skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know for Microsoft, a large chunk of their revenue comes from the licensing for Visual Studio, the Azure service and the fees required for certification, and surprisingly the Xbox division. Corporate entities buying licenses for Visual Studio would likely be tens of thousands of dollars each since the Enterprise level license starts a little under two grand. And Xbox with it's recent push into mobile style games likely makes Microsoft unimaginable amounts of money. Roblox in 2021 is estimated to have made $1.9b based on it's microtransaction model, and Microsoft gets a cut of that. The FIFA games generate an average of $1.5b every year. With the recent acquisition of Activision-Blizzard and thus mobile giants like King Games, it's likely that Microsoft could rake in $30b a year from the Xbox division, an increase of seven or eight billion. And with the autonomy model of the owner, publisher, developer ladder Microsoft likely has to do little to no investment as the parent company in order to receive that income.
I tried everything--Emacs, word processing software, custom conversion scripts, you name it. A few years ago, I more or less adopted Derek Sivers' method: I keep topical plain text files (markdown, really).

He described the topical files bit here ('Thoughts On' files): https://sive.rs/dj

And the benefits of just writing plain text here: https://sive.rs/plaintext

Now, I just organize my text files in folders and forget about it. It's all on Dropbox, so I can read/revise from any machine, and text files are lightweight and simple to keep synced copies locally.
There was another interview just last week on the Explaining Computers YouTube channel and he did mention RISC-V again. He said that as long as ARM licensing is not too restrictive and expensive, it is much easier and cheaper to integrate ARM cores into SoC designs as they are currently much more widely supported, and core to core are faster than same-year RISC-V core designs.

Remember that the A72 cores for the Pi 4 are like 7 years old now... the fastest available RISC-V cores are just catching up.
> Chrome engine not causing issues on pages

is that a theoretical issue because I've never had any problem with page rendering in Firefox, it's been a major for a long time.
Thoughts on Hanukkah of Data 2022
> "non functional product"

More accounting fun! This time around revenue recognition. It used to be that you had to ship a physical item to a customer in order to recognize the revenue from the sale. So the place I worked at back then would send out first-draft manuals to customers who had ordered the not-quite-done software. When we finished it and it passed testing, we'd send them the actual diskettes and an updated manual.

I never heard of any complaints being lodged, so it must have been a standard industry practice of the time. Or the salespeople had already smoothed the waves with the customers.
It's absolutely a problem - energy blindness [1] - and it is intricately intertwined, along with much more, in the domain of geopolitics [2], something of which recently I've come to have a better and deeper understanding.

[1] - https://natehagens.substack.com/p/frankly-3-energy-blindness
[2] - https://zeihan.com/end-of-the-world/
I knew about the alcoholism rates, but had always assumed it was a socio-economic / situational driven thing.

I understand that historically it was used in some sense to control and indeed damage the Native Americans by the colonists? To what extent alcohol was completely new etc I do not know
Agreed, it was really very good.
China still struggles with that. A traditional question is "what is your village?", to get name uniqueness in a system which has too few family names.

France at one time went to the other extreme - names had to be approved by a central registry at birth. Until 1993, there was an official list of allowed first names. Today, there are still some prohibited names. "Nutella" just made the list.
I'm always in awe at how such a simple algorithm (natural selection) can create such beautifully complex systems (organisms or even super-organisms).
My mistake, this is not an example of “ecological fallacy”, but instead a line of reasoning that explains the assumptions that led to an “ecological fallacy” type of error.
Famine alters metabolism for successive generations
I highly recommend reading https://commsrisk.com (no affiliation) if this stuff interests you. Robocalls are up month over month even with STIR/SHAKEN (https://robocallindex.com/history/time). Essentially, caller ID spoofing is just a symptom of the issue, the truth is that anyone anywhere in the world can get a US number in any area code and start making calls and as long as that doesn't change robocalls will increase. Even if there is a VOIP crackdown a bunch of rogue "carriers" will pop up like they do in Africa where they put a bunch of prepaid sim cards in a box and use them to terminate calls.

Lots of articles like https://commsrisk.com/calls-with-stir-shaken-c-attestation-a..., https://commsrisk.com/us-says-no-need-for-telcos-to-pay-3-3m..., https://commsrisk.com/what-is-the-us-regulator-really-doing-.... I don't think things will get notably better anytime soon.
This is in the works. It's the same codebase as the desktop version, which is written in js.

I've tested it on low end Android phones from 2017, it works well, when compared to the native offering, and also on modern high end phones, it also works well of course.

What's missing is mobile specific UX, such as pinch-to-zoom, and UX/UI refinements, so it's nice to use.

It has form support, annotations and other goodies like the desktop version as well, which I find very useful.

about:config in Firefox for Android Nightly,pdfjs.disabled to false to give it a go.
>We reached a point at which most of our problems are distribution problems.

This is the point that Buckminster Fuller made decades ago. One day we'll all listen to him.

https://www.umsl.edu/~sauterv/analysis/Fall2013Papers/Purcel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ3DXDONKmQ
I always used ff on android and never had any scrolling issue. I can't even understand how could that be. I'm using a Samsung s10e with a very bad exynos cpu.
What will you do if someone who bought your unlimited plan costs you more than 25$ worth of api calls by constantly churning out text?
Tangentially related: My first use of FreeBSD was setting up a print server to allow an OS/2 computer running the software for a scanning tunneling microscope to output to an Apple LaserWriter.

I also inadvertently made a domain controller mirror with SAMBA when fooling around with that.
I am reading Antifragile by Nassim Taleb, and one of his points is that much of invention happens either out of necessity or outside of structure vs traditional R&D / Academia.

I was wondering how much social media filling in all spare time keeps people from tinkering and inventing and making progress.

Though, I suspect the tinkers are still spending a lot of time tinkering - and only the people who have nothing better to do are spending most of their time on social media.
> Sorry, I'm not reading all of that. I stopped at the second paragraph.

Then, you aren't actually interested in rigorous debate, challenging your ideas? Why are you even here? You have an opportunity here, someone that might have completely different ideas from you, and repeatedly engages with you in good faith in spite of your insults, and your answer is "tldr." Forgive me if I doubt your commitment to the spirit of the value MIT claims to espouse regarding the importance of having these kinds of conversations.

> , then define cancelled as "the thing that happened to Dorian Abbot"

Great! Nothing really bad happened to Dorian Abbot. He got to give his speech and now has defined his career around opposing affirmative action. So, why were you using him as an example earlier as a counter point to me as the negative potentials of not tolerating the intolerant?

> The thing that should be getting discussed is whether or not what happened to him should have happened to him.

But nothing bad happened to him.

Your video link is my favorite ever instance of irony I've ever encountered on this site. In it, Feynman says "you know all the names for that bird, but you know nothing about that bird... People tell me 'did you hear about Jackson Fleugrn experiment?' well no, what's that, can you explain it? I get in trouble cause I never learn the names of things."

You've been asked, what does "cancelled" mean, you answered, "Whatever happened to that guy." Yeah, what happened to that guy? "He got cancelled!"
Yes. It was removed for a while. Now it's back.
Nah. These attempts are power plays but lots of folk really don't care for being in a cube again.
Hong Kong was leased to the British and they gave it back after.
I started home computing in the late 70’s to early 80’s. Over the years I’ve found that when I get to the point that I need to upgrade one part of the computer, it’s almost never worth it. It’s usually time to upgrade the whole thing. When I would replace or upgrade a single part, it would extend me for maybe 6 months before I ran into another piece needing an upgrade.

These days, I tend to buy higher end computers and use them for a long time. For example, I just retired my 2013 Mac Pro this last week. It was running fine, but can’t update to the latest OS and some of my critical software needs the latest OS to run, or will shortly. If it weren’t for that, I probably would have waited another year or two to upgrade.
It doesn't NEED natural gas as input, there are other ways, but natural gas as input is saving a massive amount of energy, possibly near 10x current energy input, by not having to split hydrogen from water. And fertilizer production is already one of the most energy intensive processes we have, so increasing that multiple times over is a huge amount of energy.

Basically hydrogen production is the limiting factor in producing clean ammonia from the air instead of using fossil fuels, and clean (and cheap) hydrogen production is far from a solved problem.
Thats an adorable little “proof”, you got there. But, Magic is not even remotely “the most complex game”. Whoever has said this has never even attempted to play a game like “The Campaign for North Africa.” Reading the rules and setting the game up alone can hardly been done in a single day.
We even have the first Gen Z Congressperson being rejected from housing due to low credit score, despite the fact that his salary as a future Congressperson is a known six-figure value.

Once society has deemed you too poor to be useful, it is hard to escape that designation even if you make it out.
> The Bitcoin network hashrate has dropped by more than 38.8% from its peak on Wednesday, as many U.S.-based miners have been forced to switch down their facilities due to deadly blizzards

Is there any kind of geographical map that shows in which states/cities these hashrates are? I guess there probably isn't good correlation between hashrate + external IP?

I wonder how profitable mining Bitcoin is these days at any scale.
IV is making records now, and doing surprisingly well
Yeah, Dr Ben Hardy expands on similar ideas about the benefits of connecting with your Future Self as a means to improving your outlook and increasing the chances you'll become who you want to.
> Dr Hill said the research sampled 15 participants of varying age, occupational and education backgrounds in England and the Republic of Ireland,

These seems like very few people to be drawing such broad-ranging conclusions from.
If OpenWRT can be built for the board, it can make a tiny, silent gigabit router. Add on an M.2 slot and you could add on WiFi 6 or 6E, or a cellular modem, and do even more networking shenanigans.

It's one of the few use cases where—with the right NIC, which can offload some of the processing from the slower SoC—they can be fairly efficient and actually competitive with classic consumer routers like those from ASUS, Netgear, etc.
1) verifying code is harder than writing it and

2) verifying code requires domain knowledge, which implies that the utility of these models is limited to things could write myself if I weren't too lazy. That's hugely constricting.
> If you are talking about smoothness

yes. in 2022 on a top-spec phone and latest OS, scrolling of a static google results page or hacker news thread should not stutter. doesn't seem like an unreasonable ask, imo.
- RISC V will become more common. We won't see it moving to most phones and personal computers just yet, but it will be used in some embedded devices and wearables

- Google will AB test the search product with NLP generated answers and consider augmenting it as a response to ChatGPT

- Covid will sort of come on and off and will be talked about in a way similar to the flu

- Recession will likely continue at a relatively steady rate. Sun belt states will continue growing. Bay area population will shrink slightly

- Affordable housing construction will make progress in the bay area as buildings are completed. Rent increases will slow down due to increased supply

- TikTok will continue getting bad press. There will be a stand off between TikTok and DC. It will either be banned or have the American side of the business sold to someone like Oracle

- Meta will survive because people will continue using Facebook and IG. VR stuff will be a niche market dominated by them

- Tesla stock will start dropping more aggressively as investors realize it is overvalued compared to other car manufacturers

- Iran instability will continue. CIA could possibly stage a coup in Iran if it becomes especially bad

- Chinese economy will continue declining due to govt interference with domestic tech. Japan and Germany will continue military buildup. Vietnam, India, and Bangladesh will grow as low cost manufacturing centers

- Increased tension between Alberta and Ottawa

- Apple allows sideloading iOS due to EU pressure. Apple won't have any new and interesting software to bring to the table, but might come out with a new phone camera with better computational photography to challenge what Google is doing

- Amazon will continue growing, and will approach Apple as the most valuable company. Apple will grow, but more slowly than Amazon

- YEaR of ThE LiNuX DeSkToP
Most of the acquisitions that happen aren’t because of fear of “disruption” which is a very overused and misunderstood term - especially when defined like Clayton Christensen.

They are bought to be an accretive to an existing business or the acquiring company thinks they have scale advantage to multiply the value of the acquisition.

Another way to put it, that these are “sustaining innovations”.
The European Medicines Agency did a risk calculation with various transmission levels and segmented by age: https://www.ema.europa.eu/documents/chmp-annex/annex-vaxzevr...

As can be seen, getting infected is actually not that bad compared to getting the AZ vaccine. In younger age groups the vaccine became hard to recommend contrary to what many claimed and continue to claim on social media.

You also obviously haven’t read case reports for the people that got the blood clots and survived, if you’re only considering deaths as an undesirable outcome. They will have to adjust to significant sequelae for the rest of their lives.
If a technology is at the "pilot plant" stage and the major cost input is renewable energy (where costs have dropped precipitously and continue to do so), then 4x doesn't feel like an impossibility. Meanwhile the price of anhydrous ammonia produced using traditional methods nearly tripled between January 2020 and August 2022: the "cost" of relying on continued access to cheap fossil fuel is not low.
Using LibreOffice 7.4.3.2 on MacOS Monterrey(12.6.1) on x86 I couldn't make it work, due to this bug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133056

Which has been around 2yrs and hasn't been fixed yet. The work around of un-signing didn't work either.

So as cool as this is, it doesn't seem to be very usable, which might be why nobody bothers to document it.
I didn’t say they would desist from antisocial behavior. Vandalizing the infrastructure for an oppressive society can be a perfectly social activity when conducted with others outcasted from said society.

I am saying there would be significantly less legitimate reason to vandalize or rebel against a social structure that was inclusive and supportive of its people. If opportunity was afforded people, with a patient kindness, you would be amazed at what’s possible.

Not seeing that is most certainly a difference of competence, the competency being compassion.
Great, you're free to not want them, but everyone has to justify their actions, so an action like banning a group still requires justification. If that justification is sound and based on accepted ethical principles, it should arguably become an ethical rule. I personally haven't seen an argument that satisfies the requirements.
> “There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.” — JM
Book chemistry and physics (other than dust storm) looks rather plausible, what didn't you like there? Movie added some ridiculous stuff when flying with punctured space suit, that was pathetic.
You continue to assume that anything other than identical outcomes is evidence of some sort of bias or discrimination. Men are more likely to be convicted of murder than women. Is this a bias that needs to be corrected? Or maybe men are more likely to commit murder?

At my previous workplace we instituted minimum representation quotas for underrepresented demographics (we used euphemism for them, of course, "equity standards" and "inclusion targets"). The hiring rates increased, but then so did attrition rates. Similar things happened, but in reverse, when California banned racial discrimination in state universities. Admission rates for underrepresented minorities went down, but then the graduation rates rose. Perhaps increase attrition isn't solved by pursuing identical outcomes, it's solved by instituting blind hiring akin to blind orchestra auditions.
How does the process look for a 1man product that took no VC?
During the beta of Windows 95 I was working at a company that had made a DOS extender for Clipper, and we got reports That the apps in 16 bit protected mode did not work. Looking in to it, there was a bug in the 16 bit FAT driver, I think, things are fuzzy from that long ago, which wasn’t used by a lot of things. I actually managed to get a bug report in, talked to the guy working on the driver, and had a build Fedexed to me a couple of days later to verify the fix.

Good times.
Does Maslow's hierarchy include every individual commuting 30+ miles to work by car?

Outside of that - the US definitely has enough energy - and probably most of the West including almost all of Europe.
isn't the mother just providing the nourishment for the fetus to grow inside her? and the fetus itself, takes the nourishment, and actually producing the eggs inside itself?

So technically I don't think we can say the grandma is making the eggs directly, but has assisted in the fetus' creation, and then provided the nutrients/environment for the egg creation that the fetus itself makes (which yes, can influence things w/ the generational trauma science coming out...).
It's not possible to run GPT now. It will never be open for self hosting despite the company's name openai.
I won't argue that the existing system isn't broken. But elimination of life imprisonment and capped sentences of 25 years for all crimes is just absurd.

What about Dennis Rader? He murdered numerous people throughout the 70s and 80s. The details of the Otero family are the kind of thing they don't even write about in fiction. Should he be allowed freedom before he dies? Should he be free today because of how old his crimes were?

What about Jeffrey Dahmer? (I realize he's dead, but that was at the hand of another inmate, and he'd still be alive and well if not for that.) He would be walking free today as a 62 year old if there was a 25 year maximum.

Furthermore, who's going to assume responsibility when people like this are released and then kill again to satisfy the urge within them?

Like I said, I won't argue that what he have needs correction, and I agree with the focus on rehabilitation, but there ARE other things that matter - such as appropriate punishment and protection of society - that still need to be factored in.
I remember trying to switch to Firefox on Android several years ago and encountering exactly the same issue as you - scrolling was just super janky and unusable.

I've recently tried the switch again (a few weeks ago) and did not encounter the same scrolling issues anymore. Could be any number of things that have changed, though, such as a new phone, Firefox updates, OS updates (Pixel 5, Android 13, Firefox 108.1.0).
It certainly was ignored at the USGS where the Information System Division threatened to remove it unless people started using it. It was ignored because there weren't compelling applications. When the web arrived, it was an almost instantaneous success.
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Does it have any limitations wrt accessing Android's API? For example, can I create a Hyperview password manager that would draw over other apps and fill out fields using Android Accessibility features? Can you access sensor information or list running processes?
I see what you mean. I think I'd say "correct, kind of." Also from the memo:

"""In furtherance of these legitimate interests, employers must be permitted
to “nip in the bud” the kinds of employee conduct that could lead to a “hostile
workplace,” rather than waiting until an actionable hostile workplace has been
created before taking action."""

In essence, the memo from Mr. Sophir does not claim Damore had already created a hostile work environment. It does not have to consider that question one way or the other, because it is legal for Google to fire Mr. Damore on the expectation that his conduct would lead to a hostile work environment. The fact Google had already lost two candidates in the pipeline who cited Damore's memo as their reason for withdrawing was evidence enough of the risk.

(This reminds me of the rule of thumb regarding forum moderation: the line for when content can be curtailed and users can be banned is well away from the actual line of legality, because the goal of such policies is to not end up in court in the first place).
> why does anybody need to be told this

Because of the fragility of the American mind.
I've worked with vendors for years to debug/fix that class of bugs you reference.

Cherry picking one example very recently, we discovered a certain router model shipping in calibration mode such that only 1-2 STAs could transmit at any given time. Essentially rendering an AC router into the performance class of a mixed-mode a/b/g router from 2004. Working with the upstream vendors to fix this took several weeks.

Sometimes though its not even phy or mac layer bugs we find, its more banal nonsense like a poorly configured firewall that eats up all the NPU clock cycles when it sees a 30 pps rate of unsolicited UDP ingress. Or my personal favorite was the erase block management on flash that would remount the data partition as read-only whenever a single ECC cycle would fail on a given sector and permabrick the unit until reboot.
Advice/Accounts on how to befriend crows has been submitted here in the past, but there hasn't been anything regarding cows, unfortunately.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Ask HN: In a company, who's responsible for paying for SaaS like Slack/Zoom?
I'm trying to understand who you should target when selling SaaS to companies!