skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, I'm a middle-of-the-road user. I piggy back on the better hardware once every 3-4 years but haven't noticed a meaningful difference in my total experience since the iPhone 6s. Almost every new iOS feature is also entirely lost on me. I recently even needed to Google how to fully shutdown my phone. If there's any growing value, it would be in apps. There's an app for everything.

Nothing wrong with any of this. Most products in my home are no longer exciting.
You can make distinctions between race and sex. Long after public bathrooms were desegregated by race, they are still usually segregated by sex.
I agree. I don't think it's inconsistent to implement said advice and to utilize Pareto Principle.
On the CPU game, apple is so far ahead that it might not even make sense to talk about other vendors. Apple could deliberately downclock their CPUs and still beat the shit out of any flagship android. Hell, their 3 years old lineup actually beats the current year’s top.
Lots of compact USB-C cables out there. They won't provide 100W to your laptop, but they'll charge your phone just fine.
It always "seems" to be "lack of innovation" when you check the diff from year to year.

You, who gets the new device every year, is not the target market.

People who upgrade from devices that are falling out of OS support are. For them it's 4-6 "lack of innovation" diffs that sum up to a huge chunk of new stuff and improvements across the board.
Some truth to this, many people playing mobile games would never have owned a laptop/PC/console. They play these games on the commute or while watching TV. A "full fledged" game and it's large upfront costs wouldn't interest them.
> You're wrong. Not a single piece of working software (literally zero) was shipped before Agile was invented 15 years ago.

You're wrong. Not a single piece of working software (literally zero) was shipped before a combination of Leetcode + agile + performance reviews + feature factory culture + microservices was invented in the last decade.
The open source version has to be good and valuable enough for you to bring it in as a dependency in a basic setup, and then the paid versions provide support for larger scale setups where the requirements are a bit different.

There are many ways to do that, depending on what you're offering. Limits and quotas are easy enough.
It's out of stock, and has been since I found out about it. Seems likely to continue.
There was a time for a year or so that I carried an actual cellular-enabled iPad Mini in my front right pocket instead of an iPhone. I had to stop because it has no SMS app for the SIM card (or vibrate motor, or ability to host an Apple Watch) so I ended up carrying an iPhone as well alongside.

Then the XL or Pro Max or whatever (huge phablet) came out and I used that for a while. The added battery life is lovely.

I finally settled on the non-max Pro, because it is as large as you can go and still be operable with one hand. The Pro Max is a two-hands-always device. If I'm going to do that I might as well carry an iPad Mini.
https://archive.is/fTVv9
> 1986, the programmer left AECL. In a lawsuit, lawyers could not identify the programmer or learn about his qualification and experience.

I find this hard to believe: how? Are there no records?

Edit: apparently the identity is known, but the lawsuit was settled before a deposition was required. Also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/mzht1/comment/...
Don't blame systems for ineffective leaders. Those leaders would be ineffective under any system.
Anyone who has worked in an office outside of the USA has experienced the annoying iphone user asking everyone for a cable to charge his phone because he lost/broke/forgot it.

And not all the offices are close to a shop selling those kind of things nor do these persons feel they might be better off going shopping for one directly instead of disrupting a non negligible amount of workers.

I don't even know why people have to charge their phone midday and can't wait. Even when I am going out and extending the night until dawn, I usually have battery left until I go to bed.
>Why? What difference does it make?

Security and peace of mind? Weathering myself/ourselves from the whims of billion dollar corporations? It's personal, I never said it was rational.

I've worked on all kinds of tech in industry hampered because it didn't make money fast enough, or because a change of management happened and they didn't care how beneficial the work we were doing was. I've seen changes in-house I absolutely hated that fractured support for making portable software, because portability isn't profitable. Call it bitterness and rebellion that I want to focus my long term bets on software I can control. Or software others can control should I go mad or get hit by a bus.

> Fighting the status quo should be focused on actually improving things.

And I feel like I am. WINE isn't in the way of my mission and if there are plenty of games choosing to run both natively and via WINE, that's great. Choice is nice. If there's some weird point where WINE runs better than native, that's an issue I want to fix. But the native ports need to exist first.

WINE is a great step gap, but simply that.
What about them? Which one do you want? https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/platform/co...

Godot can't include game console-specific code because its open-source license is incompatible with the various game console API licenses. But that doesn't mean you can't have have your Godot game on a console.
I mean why should they even approach him unless there is some crime to be suspected of, like smuggling or trying to sneak in. The knife thing (doesn't sound smart in an inflatable vessel) is after the fact of their arrival.
HN comments are small and my comments are limited by the amount of procrastination my day is able to endure. "Truth is the realm of science alone" is a lot of things significantly abbreviated into a pithy and over-simplified HN comment. You could levy the same criticism at almost everything anyone ever says on an internet forum, including "scientifically based statement" (whatever that means) and "science can't measure the truth-value of epistemological claims".

I'm asserting that the only useful definition of the word "truth", and the core of the definition that almost everyone is actually grasping at when they talk about "truth", is the particular kind of truth that science seeks, and any other definition of "truth" inevitably leads to statements that would be "true" under that definition but clearly nonsensical. Basically if you want "truth" to act "truthy" in all the ways we expect "truth" to behave, then your definition of "truth" is exactly the one that is sought by science and nothing else (here I am including mathematics as a branch of science, even though it's probably better to think of it the other way around).

Here's my definition of truth: the body of statements which are self-consistent with some set of pre-selected axioms. A false statement is one which is inconsistent with those axioms. Plenty of statements are neither (e.g. "this statement is false").

You claim this is not a "scientifically based statement", but really it's just a definition, plus an assertion that other definitions are not useful. The latter is actually falsifiable: show me a useful definition of "truth" that doesn't reduce to this definition. Of course I haven't given you the exact criteria for doing this nor evidence that my assertion is correct, but this is an HN comment; what do you really expect?

> science can't measure the truth-value of epistemological claims

I don't see why that should be true. I can claim to have certain knowledge and science can test me on those claims. If your definition of "epistemological claims" only includes those philosophy-ejaculate sentences that cannot be tested by science, then your definition is useless and boring.
Not who you are replying to, but I can confirm it!
I'm another voice for the "charging ports break all the time" brigade. I've replaced enough myself I'll look into this for me and my family.
https://archive.is/VF9uE
Anecdata: currently living in NYC in a very similar situation to GP (possibly the same neighborhood based on their description?), and I have easily 10x more such serendipitous encounters than in any of the 4 other places I've lived (from suburbia to another major US urban center).

It's a pretty well known phenomenon here that you see people you know (or, say, notice the same person twice in the same day in totally different parts of the city) way more often than you'd expect. Sure, 10x as many people live here, but you see 100x as many people each day.

The "people who don't live here assume that residents are rushing around places that look like Midtown 24/7" is another pretty well known phenomenon, fwiw
This is magnificent, thank you.
something-something-anecdata...

- Most people change phones every 2 to 3 years.

- iPhone SE/mini accounts for less than 25% of the units sold.
Ok then let us now spend the time to do further analysis and either admit our fault or find the rat and fuck them to death.
Wouldn't the entire sauce have to be labeled unsafe, thus rendering the advantages of Rust moot?
Huh, I'm not sure the full intent/scope of the list but Bungie shipped a LOT more games with custom engines than just Destiny. Marathon, Myth, Oni, and Halo, to name a few.
I'm confused about the USB-IF remark considering Apple is a member of USB-IF. Didn't they promise they wouldn't change connectors again for at least a decade? They basically would have alienated and annoyed a large portion of their customer base if they made Lightning and switched to USB-C under 5 years after pushing lightning.
To be honest, in general it does improve battery life if you are faster. Battery life is a race to CPU sleep mode, and if you finish the job faster, the more energy you can save.
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

citation please
https://archive.is/gzeo5
I found the flying goose brand to be quite awful and not at all a suitable replacement for the Huy Fong sriracha. To each their own I suppose.
If Nurburgring times are all we’re looking at, there are SUVs (ok, CUVs) that will destroy the times of “real sports cars”.
What did Stallman say about this?
Onboarding remote employees doesn't have to be hard
I once saw a documentary about Nelson Mandela. When he read a newspaper he was very careful to line up the pages and to crease the paper so it was straight and had even corners between the different pages. He did not half-ass the act of turning pages in a newspaper. It seemed like such a waste of time. How much less must he have had time to read, wasting time to turn pages like that?

On the other hand he had an incredible reputation and was admired as a leader across the world. Perhaps his attention to detail mattered even when it seemed like a waste.
Oh I agree! We need all these things, we can’t have them, but let’s do what we can to make things better. Driving south of midtown Manhattan for me is a luxury and paying the cost will clearly show how it’s wasteful and costly to the neighborhoods I’m driving through. I probably just won’t do it.
I don't understand what point you are trying to make. Are people with masks hurting you in some way?
The developer doing so would certainly result in bans and/or lawsuits, but it's not inconceivable that if it is something that relies on the installer being able to phone home that people start building it into ad-blockers or popularising some script to set the appropriate firewall rules. And if this does go through, there's bound to be thousands of people with the talent and influence to do so and a desire to spite Unity.
>Suddenly you need IIS and sqlserver windows and all the expensive stack.

How do you even imagine it could work?
They should have removed the charge port completely.
NJ Transit is packed every weekday now that people are back from the beach.
> This is why more Irish live in America than in Ireland

This is nonsense. Are you telling me there are over 5 million 1st generation Irish people living in America? Of course the number will be significanty greater if you include descendants
Is that because translation is typically an encoder-decoder task and llama is decoder only or is there something else about it that makes the last difficult for llama?
So I guess thats a naw for stacked battery tech. Wonder if the S24 will feature it.
This is one more reason to run every program in a sandbox rather than with full privileges.
I think there is certainly some value to that (the other posts don't appear to be fully grasping the complexity of the problem), but Earthly feels closer to an open source consultancy project than venture capital funded startup.
I don't think the phrase "allowing investors to essentially remove properties from the housing market via short term rentals" makes sense. Short term renters are still being housed. In general, landlords want their properties occupied by people paying rent, whether it's a long-term lease or a daily one (like a hotel).
Sorry qmarchi -- I don't know how to get your contact information here. But it shouldn't be too hard to find mine, if you try.
> So, on top of weighing complicated antitrust questions, Mehta might also struggle to keep track of basic facts like how search was conducted at any given point in the case's timeline. While Cavanaugh delivered his opening statement, Mehta even appeared briefly confused by some of the references to today's tech, unable to keep straight if Mozilla was a browser or a search engine. He also appeared unclear about how SEM works and struggled to understand the options for Microsoft to promote Bing ads outside of Google's SEM tools.

I think it's the job of the lawyers to explain, but the phrasing here seems to be putting any failure on the judge.

If you're a journalist writing like that, about a judge on a major case, during opening statements, IMHO, the judge had better have been eating paste and flinging dung at the courtroom.

Otherwise, show some respect for the process. Chronologies and timelines, who's who, what's what, domain-specific information... presumably these occur in many cases, and often need explaining and tracking.
They dug it up as a cause for rejection, like one digs up skeletons in someone's closet to discredit them.

I'm pretty exhausted from dealing with this and now explaining it to you but I have an update: I've just now gotten an email from the PC (after emailing them yesterday pointing out the flaws in reviewer 3's reasoning) saying I'm welcome to come present (and highlight the differences) in a "lightning talk" that won't be published in the proceedings. Looks like they're going with the "do it for the exposure" influencer model. I've declined the "opportunity".
Have you ever used ArgoCD?

No one EVER should run deploy.sh like how you propose it.

ArgoCD abstracts away access to a k8s cluster (login through dex).

It has strategies of how to deploy k8s resources like through retry, replace (which you would need to write manually in your deploy.sh).

It gives you debug output for your deploy process (yes thats a thing, you do not assume every deploy just works).

ArgoCD also can and should be used to reference secerts from secret store like vault.

And it gives you a history/audit.
Don’t worry, our government is in the process of eliminating many of those safety nets and social programmes “to incentivise employment”. I have made more than median income for a while, and high income earners like me just got a tax break to “incentivise” is to get and keep a job.
I'd add that Bitcoin was many Salvadoran's first experience with a currency losing 50% of its value in less than a year.

Salvadorans having used the U.S. dollar for 21 years, and having a stable currency four about a hundred years in the past, had protected El Salvador from currency fluctuations that are normal in other Latin American countries.
If you intentionally install something called Free Download Manager, you should not be surprised when it turns out to be malware.
> If you want to arbitrarily choose an ARPU

From https://www.statista.com/statistics/263797/number-of-applica...:

> As of July 2023, nearly 97 percent of apps in the Google Play app store were freely available

I don't think "arbitrarily" is the right word to use here. Your mental model might have been $0.99 as the pricing floor, but that mental model does not represent the reality of mobile app stores. Paid apps are a minority on both iOS and Android, the dominant revenue model for mobile games is to offer free downloads/installs with advertising and in-app purchases.
> Unity says they're shifting away from revenue shares, presumably because they can't track purchase revenue and are tired of having a bunch of small fights with people who have every incentive to hide revenue from them.

So now they are charging developers for something users have an incentive to try to do without paying the developer.
Unless you are doing some kind of video production with your phone, there is no real reason to plug it in. And anyone doing that would have the pro.
I was writing up a large comment with sources to rebut the claims, but I think I'll wait to finish it until I can save it as a blogpost and reply with it every time I see this type of argument being made.

Basically, the USA essentially disproves the idea that nationwide GDP is the most important factor in standards of living. US share of world GDP has been relatively constant, world GDP has increased dramatically, but American life has not improved dramatically (although it has improved more than what most people think).

Instead of singularly focusing on wealth, nation-building programs should focus on the broader idea of (re)building the social contract. In the Balkans that means building an environment where modern capitalism can effectively take place. In America that means rebuilding trust in institutions and building a better safety net for poor citizens. Often this involves what amounts to a direct wealth transfer from the rich to the poor, as this all has a cost and the rich are the only ones who are even capable of paying for it in the first place.
> You also need everyone else to live their life a certain way?

Well, yes, I need — or rather, would prefer — all the people who are addicted to portable slot machines, to stop throwing their lives away being addicted to portable slot machines.

But I don't blame those people for that, nor do I think that trying to get them to each personally attempt to overcome their addiction would be practical.

People with gambling addictions are people with a particular cognitive vulnerability to variable-scheduled rewards. Unlike people with other addictions, who "go overboard" on something that other people can "enjoy responsibly" (and so which society has a reason to otherwise permit), people with gambling addictions are the targets of products and services produced solely to target them, that people without gambling addictions just... don't see the point of. Slot machines of all sorts exist to commercially exploit gambling addicts. And they do so very well.

That very exploitation was why the US had outlawed casinos in almost every state; why casinos are 19+ to enter, even when not serving alcohol; why "casino game" video games must be rated M; why even depictions of gambling affect the age-ratings for TV shows and movies.

But now that exploitation has leaked. It's no longer limited to casinos; it's now everywhere in the palm of your hand — and not just bare-faced as "casino games", but also in the guise of everything from shooters to RPGs, all with their own variable-scheduled rewards that can suck up unbounded amounts of your very real money.

Obviously, I blame the exploiters — the "gaming" [i.e. casino] industry, and the ex-"gaming"-industry professionals infecting the games industry with their exploitation tactics. And also, I blame society, for not punishing the exploiters, not outlawing the exploitation.

> sitting around enjoying candy crush

My dude, Candy Crush is a great, fun, classic, and ethical game compared to what they have these days. Have you looked at the mobile casual games market in the last five years? If the words "rare JPEG" don't mean anything to you, then you should really spend a few minutes looking into the people throwing away their life savings on some of these "games."
Download managers are more important on high speed links than ever.

The more bandwidth you have (and use), the less adequate the little "downloads" pane in your browser is.
And 90% in our office have never plugged their iPhone in for charging, using MagSafe stands instead.
Its a bit of strange argument that you as a users can't 'feel' it. The people picking Rust for more and more project inside of Mozilla probably know what they are more productive in (and will end up with less bugs). Just guessing at it from the outside seems like a really bad and unfair way to judge.

> but that's not really provable in any meaningful way.

Can you prove that Rust didn't make developers more productive?

Also, that there are less memory bugs in Rust then in C++ is just common sense and pretty generally accepted. It doesn't need to be proven again for every project.

> After seeing the Firefox situation

The situation where more and more code is written in Rust because most people prefer it?
I'm still rocking the iPhone 6. Thanks though.
Jokes aside - but there is so much knowledge out there made by passionate geeks that it begs to be gathered together. On any topic. And eventually kill the "lifehacks" videos with real stuff.

Fermentation of hot peppers, photography, homemade shawarma, woodworking, burn barrels, how to roll cords without tangling, bitters with soda when too full. All of those I looked up in the last month for one reason or another. And on some I improved but there is no organized way to give back the knowledge.
You can reserve multiple addresses. 64-bit address space is not small. And even 32-bit address space is huge.
20 years, more or less a monopoly in the space (GoG is a pretty decent service but only a marginal rival), and they still can't fix their accessibility issues, even as more games for the visually impaired, etc. are coming out.

The Steam app is a jumped-up web app, just fix it already.
Los Angeles is the closest metropolitan area to me and there's no comparison. You can't easily live in or around Los Angeles without a car. Los Angeles actually has the highest rate of private vehicle ownership for a metropolitan area in the US at ~88%. NYC is at ~45% to give a frame of reference.

I agree with you in principle that you can rent a scooter or get an Uber in LA, but it's much more expensive in general to get around. You can blame it entirely on the lower density, but it doesn't change the fact that NYC is the only major city in the US with less than half of residents owning a private vehicle.
> The reality is that Apple is a bigger gaming company, by revenue, than Microsoft or Sony

The "reality" is that Apple still has to pay other studios to port games to their systems. We spent 8 tragic years watching them wheel out Tomb Raider demos each keynote as if it was a shiny new release. Larian Studios came, Blizzard Studios went, but nobody changed the tide of gaming on iPhone or Mac. The fact that Boom Beach is more profitable than dear esther is not exactly an allegorical victory for Apple.

So... here we are. A world where a $300, 20nm Nintendo Switch is a better gaming console than a shiny new $800 3nm iPhone. Apple's service revenue isn't driven by good games, so they have no incentive to build a better system. The entire iOS runtime is an antitrust meltdown waiting to happen.
My kids have gone to a Montessori school since pre-K and those schools teach handwriting. It's not done because of how much or little the student will use that handwriting later in life but more because, early on, it helps develop fine motor skills.

Now that they're in high school, my daughter has excellent penmanship. My son... not so much. :) But! He can do it.