skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When online sports betting was legalized in my state, I was shocked at how aggressive the initial advertising campaign was. There were at least a dozen different sites offering hundreds, if not thousands of dollars of credit with sign up bonus. I distinctly remember sports betting companies offering a variety of "free money" opportunities to onboard new users to their respective platforms. I have never participated in sports betting and have no interest in it, but considering big players in the industry were throwing away buckets of cash in customer acquisition in a way I have never seen before, I can't imagine just how much money they make from their user base once they get hooked.
Is piracy still a thing?
Do you trust that the USB stick is just storage and not something additional?

Do you trust that the USB "power port" is just power and not a host?
Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley

it's all about asking the right question - something vitally important in almost every realm of life
> Microsoft completely lost mobile. Like not just a few goofy phones like Kin, they just straight up have no relevance or marketshare or anything in what is clearly the future platform for all computing.

Lost on mobile hardware and OS but their software (office, outlook, OneDrive) is extremely popular on mobile, no?
> Sony has that wrapped

Nintendo sold 4 Switches for every PS5 on the market.
Document Polymorphism in API
Made an account just to comment on this. Look incredible.
The author is CS professor in university of Winnipeg
Emacs has been able to edit files transparently on remote hosts for longer than vscode has existed
I have unlimited with my plan. I just compared the costs of all plans with the added costs of a new smart phone. The very best return was actually going with the almost highest plan.

So I always recommend to do the Excel sheet and include all costs for the 2 year contract.
false. Great CEOs maximize returns for the shareholders. this is inclusive of big bets.
Because they are all trying to profit. Via affiliate marketing commissions or by selling picks (or software to make picks).
Video game consoles are technically 20th century invention. Xbox is just a continuation of that legacy even if the brand started in 21st

Xbox also isn’t top dog among the big 3. They’ve really struggled to ship big exclusive system sellers (which is a bummer. I’m a big fan of a lot of Xbox IP), so they certainly aren’t “industry leading”. Doesn’t mean the exclusives they’ve shipped aren’t good. They certainly are, just that their is no Xbox answer to God of War or Last of Us

GamePass is one of the biggest success stories to come out of Xbox and is certainly the dominant game streaming service
I think so. I asked ChatGTP "Is Satya Nadella the best tech CEO of last decade?". The response was:

It is difficult to definitively say whether Satya Nadella is the best tech CEO of the last decade as there have been many successful and influential CEOs in the tech industry over the past ten years. However, Nadella has certainly made a significant impact on Microsoft and the tech industry as a whole since taking over as CEO in 2014.

Under Nadella's leadership, Microsoft has shifted its focus from being primarily a software company to being a more cloud-focused and diversified technology company. He has also overseen the acquisition of LinkedIn and GitHub, two major players in their respective industries. Additionally, Nadella has placed a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence and machine learning, which have become increasingly important in the tech industry.

Overall, Nadella's leadership and vision have helped Microsoft become one of the most valuable companies in the world, and he has been recognized for his achievements with numerous awards and accolades. However, whether he is the best tech CEO of the last decade is subjective and open to interpretation.
How can you passively consume something you read? Reading is an act of internalisation
> Can a utility just stay a utility?

Only small indie utilities.

For most other things, to grow initially to serve the intended functions to as much of the target audience as possible, requires investment. Investors want that growth to continue, even if it makes little or no sense to the original objectives.
Some of the main themes of the book revolve around anti-colonialism, with the book drawing very obvious parallels to western interference in the Middle East after the discovery of spice, sorry I mean oil. Jihadis fighting against colonial forces fits into this theme perfectly. Crusaders on the other hand were just a different group of colonisers who had previously sought to conquer the Arabs. This doesn’t fit into the main themes at all, it completely subverts them.
Because it said "about 16%, or 500 employees" - the "about" prefixes both things. I understand how you can read it otherwise, but it is how I read it.
Hey no fair, I said inb4

Anyway, you're wrong and I think you know it because you said "government-mandated censorship." The first two words clarify the third. This wouldn't be necessary if the third truly implied the first two.

Have you ever heard of the Hays Code? It's quite infamous, you probably have; it was a system of self-imposed censorship from Hollywood to ban scandalous content from movies, such as people kissing or husbands and wives only having a single bed in their bedroom (oh the implications!) But the point is this censorship was self-imposed, there was no act of congress requiring it. The claim that true censorship must come from the government is simply wrong.

> if it's extended to an author reworking their own output, it really loses all sense of meaning.

It doesn't lose all meaning. It loses only the very narrow meaning you wish to impose (probably because it's an ugly word and you don't want to think yourself capable of censoring.)
Just be careful about paying for the (one time fee) Pro Apollo at this point. Reddit just changed their API terms and that app may stop working soon-ish without a monthly subscription.
Windows is a platform for everything else Microsoft rents. Driving people away from it will hopefully work one of these days ;-)
He's clearly talking about the second-order effects of backup camera-centric design (worse visibility through the windows and touchscreen controls). Try reading a little more closely.
I love the movie, but I didn’t go in expecting a complete work. I expected something that would cut off abruptly at some point. There’s just too much to fit in. So perhaps with that framing in mind, I enjoyed what I watched and would have gladly sat hours to watch more. Very immersive world.
Dropbox is a place where people put data. AI is built on data. A simple use case is something along the lines of, "Put all of your technical documentation in Folder X, then deploy Folder X as a Generative AI chatbot you can ask questions to".
The expected value from start-up shares is so low, you're bit of idiot if you're degrading your life for it.

Actual founder? Sure. Early employees get a raw deal. Honestly it better if you earn the most from salary, and invest the extra cash in startups. You'll get more equity.
You know, it was probably super smart not showing Emperor Shaddam IV in the first film. The audience has enough to learn and see that is mandatory it was probably wise leaving out some things that weren't mandatory for the first film.
You tell 'em, Steve...sweat-stained shirt and all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc
The large majority of the HN audience wouldn't participate in social media? I'm not sure what dividing line you're trying to draw here.

Communication is always in part a game of references. They are a form of compression of larger and more specific ideas, and of humor, which itself is a primary vector of communication.

I'm not sure what demographic I'd belong to, but I understood the reference just fine, and it seems like many of the other participants in the thread did too.

I'm sure you've got references that I'd miss completely, that you believe to be obvious.
The only press shot I wanted to see out of this was of Padishah Emperor Walken IV. Has to be the most exciting casting of the whole ensemble in my opinion.
Vice Media cancels ‘Vice News Tonight’ makes painful layoffs as it restructures
I think we are basically in agreement about everything, but coming from different perspectives. There is no "right" answer, but pre-mature optimization is almost always the wrong answer.
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT the killer app that gets people to buy a Microsoft phone?
Arkansas!
Depends on the type of book.

coding book -> jypter notebooks.

physics/ math book -> a notebook with the feynman method.

History, general reading -> rewriting your understanding in a narrative word doc.

Always have a 'Why' when reading. Play with the problems and use the concepts towards some 'end' not in the book.

edit: "How to read a book" is a good book.
I used to have connectivity and data speed issues at music festivals and large conventions, but both permanent infrastructure at convention centres and temporary towers at parks used for festivals have mitigated this (in my experience).

In both cases the event is planned many months in advance, and there are incentives for both event organisers and telcos to ensure phone subscribers have a good experience (avoids “reception was terrible at Glastonbury” or “I couldn’t make any calls on Vodafone, I should switch network”).

But protests typically lack the timeframe, and (I expect) a sympathetic ear from the telcos. Even if the timeframe is know well in advance, gaining permits to stand up towers (and associated labour, equipment rental) costs money, and spending the money signals implicit support for the cause.

While load sharing among neighbouring towers could alleviate minor increases in traffic (maybe 2x) I can’t see the networks over provisioning the radio and back haul for permanent infrastructure to support a possible 10x surge and then let it sit 90% idle. Dedicated fiber leased lines are expensive.

Maybe protests should instead be organised near convention centres which already have capacity for surge traffic?
It has never been more popular. Even in the heyday of Limewire and the "Golden Age," how many people had internet versus now, and how many could afford to buy CDs and discs versus now?
It was the biggest milk ad campaign of all time, starting in 1993 to present time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got_Milk%3F
> MS still lacks a industry leading 21st century consumer device

Is this a prerequisite to being a great technology company today? Or is this just one vector that some competitors choose to compete on? For example, would we say Apple isn’t a great technology company because it doesn’t have an industry leasing office suite like MS and Google?
Also see:
WKRC in Cincinnati, The Wonder Years, Beavis and Butthead

For these the loss of the original music was such an issue they eventually did (or attempted) to re-release with everything as it was. But don't trust things to always be like that. It holds for almost everything: if you want to keep something as-is the best thing is to store your own copy, second best is to rely on an archivist to store a copy but even that's risky.
Most Telegram messages are group chats, they are not E2EE at all since Telegram doesn't support them.
> If I attempt to drive my own car into a brick wall, the on-board computer will defy my instructions as best it can too. By your definition, I'm not in control of my car just like Waymo operators aren't.

Terrible analogy. You are sitting in the driver's seat with your hands on the wheel. If your car is about to hit someone, you can prevent it because you are the driver. This is what FSD is — ultimately driver is in control. No such luxury for Waymo/Cruise as their remote operators cannot do any safety critical interventions like preventing crashes.

All they can do is non-safety critical interventions by way of passing indirect commands. A Waymo is in control of itself at all times and is fully responsible for its own safety. You can play with words like "control" all you want, but this is the definition of SAE Level 4 autonomy.

If anything, calling FSD "autonomous" is highly misleading because drivers are preventing mistakes and thereby hiding its real safety outcome.
Creating a good chatbot was never a goal of linguistics, and I don't see what insights into human language have been derived from LLMs.
You say that Windows is a Kraken, but it's been on a downward slide in my mind. I don't think Nadella gets enough flak for what is happening to Windows and Microsoft's attitude towards respecting users / privacy in general.

Some examples that I've seen posted to HN over the past few months

* Microsoft Edge leaks browser history to Bing - https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-b...

* More ads in Windows 11 start menu - https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/microsoft_windows_sta...

* Absolute junk shoved into the Windows UI - https://thomasbandt.com/the-day-windows-died? https://birchtree.me/blog/the-windows-11-trash-party/ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabl...

Windows is in a boiling frog situation. It's been slowly accumulating dark patterns and anti-features like mandatory online-only accounts, while at the same time losing quality of life features like the ability to move your taskbar or to not combine apps in the taskbar.

I should be using Windows today. I grew up on Windows, I learned to program on Windows, I had a very difficult and bumpy transition in getting off of Windows. But I had to leave their ecosystem because they have absolutely no respect for the user, and at this point I do not trust them. I want to reiterate that these are recent things, I'm not mad at them for what they did in the 90's here.

They aren't treating Windows as a serious tool for getting shit done, they're treating it as a data-mine and advertising opportunity.
Exactly, I never got how whole episodes get removed over bits where the joke is only funny if you agree blackface is very offensive. I've never seen a (modern) show that's doing it as a minstrel act.
Shouldn’t those prices be affected by moores law ?

I think I remember the tier prices being roughly the same since the service came out.

I get that salaries went up which adds to price, but over time it feels like storage price should go towards zero.
"Lug them around" they're not lead bricks. Put them in your wallet. When you pay at a restaurant or coffee shop, they're right there next to your cash or credit card, ready to be used.

Throwing out literal money is just absurd elitism and waste.
> I am constantly amazed that I can open a linux prompt on windows

Similarly, I'm amazed that I can build truly cross-platform .NET apps using Microsoft's own open-source tools from the Linux command line. (Apparently .NET Core, which both adopted the MIT license, and ushered in true cross-platform support, was announced later in the year that Nadella took over. [1] Not sure whether he had anything to do with it.)

What an about-face from 2000-era Microsoft's embrace-extend-extinguish approach. Remember Visual J++? If you'd told me then I'd be willingly programming on a Microsoft toolchain 20 years later I would not have believed you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET#History
Oddly enough I awoke to a story on RTE.ie (Ireland's state broadcaster's website) entitled "Irish scientists help uncover origins of lager beer". I laughed, opening the article, to find the title change to "Unknown origins of lager beer uncovered by Irish and German scientists". It still places us Irish at the forefront, but a little less so :-)

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0427/1379406-lager-origins/
Putting in the work to setup your own thing is great. You learn a lot, if your doing it at an advanced level you start to understand some of the designs/tradeoffs that the commercial products made.

Keeping that running and reliable and operating it for years or decades sounds like an absolute nightmare and I'd suggest avoiding that at all costs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35206303

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747
Explain it to somebody else.
For 90% of the web devs that just spin up Postgres/MySQL, why would you use Datomic over that?
Given the data it’s a very cheap and (seemingly) very effective change. I’ve used it for years and haven’t gotten any cavities, for what little that’s worth.

My teeth have also become quite stained but I think that’s the coffee…
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I guess with email you can at least use your own domain with a third party provider because it has a DNS record, which gives you somewhere between self-hosting and a federated community. Of course, if you lose your domain you're out of luck.
Right, but Lucas didn’t buy that stuff off the shelf. He poured money into ILM and made them invent all that stuff so he could record his farts.

And we all get to benefit from the innovation he drove.
I don't know how it is in other countries. But in congested areas like London my girlfriend often gets faster speeds than me on her iphone 11 switching to 3G than I do on 5G.
If Microsoft comes out with one, maybe.
What did they base this on?
I think the point is that treating your database as an arms-length, RPC component that's independent from your "application" isn't necessarily the only pattern.
Why are no examples provided?
So much was looted from India
The more popular those apps the more money Microsoft is paying Apple and Google to sell the apps in their stores. Nothing is stopping Apple or Google from shaking MS down for more dollars by bumping up app store profit sharing splits. I have to imagine being forced to play by someone else's rules and live in their ecosystem would have completely enraged 90's era Microsoft led by Bill Gates--he would have moved heaven and earth to own the platform and all the dollars consumers spend.
But aren't many apps using APIs into CHatGPT?
I have success retaining information by explaining it to another human being. This can lead to me rereading sections and keeps me engaged with the content.

This is consistent with what I have read from "Your Memory : How It Works and How to Improve It" by K. Higbee.
Oh yeah, I guess they did… I imagine they’ll have to expand on that a little bit more in the part 2 for the rest of Thufir’s story to make sense though. Now that I think about it they didn’t put much effort into Piter de Vries either.
AI is the perfect match for Dropbox. Search only finds relevant files. AI trained on my data can help me extract actual insights from the files.
Is there no performance gain that’s small enough to be not worth it? If there is, then we’re just haggling over where the line is. If there truly isn’t, well, enjoy that! Because you won’t be shipping.
For the past year my home internet was 4G …
Simple and judicious note-taking as I read the book for the first time, by pen & paper; then I usually leave those notes tucked into the front of the book, and for a couple years, I revisit and review those notes every few months. At some point I might re-read the book.
> however much they may not be _for you_.

I can only speak for myself and that's what I did. It bored me but if it worked for you that's great.
You should call yourself lucky - I search in my Google Photos for something generic like "sunset" and I get 2 pictures if I'm lucky. No idea why... :(
Text-to-PDF Cloudflare Worker
Components of Great Developer and API Documentation
If it wasn't a publicity stunt, it certainly had the effects of one: I've never heard of Datomic before and here they are at the top of hackernews!

> And, in practice, it's not that much different for the average user if only the binaries are Apache licensed. When was the last time you needed to open up the Postgres source code and modify something?

Sure, if you're playing a game it probably doesn't make a difference. If I'm building my IT infrastructure on a product, tt makes a huge difference if I get a an open-source-licensed "binary" or access the to source:

- the package they distribute contains no less than 960 different jars. Most of those are the standard apache-project-everything-and-the-kitchen-sink-style dependencies. Say I'd like to update log4j because it contains a catastropic vulnerability that datomic decide not to fix. (not that that sort of thing ever happens)

- or say Datomic decides to abandon the product altogether or goes out of business

- or say I'm not happy with their quality of service contract around their DB they support and would like to work with a different company
Where's the source? Why does it say "Pricing" on the website if it's free? This isn't free, it's just an attempt at free publicity.
The phone company can't listen to your phone calls

Perhaps not explicitly legal but calls are monitored all the time after switch upgrades. We even applied US specific patches that disable the operator override tone that lets you know someone is on the call. I had to do this after every switch upgrade. One time that specific patch flubbed in a non obvious way and when I jumped onto a random call the people said, "Is someone there? Who is on our call?" and I disconnected.

For what it's worth, my boss had an arrangement with the three letter agencies to give them unfettered access to all the switches and we would even enable non-logging test mode to prevent any of their commands from being logged. My boss and most of his direct reports were not US citizens and one of them openly hated Americans so they did not really care. This was a couple decades ago so maybe by now everybody follows the spirit of the law.
It’s the same in most blockbuster movie.

Look at the latest Star Wars for example. They actively destroyed the male heros from previous movies and replaced them with perfect (without flaws) feminine.

The writers didn’t hide it, it was their goal.

Look at the critical drinker on youtube to get this perspective.
It would be nice if a company did the right thing by themselves, not only when the angry mob shows up.
I worked on an infotainment system some years back.
Trust me: we hated the response times more than you do, and I'm sure you hate them a lot.
There were, and are, layers and layers of issues leading to it.
Don’t forget backhaul bandwidth. All of the 5G cell sites need their backhauls upgraded to realize that the spectrum can support.
I watched it baked off my tits and it was fucking AWESOME

Fantastic stoner movie
I'd love to be able to ask questions about technical documentation, code bases, contract PDFs and so on, without having to worry to send my data unprotected to another company that doesn't have a Enterprise contract or can assure us of SOC 2 compliance.

If the AI can interpret what I mean, find the file, link me to the sources and distill the information and context, it will be major productivity boom.
https://sayartii.com/ is using Datomic stored on postgres that I have set up on Linode. That was all done back in 2020 and haven't needed to touch it. Site now gets ~180M monthly reqs and I store an enormous amount of analytic data on Datomic (was supposed to be temporary) so users can see impressions/clicks per day for each advertisement. I'm surprised it's still working.

Development experience is extremely nice using clojure. I've used it for two other projects and has been very reliable. My latest project didn't really need any of its features compared to a traditional rdbms but I opted for it anyways so I don't have to write sql.
Ah, yes, fair enough. Though to be fair there is of course a transition from "Occupied" to "Occupier" as the story progresses. Which I think is part of that broader curiosity about the origins of zealotry, and its vector.

But I do agree that that particular axis is one of the weaker parts of the adaptation. Though I'm not convinced personally it subverts the theme entirely; just maybe skips a few steps.