skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see a link on your website to Column N.A.'s legal disclosures. I'm trying to determine whether you have your own direct connection to FedWire/FedACH, are going through a 3rd party service provider like Fiserv/FIS, or are going through another bank.
> that's just a cost they have to eat themselves

Companies never eat any costs like this. Warranties, including the original one, are insurance policies by another name. You pay a premium for the insurance. For the original warranty, that premium is part of the price of the phone. I guarantee Apple knows how much the premium is. What does an iPhone sell for brand new in Norway? Half again as much as in the US?
Ramen profitability is a stage in the startup lifecycle, but it's associated with very early stage (tens or hundreds of thousands in investment) & specifically with the accelerator that runs this website... it is not associated venture capital funded businesses, they have different problems
> there is no redundancy in a single balloon

But there is? Balloons like this were made out of a bunch of bladders. What you see externally is just the skin.
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They aren't all like this but to stick with the 40h vs. 80h framing, the 2x can make a difference.

1) Compounding. Assuming sustained productivity (this is usually unreasonable), it's not just you outputting 2x, it's a bunch of people cranking out 2x and your next up efforts compound on top of those initial boosted efforts.

2) Timing. Some startups are in positions where launching ~months before a competitor could tip the scales.

3) Hiring. It's very difficult to grow headcount at the exactly correct rate alongside business growth.

4) Fundraising. Growth rate is the top metric for raising additional funding.
But it's difficult to carry fighter planes with much smaller balloons.
Pre-Intel Apple, or back when you needed a Mac computer for your iPod to sync, because USB mass storage isn't elegant enough or whatever.
Because we all know how great it’s been being out of stock of everything for months now. The current system is working so well! /s
As sibling allready hinted at, check out Streacom: https://fabiensanglard.net/the_beautiful_machine/index.html
I remember taking my macbook 2012 in which was acting up due to the HD connector becoming fried.

The only thing the "geniuses" managed to do was to screw up the HD so it couldn't load.

I ended up figuring out the issue, ordered a new cable and fixed the booting issue they introduced on the HD.

The laptop still works today - after a couple burnt HD cables I added some extra insulation (tape) and it seems to be running well. Recently took apart and added some new CPU adhesive as the laptop started smelling like body odour (apparently it's a thing with old macbooks).

I did recently upgrade to the new M1 Macbook Pro, but very happy to have been able to keep my 2012 around and still have it running well today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany seems better :)
How many people have a multiple unused PS4 power cables laying around their house? Is it like 90+% of PS5 buyers?
Possibly. The affected projects are mostly libraries. Other than Zcash there are (I think) still relatively few projects that use ZKPs for cryptocurrency, due to performance and other issues.

One of those other issues being this - ZKPs are notoriously hard to implement correctly. This isn't the first time such an issue has arisen. Whilst this one specifically might not break any major cryptocurrencies, a bug in one of the classic zk-SNARK papers led to ZCash being totally broken some years ago. The developers kept it a secret even from their own head of security and proceeded to try to clean up the mess whilst lying about what they were doing/why, which just made it worse.

A big problem with using ZKPs to secure a currency is that if a flaw is ever found in them it's impossible to prove that it wasn't abused. Typically it's as you say: anyone who knew could have forged any amount of currency and done so undetectably. There is no audit trail and no way to prove this didn't happen. It raises fundamental questions about the social contract of these systems. If you assume that eventually a breach will occur, and then when it does it can completely destroy faith in the currency, should such a currency be used at all? Imagine the nightmare scenario where such a bug isn't found by white hats but rather by people working for criminal gangs, hostile foreign governments, a Mafia etc and they manage to abuse it for years without being detected. Or even worse, someone who figures it out turns it into an easily used app and releases it zero day for the lulz.

Basically the only defense you'd have is the anti-money laundering / tax system i.e. people being constantly asked to prove that they acquired their wealth legally, which is hardly optimal.

Bitcoin and such don't have this issue because the records are auditable. I used to work on a blockchain system that was going to use SGX to achieve the same sort of thing, though that project never made it that far unfortunately. We were careful to design a setup in which breaches of the enclave only sacrificed privacy but not integrity, although a setup in which the enclaves manage everything including integrity is a lot easier to build.
The first two points are at best opinion and and worst nationalism, neither are facts.
I think it's generally used as a rack-mounted workstation not as a server, guys I've worked for in live video productions definitely seem prefer their gear to be rack-mountable for ease of setup and tear-down, I imagine it's not an uncommon request in other related fields.
Well an entire generation of people aren't watching those big-draw cable news programs so status quo thinking = eventual death. Not that they can't pivot when it's really necessary, seems like Disney made the switch at near the optimal time for example, but it's gonna have to happen some day.
MediaWiki is good if you have a public wiki. If you need to delegate permission or use an identity provider, it’s a pretty bad choice.
Could you sue them? Sure. Would you win? Probably not.

The board would likely make a compelling case that the long-term effect of lacing burgers with cocaine is a net loss for shareholders given the inevitable reputational harm, lawsuits, payouts, etc.
Good point, and I think assembling all these reasons alongside national security risks is our best shot at actually convincing our governments to enforce some amount of change.
I think Russia has more claim to the eagle for heraldry purposes, although maybe two-headed eagles don't count as the same species.
I honestly don't know the answer to your question; this is well outside my knowledge base. Looking at the 8-K Twitter filed [0]. It looks like the stock that shareholders may purchase through the poison pill are 1/1000 of a different class of stock (Series A Participating Preferred Stock, as opposed to common stock), though the intent is that that small fraction should be about the same value as a share of common stock. I have no clue what the effects on the market may be for this option.

Also, I admittedly missed another provision of the poison pill - the board also has the ability to exchange an unexercised right for 1 share of common stock, effectively doubling outstanding shares for eligible shareholders without them needing to make an additional purchase. This may be more

[0]: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/0001...
Honestly, we are probably there if some crazy billionaire wanted to fund it.

We've come a long way in terms of lightweight and strong materials from the 1930s when these were constructed.
Another argument to escape Google and Apple and consider GNU/Linux phones (Librem 5 and Pinephone), where nobody will dictate what software you run.
>Don't get me wrong, make as much money as you can, but do something useful. Do something people actually want or need. Don't just wantonly and reclessly exploit them. Create some damn value, something your mama would be proud of.

We're at a place in some circles where cryptocurrency projects and any subjective value they may provide is preemptively dismissed with prejudice. Ultimately the customer decides what he values. As tech types it is too easy to sit back and claim, "Oh these consumers don't know what they want". Perhaps that is true. Perhaps what we find useful or interesting isn't what interests consumers. If we really know what will satisfy them, then we should provide it.

Knee-jerk condemnations are a bit easier.
Fellow tcl lover here. When I left my tcl job I felt like I was approaching some next level of productivity that I've never quite found with other languages
For passengers sure, they are slow. They could instead transport cargo.

I think the biggest problem with them is mooring. It's a complex process, much more so than landing a plane, and requires lots of ground crew. It would have to be automated first.
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"There's no basis for this statement."

Basic economics, really.

"There are, in fact, plenty of places that haven't yet been taken over by humans."

That's shrinking rapidly. You could watch A Life On This Planet for some insight on the scope of development/utilization.
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Not sure if a P/E of 18.38 is so so attractive, it looks neither cheap nor expensive for something that will at best keep up with the (nominal) GDP growth.

Why is it so cheap though in terms of absolute value, is the percentage of revenues claimed by this asset very low? The offer lacks detail. Where's an appropriate SEC form when you need one :)
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> Those are making a comeback.

Various projects have been trying to bring them back for something like 2 decades.

So far there have mostly been cancellations, and "slippage" (e.g. Lockheed's LMH-1, originally planned to float out in 2017, is still nowhere to be seen 5 years later; Airlander is supposed to start shipping in 2025 but the last news is they're trying to find a new location to build a facility).
Has there ever been an iPhone that did not use a USB charging cable?
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release note - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/jammy-jellyfish-release-notes...
I love motivated reasoning like this.

Musk's offer is well above current stock price, within the range of similar take over bids. Certainly nothing that qualifies it as "coercive low-ball bid".

> first offer

Yeah, because no one else is interested in acquiring money-losing business. Board's remedy should be to secure better offer, not a poison pill

> stock price was higher

This is an argument in favor of accepting bid. Investors are telling us that Twitter is a sinking ship. Musk comes in willing to pay well above the current price.

The alternative might just as well be to watch the ship sink lower and lower.

"Poison pill" that dilutes shareholders will not bring stock price higher.

> Little has been done to optimize the short-term share price

Love the suddenly passive voice, trying to not name Twitter board and management responsible for Twitter's bad performance.

At the same implying that they can wave a magic wand and push stock price higher. Makes me wonder: why didn't they?

Again, the remedy for the board and management would be to present a credible plan to improve Twitter business and therefore stock price.

Instead they created a poison pill which, if triggered, will tank the stock price and dilute many existing shareholders (not everyone will decide to give Twitter money for the cheaper stock).

Almost certainly it'll tank the stock price. But more importantly, reduce market cap.

> not the best possible valuation by Musk

Or it is actually the final offer and Musk is not bluffing.

Again, it doesn't matter. Musk doesn't have to come up with better offer.

That's not how any of that works. It doesn't work that way if you're negotiating a salary, a price of a house or a price of a business.

If board can secure a better offer from someone else then Musk will have to up his offer or not buy Twitter.

If not, then this is the best offer Twitter will ever get and it's significantly higher than the current value of the business.

Again, poison pill is not a remedy here.
Biplane Launch From Airship USS Akron (ZRS-4):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTGBFY82Gik&feature=youtu.be
"Why is it so expensive?" - commentary from someone who does this for a living at Sequential

Small Volume - each unit is more expensive than a large volume product, you don't get price breaks on any components or tooling costs

Design focused - Who is the product for? It isn't for people who want to spend 250$ on a Behringer mixer. It is for people who want something that is high quality and doesn't break. Reliable. For people that rely on their tools to be creative or appreciate design. You are paying a premium. See Apple for lots of examples. This is also one of the biggest strengths of the company, if you want something cheap you're looking in the wrong place.

Complex - the amount of balance of various components here adds a lot to the design and development costs. Battery is an unusual feature but puts it in a different product category. Balancing that with the audio quality and reliability is not a trivial problem. Add in wireless, audio drivers (not trivial at ALL), Complexity increases development time and adds risk to the long term stability of the product, that is added into the cost.

Most of the small features feel like somebody there thought it would be fun and/or easy to put in. It's a good way to iterate through design ideas, you have to see it in reality. That type of prototyping isn't easy. Most people don't use 90% of the features but when you are in a creative industry the 1% that does absolutely LOVES it and uses it in ways you never expected. It's difficult to balance the amount of development you put into fun things vs. business cases.

If you are trying to figure out why you'd pay for this you aren't their target market. It's far more interesting (to me) to think about why some people WOULD pay for this and what a market looks like that you are not a part of
> seems way easier than just deciding to solve it with crypto

Yeah, I don't disagree that crypto won't fix this. I just disagreed that it was "easy". I took them as being literal.
Hi HN! We've been using Supabase for awhile thought it'd be great to have a no-code app that plugs right into Supabase to help with creating dashboards.

So we came up with Dashibase! You just need to specify your Supabase URL, anon key + the tables you want to expose to your user and out pops your dashboard.

We are open for beta access now and looking to validate this idea with an initial group of 25 users (see https://dashibase.com).

Questions and comments welcome!
Ha, I don't think I've ever heard that song before and I love it. Usually increasing the complexity of music makes it less comprehensible. I really respect those rare songs that are technically impressive to musicians while also being comprehensible (and sometimes downright catchy) to "normal" people. And I think Never Gonna Let You Go nails it. But of course, it is totally subjective.
I miss seeing "the goodyear blimp" at the Portland air show. When I was a kid in the 80's and 90's, they'd always have the blimp come out and fly around the metro area for a week. It was so cool to see this absolutely huge thing floating around the sky, over your house, etc., with the deep droning mrrrrrrr of the multiple props. It was almost like an alien space ship (to us kids) because you never saw anything in the skies except birds and planes. Everyone would run outside pointing up at the sky when it was passing overhead.

Edit: It looks like the Goodyear Blimp is still a thing! It's going to be in PA/SC/LA this month. Here's the schedule: https://www.goodyearblimp.com/news-and-events/schedule.html
Just say it costs $100/mo for 12 months for on-prem. They'll think it's an exciting new enterprise B2B SaaS.
You took the words out of my mouth.
I'm ambivalent at this point. My primary chargers now are multi-port Anker USB-C chargers. I have a drawer of old USB charger blocks that I keep in case I need another one in a pinch, or if someone else wants an extra.
There is a lot of overlap but plenty of self-deprecating jokes are way too blue to be considered "dad jokes". Still I think you're right and that's just a variation of the same thing. Just... "adult" dad jokes. Makes me think of watching podcasts with people like the late greats Norm Macdonald, Gilbert Gottfried, and Bob Saget.
It's easy to forget the role that airships played in the US military. These two were fielded as aircraft carriers during the interwar period. Non-rigid airships were mass-produced during WW2 as anti-submarine vessels to escort convoys (including the one that brought FDR/Churchill to Yalta). They were quite effective in this escort role, and I believe only one was lost in combat.

Then after the war the US tried dropping nukes [1] from airships:

>> The tests were to "determine the response characteristics of the model ZSG-3 airship when subject to a nuclear detonation in order to establish criteria for safe escape distances after airship delivery of antisubmarine warfare special weapons."[10] According to the Navy, the "airship operations were conducted with extreme difficulty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-class_blimp#Nuclear_weapon_e...
For one thing, languages are inherently inconsistent, so perhaps the better question is, why not?

More specifically, Julius Caesar popularized the use of "Germania" for lands north of the Rhine.

And Tedeschi is probably from Latin "theodiscus", itself distantly probably related to Deutsch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodiscus

More broadly, what we call Germany (or India, or China, or Italy) today are recent fictions created from very places that were ethnically diverse, and whose constituent populations would have identified more by their tribe than by their "country". The variations in terminology is the vestige of that past.
NYT for news.

Hackaday for interesting usually hardware projects. But a lot of articles are covering stuff from a few days earlier.

I try to stay away from Reddit for the most part.

I have an RSS feed of mostly AI and Tech blogs from big companies. I could probably curate it some more.
And your comment is useless and adds nothing.
Riding a Bike in America Should Not Be This Dangerous
Then shouldn't the government be involved in ensuring we have what's necessary? Seems like strategic reserves are in order here.
Yeah, they give you a refurb and send your old phone in to fix, which becomes a refurb for someone else down the line (supposedly).
Bank: I see your net worth is far beyond what you're asking for and you won't have a problem making payments with your income. I didn't even know credit scores got as high as yours. Here you go.
Tcl is insane. The language is straight out of The Book (Anathem). By that I mean, the semantics are not just wrong, they're so wrong they risk warping your brain. But the language somehow remains useful, powerful, and flexible. And there is still no faster way to get from zero to working GUI in the 2020s on a conventional computing environment (Windows or some Unix). So it's fantastic for prototyping at the very least.
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More recently, Fallout 4 with the Brotherhood of Steel airship. Deploys Osprey-like aircraft too.
That’s exactly what happened:

“The decision puts an abrupt end to an ambitious and aggressive venture that people familiar with the matter say rankled David Zaslav, the new CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, from the start. Zaslav was annoyed by the decision of Jason Kilar, the former CEO of WarnerMedia when it was owned by AT&T, to launch CNN+ just weeks before Discovery was set to take over operations. But he was unable to communicate with WarnerMedia management, owing to legal boundaries surrounding the merger process.”

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/cnn-plus-shut-down-warner-b...
Probably around the time a Microsoft product does not appear in the top 100 torrents by seeds across all of the major public trackers
It's about him defaulting on the loan which is not possible considering his shares in Tesla etc. not about him borrowing for investment purposes
It probably only cuts one way because it's difficult or impossible to implement "anti-monopoly-power technology", as you put it. Indeed, in your own comment you posited the existence of such a technology but then failed to suggest one, or even how it might theoretically work. You proposed a cumbersome, entirely legal-system-based solution instead.
Another anecdote: I work for a BigTech cloud provider and our internal applications can’t stand up to nearly the load that our external customer facing services can.
Would you feel the same if this became the top watched video for weeks, with a lively comment section mostly leaning towards "omg that is so cool! I want to top this!!!"?

I wouldn't - which is why I don't mind if it's taken down.
I would generally assume a lack of competitors would lead to a decreased need to innovate and therefore fatter margins.
Does the Mac OS support allowing VM kernels to access the USB ports?
I heard from someone in Apple that Siri, as least at the time, was on Oracle databases on Dell Blade servers.
Benefits of Playing Chess
Another way to say that you don't want to put your money where your mouth is.
Super Mario’s Most Iconic Power-Up Was Inspired by Magic Mushrooms
Looks fantastic and the onboarding is great.

Can you talk a bit more about how KYC works at Column.
If only Earth had, say, 1.5x the atmospheric pressure and two thirds the gravity. Lighter-than-air vehicles could be super feasible (but so would heavier-than-air ones!)

Zeppelins could be absurdly useful on Titan as well as the upper atmospheres of Venus and even the gas giants.
Partnerships with b&m stores critical to future of Bitcoin, Morgan Stanley
Yes, I someone who lived through that period I can confirm: I used SourceForge regularly until The point where it was proven to my satisfaction that the malware being added to downloads was not a fluke or a hack, but an intentional choice by management.

Then, I instantly flipped to having a very strong commitment to never again trust SourceForge. You've probably heard about how a reputation is built over years but can be destroyed in an instant... that's exactly what happened here.

Part of the reason is that from the point of view of the person downloading (binary executable) software, the most important feature the site provided was my trust that they would give me the same binary I was asking for. In a similar vein, if I discovered that a bank had been intentionally lying about account balances and adjusting them in the bank's favor to make a profit, I would immediately and permanently sever my relationship with that bank.
I think I was referring to a very similar but different florida case:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/parents-under-investigation-after...

There are actually a surprising amount of these.

I sort of understand that someone might call something in.

My issues is the govt, arresting, strip searching parents, take away a young child from them and putting them in foster care, getting folks fired.

What are they trying to accomplish here. There is insane abuse IN the foster care system. What is the great harm to an 11 year old child playing outside in their own yard that requires this govt response.
Their cable ratings are down 70%[0] in a year. That baby should be tossed right out with the bathwater if they want a future.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/02/21/cnns-rat...
Issa lost in 2018, IIRC.
I have seen no numbers to support the claim that mass installation and employment of charging stations will have an extraordinary impact on electricity usage, beyond the normal annual increases that the grid has been able to facilitate.

As for batteries, you don't have to bet on battery advances, just the scaling up of manufacturing, which is already underway.