skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no reason you can’t have all of these on a debit card, other than maybe 4. The fact that only credit and not debit cards provide them is an artifact of how the market has grown, not economic necessity.

And for 4, why should overdraft fees/interest actually be socialized to literally everybody buying things (since interchange, which pays for them, gets baked into prices in the end)?
I hated it at first but having wireless headphones is awesome. I haven’t missed my wired headphones at all since I got galaxy buds+ with 11hr per use. I tried the newer better sounding buds 2, the low battery life is atrocious (4hr).

You can always use a BT repeater for headphones too, I went that route at first along with dongles and gave up. I miss it but I moved on, reluctantly.
I wonder how small the SVG spec could be golfed for this program to still work.
Feels like solving marginal 'issues' that noone is having.

"The sound is supposed to be coming from the image that our eyes see on the screen, but our ears know it’s coming from somewhere else." => Not something bothers most of us (also untrue) in current (and even historic) screen and stereo systems - with the support of surround and other spatial technology started in movies. We have a Sony TV where the screen is the speaker and the spatial immersion gain is unnoticable compared to good stereo speakers, while the sound quality is noticeably lower. In a mobile with narrow angle of view... even less significant.

"[current technology] are still big enough to limit how thin our mobile devices can get" => then we put thick camera in it that ruins thinness. Which is fragile enough already and requires followup 'inventions' sometimes (think about the iPhone 6 mishap, becoming the first foldable screen phone : ) ).

Having the vibration of sound crossed with tactile feedback? Sounds confusing like the idea of a transparent TV.

I know, I know, it is not about real needs but about pretentious additions to charge more money than necessary fooling customers with pompus needlessness that shouldn't be taken seriously, yet, I am still a bit grumpy when they try, repeatedly.
It's a value proposition in the sense that it already exists and people want it, but it's nothing new. Cheap handheld emulator devices have existed for literally decades.

The "hype-based" aspect is that they're pretending like it's something revolutionary, hence why they are leaning on this Teenage Engineering-esque marketing style.
you mean, like registering anti-ccp domain before ccp comes to power, eh?
You start with a trace event you care about. You see it’s too slow. The first step is that you see explicitly that it’s not because the code is slow, you constantly get descheduled because there are thread state indicators above your event.

Then you navigate to the CPU tracks find the thread(s) that were running instead of the one you care about and directly inspect their stacks. Sometimes almost nothing is running. Maybe contention is not on even on the CPU.

So the “parsing styles was slow” conclusion you would get from only looking at histograms turns into “parsing styles was slow because I couldn’t get my fonts and that was slow because IndexDB was hogging the hard drive on another process”

Edit: I should mention the user provided trace events are very important here. You get flow arrows really underlining task posting and IPC response as well as user interactions. Entry/Exit style uprobes on function are great but I found won’t get you all the way there on a large application.
The question is: did ahe want to raise her children like that and would she have chosen to do it that way if she had a choice. People raise children that exist any way they can. People don't choose more children in a bad situation. We can conjecture your grandmother didn't think it was ideal because she didn't have any more children during a time where having more than 3 wouldn't have been strange.
Yes, this font reminds me of the "Faithful" texture packs (which makes sense, it's basically the same principle: still pixelated, but "zoomed out", more dense) and I don't like those. It's as if the 16x look has something magical, while everything above it looks "low res".
Yeah I sometimes wonder about our use of energy.

Like two whole percent goes to cracking puzzles, and if you prove you crack those puzzles we let you buy things. Those puzzles? Guessing hashes for Blockchain. Not cancer or science or engineering, just automated planet wide gambling.

Then how much is used for ads? Like top to bottom, serving ads. Must be a ton. As a planetary anthropologist, seeing how much infra we built to watch people do silly dances or say things on TikTok... Like we're so addicted to ourselves that we built all this to watch ourselves do things.
Or you could make them even thinner and accelerate sales of new devices as you inevitably bend them and its cheaper to just buy a new one.
> The current national average (through Q2 2022) of homes powered by a MW of solar is 173.

https://www.seia.org/initiatives/whats-megawatt
You are thinking of a law, not a convention.

A convention is a common language. It is something you have the right to break when needed / suitable but which is otherwise nice to follow when interacting with others.

Such conventions allow you to omit the port when typing a URL in a browser for instance. They allow taking nice shortcuts and avoiding verbose / irrelevant technical details.

(now, some conventions are mandated by laws indeed. For instance, if you are setting up electricity somewhere, you'd better use the right colors. One might argue that we ought to call such things rules)
And also so that the secret wouldn't get out
I wonder if gyro drift would eventually cause problems?
On is active.

Just like most devices with signal lights — which have been that way for decades. Historically, the lights are signaling power being supplied.
I do keep doing it myself but combining multiple things into one button is a bad idea. What if the toggle action is just slightly delayed? What if the system is frozen, do you press toggle again? when do you know your click didn't register? Was freezing not annoying enough by it self?
"No Kubernetes because the idle cluster cost with nothing in it is larger than the total cost of my current setup" has been the case for quite a while. I wonder whether it is anywhere on the k8s priority list to fix this. Even K3s consumes a lot more than say docker swarm for more or less the same job.
5. Grabby aliens do not exist because the universe is a dark forest and any detectable signs of life result in anonymous relativistic snowflake bombardment.
not using afghanistan as TLD for a queer forum. Even if the Talibans didn't get back in power, it wasn't a country very LGBT friendly to put it mildly, so it was very risky for a long term instance to use it for TLD
Also because many devs do not understand multiple execution layers. From react devs who never heard of javascript native loops to Spring devs who have no idea how sql looks to c devs who have never used a memory heap tool to node devs who never seen io performance impact to .....
You need an all seeing eye to make things performant. Those are scarse. Probably one in the 20 devs max.
That is not necessarily true. Studios can still decide that a movie is sufficiently bad that it is a brand risk and will still refuse to release it even if they cannot deduct some or all of the expense to create it.
They don’t have to show what they pay their merchant acquiring bank, but what (if any) surcharge they charge you as a customer paying by card (some stores do that, often disclosed only by a sneaky sign far away from the checkout register).
My wife and I are expecting. Daycare is expensive, but it's only an outrageous expense if you have two people making up to about 3x minimum wage. Below that, it makes sense (at least in our area) to have one person stay home. But the cheapest state-regulated, licensed daycares are around $1500/mo for full-day infant care.

$18k/yr is a lot to spend on anything when you're making $20/hr for sure, but if you've got two professional people making $75-100k/yr each it becomes a very manageable expense and nobody considers staying home to save that.
Do you mean this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081
If the light is beside the switch (rather than being the switch) then I'd say it clearly and unambiguously indicates the current state of whatever the switch operates?

(A light also has the advantage of being a skeuomorph - much as those are now out of fashion - we all know how to interpret indicator lights in the real world.)
> A wider tire adds more mass to wheels and they are the worst place to add mass to because it works against you every time you have to make that wheel spin faster.

If I recall correctly, this isn't a big deal because accelerating the rotating mass is assisted by the (equal) mass on the other side of the wheel, so adding weight doesn't really make any difference vs adding that same weight on the frame.

Where it can hurt is cornering. GCN did a video that suggested increasing width increases grip and cornering... to a point. Once you exceed that point, you spend more time moving the bike "over the tyre" and have a hard time cornering.
> There's quite a lot of information in, arguably, a very modest process.

But quite low in Kolmogorov complexity.
Wow, thank you.

Someday Apple will expose the gazillion defaults write options in a “Pro” tab in System Settings. One can dream.
Unrelated to the topic content-wise, but what's the link format? Like, with the object identifier ...
She's a farmer of Bridezillas - clever girl!
(maybe hunter-gatherer)

...or an engineer that builds the bridge between reality and the image people want to project about themselves. Amazing food for thought.
Ego-Exo4D: A foundational dataset on video learning and perception
if you could extract a best-guess from each one of these bad options and paired it up with some sensor fusion and signal processing you could probably improve the accuracy of whatever microphone is in there already and maybe even get some directional sound localisation going. Could be a fun research project
Depends where you stick them on. I am using them in my diy raingauges and one of my first prototypes had a too thin surface (where the raindrops fall on) causing a light rainshower on my graph when someone was talking within a metre or 2.
If the average home was using 10kW constant it be using 240 kWh a day, which is enormously high.

In terms of average usage an average sized home in the US is much closer to 50kWh a day, so roughly 2kW average demand. That would mean 1 MW is enough for 500 homes on average. The one thing that doesn’t is peak demand load, say when everyone gets home from work and turns everything on at the same time or a particularly cold or hot day.

Edit: the average US home uses just shy of 1000 kWh a month, or just over 30 kWh a day.
The Great Salt Lake Is Full of Lithium. A Startup Wants to Harvest It
Natural way of being a human is shitting under a tree and sleeping on this tree, and certainly isn't writing a comment on this site. I couldn't care less of arguments based on some kind of naturalistic fallacy.
But I remember the time. The software could be downloaded from inside USA. Mid-nineties the internet wasn't particularly large and (what's nowadays) simple measures were in place. In practice you could get it from the US even if you were outside, but then again USA wasn't the only place where encryption software was made, so we all thought it a bit silly.

What I'm getting at is that it's simply incorrect that encryption wasn't available in the US, and it's also incorrect that encryption couldn't or wasn't in use. It most definitely was. The regulations were only about export. 40 bits max and all that.
So actions can't have consequences? I think that's a much worse thing to say.
This makes it sound like companies like Apple and Samsung are not trying to increase battery life, which is absolutely untrue.
Only related for people whose sole friends are from their work, no?
I am not sure if friends replace (at least my experience of) cousins. With couisins, you spend days, nights, sleepovers sometimes a whole summer together. You share grandparents, your parents are siblings - you never leave each other's side. It's like sibling minus one. With friends, yes you get very good friends and they are your "chosen family" but you don't spend half as much time together even to the best of your efforts (unless living next door) at the same time, things force you to fall apart - moving, schools, preferences etc.
Docker can be overkill.

I host many rails apps on a single server, having one or two ruby/rails versions installed and a single postgres. They are all sharing the same architecture essentially.
Personally, I'd find a lot of joy in commercializing it. Seems like it will sell extremely well and people would love it. I find a lot of joy in that.
Is it? That's clever sounding but mostly wrong.

Democracy is a system where political disagreements are resolved through a set of agreed-upon rules (AKA "rule of law") instead of violence. The alternative to Democracy is mass murder. There is still plenty of violence in a Democracy -- witness the prison system in the USA, but it isn't neighbors just casually murdering each other (as also happened in the USA in an organized way in the Jim Crow era). Interesting to note -- both counter-examples were / are founded on denying parties participation in the democratic process...

The Rwandan and Bosnian civil wars are both examples of "tyranny of the masses" where there's no mechanism for resolving disputes between groups, besides killing your neighbor.
No it's an "actions have consequences" thing.
Baird's beaked whales found in shallower waters than previously observed
Looks like a pretty good tool for people who want to walk the "Carmack path" that is to re-create all games John Carmack programmed between Shadowforge and Quake.

Let's put up some description:

Carmack Jam! The most exciting Jam that requires you to follow the steps of a giant so that you can experience the thrills (and pains) of the 90s!

Path A: Humble path (Use C/C++ with SDL2 on a modern PC)

Competitors may use their own graphic resources, or read from the original game assets for bonus points!

Participants are not requested to produce a full game, rather, they are requested to produce a game engine with similar->full features comparing to the original game.

Here is the list of games to be produced (Only one game is required for Trilogies, Doubles or games with similar mechanics and looks)

- Wraith (or any turn-based, tile-scrolling Ultima spin-off)

- Dark Designs (or any blobber)

- Catacomb (or anything similar)

- Slordax (or any vertical scrolling shooter)

- Commander Keen (or any side scrolling platformer)

- Rescue Rover (Optional, I guess this does not hold too much technical improvement)

- Hovertank 3D (Optional, but maybe it's a good starter game for 3d stuffs)

- Catacomb 3D (Optional, it has textured mapping)

- Wolfenstein 3D

- Shadowcaster (Notice the increasing number of features of the 4 games)

- Doom

- Quake

Path B: Demi-God path (See description below)

Participants must use the original development environment. Real machines are given bonus points, while VMs are allowed. I'm actually not sure whether we have good NextStep VMs so maybe we should also allow Pentium machines using Windows NT, but it seems to be pretty far from the original development environment.

Please note that game development tools are also required to be coded on the original development environment.
I think there's a degree of US specificity to your comment. The situation in the UK would be different.
Of course it does. Is there any place on the planet that is allowed to just be?
Plenty of women wants to date a guy 10, 20 or even 30 years her senior. Especially if he's financially secure, wants a stable relationship, is reasonably healthy and treats her well.

If you have your life in order, all you have to do is to look in the right places. Those places exist in any country, but if you're a man like that and look on dating sites for Thailand or the Philippines, you will find 10 women that want to marry you within an hour or two.

However, if you're broke, don't have a decent job and have serious health problems, you may indeed by out of luck.
The thing is that they claim it's value is X to the Tax Man.

Then someone says "I want to pay 1.1 * X for that" and they say "it's worth more" - what are the tax implications?

The same applies when they claim that X = 0. They're doing a disservice to their shareholders if they won't sell something worthless for money.

There's a celebrity president facing the courts for a similar play, the same thing was worthless when having to pay taxes for it and priceless when using it as collateral for a loan =)
>> This perceptual dissonance limits our ability to immerse ourselves in the experience.

As opposed to the perceptual dissonance of seeing a person inside a small rectangle we can hold in our hands? Or the strangeness of hearing an entire orchestra while sitting on a bus? The fact that sound emanates from a slightly unnatural place or direction isn't a problem worth addressing, despite the fact that fixing it might make phones 1mm thinner.

How about this: Give me a phone with a proper usb port, a couple sim cards, an SD slot, a replaceable battery and a headphone jack. I couldn't possibly care any less about making it any thinner. It's going into a protective case anyway.
I've lived on and off in Bangkok for ten years, in Phrom Pong area now. Let me know if you want to meet and talk nomad talk. Track down my email through my HN profile.
Less when counting in transportation? Where did you live at the time?
> a public auction which is what I was alluding to by saying "anybody"

I think this is their main objection, not sure there are 2 other things?
Email is asynchronous. Let the emails be sent at 3 AM Sunday, and read at 8 AM Monday.
Nice to see another one man company avoiding k8s.

I've been planning zero-downtime upgrades for my Elixir app (https://bernard.app) which makes heavy use of live views and long running background processes and zero downtime is not something which is super easy to do with bare podman, and I didn't want to reimplement half of k8s in bash.

Long story short, after one week of research, I have changed my mind and decided that writing a custom, half-baked crappy solution with Caddy, podman, a bash script and effort is still a couple orders of magnitude easier than buying into the k8s circus.

In fact, I like the k8s philosophy, it does make sense to someone that has managed services for almost 2 decades. K8s is wide because the problem is complex. What makes no sense whatsoever is the bullshit that lives around and outside it: Helm, YAML, templating systems which feels as flexible as COBOL, Argo, Flux, certificate rotation, etcd, k3s, k0s, RKE2, and I could go on for half an hour.

Yeah, bash script, podman and systemd it is for this one man business. I just wish I could throw Ansible into the flaming sun.
When every ketchup but one went extinct (2022)
This four minute video of him is a terrific way to learn Kanji. I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2icA1VaYg80
So I did recall correctly, then.
Scotland

So we had to fly from Edinburgh -> LHR -> Seychelles

Looking at the current price from the same travel company and hotel it would be ~£8K - still cheaper than most weddings. The actual cost of the "wedding" part was pretty small.

Edit: One thing I do remember is that flight out was full of stressed out newly weds!
> While it offers many features, I've refused to pay for a solution to Apple's poor design decision.

The phrasing of this kind of gets under my skin.

Like, it's fine to call it "refusing to pay" if it's some kind of Apple tax. Bartender is great little indie app, a real quality-of-life enhancement. I like to reward creative developers who come up with solutions for weird edge-case users like us.
The problem with certified project management practices no matter the name is the lack of certified outcome owners.
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People like to complain, that is why this is still a complaint.

There is only one situation where wired is needed: Charging and Listening at the same time.

Otherwise, people can still use wired headphones all they want, especially now with USB C headphones. Even charging and listening at the same time can just be done with a splitter.

The premise is just a talking point because people want to use AUX. Well I still want to use VGA, doesn't mean they should be putting them on video cards.
this was really cool. there should be a monthly "which blogs got updated this month?" post on HN like the hiring/wants to be hired posts.
> the Roman Empire lasted about 200 years

I thought it lasted much longer than that in the East?
I think microsoft gets away with only getting binaries because they have a handle on the APIs you have to use for their consoles, so they can maintain backwards compatibility with a little translation, some shims, and the go-ahead from the publisher.

Nintendo also has the advantage of other people writing emulators for their hardware that they can take advantage of years later, but only for first party stuff. (later ps2 game releases for the ps3 did something similar, with sony hiring a prominent emulator dev)

I have to assume it's either licensing issues with toolkits/middleware or apathy that stops the release process being "ship us a binary and a docker container that can build it".
It just turned 21, time flies!

https://netnewswire.blog/2024/02/11/netnewswire-turns.html
I don't know why a lot of software devs like physical hobbies. I had always heard like on HN about people liking woodworking and plumbing, and I was like okay whatever its a meme for the site.

Then the mechanical keyboard stuff took off, and that's when I noticed really.

The people that like making the keyboards and touching the keycaps are like a separate group of people from the ones that like the layers and keyboard layouts. A lot of the youtube keyboard reviewers are not even really good at typing. And then I would see my friends soldering shit all the time like its fun. I did not try it until 2020 when a lot of stuff was shut down and I had the time. Then I was like oh soldering is just adult legos. I don't like legos at all, that's why I never liked soldering or was really into electronics kits growing up.

I feel like peoples hobbies will let you know their preferences for how much abstract thinking they like to do and how they like to process information.

Knowing this now, it makes more sense as to why they could not figure out where to put the CS department. I had come across articles before, but I never really understood what they were talking about.

65-70% are like lego people, people who like playing with legos in their spare time. The rest are humanities people who like math, linguistics, English, music etc. You have to try and figure out the type of person who you are getting information from, because people, at least in this industry, tend to think in very particular ways and it is a lot easier to tell when you start looking at their hobbies and preferences for doing things.
If I had a cupcake shop, someone came in to buy a cupcake, and then immediately threw it on the floor - I'd be aghast. Regular people take pride in their work. Market abstractions of "it's yours now" don't approximate how people actually feel about the objects they produce. People don't want to be alienated from their labor!