skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting aside the unnecessary procedures bit, the “use up my dental coverage” isn’t a bad way to look at dental insurance. Those things are priced in a way that they are basically almost pre-paid “use it or lose it” products, especially if it is private dental insurance. If you aren’t coming close to maxing out your dental (or vision) insurance you can probably get by with less. And if all you are ever really getting is cleanings unless it is an employer paid plan just pay out of pocket (or with your fsa/hsa)
Can you at least reformat your markdown for HN before pasting it?
A Message from the Past (Thoughts on Nostalgia)
> The video decode itself is accelerated, but each frame passes through JavaScript to be composited

I don't think that's true, and it's even less true once DRM video is involved - it becomes very difficult to get other software on the machine to even see the video, at least on Windows. You can very occasionally see bugs where the hardware accelerated playback ends up in a different place to where the browser thinks the video should have been put, too.

What does happen is the video data gets reassembled in Javascript (e.g. Video.js) because the native player doesn't support HLS. Not quite the same thing. It's just reformatting MPEG-TS to the similar but not identical MP4. Oddly, the browser in my LG TV does play HLS video natively, and I think Safari does?
Wait, I thought PMs were explicitly not allowed in standups, and that standups are explicitly not status meetings.
It really does depend on office culture. Some people might be more reasonable if you communicate directly. I don't think it would go down well everywhere if you state "Hey! No talking to me if Mr. Smurf is on the table!"... Mr Smurf might have an unfortunate accident sooner rather than later.
This is a feature in new pixel phones. If it gains traction on android, I would think apple would pick it up too.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206969/google-pixel-9-a...
The article isn't about solving those problems, it's about taking a few days longer to do the actual travel to save a bunch of money, since there's already massive delays on either end.
And it has to be in retrograde.
That is true of many if not most predators.
Ask HN: How Hacker News calculates karma points?
Are there any standard algorithms to rank the user activities?
I think VR is not a serious business for Meta, just something Zuck is doing for fun. Why not, rich enough to goof off, right? They spent $4b to make $400M on their headsets.

A better business model would probably be to pay people a couple hundred dollars to take their headsets. At least that might result in some install base.
Yes, but not many predators are known for preying on humans, which is why it is disturbing to me.
Implementation details /s
And there are real, genuine problems with direct democracies. Because people will always greatly favor the status-quo because it's less risky.
For what it's worth, I'm a big fan of your app and was hoping for a Vision Pro release. I didn't know you released it, but will be buying it today.

I know that doesn't pay the bills, but I appreciate the hard work you do.
I still occasionally make low quality AMVs and record them onto vhs. It's weirdly cathartic. Like looking at my present self through the eyes of my past self and going "hell yeah we're still cool"
It's about politeness. If somebody took care to produce a sign asking to avoid interruptions, I will think twice whether my inquiry is both urgent and important. If it is not, I will postpone it. If it is, I'll beg for pardon but interrupt.

But no, a context switch required for uttering a few words can absolutely topple the tower of concentration somebody has spent last half an hour building. Certain occupations, engineering among them, require ingesting a large amount of context and making sense of it before productive work can start. My lack of patience with a question which I could answer with 10 minutes of research (or asking someone else) may cost my colleague an hour of lost productivity. Being mindful of this helps everyone, including yourself when the roles are swapped.
Wait? Windows XP didn't always come with the key scribbled on the disc?
Which airports have bonded warehouses but do not already host customs facilities or agents?

I think that has to come after, not before.
I'm not convinced the demographic of people willing to spend $2000 on an Apple headset is much different from the demographic of people willing to spend $3500 on an Apple headset
wow, most scary thing to do in 1999.

Hey I'mma send you my new mp3 using mail! Or wait! I'll just send it in EXE format!
Look at the commercial microwaves I linked to in an adjacent comment. For easy of cleaning, these typically do not have the spinning plates.
> [to which someone said "Scotland" :(]

Savage reply.
> but the picture shows an airship dropping cargo directly off at a warehouse

Yeah, and that shit isn't going to happen either for a bazillion $very_good_reasons.

Not least safety.

I mean, yeah, let's just turn up at a densely populated environment and use a winch to long-line drop a few tons of cargo.

Whilst the general public and employees are walking around the place ?

When there's overhead cabling around ?

Even in perfect weather, with no wind, no rain, its still a dumb-as-shit idea.
It's possible you were unlucky and had a dodgy device (or it's possible luck has misled me to believing mine is better than it is).

I chose it because my GP recommended that in his experience it was accurate, and in addition to testing it against two brands of normal upper-arm cuff (consumer) devices that a friend and a relative had, I also took it when taking my dad to his GP who the previous time had expressed interest in the wrist-based device I'd mentioned using on my dad, and she tested it against her two devices (one an electric upper arm cuff, the other an old-school manual upper arm cuff that involves squeezing a rubber thing on the end of the hose to inflate it and a manual clock-style dial for readings).

We didn't detect any unreliability in it compared to any of those 4 devices (two consumer, two NHS-approved & doctor-owned) - all 5 seemed equally reliable (based on our not exactly lab-quality testing, but still we weren't lazy enough to do single readings or anything like that).
Why do you go?
Would that inland facility still have a 100 mile jurisdiction boundary around it as well?
In case anyone else is curious about the specific term for the concept you are describing, it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_(statistics)

(To reproduce exactly the scenario being discussed, you fit a constant-only model to the data using least squares: that gives the average as the best fit. Then, you measure the leverage of each point of interest.)
Google Shopping's getting a big transformation
I was surprised to see an “Alexa-compatible” microwave listed as released in 2010 when Amazon didn’t buy Alexa until 2013. The linked reviews of the oven were both in 2018 so perhaps it came out around then.
And how much more expensive is the twice as efficient power system that hasn't been developed yet?

Nearly all robots in actual use have tethers, it's really not a big concern. Further there are other methods of providing power, such as induction. For any situation where long range mobility is really a concern, you probably don't want a humanoid robot to begin with.
Related:

Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer in Computer-Generated Art, Dies at 97 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844260
This already happens, has happened for ages, and yet somehow the logistics industry manages to accomplish transshipment without fucking everything up . . . most of the time, anyway.
What a fascinating book series that I've never heard of. It looks like it sort of takes a middle ground between Le Guin and Rand?
Chernobyl and Fukushima both demonstrate that humans fail over time, and that when they do, nuclear is certainly not clean.

Claiming it is safe and clean when it requires demonstrably superhuman effort to keep it both safe and clean is a weird argument IMO.
Are there any "citizen science" initiatives where I can buy a device like this and upload my insect counts to some database that's useful for researchers?

I have been interested in setting up some things like home weather monitoring, ADS-B, streaming webcams for wildlife, etc. anyway so this would be a fun item to add to that.
Which is exacerbated in simulations featuring chaotic behaviour, where changes to initial conditions smaller than what the numerical simulation is representing, result in wildly different outcomes after only a short amount of time.
I assure you many aspects of a society where 200 years old becomes a normal life expectancy would be a hellscape and not "awesome." We already currently have a massive societal and economic problem with aging populations as things currently are.
Unless the experience is good, it doesn't beat the bootstrapping problem and I haven't seen much clamouring for iPad apps on the AVP. It's a nice to have, sure. It will keep people in the headset longer, sure. But it's not a feature that will get someone to buy it over an iPad.
My dad (W6FP RIP) did the same. I thought that was pretty neat but not enough that I ever got into ham radio.
> middle income level

Upper Middle Income (roughly where China is today). India is already middle income.

Plus China is included in that WB list of future middle income trap members.

> So to your point they can develop little further but not too much. Growth will be self-limiting very soon.

That underestimates nominal capacity.

India today has a similar dynamic to that China had in the 2000s, and within 15-20 years will slow down just like China has in the present.

Furthermore, the financing situation has changed due to the banking stability and FDI reforms in 2016-18, which has helped attract Energy financing into India [0], especially from sovereign funds in the Gulf States and Singapore that missed out on a significant portion of China's boom in the 2000s.

India's economy is basically China-15yrs because Deng Xiaoping's reforms to devolve economic planning to provinces in 1979-80 didn't happen in India until the 1993-95.

[0] - https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/BNEF-Financing...
I wrote the Register article.
And then some.

I understand some tech billionaire want to live forever by eating hundreds of pills a day for nutrition, anti-aging, disease control etc. Their life may be "great" for some definition of great.

But do billions of people on earth think that their life will become great in another 50 years even if it is rather miserable right now? I just live under rock to not know the desires of modern human.
I am a software engineer and most of them I have met throughout my career do not work on tasks that require 24/7 silence. Basic communication is important for every task and if you cant handle that you are simply not suited for the job.
You're free to not use CAs. What about their freedom? Or even not use TLS.

And what about the right for users to privacy and security, when there's no drawback on the host other than their misguided sense of "freedom"?
google words Microsoft Tax avoidance is very informing about this matter

https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+tax+avoidance

Example link
https://www.barrons.com/news/microsoft-avoids-paying-tax-in-...
> It seems as if you think somehow DNA didn’t exist as a means of transferring genetic information to offspring prior to it being discovered.

No that's not what I said. I said that DNA, though inherited, is irrelevant for determining cultural identity.

If I discover tomorrow that I carry YDNA haplotype J1, that doesn't make me Jewish, either culturally or ancestrally. Nobody could claim me as ancestrally Jewish based on that either.

Having a documented lineage stretching back many generations, however, would possibly do both, should I choose to embrace it.
We built Omnio to address the limitations we kept running into with existing audio AI models (we previously built an automatic speech recognition product). Most of them rely heavily on speech-to-text, which strips out a lot of the things like speaker roles, emotions and non-verbal cues that are critical in more complex scenarios. Omnio directly processes audio signals to capture that kind of context. It's designed to understand conversations in a way that feels more "human."
When I read comments like yours I wonder how you define "all over the US." Obviously, that is nowhere near enough time to experience the breadth of culture that spans the US, so I'm guessing just a few specific locations. It's the only explanation I can come up with for your generalizations being completely opposed to my experience (and I've spent more like 50 years living all over the US...).

FWIW, I'd say that while Gordon Ramsey is a good cook, obviously, he's a celebrity because he's hilarious. That is definitely something I will give credit to the British for.
Maybe some more concrete examples may help:

* nginx is not a drop in replacement for apache

But from a client perspective, both implement HTTP/1.1.

* podman is not a drop in replacement for docker

But from a client perspective connecting to a service hosted in docker, that connection can still occur over TCP.

On the other hand:

* pkgconf is a drop in replacement for pkg-config

* cronie is a drop in replacement for vixie-cron
Oh pretty strange, could you please raise on issue on GitHub so I can have any chance of debugging this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemba_people

Given the close contacts over millennia, i would be more surprised if there were not any DNA links.
That is correct. I have also stated in my bio that I work for the Reg.
Just cover the thing in solar, and run it on electric. Add a couple of wind turbines too. I mean, the whole concept is preposterous, so why not just lean into it?
Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay
Neal Stephenson's New Novel Traces the Making of a Spy
That's fantastic stuff!

Minor UX notes:
- clicking the header doesn't navigate back to the "home" screen
- singular page history (so the back button doesn't take you back to the previous page state)

Combined it made it not intuitive for me how to "get rid" of the selection I'd created (I eventually figured it out, but the previous two points were what I intuitively tried first)
https://archive.ph/VSarS
This will be easier with jujutsu(https://github.com/martinvonz/jj)?
Thanks for catching that! Fix should be live in a few minutes
There's a myth floating around among certain "crunchy hippie" types that predation in nature is relatively humane and usually results in a quick kill. That myth could be dispelled easily by watching just about any wildlife video of course. Life survives because of its tremendous capacity to endure suffering beyond imagination. Life goes on in spite of nature. "Mother nature" is cruel and uncaring. Our survival is all but guaranteed, but our ability to avoid horror and misery hangs in a tenuous balance that we had best strive to preserve.
Looking for ideas to keep my old Apple Watch always on
I'm looking for ideas to keep my old Apple Watch (Series 6 or 7) awake while charging. The problem is that it falls asleep if you don't tap the screen or spin the wheel.

The plan is to mount it next to my work monitor so I can use it to control music, check the weather, and most importantly, keep an eye on my blood sugar levels.

The challenge: it's not possible to prevent it from sleeping after a few minutes on the charger. But you can:

(1) Tap the screen: to automate this, you can buy an autotapper, but it's going to look ugly.

(2) Spin the watch wheel: This approach is more complicated but it can look fine. And I can hide the spinning mechanism behind the monitor.

I’m planning to get a DC motor, gear, power supply, and mount it on a wooden panel. Any ideas on the best way to design this for reliability (it should spin 24/7) and aesthetics (shouldn't be noisy, too ugly, etc)?

I'll post the results and hopefully this will help reduce e-waste for others too.
And poker planning is just a tool that is used internally in the team to fill in the sprint, and not promises to sales
Have you ever considered that sleep can actually make your life richer in interesting experiences?
This is useless, I can't make the glasses come from below, in addition to coming from above.

Also, glasses can only be black? We demand a color palette for glass colour.

EDIT: wait, I managed to make the glasses come from below

blob:https://emoji.build/50c07035-efb9-4341-9205-30adfd6b088e

I retract my indignation on the one half of my requests, but transfer it doubly so for the request of a colour palette
Magicroll.ai is an intelligent video creation tool designed to automate a variety of editing tasks. The tool's primary features include automatic B-Roll generation, AI-powered captions, and customizable templates, all contributing to a simplified, streamlined video creation process.
> for any given claim in Philosophy, if you could find a way to either (a) compare it to the world or (b) state it in unambiguous symbolic terms…

Not a crazy idea – that is called logic. Which is a field of philosophy. Philosophy and math intersect more than many people think.
Show HN: ResumaidPro – Tailoring Resumes Simplified
Hey HN!

I built an app to tailor resumes to job descriptions. It has a Chrome extension and web app, with the extension being the main focus. Users can open it on supported job listings and hit "generate" to tailor their resume. The process: Upload base resume, open extension on listing or paste job description, review content, select template, and then download. You can edit and change the resume after you've generated it as well.

You can also add cover letters and recruiter emails tailored to the job. The review step is important as I acknowledge AI isn't perfect and mistakes can be made (like lying), so with that review step, users can filter out things they don't want and also add information that may have been missed.

I made this to help me tailor my resumes and have built a similar tool in the past, which inspired this one. I would love any and all feedback or ideas on what would make the tool more useful for you.

Thanks!
Younus

Link --> https://www.resumaidpro.io/
Yes I saw it thanks and will try it out. On the introduction blog post they said beta only for paid developers but seemingly it’s free for all.
Hi,
I'm interested in the opportunity. Do you by any chance sponsor work visas please, or can this position be remote?

Thanks and regards,
Pranamika
For a good time (citation needed) you can find clips online. Jaw surgery was particularly eye opening.
They can kill a fully grown Lion with a kick
> The idea of banning a game because it can lead to bullying is ridiculous in my opinion.

It was more banning the tool without which the game can not be played, but yes as someone who was subjected to bullies at various times in my education history I can say you are right about them just finding something else.

I didn't say it was right, just that it happened.

The problem that causes these ineffectual bans is simply that the school's head (and other authorities) feel the need to be seen to be proactively doing something, anything, about the bullying problem they otherwise officially deny having¹, especially when local press have got onto the issue and are stirring up angst amongst the parents, and when they can't think of anything better a target is picked and a simple ban gets announced.

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[1] It always amazed me how soon after a claim that we don't have a bullying problem in the school, there would be a call to celebrate an action that was supposed to reduce the bullying problem we didn't have…
> apple pie "uniquely American"

My Romanian grandma, born in the 1920s, that never traveled more than 100km from her birthplace and never saw even the Black Sea, would beg to differ :-p
Thanks!

- Yes I could create a second firefox preset for snap installs
- I would prefer not to touch such sensible files, but will give instructions on how to do it manually
The whole thing about distinguishing functions that yield once from all other functions is pretty clever. Reminds me of how in Icon a `return` is a C-like return that unwinds the stack while `suspend` is more like calling a continuation with the yielded value. In the old Icon-to-C compiler that's exactly how `return` and `suspend` worked. But Icon does not analyze function ("procedure") bodies to see if they only return, so the `return`-unwinds optimization is a run-time one. Whereas Rama does a compile-time optimization, which makes a lot of sense.
Show HN: Dashboarrrd – Build Your Perfect Workspace
Hey HN,

I’m excited to show you Dashboarrrd, a new productivity tool that lets you build a fully customizable workspace to fit your unique workflow. Think of it as a blank canvas where you can add widgets like Kanban boards, to-do lists, notes, and even embed custom code or external apps. Whether you’re a freelancer managing client projects, a developer tracking sprints, or a team trying to streamline workflows, Dashboarrrd gives you the flexibility to create a space that works for you.

Here’s what makes Dashboarrrd different:

* Customizable workspaces: Create and organize your workflow with drag-and-drop widgets.
* Third-party integrations: Seamlessly connect to external tools like Google Drive, Analytics, Amplitude, and more.
* Built for teams and individuals: Whether you’re solo or part of a team, Dashboarrrd adapts to your needs.

We launched a month ago and already have over 250 users providing feedback, helping us shape and improve the product. We’d love for you to check it out, give us your thoughts, and see how it fits into your productivity stack.

You can try it here: https://www.dashboarrrd.com

Looking forward to your feedback and any ideas for improvement!

Cheers,
Uzair
What has been the role in demographic shifts?
Come on wouldn't it be great fun with a dozen diseases, broken hip bone, shitting in diapers (if one can afford) people celebrating their 177th birthday. Seems people would sacrifice their first born if such dream life is guaranteed.
It doesn’t. The author is dreaming that airships might be able to just drop cargo off anywhere and I guess customs just happens in software somehow.

Nor is it clear how they are refuelled, or how they are immune from the same fluctuations in fuel cost as conventional cargo aircraft.

But what is clear is that you should “possibly invest” in his syndicate which is funding all this…
this ^ - and if js at all, then only using a subset which passes jslint.com without any errors or warnings. that the score of any site should be

100 100 100 100 1.1s max paint (mobile) 0ms block 0.0xx max shift A+ headers 0 errors and 0 contrast errors webaim goes without saying of course
If you have a thousand cores running at 2GHz, that's a two billion cycles a millisecond.

An RNG like ChaCha8 can run at about 2 cycles per byte, and extrapolating, 18 cycles for 72 bits. Not far off.
> The World Championship seems very fishy to me - firstly someone involved in setting up the conkers (inflating the footballs) should not be a competitor.

Clearly, considering the incredible stake at play here, it’s entirely outrageous. /s

> Second having been caught with a steel imitation conker in his pocket how can he be cleared? He can't prove he didn't use it surreptitiously and so should be disqualified.

The game is recorded so you can tell which conker he did or did not use. But just in case you didn’t notice, the reason it’s a media sensation is because the whole thing is ridiculous and therefore funny. There is no point in cheating at conker.
It would be really interesting to see a stat that is like… “life expectancy without morbidities that can be avoided with some effort.”

Which, I recognize is a pretty privileged way of putting it—people struggle with weight, mental health, and drugs, and those are real struggles that shouldn’t be ignored. I just also want to see where things are developing on the upper-bound for reasonably plausible lifespans.
No it isn't? Lions continue to eat humans and giraffes.