skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly. Apple has 8x more profit than Walmart.

Walmart Apple
Revenues ($Bs) $572 $316
Profit ($Bs) $14 $100

https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2022/q4/...

https://s201.q4cdn.com/262069030/files/doc_downloads/LatestR...
There's also upper-case letters, the big letter at the head of a passage, and adjective forms: capital punishment, a capital idea (archaic). This article has a nice discussion of the etymology of capital: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/financial-word... Usages that started out as living metaphors become 'fossilized' over time as independent meanings.

Don't languages in general have single words with multiple meanings? Is this a special feature of English?
I wish their mainboard became an actual motherboard spec (something like LAPTOP-ATX), it seems like it's proprietary. Would open the door for more folks to build swappable laptop boards.
Zuck is such a champ.

Drops LLM into open source world, leaves without explaining. Plausible deniability through leak. No one punished.

Legend. Like handing everyone in America a nail gun.
> but learning a new layout is a lot easier when the keycaps match

I'd suggest learning a new layout is easier on an entirely different keyboard, so as to minimize confusing the fingers' motor memory.

> who only knows qwerty has to use your computer for whatever reason they can still hunt and peck vs it being completely impossible.

Hunting for keys on an unfamiliar layout is impractical.

In my experience, just switch the layout from Dvorak to US International, if you're using Dvorak and someone else wants to use your laptop.
Something like this probably https://sc04.alicdn.com/kf/H63972abed7d541768499964da4142782...
The subtle art of API Rate-Limiting
I stand corrected. I had my dates wrong. And had not realized the recent gains the euro has made after reaching 1:1 parity.

My main point still stands though. Take a look at the historic volatility: https://www.macrotrends.net/2548/euro-dollar-exchange-rate-h...

The exchange rate ~2010 hovered around 1.5 and recent dipped as low as 1:1 party.

Compare that to something like the Swiss franc which has actually appreciated against the dollar over the same period and has a much longer history: https://www.macrotrends.net/2558/us-dollar-swiss-franc-excha...
> Rebuild of ms office for the web: owning users given gsuite was seriously taking over office use

And Google let them win by coasting on GSuite. I use it for my business, my partner uses Office 365 for hers. In 2023 Office 365 is by far the better choice.
Thanks I stand corrected
Personally, I’ve never seen one go well though all of the projects have been relatively complex with no repeatability.

The vendor ends up losing money and the client gets a deal on paper but not in reality when you realize the corners that were cut to shove a product at the door.

You could generally go back and look at the emails on the project and see the exact point in time (often about 2/3 in) were the vendor realized they were losing money and started cutting whatever possible to not lose their shirt on the project.

I suppose that if projects were relatively straightforward like “we’re building you a wordpress site with X number of templates” one may have a chance at estimating upfront- but I’ve never worked on projects that predictability.
None of this prevents users from complaining about broken features.
If the browser ever becomes a popular platform for mainstream games then I suspect the quality of web applications will also boom just because of all the talent pouring into the browser as a platform.
The industry term is "exoplanet" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet
I don't think I will ever purchase an x86 processor anymore. Everything in my home is ARM powered. If Framework switches to ARM I will strongly consider them.
Here's the argument that (as a USA-ian) persuades me the most: if these AI systems are weapons they we get to have them by the 2nd Amendment. It's the same as the we-get-to-have-strong-encryption argument, eh?

The gov and the corps are not supposed to be the ultimate arbiters of authority. The was the crux of the American Revolution: throwing out the king.

Remember that e.g. Palmer Luckey and co. are busy making Skynet (Anduril Industries). The system is poised to enforce policy.
Too bad Chromium is open source instead of Free Software. Seems like it's spawning a number of incompatible and sometimes user-hostile forks.
Another concern could be about (mis)use of the LLMs chatBots for engineering Election outcomes?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32081051
On Mobile Chrome, it's basically unusable. Scrolling ruins the back button. Everything is horizontally smooshed. The scroll snapping is broken to the point that it snaps me to places I've already scrolled past. The animation on the tabs is visually confusing and seems to necessitate the tab is a fixed height that scrolls. Tooltips and scrolling break each other. The forms don't accommodate mobile widths unless you manually use the wide option. Even then, they have no border. The checkbox looks checked when it's unchecked because it has a dark background. The active and focused states on buttons aren't differentiable from disabled (opacity versus gray?). Sorry, but this is just not good to use.
Why “free” street parking could be costing you hundreds more in rent
> Food is relatively cheap, if you cook for yourself and don't mind a lot of beans, rice, bread-machine bread, peanut butter, etc. If you want heavily processed or prepared food, or restaurant food...that's an order of magnitude more expensive. And many parts of the food industry are far too consolidated to be competitive.

The people already doing so are absolutely fucked.

While potentially still cheaper, those basic staples have typically seen a disproportionately large rise in their price. The price of porridge oats and milk increased by over 30% in the UK between 2022-2023[0]. Own brand plain dried pasta went up by 41% in one, relatively cheap, supermarket[1].

CPI as a whole is at 8.9% but food is at 19.2%[2].

That's not even accounting for the noticeable inflation in the price of the cheapest goods that occurred prior or energy bills more than quadrupling between 2019 and 2023, even before Ukraine they had nearly doubled.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/18/cost-of-bri...
[1] https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/5682202/food-price...
[2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bull...
I think what's being missed here is that time is money. So while you may not be willing to part with cash, if you're willing to invest time in solving problems then you're already exploring things you'd "pay to solve".
Half the people who buy vinyl records don't own a record player
In the ChatGPT prompt I make emphasis on evaluating article from the perspective of humanity as a whole, not prioritizing any individual country. But still, it's not ideal.

I don't know ChatGPT's logic, but it might be it's giving higher scores to news about US economic difficulties because they tend to cause ripples all over the world. But I've never seen articles about US internal politics getting score over 6.5 (or maybe there were none in the last month).
I'm sure the Twitter exjerks will claim it's due to "AI."
> how many predictions are there for each election?

One for each batch (which may be as small as one) of data (polls specifically in the polls-only model) added to the data; each takes into account current and past polls, with time.-based decay in weighting, distance from the election, and other factors. This includes polls for other contests in the same cycle, because the models accounts for correlation between them.

> does 538 issue more than one per election?

Sometimes multiple in a day for an election (especially the Presidential general election.)

> Or how many data points are there?

Well the scale for the bubbles on the Presidential election night calibration plot runs from 30-300 per bucket, and there’s 21 buckets.

> I have no idea what you're talking about, re "non-zero risk premium."

If you don't understand risk premiums and the asymmetric utility of nontrivial quantities of money, you have really no business talking about when a bet is reasonable.
I was mostly joking, but even so most of this is a stretch as of now

I could be wrong, but I’m fairly sure we’re not yet at the point of convincing, real-time voice gen, nor any kind of decent quality TV (sadly), although printed text and (non-live) radio are certainly viable right now
I was expecting this also meant that I could add a FIDO2 resident key as a passkey, but the google UI currently does not allow me to do that. That's fairly disappointing.

Its also fairly surprising that desktop UI on linux tells me I can't add passkeys from it. I understand that Chrome isn't planning on supporting platform authenticators on linux, but why can't I add another phone from the desktop with the QR flow?
You are confusing the location where passkeys are stored (your Android, your iPhone, your Yubikey) and where they can be used (to access your Gmail account).
I enabled passkey and literally nothing changed. Signed out and back in again several times.
That's what the levels.io guy does too. Everything runs on VPS with PHP etc.

The hard part of product-market fit is product-market fit not technology-product fit. And yep, these guys are probably champs at it.

I personally lean towards Rails for web apps I might make too, but in the past there were lots of things that made it painful. Like the sassc gems forcing a 4 min build time for native extensions, shit like that. The ecosystem was whacky. But in the end, for web dev I'm far more productive in that.
The Gray Goo Is Made of Words
I see. So before today, you could preorder Framework Laptop 13 with Ryzen 5 or Ryzen 7 without knowing which CPU model you'll get, but today you can preorder with Ryzen 5 7640U or Ryzen 7 7840U specifically.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26217488/what-is-vendori...
China’s Huawei goes local in response to US sanctions
Clearer example: https://i.imgur.com/MH2dwJp.png
the key skill of a ceo isn't management, it's social connections
Where's the framework 'surface'?
Unintended consequences. Power surrendered by the people is not easily recovered.
Sometimes posts are merged, but dang usually posts when he does it, maybe he forgot?
My three-month-long elementary OS 6 upgrade adventure in three parts
"Are there any executive agencies or legislative committees qualified to regulate development of AI? I just mean on basis of knowledge and education, not authority."

Agencies and committees are full of very smart and conscientious people who are able to understand an issue and create reasonable regulations. Problem is that political leadership usually messes up things by going with ideology or lobbyist interest.
Show HN: USearch – Smaller and Faster Single-File Vector Search Engine
Last week was insane for vector search. Weaviate raised $50M, and Pinecone raised $100M... That's a lot and makes you believe that vector search is hard. But it's not.

I have spent the last couple of days implementing a single-file vector search engine from scratch, which is at least the tenth in the twenty years of my career. But this time, it's different. Instead of inventing a brand new algorithm and doing some crazy optimizations on the GPU, I:

1. took the standard HNSW algorithm,
2. fitted into 1000 lines of C++11 for portability,
3. added quantization and hardware-accelerated metrics,
4. wrapped for Python, JavaScript, Rust, and Java, and
5. open-sourced it!

It was fun, and to my surprise, it performed well, reaching 300K QPS on Amazon c7g instances. I never had to use third-party vector search products, but the first testers of USearch suggested 3x performance improvement over their existing solutions.

My colleagues and friends are also adding bindings for GoLang and the Wolfram language. We will soon add Windows support, a standalone server, and a distributed version based on UCall we shared a month ago. There are, of course, but you can already use it!

One of the apparent use cases is Semantic Search platforms. The example at the end of the GitHub page shows how to use USearch, UCall, and the UForm transformers together to build up a text-to-image semantic search platform in just 20 lines of Python.

Try it and join the development! We also have a lot of open positions, especially for those who want to work with us on next-get algorithms and AI infra rather than polishing and repackaging existing ideas :)
> does it mean that Intel has put a part of card's hardware into a CPU and uses some non-standard interface between the card and the CPU?

yes
> It is strict evaluation that is selectively enabled.

Worth fighting over it? Zero snark intended.
> It's a few extra steps up front, but once it's working, it's so much easier.

It's a few extra steps per site. Every time you get a new device you need to go back to every site you've ever visited and update the credentials. It is maybe feasible for a few important accounts but it doesn't scale.

Whatever solution we have needs to be syncable and able to be exported to a safe once and continue to be usable by new sites and devices into the future. People aren't going to print out their credential list every month to update the fire safe.
Disclaimer: not actually me, just copying the original title.
Self-folding origami machines powered by chemical reactions
> not being able to see the calendar details of team mates when inviting them to an event. All you see is a blocked out amount of time, you can't see their exact schedules even if they shared their calendar with you. This removes a huge human element to scheduling meetings because often times I'll avoid scheduling meetings when folks are just getting out of a long meeting, or I'll buffer it by 15-30 minutes depending on who is doing what beforehand.

This is configurable, you can make your calendars public and convince your teammates (and potentially the rest of the company) to do so as well.
fallocate will cause writes, possibly on a delay
Some will, others will rightfully turn to crime.
I haven't had FF "bog down" (but I'm not really a tab user, either). But on every machine I've put the new FF on, the startup time for it ranges from 2-5 minutes, and the initial load time for web pages is achingly slow (sometimes up to a minute or so).

No other browser I've used performs this poorly. Even the old, pre-reworked, FF performs much better than that.
A PIN entered onto a physical device like a smartphone can be rate limited (see iPhone progressively increasing PIN timeouts). If you try to rate limit password entry to an online service, you make it trivially easy for an attacker to lock out a real user.

Thus, even short PINs can provide strong security since the attacker gets, e.g., at most 10 tries to guess it out of 100k possibilities for a 6-digit PIN.
I disagree. See the history of DeCSS for more information.
I think you're missing the point, which is that to make such a change in a day would be chaotic and problematic. I'm not saying Microsoft and Google need to stay, I'm saying that it's not something that could change overnight without extreme hardship caused to many people. It's not just the change, it's how it happens. Many more people are able to work from home now than a few years ago, but I doubt most people think the cause of that was worth it. Do I think we'd all be better off with less mega corporations and more SMBs? Yes. Getting from here to there in a way that makes sense and doesn't cause major problems is important I think though.

Either the person I replied to above was being flippant and callous in their wording in a way they should have been aware of if they thought carefully about it, or they didn't think all that carefully.
How can people (especially on this forum) know that crypto export controls existed, but not know that they were struck down for violating 1A?…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
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This is so true - most older people I've worked with have major problems with touch devices. No one has come up with a satisfactory solution. This is not a new problem - I remember working with my grandfather in his 80's on a 286 equipped with a mouse - his arthritis prevented him from accurately positioning the mouse. Today's touch interfaces are far worse. And fingerprint scans are very difficult to get right and use with older people. Maybe face scans are fine but I've never trusted them. Regardless of security logins, there are a host of other issues - complex navigation, complex and confusing layouts (especially desktop), and hard to manipulate controls. One example, a simple zoom or skype call - why hasn't anyone ever developed a simple device to allow for same without having to use intricate controls. I've always imagined something similar to the video enabled nest or alexa devices but with physical knobs and push buttons. There's a very large market being ignored for some reason.
> should we expect the AI equivalent of Hiroshima in a couple months? An awe inspiring demonstration of raw power to silence any detractors

Hiroshima wasn't a demonstration of power to silence critics of nuclear physics. If we're launching a Manhattan Project in AI, it would be in a fine-targeting propaganda machine or self-learning killer robots.
Huh really? I put an AX210 wifi 6E card in my absolutely ancient Intel i7-2600 Optiplex and it works great.
We already took the AI red pill, now we're in for the ride. We need AI tools to protect against AI misuse.
Let me preface this by saying, I don’t work for Microsoft but have used their suite for a long time.

Nearly everything you’re complaining about can be changed in settings. Either by you or the IT Admin.
Also, if anyone (who doesn't already use Dvorak) has the misfortune of needing to use your computer with its Dvorak layout, that misfortune is amplified by many orders of magnitude if there's no visual indication of which keys are which.
Invite https://arc.net/gift/3536eabe
I hate this trend of landing pages that don’t show anything because they’re ~ so mysterious ~

Anyway, as someone who doesn’t use Arc (yet) but had the chance to assist a quickie (15 minutes presentation in a conference) and had a coworker show it to me, I have to say I’m excited to give it a try when I get the chance. It really seems to solve cleanly some pain points I’ve had for years:

- vertical / horizontal split of tabs is supported

- auto closing of tabs seems like a great feature

- easels look extremely useful, even for dashboarding (they even allow to embed page sections with auto reload)

- links from other apps open in « little arc » so they don’t pollute the tab list (unless you actively want to keep the tab)

I’m glad to see innovation in this space.
That's just a bit faster than my MacBook Pro, for what it's worth. Which was quite expensive but I don't think AMD Epyc expensive ...
Glad to see they've finally added total price display across the platform
It's so dumb to call it "Web 3.0". It's like "New York City 3.0". It's a big system with a lot of different things that evolve at different speeds. If you think you can characterize New York City by how things look from a couple different street corners and what's playing on Broadway right now, haha, no.
Good luck decoding LOCK CMPXCHG to loads and stores.

In any case, my actual objection was to “LOAD instruction in x86”. It makes no sense.
Hm, I can trigger it as well.. the 'FreeOffice' keeps popping up
https://i.imgur.com/wbMJzPW.png
Auth is as secure as the weakest link - in the case of this it's your email and/or customer service

To put it another way, it's not really any more secure than passwords.

Sure, there's a lower risk of password breaches, but if you're the target audience for passkeys, you probably also use a password manager with unique passwords per site (even if that manager is the one built into your browser and synced across your devices).
“Locally hosted cloud infrastructure!”
How do you access iCloud without your passkey?
Just to add more examples of markets they are trying to take over by not being better, but by buying up the competition:

- Video games: Activision/Blizzard, ZeniMax, Double Fine Productions, Obsidian Entertainment, inXile Entertainment, Playground Games, Compulsion Games, Undead Labs, Ninja Theory, Mojang

- Developer ecosystems: npm, Dependabot, GitHub, Playfab, Deis, Xamarin, Havok, HockeyApp
Astronomers capture moment distant planet was swallowed by star
I think Pepsi and Coke are really interesting example because they are not necessary to live. Many of the arguments in this thread rely on the idea that companies are coordinating to price gouge for life-sustaining Goods. If that were the case why do we see inflation in optional Goods as well
How tight do you have to hold bath temperatures? I haven't developed C41 at home but have done B&W, and reading about home C41 I remember that it seemed trickier to get right.
Higher priority risks are things that are easily measurable. A child that does not have food to eat or cannot access healthcare they need because their parents cannot afford it is very obviously bad for the child. Educational opportunities are another thing that's pretty easy to measure. Measuring the negative effects, if any, viewing pornography has on children isn't particularly easy to measure. I would say it's not ethically possible.

So ultimately, policy judgments with regards to increasing access controls are going to be dependent on intuition, one way or another, and individuals' political philosophies. I personally don't think there's any case where I think legislation like this is appropriate, though. If it were, it would be overwhelmingly obvious that it is. Clearly Utahan legislators think differently.
The history of Humanity, from the Industrial Revolution to present, in just one sentence. Still, don't you think you might have missed a few details while summarizing what has happened over those centuries?
It does because if you test your policies and scripts it shouldn't be broken. None of this negates the fact that we shouldn't have to be writing hacks to counteract MS's dark pattern games in the first place.
I think "Towers of Hanoi in SNOBOL" would get to first page even today.
They seem to be doing everything they can to make it not proprietary. I'm not sure if there's more that they can do.
Running

lifting

spirituality (meditation, reading, associating with like-minded practitioners, listening to talks by advanced practitioners)

spending time with family

stopping caring so much about work outcomes and just focusing on giving a best reasonable effort

Sleep

Right diet

No tiktok, disabled shorts on YouTube (just click through them and say not interested), minimal insta, no Facebook or snap account

Get your lives dialed in folks, it only gets harder.
A real hacker twiddles the data lines on a USB port manually instead of bothering with luser-friendly crap like keyboards.
What makes you think the Republican candidate wouldn't do the same thing? I don't think we've really seen this become a campaign issue yet, if it ever will (for 2024.)
Not entirely true on the latest version of Android. I'm not sure what the pattern is, but for most of the apps I've installed via Droidify, I don't have to confirm anything when installing updates.
> advancing science comes from trying different things and not from reproducing someone else’s work to prove it works

I'd say yes/no.

Efficiently advancing science definitely leverages well-reported and -reproduced results to skip to building on top of them.
Seems like you know a lot about computer languages
The (quite cheap) Lenovo Ideapads are quite good. I've upgraded my S540 with 32 GB of RAM (instead of the base 8) myself, it can receive a second M.2 SSD, and the first one is also upgradeable.

The only small problem is with the keyboard : the most used keys are completely blank after 3 years of use :)