skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Steam Deck has sold fewer than 1% the number of Switches sold, which tells me there is far more to selling a console than the technology. Well, that’s an obvious statement, but I think many of us tech people commonly under-appreciate all the “non-engineering” components to making a product successful.

I think “optimize the UX a bit” is what they did, and it falls very woefully short of what they need. Especially when it arguably has a far bigger and better library of titles.

I hope Valve doesn’t throw in the towel after the first round. The Steam Deck idea can be a killer one. It just needs a lot more UX polish and marketing.
> Most places in the US, the local tax is the same statewide

I don't think this is true. Sure, the state tax is the same state wide, but the county and city taxes aren't! To pick a random state: https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/kansas/rates
I think the problem is fetishisizing democracy when it's the least relevant philosophy here. Speaking of France in particular: Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Democracy is nice after all of these things, but it doesn't even make the top 3.

The problem with the proposed laws is that they violate fundamental principles of liberty and equality, not that they're undemocratic.
Well there's 'durable' cables on the market now, that compete with Apple's official cables. Things like this:

> The Fuse Chicken 3 ft Titan Lightning Cable

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B010G43VAU
Our washer broke. I bought a Samsung which was on sale at a great prices.

I briefly looked at setting up the app for notifications (it’s in the basement, I work upstairs). Their signup process is absurdly clunky, the EULA signs away everything, and then the app insists you can’t set up the washing machine’s Wi-Fi without giving the app permissions to collect precise location data and run in the background, as if it couldn’t just use Bluetooth to send it 128 bits of text.
Since it's trivial, I look forward to your proof-of-concept in the near future
Bookmark for reference.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/25
People who try to hack stuff with APE - here abainbridge but hopefully, you too: the more the merrier :)
It's not just shoes, it's all clothing. Any individual clothing item below a certain cutoff is tax-free.
Blind turns into the worst version of a company pretty quickly. It would have you believe that both anyone can get a job at certain companies and that others fire their entire staff.

My understanding is that google historically simply didn’t give raises or approve projects for under performers. As long as someone didn’t rock the boat or put up low quality CRs, or stop working entirely, they would be left alone - and maybe google wouldn’t bother to give them any new stocks when their grant expired.
The linked wikipedia article directly contradicts the medium article on this.

With respect to the Dodge decision, could other Ford shareholders have sued the Dodge brothers for forcing Ford to yield dividends once the Dodge brothers then used those dividends to undercut the value of Ford stock by creating a competitor? Or do minority shareholders not have a duty to other minority shareholders the way majority shareholders do?
I wonder if the world is trending in this direction. If anything, the moat between the two is growing larger, highlighting the differences. Everyone in your bubble may seem to be growing and learning, but you're also the type who spends their off time browsing highly technical message boards.
The MEDIAN compensation at google is $300k!
How can you have any real opinion on it without knowing people’s comp level?
Different programming languages, same databases, same problems
chrome/chromeos/chromebooks
Not even always poetic either

Notice that it sometimes struggles to rhyme?
> Also, this saves you from "I bought shitty drive from NoName on alibaba and it doesn't work" support requests.

Don't be silly. The user would never disclose that part. It would be "My xbox doesn't work, send me a replacement"

Although the reasonable way to handle this would be for the xbox to detect non genuine drives and report it but not block them. So support would quickly see the cause of the issue.
The steelman arguments help, thanks for sharing those.

> 1. Not society's responsibility to help the downtrodden

Sadly, this fits the evidence. Thankfully most religions and ethical systems don't agree with it. This worldview is most common when a weakened population is under stress (e.g. scarcity, attack, change).

> 2. Only help those who physically can't support themselves.

Putting aside how many mental disabilities this rules out, I don't buy it because if it were true, there'd be agreement about this category of homeless people, which there isn't.

Further, all a lazy freeloader would have to do is cripple himself to get free housing. Same scenario to giving up your house and income for a "free" home.

> what if they don't want to share… can't appeal to a teacher

A government does exactly that, for example making us all pay taxes (that no individual wants to) for the benefit of all, like collective defense.
I don’t really get how it works that Hipgnosis owns the library and future royalties, but UMG still owns the copyrights to all the music? How does that work and what does that mean exactly?
Oh my god they wrote that document in an older version of Word (I guess?) and transferred it into a website. The source code of this document is god awful. I know nobody cares, but as a website maker dude I do - and this is hurting.

Have a nice screenie of a piece of the source: https://jasper.monster/sharex/firefox_fQy122RwpB.png
Have you looked into sodium alginate supplements (with regard to reflux)? It's what got me back that last 5% you allude to after making all of the other lifestyle changes. An amazing product with no side effects. Also great for when regular life gets in the way of being able to adhere to the diet.
Yemen much?
The Lisa Was Apple's Best Failure
Rsslay: Turns RSS or Atom feeds into Nostr profiles
yes, we don't know, they don't separate maps and search in earning call.
Why is that a bad habit? What are the negative consequences?
But logos never get copyright protection. They get trademark protection.

https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/trademark-patent-cop...
I wrote a whole paper on how to fix this in LLMs!

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/most-language-models-can-be...

Gwern cited it too!
My experience is opposite to what you described. I got into faang with minimal leetcode grind and didn't have to jump many hoops. The career move not only removed the unnecessary bureaucracy from my daily activities and tools, but also finally gave me actually challenging problems to work on. I suppose it's always a matter of perspective, but I'd wager 90% of work at 90% of startups doesn't equate rocket science. When looking for a startup to work for, you have to filter out a lot of bad ones and the balance between difficult and impossible can be hard to strike. If you have a good idea and a decent skillset founding can be impressive, but generally I've found faang engineers to seem more apt than most people I've met at/seen in startups, with the exception of 1-2 superstars per startup.
This is what Rust does, it works great!
based, will be seeding over the night
I'm on 6.8.3 and still using it as my default SMS app. Everyone in this thread is acting like SMS is already disabled. What am I missing?
well since you already have a cluster you could distcc the compilation. I remember doing that on a bunch of machines when we were building gentoo
"Believe me" doesn't cut it. Here are some accounts of remembering being born. My earliest memory is at 18 months old.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/43kned/i-remember-being-born
for existing music, or any and all new music?
Good thing is these laid off people start companies and never fire a single employee.
At least I know, so I manually increased the iterations on my account above 600,000 as a safeguard. I'll have to keep in mind to update it in the future.
You said that you're hosting since 2011, which makes sense since you're essentially grandfathered in.

If you have set up a new system without any reputation now, even if you have set up DKIM and SPF, it's now a lot worse. Major providers like Google and Microsoft won't really tell you, but if you are new but don't have a dedicated AS and instead you're using (for example) Linode you'll be scored lower by having low-cost solutions that just so happens to be abused by spammers.
No, all of those kinds failed eventually. There's no successful ones as i see.

And also the successful business as i know run no Ad campaign.

You're just making assumptions.
Also; Daily 'Breath Training' can work as well as Meds to reduce high blood pressure : https://text.npr.org/1123500781

HN Discussion [ 4 months ago - 38 comments ] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32920669
>US struggle to afford food, and an extra 10+% floating around makes a big

I am not aware of any us state that charges sales tax on staple food items. Also I feel sorry for anyone that lives in a place with 10% sales tax that is crazy high

>>a bit of an odd position

Not really one of the ways I believe we have to keep them low is by ensuring transparency. My state has less 7% sales tax less than 4% state income tax, less than 1% local income tax and a capped property tax of 1%

Transparency is key to keeping them low
There's a good HL Mencken quote about the likelihood of people getting collectively smarter:

"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. "
Nothing strange about paying attention to commercial realities.

> it can't have covered wheels (apparently the Gen 1 Honda Insight is not a car)

Yes, it doesn't look good and precludes rear wheel steering.

> it can't be too small (apparently the Smart car is not a car)

Yes, need to fit people in it.

> it doesn't matter if it's defective due to a lack of active cooling

You're presupposing new battery chemistries will require active cooling. These aluminium-ion batteries, for example, don't mind getting hot:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2021/05/13/ev-ran...

https://graphenemg.com/gmg-battery-performance-graphene-prod...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B6icvUBNzE

The main point of the EQXX is this is what you can achieve in a Mercedes with a 100 kWh battery. It's pretty good.
Levels are public at Google, unlike Meta, or Netflix that (formerly) did not have them at all.
> The bigger problem is that in the USA healthcare is tied to employment. That's messed up

You can certainly get health insurance without being tied to employment. Without COBRA or any other workarounds. Has everone forgotten Obamacare? (Single payer would be nicer though.)
Nothing and therapy, respectively.
Oh.. Why _did_ I click on that ? :-(
> You chase after vanity metrics about you looking good like active users rather than how useful your product is.

In what conceivable world is "active users" a vanity metric??
I didn't say anything involved was "offensive"!

I am ambivalent about "western science", it's very useful, there are also other modes of inquiry and discovery that are useful.

However, it's funny to think that one might do lots of meditation and consciousness altering meditation, which some people say can lead to some form of enlightenment, spiritual calm, and/or compassion for humanity, and instead it leads you to sum up those who don't follow your directions as "mindlessly scrolling, eating hamburgers and watching football" in a generally contemptuous screed.
You need a "I started a startup, it did well and so I now actually have time to read the fire hose that is hacker news."
I feel like employed by google means being unemployed if they are going to be laid off whenever the managers want. So I don't want to work in Google
Hehehe. Well, the important ingredient missing from this comic strip is proof. You can see proof as code, if you like, but the important thing here is that you can trust the proof generated by an AI without having to look yourself at it.

Most people don't understand proof, but if you don't understand proof in 10 years, you will be out of a job as a programmer.
Given median comp at Google, working at Google is quite privileged.

Going to Stanford is likewise privileged.

Being privileged isn't an insult, just a recognition of fact.
I once heard of a project manager being told by the project's accountant: "I can tell you are behind, because your spend rate is lower than planned."
Personally, I just stopped doing that.the tips were small to begin with.

I think people also know non Americans aren't going to get it right. If they're the type of person to get offended over that, I wouldn't spend my time worrying about their opinion of me
This is such an insane comment even for HN. Is no one really going to point out savage an idea this is for handling prisons? There are countries that have incredibly low recid rates without deciding to black hole someone for their life or committing violence against them.
How old are you, for context?

It seems inaccurate to me to say there has been zero public debate, but i's true that the war came along at a political moment when the US was already very polarized, so the sorting function of debate was minimal. If someone tends liberal, they already have a very low opinion of Vladimir Putin. Conservatives need no urging to criticize any decision of the Biden administration or anything that smacks of 'globalism.'

As far as 'escalation' goes, moving a whole army over a border into another country by force is the most basic conflict scenario there is. Either one is OK with it, or thinks the aggressing party should remove its forces and receive a bill for the damage. The notion that the injured party should restrain its self-defense efforts or that the means of same should be withheld seems strange to me.
I've heard that the only thing worse for our friends to the north than their cell carriers is their ISPs. Is this the case?

Do you mind sharing your speeds and cost?
Ex-PagerDuty here....my company uses Grafana Cloud and we love it!
Valve is one of the few companies I don't feel is egregiously cashing in on their market monopoly store fees. The amount of value they give back is astounding. I remember buying a logitech racing wheel and finding it didn't work on linux, when I looked it up I saw a valve employee on the linux mailing list with a patch ready to merge to fix it.

And then there is the incredible work done on Proton. I couldn't have imagined the future of gaming on linux was that Wine would be improved so much you couldn't tell it was being used.. At the time everyone figured you just had to complain in the game forums for a linux version and eventually it would work.
Sometimes the exercise of explicitly trying to quantify and compare urgency, importance, and cost helps you develop a better understanding of the project, which leads to a better work plan.
Big fan
How does Apple's security model allow for any malformed web page to execute arbitrary code?
And literally all of them are not from the past decade.
I was going to write the same thing! More like "scull medicine".
Thanks for this. It's interesting because it's super close to another method: Write down everything, put the most important thing at the top of a list, next important next, go till done. That's maybe the most naive method possible and essentially shouldn't count as advice for "how to prioritize".

But, maybe the fact that you're going from least to most important makes it materially easier. It's functionally different because you're picking out the least important stuff when the list of unchosen items is big and the most important stuff when the list is small. I can see how this would help a lot.
AI is improving faster than most humans realize
Everyone keeps complaining about being locked out of systems with just an email. Seriously, why do you care about this? You don't work there anymore: say goodbye to your friends over text message or email. The reason from the employer's side is obvious: knowledgeable, angry people with access to sensitive systems can wreak a lot of havoc. So take your severance and get out! Locking people out of systems is not a new practice and the outraged indignation I'm seeing on LinkedIn--Xooglers calling the practice "inhuman" and "abusive"--are just incredibly entitled and naive. No one in any other profession is getting the level of severance that these people are getting in a layoff; you are a highly paid professional with Google on your resume and you're going to be just fine.
As I said, 'like that.' It is difficult to imagine a reasonable comparison between all of the mundane secret missions going on every day, and shooting down an airliner. This is on the level of 9/11 conspiracies. It's just not possible for something that huge to stay secret for long.
Would you rather a base, say $500/month, and then a trivial per-user fee? Say $0.50? Because obviously each user will incur additional resource usage, so you can't really be that against per-user fees when each user literally takes up X more MiB of space. Since you are that against per-users fees though, I'm fascinated to hear why.
Might be usable for low column count tabular data, but it would be pretty terrible for any other semantically dense modality e.g. video, molecules, geospatial, etc.
It would seem to me that there's a different class of knowledge at play with knowing e.g. that someone is speaking to you. I mean, Google is pretty good at answering questions you type into the search bar, these days, but it doesn't give me the creepy feeling that ChatGPT gives me, precisely because its answers seem to be based on association and relation. Google does not raise my neck-hairs, and ChatGPT does; I do believe it is because the latter does seem to understand indexicals, whereas the former does not, because when I say 'you' to ChatGPT, it reacts *as though it understood that it was being spoken to*.

Its powers of imagination (e.g. simulating a linux box) are pretty amazing, but it's the eerie feeling that it's playing along because I asked it to that, for me, puts my jaw on the floor.

I guess I'm groping towards a reductive theory of the uncanniness that ChatGPT occasions --- that it's the indexicals.

Please allow me to think further on this matter
Show HN: The Noja Programming Language
It's a bit different. The Steam Deck is not locked down like consoles are. You can run anything you want on them. They then additionally allow game devs to use steam as DRM for individual games. But you are still free to run whatever software you want.
That's why i said "as people get smarter", it's for the great mass of plain people.
In my experience, COBRA is not cheaper, because you end up paying the company's part, as well as your own, and you suddenly realize how much of the load they carried.

I live in a state with a pretty damn good Obamacare implementation, and I'm quite grateful.
And I think almost no one really works 30 hours productively at any company.
That contradicts "nitrous is an oxidant". Or at minimum, makes it more complicated.
The most memorable example I've seen of a business sneaking higher prices past consumers was an apartment building I lived in.

Let's say apartments were $1000/month. They announced that rent was going up to $1200/month, but if you signed a new one year lease the rent would be $0 for the first two months of the lease.

That meant that for the next year you would have paid 12 months @ $1000/month if the rate had stayed the same, and under the new rate you would pay 2 months @ $0/month + 10 months @ $1200/month. Those are both $12000, so you are still paying $12000/year.

A year later when it was time for people to renew their leases management said "Good news! No rent increase this year! Your rent is staying at $1200/month!".

I think I may have been the only tenant who realized that this was actually an increase of $2400/year over what we'd paid the previous two years. Everyone else seemed to actually think that the annual rent was the same as the year before and the year before that.
Mate these people aren't your enemy no matter how much you think they make compared to you. You think it was only blue haired 300k social media managers that got layed off or something? There's sand pounding IT guys there that got layed off too, I know for a fact cause some are my friends. Yeah it was a Google job so it was lux but they were running fiber and getting called in at 2am cause some clueless executive's email broke again.

I don't know why people are buying into cult of Google either, I think that's silly, what matters here isn't just that a bunch of people got laid off, but also that now all their former co-workers still at Google have to pick up all their jobs without any more compensation for it. All the saves money from reduction of cost is going to nobody but shareholders - which employees might be a little bit if they're vested, but not to the degree of larger shareholders who contribute nothing.
Legality of sale of products of reliable quality is unevenly distributed
This has me wondering about a long-lived journal with a ChatGPT instance. It'd get to the point where it'd know enough about your life that it could be useful for actual advice - or retrieving memories that you've told it about.
You could feed it all of your messages, and have it remind you daily of appointments or commitments that you've made, or people you need to respond to.
I don't know, sales have been great at PD and the exec leaving is the head of sales.
Pretty awesome! Why not tax consumption instead of production? If you tax something, you get less of it, after all.
I honestly do not understand the mental gymnastics that allow people to not count Google as (also) a megacorp.

The situation is not “Apple good, Google bad” or vice versa. The benefit of the current situation is that places these two huge companies in direct opposition and competition in the browser space. Using the law to force Apple to lose would take that away and cede the entire Web to Google’s control, thereby actually creating a monopoly.
> most leadership/upper management is poor

Most everyone who is not in leadership/upper management has endless complaints about what idiots they are.
I don't know. It would be interesting to find out. I suspect it's his current catalog. If it was future too then Bieber would have little incentive to put out new music since he would get no additional benefit from the extra work. But only they, the parties involved, know.
Business owners who don't pay their workers satisfactory wages will find nobody to work for them, lose customers and have to close. It's happening rapidly, worldwide, right now.
Despite reservations, I've been looking at AT & T's fibre plan because 2 gigabit symmetrical service pre-tax is about what Comcast charges post-tax, which has slowly been drifting up every month. The truly irritating thing about AT & T's disclaimers is they say it could take a few billings cycles before your new customer discount pricing is applied. Yet I am quite certain your discount pricing will end precisely on time. So really the discount is whatever it may be averaged across some arbitrary range of time.

Still, it's tempting except AT & T also doesn't let you bring your own device. The best you can hope for is to put their device into bridge mode, rather than terminating the PON into one you own. Something you could used to do, but apparently they've made it much harder recently to extract the certificates needed to authenticate with your own hardware. IMHO, if someone is sophisticated enough to deal with injecting their own certs, they are arguable sophisticated enough to deal with a little troubleshooting.

Hopefully Comcast get off their butts and start rolling out DOCSIS 4.0, which will bring their service closer to parity with AT & T's.
Would you mind explaining your "one sticky note" workflow where it costs way less than $12?
A live elephant still has ivory.
So 50% were not 300K/year engineers.