skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> " ... Qualcomm demanded a percentage of the retail selling price of phones using it's modems. ..."

No, that's not how it works. Apple does NOT have licensing agreement with Qualcomm. Apple's contract manufacturer, or CM's -- such as Foxconn -- are the primary licensees of Qualcomm's wireless portfolio. Apple's royalty -- or indirect payment to Qualcomm via CM's -- likewise is based on Foxconn's pre-existing licensing agreement with Qualcomm (which even predates Apple's first iPhone) and on Foxconn's manufacturing/wholesale price, which is typically 1/3 or 1/4 of Apple's retail price (often under $400 -- not surprisingly Qualcomm's licensing fee maxes out at $400).

>> Similarly, ... ( using it's standards essential patents. ... So, this is hardly an unfounded claim.

The Motorola case does not support Apple's royalty-basis theory at all, First, Judge Robart does not invalidate end-user device as royalty-basis, or favors SSPPU promoted by Apple. Second, his decision was based on two critical considerations: merits/value contribution/significance of the patents asserted against Microsoft. And, in order to determine an appropriate price/range, if there existed any comparable RAND licensing practice adapted by other patent holders in the industry. In Motorola's case, their patents were relatively frivolous and insignificant in value/merit contributed, and their royalty rates were simply out of whack -- certainly 1000x out of common industry practice in the video encoding/802.11 wireless business.

Qualcomm is an industry pioneer with numerous seminal contribution under their belt. Their licensing practice also conforms with long-held de facto industry practices; though there are some aspects of their licensing business that are bit quite anticompetitive -- royalty-basis is not among them however.
With timezones:

* I want to call my friend in Germany. What time is it for her? I guess I'm UTC-7 and she's UTC+1, so she's 8 hours ahead of me. I know that everybody around the world typically wakes up between 6 and 9 AM and goes to sleep between 8 PM and midnight, and she's an early bird, so she should be awake.

* They said the meeting was going to be at 8 o'clock, but they are in a different time zone, did they mean mine or theirs?

Without timezones:

* I want to call my friend in Germany. It's the same time here as there. It rises at 13:00 here, but she's a quarter of the way way around the world. I have to look up their typical waking hours. She's an early bird, so is she on the early side of that, likely. What time does the sun rise there? How much does that change over the seasons?

* They said the meeting was at 18:00. I know exactly when that is.

* If I live too far from the UTC, the day will change in the middle of my working day. My friend said they'd see me on Tuesday. Do they mean the day that had Tuesday at the beginning of it, or the end? What does "Tuesday morning" mean when morning is at the end of the Tuesday? Is "morning" the beginning of the solar day or the beginning of the clock day?

I agree with DST and 12-hour clocks, those are antiquated and mostly pointless. If you get rid of time zones, you don't simplify anything. You trade one set of complications for another. The complication is that you are interacting with humans that have different hours than you do, getting more different as you get farther away. Without time zones, you still have those complications, and you trade the set of time zone complications for another set of complications, by having your time completely divorced from your local daylight and working hours.

There are stupidities with modern time zones, but the concept exists for a good reason.
Under what situation (if any) does the ordered map win over the unordered? I find it difficult to believe it is always an improvement, what's the niche uses?
> Undefined behavior means the language provides no guarantees about the outcome.

No, not "the language", but "the standard".

Languages like Python or Rust that don't have standards are 100 percent undefined behavior.

If you're really worried about this, then just code against x86_64 clang and not ISO C++ and forget about this non-problem forever.
This explanation needs to be worded a bit more carefully because it sounds like you complain about "all that rights that women got are destroying the society" and that's pretty offensive.

IMHO this is a more general problem of people making less kids as they get wealthier. It's a well known trend, the number of kids fall as the countries climb out of poverty.

I'm sure there are plenty of studies about it and proposed solutions but the world's population is doing just fine and I don't think that we should walk away from having a life in order to have "more children from our kind".

This is a theme in the "white genocide" circles and I don't believe that we should force women into being baby factories, instead we should create an equal world and embrace the high number of babies born in some places.

Eventually everything will stabilize and the population pyramid will get into a healthy shape. Obviously, as the boomer generation climbs to the top of the pyramid we will have a period of distress.

I'm sorry to offend armchair babyboomers but no, giving up rights and life to increase population and race share is something that no one is obligated to participate. If you feel like that, do it yourself.
Bit misleading but I don't think the image is what was actually purchased. That's a concept car from CES.

What they've purchased are the "Ford E-Transit Battery Electric Vehicle", which AFAICT look pretty much identical to the standard Ford Transit vans that are ubiquitous all over the US.
I’m with you on the last two but a life without timezones sounds horrible.

So many issues, like having to relearn the clock when you are in another timezone. I’ll meet you for lunch at 06.00! Life is based around the sun.

Having some sort of agreed upon world timezone would be neat though, whether that was GMT or something less euro centric. So everyone would understand “we have a zoom meeting at 11.00 WT” instead of having to decide which timezone to refer to.
Glad you enjoyed it! And yes, agreed there is so much here that isn't spoken of very broadly: part of what we have loved about social audio is allowing engineering teams to speak candidly about the work that they're doing -- and we're hoping that others follow suit, as I (selfishly) would love to listen to similar conversation from other engineering teams...
I think it looks great as a proof-of-concept. The author also correctly identifies some of the challenges, of which I think the greatest will be consistency. I would explore picking out the best examples it generates, or a style from a game you want to mimic, and train a Dreambooth model on those.
Yeah they use bikes in Switzerland but the temperature range (at least in The Valley part and not the mountains) is pretty narrow compared to the US. Basically -5C to 30C
> What's the alternative? Other than more scrutiny and harsher punishments for banks, which very few people are against.

Few people are against it, yet we didn't hear about too many bankers getting sent to the locker, did we?

> Just because 0.1% of businesses gets bailouts, you're going to ignore 99.9%? Are you the type of person that says vaccines don't work because people still get sick?

Not sure where you're getting the 0.1% figure but "privatizing gains and socializing losses" is hardly a new idea.

> Nothing is perfect, it's quite easy to criticize anything. But if you're criticizing without offering any alternatives, your criticism isn't worth much.

I think we're some ways apart from being close to perfect, no one is asking for perfection just that things not be awesome for 1% of the population at the expense of the rest.

> So I'll ask again, what is alternative that you're offering?

I won't give you a primer on different economic models, at the risk of bringing too much taboo magic into the discussion, just know that not all models depend on the exploitation of workers, labour pressure via unemployment, and minimum wages that require government subsidized food stamps in order to allow workers to live while working multiple part time jobs with no benefits.

edit: In the spirit of hn guidelines and for the curious, I think some of the discussions with B. Sanders may be appealing to some.
Give humans the buying power and free time to raise kids and see families raise natality rates to a healthy substitution rate. If you call them out on it, you're a socialist but if you phrase it in a positive way, they will cheer for it.
It is called "foodie calls" in New York City. For instance, https://nypost.com/2019/06/21/a-third-of-women-only-date-men...
And multi-million dollar businesses are built on Excel every day. Your point is what exactly?
I've met too many millenials who want kids but can't afford them or the stuff you should have before you have kids to agree with you.

From what I've seen, it's lack of stable employment, stable housing and decent support system for parents. Wages have been declining relative to inflation and cost of living for a very long time, and that's for the job you get after you go into debt to get a degree which you didn't used to need.
We do that with combustion engines...
biggest issue is not allowing for remote, not the clearance.
Perhaps it is not sustainable to have more than 100 million people on a small island with limited resources for the long term.

People talking about population collapse forget that the population explosion that has happened in the recent past is quite the exception in human history and such high population growth was never sustainable in the long run.

Continuously increasing the population while maintaining a good quality of life is a challenging task. The current population "crisis" may simply be a return to the norm, as nature seeks to establish a stable equilibrium. Japan has prospered as a civilization for thousands of years without being as densely populated as it is now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Japan_b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Empire_of_Ja...
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> If you aim for 0 compatibility, perhaps even can design your cpu, could an OS be much simpler?

Yes, but a lot (possibly most) of the benefit is likely to be from dropping bug-for-bug compatibility with defects of preexisting operating systems and instruction set architectures individually. (Like x86 segmentation or unix tcsetattr/termios, for a pair of very obvious examples.)

For paging specifically, you'll have something functionally equivalent unless your system is deficient in the same ways a 6502 is (no virtual memory or memory protection). You might come up with something functionally equivalent but better, but if so that would be a novel discovery (either in the scientific sense, or in the sense of "I discovered a research paper from 1960 that solves this problem trivially as long as you have larger than 6-bit bytes and more than 64K[0] of RAM.").

0: Something like four rooms of vacuum tubes in 1960 money, which is why it never caught on. (/not-even-all-that-s)
I wonder if old BeOS source code can be opensourced. it would be a great alternative to port on risc-v from the getgo.
It's no wonder it's in decline.

We are considering having our second (we live in Japan) but the lack of daycare places is really hurting us. Even private daycares are fully subscribed. Moreover, if my wife gives birth, our child will have to come out of any public daycare she gets into.

Here we are, in our mid 30s, with a good household income and have ruled out a third already. We are not far from ruling out a second as well.
Job posting says remote USA/Canada only, not Worldwide.
Japan 1950: ~84 million people

Japan 2023: ~123 million
data from: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/population-g...

How is this a crisis?
> The reverse exists in spades where after decades the private ISP make no network improvements and the town has to foot the bill to get decent internet.

As opposed to simply not having the service for all those decades, and continuing to not have it?

Keep in mind that these governments have a longer history of not delivering, and not maintaining existing infrastructure than most of these private companies. By a margin of decades. There is more data on their inability to deliver than there is on the private companies' malfeasance.

> do you have more leverage on your officials or on your local conpanies? If your local companies are monopolies that benefit more from not serving you, you'll be in the same situation as you descibre.

The difference being local monopolies still provide service to those with resources to pay, whereas the local governments wouldn't.

If there is a market, they will continue to provide service. If they leave, another company will take its place.

I'm not a believer in the free market. But this is one of the classic examples where in corrupt countries international private companies really were way, way better. When the lowly street vendor can afford a cell phone, everyone's life is way better.
Considering how they've treated those with mixed Japanese ancestry then I guess you're right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/global/23immigra...
I’m just guessing, but…

Significantly smaller. They are designed to be stopped on small oneway roads while still leaving enough room for a full sized vehicle to pass.

It’s also somewhat reminiscent of the existing fleet of last-mile carrier trucks:

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/usps-mail-delivery-truck-bac...
No, I would include IBM high on the list. IBM did a half-assed PC design to rush something to market[1] after being late to PCs which was a significant factor in why they lost control of the PC market a handful of years after entering it.[2] They actually had a few shots at a comeback (the Thinkpad was a great laptop etc.) but didn't like margins and decided to become a services business instead[3]... how's that working out?

[1] They decided the OS wasn't that important... sure, let Microsoft own that. The CPU architecture wasn't that important... sure, let Intel own that. Just glue a bunch of off-the-shelf logic together for the rest. After all, the real value is in the IBM logo on the box. What could possibly go wrong?

[2] Sure, they were calling the shots for the 8086 and (mostly) 80286 generations. They tried to rectify their mistake over half a decade later with the PS/2 (i.e. proprietary everything) but by then it was too late. Compaq and the clone makers owned the market from the 80386 on.

[3] Out of the frying pan and into the fire?
Air2phin open-source announced, migrating from Airflow to Dolphinscheduler
It only takes 2 steps to finish.
Yeah, definitely not a switch ASIC. But would love to see something like the E2000 with 1) an open underlying ISA to enable truly open P4 compilers and 2) no compute complex so we can focus the power budget on the programmable data plane.
There are also government contractors who often pair with USDS doing this kind of work! Ad Hoc (my employer), Nava, Civic Actions, etc. are all part of a new generation of companies with related missions trying to bring modern software practices into the US government. While USDS is often on the inside cutting through bureaucracy, the contractors are often doing most of the technical build and implementation.
> The downside is, your game is indistinguishable from every other game

There is not such a consistency in "every other game", neither is there only a single one AI style, so that can't happen either, you'll be able to distinguish if the designer wanted such a distinction

> what is AI adding that will appeal to people wanting to buy your game, and the answer to that is still probably nothing.

This one is also easy: price reduction, that's pretty appealing
I was thinking the same thing, if Google or Bing actually integrate ads in the texts, I think it would be more effective than the current way!

Because even if you ignore it, you'll see it in the periphery.
Similar experience here. EMDR with a practitioner who knows to apply technique was life changing for me. Shedding decades of stress, anxiety and unprocessed baggage via this technique has opened the way for further self improvement.

For anyone who has tried CBT or other traditional therapy and hasnt seen results it could be worth looking into. YMMV as I know people close to me who have dealt with similar early-life trauma and have been better served by other techiques
Japan had a near-apocalyptic financial disaster that to this day they haven’t really recovered from. Could have seriously affected the population’s psyche and stance towards things.
It is reminiscent of the male behaviour in Universe 25 - this description reminded me of "the beautiful ones": https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/universe-25-1968-1...
The College Where Tuition Is Free and Every Student Is Given a Job
Apparently Russian
https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14424010#:~:text=SHIBE....
I can't tell for scale, but I rememer BHP billiton spinning out bluescope steel as a company which at that time was creating something like 5 milion tonnes of steel a year. I have a feeling that there is capability, but I'm not sure that its the right capability (as this is not my area).

I'm just confused how it would be cheaper to ship the unprocessed ore across the ocean at a cheaper cost than processing it locally and shipping the finished product.
I think the project has to have the funding already via donations or sponsoring - they state they can employ people "If your project has a sufficient amount of funding".
It wouldn’t light up nor it wouldn’t be recognized by MacOS.

When using provided USB-A -> USB-C cable and an adapter it did work. It also would light up when connected directly to power source through USB-C.

As for “my setup” - it’s non modified hardware with non modified software (at driver level at least). This is a common problem with Stream Deck. If it’s possible to get into situation where cable is indistinguishable but it might work or not (I’ll repeat - I have 5m long Meta cable for Oculus that works) it’s definitely problem of specs and shabby manufacturer.
Not sure about this elephant story but this is precisely how people have been training dogs and even bears for a long time.

Imagine a 500kg bear dancing for someone's amusement when the music starts. I haven't seen this in 30 years but even as a kid it seemed really wrong in many ways
Yes — relativistic effects are so fundamental that they affect every system/process (including atomic clocks ) and therefore any measurement scheme. That’s why we talk about “time slowing down”. The movie Interstellar has one popular depiction of this.
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Far worse tbh..
To be fair, it also seems like it performs worse.
question: "Who is Scott Alexander?"

chatgpt-turbo:

>As an AI language model, I cannot determine the specific Scott Alexander in question without further contextual information. There may be several people with this name, including writers, politicians, entrepreneurs, athletes, and more.

chatgpt website:

>Scott Alexander is a pseudonym used by a prominent American psychiatrist and blogger who is best known for his writing on the blog "Slate Star Codex." He has also written articles for other publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal.

Scott Alexander's writing covers a wide range of topics, including medicine, psychiatry, economics, politics, and culture. He is known for his thoughtful, analytical approach to complex issues and for his ability to explain difficult concepts in a clear and accessible way.

In 2020, Scott Alexander announced that he was deleting his blog after he was doxxed by a reporter for The New York Times who planned to write an article about him. However, he later started a new blog called "Astral Codex Ten" where he continues to write.
Pity that Mesa, Mesa/Cedar, Interlisp-D and Smalltalk did not have the same luck in OS design and system languages.
I will disclaim that I have no idea how Oxide is using P4 for packet processing, but what you are currently doing with P4 on your switch can likely be moved to some rules on a dumber switch/router (eg what hyperscalers use) plus a special packet encapsulation on the NIC using similar P4 rules. That lets you push the intelligence out of the switch and toward the edge of the network. At least, this is the approach that the major hyperscalers are taking, and there doesn't seem to be a good reason to not do this (other than potentially the cost, since you don't have the scale to get a good discount on the NICs).
Here is a case of a foreign citizen winning a lawsuit against a discriminatory car dealership in Japan

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2017/10/11/issues/att...
So fuck ‘em don’t pay them because tipping is bad?
> Are relativity effects significant on the moon?

Yes, as the article states, clocks run faster on the Moon. About 56 microseconds per day.

Be that as it may, as far as I know, Newtonian gravity was sufficient for the moon landings. So I'm guessing this is more of a coordination issue between countries than a necessity for trajectories or such.
It’s not about creating an earth based zone for the moon. It’s about creating a system of recording time that works on the moon. Time doesn’t work the same on the moon as on earth, so why should they be linked?

Earth clocks are basically about the position of a point on earth, relative to the sun. The moon’s relationship with the sun is quite entirely different. So where is the equivalent of Greenwich on the moon? Does that even make sense? What is the equivalent of a day? Will there be weeks?

Earth clocks and moon clocks don’t run at the same time, due to relativity. And I guess the relationship between earth and moon time is far from linear depending on their relative positions and the sun’s.

So there is lots of interesting stuff to be worked out, and I don’t think it’s silly at all.
Is this sustainable or will the free content disappear from the web over time? because chatgpt does not generate revenue for the sources of content it uses.

OpenAI represents the opposite of open, responsible and non profit: it might as well be MS-AI
You took offense? Why?

When women didnt have as many rights they had more kids (fewer options to do anything else).

Thats just the trade off - women are free to choose to not have kids and thats what they choose.
I thought that they already do this. They also have some other business, but mainly they buy their own stock, which by definition is SP 500 stock.