skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related to your prediction, I think that's a major part of why python took over - looking English-like, a lot more people saw it and were like "hey, I can do this!" than with (most of) what came before.
> I'm working on my third property right now.

Honestly interested in this. Would you say that renting out a property is another full-time job and not a "passive income"?
I forget the exact timeline, but I think part of it too was music pricing. Physical media (tapes, records) had gotten very expensive, and almost everyone was pirating MP3s from Napster etc. Apple's iTunes prices were low enough that it became simpler just to buy stuff legally than pirate it.

I can't recall if iTunes was introduced at exact same time as iPod not not. Google search suggests it may have been 1 or 2 years later, but if so then where were people originally getting music to put on iPods ?
For all their faults (Steam is glorified DRM), the people at Valve seem to actually understand gamers and have gaming in their own blood. Apple has never understood gaming and I doubt they ever will.
That's far but what happens when these start popping up next to Tesla chargers and you're waiting in line while people I breezing through NIO stations? It's a pipe dream atm but I believe it will spark something in Tesla owners.
I'm from Germany and in New York right now. Damn is everything expensive here. And everyone running around with a 10+$ Starbucks coffee all the time.

Edit: probably not a fair comparison though since I come from the countryside in Germany where everything's generally cheaper than in the cities.
That’s actually kind of the benefit.

You lease the battery, so the capital outlay for the consumer is significantly lower.

Since you can get your battery swapped you also don’t even have to worry about battery longevity either.
This, we burn a lot of cash for every idle machine. Manually scaling up and down resulted in both worse performance and a lot more cost.
Kid, you're advocating for mass murder. Check your intentions and reign them in.
So I think a part that is forgotten about with battery swap station is that those batteries still need to be charged. Which gets into how many additional batteries does each station need stored to be able to keep up with demand. If it takes 1 hour to fully charge a battery and you want to be able to serve a car every 5 minutes then you are going to need to be able to send out 12 batteries within an hour. So now as a consumer you are going to pay for the electricity to charge those batteries, 12 charging stations, plus the overhead of 12 batteries sitting doing nothing but charging.

Companies could reduce that overhead cost by reducing charging times, but as charging times reduce it becomes more likely the consumer will choose to simply just choose to charge their own vehicle instead of swapping a battery. How much are consumers going to be willing to spend to save 5-10 minutes? I drive past Sam's Club every day after work where people wait in line easily 10-20 minutes to save 5-10 cents per gallon of gas.
As has been said elsewhere - it didn’t beat apple to anything because it was giant, had a poor UI and no meaningful companion software. It was a prototype that wasn’t ready for the market. Nothing more.

Comparing the iPod to junk that happens to match on one spec or another tells us nothing.
In 2020, John F. Ring was the chairman, joined by William Emanuel and Marvin Kaplan. All Republicans, save for lone dissenter Lauren McFerran.

McFerran is now the chairman, and Kaplan is still on the board. Ring and Emmanuel were replaced by David Prouty and Gwynne Wilcox, respectively. Both have union backgrounds.

I can't seem to find the original case to see the board make up then.
Go to a few conferences.
> An oracle-tier legal/financial arm that is essentially independent of 1 and 2 that just views itself as having a giant stack of copyrights and money and it needs to turn it into more money.

This is the main thing I think of when I think of Disney (I think of other things as well, but none of them are positive). That's why I give them the fewest dimes I possibly can.
This isn't always done cynically. I don't know if I'm an outlier, but I can recall cases where I have put an employee on an improvement plan and it successfully led to their retention. In one case, the team member was really quite shocked to realise they were underperforming and actually quite grateful for the honest feedback. Rather than giving up they redoubled their efforts and we were all amazed at the transformation. In turn, we provided additional coaching, encouragement at the performance gains, and everybody ended up back on-track. The person in question was recently promoted.

I don't particularly like managing people, and it's easy to slip into a lazy management style where you avoid confrontation, but the truth is that I've found people respect honesty and a chance to course correct.
Glad to see that there are grammar of graphics based visualization lib in dart!
This is just one brand of eggs from one store (see info pop out). Since that store has local online ordering that matches store price, you could probably scrape it as a good practice exercise in building scrapers.
> That's why any decent country has some employee protection in its law.

You can probably draw a linear relationship between the amount of employee protection in the laws of a country and its unemployment rate, especially among younger people.

This sort of stuff always benefits those already in the system at the cost of those outside looking in. Cities with stronger tenant protection have higher rents than places without. Homelessness is worse in places with rent control.
Is that the only conclusion? There's a subset of users who are hungry for high quality applications and games. They will happily pay for substantial extensions and content upgrades. They will remember your name and see anything you release as worth considering. It's a smaller market of course but a sustainable one.

In terms of video games. I'm personally not a mobile gamer though. Maybe it's quite a bit different from desktop and console.
We've all seen the videos, but likewise we all know that EV batteries are on a whole different scale regarding size, weight, cost, and power. It's not at all clear what translates and what can be made to translate.

The only real answer is to have multiple players place their bets and see what works.
Now you've given me something to ponder on the entire day -- why do the Walmarts within 10 miles of me have different prices? Some at $3.23 and others at $2.42. A 28% difference. Do other products have this same price difference? Are some stores consistently priced lower and should I shop at those instead of the one I go to?
As I understand it (and this is before my time), garbage collection in lisp languages was really a downer on 70s and even 80s era hardware. I think a case could be made that C wasn't the only language at the time that could have birthed UNIX, but I'm not sure a lisp family language is in that list. (Edit: noting that C very much happened together with unix)

Java was the first garbage collected language that really hit it bigtime in the mainstream. And even then, I remember the zeitgeist of the early days of Java being that Java was perhaps fatally slow.

A lot has changed since then, and I'm firmly in camp "why can't we have nice things like lisp?" but I'm not sure I'd have picked a lisp (or C) back when the foundations of our current *nix paradigm were laid.
> It's not a good idea (or even a practical idea) to plot out all the work that you want an employee to do in a year, or even in a quarter

I think it's possible as long as you define the work very generically.

For example, replace "finish task X" with "participate in more code reviews" or "improve documentation". Sure it may water down the review, but at least at the end of the year you can reflect back on your general performance and measure it in some way.
You should watch the documentary on the most famous Card Mechanic (Card Magician, but they like to go by 'mechanic') - Richard Turner.

He fan feel thousands of inches and can note the individual thickness of each card he touches.

He is also 100% blind, and he talks about how sensitive his touch is.

He is unbelievably remarkable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Turner_(magician)

the documentary he is in is called "Dealt"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3127902/
I think the idea is good, and the economics don't immediately suggest that is impractical more than, say, the supply chain dynamics behind widespread gas stations to me. The issue is getting there, and while China has these manufacturers pushing the swap paradigm, we'll almost need someone with Tesla level deep pockets to get over the implementation hump in the US.
The mobile games industry is such a mess and it worries me that kids are only being exposed to video games that are 80% watching ads and begging for microtransactions. If this is the standard, they may never expect more.

On the other hand, I find solace that we still have games like Elden Ring coming out that are a one-time purchase, finely crafted experience that manage to sell like gangbusters.
There is a lot of casteism in Punjabi Sikh songs about Jatt caste being superior, just listen to the lyrics like "Jatt da muqabala". I hope this will now be used to identify casteist people of all castes who make remarks against other communities.
> If you work at a place for 10 years, is it really realistic to expect to get a $10k/yr+ raise every year

Inflation is at 6.4 percent right now. If you made 100k that would take you up to six and a half just for treading water, if you make 200k then and get 10k you are being paid less than last year.
You’re not getting a worse battery than one you owned, because you don’t own it, you just swap again when you need to. Batteries that get too old get retired by the swap stations.
It's been forked. I'm no lawyer, but I think they could.
Really interesting how different Walmarts nearby by in Kansas vary by 2x, from some of the lowest prices in the country to some of the highest.
Ah, OK—I may not have followed what you meant re: pacing in older movies, then.

I can think of a lot of older movies I'd not touch the pacing on. I don't think it'd improve the film. Then again, I admit I've bounced off a couple because of extremely-flat cinematography and slow-as-molasses pacing (the original Oceans Eleven comes to mind—I don't drop many movies that I start, but I'm not sure I even made it to the 20 minute mark on that one).

Maybe I'm misjudging what you mean by "old"—I'd kinda assumed you meant "before digital editing", say, 80s and earlier. I don't think films from the '70s tend to feel terribly different from modern ones (we've developed new and more-chaotic ways to assemble very bad action scenes, but that aside, not much different) for example, but would grant that it's probably possible to divide cinema into silent/middle/modern period as far as the feel or what's asked of the viewer, and that the former two do feel pretty different from modern films—but I'd say we were already transitioning out of "middle" and into "modern" in the '60s, so you've got to go pretty old to get into what I'd judge to be notably different.

Now, film films do tend to look very different from modern movies, even as recently as the 90s, but that's because easy digital color grading hadn't ruined the artform yet. :-)
> they weren't fucked for the rest of their lives, just for a few years for the trial and likely tens of thousands in legal fees

For causing massive, irreversible damage to a public space and natural ecosystem, damage entirely avoidable had they taken reasonable precautions? Yes.
more exciting != better
I really love looking at systems where life of a message is one of constant transformation - from JSON to internal to JSON to internal to JSON to internal to JSON to internal. U'm not even talking about the reply path.

Even if you're naive and don't care about performance - which is a common sentiment for modern developers who have spent the last decade working for companies where the cost of AWS didn't matter - chains of transformations like this are a good place to switch to a format, any format, less atrociously expensive than JSON.

The example above, btw, comes from a very large unicorn that burns _2 complete cores per outstanding request_on a continuous basis_. To someone who lived in the dotcom, that's so outrageous it's comical, and of course they have years of negative cashflow because of their insane costs.
Whole foods has absolutely gone downhill after Amazon bought it.
I see choices that are similarly confusing in my very different industrial/manufacturing work, and I think I finally understand the motivation: Large organizations are very different from small ones. Large organizations seek to turn human labor into a commodity in order to reduce risk, they cannot rely on creativity or autonomy.

At an individual or small-business scale, when you need to write a response to a recent event, you just have an intelligent human being with good communication skills write the email.

Vanderbilt has 4,470 non-academic staff - which is a lot, and seems even larger when compared to 4,783 faculty, most of whom work in the med center. With more than 4000 staff, the organization doesn't want to trust that the ~~person~~ committee assigned to write the email (or their style editor, or copy editors, or the paralegal validating the email, or the administrator overseeing the process, etc. etc.) will do a good job. I'm not saying that those people aren't intelligent or don't have good communication skills, but they're not uniform, and Vanderbilt values reliability, uniformity, and risk mitigation differently than a small organization would.

You write emails with ChatGPT not because any individual finds it easier than writing the email by hand, but because that's a way to write an email that can be made into a process, and followed step-by-step. It continues to work even if the entire staff is replaced. The emails will look the same whether they're generated by the senior editor, or by the intern. You don't need a "style guide" that's rigidly adhered to and defines whether the email should be written from a first-person perspective or second-person perspective.
To finish the thought explicitly ~

If one has pretty good automated tests, it’s possible to automate and pinpoint which commit has the last working version and which commit had the test failure by using git bisect and using the test results as input.
I think any attempt at "de-extinction" is quite literally a statement of disbelief of evolution. A core tenant (at least from my perspective) of evolution is survival of the fittest. I agree with all the other comments mentioning that the voids that extinct animals left have been filled and their ecosystems have changed, but that is different from their ecosystems being destroyed. Accept change, and move on. Also, humanity has a track record of trying to play god and that not going too well.
The variability here inside of single cities (look at Norfolk, VA for example - and remember this is just Walmart, not Walmart vs high-end grocery etc) is really highlighting to me that we need something to upset grocery delivery to either a) make it easier to order specific items from different locations with the best price or b) induce more perfect price competition between neighboring grocery retailers
The immoral part is where a senior employee was being paid less because she was "less valuable" on the open market due to her gender and ethnicity.

Edit: see also the recent stories about home values varying wildly based on whether the current owner is white or black. This is based on perceived 'market value', is this fair? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/freddie-mac-home-appraisal-hous...
That was my favorite mobile game of all time.
Anything produce related is going to fluctuate based on location. This is because most produce is bought within some distance of the store (ex: 100 miles).
The real story about ads is buried in the subhead -- likely because Verge thought they could get more clicks about "constant layoffs," which is sort of disingenuous -- Musk said "no more layoffs are PLANNED" back in Nov, which is typical corporate-speak CEOs use to cover their butts when more small layoffs occur in the future. The layoffs since the massive one in Nov have been smaller and targeted -- 40 in data science, 15 in sales, etc.

The data in the first paragraph is also misleading:

> On November 21st, Elon Musk gathered Twitter’s remaining employees at its San Francisco headquarters to tell them that, after forcing out roughly two-thirds of the workforce in a matter of weeks, layoffs were over. He keeps laying people off anyway.

Musk "forced out" half of the workforce, not two-thirds. The other swath of employees that brought the final number of departed employees to two-thirds CHOSE to leave. It's little liberties with language that journalists use like this that erode trust in readers. This doesn't detract from the main story that Musk has made Twitter an inhospitable place to work, laid off thousands, destroyed the ad business, etc., but why have sloppy reporting on the details when the facts speak for themselves?
The problem is that the "freer" alternatives based on blockchains rely on network effects. In other words, they are incompatible with the freedom to choose something else.

A freer alternative that does not rely on blockchains would not have this problem.
> You don't have to use those services

Sure, you don't have to but that is the whole point of Clouds.

Otherwise, using regular old-school hosting providers is much, much cheaper.

> and there are some abstraction you can do to make things portable.

I would disagree with this point.

I'm sure that there are some APIs that try to abstract out the Cloud service used but in the end you are tied to the pricing and technical specificities of each service.

If I want to use a file storage service, I need to know how to authenticate to it, handle the access control, host static sites with it, handle CDN integration, configure access logging, etc.

All of this is possible in multiple cloud services but will be different for each provider. That is sufficient enough for it to be a leaky abstraction.
> As has been said elsewhere

Elsewhere... as in the comment that I replied to? Which you then replied to me?

I was literally in agreement with the "elsewhere" that you're referring to. Your comments are confusing to me. Storage capacity was not the thing that made iPod successful, even though the anecdote at the top of this thread is trying to make that argument. There were a number of other factors that were more important. That's what I said and that's what the "elsewhere" also appears to have said. That's exactly what you just said too, so you're literally agreeing with me, but you want to argue for some reason.

Still, "Apple" was a much better brand than {someone no one has ever heard of}, which matters for something like the Personal Jukebox.
Sending a design to a firm to print a board for you doesn't seem like "Print your own PCB" to me.
That's also why many cities (DC, LA, St. Louis for example) have a "Union Station": that indicates a station that was specifically built for multiple railways to have access to, hence "uniting" their tracks.
The Turks like to use 'Turk' as a branding prefix too e.g. Turkcell
With the obsession over egg prices you’d think everyone is eating two dozen per day or something.
I run a `snap` command to update steam
The problem is when "fair market value" differs between two people for reasons other than their work productivity - including protected classes such as race, gender, etc.

Is it illegal? No. Immoral? I'd argue yes, if the only reason you get to pay them less is that the broader market is biased against them for reasons outside of their control.
Just because the journey feels unproductive doesn’t mean you can cut the journey in half and get to the destination. Who says your brain would have still found the bug without the time invested in it that you’re interpreting as “unproductive”? Who says if you r brain didn’t need that investment in the big just a break that a break working on other productive things wouldn’t have been just as good as a day at the beach?

Also I do give my newer employees smaller easier tasks, but they still need review, mentoring, etc. which is just another “not hard activity that takes time”. One again the idea that you can just cut work hours with no impact seems silly unless you’re working like 70 hours, or unless you’re already just a voluntarily unproductive worker. Maybe that’s an underdiscusssd angle to this; some people just don’t know how to productively organize their time.
Things to think about when building a data stack
> Why can't me and my wife have access to the one air tag attached to our family car's keys? Why is this something someone at Apple hadn't thought of?

They probably did, but decided they don't want to be part of divorces :)
I mean, even Google has a policy like this (with a tighter time limit).
> especially since they’re hoping for global sales

On top of that, a lot of actually interesting content has the potential to cause shitstorms. Like, especially anything LGBT and women's rights won't fly in China, Russia, Arabia and lots of Asian countries. Black lead actors lead to massive shitstorms from the far-right in the USA and parts of Europe [1] - and so, producers leave all that "potentially troubling for sales" content out.

Everything "mainstream" is just the same bullshit now, white- and dumbwashed.

[1] Black Panther and the 3rd Star Wars trilogy were surrounded by some of the most vile harassment campaigns I've seen, for example
I appreciate the opposite notifications saying "You have left your AirPods behind" while I am listening to my AirPods.
Obligatory counterexample, comedies. A quickfire screwball classic like "His Girl Friday" has lots of smart lines per minute where recent Hollywood ones will have two jokes in 90mins that they've had to put into the trailer, and slow build ups so that everybody can get the lame joke.
Italian prosecutors probe Meta for '870Ms EUR tax evasion'
The consequence of any failure is much larger than the value of forgoing regulation.
The Trump Whitehouse was in the process of intentionally contravening much of the administrative state - EPA, CDC, NRLB, IRS, USCIS, etc etc. So overturning precedent to favor anti-labor policy was perfectly consistent with the overall vision.
It's not just about the resolution, it's about physical area.

My plan is to buy a 65" or 75" 8k TV and use it as computer monitor. I'll have a screen that is as big as my desk.

A display of that size will allow me to have my IDE, source control, terminals, log files, the app that I'm developing, my email, the CI dashboard all visible at the same time.

Of course I'll mainly use the bottom center of the huge display, but I think it will be a completely different experience when you no longer have to cmd-tab between apps but can just glance up/left/right to see what's going on.
Pretty much the same here...I started programming around 10, and by 12 I couldn't imagine doing anything else. 40 years later, I'm still loving it :-D

I still get surprised when I see people making money without a computer..it just seems like such an alien concept :-)
I'm in NYC and I have no idea what you're talking about.

The food is the same. Nothing has changed that I can tell.

Same hot/cold bar. Same produce. Same meat and fish. Same in house brands. Same pizza. Same bakery.

Main differences are just a lot more self checkout and areas for Amazon returns. And Prime discounts of course.

What food do you think got worse?