides, but this is the upside.

But Apple's choice here to ship VisionOS as a fork of iOS and more importantly as a completely locked down system means that his ultimate conclusion is "maybe Apple will fix this" and alludes to hints of rumours they might do it. But this is what we are reduced to - disempowered, we simply hope that our overlords will have mercy on us, their interests coincidentally aligning with ours long enough that they do what we want. Or you buy into a competitor, but this just gives you a choice of tyrannies, not actual freedom.

None of this matters if you think Vision OS is a niche or a dead end. But if you actually buy into the idea that down the track this is the ultimate future of all computing, then it should be very concerning to be completely disempowered over it. I actually love the idea of a truly "spatially" aware operating system and I think eventually this is indeed where computing will go. So that is why I'm both excited by and very concerned about the direction Apple has taken.
You’re not arguing in good faith because you’ve already laid out your assumption that anyone who bought it is inherently biased. How do you expect anyone to discuss anything with you?
It doesn't. Mainframe terminology is so obfuscated that it's impossible to tell for sure but it sounds like less memory bandwidth than Genoa.
Pay close attention to the guardrails of imagination.

If you imagine too hard, you'll get push back in the form of, "every time we've tried something different, it's been a disaster." Beyond not having an imagination, there are those out there that seek to actively quell imagination. It's literally beyond their reality.
The 2022 Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in New Mexico was caused by controlled burns that got out of control. One part of the fire was from a controlled burn that was completed in January and then "reignited" in April!

In any case, some regions might have frequent episodes that are hot, dry, and/or windy so that techniques that easily worked a hundred years ago are no longer useful.
Soilless cultivation to produce microgreens for specific nutritional needs
What leads to is no willingness to invest in anything other than bonds to ensure you have enough money to pay the tax.
sorry my sarcasm didn't make it through the computer screen
Crime is obviously down over the decades, which is very important, but I think it would be silly to deny there was a major uptick in murders in 2020.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rat...

There are obviously lots of reasons for this having nothing to do with crime policy, such as the economic shock of covid. That being said, I don't think its true at all it is straightforwardly settled how to reduce crime.

Pretty much all people I have read on this suggest penalizing gun possession crimes more would decrease the violent crime rate. It's part of the reason murder rate in places like NY is relatively low. That said, prosecuting more people for probation violations or gun possessions is a a policy that cuts against both conservative ideology (because they are pro gun) and progressive ideology (because it will require a larger prison population that will be disproportionately minority)
Many many interesting points of information are lost when averages are taken. Averages can lie. If some working class people objectively feel their lives have worsened from crime, it's "progressives" in particular who need to be listening even if some of the facts appear to be wrong. It's quite possible critical theorists and sociologists and various experts are missing some important variance.
Related:

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yes, but then JLCPCB would not have assembled it for me. I would not want to assemble a few dozen of those by hand...
This is what social proof looks like: everyone believing that everyone else signed off on a successful person, thus they should continue to be seen as successful.

The cyclic nature is unavoidable, and to some, a feature, not a bug.
I read "factfulness", really opened my eyes!
I've been using Garmin GPS watches for more than a decade, they get two weeks on a single charge (double or triple that if you don't use 24/7 heart rate, or GPS, or Bluetooth/Wifi, but even on long trips I don't need months without a charge). And they have Bluetooth that syncs with my phone for weather data and optionally shows notifications, but it doesn't need a phone connection to be a great watch.

Sure, my top-end Fenix 6 Pro cost $750 new in 2019, and very little of that is hardware BOM (there's a lot of price segmentation), but it's still just as good as it was then. It's honestly extremely refreshing to deal with a company and an app that tries to build and sell good hardware rather than tricking you into a subscription.
Contrarian opinion: As a regular consumer, I don't WANT a decentralized, anonymous currency. For users like me, crypto totally misses the point. I don't want digital cash that can't be traced. I'm not buying drugs or illegal shit.

I want a centralized, safe way of sending small amounts of money to some content producers, microtransactions, etc., but with basic banking guarantees. Like being able to charge back a transaction if the merchant fails to deliver, or not being liable for fraudulent uses (as opposed to losing my entire wallet, oh well, too bad).

Decentralized crypto actively hurts instead of helps my confidence in being able to conduct a safe, easy transaction online. One wrong move and I lose all my funds to some scammer. How is that even remotely enticing?

Instead, I wish there was something as easy to use as a credit card, but without the exorbitant fees (for the merchant) and interests rates (for me). I just wish we had a financial organization like Visa/Mastercard but run as a nonprofit (or at least a credit union) so they can provide similar services with similar guarantees but just make less money on the returns.

Services like Privacy.com kinda do that, but merchants still get dinged with the Visa fees, so it's not entirely practical for microtransactions. So so far the best thing I've found is still just using Google or Apple to temporarily hold transactions and batch process them at the end of a month. (Lyft also does something similar, I think, batching rides and tips until the end of the day or week or something).
If that were true, people who work harder at their small business would make more, but that is not the case.
The separately owned will have an App Store compliant with the DMA.
Ask HN: Seamlessness is valued more on the go devices vs. desktop at home?
Can you name a couple examples of blatant neoliberal propaganda in the book? Who is the propaganda being perpetrated on behalf of? Who is funding it? If it doesn’t have these latter elements, you might want to consider the possibility that it is simply a work that you disagree with.
In late 1995 the market was even more crowded than when they launched in '94.

IE was already out. Opera was around the corner. Netscape was already close to its peak market share.

Plenty of people were selling alternatives, plenty of developers had funding. A lot of money had started flowing into browsers before Netscape. Had Netscape not soaked up the funding it did, more of that would just have flowed elsewhere.

The argument is not that Netscape were irrelevant, but they were one - big, sure, - player among many racing to commercialise features that already existed before Netscape.
Neither of these credentials work anymore. Perhaps someone changed them?
Their "personal" pricing is $20 per year. It looks like they've moved that to a separate pricing page and are gearing the other for business use.
I've added a recurring event on my calendar to check login-ability to several apps with which I've had this kind of experience in the past. At least once per month.
Yeh, it's probably torture. When the cops twist someone's arms behind their back, that's torture too, if milder and shorter in duration. When they shoot someone with a taser, and repeatedly shock them with high voltage, torture too.

What are authorities to do when they demand compliance, and the criminal says "oh, no thank you, I kindly refuse to submit to your authority"? When the convict says "no, I don't think I will accept this punishment"?

So sure. Threat of torture. I'm feeling ok about it. Glad we cleared that up.

PS You make a good case for suspending executions. Imagine 40 or 50 years of solitary. Could even use robots to deliver meals, so that they can't even pretend that there's another human being on the other side of the vault door once a day or so. Really, what do you think prisons are?
> The left-wing folks aggressively deny there is any sort of problem and the right-wing folks insist such and such a place is a warzone and anyone who goes there should be afraid.

This is contextual and is misleading without it.

But it does accurately represent the ineptitude of the left and why it always loses in these situations. Here's how it goes:

Problem: Society has people that are poor and mentally challenged. Both turn to drugs to cope. Drugs are illegal, increased demand increases criminality. Drug use exacerbates poverty, homelessness. Society becomes full of drug users committing petty crimes, and drug dealers perpetuating major crimes to contribute to supply. Not to mention addicts dying in the streets from overdoses.

All of this in general make cities undesirable and less safe.

RIGHT-WING Solution: LET'S GET TOUGH ON CRIME.

Drug dealers get arrested. Drug users get arrested.

For a little while the streets are cleaner and safer, and everyone is happy. But the root cause hasn't been addressed, so the same problems just return.

LEFT-WING Solution: Drug use is a symptom not a root cause. And criminality is inherent to drug trade because drugs are illegal. If we legalize or decriminalize drugs we reduce the criminal element. If we give people safe injection sites they don't have to die from overdoses. And if we fund social programs we can get people out of poverty, off the streets, and into housing.

PROBLEM 1: All of this is a lot harder than sending a dozen cops into a tent city and arresting a dozen homeless people.

PROBLEM 2: Even if carried out PERFECTLY, there becomes an intermediate step where homeless people are seen being given funds or housing from the government which makes poor-but-not-homeless, and even middle-class people get mad saying "I work so hard, how come this person who is clearly a loser is getting all these handouts? This makes people petty and the right wing seize on it.

PROBLEM 3: Going soft on drug use means in the short term you have people using drugs more openly, but not being arrested for it. This makes people grossed out and the right wing seize on it.

Before you know it and before any meaningful improvements have been made, you have right wing candidates screaming that all of the problems of society are because the left is too soft, and we need to get tougher. And they usually succeed and they usually win. Because the best the left wing can do is point to statistics that show fewer homeless people are dying of poverty or drug overdoses, and the truth is most humans in society just don't care. So they deny and minimize.

The reality is that out of sight out of mind, most gentle moderate even somewhat progressive people would be just as happy if homeless people "disappeared". They don't want to think about what that means. So they vote left when they feel guilty, and right when they're annoyed.
> If you report a minor robbery to the police in any large American city and you aren't a public figure, there is functionally a 0% chance of them following up on it much less solving it.

I have known people that had stolen things returned because the police found the items while investigating/arresting the thief for other crimes. It seems foolish to not bother with filing a report just because they aren't actively investigating every report they receive.
Top five pharma companies had earnings of $82B in 2022. I'm sure some of that is bolstered by vaccine sales but the problem lies in uncapped prices and uncapped greed.

And who owns the most shares of these Companies? Organizations like BlackRock and Vanguard.
We aren't getting 10s of millions in the last 20 years the population of illegal immigrants has grown by about 2 million.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/16/what-we-k...

The majority speak English especially after living here for 5+ years.

There are more than enough jobs to go around which is why immigrants only have a problem supporting themselves when not allowed to work.
Look at sites that don't take QoL based on neoliberal metrics?