skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes lol, go read them.

Even ignoring any possibility of raising more capital, the amount of revenue recognized from FSD is much smaller than the financial hit that would have been required to bankrupt the company, at every point in time.
I thought parent was referring to Microsoft’s deal with Apple during the anti-trust era.
Not that I'm in favor of it, but India, with its ~1.3 billion pop and Aadhaar hasn't fallen over just yet.
Good luck with that. I had some random bad actor somehow get ahold of my account numbers and debit ~$40 out of my account once via something called a "demand draft." My bank refunded me the money, but they told me they'd have to close my old account and open a whole new account in order to stop it from happening again in the future.
I have been researching for a Linux laptop to replace my M1 for a month now - mostly to get back on x86 for projects.

The non-M1 offerings are relatively terrible. You have to make some trade-off of battery life, thermals, display, keyboard, trackpad, ports, and reliability.

Lots of threads with people saying “well no one needs 2K screens at 120Hz, just get 1080p 60Hz”.. meanwhile those laptops cost >$2K.

The Starlabs Starfighter specs were announced, they look tempting but slow display and no TB4 on Ryzen processors.

The Dell XPS used to be a favorite of mine, but they are plagued with quality control issues.

Lenovo thermals are bad this generation, and my experience getting my work Lenovo repaired was terrible. Plus I’ve read about quality control issues.

I’ve decided to just use an x86 instance somewhere for the specific things, but no doubt Apple hit the magic sauce with the M1.
I'm looking for posters that are a "bit" like this showing what different math looks like.

Something that a kids would like to look at and explore so they can visualise things like logs, geometric functions, what exponential looks like etc.
It’s always sunny in the metaverse
In my very small social bubble, I see some pretty strong correlation between age and desire to work remote/onsite. Specifically, those of us with young families benefit from staying home. People who are younger / single, or have adult offspring, benefit from going to the office. Likewise, there's a split among introverts & extroverts. Aside from insecure managers, the people who have been the biggest boosters of return-to-work are single guys who don't appear to have social lives outside of work.

I expect that the number of fulltime remote workers is going to fluctuate a bit, but it will ultimately stay significantly higher than before the pandemic. I suspect that high real estate prices will motivate budget-conscious companies to take this into account as they plan to expand.

But... echoing some others here, I'd rather have Amazon on my resume than GoDaddy.
uhhhhhhhh whaaat? this has such a limited worldview. you can form companies in any of those places regardless of your citizenship or even residency, you can start companies in the US regardless of your citizenship or residency, you can get access to the speculative fury and cheap capital on Wall Street without you or your company being domiciled in the US. All combinations are possible and you need all combinations to make that magic happen.

Choosing to do this with a US nexus for most purposes was intentional and helped this outcome.

For an example of this combination. Baidu is a chinese search engine and advertising platform.

It is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, its board members and management are several US citizens living in the US, several are Chinese. Its primary operations are in China with several subsidiaries in other countries. The shares are repackaged as foreign depository receipts to trade on the US Nasdaq. And also trades on a Hong Kong exchange as of 2021.

You only limit yourself with this kind of nationalism.

The chosen regulatory environment does affect the potential size of the business. Its a choice for the company, and the management. A low growth French or German company chooses to stay in France or Germany.
This got me to click through and I actually chuckled. Bizarre. Is this one of those AI-written articles?!
I'd be interested in how storage capacity has changed over the past 5 or so years. Has it been reduced for some reason?
This comment is so reasonable I’m getting a contact high of pragmatism.
Two reasons:

the earth is made of iron, for all intents and purposes

asteroids are often made of iron
I actually thought they were going to go ahead with it, lawmakers be dammed, in the spirit of Uber. Laws don’t apply to big tech until they come into direct conflict with banking I guess.
The extreme cost of nuclear power are partially the fault of scaremongers stopping all production of them in the west. China has 100s being built or planned and obviously they can't cost 10s of billions each.

Thanks for blackouts when it's cloudy and not windy.
You’re already free to buy a phone with those features, without worrying about extra chargers.
One might argue it’s cheaper than paying for a beefy GPU to do transcoding.
M1 saved my marriage, and before that it saved my life as well. My mom loves M1 more than me.
Even if both Elon and Holmes believed they were doing the right thing, that doesn't mean they weren't negligent (broadly that they should have known better) or that they didn't cause material harm to those who relied on their representations. This creates both civil and criminal liabilities. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm not sure it does.
Could you, say, hike the price of all audiobooks by the Apple tax when buying through iAP? While offering a cheaper price outside?
What is wrong with Tidal Connect (https://tidal.com/Connect) ? Honest question, have never used it. Don't you need to badger Yamaha to support it in your old hardware? But even if the old hardware was getting updates, Yamaha don't seem to be a partner (https://tidal.com/supported-devices?filter=tidal-connect).

You can cheaply add Tidal Connect support to an old amp with a LinkPlay-based product e.g. https://www.arylic.com/products/up2stream-pro-receiver-board
Graphviz is from earlier than that -- mid to late '80s, I'd say. The first paper appeared in Software Practice and Experience in 1988.
I've had issues with seeking in Jellyfin that have kept me on plex (even though plex's codec support is much more limited)
The person clicked the "Designer" button and is then surprised that the design needs the slide content to create?
"Trust" is a broad term, so not the one I would use. It's more about expectations of future dividends (and expectations of other market participants' expectations of future dividends, and that goes on until some Nth derivative of the stock's underlying value, also because "growth" is a derivative of "future dividends")

Nearly every stock in Tech is down a lot this year. High growth, low profitability stocks are generally underwater. You'd have to compare their stock to similar companies to see if they are down more or less than those comparable peers.
It used to be considered hard. Happy to know that you think otherwise.
mail.zoho.com. Super cheap with a custom domain.

I then just imap it into gmail. My main concern isn't privacy. It's gmail suspending me for some stupid reason and leaving me locked out of my life.
better than a google search
If you are looking to file patents in the US, then the US Patent Office has resources here for you:

https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/using-legal-services/pr...

Note also that there are both "patent attorneys" and "patent agents". An agent can do everything an attorney can do as far as filing and prosecution, they just can not represent you in court trials, and agent fees are often lower than attorney's for the filing and prosecution stages of the process.
In Java 18, this is the pattern matching you're talking about.

`if (o instanceof String s) {`

Not much benefits over Kotlin's smart casts.

Guarded patterns with this version of pattern matching should be translatable to adding another "and" condition. The Kotlin compiler should have no problem reasoning with that.

---

I find positional destructuring in Scala (which works similarly in Java 19) a bad design.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31399737
> Also, why not compile VNC into WASM and get full remote desktop experience for graphical apps. It seems that hard work has already been done!

Yup. :)

In fact, that's mentioned in the original public bug: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/3157
Yes, and add you can see it's already been developed - for over 60 years. That's not to say more can't be developed, but the rate of new development has been pretty low, and the prevailing belief was that this was the result of all of the best resources being used up.
Would you have the expectation of monetary return (even with a remote possibility)? Or would you make such an investment for the sake of it?

In the second case, what is the difference to a donation?
> Do you think there should be podcast that are paywalled, or are you against that on principle?

I have zero issue in paywalled podcasts, in fact I pay about $35/mo across various podcasts. Every single one of those gives me a special RSS feed with a token in the URL. There is no need for a service/platform to support this, it works perfectly today. A few of those podcasts are from Patreon and they have support for this built in (not that the "tech" behind this is groundbreaking). I almost always pay if it's an option because I abhor ads in every form.

I don't listen to many "mass market" podcasts, I think the largest podcast I listen to regularly (aside from some NPR ones I occasionally listen to) is ATP (Accidental Tech Podcast, which probably pales in comparison to the "Serials" and similar) and they offer a subscription ($8/mo).
Almost every adult in the developed world needs a smart phone. They replace these devices about every 2-3 years.

Apple makes one of the best in class of these devices, and has successfully designed one such that it's hard to switch to a competitor (rather it's easier to stay in the ecosystem).

They've convinced about a billion people on the planet that the iPhone is the best device for them, so if you split that into about 300 million re-ups into the ecosystem each year you're talking about where their revenue is.

I say this as a happy iOS user. I replaced my phone of three years about a month ago. Took a day to get it through my carrier and it immediately restored from backup with minimal data loss, despite not having access to the old device. That ease of use and confidence I won't lose data is worth the premium.
Yeah, sure. Maybe heed your own advice.
I guess I'm talking about start ups that went from 10s of employees to 100s or 1000s. In those cases I see lots of young engineers leading teams.

E.g. when I interviewed at Robinhood in 2020 one interviewer was already an eng manager after she graduated from school and joined Robinhood just 1.5 or 2 years before. I don't think that happens now at Google or Facebook or Apple.
Despite the others in this thread Jellyfin works fine for me basically out of the box.

I just run it in docker compose and there have not really been any issues.
Yeah this is interesting, it's maybe only a few times a DECADE where I'll realize I'm dreaming. Well, that I remember at least. I have pretty good dream recall most days but of course I lose a lot pretty soon after getting going.
Hah, I thought that, too. I Googled for this person and didn’t find anything. Funny how something just didn’t seem right in that testimonial.
> Similarly, I've been using the M1 MPB since I got it. I only remember that it never makes noise when I'm reminded of it, such as in this conversation.

I take a lot for granted about my M1 MBP.

And it all becomes noticeable when using anybody else's computer.

The screen, the speed, the battery life, the fan, the heat. Its all so... crippling on other people's machines.
Display Ads from ads network are the some of the worst. Since they’re around the content you care about, they try to be as attention grabbing as possible to make you look away. Hence, you get pictures of famous people, weird looking things and sexually suggestive images…

I know money is nice, but I can’t imagine being so disrespectful to my users as to put unvetted display network ads like this. Don’t get me started on Taboola.
well, they haven’t turned my building’s heating on yet.
I'm sure they'll manage the process so that it so that it's a powerless human reading an AI's decision back to you. There's no way to legislate wanting to do a good job.
Fair enough, though I figure those are “will work some day” limitations of the Apple TV.
Dams does not save any water except the initial filling. Their inflow and outflow match over a seasonal cycle.
I think a lot of it is how they use the cable.

My mother goes through cable like candy. I'll buy a pack of 10 and give her 8 and I won't even be done with my cables by the time they stop working.
I think the fact that Walmart/Target/Best Buy/Costco/etc have been earning 2% to 5% profit margins for many decades was proof that general purpose online retail will not be very profitable.
I'm running a mail server at home (on a small low-power server). Getting it right for incoming mails was easy (I have the chance that my ISP doesn't block anything, so I can have port 25 open), for outgoing mails it's another story... but after setting up DKIM, SPF and DMARC (yes all of them were needed, especially for hotmail), deliverability is very good.

As a backup, I created an address at Infomaniak, a Swiss hosting company, they give free e-mail (without ads -- their business model is rather selling other services like e-mail on custom domains, hosting, cloud services, etc.) with 20 GB storage (see https://www.infomaniak.com/en/free-email). At the time I did it, they were requiring a Swiss mobile number (to limit the number of accounts people can get), not sure if now they accept numbers from other countries or not. In any case, it works great, both with webmail and standard SMTP/IMAP.
> - how do you debug except with printlns? Fail.

With Trace. Which is talked about in TFA.

By the way nobody use exclusively bash. When i worked for a cloud provider, it was basically 30% python(ansible), 30% perl, 5 to 10% bash, and a bit of other languages depending on the client needs (mostly java, but also Julia and R).
Something like this would look amazing on Scryfall or Gatherer. I'm not sure how you'd go about selling this to them, but I think the Magic: the Gathering world would be better off for it.
Really cool, a bit glitchy on iOS/safari, but what’s new…
Like I said we were talking about iMessage security in comments yesterday (or maybe this morning?) so presumably if the next time they saw my nick was in an Apple blog submission they became suspicious that I was a shill. Given that specific context I don’t think it’s wholly unreasonable to question things. The phrasin of the question is obviously unpleasant to me as it does come off as accusatory (due to the conspiratorial implication you get from the “no weaseling” text). But again if someone was a shill you probably would want a question like that. But I’d expect a shill to just not acknowledge the question - it is afaict being fairly heavily downvoted which I don’t think is reasonable either (because everyone loves fake internet points :) ) as that would benefit a shill/marketing person.

Anyway to be super clear again: anything I say is my personal thoughts and opinions and in no way reflects what any of my employers, past or present may be thinking or doing.

I guess I could put that in my HN bio? I hadn’t previously because I do try to separate my identity from my job, as when I first started out in tech I did not do that, and it was unhealthy.
Wow, makes me want to collect them. I think that many card websites would be interested in this amazing animations.
One can lament the inability to adopt and develop a superior connector without disagreeing that USB-C is the future. I think USB-C is better but it's not because the physical connector is good. It's worse in every way. It's also worth noting that there was a usb3 lightning connector in the 2nd generation iPads Pro.
>If the blades are curved towards each other enough then you may not need sideways pressure from your thumb and fingers

I've never heard of nor seen scissors with blades curved towards each other and I don't see why they ever would be anything but straight in that dimension.
It can be sustainable with electrolytic furnaces powered by carbon-free energy.
Horizon Worlds (or whatever it's called) is probably among the biggest failures in the history of business.

Any sane shareholder would oust Zuckerberg at this point, but sadly the only vote that matters is his.
> something the UK is going to have to grapple with over the next decade now that they are no longer subject to the European Court of Human Rights.

I’m shocked to hear this! I thought the UK was still very much subject to the European Court of Human Rights!
Build a Tailscale exit node with firewalld
I've been a keen cyclist for nearly three decades keeping up with developments/technologies and even raced numerous times against professional athletes in multiple disciplines.

I'm also slowly building my knowledge about the legendary 1.8T VAG engine in dozens of car models including my Audi TT mk1.

This evening I bolted my super rare OEM roof bars to the TT so kayaking and surfing are definitely on the horizon!

Might as well throw vinyl DJing into this comment too.

Randomly, I'm also training to be a volunteer alpaca (& llama) trekking guide

All of these activities are 100% in the "hobbies" territory with zero relation to my profession or interest in somehow monetising them.

It's also why I have zero Github projects to show off and I intend to keep it that way.
That list seems to be loosely sorted by obscurity. I knew the first 29! What's your highscore?
> People are coming to realize that billions in revenue means nothing without any kind of margin.

This is not a new realization. A business without margin is called a charity. Everyone from the immigrant family that did not go to college and operates a laundromat to Harvard Business School graduates know this.
Its fascinating to watch US corporate sector catch up to state sponsored or partially nationalized entities. Like wow, what a powerhouse. Taking hundreds of years of the corporation concept to do it, but make a country whose culture is only that and its working in that regard.
Ask HN: Should apps have a “solo” mode for people who don't collaborate?
And if so, what would this solo mode do differently that would be particularly helpful for people who work alone?
You need a reservoir to store that water downstream as well, it can't just be a river
Yep, hence the ad blocking arms race. But my point is that I wouldn't say I'm "hypocritical" or that I'm "breaking [an] agreement" by trying to conceal my identity; in fact, I'm doing the reasonable thing.
You've only created a new rational framework that you have irrationally chosen to use
> Winter starts on the 21st Dec.

21 December is Midwinter Solstice...

By orbital mechanics, winter starts around 10 November.
8th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain
How puzzling; full rescans take my old i3 server less than five minutes and incremental scans are done in minutes. I wonder what's making the scans so slow for some and so fast for me.

Maybe it's the file system?
If the article writer is concerned about some helicopter footage, he would have an aneurysm over this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLr0KMsRAA

AFAIK this was done with commercially mass produced silicon, and it was 10+ years ago. Nowadays they can probably do 10x+ better.
I bought the M1 Max MBP when it came out and the battery still shocks me. 80-90% of the time it's in a dock on my desk but I'll be sitting on the couch and think "Oh, I should probably plug in, I've been running it hard for the last hour or so.... oh.... 70% still, nevermind".
Organic Maps (based on OpenStreetMap data) seems to work OK. It's of course a compromise as road work doesn't get picked up as quickly, and there us no live traffic congestion feed. It's also available on f-droid, and is default map application on CalyxOS.

What, if anything, do you use for syncing with Google calendar? Companies tend to use it, and I find it all too easy to miss meetings.
Walk around and pick up a random rock. On average it’s 5% iron which combined with just a little carbon makes steel, so no we aren’t running out.

This is also why the Iron Age was such a big deal. The bronze age required both copper and tin which where rare and didn’t generally show up near each other while you could operate a shitty iron mine just about anywhere.
Billions of dollars for <200k users is a "good start"?

TikTok, BeReal, Gas, and even Meta's social networks (FB, IG, and WhatsApp) all performed at least an order of magnitude better than that for the amount of money spent.

Imagine any other video game spending that budget and selling less than a million copies. It would be the laughing stock of the industry.
You're not the only one.

To anyone who's tired of reading those frequently espoused, virtually now mainstream, apparently self-hatred fueled viewpoints, or to those who are interested in positive outlooks on humanity, I can recommend this book:

https://www.superabundance.com/

and this news aggregator:

https://www.humanprogress.org/
> When people ask who is the first author, they never guess anyone in Mesopotamia

I’m surprised by that, I thougt Mesopotamia was well known to have some of the oldest human writing.
First one at their margins I imagine.
I was genuinely impressed. Like, it makes sense that it exists given everything else we have now, but it has been a while since I saw a piece of software that works so well against real time video. All of a sudden, all that talk about augmented reality does not seem so far fetched.
Most of those 150k employees are in retail, who don't eat at their cafeterias, and $15 is a stretch at that - I think the most I ever spent at a cafe Macs was about $10...

All that to say, you're probably off by about 80%....
Also, “biomass” is a strange term. Is that literally an estimate of mass? Or count of individuals? Many other context lacking as well.

This is clearly written for the 96% statistic shock, not to inform anyone.
Easy.

declare -A outer=(
[inner]="_inner"
)
declare -A _inner=(
[key]="value"
)

Access inner elements via a nameref.

declare -n inner="${outer[inner]}"
echo "${inner[key]}"
# value

Currently writing a compiler in Bash built largely on this premise.
I wonder how this affects Rings of Power budget. It cost $462m to produce season 1 and another $600m for the license and marketing.

Season 2 might have a much lower budget.

As both an LotR fan and a Prime member, I would have enjoyed a lower Prime membership cost than having to pay for Rings of Power.
This doesn't make any sense.

If Gracie pulls all her right feet off the sticky tape at the same time, why doesn't she fall over?

And why don't her shoes come off at the end when she tries to get off the sticky tape?

The author obviously doesn't understand math at all.

;-)
I mean, no.

For what I do with a laptop, a Chromebook is fine. And it's what I use.
Took me a while to REALLY realize this is all CSS no WebGL. You just blew my mind... and ruined my weekend: I'm not leaving home untilI learn this sort of wizardry!
> unburdened by the historical baggage of Node

Is this even possible anymore?

Deno made a valiant attempt, but with every release, the best received update seems to be the node/npm compatibility.
I hope this research is quickly buried and never resurfaces again. Why? Because the last thing I want is to be asleep and dreaming and have some dream character approach me and say "I've been trying to reach you about your vehicle's extended warranty!" Do. Not. Want.