skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 20M developer accounts. And Apple charges $100 per account per year. That's $2B in revenue. Apps on the App Store make $100B in revenue. So, Apple makes equivalent of 2% of Apps revenue from developer accounts. I doubt they'll intentionally risk the $100B revenue by making their App Store full of crapware for a 2% equivalent.
Why do some airlines still use 9-pins?
Well in this case the bug is that the feature doesn't work and needs to be disabled.

But generally speaking you want all the offload you can get. For 1G, it allows pushing power efficiency much further. For 100G, it allows you to spend time on something other than parsing and writing packets.
It's under $40k, typically.

Here's data for CMU:

https://www.cmu.edu/stugov/gsa/campus-advocacy/stipend-repor...
Podcast with pioneer of LLM – A lot of good history lesson
How to Get the Most Value from Expense and Income Tracking
Hey there! I've been working on an expense/income tracking app and I'm eager to create the most flexible and informative graphs possible. I'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how to achieve this.
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More times than I can remember they’d say,
“I can’t believe I’m actually talking to you.”
And I wanted to respond: “You’re not.”
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lool :-)
> a bit more advanced than Linux ones

and then we look at the wifi stack in BSD(s)...
I read it as AWS Acoustic Hood
Securing your Next.js 13 application
Is there a concept for not wanting to know the time/clock while doing something?
Sometimes when doing stuff, playing games, or even relaxing doing nothing, I prefer not to know how much time has passed. It helps me stay in the zone of whatever it is I'm doing. I'm fine with having a vague sense of time with sunlight and night.

On Windows 10 I can hide the clock in the taskbar, and on GNOME I can hide the top bar (except on 44 for now).

I'm wondering if there's some concept or name or anything to describe that?
Better Touch Tool changed the way that I operate.
Sequencing of keys can make you a productive monster:)
Practically speaking, I remove the use of short keys that require to break my fingers every day.
I think the attitude of the CEO trickles down in the kind of people that buy Teslas. This translates in the way the drive their car around. Not everyone of course, some just are interested in the EV, But is almost that like buying a car allows you to have the CEO attitude, is maybe that what they are selling?
how does this compare to Xming http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ ?
I did not yet had a problem with notifications in Android but I also see app-only as a disadvantage. What if I have no internet but could be reachable via SMS/phone? (still not that rare in Germany ;))

btw: there is an helpful Android app "missed notifications reminder" in fdroid store that re-triggers app-specific notifications if you do not view them within a minute.
Using SQL for business logic is probably worst then using Cobol in 2023 - good luck with automated tests, debug, documentation etc. Yes, I know it all technically can be done but you relly need to be masohistic and mindless bastard in order to do so.

Rather, lets rejoice with latest C#, zig, rust, PoweShell or whatever-beautiful-language-and-ecosystem-perfected-in-latest-decade we have, instead of horrible SQL.
That is correct, but has since been bought back. Well it's a little more complicated, but it's 50% owned by the Kirky family.
F16C has been available for well over a decade (it was introduced in the Ivybridge uArch), and the equivalent conversions are supported on all ARMv7 CPUs since around the same time (and all ARMv8 CPUs unconditionally); most software should be able to safely assume their availability by now.

There exist some niches where this doesn’t hold, but that’s why we have software fallbacks.
There's plenty of interesting neural network designs out there but they're being overshadowed by transformers due to their recent success. I personally thing that the main reason transformers work so well is because they actually step away from the multi layer perceptron stuff and introduce some structure and in a way sparsity.
According to this source

https://www.horiba.com/int/scientific/resources/science-in-a...

the main source of microplastics is synthetic textiles. There is a serious argument to be made to ban synthetic textiles in areas where they can be reasonably replaced with cotton.

The other main sources are "city dust" and car tires. I suspect those types of microplastics are much harder to reduce.
Does Rectangle has a shortcut to switch the focused window in a split screen?
I've been using D for OS development and have found it very good for controlling low-level details. GDC is the GCC frontend for D, and has most/all of the same features for controlling this stuff as GCC. For example, you can use `@register("edx") ulong x;` to specify that a variable should be in a particular register, `@section("t1")` on functions to place them in certain sections, and the inline assembler is the same as with GCC. Note: the @register feature is new with GDC 13. See here for the docs: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gdc/.

And of course LDC supports all the LLVM custom attributes, plus GCC-compatible inline assembler (not sure about the "g" constraint though) and LLVM-style inline assembler.
Used Reddit for 14 years as a registered member and longer since before I signed up.

The day old.reddit.com stops working is the day I stop using reddit completely, I detest their new UI so much that it’s essentially unusable for me.
Thanks for the link, I had looked and in canada it's even lower, at 29,000k for a biology grad student.

While it's not rich people's money, it's more than enough to be very comfortable, especially compared to someone working minimum wage.

I don't feel bad being very critical of how their time is being spent - especially here.
And don’t forget GDPR
See also Fountain Codes, e.g. RaptorQ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code
I have not idea what you are arguing anymore, and frankly, it's just a lot of noise at this point. The way we figure out stuff is with experiments, sometimes experiments on animals. You're out here "no need for experiments, this is a waste of money, blah blah blah unethical, I could have told you that, everyone's embezzling money from the government, those rich scientists huminah huminah." I mean, I could argue these points, or you could just stop trolling.
you will want to look forward to upgrading your Linux kernel build soon... [...] due to a regression introduced back in 2020.

If anything, that message seems to be implying to not upgrade if everything is already working well.

A bit tangential, but ever since they came out with the '217 I've thought this is one of the worst-named products and could never remember what the actual letter is. Here it's an uppercase I, but even Intel seems to think it's a lowercase L (for LAN?) sometimes:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
This is really cool, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of code in the repo. But before trying to read it… does anyone know how this works?

Edit to answer myself: found the answer in this comment from the last time this was discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28574202
Let’s suppose you’re right that USB-C and side-loading are “superior functionality”. There must be some value to that superior functionality; consumers should be willing to pay extra for it if they value it. It seems logically like Apple ought to offer a USB-C iPhone if there is enough demand for it to generate more profit, except that it lowers the cost for customers to switch phones, which likely costs them more than they’d make in additional profit by having a USB-C version. This puts their interests at odds with the customer’s interests. There are a lot of other similar situations, e.g. most people would rather have cars that last longer, not have to deal with advertising, farmers want repairable equipment, etc., but the economics don’t work out well for the company. How does a market economy rectify that?

I’d argue that in theory, new upstarts ought to be able to enter the market and satisfy the demand if it exists. However, in many fields, there are substantial barriers to entry that prevent this. For instance, in the auto industry, it takes huge amounts of capital to reach the necessary scale, gain enough experience and reputation, etc., to be able to compete with existing companies. Similarly, it would be a monumental engineering effort to produce “iPhone with USB-C” due to the amount of intellectual property, goodwill, Silicon deals, integrations, etc., that Apple provides. It would be impossible, really, due to iMessage and FaceTime being proprietary. There could be new cable providers that don’t run ads, but they wouldn’t be able to compete on cost, and they would have trouble dealing with the regulatory environment for infrastructure, striking deals with networks, etc.

Banning companies from engaging in practices that benefit them once they become sufficiently adversarial to consumers isn’t a scalable solution. There are many instances of this across many industries; regulating them all would be like playing Whack-A-Mike. It also provides no recourse to the group of market participants who don’t care if their phone has Lightning or USB-C, and probably prefer Lightning since they already have a charger. It also leaves less room for innovation since companies will have to comply with standards, possibly preventing superior technology from being developed (that’s how we got Lightning to begin with).

I’d love to hear other/better solutions. I’ll throw one idea/observation out myself. A lot of these misalignments are because providing a better consumer experience today reduces the likelihood they will be a customer tomorrow. Either they will leverage the lower switching cost to switch, or they will be more loyal but purchase less in the future due to the increased quality. What’s a way to manipulate company economics to favor shorter-term views of the company, and disregard higher-growth plans? Higher interest rates. Maybe a higher interest rate environment could mitigate some of these issues by ensuring companies care about the business they have today, more than the one that they could have tomorrow.
CCS is just the connector. Almost all European Tesla chargers now have CCS connectors, they are not less reliable than the previous Type-2 connector.
Sky (etc) cost considerably more than that for the pub, around £1000-2000/month depending on the size of the pub and the wealth of the area.

In the 1990s I remember there were slot machines in some pubs, where men would put in £1 or so and very occasionally win a huge pile of 10p coins.
It doesn't really matter if laws can or can't be changed, the question is whether or not regulations imposing a standard on manufacturers on what kind of connector they put on their phone should exist at all.
> The Internet wasn't new in 1995, by one measure 26yo by then...

This is more of a side note response.

I often see a huge disconnect between those who lived during a period in question and those who read about history. I imagine that this transitory stage in computing was before your time.

More often than not, it's fascinating to see how... off, the readers of history are versus those who lived through the period. This, sometimes, becomes painfully clear when it is actual history for one generation but only a recent memory for another older generation.
"Saudi" is not just a demonym like "German" or "Chinese" but a specific political program, and even a specific small set of extremely bad people. Fixing that would not make a "free Saudi Arabia of free Saudis" in the way we might imagine a "free Tibet of free Tibetans" but literally a different country not named after their psychopathic kings. It names a regime, not a nationality.

It is not xenophobia to acknowledge it's worse to do something dumb which enriches your ideological and material enemies than to just do something dumb.
The novelty will wear off and people will soon realize that natural language interfaces are actually annoying and generative AI will be ruining society the more it is deployed. You thought Blockchain was bad? You thought crypto enriched only the first adopters at the expense of wider society? YOU AINT SEEN NOTHIN YET. This is the new mania.
I would totally do that but I have a few mini-PC's that have the I225-V and I can't swap them out. I've used USB3.2->Ethernet dongles as work arounds until I could find a switch that was happy with it. Same with the latest Protectli firewalls, they also have the I225-V. For those I have to use ethtool to force a specific speed which is not ideal. I'm thinking mini-PC's are maybe a mistake in this generation of NICs.
For my current job I had to get proof of my degree, institution and grade.

Thos was for a degree between 1999 and 2003.

They wanted info down to the month I started... I had no idea so just guessed a month in 1999... They got back to me to check what was up as they had determined I actually started in some other month...

They even wanted proof of what High school I went to.

Some companies are super thorough!
I have absolutely no idea why PD doesn't have a big button which stops all PD notifications the moment you press it. There are very few events in life more stressful then dealing with an incident, people on the call and having your phone alerting and ringing all the frigging time. I was once told to mute myself on incident bridge because all that alerting was not only super iritating for me, but for others too. I was supposed to fix the problem but I was so distracted with alerts I wanted to snap the phone in two and punch a random PD manager in the face.

"Yes PagerDuty, I now our infra is melting, please shut the fuck up and let me do my job."

PD does have a feature IIRC "intelligent alert grouping" which will group new alerts and not display more of those. So it makes it relatively easy to snooze group of alerts for X period of time so it makes it much quieter. Unfortunately, this is locked as a feature paid extra. But still, they need a way to tell PD to stop alerting.
Of course there's something to see here. Lack of reliable, open, vendor neutral charging infrastructure is a major problem.
https://pagerduty.life
> Now having two direct reports is absurd asking questions like how that was ever allowed and tolerated for as long as it was.

If all they are doing is managing those resources, I'd completely agree. I've seen a few examples of org structures where those folks aren't actually middle managers, but generally ICs with some additional responsibility. So they are still working hands on within a product, but also have some direct reports to help within their area of influence. If you're at a director level and you've only got two reports, honestly that doesn't seem that unreasonable either depending on their area of control and the size of the teams below their managers. I'd certainly rather see an org structure where managers are working with 2-7 direct reports (again assuming they are working managers and not just administrative overhead) rather than an org where someone has 20+ direct reports. There's no way a manager is effectively managing the expectations and goals and blockers of 20+ people with regular touch points while also being involved in the strategic direction of the company. Never mind where I see orgs with managers with over 50 direct reports.
Hehe, same with me. And started thinking how they would have achieved that.
Altman Army
Yeah, meant the unit. Sorry for the imprecise language.

A volt is a volt, it doesn't change.

The value of a dollar changed even during the time it took you read this comment.
Gosh, I should have become a police officer!
> Digg was where the "fresh content" came from.

This is not quite true. StumbleUpon is where fresh content came from. It was popularized on digg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon
Pointer provenance.
Ironically I don't think it's a particularly good copywriter unless you're specifically aiming for cheesy ad style or utterly generic, it's just that standards are low, and lots of copy isn't really written for humans anyway. We just care about and have fewer pre-written examples of other stuff more...

(its real strength as a writer over humans other than being low effort is niche stuff like composing entire sentences with alliteration)
I have mentally prepared myself to say goodbye to Reddit once it happens.

Complete with deleting my account for closure. This is what I recommend. It's pretty much facebook, pure dark UX at that point.
and all tourism (with planes) ads, all cars ads, all fast-food ads, all drinks ads, all furnitures ads, all smartphones ads, all consumerism things ads. Things you really need, don't need ads
Oh, since you had to go all the way to the Second World War to find some arguments, here in Eastern Europe we remember too. We remember the grandparents gone to Siberia never to return. The hunger. The Red Army atrocities. The Nomenklatura they left behind. The cleansing of anybody with the "wrong" past or connections. The tinpot dictators they propped up. The “wonders” of communism - more hunger. Chernobyl and atomic war rhetoric. Paying with blood to get rid of them in the 90s. The corruption they left behind. Then Georgia. Polonium tea. Novichok. MH17. Syria. Ukraine.

No, millions is not an exaggeration. It’s an understatement. The only thing we reproach the USA: that they didn’t intervene. They were no angels, but there is no comparison. They are not the same and any attempt to muddle the waters and make them all seem the same is a desperate strategy of a falling imperialist power to throw the blame around. But we are immune to this, we grew up with the KGB monitoring jokes and pillow talk. We know this dirty game and here in Eastern Europe your tricks don’t work anymore. We have eyes to see and we know who are the good guys making the unfortunate occasional mistake and who are the pure evil ones.
just returning the error isn't handling it.
Are you arguing that FSD will never come? Or just that it will likely be delayed again? Or that they’re not even working on it? If you’ve seen any of their AI presentations in recent years, I’m a little confused by your comment. I know some of it is marketing but it is incredibly impressive what they’re building. I would be surprised if anyone else is even close to how advanced they are. I just think the problem, the last 5% anyway to get it fully working and reliable, is 10x+ harder than anyone thought.

Now when it comes to specific physical features on the car or something, I don’t know, haven’t been following that very closely.
ChatGPT doesn’t read URL’s on the fly but it will pretend it does.
That's a naive solution. One company could simply litter the city with a competitor's bags.

This is why those "WE BUY JUNK CARS" and "WE BUY HOUSES 4 CASH" signs are not punishable based on the owner's phone number. I could just as easily put YOUR number on one of those signs.
Exactly. I think that's a very reasonable posture.

At the end of the day, the whole deal over sideloading was about not being forced to use Apple's services, not to use them for free.
> If you want it to be illegal in the US, it should be illegal for everyone.

It is reasonable for a region to decide its natural resources should benefit the people who live there above people who do not live there.
Show HN: CJ minimal JSON parser in ANSI C
It's a small token based JSON parser with no dynamic memory allocations.
There's some appeal on doing this client side, but I do not hate the Nitter approach.
SUVs and similar cars are worse for society than normal cars -- increased fuel use, increased injuries and deaths from collisions.
It sounds great when paired with an APU. No such part was announced though.
Eh, let the customer decide what is/isn't wasteful.
DL is a freemium app with ever-increasingly heavy gamification and upsells, which cannot be turned off. 75+% of DL's revenue comes from the small number of its users who are subscribers.
The former Chief Product Officer openly discusses how they optimized/sacrificed pretty much everything since 2019, to juice their metrics (CURR, DAU, $/user) and monetization for the 2021 IPO ("How Duolingo reignited user growth") [0]. Stock ticker DUOL.

See our recent discussion of DL's strengths, weaknesses, business model etc. [1] with a developer who was acquihired by DL.

I've been using Duolingo for 1300 days now. Currently learning Chinese; the Chinese course was sadly locked in 2021 when China banned for-profit foreign tutoring, but DL locking it prevents volunteer users fixing and improving it.

Strengths and weaknesses: DL does help you to "learn a language" if by that you mean basic competency, vocabulary, basic grammar. But not to exam or conversational level. Some categories of user need the gamification, friending, leaderboard, challenges, streaks, badges etc., but for the rest of us you generally can't turn these interruptions off. Most people find the daily reminder feature legit useful. Other apps could legitimately learn from DL how to gamify and reduce learning to daily chunks, but without going overboard on metrics and retention and sacrificing a large chunk of the learning time to gamification features interrupting the learning.

See [0b] for how Duolingo's claim “an average of 34 hours of Duolingo are equivalent to a full university semester of language education” is misleading because it's based on their long-discontinued (pre-2013) SRS algorithm. Sounds like false advertising. Note the comparative absence of peer-reviewed studies confirming DL's claims about language acquisition.

Privacy: DL embeds FB tracking which is an intentional trust and GDPR violation, default-on, no informed consent, and the opt-out is pretty buried; doesn't sound ethical [2].

[0]: "How Duolingo reignited user growth" 2/2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34977435

[0b]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34978841

[1]: "I bought back my acquihired startup" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35287456

[2]: "Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19319215
> He broke in to an MIT networking closet (he was never a student there) and connected his equipment to the network.

The closet was unlocked and he used a regular guest access to the MIT network. Also he was downloading documents that were created by using public funds.

> There are a lot of much more legal ways to make the Internet freer. He was a smart guy and knew what he was doing was highly illegal.

There are always other and more effective ways to everything. With this kind of argumentation one always must come to the conclusion that it is best to do nothing. Also let's not forget that he did much more than downloading documents at MIT.

> think that this is the major issue with martyrdom. Aaron is remembered for "fighting the man" but the real story is a significantly muddier than that. A martyr's death makes it seem like the martyr did nothing wrong even if they did.

That's a definition for martyrdom I have not heard before. Usually a martyr is simply defined as a person who is willing to suffer or even die for a cause, belief, or principle that they consider to be of great importance.

> Sorry, I know this is kind of a dumb and not so productive soap box. Oh well.

I will simply never understand why people will argument so strongly against their self interests.