skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hand waive about inflation

There's nothing whatsoever hand-wavy about inflation. It's as real as can be, and it affects everyone and everything.

> As of 2022, their operating margin was about 65%... That doesn't indicate a company that needs to increase prices.

It indicates nothing. That isn't even close to proper analysis of their financials. As is often the case with chat room discussions, people just love to grab onto one number or one fact and use it to flog everyone to death. Well, I have news, reality --as opposed to fantasy-- is a complex multivariate problem. A single number is meaningless.

Note that I am not at all defending Verisign. I know nothing about their operations and don't have the time to dive into it. For all I know this actually is 100% rent-seeking, in the full economic sense of the term.

I am defending reason and the requirement for solid analysis and justification before accusing anyone of anything. This, in sharp contrast with the typical lynching mob mentality that permeates online conversations.

What I am sick of and will not do, is people just jumping at labelling things (people, businesses, etc.) because they don't like something rather than through critical thinking, demonstrable and reproducible analysis of facts in full context. You know, like calling someone "racist" because they bought vanilla ice cream (not making light of real racism, but one has to admit we have taken that term to insane lengths and depths).

Maybe this is rent-seeking. Don't know. What I do know is that the claim has been made in this thread and the only real support is feelings, not well-presented evidence.

Also, saying someone makes 65% operating margin as a measure of evil-ness is ridiculous. Who put anyone in charge of deciding how much margin makes someone worthy? 5%? 10%? 25%? 0%? What happens to that fake virtuous badge when things go wrong (pandemic, economic downturn) and the company has to fire half the staff because they were labeled evil for making more than 5%? Yeah, the people who lost their jobs are going to think very highly of the virtue police on that day.

As someone who has founded and operated multiple businesses in the last four decades, this kind of thing really drives me up a wall. People who have never risked a dime of their own trying to make a non-trivial business go actually think they understand business. It's both the saddest and the funniest thing seen online and, with some frequency, on HN.
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> It wont. If anything it'll just consolidate the squatted domains into fewer hands.

This is actually great if your end is to get rid of squatting, consolidate the market into a number of throats that's feasible to choke and then do it via regulation.
> year after year self-driving cars remained a demo, albeit an incrementally improving one

You can get a ride in Phoenix today. Order a Waymo from your phone, it shows up with no driver. https://waymo.com/waymo-one-phoenix/

The number of cities is still small, but it's not a demo anymore.
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> You're just going to end up with a bunch of sloppy tables.

That's only true if you assume all the customers desire (or are willing to settle-for) arbitrarily bad tables for cheap. That isn't guaranteed, but even then... why are you so certain their decision is wrong? Maybe they simply care about something else more than their tables.

Meanwhile, the section of customers who still desire good tables will find those good-tables more affordable than before, even if they're a relatively smaller slice of the expanded table-market pie.

Sure, there are crappy $5 T-shirts, but today I could buy silk and lace enough to embarrass a king. Terribly an artful books exists to come up, but I could still accumulate a library in my pocket that would be the envy of any ancient monastery or place of learning.
Canonical. Their desktop experience had already lost its shine (and, effing snaps), but I made the mistake of believing that they might be cool anyway, without doing my research.

Intelligence test? Story about high school? Reflex test? The actual red flag for me was their final admission that they require an unpaid internship in the form of "community participation."

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/tkc348/my_interview_...
Is it legal for companies to buy and sell the Moon’s resources?
Ah yes hence all those nuclear meltdowns in France
Chromium (and I'm sure other browsers, but I didn't test) will sniff character set heuristically regardless of the HTML version or quirks mode. It's happy to choose UTF-8 if it sees something UTF-8-like in there. I don't know how to square this with your earlier claim of "Browsers don't use utf-8 unless you tell them to."

That is, the following UTF-8 encoded .html files all produce document.characterSet == "UTF-8" and render as expected without mojibake, despite not saying anything about UTF-8. Change "ä" to "a" to get windows-1252 again.

<html>ä

<!DOCTYPE html><html>ä

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html>ä

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"><html>ä
Hehe, true, although I must say I wish the native _Mac_OS picker was modal.
Sometimes it just stays on the screen even after the user has chosen the colour.
Entirely depends on how good it would become.

It could also have some interesting avenues, like feeding some variables to the AI from say a video game (number and type of monsters on screen, mood etc.) to generate music reacting to what is happening on screen
Sure. Same for solar. Same for forever plastics in wind turbines. Same for ecological damage for hydro.
This is factually incorrect. If you own your master recordings, you stand to make $3,500 to $5,500 per million streams on Spotify. Apple Music and Tidal pay even better. This is why Taylor Swift is re-recording her entire Big Machine Records catalogue. While Spotify did shift consumers away from buying singles and albums as individual items, they also opened a new revenue source for independent artists.
I wasn't criticizing any of the companies I listed.
That's an easy thing to say from the comfort of a developed economy, not so easy for the developing world. Economic growth is what provided the standard of living in the developed world, which is much greater than pre-industrial revolution.
> it might be better to upload 1 really good video every month than 4 great videos

I was very confused here until I realized you rank the intensity of 'really good' and 'great' in a different order than I do.
Reminds me of the Post "Wait vs. Interrupt Culture"

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Perhaps I am misinterpreting feedback of "offer a lifetime deal" as "give me it for less".

Would help to know, what would you pay for it? What do you think its worth?
I think Hyatt and Hilton have a lot stronger brand names than "a friendly lady named Shiela" but Airbnb built an empire on the latter.
Ignoring whether this is technically feasible, on its face, it could be a potential strategy to prevent deepfakes if the things it authenticated were immutable.

But regardless, any time I read about someone vouching for the authenticity of something they are in, I think about Mitt Romney's 47% comments [0] and how people frequently deny things that they provably said/did because they didn't intend for it to be in the public record. Would Romney or any of his close colleagues (the "social circle of trusted voters associated with the speaker") have vouched for the video's authenticity, had such a system existed back then? Probably not. Instead, the video would be unverified, much like a blatant fake.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2gvY2wqI7M

Edit: It seems the author of this post is currently duking it out in the comments section of [1]. Wonderful.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/15x5c68/no_serious...
I think you may be right about the lamplight fallacy.

I just started learning Mandarin this year. It's somewhat famous for having a simple grammar, but that in no way means that it has lesser expressive capacity. It just means that the language has evolved different ways of expressing the same ideas. They don't happen to be ways that can easily be summarized as grammatical rules. But I'm not sure I'd take that to mean that it's a simpler language. I think it probably says more about the concept of grammar as defined by grammarians.
Don't look at a calendar, it will be a depressing experience.
Well, it says WEB applications, so presumably this is something that will run in a browser, which implies some flavour of Javascript.

Tangentially, I've been interested in this space for a while, and I have a few in-progress projects built on CouchDB. My aim was to offer the offline app for free and monetize through sync / sharing features. This would've mirrored my cost structure (hosting), so I thought it was a pretty fair way to monetize a product.
Also every year I get a little more resentful of spinner wheels for year of birth that start at the current year.
Shouldn't be a hard sell for OEMs; official specs are 64 GB is enough storage for windows 11, and I can get a 128 GB SSD for $15 retail, whereas the lowest price hard drive I can find is $25 retail (500 GB, but 3.5"), so if you're a cheap PC OEM, putting in a crappy, tiny, SSD saves money. And the only systems without SSDs I saw on BestBuy were refurbished machines shipping with Windows 10.
Right, that opinion is popular with me: I love the idea that commercial illustrators can add generative AI to their toolbox. Those are the illustrators I most want to work with: people who can produce the best possible images using the whole suite of tools available to them.
> I know you are being ironic with "clear", but gas fired plants should also be "billed" for the dirt created by mining the natural gas in the first place.

+1 to taxing externalities.

I would also add a tax to the plants that ever used Russian gas with proceeds going to restoration of Ukraine. If not for the decision of German public to shut down their nuclear reactors, Putin would have never had that much money to start the war.

(edit: as correctly pointed out below, significant part of the lost electricity capacity after turning down the nuclear plants was substituted by domestic coal, not Russian gas, so my comment was based on partially wrong info; sorry about that)
I met my ex-wife on Match. Things didn't work out in the long run (10 years) between us for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with online dating.

But, I certainly know that if I had lied initially, it would have never worked from the start.

Your attitude on this matter ("play to win" and "work on your sales skills") is what makes the whole scene really horrible. I feel for your partner, I wonder if they realize that is your train of thought.

After saying what you did, I find your advice at the end contradicts what you said above. "play to win"... but grow love with trust after lying about my age? Weird.
It's a bit stunning to me that most of the webdev energies seem focused around SSR right now. Service Workers have quietly helped lots of apps do crucial things, but so far there has been scant progress mainstreaming & bringing their benefit to the masses. They are a core part of no major frameworks.

There seems like nothing more obvious for speeding up the web after the page loads than Service workers & web workers in general. Yet, well into a decade of having had web workers, it's still largely an artisanal handcraft set of technologies, with no major integrations with common frameworks & libraries. Commlink & others can ease their usage, but there's still effectively no architecure where business work is offloaded out of the main thread.
"The only difference is the blue-collar mafia is way more visible as they solve their difference with valence, while the white-collar mafia doesn't need to resort to barbaric acts but simply lobbies their political friends in power to put enough laws and regulations in place to stop any newcomers entering their turf."

Ah, Brujah vs Ventrue.
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"Authoritative" has a particular meaning. You might have intended to say "influential". You didn't. I can only reply based on what you said.
You might want to ask yourself why Bill Barr, with the powers and visibility he had as AG/head of DOJ, looked at the pile of fraud allegations and told his boss it was a big box of nothing.

I'm sure he's just part of the conspiracy, or something...
I know plenty people who say they’d like more kids but can’t afford it
Short for "voice (boi) changer (chen)"
"[Art,] Copyrights cannot be assigned to the AI software a human used to create the work" which may or may not be sufficiently transformative, fair use, or apparently derivative
I've been wearing BTE (behind the ear) hearing aids since I was a kid. So I have the custom molded ear plugs (with hole for tubing) like you mention. I enjoy that they're a magical always-ready pair of earplugs.

But recently trying to use some actual ear plugs to help sleep at a noisy location... I thought they weren't helping, and then I learned from my wife that I wasn't using them correctly. It seems the trick was getting them further in the ear (I think further in than my ear molds go), and voila, more of a difference; better than turning off my hearing aids. I've also noticed the difference recently, using ear plugs when using power tools in the garage (dremel, jigsaw).

So I'm curious if the fitted ones are all equivalent to properly inserted earplugs or not. It's also possible the hole for tubing is the culprit of my observations.

Just another anecdote that might be interesting: audiologists have been doing molded ear plugs since at least the 90s. I remember the posters of cool colorful "swim plugs" back then.

...re-reading: I see now your mention of using various filters. I'll have to read up on that too.
The only problem I see with this is the potential ways to fail are unbounded, maybe possibly infinite. While the ways to succeed may also be unbounded its growth metric is much smaller. That is, some infinite sets are larger than others.
Anecdotally I only know of one team on Earth capable of doing it “properly”. They are working with Grigori Perelman on the system and it is made of cheap materials, almost intentionally, like a snub in the face of rich companies.

I know of no major research companies that have begun on the same line of research.
May I ask why your plate information being out there concerns you?
If it's 3rd party "plate readers" tracking your travel, your vehicle is already sending telemetry data outbound regardless, after you give the manufacturer 40 grand and you don't even get to pick which fancy picture goes on your car.
As long as JavaScript is enabled. The tide is turning again towards server side rendering and JavaScript only where needed for interactivity.
I still don't see what goes beyond what I said.

I do find it strange to call it an "ideology", but I guess if you want to say that.

It still seems to me it's just debating the idea that people who want to dress, act, and be treated differently than their birth sex should be allowed to do so or not.

I guess you can say that's an ideology, because it's an ideal societal reality that is being advocated for, to allow for this behavior and socially accept it.

But I don't see what you find goes beyond this?

Problem: Someone would prefer to be treated like society treats woman, including being referred too as one.

Debate: Should we allow this or not

Pro-trans stance: We should allow it.

Anti-trans stance: We should not allow it.
I wonder if you could elaborate on how you use ChatGPT to generate web designs? I'm about to teach a course on web technologies and I want to integrate ChatGPT into the curriculum.
> Windows 11 takes about 12 minutes to boot from an HDD.

Mine doesn't. It takes 3-4 minutes (which can easily feel like an hour).
Why are there more than one dot in the big countries like The United States, Brazil and Australia? I would have expected a single dot for each of these countries.
One of my points is invocation requires excess resources. If you poke around you see all sorts of under-capitalized industries.
It will be interesting to see if the Win32 ABI survives as a standard into the future beyond the point that Windows itself will continue to run it in in the same sense that commodity PCs are still based on the IBM PC architecture even years after IBM itself stopped making PCs.
I was born in the 3rd world and moved to Canada.

Getting a visitor’s visa for Europe: excruciating, and they’re extremely stingy with how long it’s valid for. Lots of my friends & colleagues got rejected outright.

UK: excruciating as well, and made me feel like a piece of shit in the airport.

Canada: very hard, very detailed, but valid for ten years. Very nice when you get there.

USA: one minute interview, three day wait, no problems.

To be fair, the US had reams of info on me at this point.
I have a notebook (Nvidia 10xx something gpu), 8th gen intel I think. It gets plenty warm playing games, but the games play fine on PopOS. The fact that they run is pretty great.

But I think of the steam deck which is basically a Linux PC. Its lowerer spec, low power, but it seems to run pretty well without terrible battery life.
I'm curious what the answer was. I've read plenty about how the boutique finance sector is basically a parasite that only benefits a small cohort of already wealthy individuals, would like to hear what the other side has to say.
Oh here's another one - I was interviewing at Google and got an offer, and I decided to ask for a meeting with the HM because the other job I was considering at the time gave me an interview with the HM that was really enlightening and made me feel good about taking the other job over Google. I figured it would be a good way to directly compare the two jobs since the comp, etc. were similar.

The moment I met the HM I wanted to leave. He was brusque, felt like our entire meeting was a waste of time, and was, quote, surprised that they had finally filled his job req. I tried to brush this off as him having a bad day, and sat down for coffee with him. We started having a stilted conversation in which I mentioned that I had just adopted a dog, and his first response was, "oh god, I _hate_ dogs, please never bring it to work."

That was kind of the end of that. Sure, maybe it's petty, but I was getting bucketfuls of bad vibes from this guy.
Unless I'm missing something, you haven't proved it's fuzzy either though. Many of these apps have a "make this setting strict" switch for age and distance, that makes both of you half right.
Mastodon and Twitter are absolute shit ways to engage in productive conversation with people and ideas that you disagree with. They’re both far worse than formal debate, which is shit in its own ways. If you wanna force people to listen to tankies and Nazis, a microblogging platform isn’t the place to do it.
What are you saying? That those that claim critical improvements won't happen are well justified? Or that they are not and just stuck in the 90ies? Or that a hype cycle will happen, but massive impact on trades/jobs will still be had? Or something else?
Wait... are we flirting?
Please take off the ideology goggles for a second.

> Alice has to pay Bob one third of her income, or else he'll call on on armed men to throw her out of her home.

"Not totalitarian"

> Bob isn't allowed to do that anymore.

"Totalitarian"
Winning all the way until right before the floor!
Worth mentioning that even the FSF requires copyright assignment [1] [2].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html

[2] https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2022/fall/copyright-assignment-...
Yeah go is basically Pascal with C/Java syntax and first class coroutines.

What could have been.
Right? Like, I tried really hard to prepare a very neutral answer focusing on taking advantage of arbitrage and fixing over- or under-priced securities, which I think is the closest thing to a benefit you could come up with. And that apparently wasn't good enough for this guy.
But TLDs are not fungible. If Apple switched to apple.name or apple.hospital because "it's cheaper" you'd raise more eyebrows than you have.
Well u sure made an effort to exclaim how hard it would be. If a developer had an install guide with links to dependencies or mirrors to those dependencies it wouldnt be very hard as they should have internally for their dev/ testing. Do windows devs not track their dependencies? Relying only on Win32 ? Whos the naive one ?
as a framework author and C++ coder, the code base structure is not "excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning." -- certainly not for you in any case, by your own statement
> I wonder what the smallest group of people is that gets a special plate in every US state?

If I had to guess, it would be military in nature. Perhaps the Congressional Medal of Honor? Less than 4000 have ever been awarded.

But I just checked 3 different states and only 2 of them offer a special plate for that. So you need something more common to have such a plate in every state.
Radiohead even wrote a song about it.
Should it say „without AI“? Makes no sense like this..
For my job, I was fit and strong until 28, COVID gym closures and a career change later into wfh tech I was 31 and out of shape and verging on unpleasantly so. I was worried if I could get back into shape easily, but did the below. Only hard part was the discipline tbh, as I started at very low weights/just the bar in some cases.

If you’re familiar with SS, what worked for me was a modified version. I threw out the linear progression and squat 3x times a week goals, and focused on lifting 3x a week come hell or high water and hit 5+ increases if I was able. 30-60 days of that, you’re back at an easy point to decide to get “really fit” or just stay active.

Day 1: squat 3x5, DL 3x10, lunges (the second week, DL 1x5, squat 3x10)

Day 2: bench 3x5, press 3x10, push-ups (swap bench and press same as above week 2)

Day 3: row 3x5, pull-ups, arms/w-e else.

I’m nowhere near when I was strong but my numbers make
Me feel ok about things now, as I know I’m now out of the dangerzone of out of shape AF
Why are you linking job postings, for your current employer/company(?), in this thread? Seems like a very strange thing to do.
I run winesapOS[0] which is based on SteamOS and was able to repurpose an old Toshiba notebook for my kids, running Freddy Fish* and other games. Windows 10 doesn't run smoothly (even though it came with Windows 10) and I'm not going to run anything older than that.

Steam also makes it very easy to switch between Proton versions. If version X doesn't work, perhaps version X-1 or X+1 does work, or even the experimental version.

* Yes, ScummVM is available for Linux but the Steam Linux distribution included an old ScummVM which wasn't able to load some libraries. Running the Windows version through an compatibility layer was easier than modifying shell files to run the latest ScummVM through flatpak.

[0]: https://github.com/LukeShortCloud/winesapOS
That's presumably going to increase on September 1 or else they'll be taking a $0.04 loss every time they sell a .com.
Made me think of this sketch:
https://archive.org/details/w-bob-david-the-salesman
Damn yes my bad