skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Vision Pro needs to be as comfortable and convenient to use as a TV, or it needs to be cheaper. And/or it needs a new killer app.

It's sitting in a weird place right now where it's too expensive for what you get, but it's fairly easy to imagine how it could improve to become something much more attractive/popular.
I get a progress bar when I run `cargo clean` because it's so large.
> despite the romantization, i somehow doubt that Usenet was all roses before the "Eternal September"

Usenet was the best discussion platform I've ever used. People who posted questions to comp.lang.c without first reading K&R were commonly killfiled. People who posted questions to the comp.infosystems.www.authoring newsgroups without first reading relevant W3C specs were commonly killfiled. It was awesome. Can anyone direct me to a discussion platform created during the past 25 years where people are blocked or banned for failing to RTFM? I'm not aware of any.
AI scientist can write science papers without human input. Why that's a problem
You'd probably have to ask someone who worked in the phone industry at the time. I suspect that long-distance calls were legitimately quite expensive to provide at some point in the past, and the industry was happy to keep charging extra even as they reduced internal costs.

Luckily this is mostly behind us, almost all providers offer Canada-wide as a standard feature. Canada+US is becoming the common default.

Of course the problem with this system is that you need to worry about what plan the caller has. So if you want to be very sure that locals can call without paying long-distance rates it is still best to get a local number. But I think that in almost all cases the need for this has passed.
If your thesis is that simply having separate threads with different topics counts as being decentralized, then Reddit is decentralized because it has different subreddits for different discussion topics as well as different threads. And literally every other social media platform counts as well, for similar reasons.

The "center" that matters in this context is the server and owning entity, not the taxonomy of the content. Decentralized platforms aren't owned and operated by a single entity, centralized platforms are. You can't just spin up a new instance of Hacker News with different moderators and just federate with it, because "Hacker News" as a network is entirely owned and controlled by YCombinator. Not so with, say, "Mastodon."

Also yes unfortunately there are already multiple blockchain-based social media platforms.
In the winter of 2022, France had to restart permanently shut down coal plants[0] and pump gas to Germany[1] for electricity because of a pipe crack that made half of their nuclear plants go into maintenance. Note that this was on top of curtailing energy use (funny enough, because of gas, not nuclear[2]).

You could say "that was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of event!" (I'd love to have machine without flaws but nuclear fusion would be faster) but, if it wasn't for the European grid, this could have resulted in prolonged emergency saving measures or possibly a (partial) blackout. Nuclear power is often touted as the stable one, but ironically, solar and wind would not suffer from this kind of problem because they are inherently variable in output. If energy storage for renewables was already a headache, imagine an energy storage system for nuclear.

[0]: https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-france-climate-an...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230114183054/https://www.nytim...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240709121249/https://www.nytim...
I was thinking of something that was an actual "product".
Solving a problem and asking someone to pay for it doesn't have to be "rent seeking". If you want a service to work well and continue to, it's in your best interest to pay for it.
Show HN: A Website You Can Only Visit Once
A licensed copy of the most feature-packed Windows Server Datacenter edition will run you ~$6k (16 core license).

Kind of a weird basis for comparison when everyone seems to be talking about the desktop experience.

I love Linux for servers, but not for the desktop.
Great nostalgic design. You’ve built something nice here.
They didn't post it on their Twitter, which as far as I know, is their only other social media presence.

https://x.com/Magnolia1234B
C'mon, you know after the first week it would sit in the backyard and gather rust.
I second that.

Originally we were targeting schools as our main customers but found it incredible difficult to sell too.

The main reason probably that the beneficiaries (the students) are not the decision makers (the school admin) and that our product (air quality) is also not a core aspect of a school.

There also seems to be a run to the bottom regarding quality of products in many schools and no appreciation for sustainable and long lasting products.

We moved on in the meantime which is a pity because we would have loved to work more with students on air pollution and climate change.
>For example, imagine a Reddit clone, but every comment you want to post costs one cent.

Someone built this (a 4chan clone) on ethereum, I can't remember what it's called. It was pretty dead, but the project exists.
I occasionally use Log In With Apple, because it can provide an obfuscated email address so they don't have my real address.

I never use any other third-party authentication service. I don't want to give Google any more information than I can avoid about the sites I visit, and I've barely even used my Facebook account for the past decade+.
Writing something down in a design spec doesn't mean it isn't a UX gaffe. The hamburger menu is the most obvious example.
The whole grant driven, non-profit world is really an odd place. It's hard to explain to people who haven't experienced it first hand.
It's funny how Denmark could produce two computer scientists with very distinct opinions on what makes a computer language good (I'm happy ate least one of them knows the right answer)
Ask HN: LemonSqueezy won't let us offboard. What can we do?
I run a startup that uses LemonSqueezy to process payments. In the first week of July I submitted a migration request to transfer our customer data from LS over to Stripe. Since then, I've followed up weekly and only gotten silence back from the LS team. I've tried their Slack and other public channels as well. I recognize that LS has no incentive to help me move off of their platform, but it can't be the case that I am either trapped with them or forced to ask my customers to resubmit their payment data as I switch to Stripe. Meanwhile, several new features that we cannot implement without Stripe are completely blocked. What are our options here?
> writing software that pulls config info from an ini file.

You can write a Linux program that pulls from an INI file or a 3rd party DOS program on MacOS, the question is how this stuff is relevant to being a power Windows user.
TBH I feel like if I am into VR porn then I am definitely addicted and I'd need help from professional. Usually porn is like a quick dopamine hit, or a quick release for a biological need. For VR, you'd beed to be really really into porn, to spend all the setup time AND then still be in the mood ...
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https://github.com/turboblack/HamsterCMS

http://oldcities.org - free hosting based on this CMS
Not a lawyer, but looks like a pretty simple takeover structure to me.
I listed three startups for the week, after reviewing many last week and all of them had nice landing page.

See post here https://seedstage.shedtheshade.blog/news-and-trends-this-wee...
By far the easiest path for this technology to be used in practice would be to license it to ASML.

The older and cheaper models of the ASML EUV sources would be good enough for this system that needs a much smaller power for the EUV sources.

The European partners of ASML are the only companies that could manufacture at this time the optical system.

Nevertheless, it is likely that the patent owners would prefer to license it to Nikon, to create competition for ASML.

Nikon should be able to make the optical system, but this could need a few years of development, unless Nikon already has a secret internal research project for making EUV mirrors.

The most difficult problem remains the EUV source, even if a much simpler source than the current sources is good enough.

It seems very unlikely that ASML would be willing to sell EUV sources separately to Nikon, providing components for competing systems.

The only deal that seems possible would be if ASML accepted to sell some of their older models of EUV sources to Nikon, in exchange for receiving licenses for this new improved kind of EUV optical system, which will then be incorporated in all new EUV systems, regardless if they are made by ASML or Nikon.

This would reduce the dependence on ASML and its partners, but ASML would still completely control the market of EUV sources, even if not also the market of complete lithography systems, like it does now.
Yes, the best time to be a programmer. I remember being several hours doing productive programming. Nowadays you cannot spend a few minutes without having to search for some information that is not available locally.
VR just isn’t going to happen for a long time. It does have a real purpose or a strong drive to use. I have meta 3 and i played for a bit but then it ended up on the shelf for a variety of reasons.

It has a lot of good specific uses but struggles past that.

It continued to be very impressive technology wise but something that wont be adopted en mass for a long time. Tim Cook was right to be worried about this product - should have trusted his intuition on that one.
For a work project, my recent cargo clean removed 90 GB.
When I first got my plan / phone on the US east coast I was given the option to pick a number from anywhere in the country. I went with a fulsom county CA number and its come in really handy. I know to screen incoming calls that have the fulsom area code (always spam) and numbers that have the local area code where I live are actually legit.
Non-deceptive placebos reduce stress, anxiety and depression
You're not misunderstanding anything, it was just a bit lucky that the person had their phone number issued in that city. If they moved, they'd take the number with them and this story wouldn't have worked out.
Have you considered scenario where west is also actively fighting Russia, but you just aren't receiving majority of those news?

Also do you believe that Ukraine's success isn't partially because of West's help?
I also started learning programming in high school days (2001 - 2004) using TP 7.
Fast, affordable internet connection wasn't pretty common on those days, so have to rely on internet cafes and books/magazies.

As the name implies, it's indeed TURBO. I mean, to achive similar snapiness when running Eclipse or VS, you'll need pretty powerful machine.

The legacy is carried on by Free Pascal folks (there's the text based IDE). I only use this for fun/nostalgia purpose. For actual work, well there's Lazarus IDE.
I think it means the approach is quite neat, not the fact that it requires reinventing the wheel.
> guess the affect of the Internet would have been discounted at the times of books and libraries.

Not an argument. Besides, like 10-15 years in to WWW companies like amazon, google, facebook, youtube were there. 12 years after oculus rift VR is still a small niche.

> You might also be underestimating the brains ability to conjure a completely new reality. Our imagination can transport us anywhere - hence adventure, travel and crime books. VR/AR experience augmented by our own imagination, hence to discount the affect of VR is also discounting the ability of our imagination.

No, it is not discounting the ability of our imagination. It is more correct to say that you are discounting the ability of our imagination by suggesting that adventure, travel and crime books aren't all we need to immerse ourselves. By going this path of argumentation (if we can call it an argument) you are basically saying that VR is for those, well, lacking in imagination

> Of course holidays are much more but why do so many people prefer chatting online than chatting personally with other people?

Do they? I don't think they do. Chatting with someone they don't know? Maybe. Doing a video call with a friend/partner? No.

> Why are online dating apps and food delivery so popular?

You are conflating meeting (just meeting, once people meet they don't maintain their relationship on the app) someone new and not a social activity with, well, socializing with people that you want to socialize with.

> I don't know but it definitely does not have something to do with people wanting to go out and interact with random people.

You do understand that outsides is not filled only with random people?

What argument are you trying to make for VR? What use case, that would make VR "huge", are you suggesting?
BYD surges past Honda and Nissan's sales targets Ford with low-cost EVs
A commonly posted author: https://justine.lol/
It's a proxy for both the movie quality and for where the cinema winds are blowin.

It also adds context to better understand what's at stake for movies based on distributor, producer and genres. When a horror movie costs 2M and a Marvel film 200M, "20M box office" by your favorite director can mean two very different things for their future.
Maybe it’s unfair to accuse this of being AI generated but it sure is an example of the low value content the web is drowning in.

In the “lights on and nobody home” department the real sequel camera, the a7iv isn’t mentioned, only the C and R variants.

What I am looking for is somebody who spent some time with the camera, can tell me how well the autofocus works if you try to shoot a basketball game, show a good sample of pictures they took (“I like the pictures I took” tends to beat “this camera has great specs”) anything about what it is like to live with the camera (when I jumped from the ii to the iv nobody told me that I’d go back to using the USB port instead of removing the SD card because it is hard to remove the SD card on the iv)

Then there is a huge list of all the same lenses you can use on all Sony cameras which is no interest to a Sony fanatic who has many of them and has read reviews of most of them. When I was an SEO spammer I would have made landing pages for all the lenses and linked them but I guess we spam isn’t what it used to be. But: pick out a few lenses that you have an opinion of (my 90mm/2.8 is versatile and takes pictures that look every bit as good as DxO’s measurements say it will take) and you’re going somewhere.
>and we all need to wake up.

The people that count are awake, they're just doing nothing as, despite realising that Russia has a crap military, its considerably easier to let Ukraine fight with both hands tied behind their backs.
It seems to be another case of 'but who will replace pootin...but, guess what folks - he's going to die eventually.
I'm surprised that they've become so expensive. You'd think that as manufacturing improves they would be cheaper to churn out.
I dread the day they remove the old panel. I use the "large cursor" accessibility feature (usable from the new control panel) so that my cursor is clearly visible at all times, but it is almost unusable for programming by default because the cursor for text hovering is centered (so it's not clear at all where the cursor points to when the text cursor covers multiple lines). The way to make it usable is to edit the mouse theme to change the text cursor to something that is not centered, which requires the old mouse options.

In an ideal world, they would fix this problem by making bigger mouse cursors automatically use some proper non-centered text selection cursor, but I don't have much hope for that. I guess there will be some way through the registry in any case. Maybe we'll see alternative control panels with more features?
One place I worked in the 90s had a bunch of meetings/tutorials to try to sell all the C programmers on Object Oriented Programming in general and C++ in particular -- the software in question was super complicated and massive and IMHO could have benefitted from some judicious application of OOP concepts like separation of concerns -- but it got caught in a rut of just constantly trying to explain OOP to middle aged programmers who had only ever written and thought in imperitive code.
286 likely could run at least Windows 3.0 (and you could play minesweeper).
Blog post said he verified they belonged to the guy when his phone paired with them, which wouldn’t have happened if he wasn’t the actual owner.
"A complete mess" how?

Inconsistency because of different desktop environments and control panels in different distros? Just pick one and stick to it.

Visual inconsistencies between Gnome and KDE apps?

Too much configurability?
> How about using a DOS prompt recently?

There's no DOS prompt of course, but I use the command prompt almost every working day. I have started using wsl bash more and more though.
Not the OP but I’m surprised you are surprised this much.

In our 2-person family there are times where me and my wife spend an entire evening, sometimes even a full day or two independently doing whatever hobbies we have. We both appreciate the ability to hyper-focus when we like. It’s very easy to “deal with” too: you just continue your life until the other one becomes available. What is so wrong about it?

You are not uncontactable anyway, if someone needs to contact you they can still approach you. Obviously this wouldn’t work so well with a little kid.
As someone who has been living in Japan for the last 6 years, I kind of agree with you. It might look like a very respectful culture at first, but you will soon realize that it is quite oppressive and has led to cultural stagnation. It is a country that doesn't deal with its problems, it just tries to hide them.

However, the toxicity and polarization that some Western countries have been evolving to is not good either. There should be a middle ground.
I'm curious, for various locations and business scenarios, what the optimal choice is for getting paid help for your taxes.

E.g., when is a simple accountant worthwhile? How about one specializing in business taxes? When (if at all) should you switch to a full blown accounting firm? When should you hire a CFO to optimize these choices for you?

These all cost money, so I assume there's some break-even point on the investment. And other pros/cons for a company owner delegating this part of the business.
"[...]And most, if not all, nuclear power disasters were due to human error.[...]"

And the remaining nuclear power disasters were due to unpredictable natural disasters.

So at what time exactly did we eliminate human error and unpredictable natural disasters, so that we don't have to worry about the dangers of nuclear power anymore? It seems, I somehow missed this two super important historic events...
> the smallest MacBook Air is cheap and works better than anything that runs windows.

The casual computer experience on Apple is absolutely unbeatable. It's not even close. I can't stand to do anything even remotely technical on these machines though.

I spend about 50/50 time on windows and apple these days. Windows for work/building & MacOS/iOS for entertainment, personal notes, kitchen internet appliance, socializing, HN, etc. I actually don't like to use HN on my windows PC (on iPhone right now).

I like the mental separation between the two. I can feel my blood pressure drop when I move from my sweaty nerd workstation to my MacBook or iPhone.
I think you're missing the fundamental mechanic here.

Spence signalling[1] won the econ Nobel back in 2001. It says that the cost of signalling in a market for imperfect information ends on the one emitting the signal.

For education and jobs, the signal is your degree (hence the huge career difference between dropping out one week before getting a degree and completing). The cost of the degree will fall on the student.

The employer can easily diminish the hiring problem by pre-sorting applicants by education. Students know there is a large difference in career outcomes between university education required jobs and the ones below that.

Colleges want to extract as close to 100% of this lifetime earning difference as they can.

The main question at this point in education research is "how much" signalling is a component of education versus actually teaching skills.

For tech, almost no certificate provides a comparable signal to a real degree.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
I can sort of understand this sentiment. I question how much of that experience translates past 10 years or so. There is also the issue of windows simply being wildly unstable for me. I am also a long time windows user. Every 6 months or so my windows install destroys itself. I've never had this happen on my Mac & Linux has not failed me like this in over ten years. At this point, I only use windows to play games with old friends, and it still manages to self destruct with minimal software installed.
> the phantom breaking is pretty crazy, but it's quite manageable once you expect it/experienced it a few times

Please just drive the damned car yourself.
Borland C++ was the most desired software when I was a kid among my friends. We tried like hell to pirate it. This brings back memories.
> The familiar ‘green tick button’ was an OWL enhancement, which graced so many Windows applications that it eventually became an irritating cliche.

Fun fact: this lived on in Delphi, TP's successor. The TBitBtn component, a button with an image and one of the oldest Delphi components (probably from Delphi 1?), has a Kind property that auto-sets all sorts of glyphs; Kind := bkOk sets it to a green check.

About a year ago the glyph was updated to look a little more modern :) But it lives on. I love occasionally seeing it on apps in the wild.
must be location dependent. i've only ever had the standard 3rd world country script support employees, but they do tend to eventually transfer me to an irish guy who is allowed to speak freely after enough going around in circles.
This brought back memories. Pascal was what was taught in my first intro to programming class so many years ago.
You can get a loan to spread out payments, reducing operating costs would be similar to reducing those payments. It also impacts viability and resale in second hand markets.
As an engineer who became a founder, I cannot recommend the book enough. Whether you're improving your landing page, writing your pitch deck, reaching out to customers, or developing your company and product strategy, communicating effectively in writing is a very crucial skill.

Invest in improving your writing skills. It will pay dividends in every aspect of your business.
Eh it’s worth at least hiring an accountant to handle the taxes though. It’s not expensive.
I'm doubtful it can be ruled out with a handwavy gesture.

That's not how things work.

You need to have some actual evidence for your pet theory of what happened. You don't just get to believe it (or assign it high likelihood of being true) because it sounds like a nifty narrative, and seems to connect some dots for you.

Meanwhile while the commenter above you is saying, being far from "handwavy", is entirely obvious to anyone with knowledge with knowledge of that country at the time. Anti-nuclear sentiment was everywhere, and it wasn't irrational, just misinformed against the backdrop of what we know today.

Soviet influence operations were ridiculously ineffective at the time (the movement goes back to the 70s-80s) and there's scant evidence of them having been able to influence much of anything in the West (even on issues they were greatly interested in and put out tons of propaganda about, the set of which never included nuclear power as a topic).
Sure, maybe for some months at max, until people notice they're being squeezed and leave en-masse. I'll believe the common "X can turn profitable at any point" once it's been demonstrated.