skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How's the Iphone selling so well over the past 3 months then compared to last year, especially in face of weak international currencies? These have been rough months for the average consumer supposedly. Does the Iphone 13 have a particular selling point other than being the latest and greatest? Obviously the people aren't feeling the inflation pressure when it comes to buying Iphones.
Here in Tampa, so close to the birthplace of Publix Supermarkets, we are born knowing to seek out BOGOs.

BOGO as a shopping term has been around as long as I can remember.
Most people will allow contacts and notifications, which will help with onboarding ordinary users.

I don't need help. I already want to use it the way I want to use it. Don't need to keep reminding me after every update or more than once or whatever.

How about a "No, and don't remind me again" option?

But yeah, I get what you are saying about most users.
Because many developers don't care about the user and UX.
They care only about themselves
It's easier for them to develop and easier to put trackers inside to monetize their work.
Bloated pages, crappy performance, battery draining? Who cares.
I disagree, I’m still in the datacenter storage business and our service delivery costs have been going down. You have to look at the service as a whole… nvme let us retire frames, etc.

I think hyperscale margins are high, and I think between the many tiers of storage and backend technology they are constantly cooking cost out.
Not far off from handing packs of free cigarettes to medical conference attendees, having an exit poll ask them which brand of cigarettes they have in their pocket, and using the results in marketing like ”69% of doctors smoke Narcoholic brand cigarettes!”
2nd law: stupidity is independent

3rd law: stupidity causes harm (definition)

There is a contradiction here. By this definition, if you select for attainment of any kind that would be sabotaged by the harm, you had better start seeing less stupidity. If you don't, it's a hint that your model of stupidity is wrong. Indeed, his model is wrong, but instead of taking the hint the author simply chalks the pile of contradictory evidence up to chance and sticks with his bad model: "Nature seems indeed to have outdone herself." No, dude -- the problem is not with nature, it's with your model.
I always say stay in use1 because almost everybody is there and when it's suffering any kind of outage so much of the internet is affected that it's no big deal that you're a part of the outage. People just go outside and get some air knowing it will be back up in a few hours, usually right around the time the AWS status page acknowledges that there is an issue.
Because you've said so. You're advocating people make structured effort to gather information from outside their filter bubble (the current thing, used to be called a 'silo'), a reasonable idea.

But the first example you offer for how you go about doing that to differentiate your inputs from HN is a laughably poor knockoff of /pol/. At least /pol/acks make effortposts on a regular basis, there are vigorous contests of ideas, and much that is funny as well as offensive, or that cleverly combines the two. I can think of many other news/political communities and channels that have a right, far right, or outright fascist bias, but offer substantive content of some kind.

What's anyone going to get from this lowest-common-denominator forum? It's like you asserted the need to develop a strong immune system and followed up by eating food off the sidewalk.
Paying them more wont change the types of people that are drawn to politics. Power corrupts regardless of the salary. The only way to fix corruption is to make it illegal and prosecute it ruthlessly.
Awesome, thanks for the answers! I'd also love to hear an update on what trending on HN does for subscriptions, we've had some articles trend on here before and it's a pretty nice bump, but people were clicking primarily for a story not a newsletter. This got me to sub at least!
"afford" is an overloaded word

I'm sure a lot of people are frustrated by food costs, and have adjusted their food purchasing decisions, while also buying new iPhones.
How can one test this. Say I create a model and a slue of EdgeQL queries. How does one get the equivalent SQL (like a EdgeQL command to spit out the equivalent SQL).
If this is not possible yet, could we at least have some examples on the EdgeDB website so as to have an idea?
What always pissed me of most about 'sales vs. engineering is':

Engineering: Works hard (45 hrs/wk), knowledgeable and experienced at their craft, specialized skill-set, net compensation... $150,000.

Sales: Works hard (55 hrs/wk), knowledgeable and experienced at their craft, specialized skill-set, net compensation... $600,000.

That always felt like bullshit to me. Two hardworking, skilled people, but just because the sales people are closer to the money, they get paid a shitton more.

In fact, (and I say this knowing that I'm biased, but it's still keenly, emotionally felt), it often felt like thee engineer is far more skilled, rare, and value-producing than the salesperson. They just, again, aren't the ones directly bringing in the money.
Who forgot to tell $AAPL that there is a supply chain crisis?
if you've ever worked low income side jobs the amount of people you see with the newest airpods and iphone while living paycheck to paycheck is high. Of all the forms of conspicuous consumption that people get accused of, this is probably the most real one, with the exception of Jordans maybe
Well, a citation usually not about where you found something.
It's more about trying to trace the origin about a particular fact or scientific contribution.
Interesting that mac sales are down given the breakthrough tech with the M1 & M2.
I Designed My Own 16-Bit CPU [video]
I suspect many employees at Meta have trust funds or other family wealth they can rely on. They don’t even need to work, but will spend a lot of time studying up for what is perceived as a high status place to work.

While talented I doubt they would work at a “lesser” company and instead just wait around for the next cool thing.
Given the author, higher order jokes seem especially appropriate.
>The article defines stupidity in a very precise way: for the purposes of this essay, it's someone who causes harm to other people without any benefit or causing harm to themselves.

It's only precise in the abstract. When it comes to concrete information, it's a BS non-definition. In real life scenarios of any real importance (that is, non trivial examples of Dumb and Dumber style behavior), it quickly gets difficult to define if harm was caused, who caused it, whether they've benefited from it (especially as benefits are not just monetary or advancing one's position on some job or some such), and so on...
Related:

https://github.com/sam-astro/Astro8-Computer
An extremely important topic, especially since I've been hearing about it all my life (disclaimer, my father, past president of the International Corrosion Council (ICC) and 2022 recipient of the Corrosion Awareness Award from the World Corrosion Organisation (WCO), the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) and the Chinese Society of Corrosion and Protection (CSCP) https://corrosion.org/Awards.html).
For those who want to learn a little more about his insights and the summary of a long career, 2 years ago he set up this free blog just about corrosion: https://news.materials.business. For example, he talks about how he calculated the international cost of corrosion damage for 2019 to be USD$4.8 trillion. And only a fraction of that amount represents the cost of steel that had to be replaced due to corrosion problems. (https://news.materials.business/19/01/2021/engineering-mater...)
Profit can't grow forever. At some point your company is so saturated you have to wring water from stone, literally nickel-and-diming people.
This is such a tired and lazy line of thought.

Completely leaving out services , the “secret” projects and incremental improvements in hardware to existing products, in the last decade:

- AirPods
- Apple Watch
- Apple Sillicon

Each one of these new product verticals would be ten to hundred-billion dollar companies if independent.

I look forward to hearing why none of this is actual innovation and actually quite boring.
If winning at capitalism was an antidote to the desire to do dodgy deals, we wouldn't have to worry about the effect of moneyed interests on politics in the first place.

As it is, I'm not sure the billion does anything other than ensure that the one policy absolutely every randomly-appointed political figure from the vague woolly liberal to the literal neo-Nazi agrees upon is zero inheritance tax...
None of those fasteners are rivet nuts, the submission topic.

Most of them cannot be installed blind; they require a mating piece on the other side to push into.

Rivet nuts don't require access to the opposite side. In all likelihood, they cannot be made of plastic; they depend on the the deformation of metal on the blind side forming a rigid bead which holds the part firmly place.
I wasn't paying attention and used one my primary email addresses when donating. Account is basically worthless now. So much spam. Even from candidates in states I've never lived in or currently reside in.
Sure; the list of startup services is maintained there, for one (in one of a number of ways), but a variety of programs allow the administrator to configure hooks to execute when something happens as well. Then there are lists of variables that are in fact shell scripts, names of users’ configured shells, mount options, kernel modules, ... . Arbitrary code execution immediately (as opposed to after next reboot or at least a service’s configuration being reloaded) seems harder, but I expect it to be possible as well.

ETA: Took a couple of minutes, huh. A sibling comment mentions the dynamic linker, which apparently maintains a cache of well-known library locations in /etc. This yields execution as soon as a new dynamically linked executable is started, which probably qualifies as immediate. (More care would be required to avoid breaking the system in the process, though.)
Elrond had heard of Tom Bombadil.

There was silence. At last Elrond spoke again. [...] The Barrow-wights we know by many names; and of the Old Forest many tales have been told: all that now remains is but an outlier of its northern march. Time was when a squirrel could go from tree to tree from what is now the Shire to Dunland west of Isengard. In those lands I journeyed once, and many things wild and strange I knew. But I had forgotten Bombadil, if indeed this is still the same that walked the woods and hills long ago, and even then was older than the old. That was not then his name. Iarwain Ben-adar we called him, oldest and fatherless. But many another name he has since been given by other folk: Forn by the Dwarves, Orald by Northern Men, and other names beside. He is a strange creature, but maybe I should have summoned him to our Council.'
> Yes, the DNC uses superdelegates, which is an undemocratic part of the process. But in both 2016 and 2020, Sanders did poorly enough in the regular primaries that the number of superdelegates was irrelevant to the final outcome.

Superdelegates who had made public announcements were, through 2016, usually counted in running delegate counts by media and not distinguished from pledged delegates. Because the perception of winning votes is...actually, empirically, a powerful means of winning more votes, this meant the superdelegates were a significant influence on winning pledged delegates.

Because Sanders did so well in 2016, his faction won major concessions in DNC rules, including the erasing of first-ballot superdelegate voting rights (well, in the circumstances where they could matter). As a result, their collective thumbs were lifted off the nominating process in 2020 (now, Sanders did worse in 2020 anyway, both the situation and the field of primary candidates were different.)
That's not how most banks work, you may have been at one that had the person with authority but transfers over certain amounts ($1M around here) require multiple reviews and certain people. You can do it in a day (and regularly do for wires) but it requires additional steps and authorization. Banks also don't necessarily have all of the cash you'd need on hand.
Sure, I know of no jurisdiction that requires a pre-suit demand for a TCPA claim.

“Issue a notice of demand explaining that you are seeking payment for TCPA violation and give them 10 days to respond. Send mail with signature delivery. (You can't sue without having issued a notice of demand.)”

You do have to serve them once you file the case, but generally, I’m aware of no pre-suit-demand obligation for a TCPA case in small claims court that prevents you from filing.

not legal advice
you're entitled to your opinions, but it's really hard to believe your scholarship on the man when you've misspelled his name like 15 different ways. i'm willing to have my mind changed on who douglass was because i know i'm not an expert on his life, but your points haven't provided a coherent, convincing argument, and especially do not provide a coherent and convincing counterargument to mine. it doesn't even attempt to address my line of reasoning at all, but rather simply throws out more disconnected and unsubstantiated assertions.

my basic argument was that douglass tried violence, found it didn't achieve his aims, and decided to use his intelligence and empathy instead, and achieved (some of) his aims by winning over those on the margin, not trying to necessarily win over the extremely prejudiced. this happened over a lifetime (some 80ish years), and who someone is is a totality of those years, not some arbitrary subset of them.
That's great regarding the schema! The biggest risk mitigation factor in my estimation would be preserving the schema and the data. Re-writing queries would be annoying but doable if the schema is relatively sane.

edit: ps I love the direction y'all are heading. EdgeQL feels more like relational-algebra notation which I always felt fit better with modern programming languages.
maybe cannibalized by ipads?
Funny how bad the Engadget/Verge crowd are at technology that is not 100% mainstream?

The top comments are much more insightful.
>DataRobot missed sales goals by 75%

Having been on the receiving end of their sales team, I'm not surprised. Approaching a clueless executive and feeding them all sorts of BS to get their product foisted onto the data science team I was with was very disagreeable.
I think the point is that you can't do it on Firefox anymore. You used to be able to, but the (partially incomplete) feature was removed instead rather than developed into an easy to use feature. The feature still works on Android, but the Mozilla team doesn't see a future in installing web apps apparently.

PWAs are my main use for Chromium.
Fair. Just follow https://www.reddit.com/r/GifRecipes/ for recipes so you dont have to think.
It was the optics. I suspect he ordered it long before the payment, and it would not surprise me if he could afford it (way more than $100K, with his trim package), without the money from the deal. Several of the principals were independently wealthy.

However, Japanese executives make a fraction of what US execs make, and work in more difficult conditions. VPs that control billion-dollar budgets have desks that schoolteachers would sniff at.

Like I said, optics.

It’s not a good idea to piss off people that sign the checks, or will have your back, when you report failure.
This has quickly grown to more than adding in a couple of lines! Now I need to architect my legacy app so that I can deploy into lambdas, then I can get resiliency I don't really need!

Not all systems require high availability. Some systems are A-OK with downtime. Sometimes, I'm perfectly fine with eventual consistency. You really do have to look at the use-cases and requirements before making sweeping staements.
What happened in 2012 to bump the hard drive prices?
Very. There’s a whole industry around it. Folks on record is saying that this law has made more millionaires in the plaintiff’s bar than any other law.

Check out TCPAworld.com if you want to go down the rabbit hole!
Buy Online, Pick up In Store.
Pro GeoGuessr player uses an eye tracker
Not that surprising, pandemic demand of laptops was through the roof + first gen of M1 was out so pretty much every dev got in on the big improvement
finally the matter is settled!
Then you invent the next iPad. Or Watch.

Or stop carrying about growth. There are plenty of well respected dividend investments, even in tech.
Once ancient content no longer produces enough ad revenue for the companies storing it, I suspect they will support it only in paid tiers for users who really want it. Something like this is already happening in Google's paid tiers: each user is valuable as part of Google's advertising audience, but the economics no longer make sense once those users keep many GB on Google's servers.
Maybe everyone rushed out to buy the M1s last year because they were so good and disrupted the natural upgrade cycle so that this year there were less purchases?
500+ new subscribers and counting without directly linking to the newsletter in top portion.

Not sure on traffic - not currently tracking that!
Tim Cook, the literal supply chain god is in charge of Apple
Pollinators of the sea: A discovery of animal-mediated fertilization in seaweed
What's that got to do with anything?
> We are all paying the price for not killing these myths.

I can't tell you how many times I've taken on teaching a novice or junior developer and then had to un-teach them all the shit that Windows teaches users.
> There is now a feature that scans every photo you receive. There previously was not something scanning every photo you receive.

1) Seen the automatic-text-recognition-on-images features in recent iOS? It's already scanning ~every photo you look at, and not just in iMessage. If you put an image in Photos, it's also doing some object recognition on it (which you can see if you search for e.g. "books" or "chairs" in Photos). Dunno if it does that elsewhere, but the text-recognition thing, yeah, that happens all over the OS in all kinds of apps. Maybe (probably) you can turn that off, but this feature folks are complaining about is opt-in so that shouldn't be relevant for this line of reasoning.

And furthermore:

> Messages uses on-device machine learning to analyze image attachments and determine if a photo appears to contain nudity. The feature is designed so that Apple doesn’t get access to the photos.

2) If you don't like this because you don't trust this statement to be true, then I have some bad news for you about who writes the entire closed-source operating system that runs on iOS devices and are the only ones who can deploy any code they like to them, basically at any time.
Hard to get my head around the -10% in Mac sales since i expected the Apple-silicon transition to “open up the flood gates”.

Not coming from an investor mindset - mostly because the new macs are finally great value for money again and well built, mostly designed with actual users in mind and thus surprised there doesn’t seem to be a real impact financially.

Can anyone explain or put forward an interpretation on the “why” behind this?
Google did not get to be where it is via FOMO.
AR glasses aren’t ready until the 30s.
I think you are forgetting a significant part of that story, which is that Gawker published it around the time of Thiel's business trip to Saudi Arabia.

Given the general attitude in that country towards homosexuality and that it is straight up a crime in SA, not only Gawker was essentially sabotaging his business deal, they were opening him up to physical danger and criminal prosecution.
Or put something into /etc/profile.d and run at every shell startup, or put something into /etc/ld.so.conf.d and inject code into every process started on the system, or put something into /etc/init.d and run at every boot... (continue ad infinitum)

If you let code overwrite the files that make up your system configuration, you're going to have a Bad Time on any OS; this isn't somehow specific to Windows and the registry.
Engineering (and even organizations in areas like marketing) also have very different hire/fire practices than sales. For all the griping about interview practices, engineering orgs are really trying to hire the "right" people. Sales is too, at some level. But it's also a fairly common observation that sales management has no problem firing people who don't make their numbers even if it's because their account had a major reorg and the new guy likes some other vendor.
> When running for office in most places, being considered wealthy or coming from a wealthy family is a considerable hurdle to overcome

I wouldn’t call it a major hurdle. Many voters have inconsistent beliefs: They may think wealth is a sign of virtue and hard work during campaign season and then start saying “cut congressional salaries!” when they get angry, not realizing that they voted for people who are insulated from the very tactic they are pushing. It’s not enough to just say “well then don’t elect them”, we need to make sure the system of incentives we’ve created doesn’t funnel towards bad outcomes.
> We did mention our interest in this new standard getting more momentum

You keep calling it a standard.

The "working group" is some people on Discord. Your blog post calls it "our in-browser operating system" which is a far cry from a standard. You "team up with browser vendors directly", yet not through web standards bodies, but through some "bytecode alliance" that aims to build outside the browser. Also, unsurpisingly, zero links anywhere to an actual standards text or even to a specification of these web containers.
The difference is that 1) they sell it based on their claims about it and 2) it is admitted as evidence in a court of law.

It's pretty different from "Let's just search everyone's houses. Probably someone is committing a crime."
Ahaha I always love the calls for political violence in the US, because we've experienced so little (relative to other parts of the world). Honestly it shows how well off we've been these last decades to have the luxury to call for someone else to kill a politician for us because we're upset.
You have no concept of the injustice that would arise if "the people" begin murdering politicians in the street again.

So many books cover the hideous nature of mob justice, so-called "revolutions", and their gruesome knock-on effects, there's really no excuse to be this undereducated about what you're saying.
Decentralization of views will never yield the "right" opinion with unanimity, because we're all so often drawn to bad ideas, bickering, or what not. But it will also never always yield the "wrong" opinion with unanimity. And that latter aspect, in my opinion, is so much more important than the former. Because in any system where you have a centralized opinion-maker, that authority will sooner, rather than later, end up being abused. The examples through history are endless and horrible. Imagine a scenario in modern highly interconnected times should the right opinion become the reich opinion once again.

Such wrongness is only allowed to foster when it eventually becomes impossible to challenge it publicly. Of course alongside that freedom also comes my freedom to publicly reject the idea that 2+2=4. It seems to me that in modern times the problem has not been so much people coming to 'wrong' opinions, but people being unable to accept others having such opinions. Then in the fruitless and effortful battle to convert the pagan, divisions are only widened and beliefs hardened.

Perhaps the issue is not one of wrongness but intolerance of wrongness. I suspect we all get this feeling when we see something we believe to be wrong of "Agh! If he only knew what I knew, he'd never think this way." Of course the catch is the other guy is also often thinking the exact same about you.
It's rent seeking. It's what turns a $1000 phone into a $1500-2000 phone over the lifetime of a device (2.5 years)