skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's gross margin, not net margin. Net margin is as above, because retailers are selling physical goods transported between physical buildings on physical trucks.

For digital goods we pretty well know what the costs look like. They'll be paying less than 3% for credit card transactions, even less for bank transfers, and app distribution has costs at the level of "F-Droid does this for free". Or if you want an actual market price, using S3 to store an app of average size (35MB) which costs $1 and gets only one download/month (maximizing storage costs per download), the percentage for storage and distribution would be around 0.12%. Which only goes down if you get more downloads because you can amortize the storage cost over multiple downloads.

Then they have to pay programmers, but this gets amortized not over downloads per app but downloads per store, which rounds to zero. Notice that F-Droid does this part for free too, and with much less scale.

So their expected total costs are approximately 3%, or less because these are the prices available at retail and at their scale they would be lower, implying that their net margins are at least 27%, compared to 2.8 - 3.5% for most retailers.
The book that accompanies the Kurzgesacht series is very good. I bought it for my eldest who enjoyed it enormously. He's been complaining about his HS biology lessons being rubbish as a result.
Computers are learning to decode the language of our minds
"The" solution is not macros. The solution is what is provided by the language. If you are calling a bunch of different functions that return different error types then you either have to map them manually (using map_err) or you can create your own error type and implement From<XYZError> to automatically lift into your own error type. I agree that it is a lot of boilerplate which is why there are good libraries for generating the boilerplate with macros. But the underlying mechanism is not really obscure. It is covered quite well in the rust book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch09-02-recoverable-errors-wi...).
Yeah, I have a machine and unless I take measurements very frequently (different times of day, etc.) it's really hard to make sense of the numbers. You really need to get a long term chart to weed out the noise.

I've been getting much better readings at the doctors but then I realized I always ride my bike there, sit in the waiting room for a while and then get a low reading. Not representative!
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emphasis on the first clause, because it seems to be something elmu struggles with

Gallant humbly admit his lack of knowledge, seeks to learn by asking people he employs, doesn't take rash action without considering the consequences, and honors the work put in by all the people who work there

Goofus immediately says everything and everyone is rotten without taking time to learn about them, fires most people without taking time to figure out what they do, singlehandedly causes site-wide infrastructure fires pretending he was as capable as the people he fired, never admits he was wrong to do so, continues blaming everyone but himself

these are personal qualities, or results of personal qualities. It doesn't matter if elmu's thoughts on the size of the company are wrong or right. He did all the things goofus did, and that's bad.

Like, your entire first paragraph is goofus: elmu had no idea of the state of things, he just kept causing problems, blaming them on others, and crying "look at the state of things!”

he fired the people who knew the state of things without asking them what it was, and he's not an engineer (hence all the fires he causes), so he certainly can't discern it on his own

and the fact that elmu bought twitter after desperately trying to renege on his commitment to do so was purely a result of court action (which he fought against) making the purchase inevitable
Maybe I'm missing something, then? I'm having trouble thinking of applications where it seems like a good idea to generate a permanent ID number completely randomly at all, much less applications that need to let the whole world do so. I can see how Windows device drivers have that requirement, but the point of the article is that even a massive site like YouTube (which doesn't want videos to be randomly discoverable via URL manipulation) does not need anywhere close to 128 bits. What are these applications you speak of?
I’m unsure about your claim of millions of annual deaths.

What are the main causes of these deaths?
In Clojure we have (using :require in the namespace declaration):

(:require [foo.bar])

(:require [foo.bar :as quux])

(:require [foo.bar :refer [x y z]])

…etc

There’s no reason you couldn’t have similar syntax in Python.
Have you worked with cells before? I've worked with cells before and I struggle to see how you could implement a production cell-based computer that was cost-competitive.
> how we Europeans are brought up with this illusion of safety

That's not exclusive to Europeans. But also - many Europeans aren't particularly fond of this delusion.
Rewriting the code isn't the hard part...

The QA is the hard part.

Developer: "Rewriting this line of code shouldn't change anything"

Narrator: It did
Filemaker?
A thought occurred to me: is this similar to how Media Molecule's Dreams on the PS4/5 renders its scenes?
Over 40k eviction notices have gone out in L.A., many to upscale apartments
Conway Game of Life in Sed
https://archive.is/FGCBK
The parents point is that there is no alternative, because everyone left the market chasing Microsoft.
Urgh no thanks.

We only just saw the end of IE6, don’t bring it back.

Safari is deliberately stunted, behind and incompatible.

Simple, top of the head example, where is AV1 video playback?
Simple Calendar is great. It does everything I need and is simple to use.

Usually the default GrapheneOS/AOSP apps are good enough, but not the calendar. Also I never found a calendar I like better on F-Droid.
Rust's type system has some advantages over C#

Pick up some F# then. Both can interop, I've built many things in a combo of the two languages, plus it'll make you a better C# developer and your type system power greatly increases. Be careful though you might not want to go back to C#.
The comment I was responding to asserted "we need to find a balance that allows vendors to tightly integrate their apps but prevent abusing this". My response argued that no, we don't actually need this. I don't think that being unwilling to go out of my way to find a way to support a business model I don't like is socialism because I don't happen to be a billionaire making a competing problem; if anything, you're arguing that I shouldn't use my power as a consumer to choose products that I like to influence the marketplace, and that's a far more anti-capitalist message than anything I've expressed here.
It doesn’t have to take any extra time at all. Just buy more dishes next time you go to the store and you’ll stop running out of dishes during the day, then you can run the dishwasher once at night and never have to hand wash dishes again.
I've only once had a doctor test my blood pressure lying flat. I had a suspected GI bleed and he wanted to see the difference between flat and sitting up. Then he called up the hospital and got me a spot reserved in the ICU.
Neuropathy is not a serious issue for me, but like depression, eczema and the rest it's something that I get as either as a co-symptom in a flare or a signal that a flare is coming. The docs like to use c-reactive protein as a biomarker, but I tend to find it's a trailing indicator of problems. I start expecting a flare when the subsidiary symptoms appear (eczema etc.) as they tend to be leading indicators. The problem is that because my GIs are only really interested in GI symptoms, they see those things as unrelated until the GI symptoms appear.

Other folk I know with AI diseases have seen similar patterns and have for example seen improvements to things like PN when they went on anti-inflammatory drugs (5-ASA in the case of one friend) which were prescribed for UC.

I don't think the PN was caused by the Azathioprine. I have always felt it was a co-sypmption that I get as a "bonus" when the colitis flares.
Hello Giardini. Oh wow I typed "ao" instead of "so"... the earth is saved!
"casual reasonable observer" being science indeed, check out the IPCC report, it's a super hot read I heard. Or you can publish your own and send it for peer review. I think you have no valid argument to put forward to explain how you are being a sceptic, but hey if you think you do, and if you think you are actually a sceptic, then please carry on I'm all ears.
The audio book for Project Hail Mary is brilliantly done with amazing voice acting and even uses effects on Rocky’s voice to emphasize his musicality. Listening to a good audio book is like listening to the perfect film adaptation - it adds to the reading experience.

There’s a long, long way to go for AI to learn emotion before I’d spend 20+ hours listening to a book read by one.
Thankfully, we just heard back from 5th Circut Appeals that the injunction was likely a significant overstep and was overturned.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.214...
Weekend bricolage: an aroma picker for the Le Nez du Vin game
https://archive.is/IfjZI
It seems like one of their previous editions is working to some extent on Arch. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AYA_NEO_2021

It definitely won't be as supported as the Steam Deck, maybe you could use that for that purpose, although you need to tote a keyboard / mouse for the hacking experience.. I would love to see something along the vein of the Aya Flip but mainly w/ Linux in mind.
> the TIE Fighter's panels (were they supposed to be solar?)

They always struck me as optical camoflauge for space...absorbing light instead of reflecting it.
Another proof point:

https://browser.kagi.com/

Though not Windows, it shows marrying up Chrome/Firefox extensions on WebKit engine, with iCloud sync.
Yes, indeed, I meant it the other way.
The economics are only lopsided if the cost of producing the audio version is significant compared to the cost of writing the work of fiction.
> They just brought this drywall, you know, and I got to touch it and examine it, and I couldn't believe how flimsy it was, when compared to the reinforced plaster they'd just taken out.

Exactly what are you getting by having the 'less flimsy' plaster and what are you losing with the 'flimsy' drywall? (I ask this as someone with three uncles that work in construction/renos.)
It always amazes me how given the appropriate field, so much math can be transformed into linear algebra. Even Möbius transformations on the complex plane w=(az+b)/(cz+d) can be turned into linear algebra.
Honestly, one of the most brilliant comments I've read in a while, and a perfect use of some "swear" words. I am not kidding.

Upvoted, of course. You summed up everything we have to say about it in just two words, in perhaps the best possible way.
I agree with the general sentiment "if you see an unexpected error, STOP", but I don't really think that applies here.

That is, when processing a sequential queue which is what this job does, it seems to me reading the article that each job in the queue is essentially totally independent. In that case, the code most definitely should isolate "unexpected error in job" from a larger "something unknown happened processing the higher level queue".

I've actually seen this bug in different contexts before, and the lessons should always be: One bad job shouldn't crash the whole system. Error handling boundaries should be such that a bad job should be taken out of the queue and handled separately. If you don't do this (which really just entails being thoughtful when processing jobs about the types of errors that are specific to an individual job), I guarantee you'll have a bad time, just like these maintainers did.
None of this really argues against fuzz testing; even with completely bogus/malformed flight plans, it shouldn't be possible for a dead letter to take down the entire system. And, since it's translating between an upstream and downstream format (and all the validation is done when ingesting the upstream), you probably want to be sure anything that is valid upstream is also valid downstream.

It's true that fuzz testing is easiest when you can do it more at the unit level (fuzz this function implementing a core algorithm, say) but doing whole-system fuzz tests is perfectly fine too.
Peaceful end-time for good people, eternal damnation for bad people, yes. How many Christians do you think consider a good person of another religion to be going to hell? Jesus' main teachings were compassion and loving your neighbor.

When I read Wikipedia's page on the Second Coming, at no point does it mention Jesus waging war. So much for being "mainstream theology"...
Weird framing; surely the gun he had (also illegally in that state) was more concerning than the magazine? In any case, it doesn't sound like he meant to hurt people. The gun and magazine were in his car and he told police about it after they confronted (arrested?) him for being disorderly, presumably because they asked him if he had any weapons and he answered truthfully.

Given the intersection of "high-capacity magazine", "handgun" and "armor piercing rounds" my guess is he had an FN Five-seven with a standard capacity (20 round, illegal in California) magazine and probably standard 5.7 ammunition (not actually armor piercing rounds, but often misconstrued as such.) Possibly carelessly brought into the state because he's an Arizona resident who normally has a gun in his car. Or maybe he willingly flaunted California's laws, but either way cancelling the event after he was arrested does seem like an overabundance of caution.
> Your blood pressure reading on the day of a doctor's appointment, right after you've driven to the appointment, made your way through the intake pipeline, and finally sat down in the chair, is not representative of its reading during a typical day in your life.

This is a known thing called White Coat Syndrome
Please link to your sources, I suspect they are extremely dubious.
a. it never had a real corporate backer, until it was too late (and Rust already stole all of its mindshare)
b. It had a garbage collector, which meant that realistically it could not replace C++. Or rather, it could but you basically had two different Dlangs - one with GC and classes, and one without. It was arguably not necessary, because people already had GC languages that were fast enough and worked for their needs, and those who needed speed were better served by C++, which arguably isn't that bad of a language if you know how to use it.

Rust is arguably the first real contender to C++'s reign because it really brings to the table features you'd be a fool to pass on. D was nice, but it was not worth the switch. Eliminating whole classes of bugs instead is.
My doctor's office sent me home with a monitor for 24 hours. It tested every 15 minutes during the day and every 30 minutes during the night. I generally went about my day at home and eventually even slept.

This seems pretty normal in Norway - but I don't think it was in the US (Am from the US, father had heart problems). Perhaps your doctor would be able to do something similar, though.
But the Apple ecosystem is huge. It’s just much more consumer-oriented, in contrast to „corporate“ languages like Java and C#.
SQLite. It's not close in terms of ease-of-use of the GUI administration and forms, but as a single-server database solution to embed into a line-of-business app it's fantastic.
Gaussian splatting is a fancy word for pointcloud but with coloured shapes instead of points.

Its been around for ages, but It was never used because if you have a million points in a point cloud, you'd need to artistically manipulate a million points.

Its like 3d hair, its pretty simple, just render a billion hairs, but in practice its hard to make it look good.

Here we tell a machine learning model to adjust the angle, colour, shape and size of a million primitives (ie a square, circle, triangle etc.) so that it looks like a the photos we provide.
Long story: because changing identifiers is a considerable refactoring, and it takes coordination with multiple worldwide distributed partners to transition safely from the old to the new system, all to avoid a hypothetical issue some software engineer came up with

Short story: money. It costs money to do things well.
> The judicial system would completely break down if it needed to have 50x as many trials.

Yes. I'd argue that's not universally or even mostly a good thing.
Oh of course, pretty often the actual content may be missing important details. I've definitely asked more questions of either my accountant or a CRA rep than by reading text on an official website, because all the edge-cases and potential weird scenarios are not covered (unless you read the entire text of all relevant laws and know them offhand, I guess).
I don't know about you but getting somewhat concise readings for my blood pressure at several facilities has been difficult in here.

When I went to the medical exams to get my drivingllicense one year ago I was told my blood pressure was a bit high - maybe due to the nervousness of being checked, but it was better to ask my doctor - both of my parents suffer from high blood pressure.

So I did. He told me my blood pressure was high and gave me that famous table to fill up with daily readings for two weeks.

My sister (physiotherapist) has a sphygmomanometer at home but she will scream at me to be perfectly still and seated for at least 5 minutes before doing the reading - and it _always_ was 120/80.

Went several days to a nearby pharmacy and they gave me a little chair to be sat for 10 minutes before standing up and going to a small cubicle where they did the measurement with an electronic sphygmomanometer. Measurements there always were fairly inconsistent and above 131/87 - going up to 150/87.

Also went to several other points to get my blood pressure measured and they always had a different method and (unsurprisingly) yielded different results. But for some reason when they measured with analogic/traditional sphygmomanometers, the measurements always were lower compared with electronic ones.

Fortunately could afford a decent electronic sphygmomanometer for myself and started doing my own measurements, which are fluctuating between 117/77 and 122/82.
It's not nitpicking.

If I say "x matters and here's why" and you respond "yeah but does x matter?", you're either not paying attention or being rude and dismissive.
Literally every part of this sentence is wrong which shows the state of this discourse.

1) CA created their own data with quizzes on FB that people filled out and gave to CA. Even if you banned ad tracking sending people surveys and quizzes is still legal. The FB network only made the quizzes more viral.

2) The CA data was 100% useless for ad targeting and had no impact on the Trump campaigns (any professional advertisers can tell you this, it's not controversial). The big election interference impact was Russia leaking the DNC emails and other hacked stuff to string along the Hillary emails newsline.
Adjacently, remember that with TCP sockets you can vary the address anywhere within 127.0.0.0/8
Take w/ requisite salt, but per Daily Mail [1]:

> Thousands of guests at MGM Resorts in the Las Vegas strip have been locked out of their hotel rooms after the company was hit with a cyber attack, according to reports.

> MGM Resorts International has about 48,000 rooms on The Strip. The company's properties include Mandalay Bay, the Bellagio, Luxor and MGM Grand, among others.

> The outage, first detected on Sunday night, has affected company emails, reservations, booking, room keys and casino slot machines.

[1]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12505921/MGM-Resort...
Original URL, with the same content but a handful extra images: https://thebulletin.org/2023/09/betting-against-worst-case-c...
You really shouldn't be downvoted this much.

Twitter has been one of the most expensive human undertakings in history and it's just so mediocre. If it isn't actually harmful to us.

In fact since Musk bought it, people have been tripping over each other rushing to proclaim just how mediocre and unnecessary it is. So much so that they don't even need it anymore.

And yet when anyone points this out, these same people expend an enormous amount of energy pillorying that person and shouting incoherences about Musk.
Not quite sure I see Apple being willing to spend resources to make Windows less of an unpleasant cesspool, and even losing business if a few people, thanks to Safari, find it tolerable and don't switch to Apple.
Ocean's 0x11? I wonder if it's just an attack against their email servers or a bigger one, how networked are their operations? If we believe the urban legends about how casinos operate, there's probably interesting conversations a cyber-attacker could find.
Jeez, I remember when that came out, "very old", feels like yesterday
I would guess because humans have to read this and ascertain meaning from it. Not everyone is a technical resource.
Perhaps—but if your job is to enforce the laws about what other people do on their own time, it seems like a reasonable prerequisite that you should behave spotlessly on your own time too.

At the very least, he knew the stakes well ahead of time, and he knew it was his responsibility to make sure he didn’t get THC in his blood. As a drug cop, it would be strange for him not to understand that hemp products still contain some amount of THC. And although the firing decision only relied on the drug test, the evidence shows that he did in fact procure and use “CBD” products that were above the legal limit for THC content—and thus broke the laws it’s his job to enforce.

“I swear, officer, I didn’t know what it was!” doesn’t work for anybody else, so I have a hard time accepting that it should work for the elite cop whose job it is to know better.
Agreed, I thought it had something to do with the on going actors and writers guilds strike.
Are there new 2023 requirements? In the past, the only thing that DOE requirements applied to was the "Normal" cycle. All others can use as much water as they want since DOE regs don't apply.
> If your net worth starts decreasing when you retire you retired a decade too early.

Every quarter you drawdown your networth decreases to cover your expenses. Then you hope it maintains/stays the same by the stock market predictably reliably recovering from your 1%/quarter (4% drawdown/year) sale/gets offset by dividends, etc.

To me it seems it might be noise but there is for sure a period where your net worth decreases as you spend your "nest egg". Especially more so if the market doesn't just go straight up over time on average.
You already got multiple answers explaining the performance issue.

Now in many, typical applications you'd have to scale up quite significantly before this becomes a problem.

But if your application requires you to store small, new entries very quickly, you'll start to notice this even with moderate scale. Disk persistence is often the bottleneck already, and this might make it worse.
I used to buy liters of Drink It Black (unsweetened black coffee) or Tasty Club (sweetened black coffee) which I chugged on the 203 bus that I took to Japanese school. Good times!
https://archive.is/lbthv
Unfortunately, I don't remember it ever ending on a high note before that though.
Did you mean to say stage 2 in your last line?
Click through to the github for a list of the controls (I didn't think to try spacebar!) and links to other example scenes.
Allegedly due to the release of a movie. I'd assume this MGM resort is extortion/DOS.

...which doesn't eliminate them. Recent visits and timing would be impeccable.

Every day they are down is $$$$$$