skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My manager called the class I was about to define an API about 6 years ago and I couldn't refute it. It is a form of API. My definition was suddenly expanded.
That sounds up my alley! What kind of material is the cup if that's the one you're using? I couldn't clearly tell from the website.
I see that the cheapest Ember is now $130. My first-gen is about six years old, and the battery is about shot. I hesitate to drop another $150-ish on a new mug, but OTOH, is consistently hot coffee worth $25/year? Yeah, it probably is to me, so I'm going to have to suck it up soon.
> To me that seemed like professionals clinging to orthodoxy for orthodoxy's sake.

There's much I don't know about medicine in Bangladesh, but I'm guessing doctors think it's unethical to treat patients with anything other than the best accepted standard of care, unless engaging in an experiment for which the risk and benefits can be described and there exists a reason to believe the benefits outweigh the risks. I suspect that was not communicated well by the experimenters.
Gym membership. Without changing my diet, I lost 30 lbs and became much stronger. With further diet changes and a little bit of walking, I am closing in on 50 lbs lost while continuing to gain strength in every major movement pattern. I.e., I am probably losing little or no muscle.

Waterpik. Flossing for people who don't like to floss.

5k retina monitor. It made me fall in love with using a computer all over again.
Under $1000:

- Schlage Encode Plus: not the nicest looking smart lock, but the best battery life and most reliable (works with Apple Home Key so you can open your door with your watch). You can also program it to auto lock, so it solves multiple problems.

- Meta/Oculus 1/2(/3?): BeatSaber + other apps is a great way to get video game and exercise time in at the same time.

- I recently bought a $200 non-stick wok (the scanpan TechnIq) and it is way better than the ones we previously bought from the local Target/IKEA. Yes, no high heat, but it works for us and has changed the quality of our cooking.
I got a Stanley Beer Stein[0] from a sale 2 years ago or something. Th best thing ever. I put in ice + my favourite drink when my day starts and the ice is still there in the evening. Completely crazy performance for an open-topped container.

[0] https://eu.stanley1913.com/products/adventure-big-grip-beer-...
I just looked. BB peaked around US$140 and is now around US$2. Financials are so bad it's amazing the doors are still open.[1]

QNX is a great technology, but nobody who acquired it knew what to do with it.

[1] https://www.bing.com/entitydetails?q=BB+stock&wt=FinanceGene...
Oops, meant Atari not Amiga.

The Tele-Games Video Arcade was released in 77 and renamed to the Atari 2600 in 82.
High end noise cancelling headphones (we have the Bose). Literal game changer if you have a snoring partner and sleeping is difficult.
I guess this is the same as other offerings - Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers/Pages?
Heh. Going by that delineation we end up with very VM-ish containers and (now) very container-ish VMs. Though this seems like it's even more stripped down than a unikernel - which would also be a "VM" here.
> These kind of policies are usually grounded by the one dickhead who tried to do something completely stupid that they never anticipated, now they have to have a policy for it.

How do you think that could create a policy of "before boarding the plane, you must fill out some invalid paperwork which will be available, and valid, after you disembark"? There is literally zero consequence for not doing it, and also literally zero benefit for doing it.
Allowing LLMs to execute unrestricted commands without human review is risky and insecure.
Right, I may have read your comment as generally dismissive of personal knowledge management systems in general, but I see you have a much more nuanced approach. Thanks for clarifying!
Directory Maker Launch Day
Launching DirectoryMaker ! => https://www.directory-maker.com/ . My cofounder and I are excited to launch DirectoryMaker, a production-ready directory website boilerplate that turns weeks of development into hours of setup.
We built this because every successful directory business needs the same core features - robust search, user management, payment processing, and a solid admin dashboard. Why spend weeks coding the same features when you could be building your actual business?
Core Features:
• Enterprise Security Features
o Complete Row Level Security (RLS)
o CSRF protection
o Rate limiting & CORS policies
o Security audit logging system
• Advanced Search System
o Full-text search
o Category filtering
o Custom filter builder
o Combined filter functionality
• Complete Admin Dashboard
o User management
o Content moderation
o Analytics tracking
o Ad space management
o Sponsorship handling
• Monetization Features
o Stripe integration for listings
o Header, sidebar, and footer ad zones
o Sponsorship request system
o Premium listing support
o Flexible listing management
Technical Foundation:
• Next.js 14 & React 18 with TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS for styling
• Clerk for authentication
• Supabase for real-time database
• Stripe for payments
• React Context for state management
What makes DirectoryMaker valuable isn't just the code - it's the time saved (75-105 development hours) and the confidence of launching with proper security and scalable architecture from day one.
What You Get:
• Complete source code
• Private GitHub repo access
• Production-ready security
• Comprehensive documentation
• Future updates included
• Deploy-ready codebase
For those of a Windows persuasion, PingoMeter is indispensable: https://github.com/EFLFE/PingoMeter Ping one host periodically, display RTT in a bar graph in the system tray with optional alerts. You'll never have to type "ping 8.8.8.8" again.
Under $100:

1) A bidet! Got one in the pandemic when toilet paper was scarce and I wanted to be more efficient, but now I'll never go back. The Tushy ones are good.

2) A safety razor & accessories. I get a cheaper, closer, less irritating shave, and I get to customize every part of it. This can certainly be a rabbithole you spend a lot of money on, but you can get a solid customized starter kit for under $100 that will be totally solid, and from then on you're saving money over cartridges and gel unless you really want to splurge.

I'll second the electric toothbrush suggestion too, its great having my teeth fel clean and smooth.
How do you know this? What do you mean? They are in the top X% of software engineers and computer scientists in terms of ... (some kind of productivity)?
Or at least sit on the idea for a week or two before pulling the trigger. Lots of stuff I think I want in the moment turns out to be not so important.
People expecting this technology to have such an impact so fast says a lot about the technology
I have driven my vehicles 70,442 actual miles since Jan 1, 2018. (Thanks to TeslaFi I have actual data -- I didn't drive all of these miles in TX, and while I have that data, I'm not going to be pedantic about it.)

The revenue to the state is $0.15/gal towards the highway fund and $0.05/gal towards education. Since the EV surcharge does not fund education, I don't feel it is appropriate to include this portion in the comparison.

So with my actual driving data in mind, here's what I would have paid if my 3 vehicles were 30mpg ICE cars: 70,442 mi / 7 years / 30mpg = 335 gal * $0.15 = $50/year to the Texas highway fund.

Vs my actual paid: $200 (2023) * 3 cars + $200 (2024) * 3 cars = $1200

I therefore concede that my initial estimate was a bit high. I paid 24x more tax than I would have if I didn't own EV's, but this was only 20x more than the average driver due to my driving habits.

Had I not purchased and registered my vehicles before the surcharge took effect, I would have been worse off due to the $500 surcharge on initial registration:

$500 (first year registration) * 3 + $200 * 3 = $2100
I bought a used Apple Watch
for sleep tracking for $230. It took a few days to get used to sleeping with a watch on but I have a 1.5 yr old daughter and it’s been a game changer to quantify how much I’m waking up for her and how my nightly routine impacts my productivity.

There are apps in the App Store that give you a sleep score.
If you mean Bite-Away, then yes. I bought mine with leftover FSA funds and as far as I can tell it works, placebo effect or not.

https://www.bite-away.com/en/
+1; Ideally I want a tool I don't have to specify the context for. If I can point it via config files at my medium-sized codebase once (~2000 py files; 300k LOC according to `cloc`) then it starts to get actually usable.

Cursor Composer doesn't handle that and seems geared towards a small handful of handpicked files.

Would codebuff be able to handle a proper sized codebase? Or do the models fundamentally not handle that much context?
For everyone else, your QNX comment from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640
Why oh why do such flights of fancy focus on heavy bodies when the high-atmosphere clouds of Venus are comparatively so much more inviting. It's all dreams with our current techno-industrial trajectory, but I find the venus cloud cities story more appealing somehow.
> It'll be interesting to see if/when the Dakotas ever goes back to being purple.

IMHO, that'll be when the national political apparatus once allows politicians to be heterodox again. I wouldn't be surprised if Democrats the Dakotas used to reliably send to the federal government were of the "blue dog" variety that's practically extinct (i.e. relatively conservative, especially socially). But with the withering of local media and its replacement with stuff made far away for a national audience (cable news, New York Times, etc.), I think it's more likely things will just polarize more along national lines, since people will know less about their community and pay less attention to it, and instead know a lot more about the dumb national controversy of the day and pay attention to that.

Honestly, I'd kind of like to see some kind of regulation that limits the reach of a media organizations beyond their home regions, to preserve local culture and attitudes. Sort of like Canada's Canadian content requirements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content).
It’s hard beating nespresso. You honestly either need to get real lucky with a bean to cup machine or get an espresso machine which is a lot more work.
I strongly recommend sst.dev
If you or someone else inspect the update and find something malicious before the update is actually applied, I think that's useful.

For example look at how many "patch tuesday" update fails there have been... I think it's sometimes a good idea to not always apply new updates immediately for this and other reasons.
Do you have this published somewhere? I might be interested in collaborating if you're interested :)
Does Codebuff / the tree sitter implementation support Svelte?
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Saudi government plans $100B AI and data infrastructure group
You are really missing out: https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b
Global Entry counts too (for most airports) and includes TSA Precheck for domestic (at most airports).
Germany is doing away with the eternal drivers licenses in stages. Better look that up before you loose yours. Wifes license runs out in January next year, eep.
Did you try a proper brewing technique? Nespresso tastes bad in comparison afterwards. Under a 1000$ you can get decent espresso makers, too.
Under $100 - almost every fiction book I've bought in the last few years. It's not hard to find books you'll like and enjoy, and they're inexpensive. Personal recommendations, reviews online, in papers or in specialist magazines, they'll all help. Some non-fiction is worth it, but rarely has the same impact as a fiction book, where you get to dive into another life, another World, another set of perspectives completely alien to your own.

Under $1000 - just - would either be a friend's Samsung G9 Odyssey monitor a push-button standing desk. My friend was emigrating so we did a deal and snagged both - and a walking treadmill still in the garage - for less than $1k. The monitor is superb because it's just a great setup, a real upgrade from 2x monitors. The desk gets me moving around a bit more and is great for my health. I'm sleeping a little better, losing a little weight from moving around more, just feeling a lot healthier.
It is a very interesting topic of study.
Welcome to 2016. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/5f0bfcac24036e1fff0b2bed...
I've never not used an electric toothbrush (our family has had one since the early to mid 90s I think), to me it sounds crazy that there are people discovering them in the 2020s.

Just get a proper one, the cheap ones are worse than doing it manually. And the most expensive ones with all the bluetooth crap are a ripoff. The only thing that really matters is the rpm or the amount of back and forth motions it does per second, the rest is fluff you may or may not need.
Oh, I wasn't even aware they were that much. I could've sworn they were like $70 - $90 last I saw.

That sucks.
This is also helpful if you travel a lot.

I keep a bag of chargers/socks/toiletries/etc packed and ready. Don’t worry about losing a charger or unplugging the one you use daily. For $30, just get a second dedicated to traveling.

If it’s something you struggle with packing or being ready, buy two. I know people who do this with clothes/suits, but that personally doesn’t fit my travel style.
> Consider the case of (T, error). T should always be useable, regardless of error.

Go convention dictates that T is only valid (usable) when error is nil. Equivalently, if error is non-nil, then T is invalid (unusable). In either case, the caller is obliged to verify error is non-nil before trying to access T.
As a followup:
1. Global Entry (international travel precheck for American permanent residents and citizens) is $120 and includes TSA precheck.
2. The high-tier credit cards (Amex Plat, Chase Sapphire Reserve) give you credits for Global Entry and/or TSA Precheck. They cost in ~$600, but my Amex Plat pays for itself with:

- Global Entry for wife, parents (as authorized users)
- Uber credit $15/month
- Clear at the airport- I stacked a coupon and got my wife and I Clear for the price of one
- Streaming app reimbursement

I am not a paid shill, I just like saving people money (Getting a fancy credit card is more of a break-even venture honestly)
Sous vide machines are like $40. No more tough steaks.
All they have to do is leave things as they are. They won't have trouble NOT following through in their promises. Politicians do that all the time. The US economy is the strongest of its peers, and the best it's been in a long time. Once that settles in, people will see the party in power as responsible for that.
Since their overhead is memcpy, I don't see how WebRTC would help.
Overcooked is probably best-in-class here. Cooperative zany cooking game. There's a number of derivative titles which are kinda similar if you end up enjoying it.
So. Many. Tradeoffs. :)
I've done this for vacations: Put in 50K into a mutual fund, and every year we use 5% of it for a guilt-free vacation.
Recently got some over-ear Bluetooth headphones with active noise cancelling for 150 euro.

I knew the audio quality would be worse than with my cabled studio headphones, but the ANC is just amazing in noisy environments - especially while on public transport. I used to hate taking the train for longer rides because it'd be hit or miss, but with the headphones I'm actually looking up to it. Also looking up to trying them on a flight.
Whoa! I didn't know you could do such studies on humans this day and age. Were you compensated handsomely?
Under $100:

- Air fryer / Countertop Convection Oven: Good for lots of cooking, fast, crisps well

- Collapsible wagon: Easiest way to transport things places. Previously would drive to target etc. for lots of stuff, now just wheel it.

- Global Entry: Gives you TSA PreCheck. Returning from International Travel is like returning from Domestic Travel.

- Electric Toothbrush: Automated pause means I brush longer than before

- Lyft/Baywheels e-bike membership: No need to worry about parking or keeping bike. Faster than cars in SF often. 2x as fast as trains usually.

- Command Strips: Easiest way to stick things on walls. Cheap from Costco

- Costco Membership: Higher quality of customer. Makes everything better

- Cast Iron / Carbon Steel pans: These are great, and a lot less trouble than people make them out to be. I do wash them myself (no dishwasher) which is primary annoyance, but the oiling is easy and they do stay non-stick!

- Carbon Steel knives: I picked up a couple in Japan, wife had some from SF. They're great.

Over $1000:

- Cleaners: $200/mo

- Google Home/Nest speakers and smart lights: Nice to talk to things to turn them off when tired, shows photos of friends etc. Will have to give up the screens when child is born but till then it's nice.

- Amex Platinum: $650/yr (or something) Centurion Lounges are great. Upgrades at hotels are nice.

- Cordless Waterpik w/ storage reservoir: I still don't use as often as I should, but I do use it

Things that didn't quite work out as I was hoping:

- straight edge razor: used it for 2 years, not worth the effort

- car rooftop storage: used it rarely, it was worth it for then, but not usually

- cheaper credit cards: just spent money, not worthwhile

- Oculus: I bought every one that came out and I played with them for a while and then gave them up. Primarily Beat Saber using sideloaded tracks (which is where a lot of the fun is for me).
Facebook? Or was that something else. All I remember is a golden age when between google and Facebook I had like 90% of my non work contacts available to chat with on pidgin. And my work used xmpp internally, it was glorious.
Lots of low-level foot soldiers. Not the capo.
Great. Long over due, maybe too late.
I found this a while back. Unsure if it's related https://github.com/vocho/openqnx

(I prefer 32-bit because most applications don't need more than 4GB RAM, but I guess 64-bit could be useful too)
Or how good is its marketing and how gullible and greedy people are. Remember big tech control the fundraising narrative through social media
You can buy only a replacement mug (without coaster/charger). Also, get in contact with customer support mentioning the battery, they usually offer a discount code.
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<$100:
"Qudelix 5K Bluetooth DAC" Allows you to connect a pair of headphones to an audio source via Bluetooth using high quality (near lossless) codecs (also works as a USB DAC when needed). The killer feature is an onboard Parametric EQ with the ability to save profiles on the device. No more trying to manage EQ profiles on all my devices for my various headphones.

<$1000:
I bought a digital piano to learn to play music. I feel that learning an instrument has had an enormous effect on my life. It's great for getting those synapses going, and find it very relaxing to play after a hard day.
Okay, this is the fourth Ember recommendation I've seen, so I'll bite. Why is it better than an insulated carafe and an insulated mug?
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I have the same policy for most cheapo stuff. Like measuring tapes.

My good one is always Somewhere(tm), so I just bought a dozen cheap ones from Ikea. They're good enough for random "does this fit there" -measurements and there's enough of them so that it's impossible to lose them ALL at the same time :D

I also have so many screw drivers, torx bits and 10mm sockets that it's impossible to lose them all. Are they the best quality? No. But it's more important to find one when I need one.
From what I have understood, problem is that Germans would need to change the constitution to allow women to be mandatory drafted too. But that's not gonna happen because you usually needs something like 2/3rd of whole government to agree on that.
I don’t think people talk about this enough. You can be the poster boy for modern men doing all the chores and taking care of your household all on your own without wife or mother around and a 1950s nuclear family house wife would be proud af.

You are still going to get into arguments if your idea of what „clean and tidy“ means is different from the definition of your partner.
If you are interested in discussion, I encourage you to post good faith replies, instead of calling people who don't agree with you, "trolls", an old and tired routine of internet trolls dating back decades.

What exactly do you take issue with? Your naked and hurtful assertions not being taken on blind faith? The fact that I, a person of jewish faith, see significantly less hate directed at me for it, than I do directed towards Palestinians and those who oppose the genocide of them?
My google voice number predates Google buying a VOIP service where I had my number, and then killing that service and giving me google voice. So, it's not really google's number either.
LOL, they write this same article every 4 years.
Under $1000

A hoselink hose. Pricy but worth every penny when you need to reel it in or pull it out.

Under $100

The Konnected smart garage door opening

Far superior to the company that took much of their business behind a paywall
The mug part is metal, the electronics bit at the bottom is plastic-y rubber.
Why not just spend the one time cost of the approximately four seconds it takes to remove Copilot and save yourself from feeling drained if it's that upsetting? This is right below the level of effort involved in changing the theme and setting the font in your IDE.
i think it's only happening in Africa. Every other continent is experiencing a decline
Fate of Google's search empire could rest in Trump's hands
Looking in the binary for the polynomial and knowing what the common ones are from experience is an easy way.

Normally, the polynomial is going to be found right next to a loop that is ingesting bytes incrementally.
I got the much smaller usb-c keyring Heat-It, and works so great . Previous submission, https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/12/usb-c-cures-mosquito-bites/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41548336

There was a study recently on it, which feels fairly encouraging.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3257884/

The real winner this year was the $30 (rainbow, because it's cool) mosquito net. It's been shockingly hard setting it up really well, some still get through, but I can sit outside all day & break out the electric swatter two or three times & be fine. And I keep tuning the net a little... (I used to lug a bunch of fans in and out of the house, to keep them off me, but that was only semi-successful & made it a project each time.)
Under $1,000, but just barely over $100:

Semi-recumbent stationary bike that fits under my standing desk.

I've never been coordinated enough to get the hang of walking on the treadmill and typing, but pedaling slowly all day I can do! I've lost 45 lbs so far this year, and adding up the calorie estimate for each day (I've been tracking) and dividing by the 3500 calories people say are in a pound, about 20 of them have been from the bike! (The rest have been from hard work with a dietitian who helped me solve some longstanding issues, but that was more expensive.)