jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Initially video game consoles are subsidized, over time amortization of development costs, decreasing wholesale prices, incremental redesigns to reduce costs, etc. bring the costs down to where they are not subsidized.

Nintendo has never subsidized hardware sales, they have always made a profit on their consoles and hand-helds. The XBox 360 console is now turning a slight profit on hardware alone due to cost reductions over time (though the Kinect is subsidized). I don't know about the costs of the PS3 but it's certainly far less subsidized than it was at launch.
Depends if you want to make use of a different UI for iPad AND make both of them excellent.
Your genes sure as hell didn't evolve to make you immortal, either. They evolved in the hopes that you'll live long enough to make a few new copies of them, and engineering the vital parts of the body to last significantly longer wasn't a high priority.

I'd be disinclined to throw out the huge volume of research on the subject of what actually causes heart disease and cancer due to a pithy slogan.
Setting aside legal/licensing issues, retrieving an MP2/MP4 (depending where in the world you are) stream via SDR would require massively more power both in terms of transferring the raw data to the CPU and processing to extract the signal from it. It also requires better hardware (IIRC ATSC, for example, requires >10-bit ADC while FM radio is fine with an 8-bit ADC.) So a SDR-based TV tuner would drain your phone battery quite quickly and still not work as well as a dedicated TV tuner streamed to your phone.

If that weren't enough, there's also the fact that the digital TV signals don't work well with moving antennas on the receiving end...
It took slightly more effort for them to put in the anti-optimization feature than to do the feature detection correctly.

So the answer to your question is "they don't need to", but your question has nothing to do with the problem.
I enjoyed the article. Please ignore the nitpicking that goes on around here.
Thank you for sharing your concerns. We will not be an unmoderated platform and I will look into the GPL license, thank you.

We are at the very beginning of our journey and so there are many features to come.
Does firing employees for trying to unionize count as "being evil"?
Maybe in a few years it will be easier. After 2 years she's only made 6k profit.
You’re not. But using your own server means your flight itineraries, bank statements, utility bills, and Amazon receipts won’t be surveilled (by them, anyway), even if you occasionally send mail to GMail inboxes. If your enemy is Google, then that’s a significant win.
Sorry friend, this is the case. There must only be one slot.

Interesting note re: RAM choices ... if you select the i5-5200U CPU on the Lenovo US website then you are allocated 4GB of RAM and have no option to select 8GB. The mid-range CPU (i5-5300U) allows you to select either 4GB or 8GB. Finally, if you select the i7-5600U then you are allocated 8GB and can't select 4GB.
How often do browsers break backwards compatibility? I don't think I can recall a single time I've had working code break due to a browser upgrade, with the exception of non-standard features (which is maybe what you're referring to, but then it's a known risk and you should already be aware of it).

Edit: And if a client really does need version X of Chrome, you could give them the ability to pay extra to pin the version indefinitely.
For those looking for the original news article here is a link to it on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210670.
-Peter Thiel
-Elon Musk
-Jack Dorsey
-Paul Graham
I seem to recall seeing an MBTI result that showed a location on a quadrant for pairs of attributes? So you could see if you were really closer to or further from the origin. That might help with the false binary impression.
As much as I want this to happen. And I have been advocating for it [1] for many years. The more I read into the whole TV, display panel and electronic industry the grimmer it is for such Apple TV set to exist.

An Apple branded TV, even if it is without the TV part or just a monitor would have to be at least 2-3x the price of today's similar TV sets. And if anything OP were only willing to paid an extra $100 is probably why Apple didn't make one.

Some of the TV in the industry isn't just on Low Margin. They are entering negative margin territory if you are discounting Data Selling and software / partner sponsorship.

Unless the cost electronic part continue to raise to the point where Apple has an advantage with their SoC.

I think one of their original purpose or intention for ProXDR was the use the Dual Layer LCD technology to create something like a true Reference Display Monitor. But the technology and cost never got to that point. At least I hope they could continue their investment in that area even if they do not intend it to be in consumer usage.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710734
Maybe because it isn’t?
I definitely second the Sceptre recommendation. Yeah, there are probably higher-quality displays out there, but my TV's been more than good enough for me, and the price point is pretty hard to beat. In terms of bang for the buck, a Sceptre TV and a box/stick of one's choosing is about as close to ideal as I've seen these days.

Hopefully they realize that the lack of smarts in their TVs is indeed a differentiator in a market flooded with "smart" TVs, and that they maintain that differentiator and resist the urge to copy everyone else.
This is the April Fools stuff I don't mind. Not a "prank" or fake story, just a cool thing you might not be able to justify at any other time.
I have to buy it in the supermarket and carry it home.
Or I have to order it online.
Even with buildpacks, there's essentially no way to use HTTP/2 or SPDY on Heroku until their HTTP router and load balancer stack supports it. Buildpacks can't really change that.
I like novelties just like the next guy but one thing that gets me wondering is:

Are we really that lazy now?
There are more EVs sold with an after-credits price under $25K than over $50K.

And there's an awful lot of people driving $25K new ICE cars, so I can't agree that the EV credit is mostly going to cars that are beyond the reach of average workers. (I also don't think that the average worker is financially well-advised to buy a new $25K car, but they're doing it in droves, so...)
Take care to distinguish "team room" from "open office".
> I really don't get why so many people here dislike the idea behind Dash Button

Welcome to HN, where some people think they just have to dislike everything they see on top to show how "unique" they are.
Finding someone who can setup Postgres wal archiving and replication in only 6 hours per year is surely costing you 600$ in additional salary per year. I don't think your argument holds any merit at the level of hosting costs we talk about. Also as someone who does host stuff on a dedicated machine too, have you looked at what is involved in upgrading to say Postgres 9.3 from 9.1. If you have single server you will just not do it unless you are also big into Russian roulette.
It would be helpful if you released a short 5 minute video snippet with one of the tech leaders you interviewed. That would make it easier to evaluate how useful the pro package is.
The 225 burns 16 tons of fuel per hour while flying.

This airship has 4x 325 HP V8 engines. Roughly speaking they each use about 150lbs of fuel per hour to generate 325 HP. That's 0.3 tons per hour between the four of them.

Now of course the 225 will do 5x the speed of the Airlander 10, so where the 225 would use 16 tons to go 500 miles, the 10 would use 1.5 tons.

Here's where things get interesting, though. The frontal surface area tends to dominate drag, where as the volume is what gives you lift capacity. You can scale volume much faster than frontal area and that means 10x (or 100x) the lift capacity might only be 2x (or 10x) the fuel consumption.

Big-Oh(airship) is potentially interesting.
Can you share your job listing(s)?
I find your commenting style extremely distasteful and offensive.

I understand the you are trying to be cool and all, but this is too much by piling up vulgar words ("anal") all over, IMO.
> It would be more accurate to say that Google doesn't care about geeks who cling to old ways of doing things long after there's a good reason to do so.

Is it that you can't think of a good reason to use text-based browsers at all or is lynx itself the issue? command line web tools like lynx and curl are pretty handy to have available.
Funny how the more capitalist outlets will classify workers as being in 'shortage', but commodities are never in shortage, they are in 'high demand' and there are 'price spikes while the market adjusts to new levels of supply and demand'. It's almost as if they are less about capitalism and more corporatism.

The reality of most 'talent shortages', and this goes for people outside of tech, is the people with capital don't want to adjust their business model to deal with changing market conditions.

Tech companies complain about 'talent shortages' in a time... when you could literally hire any programmer anywhere in the world to work remotely! It's insane.

So it's obvious there isn't a shortage of talent, but a shortage of local talent. But why do they need local talent?

It's like the US military complaining they can't get tech people. But if you work for them you can't smoke weed (even with a medical rec), you have to be in on time, wear a tie, punch in, sit in a horrible cubicle with horrible lighting and comply with a million bureaucratic minutia. So they don't get good candidates.

Somehow the responsibility of of BOTH sides (labor and capital) to adapt to an ever changing environment seems lost on some people. They can see why one side should adapt, but not the other. The right sees that labor should adjust, and they are right, but likewise capital should also adjust when market forces push them, and not cry foul.

I'll believe there are labor shortages when labor is paid the same percentage of GDP as it was in the 1960s, and when compensation packages include greater variety. After all, truly competitive markets will offer greatly different options. For labor, that could include working remotely, offering more days off, more vacation time, the CHOICE of private offices and/or open office, better indoor lighting, etc.

Note: I'm a realistic capitalist who has actually read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
Is it a real concern or are you humble bragging about the lack of advanced math in an introductory text on _linear_ algebra?
This is silly. secp256k1 and secp256r1 are curves (or, standards based on parameters describing a curve). Dual_EC is a PKRNG that uses curves.

You don't need curve magic to see the problem with Dual_EC; it's an RNG that works by transforming its state with a public key encryption primitive, which begs the obvious question "who holds the private key?". Dual_EC was so obviously problematic (and so slow) that many people, Schneier included, questioned whether it actually was a backdoor at all (full disclosure: I'm one of those people).

To believe the NIST curves generated from random numbers are backdoored, you essentially have to believe that there is a class of curves susceptible to some hitherto unknown attack that is large enough that NSA could find it by brute forcing hashes, but not so large that any other researcher got any inkling that the vulnerability existed. In particular: unlike Dual_EC, which is straightforwardly a backdoor, with its own special key, for NIST curves to be "backdoored" there has to be some underlying vulnerability in a particular curve structure to exploit. This isn't my argument, by the way; it's shoplifted from Koblitz and Menezes.

You shouldn't use the NIST curves! They're hard to implement securely. Curve25519 has better ergonomics and is much safer out of the box. But conspiracy-theoretic stuff linking Dual_EC to NIST curves is always painful to read.
Check out defi, insane amount of innovation has been happening with defi protocols on Ethereum.

I use defi protocols like Aave every day.
The way to secure it would be one-way communications, right? Design a system with separate data-collection and data-transmission components, and a completely read-only one-way data channel between them.
This is a failure of available tools, not a bad language feature.

Your tools folks should be all over this. If they're not, switch tools.
It's being used for AI, ML and data science.
I (another layman) don't think AI research is divided that way. The most visible area of research is "machine learning", where the goal is not AGI but to find better algorithms to solve well-defined statistical engineering problems. In contrast to that, there is a wide area of research that doesn't focus on well-defined problems. On the philosophical side, it's about understanding what intelligence even is. Or about understanding what tasks the brain is solving, or why we make some mistakes but not others. On the more technical side are the embodied people who focus a lot more on grounding of an agent's perception and on interaction with the environment, rather than thinking about intelligence as a passive task that only involves the brain.
Can you suggest a particular model that people can buy today?

Do they work flawlessly out of the box without fiddling with configuration files?
I love it how every time something like this comes up for discussion the reasons why we need this are trotted out and invariable those are 'terrorists and child pornographers'.

And then those ignore the law and everybody else has to live with the consequences.
A tangent of this is where you will get many irrelevant warnings due to compatibility chains. Comodo uses "Comodo <keytype> Certification Authority" but this has to be sent with your request as not all clients trust it, but they will trust the issuer.
Slightly tangent to the random aside, but actively preventing the user from entering a bad password is very often bad because 99% of people implementing such a check have no idea what constitutes a good password, and the check actually enforces a bad one.

(Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/936/)

I especially get mad at absurdly small (<200 chars) maximum lengths; a response of "but we require special characters" is bull. Increasing the size of the character space increases entropy by O(n^k) (polynomial); increasing the length increases entropy by O(k^n) (exponential). Anyone who's taken an undergrad algorithms course or even AP Comp Sci should understand this.
> I think corporations in general do a better job of spending money than the government

Agreed. To add perspective, I don't believe corporations will give a crap about the people (extreme example, Amazon) like we believe our respective governments should. I'd rather have bad spending on keeping people alive than no spending at all.
Indeed, Chicago and the Mississippi River is the dividing line in the North American rail network. UP and BNSF dominate western US, CSX and NS the eastern US, CN and CP dominate Canada, and large regionals like KCS, the Mexico side is similarly or more abysmal.

Unfortunately they don’t integrate that well together to form a cohesive network. CP is attempting to buy KCS/KCSM to create something of a NAFTA/USMCA railroad, but it’s not clear it would deliver those benefits without harming competition in the existing setup. Ideally the rail infrastructure would be publicly owned and invested in, and any train operator could transport from any location to any location on the North American rail network.
One can argue than most people don't care about private messaging as well... I find it a bit scary that my bank has all my purchasing data : they basically know everything about me that way, what if they decide to sell this data ?
The "scam" is using payment systems that allow their owners, controllers, or just hackers to spy on every single transaction on earth, accessing all your past present and future economical activity on demand. Not even the worst dictatorships of centuries past ever dreamt of such awareness and control.

The promotion of pseudonymous and anonymous digital payment systems such as cryptocurrencies is vital to a healthy and functioning society.
"Why? I'd rather corporations spend money on RND than the Gov on programs."

R&D would get us fastest nice things like space colonization, longevity, megastructures, the next step on the Kardashev scale.
> A hard fork in a decentralized cryptocurrency is democratic

Yup, and I don't want public votes to decide the amount of money I have.
For contact discovery, AFAIK no[0].

For everything else: Yes, by setting a randomized long Signal PIN since SGX is effectively used to add entropy to Signal PINs[1]. You can also disable Signal PINs – in this case Signal will simply set a randomized long PIN for you.

[0]: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
This clearly shows that people love copyright violations. Why aren't they at least consequent and lobby for far more liberal copyright laws. One says "put your money, where your mouth is". I say "put you lobbying, where you HN upvoting is".
Strip (https://www.zetetic.net/blog/) is a mature and multi-platform local password manager that does not need a cloud connection, and can optionally sync from mobile to a local desktop. Made by the developers of open-source SQLCipher for SQLite, https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher

I wish they would integrate with iOS8 Safari as an extension.
"Disclosure deadlines have long been an industry standard practice. They improve end-user security by getting security patches to users faster." http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/02/feedback-and-d...

"Vulnerabilities reported to the CERT/CC will be disclosed to the public 45 days after the initial report, regardless of the existence or availability of patches or workarounds from affected vendors. " https://www.cert.org/vulnerability-analysis/vul-disclosure.c...
To be fair, this feature is part of Cloudflare's ZeroTrust offering, so you're meant to put a policy in front of it and forget it. This is great for getting extremely old legacy services that previously relied on VPN network trust onto an actual SSO provider instead.
I prefer https://pinyincaichengyu.com/
Wall-e had so many things all too correct.
I sprinted competitively on my track bike for years on end, and one last accident has me wanting something less dangerous. With all respect to the others reading this, shove your comment up your ass.
I don't understand why this kind of coverage gets so much purchase. Cars don't come with bills of materials for the consumer and never have. Substitutions and configuration changes like this are the rule in the industry, not the exception. Yet... when Tesla does it it's worth clicks?

FWIW: It's a backup for the power steering system, which is in fact not a safety device even in modern vehicles. Tesla's steering is mechanical, like almost all cars (obviously a true drive-by-wire vehicle would need a ton more redundancy, of course).
I can't speak to the success rate of the engineering students, but I graduated from the business school in '07.

In my class about 10 of us started companies. There have been two successful exits and one is probably doing over $100MM revenue.

All in all, about 8 of the companies will be considered successful and 2 flops. Of the 10, the vast majority raised less than $500K in capital.
A good game should be enjoyable regardless of how long you play it.

I mean, how long was Pac Man? A few minutes, perhaps, but people would play it for hours.

How long was Sonic The Hedgehog or Super Mario Bros? Maybe half an hour once you got good at it, but you'd have to play it a fair few times before you got good enough to beat it -- even once you had though, it was fun to play through again.

Modern games are mostly just one long hard slog that you play through once and forget about. Nothing wrong with some games being like that, but it'd be nice to have the other type of game back as well.
MS Windows (XP IIRC) used to warn you if you used the built in image rotation function for JPEGs that it was lossy. I've a feeling it was fixed in SP2 but I've not used MS Win for years so am not really sure.
For example, only people who work directly with each other can reward them.

How would that apply to HR, accounting, or legal? Not usually the most loved members of any company and they're routinely involved in bureaucratic compliancy tasks that are more necessary than appreciated.
Why do you think that? Jealousy is a human emotion and has no limits, and no level of success or achievement is a guarantee to be free of desire for more.
I think that, simply, this sort of art is quite different from what large parts of the HN crowd would consider artistic/beautiful.

(personally: doesn't do anything for me as art)
I like the idea of your PhotoShopNext, but the video at the bottom has been marked private. Also Antigen looks like a fun game. Any plans for an android port?
If you have Virgin Mobile or have mifi available on Verizon, you can use all of your mobile devices with one mobile hotspot.

So, if possible, you could get a paygo voice (who really needs voice minutes, anyway ;) ) and pay US$40/mo. for broadband on the go. Acceptable speeds, too (for the most part).
After you install the plugin, you will notice that it tells you how many vaccinations/books/water/shelter/trees you've raised. It is almost certainly absolute.

From my unscientific evidence, it seems like opening a tab is .1 trees and .1 books, and .05 vaccinations. Still at 0.0 people with clean water and 0.0 shelters.

It would seem like you can accrue up to your 250 a day. I don't know what happens when it pushes up against the million global limit.
Sounds like you get it.

I have some nitpicking to offer. I strongly disagree about the existence of any "fake accounts". All accounts are real accounts, even if they are being used in a Sybil attack. Arguably, the Bitcoin protocol should not care whether or not a block was generated by a "fake" account or not. Proof-of-Work as you acknowledge is critical for implementing distributed consensus in Bitcoin, but PoW has nothing to do with fake account prevention (and also, mining doesn't prevent non-miners from generating public or private keys anyway).

As for votes, I think calling it a vote is skating on ice too thin.... I ran into someone recently that also thought it was based on voting, but then it turned out that he was reading from something about PoS, which is not involved in Bitcoin's consensus mechanism.
Finally, news about financial markets from a source that knows what it's talking about.
Very bright LED lights can get hot, but e.g. the LED bulb in the table-lamp next to me right now (a "40W equivalent" bulb) is still quite cool to the touch, even though it's been turned on all night (fell asleep without turning it off!)...
Jean-Louis was always pretty honest about stuff. The problem is Apple has too many things going on and only the big stuff gets attention. Take XCode for example, please take it way before I shoot something.