skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say correlated but not connected. Most companies rode the wave of rosy growth predictions for years; the last few years suggest that the world is having some tough times and money is not going to magically fall from the sky so companies are shifting towards good revenue numbers instead of good growth numbers. Enough are going the same way that it feels coordinated even if the decisions are being made independently.

Really sucks, a bunch of individually-manageable tedious problems coming along at once feels like an avalanche.
Taxes are (should be) completely predictable. There's no reason not to include them in the price. So those definitely constitute bs fees.
why web GUI are you using for your app ? its super clean
Looks like Ticketmaster, AT&T, Comcast Xfinity, Hotels with mandatory "resort fees", airlines, banks, car dealerships and rental agencies, realtors, landlords, etc. may have to make some changes.

Deceptive pricing is extremely annoying, as are stealth price increases.
At least tips are expected. It's the 5% "employee support fee" that annoys me because it's a hidden fee, and it's not clear how it relates to tips.
And it was down again...

2023-10-09T05:05:00Z for both logged-in and logged-out users

Your(?) status page claims it updated while HN was serving the "sorry, we're having some trouble" page but did not notice the outage: https://snipboard.io/X5jm9y.jpg (alt: screenshot showing the hn.hund.io page with "updated less than 5 seconds ago" and "website is operational" claims)

Since I got the "sorry we're having trouble" page, it cannot have been my internet or an intermediate router, it's HN itself that was serving that page, and unless they have more than one server now, that means it was down for everyone including the status page. It was up shortly after, but not at the time that the status page claims it refreshed.
> During a second September meeting, this group takes a vote on whether it supports the suggestion from the committee.

What happens if they do not support it?
Welcome to most of the world.
Less about physical space, more about propagation delays. The configurability of an FPGA doesn't come out of nowhere; it's a bunch of multiplexers and pass transistors which route signals around and control how they're processed by CLBs, and those elements all add delay, limiting Fmax.
The way I've heard it put: In China you can get any quality of manufacturing you need, but you have to specify it exactly and verify it before accepting/paying.
> it's often much easier to scale the application server layer that the DB layer on most cases.

Hm…ignoring the specific design decision here on using json agg - I think the open question is - is that specific sentiment practically still the truth in 2023? Is it worth scaling app servers or is it better to use Postgres well and scale a managed PG offering?

Do we need to spend time writing boring code when we could instead just use DBs better? And then instead we can spend time where it matters in the app server.

> And in most situations you want to "expand" the data as close as possible to the final location.

What do you mean by “expand”?

From a perf pov: Imagine you’re fetching 100 authors and each had 1000 articles, would you rather a) fetch mxn Cartesian product or b) ask the DB to send you a json aggregation where each author has a 1000 articles? There’s a significant db perf, intermediate layer ser/de, and network latency difference right?
In this case I recommend capturing your whole traffic for an endpoint, e.g. with MITMProxy as you are doing your requests.
Often I test SPAs and do so by turning on MITMProxy with some filtering, using the app in the browser normally and then saving the traffic capture. Later I can even generate API docs from that.
Regarding terminology, I'm also not sure how you'd describe that.
> SpaceX is the one direct competitor. You never [fund] your competitor.

This would be astonishing to Apple (which buys phone components from Samsung), Google (which pays Mozilla and Apple to be the default search engine on their browsers), or indeed Amazon itself (which sells Apple and Google products that directly compete with their own, buys software from Microsoft, licenses Microsoft software for some of their cloud services, etc.)

On the other hand, you’d be surprised to see Apple launch an entirely new product and then select, as a primary supplier, a side business owned by Tim Cook with zero track record of delivering the necessary service.

Jeff Bezos’ side business, Blue Origin, has been unsuccessfully trying to compete with SpaceX for years. This unsuccessful competition rose to the level of public feuding and lawsuits against NASA for selecting SpaceX over Blue Origin for their moon lander contract. Suddenly, Bezos’ main business, Amazon, launches Project Kuiper to directly compete with Starlink, and contracts with Blue Origin for launch services that Blue has zero track record of successfully delivering on, as well as ULA for launch services using Blue Origin rocket engines that Blue has zero track record of actually delivering. This is an obvious case of conflict-of-interest and self-dealing.

Amazon does not need to launch new products and services for the purposes of satisfying Jeff Bezos’ personal rivalries and grudges in the first place, let alone shifting Amazon’s cash flows into his struggling side business.
They missed an opportunity to make really transparent pricing by including tax in the displayed price.
It's also possible to switch the default so that Cmd + q will quit and keep windows, while Cmd + option + q will quit and discard windows. I like it this way much better. I have it set up for just Safari however.
Please take a stroll through Apple's accessibility options and you will see the sheer quantity and variety of them tackling many disabilities. If you actually have any Apple devices, that is
I have been using this app for some months, it’s called "Simple Time Tracker" [0]. It has all kinds of visuals, stats, and it's FOSS. It also has backup capabilities. Highly recommend it for tracking time.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.razeeman.util.simpletime...
opposite for me.

the libraries lets me do more, it saves me time, it lets me avoid repeating and doing what other people can do better than me.

it opens me up to intersections of cs across other industries too.
Length limits can help to avoid long processing time perhaps, so you should set a limit, but the limit should be long, maybe more than 100 bytes.
Aside from the cents bit, it's like that in Australia too. If something (retail) says $30 then it's $30. If it says $30.95 then it's $30.95. It's very simple. When you're selling wholesale it's different because it's a sales tax, and that's paid by the consumer, not the retail business.
Wireshark has support for lots of interfaces, it's just a consumer for OS/driver supplied data in this aspect.

See eg this bit about wlan for some of the complexity: https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN#link-layer-radi...
CDs should come in a jewel case
"What is the point of feeling emotion X" is a category error. Emotions aren't selected intellectually for their chosen outcome, they are felt.
Then it should just be posted as a text post. No need for this to be posted more than once as well. I don't find low effort attention grabbing interesting or helpful.
It might not be the most crucial, but it likely has widespread voter support, and it makes it harder for merchants to take advantage of customers. No, it doesn't solve California's homeless problem, but it's a win for consumers.
Because the repairable laptops were Thinkpad-class devices which weighed quite a bit and had fucking terrible touchpads.

When slim Ultrabooks (or whatever they were called) started appearing, those of us who actually use our laptops like a laptop (i.e. we take them places) loved how thin and light they were. Imagine fitting more than just your laptop into a backpack!
Okay. Isn’t it a technicality though? In the end of the day, ÖBB sells this through their website so they should stand behind it. It’s too easy to sell anything and everything and say “caveat emptor, it might be total shit or maybe not but in any case I’m only here to take your money.” See Amazon and how happy people in general are with their comingling problem.

That’s my opinion anyway, feel free to have your own.
Yes, it is now possible on many Sony Portables thanks to firmware reverse engineering efforts and custom homebrew code. Most of the functionality is available directly in Web MiniDisc Pro.

See https://github.com/MiniDisc-wiki/md-firmware
And https://github.com/asivery/netmd-exploits/
And sales tax, CA “paint disposal fees”, CA bottle fees, and all the other crap CA (and municipalities) tack onto their bills?
I disagree. Note the California bill specifically exempts taxes from this "upfront pricing" requirement.

The reason I think listing taxes separately is OK is because (a) it is not something that the business itself has any choice over, and (b) all businesses have to tax the same for equivalent services. I think listing the taxes separately serves an important purpose to remind the purchaser about where your payments are actually going. If you don't like the fact that you have to pay 3 different taxes, well, if enough other people agree with you, you can change that.

I'd be OK with listing taxes up front (but I will say that restaurants I've been to always highlight any mandatory fees besides normal sales tax on the menu) but I'm absolutely in favor of breaking out the cost of government services on the bill.
Subsidizing a business isn't the same as hidden fees.
Getting in early on a succesfull Ponzi can be very profitable. If only the creator made out the Ponzi would fail to get traction.
Taxes are set at a multiple levels (federal, state, district, and city) so it's pretty much impossible to show the post tax price on the label. Hidden fees are a completely different issue.
So buy one, get out your paper guillotine and cut the jacket into two pieces so it works.
Ask HN: What's Austin Tx like? From a tech entrepreneur perspective
What’s Austin like for startup founders?

I’m thinking about moving there and trying to tap into the growing economy there for my target audience both there and in Houston.

What’s it like there? The good the bad and ugly?

Be honest! Thank you.
Yes, I've actually been more physically tired than usual lately (training/gym which never used to be part of my routine now are). Last week I was dead tired and had exercised for hours and I still had trouble sleeping.
I find this noble and do some similar tiny acts of defiance myself, but if we're being real it doesn't move the needle. The avg behavior has to change to affect their bottom lines, and your personal spending (even with advocacy) is not likely to meaningfully affect the mean. Supply side changes are needed, whether by way of regulation or emergent competition.
Are there any emulators that try to account for this?

(I did a brief search and came across graphics libraries and discussions about shaders, but didn't find anything easily downloadable...)
Bet this doesn’t include sales tax, whose non-inclusion is baffling and irritating
Screenshots would have made this much easier to comprehend. The website presumably uses the scheme but only two colours, one of which is black. So its subjectively impossible to see how it differs from any other 2 colour scheme using a muted/warm background.

Some simple diagrams, or photos rendered into a compatible colourscheme, or some reason to inject colour into the word flow, SOMETHING to illustrate.
My issues sleeping have gotten worse in the time that I've started to seriously weight train. I am having nights where I'm so exhausted I could cry and still have a hard time getting steady sleep.
Ticket fees should be covered.
i imagine a possible solution to this problem would be to hover over a seed to sneak a peek on desktop and perhaps long pressing on mobile. long press obviously doesn't seem like the best solution but I will give this more thought. Thank you for this! I appreciate you :)
That's C++.
But I couldn't find the same restriction in C. In fact it seems that C allows it as long as you don't include any of the standard C header.

> 7.1.2 "Standard headers" §5 [...] The program shall not have any
macros with names lexically identical to keywords currently defined prior to the inclusion of the
header or when any macro defined in the header is expanded.
Do say more?
I think the prestige of getting the same prize as once awarded to Einstein, Curie and other of the 20th century great scientists is what makes the Nobel prize so hard to beat. Even if Gates created a prize with 10 times the prize money, the press would report about the Nobel prize just the same. But I still think he should go ahead and do it, there are many fields that deserve a prize of this magnitude to be regularily awarded.
No, not like tips.

Expected tips are known up front, they are variable, and I certainly think it's totally fine to not tip in places where it's not usually expected, "flipping around the iPad" be damned.
Yes, it would include that kind of thing. It’s written broadly to include all fees except (1) taxes and government-mandated fees, and (2) shipping fees (which have to match the actual cost the seller pays for shipping).
If it can be 3D printed, is (commercial?) 3D printing more affordable/efficient for such low volumes ?
I agree with this. A sneak peek feature or some other implementation could definitely make the UX more 'effective'.
I'm the same too. Having multiple monitors makes no sense to me.

With a keypress, I can switch between fullscreen workspaces. Or place two windows side-by-side when needed. My desk is free of clutter, and I never have to deal with configuring multiple displays.

I believe multiple monitors are less elegant and less effective (though a giant workstation full of monitors is perhaps impressive to family and friends).

A similar topic: I also don't understand why some fellow programmers need syntax highlighting. Some programmers have never even tried programming without it! And to them it might feel weird to go without at first, but I think it quickly becomes clear that syntax coloring is noisy and superfluous (and you might end up wasting time picking colors, etc.). Imagine if we did that for natural language (verbs are green, nouns are red, etc.), or math notation (numbers are blue, variables are pink, operators are orange, etc.). The silliness becomes clear quickly.
Agreed. It’s also a reminder to the voter that these sales tax exist and a reminder they can be lowered or eliminated.
If you start enums at 1, then the first item in the enum isn't coercible to false, all items coerce to true.
My cable/fiber bill is chock full of fees — many apparently imposed by the city, county, and state.
TLDs, not root zones ;)

The root zone is atop the DNS hierarchy and is usually denoted by a single dot, it contains all the top-level-domains.
So while I'm not going to disagree that writing with pen and paper can be a valuable exercise, the assertion that it's inevitable is utterly false. I am far more effective in sketching out my code design in an IDE than I am on paper, and never in my professional career of 23 years have I had to write out code in pen and paper for a job interview, or even in the job.
ten sounds like a pain, for two sounds like a good deal
Nice!

In case you didn't know of them already, you might find the following books interesting;

1) Mind Training: The Great Collection translated by Thupten Jinpa.

2) Essential Mind Training translated by Thupten Jinpa - This is a subset from the above collection.
Happens all over. I have seen "employee" fees (I guess it's good to have employees), covid recovery charges (I guess I'm glad I didn't get covid there), and other surcharges.

The bogus fees are always taxed, and then the full amount is used to compute a recommended tip (even at food kiosks.)
Just one, but shipping included.
Its a nice article regardless if you're going to manufacture in China or anywhere else, but a crucial bit of information for China manufacturing is missing. What about IP theft? Does keeping your mold make it more difficult for people wanting to make knockoffs of your parts? Does moving it to a different plastic injection part maker help? Is there anything you can do, or is it essentially something you account for when "manufacturing in China" and you send them components you don't really care that much about?
Yes, I understand. But if you want to come to the same restaurant again and you don't tip, it may be a problem. Imagine Amazon not wanting to do business with you because you didn't add extra X% to your previous purchase.
Caveat: 1 yen is worth about 1 cent USD.
Sales tax is paid by the consumer? The consumer mails in a check for the sales tax to the government?
Given that they compute the tax on your receipt, they could compute the tax up front unless it depends on delivery location - which they need to ask for anyway.
Laws like this aren't going to make services and products any cheaper. They'll just shift around and hide the fees into the core price. Sure, that's better I suppose, but end of the day still costs the same amount. Not convinced at all this is a area policy makers should be focusing on.
Not sure about most of that, but try Dreamhost.
It indeed excludes all taxes and government-imposed fees.
I agree it would be ideal if taxes were displayed in the price, but they are a known constant easily accounted for.

The types of fees I'm referring to are included at the bottom of the menu in 2pt font. You're typically already halfway through ordering before discovering that you'll randomly be charged an extra 20% because the restaurant relies on misleading consumers about their prices to draw them in.
but I will say that restaurants I've been to always highlight any mandatory fees besides normal sales tax on the menu

In San Francisco, restaurants rarely highlight the fees. They are usually in smaller font at the bottom of the menu (and maybe only on one side of a double-sided menu) and sometimes not discoverable until you get the bill.

Here's a typical example (click on 'menu'): https://maps.app.goo.gl/XS3puQEttQVtTW1FA

Tartine hides the 5% surcharge at the bottom of the menu in smaller font. It's also one of three bullets: the first and third are about food safety.

What's the rationale for putting the surcharge bullet in between the two food safety bullets?

Also: if you order online from Tartine, you won't see the surcharge until you go to check out. And if you order from one of the handwritten 'daily specials' signs, you won't see the surcharge until you pay.

(Using Tartine as an example. It's not unique.)
How about ensuring that every single EU citizen is protected from being spied. Oh wait... Right. That thing. /s
Of course this is well-known in retrogaming/emulation community, which is why there is a wealth of really good CRT shaders out there
I never understand this argument at all. Your shops have computers with label printers, right?

At the Co-op supermarket in our little UK town (population 3000) they’ve even just replaced the shelf price tickets with tiny colour displays.
I mean people are free to do that but the last time I had to was in 1985 and that's because I was programming a KIM-1 by typing in hex codes through the keypad and I didn't have any sort of terminal.

https://blog.jgc.org/2013/04/how-i-coded-in-1985.html
Including taxes in the sticker price is bad. It allows the government to quietly increase taxes without people noticing.

Sales taxes are in general regressive and harm lower-income people the most, so they should be visible and attributable to government.
Are you in the US? Temu is heavily targeting countries that don't have local Amazon.
Very nice.

I am hopeful many will leverage this work to properly extract and archive audio from MDs that would otherwise eventually be lost with the media.
> typedef ptrdiff_t size;

This reminds me of "#define max ..." in Windows.h. Not as bad, but if you autoreplace `sizeof(ptrdiff_t)` with `sizeof(size)`, good luck, because it will output size of type of size variable, if it exists in the scope.
Hasura.io was mentioned above. I'd recommend you take a look at their schema extensions to do this.

However, please keep in mind graphql is an API convention, much as REST is used. REST doesn't provide a way for joins either. Both are not direct DB access.
Miraya Landed Her First Programming Job at 19
It is not about reminding, it is about making final total price harder to see.

You can list post tax price and then write components if you so please. But showing price without tax is just attempt to look cheaper.
See AMD spec sheet: https://www.amd.com/en/product/13041

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-posts-ryzen-ai-softwar...

> A hardware unit built into the company's Ryzen 7040-series APUs ... XDNA AI engine is an on-die accelerator designed for lower-intensity AI inference workloads, such as audio, photo, and video processing. It aims to deliver faster response times than online services and is more power-efficient than CPU or GPU-based solutions. The engine can handle up to 4 concurrent AI streams and processes INT8 and bfloat16 instructions. AMD claims this engine is faster than Apple's M2 processor’s neural engine.
Do you know if this is explained in detail somewhere? Both Wikipedia (English / German) and various websites only repeat that you need an angle "to lift the mold and to avoid stress cracks", but none seems to explain why. (My guess for the "exit" part is friction due to imperfect mold/part surfaces, but so far I can only guess)
TruffleRuby is a good existance proof that it's not just that. (Clojure is another dynamic language, but it was designed to be hosted on the JVM so it's an easier case)
What kind of bandwidth do you get now with Starlink?
I wonder what are the goals behind this incursion. Peace between Muslims and Jews is an existential threat to Hamas and its leaders luxurious lives outside Palestine. Forcing Israel to retaliate brutally to reheat anti-Jew sentiment in the Muslim community as to disrupt the deal with Saudi Arabia is the obvious goal. Though I believe this attack would never happen without the approval of Iran and Russia so raising oil prices is convenient.
Author here.

That's fair criticism. Whilst the setup shown in the article is synthetic, the experience is from working on real world projects. I've worked on a bunch of projects which had about 3000-6000 barrel files easily, and these then lead to every file in the project always being included. The total amount of files being loaded was somewhat around 30-60k, depending on the project.

I did the exact same thing as described in the article and wrote a custom test runner for jest that bundled the test files with esbuild before executing them. Even though bundling introduces a costly overhead on its own, it was still about 60% faster to bundle + run the bundled code vs not doing it. Bundling can also be amortized because it only needs to be done once per test run vs once per file. That's where the real gains came from, because in jest every single test file constructs the whole module graph from scratch.

I haven't checked myself, but there is likely improvements to be made in node (or other runtimes) to address this. Hopefully, some folks get inspired by this article to look at that.
Oh yes, for example https://docs.libretro.com/shader/crt/ and https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/CRT_shaders
Comments that are bringing up taxes (which are totally exempted by this bill anyway) and tips (with one small caveat) are completely missing the point.

You can have a debate about how to display those items on a price list, but everyone knows about them and they are expected. The whole point of this bill is to prevent bait-and-switch, where loads of unknown or variable fees are tacked on after the price is initially shown.

The one caveat I'd say about a tip is if it's mandatory. E.g. if a place requires a minimum tip amount for large parties, it's no longer a tip, it's appropriately called a service charge.
AirBnB

Turo

who else is sweating right now