skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> driven by record PC-centric revenue with PC unit volumes up 33 percent YoY led by record notebook sales.

I think we need more details on the CCG split between notebooks and desktops. When I chose "Laptop" as the description of my 3rd category I was trying to choose a label that included the Apple M1 but didn't imply PC-Centric which I associate with Windows. I'm fine with Laptop+Desktop or some other permutation; I wasn't trying to be overly fine grained with the categories.

> The company also announced that its board of directors approved a cash dividend increase of five percent...

A 5% increase in dividend for a technology company is expected for a massive cash-cow with limited future growth. The Financial Report is an interesting read.
App store policy is rather different from content moderation. I still don't like it, but I'd be a lot more comfortable with forcing Apple to allow cross-platform apps than forcing Twitter to accept Trump.
While I agree with you about that, I don't think most people have that logic when they consider ordering on insta-cart. If demand for insta-cart is dropping I would wager that doesn't bode well for its use in the future regardless of the level of talent/exploitation of the employees.

In other words, if all of a sudden insta-cart was much more generous with their employees and managed to hire better talent, that wouldn't likely translate into more demand for their product. Yes places like Trader Joes treat their workers well (and build brand around that) - the lions share of demand revolves around on merits/price. I wish it was more along your factor but sense that it isn't a factor with an order of magnitude change associated with it.
Bitcoin is actually somewhat hardened to quantum computers. Quantum computers can break ECC but are much less effective against hash functions. You can't attack the public key offline because it's not usually part of the blockchain, only the fingerprint is.
Are there any laws to worry about with this? What's stopping a bunch of people coming together and doing this?

This could be really cool especially for a lot of older music that isn't on streaming platforms.
On "cloud" servers we usually see that when disk I/O stops being the bottleneck (given enough disk I/O you can account for small amounts of RAM). So I'd guess their disk setup had some capacity left when they upgraded or they just have a lot of reads and the data fits in memory
This has many shades of potential pettiness.

First, it has nothing to do with MBAs.

And of course we don't really know how budgets are allocated? That they might have just bought their iPads as part of the purchase cycle whereas 'Eng guy' already had one, and 'the sensor' wasn't enough to justify a new one? And that everything customer-facing has to be relatively new? And that 'the trip' they were on has nothing to do with anything?
How long until Murdoch comes for his cut of bing and DDG's revenue too?
Ask HN: Artists – where do you post your art?
I was looking to see if there was a single place where artists post their pictures/art and discuss it. Do you guys just use Instagram or do you have your own art webpages. Is there anything you would want to improve about the experience?
I appreciate that and where you are coming from. I wouldn't say it was there fault...I'd actually say it was mine and it was societal. I'm a first gen college grad, but from a very successful household. I was raised on hard work, use your brain, don't give up, always do more. I brought that mindset to work, and no one was going to really stop me. I had to push back, and I had never been taught how. I worked a full time job and a part time job while an engineering student and graduated with a 3.8. Then, it impressed people and it made me proud of myself...now I wonder what I missed out on and take a very different approach to work life balance (although I'm still a bit of a workaholic, because I really do love what I do).
Australians won't need alternative search engines.

Google can just withdraw their business presence from Australia but continue to provide search.

If after that Australia wants to block Google like China that's on them.
Meh, I can't even get to google anymore when I'm visiting my parents. Connecting over cellular (the only option there) just gives me a captcha.
And I was considering myself unlucky with $1/week I make.
That is a very expensive (almost 4 kilodollars: https://www.alliedelec.com/product/phoenix-contact/1101642/7...) cable (with ACTIVE COOLING) that can only do half the current. We need 2x that
Using your yardstick, ClojureCLR might look like the primary platform if you compare to Clojure proper: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/graphs/commit-activity
try aristotle's treatment on the subject in The Nichomachean Ethics. very relatable by modern standards
Parler will win in discovery that AWS allowed far more content on Twitter etc without breaching contract - and that staff worked overtime to remove everything AWS had issue with. This was 100% about protecting the Twitter advertising revenue stream to AWS.
I doubt this law explicitly only applies to Google.
I agree with the other comments here saying that this is not a gap in open-source licensing. If Elastic wanted to force Amazon to contribute modifications back, they could have switched to the AGPL to do that. But they didn't — because, as the AWS blog points out, AWS was already contributing their changes back.

The problem wasn't that the spirit of open-source was violated. The problem was that AWS is better at acquiring customers for their competing hosting service. So Elastic switched the license to the non-open-source SSPL, which makes offering a hosting service essentially impossible (to satisfy the terms, Amazon would need to open-source effectively all of AWS).

This license switch is more antithetical to the spirit of open source — that is, user freedom — than what AWS was doing, which was offering a hosted version of open-source software that competed with Elastic's hosting business.

Ultimately I think selling hosting of a single piece of open-source software as a funding model for developing a single piece of open-source software (e.g. Mongo, Elastic) has proven to not be a very sustainable funding model; at least, not if you're hoping for VC-backed company sized returns. And... I can see why that doesn't feel great. At one point, hosting was believed to be the silver bullet model as compared to consulting. But ultimately I think it's just not worked out: hosting as a model makes sense for proprietary software, but for OSS, either:

* You pay developers to build the software and also pay more developers to build the hosting stack — but then your competition only pays for the latter and can beat you on price, or

* You only pay to build the hosting stack, but then — what's the point? You haven't solved funding the software development.
> relying on the poor experience and artificial overhead to launching that software independently and in a production ready fashion.

I feel elastic stack work against developer too. Not a good sign for open source product.
> U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein sided with Amazon, which argued that Parler would not take down posts threatening public safety even in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol and that it is within Amazon's rights to punish the company over its refusal.

The problem with that is that the Capitol protests and riot were organized on Facebook and Twitter while Parler doesn't have events nor anything kind of organizing was found in the leak.
But is that dynamic being driven by open source or does it just exist naturally? Like it doesn't make sense to code a complete OS from scratch every five years or write a brand new implementation of a web server. Code reuse is encourages by open source but it happens a lot with out it as well. And I'd argue it makes technology a lot more valuable because we have a suit of existing well built software that's been tunned over the years.
I think, while correct, your argument is not addressing the point these commenters are making. The line of argument you are responding to seems to be based on the under-defined, and somewhat ephemeral, ‘spirit’ of open source software. The reasonings seems to be that open source software is done in some spirit of mutually and reciprocally beneficial manner. This ‘spirit’ is separate from the terms of software licenses and, it seems to be implied, that it should be seen to supersede the bare terms of a license. This reasoning is then used as the basis of ethical usage of open source software. So, when Amazon takes a piece of software and uses it not in the ‘spirit’ of open source, their compliance with licensing is irrelevant. I don’t particularly agree with this point of view, but I get the impression many people do.
Sounds like the free association of producers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_association_(Marxism_and_....
Not surprisingly, the article claims are inaccurate.

> Australia is introducing a landmark law to make Google, Facebook and potentially other tech companies pay media outlets for their news content.

No, Australia is trying to get Google to pay any time they link to a news website.

The bill text is here: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.....

> (1) For the purposes of this Part, a service makes content available if:
19 (a) the content is reproduced on the service, or is otherwise
20 placed on the service; or
21 (b) a link to the content is provided on the service; or
22 (c) an extract of the content is provided on the service.

I wonder what will happen to the Google Australia offices.
I'm not fully understanding the Australian media's issue with Google.

Google shows links or a small snippet of news articles, a user may decide hey I want to read that and clicks the link and goes to the media outlets website to read more. This is driving traffic to media websites?

If it wasn't for Google surfacing the content, unless the user was a daily reader of that specific media outlet that user would never of visited that media outlet to view the article.

I get it if one media outlet is ranked higher than another media outlet that can/may be unfair and some transparency on how news search results are ranked may help, it may also do the reverse if you no the rank algorithm you can game it.

I'm not sure how making Google pay to show a link to a news story helps though other than Murdoch trying to prop up there news properties that look to have reduced readership.

Have I missed anything or miss-understood the problem?
They uses rare metals.
I think you attribute overly much to his sentence.

He isn't arguing for class privilege. Or that SWATting isn't dangerous.

I read it as a statement that realistically - in the world as it is here and now for that one individual person - such a situation is likely to be the case.

While that situation doesn't apply to many people, they weren't the topic of this post.

As an aside, mere acknowledgement of your privilege does not equal support for the system that enables it. But you do have to be aware of it, before you can consciously think to change it.
He probably told you that because that was the minimum salary range for that position.
Let's be honest. It's still going to be unaffordable for those without insurance.
Disclaimer I own no TSLA, nor have I even purchased any shares, options or other derivatives as of this date aside from potentially 401k mutual funds (kinda wish this wasn't the case).

That said, I simply don't think things have changed in the past 10 years such that an "automotive giant" is ready to out-tech Tesla. I do think Apple may be able to do it but I wonder what their motive would be in doing so, as margins are much lower in auto than computing.

I did not intend my response as a personal attack; your reasoning (and verbiage) just seemed derivative, that's all.
I miss brand new, big, hulking Computer Shoppers.

It was like a Christmas wish book every month!
It's so technically feasible that it already exists. Admittedly still in alpha, but rather feature-complete. There's even a nice demo built into the landing page.

https://js.ipfs.io/
The full response is:

"Thanks for reaching out. We’ve reviewed the content, and didn’t find a violation of our policies, so no action will be taken at this time. If you believe there’s a potential copyright infringement, please start a new report. If the content is hosted on a third-party website, you’ll need to contact that website’s support team to report it. Your safety is the most important thing, and if you believe you are in danger, we encourage you to contact your local authorities."

Pretty clearly an automated response.
I don't think they got it wrong. A recruiter contacted me for a contractor position in Amazon. It involved Perl coding (I'm guessing some legacy SW they have). They said the max they can pay is $50/hr.
Or in the beginning she’s playing dumb in condescension to the man. The man is trying to prove a point he doesn’t believe. He’s treating her as if she is dumb and doesn’t know the answer, but she does know, and in the end proves she knows it by providing a more complete answer than even the man himself. (You have to assume she knows about the question as the man is telling her the answer.)
I have shared document that has high level details:
Savings accounts, investment, 401ks etc.
That is known to my wife.
We both use lastpass, so Im also using delayed access release* for wife (14 days) and for my brother (30 days, he lives in another country, were not particulary close).

If we travel together with wife on something like plane we ensure that our wills, that have the same information as above are shared with relatives.

* the wife can request access to my account. I'll get email notificarion. If I wont reject it in given time period the access will be given
Linux had many reasons for its success, but overall governance was definitely one of them. People felt free to contribute meaningful code in the knowledge that the GPL would “defend it” against a future as free fodder for corporations. Corporations treated it with kid gloves because they were scared of the GPL, and this left the ecosystem free to breathe; and Microsoft’s all-out war on the “communist” licence effectively solidified a front of motivated contributors in a way that the existing BSD efforts had never managed to.
What's the TL;DR?

Who is this? Why are they important? Why would NYT write about them? And threaten them?

Sorry there's just so much text I don't have time to read through it all, but I'm curious!
That’s why you write the whole plan down on yet another sticky note!
So, I think it’s important to not overlook the fact that we are here today talking about EVs because Tesla was a leader in this space.

No other car company took this initiative with their decades of experience. I believe the the current crop of auto makers would have pushed for more fuel efficient ICE cars in the new green era.

Toyota is not even revamping their Prius in any capacity to stay with the trends. I need to see this ‘flip the switch when we need to’ behavior to believe they truly can snap their fingers and flip the switch.

The bet is they can’t.
Google Loon is shutting down
I believe the annals of history say 87

[0] "1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born."

[0] - http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
That is not what the contract says (at least from the current lawsuit). Amazon has to formally give a notice that gives them 30 days. Amazon telling Parler that they are violating is not in accordance what most people believe the contract says.

Now it's possible that the contract has some other wording, or that Amazon will argue that they didn't need to be as formal as Parler thinks. But as this goes through the courts, we will find out more.
This law applies to them too. It could essentially create. blackhole of search (at least as it applies to the news sites).
Yet if there's a viable alternative such as Starlink in operation to provide backhaul connectivity, it seems like the number of economical use cases for Loon become quite limited. Starlink + ground stations broadcasting wifi/LTE seem like a more durable and affordable option for disaster response.
> That's not surprising.

If it's so unsurprising, why does it keep being disparagingly referred to as a conspiracy theory?

> the only viable career paths for them were as merchants or scholars

Does instigating a civil war/revolution/coup fall under trade, or academia?
> I don’t understand why there aren’t ghost groceries, similar to ghost kitchens or warehouses.

There are. FreshDirect has a state-of-the-art facility in the Bronx, and I'm sure Amazon has several ghost groceries also -- e.g. they just bought two Fairways locations.

Check out this video of the FreshDirect facility, it's actually pretty amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnIrwrCq_4Q
I have a +10 years old Canon EOS 400D, i was so curious about photography then my dad bought that in early 2009, never wanted to change the machine but i changed the lens once and i can still shoot some ridiculously great photos with it.
Bit of an aside, but it's odd how convention forces the journal to pretend the patient is anonymous ("a 44-year-old man") despite all the other details making it blatantly obviously that it's Navalny. Of course, from a strictly medical point of view the name is irrelevant, but the context does matter: for example, the chronology of exactly how & when he was poisoned is still not entirely clear.
As long as the voltage is high enough the amperage can be made entirely bearable.

10MW (about 14000 hp) can be moved with just 100 amps at 100kv. Most houses have something like 100 amp service from the power company. At 1000kv that's only 10 amps. 10MW for 10 min is about 1500kwh or enough to charge some 15 teslas approx to full.

The power levels you're talking about are big compared to household stuff, but kind of a joke compared to industrial processes.
Solid state is at minimum 10 years off.
Docker is literally the specification of all the missing parts of the operating system. It's not a very good specification, but it is fairly comprehensive.
I was thinking more the former. I understand the latter as more of an ethical position, and it's one I'm not really familiar enough with to talk intelligently about...

Conversations like this are just sort of pointless, where one side says it's supposed to be this and the other replies no, it should be that, when really open source software is just a thing that happened. It's up to us to define an ethics around it and to decide how we interact with other actors in the ecosystem who might not have the same principles and goals.

To have a discussion about how it should work, to make subjective value judgments like the ones these comments are full of, we need better arguments than 'the license says it's fine, so on what basis can you criticize Amazon's and/or Elastic's conduct here?' or 'but that's not nice!' or 'Amazon/Elastic has $XXXM revenue so they are bad'.
People get paid what they ask for. No one is underpaid or overpaid.

Simply ask for more in salary and benefits. When they ask why, state all the reasons why the increase is warranted. If they deny the request, look for another job that pays the higher amount.
Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network for your stuff
The answer is simple don't do something which people are willing to do free out of passion.

No one deserves reward for unloading more supplies into already oversupplied market.
The right in America has been pulled so far right your likely more right wing then you think you are. Now you're using attempting to use left as an insult. You get right wing media suggested. "center" in America is basically the right that wants to act like there aren't major social issues in the country. You might want to step back and reevaluate your views. What left wing things do you agree with
One problem with storing it all in one basement is what if the basement burns or catches fire? All gone.

Distributing it widely means enormously lowering the risk of it all being lost.
Wow. Amazon is blatantly misleading people here. They know the SSPL was created specifically because MongoDB had the same issues with Amazon’s service. I worked for MongoDB. Nobody wanted the SSPL, but Amazon was relentless.

MongoDB’s cloud service offering was thriving quite well (and still is, thankfully). Then Amazon announced the exact feature set as their own service, while contributing nothing to the project. They even linked entirely to MongoDB’s comprehensive documentation. “Anticompetitive” is the kindest description I can offer of Amazon’s behavior.

Just remember —- the SSPL and similar licenses are still completely open source. Amazon knows they’re forcing companies to change licenses, but shaming them as being “unacceptable to many in the open source community”.

This is political rhetoric, and I’m shocked anybody outside of Amazon would support this. The people who started these projects and surrounding businesses are generally very good people — I’ve been disabled with a neurological condition for 6 years now, but live can afford to live relatively comfortably thanks to the people at MongoDB. And I contributed code to the project before I started working for them (10gen at the time). So I’m admittedly biased, but it really seems like Amazon has become the Trump of Silicon Valley. I’m done with political rhetoric like this.

All opinions are my own.
Such a connector can certainly be made, and might look like this:

https://globetech.jp/products/standard-high-current-connecto...

They aren't very cheap though.
This doesn’t seem like a rational move.

Are they going to withdraw from Saudi, from Turkey, any other place that imposes their own laws?

If they do, I’d love to see Bing and the Duck go in and earn their keep.

Honestly, seeing Twitter, Amazon and now Google do things because it makes them “mad” to me shows they have too much power. I hope the EU puts their foot down and reigns them in.

On the other hand, news orgs can’t have it both ways. Google does not owe them money to index them.

Why can’t Google just not index news sites but provide other services?
There is, door dash are building out teams in Seattle to built this.
I wish more people cited Frances Yates on Bruno - his heliocentrism was a side note even before he attacked Copernicus but he had some fantastic mnemonic techniques
I'm not the biggest fan of Googles near-monopoly, but as an Australian I am seriously concerned by the Murdoch monopoly. These laws wouldn't even be in consideration if it weren't for old Rupe pushing the blatantly pro-murdoch government for it.
I, for one, welcome this move by Google. It should get out of its random ventures (Fiber? Renewable energy? Self driving cars?). Search, Ads, Maps, Email, Mobile OS, Browser and Office-suite are as it is too many things to focus on.
FTP had better support for doing server-server transfer - you could start a receiver on machine 2 and then trigger a transfer from machine 1 to machine 2 without using your own bandwidth. I guess you can achieve the same thing by doing curl on machine 2 in a screen session or something, but it feels a lot less elegant.
I remember listening to this episode! I often actually disagree with the host fairly often, but find him worth listening to. I think it doesn't happen because other art museums will refuse to loan works of art to you on visiting exhibits if you sell any of your artwork. The Baltimore Museum of Art (https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/baltimore-museum-of-ar...) faced a huge backlash when they decided to sell art. Being in the DC area, I do find that I use museums differently when they are free. I can just stop in to see a single exhibit.