skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t even matter if I’m right or wrong about it working. There was no assessment to if the costs outweighed the benefits. Ever. Because even if you are right does not make it okay to do any of what was done.

There were plenty of things besides a myopic fixation on one single problem to the exclusion of literally everything else.

It takes an extreme amount of privilege to look back and say we should have done any of that.

… it was unethical, immoral, authoritarian and plain evil. I don’t care if any of it “worked” because even if it did the costs vastly outweigh any of the “working” bit.
The fact it requires a lot of contortion to show any effect at all should give a reasonable person a concerned pause. Any idiot off the street should be able to clearly see the effects of masks and lockdowns without reading a bunch of statistics first. This is clearly not the case at all….

And again, doesn’t matter if “it worked” because “it worked” only holds true in the most myopic, sheltered, privileged world view possible. For any view that sees the world through a lens besides Covid, what we did was clearly insane.
Just have two browsers. Use Chrome for only youtube and google apps. And Firefox for rest of web use.
I deleted my Facebook account 10 years ago. Everything that has happened since then has served to confirm that decision. I don't miss it.
Interesting talk about the brain, but the stuff she says about free will is not a very good argument. Basically it is sort of the argument that the ancient greeks made which brings the discussion into a point where you can take both directions.
As Starz0r said, one of the main reasons is that the market is just very small. I think it was CSGO that had basically no protection on Linux for years, and the developers just ignored it because the small number of players didn't make much of an impact.
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I’m lazy, so I pay $2.99/month to not think about it. All my photos I’ve taken in the last 25 years are available on my phone and laptop.

That said, I do have some minor worries about something going wrong down the line. I’ve been thinking I should export everything and back it up to my NAS, and keep up on that going forward. But that keeps becoming a “tomorrow” task. There is probably a way to automate this with no cost, but I haven’t been bothered to try and look into it.

Storage management and backups are hard for the average user. It’s the #1 issue I deal with for both my mom and sister. It requires regular action on their part to get things off the phone, if they don’t want to pay, and backups also require a regular action of plugging in an external drive (because they keep unplugging it and don’t want to pay for cloud backup). I have considered paying the $2.99 for them, just so I don’t have to get the call of them crying because they think they lost all their pictures. The last time I got one of those calls it just started with my sister crying for a full minute, I was bracing to hear that one of my parents just died, and it was a picture backup issue, because her phone wouldn’t charge anymore and she thought she was going to lose all her kids baby pictures. I don’t know how it isn’t worth $2.99 to not have that feeling, if someone is unwilling or unable to do the regular maintenance to keep things backed up and storage free.
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> Human labor is the source of all value.

Does the random pair of apple trees growing in a field or the stream that supplies food and water have no value? Human labor didn't produce either of these, so by your definition they cannot have any value. Clearly that can't be the case.

I'm going to assume that you're using the communist definition of value, which is a bit more nuanced, as it determines value from the amount of human labor that went into producing a good. While human labor certainly can create value, it can also destroy value, so simply measuring human labor in terms of hours cannot reflect the actual usefulness that time provided. Hitting a bike in random places with a hammer for eight hours does not produce a more valuable bike; it probably destroys the bike, and no sane person would pay a higher price for that bike. This is one of the most fundamental flaws of communist economic systems.

Contrast this with the capitalist definition of value, which is simply to measure the price one is willing to pay for a good. If the price a consumer is willing to pay exceeds the price for which a seller is willing to sell, then you have a mutually beneficial exchange. Only time will tell whether or not the seller or buyer will actually benefit, but numerous experiments throughout history have shown this to trend upward in terms of improving the standard of living for the poorest in society.
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It would remove any incentive to intentionally worsen the non-Chrome(ium) experience. Relevant if you suspect they are deliberately sabotaging Firefox. (That would be a foolish move to make while they are in the middle of multiple antitrust cases and already lost one, but companies aren't immune to acting like idiots)
The OSI model exists for a reason.

You don't think about the life of the electrons going through your processors when you code.

Traceroute is a view at a certain level of abstraction. It also doesn't tell you if your packet was delivered using ethernet, wifi or a token ring. It just doesn't matter.
Or if training the model on many FPS games? Surviving in one nightmare that morphs into another, into another, into another ...
Good guess, but most games don't actually look for that. The closest I've seen is them saving off the final rendered image and checking for wrong information. I think Vindictus was one that did that (learned about that outside the job so I have no issues sharing that.) I believe they mainly used it to detect cosmetic mods that might cut into their profits.

We only really replace shaders to fix issues that the game devs won't fix, and only then when the game isn't updated very often since it has a high chance of breaking our patches. On top of that I don't believe there is a good way to pull the information back from the driver in a reliable way, so it would be very hard to rely on any information that comes back from the driver.
What is the most suitable jurisdiction for a tech startup?
We are planning to set up a company to develop a specific IT project and are analysing the most suitable jurisdiction.

The jurisdiction must be chosen based on the following 3 main prerequisites:

Founders are based in an EU country.

The primary source of revenue: Fee for service (educational?) B2C and B2B + subscription-based B2B and B2C, all services provided online.

Corporate income tax; tax credits for development.

Cost structure: 90% of the costs will be represented by development services (coding, architecture, admin, etc.) invoiced by local EU country LLCs and Individual Entrepreneurs in the initial phase, followed by individuals with diverse residency worldwide who will be more or less organized into legal entities.

Shareholding structure and funding: The possibility to issue multiple types of shares + options of various classes, including non-dilatable below a certain threshold.

The funding will be, in a first phase, through private equity with one or two funding rounds:

Seed Round
Series A, B, C
The targeted investors are investment funds, family offices, large companies in the field, and (eventually) private individuals.

An IPO might follow to achieve the final goal of becoming an organization that sets standards.

Opening bank accounts.

Thank you for your advises!
No mention of numbers. Is this going to be brighter than an Iridium flash or the ISS? Is it going to provide meaningful power density for my solar panels?

More to the point, why does that shop advertise to anybody other than gov agencies with deep pockets and a strong interest in remote sensing?
I checked out your website and twitter. If you really are "Delighting 20,000+ users around the world" (from your site) then I don't get why you're exploring this as a show HN. posting this feels like a growth hack from a product reaching for every growth hack.

One of the biggest obstacles to making the B2B sale is trust. The way you talk about your product and your customers (and the way you treat them in your product) is indicative of how trustworthy you are.

So from what I can see either you're lying in your website or you're lying to us here. There is a disconnect between what you project and what you do and for me, that's a major flag.

> align with the supposed future of product-led growth, where ungated experiences help users quickly grasp a product’s value.

"the supposed future of product-led growth"? It sounds like you have only an academic understanding of product.
That's absolutely true. It's also well-established by Simons et al. and others that healthy normal adults maintain only a very sparse visual representation of their surroundings, anchored but not perfectly predicted by attention, and this drives the unattended gorilla phenomenon (along with many others). I don't work in this domain, but I would suggest that object permanence probably starts with attending and perceiving an object, whereas the inattentional or change blindness phenomena mostly (but not exclusively) occur when an object is not attended (or only briefly attended) or attention is divided by some competing task.
It has always been, but for 20 years Microsoft used it as a way to maintain lock-in at the OS level.

They've now abandoned that strategy, and instead they use it as a way to maintain lock-in at the IAAS/PAAS level (Azure).
how is support for high cardinality (10s to 100s) high sample rate (1-10 khz) data these days? last time i looked, going over a few kilohertz with a handful of channels seemed to push it past usability.
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No, it has everything to do with it.

Every 'free' market is regulated. There is no such thing as a totally free market. The essential point is that "The Free Market" is a bullshirt concept.

The closest thing to a totally free market is the dark web, where you can buy/sell almost anything, but even that market starts to self-regulate with vigilantes highlighting & punishing fraud, etc.

More realistic markets start by banning many kinds of goids and services, and ways to do business - just because it seems obvious you can't sell murder services doesn't mean the market is unregulated.

Similarly, can't sell addictive drugs; still serms free, right? Ok, I've come uo with a great cheap way to make Insulin; it'll save thousands of lives and take over the market, but nope, can't sell it without proper licenses and inspections, etc. Market is still free, right?

Now I have a great gardening method to make cheap & nutritious vegetables without pesticides - I want to label it "Organic"; nope, in many markets, need proper certification to use that label, and i certainly need to meet food sales standards to sell it at all. Sparkling Wine? Can't call it "Champagne" unless it is certified from a certain region in France. At a farmstand in England, they cannot sell anything not made within a 25km radius. Investment Banks in the US are currently forbidden to take retail / individual personsv deposits, and banks that do are barred from many types of investment activities. Etc. etc., etc.

The point is that ALL actual markets are regulated, the question (and arguments) are about who regulates the markets and what kinds of regulations are appropriate.

The "Free Market" is a nonsense theoretical construct that does more harm than good.
Anything would be better. A subreddit, a traditional web forum, a mailing list, an NNTP group, an IRC channel -- I'd take any of them over Discord.
I complained about Chrome Web Store but they said it's not a gateekeper even though everything applies... They aren't very competent it seems
Please read the thread. I'm offering housing, securing forestland for conservation, and setting up or working with trusts to ensure those things continue in perpetuity.

I'm also passionate about growing food and giving it away.

Don't say, this person doesn't care/doesn't actually believe until you have evidence of that.
I'm no math genius, but I enjoy mathematical modeling. To me, it's kind of the closest thing to magic we have in the real world in that you can use equations to represent a model for how something works in the real world and use it for decision making. A lot of companies do optimization using things like linear programming or more advanced methods and it's really cool. It's also so freaking satisfying once you get everything working.

The regional grid operators in the US and elsewhere are also pretty cool to work for with constant challenges and a hyper-rapidly evolving industry. It can be both exciting and boring at times, but the boring is made up for via job security. No layoffs pretty much ever. Utilities on the other hand get bought out a lot and lay people off all the time, but they can also be exciting.
> for X days

It’s about months…
Honestly that’s probably more accurate than anything else they’ve tried so far. I’m tired of hearing about “arcs”.
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It seems super productive as well. Modern Rust is ergonomic. Take a look at some of the community PRs being merged in to Cosmic and you can see how good a developer experience it is. Compared to c/c++/qt/gtk it is a breath of fresh air.

Iced is also super themeable which is a really nice change compared to GTK. Check out https://cosmic-themes.org as an example!
I disagree because it's not this simple. Those employees produce VALUE. That money isn't being burnt. You can't do simple math like this when it comes to human beings.

IF those employees stick around AND the industries in the state continue then the state earns more money from said industries. How much money do you think Detroit, once the most profitable city in the US, brought in?

Now, Detroit has been sucked dry and left to rot and the state is on the hook for those pensions. But did the pensions cause this? In my opinion, no. I think people like to blame the pensions because it's easy and simple, and also because many inherently have a bias towards defending the private sector.
"A charity" and "charity" are different concepts. Charity is the act, not an organization.
Nice! Why not a TUI instead of a Web UI?
We are then talking about different parts of the world. I am biased by what I see in India.
For me it's dependencies and automatic urgency ordering. Greys out whatever I can't do yet without actually hiding it, helps decide what's most important to do next, and automatically adjusts all of it when a task is completed.

I did only use a text file before fiddling with those two features and finding they did actually help me. Nowadays I use taskwarrior for anything that will last longer than a day, and a temporary text file for only the things I plan to do that day.
Branding be branding, yo.
I’m run an instance as well. I use Lire as client for iOS.
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The central problem is the bread and butter of Fermilab, operating an accelerator to push the frontiers of physics, is reaching its limit. At some point one must admit the place has discovered what it's going to discover and decide to shut the place down.

This problem is facing particle physics as a whole, world wide, since accelerators have become increasingly expensive as the needed energy has increased.
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One example, others are equally easy to find,

https://x.com/migueldeicaza/status/1610665502598127616?lang=...
The $1 billion spent on Dojo amortized over 2 million cars sold per year is $500 per car. I'm betting it's viable for more than a year.
aranet4 CO2 monitor that I bring with me. 2xAA batteries allow it to go for a year or more, and I can pull the readings via Bluetooth to my phone to look at historical data.

As sneak also replied, it's just a proxy: higher CO2 correlates to higher chance of breathing in pathogens, but doesn't take into consideration filtration.
Personal Opinion: LLM's make PR's a lot harder
Anyone noticed that since ChatGPT and other LLM's, reviewing PR's are a lot harder ( larger refactorings)?

What's your opinion on it?
Which rich cross-platform GUI frameworks are you talking about?

Win32? Silverlight/Blend? XAML? MAUI? They're all windows only.

Gtk? Qt? Sure, they exist, but they're ancient and limited to long outdated paradigms.

I don't know if you can get QtQuick with KDE Kirigami to work on .NET, otherwise that might be one option.

Kotlin Multiplatform is btw a solution for building the same code for kotlin native, JVM and web to target all the OSes at the same time.

While Jetpack Compose is the Android Version of Compose, Compose Multiplatform is Compose for Kotlin Multiplatform.

> subject to the quirks and specifics of JVM implementations, build-systems and package management

That's a massive advantage over the arcane package management and build systems of .NET

Very few languages ever achieve a build and package management system as mature and usable as the Java ecosystem.

I've been waiting for 12 years for .NET to match Java's ecosystem, and it's still not there yet.
Absolutely. What troubles me in this discourse about "socialism" is that when it's brought up it's USSR and Cuba as opposed to Scandinavia. Northern Europe countries, despite the weather and high taxation rates, consistently occupy the better part of all kinds of lists trying to assess the level of happiness and social cohesion. Of course there are other reasons for it, such as a largely mono-ethnic population, but I doubt their vast social net hurts.
(Beer we could probably work out ...

As for the "snacks" ... :)
Show HN: Design architecture using code and visually simulate it in browser
Hey HN,

I have been working on this for a few months and recently open sourced my work. It’s a code playground where you can write TypeScript based code and the bundled runtime will execute it visually.

Here are some examples that you can try right away:
Hello world https://app.metz.sh/template/2

Average stock price(Event based system) https://app.metz.sh/template/7

A polling setup(Shows parallel flows) https://app.metz.sh/template/4

There are more on the readme https://github.com/metz-sh/simulacrum#examples

I have been building software for ~8 years now but till this day I feel limited on how I can express my design. Boxes and lines just don’t do the job when complexity passes a threshold. I thought I would have luck with mermaid, but it’s just a codified way of creating boxes.

But with metz, I want to build a figma like experience. Like how designers use the tools that make most sense, create a design which democratises their idea and invites a health discourse.
I as an engineer want to simply write the code for my design & get a figma like prototype which I can share with my Architect and PM and get it reviewed asynchronously.

I believe code is the best thing to do this as it’s such a reliable and easy way to express complexity. Unlike other code-to-diagrams tool, metz code doesn’t talk about where to place a box. You simply code to solve a design problem.

I have been scared to submit this for a while because I couldn’t find a single tool which leaned in this direction & I thought I was building something wrong. But I would love to know your thoughts and receive critique!
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There have been a number of plugins that turn a Wordpress/other website platform site into a static site.

So you make dev.yourdomain.example.com and block it from basically everything, client logs in the there and does the needful, and then when done hits "publish" and the plugin writes out a static site to example.com
So like the accountant filing your taxes, the person who fixes your bug in the bug report, the electrician adding power to a new room, the plumber fixing a leak?
My grandpa's side grew up in southern China, so that's what I originally thought.

But my wife is from way northeast, and I had to begrudgingly admit that I do like the rice from up there better.
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What is the longest known sequence that repeats in Pi? (homelab)
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google(DeepMind), Mistral, Groq, Meta(AI).
That sounds awful. You want a venue where younger and less technical people can get help and guidance from the more experienced people, not an echo chamber full of the least experienced users.
Did the landmass change? Canada is a successor nation to British North America.

The strategic reasons for a potential attack are similar, and the same risks remain.

The US invaded and failed. Had they succeeded I doubt the British would invade Washington vs strengthening their position in the remaining colonies.
Unity 8 is also still back in development https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri
An army marches on its stomach
While I agree with your sentiments, I must correct you in that Sweden doesn't have a minimum wage, never had! Our societal safety also isn't all that it was, but to be sure it's much stronger than the US. For the other nordic countries I can't tell, though I seem to remember that Denmark has a minimum wage and Norway doesn't. As for Finland I have no idea.
Another vote for Feedly here. I like the interface, it's pretty simple and I don't need much (nor want more). I'm on the free plan. I can get my feeds from any of my devices, which is important to me. The iOS apps for my phone and ipad work great. That's really all I need.
Yeah, I'm baffled that people on HN will happily accept pretty damning conspiracy theories at face value when there are much more plausible explanations available.

My app is also having performance issues with WebGL on Firefox so I guess I'm part of the conspiracy?
You'll have to clarify your meaning. "Nobility" doesn't apply literally in this context and there are too many metaphorical applications to follow what you're trying to say.

If I might infer you are implying that the President can't fully control the bureaucracy due to various checks and balances put in place against capricious replacement of the whole thing (which the US tried early in its history and discovered was hellishly disruptive)... The question presents itself again. If Trump can't "lead the nobility," as it were, why elect him again?
I rewatch home/car fix videos whenever I need to eventually do some task again.
Promoting Chrome may have gotten more people to install it and give it a try, but it didn't force those people to continue using Chrome. It didn't force them to keep using Chrome for years and years, in many cases.

Most people, including a great many former Firefox users, simply chose to keep on using Chrome because it offered (and still offers) a superior web browsing experience compared to its competitors.

This isn't specifically tied to the performance of Google's various web sites, either. Firefox still feels slow and bloated even on non-Google web sites. A lot of people who don't even use Google's web sites or services still choose to use Chrome anyway.

Many of Chrome's users could easily switch to Firefox at any time, yet they choose not to.

Firefox's developers simply haven't given people a compelling reason to start (or to switch back to) using Firefox.
Doesn't Hamas do the same?
Everybody knows a company can’t be incompetent a bunch of times in a row.
It's the algorithm's fault for not listening to my "mute this person". I had my feed muted so I didn't see any posts (which is how I wanted it), but now I see random "recommended" content, with no way I can see to opt out. That's not my fault.