skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[1] Due to macroeconomic condition marketing spend by companies is decreasing -> Lower revenue
[2] New entrants in the social ad-tech market (Apple, Uber, Netflix, Youtube, etc) take a slice of a shrinking market
[3] Privacy regulations shrink market further

So while they are still insanely profitable for their core business the growth story is over.
> It’s the coolest new computer I’ve used since the iPad.

It doesn't inspire much confidence in me to compare it to the product that everyone thought was cool when it came out but over a decade later, even the company making it still doesn't know exactly what it's for outside of a few niche use-cases.
Depressed, tired, exhausted... many are the terms often used to hide the beginnings of real depression. While transient sadness is natural, persistent symptoms may be signs of a major depressive episode.
You're describing the what, but if you ask a (meditating) buddhist how to this, they'll tell you to observe your breath (or some other concentration technique), which is an exercise to train your ability to manage your attention. Being (in the) present is a skill.
This points to a subreddit about a tool called venturapatcher if others were confused like me.
I expected the link to take me to an intro post or something similar instead.
Controversial policy cannot and should not become amendments. There is very little that everyone agrees that the government should do and the government is already very powerful. That's why constitutional amendments are so rare.
That's what I thought too, but interestingly, autopilot is mere cruise control for airplanes. It can't take off or land the plane, it doesn't change course. It's definitely not "self-flying". But somehow, the term "autopilot" for cars made me think that the car would drive itself. That's an interesting twist of perception.
The only reason FMCG is an exception was after 3G. The sector used to be a totally bloated mess, then 3G acquired Heinz, fired whole teams of people, and it made no difference to results at all (obv, it all went a bit wrong after but I don't think anyone believes that was due to cost). After that, almost every FMCG started looking at costs (ofc, it also helped that revenue stopped growing).

Carl Icahn story about cutting costs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSatPoD2W-o - fired a building full of people, never heard about it again.

Most companies are run as bureaucracies, dual share classes haven't helped. There is no difference between your average Google employee and a civil servant.

Unfortunately, this is a pretty raw deal for shareholders. You cash out insiders, the bureaucrats move in, the amount of cost extends to the revenue base, eventually revenue slows down (bureaucrats don't tend to be good stewards of capital), the rats all leave the ship, you find out the cost base could have been 50% smaller all along, and you are left with a stock on its way to bankruptcy.
‘Everyone else is doing it’ is a bad excuse. Arbitrarily focusing on intel has made it so others know if they perform shady actions then it’s possible they’ll also become an arbitrary target.

The disproportionate hate is a good thing, if you ask me.
> Hyperbole about a crappy thing, like the bloatware pre-installed on most new laptops and phones by the vendor? An open secret, with discussion about it suppressed?

Personally, I worry about things like IME based on an entirely hypothetical theory: I think many of the big tech companies are riddled with spies from a variety of nations.

My rationale for this is simply that if I was in charge of a spy agency's offensive cybersecurity group, my top priority would be placing agents in Microsoft, Apple, Google, Cloudflare, Juniper, Cisco and so on. They'd have orders be careless in undetectably subtle ways - nobody's imprisoning a guy just because he added log4j to the codebase in 2010. To me this seems well within the capabilities of a spy agency with a multi-billion-dollar budget and tens of thousands of employees.

Even with code reviews, I doubt anyone could deliver a project like IME with no security bugs, if five of their peers were compromised by different nations' spy agencies.

If you think that's completely believable and what else would spy agencies be doing in the modern age, you'd be very suspicious of IME. But if you think that's an undisprovable conspiracy theory with no solid evidence whatsoever, you might think IME sounds just fine.
I don't necessarily disagree with this. However wouldn't this imply a couple of world changing things:

- We should go for something akin to universal basic income? Given we could produce a bunch of output with very few people (I guess at that point it's more and ideological question of if these few people that get to stay + shareholders are going to get all that value rather than someone else)
- People that are talking about "productivity growth" has declined the past 20 - 40 years, are probably wrong and we have seen productivity growth, we've just filled it up with useless stuff and made up jobs?
- It also sort of implies that some of the projects that Google and Meta has taken on even though not financially sound right now haven't produced any value for humanity (and I fully understand that in a capitalist society; profits are the way we value things). I think they have and a lot do (like long tail stuff like producing knowledge, producing open source tech, driving tech that while not mature now, will explode in the future, VR + self driving comes to mind)

Another thing that comes to mind when it comes to founder driven companies doing whatever they want is all the Elon Musk companies. He has also made a bunch of crazy bets that "value"-companies would def not have made.
>Are you a current or former Apple employee?

By the experience of the kind of vacuous things companies say time and again when someone is sidelined/has moved on/and so on, only to be proven BS.

I'm not an employee at an acquired SaaS startup either, but I do know from similar experience that 9 times out of 10, "nothing will change", "we now have more resources to make an even better product" etc, means the product you'll loved and used will be either become unrecognizable or will shut down within a year or so...

In this case, if "Phil Schiller took over the App Store from Eddy Cue 7 years ago. So the OP got it backward" then that's probably not the case. But the general principle remains...
> by accident

Imagine you install a 'clapper' in your bedroom to control the lights. You say "works great for me, let's install this everywhere". Someone responsible for an auditorium then says "so clapping turns the lights on and off?"

That said, I frequently use text selection as a highlighter. I will highlight lines as I'm reading text to help me keep track of which line I'm on. I also need to select text to apply formatting such as bold or add link.
I've said this in the past but instead of the government just allowing auto-updates and what not, the AI needs to pass a driving test. Each version must be certified by some test. No, not the same test a human driver goes through. Something super rigourous that involves semis tipping over, bridges falling from above, babies crawling in the road, dogs, deer, rain, smoke, hail, snow, elephants, downed power lines. Maybe even a 10 year old kid running in front.

Something that all of the companies would go through, administered by the government (not waymo).
I think the single biggest vulnerability of the constitution, which they had no chance of predicting, is mass media and the way it changed the dynamics of politics.

Today it is a mediacracy undergoing a violent phase transition from tv and newspapers traditional media control to social media and search algorithms.

At the root of the problem is that the media is owned by very few oligopolies, and they answer to no one. The potential power from controlling them outshadows their profits.
The impact and difficulty of exploit are pivotal parts of assessing the risk of a vulnerability. It doesn’t really matter how many dollars of things are involved if the exploit can’t be exploited or if it’s not a big deal if anyone does.
sometimes i rush in one day a task scheduled for a week and then turn on a bot that commits every few hours so that the task will be completed as scheduled.
> The difference with tech companies is Google feather-beds its EMPLOYEES with free food.

as part of an already very good compensation package.
I wouldn’t even call it regulatory capture. More of a conflict of interest by lawmakers holding specific company stock.

No lobbying needed
So more grain shortages, on top of North American and Chinese droughts and Ukrainian losses.

A foretaste of things to come.
Is there any source for this other than Twitter? Is PayPal's TOS public? I was unable to find a reliable source for this in my Google search just now, the best I can find is https://mindmatters.ai/2022/10/paypal-can-still-fine-its-use...
As I grown man who has built actual robots with all the skills to do embedded programming and mechanical engineering to make robots... I'm still envious of Mindstorms and yet never purchased any despite having the funds to do so.

I think this is the same part of my brain that still thinks getting a PDA is a good idea despite having had a smartphone for I don't know how many years now.

Is there a word for holding on to a desire which has entirely been satisfied with new but different solutions?
See. This is the problem. Where do you draw the line ? I can see somebody who can come and say, adaptive cruise control and lane departure assist which applies slight tourque when the car sees your drift out of lane very helpful to them.
next up, adaptive cruise control and lane centering which applies torque most of the time on straight roads but cant do curves. THis is now available most if not all car systems today , in the most basic version without any additional packages.

Then comes some smarter ones like Tesla AP or comma.ai which are pretty good at centering on straight roads, curve roads, wide lanes, lane splitting etc.
I don't think there's a time limit on growth. Growth is also market perception based on what P/E multiple the market pays for your share. Value stocks are usually utilities, both actually and figuratively. We all know that Facebook is not a utility nor a necessity. They need growth.
There's something about the pace of older FPSes that the new ones don't match. Plus, turns out realism isn't something I ever wanted in an FPS.

I still fire UT99 up and play a few bot matches once in a while.

Now I can do it in my browser?
> Are these non-released steam games killing people?

This isn't relevant to the law! But also by the same argument how is a non-released self-driving product killing people?
I had tremendous success teaching 7-9 year olds with Piper (https://www.playpiper.com/). It is trivially easy to add moving parts and teach the core concepts of electronics, but the box itself is not great as a robotics platform. In my particular case, the kids also had access to a laser cutter and CAD software that would automatically generate the 2D shapes and joining slots.
The US constitution could guarantee proportional representation, which would break the two-party hegemony and make compromise essential to success.
Playing Mankind Divided made me not want to visit Prague, ever. I guess in a way the game was well designed.
I've lived most of my life in houses not subject to an HOA, but for the past four years I've been "under the thumb" of one. Anecdotally, I notice startlingly little difference between the two regimes. I suppose if someone wants to park a wheelless rusty pickup truck in the middle of their lawn the HOA would do something about it, but that sort of thing was never really an issue.

From my perspective, the HOA has done little except offer a pool, and insist once that I remove an almost completely invisible stump in my front lawn that was over my water line.
I posted to be able to vent a little bit and have it be pseudo-anonymous. The conversation had gone stale, so I figured I would type that out and walk away.

We've tried to get into Mayo but they've rejected her because she needs to get into the general diagnostics are and they don't have room. We're going to try again through the spine center because if we can get in there, they can refer across.
> I suspect a willingness to break compatibility for the sake of performance would benefit the language a lot more than it would hurt it

It took a long time for the community to recover from the python3 incompatibility with python2. I don't think we are ready for another round.
What does the situation in the Netherlands have to do with Sweden?
The Raspberry Pi 400 is completely mythical. So is this, according to that article.
I love Legos and by extension the company that makes them, and I still believe what you are saying, that everyone will have to buy new stuff, is exactly the reason the LEGO company is making this choice. They don't make a penny (unless they are somehow involved in a secondary market which probably has much lower margins and higher costs) unless you buy something new, and migrating to a new ecosystem makes so much sense if that's the goal.
Anyone can be a 10x engineer.

I find it amazing how far we have come, that the Economist is arguing for the legalization of coke.

https://archive.ph/VTwSr

> Half-measures, such as not prosecuting cocaine users, are not enough. If producing the stuff is still illegal, it will be criminals who produce it, and decriminalisation of consumption will probably increase demand and boost their profits. The real answer is full legalisation, allowing non-criminals to supply a strictly regulated, highly taxed product, just as whisky- and cigarette-makers do. (Advertising it should be banned.)

Maybe we can get "Code Completion" added to the slang words for cocaine, https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/DIR-022-18.p...
It's "tourists" or "expatriates" when rich people do it, and "immigrants" when poor people do it
We allow people to save for college in tax advantaged plans. Why not houses? And if so, why not use a vehicle that already exists (401k/IRA) instead of creating a whole new one?

The conventional wisdom that borrowing from your 401k to buy a house is always a poor move seems... overly reductive and a bit patronizing.

If someone isn't able to fund their 401k and save for a down payment, who am I to tell them that using a tax advantaged vehicle is a bad way to become a homeowner?

Mortgage rates, local rental prices, local home prices and inventory, living situation and likelihood of moving, tax situation, etc. all impact, and I don't know anyone's situation.

Besides, who wants all the money in the world if you have to spend most of your life living in a place you hate?
OpenCore Legacy Patcher delivers unofficial Ventura support for older Macs
Chinese tech giants are creating a new class of elite workers in Latin America
One of the earliest memories I have of being alive is playing UT99 on my grandfather's computer (I was born in '97).

He was an electrical engineer and very DIY/handy, so had gadgets and new tech about the house constantly.
Oh please. There's no "time" until when nuclear must be built or something fails. And it's slow only because of the anti-nuclear sentiment. It's very much possible to build it quickly - just look across the border.
Not sure what "constant dollars" are, but I did Board Reporting for a Fortune 25 company and we used a 3 month average to limit the impact of sudden fluctuations.
Is it then more or less sexist if colleges aim to balance gender ratios (as most do)?

Colleges often re-weight both GPAs and test scores based on sex, race, socioeconomic background.
> That said, SPIKE Prime is effectively LEGO Education’s implementation of MINDSTORMS, so it’s tricky to envision how the two platforms could co-exist under a single banner.

And SPIKE web app[0,1] does not work in Firefox:

> Browser not supported

> Use Google Chrome to access the
LEGO® Education SPIKE™ App.

[0] https://education.lego.com/en-us/downloads/spike-app/softwar...

[1] https://spike.legoeducation.com/
It absolutely is a feature. The government already has tons of power and there are few policies that everyone agrees on. No wonder we dont have new amendments.
My kid was selected into the robotics club this year, and they are using the Spike Prime kit. Seems like a decent set all things considered for younger kids. My child is in 5th grade and first year robotics. Probably wouldn't invest into it if your child is middle-school or older, but from what I've seen of it a very good kit.
I just use it in text-mode ie. Double tap siri button, type the thing I want (wake me 7am). Done.
What else would those resources have been doing anyway?
The tweet links to https://gritdaily.com/pr-crisis-paypal/

Paypal's TOS mention $2,500 fine for "Acceptable use" violations but that has to do with sending money. NOT what you post online.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full
https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/acceptableuse-full
Actually my experience with AWS is pretty good. I’ve had times when they assigned me an account rep even though my spending wasn’t that high.
Same but Hugo + GitHub pages
These videos are more a tiktok trend for flexing than an HR thing. They attract a lot of negative attention, most unjustified IMO. I don't think ideal candidates for big tech would find these videos that appealing anyway.
Identity theft is not a violent crime.
Federalist 10 describes factions as the nature of man, explains why they don't belong in government, and describes how the Constitution limits the sway of factions. But, the Founding Fathers never envisioned it would be possible to coordinated across a continent in real time. Rapid communication allows factions/parties to have continental spread.

https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-1-10#s-lg-box-...
Human Revolution had one of the best gaming preludes. You had no augmentations, and then you get rocked. The opening credits while you're in surgery, chefs kiss. Obligatory "I never asked for this"

Opening credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIqJaT3cvf8
Its too addicting.
Those two things have disproportionate direct impact and can’t really be compared on the same level. But apples for apples, school educates students about genocide and not about the privacy considerations of backdoor chips.
Show HN: Find which sites leaked your password in a data breach
I've built a simple wrapper for the Breachdirectory API. They give me access to the password hint for any leaked passwords (eg: 4535**).

Would it be helpful if I shared those password hints in an email. Maybe you'd want to replace those passwords. Only concern is spooking people when someone else puts in their email and they receive the message.
Wasn’t that just some random Trump brainfart that went nowhere and was officially taken off the table?
UnrealScript back then was easy to decompile, and IIRC there were mods with custom weapons and improved AI.
"Very clear warnings" in manuals and in car displays aren't a get-out-of-jail-free card. If Tesla never made any communications that contradicted those displays, they'll probably be fine, at least with respect to FSD safety.
"Significantly better" is a bit strong where you're talking about a really small size difference and a personal preference for how clicky a port should be.
> It's a painful problem to crack once you hit those limits.

If you hit that doing something novel and obscure, sure. If it is literally parsing JSON, you spend a little effort researching non-stdlib JSON parsing libraries, pick one of the several stable much-faster-than-stdlib ones, and move on.
Lambda and Fargate are both container services.

The real point here, IIUC, is whether having the container run continuously makes sense.

There are many other directions to take the discussion, e.g. K8s, but constraining it enough to compare the two options makes this an excellent article.
Tesla apparently also uses the phrase “Full Self-Driving”?

I don't think the claims are solely about the name "autopilot", but additional names and marketing.
The barrier to sharing your running experiences on LetsRun.com are quite low and very few folks on the boards are hustling for money.

On the other hand, it’s an godless cesspool that transforms it’s denizens into the worst versions of themselves. So there’s some give and take
and then make sure those amazing people are testing their backups. :)
Sanctions apply to specifically identified persons and organizations that meet the criteria of one of the sanctions programs established by law.

There isn't a "no longer serves US interests" sanction program. Sanctions programs are established to further a specific foreign policy or national security, as determined by our democratically elected representatives.
Omg, yes! I don't understand how people don't realize this, relevant YouTube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hncVNNabglc
For context, the RTX4090's power budget is 450W, and if all 4 plugs are connected to the cable adapter, the system can allow up 600W (at 12V) to the GPU.
That's 6A to 8A per pin (there's 6 pins for current, 6 for GND plus 4 signaling pins), so pretty sensitive to resistive heating in case of a bad contact.
> On a product by product basis, at least for me, it feels like most Google products are worse than they were pre-pandemic.

I dunno, MSFT products seem to have only gotten worse since 1995 - and their profits are doing just fine.

The quality of a product and its ability to make money seem to almost be inversely proportional.

In Google's case - what matters is - they're doubling headcount (largest expense) and revenue has barely budged.

It'd be nice if the products got better - but all they should really care about is if they're making more money.
So we should just ignore the climate crisis?
Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are framed as donations.

Steam Early Access allows you to request a full refund at any point up until the actual launch of the game (and then 14 days after based on the standard refund policy), even if you have played it extensively.
Tu quoque is not a rebuttal.

In any case, I work at a small (< 100) company, with very selective clientele. I am unwilling to disclose exactly who. I have explicitly resisted recruiters from FAANG (well, neither Netflix nor Apple) because of the immoral work I would expect I would be doing, at a significant salary penalty.

Both accountants and programmers have immense freedom to make a decent living, while using their expertise, even while choosing to avoid ethically questionable roles and activities. At some point, yes, economic coercion is unavoidable. That's understandable for someone whose realistic prospects are $50k or nothing. $200k or $150k is a very different matter.
Yes, but I’m not really interested in games. This device feels like a novel type of computer with no apps.
They're investigating a company not an individual. The article really gives no information about which individuals might be liable.
You unit races with the network being brought down, since it isn't listed as a "Before" target, FYI.
So, 34.5 Billions!?

I was still on the 10B figure. At this rate they are going to reach 50B pretty soon.

What is the limit? 100B?

I understand why this is taking time, R&D and stuff, but I have some difficulties to understand how they manage to burn that much money.
The alternative is basically the same thing. It takes proportionally just as many states to call a Constitutional Convention as it does to propose an Amendment. You're not getting around 2/3s.

And once an Amendment is proposed, it still takes 3/4 of the states ratifying it in some manner.

The mechanisms are slightly different, but the numbers are the same.
Apple sold more than 500 million iPads over the product's first decade.
I ran my BBS on OS/2 for a couple years. Loved 4OS2.
UI will fill whatever resolution you throw at it, but it won't autoscale. However, there's a checkbox somewhere in the settings there that enables 2x scaling.