skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The imperial system is perfect. 625,000 golf carts is one Great Pyramid, and 6,557,075 Great Pyramids of Giza is one Texas. How is this not obvious? /s

Also, ChatGPT trivializes sarcastic responses that involve a bit of math.
The economy hasn’t crashed and their earnings and profits are both up by double digits as of yesterday’s report:

https://investor.salesforce.com/press-releases/press-release...

This is businesses reacting to activist investors and trying to quash workers asking for better compensation. To the extent that the economy lags it’ll be due to layoffs affecting people who circulate their income more effectively than shareholders.
No one wants store credit.
The problem is that after your typical singer/songwriter spends a month or two working with the sort of tool they "really need", their sense of the possible expands. And expands. And expands. They may never get to 32 hardware channels, but they will get to automation, VCAs, plugin favorites, grouping, and much, much more.

I've considered doing a crazy-simple version of Ardour (nominal name "arb" for "Ardour Recording Button"), but I'm still not convinced that writing a tool that will only be useful to most of its users for a couple of months makes sense.
You can try queries like -

when should I launch
,what are tarpit ideas
,what are some good business models

I asked the bot - when should I launch.
This is what it gave me:

More often than not, the right answer is ASAP. It is probably right now. Why? Founders are good at lying to themselves. So, it's important to launch as soon as possible to get feedback and make sure you are on the right track. Launching is not just a one-time event, but a continuous process. You should always be shipping.
That assumes that the cost is proportional to the number of transactions, and is completely uncorrelated to the size of the transaction, which doesn’t make any sense to me. Any costs due to risk will be larger for larger transactions.
No rolling blackouts here.

And prices have been falling. Most plans around here are paying $0.10496. I'm on a time schedule and do most of my charging at $0.07688.

The price per kWh has been consistently falling. I think the GP is right, energy is changing.

https://cleanpoweralliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Cl...
Probably does. Most engineers are fungible
If by successful you mean slow to develop, slow to run, bug ridden software we have to deal with today, you have built a great definition.

This kind of thinking got us Teams and Slack.
I was specifically wondering about the refund cost; I wonder if Walmart is eating the 1-3% on all refunds (I suspect the stores that DO eat it are the ones that really want to refund as store credit).
The economy has crashed? That's news to me. Last I heard we had record low unemployment across the board and widespread, if modest, growth.
Apple is notorious for wanting to push people away from portable and easy-to-use web applications to non-portable, expensive to develop, and frequently worse mobile apps.
The initial link claims they are lobbying for client-side scanning while they are offering a commercial product for client-side scanning.
Not op here, but: I think the philosophy of ports and packages (shared with other BSDs) has an upside over dpkg and rpm in that you can customize options when you build from source. The downside is that building from source takes a long time.

If you follow Debian testing or sid, you will experience a lot of dependency breakage that I've never seen on a BSD, but that may not be dpkg or apt's fault so much as ongoing package maintenance causing those issues.
Weaire–Phelan_structure
I don't actually mind that. I'm personally fine with plain, monospaced text, ideally with URL detection.
SMS is currenty being undermined by Google's RCS on Android.[0] Some SMSes sent by Google Messages already don't arrive at non-RCS clients. So that also should be forced to open up. In fact, this is a large part of why Signal is dropping SMS support.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
[1] https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
I do this by calling the full-timer living on the same cul-de-sac as the family cabin. Maybe costs me a beer if he drops in to say hi.
Tesla's new master plan is not a new car, just thoughts about Earth
Force.
Governments shouldn't be forced to permit the creation of political parties. If citizens want the right to kick out the government, the government should have the right to kick citizens out of the country.

See the flaw in both of these arguments is that governments and corporations aren't people and only exist to provide some societal benefit. the measure of what we should allow governments and companies to do is what makes for the best functioning society, not some random principal of symmetry.
UK countryside feels like white middle-class club. We can –and will– change this
Mastodon looks alive to me. It’s not a Twitter killer, but its position is cemented.
Oh, really? Because I'm pretty sure we didn't strictly need that much labor for essential jobs even before any meaningful automation.
A refund _is_ a chargeback – the only difference is who initiates it. Technically, any time funds are moved onto a card, it's called a chargeback. This is how one would load a gift card, for instance.

When it comes to credit card merchants, a chargeback always dings a transaction fee, and the merchant may additionally tack on a chargeback fee. So a full refund process will incur two transaction fees, plus possibly a chargeback fee.
They have better metrics than random anti-corporate HNer who is typically clueless about accounting, marketing, lead-gen?
Doesn't mean it's the wrong way.
Breaking news, ChatGPT sends humanity back to the stone age. News broken by the town crier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_crier
> cryptographic ID

Verifiable digital IDs can only confirm that you're the holder of a key. The best case scenario is that it proves you are the same person as before, but there's no way to prove that you are who you say you are.
Show HN: Find your total build minutes with GitHub Actions and Golang
Probably fewer than that. Cost of an employee to the company is on average 2x their salary. Plus such mass layoffs don't just target entry level employees but an entire vertical slice including senior ICs, managers and executives. A lot of them at companies like Salesforce, Google, Meta get $1M+/yr in comp.
Let's just admit it. Now that the cellular industry in the States has transitioned past 3G, Qualcomm no longer has patents that are required for compatibility, but are not bound by commitments to license under FRAND terms.

The Google/Motorola/Microsoft case (and associated FTC order) shows that Qualcomm will not be able to pull the same price gouging shenanigans with patents that are encumbered by requirements to license under FRAND terms.

The standards essential 4G/5G patents are all encumbered by requirements to license to all comers on FRAND terms.

Which means Qualcomm is severely overvalued now that anyone with the means will be able to develop their own modems without anticompetitive interference. How long until Samsung starts selling their own in-house modem to others?
If you actually need Windows VSTs in your workflow, then it would still be best to run Windows. However, yabridge is pretty amazing these days (still, however, utterly dependent on the ever-shifting sands of what Wine does).
Like i said, that's already outdated. ( Can you read? )

Here in Cambodja 2010 - COVID 2 https://theconversation.com/in-2010-a-virus-similar-to-sars-...

The Chinese biolab is in walking distance from the market, where the first infection was found. It has multiple awards for it's work in coronaviruses.

Additionally, the huge overlap in the genome marker >96%.

Should be easy, in case you have some common sense, no? :)

Your version:

Deadly COVID had an outbreak in the US, then napped for 8 months, traveled a bit over the world, re-appeared in Wuhan, from the US... to 1 person - patient Zero.

Then! Patient Zero went to a cave ~40 miles further, back in time and infected some bats with an earlier version of deadly COVID SARS 2.. rofl

Or my version ( where time travel doesn't exist):

You are obviously not aware of the fact that multiple coronaviruses exists ( eg. The common cold is one), explains multiple variants since 2010.

It further evolved in a bat cave in China ( see: the similar genome), could have gone through a biolab in China and then spread from China or through animal-to-human transfer ( since bats are a Chinese delicassy) and then spread from China.

That also explains SARS ( also a coronavirus) coming from China.

Simple, right?

Ps. About Italy. Your entire claim is not proof, since this is what the research mentions:

> In addition, we cannot exclude that the observed sero-reactivity could be an unknown antigen specificity in another virus to which subjects were exposed containing an epitope adventitiously cross-reactive with an epitope of SARS-CoV-2.

If you can still read, this means that they haven't found proof of SARS COVID in Italy in 2019 ( or elsewhere), they found proof of a similar antigen that is triggered by COVID, but that's not exclusively attributed to COVID SARS 2!

Glad to be of assistance for you!

I'd trust biomarkers to track COVID origins fyi :)
While we were waiting for a contractor to replace our failing AC and furnace, he had to come back like four times to recharge the system (supply chain issues getting the new unit). Now I wonder how much refrigerant we were unintentionally breathing, and how much PFAS we were bio-accumulating during that time.
https://www.figma.com/file/zQUSuJaUeIWStngFKgpgsz/Plato-Desi...
I think this analysis is truthy, as opposed to true.

> did a half-assed PC design to rush something to market

the alternative to "half-assed" and "off the shelf" would have been "an IBM-wide committee taking 5 years to do an all-IBM device that cost $30,000." They "rushed it out" because the market was moving fast and a ponderous bureaucracy would have missed it.

For a number of years, "IBM-compatible" was the buzzword in PCs. The market was simply too big for them to keep owning it. There were still good profits to be made on customers who prided themselves on being all-IBM. They could have led the army instead of being the army as they had in the mainframe days. That would have required a subtlety that just wasn't in them.

The PS/2 and OS/2 were indeed mistakes and helped make them a joke.
Shutting down one store out of thousands is not equivalent to a business ceasing operations.
at some point this kind of luddism will become self-defeating; we can only hope that it doesn't engulf the whole human race

this is banning the safest refrigerants, forcing either a switch to dangerously inflammable refrigerants or to systems without refrigeration
> The fact that they also decided that 8K out of the 25K+ employees hired during the pandemic were redundant has nothing to do with Matthew McConaughey.

Like everyone else in Tech, they over-hired because they were objectively in a different state of the world in 2021, which was possibly everyone's best year in 1-2 decades. Then 2022 rolled in, shit hit the fan on inflation, Ukraine war and a seemingly overnight massive hike in rates after being in negative yield territory for a while... guess what? Companies went back to the drawing board, stared at lower revenue expectations, higher costs, worse margins given operating leverage and decided they could do without X% employees to favor profitability over growth, since there's nowhere near the same growth to be had in 2022-23 as there was in 2020-21

Conceptually, I dislike layoffs as much as the next person... but keeping the same cost structure against deteriorating topline growth is just Bad Business, and that's how CEOs get fired and companies go under. Ask the owner of the pizza joint nearest to you and they're likely to agree.

All in all, unemployment is still at record lows so I'm incline to believe that laid-off workers are finding employment elsewhere, which is the good side of Capitalism.

It could have been worse, John... a lot worse
No shit, Sherlock?
Can you cite this figure? I'd like to know where the additional funds go for an average employee. Is this including things such as material expenses (photocopy paper, utility bills, etcetera)? Because that's the only way I could imagine the 2x happening. And this will have huge variation depending on the type of job.
Not the author, but quickly ran a script over "Who wants to be hired?" from Jan-2021 to March-2023 and here is the resulting plot of the top-level comments (where indent="0"): https://www.arminbuilds.com/2021_01-2023_03_hired.png
So you don't want to be able to call your relatives with certainty? You don't want to read what's going on that isn't right in front of your face?

Even local news would become unreliable.
Ok, but the people in the union are actual people. The company is a abstract entity we invented to facilitate business. The right of assembly of real humans is surely more important than the right of assembly of a legal fiction.
Why is this Show HN? It's an OSS project, in the blog post, I add colour and talk more about how the libraries work and the rapid prototyping style I used to write the tool.

There's also an incoming PR that fixes the first feature request - to run on a personal account.
I'll bet "Rishi Sunak" would get to 10 Downing Street.

I wonder if random mail sent to top level politicians actually gets to them. The intention is clear, yes, but there's probably layers of security that will prevent it from getting to its intended address...
> their earnings and profits are both up by double digit

To be more specific, their adjusted non-GAAP profits are higher than expected. By GAAP measures they posted a loss for the previous quarter.
$10M/yr = 50x $200K/yr

Not paying him and getting sued for it would save about 50 jobs temporarily. Not "thousands"...
Lack of religion is a change, but I mentioned religion as something that influences our thoughts, attitudes and behavior, and which all over the world has lead to conflict, e.g. The Struggles. In that sense, we have not been able to deal with that particular phenomenon, and, as you say, the only way seems to be to get rid of it. Quite the analogy for social media.
> I've never seen a toll bridge that had tolls in both directions.

Huh, I think I've only seen this once (the Tacoma Narrows Bridge). Other toll bridges I've driven have all had tolls in each direction, e.g., Ambassador and Blue Water Bridges to Canada, Lake Washington floating bridge. Maybe I need to start taking more bridges to nowhere!
Oh totally, I was more remarking on whether they were progressive at all. That's the part I'm not sure about.
There are countless articles showing how OOP fails to model the physical world.
If so, then so is school- it's literally children being forced to hard mental work against their will, justification irregardless.
More than 90M Americans are bracing for severe thunderstorms
If it was so universally easy, why aren't more people doing it?
> In fact, regular face to face interactions with others is something I'd like more of, but I'd prefer that the majority of that be outside the workplace.

If you're working 8+ hours a day, I think the raw numbers make it difficult to get substantial face-to-face interaction time outside of work, with people you don't live with. You'd need to be militant about planning an outing every evening.

I know someone who wakes up every morning at 4 am (so for her it's mornings rather than evenings) for either her breakfast club, running group, morning dance party (this is a thing, called Daybreaker), dodge ball league, etc.

Maybe you're like her. I'm not. If I don't meet people at work, I'm alone most days.
If you read that article carefully you probably don't have PFAS in your system. It would have to have been replaced in the last 10 years to possibly have it.

The older stuff had HFCs/CFCs but didn't have PFAS.

I am in the same situation. My system has had to be recharged every 2 years or so but has not failed yet. Overall we're talking very small amounts leaked on mine.
Exactly. They union is trying to prevent a race to the bottom!
The hardest part for me in exploring new music is the ‘discovery’ process of new music that I like.

Most of the algorithms just want to reinforce giving me recommendations of either mixes of the same music, or just slightly different but overall still similar music in the same genre.

Like, who knows, I may really like scandinavian metal bands, but how much time will I realistically spend going out of my way to find it or get recommendations if I know nothing about it? Especially as one gets older with more obligations and has less time to spend.
It does, yeah. It's tokens "processed", meaning request & response. The API response will give you a total token count so you can keep track
Sounds woke. I'd think Texas would expel them as they are not investing any any petroleum usage other than plastics and shipping cars around.
Is it very hard to believe that (1) some single digit % of employees (and even entire divisions) at a massive corporation – one that nearly doubled in size during the pandemic – aren't adding a lot of value and (2) a flashy marketing campaign can bring a company new customers?
> So we need to go back to talking to people irl

This is a fundamental breakdown of society. It is literally societal collapse. It's not going to happen. We'd give up the telephone and even the telegraph.

> assume that anything you read online is not written by real people unless proven otherwise

You can't prove otherwise. It's literally impossible without watching a human write it and publish it, and even then you'd have to compare it to what you saw them type.
i don't think the airtag uses a mesh network per say. it's more like someone elses phone sees an airtag and reports the phone's gps position/timestamp/airtagid back to apple over whatever data connection it has. That's certainly how 'Tile' works. It's not like it's hopping phone to phone to get back to you.
,,but only when it’s performed quickly enough''

Sadly politics in the world makes this part really hard :(
> And of course, it is always negotiable.

Sweet. How do I negotiate with Amazon again?

In reality, negotiation is a relic of a long gone era and flea markets. Buyer agency in general has mostly disappeared in modern transactions.
GAMA Platform, for building spatially explicit agent-based simulations
Electricity is a form of energy made by nature, AI is made by humans, who also invented nuclear weapons.
Square wants more store credit. The more lock-in, the better.
yea, i wanted to see this food.
Is there more context to share?
I think it’s a comment on tinkering vs working. A lot of people view alternative OS’s like BSDs as a toy for tinkering but not being productive. I wouldn’t know because my entire 7-figure income comes from my basement rack of Plan9 machines…
For fun, I ported much of BSDutils to WebAssembly. Code [1] and live demo [2]. It was much, much easier porting BSDutils than GNU coreutils, since the source code is often much smaller, and hence easier to read and understand with simpler dependencies.

[1] https://github.com/sagemathinc/cowasm/tree/main/core/coreuti...
[2] https://cowasm.sh/
Maybe not regulate. Maybe just don't prevent adversarial interoperability from happening. In an ideal world, a company trying to sue someone who built an unofficial client for their service should be laughed out of the court building and fined for wasting judge's time.

Remember ICQ? The official clients were bloated and generally meh. Many people didn't ever see them, not even once. Almost everyone I knew used QIP, Miranda, Adium, or something else third-party. ICQ the company sometimes broke the protocol and then there was a massive uproar. Then clients got updated and everyone carried on messaging. But the system being involuntarily open like this meant that there were ICQ clients for so many things that wouldn't ever get official treatment otherwise. Basically — if it has a network interface, a screen, a means of text input, and can run arbitrary code, it'd have an ICQ client built for it at some point. There was one in the form of an ELF binary for Siemens phones for example.

No one is asking for a standardized protocol. It is my understanding that what is being asked for here is the documentation of their existing protocol that would allow third-party clients and bridges to be built. And this is an unequivocally good thing.
I think it’s also how we interact with them. I remember being “chronically online” as a teenager 15 years ago without a phone, just playing MMORPGs all day and me and my friends (all internet friends the same age, didn’t meet IRL until our early 20s) didn’t have the same issues that teenagers are dealing with now.

I think there’s something inherently comparative and consumerist to social media. I’ve travelled a lot, despite being under 30, and in the last couple years I really felt like a lot of it was just to earn some “achievement” after seeing other people I know traveling places.

I haven’t been on any social media for over a year now, and that latent background noise of “I need to do this, go there, buy that” has faded.

I’d usually consider myself pretty immune to stuff like that but social media often feels like MTV Cribs, just for every social class, and that’s maybe what’s so insidious about it.
I've never seen a toll bridge that doesn't have tolls in both directions. I didn't even know that charging in only one direction was a thing. You live and you learn.
Banning harmful substances isn't luddism. What do you think luddism is? What is the harm of this ban?
Can we go shorter? The Director General of MI6 traditionally has the designator 'C'. This probably wouldn't work anywhere in the UK, but if you dropped it off at a Post Office near Vauxhall Cross, they'd probably figure out what you meant.
n=1, but FWIW... I'll turn 50 in a few months, and I still explore new music. Both new bands (including "new, old bands" that I missed previously, as well as "actually new" bands) within my long-favored genres (hard rock / heavy metal and hip-hop), as well as entirely new genres. I took to listening to a lot of synthwave, horrorwave, darkwave stuff a couple of years ago and am still exploring that genre. And I listen to a little bit more jazz now, and some blues, where both of those are genres I never listened to at all in years prior. And of course I'm always learning more classical works that I enjoy that I had not been exposed to yet.

What all this means? I dunno, but just keep the flow of new music coming, please.
There's is a near infinite number of competitors to iMessage. There's Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Viber, Kik, Skype, Whatever Google Makes that they'll kill in six months, WeChat, Snapchat, Lime, Telegram... and I'm sure a bunch of others I've never heard of but other people live and die by. Not mention SMS and MMS.

As a result, I don't understand why people are so mad at iMessage that they need it crippled. You're not forced to use it. Apple doesn't block other messaging applications.

Plus, this law in question is a great foot in the door. Wait until they start lowering the monetary valuation of companies to slowly encompass all major messaging apps. At which point they'll have leveraged themselves right into a position of ending E2EE forever.
Based on https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-dyna..., aren't import maps a massive step back in the world of tree shaking? It would seem every export needs a dedicated file for it or else you get the whole world when you try to make a single request. (And better hope that single file doesn't import any other ones!)
I meant that we should have stripped it away. Sorry that was not clear.