skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They cost less even before inflation. Here's a write up I did a few months back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37657077

As far as I can tell, Lego just keeps getting more affordable.
Extraversion is a big factor, what level of day to day intensity is comfortable for him. To me that's a bigger aspect to look at.
> the heroine's father generally wants to make sure he is a good student & not a scamster from canada.

That sounds hilarious, do you have some example films that I can check out?
Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf]
https://web.archive.org/web/20240206200354/https://www.theat...
Let's just say the path the researchers took aren't doing them any favors. Of all of the potential ways to explore this, they chose developing new antibiotic resistance in genes:

> The scientists then tweaked the mutation rate of the orthogonal DNA-replicating enzyme, eventually enhancing it 1,000-fold. To test if the system could be used to evolve new functions, they inserted a gene for resistance to one antibiotic and saw how long it took for that gene to mutate into one conferring resistance to a different antibiotic. Within twelve days, they got 150 times more resistance to the new antibiotic.
It's very much comparable...for personal use: https://controld.com/plans?step=plans
What's pretty telling is that nowhere in their brand statements have they confirmed their chocolate is child-labor free. What's more:

> We believe in empowering cocoa farmers and people in cocoa communities with a certain level of consciousness about what is and isn't allowed. It’s fine for children to help out on the farm after school and learn about how cocoa is grown, but it’s important that farmers and communities know where to draw the line. They need to understand that certain types of work, such as heavy lifting, are harmful to children. Cooperatives have to do their part in taking responsibility to combat illegal child labor.

By their own admission they are not trying to end child labor - just improve the practice.

(Which I think is noble, I just don't think people appreciate how difficult eliminating child labor is)
The problem with "fight the status quo" people is that they tend to demand more authoritarianism and centralization to fight something that isn't that bad. Authoritarianism tend to lead to worse outcomes and hurt progress, things progress faster with liberal ideals than authoritarian ideals.
Cost effective is a stretch, I'm going to take a dumb example but the reliability of AWS step functions and S3 is good enough for 99.99% of most use cases for a 1/100 of the price.

Mainframes are really powerful for some specific domain which most people on HN don't work in.

Another take is that the most valuable company in the world ( tech one ) don't run their core businesses on mainframes.
> Just about every category in your chart shows a reversal from a downward trend before 2019 into an upward trend from 2019 onward

Literally every category in that chart shows a reduction in crime over the last year. You're inventing a "trend" by extrapolating a line straight across an outlier (the covid pandemic). No one would look at that data and say crime is getting worse. You'd say crime got worse and is now back at baseline.
Staring at my unused skis on my rack in the basement, and at a graph of climate averages for the last decade... and... A little ice age would be nice right around now.
Considering the very early effects of dementia start to impact people sometimes decades before it becomes bad enough that they are diagnosed, it's certainly possible that extreme coffee consumption is some kind of self-medication mechanism.

Anecdotally, I've seen this a lot with adults with undiagnosed ADHD (including myself until 26). Caffeine can be a (very shitty) alternative to proper stimulant medication that people don't realise they actually need because of a medical issue. So the end up drinking 4-5 coffees a day instead.
What an insane take
you can always buy generic builder-part sets; they still sell them. Simply don't buy the overpriced kits.
The discussion is kind of a waste of time. It isn’t anywhere close to being an AR product. Tim basically already told us that this type of product would fail (mentioned in the article). It’s being released to put the project to bed, if you ask me. “Ship or go home” is what the Apple board is saying. They’ll be happy if it sells like hotcakes to cult members and they’ll be happy if it fails big time so they can finally kill the development hell that is the project.

Five more years won’t fix it. Don’t believe me? Look at the Meta Quest from 5 years ago compared to the Quest 3 or the Vision Pro for that matter. It’s barely a different experience. Useful for games and videos and that’s about it.

This concept can’t mess your hair and makeup up. It can’t be something that you can only use in isolation for thousands of dollars. It quite literally needs decades of technological progress that may never happen.
Same here. Ads following me everywhere just made it seem like my health was not their main concern.
And, it significantly disrupts sleep if you drink it 6 hours before bedtime [1]. Poor sleep is linked to dementia [2] risk.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805807/#:~:tex....

[2] https://www.harvardpilgrim.org/hapiguide/understanding-the-c....
Meta/Instagram probably
Ask HN: Quiet Quitting. What did happen to it?
You are almost certainly better off buying a low-end mainframe than hiring a team of engineers to build yet another not-great data replication/recovery/HA system.

To be clear, this only applies to regular mainframes running z/OS. LinuxONE machines, as the name implies, only run Linux where you'll have all the usual devops/SRE responsibilities.
They support them just enough so the war can drag on, weakening both Russia and the West.
"3 Billion Devices Run Java"

Maybe not all of them should.
> Nothing kills kids creativity more than that. It's not a pirate ship, it is Jack Sparrow's pirate ship. It's not a spaceship, it's Luke Skywalker's spaceship!

Why do you think so? I had a Hogwarts Express set and most of the time I didn't pretend for it to be the Hogwarts Express when playing.
I do think that Lego innovates, so they deserve their top spot!
> I notice same things in other professions, especially where it requires a huge upfront investment in education.

Doctors, for instance. You hear no end of stories about how incredibly high pressure medicine is with insane hours and stress, but will they increase university placements so they can actually hire enough trained staff to meet the workload? Absolutely fkn not, that would impact salaries.
I guess the NT equivalent are those error popups that come out of SYSTEM and similar accounts, yet somehow manage to get on the interactive user's session display. They usually have styling that's several Windows versions out of date.
Great read. I'm glad that the author stressed how systemic tech addiction is, and not a moral failure of the individual. It's only slightly ironic that he asked for readers to plug his article on social media, but the word needs getting out.
Yes, Bitcoin is not a startup though - they saw it as social movement
i don't think this is a show, but catchy blog title
> They found the largest earthquake — a magnitude of 5 on the Richter scale near the south pole — was linked with a cluster of likely still active faults.

The strongest is a 5? That seems manageable to put it mildly, there are bigger issues with humans on the moon for any length of time, from microgravity to the proliferation of pathogens.
> "I've never before seen the level of customer enthusiasm and demand that we are currently seeing from [artificial intelligence platforms] in US commercial," Palantir CFO Ryan Taylor

Whatever skill it takes to say such things, I am envious of it.
The world is not awful. The world just is.

It's just humans create environment they don't understand and can't handle, and it takes them a lot of time and effort to even somehow organise it on a small piece of a land. And then it ruins, and then they construct it again, and cetera.
Hard science people tend to worship data and dismiss anecdotes, but a situation where the data is incomplete/incorrect (for whatever reason) and anecdotes which point in a different direction are, in fact, correct, is perfectly plausible. For example, the former Soviet Bloc was unmatched in its ability to produce impressive statistics of various achievements, but the real living standard of the people would strike you in the face the moment you would see it. Which is why the secret police often restricted free movement of Western visitors.

SF is pretty bad. A few weeks ago, Czech TV reporters were robbed at a gunpoint in broad daylight [0]. Stuff like that simply doesn't happen in Prague, Warsaw or even war-torn, PTSD-heavy Kyiv. It rather corresponds to South African standards of safety. IDK if you can explain it away with positively sounding statistics, but as Feynman says, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

If a culture war coded topic like crime is being discussed and tribal loyalty kicks in, I can imagine people simply ignoring anything that goes contrary to their position and rallying to the flag.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/czech-journalists-cover...
So how did you „further optimized [buildkit] to build Docker images up to 40x faster“
>You can buy a....

Are these standardized exchange rates, Labor for [product]?

Does a South Carolina Felon have more buying power than a Nebraska Felon?

Whats their labor exchange?
If you have enough room to store WiFi credentials, then you probably have enough room to store toothbrush use statistics.

There is no need to copy that data to a phone immediately. It can be put off until it's convenient.
I also had a good experience with PillPack as a previous customer. I don't know whether or how PillPack differs from Amazon Pharmacy.
When one looks at the history of human interventions in ecosystems, one cannot be optimistic. Whether it’s about defending against invasive species or restoring ecosystems to their “original state,” our limited understanding of complex ecosystems inevitably leads to interventions with negative side effects.
> Consider food, water, healthcare—all necessities, yet all benefit from private investment and innovation.

I live beside the river Thames, which private "investment" has transformed into a sewer. My access to food has shrunk; I used to have access to butchers, greengrocers and so on. Now all my food comes from supermarkets. The health system I depend on has been gradually privatized, and it is now at breaking point.

> the lessons of history

History is squishy stuff; we mould it to support the conclusions we want to draw.

[Edit] I'm interested that you didn't challenge my equating of investment with speculation, because I didn't mention investment. Obviously, without capital investment, you don't get capital assets like houses. But my neighbourhood is blighted by absentee landlords; one neighbour is an AirBnB, the other has been empty for 5 years. Both are owned by absentee landlords, one living 2,000Km away. That's not investment; that's speculation.
> In many (most?) states, they are actually legally required to offer services to you without a subscription

For emergency services from hospitals that provide emergency services, that's true. But for virtually anything else I don't think it is.
> 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.

Source?

I haven't heard this claim before.
> rising to the point where the coasts of continents are swamped

Then it’s not a coast, it’s underwater. The coast has moved. That’s fine, they always do. People will need to move to accommodate that. That’s also fine, they always do.

Also worth noting the sea level is actually falling relative to land level in many areas, especially towards the poles. What we’re most likely to see is mass migration into previously frozen/underwater areas towards the poles.
Certainly I think there are regulatory and social issues as well. The current system was built in a time where it made far less sense for that 12 yo to have their own domain name. But they also didn't have their own phone numbers back then, but the phone system evolved so they could. DNS needs to evolve too.
Once you report an iPhone as stolen, it cannot be registered again.
lol, this blog is very thin and seems almost LLM generated

i was expecting something better
In Swiss German I would spell it "glustig" or "gluschdig". I would "germanize" it as "gelustig". If you are "glustig uf öppis" it means you have "Lust darauf", often used in the context of food. "glust" on its own just means "Lust" as in "Gelüste". As explained in the article if you are "glustig" you are not necessarily hungry but you just crave some food. "Ich hab zwar schon gegessen aber irgendwie hab ich voll Lust auf nen Döner!"
Well yes and no. A large fraction of law professors don't have academic degrees past JD which despite having 'Doctor' in its name, is not the equivalent of a Phd. On the other hand they likely would have a large number of publications or a significant body of work as a clerk for an important court.
Yeah, maybe Kinect failed because they didn't make a "Kinect Sex" app for it.
I mean, if you're rejecting that humans assign values to things around them, then nothing is anything.
>> We really just had sets with square/rectangular blocks of various sizes and a few special parts like windows and doors

Same here. For me, they were stored in the same large bag as the Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys, Hot Wheels, and green plastic army men.

Which allowed you to realistically portray such common situations as "infantryman, flamethrower, and radio man hide behind giant plastic multi-colored wall while preparing to assault Porsche 917 garaged in a log cabin".
What a silly thought. I'll take my 40? 60? 80? 100? years of life over an eternity of nothingness any day of the week, thanks.

The world sucks? Maybe so. It also contains food, love, music, children, laughter, grandparents, trees, cats, and just fuckin' pathos, man.

Try not to waste it!
ExpressJS Gets DDoS'd via GitHub PR
Anyone else dealing with back pain? Looking for some help
Hey! I’m an engineering student trying to build a wearable to help people with back pain, having struggled with it myself for 10 years.

I really need some data on people’s experiences with back pain, so I’d be super grateful if you could fill out my research survey

Thank you!
Verizon says 63K employees' info fell into the wrong hands
Amazon isn't Google. Amazon still operates SQS.
Yeah, I don't mean to say Visa can run global payment processing on a single postgres install; I'm sure they do a ton of stuff with each transaction (e.g. for fraud detection). But for system design, it gives an order of magnitude for how many human actions a global system might need to deal with, which you can use to estimate how much a wildly successful system might need to handle based on what processing is needed for each human action.

For similar scale comparisons, reddit gets ~200 comments/second peak. Wikimedia gets ~20 edits/second and 1-200k pageviews/second (their grafana is public, but I won't link it since it's probably rude to drive traffic to it).
> Deno is written in Rust, which allows them to move faster and more safely. Contributing to and extending Deno is a breeze. You can add Rust crates to the runtime and use them from JS.

Most of Deno's code is actually V8 in C++
He should be allowed to do that, and everyone else should be allowed to judge him very harshly for his choice.
A single box of any type absolutely cannot deliver eight nines. Maybe a sysplex running very limited software...
>Why would I want my client to preload arbitrary third-party supplied fourth-party content? No thank you.

I would describe it as a funny picture that moves
That's a good point about the applicant number. I don't think anyone knows exactly how it works, but it was the first time I saw a job posting older than a few hours with <10 applicants with such straightforward skills such as Python.
Bolts appeared to be missing from door plug that flew off Boeing MAX 9 jet
Yeah, I haven't found a way around that. Hoping for "advanced window control" in a future version of visionOS. That and curved windows.

Although, it isn't a huge deal for me now. Walking around a physical space is part of the "new way of working" I'm exploring. Monitors beat the AVP if I'm going to be parked in a desk anyway, but the AVP unlocks a workflow in which I'm fully digital but also less tethered to a desk, which is interesting to me.

If Apple could find a reasonable solution for typing on a non-physical keyboard I'd be very happy. Not sure I want to resort to Keyboard Pants.
> the mainframe 3270 terminal user interface experience is terrible

[... for new users]

For expert users? I'd pit it against any interface you want.

No-mouse + hands-on-keyboard + tab is hard to argue with.

Sadly, the number of people who remember when GUIs could be driven from memory by keyboard-only has dwindled.

Watch a 10-year veteran insurance employee use a green screen.

Or as a counter-example, try to tab through your modern app du jour. (Modern developers often don't even bother to set indexes correctly)
Interesting they were actual graphical dialogs with bouse support in 16-bit windows, but you'd get a text-mode blue screen on Win95.
Happened a lot to me due to faulty CD-ROM drive. D: can not be read. Abort/retry/fail.
What was even the difference between Abort and Fail?
My mom, both of my sisters and I drink it by the pot. Each of us, every day.

6 cups? That doesn't sound like enough coffee to me.
Why does it matter? Embedded Java is quite popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_Java
When Fern Gully came out, were you hiding under the couch?
I would love to see a crowdsourced CDN/web host, organized as a nonprofit/NGO, that just provides basic network services to the masses for minimal profit. Kinda like a public AWS that runs on donations, grants, etc. It would tie in with municipal broadband setups (which can be edge nodes), have unmetered peering with other similar nodes, etc. Kinda like doing what credit unions do in the financial world but for the internet.

On the frontend side, I wish there was some sort of "universal storefront" app with amazing UX that can generically replace (via API or pass-through clicks) e-commerce sites with poor UX, like Steam or Amazon. By that I mean something super performant, with good filtering, clear price histories, no trash recommendations (maybe using open source and user-customizable algorithms instead). So many of these ecommerce sites have gone down the dark patterns route, I wish there was some frontend to just bypass them altogether, kinda like how we have alternative clients for YouTube, Slack, Discord, etc.

Both ideas are similar... copying big tech but de-shittifiying them with public effort and resources.
Apple doesn't charge businesses to use Apple Pay. They do charge the CC companies a fee of 0.15%. This fee might be passed on to the merchant, but I'm not sure if credit card processing fees have actually increased since Apple Pay's introduction. It's been a while since I had any involvement in that world.

https://www.checkout.com/blog/apple-pay-for-business
Recipe for getting on HN:

1. Pick a contentious topic that everyone knows something about.

2. Intentionally misunderstand what you're doing.

3. Claim it's all bullshit.

4. Adopt a defensive stance: anyone saying you're doing it wrong is guilty of a "no true Scotsman" argument.

5. Blog about it.
One of the reasons that bone breaks can be fatal is that bone marrow can escape into the bloodstream and cause blood clots. The result can be a fatal stroke. This is fairly common during hip breaks. My great-uncle went this way.
Fun fact, your question was 7% the length of the article which clearly answered your question.
Are you familiar with Erlang's ETS? It's pretty neato: https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/storage/ets
That is the tragic part about Russia. They don't need to be Chinas Canada. They have all the protentional in the world play nice in the world sandbox and prosper.
Sites break often if they're shitty. Especially if you click Google's "Sponsored" link by accident after a search because I block Google's ad stuff.

But, you get used to what sites break and decide if it is worth bothering to fix it or not.

I can disable my pihole by opening a browser, navigating to pihole and disabling it.
Don't get me wrong, it's definitely a problem, and something needs to be done, but lets also try to keep it in perspective... $500 million could well be 500 mortgages in Toronto. That would be about 0.02% of the private dwellings in Toronto.
Super annoying in a computer lab when someone has nicked one of the mouse pads though. Happened on a regular basis back when I was in Uni.
Totally agree.

I always cry on the inside when I see those beautifully designed, symmetrical, detailed sets taken apart and tossed together to form the next ninja castle or whatever, but after all Lego is to be taken apart and my 6-8-9 year olds have no remorse in doing so.
I use PiHole, it does break some stuff here and there, and sometimes useful things like Private Relay or iCloud in iOS; or once YouTube history stopped working for me (apparently they use a separate domain to track watched videos and progress!). It also depends on the block lists you upload. It’s pretty easy to unblock, especially web, as you just look on which domain cannot resolve in the browser dev tools and add it to the allow list.

Yet, DNS-based blockers have a limited usefulness at this moment as some major ad-providers started using the same primary domain for serving ads. For example, YouTube, partially Google, Yandex. I guess they cover everything with top level load-balancer and then route internally to specific service ingresses
I also believe it's intentional, and it fits very well with the dystopian marketing towards young singles and divorced dads. However, this alone would be a showstopper for me. The idea to buy a 3.5k$ device, which is ideal for watching media, and not being able to lend it to my wife or kids, is just ridiculous.
I use AdGuard home as part of my HomeAssistant setup and have had no problem at all. Only thing is to turn off the enforced safe search as that quite reduces results.
That’s like a little more than 2 venti Starbucks.
There’s nothing about a “fight the status quo” mentality that inherently favors authoritarianism and it’s not helpful to claim otherwise.

That said, it is helpful to remember both knowing- and unconscious authoritarians will twist any framework into an excuse to establish and flex authority — that’s their whole modus operandi, after all.
Phuck those people.

Yeah - I should have gone to ADMIN panel asap.. but didnt...

https://i.imgur.com/cJnE5qZ.png

Yeah they 14-year-old-haxxd themselves.

HHAH
Agreed. Non-productive money making should be taxed more heavily than productive money making. By productive I mean non-speculative activity. Also, sales tax is harder on lower income people. Sales tax should be scrapped except on luxury items or things like cigarettes.
> I get that corporate America is strangled by puritan values from the payment processing networks on up

I think it's just easier for platforms to ban porn rather than deal with the criminal and financial risks of enabling it.
Yes I do always mention this before serving food I make with it to someone new. They just haven't been able to taste a difference.
If you can't tell a 1 apart from an L...