skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was talking about profits Microsoft exclusively makes from selling the $99/$139 Windows licenses to consumer, not the profits of Microsoft entirely. Two different vastly different things.

How exactly are you calculating Apple's margin on macOS and iOS? How are you attributing the sales price hardware to macOS/iOS, hardware, apps, tools and services, iWork, Photos, iMovie?

> I dunno. How much does it make selling an OS at the price of two video games, while supporting it with updates for 10 years and paying devs US salaries to work on it for those 10 years?

An absolute metric boatload.

> Keep in mind that Windows 95 retail box would cost consumers $209($409 in today's money), and you imagine that Microsoft is now making a huge profit on selling Windows to consumers today at 25% the original price with the much higher complexity and development costs of today's software?

Yes, that's how economies of scale work.

Windows 95 seems to have sold 40M copies total [1] whereas they sold about a billion copies of Windows 10 by 2019. [2]

[1] https://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/a-brief-history-of-wind...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/24/20881418/microsoft-device...
Thanks for clarifying. I mixed up the offset rule and the unused capital losses rule. I’m not very deep into US tax laws ;)
You are joking, right? Sea Cliff hardly takes up any space at all. Sure the houses look big from Google Map - but how many apartments do you expect to cram in there if they were bulldozed?
0 is valid, it works fine. maybe not negative 0 (which exists in js)
It's not costing them 155M to run hosting. It's maybe a tenth of that. Online business costs are inordinately around people, marketing, and sales acquisitions. Someone wants you to look at X to save money, because Y is more important to them. I don't know gitlab's financing, but it's a pretty common play when someone is looking to boost their figures so someone else won't notice - either for executive payments or acquisition, someone's looking to goose their margins.
I agree. I was expecting something else.

The real gold from the article comes, as many other times, from the aggregated knowledge from all our minds moderated here.
It's on the cards! And a course on grep drops next week.
https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/grep/overview
AFAIK not a lot of cotton farming going on in reef catchment areas. There is lots of sugar cane and bananas however. Also lots of deforestation for grazing. Plus major resource export ports (LNG, coal). Regardless, runoff remains a major topic and there is some progress being made in the space [1].

Regards the article. If you look to the report itself[2] you'll see that this isn't a "she'll be right" triumph of science over scare campaigns. Climate change sits at the top of a growing list of concerns. The summary specifically mentions increased frequency of both marine heatwaves (that lead to bleaching) and major destructive weather events like cyclones. The other serious concern is crown-of-thorns starfish (a sea star that eats coral) ... and while the jury may still be out on the cause of their outbreaks (overfishing of predators? excess nutrients? changing environment?), the effect of this single species on the broader ecosystem is beyond frightening to witness.

It's extremely difficult to have a meaningful conversation about the threats to the reef without getting into the weeds. The "scare" campaigns may be light on detail, glossing over (or ignoring) much of the important nuance, but (for the most part) they aren't wrong.

[1] https://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/our-work/threats-to-the-reef/decli...
[2] https://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/gbr-co...
I'm thinking like a consumer, specifically me as a consumer. I do not know how many consumers are like me, but I'm always looking for vegan, well rounded, non industrially farmed, pesticide free protein sources. So far, the leading candidate is pea protein, and while I love soybeans and tofu, it's hard to find soy that is ethically sourced. (Not encumbered with awful genetic patents, for instance.)
Was curious myself. Here’s the link:
https://goo.gl/maps/cWou8PiXKoGPMNFL9

Did a quick look via street view. There are some very nice houses indeed. I might even say it’s the perfect location: golf course, beach and huge park adjacent to the neighborhood. These people will probably not actually visit the beach nor the park as these seem to be public areas.
Same, now I just stick to the default one.
This has been my huge pet peeve from a content creator's point of view. I'm in charge of the blog at my company, and it has been frustrating to see spam articles perform better than articles I'd spend days working on just because of keyword mash (and backlinks, but that's a different topic).

Hopefully, showing quoted snippets encourages "fuller", real content rather than the current keyword mash that rises to the top.
No but that's a good one as well! It was 3D Touch, where the screen actually had pressure sensitivity built into it.
That seems like a risky click.
I don't think that returning a tennis serve is a literal reflex as you're claiming.

From my understanding a reflexive move requires some sort of stimulus, and there's no way that your spine can have stimulus of an incoming tennis ball unless the eyes and therefore the brain are involved.
prototext supports comments. useful for test data and configurations
> in the 16-to-24 age group (up 15%), the 25-to-34 age
group (up 18%), and the 35-to-44 age group (up 14%)

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
I gave it a zero, and linked it to the article :). Found it super funny.
HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer still free

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/hevc-video-extension...
Ok they broke Google Talk however they actually made Linux mainstream, something no one else managed on this level before.
people don't know how to set their mirrors properly, for one. Always assume you're in a blind spot.
Huh, interesting, I hadn't heard the term forward proxy used to refer to that before. I think that's kind of confusing to reuse forward proxy to mean something different. There's already a term for what the document is doing: MITM. I don't see why they need to additionally use the term forward proxy to describe it when forward proxy is also used to describe something else.

Yeah, you're right about mitmproxy and Fiddler. They MITM the inner connection, while also acting as a proxy. The browser thinks it's simply proxying its connection to the destination through Fiddler, and doesn't realize that in addition to acting as a proxy, Fiddler is also acting as a MITM. So Fiddler is a proxy at the outer layer and a MITM of the inner layer.

Interesting, Palo Alto networks has 3 features:

1. Forward proxy
2. Inbound inspection without PFS algorithms
3. Inbound inspection with PFS algorithms

The way I would describe those is

1. Active MITM that generates new server HTTPS certs+keys from a trusted root
2. Passive MTIM that uses the genuine server HTTPS private key
3. Active MITM that uses the genuine server HTTPS private key

All 3 of those cases are both a network MITM and a TLS MITM. As opposed to Fiddler which is a TLS MITM but not a network MITM (the browser intentionally sent traffic to Fiddler).
It really shows how frustrated google search users are when a minor improvement is celebrated to this extent.
Yes, and no. Kids can help be a great motivator as well and help you to be more focused when you need to be. And they are just a lot of fun (especially when they get a little older and start talking/running around).
Don't be confused. Easy to learn does not equal easy to master. This applies to all programming languages.

Basic is a great programming language, it is just such a shame that it has reputation as a language used by novices and beginners.
There are huge economies of scale that come with density that lower the per-capita cost of water, sanitation, energy, and transport; and accompanying gains in per capita productivity. And, for reasons that should be obvious, the places "close to natural resources" in which it makes sense to have cities tend to already have cities in them.
Surprised how easy it is for employees to query things without some type of form to fill pointing to a case or purpose...

> “If you only focus on instances in which the NSA violated those laws, you’re missing the forest for the trees,” he said. “The bigger concern is not with willful violations of the law but rather with what the law itself allows.”

Totally agree.
Yes. It applies to what you do / make. You can’t copy (parts of) the written text, but you can act (write your own interpretation) with the ideas in that text.

“Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
I see many details like screenshots in the link.
Well, but those things can coexist. That's the difference between living in the heart of a metropolis vs living somewhere far away.

Since I've grown in the countryside, surrounded by all the forests and hills, I really find the cosmopolitan life I've there more exciting.

It may change overtime, sure, but at least I will never have to complain about having lost my time commuting.
Your comment is indecipherable. It sounds like it might be interesting. Any chance you could rephrase?
nah xml was always a little awkward. what should be an attribute? what should be a subtag?
That's why I'm going back to Apple with the next iPhone launch. The amount of crappy apps which come preinstalled is really irritating.
MBNA is hard to call a public utility. They are a niche credit card provider for all sorts of smaller rewards programs in Canada.

And you won’t find governments doing much better on this front.

I get your point, but if big tech isn't willing/able to handle multiple browsers, MBNA is not going to be able to do it.
New Zealand has gone largely cashless (and entirely chequeless). Everyone is paid by direct credit to their account. You pay your bills via direct credit / debit. I don't think any bank is charging fees (for customers) for electronic transactions via card, or direct credits/debits. They don't even charge a fee for using another bank's ATM anymore.

I am always amazed at how often people in the US mention cheques. NZ retailers moved away from cheques in the 90s due to their massive fraudulent use case (back when cheques were common, so was chequebook theft). The last banks that would accept cheques stopped doing so in 2020, IIRC.

You can use cash, but few people do. Parking machines have tap n pay. I really only need cash when the kids are having a bake sale or disco at school.

But as part of that shift, the Government owned bank ensures that anyone can have a bank account with no fees, no matter how spotty your previous track record.

Works for us. But I don't think we'll ever go cashless, there's no real desire to do so from anyone other than the people who have to pay to make the cash.
Yeah this was the standard in 2003-2005 if I recall. Then they removed it. Took them almost 20 years to reinvent it...
It’s an incredible PR coup.

The progressive position in the 90s was anti-gentrification, anti-greedy rent-seeking developers; “the evil developer” was a common trope in pop-culture.

Now? Dust off your ceremonial hard hat and golden ground-breaking shovel, because apparently, facilitating a massive and permanent wealth transfer to those same greedy developers is now progressive orthodoxy.

Density proponents are just unpaid lobbyists.
'What SF does have is very expensive housing, which directly causes homelessness'.

This is completely illogical. The upper east side side and Beverley Hills have very expensive housing which hasn't 'directly caused homelessness'. SF is a tiny densely populated 49 sq mile peninsula with people like politician Nancy Pelosi owning vast hill top homes they rarely visit and an ultra permissive approach to drug use in some districts which has resulted in a catastrophic influx of addicts who have often also developed serious mental illnesses.

You can be sure there are no tent/RV encampments outside the Pelosi's or other wealthy estates yet those same people are selling completely unrealistic YIYBY utopianism, which is cruel and wildly impractical.
When Google Code was closing, GitLab had a project to support quick migration from GC to GL. Most of the projects I copied were dormant for years, and then someone forked some of them months later and worked on them.
I used zfs because I heard it first. But I realized zfs partition cannot shrink in size, one have to copy it to another smaller partition if they have enough spare volume.

So I experiment with btrfs on another device and both are working well after some daily usage.
There’s no reason to squash commits to achieve this anymore. The —-first-parent option of git bisect makes it so that when you bisect, it won’t select commits from within the middle of a feature branch. It will only pick the commits that were truly part of main. That way you can easily find out which PR broke things.

Git log also has the first parent option and that is really helpful for helping you cut through the noise and see the high level overview of the history without seeing every commit.
He's a folk hero in game dev at this point.
Why is it that we always get absolutely ridiculous hypotheticals like this? 24 hour motorcycle repair operations? Really? Do we need to ban companies from making unsafe car tires out of earwax and chicken bones too? Or maybe could we just understand that that shit isn't gonna happen for a myriad of reasons?

All of the theoretical protections that zoning affords us are already granted to us via better mechanisms. For example, noise ordinances. Why ban motorcycle shops when you can ban noise above a specific threshold? When you combine nuisance laws and environmental laws and market incentives, you've already ruled out every possible boogyman coming to ruin your quaint bougie neighborhood. All of them except the poors living in apartments.
YMMV

As a coach I'm forced to use Google Meet, Teams and Zoom. My impression is Zoom has the best video quality and least stutter. Google has the worst video quality. Is this only me?
FWIW, the wikipedia article looks pretty good and answers at least some of your questions.
While getting rid of passwords is admirable and advisable, I don't think it is the answer here. What happens when `JSON.stringfy` posts your fancy magic link token somewhere undesirable?

Applications will always need to generate, process, and transmit sensitive data. They 'just' need transit it to trusted places. Easy! ;)

Filtering data before it gets to untrusted sinks, or at least warning when it does, seems like a more generalizable pattern. The downside is you both need to know what's sensitive and go out of your way to handle it as such in basically any language or framework.

Cases in point:
* https://www.google.com/search?q=java+avoiding+logging+sensit...
* https://www.google.com/search?q=golang+avoiding+logging+sens...
* https://www.google.com/search?q=python+avoiding+logging+sens...
I always found it ironic that a book that advocates concise documentation and diagrams over text looses itself in way too much narrative.
Sounds like we need a loooooot more vacancies, like maybe 100,000-150,000 in San Francisco.

The only vacancies that are a problem are all the vacant, unbuilt units above small, 1-2 story single family homes all throughout San Francisco. Those are the vacancies that are killing the city.
That depends on variety. White ones like Riesling will suffer with the hotter temperatures / higher alcohol content.
I'm aware you can get some pretty crazy behaviours, say if you end up overwriting a return address and your code begins to jump around like crazy. Even that could reproduce the same behaviour consistently though.

I once had a bug like that in a piece of AVR C code where the stack corruption would happen in the same place every time and the code would pathologically jump to the same places in the same order every time. It's worth noting though that when there's an OS, usually what will happen is just a SIGABRT. See the OpenBSD libc allocator for a masterclass in making misbehaving programs crash.

I was never advocating to rely on UB, btw. But yes, UB can be understood in many cases.
Sure. Nobody needs to pay me to lobby for density. I'll put energy into advocating density on its own merits.
I would state improving the VBA development experience that feels stuck in Office '97 days, but it will most likely be ignored.
> because women compete socially, and thus tend to look beyond your work too, more than men - i.e. also considering your "social ranking" within your peers and superiors to form an opinion of your competence

this sounds like you're talking about bonobos or chimpanzees. maybe we are just swanky apes.
Back up your Gitlab repos
GitLab's recent decision to delete inactive repos didn't sit well with me, so here's a relatively low effort way to backup all your GitLab repos locally and (optionally) push them up to GitHub instead

https://gist.github.com/nikvdp/2b2987dc8b9e96c912f2835aa8996...

(edit: typo)
No, stopping climate change doesn't lower standards of living. Why is it a lower standard of living if I get my electricity from renewable or nuclear power? Why is a lower standard of living if my car is electric? Why is it a lower standard of living if my home is heated with a heat pump?

Stopping climate change is strictly necessary if we want to keep our current standard of living.
Are you talking about duckduckgo? I tried `office -microsoft` just now and got the expected results: tv series, tv series podcast, government sites, bunch of businesses named Office. Nothing about Microsoft Office.
What if you get arrested because you buy a pride flag? Or if you get killed because you use a service?

What if you get arrested because you sold a train ticket to someone who doesn't have enough "social credit" to buy said train ticket?
Agent Smith: Do we have a deal, Mr. Reagan?

Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.

Agent Smith: Then we have a deal?

Cypher: I don’t want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand? And I want to be rich. You know, someone important. Like an actor.

Agent Smith: Whatever you want, Mr. Reagan.

Cypher: Okay. I get my body back into a power plant, re-insert me into the Matrix, I’ll get you what you want.

Cypher didn't just want to eat fake steak, to him that wasn't enough. Ignorance is bliss. He wanted to eat fake steak and not know that it was fake.
As a current Seattleite who grew up in middle America biking around as a kid anywhere I wanted, I have the opposite feeling. I thought it was great! Maybe it’s more about the person than it is the location.
> Well, but those things can coexist.

In theory? They can coexist. If you want density, move to a dense city.

In reality? Activists and developers are constantly pushing to upzone and pave over everything in sight.
Second time I'm seeing your platform. I still don't quite understand what it does exactly, but I'm intrigued nonetheless
Microsoft wouldn’t be paying licensing fees for pirated software as their platform includes sufficient protections against piracy. Currently with activation and formerly with serial codes.

It’s just a method of reducing cost - Microsoft did the same with the DVD playing codec. Their own DVD player wouldn’t function until a 3rd party codec was installed.

One should also think back to Microsoft’s approach to fonts. Where they made Frankenfonts instead of licensing the real ones.
I think the same will first happen to Netflix, but yeah if ios drops the premium experience then Apple will find that they will have to compete with all the other Android manufacturers.

It is already a pain point for apps, because they tend to assume that it is fine to make the same shitty app for both platforms. Apple really should be way more strict with the quality of apps they approve.
How is an electronic record of a transaction any worse then being filmed by multiple cameras as you walked in to buy that bread?

In my country, a warrant is required to access both sources of data.
Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK
Depends on "working out" means personal financial gain on a single asset, or "working out" means a good community that is welcoming to new people. Sounds like this poster is more community minded and less greedy.

And this is not an anomaly, it's the norm. The $3M communities are just the leading edge, and every area with any economic opportunity will be there soon unless we do something to address this desperate shortage of houses.
What merits, other than enriching real-estate investors and disenfranchising more of the population, exactly?
Historically this is correct but once you pack too many people in, whether a tent, a car or a city quality of life breaks down and things get worn out fast unless you are wealthy. Density and lower per capita cost doesn't mean quality of life as many third world cities and Favelas illustrate
What do you intend it to do? Do you dislike that it looks in hidden text (e.g. img alt text), or that it ignores punctuation?

Or are you saying it returns pages without the text on it at all? I don't think that's the case.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not Search.
It's not an exaggeration to say if it were successfully implemented globally to fund a humanity dividend, it would solve poverty without demanding more from any individual unfairly.

Prop 13 is a crime against economics and public finance.
When Pornhub deleted that much content the true (unspoken) reason was a diffrent one. Before Wirecard did make the moneytransfer for Pornub. But as we all now, Wirecard stopped to exist and sold some bussines parts. It was exactly the same time, when parts from Wirecard got sold again.

I'm pretty sure in the new contract was something like you can't have anonymous uploads at all.
> The only reason you wouldn't use HEVC is if your hardware lacks support

No, the main problem with HEVC is that it is not licensed under royalty-free terms. In contrast, almost all commonly used internet formats and protocols are licensed under royalty-free terms so everyone is free to use and implement them without paying a licensing fee. Video has been an anomaly.

Imagine if HTML wasn't licensed under royalty-free terms. Or TCP/IP or HTTP or SMTP or any other internet format or protocol that you (probably) use every day. There's no reason why video needs to be a special case here.

Fortunately, video formats like AV1 (https://aomedia.org/) and audio formats like Opus (https://opus-codec.org/) exist for high quality, royalty-free video and audio coding.

These formats are deployed in the real world right now. YouTube, for example, makes extensive use of both. If you have a browser which supports AV1 (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, but not Safari yet), you can see if a YouTube video is playing back in AV1 by right-clicking on the video and selecting "Stats for Nerds".
If you don't like him then go to your other friends! What, you lost contact long ago? Do they even exist anymore? Too bad. Sounds like we're stuck together for a long long time.
Sure I get that perspective. But this is a small neighborhood. The problems that plague the city are not because of this neighborhood.

The reason more housing doesn't get built is not because of this neighborhood.

Prop 13 that was passed in 1975 is not because of this neighborhood.

I get that you see the neighborhood as a symbol for something that angers you, but this is a nationwide problem where we do not build enough housing in general.
Good thing I don't commit crimes.
Same here, since 2019 that Firefox is no longer part of our required browser matrix, unless customers explicitly require it.