skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone reading this thread and not knowing what the terms being tossed around mean, but curious, there was recently a thread here [0] with some resources that you can check out to understand the space a bit. I devoured two of the three books [1], [2] in about 4 days total, they're really easy to get through, definitely recommend.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35714145

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Global-Payments/dp/057829...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Swipe-Making-Money-Move/dp/16...
They are low level infra companies that exist because of regulatory capture. I am referring to companies like X1 and to some extent Ramp. The high level fintechs driving consumer innovation like electronic wallets, interesting rebate card models, better banking UXes all require interchange fees. This is also why most consumer fintechs start in the US and UK first before expanding elsewhere.
They're both waste. Charging a capacitor to 1 volt means your average input voltage is .5 and half your energy goes to heat. Discharging to a ground line wastes the other half.

As the sibling comment says, you would need voltage converters running both ways to avoid this waste.
Sam Altman is plowing ahead with nuclear fusion, crypto and, oh yeah, OpenAI
Utah has passed a law that requires age verification to view porn: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/utah-law-requiring-porn-...
I do share this opinion, but their “lifetime” term is a trick. I prefer honest pricing and honest promises.
The LA Metro system actually is quite beautiful and far cleaner than say, the NYC or DC systems (cynics will say that's because it isn't used as much).
15 million is small, for example there are vendors who have indexed several hundred million, not speaking from data quality but size wise
Country quota behind long Green Card wait time for India, says US official
Exactly, what's with the critical and defensive reactionary response here? This story is hilarious! And the amount of effort it took to execute and maintain it. And to keep full track of commute time and expenses on a spreadsheet no less? Bravo.
What’s the “usual case”? We scale up and down thousands of times a day.
Serious question: If I'm working from home, what's stopping my employer from replacing me with some dude in India or something for 1/3 the price?

I'm just having a hard time believing that we're at this moment in time where life suddenly got better for workers.
I genuinely can not imagine enjoying flying. Airports are a form of living hell.
A high speed rail enabling people to commute to SF/LA from 100+ miles away in under an hour would immediately relieve a huge amount of housing issues while creating tons of jobs in low income areas. The whole central valley would become a valid place for people to commute from.

Too bad we are incapable of building one.
Private satellites give boost to public sector in climate fight
> rust fix to pass inspection

what is this? around here if the rust can accelerate to 88 mph it's fully considered fine and nobody cares

and I agree the spend is probably worth it (or I wouldn't be waiting for Toyota to start making the damn Sienna again) but the reality is millions of poor people drive clunkers and make it work somehow.
That’s a specific issue caused by the Tories deliberately running it down. Pre-2010, the situation was very different. You didn’t have things like the Annual Winter Crisis (which now extends through to autumn).

Luckily, Labour will win the next GE, so they can start to turn this around.
Alternatively, drive to Bakersfield and take the Amtrack to there/Oakland. It's a much more eco-friendly and enjoyable ride. They sell 10-packs and monthly passes too.

https://www.amtrak.com/stations/bfd
If you treat them as opaque strings and don't use their binary representation, you'll be fine.
Saving the forests won’t be enough to stop climate change
Miles don’t expire on any of the major airlines
Do you mean high debtors? A good number of high spenders rinse all of their transactions through credit cards to collect the rewards and then pay them off every month. I haven’t paid a fee in at least 18 years, and typically collect several hundred dollars a year in rewards on spending I would do anyway.

When local vendors give me a cash discount, it’s typically 3%, better than most rewards programs, and I take that.

The few cards that offer 5% in other categories have to be getting that from interest payments or promotional retail agreements as opposed to transaction fees. Hitting one of those on a high spending category is like hitting the lottery!
LOL, support group anyone???
> I certainly see younger programmers who don't understand simple "separation of concerns" when writing code and get themselves in to trouble with overly complex approaches

I was also like this before. I didn't receive a formal CS education. I majored in electrical engineering. Then I read the book How to Design Programs[0] and understood that I have been approaching coding problems all wrong.

[0] https://htdp.org/
The NHS is struggling because the Tory government is deliberately running it down. You didn’t see the many crises it faces under Labour.
Instead we developed this thing: https://www.gmc.com/electric/hummer-ev/suv

Because what everyone needs is a SUV that weighs 9000 pounds and can accelerate to 60 MPH in 3.5 seconds.
Fair point, but in this case (4mhz 8088) I think it doesn't really have the guts to play 16 bit stereo digital audio?

Update: apparently there's a hacky way to play digital audio through these FM synth chips, and several games and music players for DOS do just this.
There's a new OS (xrOS) [1] listed in the article in addition to talk about Apple's full hardware team working on a new chip for the headset.

I'm not sure what value there is on speculating at this level.

We have no idea what sort of gaming content they are planning for it in addition to the AR stuff. At that price point it's hard to tell what the market or usecases with be.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-01/apple-mix...
I voted for California High Speed Rail when I was in university. I’m middle-aged now. I hope that one day, my grandchildren will be able to take that train.
I don't mind regulation when it serves a useful purpose, but 1) this one does not, and 2) pretending that it doesn't affect individuals because it only directly targets companies is misleading. If you genuinely believe that TikTok should not be available to anyone, then argue that openly.
When kids in https://old.reddit.com/r/opengl/ ask about a good starting project, I usually recommend making a glTF viewer. It’s good because it’s a scalable project that you can take as short or as far as you care to go. At a minimum, you can just get solid colored triangles on the screen in generally the right shape. But, if you find yourself having fun, you can end up building a full-featured scene renderer to rival https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.html
> I absolutely love the heavy lifting “as little as” is doing here.

My understanding is that grocery store margins are typically between 1% and 3%, so even "small" shifts in the interchange rate can have massive impacts on their bottom line.
> Not sure what exactly was the motivation for the VC to agree to this (imagine having a bed in your office?

That's just an Entrepreneur-"in-Residence".
MMM has kinda lost the plot ever since the divorce, I feel.
The portfolio system seems like it would work well for any practical major such as engineering.

Grades are already largely irrelevant in many graduate programs with a thesis requirement.
iPhone price proves that it wasn't a typo.
>On Saturday Musk responded to a random account with the username @Rainmaker1973 that tweeted that the unique biodiversity of Madagascar is the result of being isolated from other land masses for 88 million years,

Is supposedly evidence for this?

No wonder vice is going out of business if this is the level of reporting quality.
What if it only seems like impossibly high standards? Many companies might not be directly tackling that because they're prioritizing other problems too highly.

It sometimes takes courage to challenge the status quo, to take the risk to establish a new standard. To identify and pursue the "right" standards.
Absolutely agree. I just wanted to provide a counterpoint to the idea that it was just accepted and obvious that remote onboarding is worse - that doesn't mean it isn't, but I don't think we have to assume that it is.

I'm interested in hearing other people's experiences especially because I've been remote since 2011 so I have a clearly biased perspective.
It's too crowded, nobody wants to go there anymore.
That was Windows 3.1, apparently
Yes, this is why the idea to use Po-210 was a stroke of (evil) genius. Because of its unique decay profile it is extremely hard to detect. The FSB agents who did this could obtain a small but lethal dose of Po-210 in Russia and then carry it across borders dissolved in a vial of water. In that state it is not dangerous, so the agents had little risk to themselves by carrying it. And it is also undetectable by border security, even if they were monitoring for radiation.
I think you misread the point GP was making. The poor-poor don't have credit cards. They have cash and debit cards. They pay the same as we do at most[1] merchants, despite credit card transactions nominally costing the merchant more money than cash or debit transactions. Most merchants budget the cost of credit card fees into their regular prices that all people pay regardless of method of payment.

[1] - https://www.thebalancemoney.com/credit-card-surcharges-31542...

TLDR: The existence of credit cards is basically an automatic 2-3% inflation on prices. As a fraction of income, this hurts the poor the worst. The better off get this 2% back as rewards. Cash payers get nothing back.
Oh. Well in that case the vast majority of Americans live in a metro area so I guess they do like the city.
> What has the length of copyright have to do with this?

This is 2023. None of this mess should be happening. They're both dead.
A lot of software back then tended to stick to integer operations for everything as much as possible, at least where performance mattered.
A single M2 chip is able to play a recent-ish AAA game and decent-ish settings, on ~2k at >30fps, while also running the whole game itself and macOS.

So for VR, foveated rendering could mean the difference between ~2k and 3k is a wash. And AAA games designed for VR tend to be a little more conservative on the graphics. And the chip will only theoretically have to handle half the other game work and no full macOS.

Combine that with Apple's continued Metal development, which is very capable if you're willing to do the leg work to take advantage of it, and yeah I think it'll get close.
Want that only on year 2 though? First year at 30%. Regardless I expect open ai to do well over a million or year
> But considering the car enabled the suburb in the first place, I don't think it's necessarily wrong to use it as the metric.

The first suburbs were a result of trains.
When the device has a user experience, it gradually turns into a convergence platform.

This is what makes coming out with new products harder - Apple doesn't have a market for a mid-range camera, or a GPS, or a music player, or a PDA - because those are all things the iPhone does. They add capabilities to the phone to usurp other device markets (most recently, emergency satellite communicators and OnStar-style crash detection). Apple releases new devices most often by releasing them inside the iPhone.

Which is why now, with a saturated cellphone market which is slowing down the upgrade frequency, they are so interested in wearables (separate hardware that augments your phone) and services (software that augments your phone).

The sad thing is that there are areas they could make a lot of innovations, such as smart home accessories. They killed off the AirPort line, and license out HomeKit with almost no first-party hardware, because those just don't move the needle for a company of Apple's size.
The USA has TONS of intercity rail that nobody knows or cares about. Here's some by name: Pacific Surfliner, Cascades, Brightline. And that doesn't count things like Metrolink and other commuter rail.

There are more and I don't know them because I don't live near them. Acela isn't the only one.

Surfliner is about 3.5 hrs from LA to San Diego; ain't nobody gonna fly that, but lots of people drive it.
Neither assessment nor feedback require letter grades.

Some schools without grades use a portfolio system where you have to complete projects in various areas and some sort of capstone project or thesis to graduate. Graduate programs largely work that way as well. They may have a qualifying process, but actual letter grades are largely irrelevant.

Students still get feedback on their projects, and they graduate with a CV and work portfolio that they can show to employers or graduate programs.
looks like its running on opengl/dx
Actually, what you say is that the middle class pays for the cashbacks of the top spenders and for the defaults of the most poor. Unless somehow you get the cashback and you are still the one paying for the credit risk of others?
Yes, but nothing beats getting a programming job to teach you how to program.

I started as a hobbyist but I was only aware of a programming language's syntax and my ability to use it to program a project. I then went to college and learned how to better break down a programming challenge and create a working program that has code that can be managed over time. I also got an introduction to other parts of Information technology that helped me better understand how to program. It was not enough teaching. I feel I got a very superficial education but it was enough to get started.

But I feel I got the best training when I got a job programming and had to work on a team and was able to release code to production. Nothing beats the constant grind of a job to teach you how to program.
Can you elaborate what adds I have on my iPhone?
English as a first language. Implicit shared cultural values. Time zones. You are way less work to manage than someone across the world from another culture.

Some companies do outsource everything but it’s HARD.
It runs at the original "base" level (4.77MHz) so there's no Turbo to toggle :D
The bar to be deemed "fascist" is shockingly low nowadays. It's a claim that no one ever has to realistically support, and for which no one is ever penalized for slandering/libeling others.

Especially concerning as there is an organization that is known to harass, burn, terrorize, threaten, and assault those tagged with that label, be it accurate or not. Yet that doesn't stop both bloggers, politicians, and highly paid media commentators from tossing it out daily against their ideological foes.

Ironically they are the same folks who promote censorship based upon a theory of "stochastic terrorism".
Even in US, if you search for e.g. "GPT" instead of "ChatGPT", the top search results are all third party apps, and some of them seem like they deliberately copy the official website look and feel.
I'm from Australia, which is close to the size of the continental US but with less than 10% of its population. I know how big and how sparsely populated the US is, and don't really see your point.

Yeah, there are big areas of country Australia and the US where you need a car to get to anything. This is a good reason to have access to a car for some of the population. It's not a reason for the towns themselves to be built with carparks everywhere, no footpaths, massive outlets distributed far apart, bad public transport that doubles as crisis housing for the local homeless population, no pedestrian safety and comfort features like roadside trees, lawns instead of gardens, and everything else that makes up sterile urban sprawl.
It’s a kitchen with a stove, a sink, a microwave and a dishwasher. What does the size of the kitchen have to do with how hard is to clean? That’s a function of how much you cook and what you use to cook.
> Is this really necessary? Competing on merit no longer works?

No longer?

Not trying to say no one has ever competed on merit along, but I don’t think there exists a bygone era where people didn’t use $$$ to gain leverage in a market.
Wow, I had no idea it made that much money. My kids love it.

I think what makes it stick is that it's more than just a game. It's a social space where my kids jump in to sometimes just to chat with their friends from school. Reminds me of hanging out in Team Fortress 2 game servers and just chatting while casually screwing around in the game.

Here's the interview where those stats came from for those curious.

https://venturebeat.com/games/how-gorilla-tag-made-it-big-on...
Agreed. Not perfect, but good enough that I didn't hesitate to get a pair for my aging mother. She loves them!
Studies show you buy more with a credit card than cash. You think you're saving 1-3% but you would easily save that with slightly more conservative spending.

It's also worth mentioning the real business is analyzing the consumer data you give them for pennies.
In theory, no, but if you're using an AMD Ryzen CPU, there's some nasty bugs related to VME instructions (which AMD appears to have no intention of fixing) that break some DOS-based applications, including Windows 3, 9x, and probably the other DOS-based Windows versions as well but I never tried them. NT-based Windows works, though early versions do not perform as well as they do on Intel (my R7 1700 and 5700X run Windows 2000 VMs worse than my old i5-6600...I wish I was joking).
It's too late to do this, it's not possible in a country that isn't all-white. Even in Europe usability of public transport deteriorates as other races mix in. Now there's no fix.
If someone won’t take any risk - they get the corresponding reward. Law of the jungle and all.
Toward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
& Hilariously includes a Windows key despite not being able to run any version of Windows for which this key was introduced
Violent crimes are probably relatively well reported at some violence threshold - something like "did you need medical assistance".

It's property crimes that are below the insurance threshold that will just not be reported; why bother? I had cars broken into and I never reported any of them because it would be pointless; the only time I did report was when the car was stolen - and that only because I didn't want it to turn up burning somewhere and blamed on me.
> This stuff matters.

The number of people who want to sysadmin their phones is effectively zero.
Exactly. It's like a feature on a paper, but I don't think anyone would ever dare to make a database driver switch in production.
what about something like pcem? would it be possible to use that to run os and software?
Really important to remember:

- Apple Watch: $447 at release (inflation adj); $250 today.

- iPad: $695 at release (inflation adj); $450 today.

- iPhone: $877 at release (inflation adj, carrier subsidized); $800 today.

Similar story with all of their products. Apple has a history of releasing new product lines with the "top end" expensive models (remember in 2017 when they released both the iPhone X and iPhone 8). Early adopters will be early adopters. It should also speak volumes that this is likely to be introduced at WWDC; the first iteration may be extremely developer focused, to help build the platform, with more consumer-oriented and priced devices next year.

Historically: It has practically never been a good bet to bet against Apple, even if all the logic says to [1]. This time could be different. I would not bet on it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
Outside the 2008 funny business, housing just doesn't go down in nominal dollars.

The best we can realistically hope for is it staying relatively steady in nominal dollars whilst inflation burns up the purchasing power associated.
I don't have a counterpoint, I'm interested in other people's perspectives, honestly. I just thought it was a little absurd to gently move past the assumption that remote onboarding is obviously worse!

I can see ways it might be worse, obviously, and I've experienced good in-office onboarding. But I've also experienced absolutely crap in-office onboarding (a month of no working development environment!) - so I question whether that experience was because of the office/remote dynamic, or because companies that do a good job onboarding because they value it, regardless.

So it's interesting to hear stories and experiences from other people's perspective, both onboard-ee and onboard-er, since I'm just one dude with my own Unique Perspective™ and limited total experience based on that viewpoint.
If you are getting 500 reqs per second for a statically typed compiled systems programming language with no garbage collector on a modern machine, you have bigger problems than standards compliance.

1Ghz/500 is ~2Mhz per request. Taking 2 million cycles to respond to a request in a benchmarked environment on localhost means something has gone horribly wrong.
I’m baffled by the ideas in the article’s intro that in the 50’s, cars were somehow the realm of hipsters and bohemians. If anything, cars became more popular with the growing (mostly white) middle class which moved to the newly built and expanded suburbs in the post WW2 years. The GI bill, home financing and other incentives helped growing families (baby boom) move into their new lives. Car ads promoted “All This and Victory Too”. After years of wartime rationing, people were eager to buy new shiny bulbous vehicles to drive on the new Eisenhower-era interstate system.
A half answer here is, given "agile devops" software development (i.e. developing with iterative tradeoffs on both features and operational stability), then regular meeting time matters a lot to resolve conflict, and so working time zone matters a lot. The more spread, and the more you get people blaming "not good enough processes" on what is really just "not enough common time to meet to collaborate".

Now the other half of that is what remote-first, "all I need is more time to code" developers really don't want to hear, is that in resolving conflict, in-person communication is much higher bandwidth than even zoom communication, both for the whiteboard, and for the fact being in-person de-escalates emotion. This is particularly true for early career developers, where some pushback (i.e. conflict) in their naive assumptions is actually how they are going to learn better from senior developers.

So while 5 days a week in the office is dead, its way too early to say what the eventual outcome will be. But I do agree less days a week will force some amount of square-foot downsizing, so I am glad I don't own any office buildings.
SAP, Siemens, Capgemini, Bechtle and other dinosaurs.