skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you think that a 10% increase in customers should lead to a 500% increase in revenue?
Well Putin can't manage to cross the Dnipro, so I don't think Poland needs to worry too much unless he starts to pop off nukes.
>it’s clear that Google would have bungled a WhatsApp acquisition

Google Meet

Google Meet (Original)

Google Meet (Acquired)
First shap.
The US is an absolutely huge win - get the valuable customers and leave the rest for Android. For comparison the 2021 advertising spend in the US was greater than that of the next 10 countries combined.
$44?!

Does it taste any different to the kind I can buy in the big jugs at Costco?
Both are American companies. Whatsapp is Meta (Facebook), and iMessage (actually now Messages) is Apple. If you care about security, the question is which is more likely to comply with the US government's requests for information: Meta or Apple. If you don't, the question is price point, ignoring the question of which is more likely to make your data marketable. That is likely Meta, so we could rephrase this as, "Do you care to pay more for Apple's privacy, or is it okay for Meta to sell your messages to anyone willing to pay?"
I have a pretty strong feeling you're being sarcastic.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/01/10/fede...
I wonder if cash buyers really are that resilient. I assume most people who have that much in assets primarily have it in stocks (rather than actual cash), which have also dropped precipitously this year.
Given that we are friends through shared hobbies that involve photos of things in the hobby, that wouldn't work nearly as well.
Are iPhones more expensive than Android in the EU? Here in the US they’re pretty much the same price, at least the past few years.
"Greenwashing" is probably the term you're looking for.
The things that give you tarter on your teeth are not nanobacteria. It's caused by normal bacterial digestion of sugar that produces plaque which hardens to tartar by interacting with minerals in saliva. Nanobacteria are not living
It is not a requirement to use platform, it is for blue checkmark
why not just kill the metaverse/in game user/account? it is just as impactful, possibly more impactful and you get the same finality without being deemed an illegal device?

i'm thinking back to my mmorpg days playing ragnarok on a private US server where i spent easily 2 years of my teenage life leveling a blacksmith to lvl 99 while also becoming the richest and most powerful guild leader on the server. if i had the consequence of losing that account due to in game death, i'd play completely differently too...
>They said in the iMessage announcement that it’d be an open protocol.

Do you have a reference for this?

At the Facetime announcement, Jobs said that would be an open protocol. Then they ended up in a big patent suit over Facetime and it didn't happen. Not sure how much the suit influenced the decision, but for whatever reason the Facetime protocol was never opened up. I don't remember a similar announcement about iMessage.

As far as abuse, how so? They provide a messaging app. That app is compatible with SMS. There are several alternative messaging apps. Where is the abuse?
I think that really depends on what social circles you run in.
Unless your time is free, you have to run a ton of containers to break even, especially because Fargate avoids paying for EC2 capacity which can’t fit a container. It’s certainly possible to save money but my experience has been that people save less than expected once they account for ops time.
> In many social contexts having an iPhone is associated with either being a mindless fanboy, a basic trend-following drone or, in general, bad with money.

This is a bad take and is more revealing about your social circle.
This just seems like a limitation of the technology. When you change the width of one column, the whole table should realign, without any changes to those parts of the file (it's just about how it's displayed).

I recall reading something about "tab stops" that solved this problem, but I don't think there are any mainstream implementations of it.
leadership you can believe in /s
Leading me to ask, was the land not offered to the UK or were they not interested?
Isn't it extremely sad in 2022 the world still need to circumvent governement to read?
> They said in the iMessage announcement that it’d be an open protocol. Really duplicitous.

Source?
Upper range iPhone and Android are comparable in the US, but Android covers a much much larger price range in my experience.
Same goes for East Asian languages which are monospaced, but square. If you mix English (or code) with Chinese/Japanese/Korean, you get a mixed-width mess.
Normally I would downvote a comment like this on HN, but...
In Germany, this is the opposite of what I want.

I'm a long-time motorcyclist, but around the city, I prefer my bicycle. I can go on beautiful bike paths through parks, take breaks along the river, and not worry about a helmet hair. At lower speeds I don't need protective gear. I can carry much more stuff with my saddle bags.

Oh and there are no biannual inspections, no insurance, no petrol. Maintaining a bicycle is a breeze.

In Berlin, bicycle is just better. An electric one would be just as good, even with the EU limitations.
This isn't the primary part of this conversation but I found this quote pretty interesting:

> Now, we are starting to work on Safari again but look at Chrome. They put out releases at least every month while we basically do it once a year.

Even though this was in 2013 nothing about the release cycle (still only major changes with the major OS release versions). I wonder if some of the other emails have more context on this.
There is something that makes me deeply uncomfortable about how casual he is about making a killing machine, and how there is no acknowledgment that it's a horrible invention.
There is seemingly no forethought or justification, he saw it in an anime and made it then brushes it off as art in one line at the end.

It's not technologically challenging nor does it have beautiful craftsmanship, like some homemade guns. I really don't get it.

It reminds me of the suicide helmet, made of iron surrounded by shotgun shells. But that was something chilling and impressive both in intent and form.
If you look at the national picture in the USA prices haven't really budged by much at all, it would seem reasonable that they will but when and by how much is the million dollar question:

https://www.zillow.com/home-values/102001/united-states/

https://www.redfin.com/us-housing-market
I think one has to remember inflation, too. It's been, what, 10% for nearly 3 years? A 300k house in 2020, if inflated as such, would be 399k in 2023.

For that reason, I hesitate to predict a huge downward trend in house prices. In this environment, prices holding steady would be a downward trend.
It doesn't matter.

I did physics at a world top 10 university and the course work was basically day care. The vast majority of the 'difficulty' of the subject matter was because the majority of students were bad at algebra. The outcomes would have been better for everyone if we completely ignored first year and just taught people the Knuth Bendix algorithm instead.
This one looks like a hacked account of a musician called Joe Memmel. I hope at least hijacked accounts will still be taken care of by Twitter.
Modern software development is driven by fashion and trends. All you need is a few tech “influencers” to switch to freebsd then crowds will follow. FreeBSD was and remains my first love, but not being fashionable there is nowhere i can use it.
> Rewards are distributed to authors in a steep Pareto distribution because that is the distribution of talent.

I wouldn't be so quick to relate rewards to talent. Publishing has network externalities. In a given social circle where everybody knows everybody, reader number x+1 has x people they can talk to about the novel, feels x amount of pressure not to miss out, etc. -- What distinguishes an effective publisher from an ineffective one is mostly the ability to set the wheel in motion and get the hype going.
Absolutely. As a continental European, I am always discussing with my fellow Europeans such matters; like when Hans bought a new Mercedes-Benz automobile. Silly man, doesn't he know a Dacia does the same thing for less? We all had a hearty chuckle about it.
I'm amazed there is such diversity already. My local paper, The Age, as far as I can tell has a fixed set of seven composers, one for each day of the week, which pretty much never vary. They are only identified by initials.

I'd be alarmed at having so many new composers to deal with. It takes time to get familiar with each one's style.
Was just talking about this with my wife. We had an extended family group chat come in that was an absolute disaster with each of us getting several messages per response. I believe this is because it contains a mix of android users and we were discussing how Apple forces us to have a worse experience to maintain their exclusivity.
> [..] but I also suspect they would try to sell you a DDoS solution [..]

Linode has been pretty vocal that DDoS protection at their edge has been included, from before the Akamai acquisition.
Where did they say it would be an open protocol? I went and found the WWDC 2011 announcement [0], and they described it as a "new messaging service between iOS users" (big bold text from the slide). I watched all the way through the end of the demo, they never said anything about it being an open protocol. In fact, right at the end he said they were "building this on the push notification system that we built", which implies that it's using internal iOS systems, not something they ever intended to make public.

Even if they had said it would be open, changing their minds later wouldn't be a lie, it would be... changing their minds. I'm not an Apple user or fan, and I dislike iMessage's weird half-baked integration with regular SMS, but this feels like an overreaction even if there was a place where they claimed it would be open.

[0] https://youtu.be/LPMjUtfQPks?t=4296

The link above will take you right to the part about iMessage.
You can always tell great satire by how many people take it seriously.
Thailand: Line.
MacOS is also really good if you don't want to fiddle too much... so long as you're okay with the hardware options.
> Stanford and other top institutions can't really be compared to other schools, students fees are not how these institutions make money. There are massive business arms tying in to fortune 500s, political think tanks, government institutions, etc. It's a whole different game for schools at this level.

Then they are welcome to stop charging students fees.
WRT the “uncensorability” of fediverse, the servers are all still built on top of (a) Amazon/Google/Microsoft IaaS or rolled at home. Those silicon chips and boxes are almost guaranteed to be produced and distributed by Apple/AMD/Intel/Qualcomm. They will pass around bytes on the internet policed by Comcast, Xfinity, Google, and Mediacom.

While it’s not impossible to pull off a coup against corporate owned social media, there are so many places where fediverse counts as parasitic competition that we basically need to have an open-source eternally-libertarian RISC-V shop at the scale of AMD to have a fighting chance of building a truly unbiased fediverse.
Meta Is Said to Plan Significant Job Cuts This Week
This exists as various white space characters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_space
This comment completely missed the point. The point is, if you're trying to lose weight (setting aside whether that's a good idea), a diet isn't likely to be effective. Your response is exactly what MLM scams tell people who point out that 95% of their distributors lose money, and it just serves to deflect.
It's not a lifetime commitment
> You underestimate how hard the problem is.

It's hrd, but it's not that hard. Character recognition is half the problem, the other half is context recognition - and there's abundant reference material available. I think we'll see 'copilot for math' aimed at AP/college level users within a few years.

It's not something that any human can do, bu something that any human can do with help. The first killer app will be 'I found this formula, please tell me how to read it.' Not in the sense of being a math tutor (although that may come, but simply in the sense of helping students to read it out loud, identify symbols like hats or bars and son so on. Most math books are terrible in this respect because they assume the student already knows all the notation or has someone who can lecture or tutor them about it. This massively inhibits solo learners who can't engage in the practice of 'teaching themselves' by verbally walking through formulae or discussing them fluently, unless they're lucky enough to have found a good reference for notation.

If you are not in the latter group, Wikipedia has OK summary articles on notation; and these two books offer variously concise and in-depth tools to built mathematical literacy:

https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Notation-Guide-Engineers...

https://www.amazon.com/Programmers-Introduction-Mathematics-...
Couple of threads from two years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26753014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26746065
Look, while I am sure what Musk says is very important, what is also important it's that many millions of people live (used to live?) on territories Russia claims. Ukraine cannot just give up on its citizens. Certainly not because Musk says something on Twitter. If it does, and does it easily, how am I as a Ukrainian citizen to know that my region (a would-be border region) is not next to be given up on?

> Since the beginning of the war, there are literally hundreds of similar examples. Not calling it appeasement would earn you the title of "Russian asset".

How does such a title matter?
> That and the way they remove you from group chats if you ever try to turn off iMessage makes the whole thing feel like a dark pattern to me. Apple really has us hostage as iMessage users.

They have to do that since messages are encrypted. If they left you in they’d either have to send messages insecurely or warn everyone that the entire group was now insecure due to you. There’s no way that wouldn’t be decried as a dark pattern, too.
Where are the bo, Sai and nunchuck form? Weird have guess sed Japan too.
Similarly, for some languages the meaning of what is written can change based on the indentation and line breaks. Or a statement written under one formatting standard can become significantly harder to read under a different formatting standard.
This is "A Modest Proposal" style satire.
Is iMessage an American phenomena mostly? I don't know a single South Asian or Chinese person who uses iMessage. In Canada, most people use WhatsApp or Messenger, and some tech-savvy millenials use Signal.
As the world reaches peak device, they'll probably open up and pursue some of these other markets, too
A vertex in the N-dimensional hypercube represents an N-bit number.

An edge in the hypercube is equivalent to a single bit flip.

image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake-in-the-box#/media/File:S...
We are in the middle of it. Rates have been going up for a long time, and around here, year over year sales are down 40%. Prices are flat or have taken a very small dip, depending on the submarket. I am not at all convinced this trend will continue beyond a 10-20% drop in prices, nowhere near the 35-50% drop required to reach purchasing power parity depending on where the Fed stops raising rates. A slow, smaller drop is functionally equivalent to prices continuing to go up for many as they have been for so long, but then also gets a certain group of cash buyers who aren't looking for an absolute killing, just good returns, back into the market to slow down further drops.

Of course we don't know the future, and if things really go to the worst due to wars around the world etc, all bets are off. But my opinion is based on things continuing more or less in the current mediocrity for a while, rather than getting significantly worse.
This is not a left or right issue. It’s the media and big tech covering up the facts that’s an issue. Sounds to me like you have a bias.

>videos don’t exist

Wait, do you seriously think these videos are fake? They were all over Reddit.

I can send you the link. I can’t post it here since it has nudity but I’m more then happy to send it to you. Is there an email or way you would like to receive these vids? (MP4 files).
Twitter should not be considered a primary source for election information. This is the failure of the gov't to produce a platform for real time election information (if that is needed at all?).

Even Spotify has ads now informing me to vote. It is not the job of big tech to educate me on voting. Spotify's job begins and ends at playing my music. Thats the contract. Twitter is an entertainment platform nothing more.
People for some reason like to harp on the whole green bubble thing when it’s not even the real issue. The lock-in is Facetime — there is zero answer for it on Android. It’s the default in my friend group for calling someone, we hold group hangouts in it.

Getting non-work people into a video call if you don’t have an iPhone is painful.
With the added bonus it (imo) smells better. In the US, you can usually find it with pickling supplies or in the cleaning section as coffee pot cleaner
Housing affordability has never been as low as it is currently and we are headed into a recession.

I think large drops (40-50%) in most regions are likely.
A corporate tax increase was just passed in August.
US teen survey.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220406005379/en/Pip...

> 87% of teens own an iPhone and 87% expect an iPhone to be their next phone; 72% of teens already have AirPods
It wouldn't work. After 10 minutes 95% of people will have taken off the headset getting their account banned. The playerbase of the game would quickly decine. If taking the headset off kills you, people will be stuck in the game and there will be a lot more at stake in the actions they take.
I moved my business over from EC2 earlier this year. So far the support from Linode has been stellar.

When ran into an early issue during our first few days and the support technician assigned to the ticket solved the problem. Then write back a few hours later with a change that he attributed to a colleague with whom he was chatting about it.

We haven’t had to call for support yet, but the number is in my contacts for when that day might come. We’ve been much happier than on EC2. We are spending about the same per month with much more to show for it in terms of our user-facing results.
The rest of the conversation almost certainly happened in person. These emails were just getting out some initial thoughts. Happens all the time. Also, notice that Tim Cook wasn't in the email conversation.
Houses are set on the margin, but that doesn't mean the "lock in effect" doesn't have a net positive effect on prices.

There is heterogeneity of sellers in how much they "must" sell (versus alternates like rent it out, not move at all if they're nearly indifferent between cities, etc). Clearly "lock in" reduces total sellers.
Russia viewed America as an irrelevant overseas novelty, which was probably correct at that time. Britain was their great rival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game
I’m deeply invested in iMessage portability but I think you might be mistaken. It was FaceTime that was announced as a to-be-open protocol but didn’t see the follow-through.
Palmer Luckey's latest company is a defense contractor. Comparatively, this is performance art.
the canonical brand name university experience in the US these days can hardly be called independent living

a growing portion of the bloat discussed in this thread goes toward increasingly luxurious lodging, amenities and services

generally agree with your broader point, with caveats (e.g., how the credentialism encouraged by the university system might be considered an obstacle to personal and civic development)
In europe apple stuff costs much more.
Discussed today:

Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33497012

(333 points, 322 comments)
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Out of curiosity, because I've read this a few times, what is not priced at the margin?
in the US I find it strange that the mortgage interest rate is almost always fixed for the life of the mortgage. If you took a mortgage at 2% which is well above the Fed's interest rate, then isn't the lender loosing money? Or is that not how it works?

I'm from the UK where mortgages can fixed for a definite period, usually 2-5 years, then it changes to a variable rate mortgage (with the same provider), but there's always the option of choosing variable from the start. The variable part is a margin + the Bank of England base rate.

I now live in Europe and here it's the same, except basically nobody chooses a fixed rate mortgage. The monthly repayments are recalculated every six months using the current EURIBOR rate - which is set by a group of banks themselves, not the European Central Bank (it sounds a lot like a cartel).

Either way, I'm buying a house now when interest is the highest it's been for over a decade, but it doesn't really bother me as it will drop at some point and my monthly payments will go down.
No evidence but this is how it still is in South/East Asia.

Also anecdotally the best friends are the ones that are constantly making fun of each other. The modern recommendation of speaking in psychologist provided templates don’t lead to close connections, atleast in my experience.
You can generate a web URL now once the call has started and send it to PC/Android users. It’s far from a first class solution, of course.
> an instant boiler tap in their kitchen instead of taking up counter space with something that takes longer to get hot water.

These things usually serve "near-boiling" water, somewhere around 95 C. This is fine for some cases - e.g. making ramen - but not appropriate for many kinds of tea.

I have such a tap, and I also have an electric kettle. The tap is mostly used to prefill pots with near-boiling water for cooking, so as to not wait for so long for the stove to do it. The kettle is used for tea and coffee.