skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, the idea is that you have a contract with them and that determines the money you owe, not the actual card. There's some mechanism under the hood to update the recurring subscription to use your new card when it changes.
In the Real World™, that turns out not to be the case. So your model of the real world needs updating.
The Scribe is neat, but it's too small (same goes for the Remarkable devices).

It wish it was A4/Letter size to read PDFs at full size. There are a few devices like that out there (I've heard the Fujitsu Quaderno is nice), but none of them can be used with books purchased at Amazon.

And yes, I know about Calibre and the DeDRM tools. They don't work on KFX files and the workarounds degrade the book (you lose typography improvements that are only in KFX).

I'm also disappointed by the Oasis being discontinued. I wanted to trade mine in for a USB-C version.
> The syntax was a bigger problem than Lisp's syntax, though.

Yeah. XML and S expressions are pretty close to functionally equivalent. But once you've seen S expressions, XML is disgustingly clumsy.
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People aren't idiots. They know what foods are healthy.

A lot of people struggle with intense cravings for foods that they know to be unhealthy. These cravings stack up against their willpower and sometimes overcome that willpower and they eat in ways that they know are unhealthy.

If the cravings are less intense, willpower wins more often, cravings win less often.

I think that you will indeed see that some people on ozempic eat much the same mix of foods as before, but less so. But others will in fact change their dietary mix. And I'm pretty sure that the empirical evidence supports me on this.
Ask HN: Why don't you like Figma to code?
It's a common sentiment that Figma to code tools don't work well. What exactly is bad about the code that these tools generate? Is it that the code doesn't look consistent with how'd you write it?

Plugins either seem to either provide too little detail (Figma Dev mode) or feel too bloated (Anima).

Has this been your experience as well? Do you have any alternatives that you've liked?
> These are reputable sources

Yes? And? Did I imply that there is something wrong with that or that they shouldn't be reporting it? I assume our definitions of what is a "credible rumour" differ...

> You live in a different reality than I do.

If you can seriously believe that Qualcomm could actually acquire Intel (unless Intel's management is engaging in some extreme amount of fraud to hide the fact that the company is on the brink of imminent bankruptcy) then yes, that must be the case...
Yes and the first thing I might ask is "how can I break this?" If I can't easily break it with a small change, I've probably missed something.
The host locations are pissed off that the machines are sitting there taking up space and using electricity. They certainly aren't going to be happy with someone opening it up and making a mess. Or potentially creating some sort of additional liability for them.

But if you show up with a van or a large truck, they'd probably pay you money to take the whole thing off their hands. And you can tear it apart in your own garage.
Winamp's Code Pulled from GitHub Following Messy Release
I've found PR Agent pretty useful: https://github.com/Codium-ai/pr-agent

/describe gives a good walkthrough of the changes — like having someone familiar with the code give you an overview of the PR

/review gives an estimate of the effort to review which is super helpful in letting me know what I'm getting myself into
Aloha! I think there's something novel you could do here that would catch on like wildfire. Here is me coding up the basics:

https://youtu.be/4BH8DRXwVRw?t=317

Feel free to connect via email if you want to chat more breck7@gmail.com
> E.g. beautiful real estate that is owned by the same family that owned it hundreds of years ago. An American tourist can rent space there and enjoy but a resident can never hope to earn enough to buy a piece of that.

The US housing market is ossifying rapidly and will likely be exactly the same within a generation. Canada and Australia are as well.
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DuckDB: Five Categories of Use Cases
When I was a game developer, the last language to be considered for use in game servers was Java.

I think the Minecraft server is in Java exclusively because Notch was only proficient in that language at the time.
One general way I like to think about this is that most software you use has passed through some filter – it needed to be complete enough for people to use it, people needed to find it somehow (eg through marketing), etc. If you have some fixed amount of resources to spend on making that software, there is a point where investing more of them in reducing bugs harms one’s chances of passing the filter more than it helps. In particularly competitive markets you are likely to find that the most popular software is relatively buggy (because it won by spending more on marketing or features) and you are often more likely to be using that software (for eg interoperability reasons) too.
I disagree with this on multiple levels. For one, the word "berry" has multiple definitions, and I don't see why the botanical definition should be the only one that counts. If anything, the culinary one should have primacy, as that is the one that is far more relevant to far more people. Botanical jargon is useful to botanists but not very useful in general. And to descend to pedantry, blueberries should not have been on your list of examples. They are berries in both the culinary and the botanical senses of the word.
Why Rust is taking the data engineering world by storm
neat. when is any of that going to trickle down?
> One recent idea I've had is that many online subscription services should automatically pause if you stop using it.

That seems a bit fuzzy to implement, depending on what the service actually does. It's not always clear-cut, like watching a show on a streaming service; for example, what if the service does things in the background for the user too even if they're not actively 'using' it.

My compromise would be something like: if the user hasn't actively engaged with your service for X month(s), email/text them a reminder asking if they still want to be subscribed.
1. Then we will have to disagree, for me it was quite obvious what scenario they had in heart when writing the convention. While the difference here would at least mean a court will need to decide this applies here, as this is not clear cut relevant in any way

2. And so do terrorist organizations. As this does not qualify as an international conflict this does not apply without the annex

3. The civilian casualties are absolutely minimal in proportion to the military usefulness much more than a classic attack.

About the escalatory nature, this is purely my opinion but after 1 year of open conflict that left many refugees, Israel would have to attack eventually.

Also when looking at this entire conflict as an Iran-Israel confrontation, this is merely a natural continuation
You need to pay meta if you have 700 million users as of the Llama 3 release date. Not at any time going forward.
See: https://quixel.com/
Socket Optimize – CLI to override dependencies with tested, optimized versions
The Kindle Paperwhite is without a doubt one of my top 5 favorite gadgets.
Yes. surprising to know that more people are interested in kindle as owners or planning to buy one. Instead of planning to buy mini nuclear plant or its spare parts.
The US healthcare system is deeply flawed but only a small fraction of spending goes to emergency care involving ambulance transportation. The vast majority of healthcare spending is for elective services and patients do have time to shop around. Self-insured employers have been cutting costs by pushing employees to high-deductible health plans with HSAs, which gives plan members a financial incentive to find cheaper options. Of course there are still challenges around getting meaningful price estimates from providers despite recent federal regulations on this topic.
I wonder why they did not add color e-ink to the Kindle Scribe. Maybe they thought the price would be prohibitively expensive?
That but I also think they are also at the same time much too big for this to be potentially possible since no government would approve it unless Intel was on the brink of bankruptcy.
Thanks for the reply. It turns out the current JSON file approach can't prove ownership of the project nor the domain, so perhaps there's a gap in my understanding or your team's understanding...? Feel free to contact me about this a because I believe in your mission: joel@joelparkerhenderson.com

Some options that I use successfully with other donations services and funding services...

- A unique token per project published in a project file

- A unique token per domain published in a DNS TXT record

- A verification of the project's existing setup, such as using GitHub API access or OAuth

- A forwarding to the project's existing funding link, such as using a project's GitHub sponsors link

- A heuristic with the person's existing payment links, such as contact info being identical on GitHub and Venmo

- A challenge/response, such as verifying a small random payment

- A dedicated KYC process such as with a background checking service.
> This is my main argument against private healthcare: there's no real choice involved.

Is your argument that there is choice involved in public healthcare? Or simply that it's not even a question?
Does anyone know if gVisor is used outside of Google? I know Firecracker is.
A good interface is testable, this is how you build up reliable abstractions to solve higher level problems. The devs on my team that take shortcuts here waste more time in the end.

There is no cost trade-off.
Chandler posted about this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1g4j5f0/safer_with_goo...
An OpenTelemetry Python Example – Building a Tesla Monitor
The author specifically says he believes people will be using the 4th or 5th iteration of the Vision Pro for this purpose. Why are you comparing prices of devices that won't exist for another 5+ years?
How suitable is 10" for PDF reading? Is the font too small? Do various e-readers allow PDF content to reflow?

I have been considering Boox Air 3C. PDFs are important for me.

Thanks.
I worked in non-profit funding for many a year, and in the more traditional charity space, there's zero -- even negative -- correlation between grant value and effort.

It's also not just about the initial (typically multi-stage) application, but then the reporting and compliance requirements, the random donor requests.

This sort of thing is often objectively worse for smaller funders, but also relatively worse with smaller amounts of money as it's harder to resource for people to deal with the crap. Grant money ain't free.
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How are long term, loyal customers going to provide the short term profits which are needed to goose executive bonuses?
yeah, it's a failure mode of the open market. "We've allowed services to exist that unnecessarily cost you money so the solution is more services that will take more money." If we're being honest, at some point the golden cow of Efficiency is undermined.

The societal ethics of Ozempic are an example of this. We've created policies and subsidies that flood the food market with unhealthy processed food to the point that the cheapest option is an unnatural amount of calories (compare US obesity rates to the rest of the world), so the solution is a pharma product that takes an additional cut of your wallet. It's an expensive solution to an expensive problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.

The software analogy is it's always easier to slap on one more piece of duct tape tech debt than to do the difficult thing and refactor the whole thing (acknowledging that part of the refactoring difficulty is you're not guaranteed to end up in a better state than you started from...)
It would be great if Go had a WebAssembly runtime with simple interoperability, so I could stop using CGO (I need to use it because SQLite in Go depends on CGO. There’s a Go version, but I don’t trust using transpiled code).
Show HN: I made a tool to discover available domains or use AI to help
I didn't want to jump through several sites to find a domain, and also wanted to test how an LLM would handle creating domains based on a business descriptions.
I don't think you even have to be that extreme.

Just make it so that you can remove the authorization of vendors to charge you. You see a vendor charging you for a service you no longer want - click a button and remove their authorization to charge you.
Taxes should also be included in the advertised price, then. Just imagine!
other than normal doctor’s office visits, i have no idea what i’m going to pay when i get a small procedure done.

a basic heart ultrasound cost me over $1k while my vasectomy cost me a $60 copay. i was expecting those prices to be flipped.

and don’t get me started on labs. i’ve gotten bills for basic screens years later for thousands of dollars.

you can’t shop around if you don’t know what you’ll pay until months after it happens. if you call the insurance company beforehand you wait on a static filled line with a call center in india, and even with the CPT code they can’t give you a straight answer.
As a counter anecdote, I run Arch on everything except the MacBook I was issued for work. They've all been running perfectly for years, I can't remember the last time I had an issue that wasn't ZFS failing to compile for a new kernel, and I opted into that problem.

Meanwhile my work Mac every so often decides my external monitor just doesn't exist anymore and I have to reboot with it unplugged, then again with it plugged in to get it back.
Hope this works for gyms too
My PayPal story (in short, search my comments if you want more detail) - I bought a cheap game (<£5) on Steam. The game was broken, Steam wouldn't refund and so broke UK Consumer Rights Act.

I contacted PayPal, who opened a case, according to their agreement with Steam (which I'm not party to). PayPal found Steam to be in breach of their agreement (PayPal & Steam's). I was refunded.

Then Steam enacted petty revenge against me, and continue to do so.

PayPal acted laudibly, imo, but there seems to be nothing one can then do about any revenge a company might take against a customer.

A hypothetical might be that you return damaged goods to Amazon, then they refuse to sell to you in the future because you demanded your legal rights.

A computer retailer appears to have done similar. I had to return goods to them that were broken on arrival; they refunded, but closed my account (I have assumed that this was because of the refund request). They do have a general right to drop a customer, or refuse service (outside of protected characteristics) but it seems wrong that "making a reasonable demand in view of legislation" (a device was broken when it arrived) is apparently an allowable reason for refusal of future service.
Image models are going to be widely available. They'll probably be a dime a dozen soon. It's great that an increasing number of models are going open, because these are the ecosystems that will grow.

3D models (sculpts, texture, retopo, etc.) are following a similar trend and trajectory.

Open video models are lagging behind by several years. While CogVideo and Pyramid are promising, video models are petabyte scale and so much more costly to build and train.

I'm hoping video becomes free and cheap, but it's looking like we might be waiting a while.

Major kudos to all of the teams building and training open source models!
God, Su is barely intelligible. Her noise gate is turned up to hell.
What do you do if the manager has no technical skill/knowledge (basically generic middle manager that happens to lead a technical team)?
Why is no one making higher dpi ebook readers? I've been waiting decades now for an ebook that would actually have the resolution of printed 600 dpi pages. The chunky text simply makes ebooks for me uncomfortable and unpalatable for long reads.
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Conversely, this is also why the strongest powerlifters are huge heavy guys. They aren't necessarily healthy. But they are strong.
Nvidea ?
Maybe we failed to communicate because our brains have different endianness? :D

To be honest, I don't think this is a solvable problem. (Changing the C machine concept doesn't do much if you need to process network traffic that uses both (e.g. IP packet [big endian] carrying protobuf [little endian]). It's already mostly a question of data ingress/egress.)

What is solvable though is making sure people are sufficiently aware. And the people who read a book like "Modern C" are probably a very good target audience, building low-level bindings and abstractions. They should know that LE and BE are technically a free-floating design choice, but practically the vast majority of systems is LE now. But at the same time, yes, BE isn't extinct, and won't be any time soon… and it's left to them to make their best possible design given their environments.
> The first successful game console with an x86 Intel CPU was the original Xbox (2001 or 2002) - and actually it was an AMD CPU.

I think it was actually a Pentium III with less cache, i.e. basically a Celeron. Only third-gen Microsoft consoles onward use AMD parts.
Of course there will come a time when things are different. No king rules forever and all that. But the people predicting x86 death in the past would've said that those were the times when it was different too, and they would've been wrong. These kinds of change are hard to predict in advance.
This is exactly what I was discussing with a friend who works on the kernel. I don’t think Rust should be supported; the kernel should remain in C. Instead, a completely new kernel in Rust should be created with API/ABI compatibility with the original kernel.
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If you have the camera focus on the person, they'll be in perfect focus. If you then have the camera focus on the ocean, it'll be in focus.

Our eyes work the same way. Of course, just like the camera's aperture can be set our pupils will be pretty contracted on a beach.

Of course, you should be able to tell the AI to generate it how you want - that's the goal, after all. Having at least a somewhat shallow depth of field by default makes sense though.
You just provide an admin endpoint to download your DB. It makes a copy of the DB using VACUUM INTO clause and serves that. https://www.sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html#vacuum_with_an_into_...

Apparently, this is also no longer necessary with the new replication tool, but haven't tried that.
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I've got some concerns about your actual familiarity with the subject.

I've grown psychedelic mushrooms and marijuana (just harvested my summer outdoor crop this past weekend!) off and on since getting a syringe of P. cubensis spores from Toronto Hemp Company back in 2004. I've grown a pretty good mix of "oldschool" varieties as well as newer strains and hybrids (marijuana and mushrooms both).

There is no such thing as "hyperpot/super pot." Weed that is so strong it can't be used does not exist. This goofy boomer fear-mongering line gained a lot of ground when more states started legalizing recreational cannabis. During my state's push towards legalization, the Republicans' favorite talking point was how much stronger weed of today is versus the 1960's. Yeah, we're a lot better at growing it these days. It's almost like sixty years of research resulted in tangible benefits! Doesn't mean everyone is out here overdosing on "super weed."

It's the same deal with mushrooms. The problem isn't that we've somehow created "super mushrooms," it's that there is a deficit of dosing information, which the linked article points out. This can be fixed with education. There are a lot of benefits to more potent mushrooms, like not puking every time you want to trip, or getting over your developed tolerance without having to eat an entire ounce of something that objectively tastes like dried cat shit.

You should probably just roll up a hyperjoint and relax.
> Investing in nuclear power today is an insane prospect

The Real World™ disagrees with your model. Time to update your model.

> In Europe old paid off nuclear plants are regularly being forced off the markets due to supplying too expensive energy.

No, nuclear power is being forced off markets by insane subsidy schemes that lead to grids being flooded with electricity at negative (or just zero) prices, due to those producers being isolated from price signals by both (a) subsidised/guaranteed producer prices and (b) priority.

We are paying "renewable" produces to produce electricity that nobody wants, then have to pay consumers to take it off our hands AND wreak havoc with our reliable producers. And then we congratulate ourselves on a job well done.

> Nuclear power is essentially pissing against the wind hoping the 1960s returns

Nuclear power plants are licensee to print money. Unless you forbid them to operate or flood the market with subsidizes competitors and give those competitors priority.

> Even China has figured out that nuclear power is not economically viable.

LOL. That's why they are accelerating their nuclear program.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-15/china-...

China’s Nuclear Energy Expansion Is Getting Even Faster

Beijing’s rapid deployment of atomic power rivals its growth in solar and wind, and the round-the-clock electricity is more beneficial for the grid.
I get you. AFAICT what's included for airlines is basically "get me from A to B".

There are usually ways to filter out by seat types, though, both on airlines websites and in places like Google flights. In my experience those are also pretty accurate.
I'm not quite sure how these are supposed to balance each other? User who benefits and contributes nothing is balanced by the hardworking contributor? And there is certainly not a contributor for every user.
Is there any actual evidence of this? It seems to just be something lazy people who believe themselves to be smart would say.
Don't get me wrong: I don't object to the existence of non-profit/funded CAs like Let's Encrypt! The work they've been doing on making HTTPS the norm is excellent. I just worry about a future in which the only option is a CA like that, as the other public CAs struggle with offering a product that competes with "but it's free!".

I also worry a bit about the amount of the Internet that now depends on Let's Encrypt, including a number of large enterprises. That didn't go very well the last time we had an 800-pound gorilla in the CA space, not to mention the availability problems that will occur if everyone depends on a single CA that then has an outage, a mass revocation problem, or has a disagreement with the browsers over issuance rules.
I think a high performance block-for-block compatible chunk generation program would be great for anarchy Minecraft servers or generally servers with an "infinite" minecraft world where pre-generating all chunks is not possible.
Also not a privacy focused vpn that requires extra steps to be so.