skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ability of people without kids to have a firm belief on how they’d feel with or without them is also astonishing.

First he tells me how I feel, now you're telling me what I believe?

I don't know how I'd feel if I had kids. What I do know is that I "fully appreciate my moments without kids".

If a non-parent told you that you can't truly enjoy your free time because you have kids, wouldn't that be a bit rude?
The value of the option could be enough to allow below-cost pricing on the base model. Completely made up napkin math…

Base price: $10,000.
Cost to produce (including profit): $11,000.
Cost of option: $2000.
51% of buyers opt for the option at purchase.
Some % of resales result in additional sales of the option.
Just a note since you explicitly name a pdf reader:

Fbreader is a good go to and with its extensions support every format I have use for (pdf, epub, cbr, etc)
This is nothing new. It's been going on for ... well, as long as I can remember. And that's a while.
Claiming that any discussion of that sort is ‘friendly neighborhood discussion’ is the height of disingenuous bullshit. Which is my point.
My thesis is that more and more people notice that mainstream media is just propaganda. So many either avoid it at all or move to indi media
>I sometimes have to use Microsoft Teams at work. Microsoft Teams requires Microsoft Edge to run.

Plainly wrong. I use MS Teams at work too. My machine is running Debian. No, I sure as hell don't have Edge installed on Debian; I use it in Chrome.
The 16gb configuration is an absolute powerhouse and seems to be fine ... RAM usage on macs, particularly ARM, is completely different to Windows.
Sparkle.ai – OSS Data Sanitization Service for AI Workloads
>I’m sorry

No, don’t be sorry. The behavior displayed by this product and its creator can be at best described as offensive hubris, or more accurately I would describe the behavior as disgusting.
>strikes a deal with select few hardware vendors

That isn't what is happening. Anyone can become a manufacturer for Windows PCs or Android certified phones.
> People in battleground areas often have buses of activists brought in from neighboring states to do door to door canvassing

These aren't neighbors. We're talking about neighbors.

> everyone who wants to be able to cast their vote without active harassment from people with no stake in their community

Your neighbors have a stake in your community. It's almost part and parcel with the definition. Refusing to engage with them because you assume to know better obviously impacts the community's strength, cohesiveness and civic integrity.
Right, and how is this helping?

Yes, Google gets criticized for not having any customer service. So... what? Has this affected Google's profitability one iota? No.

Same with MS.
I don’t see how that’s the only dimension to look at when identifying addressable markets. Actually I don’t even see how it’s any dimension at all since you just can’t target “Europe” as a whole with a single solution that doesn’t have dozens of bespoke per-country exceptions. France is just about as different from Germany as any North American country.
Sure, and if it was just your comment it wouldn't annoy me. But these sorts of comments about non-parents from parents are constant. I totally parents that they enjoy having kids--why is it so implausible to parents that I can equally enjoy not having kids?
> Thomas Jefferson to Richard Feynman appear to have had ADHD

Based on what behaviors other than being somewhat eclectic? I've seen people try to diagnose historical figures before, but I have never seen these two on any list that I can remember.
UI matters, and modern UIs are horrible
I’ve got a stack of 24 Mac minis, $600 a pop. With barely any power draw, and killer compute, it’s a steal.
> Because the 1st Amendment supersedes any laws that are passed to criminalize journalism.

I can't seem to find the part in the 1st amendment which says reporters have an absolute right to not reveal their sources.
I think this is a fair point. Taking a look at the product page for the $300 HomePod (https://www.apple.com/homepod-2nd-generation/), I would argue that the HomePod is marketed more as a speaker with Siri integration rather than a Siri device with a really good speaker.

The bullet points I see on the above page, in order, are
- really good speaker
- Siri integration
- integrates with Apple ecosystem for playing music
- smart home integration
- "private and secure" whatever that means

So, it's not clear to me that "a better Siri" would necessarily result in selling X amount more speakers to make Siri a worthy investment while investing in better audio technology does because it's the main selling point for HomePods.
Yeah there was Jamf, but especially at a small company ~5-10-ish people, having to deal with a provider where you have to go through a sales person is such a pain. They have minimum license buys and deprio you if you're small... Now that it's natively supported just between Apple and MS, you can on-board yourself in about 1 day without talking to anyone, and the whole platform costs $0 if you have Office365 E3 already.
Thanks! That is exactly what I wanted to know.
It was probably put there for weight distribution as Porsche would be more likely to optimize for that despite the user inconvenience it may cause
> We need a guild of software engineering

The threat of professional exclusion is one of the big levers provided by such a guild. Given the way tech companies behave, why do you believe that this lever will be left in the hands of good people, and not taken over (like the rest of the internet)?
Some remarks on possible superconductivity of composition Pb9CuP6O25
I think that's reasonable, though I'm skeptical that fusion would solve climate change even if we perfected it tomorrow. It still has the issue of radioactive waste at end-of-plant-life since all of the critical parts are irradiated. It also doesn't solve the issue of chemical processes that release a good chunk of total CO2 emissions, and are largely independent of energy production.

I think the thing solves our environmental issues is actually industrial electrolysis, because then it doesn't really matter what your power source is, you have a means of decarbonizing chemical processes, and an incentive to commoditize carbon. Essentially, waste would have value, because it's a cheap source of carbon that can be used with hydrogen to create methanol, dme, etc. Not to mention, hydrogen salt cavern storage is proven at scale for 4 decades now to the tune of 350GWhs or so, and it lets us decarbonize agriculture and cement production.

I guess fusion might help make energy cheaper for these processes, but I don't really see that it matters if they're powered by fission or wind and solar. But if we can't get electrolysis cheap enough, then I don't see these processes being decarbonized until we're almost out of fossil fuels.

My 2c, anyway.
I wish I had the space for that with some of my projects. The expensive one was a desk with walnut, maple and resin. The resin cracked and discolored. The lesson was that when they say you can pour it 2 inches thick, you have to remember that they're liars, and to use a different brand and pour in 1/4 inch layers.

The final product was epic, and I use it every day, but the failed desk was too big to keep.
I didn't think so but it turns out it was added with Bash 4.0 (released Feb 2009). Instead of terminating the case with ";;", you terminate it with ";&" for fall through.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/NEWS#n1267
> Lots of hand waving about improvements

I imagine it doesn't seem ironic to you because people you trust gave a compelling narrative, but for the rest of us all you've given us is (second-hand) handwaving. All we mutually have to go off of is data, and anyone can go check what stocks are being taken off the overfished list [1] in a some of the areas you named. I'm not claiming all fish stocks are doing great. Some remain overfished, some are in bad shape or shifting out of their historical ranges due to climate, etc. But unconditional doomerism applies here at least as poorly as it does on average.

[1] https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/sustainable-fisheries/status-...
it is interesting that art/entertainment/media jobs rank so high in the useless/meaningless list. people that do art for art's sake instead of a job usually feel their work is profoundly meaningful at least to them.
> Claiming that any discussion of that sort is ‘friendly neighborhood discussion’

Bit of a straw man to quote something nobody in this thread said.

Nobody said civic duty is champagne and French fries. Just that rejecting it has a cost, and the people who cause that cost have a tendency to congregate. That, in turn, frees up resources for the communities who bother organizing.
You Can Turn a Prima Donna into a Performer Without Drawbacks
Yeah it’s way more than being scatter brained.
Everyone here so far is comparing different models, but you can just compare the exact same car to remove (most) other factors.

2020 Kia Niro LX (1.6L petrol engine): 3,100lb

2020 Kia Niro Touring (1.6L petrol engine): ~3,250lb

2020 Kia Niro EX (64kWh EV): 3,854 lbs

Batteries are heavy.
Temperature is weird. every other measurement scale starts at 0 but nether C nor F does. you have to use kelvin or rankine for that. This throws a big wrench into the calculation engine as now it has to support offsets for this one single use case. In fact openbsd units still does not support the C to F calculation.
Cars are often in tunnels, could be dangerous there?

For comparison purposes, note that indoors CO2 will go from 400 -> 1000ppm+ rather quickly if its not ventilated

According to this source [1], CO2 went from 400 -> 3000ppm inside a car cabin in 30mins, which is ~86ppm/min just from breathing. I could easily imagine a gas inside a car leaking at a faster rate and reaching 700ppm in a very short period of time.

[1]: https://www.co2meter.com/blogs/news/high-carbon-dioxide-co2-...
Use a pastebin instead.
Grammarly’s next step: Writing the whole essay for you
It's coil whine.

It makes much more sense when you realise that the 16kHz or so frequency is well out of range for anyone over 40. Many things related to noise make sense once you realise all older people are near deaf, compared to the hearing of a 10 year old.
Or it could be handled more like a postpaid phone bill.
> By Anyone I didn't mean end-users.

then it isn't anyone.

>and the same can happen in the WEI case too

It is impossible to happen in this case.

If client has to be certified, then as product OS must be certified out-of-the-box for non-technical user. This will make sure 97% of market is covered by Apple, Microsoft and Google - these are "Authorities" web will have - even if the remaining few percent would be unified - it still will lead to most often then not "not being included" as trustworthy from server side.

>The TLS analogy stands.

no it does not. TLS cares about connection not OS stack. Also power dynamic flows in opposite direction.

>Ofcourse noone can trust self-certification.

If you want you can - because You (user) can import any certificate.
The problem for me is that:

[Free/Open] Source/Linux in their entirety can be attested only if self-certification is possible. AND
Self-certification means that WEI doesn't work. AND
Any proposal that excludes any OS (or Linux distribution) from web is unacceptable.

Do you see logical outcome which this reasoning leads me to?

>No browser has made the decision to trust only one authority.

But it is not the browser here who has the final power "to trust", it is the server. And companies will only care about Windows, Mac(Safari), Android and Chrome.

>A motivated and funded organisation can become an Authority (like Let's Encrypt did)

Let's Encrypt could do that because TLS works in reverse direction and it is website that must be certified not the user.

> At the "trust-me-bro" game bots are more convincing than real users.

Yes exactly which is again everyone's point - for 10001 times and again "You cannot trust the client" - it is impossible to create privacy/[freedom of use for browsers and OS]-focused 'secure' and perfect attestation about client.

One has to give - 'security'/perfection or privacy/[freedom of use for browsers and OS].

We calculated what this proposal brings and rejected it on basis that bad is bigger than potential 'good' it can bring.

And again to put it clear - you need bots: search crawlers, web archive bots, URL scanners.

So put it clear - it is clearly from my perspective a wrong proposal.

P.S.
This another thing worth considering if you think WEI will create real security:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36985317
Another thing: EC2 instances (VMs) have a "Source/Destination IP check" which makes them ignore any packets not intended for them. If you want an instance to do NAT, you need to turn this off.
The arXiv paper was already posted here several days ago.
> As far as your trust issues go, that's for each individual to decide. Some people are able to see past their cynicism and derive value from the products companies make.

Your attempt at framing consumer protection as trust issues undermine the emotional scope of being a human being. You should seriously evaluate why someone who asks for the right to privacy is being framed in your mind as having a “trust issue.”

AI, in its current iteration as a centralized technology, will encourage future rent-seeking by incumbents and impact those dependent on it. Open access to models and locally running offline AI technology will be critical to its long-term success.
A solar shade would merely vault acidification ahead of anoxification on the shitlist of horrible things we're doing to our oceans.
Dropbox Announces Fiscal 2023 Second Quarter Results
> They're not selling the library but a managed cloud runtime for a scaleout compute tier. The clientside library is part of the freemium, and as workloads need to go bigger, they want to be the easy button for that.

That's what I had missed - thanks.
Although for the most part I prefer GOG games, there are some cases where Steam integration provides a better experience. For example, modding via the Steam Workshop and some multiplayer functionality.
Cool study - they made a Pb thin film and compared its superconducting properties to the recent reports on LK-99 reproduction attempts

They’re hypothesizing that people may be getting superconducting nanocrystals embedded in maybe amorphous material. I don’t know if it’s typical to do microscopy in superconductivity research, but it would be super interesting to see more microscopic detail on what people are getting
>specifically its Ask Rewind
>data never leaves it except for Ask Rewind

This is why your comment is being flagged. You managed to contradict yourself with two sentences, while also presenting the tone of an ad.
in most jurisdictions obstruction is a physical act
Lots of people are missing that Tesla doesn't do EPA tests, the EPA does.
I’m not seeing how what you said relates to my post at all.
Yes.

A Casio FX-81 (1981 vintage).
An HP-16C (1996 vintage), but very rarely. My firmware days are long over.

Pcalc42 in my phone.

Have to comment on the build quality. The Casio lost its battery cover within 5 years. The HP is build like a tank.
Even with the hardware (an older A-series would stomp the Switch), Apple just keeps burning bridges with the industry due to the exec problem you mentioned.

They do nothing (old OpenGL) or make things worse (unfixed OpenGL bugs), or promise a new focus and then don’t keep following through long-term.

The only reason Apple has any credibility in any way with games is the iPhone, and they did basically nothing. They were in the right place with good hardware and made software easy to buy. They didn’t focus on it.

(Then they allowed IAPs and destroyed the market for good iPhone games but made everyone rich so ‘woo’)

They got in a giant fight with nVidia. They totally pissed office Epic, makers of Unreal (it wasn’t going well before the games store stuff). Took years to allow real controllers and didn’t make one of their own so most people didn’t know BT controllers were an option. Forced AppleTV games to support the Siri touch remote as a controller for years despite it being useless for most games. Take a huge cut of profits on all non-Mac devices. Randomly reject app updates. Don’t have a public roadmap for anything and can change direction on a dime.

Everything I’ve heard is they have no faith from the industry. I’m not surprised.

Steve Jobs didn’t want the Mac seen as a toy or video games machine but a ‘real computer’ and the attitude hasn’t exactly changed since.
https://archive.li/oJpOT

I have seen much discussion across HN and Reddit about the large number of fake and knockoff brands/products being sold on Amazon. In this instance, it looks like a knockoff item may have been deadly.

The case was settled out of court so we do not really have any details about what happened or Amazon's side of the story.
There is a lecture series “Astronomy, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe” by James Kaler which is quite excellent.

Recorded Books has the Modern Scholar Series, which one might obtain through their local library. It’s an audio, not literally a book, though the quality is excellent and may answer many questions (like how is sunlight made?)

As for quantum considerations, try the book “fabric of the universe”, by David Deutsch. And there is always Alice in Quantumland if you want to “go down the rabbit hole” so to speak.
Most of the time, my personal sense of the prospective future manager was pretty useful.

I also recommend not trying to work for Amazon.
> it could be handled more like a postpaid phone bill

There is still a strong predatory incentive for people with limited choices. Who wants to guess, for example, what cheque-cashing establishments will do? Or asshat landlords?
WaPo talks about backlash against constant negativity, but I avoid news for another reason: for any field I care about, I hear news weeks/months before it reaches mainstream press, and it's unpleasant and cringeworthy to read their oversimplified, dramatized retelling. For any field I don't care about, I can't evaluate their accuracy and don't trust them.

As a rule, the bigger the target audience, the less it's worth, because the masses aren't discerning.
I unlocked a whole extra gallon on my i3's fuel tank (just about doubling its capacity) just by poking it with a computer, there's definitely people around willing to pay for this service.
That's how it works in any language on a supercomputer. MPI is pretty much the only game in town for inter-node communication.
Yeah, I can see that getting stuck on ideology.

It just feels to me Nintendo doesn't have many options. Other than the IP, people would rather use the Steam Deck over the Switch. This was also a similar hardware story for non-mobile consoles.

Meanwhile, both the Switch and Deck are roughly an iPad with dedicated controllers. And the future is VR, but Nintendo is struggling with frame-rates even on the Switch.

I can see Apple making a deal with Nintendo, to build its next console as a peripheral on-top-of the iPad / visionOS. All the power of Apple Silicon and all of the inspiration of Nintendo IP.
As if! A weapon usefulness is strictly determined by its success at achieving the wielder's objective.

Perhaps you want to genocide a people over a couple generations -> tailor a venereal disease.

Or maybe you want to make them "dumb" so their societies collapse -> weaponize Lyme

Or maybe you are an eco-terrorist and want to force ppl to stop eating meat -> spread tics with Alpha-gal syndrome.

The list of weapons being surprisingly effective (assault rifle) or a dud (dreadnought) is very long.
https://archive.ph/N4bSX
Game consoles work on slim margins or even a loss that is made back by licensed game and accessory sales. This is very anti-Apple. Compare the hardware of something like the $300 Xbox Series S to the $600 Mac Mini. The Xbox has 2GB more RAM, a beefier GPU, twice the storage space and includes a controller (~$50 value) and an HDMI cable in addition to the power cable which is all that's bundled with the mini.

AAA games eat storage too taking typically 30-100+ GBs. Baldur's Gate 3 for example is 125GB. Xbox has relatively expensive sort of proprietary storage upgrades where 1TB is $150 but it looks downright cheap compared to what Apple asks for 1TB.
There is no US constitutional right afforded to journalists to protect sources, they have been jailed in the past for refusing to divulge information.

At the state level, varying by state, there are limited "Shield Laws" that protect "journalistic privilege".

See:

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1241/shield-law...

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1104/confidenti...

and other law commentary sites.
My understanding from benchmarks is that M1 and M2 have an excellent performance / energy consumption ratio. But in terms of raw performance, many Intel and AMD options can still deliver more. Another very interesting aspect of Apple's CPUs is that they offer a lot more performance than the competition for entry models. I cannot find anything that matches a Mac Mini M2. Sadly, Asahi does not support the M2 yet.

Regarding the Mac Studio, I had heard complaints about noisy fans. Can you comment on that?
I don't understand your objective in this conversation. Are you trying to argue it's okay that Microsoft is incompetent, because Google also has bad customer service? Or that we shouldn't criticize Microsoft's awful security practices because it's "not their priority"?
Hah, I've done something a lot like this. The numbers make the order nice and obvious.

You can also use flag files to track progress and resume where you left off.

reset.sh:

#! /bin/sh

[ -d DONE ] || mkdir DONE
find DONE -type f -delete

run-all.sh:

#! /bin/sh

for s in step-*.sh
do
[ -f "DONE/$s" ] && { echo "*** (skipping $s)"; continue; }
echo "*** running $s"
./"$s" && touch "DONE/$s" || { echo "*** $s failed!"; break; }
done
Underground travel won't ever be feasible in Las Vegas. Believe it or not, the area's prone to flash flooding.

There is already an extensive series of tunnels under Vegas for storm runoff, and people even live in them—but when it rains it gets ugly. https://www.undercity.org/las-vegas-tunnels
Yes definitely. But the point is that you have to ask yourself what timescale matters. It isn't always "optimize for the long term" and it isn't always "optimize for the short term". It really depends on what you're up to.
The page features homeopathy, bone broth fasts, detoxes, chiropractic, the whole kitchen sink.
That's how you flash the precompiled binaries. I want to know how you make those binaries.
So, LeetCode?

It's a dynamic programming problem. Working backwards, at round 100 you take the money, at earlier rounds if [remaining rounds] * [current reading] < average([EV at round+1]), then reroll, otherwise take the money.
Sure. I consider this a restatement of what I said, and thus inarguably right :)
> It supports uBlock Origin which makes mobile browsing so much nicer

This was the primary reason I switched from Chrome to Firefox (mobile only initially, then full-on switch due to my desire to sync between mobile and PC). The later manifest v3 push only further validate my choice.
> Perhaps they make a big move and buy Disney.

Or make a search engine and become Google :)
> If the user has an unscrupulous ISP, there’s fat little I can do to guard against that anyway.

Well, you could use HTTPS, which trivially defeats this attack.
Money. They know they can't monetize it, so they just don't do it.
> While most Lyme disease patients who are diagnosed and treated early can fully recover, 10 to 20 percent suffer from persistent symptoms, some seriously disabling.

There's no evidence that chronic Lyme exists:

> There is no evidence to suggest that “chronic Lyme” exists, or that long-term antibiotics are required to treat it.

(https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/avoid-prolonged-antibiotics...)

It's pseudoscientific and pretty dangerous nonsense at that.