skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In simple terms, if you pay $50 billion to buy Arm, and they make the same profit every year as they are making now, it will take 80 to 100 years for you to make your investment back.

But that's not how you make money by purchasing companies. You make money by buying the company low and then selling the company high. So if you bought ARM for $50B and sold it for $70B in 5 years, you would make $20B on an investment of $50B

But I'm certainly not in the position to guess how much ARM would appreciate over the next 5 years. I pulled that example out of a hat (or some other, less polite to mention part of my anatomy.)
That's the kind of blog I wouldn't mind reading if it had an RSS feed.
You might be interested in this (in French, but you may try with google translate or other alternatives :)
https://www.bortzmeyer.org/8240.html

It is a very interesting explanation of debates around https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8240.txt
For a similar reason YP becane NIS[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service
>How well did that work for bank oversight in 2008, and again in 2023 with SVB

Hilarious own goal on this one.
ReiserFS is nice but also unmaintained, something that doesn't seem is going to change. Decision makes sense.
so does "cplusplus"

It seems to have to do with some kind of metadata is fetched and then used as a regular expression (to change markup in some other part of the page?); it's assumed that the text can be used as a regular expression without quotation but in the case of the doubled "+" character it becomes a non-valid RE.
> Apple is not currently a vertically integrated wireless provider. Would you say that it's a problem if they were, so the only wireless carriers with widespread coverage are Apple and Google?

But they aren’t. The cell phone network is the infrastructure just like with your analogy, the road was the infrastructure that given enough capital, anyone can build a car on.

> Anybody can make a device that terminates phone calls. The issue is that you want to benefit the consumer by making something which is better than what already exists. And you have an improvement to contribute -- a better display or battery or form factor or app or a way to lower costs or whatever.

And cell phone carriers do that today. They add their own spin - foldable phones, ruggedized phones, phones with better cameras and either they manufacturer the phone themselves or use someone like Foxconn to manufacture the phones for them - just like Apple. Apple doesn’t make or design its own cellphone chip (yet) or camera assembly (Sony).

> So then you don't even try, which is terrible for the consumer.

Yet literally hundreds of manufactures do try.

> It's basically Apple and Qualcomm, and Qualcomm sucks

Again whose fault is that? Samsung isn’t a small company and it’s been around for literally a century.

> Android phones have 70% of the world market because they cost less. They're only ~40% of the US market. That doesn't help you if you're trying to make a premium phone.

Everyone says that Google’s phones are premium and some of Samsungs phones. Again whose fault is it that two multi billion dollar companies can’t compete on the high end?
If you set a breakpoint there, the value it is trying to replace is "Notepad++" rather than "notepad", gotten from the Heading of "http://www.notepad-plus-plus.org" further up in the logic chain. Looks like the plus signs are incorrectly being added to the RegEx
This group of people for one.

> the Sentinelese appear to have consistently refused any interaction with the outside world. They are hostile to outsiders and have killed people who approached or landed on the island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese

But more seriously I would say there is a difference between intentionally and incidentally using open source software.

I run Linux and FreeBSD on multiple machines. I use open source software intentionally.

My girlfriend runs Windows on her laptop. If we look closely I am sure we will find open source libraries being used both within the OS, and within other pieces of software that she runs. But all of that is incidental. She is not interested in software and that is fine.

My mother and my grandfather both use LibreOffice. But only because I installed it for them. So neither my grandfather nor my mother really are intentional users of open source software. It just happened to be the case that their grandson/son (me) knew about LibreOffice and installed it for them, so that they could use it to write documents and to open Word documents that other people sent to them.
> Build a life worth living.

Easier said than done. You need money and a job fore that. A job which makes many people miserable.
Tech companies don't give a shit, it's the same reason why they're handing over data when just simply asked.
Somewhere along the way the function of the schools changed. It seems like you are asking about the school as a vocational program but that wasn't always true. I have friend's whose parents still think universities should be a place for exploring and learning, not necessarily job training. But for many people that is no longer true.

My mom helped to make her program at the school she went to because she was studying thing that were interesting to her. That may not be feasible now and I'm not actually clear on quite how it worked, but I wouldn't say that was educational malpractice.
I'm going to go out on a limb and posit that what we need to do to survive on a daily and short-term basis has far outpaced our ability to cope with it.
i think you've found what i'm looking for! https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings
I meant Steve McCurry's portrait of the Afghan girl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl
Yeah, but it's also where the big costs are.
It's a good idea, but doesn't solve the problem of the student then using AI to answer the questions in the interview. We're back to square one.
Postmarks – A single-user, fediverse-enabled bookmarking website
Coming from linux and developing for linux, I don't share the authors experience.

I mainly bought my chromebook convertible for university for notetaking. But now I am also doing all my freelance development work on open-source high availability and fault tolerance (qemu colo[1] if you're interested) on this thing. And it works great, the linux VM is very capable with seamless file, wayland and X11 passtrough. Nested virtualization works too.

Sure, it's not native but I don't see a reason why it should be. Google is actually caring about security here, you see it in every part and decision of ChromeOS. Google is taking VM based isolation to the mainstream and showing that a secure OS without ransomware is possible.

And the defaults are well done. The terminal app has infinite scrollback by default and is not too far off of xterm. The touchpad experience is excellent, switching between tabs, going forwards and backwards in history, switching virtual desktops and apps all done with a few gestures.

And don't forget the fonts, ChromeOS is worth it for the fonts alone :). Noto Sans Mono is the default monospace font system-wide, even in the linux VM. It looks awesome in emacs.

The maintainers of the linux part are very friendly, they will actually fix bugs you report. And that ChromeOS as a comercial/consumer OS has a public bug tracker at all, makes it very unique. Try that with windows :).

If you want a excellent out-of-the box (with few exceptions*) linux experience, buy a chromebook. Especially if you want more exotic hardware like convertible with pen input.

About the LaCrOs switch: I suspect the reason why Chrome was so deep integrated into the OS, is because there weren't any good graphics protocols (besides X11 which is meh.) when it launched so Chrome became application and window manager and compositor in one. And now that wayland has matured they are switching to it.

* You're not going to get direct hardware access from the linux VM, so things like running wireshark on your wlan interface, mounting a harddrive that isn't plain exfat or ext4, etc. won't work.

[1] https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/COLO
I don't understand your argument, are you agreeing with me that regulation will cause this to happen? So why is that an argument against regulation?
I wasn't even touching manufacturing at scale, because sometimes you really do need just the one. But it should not be so fragile you can't carry it from the garage to thermostat mounting position.

I learned that the hard way when I automated the heat lamp that I put in my chicken coop. Having to noodle around with screw terminals while being pecked at by an angry rooster was not a great time.
Well, if we wanted to really get in to the details, the Earth is releasing more energy than it receives from the sun simply because it is also cooling. The core grows by about a few mm a year because of this, IIRC.

With a brief, 60 million year time frame exception during the Carboniferous, though, the energy stored in life processes is a wash. Assembly and decay are a net balance, and life itself is a strong driver of entropy, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if, on the whole, the biosphere is a net energy sink.
Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Stripe
Hi.

We're using Stripe and we got hit by a bunch of friendly fraud where we see an easy solution how to prevent this from happening - blocking a specific bank. But Stripe does not give you the BIN of the cards, and will not allow you to block by card issuer name.

BIN databases cost like $2.500 per year and I'm not sure how accurate they are. Why on Earth Stripe wouldn't let us see the BINs/block by issuer names is beyond me.

So I'm looking for an alternative that:

1) Supports 3DS

2) Lets you block by issuer name

3) Shows you the BIN (not really needed if #2 is available, but nice to have an shows that the processor cares about the merchant)

Is there a good option? Thanks
Interesting, what kind of workpieces do you make that you put that much attention to detail? Are these for display? Or is it just very high level of workmanship applied to otherwise normal articles?
(I don't mean to pile on to what runnerup already (and correctly) posted, but I also want to make sure you see this, so I'm posting it as a reply to your most recent comment.)

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Depends what you mean by "using" open source. If we include consumers of software that happens to have its source published but who couldn't compile it even if they downloaded the source (so, >90% of Chrome users, for example), then yes there are lots of non-devs. Likewise, there are probably still some devs using licensed libraries proprietary applications using proprietary IDEs and compilers, though it's certainly getting rarer.
Yes, the Afghan girl by Steve McCurry.
Sure, I understand the reluctance to associate too closely with Python, especially if it's a CLI+lib and Python is otherwise an implementation detail. But isn't it similar to a Web framework calling itself `web`? That would be confusing, which is probably why Python has `web.py` :)

It's a great name from a "glad you got there first" perspective but it's also so general as to be ungoogleable. Like if I want to find documentation for this library/CLI in Google, what would I search? I'd probably end up putting "Python" in the query just to disambiguate it from all the results about LLMs in general. So IMO you may as well include "py" (or some other disambiguator) in the name, since people are going to need to include it in their search queries anyway.
Actually, there is (I spotted a YouTube downloader someplace), but besides that "point", the videos in that channel are _very_ interesting if you care anything about modern microprocessors (he's ported Plan9 to quite a few devices).
> You could rephrase that into "a young man whose main motive for marriage is to have a loving, fulfilling family which they would prefer much more than staying single, esp later in life"

There is zero guarantee that a family will turn out right, let alone "loving, fulfilling" so this is just a loaded perspective of an issue that has nothing to do with your own world view.
This may be an unpopular opinion, amidst a crowd who are maybe more comfortable with the whole deployment side of things:

I use super boring tech (React, Node) for fairly simple apps. When I was looking to deploy one recently, I looked at a bunch of alternatives, including the ones listed.

I couldn't get answers to even basic questions from the docs, and was in no way convinced I'd actually be able to deploy my apps. Plus the pricing differences were negligible.

Heroku was clever in that it worked to make deployment so easy every basic tutorial chose to use it. Its documentation is robust. I found it easy to use, and that counts for a lot with me, because that's not where I'm looking to spend attention. I want the damn thing up, and if someone can make life a bit easier, yay.

I'm only writing this because I think the vast majority of these companies' clients are probably closer to the profile of someone like me. Meaning, they're a little apprehensive about dealing with deployment trouble, and trying to minimize that specific risk.
I seem to recall that for some games the community recommended fix for performance problems was to install a crack so that the game wouldn't try to read stuff from the CD, which might be slow depending on the drive you have, and would be very slow if the CD has some scratch so the drive repeatedly attempted to read the same spot until it succeeded.
We have about 3 terabytes of family photos and videos. They are stored both on a local hardrive and on a cloud backup. They are probably the most irreplaceable thing we own. But I haven’t really figured out how to make them available to all the kids at some point. They know about the physical drive, but I’m not sure how to pass on the account information for the cloud backup. I don’t really want that information in my will right now since I’m not ready for the kids to access it and they have copies of the will.
If we had the resources to disentangle the entire Python situation, trust me we would. Unfortunately the web of dependencies for that project was quite intricate, and at one point you just need to swallow the vendor's proprietary libraries that they've built against what they've shipped in the base OS. (L)GPL is good on paper, but the effort to actually make use of the freedom it grants is disproportionate.

(Which is why I'm a firm believer in the suckless philosophy: if the software is too complex to fully understand, source access or even copyleft aren't worth much.)
Not banning poses an imminent risk to all global citizens
Why would you ship an entire browser per app? Not sure what you mean, you just ship the application code. On desktop you use the native language code, or if you really want, a native WASM runtime that exists outside of the browser, such as Wasmer or Wasmtime.
>DMCA cases seem to be about who has the scarier looking letterhead anyway.

This is only true of Youtube, where their "DMCA" process is entirely extralegal, which is why there is no penalty for an incorrect takedown request.

If you file a DMCA, and Valve ignores it, you have to take it to court, where a judge will decide whether you prove you are the rightful copyright holder. As in the case with google, a company is free to take down content for any reason, including for bogus DMCA claims.
Net negative sum would by definition lower GDP.
--Poses “Imminent Risk” to European Automakers--

i would think thats an intended feature crucial to the function.
Wait, you can run crostini on ChromeOS Flex? I thought only real Chromebooks could do that.
My bias here is that I don't tend to use commits the same way you do. I would look through each PR that had been merged between now and then. Specifically looking for PRs that look like they might change the thing that I'm having issues with. Untidy git histories are so common that it's not really worth counting on, to me. A PR is a body of work that I find actually seems to matter. I wouldn't reach the same hangup you had. On the flipside, when people overload their PRs with 3-4+ deliverable items, that tends to irk me.
Curious that the error does not occur when searching for "Notepad+": https://duckduckgo.com/?q=notepad%2B&t=ffab&atb=v101-1&ia=we...
When i used them in the past i was forced to meet them many times and they took pictures of me at like 2am looking like a crazy person walking away with a bag of taco bell or something many times.

No invasion of privacy for me so long as the pic they took could have been taken by passerbys or neighbor's security camera. I am more concerned about ring sharing shit with the cops than the uber guy's phone.
Most legal firms do something in between, you pay a retainer or a minimum package, and then they bill you hourly

They get the money upfront, before they do any work

So, from the get go they know the minimum they are going to make, and they never get stiffed (also because most people don’t want to get into legal issues with a lawyer)
If you're testing for the skill of using LLMs, then no problem.
I own zsa moonlander (my primary keyboard at home), ergodox ez, dactyl manuform (slightly modified, use at work) and drop preonic.

I won't buy this keyboard. It doesn't have anything attractive to me. 2 thumb keys are not enough. It is wired. It is flat. If I wanted something like that, I'd buy some variant of corne, and it would be more suited for my needs and cheaper.

It still has qmk, and ZSA's configurator is the best that is there, but the same rehashed idea is of a keyboard is not what I wanted. I really hoped for dactyl-like wireless. But I guess that ZSA is too tied to qmk now, and qmk has issues with wireless.
No. It doesn't mean that, it means that they can't be sold new anymore from 2035 onwards. So someone wanting to stay on gas can still buy a brand new 2034 one and drive it for decades. Though I expect they will be eschewed from city centers like older diesels are already.

Gas cars will still be around long after 2035 this is why this is not actually very ambitious in terms of climate mitigation. And now BMW wants to weaken it further.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-09-05/elon-musk-...

"Elon Musk comes around to blaming the Jews" as a headline.

Yep this will work really well :).
We do have to assume that externalities are not so material as to render such stats misleading, yes.
Yep they need to escape every character in the string not just the plus signs
Mine was on by default for my work browser. This is hot garbage
> and I can’t create my own car either to compete with a Tesla that doesn’t mean Tesla is being anti competitive.

Can't you though?

https://performance28.com/modified-tesla/

> Ask Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm etc.

They all have less money -- and that's saying something.

> The other companies incompetence doesn’t mean Apple is being anti competitive.

The problem is not that they made a faster CPU -- that's great. The problem is that they won't sell you the faster CPU unless you buy their phone and their OS and bind yourself to be locked into their app store.

> I can’t choose to get a Tesla battery and the Tesla infotainment system on a Ford Mustang. Is Ford being anticompetitive?

Ford will sell you every separate part of the Mustang. You can buy the frame and put Tesla batteries in it if that's what you want to do.

> The entire point of leverage is that Apple has an integrated experience and people pay a premium for that. If you want a non integrated experience - you can buy an x86 computer or an Android phone - as most of the workd does.

There is nothing wrong with selling an iPhone to customers who want an iPhone. The issue is the tying. Anyone who wants it should be able to get the hardware and the OS without the app store.

I honestly don't understand why you defend them. You would still be able to get the thing that you want, but then other people would too. The availability of more options would make the market more competitive and force even Apple to provide more value for less money -- which you would benefit from even if you continue to use exclusively their products.

Would you not benefit if the 30% they take was less than 10%, and then you paid 10% less and the app developer got 10% more which they could use to make more and better apps?

> Does any retailer show the customer the difference between wholesale price and retail price?

Normal retailers show the customer the price, which they can then compare with other retailers. If they were charging 30% when five other competitors were charging 5%, their prices would be higher. When there are no competing retailers because Apple prohibits them, the only information for the customer to use to evaluate the cost of using Apple's store is the amount they charge to the developer.

> There were at one point reference designs for consoles and the hardware was manufactured by others

Which is fine. But then they still don't need to shake down the game developers because they can charge a license fee to manufacture the hardware in the same way that ARM does.

> Instead of whining, Steam actually did come out with their console. That’s the same thing any large enough company can do and their are literally hundreds of companies selling their own phone

I'm more concerned with what small companies can do.

But even Valve is deploying a mitigation rather than a solution -- if they captured half the market with their console (which they have yet to do), they'd still be paying the monopoly rent on the other half of their sales.
I was sort of inspired by the OP to go into a possibly-beyond-sane level of detail, on the chance that some readers might find it fun, so I'm glad you liked it.

I can't imagine how many hours he must have put into that bridge piece!
LOL. My favorite is "spray and pray" for a indiscriminate shooting style where you hold down the shutter and capture many photos in rapid succession and hope at least one comes out.
I encourage you to file a comment suggesting this. It's actually not irrelevant. The FCC is free to decide that the label (which can include a QR code linking to more information) must include information about cameras and microphones and whether there is a software-tamper-proof way to tell whether they are on. Or the existence of a hardwired LED could even be a requirement to qualify for a label. Your experience with the OLPC project would really bolster the credibility of your comment as well, so don't forget to mention that.
No, it just means that, by 2035, you will no longer be able to buy a new ICE car. Existing ICE cars will still be allowed on roads.
wouldn't this be worse for not having the user provided search query sanitized for special characters?
https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/onlyfans-star-claims-she-had-s...