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Show HN: Dsu gem for your Daily Stand-up (DSU)
Daily stand-ups (DSU) are a drag and not what they should be: "what I did yesterday...what I plan to do today...I am/am not blocked...blah, blah, blah". So, I created this fun, powerful little ruby gem, called dsu to help me out. Many love it, and I think you will too! Give it a look-see, try, and a Github star please:

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Study shows dogs may be able to sniff out an oncoming PTSD flashback
Tsunami warning issued after earthquake off southwestern Japan
> how come everything with an app is so much more expensive?

After ton of investment investors are finally looking for returns now. And consumers have decided convenience reigns supreme. Right from the SAAS products to daily breakfast customers there is lot of premium on convenience.
Note that not everyone is getting a raise, only those making minimum wage.
Amazing stuff!

And origami is not unrelated to (hexa)flexagons, which are a perennial HN favorite and also a math/physics fascination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexagon#Discovery_and_introdu...)
Three new millisecond pulsars detected with MeerKAT
Maybe not, but it's relatively smooth on my 3 year old phone, which is crazy impressive

Edit: I was in low power mode, it runs quite smoothly
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> The government’s job is to pass laws that the people asked for

Many governments appear to have lost their way...or more likely they just define "the people" as the folks who donate to their next campaign.
This is a dumb comment trying to pass the buck IMO. Of course it's a national lab, but probably a specific group at a national lab (potentially even in a Office of Science arm) going through their support channels at Cray/HPE to get a fix, presumably porting away from intel compilers or something or trying to onboard to something else (conda/spack).

Cray/HPE could/should have just do the fix or pay for it, since presumably they are packaging gcc/gfortran as part of the OS. Somebody there has to be qualified to execute such a fix.
Im not aware anything else than nix and guix. Perhaps other distros build in dedicated vms / containers.
To me, their coffee is consistently bad, so I have to assume that what I got is the way they wanted to make it. A remake will not change things.
Yeah they do some other shenanigans. Once you open inspect element the site just blanks out. It's the only website I've ever seen do anything like this.
I ran into this for the first time a couple weeks ago. I tried to boot a system from an SSD that had sat for about 9 months at normal room temperature w/out power. It stumbled badly, repeatedly. I booted a live USB, ran non-destructive `badblocks` scan on it and reinstalled the OS. It's been working fine since.

I thought SSDs would last longer than 9 months w/out losing data when not powered.
If I remember rightly, Starbucks' profits two years ago were down fairly substantially compared to their pre-pandemic levels and their long term goal seems to be to try and return the business to that same stable level of profit.
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You have family or are lazy.

Life with $400+ high end rice cooker:

Load up big batch of rice when convenient, rice cooks at set schedule. No minding the stove.

Keep warm option can keep rice 95% tasty for 3-4 days vs storing/reheating rice that gets dry. Rice quality also consistently good.

Depending on how much rice you eat, this will save you multiple hours a week. Hundreds of hours over a few years. It's really no brainer investment.

It's like asking why do people have toasters when they can fry up or bake bread every time. Except high end toasters have nothing on high end rice cookers. Imagine a toaster that can be loaded with bread and you can open it whenever and have perfectly toasted bread for days. I imagine frequent bread eaters would pay stupid money for that.

E: if your clumbsy, never accidentally burn a pot again, which adds up.
I won't be surprised. The accelerometers seem to be pretty sensitive. Enough to measure any variations in heart rates and breathing patterns which are likely highly correlated with sleep patterns.
You’re implying causation, but doesn’t the fed always look at core inflation?
Ask HN: How did you build feature flags?
I'm building feature flags and I feel like architecture decisions for this is a solved problem and would love to hear anecdotes. How did you go about building feature flags at your company?
This is glorious! WB 4.1 .. just wow.
This is the public link https://t.co/3xeGnKhwYr
> Not sure what you mean by "unacceptably low up close". Most GS demos don't have LoD lol.

When the camera gets close the "texture" resolution is extremely low. Like, roughly 1/4 what I would expect. Maybe even 1/8. Aka it's very blurry.
Electron app, simple? LMAO!!

There are only a few viable routes to go when building a desktop app without pulling out any remaining hair you might have, and as usual HN delivers reems of bad advice to use the worst of the worst.
> After ton of investment investors are finally looking for returns now.

We need a quippy phrase for this, but unfortunately "Pump and Dump" is already taken for a kind of stock-market manipulation.

Instead, I would like to coin/nominate "Tease and Squeeze".

First consumers are teased by the idea that the disruptive new service has invented a magic new secret to low prices and great value... But after the company as achieved some kind of market strangehold, those consumers are squeezed with price-hikes and quality-drops as the investors--who bankrolled the early predatory pricing [0]--try to recoup their investment plus additional profit.

[0] Note that the term "Predatory Pricing" usually refers to artificially low prices to destroy competitors, although I can totally understand why some may assume it means preying on customers with high prices.
A feature not covered in this article that I recently learned about is republishing[0]. This is super useful, because it lets you essentially "namespace" parts of the network. You can use very short subject names for an isolated part of the network, and then republish to a more specific name as it gets pushed out to a larger network.

[0] https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/jetstream/streams#republi...
Rust has the same problem as autotools, crates can be plain git archives but often contain things not in git and miss things that are in git.
A quick google shows that Starbucks actually has raised prices the _least_ of major fast food chains over the past 10 years. (if you trust [1])

Looks like they're just trying to catch up. Bad timing.

[1] https://financebuzz.com/fast-food-prices-vs-inflation
You know, the things every citizen can do without!
Yeah Starbucks would be at least 10% if that.
At $5 a day, 5 days a week, you get ~260 days * $5 = ~$1300.

And if your chosen drink from Starbucks is more expensive, and you order more than once a day, then double or even triple that figure.
Why the surprise? The first sentence is "Kolam is a South Indian heritage folk art, a line drawing that creates winding, interwoven geometric patterns over a two-dimensional dot-grid structure. "
Attempting some quick math:

Avg hours per year: 1560h (30h * 52 weeks), delta avg +$4 per hour

500,000 * US$4 * 1560h = US$3,120,000,000 net increase.

Gross company + franchise operating expenses were $2,706,000,000 in 2023 [1].

115 Big Macs sold / day in California / restaurant [2] (45 restaurants?). About 1250 restaurants in CA.

Big Mac about $5.19 * 115BM/d * 1250r * 365d = $272,312,500 per year revenue for Big Macs.

So... $60 Big Mac? (corrected, see below)

[1] https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/sites/corp/nfl/p...

[2] https://goldenstatemcd.com/
From time to time, I'm just too damn lazy to get up and cook, so app delivery it is. Or I have food, but forget to thaw something, so it won't be ready to cook in time, so app delivery it is.

I know there's a "you so lazy" tax. I've heard that on top of tips, delivery fees, app fees, they even modify the prices. Today, I went to one of the places I like to order from in person (such a rare thing for me to do). While there, I used app delivery to view their prices to the actual menu in front of me. Every single plate was at least $3 more expensive on the app. I deleted the app then and there.
WPF puts everything else to shame.
From my experience microwave heats up water so fast it doesn't matter. I've used coldest and hottest tap settings and as long as water level is right it works fine, provided you wait long enough after cooking for the rice to absorb the water. Usually I just wait 10 minutes. If it's still a little wet from cold water, I'll fluff the rice, stick the lid back on and wait a few more minutes (assuming this is using a microwave rice cooker).
I think these are by far the most popular works today associated with the "dying earth" genre? Interesting that the article ignores them. But I never knew how pre-fusion astrophysics inspired this kind of story, which was fascinating.

I've read both series within the past few years and they're still worth a a read. Vance's works inspired lots about D&D (including the older "Vancian" spell casting system) and have a lot of humor. The Book of the New Sun is a challenging read, written by an unreliable narrator. They're kind of interesting if you just take them at face value but to really appreciate them you have to go down the rabbit hole of what's really happening here.
The US government will nuke the FSF if they don’t get this patch in asap
Works great on Mac and it has firmware-based key mapping/macros which worked great for me to physically swap some keys and remap them to get the correct Mac key placement. This is persistent across machines. The software to do this is windows only, so you’ll need access to a windows pc or virtual machine once. There are physical buttons for remapping but I think they only work for remapping the 2 big external buttons.
Those same workers then need to buy things at the new higher prices.
nostalgia? I actively use it, it is a great tool
Pratchett really got technology, imo. Sometimes it really is high energy magic, but most of the time it's just labourers you can't see being exploited. I especially enjoyed the line "money dangled is far more effective than money given" or something like that... it's true.
7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
I have a list of software that I was going to throw money at, yes. Starting with direct dependencies.

Am I doing it now? No, because I can't afford to. Because people want a free lunch from my software.
You can avoid that by bootstrapping the compiler and everything else from scratch. See bootstrappable.org and GNU Guix, which starts at a few hundred bytes of machine code and goes up to a full distro.

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-...
>The Department of Labor would monitor adherence and fine companies a minimum of $100 for wrongdoing

LMAO
Exempt status does seem very antiquated for low paying jobs (which may not be exempt anymore in certain cases?) like teaching.

For high paying, outcome oriented jobs like software and engineering; exempt is kind of practically required since you may need to work >40 hours some weeks but that high effort is already reflected by the high salary.

I think the intention was to help the economy move from hard, manual labor jobs to easier, comfortable office jobs.
That's like the most important part in our lives.
I wonder if & by how much did Jack Welch's strategy of "rank & yank", coupled with heavy outsourcing contributed to the decline of manufacturing sector in the US?
Maximizing profit is the point of a business. If you want to have non-profit goals, you can advocate for socialization, I suppose, but government-run fast food restaurants seems like a tough sell in These Here United States.
fwiw, I submitted a DMA interoperability request for JIT access on non-browser apps.

Apple denied it on the grounds that it doesn't fall under Article 6(7) for "multiple reasons". One such reason they gave is that JIT is only used for web browsers on iOS.
I feel the same way thinking about computer security back in the early 00's. Nothing was ever really locked down, sometimes you could get administrator access by pressing "Cancel" on the login dialog three times, network drives were just open to everyone and you could install new software by just bringing it to school on a floppy and installing it on the lab computer. I think that environment was what really fostered my love of tinkering with systems the same way phone phreakers did a few decades earlier.

Now everything is locked up like a vault and it's all group policy this and mobile device management that. Nothing can be unlocked and nobody has permissions because if it isn't your device ends up encrypted with a ransom note telling you to send cryptocurrency to a state sponsored hacking group in Russia.

I do feel like younger people are really missing out on the "hackability" that everything had before we collectively realized how computer security worked.
Are crate maintainers going to accept having to do this? I've seen crates where the code in the crate was generated by a Python script not in the crate but only in git.
One interesting thing you can do is you can actually point the hosted web interface to your local node, as long as you're running rad-httpd.

https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/127.0.0.1:8080/rad:z3gqcJUoA1n...
Price gouging is not a real thing unless the business has a monopoly.
> Starbucks will raise their price until the point that people no longer think it's worth it.

You not it's not too expensive when people are still buying it. If it were truly too expensive, nobody would buy it. I can't remember where I first heard that, but I do remember having a hyperbole comment after that that was followed with, "just because you can't afford it doesn't make it too expensive. it just means you can't, not that others can't". sometimes, you just want to throttle pedants
You should really use a basket of goods, there are a lot of reasons why a single commodity may change in price. This is kind of why we have CPI and PCE.

Here's real-dollar food PCE. It's up about 38% since 2007 or just over 2% annualized increase above inflation.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFXARX1M020SBEA
Jetpack Compose Multiplatform, packaged in a fat JAR. App in Kotlin.
They know about getting rid of "excess staff." https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/mckinsey-offering-employ...

I worked in the US steel industry (Not US Steel, but similar) in the 80s. We went through several waves of this kind of consultant. One was Hay and their job was to convince us that we were getting competitive salaries. We weren't, particularly engineers.

It's usually a smoke screen to allow management to do what they want/plan to do and then blame their decision on the consultant's study. It does not bode well for Red Hat.
I edited the link to be public, let me know if that still works.

I think the ideal in that article is that people can write components in whatever languages they want, and when they compile to WASM, they can all interoperate. It reminds me of all of those compile-to-Javascript languages for writing micro-frontends, although there is not as much interoperability from a React boundary to say, a ClojureScript boundary.

By the way, what are you building as a solo founder for YC? Is it related to this project? For this project, I'm curious to see how exactly WASM interoperates with the GPU directly, bypassing the platform specific APIs. Do you still have to write GPU-specific parts for each of the GPU manufacturers? I wonder if there would be an open standard called WASM-GPU in the future that abstracts over these but doesn't necessarily touch any of the OS directly.
If my memory serves me right, when I last visited the US right before COVID (SF) I wanted to see an Amazon Go convenience store but it closed down at 16:00 or 17:00.

That was quite unacceptable for a convenience store and it was then I got the feeling Amazon Go was still an experiment rather than a mature technology.
What a great idea! Just of curiosity, how much does it cost per month with voip.ms? Looks like a bunch of little costs per month but I could not figure out the total…
Here's some others focused at least partly on search:
Elicit https://elicit.com/
Lumina-chat https://www.lumina-chat.com/
Consensus https://consensus.app/
OpenEvidence (medical focused) https://www.openevidence.com/
sciscape: https://typeset.io/
Epsilon-ai https://www.epsilon-ai.com/
scholarAI https://scholarai.io/
I use this regularly at the local stop & shop -- it's been in place for easily 10 years.

You scan your loyalty card (in my case a picture of it on my phone) and it releases a wireless barcode scanner with an android touchscreen phone-like thing in it.

Walk around the store, scan things and put them directly in my bags.

My favorite part is checking out without scanning anything and getting bemused looks (and occasional challenges) from other customers -- sometimes even from store staff.

Definitely saves time in my opinion over any other option. I only need to touch things twice vs 3 or 4 times and the wireless barcode scanner is much more reliable than the cacophony of things yelling at me with the self checkout. Weights don't always match, vision sensors think i'm doing the wrong thing.
I’m assuming your username doesn’t imply a McD in NYC, because in my metro area “value” meals are all over $10 in the app. I’m fairly certain as late as 2021 I could get a sausage biscuit, hash brown, and coffee for $3, that’s now $7.
Was looking for something like this!!!! Love to see structured learning without diluting the technical debt.
All the Jia Tans, Jigar Kumars and Dennis Ens should be swooping in any time now.
people literally built their own compatible World of Warcraft backends to do exactly that. Running a couple different docker containers for a couple necessary services is nbd and i assume that everyone involved understands that’s how cloud applications (including games) are engineered nowadays.

Table stakes engineering competence is not an excuse or justification here.
Add extensions to Laravel Herd without Homebrew
One big realization I had how sophisticated the ancient world is, the Antithikara Mechanism. Device built by ancient greeks in 200BC using thousands of years of astronomical learning to build the first KNOWN Analog Computer and devices of similar sophistication are not seen until the late middle ages / early renaissance.
Some people clearly don't care about the price. I saw a food delivery person delivering a single drink from starbucks to someone in my apartment complex.
FAANG is not even that special unless you are the one who created a new product line or early employee.

Building a product with 1m users is much much more impressive, especially with no funding and team.
> coded language for an increasingly prominent set of values that dehumanizes women. His statements echo a dangerous, fringe ideology of male supremacy, centered on backlash against the recent social gains of feminism and LGBT civil rights activism. We allow it to proliferate at our peril.

That's an enormous amount to read in between the lines. I kind of hope it was double-spaced to allow the needed room. How does heterosexual dating in any way connect with LGBTQ civil rights activism? And how do the sociology and primate zoology faculty view this from their professional perspectives?
It's common in big companies too. My employer has to use a 3rd party supplier for Google Maps, because Google sure as hell isn't going to jump through the hoops necessary to become our supplier.
No need for YAML, you can add binary sensors from the “Helper” tab of any device’s entities list.
I liked the idea, but as I was reading it I realised that if we could provide that level of isolation within software, it would solve many of the issues of software security in general. And it would really need to be provided at the O/S layer.

I wondered when it was going to start talking about capabilities and I was not disappointed!
Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake 18km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan 34km depth
Well they don’t like the rest for short-term trends because they are more volatile. But I think they would be important even if you could only use them for longer timescales.
Just look at Walmart. They don't offer a living wage, so they fix their employees up with every last social program the locality offers. And as a citizen you don't even get to opt out of that. Ordinarily, when you disagree with any business, the first step would be to boycott it, but you can't, you cannot opt out of your taxes going to food stamps and housing subsidies for those working at Walmart under the living-wage threshold.

Especially insidious: work requirement for people on food stamps.
You joke(?) but I have had tons of success in asking people if they’d like to go on walking meetings with me, both virtual and in person. I have sometimes clocked 20k steps at work!
> the predominant scientific belief was that the universe and the bodies within it were endless

From the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space
Zeng Heng, who codified a long held belief that most certainly predated 0 AD
> And how did we get to the point that a complex system is required to build a compression library -- something that doesn't really have to do much more than math and memory allocation?

The project in question contained a compression library, but was not limited to it; it also contained a set of command line tools (the "xz" command and several others).

And a modern compression library needs more than just "math and memory allocation"; it also needs threads (to make use of all the available cores), which is historically not portable. You need to detect whether threads are available, and which threading library should be used (pthreads is not always the available option). And not only that, a modern compression library often needs hand-optimized assembly code, with several variants depending on the exact CPU type, the correct one possibly being known only at runtime (and it was exactly in the code to select the correct variant for the current CPU that this backdoor was hidden).

And that's before considering that this is a library. Building a dynamic library is something which has a lot of variation between operating systems. You have Windows with its DLLs, MacOS with its frameworks, modern Linux with its ELF stuff, and historically it was even worse (like old a.out-based Linux with its manually pre-allocated base address for every dynamic library in the whole system).

So yeah, if you restrict yourself to modern Linux and perhaps a couple of the BSDs, and require the correct CPU type to be selected at compilation time, you could get away with just a couple of pages of simple Makefile declarations. But once you start porting to a more diverse set of systems, you'll see it get more and more complicated. Add cross-compilation to the mix (a non-trivial amount of autotools complexity is there to make cross-compilation work well) and it gets even more complicated.