skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is highly misleading since it doesn't include $ value of all the freq flyer miles used (as far as i can tell).

Yep. Here are the amounts with the value of the miles factored in[1]:

>$1366.06 on Alaska, 307500 Alaska miles

307500 Alaska miles * 1.2 cents/mile = $3690

>$380.86 on Southwest, 43732 Southwest points

43732 Southwest points * 1.5 cents/point = $655.98

>$42.80 on United, 5500 United miles

5500 United miles * 1.2 cents/mile = $66

>$15.60 on Avianca, 6500 Avianca miles

6500 Avianca miles * 1.2 cents/mile = $78

So for the fall semester it costed him $1805.32 in cash, but if you factor in the value of the points that rises to $6295.30. He also mentioned that he spent 45972 minutes on commuting. If you factor the value of time (eg. minimum wage), the "cost" rises further to $17,788.30.

[1] obtained from googling "[points program] value"
Does anyone consider NIMBYism environmentally friendly?
There just isn't much interest. HPC focuses on distributed and product doesn't care about open source. That mostly leaves just professors and oddballs.
I guess I'm not seeing the argument here when the starting premise is free rent in a similarly high cost of living city.
Yeah, merely hypersonic missiles aren't that interesting; maneuverable hypersonic missiles/weapons, however, are.
> If you have an HA requirement your infra spend has just doubled

Doesn't matter when it's still a lot cheaper than some the big clouds.

You can also HA to cloud with a hybrid approach so on-demand infra is only used to fill in when your main compute goes out.
> proving that all planetary systems are unstable

The article implies this is what was proved, but later contradicts itself. Based on my reading, only a couple specific initial conditions were proved to be unstable.
KeePass 2.X Master Password Dumper (CVE-2023-32784)
Go back and read about the malfeasance of the petitioners there. They do things like cite a study, neglecting later data from the same study where the effect they want no longer shows up in the better data.

Policy has to go beyond what is rigorously demonstrated. It's not like criminal law. Technologies are not innocent until proven guilty. Just because LNT cannot be demonstrated at the doses relevant to nuclear accidents doesn't mean regulators should assume no effect.
This is pretty typical for the App Store / Play Store and isn’t anything particular to OpenAI. If there is a third-party service Foo that app Bar uses, then “Foo Bar” is questionable for trademark reasons and the common practice is to use “Bar for Foo” instead.
No, but environmental reviews are a popular tool for enforcing it
Few people were repairing their Intel MacBooks, even if they were more serviceable. It's not really typical of Apple users to expect to have to open their devices (me included, and I've been using MacBooks since the PPC days)

It's not bad to want to pull apart and service your own laptop, but for me it's a tool to get a job done and if it breaks I'll send it to Apple to fix

My previous Intel Retina MBP lasted from 2012 to 2020, and now my dad uses it because it still works fine. My younger brother uses my ~2008 17" MacBook Pro (it only runs on wall power, though). Repairability has just never been much of a concern in my use of Apple stuff
1. Someone creates a platform.

2. They make a terrible language the most convenient language.

3. People use the platform, along with the terrible language.

4. This terrible language is now everywhere.

5. The argument for using this terrible language is #4
Embedded development but specifically low-powered embedded development. Not everything is wifi and cell network, sometimes you have devices that wake up, broadcast a signal over LoRa or Zigbee and return to sleep. Specialized batteries can last 10+ years. You see some of this stuff in smart lighting remotes and sensors.

However much of this was done in the interest of as few cpu cycles as possible rather than raw speed.
I hear that there is a bleeding edge technology called (E)CHS these days.
Wow, that sounds awful. Any proof?
The crash popup still asks if you would like to send a report, along with an optional comment. I have used it a number of times to describe the app state prior to the crash
I get it, but this is not a piece of history per se. It was manufactured last week. Like any other x86 laptop.
I was too busy being in various forms of ‘time out’ for ‘acting up’ out of boredom to be in class enough. Eventually I just gave up by age 11 and just doodled in the back of the room knowing there was nothing I could do to change my situation.
Visa and Mastercard don't keep much of interchange at all and never have.

The vast majority is paid to issuing banks to pay for loan origination, fraud and, most significantly, to return in the form of cash back or points.

These networks charge 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit in Europe as per regulation, you just don't get rewards there.

Kinda sounds like they're just going to squeeze issuing banks. Cash back and points cards in Canada (already pretty weak offerings compared to the US) are going to get further watered down. I've no real opinion on this, tbh.

Some napkin math that may not be right: Visa processed 11.6T in payment volume last year. Net revenue was $29B. Opex was $9.3B. Net income was $16B. That means their net revenue is about 0.25% and their net income is like 0.137% of transaction volume. This passes the smell test given their EU-mandated numbers. [1]

[1] https://annualreport.visa.com/financials/default.aspx
It still marks Montana as a third-world state without conventional freedoms.
Does it come on an IBM Microdrive?[^1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive
Increased difficulty doesn't mean impossible or unsuccessful. Personally, I think it greatly matters what sort of culture and tooling you have available at your companies. If you've always done remote onboarding, you have years or training and materials. Having started remotely at a company that was not really prepared to be remote (2021), it was quite difficult as often many questions were expected to be answered by someone sitting next to you. Seeing new coworkers start while being in-person has shown it to be a better experience than what I had.

If there's some thought put into the onboarding process, I believe remote can be effective however I would argue remote onboarding requires far more effort and planning for the same result.
> Except, it’s hard to do vertical scaling dynamically.

Easiest to just create a new instance scaled up vertically and swap it over.
From the description: "Application to comfortably monitor your network traffic".

I think the keyword here is "comfortably".
When do think bevy will support entity-entity relationships ? https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/3742.

Flecs ECS already supports this: https://github.com/SanderMertens/flecs/blob/master/docs/Rela...
Valve has only made one VR game to date

I’m not aware of Epic making any VR games

Meta doesn’t make new games for other platforms even now. They’ve culled many od their own game studios. The only issue would be Beat Saber. Imo it’s still VR’s killer app. Still, there are plenty of passable clones and similar games that are good enough

The bigger issue is that Apple doesn’t like games. They never did. They only tolerate games now because of the revenue it brings in. Apple Arcade is a good start, but it still doesn’t convince me that they’re serious about catering to anyone beyond casual gamers

The other big issue is that market for VR and AR pre-Apple remains small. Because of that, there are barely any AAA games. I can count them on one hand. It’s also arguable if they’re actually AAA games when many of them are really dated games.
You can also find a group of comments holding any opinion

The obvious idea of wireless is anything but bold
> Total Cost: $5592.66

For 10 months. Even if true story, only make sense if you can find rent $559 cheaper in LA (and don't value your time & the environment of course). It was extra special for the OP as he'd live rent free in LA.

> Typically, the door-to-door commute time between my home in LA and my classroom in Berkeley is 4-5hrs EACH WAY

Waking up at 3:30am and wasting 9h every day doesn't seem worth the $ savings. I feel a part time on-campus job or something would be less draining, more rewarding, and financially same...
>Do you think you could find a reasonable, safe, clean place to live in the Berkely area for 560 / mo? A quick search says no.

But to get that low quoted amount, you need to ignore the value of the frequent flyer miles used, and the value of his time spent commuting. If you factor those in, the cost is about $17.8k for the fall semester alone, plenty of money to get a nice place to live.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35997647
At least when I was in the Bay Area around 4 years ago, it was possible to get a 3 bedroom apartment right by Ashby BART for $3,000/mo. So yeah I don’t think this worked in this persons favor especially given the miserable schedule
Those mix tapes or CD-R burned tracks aren't meant for distribution, but for personal consumption imho. If you tried selling mix tapes, i think it would constitute a copyright infringement.
"As someone else pointed out in a DM my implementation was pretty consistent with the official android developer docs found here: https://developers.google.com/admob/android/banner/anchored-...

"It's the exact same implementation."

So although Google banned him for breaking the rules on banner placement, he was following Google's own instructions on where to place the banner.

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/13lf6jb/open_so...
My prediction is that negative refraction materials will arrive in a few years. Optics problems solved.
> I'm still paying $5 bucks for a couple cores.

That's definitely on the cheap side as far as cloud goes.
Well, I suppose that's compelling if you're one of the many programmers trying to decide if you will implement your project in Ruby or C.
> It turned out later google (and other big tech incl twitter) were trying to suspress anything about covid, until the narrative shifted March that year

That's very interesting. Has this been confirmed from internal sources? What was the motivation behind it?
You aren't gonna answer the reply to that tweet? :(

I like the idea of wearing glasses like that and moving a Youtube video into the corner of my vision, like a recipe video while I'm cooking. Or something more stimulating than just a podcast when I'm running that I can tune in and out of.
Claims of malfeasance go in both directions.

>Policy has to go beyond what is rigorously demonstrated.

Thanks. I can see we're done here.
More traffic congestion right by there tho.
Sorry I'm not understanding the point you're trying to make. This person handed over the 5500 in cash, not the 17.8k you quoted, correct? It's not like they had a budget of 17.8k, because they wouldn't have gotten those miles had they not been flying in the first place.
Fwiw I think the term is “riced”
This is impressive and cool, but I have to wonder what I would do with my own children if I ever have them.

I’d want them to want to do college as early as possible, because frankly I found middle and high school to be a wildly massive waste of time and effort. That said, college has a tendency to focus on busy work and less on learning and retaining information. It’s a useful heuristic for determining ability to get work done, but it’s pretty inefficient for learning.

The biggest risk here is focusing on getting brass rings that are social signals instead of true accomplishments. I’d want my own kids to learn the value of working, and I’d much rather they have a job from an early age instead of a degree.
I'd take 4G than DSL
If only there were other app stores for Android - perhaps one from Amazon or some other competitor?
This is effectively a reasonable graphics card per eye. Sure it's no Nvidia 4090, but the M2 is running recent games with very good graphics on Macs.

Combine that with foveated rendering, possibly implemented deep in Metal, and being careful about graphically intensive applications, and this could be high FPS on 3K resolution, and be a significant step up in immersion.
This is very dependent on personal circumstances. Some of us live in circumstances where we're close to the office or have transit alternatives which makes the commutes fine places to get work done or nap or veg out on other things. Some of us bike to work.

As another comment said, a lot of the consternation about whether or not to go to the office is based on personal circumstances.
Visa and Mastercard operates many global debit networks, too. Visa Interlink, Mastercard Maestro, Discover Pulse for instance. 72% of US card present debit volume.

Not in Canada, mind you, that remains squarely Interac for card present transactions. Even on dual-branded cards with Visa-binned card numbers.
> we are not rich enough but have been pretending to be

even more so if you price in eco externalities
Take a two-week vacation to New York, I'm sure you can do it without a car. Or San Diego, or Hawaii.

A vacation is not the same as living somewhere.
His symptoms were consistent with radiation poisoning and because he was a high profile dissident his case attracted enough attention that the Atomic Weapons Establishment tested his blood and urine.

They performed gamma ray spectroscopy but did not discover any strong signals, except for a very small spike at 803 keV. Some of the scientists were talking about the case and they were overheard by an older scientist who had worked on the UK's atomic weapons program back in the 50s. The early bombs relied on Po-210 and he recognized that 803 keV line as being characteristic of Po-210. Although the decay is almost exclusively via alpha particles, a very small fraction of decays happen via emission of a gamma ray at 803 keV.

Once they had the connection to Po-210 it was straightforward to test for its presence in his body.
It's virtue signalling amongst white nationalists against their arch enemy: anyone not them.
> bus rapid transit might even become profitable to run privately

Growing up in Toronto, I always assumed that public transit just provides transportation and nothing more. Their income comes from tickets and from government subsidies.

In areas of the world where profitable private mass transit exists, the transit company also deals in real estate. They own land near stations before construction and either rent it out or sell it. They build and own malls on popular stations. This is a large reason why financially sustainable private transit companies exist. This is also known as value capture.

The upside to private transit companies is that it is not a political debate about how much to subsidize them - they are self-funding.
Just another "individual's life crushed by faceless corporate machinery" story.

> Suggestions to improve the developer experience:

> • Offer a paid support model where we can speak to a human.

A reasonable compromise? IMO this growing category of perfectly avoidable injustice should be brought under legislative control, with something like a right to adequate non-algorithmic support where automated (or "rubber stamped") livelihood termination is concerned (IANAL as if you couldn't tell.)

If companies can't provide human decency "at scale" voluntarily, they need to be brought to heel by regulation.
Speaking of which, HBO now has the perfect chance of riding this LLM hype train with a new season of Westworld, only if they hadn't cancelled it.
Back when neckties were required, people were just as convinced “real business” couldn’t be done without having a professional appearance.

It only seems ridiculous now because it turns out neckties weren’t really required. But we could look back with the same incredulity on spending $80k/mo for an office that the entire workforce commuted 30 mins to and from every day.
I bought a quest, it made nauseous, it wouldn’t stay on my kids head, and ended up gathering dust until I returned it the last day possible.
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/roo/d/san-francisco-awesome...

BART would usually be faster
I believe samsung had a similar product out ahead of apple at the time. Just like with the watch.
My takeaway from reading about the person's experience is that we need better high speed public transportation in California. It would unlock a lot of economic and non-economic opportunities if people can move across the state within an hour. Imagine if Berkeley was a commuter school for people in Los Angeles, or UCLA was a commuter school for people in Bay Area.
He shouldn't take this personally. Unfortunately all the behemoths such as Google, Meta or even Fintech "neo-banks" adopted this approach of banning-first with no appeal. They have to deal with so many users that they don't care anymore.

One of the solutions is to be aware of this and develop your own ways to circumvent their processes. Harder to do for banks (and I wouldn't do it) but necessary for other situations.

I live in different foreign countries that they decided to consider as high-risk clusters (Vietnam, Thailand etc.) and learned this the hard way (got banned from Meta Ads my first week arriving in Vietnam) so now everything is isolated. I only login to banks on a specific VPS in a "safe" cluster. And all my Google Ads accounts are also on separate isolated VPSes.
I have lived in the USA all my life and I've never been more than 15-20 minute walk from a grocery store of some kind.

And that's in a quite a few areas from pretty dense single-family urban to apartments to what some might call rural.

You can do it but people don't. Hell, walmart is only 30 minute walk away, but I drive most the time. Probably should get my bike fixed and easily accessible ...
> Work doesn't have to be your only source of community

Sorry if this sounds blunt, I’m moments away from sleep, but this comment of yours really frustrated me. You are assuming that someone who enjoys the social aspects of working in person does so because they lack social outlets outside the workplace. That is just your assumption, and a distortion of the discussion. I see this all the time. What gives?
I feel like much of the hate towards offices comes from people with long commutes. Personally, I've resolved to never be more than a 15 minute drive or 30 minute public transportation/walk away from work and it's been wonderful. Pop into the office, say hello, have lunch with good friends, talk to the people I see, leave the office around 4:45 and I'm home before 5. I recognize that's not feasible for many people due to the cost of living in their area, but there are many places where you can work at a big FAANG company and still have a house within 20 minutes for a not great but not terrible price.
Here's a stackoverflow link with a similar question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34732718/why-isnt-there-...

I actually don't know if there are fonts to cover every single unicode character (as in there may be characters that literally don't have a font that supports it), but I could be wrong.

I'll suggest a ridiculous hack, but it could end up being a cool little project.

You can download all of the unicode characters from the unicode website, and then write a script to iterate through them all.

This site is a pretty good resource for finding fonts that support a character: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0041/fontsuppo...

Just switch out the second to last param (0041) in that URL with the character code, make a GET request to the page, and then scrape the html for a font. Then do some kind of a distinct() on those fonts and you might have a pretty good list (you might DOS the site though).
people get heart transplants because they need them for very serious ailments

likewise for industrialized humanity
It is funny. Until I read Tesla's stuff I had no idea that not everyone does this. I visualize and tear down machines and designs in my head. Design in my sleep...etc.

Sometimes when I am describing a machine and how it works my hands move as if I am positioning the machine...because in my vision..it is really there. It blocks out the "real world" if I let it.

I was always criticized in school for daydreaming...I suspect this is why.
It probably won't be easy to convince people to pay for something that was previously free.

Then again, I could have said the same about many YouTube changes in recent years - that it will be difficult to convince people to like the changes. They were all unpopular and the platform keeps going strong.
I also said Ljubljana, a place that regularly hits -15C and +39C in the same year. This does not stop people from biking and walking everywhere year round. It is also built on a swamp so a summer day with 35C and 80% humidity is not uncommon.

Ok a lot less biking in winter, but always lots of walking.
I guess it spends where you live. I have done it. Used to have to walk everywhere. Auth the peak, I was walking around 14 miles a day. The walk was short like you mentioned, but I had to cross highway exists over a big hill in scorching humid heat while carrying shit. Not appealing whatsoever.

Frankly the heat is mostly why I stopped walking. I figured at first I might just be out of shape as hell, but I decided to take one today while the rain had cooled down the temperature and it was mostly pleasant. Comparatively I tried to walk the same route a few days back and gave up early because I was drenching in sweat, slunched over, could hardly see in front of me and my head was throbbing.

Infrastructure is a big thing too. When I’ve had to walk in less urban areas with little or no sidewalk, walking on grass next to the road with massive cars zipping past you is unnerving.
The OPL3 addon is a nice addition that doesn't work on new hardware without emulation.
Whatever part time job you have on campus, it sure isn't going to make you enough to rent anything close to a good location. You'd still have to commute quite far, just now you also have to work.
It sounds like Google Play is already run by evil robots.
> "space as delimiter" is awful in so many ways

Lisp and Scheme would like to have a word . . .
Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models
To Pay Rent in Medieval England, Catch Some Eels
Sama's Regulation Call, TLD.zip, AI Anxiety, ES2023, Gill Strang's Retirement
Yes, indeed. We are done. You are living in a fantasyland, not in the real world of how regulation and politics actually work.

But at least you can admit LNT is consistent with the evidence? The claim to the contrary is an outright lie.
If you have a case that Tim Cook in particular made the unilateral call on the airpod and not market pressure from samsung and others in this product segment, then lets hear it out.
Awesome, thanks! I am in fact guilty of using logrotate but thankfully I haven't been burned yet. Although perhaps with the advent of containers piping logs to streams I've unknowingly absolved myself.

Also, you have an amazing website. Looking forward to reading more.
Ask HN: What are your successful solo-founded projects?
Hi all,

As someone who always has a special love for solo-founded projects, I was wondering about projects
that have been self-bootstrapped by folks here and have been generating income.
I was wondering if you can share your stories, hopefully this post will receive some pariticipation

Thanks in advance!
A fair portion of that quarterly operating expense results in $20 billion a quarter in services revenue. I don't think those numbers intuitively reveal a plausible scenario where they are under in five years.
I don't think Google Play is available in China.

But that email kind of makes me appreciate Phil Schiller. It also shows that app stores are hard to run well, and that one of the reasons they are the way they are is the constant flood of bad actors trying to game the system.
I'm also bummed out that these sorts of things are all including OPL2/OPL3 Adlib style clones when I'd much rather have Sound Blaster support with the digital audio channel.
Unbelievable. I just ran into this myself. Same root cause: no space, old firmware.